skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with RHEL backporting security fixes (and Debian to a lesser extent) almost makes version numbering irrelevant too, though.
I'd wonder where the regulators are going to learn the skills needed to regulate. Drug development is not quite like academic research.
Very hard to read page. If you can't find which title is for which movie, try this:

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I thought iTunes sucked on Windows only.
For motivational purposes you might try focusing on the other side of the relationship, and consider the people who need your help and will benefit from your projects, if only they could find you.

And while you're there, maybe ask where they're likely to be found, how they (or you) would be searching for you, and how best their personal or business goals would be served by what you have to offer.
I thought mathematicians defined notation to mean whatever they wanted or needed for a particular text.
Li-Fi-Like System Would Bring 100-Gbps Speeds Straight to Your Computer
I've found mechanical keyboards start to give me a touch of RSI, where the slim Apple keyboards don't. Maybe I'm just hitting the keys too hard or something. I always give up using them, which is a shame because they feel nice to the touch.
David Carr's Doubt
I used to be pretty happy with it but it seems to get progressively worse. These days I can never find anything in the UI so I just avoid it.
Yeah, to be fair, my Nest replaced a dial thermostat with a mercury switch on a bimetal coil...
He was supposed to give a talk here at Goddard Space Flight Center recently, but it was snowed out. I've heard him speak before, on his Interplanetary Internet work, and he's a good speaker.
NSA’s Section 215 Telephony Metadata Program Should and Can Be Shut Down
The art and science of being bought
Water heaters use a lot of household energy--automating them is a great idea.

One smartthings customer did it here:
http://community.smartthings.com/t/water-heater-automation/1...
I think Peter Molyneux's biggest issue is this: he's extremely smart and has a wonderful imagination, but still, to this day, hasn't figured out that it is extremely difficult to get great ideas from your gray matter into code, especially if you're not the one coding.
Obama to urge tech firms to share data with government
Yes. It has become a horrible twisted mess.
I was trying to think of an argument to disagree with you with but you're right. From the times of Woodrow Wilson's reign to John Edgar Hoover and Nixon to the NSA, there's never really been a time in the past hundred years some part of the government wasn't corrupt and power hungry. And probably even before 1900 too with slavery and subduing of the Indian tribes. The freest least corrupt point in USA government's history is probably July 2, 1776.
My main issue with my wink is that it has to go all the way across the internet to connect to the box 10ft away from me. A much "smarter" system would simply connect directly over my home wifi and avoid most of the lag and connectivity issues.

I understand WHY they did it this way (because they don't want to support an open device/protocol for interacting with the hub...) but it seems really short-sighted in terms of the user experience.

I've already rooted my wink hub and fully intend to implement this myself just to reduce the annoyance.
A lot of Lispers are interested in logic programming, if not Prolog. It's in SICP, it's the topic of The Reasoned Schemer (www.amazon.com/Reasoned-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0262562146/), Shen includes a Prolog and you can use its syntax: http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/prolog.html

So you'll have to modify your statement at minimum to "a single person other than Mark Tarver" ^_^.
Here are a selection of headlines from one (low quality) daily UK newspaper.

It wouldn't surprise me if, in the face of this flood of low quality reporting, people got the wrong messages about alcohol.

"Why is red wine good for you?" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-200858/Factfile-red-...

"So how good is wine for your health?" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-107073/So-good-win... first paragraph of article "Wine drinkers have never had it so good. Not only does a glass or two, or even three, taste rather good, it's remarkably healthy, too, protecting against a whole range of diseases."

Cardiologist precribes red wine http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2661296/The-cardio...

Patients prescribed red wine http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-187164/Patients-pr...

Red wine is slimming http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2945133/How-glass-... -- first bold bullet point "Drinking red wine could improve conditions such as fatty liver disease"

Red wine not just good for your heart but may prevent deafness http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2282268/Red-wine-i...
Yea it's something we're thinking about. Right now we just assume it'll be ran somewhere internet-aware.

Can you do me a huge favour and file a PR in github? https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat/issues
I think one of the big problems with the whole "smart home" idea is that people don't consider the use cases. As the article mentions but doesn't really follow through the logic of, trading a light switch flip for a smart phone fumble just isn't a win.

But remote access is one of those cases that is a win. I have a relative that spends a lot of time about 1000 miles away for business and he's gotten some mileage out of his remote furnace control. Access for people with physical issues also makes sense, but relative to what I think the market is "expected" to be for this stuff, that's still quite a small niche too. (Large in absolute terms, that is, but nowhere near "we're going to have one of these in every house!")

Beyond that, though, what's the best case scenario in practice? I spend perhaps a minute during the day tops flipping light switches... if you 100% eliminate that I will, frankly, not particularly notice. My heater already has a standard modern (and therefore a bit featureful) electronic control and I already don't use its sophisticated features.

This isn't one of those cases where technical advances just made home automation possible, like the way tablets were a joke until all the pieces came together for the iPad and gave us a practical device for the first time. The tech has been here for decades, and it has never taken off, even among the geek set. I think the problem is there just isn't a use case here.

At the risk of sounding simply contrarian, I'm still not convinced the whole "Internet of Things" isn't going to fizzle out the same way. It's a basic principle of good software engineering that it isn't enough to just throw code at people and hope; you need a use case that makes sense. There will be some use cases here and use cases there, but I'm not convinced there's a massive new market that deserves a new moniker so much as "use cases here and there".
Oh weird, what browsing are you using?
Can't say I hate it, I just had a bad experience with it yesterday. I wanted to buy an album, that's only on sale on iTunes. The following happened:

I could not buy it on the web - I have to download the program!
The .exe I was given did not work on my PC - I needed the 64bit one, which was hidden in some support article
In the setup I selected English, but the program launched in Spanish instead
The program froze when I changed the language
Nowhere could I see what format/quality the music would be

I did not end up buying that album.
Many Scala developers come from a Java background where using exceptions is the norm, and apply Java idioms to Scala. That's why Java is mentioned. To quote: "using an idiomatic Java way of handling invalid input".
Mechanical keys are a pleasure to type on, but most mechanical keyboards are of the non-split, non-ergonomic variety, so you'd be taking a step back from the MS Natural keyboard. I have a wonderful tenkeyless keyboard with Cherry brown switches, but I have had to retire it in favor of the less-mechanically-satisfying but nicely split and adjustable Kinesis Freestyle 2. My wrists are happier, even if my fingers and ears are a little disappointed.
Clojure is not that different, but besides that, parent implied changes from Lisp circa '60s that were already in CommonLisp and Scheme 30 years ago...
What happens when one dies, who keeps moving that data? Companies eventually close. Millennia old documents made their way to us without anybody carying about them. Digital data seem to be intrinsically different from analog ones in that continuous care is needed. What you propose is a solution but I can't see who's going to do it for free as walls and caves did for paintings and inscriptions.
I used to love iTunes back in the 10.3/10.4 days, but now it just feels too bloated to me. It seems like Apple has tried to do too much with the program over the years and now is the quintessential jack of all trades, master of none. The entire iTunes/App store experience is really confusing to me. For example, I tried to rent Snowpiercer before it was out on Netflix, and the process was painstakingly long and confusing. Having to wait to download the entire HD movie before being able to view it didn't help anything either...
Thank you :) It works with multiple stickers of the same type. You can simply assign them nicknames.

Basically once a touchable is used for the first time, it is assigned to one person. If another person taps it, the first person then can add the other person as friend and they can jointly use it and see the status in their dashboard.

If a person has an iphone, they can also be added via an email address and get email infos about the status. All text is done in a sweet and humourous fashion.

The video was so much fun to create. Many companies in this space are big telcos, so we thought we have to do something that noone else can do :)

As tech we are using NFC, which we are not highlighting, because it will be ubiquituous like Bluetooth sooner than later and the name itself scares off many people. The interesting part is that non-geek people who have tried them, believe they are the same value as 'Tile', etc...
There is a lot to be said for having the same keyboard everywhere - I have several Logitech MK250's - the keys are where they should be rather than just slightly non-standard. Therefore consider sticking with what you know.
Since the article doesn't mention it, service workers are basically JavaScript threads that run in the background even when the web page is closed. (With permission, of course.) They are a key part of bringing web apps up to parity with native applications and I'm looking forward to being able to use them :)
Felons are required to disclose on their job applications that they have a prior felony, and what it was they did. This has the effect of making it extremely difficult for them to find work, especially in white collar industries.

Edit: Apparently I am wrong, they aren't technically required to disclose it. However, in practice, every job application I have ever seen has had the question.
Mission Revenge
On my Mac, I have no problem with it. Yes, it's a bit bloated because it does too many things, but I don't feel limited by it. Other than FLAC files, which I have a converter for, it plays everything I deal with regularly.

On my Win 7 32-bit PC, it's a steaming pile of something you don't want to step in. It crashes on startup. It crashes when playing music. It crashes when accessing the iTunes store. It even crashes when it's just sitting there doing nothing.

If Apple wants to streamline it I hope they start with the Windows version first, but that's only my opinion.
About the X: Yeah, that is stupid actually... I will update the article to change it to X.
I, for one, feel that humanity would benefit from this generation's digital presence being wiped from existence. Everyone on this planet is now dumber for having experienced it. I fully support and will tell my congressman to vote for a digital dark age.

Now get off my lawn!
remoteStorage - An open protocol for per-user storage

https://remotestorage.io
I worked through it last year and had a great time. Enjoy!
The way to approach iTunes is what is its functionality, the pros and cons of its actions, and whether it accomplishes it well.

Functionality-wise, it works. People should remember the days of when devices would be USB'ed into a computer and not work. I can hook up an iPhone, an iPod touch, and iPod shuffle and the system instantly recognizes them, checks them for any discrepancies between the two and will allow me to sync and backup. I cannot say the same for my Windows Phone 8.1 which getting to a mass storage state requires planetary alignments and a passing comet (Microsoft, please fix this!).

Pros:

-Your device is recognized, has a graphic showing you the device and provides you with great information on the contents of the device. You can also make changes and back up individual game state files in the iTunes.

-Backups and restores are simple.

-You can transfer photos from the file system to your hard drive outside of iTunes.

-You can keep track of authorized and non-authorized devices on your own computer without having to go through a web portal.

Cons:

-iTunes is constantly changing the user interface between versions and makes it a learning curve period of about four tries before learning where the buttons are and the path to accomplishing tasks. All of this done without any easy to follow instructions.

-The first install of iTunes on a new system is great, however, each additional update places a small unnoticeable mess on my computer (in terms of start up time and interaction), by the time I am on the tenth version update, I am questioning the usefulness of the program.

-Music transfer between devices and ripping from CD's has a steep Choose Your Own Adventure feeling to it. Ripping a CD meant you had to choose between the AAC and MP3 format, while you can change these later, it is a pain. Transfer between devices has a prompt on whether you own the music. Compare this transfer within the Android or Windows Phone mass storage method and it is simply a drag and drop in the explorer file system.

Summary: iTunes creates a walled off system, but accepting it is much better than the messes that were preceding it.
We don't preserve muddy door matts today "for posterity." That we can't know exactly what will be important in the future doesn't mean we can't reasonably predict what won't be.
Talk about this kind of journalism out of context (why you don’t trust a particular study, for instance) and you’ll be called a quack or conspiracy theorist.
I cannot tell you just how much I fucking loathe iTunes.

The Windows version is bad, but I hate the OSX version about as much.

I'd be fine with iTunes if Apple gave me an opt out. Even if it had a big sign saying "after this you're on your own; you get absolutely no support from us for anything if you use this opt out".
It is the furnace blower fan that is the essential thing to power. (assuming a natural gas/propane furnace) With that you can heat your house. If you can heat your house you can have running water. Without heat you will need to shut off the water and drain the pipes so they do not burst. At that point you have no heat and no water and you probably need to just leave.
A tool for creating, tracking, and optimizing your startup’s growth strategies
Hey everyone,

I'm looking to get the HN community's opinion on an application I am thinking of developing. The basic idea is that it is hard to create and keep track of effective content marketing and growth systems and see how they are performing for your startup. For example, how many new paying users did that blog post I wrote bring in? How about trial users? What about the guest post I wrote, did it bring in any new paying customers? If so, how many? It would be great if there was an application to create and organize growth campaigns, and then see, using real data, exactly how those campaigns are affecting your startup.

I want to develop a tool that would allow startups to create goals, like getting 1,000 new users, and then create a growth campaign designed to accomplish that goal, and track its performance.

The tool would help you set up a campaign, create daily action steps to completing the campaign, track its progress toward reaching the goal, and then show you what worked and what didn't so you could optimize it for future goals. It would use real data so you could see right there exactly what parts of the growth campaign helped you reach the goal, and what parts didn't.

What do you guys think? Is this something needed in the startup community? Would you use it? Would you pay to use it?

Thanks so much for your help everyone!
Where were your faulty detectors? My ex-girlfriend's dad used to do testing for a smoke alarm company a while ago. I learned an interesting thing from that. You know what they use to simulate smoke when they test smoke detectors? Hair spray. The fine mist is actually pretty good at tricking the sensor into thinking there are smoke particulates in the air. This also leads to an interesting failure scenario for many home smoke alarms: those close to bathrooms or in women's bedrooms tend to get gunked up with hairspray.
I had a hand in the design of this site. The font looks ok to me on OS X but too light in IE8-10. I've upped the weight in IE. Hope that helps.
Kineses freestyle 2 will drastically reduce pain, especially when used with a standing desk.
i think you're missing the key argument which is that playing music is just one of the many things iTunes does. Those of us who dislike it rarely hate it as much for its music playing as for the fact that it's a file transfer app (to get files into and out of ios apps), it's a iOS backup and sync manager, it's an OS updater, its a store, it's a music player, and probably 3 other things i've forgotten.
What happens after you file for bankruptcy
One way to look at a current stock price, especially one that doesn't pay a dividend, is strictly as "a future projection". That's how investors arrive at a price. Using the words "right now" doesn't remove that aspect of stock valuation. Without a dividend and without a future projection a stock is worthless.

Why would anyone pay even a nickel a share for Tesla, unless they were making a future projection and discounting it back to the present?

Musk's September 2014 statement and his February 2015 statement were both future projections as far as I'm concerned.
I have the opposite setup, I use a mechanical at work and an MS Natural 4000 at home.

To be honest, I don't notice much of a difference in strain between the two and would even suggest that simply having two types may be beneficial. I do enjoy using my mechanical keyboard more. It certainly feels faster and you get a bit of a high when really pounding out lines of code, just because of the sound, but I don't know that its fast enough to warrant the price difference.
Chartjs already is too much. Even with d3 could not be called tiny, just small xD
> His comments were interpreted as a direct attack on encrypted communications, such as Apple's FaceTime and Microsoft's Skype, among others.

Wow, BBC is so bad at this. Law enforcement can get any type of data they want from Skype already. They don't need anymore backdoors for that. Facetime, at least the audio part I think is end-to-end, and I don't think they can get access to it.

I'm amazed that after all the Snowden revelations there are news agencies (and because ones at that) that still consider Skype "secure".
This is a question that google is good at answering.

http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/29366
"The C Companion" gives logical identities like

(A && B) || (A && !B) == A,

but what he means by A on the RHS, I think, is that you must take into account the fact that A_LHS might be zero. You can't really write this identity and give a constant on the right, so he wrote the next best thing.

Well, the real next best thing would be !(!A).
Camlistore seems relevant - it's whole intention is to last (at least) 100 years, primarily by making the data format simple and making data migration (ie, moving between providers, between hard disks, etc) a common thing. https://camlistore.org/
I think as soon as there is a comm protocol that is worth calling a winner (works well, widely supported), it will quickly become the case that LED bulbs and fixtures will come with it built in. A while after that, whole home lighting control is a $100 feature that you expect in every house (or less for smaller places), not a $500 or $1000 feature that doesn't work very well in houses where the owner really pursued it.
I think it was perfectly acceptable, yes. I wrote a paper on a topic of my choice, I handed it in, and I then posted it to my site, as a blog post.

There was nothing that prohibited this, and I had posted data (astronomical observations & images) and assignments to my site for years previous to this incident.

Frankly, I would suggest that your thinking is extremely immature, if your first course of action is to call someone else immature, and to respect all authority unquestioningly - shows a lack of development of thought, and an absence of critical thinking.
So you want to be a developer rockstar?
GoDaddy bungles Mad Mimi
Got an email sending this morning via mad mimi? Your links aren't working, GoDaddy fumbling.
My year with the Raspberry Pi and what I used it for
How is this different than any other point in history? Throughout time, the vast majority of records and artifacts were lost, and only some given percentage survive. Let's say it's ~2% for argument's sake...actually, the amount of material that survives would decay over time - 40% after 10 years, 20% after 50 years, etc.

I have no idea what the rate of decay for digital records, information, and archives would be, but I would think it would be higher than information stored as hard copies of paper, books, etc. Of course, we are also producing orders of magnitudes more information than we were in the past.
Not necessarily. Analog data decays too. The issue is to be blind to the fact that neither `technology` is timeless and perfect. People are giving in too easy and too deep in digital data nowadays.
Thousands if not tens of thousands. I'm at over 45K in iPhoto alone. Have a kid or two and your wife can get a little shutter happy.
Imo the change of such an interface warrants a version bump . They should not be doing it often anyway. As a result this will reset the minor version number once in a while.
The letter was sent about a month before King went to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, so it's probably a reference to that.
Product Hunt (YC S14) Is Hiring a Lead iOS Engineer
Does anyone know of a (free) JS graph library that allows for data at irregular intervals?

I'm looking for something like this, but with a more permissive license: http://www.highcharts.com/demo/spline-irregular-time
Thanks for the invite! Will enjoy being here!
Here's a readily digestible summary of what's new in C11:

http://blog.smartbear.com/codereviewer/c11-a-new-c-standard-...
ES6 support doesn't seem complete yet, otherwise I'd totally be using it! I tried using it with 6to5 this past weekend, but espree is still missing some features. They've been moving really quickly, though! Relevant issue: https://github.com/eslint/espree/issues/10
But won't google get mixed up that I no longer use my gmail?.. I guess not hey?
Sure, my point was not that semver is the best, my point was that version numbers aren't a product name, they should be scientific. Whether it's semver or date-based, as long as it obeys rules so that people using your product can easily distinguish versions.
We started the project back in 2012. It's an open source version of Campfire. :)
That is incorrect. There is nothing in the law requiring felons to disclose this. Some employers might ask, and perform their own background checks based on public information.
MongoDB bug has thousands dbs vulnerable