skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are humans living right now that have a different set of 'sensors' from the majority. I'm talking about the blind. The deaf. Those without a sense of smell. Those who cannot feel pain.

Yet we manage to communicate with them.
I think not, I think the restriction "traditional" in "it's far to late to build a traditional car company today" is significant.

Tesla, I think, is different because they have room to maneuver because none of the traditional car companies are willing to make an all in effort on electric (because doing so is mostly taking a risk to compete with their own established business), so the building a car company centered around new advances in electric vehicle technology that is very much not a traditional car company is still possible now.
Every bit of that complexity comes with an increasingly high cost though. You start adding more messaging, cost calculators, starting points that aren't actionable by most of your customers, forums etc., and you can quickly damage your value prop.

I think "Show me a celeb I want to look like and let me do it" has the best chance of working for many reasons. The message is clear, and the goal is easy to understand and attainable given the customer's resources (both attention and monetary).

I'd guess that it's better to start simple and slowly add these complex features carefully as the audience grows.
Huh. Interesting. Do the controls freeze or the game itself? I'm not sure what would cause that; the game was developed on a proprietary HTML5/JS engine.
Cool! Just curious what you built this in.
That's enough to warrant a 2 point bump over the other Android Wear devices? They gave the G Watch and Gear a 6.8, and a 8.1 to the Moto 360, yet they have very similar flaws. The focus, as evident by their wrap up, is all about design.
The one I attended was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJ_IjMwT20, which focuses less on whether this stuff is desirable and more on cost-effectiveness. But IIRC he also outlines his reasons why radical life extension is desirable.

You may well be better off trying some of the top Google results -- the recording quality isn't brilliant for this one, and its focus is perhaps a little different to what you want.
Search Google for “Popunder” automatically closes the new tab in Google Chrome
Show HN: NFL Scouting – Visualize how good a college football player is
AM – Attribute Modules for CSS
This could reduce desertification and reduce atmospheric CO2 while helping elephants. See this Ted talk to understand how:

https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_worl...
Journaling the rebuilding of a blogging app
Cool. I'm glad you found something you were looking for!
Send Teases as Phone Messages with a Twist
Fixed: "The Person Who Will Build Google's Quantum Computer"

I wish Wired would only mention the sex of the person if it was relevant.

Edit: Do we casually mention someone's skin color, when it's not relevant?
check mine out:
https://rawgit.com/mickeysanchez/battle_for_the_colorverse/c...
You should enable click-to-play for Flash content in your browser. It both improves security and prevents auto starting videos.
Looks neat, but I would play with nicer palette. Also the hardness is increasing hyperbolically so after those small red dots appears it's almost impossible to survive.
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Vice is known, within the media world, for being pretty much the one news publication that's profitable and growing. The entire news industry is falling apart at the seams, and Vice is kicking ass. That kind of thing gets you noticed by other media companies, who want a piece of whatever it is you're doing right.

So what is Vice is doing right? Interesting, relevant, investigative journalism that is not playing to the lowest common denominator (certain sections notwithstanding). More important, it's not burdened by the legacy cost structures and operating silos that bigger, more established media companies are. Vice today is sort of like what CNN was in its early days, or if you'll extend the courtesy of indulging a somewhat wild comparison, it's similar to what MTV was in the early '80s. It's a fresh company, with a young audience, and a disciplined editorial focus.

I wouldn't compare Vice to Buzzfeed, necessarily. Both of them mystify and intrigue old-media companies. But old-media companies have an easier time grokking Vice than they do Buzzfeed. Or, at the very least, they seem to believe Vice is here to stay, while Buzzfeed and its ilk might fade.

"But it seems like they want on TV more than anything else."

Yes, and that's my best guess as to why they'd raise $500 million. You don't raise $500M to scale out your blogging and journalism efforts. You raise $500M because TV production is ridiculously expensive, and you almost need $500M if you're going to be producing a large, running slate of TV programming. (Benchmark comparison: for its original series, Netflix spends anywhere up to $30-$50M per season. News programming and other forms of non-scripted programming are less expensive than, say, "House of Cards." Nevertheless, they ain't cheap).
How High Should We Set the 'Override' Bar?
Construct 2 is becoming a better and better game engine. Good to see it getting some love on HN
The word "all" in "all such translator output" seems to rule out removing any code, such as the zero memset.

"Translator output" suggests that translation is complete and we just have its output to link together. Optimization is "semantic analysis"; you cannot optimize without reasoning about meaning, and optimization also implies that translation is still going on: the output of earlier translation is still being tweaked, with regard to the meaning of the original source.
WOW that's expensive...information is power but geez!
I think I maybe counting KDE's dependencies into that figure. Not just KDE alone.
See section 10 of the Raft paper.

> VR uses a leaderbased approach with many similarities to Raft.

> However, Raft has less mechanism that VR or ZooKeeper
because it minimizes the functionality in non-leaders. For
example, log entries in Raft flow in only one direction:
outward from the leader in AppendEntries RPCs. In VR
log entries flow in both directions (leaders can receive
log entries during the election process); this results in
additional mechanism and complexity

> Raft has fewer message types than any other algorithm for consensus-based log replication that we are
aware of. For example, we counted the message types VR
and ZooKeeper use for basic consensus and membership
changes (excluding log compaction and client interaction,
as these are nearly independent of the algorithms). VR
and ZooKeeper each define 10 different message types,
while Raft has only 4 message types (two RPC requests
and their responses).
Thanks! Our goal is to achieve the same look affordably. We do the best we can, but we also encourage our community to engage and suggest an alternative if there is a better option.
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I actually have a hosts rule for techcrunch articles that helps me avoid this frustration:

/etc/hosts:

0.0.0.0	techcrunch.com
So this means DigitalOcean, when running CoreOS via Docker for your deployment, means you no longer need to worry about OS level updates? Is this now handled by DigitalOcean?
I used a 39" 4k display for a while (before I moved and decided to use it as a "temporary" TV) and it "Just Worked" as I'd expect it to. While it's only 30Hz at 4k, that more than meets the requirements you put forth of word processors, IDEs, etc. It plugs in over HDMI and doesn't require the newer standard or any special cables to use. I ran that display along with a 1440p display off of a single Radeon 7850, which is neither super expensive, nor loud, and for normal use there were no issues to speak of. Games were a little bit iffy at 4k, but 30Hz wasn't great for most of the most power hungry games anyway. I just switched over to the other display.

It was great, I could have a ton of terminals open, a browser, text editor, a video playing and it didn't feel cramped. Essentially having 4 19.5" 1080p monitors without the borders.

Writing this out makes me want to take that back as my main monitor, I guess I'll have to find a TV to replace it.
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What's the problem? Using "The Man" seems just fine (and pretty common):
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+man%2C+the...
There's an error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'qb' of undefined c2runtime.js:105
g.Jq c2runtime.js:105
g.qb c2runtime.js:102
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<tldr>Train the AI of the future on Amelia Bedelia books</tldr>

I disagree with how they draw a distinction between metaphor and literal constructs in language. As we are all in our own heads experiencing the world, language is an interface to pass meaning from one reality to another.

Over time humanity has used language to arrive at a collective consensus on the meaning of words that describe shared experiences. At this point, all language is on a metaphorical scale where the depth of a personal knowledge determines the success of understanding the input. This is coupled to a positive/negative reinforcement mechanism that builds a history of interactions that helps determine what language will convey the intended meaning in an appropriate context.

It does not seem that these two features, knowledge graph and track record, are outside the realm of possibility for computation. Given a deep enough knowledge graph and a means to query outcomes of past experience it seems that this feature of "seeming human" would be possible.
The color palette was pretty random haha; if you have a better color scheme to recommend, I'd love to see it! And I'm currently trying to find a good balance for size and speed such that the game is very challenging, but not impossible.
Looks fun, but the red balls are frustratingly hard to hit.

You should make it go fullscreen, I keep clicking my bookmarks and taskbar!

EDIT: I might've found a bug. One of the red balls escaped the game field near the top-left corner while moving in a horizontal trajectory.
one nice unrelated thing that didn't make any of the blog posts, digital ocean now supports userdata when launching instances via console or the api! but it looks like they still need to update their other os images to install cloudinit.
I share your belief in a soul, that isn't adequately explained by neither contemporary physics nor chemistry.

I am more positive of the future though. Just because we can't explain it right now, doesn't mean we wont ever be able to explain it.
Also, even if we aren't able to explain it, we may well succeed in AI anyway. By that I mean that we could create a computer that can perform the same mental feats as a human, without understanding if it is a p-zombie or not.
can you not get any propulsion from a beater bar?
The Verge has always been a Google sounding board. Anything Google tends to get very high reviews.
I think that police firearms should also have cameras attached so that evidence is recorded.
I never had any problems running multiple displays on separate PCI graphics cards on my 2002 PowerMac G4, why would that be a bigger challenge now?
Here is the transcript if you don't like watching the video http://bit.ly/1uD31Uz
I wish I could make sense of that error for you haha...
"world star" and "encourages them" is a racist dogwhistle that I'd be happy to translate for you. He meant those "uppity, animalistic black males"

That paired with the attitude that criminals are essentially no different than most people that post here is how I drew that conclusion. Barring extremes like members of organized crime, violent gangs, cartels, etc. of course. Even still, broad strokes don't apply to those organizations but you could definitely make the case that the affiliated develop a more uniquely "criminal" mindset. Keyword being DEVELOP.

Criminality is not inherent, sorry if this makes you uncomfortable.
Thanks. I had missed the part in the article about the C11 changes.
Meteor in Action
You do understand that watches are for a significant amount of people a fashion accessory ? Design is at least if not more important than functionality.

And as someone who cares about how they look design is the only reason I pick which watch to buy.
Thanks for commenting! We think what we're offering is unique to lookbook. Lookbook is almost all women (and almost everything similar to this concept is too) and a small percentage of their photos are breakdowns of where to purchase. We also have a few ideas that we are woking on that involve community engagement that lookbook is not offering either. However, seedtag looks promising. Is it in Spanish only?
Yeah I've seen/heard from folks that this happens; will fix sometime later today! Thanks!
He also uses the Twitter handle @codinghorror.
I agree it is insanity, if i was Yao Ming, my PSA would go as follows.

Gentlemen, before going to the extremes of using tiger balls to get your Girlfriend, Wife or Xiao San in the mood... First try these proven western approaches.

- Put on a Sade album

- Give her a glass of rose wine

- light a candle beside the bed

- Tell her she looks pretty in that dress

- Give her a new Coach handbag

- Slip some Molly in her drink right before desert

Why may you ask... Lets say there are 3200 tigers in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger) 50% are likely to be male leaving 1600 male tigers * 2 balls. That leaves roughly 3200 balls - not counting ones lost in childhood slingshot accidents.

Sadly, there soon will be no more balls to use ;( and you do not want to be left with "No Game."
Ask HN: Why don't sites let you write your own Secret Question?
Most of the sites I've used that utilize the Secret Question/Secret Answer mechanism give you a dropdown list of common "Secret Questions" to choose from. Usually something along the lines of "What is your mother's maiden name?"/"Where were you born?"/"What was your childhood nickname?" etc. It seems to me that at least half of these common questions are nothing more than demographic details that would be trivially easy to obtain by anyone actively seeking to break into your account.

Obviously I'm not obligated to be truthful with my answers--I could just use the "Mother's Maiden Name" question as a prompt to enter my favorite Monty Python episode title, but I just don't see why more sites don't allow you to simply design your own secret question and create something that would stumble a would-be account thief.
Bravo, thanks for ruining my productivity today.
Also if you ever had to do any automated phonetic name generation on a global scale its hilarious how outraged people get about words sounding like swear words. Any alo that doesnt solve this i worthless for real world application.
Ooh, thanks. The no-op commit is particularly interesting.
Check your browser addons and try disabling them - some clunky addons clobber Javascript that the Construct 2 engine uses and breaks it.
Cool. Thanks for doing that!
I'm thinking about also adding co-operative multiplayer functionality; what are your guys' thoughts?
While this will not help for touch screen devices, left arrow goes back.
Is it possible to record audio with org-mode (and then categorize/annotate)? And do quick drawings with a stylus on the screen?
Great point DCKing.
I'm the developer of Construct 2 - it's our startup (www.scirra.com). We're YC rejects :) Nice to see it pop up on HN!
Agree with the GP -- I own this vacuum and it works great. If you're more in the market for a chrome-and-platinum vacuum and don't care as much about the performance, you're probably headed the right direction with what you have.

What may be worth understanding, though, is that there are people who are equally willing to pay money for good vacuums, but whose judgment of "good vacuum" runs much more to "suction power and functional ability" rather than "build quality."

The idea that there is not a single axis of quality, and that different products can optimize for different axes, is not a new one, but it's one that many tech people in a post-Steve-Jobs era seem to have a hard time remembering.
> Unless you're citing scientific studies you can not possibly be drawing on your own declared lack of experience.

what does "drawing on your own declared lack of experience" even mean? how do you draw on a lack of experience, exactly? is this some sort of allusion to necessity driving invention?

also, if he was "citing scientific studies" would he then necessarily be "drawing on his own experience"? aren't the two distinct things?

> Nothing here is "called an opinion". You should probably stop using that phrase because it's ridiculous. I'm showing you respect by pointing out that you're wrong.

of course it's an opinion, it's very clearly one. it's staggeringly obvious. what is the point of your belligerent idiocy? are you pissing yourself over particular phrasing?

> The idea that you would attempt to answer this question based on zero experience is hilarious. That you would take an authoritative tone makes you a bit of an idiot.

what's rather amusing in this tirade is that you completely fail to understand the implications of "placebo" in the context of "experience". just because you "experience" something, does not make you an authority, precisely because of (among other things) the placebo effect.

it's always amusing when fools cast stones. lol!
When the economy tanks, the government is one of the very few entities that can still borrow cheaply and in quantity.

Unfortunately many governments are off flogging austerity to the public while underwriting the banks and keeping interest rates near zero. So the banks can't be bothered lending and the lender of last resort becomes the payday loans companies. Meanwhile traditional banking is busy investing in the payday loans rather than directly lending itself as bank loans follow interest rates.

The USA is actually doing comparatively well in all this as it never took the austerity thing to heart as much as the Eurozone, where Germany is currently worrying about a triple-dip.

edit - as far as I can tell, the reason that the interest rates have been kept so low, at least for here in the UK, is because the house price bubble must be defended at all costs.

There is a large portion of the UK economy that will scream blue-murder if they stop getting massive year on year returns on simple ownership of housing and the Bank of England doesn't like pissing them off, which is going to be Mike Carney's job when he finally raises interest rates, shortly before jumping ship as the official scapegoat of the UK house price crash.

Obviously this is a massive guess, but it looks somewhat likely.
Tried in incognito mode where everything is disabled. Still, it freezes with the same error. (Windows 8.0, Chrome Version 36.0.1985.143 m)
Hi not_that_noob
Thanks for the comments!.

I certainly agree with you, but you dont have to replace the names you are already using to take advantage of this, you can say:

not_that_noob
Washington Ave 123
Washington DC
BIFAPU-BATEDU

Floods, tornadoes, tsunamis and natural disasters can wipe out landmarks and leave addresses or conventional signaling unusable , that last line can make all the difference in such situations since it remains always unalterable.

And then you have Location Aware Street Names, where you can use words in your language to form street names, so you might use words that are more cultural meaningful to us.
Leave It to Ikea to Show Us How Stupid Apple Is
It's a book book. Genius.
If the "CDN" part of it proves to be sufficiently useful, this could be deploy layered on top of IP, or wrapped in UDP or even a TCP connection. Capable clients would then "just" need a means of discovering the nearest capable router that'll let it tunnel. And while IPv6 also can easily be tunnelled, the benefits of doing so are much smaller: IPv6 doesn't give you that much if your host still has an IPv4 address too.

But if this system lets your ISP drop in a new router or two that suddenly can know just by looking at packet headers that it is allowed to returned data from a local cache instead of passing the data on to the server and waiting for a response, then it could have sufficient benefits as soon as a couple of large bandwidth hogs starts supporting it. E.g. if Netflix or Youtube made use of it

That potentially a pretty different proposition.

Then again, the question is whether they need to re-architect the lower level protocols to do this, instead of defining a protocol on top of TCP or UDP that services that are actually likely to benefit can implement.
Regarding grub, 2.x is torture. All hdd's with even traces of its code should be collected and shot to the sun to make sure noone would ever recreate something as painful to use as grub2. Even more, samples of their configs should be posted on the walls of every CS class, together with charges of crimes against humanity against all developers responsible for that abomination - as a warning to anyone thinking of going their road.

Most systems these days have EFI bioses, just create a 512M EFI partition[1] and put your kernel(s)(with a set kernel-command line) to EFI/Boot(bootx64.efi is usually the default being loaded). You don't need a bootloader at all(+you'll get a few s off of your boot time too). Many bioses let you choose a kernel at boot time, so you don't even have to play with efibootmgr[2] if running multiple kernels/OS's.

It gets more tricky if you want LVM root fe(which I'd recommend) - in that case genkernel[3] may make your life a lot easier, but even here you don't require a boot loader.

If you do want a nice(er) boot menu, just copy refind[4] to your EFI partition, configuration takes seconds and you can tune it very - VERY - easily

Also, folks @ #gentoo are very helpful, feel free to give them a visit if you are stuck.

And the last thing I want to add - you don't have to compile your binaries on your nb/slow hw, just setup a binhost[5] and compile your tailored packages on your beefy PC/server@work - you can then share them with your devices via http for example

Ok, last one - if you like elementary os, you can get the same look&feel running on gentoo, although it may take some hacks at this stage

[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub_kernel
[2] http://linux.die.net/man/8/efibootmgr
[3] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Genkernel
[4] http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
[5] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide

..a buildroot micro-system running other distributions as overlays is also a nice time-waster and only a step away from gentoo(+ with lxc/docker there is a lot of long-hanging fruit to collect)
Real-time Map of Daily Worldwide DDos Attacks
Hi Ashley! I've seen you around on the Scirra forums; nice to meet you! Thanks for all the great work!
No, that's true, but there's nothing else backing his claim either.
I'm glad for this. Now people can better see all the crap police have to take off the type of people they deal with every minute of every day, five and more days a week, eight and more hours a day and realize that 99.999% of all the "corrupt police" charges are just what it is: over the top BS.
You keep saying uber like you think that's what I'm talking about.