skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created this site as a hobby project to show the trend of something over time, starting with restaurants/locations from Google Places and Yelp. It started as an idea after I had a really bad quality food and service from a restaurant rated 4 out of 5. So with TrendsFormer, I'll be able to see whether the restaurant's quality has gone down over time through a "trend line".

Was wondering what you guys and girls think about it. I also previously posted about showing trending and peaked posts on HackerNews as a time-saver for the passive readers who love to read all the comments too. The concept of peaked means the momentum of HN comments for a particular post has slowed down.
I think Amazon should split it's company between AWS and the Amazon store.

AWS is great and is a very important part of the internet these days, it would be a shame to have their quality decrease if the Amazon store ever starts losing money.

The Amazon store has too many flaws. There is a huge opportunity for a competitor to come in. It would be easy for "Walmart Online" to be a significant competitor to Amazon in a very short time, I don't think they're trying too hard for some reason though (fear of cannibalism of current walmart customers maybe).

I would pay 10 cent per item to be able to pick out items online and have them boxed at the customer service desk at Walmart, that sounds reasonable and profitable for both parties, doesn't it?

1+ years ago I was a huge Amazon.com supporter, these days I will avoid them if possible. Their prices and shipping changed, plus they won't allow people to always filter out all of the "not sold or shipped by Amazon" products which I absolutely do not want to have constantly clutter my search results. I've ordered several products from Amazon which they did not have in stock (but did not say they didn't), this resulted in long shipping times and in a few cases they automatically ordered the "not sold by Amazon" product and had it shipped to me, that product was very near expired (as is the case with many of them) and I have no clue where it came from, for all I know they found found it in a hot warehouse that was sold.

Then there are the "not sold by Amazon" sellers who charge huge Amounts for products just hoping that people accidentally order them. The reviews will be from people who ordered the Amazon.com version and automatically promote the seller just trying to trick people. Huge flaws in your system Amazon, get it fixed please. Don't even get me started on the "we've passed your package off to your local carrier, there's no telling when it'll get delivered and you'll probably have to drive somewhere to pick it up", that they refuse to fix. I canceled my Prime account out of protest and now they delay shipping my product for at least 7 days then they 2 day or overnight ship my items, wtf Amazon.
Oh, ok. So every python implementations follow that practice?
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> The constant fear of corporations has been puzzling me ever since I saw RoboCop.

The fear of corporations has to do with the fact that for many years the US population was under the thumb of a few capitalists who exploited and enslaved in all but name big portions of the populace (they even had their own private paramilitary police). It took many years and some brave men[1] and women[2] to expose the system and eventually give the federal government enough regulation power to curtail the power of corporations. Therefore, Americans in particular have very valid reasons to fear corporations, because they suffered their abuse and know what they're capable of.

The scary thing is that I'm not sure any of the robber barons ever had as much power at their disposal as Google does.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_roosevelt#Domestic_pol...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_tarbell
The point is that ALTHOUGH Google's recent acquisitions might be problematic from a privacy perspective, painting them as something more sinister is a cheap rhetorical device which, at best, provides an easy straw-man for genuine concerns about Google's behavior wrt privacy. (edit: added this in a desperate attempt to explain what I've been trying to say since my first comment)

Also, my position has been consistent. I'm editing so much because I feel the need to write very, VERY clearly for you, because you seem to misinterpret everything that's not extremely carefully stated. {edit: and upon additional review after posting, I realize that there's some tiny thing that you could misinterpret. So I go back an edit; mostly slight rewording}

E.g. the "apparent contradiction" you pointed out isn't at all -- it's a conspiracy theory that the article's author doesn't believe, which makes it a a rhetorical device. Please feel free to point out any others.

{edit: grammar. Also, yeah, triple posts! Is this better?}

{edit: also, I always stop editing after the first comment, but usually not before. The point of indicating edits to prevent diverging discussion and lack of context; as long as there's no reply, I don't see the annoying edit comments as necessary. Sorry if I offended you...}
+1

The color scheme of black and gold adds on to that inebriated vibe. A more generic name might appeal to a broader audience, unless your app is indeed targeted at the party and drinking crowd.
Snowden: rush to pass British surveillance law is extraordinary [video]
Google, Other Tech Giants Could Be Regulated Like Utilities
Most serious backpackers aren't concerned with nursing portable electronics with a low efficiency TEC. People who actually need to use electronics in remote locations bring a LiPo battery and a solar charger.
It's ironical that the top rated comment on HN for the past few hours is going against the "hacker" culture just because it's a government that's doing it?

There's no need to for them to match Intel at any level. The current generation of tablets & mobiles is ample proof that an open source OS and with ARM based processor is a good alternative for technical productivity and may very well replace Intel/MS for generic office tasks in the future.

As a country in post Snowden/NSA era, it makes absolute sense if they don't want to rely on US companies.
Right, it's a case-by-case "loss" of the right to use the safe harbor as a defense against infringement claims. But copyright infringement claims have sizable statutory penalties per act of infringement (up to $150,000), so it's a very important for a content site to maintain that safe harbor. Perhaps more importantly--the safe harbor also prevents them from being dragged into court and spending a ton of money on legal fees defending themselves.

In this case, what is being alleged is that Popcorn Time is being used for infringing activities. If Github had not responded to the DMCA notice, it could be successfully argued in court (remember, it's a jury of laymen that make this decision) that Github knew that PT was primarily used for an infringing purpose and continued to host PT despite this knowledge. This could have exposed Github to a finding of willful infringement, which carries the aforementioned $150k penalty. (Github and PT would both be defendants in such a case, but as the deeper pockets Github would be the primary target and the one required to pay up in the event of a loss.)
If so, it's not clear how to find those. The program start up with screen after screen of pirated movies and tv shows.

But if the PT devs were smart, they'd put it back up as a generic streaming torrent client setup to run public domain videos out of the box.
NoScript master race :P
That's not entirely true. A website operator is not compelled to remove content on the receipt of a DMCA notice. If Githib fails to remove the content, they lose their 230 safe-harbor protections, meaning they could be sued for secondary liability for copyright infringement.

Github definitely has compelling incentives to remove content on receiving a DMCA notice. If they receive a notice that they think is completely bogus, they do have the option of not responding to it.
The Jasons: The Secret History Of Science's Postwar Elite (2006)
> a high percentage of french teenagers cant even write french at the end of highschool

Maybe it's time to simplify the French language. After all, we get along just fine in English without l'imparfait du subjonctif.
Running through Google translate [1] gives pretty sparse press release on the Elbrus-8. Interesting bits are 'binary translation of x86' and '25 instructions at one' so a 25 instruction super scalar pipeline and dynamic instruction translation, historically has been slow as the proverbial pig on non-native code. That arose from an incredible amount of memory churn (MemOPS) when running translated code slowing the processor down to the cycle time of DRAM (110 - 130nS or about a 10Mhz effective instruction rate[2].

I get the nationalist pride in wanting to build your own system but I think they could do wonders licensing the ARM A5x cores and starting from there rather than pushing so hard down the 'everything our self' road. Just look at the success many Chinese companies have had taking the ARM path (Allwinner is probably the most familiar example).

If there is someone reading who is part of this program or can advise them, I'd suggest they focus on building a 28nm FAB capability ala TSMC that they can use to make their own chips. Build a reliable semiconductor process and pipeline, and the use state money to subsidize the costs to pull foreign contracts into your FAB so that you can get a first look at people's ideas. If you are looking for strategic advantage that is a much better play than pushing out a computer architecture.

[1] Possibly translated link: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

[2] For comparison this was the speed of the PC/AT 286 machine in "turbo" mode.
I have no idea but as long as we're speculating there is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_National_Laboratory
and this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I
What are total human height doing there? And what is it?

Btw, US get more tax revenue every year then there are galaxies in the universe ...
Part of it is just being on the internet, part of it is people jaded by the attitudes, ideas and conversations popular on HN.

Arrogance and over-generalization in posts cause backlash. Ownership by a venture fund, and a userbase centralized in the bay area emphasize a very narrow set of views over a wide array of topics. Regardless of accuracy of views, they tend to escape introspection and/or proper contextualization. There are even twitter accounts and subreddits dedicated to reposting/mocking the absolute nonsense that passes for conventional wisdom here.

So disagreement happens and there will be 1 to N participants that "know" they're "right" and make conversation impossible. People also put their personal reputation on the line by associating their account with their real identity and can't back down or be made the fool. People with business goals to advance try to manipulate the conversation to do so. In disagreement some play to the refs rather than prove a point. These are just some thoughts, there is more to say, but I don't care to write any more.
Right, putting that carbon back into the atmosphere instead on the forest floor where it started is carbon neutral. Just because it is "part o the carbon cycle" doesn't make it neutral.
Hardware Case Study: Why Lockitron Has Taken So Long To Ship
If you want steady low heat they make metal plates with holes in them for this purpose. I think there called diffusers?
Wood is worse than other fuels by most accounts

Wood is carbon neutral (trees are, of course, very efficient solar energy plants), and backpackers burning scrub branches are not diminishing nature. Further the fan leads to an extremely clean burn, which was the original intention of these various designs.

Quite a few people throughout this thread seem to be under the assumption that the intention of this device is purely as a charger. It is instead a camp stove that incidentally can charge as a side effect of having a powered fan. Instead of a propane stove or the like, the idea is that this makes it easy to use small branches to cook breakfast or whatever.

The biggest criticism I've heard of this device is that it's a pain and highly inconvenient to constantly feed it twigs when you try to heat anything of consequence (e.g. pot of water).
I like Google, and what Page has achieved. If they act in ways I don't agree with, I can stop using their service(s). It's not like Google take my resources by force, and then use them to do unspeakable evil.

Page and cohorts have demonstrably shown a knack for developing tech which the world finds useful. And for that I'm grateful.

Yet! I don't need to express my gratitude to him. Instead, he's rewarded with 'disagreeable' money & power.

What does he do with the acquired wherewithal? New projects. And in counterintuitive directions, which others only find insightful after the fact!

Page's et al. investment in Calico -- their pro-longevity/healthspan biotech company -- is one such example. They're investing in one of the world's most significant problems. Maybe the most! Dismissed by others, but seen as doable by someone who has been prescient time and again!

This 'power-hungry' character may just save or extend your life one day! Contra to what others would have done with the same power/money.
People need to be educated on what software/websites is/are doing by default. I would assume that most people familiar with today's tracking boilerplate would know better than to install Origin in an unsandboxed environment in the first place. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case.
That is my guess also, it's actually probably just looking for their specific plug-in.

See slide 21 http://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/battlelog-building-scal...

That doesn't mean there isn't any leakage they technically can/can't see. No clue if any of that info gets phoned home.
Data Science 101: The OpenCPU System
That was exactly my thought before reading this. I assume that the same people are getting richer because they're well diversified and, as such, can benefit both from the status quo and from disruption. Then I read the article and realized it's just someone complaining about VC backed startups.
Have you read Atlas shrugged?
No, you need to read the actual law, 17 USC 513(c)(3)(A)(3), and the cited cases.

The statute on its face doesn't require actual facts of infringement to be included in the notice, only a good faith assertion that infringement (or use in infringing activities) is occurring. Consequently, that allegation is sufficient for purposes of the DMCA notice. Indeed, that is the holding of the cited cases, which are included with the notice to show that courts have found that a good faith belief of infringement is sufficient.
> There is no other language that I write in where I don't use camel-case or underscore

underscore is standard for user-defined words (variables, table, databases). All-caps distinguishes built-ins to avoid confusion with user-defined. IMO with conventions, consistency is more important than the convention itself.
I am sorry, but you have completely missed my point. All software has bugs, period. With games, you can omit assertions so that these bugs cause glitches in the game (or cause no visible change at all), or you can keep them in, slowing down the engine because of numerous runtime checks and crashing the whole game if a single bug occurs. That's way more sloppy design than the former.
Interesting point but I think the recent gas main explosion in new york and the fervor over our aging, difficult to inspect and dangerous gas mains (the one in question was 127 years old) needs to weighed if your going to argue safety. [1] Reputable propane fillers will only fill gas tanks that have been recently inspected and even the largest mobil tank only holds a limited amount of gas compared to what can be released when something connected to a main leaks.

However, my point more then being pro food truck or any one business model is that major socio-economic trends like groups of people needing to move away from some cities is indicative of something that might be target by a startup. Who knows, maybe the next big trend is custom manufacturing with same day delivery via 3d printers, skilled laborers and bike messengers leveraging both the concentrated capitol of the educated workers and creating jobs for people who would otherwise have to leave.

[1]: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/15/us/aging-gas-infrastructure/
Sell it to a chiropractor.
If significant climate change is countered by programs endorsed by liberals, then conservatives will point to that success and say "Nothing happened because climate change wasn't real." If climate change and sea level rise do happen, even if their results are lessened, then conservatives will say "This was an act off nature; nothing could be done to prevent it. Liberals' attempts to stop it were a waste of money and just an excuse to raise taxes on rich people. All these bad things that are a result of climate change are actually the unintended results of the liberal's programs."
I'm with you with the splitting, I don't think these to fields belong together and they can work much more independently with a split. But they probably will only split if one half goes down :\

But I like the Amazon store quite much, don't know any other company that offers a similar service (in Europe/Germany).
You're missing the relevant portion of the law. For a DMCA takedown notice for code, it doesn't matter who owns the copyright for the code. It is sufficient for purposes of the DMCA notice to allege that the code is being used for infringing purposes. 17 US 512(c)(3).
I wouldn't mind so much for "legal". If a company is owned by someone who is incredibly rich (and this person wants to be in there for the fun), it won't be for sale. This person can end up under a bus of course, so I don't know to whom you want to promise this. :-)
To reiterate, how could enlightened (individual) self-interest of consumers ever possibly be construed as an assault on liberty (or whatever-the-hell)?

edit: Pretty sure not eating McDonald's every day is not an affront to capitalism. To assume that critics of McDonald's food are automatically calling for regulation/whatever, instead of just trying to educate people to help them act in their self-interest, is a caricature. Similarly, suggesting any critic of Google is automatically some sort of proto-communist is a ridiculous caricature.
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The commenter is arguing the opposite - without concentration of power, you get chaos, which is a bad thing
I didn't expect any responses and a bunch of down votes... this made it worth the 30 seconds of doing a stupid Ask HN
Also, before chemical fertilizer there were several wars fought over bird extrement. Unfortunately the anti-synthetics fads are putting pressure on this resource again
This is highly subjective, but to me, it's biased to output colors that are more web-safe palette meets pastel colors than pleasing.
Ask HN: Whats your home office setup?
Just moved into a new apartment and am wanting some inspiration.... so whats your home office setup like? Do you have any pics?
I didn't think my now deleted grandparent comment was inflammatory, but judging from your responses, I see that I've inadvertently angered you.

In any event, this is not constructive. So, I've deleted the grandparent. No harm intended. Take care.

UPDATE: I see that you've edited and deleted some of your posts, removed expletives, etc. So, perhaps you've calmed a bit. Still, while I appreciate you sharing your views, it's probably best to wrap this thread. No further comments from me will be forthcoming. Take care.
Is it possible to make this compatible with iPhone 3g?
LG Android Watch Brings Your Phone's Worst Qualities to Your Wrist
Task Based Learning Vs Structured Learning – Searching for Treasure
Should there ever appear a seemingly real fault line in Amazon's long game, I think at some point they'd be forced to sell the infrastructure / hosting platform to keep investors happy.
As a colourblind person who struggles with coming up with good looking colour schemes, this looks really nice.

I've used the likes of Palleton [1] and Kubler [2] before but they seem to be geared towards graphic designers and people who actually understand terms like adjacent, triad and compliment in the context of colours.

[1] http://www.paletton.com/

[2] https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
Even though it's on ycombinator.com and not wired, it's still blogspam. This is the real article:

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/07/11/month-y-combin...
It would be nice if you'd specify on pricing page [1] what is the price for in sense of time - a month? a year?

[1] https://bvckup2.com/purchase/
I didn't use Origin much, but it's uninstalled and gone for good, now.
Probably the more significant thing is that it's a self-powered forced-air rocket stove (part of the current generated drives a fan). The self-powering is interesting, but I'm not sure how much it adds or if the forced air just makes up for the energy taken out by the electronics.

The rated output (2-4W @ 5V) seems impressive, but I'm not certain I buy it or at least I'd wonder just how much you need to be feeding the fire. I don't see any mention of a battery pack, but I think if I'm charging expensive and sensitive devices I'd rather charge batteries, then charge my devices with a more stable current. Adding your own battery is going to bump the already-considerable weight (> 2lbs).

They do present a comparison to the "conventional alternative" of an alcohol stove + fuel + solar, but for some reason it seems designed to make the conventional alternative as unappealing as possible (44 oz & > $200 for a stove plus fuel for 2.5hrs of burn time!). Not included are options such as a simpler rocket stove (easy to make) or a SuperCat alcohol stove (cheap & REALLY easy to make) and options to make those more efficient (shrouds, etc. sized for your cookware).

As for charging, there are actually some pretty impressive solar options designed for backpacking - they aren't on-demand like this, but many of them incorporate a battery system and could likely be used on a pack while hiking, so the battery pack is available when you stop, and you can use them in places where you don't really want a fire.

I'd have to call this fashionable, but I'm not sure how practical it really is for most people.

Edit: forgot to mention, the base unit for this is ~$130, and the kettle/carrying case adds another $50 and 1 lb to the whole thing.
This is actually one of those catch 22's of wealth: if you're in the 50% you probably feel better about your money than you do if you're in the 2% or -- even worse -- the bottom of the 1%. The reason is that the 49% is almost exactly like you. They make a few bucks more than you do but it's not meaningful (i.e. you both have exactly the same standard of living). Now, if you belong to the 2%, you are an order of magnitude "poorer" than the 1%. If you just made it to the 1%, you are a couple of orders of magnitude "poorer" than the 0.1%. And, those differences are meaningful.

It's really one of the sadder aspects of human nature. No one can just enjoy how good they have it. We always have to grade ourselves on a curve. Shit, if I compare my life to Rockefeller or JP Morgan, I have it so much better in so many ways. But, no one over feels bad for Rockefeller because that sucker lived before the internet.
LibreSSL 2.0.1
It's definitely not a programming language at all. But for young kids it's much more appealing to create a web page with colors and animation than a calculator in Python.
And that's the goal, not make them able to program, but show them what are the possibilities.

And, on the teacher's side, it's going to be easier to teach most of them HTML rather than a real programming language.
Companies recycle code all the time for other projects... in fact I've seen it written in a lot of contracts the the company that wrote the code owns the code and they just license it to the client.