skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say I forget to charge my phone during 20% of the nights. A battery that lasts a single day will fail me very often compared to a two-day battery. Not to mention that unlike "dumb" phones, the iPhone won't turn itself on automatically to wake me up in the morning.
Also, battery life is measured for "normal use". If you are draining your phone eg. by using it for directions in a friend's car without a charger, then it's suddenly more like 4 hours of battery life.
So you can keep your Reddit job by moving outside of the US vs moving to SF?
> The consumer is the loser of this idiotic DPI race.

Not to mention the app developer, who suddenly has to get designers re-working all the artwork for their app catalog.
But none of the others on the plane had been treating ebola-positive patients. She had. Why the CDC didn't isolate the original nurses until all had passed incubation stage blows my fucking mind. There hasn't been an R-value established for the USA yet and the CDC gives the thumbs up for highly-at-risk nurses to go to an airport and travel (because those places are empty and rarely frequented by people) rather than establishing outfall of poor protocol first. Shameful & irresponsible to the Nth degree.
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Apparently that one was replaced by https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/default.aspx. So what is your daily routine around that? When do you log your food?
Any word on how you'd use glide during deployment? Say on a build machine, or when deploying to Heroku?
Everyone knows this, and has known this. Airbnb knew it too. Hopefully they used their runway to develop a better plan than the denial that's been ongoing up to this point, since it's been obvious since its inception that Airbnb would have to deal with these regulatory problems if it ever reached critical mass.
So you prefer not to exercise to eating more and exercising?
Thanks for the great reply it reset my personal views on your service (which were based on previous experience). I was one of those pre-order customers. I wish you and your company luck!
Thank you, your post was most encouraging! I think I'll have to presume that the adept Haskell devs are mostly developing and not popularizing that much of their advancements.
"Your opinion is wrong because someone associated with your opinion did something bad."

Death threats have, unfortunately, always been very common among controversial figures. Obama gets 30 a day, about 40,000 in total.
The glare has been reduced a lot in recent Macs. I'm not sure if it's as good as the anti-glare screen you could order for some MacBook Pros in the past, though.
This is what this conversion always boils down to: use of force.

Here's the problem with that 'bedrock' you are standing on: the vast majority of us are not coerced at all. We've happily agreed to this system. Have you convinced yourself that we are all just to stupid to recognize some yolk that only people with your mindset can see? I feel silly that I feel the need to tell you this but we are not stupid and any justification you make for why people embrace a strong governmental structure that is predicated on most people being too dumb to know what is good for them is built on a flimsy foundation at best.

Think about it: how can people simultaneously be too dumb to do and see what is best for them under their current system but would be able to function just fine under if under a more pure market force dominated Anarcho-Capitalist framework?

I also don't understand the obsession with the market as rigidly defined by Anarcho-Capitalists. Not all human exchange that leads to the benefits of market forces needs to be done through currency and its near analogues. Democracy and Government operate under its own types of markets and mediums of exchange. People still act for their own best interests under those systems. I don't understand why they all have to be homogenized. Having diverse means of exchange seems more robust to me.

And the Anarcho-Capitalist idea of Liberty really only seems to function when there is one person in the world. As soon as there are two people and their Rights and Liberties come at odds, it is like starting from scratch every time. Who's Rights and Liberty trumps whos?

It is like deciding that all previous decisions are useless...humanity hasn't gotten as far as it has by starting over all of the time. Passing along and even codifying wisdom into effective systems, including government systems, is a big reason we, as a species, has been so successful. Yes, markets are a nice system too, but why limit ourselves to just one?
I hear you on getting everything to work...I still can't get Chef to install the proper version of Ruby with RVM or install the gems I want. Finally I gave up on the version issue and just did it myself, and then rely on gemfiles for the gems.

Can you elaborate on why specifically you recommend your tutorial first? Are there certain foundational topics you feel are left out of Agile Web Development with Rails that are important for a novice to understand?
At one level, yes.

At a lower level, this is strengthening a proprietary platform, and might lower adoption of FOSS platforms.

At a higher level, co-opting an open source technology to deliver closed source software may indicate a strategic flaw in our approach to FOSS. On Microsoft's part this is clearly a continuation of 'embrace and extend'.

They'll use docker to provide the functionality and build hype until they can build their own version into the OS by default. Docker on Windows becomes obsolete, and everyone runs apps on Azure.
This is a DD machine. Neutron energies from the primary reaction are comparable to fission neutrons, 2.4 MeV. There will be some from secondary DT reactions, which are 14 MeV, but the bulk of the neutron production will be at the lower energy.
I guess eventually those people will be at the top of government, which is really cool to think about.
Good ole' 18th amendment.
Actually according to this article, the nurse was not supposed to be on public transit at all (cars / charter planes OK, commercial airlines no). It just seems that enforcement was lax.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/us/ebola-outbreak-texas.ht...
I see. I'll give them both a try, Rustful looks interesting but very new and immature. I need to read through the docs for Nickel and Iron because they both look great and make some test apps. I'm coming from the Django/Flask world and I've really taken an interest in Rust.
Yeah, hypoglycemia sucks. I was diagnosed hypoglycemic back in high school, after two episodes of blacking out between calculus and band class. I also feel spacey and disconnected and unable to process language when my blood sugar drops, and just before blacking out I'll usually start either laughing or crying uncontrollably. When blacked out I can still walk though. The second time I walked straight into a pole, according to my friends, though my memory stops a good 20 feet away from the pole, just after saying, "I think it's happening again," and starting to laugh even though I was terrified. I have a brief memory of standing in front of pole, then nothing again until a good ten minutes later, in front of a water fountain in the school office (which is where my friends steered me).

When it first happened I literally thought I was losing my mind, due to stress or a tumor or something. When the doctor calmly said, actually that just sounds like low blood sugar, let's schedule a glucose tolerance test, it was a huge relief. I was on "second lunch" due to my class schedule, and wound up getting permission to eat a protein bar during calculus so it didn't happen again in school.
Speaking of optimism, early Communists were also great optimists, believing in the inherent goodness of human nature.

Produce as much as you can, take as much as you need, what could possibly go wrong?

(Spoiler alert: pretty much everything)
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Saying that death threats are bad is not something anyone disagrees with, as far as I know. It's just an applause light (http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/) at best.
S corps don't have double taxation either. Small companies where you would get tax credit shouldn't really pay much in corporate taxes since all the money goes to the owners at end of each year.
Your link is to a page with arguments against the dividend tax, which isn't the same thing. I think this one is more relevant to your comment:

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/ending-corporate...
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Spotlight is good. Really good.

I can go weeks without acknowledging the existence of a filesystem. I do "file management" literally never. Just throw everything in my Dropbox folder and Command-Space to find it when I want it back.

I see my current project's tree in Sublime Text all the time, but I rarely if ever use Finder proper.
> But you don't have to buy anything? You can just download alien blue and get the pro upgrade for free.

Yes, it's a good thing I pay attention to HN to make sure I get that free "upgrade", right? What about everyone else who doesn't pay attention to HN or tech crunch? That isn't necessarily an issue for reddit as much as it's an issue for Apple, but does everyone realize that?

> And you're not being downvoted by people who love iAlien, just by people who don't think you're adding much to the conversation.

Oh really? This is a quote from my original comment:

> Alien Blue is a good app so I'm happy for Jase the developer and I forget why I originally chose iAlien over Alien Blue now, but hopefully we get some good advancements in the mobile interface which is my primary means of accessing reddit.

I mean, my previous experience with reddit mobile sucked (the experience I shared) and I'm admitting that this is acquisition is a good thing. But somehow my anecdote about how it sucked before and this seems to be a step in the right direction (admittedly I didn't frame it explicitly that way, I did have a minimal expectation that it would be accepted that way) and is a good thing.

But somehow me trying to start a discussion prompts downvotes while superficial "rah rah" comments get upvotes is more positive than my message. Welcome to /.
It's actually easier depending on the animation you want to do. You can set an NSLayoutConstraint to an IBOutlet and then change it's constant in an animation block.
They should sell the beacons so you can attach them to things like your keys and wallet.
> Do you really think this is what the bulk of our taxes in the US go to?

It's certainly not insignificant. Our defense spend is around 72% of our Medicare + Social Security spend.
I so much needed this, and finally it's here. Now I can use node in Android for http servers and similar things, since I'm more familiar with node than with Java.
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I can easily see a use for having some mandatory parameters followed by a few optional arguments. Requiring the mandatory parameters to be named adds verbosity to the code for the sake of slightly simplifying the language, which doesn't strike me as being a very C++ sort of philosophy.
Hi, David (a co-founder) here.

Thank you tremendously for this feedback :)

We don't want to go the prescription route, so we stuck with general claims. I'll see what I can do to be more specific.

We can absolutely answer some of these!
It was a surprisingly fast transition. I was working on physics engines for animation back then. In 1997, I visited Sony Pictures Imageworks in LA, where they had about 90% SGI workstations, 10% NT machines. Two years later, the ratio had reversed.

What killed SGI workstations was the gamer graphics boards caught up with the high end. There used to be a high end graphics market - SGI, Evans and Sutherland, Dynamic Pictures, Fujitsu, Lockheed. It was killed when the low end got good.

SGI might have survived that, but they made a number of bad decisions, including a sale/leaseback real estate deal with Goldman Sachs which locked them into long-term leases at the worst time in the market. SGI tried selling a PC that ran Windows NT, for something like $12,000. I told their sales guy that wasn't going to fly. It didn't.

Most of Google's buildings in Mountain View are old SGI buildings. The Computer Museum was SGI's Digital Studio division, which never accomplished much other than installing networks for some animation studios.
Agreed, or when you're travelling, your passport .. few things are as important as that when you travel. Was on a family holiday recently and only found out it had gone missing upon check-in for the return flight.

There's a few products available like this already... http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/bluetooth-tracking-devices/
I wondering if we are living in a short era of cheap and semi-legal sharing economy and eventually all these sharing economy companies will get relegated and become too expensive to make sense. I'm saying this because from what I experienced using Uber and Airbnb, none of people who provided the service were "sharing" their own stuff. They were doing business. The Uber driver usually is a full time driver. The Airbnb landlord had multiple apartments to rent. So they are the same old taxi drivers and motel owners. We are just paying less because it's illegal.
CATIA is the product I was going to mention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATIA

It was ported to Windows in 1998 but anyone who knew anything could see that coming.
I was working at a company that bought an SGI Challenge XL (I think for well over $100k). It was between 1-2 years after they bought it that we wanted to upgrade to a faster ethernet interface, but that would cost us around $3000. Instead we spent less than $10k on a Sun clone server with a NetApp filer, a combination that beat the SGI by multiples by almost any measure.
My background is somewhat similar to yours. I'm from a small(ish) Canadian town as well (Whistler, BC). I've always had big ideas, didn't know how to get them out there.

I was fortunate that I had been working back and forth in LA, and was exposed to some people and expertise, but for my first start-up, I was in Whislter, teaching myself how to code, no other programmers locally, no tech community etc etc. I think in some ways it can be a benefit more than a hindrance. You get to focus on your idea and just get it done.

I've spent a lot of time in the Valley, as well as other start-up hubs, and I can tell you, a lot of the people in these places are just full of talk, a lot of it is just a bubble and echo chamber.

On the flip side, it's great to have a sounding board of knowledgeable people, that's what's so great about getting feedback from HN.

However, if you look where you are, you've probably got better access than you think. You don't have to run all the way to California, Montreal, Boston and NYC all have great tech communities, and you don't have to move there. Find interesting meetups that are around the area you're idea is, and go for a night or two (assuming you can get the time off work). If your market is as large as you think, you might even find something in Halifax.

The Valley is cool and all, but I was very surprised the last time I went to the HTML5 conference, most of the people there where actually quite behind on the technology stack/experience compared to the people I work with in Sydney, Australia.

One thing to consider, when you think about the faraway magical land of Silicon Valley, though the valley has a large number of unique technologies and businesses, most people are still working on your basic I/O type apps.
coming from someone who's interested in trying it out, but have used neither product, why is it bad that it's cheaper?
+1, also really interested.
Courts in Europe and the United States disagree with you. And, while I'm willing to believe juries and judges can make mistakes, I have to say I don't think the courts did enough...and they went after Microsoft for many of the more minor problems with Microsoft's business.

"You seem to have selective memory. IE brought A LOT of good to the Web. A LOT of good."

From where I'm sitting you have a very imaginative memory. IE was better than the competition because it destroyed the competition using the very unethical (and illegal, according to courts in several nations) tactics I've already mentioned.

Honestly, I'm surprised anyone on HN would have so little knowledge of the history of Microsoft and the web that you would interpret their stranglehold on the browser as a positive thing. I simply can't wrap my head around it, it's so absurd to me.
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I'm doing a Master's thesis in the intersection between Cognitive Science and Machine Learning. The group I work with looooves Mechanical Turk. It's such a cheap way to do small validation studies.
The right answer seems to be somewhere in the middle but neither side has put forth anything reasonable.

For one thing, HOAs and landlords should have pretty liberal abilities to forbid short-term rentals and pretty much all have.

Renting out a room where the owner/tenant is present should be allowed on a limited basis (perhaps several weeks/months per year).

Renting out a full residence in a non-zoned area should be allowed on a more limited basis (perhaps up to 1 month per year).

Just like on Ebay, et al, "casual sellers" should be able to execute some limited amount of quasi-business activity before triggering all the business rules.

Finally, AirBnB-style rentals should be regulated more like BnBs (duh!) than hotels.

The question is, what's the right answer for these situations? And no kudos to AirBnB, et al for offering up no suggestions.
Because large portions of the world does not care about Eclipse?
...and that they learned absolutely nothing from that stupid little adventure.
Pleased to see RubyMine support!
Lot of people with big phones carry them on upper shirt pocket. Another option is belt clip. Nokia did research on this here: http://research.nokia.com/sites/default/files/45590483.pdf
I'm struck by what looks like a 'go no futher until you sign in', enter your e-mail modal popup. Big and center screen, and I don't even know what you do yet.

Consider this the equivalent of you walking into your local shopping center and before you can enter, a stranger at the front door says "you can't come in until you give me your phone number (or fingerprint, or email, or whatever). You'd tell him to get stuffed and walk away. Why would I do anything different on your site?

Around the periphery, you've got some vague, barely noticable, bland and generic words around points, and purchasing and sales, etc. etc.

NORMALLY, I wouldn't have gone any further, I would have clicked away, but you're asking for feedback, so I'm giving this thing a whirl.

I entered a search for bikes. Looks like you guys do a very good job of understanding my request, I get bike, bike storage and similar results in the search.

Your content pages are fine, nothing mind blowing, but I don't think it needs to be. Thing is, I still have no idea what your value prop is.

Fix your home page, explain to me why you exist. Don't ask for my details until I want to give them to you (likely not until I buy something).
frankly i hope so, 'sharing economy' startups are leeches even if their contractors do well in the short term. economic models should always be critically approached from the perspective of the exploited.

http://www.mrteacup.org/post/the-cult-of-sharing.html
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Another perspective is that it's cheaper because it lowered the barrier to entry so that the smallest of entrepreneurs could enter the market. Rather than purchase a hotel, you can rent out a studio apartment. You can start with one studio and then expand over time. You don't need much (if any) additional capital. Airbnb is your entire marketing department and you only pay them when they deliver a client. Handy cleans for you and fixes the shower if it breaks.

Brands are very lucrative assets. Maybe part of this shift is an Airbnb brand tax of 6% in place of a Hilton, Marriot, or SPG tax of 30%.

How much of the old model was there to protect monopolies and how much of it was there to provide for consumer safety? How do we incorporate the latter and eliminate the former? That's the real question in my mind.
Suppose it is mostly "professionals"

1. is it bad for individual "professionals" to invest capital on a small scale to provide services that people want at a greater or lesser price? Be it cars or houses.

2. If it is bad, why, and who for? Is it bad for consumers or bad for existing businesses?
The do not. Protons have a quite definite range, and can be controlled in the way you suggest. This is because they lose energy primarily by scattering (much lighter) electrons out of their path. This means protons have relatively straight paths and the dynamics of the electromagnetic interaction gives an energy deposition curve that is sharply peaked at the end.

Neutrons slow down via interaction with nuclei (all of which except hydrogen are heavier) so they lose energy slowly and scatter all over the place. They have no definite range (search for "fermi age theory" to get a rough idea of the distribution) and can't be meaningfully beamed (unless they are ultra-cold, which is not relevant to fusion power.)

I've made a longer comment above that goes into neutron physics in a little more detail.
I helped write a comparison of the Android Reddit apps here (http://www.slant.co/topics/1157/~what-are-the-best-reddit-cl...)
Part of the reason it's cheaper is because many sharing-economy services don't pay the taxes or follow the regulations the established competition must.

Part of the reason it's cheaper is because regulations have set up stagnant non-competing businesses who have no incentive to innovate or compete.

Flaunting the law and making a large set of people make light of the rule of law is a bad thing, and nobody should celebrate the savings from this.

There are places where sharing-economy companies and regulating local governments have worked together to make them legal and open up competition stimulating innovation. New York and the Bay Area, despite their reputations as innovators, haven't managed to do these things.
I've used it for data gathering, but found it to be a pretty homogenous group of people. What has your experience been?
What are you looking to do with "language styles" that you can't do based on file extension?
Purely anecdotal. It is not bad. It could be better sure.
The times that a family member has been sick and taken to an emergency room everybody has done their part to nurse them back to health.

Unfortunately there are always incompetent nurses, staff, and probably even doctors that hide among the competent. You always find a couple of them in the hospital. Thankfully I've only ever encountered incompetent nurses, or nurse aids. Especially nurse aids. Doctors have been OK.

They are really hard to get rid off because they do just enough to not get fired. They also work really hard to mask their mediocrity.

Of course, I have not been able to experience the health care of other countries so there is a chance that USA's health care is worse than I think.
I'll be extremely happy once we are able to automate health care.
I was at the 10th chapter of the second version of this tutorial. I turned on my pc and it seems it is gone now! Is there any other way than google cache to reach the previous tutorial, which I prefer because of the rspec?
>Corporate profits are already taxed (in the form of dividends/capital gains to shareholders, and income tax to employees)

employees' income - salaries - is expenses and thus excluded from profits, so there is no double taxation here.