skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should try Q!

http://platform.qbix.com/
so, my main question is where would I source the ble chip that is this thin? I know its probably just a rendering to test the market but it would be nice to be able to source some of the supposed parts in this thing.
Action speaks louder than words
> the service shows a bill with the amount due (or an airline reservation or anything else scraped from the user’s own Gmail account) at the top of a list of search results

Nope, that won't be confusing at all ..
> It is nonsense to say that "libraries can have bugs so you might as well use C++".

My argument is that if you assert 'rust is 100% safe' then you must assert, all your dependencies are bug free.

If you can somehow magically assert 'all my code is bug free', that would be great... but if so, you wouldn't need the borrow checker at all would you?

(I'm certainly not endorsing using C++ :P I'm specifically talking to the assertion that rust code can be safe, as per the definition of safety in the guide, that certain operations are impossible; certainly, and absolutely, rust code is safer and more trust worthy (imo) than c/c++ code... but you've got to be reasonable about what you're arguing. 'rust is magical and can never crash' turns up in blog posts a lot)
Now just imagine if everyone had a huge battery rack, solar panels, and API access to that pricing information. Add full ability to feed back in at cost and that is the sound of utility companies shuddering...
That's just too perfect. Of all things, your comment has raised my opinion of Rust the most.
Does this mean that solar generates power when no one is willing to pay for it?

I can't figure out these charts... probably because I am too stupid.

I can't wrap my head around the consequences of having a power supply that doesn't follow demand.
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/10/state_judg...
> "Given these results, the researchers conclude that there is little reason to prescribe new-generation antidepressant medications to any but the most severely depressed patients unless alternative treatments have been ineffective."

You seem to be taking that demonstrate efficacy, when what they're actually saying is more like 'there is no evidence that this works, but if nothing works then why the hell not.' It's no different than doctors giving patients the go ahead to use alternative medicine or whatever when the doctors know the patient is already going to die from cancer regardless.
That's an unusually direct move, as usually companies won't be so upfront about essentially saying "we want to keep you uninformed about our technology, so we can leverage it to control you better." The more common approach is to make a doublespeak-laden statement about "better experience", "convenience", and "security".
Friendship is dead
Care to explain? Keep in mind I'm not talking about safety; I'm talking about usability.
It will be interesting to know what proportion of them did.
Let's not tread this ground again. Mozilla is shipping a plugin framework, not "DRM".
I'm a Canadian student too. You can definitely get this, I got the email this morning. Try one of the alternate "prove you're a student" methods.
Thanks for the link. I note that it reports, "Nevertheless, it is important to mention that according to an influential 2001 meta-analysis comparing placebo-treatment arms with no treatment, placebos make no clinical difference." The citation at that sentence is to an article that lives online in free full text[1] that we can all download and read.

The same team's updated Cochrane review[2] still sums up the evidence by saying, "We found an effect on patient-reported outcomes, especially on pain. Several trials of low risk of bias reported large effects of placebo on pain, but other similar trials reported negligible effect of placebo, indicating the importance of background factors." They add a caution about experimental methods consistent with the article submitted here on HN: "The use of placebos in blinded randomised trials is a precaution directed against many forms of bias, and not only against effects of placebo. Unblinded patients may differ from blinded ones in their way of reporting beneficial and harmful effects of treatment, in their tendency to seek additional treatment outside the study, and in their risk of dropping out of the study. Furthermore, unblinded staff may differ in their use of alternative forms of care and in their assessment of outcomes. Thus, even if there were no true effect of placebo, one would expect to record differences between placebo and no-treatment groups due to bias associated with lack of blinding."

[1] https://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/40/PlaceboArticle.pdf

[2] http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD003974/COMMUN_placebo-interv...
I whipped up a quick test in Ruby

https://gist.github.com/astevens/627756eafbc6ca07e3dd
somepeople are just butthurt about sth
The article makes sense to me, but one point I'd make is that we didn't start becoming more socially distant from each other in the Internet age, from what I see it's an extension of what we experienced in the TV age... Yes, you might be in the same room as other people watching the same TV show, but the level of interaction is minimal, and the content you get from TV is often far removed from your reality so it doesn't really offer much in the way of insight in navigating your current world.

I'll put it like this... I watched a lot of TV growing up, and it has clearly shaped my imagination. If we ever had some catastrophic event after which civilised society broke down, I would have a better idea of how to navigate that world than the one we have now, which I find it easy to be disconnected from. Of course I don't want to live in a dystopia, but it's a reflection on how we connect to what we consume.
Is it even possible for Bitcoin, or any theoretical crypto-currency, to replace fiat currency on the scale we use it at?
Universal Description Discovery and Integration
Is there any way to tell when buying on Amazon.com?
It's like saying that online retailers lacked sophistication and selection in 1995. Ya think?

Robotics is in the first inning still. We're never going back, robotics will get drastically more useful / powerful / cheaper per unit of value produced / etc. over the coming decades. What matters, is what the progress looks like, where we'll be in 5, 10, 20 years, and measuring expectations against the reality of dealing with technology that is very early stage relative to where it will be in the not-so-distant future.

Next headline: "virtual reality still a work in progress" or "drones not as combat ready as fighter pilots in F16s"
Alt headline: Solar generation has no operating flexibility, thus solar generators must pay to shut down load following capacity, driving prices negative momentarily.
absolute beauty !!!!
Mercedes Is Making a Self-Driving Semi to Change the Future of Shipping
Thiel's Einstein example was wrong:

"You're the smartest physicist of the 20th century
-- you come up with special relativity, you come up
with general relativity -- you don't get to be a
billionnaire; you don't even get to be a millionaire."

Actually, Einstein WAS a millionaire. His net worth was around $1 million. http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/richest...
But it also makes it tempting to make the interface appear much better than it actually is. If you're faking it to "make it legible," heck, why not just make it looks really nice as well? Companies like Apple have gotten in trouble for faking their interfaces in advertisements.
There's not yet any formal model that proves that the borrow checker is sound, but such work is forthcoming.
I think it's an average over a large number of people. Online communities, like HN, tend to fill with Introverts, which I think are on the lower side. There are also lots of extroverts out there who genuinely enjoy maintaining huge numbers of friendships, but I don't think they spend much time posting on message boards. Especially ones that tend to be a bit on the pedantic and humorless side, like HN.

Don't get me wrong, HN, I love you the way that you are, even if every now and then I think you could stand to lighten up a bit. But I will confess to a need to visit Reddit for some jokes and pun chains sometimes.
Writing on LeanPub – $0.21 per word
Does anyone know where Blockchain Ltd is registered? In the UK, Nicolas Cary (executive named in article) is the Director of Blockchain-UK Ltd[1], while Blockchain Ltd appears to be registered to someone else[2] not named on blockchain.info.

[1] https://www.opencompany.co.uk/company/08880875/blockchainuk-...
[2] https://www.opencompany.co.uk/company/08858277/blockchain-lt...
Creating travel planning software may well be a bad idea, but I find the reason he gives is really weak. It boils down to:

People in America don't plan travel often enough.

If that was the reason, then almost any travel startup is non-worthy. This is definitely a problem, but it's more to do with the difficulty of ranking a travel planning site in Google which is where people who don't travel often usually begin their planning. This is why SEO is so critical to any travel website.

It also conveniently ignores the rest of the world as a market. People outside the US do in fact travel far more often and more elaborately and ignoring them in the equation just boggles my mind.

Disclosure: I'm also one of these people who acted on this bad idea of creating a travel planner: http://www.travellerspoint.com/planner/

My experience from this is that people do have very different expectations of how a travel planning tool should work. So the earlier comment that it faces the same challenges as to-do apps, etc.. rings very true to me.
I love Rust, but really can't use it at work until it has a fully-featured AWS API. I had similar issues trying to use D and Dart in the past. Go doesn't have an official SDK either and although goamz isn't complete, the situation there is much better.
Thanks. I can see the pro in that choice. But the con would be memory starvation (assuming that heap is bounded as in the JVM).

I think one middle-path could be to mark the resource as released as soon as compiler detects it, and then release it

1. when the allocator is starved or

2. when the resource goes out of scope

3. when drop() is explicitly called
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https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rust-redex
Finally, an AlienBlue caliber app for HN is now possible. Soon.
Power supply already doesn't follow demand. Large scale power plants (coal, nuclear, even gas to some extent) run at a very steady output. It's a big system to get started & stopped, you need to get every part of the system to the proper temperature for quality steam, there are a bunch of lossy startup processes, etc. You can't just throttle them up and down at will. The timeline is longer than a day for most of them.

Because of that they sell electricity at a discount at night. Large industrial users will schedule their entire operations around this. For example ski mountains do their snowmaking at night because the power is the greatest expense (even more than labor) and the discount is enormous. I also believe that aluminum and steel foundries do some form of this.

The renewables change this dynamic a bit, but there are many loads that can be time shifted. I could imagine an electric car connected to the internet and plugged in all night at home and all day at work could optimize its charging cycle to match the lowest energy prices of the day. Of course this requires major changes to metering and billing, but there is no technical reason why it couldn't happen, it is all a business and infrastructure problem.
My right to death with dignity at 29
Second Life's 3-D navigation, menus and editing, from the camera control for the AV to constructing #D virtual objects with primitives.

I think that’s why SL is still so popular because it got the interface right, non-technically inclined people can learn to build rudimentary objects in a couple hours and its enough to hook many of them into becoming content builders.

Another would be FoxBase+/Mac for under a meg of object code the UI for data management and screen/form building was great. I got ugly when MS came in and standardized it into FoxPro for Windows compatibility.

The oldest best UI was the Print Shop on 8-bits changed the face of cork bulletin boards since.
Would it be possible to extend this system to allow you to serialize and deserialize the closures? Then you could store them externally in a "real cache" and let that take care of the expiration, etc. You could then also open up a nice security hole :)
I'm an American, and I have no idea how someone ends up with that many cards. I carry two: my credit card and by debit (ATM) card. I could easily leave the latter behind, since I very rarely use, but it feels prudent to keep it with me in case I need cash in an emergency. Beyond that, I could understand having a single company credit card if it makes sense for your job (it doesn't for mine).

For gift cards, I suppose it would be nice to have those all aggregated, but I do very little brick and mortar shopping, and virtually no impromptu brick and mortar shopping where having a library of loyalty cards with me at all times would be useful.

The same applies to loyalty cards. I do have a Macy's card, but they can just look that up for you at the store, so I don't carry it. I've probably lost the physical card.
> It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel. Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.

Not quite there, but almost (wrt PCs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_In...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module#Critic...

http://rt.com/news/windows-8-nsa-germany-862/
"An emulation library, itself written in ES6"
Yep. The ones that don't will have "Unlimited" under "Simultaneous Device Usage" in the Product Details section.

Edit: you can't explicitly search for them using Amazon's own search engine, but here's a Google hack that will turn them up:

https://www.google.com/?q=site%3awww.amazon.com%20-forum%20%...

(courtesy Hazzit at ebooks.stackexchange.com)
Whatever, there are still drop flags (on the stack instead, sure), and still dynamic runtime checks for drops.

The points I was making is that 'zero cost' memory management isn't 100% zero cost. The drop checker does incur some basic dynamic runtime costs.

To be 'zero cost' drop behaviour would be determined at compile time.
Processor-level support for DRM will make future cases more interesting, https://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2014/01/vb201...

"If software and hardware could be ‘sealed’ in some way to prevent an attacker from examining data in main memory, even if the attacker had administrator level privileges on the machine, not only could the confidentiality and integrity of data in the cloud be protected, but the algorithms and design of cloud hosted applications could also be hidden from prying eyes."
I read a more basic article on this a while back on Cracked[0], that you might find interesting if you liked this.

I find there to be a lot of truth to the basic idea of this. But I think there is also a lot of individual variation. As I have gotten older and developed better social skills, I recognize that I am an Introvert at my core, and only care to maintain a small number of close relationships. Despite this, I am capable of being social, chatty, and sometimes even charming during social events, when I'm at my best, but I usually have no desire to maintain most of those relationships.

At the core, you have to figure out what is right for you, not what other people or society think you should want, and work towards maintaining that.

[0] http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
> 'rust is magical and can never crash' turns up in blog
> posts a lot

The next time that you see someone doing this, please correct them. Misinformation does none of us any favors.
if(process.platform !== 'win32'){
if(process.env.USER !== "root"){
console.log("What? Make it yourself.");
process.exit();
}
}

from https://github.com/travist/makemeasandwich.js/blob/master/li...
Bummer...
The iPhone would probably just be using C++ if not for Obj-C. And if not C++, then maybe C or Pascal. And maybe in some alternate universe everyone is still using Fortran, or maybe Ada, etc...

There are plenty of efficient systems languages out there...
I'm not necessarily saying Apple Pay is going to work, but I don't think these are strong arguments against it.

1) Fees: Everybody charges fees. Any competitor who wants into the market is going to charge a fee. The fact that nobody has succeeded in this in the American market means the market needs something that works first before fees become the issue. Apple can always lower the fee if they feel pressure. Remember that nay-sayers said the App Store 30% cut would never work because it was too high, but anybody who remembers this market before the App Store remembers that 3rd party payment services were often just as expensive if not more because you often had to do the labor of tying multiple services together (web site, shopping cart, payment authentication). Additionally, Apple promised and delivered in being able to draw in and convert more potential customers into buyers.

2) Inferior tech: Technology isn't the problem. The technology has been around in other countries. There is something different about the American market that has prevented adoption of this kind of transaction system. Apple's belief is it is the seamless integration, not the technology.

3) Little incentive for adopters: Self-interest may prove to be enough incentive. You only need to think back to McDonald's and other fast-food's semi-recent fight to remove credit card signatures from small transactions. They fought hard for this because their own market research found that signatures discouraged credit card transactions and slowed down lines. Their other research showed that people spent more money on average than compared to when they paid with cash (because they didn't have to worry about not having enough cash on hand). Merchants may have enough self-interest to adopt this system in order to speed up lines (more customers with fewer cashiers) and get higher spending per customer.
Certain things are cheap in the rich world that are expensive in the 3rd world. Sewage, electricity, and water are so cheap in the 1st world, that we don't think about the cost.

The first time I saw 100% adoption of compact fluorescents was in Cambodia. They pay $.40/KWhr. That is insanely expensive (unless you live in Germany).

Lighting technology disproportionally benefits the poor rather than than the rich. Anyone that works on it is my hero. My family bought power for $.04 KW/hr, so I could study at night.
Adobe is taking a pummeling this week. This news is nicely timed for the launch week of Affinity Designer, a serious competitor to Illustrator on the Mac App Store for casual and not-so-casual users who don't use Adobe products heavily enough to justify the cost of a monthly subscription. I tried it yesterday and was ready to cancel my Creative Cloud single-app subscription after about 20 minutes of experimentation. It's more than sufficient for my vector graphic needs as an indie developer.
Thanks for sharing!

If you have time to out into it, also do some active marketing around it.

I'm at .27 per word on the first day of selling my ebook (today as it just so happens).

Value your work more! Your book is worth way more then $10. (I know, I've bought and read it!)
Clojure and the UFC
>using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack

You can one-click-deploy a LAMP stack from DigitalOcean lol.
When prices dip below $0 the electricity generators have to pay to put power on the grid.

Many choose to just put their generators on standby mode to avoid these costs or "maintain output by offering to pay wholesale buyers to take their electricity"[0]

As more wind and solar comes online these events will occur more often and for longer periods. "Old" operators are less willing to ramp up and down production as these negative pricing scenarios increase from 5 minutes per day to 60 minutes to 240 minutes.

As the costs to develop solar decrease and as economies of scale increase, the acceleration of this effect will only increase.

This is great for renewables and for storage companies who are willing to play this game. As solar becomes cheaper (say sub $2/watt) operators will be more willing to pay out during increasingly longer negative pricing scenarios (and internalizing it into their operating budget).

These storage companies will be buying kWh at -$0.02 and then selling them back to the grid at $0.05/kWh at night undercutting fossil fuel operators (accelerating the process even more) and bringing in the equivalent of $0.07/kWh.

As the cost of solar goes from $3/watt to $2/w to $1/w the price storage companies will be "buying" their electricity will only get better and profits only increase.

I personally think that we will be plugging our houses into our battery packed cars at night to keep the lights on and get paid to take kWh off the grid during peak hours.

[0] http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=6730 (as @rwcarlsen pointed out)
I chose Ubuntu because back in the day

- it was the easiest to install

- Had all (or most of) the packages I wanted

- the deb packages beat out rpm hands down (back in dependency hell days, things are way better now)

- when I had (or have even now) a problem, I could ALWAYS find a solution in the Ubuntu Communities.

I may have to tweak it on install, to get a decent UI, etc. But if that's the worst of it, it isn't all that bad.
To which 'sama' replied; 'this is from a newly-created troll account from a dorm in the netherlands. please go back to 4chan.'

I think the first question is, would you even call this doxing? It clearly touched a nerve or crossed a line, I assume we won't see any more of it.

I'm content to wait and see, assuming there's no actual injury in this case. Doxing is serious. Perhaps even worse considering the context? I don't read into it that much.
Thanks for the feedback; I've been hoping to give people on LeanPub a great deal, since they're basically funding my writing (well, at least motivating me to finish the book!). Depending on royalty rates elsewhere, I'll likely end up charging more on Kindle and other marketplaces, and I hope to have at least a paperback available at some point.

And good luck with your book, too!
The os.execute function does all this. os.execute("timeout "..seconds) for example. More complicated for file system operations, but it's possible.

This is significantly less than optimal though.
The behaviour is determined at compile time, with runtime cost only introduced if it is absolutely needed (when one branch drops, and another doesn't), and, even then, it can be avoided, by manually forcing a drop of the value in every branch.
It's only a matter of time until Facebook integrates search or does search.
Yep, my code redeemed immediately. They even changed the copy to reflect this: "You can redeem your offer code using the link above, even if you have previously redeemed a different DigitalOcean promotional offer, credit card required for activation"
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