skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quote myself: "Crappy chairs in high school don't help". I'm not 'pretending they don't have an impact'. Mind you, I'm also not pretending that $800+ office chairs are the norm for adult [office] workers, and that it's those chairs that underly the difference between adult and adolescent behaviour.

Are you aware that adolescents who don't go to school - like home-schooled kids, early drop-outs, kids in developing countries with no access to high school - that those adolescents still act out?

Or that adolescents have had a long history of being featured in stories as not behaving 'appropriately' (such as Romeo and Juliet), well before the advent of modern high school?
Show HN: StartupTalks.tv – A curated collection of startup related videos
Let me know what you think! Just launched. Not enough inspiring engineering talks yet, so if you know of any, I would appreciate your suggestions :)
With the $20 discount as a Prime member it only comes to $19. I decided to give it a try. I had actually been considering purchasing a Roku recently because my Chromecast doesn't work with my new Comcast router without some router adjustments. For $19, I'm ok with using this for Netflix rather than Chromecast and having to figure out how to setup my router to not use the 5ghz channel.
Well, a master troll is abrasive using ideas, not words, right?
Are these Bitcoin ATMs really the future of money?
> We then set up interviews with Marc: four days of back-to-back 1:1 or 1:2 meetings with everyone on the team from 10a-6p, as well as a talk to the whole company.

When the article says Marc had become available, should we assume he wasn't working at the time? That just seems way over the top. I can't imagine asking any serious/heavyweight candidate to 'interview' that way in the UK. I'm curious to know what others think.
OK Go’s New Music Video – Fancy Drone Camerawork
The term was popularized most recently by Mark Suster:

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/10/25/choose-your-vc...
--

One of the terms we coined there was a “seagull.” We used it to describe certain of our partners (e.g. the owners of Andersen Consulting). Seagulls were the partners who didn’t spend much actual time on your project. They were smart and accomplished. They knew enough about your project to have an opinion but not enough to help. They would swoop in for one day to “check in on things,” shit on you and then fly away. Seagulls.

The analogy holds pretty well for some VCs and this can be destructive.
The IoT will be built on open source
Your pricing is incredibly confusing. What is "polar box" and do I need to pay for it? What are the advantages of paying for it, what are the paid-only features?

from the "box" name i assume it's some sort of storage features, but when i click on the "$4.99" link at the top of the page it just takes me to a list of general editor features that i can seem to get for free by using the editor.
For noise canceling headphones, the Bose QuietComfort series are actually really nice. Yes, they are Bose, and that means the price might seem a bit higher than it should be, but I believe that Bose has more advanced noise canceling tech than their competitors.

This is just from what I've read though, I don't use noise cancelling headphones much any more, usually only when flying.
SensoTRACK – Revolutionizing Wearable Fitness Industry
yeah, but do you think T-Mobile puts CDN servers that have most of the popular content of all the supported streaming services at each cell site?
Actually, thinking about it, didn't Zed Shaw make a Ragel-based strict-conformance HTTP parser?

> Simply being more explicit about what is valid HTTP means that most of the security attacks that worked on Apache were rejected outright when tried on Mongrel.

Which I guess is a qualified "sounds like it, maybe?"
Ah, I think we are talking about slightly different things, and it seems you still aren't catching the meaning of "mediate" being used here. I don't think Inbox will be more intrusive or be more annoying because of ads. I think the user experience, like the user experience of gmail, will be great.

The reasons for impuning the motives of Google here are political and consequentialist, not about user experience or software quality.

It's about the consequences of having a 3rd party organize and filter your communications according to it's own incentives rather than yours, it's a discussion about power.

It's about the politics of service providers putting themselves in the middle of p2p communication in order to surveil them (to monetize the software/service with ads in this case, although of course the NSA is happily given a copy).

It's not about thinking people at Google are mustache twirling villians or bizdev douches who ruin things by plastering ads on them, it's about the crappy direction that well-meaning people are taking the internet.
Airbnb: Not Necessarily a Wolf, but It’s No Lamb Either [Update]
Let's say you have one language that supports double-quoted strings and interpolates local variables, like this:

x = 17
print "The number is $x"

produces:

The number is 17

Let's say in some situation you don't want interpolation, and so you want to mix in some other language that supports interpolation-less strings, and it just happens to use triple-quoted strings as the syntax for that behaviour. So, we make a new language by combining the original language's expression syntax with the new language's expressions syntax using the ordered choice operator. Then we feed it this input:

x = 17
print """The number is $x"""

This time, the first language's parser sees the opening quote, then immediately afterward it sees a closing quote. Then it sees another opening quote, some text, an interpolation and a closing quote, then lastly another opening and closing quote, so it yields three string literals and concatenates them to produce one large, interpolated string.

Even though our combined grammar had a special rule for triple-quoted strings, we couldn't use it just by blindly concatenating parts of the grammar; we'd have to rewrite both of them a little bit to get them to mesh nicely. Granted, the above is a slightly contrived example, but most non-trivial PEG grammars have to pay at least some attention to the order of their ordered choice operands, even within a single language.
Hackers or Engineers? Who to hire for your startup, and why
On the other hand, it's likely (if their system is at least as good as cloud9) that if someone has a problem, they can provide a link that will literally show it exactly as they see it, and it'll almost certainly remove one of the most common problems of getting started which is weird environmental problems on the users computer. When cloud9 first came out, for a long time it was by far the best way of developing node.js code on windows.

I still have weird environment and cygwin/msys issues on windows when trying to set up Idris or rust or even some node packages that insist on compiling native code on install.
SIFT is patented. SURF is a similar and alternative method to SIFT.
Editing != Writing. Sometimes it way hard to change something than it is to create.
A 32-hour interview? That's insane. It's completely irresponsible of a company to ask that of anyone.
Excellent information, thank you.
"What in crypto truly is provable" is where I get off this train.
Regarding coverage, I'm feeling the pain. I've been a TMobile customer for over 2 years now and their service in NYC is great, but out in Pennsylvania (where I am almost weekly) is terrible to non existent.

On top of coverage being bad, their plans are limited to around 10MB of data roaming per month. Yes, MB. That is only domestic though, if you're international you get unlimited data roaming. I guess that is what happens when you bad-talk other carriers then ask them about letting your customers roam on their networks.
now they just have to fix the damn green line

olympics bid when?
I can't evaluate how serious or useful this is but I really like the idea. Anything that might encourage more constructive discussions is a perfectly valid thing to explore. I love the idea of trying to characterize the contributions of different commenters based on their history, including my own. Not just for things like "hatefulness" or "incoherence", which is what this seems to be detecting, but other things as well, like "helpfulness" or "erudition" or apparent areas of interest.
H.G. Wells differed from Jules Verne in that he was more inclined to let his fantasy loose.

The Frenchman actually criticized him for it:

We do not proceed in the same manner.
It occurs to me that his stories do not repose on very scientific bases.
No, there is no rapport between his work and mine.
I make use of physics.
He invents.

And yet Wells, bold as he was, was often right (predicting laser, for example).
Would love to get some opinion about this analysis. Does the sharing need to be regulated?
And without a keyboard, mouse or touch screen.
ZenHub Helps Engineering Teams Manage Their GitHub Projects
FinCEN Issues Administrative Ruling on Bitcoin Exchanges
MAybe that's why the comment about the company not having experience in hiring managers...?
My favorite term for it is "Eye of Sauron" management. Most of the time the eye is not on you ... but when it is, look out!
T-mobile user here running Cyanogenmod, dnscrypt, and other goodies, with no problem.
We're looking for possible sponsors to help us bring students from different countries together. And we're also looking for some local hackathon/developer community leaders so that we can coordinate everything together.
Show HN: Improved rails strong_parameter implementation
The Insane Lawsuit Rocking the Glock Gun Dynasty
Categorizing Heinlein and Clarke as "modern" is a bit unfair to the current crop of SciFi authors, In my view. Authors like Iain M. Banks, Stephen Baxter and Peter F. Hamilton (all Brits, coincidentally) go way beyond anything Heinlein and Clarke ever came up with. This is not to belittle the accomplishments or significance of either of them, of course, but limiting your scope to those two disregards the tremendous changes in the SciFi field in the last, say, 25 years or so.
In your hypothetical world, I would expect some technologies would rise where people contributed drive space and bandwidth to endeavours they care about, and distribute workload. Like a distributed stack overflow.

Like a bittorrent for websites. This needs to exist for wikipedia.

Frankly, if that existed, we would be so much better off, and them immediately after that got implemented, ISP's would go on a rampage with bandwidth clampdowns.

Anyway, I'm not even remotely afraid of the world you posit.
"Other purposes" being primarily the "war on drugs", which as we all know, is going fantastically for the US government.
Modern keyless access systems are actually pretty good

It sounds like you're well informed about these things - where can I read more about exactly how they secure these things?
which part of PA? I'm in south central and we get LTE, but I also go through parts with no coverage. It has been better then sprint though.
In “The Roads Must Roll" Heinlein postulates a set of roofed conveyors, equipped with variable speed strips, that run long distances across the country. A person rides the 'roads' by getting on a slow strip at the edge and transferring (by walking) to strips of increasing speed; the center one rolls at 100 miles an hour. It’s a bold concept, conceived ten years before the rapid development of commercial air traffic and the Interstate highway system.

That's 1959. Herbert George Wells came up with this exact idea a few decades earlier (in "When the Sleeper Wakes").
assuming that the comments are those that the directors of the nsa or cia like, then it's an authorized disclosure. Only the delusional would view either org as soft on leakers.
> We need to teach boys that they are not, in fact, entitled to women's bodies

Growing up 20 years ago, I do not feel this way. Neither does anybody I associate with. So either "teachings" have wildly changed, or just as I said you are painting a broad generalization on innocent people using the actions of a few. This is a great way to turn people off to any validity your message did have.

> every post on 4chan is a little piece of an inevitable hate crime ... the end result is GamerGate and mass murder

Censorship is always advocated as being a necessary imperative to prevent greater harm.

> hacker news is united in wanting to shut down "radical Islamist forums."

Nope. Maybe you got this impression because the only people commenting on banal agitprop aren't hackers, but hipsters who view this site as a juicy target for political discussion.

> an internet [sic] where no website is blocked, or the safety of women.

And here's the heart of the problem - you think the Internet is made up of websites. How quaint (don't worry, so do VCs). Maybe I should applaud comments like yours - the sooner we get off of HTTP, the better.
To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal
This data intuitively makes sense -- the added theme gives users a sense of "this is my product," where before it was "this is a Ghost product that I'm using right now."

As a user, however, I'm annoyed by videos, and hardly ever watch tutorial videos. Why spend a minute and a half watching something when I can read it much faster? Especially if setting up a theme is as easy as you're trying to make it -- shouldn't it be obvious how to do it?
Do these tools facilitate composition in multimedia?

I love using my text tools, including Vim and efficient markup; I would hate to give them up. However I feel that I'm holding onto to something obsolete. The multimedia communication future is here, and only our tools and habits are holding us back. (My dream is that someone, even Bram Moolenaar, will write something as efficient as Vim that incorporates multimedia as a first class, supported format.)

People use multimedia instinctively where the tools are available, such as SMS/MMS, social media, etc. Why do so many of our composition tools and communication mediums still treat multimedia as a second class citizen? Why do Word, our editors, or HN's comment system not fully incorporate multimedia?

End users and even many HN readers are accustomed to this state of affairs, but one day text-only (or text-primary) composition will look archaic. (Yes, I know text is more appropriate in many cases, but images/movies are more appropriate in others and our tools stop us from using them.)
I'm sorry if the original comment came off as inflammatory.

What I'm trying to say is that when there are enough people using illegal drugs it is very difficult to use prisons and courts to get them to stop. Much like you can dam up a river but then the water flows around into other undesirable places. As with prohibition it seems a much more practical strategy to regulate the industry, if effect rerouting the river to where it does the least harm. Use regulation to make drugs safer and to minimize the harm to our communities when the the $100 billion dollars spent every year ends up in criminal hands.
Cosmic inflation
Give Yosemite a Classic, Pre-OS X Look by Tweaking These Settings
You can't please everyone. Some people will look at a sufficiently interesting "Code Kata" type problem as a fun challenge and others will turn up their noses. Some of the former won't be a good fit, and some of the latter will be perfectly good engineers to work with. Your signaling will never be perfect. Just keep filling and vetting the funnel regardless. It's just not worth trying to please everyone all the time.
No, "transparent proxying" is a clear violation of HTTP specs (as well as TCP protocol, and IP's "thou shall not mess with packets in transit" principle/specs). It's essentially a MITM attack and all bets are off wrt correctness.
The age is not a problem. Speed is.
I have my pictures on my computer and I have native applications to edit them. For my needs the free ones (as in beer and as in speech) are good enough. I can Save as... the images I find on the web and edit them too (licenses that allow reuse, Google has a search for them).

So far the only feature that Polarr has and a native application doesn't have is that photo styles from the community thing (not a quote because the spinning pictures are covering the words on my browser most of the time). Unluckily the home page doesn't say much more than that. Can somebody explain it? Thanks.
I don't know how big a role it plays, and I'm sure someone has looked at it, but an initial thought is "we got better at treating it, so there are more living people for whom it is a known issue" could be a part of the picture.
> I dont understand why these things can't browse the internet

The general class of devices can; e.g., among the apps that support using Google Cast as an output device is the Chrome browser -- that's one of the reason that the original and most common Google Cast device is called "Chromecast".
For some reason I was having difficulty getting it to connect to our internal servers, though I could connect to one on my local machine. I'm guessing ssl related. In any event, definitely pretty neat, though it wouldn't really replace my standard database interface.

Which brings up the question -- most database tools I've used for ad-hoc queries have been mediocre at best. psql isn't bad, but a text based interface is suboptimal in many cases. On the other hand, SquirrelSQL, which I generally use, is adequate though not particularly friendly.

What I'd really love is a UI with some modern sensibilities, like saving all queries in history and providing Sublime Text like cmd-P commands to quickly recall and re-run queries. Auto-limiting, quick scrolling through query history with arrow keys, templated queries/ handling bind params, nice key mappings, SQL formatting, etc...

When I was using Oracle, Toad provided some of the above, but it was pretty bloated and provided way more than what I really needed. Tried navicat and it ate 100% of my CPU and crashed repeatedly. I'd be curious if there are any better (free or cheap) alternatives out there, but most of the offerings I've seen look pretty weak.
Yep, we run everything on AWS as of a few months ago. We've got a post about the nuts and bolts of that here: http://dev.mixrad.io/blog/2014/09/19/Migrating-MixRadio-Infr.... We've got a post about our deployment tools that's going to be going up soon!

In terms of data analysis we use a lot of Cascalog, although a fair amount of ad-hoc work is done in RedShift.
Google Play apps with bad certificate management
Hunger Is Associated with Advantageous Decision Making
Yup. And they typically have to be unlocked when not needed as it is almost impossible to turn with the rears locked. However, with pneumatic or electrical operation from the driver's seat this is pretty convenient.

The type of locker I'm more familiar with takes a different approach: the rear end is locked by default but unlocks when it needs to. e.g., going around a turn causes the outside tire to turn faster than the inside one, and the teeth in the locker are angled so the speed difference causes them to cam out and decouples one axle shaft from the diff, letting it spin independently while the inner axle shaft is under power.

I had that system in my Toyota pickup and even in 2WD, it was absolutely unstoppable offroad.
iOS concept imagines the iPhone with Apple Watch’s bubbly interface
Has anyone ran the Amazon Fire TV/Chromecast through a proxy to see what sort of information is being sent back to Amazon/Google?
Not yet, but with SD cards now at 512GB capacity, its not out of the realm of possibility to do caching of popular content at-scale across your tower infrastructure.
Firestick Amazons competitor to Chromecast
Would love to see a PropTypes parser which can generate documentation for components.
It's obvious what retailers get out of it. Credit card fees are a significant amount of money to them.

It's not obvious is what consumers get out of it. What incentive do customers have to use this form of payment? After taking credit card rewards into account, credit cards fees end up making everything <1% more expensive for consumers. That's a small price to pay for the consumer protections that you would give up by using CurrentC instead of a credit card.
>> Among other predictions, he stated that war [with the Russians] was inevitable; suggested we all build bomb shelters; and be prepared to shoot our grasshopper neighbors who would want in at the last minute.

Glad that prediction didn't happen...
I don't know if T-Mobile does it, but it's certainly the way forward: http://www.saguna.net/news-events/press-releases/saguna-and-... http://blog.advaoptical.com/is-cache-king-in-mobile-networks.
To me, self-awareness is, as I said before, having a model of the world that is complete enough that it incorporates a model of yourself within this world as well (and possibly other agents you encounter in this world). I guess I would add that the model should be sophisticated enough to be able to model your interactions with the world and make some sensible predictions about the future. I suppose according to this definition, a smart thermostat could be considered self-aware, but the bar for self-awareness goes up with the complexity of the interactions you can have with the world.
I am unclear when this was published. It does not reference an Intel microarchitecture past P6 (Pentium Pro) and contains no citations later than 2000.

TLDR Abstract: We look at 8 aspects of front-end that can contribute to performance loss; then based on this information, we introduce an improvement that yields 17 % speedup in overall execution time.
I regret not having bought some shares now, a bit like when I didnt buy Apple shares...
On the other thread I said that it seems to be counting quoted text as my words.

It's a fun little app! Not sure how useful it is, but I do want to see how it develops.

I'd be really interested to see if there's any link between HN Avg karma and hn hater score.
Great post. Required reading: The Innovator's Dilemna
Minimum Viable Channel
Thanks for that.

> The other reason is that crossfit is the Harvard of workouts -- you'll know someone is doing it because they'll tell you, constantly. My girlfriend hates it because people talk about it constantly on Facebook.

I have also found people who practice crossfit talk about it endlessly. Anyone know why?
$226 USD for a new keyless entry fob for a Nissan Leaf (selected because it's what I own): http://www.nissanofelkgrove.com/versa-intelligent-key.htm

Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by "keyless"? Something has to authenticate the "keyless" part.
That's what I said in the post :)! But we felt it was important and he was up for it.

More seriously, hiring an executive is very different from any other hire. You're fundamentally hiring someone who is going to be affecting the jobs of (at least) every single person in their organization (compensation, performance reviews, etc.), as well as shaping and evolving what your company even is.

Making everyone feel comfortable with a hire like that isn't easy, and doing so takes a lot of time. But we owe it to the people we've hired to be thorough (and conversely, we owe it to the executive to make sure we've set expectations as fully as is possible, and made sure that both of us have a picture of what we're getting into).
Hack Communications ($4k in prizes, online)
Anyone knows what tech is used by included remote? BT or IR?
The creation date of the PDF is 2001, so this is an extremely old paper and the details may not have all that much relevance anymore since x86 CPU development has progressed very quickly; I'd guess that AMD and Intel have already made use of the techniques mentioned here.

It's still worth reading though - the uop decoder mechanism of microarchitectures today remains very similar to that introduced with the P5, just wider and deeper.
Do You Want to Start Contributing to Open Source? Check Up-For-Grabs Project
In my experince most/all people who think this way do so because of religion.
Its incredible how intelligent this kid was.