skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here - what I understood is this is "login with twitter"
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Agile doesn't mean redoing the whole app everytime third party vendor releases the minor version.
This is one of the many reasons to use Linux and free software on your desktop. :)
Basically all vendors outsource production. Very few vendors will knowingly put a fake chip in their product, the trick is pulled by someone closer to manufacturing, either to cut costs or to try and ship earlier in case the original chip is hard to get right now.

I doubt very few vendors will realize if a fake FTDI chip is part off their manufactured product even after rigorous testing since the functionality is correct (until you get this driver).

EDIT: I doubt FTDI have thought this through. I will share this with the hardware designers I know and most will probably react like on the linked thread, and just switch to another chip to avoid any possible hassle.
Supply chain integrity is hard, especially when you're building things on a schedule, especially when you're building <50k in a batch, and when you're not super well known.

I wish we'd bring back an electronics manufacturing industry to the US just for that reason alone, even at 2x the cost. Right now it seems the "safest" way to make boards in 5k units is in Mexico -- NAFTA rules plus cheaper labor and compliance.
Not all email clients.

http://notmuchmail.org/
the current implementation leaves room for speculation. especially, since others have pointed out, two checkmarks only show that it has been delivered.

the "last online" time means (AFAIK) the last time the user was using the app (could also be in a different chat).
It's a real shame because Psion, the company who designed the original version of Symbian OS (EPOC32), had a knack for sensible, simple UIs on their pocket organizers -- or whatever those '90s PDA-like things were called.

If that original Psion spirit had been carried to a smartphone design ten years ago, it could have been a great foundation for Symbian. Instead Symbian got a menagerie of confused UIs developed by the phone vendors whose primary aim was to tick more boxes in feature sheets every year.
Let's say that we put a cap in there: no executive in the Red Cross can make more than $200k. Let's further say that, over time, the quality of the executives goes down as a consequence, to the point that the Red Cross is less effective at its mission. So, we have a compensation cap that "feels" more appropriate for a medical charity, but the charity is now less capable of accomplishing its mission. Do you think this is an improvement?

Now, I am not saying this is necessarily what will happen, but it's certainly possible. I also assume that executives at the Red Cross are already making less than what they could at for-profit companies. Non-profits have to compete with for-profits when it comes to employees; that's just a natural consequence of how labor and capital exist in our economy. I think this means that we will sometimes have to pay employees at non-profits more than what "feels" right in order to have good, competent employees.
Same here. I was vaguely aware there are more but nowhere nearly realized how complex and varied the real situation is. Very illuminating article.
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I haven't read Game of Thrones, so this doesn't clarify things for me that much. It's hard for me to think of books I've read where the main character is not notable in some way, but it's also hard for me to think of books I've read where things simply resolve themselves for the main character as a result of that notability, as opposed to effort on the part of the character. So I guess the answer is "Yes, lots of people are writing those books"?
Looks good. This is a Canvas/WebGL based game? What libraries did you use?
I am referring to eg. being reimbursed for travel expenses, or any other expenses which would not have been incurred by not donating. Being "made whole" on money you spent.
User you are sending to could be underground/out of signal range/have 3G disabled. I like having a separate delivered confirmation and I would prefer not to have people see what I have read.
I'm one of the co-authors. AMA.

EDIT: There will also be a reddit AMA on Thursday at 12pm eastern time.
Fabric let users log into apps with their phone number
> instead of anything else

or in addition to everything else. In the last week, I've read a great young adult book as well as a Sartre novel. I consider my life enriched by both. There's this awful snobbery around young adult books, but I often find they tell the best stories. I think Philip Pullman says it best:

“There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it; cultured adults, on the other hand, those limp and jaded creatures who think it more important to seem sophisticated than to admit to simplicity, find it harder both to write and to read novels that don't come with a prophylactic garnish of irony.”
FTDI is almost certainly trying to exercise IP rights that don't actually exist, because breaking other people's stuff is not an authorized method for dealing with trademark infringement.
Thanks a lot. What did you use to determine this? I am using Chrome inspector's heap allocation profiler and not noticing this difference. We're very interested in fixing this!
Hey, the FONT tag and TABLE-based layout was good enough for his site, it should be good enough for you! :)
> Although a webcam can detect high-energy particles without modification, it's necessary to modify it by removing the glass protective filter on the sensor to get maximum efficiency for low-energy particles such as alphas.

First, "alphas" are not necessarily "low-energy particles". Energy and particle type are orthogonal. You can have a 1 MeV alpha, beta, or gamma, or a 1 keV alpha, beta, or gamma.

Second, energy certainly contributes to how far particles can penetrate, but alphas have a massive charge (2+) which allows them to easily interact with materials they pass through. This means they are easily stopped by the glass protecting the sensor, as the electromagnetic forces occur at longer ranges than nuclear forces.

This is pretty cool though and reminds me of that video of the museum (in Germany, I think?) where you can see trails beta (or alphas?) physically zipping inside an "aquarium".
I can't speak for anyone else, but (almost) 20 years ago I was finishing off my public library's shelf of Hardy Boys books and starting to beg my parents for whatever the newest Star Wars novel was. I don't think anyone is seriously arguing that, by and large, modern YA fiction is high art, but it's a tough case to make that they've gotten more pulpy than their predecessors.
I don't have Inbox yet, but I don't think everyone gets invites immediately. Anyways, here's some info:

> Once you have an invite, you can hover over the red create button and you will see a gold ticket - Invite to Inbox. Select that to enter your friend's email address and send the invitation.
> Quick note: if you received an invite from a friend today, your 3 invites to share won't be available until this Friday.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/nCtyOEbZH...
> I guess I don't take the "just so long as they're reading" position to the extreme.

Indeed. The way the article took that argument to the extreme felt like a straw man with statements like: "The opposite argument—that the kind of book a child has his or her nose buried in does make a difference"

I don't think anyone on the "other side" would say that the kind of book doesn't matter, just that less good books are still good.
How did American Splendor ever get a following then?
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Sure, build your app with dependency on software from Twitter, because looking back their relationship to developers has been so great until now, and surely they won't abandon this project after two years...
My parents have been capped at 1.5 mbps (in practice closer to 768 mbps) since around 2003, and they're about 1/3 to 1/2 a mile away from the closest box. Over the years I've made multiple requests that resulted in improved line quality (change in PoP wiring, removed some home outlets with corroded contacts, remove bridge taps on the lines) but Ameritech-SBC-AT&T have never offered a better speed. They abandoned DSL in favor of U-Verse which, for rural locations, is of absolutely no use since they're never going to run fiber out to those semi-remote and remote DSLAMs. I wish something like G.fast would be useful in the US but the locations for which the distance isn't an issue are generally locations which have already been better served for a decade or longer by another technology than copper (cable, FTTH, FTTN, even Wireless in some cases).
I think people should research a company before working for them, and I'd definitely download the app and act like a consumer to get a feel for how the product works. I wouldn't set up a fake vendor however simply because that seems disruptive to the app's ecosystem and is likely researching a little too deep into what appears to be a basic shopping app.

Honestly if I emailed about a job and they wanted me to set up a "vendor" account, I'd just assume the job was fictional and this was a roundabout way of advertising their app.

> For the fairness of the discussion, the app itself is solid with decent UI and UX.

That's a strange line. Typically when expressions like "for the fairness of the discussion" are used you say something self-reflective to ward off "obvious" criticisms. The way you're using it here is like "For the fairness of the discussion, I am awesome!" Just a really strange turn of phase, not sure what you're trying to convey with that.

> So did I ask too much? Or I expect too much?

You expect them to care as much as you do. That won't happen. They have no vested interest in it.

Bring them in, talk through the app, find out their thoughts/ideas/problems and see who you like.
Because everybody can do "actual progrmaming." Especially in grad school.

Computer Science is broad (even AI is different), but I'd say it's more about Turing's academic papers, and computational mathematics. Programming, and computers, aren't even needed, they're just models which either can or cannot derive solutions, or in a reasonable time. Such as the halting problem, P, NP, NP-complete.

In a way it's mathematical logic, but with more rigorous proofs.

Everybody else can learn a generic language with some external libraries and make almost anything they want. But that's not more academic than it is to do woodworking, or sewing. Comp Sci is academic, and one of the more important ones because it determines a lot of research other disciplines do. I.e physicists and mathematicians do comp sci, while the softer sciences run models without understanding why they work.
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An app that solves math equations via camera and OCR
I think standardizing the interface would be more important.
Yeah, psychopaths are everywhere. Why don't they just interview <someone I dislike>?

/s

Seriously though, what is the point of this comment? Surely you already know that they are talking about rigorous, publishable research, not just "Goldman Sachs are evil lol".
I take it you refer to your complaint here: https://github.com/hylang/hy/issues/543

Your problem is with Python, not Hy. Hy inherits the "stupid limitations" of Python, and not even all of those - for example, it does away with the statement/expression distinction, which means multiline lambdas (at last!).

It's just Python with s-expressions. If you don't like it, you either don't like Python or don't like s-expressions.
Evolve means gradual change to me. For the more sophisticated amongst us, we are able to take the root meaning of the word and understand it's implication in different contexts.
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Other commenters are saying there's a 700 HUF (2.2 EUR) cap for residential lines. I don't think people will be leaving the country en mass because of that
Ask HN: Accelerator wants up to 23% equity?
My startup has been approached by an accelerator with an unusual structure. The numbers I'm giving below aren't exact, but represent the general structure of the accelerator.

1. They admit a small cohort in which they give all startups ~$70,000 for 7% of their company.

2. After a few months they give half of the startups an additional $50,000 for 4%.

3. After a few more months they give two of the startups an additional $50,000 for 2%.

4. Finally, they give one company ~$150,000 for 10%.

They then want you to raise a Round A after having given away ~23% of your company. They want you to raise with the VCs who fund this accelerator.

Is this a typical accelerator structure? My cofounder and I think that the initial $70,000 for 7% would be enough to bring our product to market, but our contact at the accelerator disagrees.

Does anyone have any experience with this kind of approach from an accelerator? Does this seem more or less preferable than what other accelerators offer?
Ehh, I don't think that means email is dying for younger people. I'm 20 and email is essential for a lot of things. Everyone I know (which is a fairly broad scope of people) has email and uses it. Everyone gets email at some point, too - so the only challenge is making younger people realize the ubiquity of email earlier on.
Can you give me ONE example?
If you're into this sort of historical record, check out this free podcast: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepri...
This is the first step towards some of the functionality in the movie "Her."

Trusting an AI (or algorithm in this case) to sort your email and bubble up different aspects is a huge task, and I'm glad to see Google finally start putting their full might behind it.
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Ditto. The blurb says nothing:

> Tripket is a cool new way to capture and share your experiences, discover new destinations and stay connected with the places you love.

I think it is a Facebook clone based on "stay connected" and "share your experiences." However likely with some focus on travel (new destinations, places you love, etc).

So a Facebook clone that tries to do something with travel maybe?
Zillow is in the process of acquiring Trulia. The deal hasn't closed yet.
Hi, I used the Chrome task manager (Under more tools) to check the memory usage on the page with/without the extension. Perhaps the profiler can give you more info.
This seems to be reversible: http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/2k0i7x/watch_that_w...
Yes I had this in my mind when I wrote the above post. I was trying to draw your attention to the fact that we already believe such things. (Two different accounts, two different pcs, lost password)
I've used Crashlytics (on Android via IntelliJ) in the past and it's been a blast. Just plain awesome and straightforward to use. I'm assuming that they've extended the Crashlytics "installer" to also support the other platforms. If that#s the case - awesome! Will definitely use this in the future as it makes this kind of integration just straightforward (including the various AndroidManifest.xml setups, build.gradle entries, etc!)
There isn't anything.

K&R is canonical because in 1978 books were the way programming language information was distributed. It was a different time. Hell, in 1979 Godel Escher Bach won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Can you imagine the general public reading something that challenging for fun these days?

On the flip side, most programming books are more informative than what is essentially a specification. The industry has come a long way.
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What I really want is a desktop version of WhatsApp. I have a lot of conversations on there and typing on a piece of glass is just never as efficient as typing on a laptop. I haven't been able to find a desktop client that isn't blatantly laden with spam or viruses. I might take a stab at building one myself. I'd be curious if anyone has already reverse-engineered their backend API.
That defeats the point of separate emails...
Loading extremely slowly for me. Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6m1opf...

After reading the article, this quote really jumped out at me:

"I was going along, being a good citizen," Todd, now 52 years old, says. "I was a volunteer firefighter, I coached football and baseball, I was saving my money, doing everything you're supposed to do, being a single father, raising my daughter by myself. Then the economy just went to hell and the company threw me to the wolves."

This is interesting because it sounds like what I've come to think of as the "salaryman" mentality: the idea that there is a contract between employee and company help each other, forever.

I don't want to say it implies entitlement, exactly, but more like a weird view of reality. Why do people think being a "good citizen" who "does everything you're supposed to do" means nothing will ever screw them? Or is this just rhetoric that people use to make themselves sound victimized?

I think this is a generational gap (in America, anyway). I don't think you would ever hear those words coming from a millennial. Maybe we've just learned from the mistakes of people like this guy.
Why don't these people just move to more affordable places?
Are there really so few words that have no real point or relation to a product that new ones can't pick a different word from old ones.

http://www.fabfile.org/
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It's an unsatisfying read, not enough background.

I can't imagine that your average American was so knowledgeable of Gallipoli that none was required.

The writer makes the soldier out to be simple and quaint but for me he's the more eccentric.
By no means an expert, but AFAIK this isn't the case, except for a few obvious traits: symmetry and an even skin tone. (The hypothesis being that these are traits are that the evolution of our brains/mind has latched onto as obvious signs of genetic fitness.)
> It's hard for me to think of books I've read where the main character is not notable in some way

It's a standard plot: ordinary person living an ordinary life feels constrained by that life; boom thing happens, causing ordinary person to go on a journey. Character development happens on the journey.

I'm kind of surprised that you can't think of any book like this.
I checked them out...but they charge $10+ for shipping and it takes about 7 days. So its not really cheap.
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Google Hangouts does read messages really well in groups. There are little portraits showing how far someone has read.
Your article is very good, but I only know that because I've been through this myself. I'm not sure I would have completely understood WebRTC until I implemented it in an application by myself for the first time. Once you get it, it's actually quite simple. I think it's the unfamiliarity of the various terms like ICE, STUN/TURN, and SDP, and everyone treating the issue like everyone should A) already know what those are, or B) be able to figure out the implications once given the acronym definition. If you're going from WebSockets to WebRTC, there is a lot of new terminology to swallow all at once.

But you definitely helped clear up some of the rougher points for me. Like, I didn't realize that createOffer should be called after the negotiationNeeded event occurred. I just call it immediately after creating my DataChannel (I'm doing text-only transmissions as part of a system to combine inputs from multiple devices to play a game). I had wondered what the negotiationNeeded event was all about, but none of the articles I'd found had really said anything clear about it, and it wasn't in any of the example code I found.

And I found all of this through MDN! The existing documentation for WebRTC is apparently really bad. And that's quite disappointing, because I've usually found MDN to either be excellent or merely incomplete, not specifically having documentation that was poor.

Again, thanks for this.
This is what PH makes healthy and rewarding to check it everyday. Great way to make it a habbit. But I'm not surprised since Ryan is the co-author of Hooked: how to build habit forming products.
> Hell, in 1979 Godel Escher Bach won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Can you imagine the general public reading something that challenging for fun these days?

The relationship between "Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction" and "general public reading [...] for fun" has always been pretty distant.
It is an interesting concept when applied to large groups (e.g. different countries get different adverts), however I struggle to see how it would be applied to smaller groups (e.g. age ranges, genders, etc) like the article suggests.

Be it music videos, TV shows, or movies they're all delivered, right now, to single large groups of people all at once. Almost every delivery medium (e.g. YouTube, Cable TV, iTunes, etc) would need to have on-hand two dozen different versions to make sure everyone gets their most appropriate ad. Seems unrealistic.

I wouldn't say this kind of dynamic advertising is impossible, but the technical hurdles to deliver different content to different groups seems extremely costly and complex.

So we might see some of this in the coming years, but the hopes of this company are clearly unrealistic.

PS - This is clearly a press release by Mirriad (the company behind this)
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The technique is called a state space model [0]. A complete airplane might have been a bit hyperbolic, but as long as the assumption of linear dynamics is allowable, extremely large systems with multiple inputs and outputs and thousands of states can be simulated. What's more, there are some elegant and practical ways to find controllers with mathematically proven performance (like LQG control, or Model Predictive Control). This field of study has lead to the Kalman filter, which might ring a bell.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_space_representation
Except in this case, the quality of the fake is fine.
WotC, especially Mark Rosewater, has addressed this issue many many times. I would recommend checking out some of his columns and podcasts.

Short answer: the game has evolved quite a bit (I've been playing for 17 years).

Long answer:

> Anybody using the old ones is a sucker.

There are several different Constructed formats, each with its own restrictions on which cards can be played. The three most popular are Legacy, Modern, and Standard. In Modern and Standard, only newer cards are allowed, so there naturally aren't any from older sets. In Legacy, there are plenty of older cards being played. Take a look at the lists from any Legacy tournament, and you'll see a mix of old and new. Now, the power levels of each type of card have changed (in general, creatures have gotten more powerful and non-creature spells less powerful), so you'll often see earlier non-creature spells and more recent creatures, but this isn't set in stone.

There's also the idea of power creep. The natural progression of a game like Magic is to allow more and more powerful effects, since not doing so will dis-incentivize buying new cards. For at least the past 10 years, then, Wizards has made a conscious decision to vary the power level between blocks (cycles of sets). Different types of cards will be more or less powerful at different times (in the last block, enchantments were the focus, now multicolor cards are being emphasized).

It's true that if you want to stay competitive takes a certain amount of money, but this is true in many hobbies. Magic has been constantly getting more popular over the last few years, and it's still around when 99% of its competitors are gone. Let's check back on your game in 20 years and see where it's at.