skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean that you can use Kierkegård and Kierkegaard interchangeably? Does that cause confusion when you are trying to locate personal records?
Agreed. If you need access to my Gmail, I won't be using your product.
Feel like you don’t belong at work? How to build strong relationships and trust
That's a good idea! Good luck with it.

I have a kit that I made myself, the problem is keeping it current. Some of the items have a shelf life of only a few years. Do you have any plans for updating the kit after X years?
Your Thoughts on SSD 10GBPS Hybrid Compute Solution From NephoScale?
I've read portions of volumes 1, 3 and 4A so I haven't finished the books.

The thing about these books is that while you can _Read_ them like any other book, reference or otherwise, what sets them apart are the questions at the end that have always been very thought provoking.

4A to me was the most useful - combinatorial algorithms, talking about generating trees, permutations. Reading it really cleared out some concepts that relate to sorting and searching. It's almost like someone condensed all known information about those algorithms (till the last 2-3 years) into one dense manual for dummies. Oh wait..

And, they don't look half bad on your bookshelf with that leather cover (although I don't own the boxed set). I've always been tempted to buy.

There's no better time to read them than right now. And I don't think the right way to read them is volume wise. What I've done is to go through the table of contents and pick something that looks interesting, and chew on it.
I ran across a Silicon Valley provider that's launching a SSD 10GBPS Hybrid Compute Solution (Hybrid Environment).

It's interesting that they let you mix and match virtual and dedicated servers. They also have decent prices based on their comparison table published.

I'm going to take them up on their $300 platform credit to take a test drive, thoughts?

Thanks,

A.
Google Has 93% Of Android Users On The Latest Google Play Service
> A Google sign in is needed even to login and the only native apps are Google's own. How is this different or better than Palladium?

In a technical sense, it's very different from Palladium. Given the machine is sold as a device to better connect to Google's services and you can in fact get things done without a Google sign on, it seems qualitatively different as well.

But why inject fact into a marvellous diatribe?

> They also include the WideVine DRM that they acquired and use for Netflix which is not compatible with desktop Linux which is still forced to use a Silverlight port.

This is Netflix's decision and stipulation. Google has their own suite of technologies they'd surely prefer (or even better, for Netflix to integrate with Google's cloud platform).

As for Firefox's dilemma, I'm not sure anyone cares how they feel or what they do. They've systematically failed the consumer marketplace as a force for openness for years now. Any cred they may have had here was spent long ago.

> The only redeeming feature is that you can jump through hoops and install Linux(while suffering through an annoying prompt at every boot), which can be done on any Windows PC anyway, but >95% of Chromebook buyers are going to be locked in.

Again that's not entirely true, although in this case it depends on the model number. What's more, you can also run ubuntu's environment alongside the chrome OS without requiring a full reinstall.

> And they only recently stopped parsing e-mail in Google Apps for Schools(which they give away for free) and Business(paid) to build ad profiles to show in other Google properties after they couldn't continue telling the lies they were telling to the public in federal court.

That's a curious interpretation of the case. It mostly stems from this interesting legal idea that using the corpus of a text for ad processing is somehow akin to the full violation of privacy that a human scanning the document would have.

I am not sure any of us are entirely comfortable with either interpretation, but ad targeting for gapps has never not happened nor has it ever been anything but an obvious monetization model for an otherwise free service. So... yeah. Death of freedom I guess.

> Which part of this is about the open internet again?

When did we start conflating "the Open Internet" with "using analytics for advertising?" by the way. I don't see a contradiction between the two. The internet can be "open" and vendors can watch their wifi routers for when known device ids try to connect and build profiles and sell that data. They're orthogonal.
TinyStic turns your smartphone into a desktop computer
KDE's Frameworks 5 released
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High-quality content. You should repeat the download link at the bottom of the page, after the reader has been impressed by the data and may want more, but will definitely have forgotten this:

"This post is essentially a summary of a report we've published in tandem. The report covers the same topics, but in more detail. You can download the report for free."
I still uninstall it, even though I know it's improved a bit. I just can't get to the point of trusting it, or see the point for yet another layer of latency and bugs between programs generating audio and the sound card. They should have spent all that effort making a nice interface to dmix or something. Rather than bash ALSA for being "Linux only", then turn around and create systemd which is Linux only by design. I mean, we get it. You're the next Miguel de Icaza. The savior of Linux, coming to save us from the terror of text files, open standards, and clean dependencies. People must be forgetting the hell that was CORBA and Linux circa 2001 or so. You still can't install many apps without installing half of GNOME.
MoForte Guitar: auto-strum with statistical strum variations
You can tell it's going to be a superficial designer exercise when presentation starts with an isometric projection over a gradient background with a thick edge and a wrap-around color bleed. That's Dribbble's most popular trick for sprucing up shots that otherwise are too bland or flat to get to the front page just on the merits of their design. Such manipulative presentation gimmicks is a bane of Dribbble and Behance and I really hope they don't spread to projects that are aimed at the HN crowd.

Otherwise, this looks like a solution in a search of a problem. Not the first redesign of this kind and certainly not the last one.
And to think the science of sleep is just really getting started. Stress and sleep are two sides of the same physiological coin and basal responses at that. Sleep well and manage stress to optimize health, productivity, and happiness. Yet, I know I'll spend the next decade showing the data to support that sentence.
My personal preference is OCaml.

One big point I would give to F# is tooling. Having a real IDE for OCaml would be nice. When I was writing OCaml I used Emacs with ocamlspotter.

The other big F# feature is library support. OCaml has pretty good libraries but F# can leverage the whole .NET framework. This would be noticeable in areas like GUIs.

I imagine that not using Microsoft F# would negate the benefits of F# over OCaml.

To be honest, go with either. For most people the benefits come from the simple/common/old features. Once you get used to dealing with the compiler, you'll likely fall in love with ML.
Show HN: Commit-a-day. Low hanging fruits to commit today
The Y-Meter is sorta logarithmic.
Personally, I like Hacker News Enhancement Suite: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
People mention SEO, but that's such a broad term now. So many people have different opinions on what SEO really is. It's not just "optimizing your site" and then spamming links to your site all over the place.

Let's forget for a moment about links. What's critical is that you build a site that's search engine friendly. Here's what I would concentrate on:

- Unique content, well written (hire a good writer if you can't write the copy yourself).

- Site structure is important. Think of a pyramid type structure where important high level concept pages link to categories that link to subcategories that then link to more specific pages. Some sites only have high level and then category pages, and that's just fine.

- SEO Best Practices. Use unique title tags, heading tags (h1, h2, h3, etc.) and image alt attributes on all images. Link within sentences to other pages on your site.

- Privacy policy, disclaimer, and TOS pages should be on the site.

- If you appeal to an EU audience, then make sure the proper cookie notices are there on the site. See Google's CookieChoices.org.

- Add a blog. Update it regularly with fresh posts, talk to your users. Even if it's just updates about new features. Tweet, +1 and Like your posts (i.e., share them whenever you write a new post.

- Press Releases can still help. Add press release to your own site on your press release page, then distribute.

- News. Add a news page on your site, link out to where you've been mentioned in the news.

- Hire a PR guy or gal. Someone who has contacts in your industry who can help pitch story ideas. SEO isn't just about links and optimizing your content. It's about getting your brand mentioned. A good SEO can optimize a site. A great SEO can get your brand mentioned in the news and drive traffic.

I could get into all sorts of other SEO details, but what's important is to get your site taken care of first. It's got be search engine friendly and crawlable with unique content, though.
They're hedged against net neutrality and are covered either way, so it's not going to hurt them whatever happens.

It's like Microsoft on patents. Strengthening software patents will make it more vulnerable to patent trolls suing over MS products but it also makes their licensing play stronger. Weakening software patents will make it easy to defend against trolls but will weaken licensing as well.

So they have to walk a fine line, just like Google with net neutrality.
I do not mind reading about this every year, even if it is the same news and 'nothing new to see here'

Just being reminded about Voyager and the vastness and other miracles of space helps put that daily to-do list in perspective. For me anyway. Your mileage may vary, no pun intended.
Well deserved. Their chip is practically the only chip that works and can be easily integrated into arduino boards.
A more sane* way to implement the single lookup behavior is:

def values_in(keys, d):
ret = {}
for key in keys:
try:
ret[key] = d[key]
except KeyError:
pass
return ret

which works much more quickly in cases where keys is nearly all of d.keys, and doesn't force you to reinvent monads in Python, which is arguably unsuited for them.

* Sanity values may vary for people who haven't gotten into the habit of using Python exceptions for little things.
Sounds like a good time to disrupt.
The sidebar says "Hila Peleg is a UX expert and designer living in Israel" - it pops in if you click the tre striped icon in the top left corner of the page
Electric Objects: A Computer Made for Art
Maintaining digital certificate security
Sadly, he'll probably end up making more than many people make in a year.
The study MicroSoft commissioned from HP put the total cost at about €60 million or between two and three times the costs Munich claims and substantially more than their estimate for using Windows.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-partly-rele...

That said and even if it's fabricated from whole cloth, the numbers are all chump change in the budget for a city with 1.4 million inhabitants, particularly when the spending is spread over more than a decade. Ten million euros in savings is less than a Euro per inhabitant per year since the project kicked off in 2002. Using Munich's numbers, they could do the entire project every year with a head tax of €25 per year.

€10 million is a lot of money if it's yours. At the scale of a city it's repaving a few streets.
Thanks for some excellent insights here - much appreciated.

At a high level - our concept is to create a prescriptive tool for bottom-up forecasting (i.e. building up from metrics like the ones you mentioned to how those drive revenue/costs)

What tools for analytics/finance have you found to be most useful? Ideally we'd like to set up our product to tie in to existing systems directly (where possible) to essentially automatically track overall performance vs. plan over time.

Getting some ideas as to what processes SaaS businesses currently use would be hugely helpful to make sure we're staying on the right track.
I am from Nepal too. Don't see many Nepalese around on HN.
Interesting - TIME.com cloned this idea today without referring to Beak . I suppose it could have been a coincidence though?
http://time.com/2958650/twitter-reading-level/
It's like you skimmed the entire comment, saw the thing about debt and then commented on something completely tangential to the point GP was making. The point was how much we spend, the point was the government in 1948 was a completely different beast than it is today. American society was also completely different.
Most the issues have to do with the fact that Swift doesn't play it fast and loose with types like Javascript. Which is conversely the primarily issue most people have with Javascript.

Have we come full circle?
> The government used to be able to spur all sorts of economic gains that way, from huge dams generating cheap electricity to the interstate highway system. Now we vaporize $800 billion (ARRA stimulus program) and barely get anything for it.

There's a big whopping [citation needed] right here. The fact that the stimulus was unaccountable wasted money is a canard that people with an agenda (and a willingness to ignore facts) like to tell themselves. There have been a multitude of studies estimating the impact of ARRA,and the consensus almost across the board has been positive: several macro firms (Moody, IHS) estimate that the ARRA saved around 2.5m jobs total (up to 2014), and the CBO and other economists estimate that more than 3m jobs were saved by 2011 alone. Note that I'm leaving out any Democratic or White House sources (who had even more positive estimates), to avoid the possibility that they're politically biased. Hell the best the Republicans could do in their campaign-fodder "list of most wasteful stimulus projects" was TWO PERCENT of the ARRA's total.

Even if the Act hadn't done anything useful (which it did), it's widely considered by economists to have prevented a much deeper recession, which alone is obviously worth the expense. In the event that you're focusing not on its overall effectiveness but on the fact that nothing "visible" was built (like a big dam):

1) That's an awfully juvenile way to measure impact ("I don't see big concrete structures going up everywhere! The money must have 'vaporized'!").

2) The ARRA consisted of a huge amount of tax cuts (36% of the 800B), so if you're going to claim that 800B "vaporized", you need to account for the extra productivity from the income effect from those tax cuts.

3) It's very disingenuous to completely ignore context: if our freeways are crumbling and we build shiny new ones instead of maintaining the old ones (which was a significant provision of the ARRA), that would be a pretty stupid idea. And yet, by your metric, that would be preferable in order to have a visible impact.

4) A big chunk of the ARRA was explicitly designed to fill in huge municipal/state-level spending cuts that were choking off local economies (there were towns that were actually shutting their police/other critical services down). If local economies cut N billion and the ARRA replaced that N billion, the ignorant response would be "SEE WE DIDN'T GET ANYTHING FOR N BILLION". I really hope I don't have to explain why comparing against the situation before instead of comparing against the situation that _would_ have occurred absent the ARRA is absolutely idiotic (this was also an issue when people were assessing the macreconomic effect of the Act).

TL;DR: It's an awfully simple-minded approach to say "Where are all the big new fancy buildings??? We barely got anything for the ARRA!". It ignores the tax cuts in the Act, privileges new construction over needed maintenance/upgrades, ignores spending on electronic systems (EMR, etc), ignores the effect of sustaining local spending after huge cuts. It's honestly the _worst_ metric for the usefulness or "economic gain" of an act that I've ever seen.
I think this was first generated by someone who knew neither person.

In Coders at Work, Bernie Cosell notes that he (and apparently colleagues) read TaoCP cover to cover.
I am not actually sure why it's "the Netherlands". I suspect it's because "Netherlands" means "low countries", and countries is a common noun. In that light it could be similar to "The United States" or "The United Kingdom". Here you are referencing common nouns "state" and "kingdom", but proper nouns should not include an article such as "the". "The" implies "specific instance of" vs "a" which implies "any one of many". There are many "kingdoms", but we are talking about "United Kingdom", a very specific kingdom.

Long story short, I don't think it's just political, but based specific rules of the English grammar. Further reading:

http://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine
Any firm's trades are absolutely not public information.
If you click the hamburger button it opens up a sidebar that has a statement proclaiming expertise.
http://i.imgur.com/X6msOCj.png
That first graph in your link is number of lobbying reports mentioning net neutrality. The article says Google was the second biggest spender in support of net neutrality, and the only one in the top 5 on the pro side.
Windows as a share of Web clients is down to 60%:

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

Nobody cites Windows or Office as an impediment to growth. It is very unlikely that the Windows Web client share decline has ever hit a "productivity" speed bump.

Another way to look at it is that mobility turned out to be much more highly valued than Office or Windows compatibility.
There's no reason I should have to scroll a bunch of stuff that I don't care about before I see the design. The ingredients are less important than what they look like put together
That was it! Thank you so much, I kept googling skill share which would give me results for skillshare.com. So glad the first comment helped me find it, thanks again.
Forget the Shortest Route Across a City – New Algorithm Finds the Most Beautiful
Maybe a mission to the Oort cloud in the distant future will do a fly-by of Voyager. This would feel a little bit like sending out a jet plane and seeing Magellan still making his way around the world.
This article mentions that there was tobacco money and then does a lot of hand waving insinuation that Selye was wrong. I don't think that's the case. As far as I understand it he remains a giant in the field and his work continues to be built on.

Selye was willing to say some people were overstating the role of tobacco in isolation as a cause of disease. So? I happen to think he was right.

I read Sapolsky's "Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers?" it confirmed Selye's major ideas. It was extensively end-noted with modern research.
If it was beneficial to have the date earlier, then everyone could have just agreed to an earlier date. The problem is that everyone wants a certain date, but defecting employers can benefit by making early job offers with acceptance windows that close before their competitors have made any offers; students are risk adverse and so will accept the earlier offer rather than gamble that they will get a later offer from a better employer.

Contrary to your intuition, most people do not want the inflexibility of needing to decide on their next job 2 years ahead. For example, if you're a young law student, you're still learning what kind of law you actually want to work in, and it's very inconvenient to have to choose years ahead of time what court you work in, at which point your academic (or love) interests may have changed.
What is the source of the data? It seems crazy to provide EPS estimates (etc.) without the source.
I mean, I grew up pirating music and movies. I haven't for years now, because the vast majority of what I listen to is free mixtapes and CC movies. But I used to download discographies -- an artist's entire catalog. Or I would go and download every movie availiable from an artists IMDB page.

Art is a service. You might view an individual movie as a "Good" but I view a director's filmography as a living, breathing thing. If you want a technical term, you can consider an oeuvre a form of Marshall McLuhans's cool media.

In addition, if I'm paying for media, I want the rights to remix, reuse, and sell derivative work. Period. No DRM, no license restrictions. Just freedom.
Null, empty string, empty value, Undefined etc. are the biggest causes of crashes,edge case bugs and a big time sink programming and data handling. Wish languages had better support to handle straightforward cases instead of just crashing.
the answer depends on your product!!

Rob Walling has a great grid for how to think about marketing based on what your product is: see his blog at http://www.softwarebyrob.com/

Is it Sold on Value? Is the Need obvious? Are people active looking for it?

also check out inbound.org. At the moment Dharmesh Shah has the top post with "how to grow a startup with inbound marketing"
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/36749575#
One could argue, that some of the smartest people can hardly be smart if they voluntarily join a military force.
I disagree, the Y meter is the best part. I rarely ever look at the number of points until after I look at the article. I just click on what looks interesting on the front-page. Having an easy up-front visible way to discern new vs established articles would be much more helpful than an exact number buried under too much information.
Good feedback, thanks - just added a link to the end.
Thanks for the feedback kineticac
If you scroll to the bottom of http://weeklysnaps.com/ you'll see some of our sources (little visuals, unsplash, pixabay, new old stock, etc)
That's a great idea around sending just teasers and then creating a marketplace if the receiver is interested in the photo. Will add it to our list :)
What exactly is a slow lane? Does the Internet work in a slowlane? What speeds are we supposed to envision when we think of a slow lane? Dial-up? 10mbps? 20?
Really great write up! Did you guys run into any issues with artifacts from image compression?
Besides the Gmail part, blocking GA and using Bing or DuckDuckGo isn't the end of the world. I use Bing because of Bing Rewards, and I haven't had to do a Google search in ages. I've heard really good things about DDG as well.
Even though I have implemented http://hn.premii.com/, I think current YC is much better. It should be more mobile friendly and remove tables for better accessibility. And also provide APIs so people don't have to scrap for alternate behavior.
not sure if this is the right place to report bugs (and/or if this is intended behavior), but if one clicks the COMPUTE button without a query entered, it decrements the guest query counter
Google shows ads for other companies, on their own properties (including YouTube) and on partner sites. Could they run ads about net neutrality on their large ad network?