skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can build the hospital around something you might as well sue conveyer belts or pneumatic tubes. Being able to use existing infrastructure is the big reason you buy a delivery robot.
Many thanks -- will look into it!
I have a 2014 non-smart LG TV and a FireTV at home and have been fighting the "I only want a single remote" fight for quite a while. The FireTV is able to switch on the TV using HDMI CEC (and shut it off after 30 minutes of inactivity) but I'm still using the TV remote to control the speaker volume.

Funny enough, I had a single remote setup for one brief shining moment in 2008 with the second generation Apple TV; the AppleTV would switch on and off my HDMI TV using some precursor to CEC - the same sleep/wake function that modern PC monitors use - and could also control the volume using the up/down buttons on the remote by modulating the sound going over the HDMI connection. Unfortunately, Apple ripped this audio control functionality out with a software update a few months after the product was released and I was forced to break out the second remote again and eventually replaced the AppleTV. But the point is it is possible to have only one remote with an HDMI connected set top box, but that feature isn't a priority in the world of cable boxes and audio receivers.

Anyway, my experience with smart TVs is that they're a waste of money and incredibly frustrating compared to set top boxes like Roku/Chromecast/FireTV/AppleTV. On top of that, my experience with TV remotes is that I don't want manufacturers like LG, Samsung or Sony making my primary remote control. They invariably feel cheap, slow and clunky whereas Amazon/Apple and even Roku do a very good job.
For cable/internet in my limited experience with Time Warner and Comcast (US), there is a "passphrase" to be used if account details are to be changed. This was the case for certain two years ago, but maybe things have changed now.

Also, the electric companies and cable companies are in fairly separate domains so I'm not sure your analogy is apt.
i think you are taking it too literally. What I normally mean when i say it in this context is fetish. Something other people might find weird but i enjoy immensely.
I'm sure it is. The customer paid for the launch, but doesn't directly care about landing or recovery. That's a secondary mission that SpaceX has essentially glued on to the end. This is great for SpaceX because it means they're getting paid to test their experimental techniques. But it also means that you can't use this as an excuse to delay.

Imagine if you paid UPS to send a package across the country and they delayed your package by a week because they're testing a new cargo plane and conditions aren't currently favorable for testing, even though the normal cargo plane would do the job fine right now. You'd probably be pretty unhappy that UPS is putting their own internal testing ahead of doing what you paid them for.
Individual doctors do not make purchasing decisions. They don't have pharma reps turn up at GP clinics handing out free lunches in exchange for prescriptions. The NHS decides what drugs are allowed to be prescribed and doctors are limited to that list. It puts a huge crimp in any marketing.
Jake Wharton's Analysis of Kotlin for Android Development
All of their launches to the ISS have instantaneous windows.
Please Don’t Call It Trash-80: A 35th Anniversary Salute to Radio Shack’s TRS-80
Yeah, true, but the building blocks are available to port it to any cheap Android 4.x phone. I just don't have them available. I also chose this particular list because all of them ship rooted and have downloadable images available in case someone f*ks up, so I don't brick anyone's device :-)

An open source kernel also helps when you do GPIO support etc.
Discussion on the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376498
I would argue that the very notion that cases of fraud and dishonesty make such large media headlines underscores the American culture of honesty the OP is referring to.

Brian Williams was just suspended for six months without pay for lying about a single news story more than a decade ago. From a business perspective, NBC knows their viewers won't take them seriously if they keep a potentially dishonest news anchor on the air.

I agree that fraud and otherwise unethical behavior is still pretty present in the American system, but there's at least a cultural understanding that these things are bad; this, of course, presupposes that A) you can prove that the behavior was either fraudulent or unethical, and B) that the perpetrator was caught.
Ethos Solutions and Heroku: Building the Internet of GRILLED Things
Good points. I doubt if they are aiming at any competition. Their stated goal is to reduce the cost of the hardware for themselves by standardizing it. Their hope is that the other big guys (amazon, google etc) will pick this solution up driving up adoption and lowering the cost. If this happens, Cisco, Juniper et al gets disrupted and that's just a side effect.
Google docs version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kUm03Zr3QsmX3SRT-Xv3-i67...
The image up top on http://rawspicebar.com/how-it-works/ is clickable, just FYI. It seems to be the only one that's like that.

Also, cool idea overall. I'm thinking I may have to give this a shot as I don't know crap about spices. Having someone put together stuff for me would make cooking a lot easier.
Isn't this just wrapping for the COTS switching ASICs or am I missing something big?

Almost all "open" projects seem to hit a point where the line between open and closed is quite arbitrary, even if they choose not to see it that way.
Building an app – how do you get a team going?
I have a pretty good idea for a web app I wanna build. I've been grinding out for a couple of months trying to become a developer as fast as possible. I can do basic html and css, and been trying to catch up on rails and javascript.

I'm doing the web development immersive from general assembly next month so I'm hoping this will accelerate the process.

However, the app I have in mind is pretty tech heavy. I'm pretty sure it's gonna take me a loong time to figure it all out by myself.

I have a business that allows me a lot of free time and a few extra g's to hire someone, but I' don't think I could quite afford paying a competitive rate for a great developer.

I really want to build this thing, even if it takes me a year and I have to do it all myself.. but I would rather work in a team.

Any suggestions on how to get a team going if you can pay someone (let's say like 40k/year) for some high tech skills.

Obviously hiring someone that's gonna just leave and steal my idea would be like my worst nightmare too haha.

Ideally I would build a prototype and submit for ycombinator. I feel like I need to do this once I feel more confident about my developer skills.
There are a huge number of people who don't enjoy programming in lisps and don't buy the tradeoff that homoiconicity is somehow worth sacrificing all syntax for.

You can take 'good parts' from functional programming without going 'all in'. Many of us don't agree that the 'all in' is actually better.

(See Gary Bernhardt's 'Boundaries' talk [0] for an amazing explanation of what I mean by taking the good parts of FP).

React isn't really about functional programming, it's very object-oriented. And where the parent comment refers to 'composition', they mean composition of components/view code, not pure functions as you may have interpreted it as.

Personally my dive into the Clojure community has been very frustrating, I find very few answers on how to actually compose large apps, and the answers I do find basically point back to OOP (but implemented in a syntax-less, ad-hoc manner [1]).

If I've got this wrong, please tell me, I'm dying for better answers.

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries

[1] Stuart Sierra - Components Just Enough Structure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13cmHf_kt-Q
Except Korea and Japan aren't autocracies. They're just so much more flexible by having an open democratic process and open markets. The CCP is its own roadblock in China. Sure it can make special economic zones and play command economy with construction and development (lets ignore the ghost towns they have built for now), but that approach is self-limiting.

China won't liberalize the way Korea and Japan did after the war. They're very much in bed with complete political, economic, and cultural control. That means worse outcomes from a capitalist point of view. They can only manufacture US widgets and steal blueprints for so long. They really don't have a capitalist and innovators culture. Usually that's a temporary problem in western-style governments, but in an autocracy its fatal. Look at Putin's terrible oil-based economy. Autocrats can't play the open liberalization game because autocracy is naturally very, very conservative and controlling. Part of this game, if not the most important part, is giving up quite a bit political control and performing regulatory actions that hurt the top players like fighting corruption, preserving competition, protecting IP and property rights, helping labor movements go forward, and cleaning up the environment. Autocracies dont often do these things. If they did, they would probably cease to be autocracies.
Wouldn't that be done better with a live-updating shared document, ala Google Docs?
Our competitor has an article in wired! I'll just say that the QC Bot has the ability to plan around obstacles it's detected instead of stopping and it has a friendly touchscreen for giving it directions.
Why You Need a Growth Mindset.
Much like political anarchy, it either works really well and everyone is happy with it, or it is conquered by the King of Tonga and subsides back into the ocean. Or Mr. Humungus (who sounds like a reasonable feller) tries to take the gasoline truck. Or everyone in the company dies from tubercuthrax.

But it wasn't exactly anarchy, was it?

If you leave 18 baseball players to their own devices for a whole Saturday, on a baseball field, with a stack of baseballs, gloves, and bats, you will probably come back to discover that they played at least one game of baseball.

It's only half the story if we don't know how the Guardian assembled its development team.
Someone has forgotten a prime lesson from Mary Poppins: never say never.
Yeah there was nothing more irritating than having to pay Rogers $50 after having an iPhone for three years.
The "autonomous" part is the problem.

Any robot capable of hauling "1000 pounds of linen" would probably be pretty heavy itself (batteries, motors etc) and can probably crush your toes if it runs over them, even at low speeds.

I guess that means just adhering to the first law preventing injury to humans.
The Implications for Law of User Innovation
And yet, Japanese and Korean engineers still have problems with creativity relative to their western counterparts. A lot of that has to do with a hierarchical Confucian culture. Sure, they've mastered quality and efficiency, but some areas need more than that, namely software.
I believe that the Falcon Heavy animation showed the stages returning to the launch facility. SpaceX's primary goals with reusable stages are reduced cost and reduced time to refurbish, and landing at the launch site is a big part of that.
House of Cards season three is on Netflix right now
Seeing many negative comments here. As someone getting to grips with programming and who already has a paid position I do sometimes wonder what I would need to be doing / know to have a more advanced position.

What do people want, and how should I say I have what people want (assuming i do)
Flagged for paywall (in this case an active RHN subscription).
What would be licensed? Who would license it? How could they ever sue for infringement with a public notice on the Internet making the work available for unrestricted use without a reservation of rights?

While there isn't any clear reason form contracts can't be copyrighted, it isn't at all clear who would hold the copyright or whether it could ever be effectively enforced.

Ken Adams has a nice write-up of associated issues:

http://www.adamsdrafting.com/downloads/Copyright-NYLJ-8.23.0...

Edit: typo
They've already launched from California, at Vandenberg AFB. They've begun constructing a drone ship for landing future rockets launched from Vandenberg, named Of Course I Still Love You (the one currently in use for KSC launches is called Just Read the Instructions).

And yes, they are currently constructing a new spaceport in Texas near Brownsville at the far southeastern corner of the state. Completion and first launches are anticipated in 2016. I'd guess they might use the current drone ship for landings from that one as well, but a lot can change in 2+ years so we'll have to see.
I would absolutely love to see a good human-computer interaction study done at this hospital.

Also, I wonder how they handle full elevators, or blocked hallways (somebody left a cart in the way, for example)?
Any prescription you get on the NHS costs the same amount (and there are many exemptions, for example they're free if you're a child, unemployed, retired, a cancer patient etc). There's always some debate about certain very expensive drugs (generally for cancer) and whether the NHS should pay.
what's strange to me is why not continue to delay. how much money are they blowing by letting it land in the ocean? I suppose they are under some kind of contractual obligation?
Yeah, this one could be used for 3d printing and electronics assembly, I'm interested in something which could have the capability to manipulate objects, say a tennis ball, etc, or allow a camera to be mounted on it.
Forgive a plug for my open-source project:

https://vimeo.com/119031346
At this point, why does anyone (that's knowledgeable enough to read this) have flash enabled?
Groovy's creation year is wrong, it should be 2003 not 2004. It was first announced by creator James Strachan on 29 August 2003, and its very first release (Groovy 1.0 beta 1) was on 11 December of that same year.

Unfortunately, someone who became a "despot" of the project at its repository (Codehaus) on 4 May 2004 started referring to himself as Groovy's creator in publicity articles about a year ago. A few months ago, someone even tried deleting the Wikipedia link to James Strachan's webpage announcing the Groovy Language.
I wonder how this will work with used phones purchased privately. I bought a phone on craigslist that was locked to T-Mobile. It wasn't blacklisted so I'm able to use it on T-Mobile, but I don't know if the contract was paid in full, the original account is in good standing, etc.
I guess you haven't read the JLS.

There isn't any requirement for red threads in certified JVMs and a few of them do offer green threads, which is actually how the first versions used to do threading.
Looks like you know what you are doing. Good.

>With my session example, we use the session object to display the user's name in various places. It's easy to use the session object to do this; I can just stick it in the view.

Correct. No need for pub\sub here since data is coming from server and we are not manipulating it. Pub\sub is required in scenarios where actions are taking place on client side like user registration, forgot pwd or ordering a product etc

> A session is a global thing, isn't it? Why wouldn't it belong in the global context?

Absolutely. Session is more of a read-only object after once set on the server. I know some people use it to store objects and that is not right.

A bad example of a global object would be

var settings =

{
showCheckoutbutton: false,
Ordertotal: 200,
calculatedtax: false,
showOffers: true,
ShowTopbar: false
}

I constructed this hypothetical object just to give an idea about an evil entity. Some developers would set certain properties in certain functions. It would definitely show zombie behaviour at certain times.

I enjoyed our conversation. Thanks for being so nice with your response.
Correct. They are contracted to launch a satellite. Anything more (such as doing landing experiments) are wholly secondary to that goal.
The last sentence of the article:

"And because many people—both admirers of McCandless and his detractors—regard “Into the Wild” as a cautionary tale, it’s important to know as much as possible about how McCandless actually may have died."
I agree with your assessment. There is a research firm, Muddy Waters, that specializes in exposing fraudulent companies, and from what I understand, they are doing very well. This article is devoid of the 'counter points' that I see brought up regularly (sometimes too much, or too hyperbole oriented) over at ZeroHedge. That site is by far the other side of the coin to this article, such as the following postulation:

The McKinsey graph on China tells it all. For the moment, forget about leverage ratios, debt carrying capacity and all the other fancy economic metrics. Does it seem likely that a country which is still run by a communist dictatorship and which was on the verge of mass starvation and utter impoverishment only 35 years ago could have prudently increased its outstanding total debt (public and private) from $2 trillion to $28 trillion or by 14X in the short span of 14 years? And especially when half of this period encompassed what is held to be the greatest global financial crisis of modern times

And don’t forget that most of this staggering sum of debt was issued by a “banking” system (and its shadow banking affiliates) which is bereft of any and every known mechanism of financial discipline and market constraints on risk and credit extension. In effect, it is simply a vast pyramidal appendage of the Chinese state in which credit is conjured from thin air by the trillions, and then cascaded in plans and quotas down through regions, counties, cities and towns.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-06/china%E2%80%99s-mon...
This is usually borne by the string literal being used to express the regular expression literal syntax in many languages. Perl, for example, has a regular expression literal syntax that is part of the language proper (which has the added benefit that non-dynamic regular expressions can be checked for syntax at compile time). Python, in contrast, doesn't have a first-class regular expression literal, but makes it easier to deal with by prefixing the literal with r or R to create a "raw string" (which exists to avoid excessive backslash escaping). Some regular expression engines use % as the meta-character indicator, which is more compatible with C-style "escape sequences" in double-quoted strings).

If you think characters and logic need to be on different quoting levels, you're not taking the right perspective on regular expressions. \d or \w are not an escaped d or w, they are their own atoms (or "the keywords of the language", if you will), distinct from the atoms that match the ASCII characters 0x64 and 0x77. The thing to remember with regular expressions is always the first lesson presented: (non-meta) characters match themselves, the regular expression /a/ matches the letter a. What's implied here, but rarely said, is that that's not really the letter a in there, but rather an expression that matches the letter a—it just so happens to also look like the thing it matches. This distinction is subtle, but important. This can also be made more evident by using the /x modifier if it's available to spread out the individual expressions (put space between the keywords).

The primary difference in regular expression languages is often how "logic", as you call it, is expressed. PCRE considers, for example, [ to be the character for opening a character class and \[ to match the byte 0x5b. Admittedly, this is confusing when switching engines because 1) not every character matches itself (the expression that matches a character and the character it matches are not visually the same) and 2) other RE engines have taken the opposite approach depending on if that engine was meant, by the author, to have more literal atoms or more logic in its most common use (that is, you save typing if you mean to match the byte 0x5b more frequently than if you mean to open a character class).

As for "quoting", you almost NEVER should be using things like PCRE's \Q…\E (or the quotemeta function) unless you're building regular expressions dynamically from user-input. quotemeta and friends are not readability tools, but safety tools.
"Wrapping commodity ASICs" is worth $4B: http://www.arista.com/

If Facebook wants to give me that value for free I won't complain.
The rockets will not last all that many cycles. It might just be a handful, or it may be a couple dozen, but after enough reuses they'll have worn out too much to continue. For that last flight you could fly it expendable without any sort of penalty. You might even give people a "this rocket is old and tired" discount for it. If customers who don't want to be subject to landing-related delays aren't too common, that could be enough to satisfy that need.
ThreatExchange: Facebook launches a new threat sharing platform
It seems to be a fundamental assumption of most economy pieces out there that growth is good, stagnation is bad, and we should strive for ever more growth.

But how much growth can we actual sustain with the limited resources we have on earth? When is it time to stop?

Are there better things to optimize for? Happiness, maybe? Peace? Does growth make people happy and countries peaceful? Maybe we could achieve something good by re-distributing wealth, instead of trying to create and more and more.
well that much is obvious. what I meant was, they have already delayed 3 days, why can't they keep delaying? does it say in the contract it has to be delivered by such and such date?
Who is Barnabas and why is he smiling?
Does it really matter whether he was poisoned by one chemical or another, or simply starved to death? Either way, the cautionary tale of against deciding to go live in the woods without adequate preparation stands.
Ask HN: How do phones and tablets have such high resolutions for cheap?
Why is it that I can buy a replacement LCD for an iPhone or iPad, or even just buy a phone with a super high-resolution screen for pretty cheap but can't find a standalone LCD with that kind of resolution?

I have found some weird HDMI-MIPI converters online, but most are still really limited in resolution and performance.

A 7 inch touch-screen retina to hook up to my Raspberry-PI would make for some really cool side projects.

Note: I know of solutions to hack lcd's but how come nobody comes out with standalone purchasable high-res small screens?
'House of Cards' Season 3 is on Netflix 2 weeks early
A huge sticking point for us right now is that Azure has no data warehousing capabilities. You're basically limited to "spin up a huge, expensive VM and install SSAS on it and make sure you have an expert DBA around that knows his way around all the little nuances of MS-SQL and SSAS".

It is honestly, in my opinion, Azure's current biggest failing. We use cutting edge features and marketplace offerings when we can and the space seems ripe for disruption with companies like Birst, Spotfire, and others really going on the offensive. Microsoft has one of the most mature Data Warehousing offerings for the traditional environment, and it seems crazy that after 5 years there's nothing built into Azure for it.

All that said, do you know of any plans, timelines, or similar services to a fully hosted SSAS-like Data Warehousing solution?
In addition this whole thing is anchored on continued growth. At some point there isn't going to be any growth left, specially as pop. growth rates decline and the third world begins toward economic equilibrium. You can't grow forever, at a global scale. At some point, thirty or forty years from now the growth we depend on for economic viability (as a society) is not going to be there. A new model will have to emerge. The so called neo liberal economic system depends on growth... But its not going to be there forever, as Japan has learnt.
Image of Chinese worker with 100 iPhones shows how AppStore rankings manipulated