skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, why can't the lift carry a motor and have a cog that meshes with a toothed rail? Too much cabin noise, I suppose.

Though, the motor can be several floors above the cabin. Imagine we have, say, a motorized "cog crawler", from which the elevator cabin hangs by 10 meters of cable.

At the highest floors, the cable retracts for the final lift, or there is some space for the crawler to tuck into.
Where have all the English majors gone?
For the author: hope you enjoy http://forum.osdev.org/ :)
Get off my lawn! Just because this person didn't have to suffer like we did doesn't mean they won't be productive and make a living. Zeldman was great, but these new folks coming into the market are following DHH, bootstrapped rapid frameworks that scaffold it all. They are building quick and cool things, and will have years to figure out all the inner workings.

It is a sustainable living, and if you don't sit on your hands it will be for some time. Though we might call ourselves something different by then right?
What implications does synthetic materials have on sleep quality? Are you referencing some study or is this just anecdotal arguing from nature?
That's it. You're not selling a product or a system, you're selling a solution to a problem. E.g:

Problem: Managing your customer's data, bills, etc on paper is tedious.

Solution: Deploy a product, adapt it to the company's processes (or create new ones), create documentation, train people.

Enterprises don't usually buy "off-the-shelf" products as they need heavy customization to be included in already existent processes.
Amazon also supports Flash, but that isn't really a big improvement.
That's exactly what happened to me and I almost lost my house in bankruptcy going to the limit trying to compete. Ignore the advice that your market is validated - your market is gone is more the reality.

Cut your losses and move on. Seriously, there are plenty of other untapped markets to try out, don't burn your bank accounts needlessly like I did. I lost all my savings, my 401k and almost my house.
Hopefully (and I realize that this is somewhat wishful thinking), more users doing haphazard upgrades and complaining about them not working would be feedback into the whole cycle.

(I'm not very well placed in the software cycle to actually start this feedback loop, but one can wish, right?)
Or the universe develops as many dimensions as needed to accomodate incompatible states and solve itself, and three happens to be the sweet spot where stability settles. /rambling
>> Frequent upgrades amortize the cost and ensure that regressions are caught early. No one upgrade is likely to end in disaster because there simply isn’t enough change for that to happen.

> Oh, how I wish this were true.

Your anecdote is even more evidence that it _is_ true. Most minor upgrades do not end in disaster. Few of them do end up in disaster.

Frequent updates still require some diligence on the part of the person or organization updating.
The problem isn't the security fixes. Everyone agrees that pushing security fixes promptly is generally a good idea. The problem is all the other changes that you may or may not want that get bundled in with those security fixes in a forced-upgrade model. Certain web browsers are among the best examples I know of this user-hostile behaviour.
Apple made more profit last quarter that any other company in history
Software eating the world (religion next)- Indian websites offer online prayers
Looks great! I've recently been trimming down on the number of Lein plugins I have installed, but I think this one is deserving of a line in my `profiles.clj`...now how about Boot? ;-)
Some people like not having accounts on any random website that will be used for tracking and targetting.
I have trouble sleeping if my blanket isn't heavy enough -- it's not a warmth issue, as far as I can tell, but rather a weight one. That, and having a warm body but breathing cold air seems to be something I like. That might be what the parent was talking about, rather than feeling too-hot in the blankets.
I doubt he was working several years to create this OS in Common Lisp to attack these 50 people who tries it :)
8 Reasons Why Tracking Food and Activity Equals Weight Loss
I have a small group of friends (just 6) that have been using IRC for years. We switched over to Slack purely because now I no longer have to manage/pay for a server.

Most of us use the IRC gateway and ignore the website, but we do use the Android app. Last I checked, IRC apps were pretty terrible.
I just read these and am waiting for the third. http://www.wolfhoundcentury.com/ Peter isn't on Twitter, but he responds to email through his site. I hope there is a major motion picture in the works as he has created a very cool world.
It's horribly inefficient to lay new fiber for every ISP that wants to enter the market. At some point the economies of scale are such that it becomes impossible to even enter the market; many thought two entrants was the limit, Google is proving that the market can support three.

This is a classic case where government should be laying fiber to cover the last mile and selling access at cost to any ISP that wants it. The equipment on either end can be the ISP's equipment, a fiber is a fiber. Except for cuts, there's nearly no maintenance required.
I've used both the UK and US.

Electronic payments in the US are painful and slow. They often don't work at all on weekends, and certainly don't have the 2-3 hour speed of the "Faster Payments" system in the UK (which is often borderline instant).

Banks actually intentionally make it a real pain in the butt to send money to another bank, and stupidly easy to send money between accounts linked at the same bank. Last time we needed to set that up it took almost an hour, because of how they confusingly set up the UI and naming. Then the payment took a full 7 day week to arrive in the other party's account.

Plus in the US you have to have $1500 in a savings account (almost 0% interest "savings") and pay in your pay cheque and jump through a million other hoops just to get a free current (checking) account. So you'd assume the fees would be lower and customer service better? NOPE. Fees are higher than the UK, and CS is worse.

Everyone keeps saying "join USAA!" but unfortunately they closed the loophole that allowed non-military to sign up for a checking account right before I could. So no dice. Traditional banks are just horrible in the US, just awful, it cannot be overstated.
Sorry dudes. This is not killing Flash. Last time I checked, porn sites were still using it.
Just to substantiate this claim - here's a wikipedia table with the numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_corporate_profi...
This is a small thing to point out but I wish they picked a name that were easier to type out. aurelia-* is so much more verbose than ng-
Do these people use Chrome ?
Thank you for the feedback. I hadn't thought that it could be interpreted that way.
The idea is that it tapping and holding for photo/video works anywhere on the screen.
I also would like it to focus on tap (shooting = focussing)
No fun allowed huh?
Hey! I'm currently doing an internship at ORNL and hang out with a bunch of the interns / employees / postdocs. Send me an email if you'd like to join us on skiing trips, hiking, other get-togethers, etc.
Note that this was January 27th, 2014; not 2015.
When the Cloud Honeymoon Ends
As soon as there's an alternative for games, flash will finally be dead.
This talk does a good job of showing how Perl 6 lets you gradually enhance your programs using features like types, subtypes, and multimethods. Here's a functional, memoized version of fib that uses those three features:

subset NonNegativeInt of Int where * >= 0;

proto fib (|) is cached returns NonNegativeInt {*}
multi fib (0) { 0 }
multi fib (1) { 1 }
multi fib (NonNegativeInt $n) { fib($n - 1) + fib($n - 2) }

say fib(100)
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-45/pr...

That's 12 just in one of the more popular Java web frameworks.

RCE is possible in any language.
As silly as this is, it's completely true ;)
That's fine and well, but maybe Google can tell now why they very quietly cancelled YouTube Feather. It was the best way to avoid comments. It stopped working some day, and Google was supposedly working on a fix. A few weeks later, it was removed completely. Since then, radio silence.

http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/youtube/Eae53c5AI5U
Correct link for Q1 2015 is here: https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/27Apple-Reports-Rec...
Yeah, I thought the same thing. American Express alone processes around $500bn in card transactions every year.
Yeah, and Verizon couldn't exist without the government taking away the rights to my land and giving it to Verizon to run their cables without compensating me in the slightest. What's your point?

Verizon could be selling gigabit FIOS today but they don't because there is no competition in most markets. FIOS is profitable, just not as profitable as wireless.

Guess what Verizon uses to provide wireless? (Hint: public airwaves, most of which they got for free too)
Here's the one from today: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/27Apple-Reports-Reco...
In the middle of last year, Google announced that they will also look at other bay area cities like Santa Clara for Fiber. I don't see what happened to that and there is no more mention of Santa Clara in the latest post. Maybe it fell through? The last update I see is from the city claiming that the discussions have ended - http://siliconvalleypower.com/index.aspx?recordid=3191&page=...

I wish I knew the reasons for not picking a city.
ah, thanks for explaining the details!
The typical billing experience for anything non-trivial in US hospitals is batshit crazy.

One visit can generate three or four bills from different people and institutions. Some of these bills they'll tell you to ignore if you call about them because insurance is covering all or part of it, but they sent the bill before that was sorted out, for god knows what reason. Don't worry, you'll get more, corrected (hopefully? maybe?) bills later. Then explanation of benefits letters arrive, which look sort of like bills but aren't. Almost certainly, at least one of the billing people and/or the insurance folks screwed something up and you'll get to spend most of a day on hold with insurance and a hospital or test processing company or whatever sorting it out. If you miss anything in this mountain of mostly-useless paperwork you may find late notices in your mailbox a month or two later.

Now you get to try to figure out whether the charges on those late notices were legit, or whether they're the result of some seemingly-alway-incompetent hospital billing department's error. While racing against the date on which it goes to collections, and while fees and such accrue.

By four months out you finally, maybe, know what your total costs were/are, after hours of dealing with it and filling half a filing cabinet drawer with documents.

Now, consider that most procedures will include several visits generating a similar number of bills in the months leading up to it. You'll being bombarded with this garbage non-stop for months on either side of the Main Event. You'll also have some follow up appointments and/or tests. Fun!

Basically everyone involved either doesn't care about doing their job correctly or is actively trying to steal your money. Half the time they don't know WTF is going on. You or your loved ones get to deal with that while you're sick or recovering. We call this health care. Some people prefer to pay a premium for this "service" instead of having single-payer or a national healthcare service because... that would make us less free?

That's how bad it is with insurance. Without is, I'm sure, much worse, though probably less complicated.
They use .gitignore to fill them.
I'm fairly sure that executing arrays is not part of the course material.
AMC & IFC are missing.
I'd like that to be a configurable option.
Are you saying that the Flash plugin bundled with Chrome is better than the Flash plugin you can install for Firefox? If so, do you have any idea why?
And yet in his own words, the "most important reason" was to prevent other companies from using cross-platform libraries (such as Adobe Air) on the platform.

That reason was reversed, and Adobe Air (including what was essentially compiled Flash) became available on iOS.

(see daring fireball for more information: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas...)
haha : )
That still requires admin time to update the configuration and change management tools, QA time to run a regression test that will exercise all the potential failure paths, development time if you count on the ability to do configuration updates based on application state, etc. Updates that look small can still require considerable changes.
The fact that this is not Lispy is more surprising than the concept itself.
Data Privacy Day 2015: Leading Experts Comment on Security
Great work! If only you had a longer list of epic music, sigh.
Rusty bits: bindings, statements, expressions
Maybe that's an indication that the configuration of the web server should be partitioned into "basic configuration" (which they can all support) and a few other categories (which are supported by a subset), i.e. the configuration itself should be "standardized".

I realize that this is a nontrivial proposition, but if we're ever going to realize the dream of "interchangeable parts" we're going to have to learn to do this stuff.
So if you actually want a solution what is wrong with making it an opt in when you sign up for the service or through the admin page for your service. rather than making it opt out with mandatory bits.
yeah but a lot of them are more mobile friendly which means they're not using flash as heavily anymore.

I know this only for research purposes of course...
Why not? Stuxnet got into the wild and I wouldn't consider it sloppy at all.
Just happened to be reading HackerNews at the right time and got myself a Queen at the Early Bird price!

I see you've already answered that the mattress cover itself cannot vibrate, and that the alarm will actually be through the app.

Rather than increasing the volume of the alarm gradually, I'd much prefer being woken up like geoelectric by my phone vibrating or perhaps triggering another wifi enabled alarm that vibrates.

1) Will your app make the phone vibrate as your alarm goes off (perhaps with increasing intensity as you get closer to your waking time)?

2) Does anyone know of a wifi enabled vibrating alarm that could be put under a pillow?
jballanc! Glad to have your inclusion :) Are you using Boot these days?
WordPerfect came with a beautifully printed manual in a cloth covered custom ring binder and unlimited telephone support. It was a world of professionals because release cycles were a year and customers were part of the business community...as was WordPerfect.

Now everybody is a just consumer. The phrase "consumer community" may just have been invented in this sentence. [1]

There are two sources of crap. One is businesses that deliberately make stuff that sucks in the hopes that marks will buy it and keep their mouths shut out of embarrassment over being taken as a rube. There's more of that in software and everywhere else today.

The other source of crap is amateurs. There's more of that in software because access has improved. The software is analogous to homeowner construction projects. The roof is likely to leak, the walls be without insulation, and the room shaped like a scalene triangle. HomeDepot's prices help make it happen.

People are expressing their ideas more often. Most ideas are bad. The execution of laypeople is often poor.

[1] https://www.google.com/webhp#q=%22consumer+community%22
Waze to police: App can't 'track' officers' movements
I meant would people who bought the crowdfunded one be able to send it in and get the Bolt+Bridge? I'd be ecstatic to do that.
Minor upgrades were fine. It was a major one (2.0 to 2.1) that wiped it out for me. This was on the embedded version of pfSense - the full version might behave differently.

Otherwise, the upgrade was one of the smoothest I've ever had for this sort of thing.
Since I can't find it anywhere on the site or the IndieGogo page [1]: how much of this works now, and how much is just an idea? Is there a video of the "pre-manufacturing prototype" in action? Pictures? Anything?

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/luna-turn-your-bed-into-a...
Safari only works on certain 2011 Macs and all 2012 and later Macs.

There are a fair number of people who can't skip Flash quite yet for Netflix.

Good start though.
Santa Clara was always included (and still is) in the potential San Jose rollout. As is Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Palo Alto.
> What we do know now is that the open source process does not converge to a no-bugs state.

Nobody to be taken serious has ever thought or said this -- it says about as much as "You know, I'm not perfect...".

Go itself (as of 1.3) is still itself coded in C, and I have no idea if/how C and Rust are related... C isn't going away, and tooling (Coverity, valgrind, nice compilers like clang) are our friends, as well as work like OpenBSDs string-handling ammendments, malloc() guards, etc.

I really am sympathetic to the complaints against C, but "Burn it!! It's a witch!" doesn't grab me.
Oh my god I completely forgot about RealPlayer.

Luckily there was an alternative, Real Alternative, that enabled you to play the content without having to install that ghastly RealPlayer. It seems like the community always finds a way around crappy software.
What, no My Little Pony references? Oh wait, this is HN, not reddit...
The "HTML5" support requires proprietary binary blob that has no standard API (besides an API to launch it with opaque data from a proprietary server) and is licensed only to selected companies.

Basically it's as much HTML5 as <object data="swf"> was HTML4.

It's supported only by DRM vendors: Google (WideVine), Safari (FairPlay) and Microsoft (PlayReady) and doesn't work in open-source browsers (not even in Chromium or custom WebKit builds).
Out of interest, why is Firefox a 'proper' open-source browser while Chrome is not? Isn't Chrome pretty much just Chromium with a little bit of extra Google integration on top?
This article talks a lot about switching costs without naming it as such. But they're pretty key for getting B2B customers to try something new. You can definitely try to maximize them (if you're the incumbent that doesn't want to be displaced) or minimize them, as in Slack's case, with information. We just did a write-up on this topic: http://www.emphatic.co/blog/switching-costs-marketing/
Apple’s IPhone Sales Top Estimates for Holiday Quarter
Don't want to rub it in, but I thought the rule #1 of modern start up is to never bet your own money.
Evolve OS Beta 1 Released
Well, the 1982 1k implementation he was trying to beat did not cover these rules either. In fact, this version implements pawn promotion to queen, which the ZX 1k version did not. So the part about beating a 33-year-old record stands.

An interesting challenge would be to see if you can add all the missing rules and still keep it under 1k. So the lovers of strict definitions would finally have their version!
Banking in America, summed up in one sentence: "In other words, the more you need free checking, the less you are likely to get it."
The Best Way to Build Startup Is Travel the World
I've had a pretty poor experience with HTML 5 video. It stutters far more than flash and in particular it does very weird things when I try to skip around in videos. I'll miss flash.
On linux it's because the NPAPI flash plugin hasn't been updated in a few years. It went Chrome/PPAPI a while back and firefox doesn't support it yet. I think it's supposed to get security fixes but performance issues are never going to get fixed in it.
You're not wrong. The problem, though, is that I'm still right. Yes, theoretically we can change things. The way this happens is through our elected officials, not via us directly. If our elected officials are unwilling to change, there's not much we can do to force it. Literally the only way the Constitution allows for us to change things is if we vote someone into office who will change it, and then it still hinges on them actually changing things, which historically hasn't happened.

You can repeat the Constitution until you're blue in the face, but just because something sounds easy on paper doesn't mean it's easy or even plausible in reality.
Chaining is deferred until `value()` is implicitly or explicitly called. However shortcut fusion does not apply to `forEach`.
There's been some recent studies that suggest a cooler temperature is better for quality of sleep and improves insulin sensitivity [1]. There's another company that sells pads that can lower the temperature of the bed [2].

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24954193

[2]: https://www.chilitechnology.com/chilipad-cube
Exactly what I thought. It's great to finally get a look at it after all these years.
Thanks for the advice Stephen, I'll definitely remember that in the future.

I agree that one of the best ways to meet a goal (and one that has worked for me in the past) is to write down goals and cross them off as they are completed. For some reason, this boosts my productivity like crazy.
Yahoo plans to sell Alibaba stake worth 40B USD
This is pretty insane, I think $18 billion in quarterly profit is the largest ever for any corporations. Also the revenue from iPhone business alone now exceeds Microsoft and Google combined.
Wow http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RNWK+Interactive#symbol=R...
AES Implementation in Julia
If youtube is switching, they'll switch. Slowly, but it'll happen. Simply because the ones that do first will get more customers.
A good rule for sure but also an easy rule to ignore because we always think we are the exception, surely I will turn the corner on this business, I've sunk a year+ into the code...

It's a lot harder to walk away than you might imagine.
> The result is decreased productivity, which hurts the economy.

The economy is an abstraction which we care about only to the extent that it tracks people's aggregate happiness. So if you're going to consider the harm to "productivity" on one side of the ledger, you ought to also consider on the other side of the ledger the harm to people's happiness caused by a world in which parenthood and sustained livelihood come into conflict. (And you ought to consider this not just to whatever extent happy employees are more productive employees, but rather because happiness is the fundamental goal to which productivity is a means, not vice versa)
Isn't what's a "requirement" something that THEY get to decide for their code base?
In fact its the default for almost everyone who isn't technically inclined to upgrade their os only when they get a new computer.

Most new computers come with a warranty that is 90 days. Why should software support be 5x longer?