skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google maps is amazing. I was on my way to Detroit Airport, I live about 1.5hours away. Anyways, I wanted to double check directions so I used google maps, and it came up with directions that were going to take me 2 hours. I laughed thinking, 'oh technology, 2 steps forward, 1 step back'. So I drove down the way I already knew and was just double checking. With twenty minutes left in the drive, theres a deadstop traffic jam. Highway is closed. Turns out entire highways flooded in Detroit around 6-7am, and when I googled directions around 830am, google knew not to go that way, but I didn't. Made it to the airport 3 hours later, with a flight 6 hours after that. I had never been so impressed with google maps before this though. How did it know not to go that way so fast? I literally just drove right into it no warning or detour signs.
Shouldn't it be more like "Airbnb for Expermients" , you are renting out unused lab resources, right?
Yik Yak is an anonymous network, so a userID here is only on the device and not associated with any post. A user can't get the userID from a post.
Does this have any benefit for people who are already diagnosed hypertensives? Like being able to capture triggers or measure effectiveness of different medications?
Beautiful!

For the math and game theory links, make sure to go all the way to the bottom. The post is based off the work of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling and the style is inspired by Bret Victor's Explorable Explanations. There's more in the post, of course.
This is nice but I'm surprised at the bracket 18-34? (at least separating 18-24 and 25-34 would have been better.) The listed bracket 18-34 covers young adulthood where most eventual high earners would be earning near 0 in college, to late twenties with some people pursuing masters but most joining workforce, to mid-thirties with some people fully educated and having 10-12 years of experience in their field. (e.g. a programmer graduating at 24 and earning $90K ($120K bay area) by 34 is not in any way unusual, but here gets averaged with others, maybe including his future peer, who are just starting college and are showing very low earnings for a few years.)

Likewise, "living with a parent (18-34)"... "Bachelor's degree (18-34)"... Quite the bracket!
I too would like to read this. Also worth taking a look at this article from last year, Sci-Fi Will Save the Liberal Arts: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113670/sci-fi-will-save-l...
Beyond Pricing launches in Portland to help Airbnb hosts make more money
What? You don't hate XCode? How?! ;)
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> I think it's fair to say that what frogpelt said was more or less in line with what most perceived your implication to be.

I think this gets to the core of the problem of discussing race:

Read the comments carefully; nobody blames Gates or even mentions him. I certainly don't; the cause could be a lack of books written by others, or a lack of opportunities to write, to obtain qualifications, to get an education, to get jobs in those industries, etc. etc. (I actually had written a sentence saying Gates wasn't the issue but deleted it as unnecessary.)

However, in the more angry responses, people jump to the assumption that Gates is being accused; those comments are the only place blame of Gates is mentioned. I point out that they are the angry comments because it seems that those people are defensive, jumping to conclusions and acting out. (Yes, some people get overheated in the other direction, but I don't see that here.)

That a big reason that it's hard to discuss these issues intelligently and move forward. People are defensive, and to be honest, today on places like HN it is far more trendy and 'politically correct' to shout down the mention of discrimination. You can see people angrily repeating the talking points (reverse discrimination, etc.); that kind of behavior (anger, repetition) is not a sign of intelligent analysis and won't likely help us solve these problems.
They have gotten really good at this since acquiring Waze, which crowdsources traffic data.
Has anyone used Plan-9 have feedback on running it?
Their main Android Developer website, and their 'Getting Start' docs seem to have been updated for Android Studio, too, respectively.

https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

https://developer.android.com/training/index.html

Things are looking good for Android development, especially with regards to Firebase being acquired.
See a sibling comment. It does work like that. There an interesting power division between fed, state and local.

Fed usually use the "carrot" approach to distributing some taxes. So instead of "forcing" states to comply say to set a speed limit. They'll just withhold the funds for road repair and maintenance if speed limit is not set according to some standards. Perhaps the same goes for other things welfare money, drinking age, etc.

Some people are fiercely in favour of more state control (almost down to a religious type conviction). I never really got that. I came from Europe and when I think of "government" I think of one government entity. It operates at multiple levels but it is more or the same entity. And basic things like traffic laws, gun laws, sales taxes, etc are uniform.
One trick is to stop worring about completely understanding the maths on your first pass through the material. Instead make note of what you were confused about and continue on.

If for instance you find that you need a refresher on complex integration, don't stop reading and do quarter's worth of review of complex analysis. Don't expect to complete a year of differential geometry in the few chapters that lead to Gravity.

After you finish through the a first pass, definitely go back to sections that you want to understand better and do the necessary work to improve your understanding.
Some higher-end restaurants do take a deposit when you make a reservation but it's not common. I find it interesting that there's so much variation among different types of services (hotels, rental cards, hotels, restaurants, theater) with respect to cancelation or no show policies. It doesn't obviously always track to the cost.
Companies have bad employees. People intuitively understand and forgive that. People are much less forgiving if the company does not help in dealing with its bad employees, or (is perceived to) have an unusually high number of them.
tldr: matching pledges to fund FOSS at https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/intro. "Snowdrift" is a reference to a game theoretic game similar to the prisoner's dilemma.

My take: solid idea, terrible name and URL, and also it won't succeed unless some big, respected FOSS names endorse it.
Where do you think the majority of buildings are? I mean, there's a long tail, but more than 80% of the US population lives in urban environments; the head of that density graph is massive.
This doesn't seem like it will be too much of a practical problem. As said in the article, YikYak is mostly used on university campuses and odds are if a student is on campus they would be connected to the university wifi. From personal experience most university's use some form of WPA2-Enterprise authentication which which wireshark can't decrypt.
I realise this is subjective but how hard have people found
converting over to Android Studio for someone used to Eclipse? I was taught to use Eclipse in university and having been using it full time at my job for the last couple of months so its workflow is quite ingrained in me.
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> But beyond that one concern (which may not even be relevant for apps that don't really do anything with the network), there's no real reason to care whether Apple sandboxes a given app that they ship.

The concern is that if you want to ship software on the MAS, like some of Apple's, that requires certain functionality which does not have a way to be accessed if you're sandboxed, then you cannot - while Apple can. As I mentioned multiple times, it's Apple's platform, they make the rules and can do whatever they want but this means that there are certain classes of software that cannot be distributed via the MAS by 3rd parties, only by Apple as they are not bound by the same rules.

> What does? You're being a bit unclear here so I don't know what you're referring to with "it" here.

The request to remove functionality due to (M)AS rules leads to an inferior experience for customers, as those customers can longer access that functionality.

> Apple being exempt from sandboxing restrictions leads to a worse experience for customers? Doubtful.

I don't know how you came up with that, it was never said nor implied in any way whatsoever.

> What do you mean, without leaving them a choice?

It means that if you want to distribute via MAS, you have to cripple (or remove) part of your app's functionality in order to pass review. Again, nothing inherently wrong with that but the net effect is that your software might be inferior when distributed via the MAS vs outside.
As an interface designer Plan9 have always fascinated me yet I found it incredible hard to find many other designers who were into it's concepts.

I always loved the "everything is an object" approach and in a better world this not NeXT or Windows would be our underlying principle.
After registering, it gives you this message which says they'll help match you up with a mentee:

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I wouldn't say bureaucracy or the State is the problem in Spain, but the political caste (in both our traditional left and right-wing parties), rampant corruption and a general lack of faith in democracy (or, more specifically, in the currently available democratic instruments).

As far as I can tell we're not facing this problem alone, but we're pretty young as a democratic society and most of our politicians inherited their position or remained on it under an amnesty after Franco's dictatorship (hence the usage of "caste").

I think (though it's hard to analyze when you're involved in the situation) we're in the middle of a social and generational change. We've got daily news of corruption cases amongst the mainstream parties and people are really fed up. "Podemos" (literally "We can", a left-wing grassroots party) rose as an alternative to that political caste, and most surveys situate them as a heavy contender (if not winner) for the upcoming elections.

Not long ago you'd hear lots of people claim they were not interested in politics, so they were pretty much puppets in the hands of our politician's interests. Nowadays, thanks to the 15M movement and Podemos, there are political debates on Saturday night prime time. Politics are in vogue.

Perhaps that's the government competition you were talking about?

We'll see what happens.
Social Security and Medicare are not entitlement programs. They are insurance programs that are largely acutuarily sound. They should not be considered government expenditures as they are funded by the users of the insurance programs.
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Phrasing like "they this keyword is executed at run time" doesn't exactly help your case...
Yes, and that's all via Google Maps, not OpenStreetMaps. Just like YP didn't give away their data, you had to use YP to get it.
I've only learned to really appreciate Android Studio after I went back to Eclipse for a project, and felt the sharp drop in productivity.

Jetbrains sure know how to produce an awesome IDE.
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The early narrative was that it was the dispatcher's fault because she didn't relay the message (from the original caller) that the gun was probably fake. I've seen the video, it looks like he tried to pull on the cop, but the video is grainy. I'm no officer but I'm not sure why they decided to pull so damn close to him when they knew he may have had a weapon. The kid was pointing the gun at people - clearly he didn't deserve to be shot, but talking about him like he was some innocent babe laying in the sandbox is dumb. All three of these incidents in the last few months have had very big gray areas. The NYC choke out was by far the worst, IMHO.
But, none of these compare to the DJ Henry case from a few years back.
I'm in 2 minds regarding Studio. On the one hand, I'm a whiz at Eclipse and Maven, and because time is so precious, I have no motivation to learn Gradle, and so I use the excellent android-maven-plugin[1]. (I'm also dependent when using Eclipse on the Emacs+ plugin for Emacs key bindings) When learning a new language / platform, I'm fine with learning its "standard" build tool, but with Android dev, I wish I could use Maven. I just can't emotionally bring myself to have to spend brain energy on yet another build tool chain for Java dev (I'm already juggling "build tool chain" knowledge for iOS dev and Clojure dev, just to name a couple).

On the other hand, I want to be using the best and latest tools, and stay up to date with what the broader Android dev community is doing.

Would love to hear from others with similar feelings...

[1] https://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/
The Rise of AdBlock Reveals a Serious Problem in the Advertising Ecosystem
Doesn't your experience prove the parent's point? For 23 years you've been a productive law-abiding member of society but were stripped of rights just because you are an "alien". Now that you have joined the club you can support similar treatment of others.
I think it's also important to remember that this is a very much 0.5 release, very much not ready for prime time. In a year or so, likely the state of WKWebView will improve greatly.
My experience with Plan 9 is from my first employment at Kreatel Communications and doing basic admin of the nCUBE/C-COR VOD servers that some of our customers used in production and we had for integration testing. The OS those servers ran, Transit, was apparently based on Plan 9.

Coming from a Linux and Solaris background the shell was quite basic to say the least! I remember on some instance that we for some reason wanted to bypass the web UI and hand-edit some file and the only editor available was some variant of ed...

But with a steady hand when doing such things and software upgrades etc it worked really well and was quite capable for the time (2006).
Knowing the IP is pretty useless. The closest you can get publicly if you know that is the general region, but this app is already a nearby radius app, so you already know that. If you have law enforcement powers you can try to get the subscriber info who was using that IP during that time period, but normal people don't have that ability.

Even the article has to fall back to saying you have to just keep monitoring packets with that IP and hope the user uses some non-HTTPS web site that reveals their name. Although, honestly, most ISPs don't give you a static IP any more so the same user could be a different IP address multiple times a day.
It's for the best. Android Studio today is far better than Eclipse+ADT ever was. Maintaining two entire toolsets would be wasteful. Clearly Google decided it was easier to build the tools they wanted on top of IntelliJ than on top of Eclipse, even accounting for having to start over. That speaks volumes about the two platforms.

For a time Android Studio was unstable and not feature complete[1], there were valid reasons to stay with Eclipse. These days the only people that aren't happy about it are those that prefer Eclipse to IntelliJ. That certainly is a valid opinion, but there were people that preferred IntelliJ to Eclipse the first time around. You can never please everyone.

[1] Yes, I know NDK support isn't yet in Android Studio, it is coming.
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Yes, because the US doesn't have any oil ... oh, wait!

Cumulative oil production:

US: ~200bn barrels
Norway: ~25bn barrels

(in all fairness, the population of the US is about 60 times larger ... but then again, most of the fund is not spent today)
1) was already posted and flagged killed (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8718126)

2) don't hotlink directly to 4chan since its content changes often quickly and there isn't a guarantee that in 18+ hours somebody else will be able to read this.

3) Also /g's done this topic before https://rbt.asia/g/thread/41920845

4) Also HN has discussed it before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7745561
Cyanogen M releases are now considered their stable releases. These have been on 4.4 for a long time.
Not sure who down voted, as directionally you are correct.

That said, there is such a thing as a health propensity to save in economics. You want the growth, etc., but you also want demand to be somewhat resistant to short-term ups/downs. That can only be achieved if the consumers save enough in order to keep spending, even if the income is fluctuating.

In practice, this is very very difficulty and has to do with social norms/attitudes as much as with actual economics.

Personally though, the amount of pull back we had in spending in the 2008 crash was not fun. I'd rather forego a bit of growth in exchange for a more consistent demand and a financially more sound neighbors who will not drag me down with them if/when economy sputters.
Did a fake name make it onto NASA's Mars capsule?
52% of San Franciscans aged 25+ have Bachelors degrees or higher, which is much better than the state average of 30.5%
Data appears to be persisted to disk via Basho's bitcask. You mentioned in another comment that ETS is being used, which it is, but that's not on disk (DETS is the disk-backed version); ETS is used here to communicate between processes via public, named tables.
Especially for those who are under the exemption amount anyways.
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'A couple of months' isn't a big investment in my opinion. I used Eclipse for ~8 years, including writing plugins for it. I switched to IntelliJ about 18 months ago. I'm probably still not 100% as familiar with IntelliJ as I was with Eclipse. I'm still far more productive.
Any visibility as to if/when a device like a fitbit will be able to do blood pressure readings?

I feel like if that can happen, when it eventually comes out, every single person will own it. Hopefully it's possible.
Yes.

Your blood pressure is a wave, going up and down throughout the day, week, month, etc. Just taking it once every time you're at the doctor's office is not even good enough for some diagnoses.

One example of this is "white coat" hypertension, which some studies indicate occurs in 20-45% of people diagnosed with hypertension. Their blood pressure is high in the doctor's office but low at home, which can result in overmedication.

If you do have hypertension though, then the big challenge is getting your blood pressure under control. Medication is one way, but without home monitoring, it is hard to find out exactly how well the medication is working.

When it comes to lifestyle changes (diet, sleep, caffeine, etc.), we help you track, monitor, and manage the improvements these types of changes can bring.

If you have hypertension, you are at a greatly increased risk of dying from a stroke or from heart disease, and Bettir is designed to help you manage that.
Any benchmarks or anecdata about how this performs with millions of 'paths'? What about data larger than memory?

Also, you mention difficulties with changing RRD settings, like time intervals. How does this handle similar config migration?

I've recently been involved in RRD replacement as well for the same reasons you cite in the article. Our technology choice was OpenTSDB. How does YAWNDB stack up? (Granted, OpenTSDB is in another category of deployment complexity.)
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Speaking of syncing strategies, I use Django with PostgreSQL as the main datastore and Elasticsearch as a secondary data store. PostgreSQL receives all admin and staff related updates and Elasticsearch is updated automatically using signals (and celery tasks if necessary).

I created a Django app to help with this syncing - check it out at https://github.com/jaddison/django-simple-elasticsearch. I love feedback and pull requests!
It's simple. Cabel is being diplomatic and doesn't want to burn any bridges. It's a reflection of how much power Apple has that developers are fearful of upsetting the mothership. I know a few former indie Mac and iOS developet who now work for Apple which explained why they were always shy to voice their true opinion publicly - they had a dream to work for Apple and didnt want to shoot themselves in the foot. Self censorship at its finest.
Well, by the Bourbon monarchy in France.
Going outside and recording what you see is still the gold standard for collecting data. Don't feel like you have to fix everything in your city - if you can write down a little bit every time you go out and then come back home and enter it in using the map editor, that's very valuable.
I was surprised to find that this was partly done by the incomparable Vi Hart. But why should that have been a surprise: she has a distinctive knack for presenting mathematical concepts in a way that makes them understandable.
This is wonderful.

Just one more example what happens if countries allow _closed_ app distribution systems. What a wonderful world with nice critical/ironical phone stories (http://phonestory.org/index.html... I wish the (at least European) politicans had the balls to shut down such closed ecosystems!
They list the algorithms explicitly here:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/security/Mess...

And here:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/secur...
To pick a nit, people in the armed services don't get benefits, they get compensation. The beneficiaries of the armed forces are the ones not fighting.

You also leave off debt service, which is approaching the military budget in size.

That aside, I agree with what you wrote.
Keep voting Democrat and Republican, and you will keep getting these results.
FBString in folly also stores at most 23 characters in-place, and it's a widely used implementation (at least within Facebook :) )

https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/FBString...
You may be interested in wmii [1], a tiling WM which is inspired by Plan 9 and uses 9P.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmii
There are some interesting blood pressure monitors in the works. I know some internal information from several companies who are working on this that I am unable to disclose at this time. There will be more streamlined, wearable blood pressure devices in the near future.

Before then, it's important to note that current home blood pressure monitoring technology is actually pretty good. There are wrist-based monitors available at your local drug store most likely for $50 or less. They're slightly bulky but they are way better than nothing.

One in three American adults have high blood pressure and it is strongly correlated with increases in death from strokes and heart attacks. Even before the monitoring technology is perfectly elegant, it's crucial that people start monitoring their blood pressure using what is currently available.
Well, in the US at least the skin color and gender of the author doesn't have an impact on the worth of the book, but if all the books you read are by white men, as in this case, then your perspective on the world is inherently shaped by white men.

There's a lot to be said to being exposed to different perspectives. And no one knows what other things Bill Gates read this year, but that the best are all white men is a little...disappointing I guess.