skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find myself comparing this to Pocket, which I tend to use to queue content for later in much the same way that it seems Snooze is made to support. What Pocket offers over this is a cleaned up page of text to read, but what Snooze seems to offer is bringing things back to the forefront automatically.

I've debated where to go from here in my thoughts, and I think the issue I'm struggling with is that the use cases seem different. When I think about "snoozing" something (e.g. Google Inbox, a conventional alarm clock, etc.) I find that the common denominator is that someone or something else is on the other side waiting on me. If nobody was expecting me in lab, I'd come in whenever I woke up naturally (and I do). Similarly, I snooze an email in Inbox (when I do) because someone's on the other end waiting (with some variable amount of urgency) for my reply. A silent "deal with these later" folder would become a black hole, or at least would have a molasses-slow turnaround time.

Given this preconception, I'm not entirely convinced that "snoozing" is the right solution to the problem I'm assuming you're trying to solve (ie trying to help people keep track of and get through all the cool stuff they see on the Internet, right?). Instead, you kind of want to find the gaps in people's time and fill it with the right article for that stretch of time (which is difficult to do for myriad reasons).

I think something along these lines that would be interesting would be an extension that prompted you to catch up on your queue after a few minutes of browsing unproductive sites (e.g. Facebook, HN, Youtube). Even better, if the user could give it a list of sites and say "if I'm browsing any of these sites for more than 5 minutes, please remind me that I have a queue of webpages I wanted to read."

These are just initial thoughts, and I apologize if it's overly critical. I like the idea, and there's a lot of potential here. It's also entirely possible I'm just flat out wrong (and if someone has different experiences or insights that conflict with mine, I'd love to hear it).
Good on you mate. Queenslander here. Wouldn't trade it for the world. Will see you next year in the World Cup.
If they give us type safe c-like macros I will happily live without generics. This is from a Scala dev. I write Go because it's easier and less error prone than going through JNI. However the lack of any reasonable abstractions in Go makes it my last choice language.
So, you argue to not add a feature to the language because it would fix one of the main points of criticism? That is silly, don't you think?
>"What the hell are they doing? I mean, that’s a lot of people’s hard-earned money"

Yes that tower did indeed waste $1 of every US citizen.

As apposed to $3400 rent for a 1 bedroom apartment in a hundred year old building which is spiffy because it's due to market forces.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that real time fmri neurofeedback would enable people to train to reduce /eliminate bad feeling due to hierarchy in the near the near future <10 years .
Last Week Tonight by John Oliver is a good source of news when it is in-season.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight
Yup, same as solar energy hitting any surface. It becomes heat.
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There are one or two errors in usage, which are down to the editor not the writer, but the majority of them are correct (if not always necessary) in British English. His argument was based on the fact that Amazon told him to remove all of them rather than giving the book another proofread and removing the incorrect ones.
Yeah but Obama was just following orders, y'know.
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Then, maybe the correct course of action for the EFF would be to work on improving the warrant system, rather than working on keeping alleged drug-dealing, unlicensed gun owners, illegal immigrants out of legal trouble?
Implementing Language Engine – Pluralities in Semantics (part 3)
I think mostly it is an incompetence of Go's designers, no matter how they cover it up...
A Supply-Demand Curve for Privacy
In an old-school helcopter you have, say, one main rotor with a vertical shaft, and one tail rotor with a horizontal shaft. Each of them has complex control mechanisms implemented in hardware: the main rotor has swash plates, and so does the tail rotor (or it has variable speed). The pilot controls the system in a direct and even crude way: a side stick adjusts blade pitch, sometimes via a simple cable linkage. Throttle is kept quite stable much of the time.

In this newfangled bird, we use some combination of GPS sensors, an input which is presumably a touchscreen (with all the associated latency, plus wireless), and a speed controller which has to adjust multiple times per revolution of the rotors. For some information on why this is tricky, start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency
Hunting is a traditional activity among Pakeha farmers and farming communities in Aotearoa. These people came from lower and middle class British communities, and enthusiastically began hunting in Aotearoa because in Britain it was traditionally an upper-class-only privilege. As such it is and has always been primarily been a leisure activity. Nowadays Pakeha culture is strongest in rural areas so the hunting continues and is part of a grid of activities (rugby, agricultural shows, many varieties of sport, other farming-centric activities) which strengthen in-group bonds.

Maori hunted extensively for subsistence, primarily bird and fish species, but this was more trapping and gathering (rope traps for birds, gathering bivalves). In recent times their culture has become more urban-based, relatively young and lower SES, and I think they are more involved and interested these days in urban family/community ties, Marae activities, travel and international youth culture. Maori groups promote the traditional ecology of the islands, and promote the authenticity of traditional Maori food-gathering, but especially given the scarcity of native birdlife, don't actually hunt birds anymore (as far as I'm aware - though shell-gathering is popular).

The university-liberal segment of Pakeha culture that is pro-Maori is generally pretty pacifist and urban, so they don't participate in rural-centric activities like hunting.

I think Maori people in Aotearoa taking up white-style hunting would be like native tribes in America turning into massive baseball lovers.
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Online healthcare procurement platform
Here's a pretty neat concept for any solution providers in the healthcare industry.

FI-STAR Community collaborates with healthcare providers, municipalities and cities across Europe to find solutions to a wide range of challenges related to delivery of healthcare services.

Currently, there are 8 challenges open for submissions posted by Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich and Klaster LifeScience, Krakow.
Healthcare solution providers can introduce their solution to healthcare providers all over Europe through the platform, free of charge. Link to the Create Solution-wizard here: http://market.fistarcommunity.eu/createsolution

Would love feedback/tips/opinions.
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C# doesn't erase types, and it doesn't create a separate type for every possible variant.

See the ".Net Implementation" section here:

http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/development/2007/Aug-31.htm...
I can't really think of any benefit outweighing the negative message, unless you'd want to compare to historic images or some other convoluted scenario.
I think it is an interesting visual effect. It clearly breaks the constraints which you mentioned. However, with the popularity of blocky Minecraft-themed lush toys, I can see how breaking such constraints while preserving the general pixel (or in the latter case voxel) aesthetic may be desirable.
Should Your Lead VC Veto Other Investors?
Then they should just own it and say "Go isn't getting generics ever." instead of making artificial barriers. Which their explanation totally is doing.
Not if you consider it a post-mortem of the development. When the project is done, development is dead (cue: pedantic comment on product life cycle). So it's not technically a post-mortem of the game, but a post mortem of the development process of the game. The post-mortem's at Games Developer/Gamasutra are typically for commercial games, and often offer a retrospective of launch and relative popularity as well.
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Does this also sync data between devices?
I completely agree.

"in the event of a string of lights going out on your tree, replacing the strand is usually the best option. It’s pretty difficult to find that one bulb that’s causing the problem"

That one sentence sums up most of what is wrong with Christmas, and society, today. I find the "just throw it away if it's broken" attitude really difficult to accept. I would hope everyone reading HN has the self-awareness to consider where their possessions come from and what happens to them when they're thrown away.
Why does this surprise you? The internet is made up all of all sorts of fabricated content, proof should be required.
What I find frustrating is that they seem to think that there are only two solutions - C++ (create a new type for each variant) or Java (erase the type information).

C# does it differently to either - see here:

http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/development/2007/Aug-31.htm...

(The section marked ".NET Implementation")

Edit: And here's Anders Hejlsberg talking about the design:

http://www.artima.com/intv/generics.html
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Please bring it to Firefox.
Wow. Not only the obvious issues with this, but they used his shooting some cans (not exactly a crime) with a rifle as grounds for a warrant to search his house, for an unrelated crime (the one they really wanted to peg him on, drug trafficking; a diatribe in itself). That's all -manner- of wrong.
It's like they've never heard of the futures market.
It is. The Go language devs should just own it and say "No". Will the arguments shift somewhere else? Maybe but maybe the "Go needs generics" folks will just go away.
Awesome C
Unfortunately no. There is a HUGE gap in the WebViews that ship between 4.0 and 5.0. Also, WebGL is not supported by any native Android WebView until 4.4. CrossWalk effectively lets you ship the latest Chrome WebView for all devices running 4.0+
How would they "improve" the warrant system? The police went around the warrant to illegally spy on someone. The point of a warrant is to stop illegal spying, and make sure only people who deserve being spied upon are spied upon.

If the police was sure he deserved it and had the evidence to prove it, they should've just gotten the warrant. If they weren't, then they were just fishing and waiting for someone co commit a crime. And that's not just immoral, but against the Constitution.
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> Then, maybe the correct course of action for the EFF would be to work on improving the warrant system, rather than working on keeping alleged drug-dealing, unlicensed gun owners, illegal immigrants out of legal trouble?

That's what they are doing, this is how jurisprudence works.

Hadn't they challenged the warantless spying, it would have made a precedent in court. The police could have relied on the acceptance of the evidence in this case to do it again, anywhere in the US.
True, but you shouldn't need to replace an LED bulb like you did the incandescent's. More likely to be a problem with the transformer or cheap wire and connections.
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In a numbers focused article, this line kinda creeped me out.

"It had to swing open to let the rocket engine in, then swing shut and hold up under 40 pounds per square inch of pressure from the atmosphere outside."
It's interesting how bad mozjpeg looks compared to classic jpeg compression tools like jpegoptim, given how many blogs have been writing about Mozilla creating the "ultimate" jpeg encoder. Comparing it with jpegoptim reveals that at the small-medium-large sizes mozjpeg produces a result with more visual artefacts.

wget http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/comparisonfiles/Original/Ricardo_Quaresma-L-,_Pablo_Zabaleta-R-Portugal_vs._Argentina,_9th_February_2011.png -O src.png
convert src.png -quality 100 -sampling-factor 1x1 full.jpg
jpegoptim -s full.jpg -S85 --stdout > s85.jpg
jpegoptim -s full.jpg -S50 --stdout > s50.jpg
jpegoptim -s full.jpg -S30 --stdout > s30.jpg
jpegoptim -s full.jpg -S18 --stdout > s18.jpg
Are you going to raise a stink about the people who are funding you?

A previous poster pointed out the N Dakota oil boom likely raised wages and steel costs.
It's also interesting that they might not have got a warrant to look at his garden for a month. They weren't looking for any particular behaviour - just something that would allow them to barge into his house and discover evidence of drug-related wrong-doing. If they had spotted (say) public drunkenness, they might also have argued that his house be searched. Putting up a camera to spot 'any tiny thing that the person does wrong' would seem to be very flimsy warrant-wise (I would hope).
Did you even read the article you linked to?
Programming Language Implementation – Part 1 – Lexer
If they could fund a Mars mission over a 15 stretch, we could do it. Funding needs to match the goal and it has to be long term.
Here is an entire documentary from that time: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ - it's over five hours long. We used to use modems to connect directly to our friends (and sometimes, enemies), send and receive mail, play games, and lots more, all in the clear. This period of computer networking history lasted much longer than the one where encryption was used most of the time, so far.
This was posted a couple of days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746111 , though with the given title of "I Asked Jeff Bezos About The Tough Questions"
>>In security it doesn't make sense to ask "is it compromised?" but rather "can it be compromised?" For that reason, I don't think "we don’t participate in blanket surveillance" and equivalent statements are even worth the pixels they take up on your screen.

Given enough money/power likely everything can be compromised. But it seems that Fastmail take enough precaution against the 'can it be compromised' threats.

Regarding the blanket statements: I wouldn't trust an US based company with such a statement because of the Patriot Act and what we learned from the 'Snowden documents' about Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple etc. and the lying and selective truth by NSA. But I would trust companies which are based in countries where one (in general) is allowed to reveal when information has been requested.

The Fastmail privacy statements [1] seem fine to me. Additionaly with Fastmail I also appreciate that they have only part of information about me and not a much broader aggregated set of browsing/search history, location, credit card numbers, youtube... as would be the case with e.g. Google.

>>There is no equivalent in Australia to the US fourth amendment. Even illegally gathered evidence can be used in a trial depending on the discretion of the judge.

Until Patriot act has been relaxed/abolished and NSA splitted in smaller units (and relieved of part of their immense budget) the fourth amendment can imho only be a last-rescue instrument. Also afaik it doesn't 'protect' me as a foreign customer (of e.g. Google and Apple).

[1]: https://www.fastmail.com/help/legal/privacy.html
Is anything wrong with the warrant system? The fact that police are often trying to avoid/circumvent it is not evidence that it isn't working as designed, just that it isn't working as they would like (which is to be expected).
That is an interesting point of view, the government and the state are two separate things. You cannot overthrow a state (since it is a community) but you can overthrow a hostile government.

The American militia were part of the revolution to overthrow the British government and the recognition of that is codified in the Second Amendment.
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5 Reasons to look for an alternative to the iOS Mail app
Given the immense cost, but huge benefit, it will be interesting to see how it stands up to cold-hearted cost/benefit analysis. The decision as to whether it will be available on the NHS (i.e. at taxpayer expense) in the UK is due in January[1].

[1]: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-tag445
Being impersonally evil to people who can never hold you to account is merely the lowest-effort kind of evil to be.

I agree that if our politicians had to actually walk up to people and physically steal their wallets in order to pursue their own interests, some of them would not be willing to do it unless they had bodyguards present, so their evil does have limits.
Hi Bill,

Just wanted to let you know you have a 'bug' on the 'contact us' section, I assume only for iOS devices. It comes up with a gray area blocking the forms, with the text out of place.

Great site, and it's good you're giving so much back to the world to fight worthy causes.
Why can't they use it to test other engines? Or rent it out to space-x?
Show HN: Interactive data pipe manager written in Go
Ok, so would you be comfortable if this http://imgur.com/coB85tW was the standard test image then?
It's known as "The Cable Conspiracy".

By making all our connectors different, we have to keep buying stuff. Consider that I can't take my SIM card out of my phone then put it in a different phone. That means I have to buy a new SIM card, if I want a new phone. That means sales of SIM cards.

Consider that we have both Firewire and USB, and that USB has four different kinds of connectors. It moves product!
Very low price means 2k/person for Egypt. It is immensely expensive for this country and not sustainable for the egyptian healthcare system.
But it's the same for developped countries. There is an inherent conflict of interest in producing a cure that heals a chronic disease. You only get the money once. So you'd better get as much as you can.
As usual, it lacks discussion about generics in:

- Eiffel

- Ada

- Modula-3

- D

- MLton

- .NET

- Rust

- Haskell

- OCaml

- Sather

- BETA

- CLU

Even if they overlap, it would be nice to see them being discussed. Not all generics are born alike.

Personally, I don't care any longer. It is still better than just plain C.
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I run a nonprofit in Arizona where we introduce 8-13 year olds to coding at 10 libraries and other locations. We start the young ones with code.org for a "quick win" and most of them dig into scratch with relish by the second week. I agree with the original post about seeing the creativity unleashed. It's amazing.

After scratch we have seen some of the kids get excited about js mostly through the khan academy resources (have you tried it)? Also code combat has been a recent favorite.

Our older and more advanced coders are ok with codecademy.

Also we have some that really want to get their work out to the world, so after a while on scratch they teach themselves html and css.

We are very particular about not lecturing, not forcing a learning approach, just facilitating as different learning styles find their way.

Also if anyone is interested we are giving away our "code club kit" including resources for starting a code club. It has been the most rewarding part of my career. Just let me know and I'll send it in email.
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Solar Photovoltaic panel prices have fallen 75% from where they were just four years ago. In giant swaths of the world solar is the cheapest form of new energy, cheaper than coal & natural gas.

This is the most important graph of this century:

http://fund-balance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Solar-Mod...

It was made in 2012 when solar costs were $1 per watt. The Chinese solar industry has gotten the price down below .50 per watt this year.

Solar PV panels are going beyond grid parity. 70% of the power generated by a coal plant is wasted in the transmission line before it reaches your home. The data has spoken and solar has won.

I believe this is the development that will let us avoid run away catastrophic warming.

Humans are rational actors when presented with cost-based options. Politics, biases and ideology fall away when looking at price.

And ramping up and scaling production of high demand items and bringing cost down in the process is where modern capitalism shines ie. the relentless deflation in consumer technology (pcs, tablets, flat panel displays)

In order to avoid catastrophic warming we have to reduce emissions by something like 80% by 2050. That seemed a pipe dream before cheap solar panels, now it feels inevitable to me.

Cheap solar is the energy miracle Bill has been waiting for. I hope that he includes it in his 2015 post when solar is $.25-.40 per watt.
This kind of scares me. I don't know much about the case, but the guy is an IT worker, and it's hard for me to believe he'd have such terrible opsec, and he says it wasn't him. I'm all for catching pedophiles and everything, but how did we know it was actually him behind the computer at the time the flash file was loaded? What if it were a friend at the house (maybe even someone intending to frame him), or a virus on a computer in his home using his computer like a VPN, or router malware, or even a passerby or neighbor hijacking his wifi? I give out my wifi password to guests all the time and never change it and might have to change that policy if you can be thrown in prison for years (not to mention irreversible reputational damage) if a request from your home IP hits the wrong server.
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Looking for co-developer for a fun project
Hello HN!

I'm searching for one (or many) co-developers for my project Cartasy. Cartasy is a text-based real-time strategy game were you trust your luck as you draw through random generated cards with various rarities and stats. These cards can be equipped to your character and/or sold on the auction house.

You can try the early alpha here (http://kortes.se/cartasy/).

If you are interested in joining the development I'll brief you with all I got on the project. And you'll get free hands to edit/add or come upp with new ideas for the project.

I run knockout hooked onto a firebase to provide the user with a real-time interface. I haven't layed my hands on the security yet, since I want the prototyp up and running to see if people like the idea, so feel free to flame me on this issue :)

Also, for those who reads this and can't be arsed with the coding. What do you think about the idea (try the alpha before judging)? Do you have any direct suggestions?

Missing from alpha right now:
Fights, auction house, ladders and social features.

All you can do atm is simply draw gear, sell, equip and see your character grow in strength! I hope you get the idea!

To join, you need basic/good knowledge with:
GIT, CSS/Stylus, JS/Coffeescript, Firebase, Knockout, PHP

Ask me anything on my twitter/mail: @kortekim or kim{at}kortes.se

EDIT: I can see that most of you don't know how to check your inventory :) Click the digit (your level) to the left of your health bar.
Agreed. Though the article's title lists Windows XP as the city's major problem, it appears to be the least of its worries. The major bank I work for is just now standardizing everyone up to Windows 7. We've done the majority of our work in Office 2003. Though it is frustrating at times, it has not dragged us into bankruptcy. It sounds like upgrading to a modern operating system should be near the bottom of the list of things Detroit needs to do at the moment.
Yes, between all your Google Chrome browsers connected with the same google account
Only works in Google Chrome.