skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched back to Firefox and stopped using Chrome when it wanted me to 'sign in'. Even IE does not make me do that. I have to say their technical people are top notch, but their business leadership not so much. If they keep in this direction soon Chrome will look like the old AOL app.

If you are unfamiliar, I recommend you also checkout firefox developer edition.
Not quite related to this particular release, but I kind of wish sync for extension data wasn't Opt-In.

Having to hunt down the option to turn on Sync for each extension explicitly and not even having that option for some extensions makes for a rather poor user experience.

Also, as someone who customizes the browser layout rather extensively, I'd like to see layout settings included in Sync as well (which toolbars are visible/how buttons are organized on toolbars/etc).
You are right in a way. Three teens from one highschool would probably make the local news (it did at my highschool, though there wasn't much going on in that town to report on), but not much more.

There is more going on than just three dead teens though. There is also the entire social movement surrounding these three people. Seemingly thousands of people talking about those three deaths. That is much more notable.
Damn, that's really misleading. I've always thought E-ink would be good for smart watches, because it shows text well, has great daytime visibility, and is power-efficient.
by what measure? 100lb of helium is exactly the same by weight as a 100lb of propane. By volume, in a cylinder, it is approximately the same (I believe).

By number of atoms, it is much more (a factor of 10 or so).
Hmmm, I usually just use "Send to Kindle" (by Klip.me) for web pages. Though I do use Calibre->Kindle email to handle books not in the Kindle ecosystem.
Trans people are everywhere.

[citation needed]

EDIT:

Reason I ask is that, when fighting for the cause of minority groups, it doesn't help to make claims that are easily shown to be false--it hurts your credibility, and by association, theirs.

The "x are everywhere" is what, for example, brought us the Iraq War and the TSA and all the rest...just good marketing whipping people up into a frenzy.

EDIT2:

Fine, for the downvoters, here's some citations (because apparently that's too much to ask):

Various studies show a rate of between 0.1-0.5% of people identifying as trans ( http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-we-dont-know-the-siz... ).

A 2011 study by the UCLA Williams Institute found there to be around 700,000 trans people ( http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/census-lgbt-d... ).
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I can't really tell if you are being serious, but an interesting tidbit from http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1984.html which looks at what happened in 1984 (when IBM was bigger than Exxon) was this:

The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale

IBM pretty much "owned" the PC market (it was called the IBM PC market for a reason) and yet the first moves by a company that would later eclipse it were already visible. Always interesting to look back and see how that worked out. Fair warning though, so far it hasn't helped my forecasting ability :-)
I hacked a flyswatter and made a tutorial[video]
Is there really an epidemic? Are there any stats on this?
Probably the most important book I've read. I'm always trying to put the concepts he discussed into practice (often unsuccessfully). Thinking about what you're thinking is hard!
Reminds me of Li Wei's famous skyscraper photo sessions [1] in which the artist is seen being kicked off the top and suspended outside a window, amongst other similarly daring photographs. Only a minimal use of post-processing to simply remove the fine wires attached.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMg-DxhHCA
Unreal Engine 4.7 Released
I think asking for help in some of the aforementioned subreddits and websites with a small project like the OP suggested would be a great way to garner interest.
Safe to assume he converted into USD. I would have if I didn't use the £ symbol.
Well, this author has a rather pessimistic view of things. In fact, we are a couple of years away from a major change of government in the U.S. and whoever succeeds the Obama Administration will have an opportunity to address the shortcomings of the space program.

The Obama Administration has focused on domestic social issues like jobs, education, and health care, and deemphasized longer term programs like Nasa.

Typically, the pendulum swings back and forth with space and science allocations, and I would expect an adjustment upward in the next couple of years even as the social spending is inevitably cut.

Also, as the U.S. economy comes out of the 2008-2010 recession and starts to generate more government revenue, it will become politically easier to re-fund some of these mothballed or back-burnered programs and get Big Space back on the front page.

Americans love cool space stuff. The entire Baby Boomer generation grew up with the 1960s-70s manned programs and these things are near and dear to their hearts.

I was a 10-year-old boy when men first walked on the moon, and my friends and I all had model rockets, Nasa posters on the wall, and dreamed of becoming astronauts some day. We all assumed that the country would just keep on funding more exploration until we had a massive rotating space station in orbit, a permanent base on the Moon, and probes reaching to every corner of the star system and beyond.

Very little of that has come to pass, and we are a poorer and less accomplished nation because of it. Nasa indeed should be getting more than $18.5B, in my opinion more like $50B or $60B. It's a great investment.

Sure, let private companies try to jump into the satellite launching business, more power to them. But the heavy lifting has got to come from Nasa, that great organization that has been neglected for too long.
The "based on ABP code" apply only For the Chromium/Chrome version

"For the Firefox version of Privacy Badger, we also eschewed the ABP engine in favor of something we wrote ourselves. Don't get me wrong, ABP is a great tool and we learned a lot from its code - but we wanted something as lean and performant as possible....."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686396

also ublock makes ABP, Ghostery & Disconnect redundant.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-and-other...
What are the rules for a policy audit? Are there universal guidelines we can use to policy audit the decisions made by individual politicians?
Your other option is to detach the debugger (Debug->Detach All): stops the debugging experience in VS, while keeping the webserver process alive. Little more clumsy than clicking the stop debug button, but gives you what you want
For anyone interested in Bayesian Statistics it is worth noting that ET Jaynes (imho the arch-Bayesian) disagrees with Kahneman's idea that "people reason in a basically irrational way". Jaynes died long before "Thinking, Fast and Slow" was published, so his critique is based on Kahneman and Tversky's early work on the subject.

Kahneman and Tversky's critique of Bayesian analysis is basically: If more data should override a prior belief, then why is it as more data comes in people have increasingly divergent opinions? For example we have 24 hour news media throwing information at us and people only seem to be more divided politically. If we reasoned in a Bayesian manner then our opinions should converge, which they clearly do not.

Jaynes' answer is really fascinating and is covered in the chapter "Queer uses for probability theory" from 'Probability theory: The Logic of Science'. Basically Jaynes' argues that we are never really testing just one hypothesis. He gives an example of an experiment designed to prove ESP, and points out that no matter how low of a p-value the experiment reports, if you have a strong prior belief that ESP does not exist the evidence won't convince you. He argues this is because you actually have other hypotheses with other priors: The subject is tricking the experimenters, there is an error in experiment design, the people running the experiment are intentionally being deceptive etc.

He then shows that if your prior belief in ESP is sufficiently lower than your prior belief in these alternative hypothesis, not only will further evidence fail to convince you of ESP, but will actually increase your belief that you are being lied to in some way. So while Jaynes agrees that these priors may be irrational, our reasoning given new information is completely rational.
The hostility towards the freemium model with content is ridiculous.

If you don't get something out of the email course, then don't buy the paid course.

If you do buy the paid course, there's a money-back guarantee (http://thecreativeclass.io/).

It's zero-risk, free information that can likely help you level up your freelancing. It's the same thing as a blog or other free resource, just packaged in an email course.
The generic problem on Tumblr still exists. Like those posts about romanticizing her suicide. Hate & Shame posts are still happen regularly, and people seeing gender issues in everything is something why people outside tumblr make fun of it.

Its not only about transphobia, its about how youngsters use tumblr.
Black ops 2
I haven't, but would to give it a shot in the future. I feel like it would be a hassle to convert books that aren't already ePub/(insert DRM format here) though. Do you find this to be a problem?
I'll be completely honest: it's one of the most BS reasons I've ever read in a technical discussion.

How can we talk about high performance when:

* The current "generics" mechanism (interface et al) does runtime introspection, which is just about as slow and unwieldy as it gets
* There is no option for pervasive, truly high-performance data structures since everything is a map (which comes with its own type parametrization as an exception to everything else), and if you don't like the hashing algorithm, tough luck.
* You have a garbage collector running in the background, which is barely tunable compared to the options other runtimes have

Talking about performance when it's convenient as an argument against generics but disregarding the other holes in the language is not reasonable, because I would say that the choice of implementation for native maps is probably far more important for high performance. Yet here we are, no one complaining.

So we can really discard the performance argument, thus there is now an ample, valid set of choices for generic programming, several of which don't go against the goals of fast compilation.

Speaking of fast compilation; pretty much everything is going to be faster than C++ templates, since the entire compilation chain in C++ is slow.
I know about those entities, though--and I know that, in the case of private companies, they're probably going to share it (and we can make laws to that effect).

My original point is that those protections won't apply when just crawling through friends and acquaintances mentioning things.

EDIT:

For another example, consider "Thank God, my friend angersock had a car accident today but only scratched the bumper". That's something I don't want as public knowledge, and that my insurance provider could (theoretically) use to raise my rates.
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Google and Uber Steer Toward Each Other, Without Drivers
Or try Policeman https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/policeman/
White paper: How to optimize live streams with P2P technology
I'd have to imagine that the burn rate in Canada is going to be much lower than in San Francisco in terms of cost of living, paying people, etc. Not that it totally negates SF's advantage of course.
$5.2 million with 31 days to go. Damn.
Your description of the work could describe a large corporation. I think its really difficult to separate the inefficiencies of government organizations and the inefficiencies of large organizations (public or private). And unfortunately, space projects are often large ventures with an added complicating factor of being funded by political budget whims.
That's one sexy watch. Seems a lot like one of my fav watches [0].

Although:

> Android not compatible now

> Coming in end of February 2015

[0] http://www.baume-et-mercier.com/en/classima-10144.html#wf
> Reddit on the other hand will subject your posts to criticisms and possible trolls.

Combined with the bandwagon effect of downvotes in many (not all) subreddits, this has the same filter-bubble effect, just by virtue of pushing differently-minded people out (either to seek other subreddits, or off the site altogether).

Just look at /r/politics and you'll see this in full force - with a few exceptions, almost any post expressing a somewhat conservative perspective is downvoted massively.

This is one of the reason Reddit implemented [score hidden], which seems to have helped somewhat, but not entirely.

> Radicals tend not to like people disagreeing with them.

This isn't true only "radicals" - it's true everywhere. And I don't think it's the userbase that's different; it's the structure around it that makes the difference. In other words, the same people will group themselves differently on Tumblr and Reddit, even if they use both sites.
Digital media at this point in time is more or less volatile from a historical perspective. It's best to consider it transient and have physical copies of the most precious things.

Transient equals consumables - and companies leverage this.

I have a few photographs from my great-grandparents from late 19th or early 20th century. Which are awesome. With physical media I can be pretty sure I can preserve data over the next hundred years (sans accidents). With digital media one still needs heavy redundancy to guarantee preservation. Not to think about the historical compatibility issue. Which storage format will be readable then? It's much easier on an institutional, internet archive scale to set up an ongoing process. I'm a software engineer and figuring out how to keep my digital data alive is a constant PITA...
Agreed on the COL in NOVA - I moved there recently from FL and regret it every time I pay rent, and can't even wrap my head around house prices. That's why I'm curious to see data from the Southeast and FL in particular.

Also in NOVA you're paying for some of the best public middle/high schools in the country, which I don't care about yet but if I had kids would be something to factor.
> I think I'll hold off until the battery life ... (lasts a few months on a single charge?)

You'll be waiting a very long time.

> Considering my Kindle lasts over a month on a single charge

Your Kindle isn't maintaining a bluetooth connection to your phone or updating the screen frequently, and has a much larger battery than a watch.

> I never have to think about charging my watch so I can always rely on it having the information I need.

With the Pebble you don't have to worry about it either. It notifies you when it's getting low (has a day or two of battery life remaining) and you charge it when you get the chance. And if you don't have time to give it a full charge, in my experience with just 10-15 minutes charging time you'll get a few more days of use.

I agree with your sentiment about battery life though. It's why I don't understand why anyone would even consider any smartwatch besides Pebble. Fall asleep without charging your watch one night and you can't wear it the next day? That's crazy. It also means you can't really use your watch as an alarm if you need to charge it each night.
Of course, because DDG can't build a profile of you, it would have to resort to some guessing.

For example, if you search for "python", it would have to guess whether you are a programmer, or a biologist, in order to present the most relevant results. And of course, Google already has all this information...
Shouldn't this have a trigger warning on it?

In all seriousness, many communities on Tumblr exist to find stuff on the internet to get outraged about. "The constantly outraged are locked in a desperate struggle to find meaning in things that do not impact their lives."

Tumblr communities also seems to idolize victimhood. Nothing demonstrates your level of victimhood quite like suicide. So, if you take generally marginalized groups (body size, sexuality, etc), run around searching for things to get angry about, and celebrate their status as societies scapegoats and victims it does not surprise me that Tumblr would have high suicide rates.
> That's fine, but your reason seems suspicious.

I prefer to avoid living my life in a fishbowl.

> provably private

This does not have a mathematics definition. Private means not accessible to anyone aside from the owner. That is something that is provably private.

> information theoretic guarantee

This sounds like hand waving to get rid of actual concerns.
This reminds me of the movie Her. This is the direction I want wearable tech to go.
> Having to restart after installing an extension is another

It depends on the extension. Only some (particularly, older) extensions require restarting.
When you have a publishing platform that's wide open and unmoderated, two things always dominate: activism and porn.
There's a contract to deliver on the promises made:

https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use#section4

The language isn't real strong though:

If a creator is unable to complete their project and fulfill rewards, they’ve failed to live up to the basic obligations of this agreement. To right this, they must make every reasonable effort to find another way of bringing the project to the best possible conclusion for backers.
The leadership of Apple seems still focused on dominating the "affordable status symbol" sector of IT, which I guess is something they'd want to keep doing for as long as possible because that could be a big part of why they can afford having higher margins.

I guess only time will tell what they'll do if/when that stops working, they certainly have the potential to unleash hell on their competition if they ever decide to go for market share.
yeah, you can see how outraged people are by how much they are refusing to support the offering
I think you hit the nail on the head about being cenetered around the car. Cities are built at "car-scale" where every store has a massive parking lot (usually the size of 5-6 soccer pitches) directly infront of the building. It's usually outright hostile to pedestrians. Unfortunately this is a byproduct of our cities being built in the age of the Automobile and not in 1000AD like Oslo.

Unfortunately the only way to fix it would be to have city ordinances which specify parking maximum and maximum offset from the street for a building.
I'm not a native english speaker but 'radical' to me has negative connotations that 'fundamental' does not.
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Chrome SignIn is basically the same thing as Firefox Sync. It keeps your bookmarks, extensions, and stored passwords (all controllable) in sync between the different devices you use the browser on.
From the article: "Facebook Inc.'s 5,000-plus employees generate $1.36 million each in annual revenue"
Ask HN: Do you charge for proof of concept?
Say you are a SaaS, prospect says, we want to see a proof of concept before we become a customer but we are comparing with other vendors as well.

How would you respond? What if the proof of concept takes labor and extra configuration to meet their requirements as to what constitutes a PoC? Should you charge for that?
LLVM and its tools are implemented in C++. The Go team just underwent a large effort to remove their dependency on C code. A reasonable assertion can be made that given this C code removal, a large and complex C++ dependency like LLVM is unlikely to be in their sights for inclusion into the compiler. Perhaps this wouldn't be an /entirely/ unreasonable to do; I can imagine a `cgo` binding to LLVM existing for this purpose. Speaking of which, I wonder what the fate of `cgo` is with this compiler code migration from C to Go.
As an active scuba diver I feel sort of bad about breathing helium knowing that it's a non-renewable resource. For a single dive in the 50m depth range I'll typically use something like 1000l of He (as measured at standard temperature and pressure). The retail price has gone up by a factor of 3 in the past several years so while it's still somewhat affordable we clearly won't be able to continue doing open-circuit technical diving indefinitely. Some of my friends have switched to closed-circuit rebreathers that use very little helium but those are far more dangerous.
And Hask is arguably not a proper category
Without a doubt. Based on the horror stories, I excluded international shipping options from my own Kickstarter just to avoid all the headaches.
Can you elaborate why you think Ruby and Python are "orders of magnitude better than JavaScript"? I always considered that Ruby, Python and JavaScript are very closed to each other - dynamic typing, very quick to write.
I highly question yours... you sound crazy calling this better. The Apple Watch isn't the most beautiful designed gadget but you are making a really silly statement. It's honestly blowing my mind how you think this.
A top of mind comparison.

Citus is a distributed relational database vs. Datanomic is a non-relational database.

Citus uses SQL as its query language vs. Datanomic uses Datalog.

Both support joins.

Citus is built on PostgreSQL as its data storage layer. Datanomic supports multiple storage layers.

There are more differences that can be found via Google.
It does. My business goal with my email course is to generate qualified leads for my course. My personal goal is to make people better off than they were before they started the course.

If the free course is nothing but the "sizzle" and a giant pitch for something paid, that's a problem. You're probably not going to get many sales for your paid course, and no one's going to refer others to the free course.

But if it's valuable independently of the premium course, and allows the reader to determine if it makes sense to go pro, then it's a win-win for all involved. At the end of my course, I ask people to reply back with what they got out of the free course and what they plan on changing as a result of it — I get a fair amount of awesome responses (which turn out to be great testimonials) from this last email: http://i.glui.me/1A3VNtx
Cyber criminals target implanted medical devices to hack remotely
We have not tested it in the open. Inside home it stays connected when I'm in kitchen and the phone is in bedroom. It has also stayed connected when I went out to my car which was across my patio.
I'm not sure what about my comment is worth downvoting, but to try one more time:

If you came to me tomorrow and said "I want to build a language just like C but with non-contiguous stacks" I agree, I would use LLVM or GCC. But that's not what happened.

The history is three engineers decided to see if they could do better than C++ for what they did every day. That meant trying lots of things. One of the many was goroutines, but they needed a flexible platform on which to try lots of ideas that didn't make the final cut.

It just so happens, two of them had worked on a toolchain before. Ken's from Plan 9. (Which long predates the existence of LLVM.) And as he knew his compiler well, it was very easy to modify it to try these experiments.

In the end the language stabilized with several unusual features, several of which would be difficult to add to other compiler toolchains they were not familiar with. Is that the point they should switch to using LLVM?

Building on a toolchain you know that lets you experiment makes a lot of sense. Knowing a toolchain means you get to work quickly.

The end result still has useful features that LLVM does not. For example, running ./all.bash does three complete builds and runs all the tests. It takes about 60 seconds on my desktop. Last time I tried LLVM, it took minutes. Go programmers love fast compilers.
The ocean is huge. They didn't look in the right place initially. The area that needs to be searched may be as large as half of USA. I do not know how far debris scatters, and how fast it will sink.