skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When an article says, in a casual matter of fact way:

we’d lose some of the luxuries (like electricity)
to which we’ve grown accustomed

then it has lost 99% of its potential audience. Without electricity we couldn't be much more than stone age hunter gatherers. To which my response is: NO FUCKING WAY!!!
Isn't this just YouTube without hosting? Why would I use this?
Perhaps that's what the term means to the author. To others, it's a synonym for a drunkard or alcoholic and has nothing to do with flirting.
Not Any More, so we're told. I hope they prove it.
Anyone feeling down should read Ev William's story from "Founders at Work" on how he had to create, recreate, and recreate his team at Blogger. There was an year when he was the only one running Blogger when the entire team left. It is truly inspiring!

Great things can happen when you're low on budget and there are numerous entrepreneurial stories about those early days. Sometimes it is much needed to go through the early struggles to come out even stronger in the end.
AT&T Says It's 'Testing' Unique Tracker on Customers' Smartphones
Why should every small component be monetised? Google has an interest in Android, and if they felt that Android needed something like this, then the continued revenue from people using Android services benefit them because most of those people would use the 'greater' Google services, not just Fit.

Does it mean that when Google created Keep, they were looking for a way of making money off our notes and to-do lists?
How to Add a Run Script Build Phase to Work with Fabric Kits
It showcases the steps needed in all four Xcode versions
I think the generalization is overbroad. Risk of failure should be weighed against the consequences of failure.

If I'm writing code for robots as a hobby and my robots behave exactly as I intended all of the time, then I'm probably not learning anything, and I should try to make the robots do more sophisticated tasks. The consequences of failure are minimal, so the optimum failure rate is high.

If I'm at work writing avionics code, the cost of failure is astronomical. It's nice to push boundaries and learn things, but it's better to avoid plane crashes. The consequences of failure are high, so the optimum failure rate is low.

I think the problem with rocket science is really the tyranny of physics. All the potential and kinetic energy you give to the rocket has to be stored in chemical form on the launchpad. You have to sit right on the edge of catastrophe or you are not going to make it into space at all. We've been doing this for half a century and the safety record is, quite plainly, not very good.

When we learn how to do spaceflight safely, we'll do that.
Popular installer packages include the "you should restart your computer now" dialog purely as boilerplate, you almost never actually need to do so. This is yet another sad case where the "power users" realized something was a non-issue years and years ago, but the platform holders couldn't properly communicate the fact to the public.
please send me one to aneeska2k5. I promise to send it to another on this thread :)
From apply.ycombinator.com:

"You are listed as a founder on another application.
Please do not create a new application unless you're applying with a different startup."

Was worth a look... :-)
I would say "may not rise to the level of being an alcoholic." I would not think it weird for the term "lush" to be applied to a (friendly/happy - as you say, "enthusiastic") alcoholic.
What's the license on this? Is it open source?
You'd be amazed how big that small niche is. Quite a lot of people like .NET development.
Seems a little bit weird that untapped is charging you $50 for downloading your own data.
Dependency management is more than 'defining and getting dependencies'. What if package X relies on version 1 of package A, and and package Y relies on version 2 of package A. Will they work together, each in an isolated sandbox, or will you have dependency conflicts?

Package management is a really difficult problem to solve, which linux package managers have barely been able to solve. In addition to this, each programming language usually has its own package manager again, which vary a lot in quality.
3 Questions That Will Help You Get More Clients
But deflation and inflation don't work like that. It's not a sudden drop or a sudden rise after which we magically reset. It's a process. Another way of saying that is that what matters is not the price right now or the price yesterday but the price expectations and the feedback loop.

There's lot of questions to ask about your $5.15 sample there. Were there maids out of work? What would have been the cost for those maids to go and clean your house? What's their alternative? In truly tough economical times pretty much any job at any salary was filled. We should be happy we weren't there.

As to why people lose their jobs in a deflationary environment I guess it's probably not one single reason but if the economy is doing poorly companies will adjust by reducing their expenses. Whether a single person is laid off because he has nothing to do or 10% of the workforce is laid off because sales are down 10% is pretty much the same thing, no? The point though is that job loss is a more likely outcome then salary reduction, at least I think so, not unlike a recession during an inflationary environment...
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Apple loves to canibalize itself. iPod, which used to be 50% of the company: practically gone, totally canibalized by the iPhone. The iPad has already eaten plenty of Mac, outselling it between 2:1 & 3:1. The idea that if only the iPad were less locked down it would sell more and canibalize the Mac, thus Apple doesn't allow it, is absurd.

The App Store "tax"? Sure, Apple doesn't mind the cash. But they are first, second and third a hardware company: that's where the real money is. The reason they have no intention to allow side loading apps on iOS has to do with user experience, eliminating support headaches and security (order may be different, but these re the reasons).

The fact is your dream device would appeal to the same people who buy desktop Linux machines now. They exist, but they are a tiny part of the market. Nobody can stay in business catering to just those customers.
North Korea's gulags: a horror “without any parallel in the contemporary world”
How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams
AT&T Archives: the Unix operating system
Accuse your peers and coworkers of bad code
This is a hackathon project, created in ~30 minutes. Code hasn't been touched since, our team is at Zendcon.
> Such a dumb thing would have been called out way before 1.0 wouldn't you think? Maybe give it a moment of thought before you comment.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure the previous versions did have this issue -- it was just supposed to be ultimately fixed. I could be recalling incorrectly though.
Found it. http://greensock.com/standard-license

A little...strange. It's free for non-commercial use but I guess if you have paying users they might sue you unless you buy a commercial license?
I think is time you guys dig into Africa, the fast growing emerging market.
A stumbler user's identity or location could be revealed by tracing routes from published GPS data or maps. In areas without much stumbler data coverage, you can see clear routes along highways and some residential streets.

Owners of Wi-Fi access points, including mobile phones with sharing Wi-Fi, may not want their unique BSSID/MAC address and location published. This is not exactly comparable to the Google Wi-Fi case in Germany. In addition to recording BSSID/MAC addresses, Google was (inadvertently?) logging Wi-Fi payload data that included cleartext user data.

btw, here's a zoomable map of the Mozilla Location Service's data coverage. Please help fill in the blanks! :)

https://location.services.mozilla.com/map
Newly Facebook-owned WhatsApp lost roughly $200M in 2 years
Well according to recent statistics, "100 hours of videos are uploaded to youtube every minute."

my goal is to make it easy for you to discover videos from youtube and other sources on internet...

consider it, "Netflix for Youtube Videos"
Yep it sure can. They sent me a nastygram once so I watered for a week till they inspected and then stopped again. It's such a waste to water things that aren't edible. I was just ahead of the curve -- green is the new brown.
I worry more about the other side of the bell curve.
probably because PCs had already eaten the world
13 productivity methods to help
I'll believe it when they let me resize the cmd window
Crumbles.co: Type your msg and this website will say it with movie clips
Yes, actually. We'd encourage the HTML working group to do original work. Many W3C working groups do that, e.g. the webapps working group worked on web components and various other specs, and it helps the web platform.
It's worth repeating that weather and climate are two very different beasts.
QE is not intended to "improve the balance sheet of the average person". I have no idea why you think it should.

But at a certain point, interest rates are low enough that lending is limited by the lack of creditworthy borrowers or by bank capital requirements, and so further reductions will have very limited impact.

You are correct - at a certain point there are no investments with a positive real rate of return. At this point all further resources should be devoted to consumption regardless of time preferences (interest rates). If consumption desires are also completely satisfied, then you are in a post-scarcity economy.

Almost by definition [1], when you reach that point, you are NOT in a recession.

What's the relevance?

[1] The technical definition of a recession is 2 quarters of negative growth, but for theoretical purposes it generally means a period when real resources are not fully utilized.
In a different context, Jack Sparrow said - The problem is no the the problem. The problem is your attitude towards the problem!
Many of the foundational specifications of the web are authored and maintained by the WHATWG these days: https://spec.whatwg.org/

- DOM, HTML: obvious

- URL, Encoding, Fetch: foundational building blocks

- XHR, Fullscreen, Notifications: important features

There are also other up-and-coming specs like Books, Figures, Streams, or Loader (the latter two not listed).
Selling CPU-time Instead of Ad Space
"...we focused on business sustainability and revenue..."

I don't know how he could say that with a straight face, if they did in fact lose around $200 million in 2 years.
Hey, I tried this out. There are some solid playlists in there.

A couple things I found confusing:

- I don't have flash installed in Safari (comes packaged in Chrome) and there was no explanation as to why music didn't play back when I was in Safari

- initially Rdio playback was limited to 30s samples even though I had my Rdio account linked. I think I fixed this by logging into Rdio in the same browser session, but not certain
Considering a resizable cmd with real copy/paste support is part of Windows 10, I'm cautiously optimistic.
Perhaps it is just me but I include "getting stuff done" as part of "work."

Perhaps it is just me but I find a smartphone incredibly useless for anything but the most passive of tasks.

If I want to "do something" I use a computer. "Something" being defined very loosely. Do rather than consume. Even doing something for leisure since 99% of "doing" tasks are very difficult to do on a phone for me - if that makes any sense.
Doesn't keybase require you to upload your private keys to them? I can't think of a worse approach.
I once read this on the Internet a long time back - "The problem with most people is not that they fail trying to reach their goals, the problem is that they set their goals too low and succeed"

The parent probably meant that if you are succeeding too easily, you aren't really aiming high.
2015. The year of the Windows command line :)
There are a number of other location databases, such as OpenCellID and WiGLE. There are issues around incompatible data licenses for some location databases. Mozilla and OpenCellID have worked together to exchange data going forward. WiGLE's Wi-Fi and cell tower databases is only available for purchase with a commercial license, even though much of the data is collected by volunteer contributors.

The combined Mozilla + OpenCellID cell tower location database is public domain and published hourly here:

https://location.services.mozilla.com/downloads

Mozilla's Wi-Fi location database is not currently published until we can solve the privacy concerns.
This is pretty much the opposite of how things went down.

If browsers followed the W3C, we'd be living in XML utopia (XHTML2, XForms, XLink, XEvents, etc.). In 2004 a group of implementers (specifically Mozilla, Opera, and Apple) proposed to the W3C to focus on web applications by evolving HTML and the DOM, but were flat-out turned down, and had to go off and form their own standards organization---the WHATWG. Today, that is where much of the foundational work of the web platform is still done: https://spec.whatwg.org/
What exactly is this script training? I don't understand what the input and output arrays are supposed to represent. It looks almost like an XOR search but the last output target isn't correct for that.
The event lasted 3 hours, and the video was shortened. Sorry but I don't have a transcript.

David Lim, a doctoral researcher at the University of Reading, has a much more comprehensive presentation for the curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-zRREd8DZQ

"This public presentation has been created to introduce the topic of geoengineering to those with limited or no knowledge of the subject. It therefore provides an overview of this lesser known area of science. The talk entitled 'Increases in extreme weather, food prices and illness: the unspoken connection' was held in Trent, Sherborne, Dorset (UK) on 27th March 2013 in front of an 80 strong audience. The 'questions and answers' session lasted 90 minutes and has been excluded from the clip for manageability. The audience consisted of members of the public; it appeared that very few people were aware of geoengineering let alone the science and political issues underpinning this vast topic. A multitude of periphery subjects were also discussed during the Q&A session, leaving many with much to consider...

I was a doctoral researcher at the University of Reading (UK) looking at domestic electrical loads, when I stumbled across the science of 'environmental manipulation', encompassing Geoengineering, Weather Modification and Military Operations - all of which pose a significant risk to natural systems. Period.

Having investigated the climate change debate and become acquainted with 'the bigger picture' - delineated by topics such as politics, geopolitics, history, meteorology, sociology, economics, physics, metaphysics, quantum mechanics, medicine, law, military and many others - I concluded that something was wrong. In fact many 'things' are wrong with the version of reality that is presented to us by the mainstream media and government. It has taken over 1,500 research hours to comprehensively put together the pieces of the geoengineering puzzle, which pulls in all of the other subjects mentioned afore, it just does. The vast majority of people simply don't have the energy or time to investigate such overarching topics as geoengineering, thus many are left in the dark. Herein, I simply aim to shed some light on this murky area, for those at stage one of 'the journey'..."
> We cannot even reliably forecast the weather one week in the future, and you are advocating climate engineering on a global scale?

Weather is not climate.

I don't think we should act immediately. Atmospheric and oceanic engineering could take decades - maybe even a hundred years - to research, test, and convince the world of.

I'm talking about multi-generation engineering projects.
Another day, another snarky HN comment...

As I said, smartphones morph culture in interesting ways. That's a direct product of having access to all of the things you mention. But people are still fundamentally people. If the world believes that war is necessary, smartphones aren't going to change that. And that belief was one of the main reasons for the dark ages.
Any plans to pull in Last.fm? I've got almost 10 years of listening data on Last.fm I'd love to use as seed data for recommendations.
btw, the Mozilla location database is currently used to power geolocation on the well-publicized Firefox OS "$25 smartphone"! That device does not have GPS hardware so all geolocation requires rely on Mozilla's location service and GeoIP.
But deflation and inflation don't work like that. It's not a sudden drop or a sudden rise after which we magically reset. It's a process.

I'm only responding to bokonist's hypothetical, which is also not what the article is about (slow and steady deflation).

There's lot of questions to ask about your $5.15 sample there. Were there maids out of work?

There were lots of unemployed people during the recession who could have cleaned houses. I don't know why you think someone previously employed as an HR exec for $100k is incapable of cleaning houses at minimum wage.

The purpose of inflation is that in your hypothetical where a company needs to reduce employee costs by 10%, the company can sneakily hold wages fixed and allow the wages to inflate away. This gets around the prideful worker reactions to having their nominal wage cut.
Actually, it's even free for most commercial uses too. And no, GreenSock has never sued anyone. The goal has been to keep it highly accessible, hold a trusting posture with users, and have a small funding mechanism that protects it from stagnating like most open source projects.

It has been around for quite a while - even Google recommends it: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/look-and-feel...

Give it a spin. I bet you'll like it.
How is an article titled "Apple can decrypt iPhones for cops; Google can remotely "reset password" for Android devices" a waste of people's time? What sort of proof do you want exactly? Are you looking for a PR statement from Apple that says "we regularly decrypt your data and have backdoors build in and escrow worked out so that we can comply with law enforcement?"

You aren't going to get a nice first party source, although Apple has essentially admitted to it.

Apple says that "For all devices running iOS 8.0 and later versions, Apple will no longer be performing iOS data extractions as the data sought will be encrypted and Apple will not possess the encryption key."

You're going to interpret that as "oh hah, well some of the data wasn't encrypted before". But I included links earlier showing how Apple's (and Google's) announcement centered around the use of new technology that would not allow Apple to have a copy of the key. And if you look at the data they were pulling off, there was data that was 'encrypted' before but had engineered circumvention - 'active data' being one.

Apple will (currently) decrypt data it has in iCloud for a device. It is engineered to be very difficult to not store data in iCloud [1]. Apple's own list of information that may be in iCloud include "stored photos, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks and iOS device backups. iOS device backups may include photos and videos in the users’ camera roll, device settings, app data, iMessage, SMS, and MMS messages and voicemail."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8522316 for more.

Re: last time. I pointed to other areas of the thread, where plenty of sources were given.

[1] http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/26/yosemite-uploads-unsaved-d...
If this gadget sells for under $50 (which it certainly should) I might consider buying one, just for the fun of it.

But I haven't seen anyone here mention ID Quantique, one of the companies that the "big boys" use for random numbers. They're in Switzerland: http://idquantique.com/

Admittedly not open hardware, but FWIW they claim:

QUANTIS has been evaluated and certified by the
Swiss Federal Office of Metrology (also known as
METAS), the Swiss national organization in charge
of measurement science, testing and compliance.
It confirmed that the quality of its random output
complies with the highest requirements.

The minor detail about buying from ID Quantique is that their cheapest USB product sells for about 990 euros, or about $1250.[1]

I know it's apples and oranges, but anyone interested in this product should at least be aware of some alternatives.

[1] http://idquantique.com/component/content/article.html?id=83
Does YC get every single early startup applying now? Why would an early startup not apply? Seems like it's almost a requirement now.
Exactly. Unfortunately they can't even bring themselves to do this.

See e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/references.html#refsURL wherein they add in a non-normative note a link to the WHATWG URL spec, but in the normative reference text instead link to an old, outdated working draft from 2012 which specifies an incorrect algorithm and APIs that do not exist in any browser like getParameterNames() and so on.

It's very tragic, and not at all good for the health of the web.
While I certainly would not cheer on a return to a pre-electric era, electricity has only been available for 125 years or so. We have done and could do very much better than hunting and gathering in the complete absence of electricity.
The first part of this essay is actually really interesting. Consumers are being asked to cut back, even though the things they are cutting back are not actually the problem? Municipalities are paying $3+/sq ft to dig up lawn, if that's a pointless endeavor, then it should stop.

The second part I think is completely BS. The three options are all ridiculous. I think technology is moving very fast right now. We need tight regulation of obviously bad behavior, we need appropriate investment in infrastructure. But to some extent if you want to invest in anything just invest widely in technology.
When you order Uber car, you immediately are told: drivers name, his picture, his car model and license plate. This is enough to identify both the car and the driver. Meaning, Uber knows all this and you know all this, the moment you have made your order. I do not know which more accountability you require - if any problem happens, the driver is uniquely identified by not one but two ways.

As for big logos, they are useless if you are not using the service - since then you have no reason to complain about it - and when you're using it you know how the specific car you're using looks like, so why you need the logo?

>>> I usually have no way to know which cars are Uber cars.

If you are using one, you do. If not, why would you need to know that?

>>> I think I'm going back to my "anonymous loon" theory.

If my arguments cause you mental anguish and you can not resolve it by finding counter arguments, it is always soothing to mark the opponent as "anonymous loon". I'm totally fine with it, if it makes you feel better. My arguments do not become worse because somebody on the internet failed to address them and resorted to name calling and focusing on my grammar, which is the lowest level of discussion above name calling.