skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of eBay, I grabbed my Open C for $45 with "Make an Offer". I've since loaded 2.1 on it and couldn't be happier. That said, my smart phone expectations are not that of the iPhone / Samsung variety.

If you are not into spending the time compiling there is a very solid build on xda[1]. I needed to apply a font fix[2] when I tested it, so keep that in mind if your fonts look strange.

I'm curious about which things you felt "scraped by". I definitely felt that on my original ZTE Open, and I immediately updated my Open C to 2.1 so I'm not sure if 1.3 is the difference there.

One of the toughest things for this phone, in my opinion, is going to be websites that use a lot of memory.

[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/firefox-os/general/zte-c-2-1...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_pho...
I think it's more a matter of the amount of RAM the apps use, 128megs does not leave room for much. Though in any case it seems like you would be very limited in what you're able to do with the apps.
Exactly.

Also they tend to search for synonyms, which sometimes returns ridiculous amount of results.
Very cool. Props to you.

I've a question that's not specific to this app but related to Web apps in general: When I think about installing a PHP (or Rails, for that matter) Web app I get a bit antsy abut security.

I keep thinking that a near-ideal solution might be to have these things encapsulated in a Docker container.

How hard would it be to craft a Docker script that would spin up an instance of Upvote (for example) so that it is isolated from the rest of the server?

It also seems like it would make for a nice way to try something without having to do a "real" installation. If you like it, keep it and change the settings. If not, delete the docker container.
By creating images in css you don't have to load any additional assets.

You can embed svg elements directly into html.
NASA could use 'swarmies' to explore other worlds
yeah, what's the point of sailing solo around the world in 100 days when you can do the same trip by plane in just a couple of days!
Nice one, did not know that. Thank you.

What is also confusing "Dispatch to this address" button. Am I going to pay now with no return? When do I get the actual price?
Not true. UK law is common law, not a civil code. There is always room for masses of interpretation, as rather verbally described in various case studies in the article. That is cognitive load for every diligent business owner out there.

Also I'm surprised that in this day and age (and on HN, no less) I can still find people passively conflating legality with morality ("good faith").

Your argument also fails to touch on the main point I made - that the internet is best left alone, and that it wouldn't have become the amazing thing it has if the regulators were competent enough to get their teeth into it on day one. Regulation is almost always expansionary - the slippery slope is not a logical fallacy when backed up with decades worth of prior evidence. The cognitive load from where this stuff leads will affect all businesses and it will create hidden costs and that will put prices up and that will inhibit growth and that will have a real impact on the length of the next recession (to name a few.)

An economy is like a body of water, except waves multiply instead of dissipate when you prod it, which makes it incredibly hard to intuit (especially for the likes of career politicians) what's going to happen when you do. You need to sit down and figure it the hell out, and the point I made in my first paragraph is that we don't do that nearly enough - as a society we'd much rather stand around and have a massive circlejerk over our good intentions that we've convinced ourselves are correct out of nothing more than the same kind of intuition that previously led us to believe the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it.
I'm still surprised there isn't a popular company to help these hardware startups with all the myriad choices you have to make in hardware. There's so much that can screw you up in component choices, board printing, plastics, etc. that have no mirror in software.
Make food stamp applications user-friendly, with Propel
Have you used a 320x480 phone recently? It is still very usable for web browsing. It isn't super sharp, but in my experience there was rarely(honestly, I can't remember one but there likely was some) a time where the resolution prevented me from being able to read something.
So you are sugessting better prematurely "optimizing" every call to be remote from the beginnig? Wouldnt anyone wrap remote services behind a facade anyways instead of directly calling a http client? I fail to see how this leads to an interface that expresses the remoteness more in most of the cases.
It's a hack. Therefore it has been posted on "Hacker News". I come to "Hacker News" because I like seeing cool hacks once and a while. Don't you?
Hypersonic weapons and the new global arms race
>number of drunk drivers would go up

>bar industry would see a hit in their clientele

Back to pre-Uber levels, presumably.
Thanks! Since Upvote is just a theme and some Buddypress files that sit on top of Wordpress, I think you can use something like this: https://github.com/jbfink/docker-wordpress
No, the fact of the matter is that "stupid poor minority" are your words and simply that you continue to try to claim that they're mine shows that you're just trolling here.
Took me about five seconds to read the first post. It's a site for the demo scene.
And if I'm sending a gift to an address that isn't already in my account?

Ship cost estimates are far more difficult than just making an assumption about where it will be shipped to. You just flat out can't quote a shipping cost unless you know for sure what the address is, or else the act of quoting shipping can actually be considered fraudulent. They get the delivery address at the same stage as the payment information because it allows for an easy "Shipping address is same as billing address" option.

For anyone that is too skeptical about entering payment information before seeing shipping costs, there is an option to estimate your shipping costs beforehand. It requires more work though, which is why it is an optional step.
This is a cashout. They implemented their "new" features and can see that no revenue/profit is going to be made from their platform. There's an impending cliff they're about to drop off, shareholders are getting paid and jumping out before it buckles under it's own pressure.

Anyone want to make a bet? I say within 6 months they'll be agreed to be acquired for cash/stocks. The only other option is to start acquiring other companies, but that's too risky long-term for investors.
Can facebook turn a bunch of garbage impressions into cash? Yes.

Can twitter turn a bunch of garbage impressions into cash? Yes.

Can snapchat turn a bunch of garbage impressions into cash?
GeoFire Goes Mobile
I think the point was the few lines after that about the punishment the attacker withstood, presumably due to the drugs. Subduing someone on PCP can be much more difficult than someone who is drunk or high from other substances
> the regulator

Which regulator?
um, you sound like a vendor. hadoop does mean map-reduce + hdfs as the common usage by the majority of devs + admins. Claiming hadoop is now some distribution of tools is fine, but that's simply not what the common usage is.

It remains to be seen if yarn will carry the day or no; my suspicion is that many people are essentially going to be running spark on hdfs. I don't see much use for yarn unless you need to balance hadoop and yarn, and weren't their claims that yarn was going to support eg mpi style computation that didn't pan out?
So in that list you have three large countries that are famously not part of the general european political bloc, noted for usually being part of their own bloc. Then you have a bunch of countries that are so miniscule, that diplomatic relations are handled for them by diplomats assigned for other countries (Monaco? A couple of square kilometers. San Marino? Fewer people than my suburb). Then there's Turkey, which has a technical foothold on the continent, but has never been considered politically part of Europe. Then the Balkan states, most of which are trying to get into the EU (as is Turkey, to be fair). You're left with Norway and Switzerland, neither of which are in the EU, so there's some support there, but they do have strong bilateral links with the EU, such as with the Schengen Area.

I mean, you're so desperate to find counter-examples, you've even included an island nation (Iceland) that is nowhere near Europe, especially given your own definition that 'Europe' is specifically a continent. Iceland isn't even on the European continental shelf.

It's clear that there are multiple values for the term 'Europe', and that the socio-political one is a bit different to the is-it-on-a-connected-landmass one. Otherwise Ireland and the UK would not be part of Europe...
Excerpt:

Genius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity—doing something truly creative, we’re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth.

It is also tied up with the idea that "geniuses" are fast. It was nice to see profiles of Maryam Mirzakhani indicate that she was a deep thinker, not a fast thinker. Maybe we can start changing some of these popular mis-conceptions.
I already upvoted, but this needs more, thanks for the excellent read. Some of the inefficiencies you describe are pretty crazy ! If any of the optimizations you did are documented in blogs, would love to have a pointer.

@cbsmith Just in case you have links handy could you post them. Much appreciated.
> If a pilot of a real plane is flying under 400ft outside of the landing or takeoff pattern in Class B airspace there's an issue with that pilot or the plane.

Well... not really. First, rotary wing aircraft don't have the same altitude and horizontal separation limits as fixed wing aircraft. And, second, in Class B specifically, most aircraft are relying on ATC to provide separation from conflicting traffic.

> The FAA should only have jurisdiction over 500ft and in class B airspace as it has been for the past 80 years. They need to get a framework in place for licensed commercial operation under 400ft rather then just trying to ban it outright

This doesn't make any sense. I suspect that you aren't aware of all the different types of airspace because you're essentially saying that drone operators should have free range to operate in the controlled airspace of smaller airports. Chicago's Midway Airport and the Bay Area's San Jose are just two examples of such "small airport" with scheduled commercial flights out of class C. Class C and D, which extends to the ground within a 4 mile radius of the airports, is absolutely within the jurisdiction of the FAA.

But even aside from that, there is plenty of VFR traffic in class G. You're essentially saying that aircraft carrying humans bear the entire responsibility for avoiding drones, as well as the (human) cost in the event of such a collision.
it's not really that necessary... Lyft could figure out a way to immunize itself against these sorts of real-world attacks, and by and large they have using a comibination of analytics and creating a more reasonable cancellation policy.
are you suggesting that shooting guns at planes should have been entirely legal until a "measurement study" were run that could confirm in fact that harm could be done? E.g. to prove that the bullet could in fact pierce the window of a plane 20 feet off the ground and kill a passenger, for example. Well we haven't tried yet, how can we know such harm is even possible? Or how likely is it that shooting a gun at a plane will actually kill one of the passengers in the plane, or blow out the engine and cause a crash, perhaps it's just so rare? Therefore it should be legal! Else repression!

seriously?
Thanks! There is a lot of pressure to ship quickly, which doesn't necessarily work well for infrastructure systems. It's really wonderful to see people recognize that getting things right is also important.

FYI, the filesystem feature is still on the horizon. The current implementation is good for small files like avatars, the upcoming one will be good for large files like videos. The distributed FS will almost certainly be use `r.binary` as a building block, which will result in a neatly modularized design overall.
Not sure why no one is selling that, I've looked. Keep the screen, keep the case I want exactly that with a lightweight linux distro.
So restore from backup. Hardware failures are inevitable.
I also agree that unethical is strong. It's really a grey area; it's borderline fraudulent ("not really intending to get a ride") but by that standard so is "butt-requesting".

It is a very jerk thing to do, and I think consumers should express their displeasure with those tactics through the power of the market.
What are wi-fi connections revealing about you?
I don't think the argument here is over the scale or the percent of rides that were fake. The argument here was "Is Uber trying to shut down Lyft, through a variety of tactics?". I'd have to say yes, they are trying their best to block Lyft out of the business by limiting the key resource, drivers.
Irrelevant speculation. Moreover, there is anti-trust protection.
In my opinion, all it would take for Uber to be shut down is a sufficiently big enough fine for violating the law in one or a couple cities. If they got hit with a $5000 per passenger fine in a major metropolitan area with thousands of passengers, how long with the major investors keep pumping in money? There's little hope of a return on that kind of loss.

In my city I thought Uber would be massively successful. I was so excited when they launched. But there are hardly any drivers around, because the police calls up Uber rides and then tickets the driver for operating an illegal cab. No one wants to drive with that persecution going on.
Yup, same as WalMart, hehe. They're awful and evil and rahrahrah, but at 1am on Sunday when everywhere else is closed, they'll sell you a loaf of bread, electric drill, computer monitor, a case of beer, and new underwear, and they'll do it at a lower price than any other store in town. So people hate it, but they still go there.
That's great to hear!

I'm not too strong on Java; does what you're saying imply that some/all/most of the freely available Java 'modules' or 'packages' that are built with Maven will end up running and passing associated test suites in most all of the organizations that end up using the code in question?
I had this, too, but then when I got to it, I thought the punchline was when the service object was revealed as potentially just a wrapper for a call to a microservice under its hood, and the ensuing warning about 'network partition' (this is modernese for 'network breakage', right? Right.)
I don't want to discourage people from playing around with CSS, or even from trying to make scrambled eggs with their hands tied behind their backs. It's good for people to challenge themselves in all kinds of creative ways. But this is supposed to be Hacker News. Making icons in CSS hasn't been newsworthy in a very long time, and I think it's lamentable that something like this is at the top of the home page while vastly more interesting things (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8224972) languish in obscurity.
Does any one know why the tumble home hull was discontinued. Wikipedia says it has stability problems in turns and rough seas. The Zumwalt's prow is meant to go under waves. Has the ship been tested in rough seas?
> When this converts to a Micro Service its failure space increases by an order of magnitude without expressing it in the interface.

I think you just emphasized a bit that, in principle, should never be allowed to happen. When Team Email switches to a service their interface has changed, period. In some idealized sense the contract they implement is the same, sure, but an interface that allows for the possibility of timeouts, down servers, lost packets, etc. is fundamentally different from one that doesn't, and you can't (or at least shouldn't) use the same code to interact with the two. Ideally, the compiler wouldn't even let you try - and in a good type-safe language, this is accomplished if Team Email swaps out the interface they're implementing when they go service.
If what I've witnessed is any indication of a bigger picture, Snapchat's userbase is slowly shrinking. The appeal of expiring messages was once pretty great, but I can't honestly remember the last time I sent a Snapchat and I receive maybe a couple a week now. A few months ago it wouldn't be uncommon to receive between 6 to 12 Snapchats per day. Like all gimmicks, people grow tired and move onto the next big thing or not at all. There is only one application in the image sharing space that has remained dominant, growing quite linearly and strong and that is Instagram.

Maybe it's just my friends that have stopped caring about Snapchat and it would be interesting to see if anyone else here has noticed similar behaviour of waning interest amongst friends and colleagues and the use of Snapchat.

We all know unless Snapchat pivot the app and make it appealing again, it will only to continue to witness decline. Look to Foursquare for some great parallels, at its peak, everyone was using it at one stage and then people lost interest. The fact they had to open up yet another app got tiring and eventually people gave up. They're entering dangerous territory, it would be best for them to, tread lightly.
Sure. I'll bet you $1,000 that they are still independent on February 26, 2015.
> I'd rather not say company names, but this comes from working at a company that had hadoop in production by 2007 and last I heard was running 10+pb datastores with 10k+ hadoop cores.

I'm going to say... Netseer. ;-)
Given the way governments generally are, there's going to
be some sort of government agency with an official review
process for websites

With a lot of consumer rights in the UK, the principle is that you don't need prior approval or proactive monitoring, instead relying on complaints from the injured party to identify violations.

So assuming 99% of websites comply with the law, 99% of websites have no need for any sort of official review.

IMHO your assumptions are far from evident.
How could using PACER go wrong?
https://monitorbook.com/user/sign_in

https://example.myshopify.com/admin/auth/login

Very similar styling

:)
No, the US exchanges don't provide any public data at all, this is also why they can't be listed in the Wikipedia Table for "Internet Exchange Nodes by throughput".

If you can find some data though, I'd encourage you to add the data to the table :)
Same, pretty sure I've been shadow-banned by Lyft for the past year or two since it never shows any available cars in the middle of the day despite living in downtown SF (and plenty when my roommate opens the app next to me). I'm very cordial in any rideshare service I take, and have a very high Uber rating over hundreds of trips (though that large quantity is a direct result of not being able to use Lyft). I've always joked I was caught up in the counter-Uber net, because I see no other reason why I wouldn't be able to use the service.
You're right, the government just steps in and regulates because, uh, it hates business?

{rolls eyes}
The design language I generally like but I really want hard-to-learn, fast-to-use utilitarian UI like in Windows.
Einstein fit that bill, as well. Scientists that worked with him noted he was neither a fast thinker nor the best of mathematicians.
This is a great post, but it goes both way. People rally against consumer-friendly regulation all the time under the banner of "Free-market!"
> Another problem with hdfs design is capacity adding; hdfs has shitty rebalancing tools. The typical problem is this: hot data is new data. So if you add capacity to hdfs, your old capacity is say 80% full and your new capacity is 0% full so where does all new data go? To the new capacity. Which is quickly 100% saturated and choking your jobs. Properly rebalancing a dfs is a hard problem on it's own. Further, hdfs' use of triple replication (well, you can actually set the replication level) instead of better algorithms like erasure encoding does no favors to performance as well.

The tools for HDFS balancing are quite primitive, which is why a lot of people like using MapR or Cassandra, but the rebalancing tools built in to HDFS after a 0.18.x along with a few good practices would get you there... just not the most efficient way possible.
Apple did not coin the term Yosemite either, but if a new product from Google came and was called "Yosemite" (and it was also an OS) it would be a little awkward and worthy of a mention.
> "I disagree."

Sure, some people disagree. But the site founder has said it's OK and expected.

To be fair, I (and most people) don't downvote out of mere disagreement very often. I downvote comments that fail to add value -- because they're overly insulting, or wrong in ways that are not mere opinion, or so poorly expressed as to be useless.
You don't need batteries to make an EMP

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

The question is if the equipment is inside a Faraday Cage and the device is outside, will it affect it.
Point #2 is technically correct, but I think it's perfectly legitimate to block people from recruiting your employees at your place of business, while they are working.

Lyft isn't trying to block Uber from contacting Lyft drivers at home, on Facebook, on LinkedIn, etc. They are trying to block them from abusing the Lyft service to recruit. It would be like Apple trying to block Google from waltzing into their HQ and walking from desk to desk trying to recruit their employees.
Ok fair point I shouldn't have been so glib as puet is pretty horrible from a web design standpoint.

It's a website for the demoscene, where people do stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu_IpkOYBg in 177 kilobytes.
Kleiner Perkins buying .2% of Snapchat at a valuation higher than SpaceX, what's the point?
> Trying to keep queer people out of acceptable models of life like marriage, having families, and being responsible is a literal attempt to silence and kill them.

You literally didn't use 'literally' properly.

> effective genocide Reagan committed against queer people in the 80s by turning a blind eye to the AIDS crisis.

You literally are wrong about history, c.f. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/01/ronald_... et al.
That would shut them down in the cities that instituted the fine. But they'd probably keep going elsewhere and use their popular support to try to undo the change.
Uber vs. Lyft: That Feeling of a Pending Break-Through
No, if they wanted to cash out, they could sell more. Go search home screen on Twitter, you'll see it's installed by as many young kids as Facebook (in some cases more). Monetization isn't easy here, but it is totally feasible with an audience like this.
>Maybe Instagram saw the Microsoft project and decided to push their product out as soon as possible, hence no Android version yet.

Sounds plausible, but the "hence no Android version yet" seems like the standard operating mode for Instagram and most startups. It's not like most come with Android versions from the start.
Genuinely intrigued. However, $100/month seems like a pretty hefty price tag for an individual.