skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, of their current programming there is only one thing I find interesting. Big fan of the Sopranos and the Wire, but I can get those elsewhere since they're old.
> No person said it with words. Websites said it with their behavior.

No doubt, the majority of mobile websites need their asses kicked.
Out of several dozen different uses of laser pointers, I've only ever been able to (easily) see perhaps 3 or 4 of them, plus another small portion if focusing entirely on the game of spot-the-laser-pointer. It's related to my colourblindness.

As such, verbal cues (or a long stick) are preferable to a laser pointer. Of course, use a laser pointer to assist those who can see it, but it's better assume half the people in the room can't and use words to this effect.
Cool. I downvoted your original comment but this is a good explanation of where you're at.

Thank you.
It's hard to say. We're talking about humans and the systems we live within. Humans, by definition, have agency. When does an effect resulting from the actions of humans cease to be the product of agency?
Node.js fork JXcore goes open source, aims for mobile developers
SqueezeMail MS Outlook addin
Eventually, as linear TV is viewed less, the spectrum it now uses on cable, fiber, and over-the-air will be reallocated to expand Internet data transmission. Satellite TV subscribers will be fewer and more rural. The value of high-speed Internet will increase.

This is something that has always bothered me, internet bandwidth only takes up a small amount of spectrum in place of channels and the cable companies could cut lots of channels and improve broadband dramatically. The days of someone dictating what you watch and at what time are over, why all the spectrum hoarding.

Even when I got my first broadband cable connection, one of the first on the node in Chandler in 1996, the cable guy said it only used the space of 2 channels for internet data and the rest for broadcast/cable channels.
Neither the sensor elements in a camera nor the pixels in a monitor are selective for a single wavelength, but rather a spectrum. So we don't actually approximate cone response that way. The fact that we store the channel values as three integers does not change this.
How Tropical Fire Ants Traveled the World in the 16th Century
StackOverflow Considered Harmful?
A few mobile apps are super popular, but they are apps that load webpages inside of them.

For example, I find a lot of stories to read on Facebook and Twitter. On my phone, I use their mobile apps. And when I read a story, what I'm actually reading is a mobile webpage that loaded inside the app's captive browser view (I'm on an iPhone).

So both things are true--I'm spending my time in an app, AND I'm viewing a ton of mobile websites.
Racism is not apparent if you're white, it is probably more accurate to say. You have to really dig to learn about the experiences of people of color, living here. Having such a tiny black population helps reinforce this; there just isn't much chance to see or interact with (or see someone else behave badly toward) someone of color if you're white in Portland.
What would be the downside of having dinosaurs around? What would be the downside of me being a Homo habilis and carving this message into the side of a large rock?

Whenever humans meddle with the environment there are drastic unintended consequences. I get it, they're charismatic animals and that's probably why I'm being downvoted, but I don't think this is a particularly unreasonable dissenting opinion.
https://newbeautifulera.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-nature-...
Hah! Countless times I open up Netflix, scroll through endless lists of garbage, that even Netflix suggests I will rate 2 stars, then give up. On the Android app, "My List" doesn't appear to work. I used to pay for Netflix literally for recommendations (had a DVD-only sub, never queued DVDs). A good recommendation engine is easily worth $10/month for me.

Oh, then I finally pick something. And it starts, playing with subtitles in Portuguese because I'm visiting Central America, and Netflix apparently took language lessons from Feynman. Audio's in English, but screw my hearing, I've gotta go read another language. Even on titles with the "Netflix" brand on them, same crap. Or the subs are crappy.

So I give up, load up put.io, and in a few seconds I'm streaming HD on my big screen, Chromecast, or phone. (Unlike Netflix, which streams low quality for several minutes before popping into HD hopefully.)
You must live in an alternate universe. Trying to sort PayPal's shitty callbacks and test with their sandbox certainly was a good days work as recently as 3 years ago.

Also PayPal constantly tried to make your customer their customer and makes the whole process overly complicated with the login.
What kind of racism are you thinking about/describing, when you say you never noticed any? Like, guys in hoods? Confederate flags? that kind of thing?

I'm curious, because it seems like, if you're not a minority, you're going to miss out on all of it unless it's the Hollywood-ish in-your-face kind of racism.
I get what you are saying, but for me that experience went extinct years ago. Nobody in my circles watches anything live, and if they do, they don't talk about it within earshot of me.
Just relax! As one of my former bosses said: "All we do is just BI, we don't change the world and nobody is going to die if we f* it up." If it's really important to keep the deadline, you should be able to find help within your team or your company should pay 5.000$/day for a superhuman hacker to solve the problem.

Watch the Southpark episode "Ginger Cow". You don't have to sacrifice your health and wellbeing for a project. You can always find an other "very important" project and work yourself to death. But - high probably - you don't have a second life.
Dropcam Keeps an Eye on the Neighborhood
Yes and no. There is at least one case that I can remember[0] of pirated software being modified to download and install a virus.

According to Microsoft[1], 32% of pirated Windows 7 copies and activation cracks resulted in some sort of malware infection

Speaking anecdotally, most of the friends and family whose computers I've had to clean up have been running some sort of cracked/pirated software that they'd downloaded or had been given to them by a friend

[0] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/pirated...

[1] Admittedly, Microsoft has somewhat of a bias, but the number sounds reasonable to me: http://archive.news.softpedia.com/news/32-of-Pirated-Windows...
For a few bucks you can get a proxy or VPN in other countries. Pretty essential when traveling since Netflix cannot even keep their UI in a single language when I go on trips.
A year without God
Creating a resilient web business
I am getting ready to launch a new application with a business partner. I am the technical founder and only developer at the moment and want to make sure the business is resilient as far the app is concerned. I have the app in a private github repo, it's hosted on heroku, but all the development is done on my personal computer, which is backed up. God forbid if I get kidnapped by aliens or worse, I want to make sure my partners will be able to access and continue operating the app? Could someone point me to best practices concerning this issue?
What do you make of the statistics quoted below which shows that, at the 95th percentile, French uses 50% more words than English?

Compare
http://www.eupedia.com/europe/missing_words_english.shtml
and
http://www.eupedia.com/europe/missing_words_french.shtml
I see many errors in the second list, do you see many in the first?

I do not consider English a poor language at all. I find it extremely flexible and expressive, whereas French just comes with a very large standard library.
> When conveying nuanced ideas, I believe they will be much closer in length, with perhaps a small advantage for French.

I've looked in bookstores at expert translations of French novels to English, and English novels to French, and in either case, the English is shorter. This seems contrary to your claim.
good article to read and comes at a perfect time for my team. Have shared it with them
Redmond and Reality
What would be the downside of having dinosaurs around?

Dinosaurs couldn't possibly still be around. They existed in an era with a much more dense atmosphere and a much higher concentration of oxygen (30% vs 16%, iirc). The type of lung they had and the size of body they had -- they would suffocate here in our current atmosphere. It would be like a really bad case of altitude sickness.

I think that's a very different scenario from what this article talks about, where humans have basically created this virus by domesticating dogs and having a fairly homogenous population of domesticated animals globally and now there are several billion humans...etc....and it is killing wild animals that shouldn't be all getting exposed to the same illness.

I really think this is a very different thing from natural extinction of dinosaurs.
I thought you were being melodramatic about the ACLU, but nope, not at all:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/sometimes-it-only-ta...

I am all about gender equally but that seems crazy to me. As long as girls and boys receive the same standard of education then why should it matter? Seems like PC taken too far.
The hidden comments copy-n-pasted into this thread are darkweb content -- by my favorite definition, anyway: that content which is on the public internet but isn't index or linked to: you have to have the address to pull it up.

Take a good long look at some of the comments here before the next time you copy and paste. Those things you found were put there for YOU, nobody else.
It still takes up a ridiculous ammount of space on desktop: http://i.imgur.com/4HGJeku.png
I think that's because Better Call Saul is originally broadcast on AMC, which airs it weekly.
Use the DVD system to recommend, then torrent? That's isomorphic to having Netflix drop the DVD into a block device and letting you access it over a long cable, so you shouldn't have any ethical issues.
> That's absolutely hard to do, and often not worth the effort.

I'm not sure I agree. The JS libs are out there, you just need to find them.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=california+electricity+exchanges

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis (second hit)

The article describes in perfect detail the shortcomings that are possible with all of these "exchanges" for finite resources.

Also, I think you underestimate what it takes for a tower to support a given frequency. Filters, antennae and lots of other stuff is custom made to specific frequencies. I've been told over at the T-Mobile US reddit that supposedly each frequency requires its own antennae.

Yes, your proposal would likely result in all phones supporting all frequencies (however, aren't you starting with the claim that it's already the case?). However, I think the shortcomings with the extra uncertainty, and the extra layer of having to deal with the exchanges and the extra real-time market analysis, will not help the consumers at all.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Looks to a Future Beyond Windows
Ok, Maybe not just inflammation or hydrocephalous. I hate when the answers are not so simple but I must admit that those bulging embryo eyes were freaky.

A better picture:

http://today.duke.edu/2015/02/bigbrain

So a mouse injected with chimp DNA seems thinking about bananas and party in the beach and a mouse injected with a similar gen in the homer DNA looks pensative... interesting
New Species of Seadragon Discovered Off Australian Coast
As someone who's done mid 6 figures through a self coded PayPal Website Payments Pro integration but who's switching to Stripe once I've recoded things, Stripe's pricing works out about the same here in the UK even after the discount tier because their currency conversion fee is 2% instead of 2.5%. Stripe also accepts Amex whereas for some reason PayPal seems not to (in the UK anyway) which has caused numerous issues with US customers.
> they're being deprived of exposure to people who aren't like them.

I was homeschooled and also attended both private and public schools so I have some perspective on this point:

1) "Exposure to people who aren't like you" can be achieved in all sorts of ways, and you have to be really intentional about why you want it. In other words, ask "why is it important?" and then formulate a plan from there. Eg., if it's because you want to help the less-fortunate, go volunteer or go on a missions trip. Going to "real" school doesn't count, because

2) schools are the epitome of segregation. Band kids over here. Drama kids over there. Jocks to the left, dorks to the right. Race A in this corner, race B in that corner. Watch any group of kids walking home after school and note the homogeneity. Part of that is because that's how the kids naturally separate, and part of that is because

3) schools are populated by the kids who live in the neighborhoods they serve. Naturally, that population is not usually diverse. In the case that the neighborhood is ethnically diverse, it's probably not economically diverse.

College is better, but people still tend to fall into groups of people who are like them in some way, whether it's clubs, sports, Greek life, etc.
1) It could be the translator's choice to drop a connotation rather than go through a cumbersome periphrasis to express it faithfully.

2) English words tend to be much shorter, which is reflected in the book's length.
Perhaps they referring to the duplication of the site title. And looking at the source code, the title tag is in there twice and each one has the title text in there twice. These are the things that make some people wonder what other little landmines are hidden in a product that misses such simple mistakes.

Edit: nope... probably talking about it being a dupe of this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9080069
Florida Fish and Wildlife Wants to Give You Prizes for Catching Invasive Fish
I wonder if Netflix is preparing to offer services to studios/businesses as a contingency plan. Their infrastructure seems to be amazing, especially compared to the bug-riddled Hulus and Crackles of the world. I don't have cable, so I'm not sure how it compares to HBO Go and other studio-centric sites, but it can't be easy to maintain those kinds of services. Maybe we'll see a future where studios leverage Netflix's cloud, but offer their own distribution/revenue schemes?
The strong reaction is against anything that could spread the anti-vax idea. Because all it does is kill babies and people who can't get the vaccine, like you.

It might have gone better if you stated that, because you can't get the vaccine, you believe everyone else who is able to should, so that you also remain protected. That's a very valid argument.
I used to do the spelling bee thing. I did ok, would generally make it from my school -> local -> regional, but not beyond that. That's because I was good at spelling from all my reading, but I didn't study for the bee at all.

Now, the kids who did really well at the spelling bee, they didn't have time to read. Their moms were making them spend 3 hours a night with the little spelling bee booklet, learning how to spell every possible word that could be asked, and forcing themselves into the rhythm: "'Rote'. May I have the language of origin? 'Rote'. Can you use the word in a sentence? 'Rote'. May I have the definition? 'Rote'. R-O-T-E". (Hilariously, I once watched a girl do the whole routine over the word "talons", even getting "the eagle had sharp talons" as the sentence, then spelling T-A-L-E-N-T-S. Her mom made a fuss over microphone placement and got her back into the round)

Is this a worthwhile thing to do? What useful things does this method teach? Spelling is extremely good, but like I said I'm pretty good at spelling because I read a lot. Maybe I could have been the Spelling Bee Champion if instead of reading, I'd memorized the entire word list. Then I would be extremely good at spelling "prestidigitation", that's for sure.
Ask HN: Is there an app,that can server render to SVG, controlled via browser?
Similar to google maps zoom/pan, etc. but here the server-side data would be a massive SVG file (converted to SVG from a GDS representing chip layout).

One option I'm considering is taking existing compiled C or Java tools that are native client programs for viewing GDS files and using their source code but redesigning them to split the UI between browser-Ajax and server-side rendering.

IMHO: I feel certain server-side Java, at a low-level can render graphics into a (Swing) Canvas, which becomes raster image to be sent to the client thru AJAX or whatever. But to get a fast solution, I'd still need Java library/package that can render SVG into the Canvas object
Most of the time, the people who argue against the mobile web are the same people whose livelihoods depend on Java and native apps.

Ruby on Rails vs Java - Commercial #1 of 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo

Erase the Native vs. HTML5 Development Debate with PhoneGap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uea1kAXlGIY
This looks really useful. I'm wondering if there is a way to get modern fortran in the fold.
Sorry, but as one who was on Slashdot from pre-userid days, and is in general a huge critic of the company, bullshit.

Microsoft is in a hard place in terms of determining what is or isn't allowed on their systems (due in large part to their own past and quite probably ongoing monopoly abuses), but fixing obvious flaws is to be applauded.

I don't champion the company often, but they're doing the right thing here. Actually, sanctioning Lenovo for letting this happen might be another option they've got. Though something tells me they won't play that card (and quite possibly cannot).
What META tags would you suggest are critical to SEO performance (aside from 'DESCRIPTION')?
It rather looks to me as if Microsoft arranged the article, as it is rather partisan, and then organised the comments - so the article and comments taken together indicate that Microsoft is still the old Microsoft. It is fairly easy to distinguish between the genuine comments and the deceitful ones. Typically, the latter have a somewhat unpleasing tone.
Programmar Beta
You can have pointers and memory indirection without being able to do arithmetic on pointers.
NSAKEY ...

Though I believe virtually all preloads were OEM actions, not Microsoft's directly.
> You must live in an alternate universe

> as recently as 3 years ago

Maybe he lives in a universe called the present rather than the past? And even if you had a point, there's no need to be rude about it.
The Reality of Quantum Weirdness
I'm interested, what did you enjoy about Bojack Horseman? I've seen it, and I was quite puzzled about who the audience for the show was.
The Importance of Observing Behaviour – Davinder C. Singh
Superfish is the tip of the iceberg. Microsoft really needs to get the hardware vendors in line before these preinstalls bring down Windows. Causal users make no distinction between the the crapware getting preloaded and Windows itself.
> Stripe's APIs are a little easier to work with

This is the world's biggest understatement.
I wonder if this is actually true at all? I mean, yes, everyone around here absolutely abhors software like this, but there is a class of people who love hunting for bargains and accumulating coupons etc. Is there someone who buys a laptop like this and enjoys the additional advertisements? I always wondered the same about those annoying toolbars, I imagine some people actually perceive these as useful.
For comparison, here is the system this replaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfC1JBGx2TY#t=3m20s

edit: Or the old-fashioned way: http://waywardspark.com/extracting-honey-the-old-fashioned-w...
Ask HN: UK Alternative to Delaware C Corp and Clerky
What should I choose instead of Delaware C Corp and Clerky if I am starting a startup in United Kingdom?
What is meant by "public schoolboys" exactly? I'm struggling to grok the intended message.
English is a bit more subtle. It has inherited a lot of French vocabulary from the Normans, as well as retaining Anglo-Saxon roots. So it often has more words for things other languages have fewer words for, with English having more shades of meaning.

Take happy for example: joyous, joyful, gay, merry, gleeful, etc. I counted some 50 words in the thesaurus under happy, but many of them only translate to joyeaux or gai according to my dictionary checks (although there are also plenty for French, not as many).

English tends to have a lot of words that are close synonyms but with different evocations. It's possible to converse English in language almost completely of French origin, or speak plainly in the common tongue with older words. The former sounds flowery; the latter tends to remind one of the Bible.
What should I choose instead of Delaware C Corp and Clerky if I am starting a startup in United Kingdom?
Ah, yes, I agree that it doesn't make a lick of difference for audio connectors and that advertising gold plating is just a way to jack up the price. For this type of mechanical switch, though, I don't think the copper oxidation would wear away since it's a very light touch and there is very little rubbing movement, just blunt contact. Also, I'm pretty sure that there would be no incentive for companies like Matias to offer gold plating if it weren't really needed - it's just an extra expense and the high-end mechanical switch market is basically nonexistent compared to the high-end audio market.
NSAKEY don't count either.
I was in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago and froze my ass off, it was 10 below freezing, and couldn't wait to get back to Southern California. Though I hope people get the help they need, I don't understand how one lives in such conditions long-term.

The experience really brought home the history about Washington losing soldiers at Valley Forge to the cold.
Well that's sorted then, dubcanada must indeed see Twilio ads all the time!

One billboard doesn't disprove a claim that a company doesn't do much advertising, especially if it's just a personal anecdote about how many ads he's noticed.
Ask HN: What's the best Cordova-compatible hot code push system besides Meteor?
I want ONLY hot code pushes (to Android and iOS), not full-blown client-server database integration, widgets, and all that "magic". Something where I can, say, have it just push production HTML5 components (html, css, js, images) from a standard HTTPS server or Github account, even. As in, I want literally the "Dropbox" of hot code pushes, that does nothing more than sync files to a Phonegap/Cordova app.
Personally, I think comments would be valuable for FAQ type questions, but they would likely require more moderation than your average news topic.
That's what someone one the run for murder would want us to think...
My First Meeting at Toronto's MaRS Venture Services
We plan releasing the source files for all custom hardware, including key caps, that we're designing and making for our own keyboard. We have prototypes that we're mostly happy with, but haven't yet nailed down the exact dimensions. Also, our files are in the form that a CNC mill could understand, but as far as I know not suitable yet for a 3D printer. I really like that idea, though, and will keep it in mind for when we do offer our keyboard.
BitcoinBuilder offers to buy your goxBTC for 0.11 BTC
Yup. Also, have a look at my response to javajosh, below, I go one step further in describing my 'intuition' for what is happening, which generalises beyond these three cases.
This comment would be better without that first and third sentence.
Oh... I guess I missed that via the website. AFAIK that's not available for other clients, but I could be wrong actually. It still seems that they want to have personalized lists front and center, when it would be nice if they would have a setting that lets a user choose what is displayed at the root level. But otherwise that does seem to work pretty well.

Thanks for the tip.