skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amen to that. Living here in SF, the customer service aspect of cabs is appalling. I'm tired of getting dirty looks for paying with a credit card, having cabs with their light on and nobody in them drive right by me, playing the "where are you going" game, drivers talking on phones, and general surliness.

The day the industry unionized, that pushed me over the edge. I'm now 100% using Uber to get around and my only regret is that I didn't try it sooner - it's awesome.
explanation of stock options generally - http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-optio...
There is a difference between allowing the pointless ritual to proceed and requiring that the pointless ritual occur in all instances.
For us, it's that we're extremely close friends (we were friends for some time before dating), we both have a tremendous respect for one another, we have the same (fairly dark) sense of humor, and when we found each other we both knew how lucky we were and both were willing to upend all of our previous individual plans for life in order to be together.

None of that is a reproducible formula for a perfect relationship, and honestly my personal track record wasn't great before finding my wife. Really the only advice I have is to find someone that's not just a significant other but a very close friend -- a lot of people say that, but not many truly have it -- and, when you find someone like that, put her (or him) before absolutely everything.
Why do you think we observe the positive manifold, then?
Some good points, but if improved medical care were a major factor then we'd have to expect a corresponding uptick in attempted murder, which doesn't seem to be there.
> Maybe the Zoom-UI

The ZoomUI looked terrible to me. After years of huge iPads with only 4 icons across on it, because that supposedly makes them easier to use, the tiny tight grocery fruit pack of the icons looks like a usability nightmare. Fiddling with the knob (it's not a crown, crowns have specific functions in watches) also looks like a terrible time with every interaction. There's so many other ways they could have gone with it, and it's like they chose the wrong way just to be different.
I was under the impression that inhalation played a large role; suggested by elevated crime rates in urban areas where there was an abundance of car fumes but next to zero farming.

I may be wrong about that; I'll have to read more about this topic.
They've got a lot of idiosyncrasies at the moment, some of it working around the fact ADD some/directory/ could never be cached (so my build scripts maintain some.directory.tar.gz and those are ADDed instead), but I really should. I guess I'd put it under my github profile (I'm also csirac2 there).

There's two types of ARM builds, ones which can cross-compile and those that can't. The ones which can't cross-compile are done with qemu-binfmts and we chroot into an ARM filesystem and run the build there.

Perhaps the only useful contribution would be the fact that I persist the ccache up to the docker host with a shared ccache volume, and that helps enormously especially for the qemu-binfmts builds which can be quite slow.
Bingo. You got it. I visit and buy stuff at local RS stores, and yet I didn't know they sold RP there. Now I'm going to have to check it out.

Now that's something they should advertise.
My favorite part of Shechtman's story:

> ... Shechtman experienced hostility from him toward the non-periodic interpretation. "For a long time it was me against the world," he said. "I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world. For years, 'til his last day, he fought against quasi-periodicity in crystals... Linus Pauling is noted saying "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Shechtman
http://www.authenticjobs.com has a remote search option.

There's also http://www.jobmote.com which seems to be a decent aggregated list.

I actually found a great remote job off of jobs.github.com. The job was listed with the location `anywhere`
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The language that Helm was inspired by, Elm (http://elm-lang.org/), does have multiple examples to show the power of FRP.
> Is it really 'something in-between'? This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plomin - if there's a greater living behavioral geneticist, his name escapes me.

That is a valuable piece of information for us lay people. Do non-geneticists studying the issue generally agree with him?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-ho... (2007)
just like he backed out of being disappointed in the watch itself?
DOJ Proposal Would Expand FBI Power to Hack Computers Abroad
> iPods were fun to use, iPhones had enough UI]
> differentiation with things like blackberries to be
> "different".

These things are true only in hindsight. When the iPod came out, how would it ever compare to the Nomad? How was a phone that had no keyboard going to compete with people's beloved Blackberrys?

> the Apple Watch doesn't seem to have that

I'm wrong a lot, but I'll be amazed if that's a comment you can stand by a month after it's in consumers' hands.
I'm going to call this submarine marketing (well, really submarine lobbying) on the part of taxi companies.

If they were truly in dire straits, they'd be turning in their medallions and the city would be struggling to find new buyers.
Yeah but it's only $10k a core more. This job posting lists Oracle and PostgeSQL:

http://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPosDetail?id=a0m80000002...
For all the ruby devs on HN: check out the ruby bindings to qt at http://github.com/ryanmelt/qtbindings. Makes developing GUI apps in ruby really easy. Be sure to checkout the large set of example apps to get started.
I am sure there will soon be uber accessible.
I don't see it... if anything this should have the opposite effect. It's making that more more great information and know-how available to absolutely anyone, anywhere in the world, for free. OK, to be fair, anyone with a computer and a 'net connection, which does leave out some people... but still, it's a lot better than having a corresponding class at Stanford, which is available only to paying Stanford students, and not put up on the web for everybody.

I get that you think connections are everything (or close to everything), so I'll just say that I disagree. Connections are useful, but there are a lot of ways to build a network, establish relationships and grow you base of connections. And heck, for those of us not on the West Coast, we'll probably never meet most of the people involved in this class "in real life" at all. And our startups will succeed or fail quite independently of what Peter Thiel, Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Marc Andressen, Ron Conway, et al., think.
Secret-unveilings are worth many millions of dollars in free publicity. Apple gets front-page stories for all their product announcements because they're news. Without that, they'd have a much harder time. If that was at all at risk here, it was probably worth announcing early.

Also, Gruber correctly points out that the Osborne Effect might help them here - if the product seems promising enough, some people will postpone buying something else to wait for the Apple product. We should still expect subsequent versions return to the "you can buy this next week!" model.
I was an employee as they transitioned away from hobbyist electronics and into cell phone pushing. Commission based sales intentionally pushed employee effort away from technical competence and towards harassing everyone that walked through the door into a shitty phone contract.

In my view, they made two critical mistakes:

1) The bing/G+ mistake - letting other companies set an agenda that had them relying on execution outside their area of competence. They wanted to push phone contracts and TVs like walmart, but they lack the retail space and brand recognition to do so. This transition can be made (costco comes to mind), but Radioshack bet the farm on it and lost.

2) Maliciously pricing hardware components. I say "malice" very intentionally. Things like adapters, resistors, and pots cost literal pennies coming out of China. Hobbyists will happily pay $1 for a $0.10 item to avoid sourcing it from the factory or ordering from a catalog. $8 is a different story. Going to Radioshack went from "awesome, what will I build this week?" to "man, they're really fucking me on this".

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch. Radioshack's death is long overdue.
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It's not my only bad experience with Radio Shack, but they ripped my Mom off by not accepting a valid coupon for a cellphone. They stalled for a while, then told her to buy it anyway and redeem the coupon the next day. My Mom is the type to do that, but the next day they refused to redeem it. I stopped shopping there.

They may have been the offline Newegg once, but I won't be surprised when they file for bankruptcy in a decade or so.
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How can an article question if Apple's abandoned it's "egalitarianism" if it never was egalitarian in the first place? This is not my opinion either as the author literally says they are not, while initially using the iPhone/iPad to portray that Apple had an "egalitarian", "for the masses" feel.

Ignoring the fallacy of comparing an iPhone that cost hundreds of dollars when alternatives cost <$100 "egalitarian" to a sugary water drink, he uses the iPhone/iPad to pitch Apple as an "egalitarian" company then in the next paragraph refutes himself.

At the very least it is just not a very good analogy where he props one part of the company as something, when the rest of the company is definitely not that something.
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I remember their p-box kits [1]. I definitely remember buying and building the one-tube AM radio kit. If they brought these back, I'd probably buy and build a few of them.

[1] a list of them, with photos of the manuals and circuit diagrams, and photos of completed kits: http://my.core.com/~sparktron/pbox.html
The rise of video games. More teenagers are playing video games and venting out their anger in the games or online instead of hanging out in the streets shooting each other.
> i think it's fair to assume that the android wear manufacturers have shown their cards.

Um, the Android Wear manufacturers may not have any secret plans of their own, but... The Android Wear OS developer is practically jumping up and down in the corner saying "I have secret plans! I have secret plans!" See, for instance:

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-says-android-wear-about-to-g...

This shouldn't be surprising. The existing Android Wear hardware is unusually powerful (a 2010 smartphone or better?) for what it is currently doing. Given the importance of battery life, that's a strange choice - unless more is coming.

I'd also note that the GP commenter works for the previously mentioned OS developer, and the comment seems entirely consistent with someone who knows more is coming, but can't do much beyond hinting at that.
A close friend got first place. Good show. Second place is someone I hardly know: the post doc on my dissertation project's wife. I think I've met her IRL twice. Second is worse than that. At the bottom are people I speak to on a daily basis, or am biologically related to. Fail.
LOL XD

Simple and chuckleful... :p I like it...
The alternative to Palantir - an alternative enterprise bespoke system or one built by the companies' or Gov's IT department - costs a whole lot more (25x) and often doesn't work! Palantir is a great value.
I respectfully disagree with your generous assessment of this post.

I think if he had basically said something more like "IMHO, Apple Watch looks better to me than any of the Android devices out there" I'd be fine. But all this weird egalitarian bullshit, and backpedaling on his previous claims of disappointment was impossibly tiring.

But I do agree that If there's a real point to made in his conjecture of where Apple is going with their prices, it's not only pushing upscale, but in a more Apple-y way, pulling upscale down. Meaning, bringing luxury items and buying habits into the mass market.

Loads of people can afford a $500 watch, they just don't buy them because

a) They don't need watches anymore

b) If they do, there's a $20 watch at Ross/Marshalls that looks good enough and will get the job done.

I think Apple is going to build a market for smart watches in a way that Google and Android can't because of their superior marketing and built in buying market. In 5 years, the thought of not owning a smartwatch will seem odd, but now the entire market will be in the $500 on up space instead of fighting it out at the lower price points.

After all, Apple has built entire markets on things that we got along just fine without, mp3 players, smartphones, tablets, why not watches?
+1 to this. YC partners are in a unique position
Haha, it really is weird...
simple but competent for time series. and the 32-bit version is at least available for free now.
"Alias 2 commands with each other"

You sir, deserve the Nobel prize...
I have NeuroSky headphones... very hard to use and apps crash all the time if they pair at all.
Thing is that, while I understand the benefit, for $300 it isn't likely I will spend it on something like this.
Yes on the Pi: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=289254...

Widely in stock in stores.
I didn't really get the joke...
As someone who has been walking into Radio Shacks off and on for a good many years (but was never a TRS-80 owner), it often seems as if there's an awful lot of rose-colored hindsight going on with Radio Shack.

Yes, they carried a lot of DIY components and had individual managers and other employees who could be pretty helpful and knowledgeable. But, mostly, they were where you pretty much had to go for cables and such pre-BigBox and pre-Internet and they had a broad enough retail reach that they were really good for that. And they complemented that with a bunch of toys and (mostly) craptascular and overpriced stereo equipment.

In other words, IMO, they were always a pretty mixed bag and were never particular havens of hackerdom. I'm sure some will disagree but I'd suggest that this is a pretty selective window into how Radio Shack made its money.

BTW, I like the DIY/Maker vision. I'm just very skeptical that it would support the type of real estate that Radio Shack has or otherwise lends itself to a large scale business plan. (Would love to be proven wrong.)
The author has earned him/herself a Useless Use of cat (UUOC) award for not realizing that grep can take a filename argument in the example pipeline.

Basically, the example can be shortened to the following:

grep purple /usr/share/dict words | # Find words containing 'purple' in the system's dictionary
awk '{print length($1), $1}' | # Count the letters in each word
sort -n | # Sort lines ("${length} ${word}")
tail -n 1 | # Take the last line of the input
cut -d " " -f 2 | # Take the second part of each line
cowsay -f tux # Put the resulting word into Tux's mouth
i've never owned a gold watch(but have bought a couple of gold coins before) so i'm curious. do they come with assay certs and some sort of cert that say how much gold is present(like, in ounces)?

and also, isn't it a little bit impractical in reality as well? gold being a soft metal will wear out if you wear it? then there could be less gold than what it says on the cert?
http://www.giganews.com/blog/2014/09/it-is-a-gigahoax-gigane...

It's a Gigahoax - Giganews is NOT an FBI Operation

Giganews has always supported the Open Internet and fought for the personal freedoms that the Open Internet enables. Unfortunately, one of those freedoms is the ability for anyone to say almost anything they want, whether or not it is true or factual, and for others to believe it. Yesterday, Giganews was accused of being an FBI operation by an ex-employee through the well-known Cryptome.org. This accusation is completely false, and the accuser offers no evidence to support the claim.

Cryptome's failure to contact us to validate the allegations or respond to our concerns has lessened their credibility. It does not seem that Cryptome is in search for the truth, which leaves us to question what are their true motives. Sorry, Cryptome - Giganews is NOT an FBI operation. You've been duped.

Giganews is in the impossible position of proving a negative. If we say our list of employees does not include any FBI employees, then they must be "using false identities." If we say the named FBI operatives don't look like any of our employee photos, "the pictures must have been altered." Even the denial itself is used as further evidence of the truth of the accusation. In a court of law, such an accusation would never stand up to scrutiny, but on the Open Internet, opinions can be formed by only a few words on a popular website. Fighting the lies only emboldens those who tell them – Feeding the Troll.

What we can do is stand on our long history of supporting the Open Internet and the privacy of our customers:

- We are one of the few providers left still offering access to a full Usenet news feed
- We led the way in introducing encrypted SSL connections for Usenet access
- We worked with Golden Frog to provide the easy-to-use VyprVPN Personal VPN service with our Usenet accounts
- Giganews customers were the first to get access to Golden Frog's Dump Truck secure storage service
- Giganews and Golden Frog brought together those that fight for online privacy at our SXSW Take Back Your Internet Panel.
- Giganews spoke, just today, before the Texas State Legislature in support of proposed Texas privacy legislation.

Actions speak louder than words, and these are the actions of a company that supports customer privacy and a free and open Internet. Giganews has not and will not be controlled by any government organization, and we will continue to provide the best Usenet service to our customers.
> But there seems to be little differentiation.

The thing that's really interesting to me is that there's a million different ways Apple could have gone with their watch, and instead they just arrived at an Apple version of what's been going on in Android land for a while now.
An observation hardly unique to crime stats. The 24 hour internet is happy to convince you that the police have never been more brutal, your food has never been more poisoned, etc.
And it's often classical OS design in personal projects. There's also r/hurd .. and not about OS but still a different 'system' r/nixos.

ps: from r/hurd

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/viengoos.html

https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/04_uk_escape/
Those are all renders of AppleWatch (the initial Moto 360 renders were equally fantastical). Are there bystander photos of the working AppleWatch models that look as beautiful as the renders? I'm interested in the cheaper plastic model in particular as that's likely the one I'm getting — and the price makes it a fairer comparison to the Moto 360
I do not know why the positive manifold is as it is. But it still seems like it is a precise measure of an inaccuracy.

What I am getting at in a roundabout way is that I cannot find any credible definition of intelligence that is not dependent on the these tests. If intelligence were able to measured some other way that corroborated these tests, then I will be more likely to believe them.
I am sure this is the biggest reason. Nothing to talk about more access to education, birth control, ...
My Note 3 works just fine with gloves on (there's a screen sensitivity mode intended just for that use-case)...and I'm not talking about using it with the pen.

Touchscreen tech has advanced quite a bit since the old days.

The demos of the watch show a mixed use-case. The crown for some things, the screen to complete the task. So unless they're supporting similar screen tech as what Samsung is featuring now, the glove use-case doesn't matter.
Your safety is a measure of how likely you are to be attacked, which is fundamentally a per capita measurement. If there are twice as many people and 10% more attacks, that means that the average person is less likely to be attacked.
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> But android wear makers, you see, they've shown everything in their presentation. No android wear manufacturers are planning anything different than what was shown at I/O.

Most tech companies over-promise and under-deliver. Apple has a tendency to do the opposite (if you ignore they hyperbole). I'm sure most Android Wear manufacturers are planning beyond what they've actually announced, but I would be amazed if we see anything new before the new year.
I wonder if the people who send offensive messages to others in online games are the same who would in previous generations would have sprayed offensive graffiti on walls?
Another possibly is the increase in abortions, removing unwanted children that may have potentially become criminals.

src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...
That is simply FUD – Palantir guarantees to customers that their software is working within 90 days AND has generated results. They offer a refund if not. Their homepage said this for a while!
I think it is Postgres.
No, the Centaur upper stage is a standard part of an Atlas V. All Atlas V vehicles use Centaur second stages. Since the Centaur failed, part of the Atlas V system failed.
Revisiting What I Know About Network Effects and Startups
I don't know about ugly. I'm not a fan of the styling, but I'm able to recognize it as being well styled regardless.
Defining Big Data
As a general fan of open data like this, I've been a little worried these analyses would lead to the data not being released in the future. Hopefully if they change anything in the future, it will still be useful and interesting.
hmm shes probably on payroll.

Bloomberg is sort of a catch22 with musk. They try to highlight him as much as possible, even so far as to over praise him with really stupid matters. Then one little mistake or negativity, it is blown up and seriously investigated and written about.
That's because there's no money in reporting good news. You want a killer startup idea? Find a way to make money by telling people good news.
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"Crown" is a watch term. The terminology wasn't invented by Apple.
Ask HN: What is growth hacking?
I'm working on a social networking startup.
I think its a similar story for DIY electronics shops everywhere - there's one here in Australia called Dick Smith Electronics that really doesn't sell much DIY electronics anymore ... they're now mainly retailers - phones, TVs, sim cards, PC parts, sound, cameras. Few weeks ago I asked one of the staff if they sold Raspberry Pis but he'd never heard of it.
Yellow Taxi, Green Cab decimated themselves. Living in SF there was one thing you learned quickly: calling the taxi was a complete waste of time. The reason Uber, Lyft, etc won was because they could actually perform a job the taxi's had been failing at for years.
Yes you are correct. I noticed that after re-reading the article. However I feel my point still stands. If the reporter is going to draw a fine point on what an Atlas 5 is, they could do the same for a falcon 9.

Edit - - nevermind! See comment below.
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I was involved in a Oracle Financials implemention a few years ago. Forget about the Oracle part... the IBM/Tivoli garbage used to monitor the IT systems cost about $1M in licensing alone!
> conspiracies

I'm not sure if "lobbying is effective" counts as a conspiracy.
Where does your original (non-qemu) toolchain come from? Is that built inside or outside of a container?
Yes. But being on the other end of such a deal is like running the lottery.
+1000. You have hit the nail on the head.