skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we place too much emphasis on visuals simply because they're more readily at-hand for the individual user, even when doing so forces those around that individual far outside their comfort zone. It creates a barrier, putting both sides on the defensive, at odds with each other.

Meanwhile, we drastically underestimate the potential utility of non-visual sensory augmentation. For instance, a hidden device providing vibrotactile information could provide far subtler, lower-level cues about the world around us, even to the point of widening the human experience to nearly limitless novel senses [0].

That's the direction I'd love to see us move wearables and technology in general: pervasive, yet unobtrusive.

[0]:http://www.mase.io/tech/wearables/2014/10/23/wearables/
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As a tip to anyone who wants to give Clojure a try, be sure to grab something for your IDE to handle the brackets. For Sublime, I would recommend Paredit. Your sanity will thank you.
I still think that people yammering away at their phones or bluetooth earpieces while in line to order a coffee (or, even worse, doing so while talking to the cashier) are rude and obnoxious. And that people sitting across a table from each other staring at their smartphones and texting are antisocial and a bit ridiculous.

Basic human decency and social norms haven't changed as much as you think. Walking around talking to a computer strapped to your face, staring at a little screen in the corner of your eye, is profoundly anti-social.
I'm saying the following:

There are a lot of reasonable and unreasonable actions on ALL sides of this.

1. Cops are mandated to report any potential child neglect and abuse in most places. While I think children walking to school alone is a good thing, it doesn't change the law stating that unsupervised children (details of the law are in the freaking article) fall under the umbrella of "potential neglect" as the rules are written.

2. The cops are following up on a report to them - again something they have to do. Some random person panicking over kids walking to school is where a lot of the rage should be placed. Not on the cops for following up because we have voted on laws requiring them to.

3. The mandatory reporting rules are in fact "Tell CPS". So yes, of course CPS is going to get involved.

4. CPS decided to find the facts. They are mandated to investigate in a certain way. Again, not by busybodies, but by the freaking regulations.

5. The parents freaked out because CPS came to ask questions. Now, this I find pretty unreasonable - while I understand it's stressful, it's also not the end of the world. It's a simple fact finding mission - answer the questions, with a lawyer if you feel it necessary.

6. Does this need to be investigated? By law yes, by sanity: no.

7. Yes, certainly all the facts are not being presented - the CPS is not allowed to comment on a case (by privacy laws) so we only hear the angsty parent's side.

8. I don't find the CPS case infuriating: I find the people who called the cops initially infuriating. I find the laws our society has enacted infuriating.

9. I'm sure the people who do foster care are a different division than the people who investigate neglect, however, they need to be in the same structure, because it makes sense to have the case worker assigned to a child be the same during an investigation and during follow-up.

10. It's not a non-sequitor to mention the cops misbehaving scenario - It's me pointing out an unreasonable difference between attitudes toward similar roles. Also note I said people, not "xrange". Further - the call for banishment of police departments never happens, but the call for banishment of CPS seems OK - even though they are just enforcing a different group of laws.

11. Rotation would probably be good.
I can't say that Glass photos or videos ever felt like an important part of the experience--other than demoing it--then everyone wanted to take a picture. Given the design constraints of a worn device, it seems a wrong priority. Even simply making the device smaller by not having a camera would have been a better choice.

And obviously the camera led to a ridiculous amount of privacy related angst.
RadioShack sounds like an incredible opportunity for a blue chip software company wanting to get into hardware with a brick and mortar presence. Thousands of retail locations ready to go, all across the US has to be worth something to somebody.
Actually, even though many people think like this I don't think Radio Shack made the wrong move. Before the internet you needed a place like Radio Shack for all the electronics and super early computer guys. But nerds (like me) moved to software and the few remaining people still building physical stuff could generally get the parts they needed online.

Radio Shack actually tried to move back into resistors and Raspberry PIs, but nobody goes to a physical store to buy that stuff anymore.

Radio Shack wasn't large enough in most malls to offer a variety of home electronics like Best Buy, but cell phones were high margin and viewed as a commodity by consumers, which is why they moved into them. It isn't simple saving Radio Shack. They probably would have been better off splitting the brand into a small store (Radio Shack) and a larger box store where they could have competed more effectively.
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started failing earlier, when they expanded into a non-technical market.

Radio Shack was dead when the 80s ended. Look around, where are the small computer stores that used to be all over the place? They went the same way the record store did...

Radio Shack works in an era where computers are $10000, and people build and solder their own computers.

That era is gone. And that's why Radio Shack will die.

Pretending that the 80s market still exists is delusional... and completely ignores all of the companies that clung to that business model that died 10-20 years ago.
> Filtering algorithms decide what material is
defeated, i.e., neither collected nor stored for
analysis.

This is one of the NSA's definitions I disagree with. Filtering is collection and analysis, the only difference is the government agent performing the search is an algorithm.
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Still shows browser chrome. There's a fullscreen API that puts an element into the full screen: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/U...
My first Clojure project was a simple chat server with multiple rooms. Built in a couple of days, and convinced me that it is indeed a powerful language.
Verizon really does come across as a Bond-style corporate villain in stories posted to Hacker News. I'm currently a TMobile customer, and I wonder how many of Verizon's shenanigans are actually just the common MO of all American telecoms.

It would otherwise seem egregious if only Verizon is throttling customers on "unlimited" plans, and only Verizon is selling their privacy for money, and only Verizon is pushing garbage smartphones onto customers that don't know any better.

How can they be so big if they suck so much ass? Are they successful only because they get their network deployment right? Are regulatory barriers protecting them from competition (I find that hard to believe because wireless, unlike broadband, seems to have multiple competitors in every market).

Maybe we just need to take public spectrum away from these donkeys and give it up for use by ad-hoc technologies. I suspect that if we make some standards (or even just broad rules of the road) some peer2peer telecom technologies might emerge and surprise us with their quality (just like BitTorrent is surprisingly good for file downloads, even though its decentralized completely).
Measles.

Just a joke, but you're correct. There risk of most major life threatening diseases (cancer, lung disease, etc) are near 0 and therefore MVAs do kill the most.
Used clothing markets in the US are so well supplied that donations are often packed into gigantic bales and shipped to Africa as mivumba, where they are recut into sizes more suitable for the local buyers. There is some debate as to whether the secondhand clothing trade to Africa helps or hurts the African economy, but I'm inclined to believe the former.

News and entertainment media will sometimes find an article of clothing with identifying marks in Africa and trace it back to the original owner as an anecdote for a story about some aspect of the industry.

But that aspect aside, there are slim pickings with respect to less casual attire in charity resale shops, especially if you stray too far from median sizes. Your best bet at finding a suit that you might actually want to wear is at estate sales for the recently deceased, or stores supplied by the unclaimed airline baggage clearinghouse in Alabama. The higher the value of the clothing, the less likely the owner is to give it up willingly.
At my previous job the company lawyers sent out monthly reminders to archive all emails and documents in case we got sued. Oddly enough the company could have easily done this from the server itself. I wonder if perhaps making employees do it meant it would never be saved as the server removed things older than 90 days.
>while covert methods of recording are not difficult but rarely worried about.

Well, yes. Because they're...covert. People rarely worry about things they don't know exist.
> BuzzFeed was one of the first news sources to use non-neutral headlines that deliberately invoke a reaction in the reader

Now now, let's not go overboard. BuzzFeed is a new tabloid, they didn't invent tabloids.
Is Gmail secure from its employees?
With speech output instead of Braille devices? Interesting.
Why? They are enabling you to have opportunities to help people that you would not otherwise have. I would consider that a service worth paying for (and I assume I'm not alone...)
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This Week in D, issue 1
Sounds like the setup at WeWork offices. Granted, it's a co-working space instead of a single company's office, but I found it to be a good mix when my company worked out of WeWork Golden Gate last year.
As some people below have mentioned, the main problem was that it was neither a HUD or AR. Personally I loved the idea of being able to have something like Strava available while riding my bike, but the requirement of focusing at a small screen an inch away from my eye made it not tenable, and essentially unsafe.
"This Week in D" (inspired by similar newsletters for other PLs) is a weekly update by Adam Ruppe on D-related news.

Although I regularly check the newsgroups, I was still surprised at the quantity of news and announcements all within the span of the past week. Looking at this first issue, it doesn't seem at all that D is as stagnant as some claim.
My first computer was also a TRS-80 from Radio Shack. We'd go to Radio Shack to get new game cartridges, new cassette tape games, magazines with actual code in them (!), and even an upgrade from 8K to 16K RAM.

Those days are long gone. I understand why they got into selling other stuff, but now one can get all that other stuff elsewhere, often at lower cost…
Well done! Can we have a look at the markdown input source for the demo pdf? http://www.remarq.io/remarq_intro.md returns a GitHub Page 404. (Also, that url in the marginal note, on page 4 of the demo pdf, is broke, likely because of line-breaking.)

Which flavour of Markdown are you supporting? Do you plan to support _full_ Common Mark?

What are you using under the hood as your typesetting engine and stylesheet syntax? Pandoc, (La)TeX, CSS w/ Prince XML?
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The sad thing is, many of the problems which sank this incarnation of Glass would have been fixed by the community if only they'd released the source code.
I was amused at an apparent typo with a tool labelled "sigh" where I expected "sign". Turns out sigh really is the tool name, signing is what it helps with, and a sigh is the sound effect humans make when dealing with the signing!
It's childish to downvote something unwritten that needs saying as important as historical discrimination. Even though the context of society at large was also extremely discriminatory, yet the loss of and failure of not capitalizing on bright minds and talent for any attribute was and is a disgrace. It's unpleasant to say or think about, but it's necessary to be broadly and deeply educated in reality. Also, one could argue SAT, ACT and similar standard tests often reinforces subtle biases along the lines of IQ tests.

Otherwise, the test itself is curious and reasonable for an entrance examination.

(Personal note: My parents refused to take me to interview to private primary schools that required pictures (We couldn't be more WASP) because they were firmly against supporting the inculcated exclusivity of attributes ahead of merit.)
Reminds me of http://pornfortheblind.org/ (nsfw) which is a service where people watch and narrate videos for blind people.
I don't understand what you are saying? The CPS is required to follow up on every report, as a result of hand wavy crap likee "there really are abused kids out there slipping through the cracks". But when they act on it, they are still the bad guy.

Whether I agree with the law or not - as it's reported by the article, the children's ages, and them being unsupervised, does in fact potentially qualify as neglect. The CPS wasn't there to take children, they were there to find the facts. It isn't unreasonable for them to say "hey this takes a few days, we're not taking your kids, but you have to not do the same actions again, as they may be illegal".

Also: there is a giant hole in your argument: if kids are falling through the cracks, perhaps it's an indicator that the boogey man of "the kids will certainly be taken" is not as true as you think? Additionally, if kids are falling through the cracks, perhaps its that abusers (and neglectors) are known to be sneaky about it, so CPS needs to be thorough to prevent it?
More ecosystem would be nice although, with an Android tablet, I gather that doesn't matter any much as you can cast the screen in any case. In fact, I'm seriously tempted to pick up an inexpensive Android tablet just for that purpose.

But I agree that Chromecast gets things just right. I want the ability to "throw" an image or video from my PC, tablet, or phone to my big dumb screen on the wall--whatever proprietary smarts the TV manufacturer is trying to make me interact with--and that's exactly what Chromecast does.
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I love MV and I'm glad they made ~4x their costs, but geez, if you have to be a pantheon-level game to make a few million dollars, it's a bad sign for normal paid games. Mobile games are either freemium farming games or have an absurdly high bar to be financially successful.
Newer generations are much more sensitive to the persistence of data, particularly the challenges it entails when it comes to social networks.

A Facebook timeline is forever, but snapchat isn't.

The display and archiving of human behavior ends it.
How We Grew Our Startup by Providing Awesome Support
I'm not entirely sure what the opposite of a "Growth Hack" is, but we've grown ExpeditedSSL - https://www.expeditedssl.com - to hundreds of paying customers by doing the hard work of providing really awesome support.

We started out fairly rocky, but over the course of the last six months and hundreds upon hundreds of support emails we've learned a ton about how to provide support in a scalable way that makes our customers really happy.

To help others get going we documented all the lessons and tactics we've found to work the best, please check it out:

https://www.expeditedssl.com/pages/how-we-grew-our-startup-by-providing-awesome-support
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I had the same issue. I'm not sure if it was my internet connection or the stream, but I got a whole lot of "buffering". I eventually gave up on it, there will probably be a recording you can watch later.
just curious - can you give an example for a big breaktrhough he co-authored?

nonetheless - some of his remarks are very specific and I don't see how informal style applies here to excuse them.
I wonder if the proliferation of component types, even for hobbyists, would just be overwhelming for a brick and mortar store. As a kid, I shopped at Radio Shack all the time. I designed things around the parts that I knew they had, but it was still a pretty small selection.

When I got my first Digi-Key catalog (remember when it was about 1/4 inch thick?) I was just astounded by the variety of parts that I had no idea even existed, such as interesting IC's. Jameco and Mouser each had their own spin on what goodies I might like to have.

So I wonder if brick-and-mortar hobbyist electronics parts really still makes sense in this day and age.
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Good point, thanks. It looks like a few of them, including factorization and the discrete log problem, are conjectured to be NP-intermediate; that is, NP but neither P nor NP complete. However, this class may actually be empty, and is only non-empty if P != NP.

If P = NP, NP-intermediate is necessarily empty, so problems like factorization would be P = NP = NP-complete. You're right, though: the existence of a (classical) polynomial-time factorization algorithm doesn't solve P = NP.
I think the main reason is that the police feel like they have to do something about any complaint of this sort, because they'll be fed to the media sharks on the off chance that something does happen, even if it's some unrelated incident[1]. So all it takes is one idiot making a complaint and the police feel like they must act because that's safer for them and for the department than if they don't.

No-one's going to lose their job or any money over the linked story, so that's the safe option.

[1] "Could the police be partly to blame for so-and-so's disappearance? Here's the story of how our police ignored reports of vulnerable children in the weeks before this horrible event."
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I love reading articles like this about Clojure -- each one demystifies some part of the transition from another, more imperative language. (Here, for me, it was how to do unittesting in Clojure coming from Python.)

Something the author touched on is the use of the REPL, in vim, to attach to remote running processes and debug. Does anybody have a quick example of how to do this?
I'll have to visit that store next time I'm in SC.
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Average fps was 47, but this game seems to be composed of very few polygons. I mean less than Quake 1 here. It should scream at 300+ fps at least on a video card like that.

That, and it seems its either the browser or the game fps capped at 60. Which makes the experience on a 144hz monitor less appealing.
It's also, incidentally, a book that every software engineer using term "design patterns" should spend some time looking at -- it's the origin of the term, and it will probably make you think about whether what we call design patterns are really the same thing or solving the analogous problem.
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He probably meant to put stuff into the global scope is garbage. As in a 'bad idea', not GC.
Touché :)

I've recommended the software to my consultant wife (since her company would be paying), but I'm cheap.

How does the pricing work if I want to do revisions to a document? Say it goes through a lot of editing, does each export count towards the maximum number allowed?

If not, what's to prevent users from doing entirely new documents under the guise of "edits" to an old document?
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Since I use ddg, I can put this in my addr/search bar:

!gn site:wsj.com "RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing"

which brings me to this:

http://news.google.com/news/search?tbm=nws&q=site%3Awsj.com%...

Perhaps for sites that allow this (NYT and WSJ come to mind), it should become part of HN culture to just post links in the second form (the google news link).

Otherwise, I'm sure many people here are capable of creating a bookmarklet that does the above directly from an HN page. I just do the manual op that I described above, it's not that onerous or that often. But I'm rarely reading from a phone either.
> AR doesn't significantly augment your experience of riding the bus to work, ordering dinner at a restaurant, taking a walk around the block, or even most forms of labor (manual or otherwise).

It could. Riding the bus? It could automatically pull up the bio of a person sitting next to you. Ordering dinner? It could approximate calorie counts of the food on your plate. Taking a walk? It could pull up information about the flora and fauna around you, and the history of the buildings.

AR could be amazing, but the tech isn't there yet. Google Glass reminds me of Apple Newton -- an amazing piece of technology that's a decade or two too early.
I have always wondered why, if functional programming is such a good deal in terms of better abstractions, entire classes of bugs eliminated, cleaner code, etc., it doesn't come near-universally recommended by the world's most experienced programmers for mid- to high-level tasks. I'm thinking people like Martin Fowler, Donald Knuth, etc., but especially people like Rob Pike, Russ Cox, Guido van Rossum, Yukihiro Matsumoto, who are all incredibly smart and experienced engineers who have dedicated their lives to developing non-FP languages. There must be some trade-offs to FP that are almost never make it into these kinds of "FP has dramatically improved my life" articles.

(BTW I don't buy the "they're just not used to it" or "they're comfortable with what they know" explanation for this kind of people. These are not stodgy Java programmers who are working in programming as a day-job who are resistant to learning new things, they're people who know more about programming than a hundred average programmers combined and spend nearly every waking minute thinking about how to make it better.)
It's technically impossible to use all of Scala's features and if you do, you'd pay the same price with equivalent Javascript libraries.

I don't get this argument on the size of a hello world, given that JQuery 1.11 is over 270 KB and most people are just doing simple DOM selection with it, yet they don't complain their hello world comes with 270 KB of stuff they'll never use. Factor in React, Bootstrap, Angular.js or what have you and you can easily reach 1 MB of stuff that's never used for a couple of lines of code.

The app doesn't explode in MB, unless those MB are really needed - which is the fundamental difference between how these work and regular Javascript development. And given that there are some companies using these in production for non-trivial stuff and that nobody has ever reported that, I'm thinking that it doesn't happen.

My current app is currently clocking at 300 KB btw, but I am using the collections from the standard library, I am using a library for reactive streams built by myself, I am using React and I do have some code in it. And personally I find it OK.
Incidentally, there is a whole conference dedicated to commercial uses of Haskell: http://cufp.org