skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still remember the dinner when we found out that Antoine Hersen had passed like it was yesterday.

I think it is safe to say that the entire YC batch took home the advice Antoine gave to the Plangrid team that night.
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Show HN: Demo Video for Ramen’s Customer Collaboration Platform
Hey everyone,

Here’s a video that I put together to demonstrate how using Ramen can help product teams know they are building things their customers want. There is an accompanying transcript with screenshots. I’ll let the video speak for itself Ramen. The reason I’m posting it here is threefold:

1. Get feedback: I’d like your thoughts on if this video gets the point across or if you come back with “o.O … wat?”

2. Discuss other examples: If you’ve seen any other really good demo videos, please share them in the comments. Other than the obligatory Dropbox video, I didn’t come across many really good videos during a cursory Google search.

3. Conduct some trojan marketing: Obviously the HN crowd is a target audience for Ramen, so admittedly there’s a bit of marketing going on here ;)

Dropbox video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE
3D 3D printers
> trolling

That's a contribution to this
discussion about the foundations of
probability, pure math, applied math,
probability theory, statistics,
econometrics, or just an insult?
There may be pharmacokinetic reasons for using these higher doses in mice. The rate at which drugs absorb through the blood brain barrier, are metabolized by the liver, and are eliminated by the kidneys are all factors one must consider. Not to mention the does response for MPD in mice may in fact be different. The goal of this study was not to simulate therapeutic dosing of MPD, but of chronic (short term, high dose) application of the drug. You are correct in noting that this study does not directly translate to humans taking the typical therapeutic dose, but it certainly does raise questions.
"Moving is not that big a deal."

I'm going to venture a guess that either you've never moved or if you have, you just threw nearly all your possessions out and started completely anew.
GPRS Shield V1.0
First thing I thought was that having both my PC and my Mac Mini on the same keyboard would be cool (and this is a fair bit cleaner than a KVM)
> There is so much educational stuff available on the internet and public libraries that I can't see a reason why there is a lot money to spend on.

> As a graduate student

You've presumably spent money on college, textbooks, etc.
at the risk of wading into epistemology (of which i'm certainly no expert), inferential statistics never claims to determine truth. it's a way of taking large sample sets and examining them mathematically to find little patterns in the data that may or may not support (but never confirm) a hypothesis. it's a powerful tool but that's all it does.

it's still up to our brains to try to make that last leap between data and prediction, which is something our brains are exceedingly good at, if necessarily flawed (in a schrödinger's cat kind of way).

gödel (among others) helped us find the limits of logical systems like this. i've mentioned it before (in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169025) but i'm really looking forward to the development of non-logic based math (quantum computing?) that's more akin to how our brains work and allows for multiple, conflicting "truths" to exist simultaneously. our consciousness lives in the rational world but the rest of our brains seems to be quite content with an ambiguous, entangled reality.
I'm a patent litigator and I agree it's the number one mistake laymen make. I say keep it.
For those getting parse errors when reading the title:

> Changes in temperature can be used to power sensors located in hard-to-reach places
Do you still have to ship the item to Amazon with Fulfillment by Amazon?
It's not an entirely different problem, the point I'm trying to make is that this single factor causes a clear link between minimum wage and unemployment.

Currently, it makes sense for a poor person somewhere to make a living by sewing sneakers - because that person is cheap. It makes sense for people to work on data entry, it makes sense for people to flip burgers, it makes sense to do a lot of things - but only while the people remain so cheap.

There are many jobs already that are impractical to do in USA, because of the minimum wage - they get done either by automation or by someone in much poorer countries, but never again by a US worker. If minimum wage goes from $10 to $15, then more types of jobs will join that.

The 'entirely different' problem arrives when the true market rate of low skilled labor becomes negative - i.e., an automated process generally costs less than a manual process even if the workers would work for free or for basic shelter/sustenance (order of magnitude less than first world would call a livable wage). I don't want this, but it seems rather likely that it will happen within my lifetime.
Building a bridge requires creative as there are many different forms a bridge can take. Similarly with coding, there is an aspect of both engineering and creativity. If I had to choose between the two, building a bridge seems like the obvious answer because the end goal (generally) is not to create art and provoke imagination, but to engineer a certain task. Building anything, such as a chair, requires some level of creativity, and in the case of woodworking, is often considered art. I would say 80% engineering and 20% creativity when it comes to code.
Interesting brand dilution for Oculus there.
Yeah, that's what makes it different from just being a third party merchant on Amazon.
I believe that works fine (at least in C). You have to statically put the array size into the function signature, so it will only work on arrays of that size. I was simply pointing out the difference between dependently typed vectors which have the type checker prove you use the vector correctly, and arrays in c and pascal whose sizes are known at compile time. I am agreeing with the author that this makes it hard to create generic array bounds if you don't have the ability to make unbounded arrays (as c does). I was disagreeing with the gp, who was conflating these two different sorts of types.
No. Keep it the way it is. The number of times patent stuff shows up on HN and people go read the abstract or description, or just the title, and then go get outraged is (hehe) outrageous. This needs to get hammered into people's heads.
Future? Everything I've heard about society and the economy in the US says it's the present, without Web services coming into the picture. Web services don't make that aspect of things either better or worse, but what they do have the potential to do is make it so you don't have to endure a grinding commute and abuse by a sociopathic boss as well as the poverty and excessive hours
So basically, by "I guarantee it" you meant "you could be fucked and lose all your money"?
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As far as I know, DDG doesn't have a crawler and just uses other search APIs (Google, Bing).

edit:
OK, I was wrong - https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot
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> I do wonder what would happen if a well-capitalized startup did something in this space.

There's a problem with this line of thinking... A statup is a company that lacks capital, and compensates that by an improved supply of other kinds of resources[1]. Compared to a mid-sized company budget, VC rounds are change money.

Red tape and government bureocracy are common examples of problems that can be solved with money (== people's time, not competency), and nothing else. Startups in that enviroment either discover one of the few exceptions or die.

[1] Besides other constraints you may want to apply to that term, like high growth potential. The point is, that one constraint is there.
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mixing free markets with an over-bearing state

That is by definition not a free market. A pure free market has no regulation. Free markets don't exist in the United States.
I've tinkered with a number of raspberry pi projects and one thing which blew my mind was how expensive many options for "adding a simple button" was.

I had in mind that I'd be able to find a simple usb connected button for next to nix. My research instead turned up prices from $25 to $100.

So rather than a simple single button connected via usb, I found the best options have been:

* a usb numberpad (~$10)
* a usb MCE infrared remote (~$15)
* an amazon basics wireless mouse (~$5)
* an rfid reader + 50 nfc cards (~$20)

In each case, the solution I landed on ended up being cheaper, more versatile and functionally superior to a single simple button.

For example, the wireless mouse is now an interface for a music playback machine. Originally I imaged just a single button which would start and stop the music. With the mouse I added the option of changing the volume using the mouse wheel.
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I've tried switching to DDG a few times but since so many other things are integrated into Google/Bing it never sticks.

Have the search results been gamed like they have on Google? That's my fear of DDG getting too big. Google is next to useless for so many searches that just return result after result of useless sites who have farmed questions/answers from other sites.
Did you read the whole article? The value proposition is more that the company will send a courier to your home and take an unwrapped item to its warehouse to wrap then ship. Fulfillment by amazon requires you to do the wrapping and shipping (to Amazon). With that said, they only charge a $5 fee for this service, which seems unsustainable.
There are a number of negative reports about their customer service out and about and the OP uses a throwaway account.

Their terms and services are scary at best and they make basically no guarantee about their services. Stay away for anything mission critical or email.

http://www.cloudatcost.com/terms.html
I'd be much more excited if you could have a single base station (that perhaps could be battery powered and GSM-capable if that was the neatest feature to people), and then non-powered (or rather, push-powered) wireless buttons which talk to the base station. Largely the same effect, but you never have to worry about dead batteries in the buttons. I suppose you wouldn't be able to have the light on the button without a more traditional power source.
Bluetooth Multi-Device Keyboard K480
How can you write tests if you're familiar with what the code is supposed to do?
Where I come from, people call Budweiser "sulandirilmis at sidigi" which translates as "watered-down horse piss."

Which bums me out because I don't mind the taste!
Hey, KVM switches are still magic.
Guess who's more important to the newspaper: this one guy who encountered some "you were naiive to not expect this" corruption, or the senior city hall politico? And what did he do, anyway, ask for a seat on the board in return for his help? and that position comes with a salary? We can't run that story, quit wasting our time.
"AMD and Intel CPUs are pointless in this space"

You could not be more wrong. Citing the Ubiquiti ER-lite 'Tolly' results just shows that you don't understand what they did to get their cited "performance".

Disclosure: We sell a ton of Ubiquiti. Hell, I nearly bought the company in its formative days, when Robert's original two partners quit to get "real jobs".
That FAQ is broken, the first thing on there should be "How do I quit vim?".
I'm not sold that are a competitor. I'm also not sold on the privacy niche that they are trying to fill.

Without funding, they will have to rely on advertising. It's fact. I doubt companies with serious marketing budgets will use their platform.

Look at AppNexus for example. Pretty advanced technology.

You, as an advertiser would be a total idiot to spend the money on a 'static' ad placement within DDG.

Statistics matter. If this was 1990, maybe. Not in todays world. People don't just throw money at stuff like this.

Now from privacy angle. Has anybody actually verified their claims? Or do we just take their word for it?

Now, they offer Chrome extension and serve advertising. Both of those things leak data. So slowly, they are starting to have those 'exceptions'.

And do you really think they will be able to tell FBI 'We don't track stuff sorry guys!' when FBI really needs something from them?

They will either be shut down or forced to log data once they get any useful traction. That's the way it works.

I bet that once they reach that point, they will pivot as a 'regular' search engine or look for a buyer (re: Google).

Don't worry, you will get a warm notice of how they fought for your privacy but at the end they had no choice.
Programmer auditions – Actors do it, so why shouldn't developers?
This doesn't even make sense. Andy's insight was nothing to do with programming or software development - he identified a flaw in the proposed design and suggested a better solution. That's not coding, and it's not specifically related to software development either. 'Software Development' is rarely done in isolation, and often requires teams of people with different skill-sets. Some will be excellent at estimating effort, others will be great at identifying product flaws and fixing them.

Look at it this way - I wouldn't want to walk over a bridge built by somebody who has no engineering skills but can paint.

Oh, and my 2 cents - programming is part science, part art. It's neither one or the other.
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Ugh.

Just see...

http://bt.tn/
It's way cheaper to build ground-based telescopes than it is to build space-based ones (and you can easily upgrade it too). Thanks to advances in adaptive optics you can now get most of the properties of space-based telescopes with ground-based ones (even existing ones).

One major limit here is what the atmosphere absorbs.. so for X-Ray, Far-IR, etc. you will still need space-missions.. that's where the focus is now set mostly at ESA/NASA/etc..
Can be used to direct link apps in multiple app stores.
`There is life, believe me, outside of NY, Cambridge, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, L.A. and San Fran.`
10 French House Classics
The Little Schemer is an easy and short introduction.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer
New AppleID Password Bruteforce
PyCall has been used for a significant range of Python packages (from libraries like scikit and NLTK to PyQt).

https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl
Kind of limits the ways you can hold the phone if one entire edge always has special controls on it. Can't grip it with your fingers if you're holding it in your left hand, can't grip it with your thumb if you're holding it in your right hand. Have to make sure you always turn it a certain way for landscape mode. For a handheld device this just doesn't seem practical.
Hrm. I'm going to test that.
I can. Well, on HighStock, but it's basically the same. With a couple tweaks (not really related to performance but possibly helping), it was incredibly performant except on some versions of IE. It came down to the performance of the javascript engine in the browser, and the bottleneck wasn't SVG but rather various calculations on the data to make it suitable for display. We had many thousands of points (up to a few series of up to 1 year of 15-minute meter data) and were doing aggregation client-side as well.
Logitech never bothered to fix the driver problem on the similar/previous OSX Bluetooth keyboard K811 where switching between Cmd-Tab and Cmd-Shift-Tab does not work correctly (you can not change direction while the app selector is open). If this is important to you (it is to most devs at least), make sure you check/verify that this bug has actually been fixed in the driver they ship with K480.
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If you're speaking to the original Atom, yes, it was bland.

If you're speaking about the C2000 SoC (Avoton or Rangely), then you're dead nuts wrong. These things are 2-8 cores (6-20W) of 2008-era Xeon fun. EPT runs, AES-NI runs, etc.

The PC Engines APU (we sell a TON) is significantly underpowered compared to the C2K series SoCs.
First Non-Microsoft C++ AMP Implementation Leaves Dock, Shows Glimpses of Future
You bring up good points, but just so you know free-markets by definition are no longer free after legislation.

I.e. economists would have a much less rosy view of the wonders of the free-market should be economists would have a much less rosy view of the wonders of NON-free-markets

Or am I misunderstanding you?
If there was HN Gold, I'd send you some.
I think the cognitive disconnect is that an on-off or momentary contact button is technically extremely simple if you know what you're doing and have a GPIO pin. But if you don't, you'll pay for bttn-like devices like you implicitly pay for IFTTT.
ZooKeeper primer and use cases
The Epic History of the Apple iPad
"add rechargeable batteries"

That would be an epic fail. Like most of us, I carried around a 4-pack of AAA for my calc (at least thats what the TI-81 took) and if the battery finally ran out during a test, no problem, 30 seconds later you're back on the air. Also the teachers sold batteries or you could bum them off a neighbor. With rechargeable, I guess you just fail?

Also rechargables are carefully value engineered to fail after a couple years, so that would increase costs quite a bit. A school system that bought a couple TI84 a decade ago can keep on using them today with COTS walmart batteries, but sealed rechargables means they would have to keep buying them every couple years. With careful value engineering the mfgr could likely get the lifetime down to a bit over a year, and sell kids a new calc every single august for school.

Note that these calcs, at least the TI-81, were not like smartphones. A set of batteries lasted at least a couple months even with some game playing. I wrote some text adventures and others wrote little arcade games and still we got over a month at a time. The -81 was extremely crude as a programming language even compared to 1980s home computer BASICs.
For pricey real estate and offices, I think it comes back to the restrictive zoning policies in SV and SF. Ideally, developers would build very dense buildings next to public transportation, but this is more a dream than the reality here.
What about a potential threat? You are not allowed to "eliminate" those. Maybe just don't give that potential threat more power.
> In Mountain View, for example, the home of Google, the price of office space is more than two-and-a-half-times the national average: nearly $97 per square foot

Almost $100/square foot in Mountain View? I used to work in a high-rise in Midtown Manhattan (very desirable location: adjacent to Grand Central, and convenient to the 4/5/6, the 7, and Metro North). Rent was in the $70-80 neighborhood.
Which is every pfSense release for the last 2 years.

(everything version 2.1(.x))

but, comes now FreeBSD-10, in the form of pfSense 2.2
This guy can probably help:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad
There are now at least 25 billion-dollar mobile internet companies
What you keep ignoring is that highcharts is way better than those alternatives, and that many people really like the simplicity of paying people for great products.
That's not going to happen and in the meantime this idealism is killing people.
Certainly a cool product to have a KBM (minus the m) for multiple devices but I see limited potential. rd.

For iOS / OS X users, if you're using using an iOS device + OS X computer, you're able to carry over conversations and even e-mail between devices in iOS8 + OS X 10.10. It sorta eliminates some of the necessity of having a keyboard for your touch screens.

This may be useful for testing but even when I'm doing development, (and we have a fistful of devices) I'm rarely using the keyboards and with the limit of 3, it wouldn't really be enough.
One contradiction:

"The tech talent is in Northern California, centered at Stanford University." ... "Despite Silicon Valley’s ongoing dominance, however, JLL uncovered a counter-trend. Tech is growing all over the place, the firm found, especially in cities that are able to find a particular niche within the industry. Atlanta and Charlotte are growing hubs for financial tech, for example. Detroit, not surprisingly, is attracting automotive innovation."
Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge with Liquid Nitrogen
Nothing is left in the mailboxes, nice.
How would you make feedback work for blind people?
I'd be curious to know more about the language learning app (it's a pet interest of mine).
Do you think it's safe to target smart phones on the assumption that they'll be reasonably ubiquitous reasonably soon? And is there any major price threshold where a decision goes from being a casual purchase (only requiring reasonable confidence that the product might be useful) to being a serious decision that might be nixed even if the product is attractive?
Welcome to the world of this particular dvorak user. If I don't look at the keyboard, I get dvorak; if I look at the keyboard, I get qwerty. Doesn't seem to matter what's printed on the keys.
Nosy – create thousands of potential faces
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Yes, the current post is a dupe. Thanks.
Interesting - I've always used USPS Flat-Rate Priority Mail: 2 or 3 day service; free boxes; no need to weigh; free pickup at my door. About $5 for small boxes; $10 for medium boxes; $15 for larger boxes.

I still hope that the USPS would build an easier website to use - it's good, but it's not "Uber-easy". Can someone that uses Shyp comment - is Shyp the service I've been waiting for?
Nope, it's tracking FreeBSD-10

pfSense 2.1(.x) -> FreeBSD 8.3
pfSense 2.2 -> FreeBSD 10 (-CURRENT)

and it's really no more hungry than BSDRP.
It could be that HN mods altered the headline by the time you saw it.
Yeah, I've gotten to the point where when I see a technology product is patented, I usually think less of the product and its creators.
Sounds really, really great to me. I've got some cell phones, an old Kindle reader, and some control4 stuff at home that's been there for like a year, mostly b/c it's too much of a pain to pack and sell. eBay provided an app recently that makes it easier to sell but doesn't solve the shipping problem. Also, it's iOS only and not available in my area I think. I could take these items to Staples to pack and ship but then I get hosed, such that it's cheaper to throw it away than sell it. I mean shipping a printer is like $100 from Staples but Amazon includes it free in the price of a $90 printer somehow.

So I'd say there's huge potential in this business. I'd actually prefer to see it under Amazon's roof but fine separate as well as long as they can scale quickly and without a lot of hiccups.
Don't believe the hype (or at least: understand it)

Also, EdgeOS is based on linux (originally Vyatta), not FreeBSD. but we're about to release pfSense 2.2 (FreeBSD 10) for the Edge Router.
This is the fourth year of Startup Workaway. The first three were in Costa Rica, Thailand and Greece. It's a lot of fun and a great way to take a vacation without the "founder guilt" of not working. I'm happy to answer any questions!
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Check out http://synergy-project.org/ you can share your keyboard and mouse between the computers. Just move your mouse to a screen edge and it jumps over to the other computer.

I use it for work, OSX on my left Windows on my right, single keyboard and mouse. It will even let you copy-paste text between computers.
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