skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if there are only driverless cars, you can imagine that some models will have a costly casualty limiting option that will ask cheap neighbouring cars to take the maximum damage when a collision occur.
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The article's not claiming that the ratio of any two integers is √2, he's claiming that when the ratio of the lengths of the sides (the aspect ratio) is √2 that it's easy to keep that ratio with smaller pages by cutting the longer dimension in half.

As for your equation above, A/√A != A x A / A, but I'm not seeing where in the article you got this either.
Soon it may be more expensive to buy a dumb TV than a smart TV, if the manufacturer is counting on ad revenue.
The A0 being 1m^2 is important too, if you're ordering paper by area?
You thought wrong. See, e.g., http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/addiction/how-is-addict...
Nooo... Dunder mifflin will be out of business!
Another fun fact:

An A0 piece of paper has an area of exactly 1 square meter.
Everyone is copying everyone. Grow up.
This goes both ways. I've met many people who seem to be just as 'normal' as the people around them, but suffer from their behavior. Especially when it comes to alcohol, I've noticed that identical behavior over time can diverge: one person might just stop drinking as they grow up, while the other ends up being unhealthily dependent on their drinking. And the latter situation seems fine and might even go unnoticed by everyone... until it suddenly isn't (break-up, being fired, depression).
It's not the place, but not that you've brought it, as an American I say imperial units can go die in a fire.
Exactly. And I feel this graph gives an idea of what the tendencies for a language is, and then you can research the context. You can glimpse a lot of fun things from this graph.
That scenario is incredibly unlikely in the UK, but even then, you could have an emergency-call mechanism that could take control of the car remotely.
It's not that big a deal: once you have a basic page size that's close enough, it's just a matter of slicing it in two. In practice, any error is too small to matter.
I'm still confused on what the thinking on saturated fat is. does anyone know? I keep hearing how healthy coconut oil is but isn't that saturated fat?

What about cream? Bacon?
Samsung SmartTV Privacy Policy: Disable the Smart in Your Smart TV
How much do you make? Ruby on Rails engineers
How much do you make? How much do same-level iOS developers make on your company?

According to popular websites:

Indeed
IN Junior rails dev ny 133k
IN Junior rails dev boston 122k
IN Junior rails dev SF 150k
IN Senior ruby on rails SF CA 151k

PayScale
PYSC Ruby soft dev 71k

SimplyHired
SIHI Senior iOS dev 110
SIHI	rails dev 104
SIHI Senior rails dev 111
SIHI Senior rails eng 130
Ask HN: The Unintended Consequences of Using FAGT Logins
We are working on a new website (directed at current and former students in the U.S. seeking public service loan forgiveness) and based on the research I've been doing, it seems like the community-building trend these days is to have new users register using one of their social media accounts logins as opposed to setting up a new account with the host site.

And I can understand why? Convenience for both the provider and the client. Spin off effects from associating with a recognized brand. The ability to piggy-back on a (purportedly) trusted source, NSA/CIA/FBI affiliations notwithstanding. But is this approach really in the best interest of our users?

One more piece of information -- we won't be handling any financial transactions but we will be keeping track of earned points (think frequent flyer miles) that our registrants can trade or cash in at a companion website we will be setting up to reward user participation.

Here is what I like to know: are there any unintended consequences from taking the path of least resistance; viz., allowing our users to use their FAGT logins? Or is it's turtles all the way... i.e., a non-issue I don't need to be overly concerned about?

Thanks for any insight you can provide... in the sense that it is still not too late to pull back and rethink what we are doing and why. Long term, we are hoping to benefit our customers, not harm them.
No its not. In fact its completely unrelated because when making book you should care for aspects like font size and text body layout which follow an ergonomic perspective.

E.g. the same booklet layout on a3 wouldn't work at all because the font would be huge. Keep the font size small and you have really long lines...
I don't understand why dropbox still doesn't have it's own email/messaging platfrom
Only the Supreme Court can effectively decide such a thing. While tragic in some ways, at the level of this judge he is to small potatoes to deal with a major constitutional issue. Of course I doubt the Supremes want to touch this either.
>and what likely isn't growing strong in 2014, is likely to continue that trend in 2015.

Based on what?
It's just that you can resize everything while still keeping the same portions with the A* paper while with the US formats you just have to redesign everything.
Smart TVs are a terrible idea for the same reason that combined printer and scanners are a bad idea but with the negative aspect magnified many times. The cost and life expectancy of each part is very different and you don't want their replacement/upgrade to be tied together.

A display panel should last you more than a decade and probably costs many 100s or 1000s. The 'smart' bit is probably worth less than $200 and is probably going to be obsolete in a couple of years.

EDIT - another thing. I want the people that make my 'smart' box to be nimble, forward looking new media companies - not box shifters like Samsung, LG, Philips et al. Most Smart TVs have awful software (LG's purchase of WebOS might lead them to be an exception here)

I've been asked by non-tech friends and relatives about SmartTVs many times and my answer is always "don't touch them with a barge-pole" and a link to a Roku/Chromecast/AppleTV etc.
Your story reminds me of my current GF, who is catholic. she had to "justify" dating me to her granny, who said something along "he is probably mkay, but atheist! have you lost your mind?"
After meeting me, granny had to correct her perception and accept that atheists can be actually good people too :)
9 Tips for Early Customer Development Conversations – Inbound Rocket
I believe they do. I'm hardly an expert, but on the Serial podcast, which details a murder investigation, cellphone tracking gathered from the carrier is introduced as evidence, and the events are described as "pings" (not calls, and probably not data since this was in the early 90s). I don't think they actually triangulate the position, they just know the tower the cellphone "pinged" and the approximate distance based on signal power.

This would be a tremendous amount of information to retain

Not really. An IMSI takes about 7 bytes, plus a few for location, let's say 12 bytes. Multiplied by, say, 2000 pings a day per user, by 300M users, that's just 7TBs/day, for all carriers.

Facebook alone deals with 600TBs/day.
How much do you make? iOS
How much do you make? How much do same-level Ruby developers make on your company?

According to popular websites:

Indeed
IN Junior iOS dev NY 105
IN Junior iOS dev SF 104
IN Senior iOS dev SF CA 150

PYSC iOS soft dev 78

SIHI Senior iOS dev 110
Yeah, but that's really a different argument. Once you get the ratio argument, you get the utility of the system.
Are you a bookmaker? The are the ones with the problems. ;)

> I have seen lots and lots of A4 books

And they all have suboptimal layouts.
Not really. Dad installed smart TVs in his beach house (he figured it was easier than wiring up DVD players and Rokus in 10 rooms). While the apps do work, they are slow, clunky, and the UX is never as good as that which is delivered on dedicated streaming devices. The configuration is always buried, so switching accounts is an exercise in futility. So, he just leaves his Roku account signed in and deals with the clutter in his personal watch list.
Massive New Startup Hub in Lithuania
This usually happens when they are doing infrastructure or software updates to the site.

It will be back online soon.

You can also check there operations page

https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops
I'm reminded of an incident when I was a kid, when a freeway in Sweden was closed because of falling geese.

They'd gotten drunk by eating fermented berries, so much so that apparently quite a number were unable to continue flying, or make a safe landing. Some cars were hit before the local freeway was closed (I don't think there were any human casualties; not so sure about the geese).

Of course that could have been an aberration, but as it turns out, in places where fermented berries or fruit is regularly available, animals do often explicitly seek it out.
I've never heard it expressed as though people did not (as in ever) drink water, but that beer and wine were far more popular as casual, everyday drinks than they are now for purposes of sanitation.

Which makes some sense when you consider that the items mentioned - rainfall, melted snow, etc. - are not readily available all times of the year in all locales.

If anyone had said "they didn't drink water in the Medieval ages" I think that, like stagnant water, it wouldn't pass anyone's sniff test.
Or the fact that mere use of a substance isn't the same thing as addiction/dependence.

Now, what stops them from being called a "drug abuser" is that their substances of choice are legal, so aren't subject to the use=abuse idea that applies to illegal drugs, but even illegal drugs aren't generally subject to a use=addiction idea.
Totally agree on your comment on agile. It is a blight on our profession. I was having beers with an old friend from undergrad yesterday - our career paths have taken us very different places. What's common is that both of our employers have been instituting agile in very dysfunctional forms. My friend and I are both in our 30s and we were jokingly thinking how long we can take this crap before we have to either move to management or change careers completely (unlikely since we love tech so much).

I would not put unit testing in the same camp - frankly, my employer doesn't care about unit testing at all - to my chagrin. Senior developers sneak in unit tests on the minutes of breathing room we get. I actually got a lecture on "company cares about customer visible features". Well .. you know what? Software that doesn't crash is a pretty darned customer visible feature.

What makes me very uncomfortable is that my current situation reminds me of what I saw on the news about the BP oil spill incident. Management asks very pointed and specific questions - engineers answer truthfully. Mgmt makes wild decisions based on half information. I fear this kind of crap is rampant in organizations not run by technical people. Is it any better at places run by technical people?

The fundamental problem plaguing our industry is perhaps not agile - that is a mere symptom of it. The core problem IMHO are treating people like cogs and the need to continuously move faster.

Rant over. I needed that. Off to sneak in some unit tests.
In other words, they're trying to say

agree = iAgree || !iDisagree;

and the disagree option is somehow missing, so they can conveniently default it to being unselected and you're "agreeing" whether or not "I Agree" is selected. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
> The lesson here: please don't patent stuff jn your open-source software, in case you wake up one day and got acquihired by Evil™.

Or use a a license with a patent grant, like Apache 2.0 or GPL 3.
> It was like talking to a brick wall.

I know those types of conversations. They stay with you for months and sometimes years, never ceasing to irritate.
How Prisoners Make Moonshine
> Some effort must be put into supporting TCP/IP Stacks in Userspace using new 10GBe cards or support for IB verbs

Obviously my understanding of networks is not at that level yet. What would a layman do to become somewhat vested in this? Any books or resrouces?
Babylon.js: a complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games
If the only differentiator and "secret sauce" in your product is a bunch of CSS and some D3 layouts, you've got a problem.

Stop whining and start creating some real backend system and process so that you can offer real value to your customers. I bet you would love to get patents on those charts and color combinations uh?
I regularly print out A4 documents two-to-a-page side-by-side on my office printer. It saves paper, its easier to carry around, and it works just fine. No distortion.

If your docs are US Letter, how well do they print out scaled down two-to-a-page side-by-side?
I wrote a post on ways to get more clients:
http://clientflow.io/blog/33-ways-to-get-more-clients

If you have no portfolio you'll have to use your past experience as a seller (what you did, how you did it, results, etc) until you start working on personal projects or hack together some products to showcase.
Well, look what happened. In public. Really doesn't make anyone look good.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the point of the guy you were arguing with in that thread was that the Ax standard was defined in terms of SI units as the US imperial units are?
From the FAQ:

Will you fund multiple startups working on the same idea?

Yes. If you fund as many companies as we do it's unavoidable you'll end up with some overlap. Even if you tried not to accept competing companies, you'd still get overlap because startups' ideas morph so much. The way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing.

In practice it has not turned out to be a problem, because most big markets have room for several slightly different solutions, and it's unlikely that two startups would do precisely the same thing.
Deezer Announces High Definition Streaming on Sonos Globally
That looks really iffy.
They spend a lot of effort explaining their logo, packaging and tshirts. But nearly nothing on their actual product, and even link to page that talk against their pill.
Why put 185mg of Inositol in, when they you need +12g daily does to get an effect?

I wonder if they have even tested the effect of the pills in any controlled manner.
Et Tu, Detroit? Practices of Automobile Manufacturers
Yeah. I'm from Sweden and when I think sandwich I think of this: http://i.imgur.com/hJwtQ7N.png
Y'know, you can just make the margins wider.
that's really nice that you already have support for multiple devices. really awesome project.
Ask HN: Is FB really slow today and/or intermittent?
This is why I am not keen on smart TV's. They are getting too smart for what they should do. Voice control? Why? Otis slower and more annoying than a simple remote. Streaming content? Unless this is the One True TV the company will make, they will quickly drop support for it. Then, when FooBarTube (tm) comes out and is the new Netflix, good luck getting the software for it.

Do what I do: buy the TV for the nice screen and get a Roku 3. Your life will get easier.
> Could someone please touch on the advantages of a smart TV offerings over my setup?

Advertisements during your locally stored content, possibly for whatever the hell it is that they are smoking at Samsung.
This is actually pretty important.

A lot of people (including myself) do actually get their political news from The Daily Show, because it's one of the few sources that's virtually incorruptible by virtue of consisting entirely of criticizing anything and everything.

A serious question: where else is there to go to for actual news? Please don't say "the news".
The Anti-Startup Manifesto
I am in the process of migrating our organisation's various systems into one Google Apps domain.

In my experience Drive's usefulness is far greater when use Drive for both Docs and file storage rather than for file storage alone.
My Sony KDL-46HX853 also has poor performance for the Source button. When turning the TV on from "standby" it displays a "Please wait" when you press the source button within the first few seconds (I haven't timed it, but it's long enough to be annoying). Apart from that, stepping through the sources is problematic, with it being laggy to respond, pausing on certain sources, and causing you to overshoot.

The next time I buy a TV, I'll try out the Source selection in a showroom first.
Although I don't agree with the width statement, I just wanted to note that I personally find the B sizes nicer than the A sizes for non-fiction books. I find A5 pages a tad small for textbooks, but B5 seems just right. (So, effectively "B4 folded", which is usually printed on A3 to begin with, then folded into signatures, bound, and then ultimately cropped.) And since it's all the same proportion, it makes it easy.
Taxes, dude, that's what's missing in the equation. If coffee was taxed the same as alcohol or tobacco there would be an increase of piggybank cracking to buy the next coffe fix.
Apply and show them how you will make things work out no matter what. Also, the idea shouldn't be a 'barbershop' idea like PG says. It should have a large TAM. I think that is all that really matters.
In this thread it looks like there are only two options: smart TV and dumb TV. But there's a third one: no TV. It has it's own set of advantages.
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Indeed. This is a nice example of data porn, in that we can pore over graphs and trends and make lots of speculations (which will conveniently confirm our pre-existing biases). It's visualisation, not analysis so we should take it with a large pinch of salt.

Having said that, I do think the visualisation is beautiful and there are definitely useful things that could be drawn from the data if someone were willing to do the extra work. However, I'm not sure I have much faith in the data quality e.g. some of my repos are considered 'CSS' just because I've added some boilerplate from elsewhere.
One thing I find curious is how in the early days right after NCSA Mosaic, "Mosaic" became a generic term for browsers - We got Netscape Mosaic and Spyglass Mosaic. NCSA quickly asserted their name, but it would be interesting how we could have had an alternative universe where we were using Mosaic Safari and Google Mosaic :)
Prosecutors shouldn't have immunity from their unethical – or unlawful – acts
This is what the B series is for. It maintains the geometric properties of the A series but has a 1.420 contrast ratio. B5 is what you want for a typical book.

It's also the geometric mean between A4 and A5, which is pretty cool!
Next step: metric measurement units everywhere. I've been waiting for that for decades. If "dozens" would die as well, even better.
This technique usually called 'kernel bypass'.
http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-m...
and
http://lukego.github.io/blog/2013/01/04/kernel-bypass-networ...
"Generate content" is the same as polluting the internet with repeated useless information?
And another link to the same content: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2015/02/opini...
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Odd how every single country in the world has adopted it, except for the US and Canada. They all changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#The_international_s...
> I'd much rather move somewhere like Austin or Denver and save $10k in living costs for my business

Penny pinching about $10k is completely irrelevant if you are hitting the growth rates that ycombinator is looking for.
I feel your pain. The tough part is realising how pointless those "someone is wrong on the internet"[1] discussions are. I get embarrassed looking back at situations like that, and think "why did I even care if this random person didn't get what I was saying about <thing-we-were-arguing-about>?"

[1] http://xkcd.com/386/
> And they all have suboptimal layouts.

(my emphasis)

My question would be - would you be willing to ascribe that to taste?
How in the world can this be any better than Rasberry Pi (or some equivalent) + dumb TV?

I see an opening for a 'TV Smartify' business selling customized Rasberry Pi's (or some equivalent) that you attach to your TV, plug in with HDMI/power/network, and go. Include a custom OS ready to go, a HDMI cable, wireless Keyboard/Mouse, customer case, and a power supply and sell it upmarked as a convenience (since the target market would be those who wouldn't even know what a Rasberry Pi was).
Just asking. Does YC value the IITs(Indian Institute of Technology) as much as they value Harv, Stan, etc. Lots of other people do value it quite a lot. How does YC see them?
He's written A / √A = A × A / A = A, but what he means is A / √A = √A × √A / √A = √A, which is actually true and is what he uses below
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter Issue 117
R's bump in Q1Y14 is probably when CRAN, R's largest "official" repo archive pushed all of its packages to Github. Pretty neat to see the volume right there.
CSS3 Transitioning Toggle Buttons
VMWare's Tony Scott Named New Federal CIO
The A0 being 1m^2 is important because paper weight is given in gsm - grams per square metre.

Thus when calculating postage weight by counting the number of sheets you can calculate that, for example, the weight of one A4 sheet is 1/16 the gsm of the paper - 1/(2^4).
DDD is there since the dawn of times. It can be quite powerful, in particular when working with linked lists, nested structures, etc.
Unfortunately there was not much active development in the past years. I think it being developed using a nowadays uncommon toolkit does not help. As far as I know there were attemts to move DDD to Qt or GTK to reactivate development and maybe make it more portable but these attempts apparently did not bear any visible fruits.
It would be nice to see DDD development come to live again.
People are starting to realise that the Internet Of Things Controlled By Someone Else is going to have the same petty awfulness as the web; unsolicited increasingly intrusive advertising and surveillance. Smartness becomes just another maintenance liability that requires regular security updates. I'm annoyed enough at having to update Flash again on the Win7/Media Centre PC that's my TV-watching setup.

(I put the PC in place after a series of set-top-box/PVRs from BT which came with the "BT Vision" service. That suffered from adverse updates that gradually made the interface infuriatingly slow.)

TVs really ought to pick up on HDMI activation/deactivation. I suspect the reason they don't is that it works 99% of the time but there are broken devices which would steal focus.
Now you know how hard it is to replace a legacy system. :)

Actually, we're going the wrong way. The last highway sign I saw in metric was on I-95 northbound. They replaced it a couple of years ago (too old - the reflective material was worn out), and the new one only has miles on it.

There's a short highway in Arizona (I-19) that is only signed in kilometers (it runs to the Mexican border), and there are calls to replace them all with distances in miles.
And I was trying to get across to him that the units used really didn't matter at all, but he didn't seem to get that point.

If you read the parent (by somebody else, not Turing_Machine), it said that the ISO/DIN page sizes are part of the metric system. I corrected him saying that they were only based on it (in that the sizes were defined in terms of metric units) and not part of it, but that what really mattered was the ratio between the long and short edges of the sheets being √2.

Then Turing_Machine came in with this total non sequitur:

> How are factors of 2 and sqrt(2) "based on metric"?

And then things went completely off the rails.

Edit: s/same/came/
Instead of blaming others for being dumb, you might want to take the following brief blog post to heart:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/but-you-did-not-persuade-me/
micropayment channels (https://bitcoinj.github.io/working-with-micropayments), are used between 2 parties to send a lot of micropayments. But here there is only one transaction even small.
Also micropayments may help against spam but not agains cold emailing