skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git repo is now public https://github.com/docker/libswarm
I just unscrew the little aerial when I use a wired connection (we don't have the public wifi rebroadcast thingy yet)
Honeywell is finally challenging the Nest thermostat
Well it means that on average people thought that this team would score 1.x goals during this game.

I was also surprised by the small differences between teams.
CSS scale transition performance is still janky on OS X. Are they ever going to fix that?
dir_index. Funny this is being concurrently discussed on the "Tell HN: The site was offline. What changed?" thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7872306
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Perhaps not in Seattle. I'm pretty sure the costs you mention are higher in SF (just like everything else...) depending on your circumstances, it can start to approach a no-brainer. Recently, I've probably been spending in the neighborhood of 80 to 100 dollars a weekend on Uber (~$2100-$2600/yr), and the guy above mentioned he spends roughly ~5000/yr on Uber. The cost of owning a car ranges from 5000 to 15000 a year[1][2][3], and it's substantially more expensive in San Francisco because this doesn't include parking, tickets, and tolls, so you can tack on another ~3000 for parking alone, minimum. (at ~250/mo, pretty much minimum)[4]. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how for people in certain situations (e.g., no long commute), the cost alone could be more than worth it.

[1] http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/12/what-that-car-rea...
[2] http://www.edmunds.com/toyota/prius/2012/tco.html?style=1014...
[3] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/08/cost-car-ownershi...
[4] http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/prk/
I believe this is a case for Dr. Jay Freireich who was considered a barbarian and labeled as a pariah in the medical community because he gave out experimental treatments on childhood leukemia patients who had no chance of survival outside of a few months. Mind you this treatment is literally poisoning the patient and hoping the cancer dies while the patient still has a thread of life remaining. There was also a very good chance that the chemicals would end up doing the job the cancer was already doing.

He was able to save very few of his patients from the same end, as well as developing what would become modern chemotherapy that's saving countless more cancer patients today.

So a better question is: is the situation we're presented with so grim that we're willing to use a method that's just as deadly as the disease/injury but has a glimmer of hope for survival?
Do you have a source for that? Obviously it suspends consciousness, in a more dramatic way than even falling asleep, but I find it difficult to believe that all brain functions are suspended. At the very least, with some varieties of general anesthesia, the brain stem keeps vital functions working.

Edit: Looking at wikipedia a bit, it looks like "brain death" is currently defined as including a dead brain stem. Kind of seems like an ethical gray area when the cerebrum really is dead (non-recoverable), not merely suspended. Still, I'm not convinced that general anesthesia fully suspends the cerebrum. I believe at least some forms merely suspend the ability to form memories.
There's also a finnish version available
http://areena.yle.fi/tv/2295889
Why limit yourself to just firefox 30.0 I'm using their Mozilla Nightly currently at 33.0a1 (2014-06-10)
If we were talking about everyday ways to improve cognitive performance, then I'd agree with you and add "observe and control your diet to see how it affects your mind".

That said, I feel that your comment is off-topic and dismissive of the technical subject being discussed.

The brain is just a biological machine. There's no reason to believe that we can't improve its performance by manipulating its physical properties directly through technology.
>The westside is really going up in costs now.

It's not only the Westside.

My girlfriend lived on the border of Hollywood and West Hollywood (La Brea area) and she used to pay around 1200 for her bachelor/studio room. Ever since last year, they would raise her rent by almost $100 every time she asked them for something (fix minor things).

In the end it became too expensive, and she was told her room would be going up to $1600 after she moved out.

Seriously?

I've lived in LA for almost three years. I hate this city. And it's so easy to hate that I don't even say it anymore.

Why would you buy or start a family in a place with polluted air, filthy dirty streets, contaminated parks, high crime, and, more importantly, really bad schools. And you can get all that whilst paying super high rent, as well.

My girlfriend actually used to like LA and then I think I complained so much she is starting not to like it. The funny thing is, she's a ballet dancer, so she's in the arts/entertainment business, so she says she would still put up with all of it if we weren't together.

Man, she's a lovely person, but I usually do not like a lot of people in the entertainment/Hollywood industry (actors/actress, artists, etc.).
Right, it should force-kill the existing process or something.
I would amend that to "FTL is economically impossible", rather than an unqualified impossible. It may be allowed by physics, but if we have to effectively bankrupt a whole galaxy just to move quickly from one star to the next, humans simply won't ever do it.

As it is now, with our current level of understanding, the best way to move around in space is by throwing tiny things very fast in one direction, to make a big thing move in the opposite direction, then wait a few thousand years for that big thing to get somewhere.

Given that we sometimes have difficulty being alive after waiting a few thousand years, it is understandable that some people have a problem with this, and want to explore other options.
>You can still receive long form emails as you always have, I think Toastio is just offering another option that's more appropriate for day-to-day routine communication.

How's that any better than getting your regular emails kept under 350 words (and retaining all the interoperabillity and tons of tools and support that email has)?

It's not like most people are emailing essays to my inbox.

Or that even if someone does, I cannot just skip his email or read just enough to get his point.
I wonder why this only seems to be a problem for some people... It has happened to me only once in the 1000's of times I have shutdown Firefox since version 29.
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That's just a living will. Anything done after the procedure can be more deliberate. You only need the shortcut of a checkbox on your ID for things that need to be figured out right away.
> Types are there whether you want them to be or not

But this only applies to typed programs, right? For every type system you come up with there will be some valid and normalizing term that cannot be typed under that type system.

There is also a minor thing that came to my mind. Types are most often associated with intuitionist logics, which are about constructive provability, as opposed to classical logics, which are about "truthyness" so the title of the post is a bit misleading :)
Please upload it somewhere for us, for example at archive.org
Where are you paying $50/mo for parking in the city?
>Who is the customer?

VCs investing in the company.

>What is the pain point?

The inability to come up with a valid product people want.

>How do you make money?

VC money pay the salaries for a while.
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Very nice, but those designer tabs from FF29 still make my eyes bleed every time I see them, so I'm stuck on FF28. I wonder how many people are in the same situation :-|
I think there is one reason and one reason alone for this.

If there's "one reason," it's because the US is spread out. Of the countries with faster consumer Internet speeds than the US, the biggest in area is France, which is less than a tenth the size of the lower 48.

That said, local governments often suck. A few months ago Google just gave up on putting Google Fiber into San Francisco.

Take a quick gander into the deals the ISPs cut with local government. Prepare to be disturbed.

Could you show us the example you have in mind?
Do you have any contacts on up and coming medical device start-ups in the SoCal area?
I was at a medical device start-up down in south OC but has since moved to a big corporate one in SFV.
I agree with you, its not as glitzy or sexy as the web startups but I love having the feeling whatever you made helps improve people's lives
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I feel like a calendar input should probably be a custom element. There are too many possible variations.
I hope that drones end up going through the same channels as traditional aviation - you get a pilot certificate with a drone rating (Drone Quadengine Land?). That would be very cool because it would get the drone operators in the same system as everyone else, ensure they know the FARs and are sufficiently skilled to be safe, and create a pathway that everyone could feel good about being legitimate. Aviation is a really complex thing, and while I wouldn't expect the complexity of a small drone license to be anywhere near even a Recreational Pilot certificate, there's at least a weekend of stuff to know here and it should result in a license.

The bar for CFIs would be different, too, and I imagine you'd end up seeing tons of little Part 141-style drone schools pop up for $100 - $300 for a Saturday or so. It would be like adding a motorcycle rating to a driver's license. I don't think it would meaningfully hinder progress.

I feel like this is important even if they're exclusively limited to class G airspace near the ground (and the reality is that in a lot of the congested areas where drones are being flown, it isn't traditional class G airspace).

Add it onto the new light sport aircraft pathways and you make it easy for people get into drones safely while also introducing them to the wider world of aviation.
>What scares me is what happens if you're having a back-and-forth email thread, and then it reaches a point where you simply cannot fit your next reply into the character limit? You'd be forced to completely disrupt the conversation to move it elsewhere.

I think you're overthiking it.

It's just an ill-thought "copy X service to Y domain" idea, with not many chances of going anywhere.

I mean "the idea would be to make this the default method of email". As if that will happen.
This gets into the ridiculously strict standard for "obviousness" -- requiring written evidence -- which is relevant to the third claim of the Amazon patent.

Discussing a hearing-aid patent that depended on the idea of using a plug as being "non-obvious":

> The Federal Circuit essentially expected a written document describing a wire attached to a hearing aid and ending with a plug with multiple prongs. What are the chances that a written reference will say this? What scientist would waste time writing an article entitled “The Benefits of Multi-Pronged Plugs for Hearing Aids”? What publisher would ever find such an article worthy of its journals? What reader would subscribe to a journal that published such banality? Yet such an article, such a simplistic, uninspiring, obvious article, is exactly what the Federal Circuit would demand to prove this claim obvious.

> With this law, the Federal Circuit has created a world in which the most obvious ideas are the hardest to prove obvious
But, it's not just FUD. https://secure.dslreports.com/forum/r20614148- Taxpayer subsidies helped build the telco network, not dime one of which has been repaid. Meanwhile, they https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Study-We-Should-K... rip out the copper because it's no longer as profitable (as a regulated service) as video and wireless. Cablecos that have a captive market raise their rates as much as their consumer base will bear. As soon as carriers can find a way to monetize something, they won't stop. Value-added services, fees, rate-hikes. It's rent-seeking behavior, like the railroad tycoons. Cable & telco greed is practically a law of physics. That's why we have regulated service for electricity and telephone, because we recognize how essential it is to modern life. And it should be no different for internet.
I don't think they scanned it. The scribd account, at least, shows other similar documents uploaded by the same user, none of which were original up to now. I've no reason to doubt its authenticity. I bet it just spread outside the company by people who are interested in net neutrality.
> Americans watch 5.3 hours of television a day, and they read for less than a half hour,”

[citation needed]

Honestly this probably isn't terribly far off, but I have a very hard time believing Americans read less than half an hour a day (unless you're strictly counting non-digitized reading, which is a useless figure anyway because many people read all of their non-web content on e-readers now)

I googled around and couldn't find a source either.
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Why only males? What about black womans? Aren't they even more vulnerable?
For $5,000 I'd just ride a bad ass bicycle, keep it unlocked. When it got stolen, I'd buy another one. Would still have walking around money, too.
Best part: "The Lyric Thermostat is currently available exclusively through Honeywell certified contractors." No, you cannot install this yourself. #facepalm
I upvoted and tend to agree with you but I wonder if 90% of uses couldn't be addressed through a relatively small (hah!) amount of CSS customizability of the element.
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Hi all, a quick warning: this is very rough and early, and not yet ready for production use.

What we're aiming for is Unix-style composition. Because libswarm services communicate over unidirectional message streams (similarly to how goroutines communicate over channels [1]), they can be combined in a way similar to unix pipelines. This makes composition much easier, and is an elegant solution to the problem of hardcoded dependencies in service-oriented architectures (for service A to combine service B a C, it needs to know specifically B and C. Instead what you want the logic of A to be decoupled and re-usable with another component D, without changing it. That's what unix-style composition allows).

TLDR: libswarm allows network services to be composed like unix commands. But it's still very early!

[1] libswarm is built on a small library called libchan: https://github.com/docker/libchan
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I haven't done much with CSS transformations, but I really like this change and think it's a step in the right direction. So much of the web development I've done has involved doing weird hacks to achieve the desired result, and I think that making will-change a valid attribute will help make things more clear. Hopefully this trent will continue.
It's not plausible, because they can't ask for permission.

There are only four possibilities: perform the procedure on everybody, perform the procedure on nobody, allow people to opt out, allow people to opt in. They've settled on the third. It's possible that they'd settle on a different one in an area with more white people, but it has to be one of those four.
"But this only applies to typed programs, right? For every type system you come up with there will be some valid and normalizing term that cannot be typed under that type system."

In theory, yes - I came here to make that same objection.

In practice, there arises the question of whether such terms are actually ever encountered for a given type system when solving realistic problems.
I would love to see a small example/snippet illustrating how I'd use this.
Sky and TalkTalk both rather like having customers, and would be unhappy if any significant number of customers perceived Sky or Talktalk's service as being poor, and chose to move to a different ISP because of it.

UK ISPs do/have used streaming video and buffering (or the absence of it) as a battleground of quality - you see companies making claims of fastest or "most reliable" broadband, and it gets them customers as a result.

Mucking up people's ability to access Netflix would bring no benefit - people would just choose a different ISP.

At least in the UK, where people have that choice. This situation may not apply in other countries.
Hackers who use a password manager use strong passwords for all sites. Why bother with weak passwords if strong passwords are the default?

(The main issue with using a password manager is that most sites don't support your strong passwords, i.e., you have entered a 50-character password but they still insist on a capital letter or a number …)
>People always use causality to argue against FTL,

for some definitions of causality. Anyway, far-far galaxies are running away from us FTL using part of the same machinery as Albicurie drive - ie. space expansion and no causality violation so far.

Anyway before FTL, we need to get basic aneutronic fusion drive working - emitting 0.05c alphas - so that we can comfortably travel inside Solar system and send first near-by star systems probes. Unfortunately continuing work on non-starter schemas like Tokamak or laser-driven (better than Tokamak, yet laser driver is the worst one) neutronic fusion wastes so many resources and creates public distrust to the fusion as a technology.
But does it not slow everything down horrendously?
Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin at CMU reconstructed the Camera Lucida, which was a common artists' tool up until the last century, and describe the history of it here: http://neolucida.com/history/lucida-history/

Basically, it's a tiny prism on a stick that projects what is in front of you to your drawing surface.

(disclaimer: I have no financial connection to these guys, but I did buy one of their Neolucidas, and it is a lot of fun)
The problem with Belkin is that they have a history of selling garbage in nice packaging with decent industrial design. Unless something changes drastically in the company's culture, I doubt their product quality will really improve.
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They do. Property taxes.
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The explanation and the Python code were just fine but I was 100x more impressed by his keyboard performance. I still hit backspace at least once per line.
I think I'd rather have a reliable old school thermostat that won't need maintenance for 50 years.

I'm okay with not having access via a smart phone.
If it mattered to me that much I'd take it apart and unsolder the antenna then re-assemble and deny all knowledge.

Unless I owned the equipment then I'd just cut them off.
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>I'm also not so much a fan of the fact that this service will auto respond to people saying they should send a shorter email. That's kind of... jerk-like to be honest.

It's probably both a form of advertising and an attempt to grow their market through social pressure. By 'suggesting' people format their emails in such a way as to make them receptive to using the service and insinuating that doing something besides signing up for toastio is an insult (and oh hey... here's a handy signup link right here...) and a waste of your precious time.

Of course, you could simply not write long emails, or quickly scan through the emails you get, or any number of things which don't require a third party startup, but that's not the point.

First, you fabricate the disease, then you sell the cure.
Can you explain why? I've never found a use case that it covers better than Chrome, and it seems to bloat FF a bit. But I'm very willing to believe I just don't understand what it offers.
The rate of fusion changes as the square of density but you still get fusion at vary low density's it's just less common. You might be thinking of fission?

As to PP fusion from what read. Without a large enough plasma the beta more common proton emission path >99.99% ends up costing more energy than you gain from beta-plus decay <0.01%. "The least stable is 5He, with a half-life of 7.6×10−22 seconds, although it is possible that 2He has an even shorter half-life" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_helium#Helium-2_.28...
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I wonder how much a hacker could hurt Comcast's bottom line by setting up troll-hotspots, getting people's Comcast info, and then use the info to call in and cancel accounts. I bet someone working hard could clear $1k/mo of accounts each day in a couple hours.

Not to mention all the fun data leakage that happens when using open wifi portals.
The short version is that is exactly what being a RIA is.

I have no relationship with anyone in this particular chain of companies, although I did work at "big financial corp" a long time ago. It might help to define and provide analogies based on that experience.

So valuedinvesting is a registered investment advisor. The focus of those people is providing advice. They can't buy or sell anything but they can recommend and "help" you do it. Where "help" is in quotes because exactly how much of the work they're legally allowed to do is fuzzy to me and probably fuzzy to them too.

(Edited to add a RIA analogy is they're like an analyst role in tech... or maybe a product manager role. They don't actually write code but they talk to both sides of the fence a lot to theoretically smooth the process along to everyone's best interests, well, theoretically)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_Investment_Advisor

The guy who actually buys sells stocks is apparently Motif a broker-dealer. How much advice a broker-dealer can provide without also having to register as a RIA is a pretty fuzzy topic. There are plenty of brokers with in-house team of RIA willing to talk to you. Their primary business is being a broker not being an advisor. It is highly unlikely they'll give you advice that does not help the broker side of the house improve its revenue numbers. I'm not claiming the in-house RIA of any brokers currently under discussion are biased, but historically it has happened in other situations. So I wouldn't personally do business with a RIA linked to a broker. (edited to add, in an otherwise factual post, the preceding was strictly my personal opinion and you will hear good opposite arguments) Its like asking your barber how often you should get a haircut, what do you think he's going to say...

(for what its worth I worked for some time at an outsourcing technology provider for broker-dealers and to a lesser extent we provided some services to RIAs)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broker-dealer

Motif is in the SIPC which I won't bother linking to but they basically are insurance like FDIC for retail end users. So if everyone goes bankrupt, SIPC will provide you with what you owned before the bankruptcy. Like a general contractor's bonding insurance.

Motif uses (probably?) Apex as a clearing house. A clearing house is like insurance between brokers analogous to how SIPC is insurance between retail investors and the broker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_house_%28finance%29

If you'd like an analogy, its kind of like I paid my roofer to buy materials and install a roof as per his advice. I could have theoretically contacted the shingle manufacturer or his rep directly, at least in theory, and he may even be a licensed contractor. However I'm doing business with "my favorite roofing contractor" specifically.