skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other day some colleagues and I were joking about how uncomfortable a trip to the restroom is when the wireless is down. But then, the same statement made without forced grins is just really a declaration that a trip to the restroom, alone with your thoughts for five minutes, has become the old way and is increasingly uncomfortable. I know this must be true for more than zero people.
Then it is kinda on you to rebut points like "Why a state government should get any share at all of a French firm’s fine for defying the federal government’s foreign policy is not clear" because, well, it really isn't clear.
Unless it's Free Software, like Newsbeuter.
Marco Arment recently posted this "mega review" of closed headphones
http://www.marco.org/headphones-closed-portable

I use the HF5 IEM which isolates perfectly with music/noise playing, but there is a problem: people talk to me as if I could listen to them :(

I think that wouldn't happen if I had a big ass headphone.
Yes! I've really been wanting something like this, maps apps are only good at doing one thing at a time and not good for comparing.
Any organization that have it's own interest is potentially evil whether government or private enterprise.

You can't define your way out of that.
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You wouldn't crunch numbers with it, but it was responsive and fast enough for most purposes, and had simple interfaces to faster native libraries for a lot of the rest.
It's fantastic that they understand user experience, but they don't seem to understand that 95%+ of the world doesn't live in 8 specific cities. Google Maps might be an obnoxious app (it is!) but at least I can use it.
Parent probably talking about Bose QC-15 mythical noise cancelling headphones. Some people say their build quality is meh, which prevented me from buying them.
And that would be... ?
The article links to a guidebook[0] of suggestions and best practices that was produced by student devs involved in such projects and who were brought together at a Campus Data Summit organized by GitHub.

[0]: http://campusdata.org/guidebook/
I think having your own private "home" space, with access to a shared area for collaboration beats dumping everyone in an open space with the private spaces for occasional use.

I've been in both, and typically if you are getting great benefit from being in an open space that is not coming free, but at the cost of someone else's productivity. A lot of times there is still a net benefit, but one should be aware that co-workers might get really distracted when they want to "get things done".
I'm pretty sure their answer is: we can automatically proxy through the meteor server to twitter or anywhere else.
What irritates me about this "soon it will be great" attitude is the utter passivity implied. We are supposed to wait for the Great Browser Makers to bestow upon us:

* performance

* decent tooling

* native capabilities

This has all happened before with Swing, and will all happen again. You won't understand or empathize with comment until you've had your chain jerked around enough in the past. You probably feel like the pace of progress is so fast and furious that soon we'll fix all these problems. You might feel that the Web is the ultimate platform that cannot be upstaged ever. Except it will, and it might require a new medium, but it will. All platforms are transient.

In a way, I can't be too mad at the Web because it made me realize I want nothing to do with consumer-grade tech. That side of the industry seems to revel in half-solutions and commoditizing developers.
What's the significance of having or not having a byline? This isn't an anonymous comment on the Internet someplace. It's a piece run by a well-respected magazine (whether or not you agree with their general worldview) that had to pass muster with editors.
Carl Douglas and Biddu are ostensibly both alive; has anyone asked them how they came upon the riff?
Here are the 'trust lines' that have been extended to one Gateway based in New Zealand (Coinex)

https://www.yett.co/a/gs9HHU3pmkKBuvykhNm6xiK1JKrput9i3K
Is TE saying that the corporations are not responsible for what their employees do?

Am I missing the point?
even with that I would not be able to recreate googles related algorithm myself. so that wouldn't get me anywhere.
Musician James Murphy is turning US Open match data into live streaming music
dang I'm aware of that. I'll make sure we make that more clear to anyone we share the link to. I love this community and the quality of all the posts. Sorry for the trouble.
> "when authors don't need to have a byline."

Actually in general writers at The Economist are not _allowed_ to have a byline.
But you are in that assuming that private enterprise wouldn't be able to establish a monopoly via the market, a monopoly that wasn't necessarily established via "fair game".

The less powerful ANY organization the less power. It's not exclusive to governments.
Show HN: HashBot, augmented twitter feed (web beta)
And I was wondering why the page was loading for so long....

Another thing i found those gif aren't being cached, as i refresh I am sure AWS will be happy with this business.
It is a good thing for businesses, especially large corporations to have some level of accountability. Companies are more accountable today, than ever before and this seems to be what the author is complaining about.

I don't like business as usual and I think things need to change. This author wants to ignore changing economic and political environments and go back to a time where corporations had near limitless power. This is a classic conservative/Libertarian point of view and it is not a good idea.

The nature of the universe is that it is always changing and evolving. Sure it it is rhythmic and appears to have patterns but things will ALWAYS change. A conservative outlook is not compatible with the nature of the universe. A conservative wants things to stay the same or stop change from occurring. That will always be a losing battle. This is why extremists are almost always conservative. Extreme actions need to be taken to legitimize a view that is so far out of whack with the nature of existence. Think ISIS, Taliban, KKK and Tea Party.
Or use WebMs.
If you're doing simple Dijkstra and you only want to return a result for a single departure time, you're right that it's not too complicated as you still only have one cost per edge.

If you want to do computations in advance, as you need to for fast algorithms like Contraction Hierarchies, you have a cost-vs-time profile for each edge. Things can get complicated quickly.
Interesting; its not the usual heatmap of population because Asia is cooler colors. Its a heatmap of money maybe?
Pinboard has 24K active users[0]. I have some inside info (having previously worked at IFTTT 2 years ago) that this number is significantly less people than use most of IFTTT's channels. It's one of the early channels and taking the time to fix it and migrate everyone is probably not justified for such a small audience.

Also, if Pinboard really wants it updated, add OAuth and contact IFTTT. They have a better solution for them.

[0]: https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/07/pinboard_turns_five/
I think it misses the point that we use thousands of computers everyday that we connect to through the internet. So although the CPU in your mobile phone is not that fast the search engine it talks is very very fast. So if you take into account the network effect then things have speeded up a lot.
I remember seeing those, do you remember what site that was?
Yes, I think you missed the point. The subheading starts with "Companies must be punished when they do wrong..."

The point is that companies being encouraged to pay secret settlements make it hard for others to learn from precedent.
"Perhaps the most destructive part of it all is the secrecy and opacity. The public never finds out the full facts of the case, nor discovers which specific people—with souls and bodies—were to blame. Since the cases never go to court, precedent is not established, so it is unclear what exactly is illegal. That enables future shakedowns, but hurts the rule of law and imposes enormous costs. Nor is it clear how the regulatory booty is being carved up."
I guess mine is the poor man's version of that :) I'm working on a more powerful unit (14W) but I have nothing to show yet.
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We are a Saas based startup, started using Linode 5 years ago, as we started getting more clients we hired a local company to manage our servers, they recommended us a dedicated server which they resell to us, we had not the best time with them, for example: we suffered a hardware failure twice, slow response time, offered old CentOS distributions making our app harder to configure, very slow to scale, etc... After less than a year we decided to get back to VPS servers, and gave digital ocean (which offered the same service than Linode but for 1/4 the payment at that time) a try.

Everything was excellent with DO, amazing API, cheap prices, friendly panel, acceptable support, we have one 32GB droplet, three 8GB droplets, and one 512 MB droplet.

How ever we have had very unfortunate times lately (from July 2014 to today), problems in NYC2 (https://status.digitalocean.com/) made our clients very angry and today we had another problem with one of our droplets (it did not boot because of a scheduler backlog), so we are looking for new server provider.

We offer ERP like service so it is critical for us to have the best possible up time during daytime, we don't have any problems with maintenance downtime on nights for example.

What kind of solutions or providers would you recommend?
^This. Note that we're all commenting on HN right now complaining about how open offices destroy our productivity.
Sure! For instance, more kids might commit suicide due to increased stress. In response, more people may work harder, and culture might shift to view this as virtuous thing, so those general numbers might still fair alright.
"Especially because the article insinuates harm, when the study only indicates 'change'."

I had the same thought. There are all sorts of behaviors that could conceivably cause structural changes in various regions of the brain - meditation, writing code for hours every day, moving to the jungle and becoming a hunter-gatherer, using legal drugs like SSRIs, etc. Since very few studies have been made of the neurological effects of various behaviors, we have no idea how common such changes are or whether they're harmful.

Also, what's the definition of "harmful"? We'd probably all agree that something that causes dementia is harmful, but if someone becomes a little worse at concentrating on work but feels better, is that evidence of harm?
How can anyone argue they don't have biases? From a 2013 article they ran explaining their politics:

"We like free enterprise and tend to favour deregulation and privatisation. But we also like gay marriage, want to legalise drugs and disapprove of monarchy. So is the newspaper right-wing or left-wing? Neither, is the answer. . . it opposes all undue curtailment of an individual’s economic or personal freedom. But like its founders, it is not dogmatic. Where there is a liberal case for government to do something, The Economist will air it. Early in its life, its writers were keen supporters of the income tax, for example. Since then it has backed causes like universal health care and gun control. But its starting point is that government should only remove power and wealth from individuals when it has an excellent reason to do so."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...
I've worked at several well-known large companies and it's pretty much not true. Top programmers want to work and hang out with other top programmers, so as a good, small company grows and starts losing their top guys to brain drain, the best leave before it's too late. They don't want to be surrounded by idiots or left doing shitty work.

Some of the ones that remain are probably very good, but they're not "rock stars".
I have a S3 as well - try printing at 2/3rd speed. Also, replace the rubber belts with kevlar belts for precision.
On top of that, A 150mb page kept locking up Firefox. I have multiple tabs open, so maybe that didn't help but I had to back out of the page for fear that it'll crash.
The Myths of Wearables
It's never enough to offer a useful service. You need to be the company that Changes Everything.
The easy SQL vulnerabilities that expose our private data
I thought this was going to be an article on how there are many American businesses that are breaking laws left and right, buying congressmen and regulators, etc. Yet these businesses seem to continuously get away with these crimes (robo-signing to literally steal people's homes away anyone?), with nothing but a minor slap on the hand (even BofA's massive $17 billion fine is nothing compared to their profits over a few years)

I was disappointed. Oh poor American businesses, woe to them in this period of constantly increasing profits and overpaid executives who make money on the backs of the workers and their stagnant wages. How so unfair. Maybe these businesses should move to a better business climate, like Somalia or Russia. I'm sure it'd be impossible for anyone else to create a similar to (I don't know, just spouting nonsense here) business.
Hi Yen, my goal is to be as anonymous on the Internet as possible so I don't become a target of bigotry, stupidity, etc. from people in my community/country. There are more than a few countries in this world which is letting extremism win, so perhaps you may guess wrong. :)

I understand that I need a sense of identity on the Internet too but when I'm expressing opinions, I've learned to be anonymous because people who may know me (esp. on Facebook) don't like thoughtful honesty. It is shocking how many people just like positive and pretty things only (while choosing to remain silent or block out painful truths) and rarely discuss real issues. And if they do, they only rant or get into unnecessary debates. No real actions were taken sadly.
It's an op ed for economic deregulation and tort reform, as opposed to a journalistic article. Which is not to say that op-eds don't belong in journalistic publications.
I looked it up because I found your remark interesting:

> awful (adj.)

> c.1300, agheful "worthy of respect or fear," from aghe, an earlier form of awe (n.), + -ful. Replaced Old English egefull. Weakened sense "very bad" is from 1809; weakened sense of "exceedingly" is by 1818.

Turns out the word that actually changed meaning is “awe”:

> awe (n.)

> c.1300, earlier aghe, c.1200, from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse agi "fright;" from Proto-Germanic ^agiz- (cognates: Old English ege "fear," Old High German agiso "fright, terror," Gothic agis "fear, anguish")[…]

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=awful

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=awe
I think wall street is using the same type of mathematics to herd the sheep of main street it should move in similar swarm like pattern movements.
Which basically just means that instead of a state having the physical power someone/something else will.

Again you can't define your way out of this.
Completely misses the point, company's settle because it's in their best interest to do so. If a company is clearly guilty of X, and they settle behind closed doors for 1/5 of X then 'everyone' except the public wins.

Don't forget their defending 'BNP Paribas disgustingly abetted genocide' by saying they should have a public trial when it's the last thing the company wants.
Some stuff feels faster to me, especially compute-heavy stuff like you mention (waiting forever for a Photoshop filter to complete while it chews up your RAM and starts swapping). But quite a few things feel slower, particularly anything where latency for normal, lightweight interactions is the most noticeable aspect. For example Gmail feels quite sluggish to me compared to what I used to use for years, Pegasus Mail, at least for basic operations like opening a mail, opening a reply window, etc. (Gmail probably does scale to large number of messages better, and its search is faster). Anything that involves serious text manipulation in a browser also feels just high-latency enough to be painful, at least on my connection; I spent much of today writing in writeLaTeX and the experience was somewhat frustrating.

It's not unprecedented slowness, but a lot of things about webapps remind me of running remote X apps on an underpowered X terminal connected to a powerful server: compute-heavy stuff is generally handled nicely, but clicking on anything at all has a little bit of latency attached to it.
This is explicitly against Yelp's Terms of Use for the challenge dataset. Any redistribution of the raw data is disallowed.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8121730
Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
I've done something similar, although not directly interactive to course registration and classes yet.

My university, West Virginia University, was granted a few hundred million dollars by the US DOT and President Nixon back in the early 1970s to create a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) [0] system that would transport handfuls of students to and from the various campuses and other locations in the city. Built by Boeing and NASA JPL in the 70s, the overall system hasn't seen a large system overhaul since then. Because of that, it tends to go down often during the middle of the day, leaving students stranded at the various stations with no way to get to and from the various campuses for classes.

I, relying heavily on the PRT, built an app that monitors the PRT uptime status and alerts users [1]. This comes in handy all the time as it notifies students that the PRT is down typically before any announcements are ever made at the stations, allowing students to plan transportation ahead of time and catch the correct bus to the campus.

The app made it to my university's news [2], the city's student run newspaper [3], and I've gotten a few hundred users within the first week of operation.

The app is completely free and open source, written in Go [4] for the server logic and Java for the Android client [5]. And it also supports Android wearables and Google Glass. Please feel free to submit pull requests and issues as you see fit, I'm trying to improve the Go component's error handling, http.Client connections, and MongoDB database sessions/connections.

Unrelated to the PRT Status app, I'm planning on making a web app that allows students to register for courses in the view of a calendar. Currently, our registration system kinda sucks in that you have to write out course times and do somewhat intensive planning to make sure your proposed classes don't interfere with other class times. So my idea is to let the students choose the courses they need, and then the service will automatically generate multiple possible schedules in a week calendar view that shows block times and course registration numbers should they choose that schedule configuration.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Trans...

[1]: https://austindizzy.me/prt/

[2]: http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2014/08/15/student-employee-develo...

[3]: http://www.thedaonline.com/news/article_c3405ca8-281b-11e4-8...

[4]: https://github.com/AustinDizzy/prtstatus-go

[5]: https://github.com/AustinDizzy/prtstatus-android
and ie. partially capitalist.
> Most cases of corporate malfeasance are to do with money and belong in civil courts.

I'm actually pretty sympathetic to the idea that business wrongdoing shouldn't carry criminal penalties. Maybe those should be reserved for violent people. But if you go down that route, you have to be consistent: no criminal penalties for the guy who embezzles money from the company, because hey that just involves money too. Indeed, crimes like embezellment are a pretty new addition to the criminal law. Prior to maybe 200 years ago, there was no way to describe a crime involving the misuse of money someone lawfully had in his possession.

The big problem with the article is that it's historically myopic. Companies have spent decades whittling down the ability of people to correct corporate malfeasance through civil lawsuits. They have done this by demonizing trial lawyers and class action lawsuits. Well, shutting down one avenue of recourse just means people will seek redress through other avenues. And it turns out that this other avenue is regulatory oversight and criminal penalties.

At the end of the day, peoples' complaint about the financial prosecutions mentioned in the article is this: not enough people went to jail.
"Google Maps is one of the main lock-in apps that keeps people inside the closed Google Play Services ecosystem."

I can't speak for others. But as someone that tried the Apple "ecosystem" after being on google, I have a big appreciation for it. A lot of websites/apps these days use google for single sign-on, pretty much meaning that I don't have to type my damn login every time I install a new app, etc.

But, on the Ipad, I had to type my password in so many times. And my password is 25+ characters long, with mixed upper and lower case. Easy on a keyboard, but on a touch-screen keyboard it is a PAIN.
The Importance of Knowing How Windows Relates to Other Products
Stroking their neckbeard :-)
Nigeria Teams Up with MasterCard on New Identity and Pay Card
Or they try to reinvent a plane (with all the complexity) where you only need a bicycle.
Exactly. This was my first response to the study. Came to the comments to see if anyone could shed any light on the real world implications of this study.
This is great news, my soon to launch startup will be leveraging their fantastic API heavily for a date planning tool for couples in the near future.
We have authorization from Yelp representatives to show their data in this fashion.
I don't think I've ever heard of a /hardware/ company pivoting like this. Pretty cool.
How the Supreme Court Protects Bad Cops
Is having an opinion the same as having a bias?
I've had both, and in the open plan I find I have my headphones in so much that I might as well be working on my own private island. I'd rather have my own quiet office than blare music all the time, but both work well enough at driving out distraction.

Neither of these jobs have been team oriented though, I am 'the rails guy' at both, so isn't much knowledge transfer except from stuffy stakeholders in formal meetings either way. I'm sure it's different in a team environment.
The article seems to paint a picture that the government is trying to keep the settlements secret, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all. The DoJ was concerned about destroying these companies and causing an even bigger fallout.

As this hasn't proved true the government has gotten more and more bold - forcing larger settlements, making banks admit fault, and they even recently got Bank of America to agree to a 30-page "Statements of Fact" (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1278638-statement-of...)

While the BofA "Statements of Fact" doesn't name any specific employees, it can theoretically be used to bear witness against people within the company that made and condoned the actions. We may soon see criminal trials of real people instead of civil trials against corporations.
"Google Maps might be an obnoxious app (it is!) but at least I can use it."

You know, you're going to have to actually elaborate on that.
On this topic, Chad Austin's essay "Logic vs. Array Processing" was quite illuminating for me.

http://chadaustin.me/2009/02/logic-vs-array-processing/

Granted, the platform surrounding VB6 arguably had too much hairy logic related to COM and ActiveX, and the fragile system that existed for registering such components before Windows XP introduced side-by-side assemblies. If you really want to pine for the old days, consider Delphi, where you could compile everything into one executable; just map that hunk of code into memory and go.