skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me, or do all these attempts to mould e-mail to avoid cognitive overload just create cognitive overload.

"E-mail - a list of messages from people, by default displayed in the order they arrived." Isn't that simplicity refreshing?
Ok. Where?
I'm currently reading the tenth Percy Jackson book. IMO these are extremely enjoyable books, right about on the Harry Potter level. Maybe not quite reaching the heights of the best of HP, but more generally consistent. I've not yet started my six-year-old son on the first of them, but I certainly will soon, and I'll be delighted if he likes them, because they are good stories.

Personally, I don't get the anti-YA snobbery you see so often in this sort of article. The median "adult" novel sucks every bit as much as the median YA. Many of the classic novels of the 19th century would qualify as YA if written today. YA mostly just means the protagonists are younger and the writing is clearer.
How does a homeless person afford the travel to a "more affordable" place? (What does more affordable mean when they have no money?)

Where do the nurses, teachers, security guards, waiters, shop assistants etc etc live?
> Maybe it was just labels were simpler...

Labels used not to be nestable.
I remember you posting about your start-up back in August. How have things progressed since then?
This is open source[0] and looks as though it runs on Heroku. Neat.

[0] https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector
The longer I live the more I realize this is true. When you really get into a certain topic, sport, hobby, you realize there are always people above and below, there is no top or bottom. But directories of information like this are what really make the Internet a great place. I love looking at this stuff.
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I stopped getting my weather from The Weather Channel a long time ago, when they became more interested in click-bait articles over just reporting the weather. Thankfully today we have many alternatives:

http://www.wunderground.com/
http://darkskyapp.com/
http://forecast.io/

And of course http://www.weather.gov/, to name a few.
> "So when I'm logging into some website, I'm not going to have access to myspace?"

Which is even less likely.
I hear you. My comment below:
"Zillow/Trulia are media companies trying to connect buyers with brokers who pay them money for advertising. Redfin is a brokerage trying to connect buyers with their own brokers."

I agree that it would be nice if Redfin could be more open as a brokerage, but it makes sense to obscure the "we're a brokerage!" message from consumers, because most consumers hate brokers (other than their own broker - who is great!).

So I agree that consumers mistakenly think of Redfin like another online portal, but I don't think that the distinction one way or another matters that much. Both Zillow and Redfin put consumers in touch with brokers.

(edit: not sure why you're being downvoted - it wasn't me. I'm enjoying our conversation!)
What do you do about long-duration TODO items, like "Fix XYZ bug", which are a lower priority than your current tasks? I tend to Star those in Gmail, and leave them read but not-archived.

Some of these threads (for me) are good explanations/resources about a particular problem, but which I can't act on yet as $OtherTask is higher priority. I have Jira tickets for most of these, but even so the inbox helps remind me (roughly monthly) that things are still Not Fixed, whereas a TODO label would end up being unread.

Maybe it's just that I've been depending on that and have NOT been using a TODO or similar label for things, and thus am not in the habit of checking for New Things in my filtered labels. I'll have to think about this more. Thanks in advance for your insight. :)
Much larger discussion found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493619

It may answer your question
I've tried plus addressing. Some websites annoyingly don't accept them :(
But there's no way you could do any big project in a quarter.
High level languages like Python, Ruby, and Go could take advantage of this without having to make any code changes, provided that the appropriate libraries are updated to use this new hardware.

Java, however, is a special case. Since Java bytecode does not have a BigDecimal type, there's no way to update the JVM to take advantages of this hardware unfortunately.
true. I like the ideas behind hangouts (and they have the best emoji). but it is just so painfully slow and unreliable with notifications for me...
Because they have roots and history in SF and the valley. They've got friends, family, and memories there. It's hard to give up your home.

It's those tech upstarts that're causing all the trouble; Moving there en-masse, with their strange ways and disrespect for the local culture. Always trying to "disrupt"; they're obviously troublemakers!

Really, it's no different from casual racism, but you've got to understand the roots: Fear of the unknown is a powerful motivating factor for most people.
I wrote most of this for LastPass. The interface is based on my own pet project, "pass" -- http://www.passwordstore.org/ -- which sticks to a more traditional model of a simple directory of gpg encrypted files, integrated with git, and you get to decide where it lives. It's a simple bash script.
Not really, given that you can quite easily filter emails that you receive from your other address. I use exactly this workflow and it's much more useful than having them in separate inboxes (i.e. doesn't "defeat the purpose").
The Exploratorium in San Francisco also has a vapor tank that shows cosmic rays and radioactivity—it’s mesmerizing.
> Usually when normal people like something...

Yeah, that's the problem right there. You're thinking "normal", and the GP said he struggled with psychopathy. Your "normal" doesn't apply in his world.
And for 99% of the kids, the choice isn't between Percy Jackson and D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. It's (at best) between Percy Jackson and something else like Percy Jackson, only probably not as good.
Lord of the Rings is a good example. The Hobbits are just normal people, but still have an element of fantasy. They don't have magical powers or a great secret destiny, they are just regular people at the center of extraordinary events.
I agree that most arguments against "juvenile" reading are poorly stated; I think it might be because it's a hard thing to put into words, perhaps ironically because so many people don't read great literature any more.

I hadn't really thought about the subject until now, so didn't have an opinion, but it very much strikes me as similar to the trend I (and others[1]) have noticed in film: we have a whole generation of films being based on YA/children's books; no one seems to make movies for adults any more.

Sure, you can claim, "at least they're entertaining", (or "at least they're reading" in the case of books), but it just feels like our culture is regressing to childhood, partly voluntarily and partly due to being coddled and nannied (and I say that seriously; please don't take me as a right-wing loony).

"So what?" you may ask (and again, probably say "at least they're reading" which is a valid argument for YA and children). The concern comes in when you have mental children wielding adult power. Such as voting. Or getting married. Or handling firearms. There's also the longer term issue of examining deeper issues, of asking bigger questions, things you don't normally get unless you go back to the classics (and no, just because Percy Jackson has Greek gods in it doesn't mean it addresses these subjects; that's just a setting, a flavor, window dressing).

It's also compounded by network effects: who wants to read Homer when they will have no one to talk about it with? And after a long day at work, who wants to wade through "War and Peace" when you can sit down with some pulp and escape reality? It's hard, but I think the rewards are well worth it, and if we are to keep our freedom (and escape the coddling), we have to at least begin to consider the deeper questions occasionally. Great literature can help, and be a reward in and of itself. YA and children's books, usually not so much.

[1] - http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day... - Two apropos quotes from that:

Adults were treated as adults rather than as overgrown children hell-bent on enshrining their own arrested development.

will grow up believing that movies aimed at adults should be considered a peculiar and antique art. Like books. Or plays.
Why, it's almost like the launch of any app, ever. Plenty of sites have more detail:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/22/7041227/google-inbox-hand...
Because people believe that once they've lived somewhere long enough, they have a right to live there forever.

There are a lot of issues with this article.
It talks about the Ellis act as if it isn't standard in every other part of the country.

(in fact, the only thing non-standard is the state of the world pre-ellis act, where landlords in california could never evict people and decide to stop being landlords)
Intentional programming
You clearly don't know how the semiconducter supply chain works. All of this stuff is made in asia and changes hands 3 or 4 times before it makes it's way into a distribution channel. Unless you are buying straight from ftdi, there's a chance these can end up in your products. Same goes with most commodity ICs.
Very cool story of how digital technology is helping to fight ebola.
Come on, take a deep breath. We're talking about bricking a serial to USB chip, not something worth shedding blood really.

As far as unethical behavior by corporation is concerned I really not think it's even noteworthy.
Has this been proven by a corresponding packet dump listing "Write EEPROM, offset 0, 4 bytes: [0,0,0,0]?

Or are they -sneakily- bricking the device by evoking an unintended reaction to a seemingly innocuous command?

The former will be easy to prove, the latter.. probably not so much.
The landing page for inbox.google.com, if you scroll down slowly as you read it, seemed to explain it very well, and showcased example workflows. The video didn't convert me, but the website did.
Yes because as we all know email is exclusively the domain of the young, idle Bourgeoisie
I don't understand why anyone would get their forecasts from anywhere but the NOAA website. The US government provides free, (adfree) and detailed forecasts which are more accurate than 3rd party forecasts. Most 3rd party forecast sites artificially inflate the chance of rain and other factors (because a false negative is better than a false positive, in regards to rain). The NOAA forecasts do not have this "fake" adjustment in them and are very accurate. NOAA forecasts also come with the forecast discussion, written by the Meteorologists which explain the current forecast in a detailed, meteorological way.

http://www.weather.gov/
Advice from Zuckerberg and Others in '05
> Iterate until the counterfeit chips are indistinguishable from the real thing via software.

Will they still cost less?
Can we be sure that FTDI has programmed their driver with malicious intent? It may be that this an accidental side-effect of using counterfeit hardware with a genuine driver.

Without access to the source code or a well-reversed disassembly of the FTDI driver, and a good grasp of the logic used in the counterfeit chip, one cannot be certain about this. And surely not to the extent of urging Microsoft to revoke driver signatures.
Then they don't have any options, period. But if someone slaps a Toyota badge on a car and takes it to be serviced, Toyota don't suddenly have the right to instead smash the car with sledgehammers.
Interesting that it only blocks voice, which is my cellphone's least used functionality.
My Wife Is Telling Me to Have Drinks with Other Women (maybe You Should, Too)
For now you can send them to komodo <at> activestate.com, or use http://forum.komodoide.com/ (whichever you prefer).

I'll be setting up a github repo for bug reports soon.
For most of the games entering the competition, it's actually very easy to play them online (without any need for a special client), see:

http://ifcomp.org/ballot#browse
my guess would be that every whatsapp account is associated with only one phone number, and you might have to introduce a separate layer of identification.

personally, i like having one reliable messenger on one device.
The locking out came when Sun sued Microsoft on copyright infringement (or trademark infringement, I don't recall), then they were forbidden from continuing to enhance and offer the product, but end up still providing minimum (security) support to the existing use base.

C# is the salvage of that wasted effort, plus a number of lessons learned and improvements that MS was able to implement and market under a different name.
While the desire may be rational, believing society can make this desire can come true is probably not rational.

At some point, you run out of places to put all the people who want to live in a given place. You have to have some way of deciding who gets to live there, and to be honest, "blood right" doesn't do it for me.
The Percy Jackson books I'm reading now are radically better than the Hardy Boys books I read back in the 70s.
The navigation was a bit difficult, but the site is interesting. Going "to the map" (http://triggur.org/silo/map.html) makes it a little easier to navigate.
If your parents are 1/3 to 1/2 of a mile away from the closest box with those speeds, then it's likely the 'box' is a crossbox (wiring junction) instead of a DSLAM (networking card). Where the DSLAM is that is feeding that crossbox... well that could be much further.

If the loop length is .34-.5 miles (which is quite good) with no impedance mismatch or bridge taps or other various copper faults, then you would/should be able to sustain 10+ Mbps on an ADSL2+ connection.

My guess is that the distance is further than it seems, and the line may not have been reconditioned from phone to internet purposes.

Anyway I bring it up because distance is the biggest determinant of bandwidth when it comes to copper, and if the distance is great then there is little that fixing copper faults can do to improve internet speeds at your parents' place.
I bet his university's Gmail has auto-lookup for contacts.
Making and Receiving Phone Calls with Golang
The Weather Channel purchased Weather Underground in 2012. WU doesn't push the sensational stories on their weather pages, but their "News" section is just as much of a joke now.
Ask HN: Disclosing current salary in job interview
I've heard over the years, don't give your current number. Why, this puts them in a negotiating advantage? (Besides really being none of their business when we first start discussing a position)

I just had an interview and was pressured to give it. I held out but they're going to come back on me in the next interview. Are there good reasons to give in not disclosing this? Thought there was a thread a while back discussing this situation.
I believe trial by combat is the only reasonable option
So... can I please just use Touch ID? Awesome.
...and most of the games in the competition are playable online in browser, see:

http://ifcomp.org/ballot#browse
Awesome, send along links to anything they come up with! We're thinking of live streaming the meetup, so that might be a good way to share around as well.
They can't explain what they've learned, because SICP covers so much ground. The best way I can explain is by negative examples. SICP is not:

- A learn X in 7 days book

- A technique driven solution book (cookbook)

- A quick overview of the new hotness library/language/api/framework

- A list of all the functions that you should know

- A reprinting of the half complete wiki documentation of a weekend github toy

- A one off read that you dump in the recycle bin

SICP gives grounding to some of the core problems in computer science. I've returned to it several times, and I always learn something from what I've missed before. Understanding how functions/closures/namespaces/objects all interrelate, how to think in recursion, building higher order programs from pieces, it even covers simple examples of VMs. It's a very strong entry text that has stood the test of time, and is still providing value. Few texts in comp-sci can say the same. SICP does a good job of connecting the theory of comp-sci with a real language without overwhelming the student with absurd language syntax problems.

When any one asks me to recommend a computer book I recommend SICP. Best of all no one has to take my word for it, the book is free. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ go read it and form an opinion.

Who is SICP not for? If you are at a high level with programming with multiple languages under your belt, most of this would seem like a refresher. If you really "know" VMs then this is going to very low level stuff. If you want a quick read to learn the syntax for scheme this is not the book for you.
Mile of Pi [video]
My first thought on seeing the subject of WW1 trench warfare was to drop a link to the Hardcore History WW1 podcasts. They are excellent at getting across the sheer horror and enormity of WW1, something that was lost on me growing up in the US (we tend to focus on WW2). I suspect European listeners will be surprised by less, but for any American who doesn't know what I'm talking about if I mention Verdun or the Somme, I _highly_ recommend the podcasts. They are ~12 hours (so far) and riveting.
Actually, I take it back, Ferdinand Reyher, the author, has quite an interesting life story http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc....
Stop talking shit.

4G coverage is not across the country, although not too bad, but its only one provider. Look at 4G coverage in Sweden.

EU money was used to fund RAIN and RAIN2 projects - connect the main cities and then rent out the lines to ISPs.

The (Swedish) monopolist ISP had reasonably smart CEO who realised that laying last mile in fiber costs same as laying it copper, but you'll lock-in your users for decades, no competition will ever be able to compete with that.

And the main reason of cheap fiber installation was fact that majority of people live in blocked houses, so population density is really high. Now look at households in US - massive houses, separated by massive land. One US house is probably equal to 20-30 Lithuanian families.
My favorite feature of SMS authentication is when I get locked out of accounts because I'm traveling and using a different SIM.
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Why don't people in the bay area allow cheap housing to be built in their community? Why can't we have giant apartment complexes in the bay area?
Experience shows being sued is pretty strong disincentive - otherwise big companies wouldn't spend time and money on training, manuals, procedures, etc. to avoid being sued. Of course, it may not be a disincentive to a particular person - but as soon as someone in HR realizes it exposes them to being sued - that person would be in trouble.

>> There is no real capitalistic answer to this problem that I've ever heard of.

Of course there is. Exposure. As soon as this behavior is exposed, again the experience shows the pressure is enough to make pretty big companies to listen and move. Smaller companies probably would be even more susceptible to the pressure. Of course, that wouldn't solve the basic problem (some people are assholes) but it can go a long way to make them not feel welcome and encouraged.
Microsoft attempts to improve Android with new 'Garage' apps
It's not exactly that straight forward...

As mentioned in the article, many who work full time in SF can't afford to live in the city. "Affordable places" generally means far east or south of their workplace, meaning that they have to spend an enormous amount of money and time commuting to their jobs. With time and money being a finite resource [for most], the commute time comes at the cost of family time and the cost of transportation comes out of their meager earnings (a fact that, if you live in SF or work at a company that provides a private bus, take for granted). Living outside of the city is still unaffordable for many people because of these costs.

The real problem is the scarcity of overall housing resources. With the boom in tech drawing more and more people into SF, it's only going to become more of an issue unless building picks up significantly. This is also true of salaries, which will have to increase in order for companies to hire people who can afford to live here, further driving a wedge between those who can and those who cannot live here.
Well as I still see a giant map of my current area and the weather, and all news stories are below the fold, so it still works. As soon as that changes I'll be looking elsewhere I'm sure.
I was also put off by the video, made me pretty much disinterested in the product as well.

After a bit of introspection, I think the turn off is the cheap emotional ploy that you will somehow gain a lifestyle from using their inbox filtering app.

You know, after finishing a shift on your kickstarted-funded peruvian food truck, you can go practice with your band and take selfies.

For me, it would be far more effective if they showed me how the product would help an average everyday person.
Your huge page comment also reminded me that Power has 64k page support, rather than the 4k or 2MB that amd64 has, and this is normally the pag size (eg in RHEL) which reduces TLB pressure a lot.
I've recently started listening to Dan Carlin, specifically the Blueprint to Armageddon series about WWI, and I second this recommendation. Carlin's a wonderfully engaging storyteller, who helps you get into the mind of the soldiers, generals, and citizens affected by this awful world event while tying it all together to an overall narrative of events. A great listen.
To quote CTZ: "You should look up the word 'intent' in law."
No, and I doubt they'll release it. My guess from seeing lots and lots of similar acquisitions in RE is $5-10m range, with a large stock component and nice employee retention package (especially because this is Redfin's first acq. and they'll likely file IPO in 2015).
I can also heartily recommend Dan Carlin's WWI episodes. I've learned a lot listening to them the last few weeks.
Mark Zuckerberg Answers Q&A in Mandarin at Chinese University
Does anyone happen to know how one is expected to choose the output audio device? Seems like every WebRTC app just uses the default output which is completely the wrong thing to do when using a headset.
Will do. And we'd love to watch if you live stream it.
Lets do an example. In many of the enterprise applications I work on large datagrids are used. I did a loot of research in order to find the best open alternative, from what I found this seems to be http://datatables.net/ . It seems like a great product with a lots of features, plugins and ways to tweak it.
But still KendoUI`s got features like proper grouping, binding to remote data(filtering, sorting, grouping etc), advanced filtering, fast customisation of headers/rows/cells, proper select/multi-select and so on. Im aware that you could probably do all these things with Datatables, but still you would have to find the appropriate plugins, browse through bad documentations and properly end up implementing half of the missing features your self. Of course this could be done, but with KendoUI you got it all out of the box, with proper documentation. And if you don`t figure it out, you got professional support with fast response(great for junior dev). Yes KendoUi got a steep licence cost, but it don`t take long to realize that it`s worth it.
I could to exactly the same example for the TreeView component(and to some degree the Data Visualization package, though the open alternatives seems much more competitive, if not better, here).

So to answer your question, from my experience using KendoUI reduces the time needed for the average developer to complete the task.
Weird. I didn't stay where I was born.
What is it about WhatsApp that made so many people adapt it over all the alternatives, I cannot understand it.
The worst leakage is when the winter storm names start showing up in the winter.