skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what issues of false-positives and false-negatives this might have. Did I actually remember my umbrella, but the app hasn't updated the location it knows of the umbrella yet, so it starts bugging me to go back? Did I forget to turn the app on, so I leave my umbrella behind, feeling secure that I'll receive a reminder that is never going to come? Do I just plain forget my phone sometimes?

Without some way to guarantee a low failure rate, I can see something like this getting so annoying that I'd just turn it off completely.

And besides, I thought only people who rarely needed rain gear used umbrellas. The last time I visited Portland, or Ireland, I didn't see anyone with umbrellas. Everyone wore rain jackets. Incidentally, they keep your hands free.
You know what else makes a comment dive rapidly in votes? A bad comment on a popular thread that's spiking in traffic.

It's amazing to me that you're so single-minded about how no one other than a snapchat employee could possibly disagree with your comment. This bleeds through your original comment as well: "How could someone possibly find value in anything this frat boy has to say? BI must have been paid to post this". Reasonable people out here in the real world realize that, however much we disagree with a given person, not everyone who disagrees with us is a puppet of said person.
I just placed an order with this new service (some HDMI cables for our office).

The selection is pretty decent, definitely comparable to Google Shopping Express.

One very odd note though: they ask for a variable tip to the delivery courier (something Google doesn't do). So even for "free" 2 hour delivery, you're paying for delivery. While I see how this is better for the courier, I think it's a big mistake—people hate navigating the social dilemma of how to tip properly, and solving social dilemmas is a key advantage of digital services.
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I give more credit to Jonathan Ive on restoring Apple's place in the industry than Jobs.
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By my recollection TinyMCE on it's own doesn't do uploading - it's pure client-side code so is incapable of doing so. Are you talking about an official or 3rd party extension or plugin that has a server-side component?
Interesting article about a couple of Crazy Tantra Gurus
Same here. Except when I first read the headline I read it as "Kisha - The umbrella you'll never use."
Ask HN: Game Programming Gems series still of value?
Former Nintendo dev Mark DeLoura wrote a series of books called "Game Programming Gems". (http://www.satori.org/game-programming-gems/)

Do these books still contain valuable concepts, considering where games are today, the engines that are available, etc?
Terminal.app doesn't handle mouse events at all. I filed a radar for that a while ago. But I don't consider that good enough reason to use iTerm2 as the programs that actually support CLI mouse events are very rare.
SQLite vs. MySQL vs. PostgreSQL:
Those words do not say that there are no people who "will do naive comparisons using the benchmarks game".

Those words say that they do so in-spite of what's shown on the benchmarks game website, not because of what's shown.
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> You're comparing income tax with sales tax.

For the purposes of personal budgeting, I don't see why the comparison is unfair. I'm trying to discuss taxation levels, not tax schemes as such.

> US has a 30% tax burden

That's more on point. That's also low. It doesn't include state and local income taxes. It also ignores other kinds of taxes like property and sales taxes. The U.S. has state-level taxes, which complicate things but they definitely affect the individual taxpayer.
You are over-interpreting the Dunning-Krueger paper.

I also think "mimesis" is the wrong word. They aren't imitating research, they are applying their real actual research and analytical skills in pursuit of resources.
It is odd how, with all the "shocking" revelations, nothing has effectively changed. It's like Snowden did the NSA a favor - exposing their secrets and so now they can act exactly the same but not in secret. Like a husband caught in an affair, and the wife doesn't care. Makes the NSA's lives a lot easier not having to lie about what that locked room is for at AT&T.
I bet the people over at me.bios.io will be excited.
It's great if the wind won't mangle your umbrella, but if its windy and raining and your umbrella merely inverts you'll get wet.
Regarding the first argument (apps with multiple panels), the author should try Linux. Gimp (and others) works fine on Linux with sloppy focus.

The global menu bar is indeed a problem, but it can be alleviated by adding a small delay before changing focus (so fast mouse movements to reach the menu won't change focus).
The full text is:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

A plain English interpretation would seem to make the NSA slurping illegal, but a legal interpretation could be completely different.
I'm aging myself. Maybe I should say 25. :-)

When I was in school, computing time was a pain in the ass. Same with my first job after. I'm not talking run a little Excel, more like "Create the data cube for a company's monthly sales numbers" computing.
I'm the Amethyst developer. I'm happy to answer any questions people have. I'm hopping on a cross-country plane flight in about an hour, but I have a layover. I'll try get back to people as soon as I can.
As a habitual umbrella-loser, this is an awesome product :D

A bit of copy-editing:

'percepitation' in all the screenshots should be 'precipitation'. Or possibly just 'rain' / 'snow' / 'hail' ;)

'It doesn't bother you if leave one of your safe locations' -> 'It doesn't bother you if [you] leave [it in] one of your safe locations'

'It works in the buildings' -> 'It works in buildings'

I'll also second "too many uses of perfect". If it's perfect, why does it come with a warranty? ;)
> Categorically, unequivocally wrong

Hyperbole much?

They can charge you for services / products rendered and which aren't covered by insurance, and they can charge any price they want and you're legally obligated to pay it. Of 3 times I helped my parents with processing their hospital bills, it was over $10K in non-covered expenses each time.
Is there any band that doesn't upload everything to some cloud? It's super crappy that everything I looked at had some stupid cloud feature.
As for convenience, those without a doorman always think twice before placing orders online.

I think that's one of the major gains of cheap/free fast delivery. It's easier to order if you know you'll get it during the next hour or two when you'll be at home, instead of "tomorrow".
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Wordsmith'ing becomes a necessary evil for a lot of young co's when you don't have MixPanel-like numbers. If you don't have metrics, you have to have vision and pedigree and those are extremely hard to articulate.
I have enough apps on my phone I don't need to pay $60 to have it more clogged up so I don't forget an umbrella that I overpaid for to begin with.
I see a dot com like bubble all over again
I wonder if their image might be improved by marketing it as Ki$ha instead.
Mjolnir might still be worth trying. I'm not sure how you got Slate to work with Mavericks, but Mjolnir is very similar, under active development, and has Lua instead of JS as its scripting language.
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Wouldn't the pay off be not getting wet when you would've forgotten an umbrella? It's not presenting $60 in umbrella value, it's availability/convenience value.
Things which aren't true:

>In the US you can wake up in a hospital after someone rear-ended you, to find you are bankrupt and going to become homeless, even when you had the best insurance.

>unless the stock market returns 8% most people are going to have a rough retirement

Your health and car insurance covers exactly what it says it covers, and retirement plans aren't a mystery. In America you take personal responsibility for things which are done for you in Europe; you can make the wrong choices, but you're allowed to _make_ choices.

Vacation doesn't have much of anything to do with taxes.
Thanks. I did not come up with the name :)
Seems it only comes with a 3 year warranty even though it claims to be 100% windproof / corrosion proof. I was hoping it would at least be lifetime like totes.
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Thanks for sharing this deck!

I think the most striking thing to me and others in this thread is how austere and matter-of-fact this deck is. Obviously your growth and scale is great, so the numbers speak for themselves.

How has your deck changed from when you were series A, still unproven, and presumably needed the pitch to fill in the gaps in belief that the business hadn't yet filled in reality?
You are not. :) I don't usually use full screen mode for apps when my Macbook Pro is docked, but when I'm just using the laptop screen it's ended up being surprisingly useful. (At least I was surprised.) Docked I'm usually only using two virtual desktops, sometimes three.

Mission Control gets slagged on more than it deserves -- it's fast and functional. On point for the actual link to Amethyst: I use Moom for window resizing/control from the keyboard, but in practice the mouse is actually pretty darn efficient when what I want is to make a window this big and put it over there.
Oh no, they require that. but thats difficult to enforce.

Strick AD password, account lockouts after n attempts, password rotations every 90 days.

The internet must have an air gap between it and the "production" network. So that means internet in terminal server clients. (we used to be able to get away with VLANs, and just have a clientside VM on a different VLAN)

No automated mechanism to move data between the "production" network and the outside world. Any data that needs transporting must be accounted for (and that's literally terabytes a day.)
I'm reasonably sympathetic so some libertarian views. But I've never been able to motivate myself to read Ayn Rand. Can someone tell me how a fiction book can make a good argument for any political view? Is it just a thin layer of story-writing on top of actual, evidence-based argument? Or is it like I fear, just a long story where everything goes right for the guys with the right views? Because I'm pretty sure you could write a book where the righteous commies win.

Considering how big the book is, I'd like to know before I try to read it.
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No country mandates 6 weeks. The highest is Austria with a total of 38 days between paid vacation and holidays. Most of Europe is around 30 days. See http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/08/13/one-few-count.... Scroll about halfway down for a nice infographic.
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Where do I submit a pull request?
Thanks, will change...
I'd dispute both cost and knowledge.

If a store is close to your commute route, for example, the delivery costs will probably never be low enough to match with that.

I would also dispute on knowledge. In this case, knowledge is a matter of time: you can always google exactly the product you need, but that's going to cost you time. If you're not sure about the exact specifications of what you need, reading reviews isn't necessarily going to help either. Salespeople, if available, can tell you what you need and what's the best cost-benefit (probably leaning towards the more costly).

There's an additional aspect you didn't account for: entertainment. I don't get entertainment off of shopping, but i know a lot of people do. You get some of that while looking things online, i.e. 'browsing' items, but it's not the same experience. Also, shopping is often tied to other entertainment like eating out, movies, etc -- this is done strategically for mutual benefit of mall venues -- and of course can't be replicated online.

It's easy to imagine even if the whole catalog of Amazon were available today for 1-hour delivery for $7.99 (or less), a big part of the average urban dwellers' shopping would still be done offline.
A Planet of Suburbs
This. It was about time they got started.
Two things.

First, marketing is not a scientific discipline. Full stop. Calling it a science does real science a disservice, and reeks as we say down south of putting on airs.

Second, you're trying to make marketing encompass every piece of a business, from product idea to design to construction and beyond. It isn't everything. It isn't about designing or creating a product (other than marketing materials or services), even if marketing may help shed insight into the targets' needs. At some point you're going to realize that by attempting to fit everything into the marketing bucket that the term marketing ceases to have meaning.
This is exactly why the tax should be flat and other programs should counteract regressive effects. Well, it's one of the reasons.
One trick I use to get around the "move mouse over another application in the direction of the menu bar and loose focus" problem is to use MondoMouse, it also adds focus follows mouse but with a configurable timeout. You can also configure a shortcut to focus the application menu, i think the default is F2.
That's the best intro to a blog post that I've ever read.
Products like this make it hard to argue we're not in a bubble right now. An umbrella with bluetooth and a smartphone app? Seriously?

The idea of taking a mundane household object and adding bluetooth + app support to it is not a sensible formula for innovation. I can think of a hundred products that follow from this formula, and they're all terrible:

* Coffee machine + App. Tells you when coffee is ready. Tell coffee machine to start making coffee as you wake up.

* Vacuum cleaner + App. Tells you when the bag is almost full, sends automatic push notification when you haven't vacuumed a room for too long (using GPS and artificial intelligence!)

* Phone charger + App. Send a push notification to your tablet when your phone is done charging and vice versa.

* Water dispenser + App. Lets you know when your plants need water.

* Sandwich + App. Will send you a push notification when you've eaten the sandwich and final push notification when the sandwich has left your body.

These innovations are just gimmicks, and have no hope of ever becoming more than that. A shame, because launching any kind of product takes a tremendous amount of effort, and I'd rather see people put that effort into something more productive.
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It is super buggy for fullscreen apps. Unfortunately, I have this superpower (or curse) of not being able to reproduce bugs. Every time I get near a coworker's computer, whatever they were talking to me about starts working.

There's a long thread on github about this (https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/254). I'd love to know more about your set up. I've been trying for weeks to make it work for people, but Apple's APIs for this are kind of crap. And by crap I mean non-existent. I've started using private APIs to do things like figuring out whether or not the current desktop is a fullscreen app.
Yes, I do speak Chinese (Mandarin). I can also read a newspaper in Traditional or Simplified Chinese and have studied International Relations (and Computer Science, actually) in Beijing at Tsinghua University (清华大学) and in Taiwan at Taiwan University (臺灣大學).

I also lived in China for about 2.5 years (and not surrounded by foreigners) and in Taiwan for close to the same length of time. The classes I took at Tsinghua were taught in Chinese and I was usually the only or one of two non-Chinese citizens.

I've been to Chinese NGOs, on the set for the filming of CCTV news programs, and spoken to Government officials in China. For about a year I only had access to the Chinese web (国内).

So yes, I'm speaking from personal experience.
>but the moment you turn it into "Here's how you can do it too!", you're on snake-oil territory.

You seem to be interpreting the post very literally. The author's tone is clearly different from snake oil salesman who have a flashing $299 course on SAAS scaling at the bottom of the page.

A helpful habit when reading an article is to ask yourself how the author would reply if you asked them a question. If you ask a snake oil salesman if they're certain, they'll say yes.

Whereas the impression I got from this article was that the author was constantly learning, testing assumptions. If you asked them "are you sure this worked? Would this work for anyone, in any circumstances?" I got the impression they would say "perhaps not" and discuss where they had uncertainties.

You can't include all uncertainties when writing. Such an article would be unreadable. Any writing requires reading between the lines.
I've been using Zooom/2 for this for a year or two, and haven't had any complaints. http://coderage-software.com/zooom/index.html
The EU just followed what the US courts said during Clinton. Clinton turned MS into a whipping boy.

In retrospect, the courts were wrong. Netscape's profit model made no sense. People didn't want to pay for commodity software like a web browser. MS had every right to release a free one bundled with their platform. The web isn't some optional thing. A browser is part of every OS now.

On top of it, the deal MS signed didn't let it control OEMs so that laptop that's full of shitware that slows Windows down and gives it a huge attack surface is not something MS could fight until recently with Win8. The government empowered OEMs.

The Netscape/MS fight wasn't worth it. The government should never have stepped in. In the end the best product wins. I, and everyone I know, got Chrome via downloading it. Not via some fancy choice menu.

I think the truth here is that Netscape had a lot of friends in the government and Clinton's DOJ wanted to make some career defining kills. Bill Gates was an obvious target. It was wrong for Clinton to attack MS. It didn't stop IE6's dominance, it didn't revive Netscape, and it didn't fix anything. If anything, it made everything worse.

Tech is generally a meritocracy. People can just migrate to whatever software they life. MS wasn't stopping Firefox or Netscape from being installed. Lets give our companies room to compete. Lets not applaud heavy handed legislation from either the US or the EU. I mean, google fucking maps can't even be seen in Spain due to corruption. Governments are just as corrupt as business. Except government is an unstoppable monopoly with guns.
If a company does not sell to EU citizens, then yes, being based outside in the EU will let you avoid these rules. But if your goal is to sell to EU consumers, basing the company in Switzerland as your European base doesn't help, because for non-EU sellers (and from 1 January, for all sellers), VAT is charged based on the location of the customer; the location of the company is irrelevant. And Switzerland will generally enforce tax judgments of EU member states, so if you violate German law in your dealings with German citizens, being based in Switzerland isn't going to shelter you. If you sell services to a German, you'll be required to charge German VAT rates, regardless of whether the company is based in Germany or Switzerland.

Some larger Swiss-based companies were actually in favor of this change, because in some cases they have been at a VAT disadvantage relative to some EU-based companies, who were previously allowed to charge "source country" rates rather than "destination country" rates for digital services. Therefore Swiss providers selling to Germans were at a disadvantage to Luxembourg-based providers selling to Germans, because the Swiss provider had to charge German VAT, while the Luxembourg provider could charge the lower Luxembourg VAT. With the new "destination location" rules being applied across the board, including to EU-based companies, Luxembourg will lose its advantage vis-a-vis Switzerland there.

See: http://www.kpmg.com/global/en/issuesandinsights/articlespubl...
How would this work with events like Tour de France? Wouldn't there be excessive sweating?
How can you observe data without loading it into memory first?
I'm not sure what numbers you're looking at. The ISP business isn't that profitable. The biggest pure cable companies are TWC, Cox, and Charter. Cox is privately-held, so we don't have information about their finances, but Charter is losing money. TWC has almost 3x the revenue of Facebook, but only marginally higher net income.[1] Moreover, the pure ISP business is even less profitable. Both TWC and Charter would be $1-2 billion per year in the red if you eliminated their video programming revenues and associated costs. Verizon's FiOS is apparently profitable on an operating basis, but there is question whether the company will be able to recoup its capital costs: http://ipcarrier.blogspot.com/2014/05/would-verizon-recover-...

[1] It's very profitable when your users generate your content for free, and you can shift tax liability overseas.
I would 100% recommend Mjolnir as an actively-developed Slate alternative. sdegutis has a solid history of writing great window management stuff.
I use a window manager, but really only to have a hotkey that fullscreens a window (three, actually: one for current, one for left and one for right display). With 2 displays, I find that I have all I need with just an editor window and a documentation browser window. I guess I have smaller displays than most people because if I resize a window (browser windows mostly) beyond about 2/3 its layout gets messed up or a horizontal scrollbar appears.
All: we took "open-source" out of the title. Let's stay on topic now.
So then my question would be- where does Amazon store their inventory? They still have to figure out a way to give people selection and timely delivery but do so in a way that doesn't involve storing large amounts of inventory in expensive, densely-populated urban areas. The same rules apply to them as Wal-Mart in that regard. Wal-Mart could open a distribution center in Manhattan too, if the economics of it worked out.

So let's supposed that this can be done profitably in New York. New York is a special case in a sense, that it is one of the most densely-populated areas on earth, and so deliveries do scale there in a way they don't elsewhere. But then what is the play in a place like Atlanta, Dallas, or Los Angeles, where driving is essential and addresses are wildly irregular?
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It's on the list of things I want to do. I should have used a tree structure off the bat and done something like binary space partitioning.
I'm of two minds for number 1. The function of a meeting is to distribute information for people to act on that they otherwise wouldn't be readily exposed to. Having many people of different disciplines allows this to happen.

In contrast, meetings with more people take longer and cost more money. In big meetings I often find myself looking around the table thinking "We're paying you $100 to be here for this hour, $80 for you to be here, $200 for you to be here..." and it somewhat staggers me to think of the money being spent to assemble this group of people to simply talk about a problem (solving it comes from a small subset of the people who attended later on). Add to that the fact that running a large meeting takes more forethought and scheduling (and longer lead times) and I often wonder the efficacy of getting everyone in a room together.
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