skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of what you call "the bleeding edge" I would probably call "not yet science."

It's totally fine that coming up with a plan to falsify some of these theories is beyond our current capabilities. I don't expect that, and I don't think it's necessary before we can discuss interesting ideas. But the second someone gives up on falsifying their theory and starts evangelizing, it ceases to be science. That should not be in dispute.
Great idea. Thanks. I need to find some extra space for fitting in a version number anyway, to preserve backward-compatibility.
I've been beta testing duet for about a month now. As a person that travels a lot, it's awesome. The developers have done an incredible job, and have been very responsive in fixing the bugs I've reported to them.

However, a couple of things to note. Firstly, this is lag free, but still not something you should play videos on. I'm not sure what the framerate is, but I'd be surprised if it's over 30fps. I believe this is probably a result of using USB.

Secondly, I never thought I'd say this, but retina is not your friend. On the new iPads, the OS X menu bar is maybe a centimeter tall. Obviously, you can change the resolution, but I like hi-res, and you just see so little when you bump it up (keep in mind the new iPad is only 1024 by 768).

The app is the best it can be, but what I'd emphasize is that most people should really get a second monitor, if that's what they're looking for. I understand you could save some money, but iPads just don't offer enough real estate.

Again, kudos to the devs for doing a great job on the app though.
It has been estimated as many as 100 coyotes live in San Francisco[1]. Mountain lions have been found in Palo Alto[2], Mountain View[3], greater Los Angeles[4] and other very urban areas in California.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/outdoors/article/Coyotes-seemingly-thr...

[2] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Palo-Alto-visit-fatal-...

[3] http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Report-of-Mountain-Lion...

[4] http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/tag/mountain-lion/
And this is why we used to deal with monopolies so harshly. Alas. I wonder when our country will start working in the citizens' favour?
I have only ever gotten the 16GB iPhone and I have about 4GB left on the one I have now. They didn't bump it because it is the most popular configuration. That said, I have no idea why the 32GB didn't become the base except maybe "cost".
London Underground will also be 24 hours on Friday and Saturday nights only, again due to requirement for maintenance timeslots. More info http://www.tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/the-future-...

Also note that "night service" on NYC subway can sometimes be every 20 or 30 minutes and run alternating on one track
You seem to have written a great piece of software that you're very proud. I don't understand the ownership very well, but if you're allowed, why don't you promote your database with its own site, like every little javascript library out there?

Good examples: http://duktape.org/ (it might seem silly but that right column makes people want to try it!), http://redis.io (i bet this page wins many folks http://redis.io/topics/twitter-clone)
Pirate Bay 'copy' goes online after shutdown
They're not fighting for privacy. They're fighting for the competitive advantage of being able to say 'Our servers are in Europe and so subject to European data protection laws instead of US ones'. That sort of thing matters to a lot of european users, especially government ones. But so far, the US govt is refusing to recognise that a server in Ireland is outside of their jurisdiction.

tldr: They're doing this for business reasons.
We see big companies frequently taking part in tax avoidance by going overseas. Should we also blame the US government for having taxes that are too high?

Yes, the frequency of tax avoidance is proportional to tax rates.
An app that reduces photo memory requirements is a nice start, but the only long-lasting solution to this problem is by allowing the hardware to accept memory upgrades.

It's a pipe dream to expect Apple to allow external storage on their phones, so this is likely to be the last iPhone I own. It's simply not a tenable situation.
Gunna have to try this one :)
Storytelling Your Way to a Better Startup
Can you try now? Should be working fine!
My guess is that the majority of complaints Amazon gets about hyphenation in ebooks are due to poorly converted ebooks, where line-breaking hyphens from a print-formatted source file have accidentally made their way into the ebook. Amazon support is generally not set up spend more than 5 seconds looking at your email, so I surmise that they've filed it into the "yeah fix your ebook hyphens" category and are not reading carefully enough to realize that they've misfiled it.
Ask: How cheap is dynamodb?
For those using dynamodb I would like to know

1. Your monthly costs

2. Your experiences is it worth it vs Mongodb e.t.c
That may be true, but I'm willing to bet that most people are going to buy the cheapest iPhone they can get, specs be damned. Then, within a short time, they've filled up the available storage, can't take pics, update software, etc and it becomes a headache.
I played sports in school, but then neglected my body. over time I put on weight etc etc.

Walking is such good exercise - I walk to work pretty much every day and with doing so I've lost 50+ lbs in the space of a year. It doesn't take me long - about 30 mins to do 2 miles - and so what if the weather isn't perfect, you soon dry off.
mhm in my case once I opened the App it just disappeared.
It moved itself to the Application directory, can't say I like this.
Is friction a % of the heating, or is it negligible?
If I only get a penny every time I hear this "C++ is dead, the <insert_new_language_name> is going to replace it everywhere"..
Absolutely Fantastic. Really Gunna have to find the time to try this out
Apple knows that no one would buy the mid range if 32GB was the base option. 32GB is the sweet spot for most users but I doubt Apple wants to get up the $100.

Remember that hardware sales are what Apple is making the most money off of.
If you have to choose between a conspiration of communists and jacobinists, and normal people that just disagree with you...
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My cynical view is that this is a way to increase the price of the iPhone without it seeming like it.

For example, in the past I've always purchased the "base" model. First 8GB then 16GB. But now, for me, 16GB is probably 1/2 my ideal storage size, so I'd probably purchase the more expensive 64GB model.

The new "base" model is effectively $100 more expensive.
Show HN: My iOS Counting App + Tutorial
Exciting! It will be interesting to see if duck-typing prove more useful or not in the Rust meta world, language wars aside.
I was a consultant for MIT and a student decided his final project would be to hack the custom LMS system we were working on. To our surprise, he figured out at least two ways before letting us know he was working on a final project. Gotta love MIT.
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Full-screen rounded animated navigation (CSS + jQuery)
Almost everyone I know was bumping up to the 16GB limit on their iPhones, largely because by this point people have 2-4 years worth of photos on their devices.

If Apple moved to 32/64/128, nearly everyone would have gotten the base model. Instead, for the first time ever, people like myself, and even my mother, decided to bump up to the next tier, which is not only plenty of room for most, but 4x the storage instead of 2x (actually, it's an even higher multiplier when you factor in the storage for the OS itself).

In other words, margins.
> You can do the same experiments inside the gravity well of Earth, without the extra cost of sending humans and all the survival equipment required.

No you can't. You simply can't put people on Mars without putting people on Mars. All that extra equipment is the experiment. Operating for years at a time in Mars local environment is the experiment. Getting humans out of Earth's gravity well and living, generationally on some other ball of rock (or in a habitat of some kind) is the experiment. You can't ever do those things without actually doing those things and doing that is the experiment.

The single most important question that we have to answer is this, can we or our descendants survive the cataclysmic destruction of our planet by colonizing space, or are we an evolutionary dead-end, destined to be snuffed out the first time the sun burps in our direction or an island sized boulder plows into Europe? Are we no better than all the other helpless animals who evolution didn't gift with the power of survival in the face of absolute destruction, or is that gift real? Are we just fancy, clothes wearing, monkeys?

Answering that question is answerable with only one experiment, and that's actually doing it. It's an endeavor that makes the necessity of something like the LHC look like child's play, but the answer it yields could be the difference between our collective termination and the future survival of our progeny.

No amount of simulations or probes can ever answer that. That's a path towards the slow extinction of our species, surrounded by the knowledge of the cosmos, as gathered by our instruments, but not our senses.
When there are discussions about Hachette, one often sees writers saying "Amazon gives me more of the cover price, and gets my book into people's hands faster, what's the downside?"

I guess this is the downside.
The problem with many of these "structural reforms" is that they are very susceptible to capture by police unions. Take for example civilian complaint review boards - often appointed by the mayor. Except the mayor often relies on police unions for votes - and they care who is on that review board - where as the typical person (I'm including myself) doesn't even know if there is a review board, let alone who is on it.

Definitely think it's a step in the right direction - but think more time needs to be spent ensuring an "adversarial" relationship that is not prone to capture.
Dear Apple, please buy my startup.
You can turn on iCloud Photo Library (Beta) which does pretty much exactly this - keeps low-res images on the phone and keeps the high res original in iCloud. (Since it's an Apple cloud-based storage product I don't trust it completely, so I also have Dropbox Photo Sync).

Don't really understand what the Steve Jobs email is doing in there either.
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I think the suggestions is that Perl 6 is a very different beast to Perl 5. Or to put it another way, you could read the title of the post as "Bioinformatics and the joy of Foo Programming Language".

I'm not sure I agree with that, however.
Nowhere have I mentioned a conspiracy.
Repricer glitch, products sold on Amazon for 1p
I think that where this falls apart is "laws and rules exist as a benchmark". That should be true, but the conduct of the US criminal justice system suggests it isn't.
It was my example, so I try to explain it a little more:

There are quite a lot of cases where you would like to have things like this, but the example that's probably most straightfoward to understand is GUI systems:

E.g. you have a generic `Widget`, the `IWidget`. Then you have some base-class `Container` which contains multiple other widgets (`list<IWidget>`). This might contain a reference to a `TextBox` (which is an implementation of `IWidget`) and another widget (or controller or whatever) might contain also a reference to the same thing. Both might need to be mutable. And in exact that moment you have code like the described one.

That's no borderline usecase, it's a thing that you in all popular HMI frameworks (and in C, C++, C#, Java, ...).
Maybe you can solve the issues in a completly different fashion, with resorting to only immutable objects (like some approaches for ClojureScript). But these are then no longer zero-cost abstractions versus current technology and they are not that easy to pick up for most mainstream programmers (which expect C++ alternative and not a Haskell alternative).

Besides that people are already asking for bindings to things like QT - and that will require similar constructs.
Profile hover effect (CSS3)
Huh. So in San Francisco, UberX are citizen drivers, UberBlack are professional limo drivers, and there is no UberPop.
The reasoned assumption is that if a space crew is disabled, it's because they are dead. The article is interesting because it treats the possibility that a rescue was feasible as if it were viable. It wasn't.

The addition of the cable is more a reflection of the Shuttle Program's changing mission profiles. Remote control makes sense when docking and undocking from the ISS. It makes sense as a way to test unmanned flight operations to service it. But it was still a cable, not an iPhone app.

Once Columbia was far enough from the launch pad that the crew survival systems added in the wake of Challenger could be used, they were "dead men walking". Though we might want to point to Apollo 13 as a reason for hope, it's not a good analogy. It's run what ya' brung: There are no tow trucks in space. Remote control would not have changed that.

The design paradigm that led to the space shuttle is probably an evolutionary dead end. Space craft design looks more like 'nix or biological viruses than Windows or walruses. The fact that the engineering solution that allowed remote control was boosting additional grams in the form of a 28 foot cable rather than upgrades to modular avionics points to the inflexibility of the shuttle design -- Columbia in particular was the oldest in a line of one-off handbuilt airframes.
Let me chime in and say that there are credible reports of coyote in Washington, DC, and that bears are spotted now and then, mostly in the close-in suburbs, but once in the city itself. But let me also say, that I don't think I'd care to take on a bear with a handgun.
> Wasn't HtDP written to address issues in SICP ? completely or partially ?

Absolutely. (Though that wording suggests a stronger causal link than was really present. It was written to address a need, a need that happened to not be addressed by SICP.)
Communists aren't normal people?
Why buy a product from a company that doesn't care about your choice? An example would be how just about every smartphone on the market is capable of MicroSD storage but the iphone is not. I have a 128GB SD card in my phone.
Weird, I'm sure I've heard RA's boss saying they would bring down prices below 10 euros by making it optional. Maybe CEO humour :)
Depends on how strongly you mean "no other option". For example, is Rust another option? I'm not sure how comfortable I am writing for a language with a version of "0.12.0". My understanding is that they make breaking changes fairly frequently (at least compared to the religious mania that is C++'s approach to backwards-compatibility). D seems like an option. Go, maybe, depending on what you're doing.

Here's my standard example for when I would happily choose C++: I am writing an image processing library that I want to be able to run on both the PC and embedded platforms (e.g. one of TI's DSPs). I also want to be able to write low-cost bindings in python, ruby, etc. There are other options, but I think C++ is the best one in this case.
Amazon High Ambitions in Gaming
Huh? This has nothing to do with monopolies and everything to do with the volume of crap e-books that Amazon is wading through. Unfortunately, the OP happened to get caught up in one of Amazons filters and their first level CS is clueless.

Monopoly or not, this is a hard problem and one that we see in other places like Google search or Apple's app store. Gaming the systems have become big business, and the little guy ends up being a casualty in the overall war.
Ask HN: Can local online news be disrupted?
I don't think online local news and communities are as developed as they could be. I think a new unique site can be developed for individual cities that offering something other than the usual what's on/guides/local deals.
Ways I feel it can be improved:

- A Youtube channel that produces short form documentaries (similar to Vice) to compete with local news, aimed at a younger audience.

- Work with brands through promoted content (similar to Buzzfeed) rather than banner ads and blatant advertising.

- Partner with tech companies solving local problems such as Homejoy, Uber and Blue Apron.

- Develop a community of people (similar to Product Hunt) that are passionate about the town/city.

- Push this content out through dedicated and effective social media channels. @DiscoverLA on Instagram is a great example.

Can local news be disrupted? What would you like to see on a website for your local area? What would keep you coming back?
One explination is that consciousness is beyond matter. Since modern science is only concerned with material universe, it cannot explain consciousness.

There is, however, a science, which asserts that every human being can understand consciousness and experience it as separate from the matter if he attempts. Read Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda if you are really curious.
Amazon wants to auto-hyphenate based on the current screen / font. Hardcoding hyphens in an ebook will look terrible in most cases. I don't see a problem with Amazon's stance.
No, it will never be as routine as commercial air travel.

Yes, there are fundamental laws of physics that say we cannot make it routine. [1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
They say that kind of stuff because there's no such thing as bad press for Ryanair so it ends up as free brand marketing. They also "considered" lay-down or standing-only flights at one point as I remember.
Doesn't mean it's not true. There is now hard-core industrial use growing, which has never quite been true in the past two decades. Not to mention, mainstream languages have mostly all now accepted the starting premise of FP (closures as first-class values). That's the first step; there are many more to come.

Old Lispers' eyes are stuck in a permanent roll position, like the Agena-Gemini 8 dock.
> Parisian taxis are a rip off

Well the system itself is broken with the taxis' licensing plates being over-valued..

One one hand I don't like much Uber, on the other hand it would have helped terminate this broken system..

But for the government it's much easier to ban Uber than to fix the system, especially since taxis can very easily disrupt Paris's overloaded roads..
will it slow something down?
Feynman discussed this:

“Consider a Mayan astronomer, he suggested… the Maya had a theory of astronomy that enabled them to explain their observations and to make predictions long into the future. It was a theory in the utilitarian modern spirit: a set of rules, quite mechanical, which when followed produced accurate results. Yet it seemed to lack a kind of understanding. “They counted a certain number and subtracted some numbers, and so on,” he said. “There was no discussion of what the moon was. There was no discussion even of the idea that it went around.”

“Now a “young man” approaches the astronomer with a new idea. What if there are balls of rock out there, far away, moving under the influence of forces just like the forces that pull rocks to the ground? Perhaps it would make possible a different way of calculating the motions of the heavenly bodies. “Yes,” says the astronomer, “and how accurately can you predict eclipses?” He says, I haven’t developed the thing very far yet.” Then says the astronomer, “Well, we can calculate eclipses more accurately than you can with your model, so you must not pay any attention to your idea because obviously the mathematical scheme is better.”

Most people would rather read about the wild theory with balls of rock than the refinement of 1 decimal place in the calculation of the location of Venus.
And then, once they achieve fame, people will name them as overnight success.

Big ideas, as other suggested, takes time and are often built through trials and errors.

Also, the ESA has said that their model is sound and that all the experiment needed to validate the idea were successfully completed[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_%28rocket_engine%29
When they force authors to publish in non-DRM encumbered formats that all readers can read like ePub or Mobipocket?
I work from home in the afternoons during the school year, and then full time during the summers. It's real nice to be able to have the option to work from home whenever I'm sick or there's a blizzard, etc... But for the most part by the end of the summer I'm really ready to get back into the office.
In Paris (I think, again anecdotal and I only used UberPop on my most recent trip to Paris) UberX are "citizen drivers", but meeting semi-professional standards in both their service and their vehicle. UperPop, at least feels to the consumer, like someone with a small car clicked a button saying "yep I can do this" and voila, off they go.
Yet somehow they didn't pull A Dance With Dragons, which had appalling hyphenation in the original release.
I don't find this particular app very useful, but the very idea of encoding something hard to read into redundant, but easily comprehensible format is simply great.
Browsers are not OS components
I don't think that's what the author is talking about. They mean hyphenated words such as 'wind-up'. The current screen or font doesn't make a difference for whether or not that's hyphenated. You're thinking of hyphenation for splitting a word over a line.
Amazon is probably trying to correct publishers who copy+paste their hardcopy texts (from InDesign or wherever) into eBook format, taking with them artifacts from the print designer, like forced hyphenation. These artifacts from the print world are not useful in eBooks, since the reader is automatically breaking up lines based on the screen size, font, etc.

http://indesignsecrets.com/field-guide-to-indesign-hyphens.p...

I presume that this is what happened because a) she has a paperback & eBook edition of this book, b) this happens a lot, and c) someone complained. I would hope that Amazon would do a search in the eBook and not only look at the total hyphens, but also find a few examples of words that were probably broken up for print layout reasons. If so the author should remove the hyphens and resubmit the eBook.

If that's not the case, it's very silly. Obviously hyphens are useful and shouldn't be banned.
I wouldn't expect a conservative think tank to frame the issue any other way. He's an alternate take: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/chart-shows-corp-ta...

Payroll taxes now make up 35 percent of all federal government tax receipts, up from 11 percent in 1950. Corporate income taxes, meanwhile, now make up less than 10 percent of federal revenue, down from about 26 percent in 1950.

Keep in mind, your article and mine are only counting federal taxes. The middle class pay a higher proportion of their income buying things than the rich, so they're hit harder by sales taxes. Same goes for property taxes. And many states tax low income workers on income even though the IRS cuts them a break. One should also factor in court costs and fines for petty crimes. There's gasoline tax and toll roads as well. These are all regressive.

Edit: the shift I mean is from corporations and super wealthy to the middle class generally. I would agree that upper middle class (doctors, lawyers, etc) probably carry most of the weight on taxes and the lower middle class gets many breaks (for good reason, though).