skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have hard time seeing iPhone last more than 3 years. That is 36 months, or $360 of spotify subscription. Now price difference between 16GB and 128GB for iPhone 6 is $200 before tax. This comes roughly just under two years and is about average interval tech savvy people update their phones at.

This is just putting things in perspective, unless you have very specific needs of your phone I do not think 16GB is enough anymore, 64GB is definitely way to go.
I feel like there's lots of space for b2b disruption in banking. Banks really shouldn't be in the business of building secure and robust software. They don't manufacture their own vaults either.
>"[...] the woman joins an elite club of just nine people who are known to have lived without their entire cerebellum. A detailed description of how the disorder affects a living adult is almost non-existent, say doctors from the Chinese hospital, because most people with the condition die at a young age and the problem is only discovered on autopsy."

Is this woman the only one of the nine to have lived this long? Incredible given how critical the cerebellum is.
Sorry, my opener was misleading. I intentionally did not comment about the less educated because (at the cost of sounding elitist) I know very few of them personally. I'd love to hear about depression among the uneducated (I would not be surprised if this, too, is a serious issue) from more learned folks out here.
Not to the average person, it doesn't. HN's hatred of facebook is a well documented thing, but to the average user, it's the place where you go to look at pictures and talk with friends and so on.
The screen is larger but each pixels are at the same distance of each other in both phones.
Finally, Dali Clock arrives on the web!
That's just Apple being typically arrogant (and other font designers following them, sadly).

The way to write a flag in emoji is to combine the two letters of its country code; e.g. for the French flag you write REGIONAL INDICATOR F + REGIONAL INDICATOR R. The font then magically turns that two-character sequence into a single glyph.

An emoji font could include up to 676 (26*26) flags; I think WhatsApp has something like 45 flags already (on Android).
does this mean iOS is a fragmented mess?
I don't think Google+ needs to have people leave Facebook, it simply needs to offer great ways to share content with people so that users have a seamless experience on YouTube, Photos, Gmail, Docs, Hangouts, etc.

The Google+ stream is basically more of a (much, much) better Twitter than a Facebook clone. I use it for public work related communication and specific topics via communities and hashtags.

Disclaimer: I'm a Googler
No, it's harder than that.

If you don't inspire people, you get B (or worse) work out of everyone. Being inspiring is the only way to get A work out of anyone, ever. Nobody works at their full potential for a "bullshit job."
I'm going to suggest that when you "take a little extra responsibility for their safety" you fight for protection, like bike lanes, more vigorous enforcement of laws, and equal rights compared to other vehicle operators.

It's a very American attitude to say things like "don't visit that part of town, it's a bad neighbourhood". What about things like "that part of town is in rough shape, we should work to revitalize it" or "I shouldn't have to live in fear when walking down the street, what can we do to mitigate that fear".

Changing attitudes and the environment that produces them takes time.
I'm looking for $10M
The Flex community (before steve jobs killed it) had the same issues - every week a new client-side framework would come out and try to re-define client-side MVC.

The best framework I found back then was RobotLegs, which was an MVC(s) framework which I loved because it was more of a set of patterns you followed. Dijon.js https://github.com/creynders/dijon is a port of Robotlegs to JS which seems cool. It just provides dependency injection and leaves the MVC part up to you.

Flux seems like the way to go, IMHO. It is more of a set of patterns rather than a "framework". It's a lot to grok at first though.

I'd look at Fluxor http://fluxxor.com/, or Reflux https://github.com/spoike/refluxjs, which both seem to make Flux a bit simpler.

(I do agree with you that the state of frameworks now is ridiculous)
You know for a fact that there are historic roads all over the U.S. that date back to before the car. Even old farm roads have been turned into highways, but that doesn't mean they weren't originally purposed for things on foot.
Wow, I can install a pirated operating system I downloaded from a Russian webmail server? What an awesome idea!
In our git repo we provide a list of all the emoji, their category, keywords, shortnames etc in json format.

https://github.com/Ranks/emojione/blob/master/emoji.json
This is fascinating considering that the cerebellum contains more neurons than the rest of the brain(!) (source: http://neuroscience.uth.tmc.edu/s3/chapter05.html). I wonder what other problems she experiences (the article only says she started speaking and walking at age 6-7).
Karma isn't just random Internet points (in fact, that purpose of karma is pretty irrelevant and one's global "karma score" could just as well be removed without consequence.) The real point of voting is that it sorts comments, so that the dross of a conversation can fall below a certain line and you can stop reading the conversation before that line. Astroturfers negate the value of sorting, such that you have to read (or at least skim) the dross if you want to find the good comments.
Migrating Your Runtime Application Off CloudBees
A lot of what people think is required by Common Core is what someone selling something has used Common Core as a selling point (a similar thing happens with HIPAA.)
>> HN's hatred of facebook is a well documented

Where and why?

The last thing I knew is that the Facebok hatred came from Google supporters who hate Facebook because it is Google's nemesis.
A very welcomed initiative!

I'm curious though: why is it necessary to store the emoji characters as :shortnames: in the DB instead of using the corresponding Unicode characters, and then convert them to image tags when rendering them to HTML[1]?

Couldn't the Unicode characters be rendered directly on the HTML and then the emojis shown using a custom font via @font-face? Firefox at least seems to support this using color SVG fonts[2].

I think that would be a better solution, as it would allow copy&pasting text that includes emojis. Doing so in the current Emoji One demo page copies the emojis short names instead of the Unicode symbols. And it may even let the native emojis take precedence over the Emoji One set doing (I think):

body {
/* Use sans-serif before Emoji One to allow rendering native emojis. */
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Emoji One';
}

[1]: https://github.com/Ranks/emojione#installation
[2]: http://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/GeckoEmoji.html
It's been 8 days since you posted this comment so I have no idea if you'll read this ( I couldn't find any contact info on your profile ) but yes, I would.
I've also been kicking this idea around for a while so if you're interested in joining forces drop me an email: mail -at- phow.at
iPhone 6 Plus and the End of Pixels
Still don't get it. That's mchurch's line, and it's not echoed in any of the comments (except possibly Masoud's on Piaw Na's G+ entry) you linked.
How Certificates Use Digital Signatures
If this article is true then "The Iphone 6 plus can never show a sharp picture" seems correct (your 3x assets will be scaled to 2.6x).

What part of this do you think breaks other displays, though?
It does not necessarily follow that commnist/marxist ideology on its own was the cause of the atrocities. In fact, i'd say there's a good argument that they were ultimately caused by ignorant power-seekers misapplying the ideology for their own benefit.
Rewriting the LayerVault File Page in Ember
Android developers have to take what ever comfort they can get, it certainly won't be the money.
True, you can't be exactly sure based on a single case. This might or might not have been a strong marriage. Even very strong marriages sometimes but rarely break up out of nowhere.

But the initial statement is true in a probabilistic sense. A strong marriage most of the time will survive learning about this kind of event that happened well before the marriage started. That the marriage didn't survive is not conclusive, but does suggest that it was probably not a strong marriage.

I don't see any problem with that, as long as there is a clear distinction made between what is known and what is weak likely conjecture (and it's anonymous).
> [Fans] can only provide cooling at air temperatures below the mean skin temperature, which is about 35°C (95°F). Fans cannot cool people above that treshold, because moving air cannot reduce the skin temperature below the ambient temperature – no matter how high the air speed.

The statement applies to passive heat sinks. If a device's heat sink has a surface temperature of 35°C, then blowing 40°C air across it faster will not only help, but it will be counterproductive: the warmer air heats the heat-sink, and moving air does it faster.

In 40°C relatively dry air, your skin is 35°C only because of active heat removal: evaporation. This changes the picture. Moving air can speed this up even though it is warmer. If the air doesn't move, then evaporation wraps you in a blanket of humid air. Ventilation displaces the humid air, replacing it with dry air that can take up moisture.
I second the Beyer Custom One Pro's - they are bass cannons and are the best sounding headphone I have purchased (I have many 200 dollar headphones lying around).
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I'm making this because, while Three.js is very nice, it's not a pick-up-and-go solution. I see a lot of artists complaining about how hard it is to get something together on Google Cardboard, so I'm trying to make a certain type of 3D interaction so simple, even a Geico caveman can do it. And while Unity is a thing, it's not my thing. I'd prefer to see an open source option. So I'm trying to make it.

My goal is to create something that will help prototype different VR UXs in rapid cycles. I'm also hoping that the input abstractions I'm developing will make supporting a variety of display technologies a simple, default choice.

If you're interested in hacking on VR UX, please join me on Github: https://www.github.com/capnmidnight/VR
According to this [ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/chrome-os-can-now-run... ] no porting is required.

But with that in mind, it is unclear from the posts I've seen why the list of available apps is currently so small and why working closely with Google is required to get your app up and running right now, perhaps this is just due to the runtime being very much in active development and not supporting the entire set of Android APIs yet.
Did you even read your own link?

The Critic acid cycle is awesome, but it can not perform nuclear synthesis. It has no way to making nitrogen.

As I've said 3 times already, it makes amino acids from other amino acids.

One of the ingredients is NAD, which is made from tryptophan or aspartic acid, both of which are amino acids.

You are simply wrong, and you need to update your information.

Animals can only make amino acids from other amino acids.
Find any thread on HN that deals with Facebook primarily. The comments will run along the lines of (evil/intelligence gathering front/destroying communication) and all manner of other emotionally loaded and/or objectively incorrect nonsense.

There's not liking or not using a service, and then there's pathological hatred.

I have never read a single positive thought on Facebook on this entire site in my entire time here.
And that is your right, you can make your own map, the census is freely available. It isn't a 'diversity' map, it is a map showing census data for race, income, household size and age, not ethnicity.
Thanks. I was wondering why the few number of apps right now if it isn't a rewrite.
The gmail stuff is too ephemeral for me. Needs to be an app.

I don't think audio/video goes with email/chat. I think that's there's where Skype might have messed up and ceded mobile to other players.
Gen-Xer here... you would be surprised to learn how many of us wholeheartedly agree with you.
No, it's you that is wrong. You clearly have not read the articles you yourself have linked.

> Us animals are capable of amino acid synthesis for some amino acids.

Really? You can make an amino acid from ammonia?

No, you can not. You can only make amino acids from other amino acids.

Here, I'll even link if for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid_synthesis#From_inte...

Follow each of the pathways there, and you will see. Each non-essential amino acid is made from another amino aid.
You should go for $25M at least. This shit is mad disruptive yo.
The robustness of evolved systems is just crazy.
I think you're making a mistake writing this off as an issue you can solve by working more on your website and perhaps most importantly using only your existing skills that you are comfortable with.

Your design and the improvements and optimizations don't mean anything until after you find a way to reach your market. If you can't reach your customers nothing else matters. You have some paying customers so apart from typos your website is good enough at least for now.
Links to GitHub page (http://google.github.io/CausalImpact/) and the code itself (https://github.com/google/CausalImpact).
Correct, where I grew up, we were taught in school to get out of intersections as quickly as possible, or dismount and walk across the crosswalk if it was available.
The brain knows how to survive, that's for sure... http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/12/woman.brain/index.html?...
Karmalytics test
hello world
Designer as Architect
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Show HN: Potion 0.2 with sandbox and rudimentary debugger, ffi, types
This would be better as a font you could just drop in to your site.
Of course they can. Words have contradictory definitions.

There's even a name for them: contronyms.
Great read. This just show how evil for-profit medicine really is. The fact that the pay is so high in the west is disturbing. I really pray we see a single-payer socialised system in our lifetime in the US. Growing up with socialised medicine has shown me the truth. No doctor, no matter how talented, needs to make what they do. All of this should be government run as a non-profit. Government should mandate and force all pharmaceutical companies into non-profit status as well for the good of mankind.

I'm sick to death of not being able to go to hospital here in the US, even with insurance, because what with the co-pays and deductibles, it costs a fortune. I just don't go, and I am in need of surgery that I cannot afford.

QUESTION:

Would an Indian facility in India treat me for a relatively small amount of money? Even after the flights, it would still be cheaper than the $22k I've been quoted here by multiple sources.
The first paragraph of the section Results basically sums it up. In my personal experience, it is true, not only in the Internet, but also in everyday conversations. People can criticize the party and its leaders freely in their conversations, without any concern to be arrested.

"Criticisms of the state, its leaders, and their policies are routinely published, whereas posts with collective action potential are much more likely to be censored—regardless of whether they are for or against the state (two concepts not previously distinguished in the literature). Chinese people can write the most vitriolic blog posts about even the top Chinese leaders without fear of censorship, but if they write in support of or opposition to an ongoing protest—or even about a rally in favor of a popular policy or leader—they will be censored."
I learned an excellent lesson in management from this, got in serious shit for trying to get a guy like that fired.

Give them glowing reviews and a transfer somewhere else, in the same way that a null can be cast to any class, someone who can do nothing can work in any field.
Manjaro is an easier to use spin off from Arch. Has a graphical package manager and installer.

http://manjaro.org/
It is not a rewrite, according to the I/O keynote it is the native Android app (maybe with some minor changes).
I would be curious to know how it works exactly. Did Google write a port of Dalvik/ART that runs on ChromeOS ?
Basically I mean integration with the kernel's code base and all of the testing that entails. After their initial development, file systems all end up migrating to the kernel's code base.

So, I'm not thinking in terms of technical API support, but more development/testing/integration support.
My two favorite hardware startups are Pebble (https://getpebble.com/) and Upverter (https://upverter.com/). Pebble makes the Pebble smart watch, and Upverter makes cloud based hardware design tools.
If only we had this in the much simpler than a brain computer systems, right?
Note: this saves the image to your clipboard instead, overwriting anything you've cut/copied.
How does one go about becoming a chaos engineer? I imagine up to this point it is a field one falls into accidentally and gains experience over time. I can imagine it becoming a topic taught at a college level in the near future.
The 3% Solution: A potent source of genetic variation in cognitive ability
Ok that flag thing is quite cool then actually! :)
Nice that someone has done this. It would be interesting to test it on US and European social networks as well. I found it particularly fascinating that griping was not censored but calls to action were. The idea of using griping as a way of evaluating leaders (in lieu of voting) seemed pretty interesting. One could argue that might work more widely.
At least where I grew up, bikes were not supposed to ride on roads without sufficient shoulder for them to pull out of the way of vehicles. The flip side is that there's a big lobby that tries to ensure that most roads have such a shoulder. Lots of rural roads don't have them, but I've found that it's better for me as both a driver and a cyclist to have such shoulders in the case I need to pull off or out of the way with either kind of transport mode.
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ah! thanks!! love this
> Her doctors describe these effects as "less than would be expected"

Understatement of the century? I wonder, then, what parts of the brain (if any) truly are essential for conscious thought?
Sure, no problem. hit me up at dustin @ contractorsherpa . com and we can figure out a time to talk.
> Your kook-like obsession ...

1. Do you have any idea how this language makes you -- and all psychologists -- look?

2. According to the NIMH and the usual rules of scientific evidence, the burden is on psychology, not its critics, to prove that mental illnesses are real, a problem that isn't helped at all by the practice of creating and destroying mental illnesses using votes instead of research.

Psychologists could easily reverse the recent NIMH ruling that the DSM is to be dropped as pseudoscience (http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-rats-of-n-i-m-h) -- they could produce scientific evidence that the mental illnesses listed there are real. But, notwithstanding this tangible injury to their livelihoods, they cannot do that. And neither than you.

> People who are sometimes hospitalised can be treated -safely and effectively- with some forms of talking therapies.

Yes, which calls into question the reality of mental illnesses. Prove this wrong using evidence -- name a real illness, from the world of medicine, an illness with a known cause, that can be talked out of existence.

In other words, meet your scientific burden of evidence.

> That does not mean their illness is not real and it is fucking offensive to suggest otherwise.

Spoken like a true psychologist: everything is an emotional issue, there are no topics that can be discussed dispassionately -- a requirement for science. And, like a religious believer, what is "real" can be asserted without evidence.

> ... refusing to accept the possibility that mental illness exists is indistinguishabke from bigotry in this post.

Let's analyze this claim. Science, and scientists, proceed using the null-hypothesis precept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis), the precept that a claim is assumed to be false until evidence supports it. The recent NIMH ruling agrees completely with this foundational precept, and that the scientific burden of evidence rightly rests with psychology to prove its claims.

According to you, and based on your posted statement quoted above, this means that scientists are bigots.

Scientists aren't in the habit of "refusing to accept the possibility" of anything, but they refuse to accept ideas having no evidence. You think this makes them bigots. You're both wrong and science-illiterate.

Finally, if mental illnesses can be accepted as real without evidence, then Beth Rutherford's claim to have been raped by her father, and forced to abort with a coat-hanger, must also be accepted as real without evidence. But when she made her claim, Beth Rutherford was a virgin -- in reality.

http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology
With many people around, someone might have to wait a while to have a video/song come up; it shouldn't be possible for a single person (other than the host) to skip a song. On the other hand, if a significant fraction of the people connected to the party want to skip something, skip it; if it was skipped close to the beginning of the video, bump that person's next request higher in the queue as a replacement.
:/ is definitely sad or disappointed.
It is true that environment (and other non-intrinsic factors) have a huge effect on how much value a person adds to a company (or community, or friendship). I've definitely experienced this variance personally.

That said, if I had my perfect environment, and you had your perfect environment...we would not be equally good at doing particular tasks. For some values of me and you, the difference in effectiveness would be tremendous. We can argue all day if that is due to nature or nurture - but the end result is that some people are just better at doing particular tasks than most other people, by a very wide margin.

Also, some people are more consistent in their value add in spite of particular forms of external variance. For a concrete example, there are some people who will very productively stay with a company as it grows from 20 to 2000 people while others will prefer to hop around to stay in smaller companies.
I'm can't speak authoritatively on this subject: but I'm pretty sure that telling Guy Stelle "don’t get rid of [Cons], use it correctly!" is a very ballsy move ;)
Here is the license for this ... thing.

http://www.amsdec.com/license.html

Summary: it's an EULA. 'Hello' is licensed, not sold. The cost for a license is $0. It's copyrighted by AMSDEC. You may redistribute the Hello binaries and such so long as you include the EULA.

My opinion: the authors have never heard of the GPL but they might like it if they were to learn about it somehow.
Maybe? Medical tourism is a well-established thing.
And that's not the cost that patients would pay. Current prescription charges are £8.05 per line item per month. About 80% of prescriptions are free because the patient is exempt from charges.

http://www.nhs.uk/nhsengland/Healthcosts/pages/Prescriptionc...
Yea try booting up with half a CPU.
I know, but it is related to the same topic.
>If you think it's ugly, it's ugly.

I like your attitude on this.
The Apple Watch is an iPod for your iPhone