skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tiny thing: with the first picture I see on the web page showing a bed cover, I immediately assumed incorrectly that luna was a bed cover, not a mattress cover hidden out of sight.
For some businesses I've worked with, SEO is their lifeblood. Risking potential revenue to "test" whether certain SEO strategies will yield positive results is not possible. As always, Google picks the winners and losers.
That's happening to a lot of US companies that do a lot of their business in the EU/EUR zone and other currencies that are weakening relative to the strong USD.
SoundCloud Has a Big Opportunity for Monetization
I think you are possibly being too harsh in game. A video game should be fun; a place where all rule implications can be explored. Turning it into an authoritarian environment with a running lecture seems like a good way to discourage play and exploration.

That kind of lecturing may make sense in the real world, but one of the differences/advantages of virtual worlds is that the normal constraints don't apply -- you can do whatever the machine/software allows, without risk (certainly not fatal risk, as in the real world).

Games present an opportunity to examine systems in depth without the traditional fears/consequences of the real world.
The readme mentions that windows are draggable by holding alt.
Germans economic power has been enormous before the introduction of the euro, while countries like Greek had been struggling for a long while. Germany not paying reparations to Greece for WW2 might have played a role there.

But why enter in a trade union in the first place? Right, the oligarchs made Greece do it. However borrowing from the Deutsche Bank and expecting them to be nice and fair about it sounds naive to me.

Many people don't get it, but the EU is mainly about trade. Not so much about democracy or social equality. That being said, there is some redistribution of wealth between countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#Ne...
While initially conceptually easier to grasp, that is far inferior to using a snapshot.

Here's a short list of ways in which that may cause you problems:

1) gzip of a path is not point in time, synced files may no longer be in sync since they were backed up at slightly different times (e.g. I hope you didn't expect database consistency to actually mean anything).

2) gzip of a path will take a while, because it has to actually function on every file (a snapshot is generally copy on write, meaning it's "free" (not quite) for every file until it's changed. Throw away the snapshot before a change and there's no need to copy the file.

3) gzip will take more room (see #2)
I do think people tend to just default to "an hour" for meetings and it is really kind of crazy when many meetings are able to be resolved in a 5 minute chat and 30 minutes is usually sufficient for many things. So, I think this would be a good trend. However, all the stuff about googling to figure out how to meet with him .... I mean, OK, whatever.
One of my clients has a site that gets about 1k visitors per day, heavily dependant on SEO, nothing massive, but big enough to see the effects of certain changes.

After I refactored one of their pages to go from 1.5 sec initial/8 sec total page load to 0.04 sec/4 sec load times there was no discernible change in rankings or traffic.

Page load as SEO is totally over egged for the most part as it's one of the things developers can easily measure and point a finger at, along with number of requests, CSS file size, etc. while everything actually meaningful for SEO is absolutely black box.

Every time I get handed a "SEO site report" by a client I can immediately tell if the SEO guy is any good or not if the report actually contains anything else other than recommendations to improve page loads, reduce requests and all those practically useless, but very expensive in developer time, actions. Oh, and the obligatory spreadsheet with all the external inbound links domains. Because that's really insightful.
If three fiber nets are not enougth to creat a good market, why not lay another? If all the ones that are there are really shit there are costumers to be had.

And just by the fact that there are three horrible equally sized companys there we allready know that they are not able to change because if they could, they would allready be winning over market share there.

Also its easy for one of these providers to sell of there own fibers to many providers on top of itself so they dont have to figure out all the costumer managment and things like that.

There are many, many option outthere but the are currenly very hard to take (because of old and new regulation).

Everything from a truly huge company building a huge new net for the hole country in order to provit from economy of scale to small local companys that take offer specialised communitys and then spread from there.

In principle letting government lay down the fiber sound like a fine idea that can work, but juging by other technical project governemnt do I have my doutes.
I've got family in Winder. Y'all are kinda out there.
lol, 344th Ave and Cactus or 771st St and Cactus (West Texas) :)
Just like Facebook and Google's rapid decline because everyone cares about privacy.

iPads will succeed or fail based on utility. Those who love them have found great utility, and I think they'll be increasingly important in corporate markets, but it hasn't proved out yet. It's still young.
How small can you make a program that makes pedantic, technically correct, but completely useless comments on the internet?
I propose yet another instruction set in which the CPU, unless interrupted, plays a game of chess with the user. 0-byte program achieved.
That's precisely what stopped me from buying into the Apple cosmos.

If I want an Apple Watch, I need to buy an iPhone. If I buy an iPhone, I should use iTunes. In order to get a version of iTunes that isn't atrocious, I need to use OSX. In order to use OSX I need to buy an iMac or MBP.

Want to use an iPod? Same thing, just skip the first step.

Want to develop apps for (or port apps to) iOS? Again, same thing.

I'm using Linux. I occasionally use Windows for testing in IE or playing games. There's just no way I can adopt any Apple device as an addition to that without getting an experience that is significantly lacking in comparison to what I would get by switching everything over.

As I speak I'm using a Dell laptop, a Samsung smartphone and an Asus tablet. I'm actually in the process of replacing the Dell laptop with a smaller brand laptop custom-built for Linux support. There's just no way I could justify moving any single device over to an Apple equivalent without moving everything else.

You could call it "synergy" or "network effects". Before Apple (when Microsoft did it) we used to call it vendor lock-in and monoculture.

The funny part is that I'm pretty sure that if you ignore the lower end market most of the criticism I've heard about each brand is perfectly interchangeable at this point. "My smartphone bends / overheats", "I installed an update and now something is misbehaving, but it's not big enough of a deal that I can be bothered to figure out how to fix it", "my laptop was faulty and I had to get it replaced/repaired two weeks after I bought it", "the OS does something incredibly annoying and there apparently isn't any way to change that so I rely on clunky workarounds" and so on. I swear I've heard some variation of each for Linux, Microsoft and Apple devices alike.

This isn't really a complaint, more of an observation. Buying Apple is perfectly reasonable, especially if all your other devices are already Apple. But after having seen people be ridiculously productive on all kinds of devices (e.g. a sensible PHP dev using Windows Surface as a laptop -- that one caught me off guard) and likewise also seeing every single variation fail at other times, I would recommend not to give your favourite vendor too much credit. In all likelihood the "perfect" experience you're having with your platform of choice is not unique to you or that platform -- it just happens to be something that works really great for you right now. It might not work as well for someone else, or even for yourself at a different time in a different situation.

tl;dr: everybody poop. All systems fail.
> At some point Apple will have to take a smaller premium.

We've been hearing this for years now. Eventually your prediction may prove correct, but on a long enough time scale any negative prediction is correct, so what's the point?
For me, it's not really so much "not good enough" as much as it is "I'm already using PostgreSQL as a database and I'd rather not have to maintain two separate SQL database implementations on my servers if I can avoid it".
Node program to control the color and brightness of your lights with your hands
Ask HN: Do you think it’s possible to change people’s behaviour with apps?
I know some apps have already done it, but most of them do it without this being their specific intention. I'm talking about it being in the core of the app's mission. (For good, not evil)
Sorry, I though the term also came up in the video but I may have remembered that wrong.
That day will never come[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
On the duplicate title test, I wonder if they saw no difference because they put the unique element after the pipe (e.g. "... on Pinterest | {pins}" ).

Maybe google ignores after the pipe because that's where people always put branding:
{title} | {meaningless company name}.
Although I'd love to see them come to Houston, we're 640 square miles, so it's not really possible to do a "city" rollout. If Google ever rolls out fiber by Zip Code, that'll be for us.

I would love to see these guys bring us their MVNO Sprint product and/or build a technology park fed by Google Fiber instead, either of which would still have the desired effect of lowering consumer bandwidth costs.
Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99
The acquisition of broadcast.com for 5.7B.

That's an expensive domain name but the redirect works :P
I'm starting to get interested in wiring my neighborhood (the best current option is 6mb during the day and ~0.5mb in the evenings.) Are there any resources you could send me on what it would take to wire up a small area?
My first rule with any site claiming to have profound research on topics such as autism, gluten sensitivity in non-celiacs, "leaky gut", etc: is something being sold anywhere on the site? If so, most credibility is being lost, as there is clear motive for what I've come to call "selective science".

Second rule: how frequently are correlations between different groups, subjects or metrics referenced versus biochemical changes, group-vs-control measurements, etc. More frequently? Even more credibility lost.

Third rule, and more of a "gut instinct": is it written in an objective tone, or is there language priming the reader to react to something in fear or uncertainty. A paper shouldn't be trying to engender an emotional response. If it is: credibility lost. Puts the author in the realm of psychics who claim to speak to your dead relatives for you.

Fourth: Is there a statement of potential conflict of interest? If not, odds are there is one.

My son is autistic. He's not sensitive to gluten, he and his sister got all their vaccinations, he gets Tylenol or Ibuprofen when in pain, and he will not be subjected to chelation, rice water diets, or any other such nonsense. Real studies will change and influence how his condition is managed. Meta-papers like this are tantamount to numerology essays about the connection between JFK and Lincoln's assassinations.
I wish Google Fiber would come to SF. I understand they're doing something like that in the southbay though.
Well, writing code that's too generic or overly abstracted is also a premature optimization...
the #1 thing I want from my browser is tree-style tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...)
Which (apparently) is named "Isso" in the German version of Pokemon.
Imagine that an employee is costing you $X a year (that includes pay, but also things like health insurance, taxes, their computer/desk chair/etc etc etc).

If you use Slack, your employee now costs you $X + $60 a year. Usually in tech, X is a 6 digit number (or very high 5 digit number). If $60 makes such a difference in that balance, there are probably big things you should worry about.
It's not meaningful to compare because they are different companies with different market caps. I actually hear people talk about stock prices as normalized values in every day conversation, but don't know any way polite enough or fast enough to correct them.
I wonder if the pilot gets charged expenses for stuff like this - either by the coast guard or the cruise ship that picked him up.
We make videos, mostly for neat tech products. Here are some
Wouldn't that kill the pitcher?
I was banned from computers at school for the last two years of high school, as I kept defeating every single defence they had in place. My impetus to do so? I wanted to run compilers and interpreters so I could keep learning programming.
Oh, Germany learned a lot and the Marshall plan succeeded in saving Europe. Germany is now surrounded by friendly nations and no longer a military threat.

I think Marcus Brigstocke says it best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsaKgz1v-f8
Come now, that's cheating!
Ship it. The idea is now valid and you can learn from their mistakes.
Employment is a fairly broad solution. More fundamentally, if you don't give people something to do (i.e. purpose) they will probably just riot and start a revolution of some sort.

Where is the market for a driverless taxi if nobody can afford to catch one?

If you're an optimist, there will always be meaningful work to be done (for some kind of credit), supported by a government that knows to placate a society, they need to feel useful.

A pessimist on the other hand might subscribe to the cyclical nature of the rise and fall of civilisations. They catalyst this time being technological development moving faster than our ability to mentally and socially digest it.

We have only got about a billions years left. Let's make them count.
It's not strange that cheaper oil increases miles driven and other transient features, but so quickly impacting the sale of larger crossovers and other gas-heavy vehicles? It seems likely (or at least plausible) that, within 1 to 3 years or less, gas prices could easily spike back up to where they were before. Do people really think such low prices are the "new normal" or is there other factors at play?
More: after read-reading the project page I'm going to assume the answer is 'no' to supporting evidence, otherwise this would have been included with all the other (detailed) information already provided. So, for me at least, this falls into the 'solution looking for a problem' category; it'a an exercise in technology application that - yes - is cool, but doesn't actually solve (supported by evidence) a problem.
Yes, let us all cheer for the latest means by which a corporation has managed to avoid their tax obligations and continue to be a drain on society.

Whee.
Spot on. There are tons of those guides available too, so people are taking that advice seriously.
Being a kiwi I can't really answer your question, but coincidentally there was a report on national radio here this morning about how people were traveling here on student visas to study, staying on with a job after graduation and getting residency that way. That maybe something worth looking and a good opportuninity to address the lack of college education at the same time. You'd need some reasonable savings to afford the education and living costs for up to 3 years.
He's been working on these ideas for quite some time. Here's a talk of the same name at RICON 2012: http://vimeo.com/52831373

Having said that, this is a pet peeve of mine, too. I get frustrated by technical papers with no dates.
I can't connect to multiplayer... :(
I wonder if "sharing economy" should really be called "sweatshop economy."
One of our first design goals was to build a product that would disappear in the bedroom and that did not require any active input from the user (you never HAVE to pull out your phone to use it).
The mattress cover form factor served our goal so well that we realized it was hard to show a product designed to be invisible.
That definitely poses some challenges, we have to show it on top of a mattress and make sure people understand that we are not selling a mattress for example...
We have fixed this issue, and have posted an update. Do let me know if you still have trouble getting Ref to work.
I liked the documentary version of this post better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOINEXp0B8
Well, Turing can be turned into a martyr for gay rights (as I understand they've done with the movie, which I haven't seen). I guess that's a lot "cooler" than anything about Carmack, at least AFAIK.
Well, if one is to rely on anecdotal evidence only... there's been no studies to back it up. There's also this:

http://www.naturalhealth365.com/ketogenic_diet/cancer_part_1...
Yes, you could walk around in it if you wanted to wait for 4gb of textures to download.

I'm happy they thought to make a youtube link.
A 10 is overstating it, I think. Netflix gives reasons for why they collect the data (recommendations, continue watching cross-device, ...). Given the Netflix prize, I don't think we can be too surprised that they're collecting data for recommendations (or figuring out whether licensing deals are worth it). I'd give it a weak 2 on the creepy scale.
Everything. It's only distributed as a binary.
With a known structure, a hashed IP could be reversed quite easily couldn't it?
Obviously a great job.
Paris would have traffic noise instead of chirping birds.
No coat rack by the front door.
what was the uptime on the modem? It might have just needed to be reset to pull in the new config. They can reset the modem remotely and they pretty much always do for support so I wouldn't read too much into your speed doubling.
How much power does the ERLite-3 use? I've run PCEngine APU (http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm) boards with pfsense and it's worked great with very minimal power usage. Although they are usually a bit more expensive than an ARM board.
> I've spent my whole life from kid up to adult being lectured incessantly from liberal arts grads that normal humans never treat online humans like they would meatspace because ... some fuzzy psych major BS whatever

The usual explanations center around anonymity and lack of perceived accountability, neither of which would apply to children who are being directly supervised by a parent, for obvious reasons.
Yeah, if "got in trouble" == "it was mentioned in a few tweets", but mostly it seems focused on the trans remark. They quite literally assault the eyes of everyone in the room, and it only gets passing mention compared to a non-targeted[0], verbal insult to a certain class of people. Should the severity of an offense really be proportional to the oppression its victims are suffering?

[0] I mean they didn't point to a trans person in the room and say, "You're sticking out!"
Will body temperature be available as a metric graphed over time?
Probably the insurance covers it.
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Dear God, that's a terrible brand name. If I wasn't computer savvy, I'd think 'ATIV' is some new data transfer protocol.

Compare that with this: http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ and you can see why Apple is pulling ahead of everyone
Thanks for the additional context, both for the importance of the repost, and in general regarding this incident.

As a woman working in tech, I was understandably very upset about the whole affair. I'm very much glad that actual outreach happened behind the scenes, and learning of this makes me feel safe to be part of certain communities again.
Yes, they should have known exactly what they were getting into. You automatically assume a certain kind of risk when you lend to sovereign nations, which by definition, are not compelled to return your money (although they often are, due to many factors).
Cool, validation. But what type of validation? Market, team and/or product, etc? Seems there's more to their offering than market and ideas. I'd be looking deeper into why they are validated. Then I'd step on the gas pedal.
Everybody is ignorant about something. Many are ignorant about the political issues that factor into their gas prices. I would be very surprised if people aren't expecting this to be the new normal.
Why add alkaline ingredients to noodle doughs? The science behind ramen noodles
"supported piracy against the Spanish Armada"

I wish your statement of fact on this issue had been as well placed as your sentiments.
It is worth pointing out that Chrome and IE are miles ahead of Firefox and Safari at time stretching audio. Firefox and Safari sound like an underwater mess. Chrome and IE use a sophisticated and very nice pitch correction algo (I think it is called WSOLA)
Post of the day!
+1 for Marty. I'd never used Flux before, but had made some small apps in React and felt pretty comfortable with it. The Marty docs have a particularly good description (with small examples) of what each piece of the Flux model is supposed to do. After following those and making a toy project, I actually felt like I'd wrapped my head around the basics of Flux+React pretty firmly.
Ask HN: Standard documentation for SQL queries?
Hi,

I created a fairly complex Access database for a client, involving several layers of queries and many tables. I am trying to document the function of all these queries and I was wondering whether there exists some kind of standard flow chart type methodology of doing so, showing e.g. Query A is a select query on Query B and Table 1 joined on Fields a, b, c, and Query B itself is a crosstab query on Table 2, etc.

Thanks