skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the quality of the car actually matters to me. in my experience Uber cars tend to be clean and well-maintained internally. i've only tried one Lyft and it was fine, but just not as pleasant to ride in. I'm not saying that's always the case with them, but I still consider that more than cost when deciding which one to use.
When I used a Nexus 4 (stock), I could never figure out the opening in different apps. It would ask me if I wanted to open a reddit link in Chrome or Firefox or the reddit app. I would select Chrome and hit the "always do this" button, and the very next time it would ask again. The next time, it wouldn't ask. Then it would ask five times in a row.

It's almost as bad as "do you want to view this site in the tapatalk app?".
Is not a session cookie the same thing? I'd argue if your tokens only live in memory they can be more secure. It also depends how long your tokens live or how many requests they are good for. No?
How long does it take to complete the brain training course?
I don't know. We don't run it overnight. I just use a pair of box fans (≈ intake + exhaust) to push cool night air through my room.
> when is it harmful to see people participating in sex acts?

I'm no conservative, but kids copy what they see, even before they understand language and responsibility. There are no absolutes, but it's wise to moderate showing sex acts to children until it's likely they won't repeat it responsibly.
Agree with your points. What I was trying to say was that Google has created a competitive ecosystem like PC manufactures that will drive the price of handsets close to their cost thus depriving them of profit.

In other words there is less and less differentiation between a samsung and htc and lg handset as the pace of innovation slows in hardware. They cannot differentiate on software this they are left primarily with price. This will only exacerbate in the future.
> It's possible you're correct – but that would likely require that the original poster has utterly ignored the evidence of their senses to focus on electronic devices exclusively.

Which is possible when we consider just how strong the effects of bias are.
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ has lots of good advice. Most importantly, it has a transcript, for those of us who are not fans of audio.
Ok blame whomever you like. The issue of 'reparations' remains cloudy, and I for one don't see the argument.
A similar question has been asked two months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041789
My three favourite podcasts are:

* Startups for the rest of us

* Bootstrapped with kids

* Freakonomics
two of my favorites...

Thermal Delight in Architecture

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/thermal-delight-architecture

Commonsense Architecture: A Cross Cultural Survey Of Practical Design Principles

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4584732-commonsense-archi...
Tim Ferriss Show -> http://fourhourworkweek.com/category/the-tim-ferriss-show/

I like Tim's style, very insightful and I think he gets some great guests.
Show HN: Everytime – video collaboration app (includes free demo)
I lot of modern architecture utilizes various forms of concrete these days to incredible effect:

http://themodernhouseblog.net/

Only problem is they also use a ton of glass to facilitate lots of natural lighting.
Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/
99% Invisible - http://99percentinvisible.org/
You Are Not So Smart - http://youarenotsosmart.com/
NPR Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
If it's any consolation, the new version of it released yesterday seems to have been optimized a lot more than the previous versions. Despite the added functionality, it feels a lot snappier. This is on a Nexus 5, not sure about other/older hardware.
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
See also http://www.seiko5finder.com (not affiliated)
I've long had a joke theory that every fruit produces a certain fixed amount of flavor, and the bigger you breed it to be, the more watered down it gets. Sure, this is biological gibberish, but for a joke theory, it does seem to fit most of the facts.

On a less jokey note, I have found myself wondering how much gene engineering it would take to fix the mismatch between size and flavor.
Please don't change radio stations while driving.

Please don't use the navigation built into your car while driving.

Please don't look at your speedometer while driving.

Please don't look at your gas gauge while driving.

Please don't look at the clock while driving.

Please don't change temperature controls while driving.

In the US (with terrible driving schools), they teach you how to maintain control of your car while glancing at a screen for a brief moment of time, because it's necessary to do so. Looking at a GPS or at the radio is far different from doing something time consuming and interactive like texting.

If you think glancing at a GPS is an unacceptable risk, you should probably abstain from driving altogether.
Hah, I buy this argument far more than any claims that people need accurate time measurement at notice short enough that taking a phone from a pocket/bag is unacceptable. Though I do think watches are hopelessly retro :-)
What I Wish I'd Known About Running a Startup
These aren't really technical, but they're some of my favourite podcasts.

* Trivia: Good Job, Brain! http://www.goodjobbrain.com/

* Video games: Idle Thumbs https://www.idlethumbs.net/ -- they also had a book club that was fun

* Poetry Magazine podcast: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audio?show=The%20Po...

* New Yorker podcasts: http://www.newyorker.com/podcasts
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/09/the_nanny_state_didnt...

The vast majority of the people complaining about the Big Soda ban don't buy big sodas, and those most enraged about the Buckyballs ban either already have them or would never want them. So the reaction has nothing to do with the products themselves, the rage is on a theoretical level, "I don't want government intruding in my private choices." But they already do this in a gazillion different ways, bigger, more important intrusions. The difference is that those are invisible. You know you can't value the risks in airplane safety or radiation leaks so you trust them to do it, but you think you can value the risks of a soda and hate that they try to do it for you.

I know you are thinking, "but I can resist soda; I understand the risks"-- never mind you don't even know the ingredients of soda, the point here is you are starting from you and multiplying by 6 billion.

When you say, "personal responsibility!" you are really saying "this is safe enough for it to be a question of personal responsibility." But you must ask yourself the question: how do you know Buckyballs and soda are safe enough for them to be about personal responsibility? Because "some other omnipotent entity" allowed them to exist. How do you know that Entity can be trusted? Because it even tries to ban silly things like Buckyballs and soda. The system is sound.
The sad part of this conversation is adults should be first to follow this advice.

Have you been out in the mall lately? How about a restaurant? How about just walking the streets? Un()Believable, yet.
I'm using ZFS right now, because I need something that cares for data integrity, but the fact that it will never be included in Linux is a very big issue for me. Every time you upgrade your kernel, you have to upgrade the separate modules as well - this is the point where bad things can happen. I will definitely be looking into Btrfs once it is more reliable. For now I'm having a bit of a problem with SSD caching and performance, but don't care about it enough for it to be relevant, I just use the filesystem to store data safely and ZFS does an OK job.
But there's a difference here.

Tablets and similar items, including Gameboys and the like, are consumption devices. Playing games, watching Netflix, reading Facebook. It's all passive entertainment.

Teaching yourself to code on a home PC, that's way different.
This is very mesmerizing
I bought my first smartphone about 4.5 years ago. It was an Android because at the time an iPhone meant AT&T, and I didn't want to deal with their network.

Two years ago I bought my second smartphone. It was an Android because inertia and also because at the time iOS was really a bit behind Android in terms of things like notifications and useful o/s features.

I also bought my first tablet a little more than two years ago. It was an android because Apple didn't have a small tablet then (and because my phone was an android).

I'm going to get a new smartphone soon. And you know what? It'll be an Android. Yes, Apple has at this point addressed all the things that pushed me to Android. I could get an iPhone on any network. The o/s has caught back up. They have a small tablet now. But at this point, why would I change? Every time I use an iOS device, in bothered by a ton of small details -- they aren't really flaws, just things that don't work the way I expect. What's the upside? I like Android now. If they had had all those features from the start, it would have been a different story.

The flaw in this article is that it presumes that there is a large population of people who are just waiting for that one important feature to come to iOS so they can finally ditch Android. I don't think there are many people like that.
Video of Jerry Colonna on Leadership – Being Fierce
I had limited screen time as a child, but I had up to two hours per day on our Radio Shack TRS-80. This meant I was copying and then writing my own BASIC programs at age six.

I wonder how the situation would be different if iPads and computers nowadays didn't spoon feed our children an unlimited amount of instant gratification-- entertainment superior to what they could likely create themselves through play and creativity.
99% invisible has shot up to the highest priority in my playlist. highly recommended
Navigating the Reality of Cloud, Mobile and SaaS
> With modern Android phones hitting 3GB and soon 4GB of RAM, multi-tasking is really nice on that kind of phone.

Could it be, given that iPhone 6 apps are native code and Android apps are bytecode, that iPhone 6 apps have less memory overhead than Android apps?
> If we define addiction as [not] being able to stop despite wanting to,

That's not a poor definition for addiction. That's a definition of a habit. Addiction tends to include "drug seeking behaviour"; and tolerance; and perhaps withdrawal too.
i guess the true value of bitcoin has been in coaxing all those CC companies, banks and stores into the Apple Pay scheme.
Hello, I am the founder. I posted a while ago about Everytime already, but the app improved dramatically with time and is getting very good traction now.

Everytime was designed to solve one of my problems, which was organising all those moments I was finding interesting for current or future projects.
I needed a way to keep track of moments in videos I was watching, so if I encountered a nice shot at 20:00, I could save it, add a description and it would be accessible anytime and sharable with my team.

So basically I needed a video player with bookmarking and note-taking capabilities. This is what Everytime is.

It integrates with Vimeo, Youtube or Soundcloud but also VLC (using the desktop app: https://www.everytimehq.com/desktop) so you can bookmark moments in videos on your computer.

It is particularly tailored for filmmakers (directors, screenwriters, concept artists, directors of photography) as they can gather and share references easily, creating a more dynamic discussion and brainstorming.

There are other use cases where video publishers can distribute videos with richer content with our widgets (https://www.everytimehq.com/widgets).

Finally, we have a free demo available from the front page, so you can try it out easily: https://www.everytimehq.com

TLDR: Everytime helps you save moments in any media.
This article is a bit like postulating "Why you might not eat steak for dinner", and then positing reasons that all orbits the assumption that steak is your default choice, and alternatives must therefore have extenuating circumstances. It is an absurd foundation.

Did the grocer get more commission selling you chicken? (sidenote: That commission bit appears in every conspiracy laden story about Android's rise, despite having zero empirical evidence. Indeed, many carriers do more to market and pitch the iPhone than any other brand, implying something very different).

For most people now, smartphones are largely interchangeable. They really are. You have a browser, can make calls, can access Netflix and your fantasy football app and Facebook and Twitter, etc. An iPhone 6x versus a GS 5, for instance, to many users it is simply a wash. Apple has tried hard to lock people into an ecosystem (Facetime me? No, Skype or Hangouts me please), but those efforts have fallen by the wayside and are becoming more of a hindrance than a benefit.

So it comes down to marketing (you know, like having U2 and giving out albums to gain more attention for your keynote) and differentiating features. Apple tried with the "true tone" flash or whatever. HTC is trying the dual-lens camera. Others make their devices waterproof. And so on. It isn't so clear.

Further, Ben Evans isn't just a bit of an Apple fan boy -- he is a huge Apple fan boy, with compromised credibility outside of that circle. He got a taste of the Apple aficionado love so now he panders to it fullstop. And given that Evans loves pointing out the payout to developers (then, absurdly calculating per capita metrics because it sells his point), note that the Play Store payout is growing more quickly than the App Store is -- YoY growth in the most recent yearly period was 150%. At current rates the Play Store will payout more than Apple within a year. But of course they're both very lucrative targets, and it would be folly to ignore either, and it's bizarre that this metric even appears in a piece contemplating consumer choices.
Sock puppet much? Or is it just a coincidence that the first 4 comments are from new, 1-karma users?
Techzing: http://techzinglive.com/
Gradient boosting machines, a tutorial (2013)
* stuff you should know
* the daily show podcast
* product people
Bookmarklet to Fix Film Critic Hulk
Using Google Hangouts on Air for Remote Usability Testing
If you're into comedy, I'd recommend Joe Rogan Experience (sometime's gets tech guys), Fighter and the Kid, Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr, WTF with Mark Maron.

I find a good laugh important after a long day at work!
* stuff you should know
* the daily show podcast
* product people
* the changelog
Out of curiosity, what distro are you using that's giving you problems? My Ubuntu box is humming along with no problems: kernel and ZFS updates happen at the same time.
How did Freschetta send me an anonymous email?
They're ok straight from the tree. Still not my favorite by a long shot, but ok.
I look at a thread like this and consider you and your downvoters to be two sides of the same coin. You might feel the need to beat the drum about Monsanto and GMO. Others feel the need to beat the drum for pushing forward with the boundaries of knowledge and the benefits that it can provide. You're being downvoted by people who feel differently than you do. Dismissing them as trolls, astroturfers or noncontributors (you don't know who they are) seems to me like rationalizing or propagandizing.
Some I listen to regularly: 99 percent invisible, planet money, radiolab, the occasional Nerdist podcast, this american life, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Dirtbag Diaries
I do not have kids, but I hear similar comments from parents.

Is there any advantage to a kid knowing how to read, or write, one or two years before their peers?
That's great when the route isn't intentionally confusing like in some cities. "Turn left in 1000 feet" when there is an intersection shaped like an asterisk is one example a ran into recently. I had to stop in the middle of the road (blocking traffic) and dig out my phone so I could see if I should slight left, turn 90 degrees left, or go through and slight left.
And what if you have iTunes Match?
Work Life Imbalance
Seconded. ZFS is the only filesystem I trust with my children's baby pictures, as well as to store the git repo's for my personal projects (stuff I don't want on GitHub for a variety of reasons).
Usually the token kept in memory is one distributed by the application and is not that which the services send back. This allows greater restriction on actions and make it far easier to revoke effectively
Do you also complain about the socks from your parents for Christmas?

The vast majority of people can talk to their parents and ask for no socks, or tell them after the fact.

The vast majority of people have no real way to talk to anyone at Apple who can control this.
Unfortunately the author (and perhaps others) are confused. This variety is the same, genetically, now as it was 40 years ago.

They're all propagated from cuttings, hence they are genetically identical. Which means the skins are the same as they were before, and the flesh as is bitter (or otherwise) as it was before, etc.

If they weren't, they wouldn't be called the same name, as evinced by many other 'modern' varieties, that are crosses or hybrids of (other) known apple varieties.
I'm a big podcast fan. Here are my favorite tech podcasts:

* ATP: http://atp.fm

* Giant Robots: http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots

* The Changelog: http://thechangelog.com (disclaimer: co-host)

* Ruby Rogues: http://rubyrogues.com

* Debug: http://www.imore.com/debug

Non-tech but also lovely:

* We Have Concerns: http://wehaveconcerns.com

* The New Disruptors: http://newdisrupt.org

* The Incomparable: http://www.theincomparable.com

* IRL Talk: http://www.irltalk.com
I think that is the first time I've seen Palm OS and Pebble Smart Watch in the same list
New Features to Europe: IPv6, Private Networking, CoreOS – DigitalOcean
I also dislike the newer Linux desktop environments like Unity and Gnome 3, but XFCE, Cinnamon, and Mate are all an improvement over Gnome 2.

Agreed about NFC, it's frustrating that I've had NFC on my phone for 2 years now, but still not been able to use it for payments. EE does have an NFC payment service now, but for some reason they only let you use it on a few specific phones, not including my HTC. I'm not sure if this is down to differences in the hardware or just favouritism. I'm hoping that Apple Pay will at least push more places and services to support NFC payments in general.
That's all true, but somewhat beside the point. Yes, that's the etymology, but most of those aren't examples of the meaning being discussed, but are instead owner's marks, rather than origin marks.
In recent years oncology is seeing there might be a connection between lack of iodine and increase risk of cancer. So when people curb their salt intake for long periods of time they may be risking cancer since it is one of the only ways inlanders get enough of it.
It's going to ruin cheating. With my Pebble, no one knows what it is other than an ugly watch, so no one tells me to take it off. With Apple, of course everyone will know what it is and what it does and the instructions will tell everyone to take off their smartwatch when they enter an exam.
If you are bored: here is a list of pointless websites
I think it's a great and mostly innocent example (the music is really, really shitty though) of the problems that 'the cloud' poses.

The naked-photos-of-celebrities the other day is a very non innocent way to show people the problems with the cloud.
I find it curious that society views mind-altering drugs as highly dangerous, yet doesn't see the same risks associated with purely behavioral addictive cycles. There are many ways to trap a human animal in a dopamine loop, and at some level it's hard to distinguish a deep MMO habit from a heroin addiction.

The genie is out of the bottle: there are more superstimuli [1] in the world than ever. What's most frightening is that even if you create the perfect household dynamic, kids' expectations will be shifted based on what their peers experience. At some level, a tradeoff is made between a healthy relationship with technology, and not ostracizing a child from their peers. There is an age past which it is social death to not have a Facebook account or your own phone, and it keeps shrinking.

When I have kids, part of my strategy will be to have as many intrinsic limitations as possible: for instance, they can spend all the time they like with a non-networked Raspberry Pi, or an offline eBook reader, or a tablet that does nothing besides Wikipedia. I also like the idea of a single family computer in a shared/public space, and time limits will be as much about balance between family members as about trying to enforce healthy habits, at least in the cognitive framing.

But, like most people who don't have kids yet, I'm sure I'm mostly talking out of my ass. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
- http://techzinglive.com

- http://rocketship.fm/podcast/

- http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

- http://www.2600.com/offthehook/archive_ra.html

- http://bootstrapped.fm/
It really depends, it will purge on browser close yes but it still allows access that make not have been intended by your application for use by others also the refresh token may also be stored. The danger is in someone getting this token from an active session and using it outside of its intended parameters not the normal use case.
I have a purple-covered version of the blue book, which is a subsequent edition with all the implementation details (part IV) removed, so this site is a fabulous resource.
could you elaborate what you mean by that ?

android leverages MTP standards and in a lot of cases emulates USB media storage. On Windows, Linux and OSX - this has resulted in a drag and drop interface for Android.
* Sound Opinions: http://www.soundopinions.org - best music podcast on the web

* All Songs Considered: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/ - another good music podcast
Ah yes:

"Soon after the article in Dr. Dobb's, we received several messages about Lua. One of the first messages was the following:"

From: Bret Mogilefsky <mogul@lucasarts.com>
To: "'lua@icad.puc-rio.br'" <lua@icad.puc-rio.br>
Subject: LUA rocks! Question, too.
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:21:41 -0800

Hi there...

After reading the Dr. Dobbs article on Lua I was very eager to check it
out, and so far it has exceeded my expectations in every way! It's
elegance and simplicity astound me. Congratulations on developing such
a well-thought out language.

Some background: I am working on an adventure game for the LucasArts
Entertainment Co., and I want to try replacing our older adventure game
scripting language, SCUMM, with Lua.

[...]

http://www.lua.org/history.html
I started growing strawberries at home. The first homegrown berry that I tasted was like fireworks going off in my brain.