skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where I stand on this issue of conversation privacy in public spaces, but I will say that at worst the individual should have called the people making jokes out at the time and suggested that their conversation was not appropriate in context. To passively aggressively take to twitter to gather a mob strikes me as total overkill.
For what it's worth, this article is from 2010. (How does one indicate that this should be added to the title? Does one do it through a comment like so, or is there a separate button to click somewhere?)
It's a pay cut; Not a shortcut to sainthood
They don't make you. Apple's approach is you do everything wirelessly. For the laggards, well, you might need an adapter or two, but it's still more portable than a thicker and heavier laptop.
this is perhaps obvious if you own a retina screen, but why do you need to scale it? why not just use the native at 2304×1440?
The Valley is geographically constrained.

Which makes the 40-foot height limit insane. http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-density-thought... You could trivially build more housing by removing that limit. Some background: http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Height_Limit_Revolt_Saves...
Kiss your Glass goodbye: Google mothballs techno-specs (for now)
Considering how many folks have most of their net worth tied up in a $1.5M 1500 sq. ft. home in the city, there is going to be a TON of resistance to more building. Can you imagine the average price of a home dropping to $700K? Tens of thousands of folks would be underwater on their homes.
This line of thinking is confusing cause and effect though. Silicon Valley started here because it was cheap. The whole area was agriculture and houses. Then computers took over the world and the success of the business here computerfied the valley. It made people who were already here wealthy.

It's like people think this situation is new, and poor people are the "real" natives of SV. If those damn facebooks and googles had left the valley alone everything would be great!
Love Money for Money's Sake
Can you do rsync style differential backups with this?
Ask HN: Do you use ORMs for your back end databases?
You also find that happens on certain cruise lines. A family works on a ship and send the money back home.

I am guessing that some people think that there is so much money sloshing around the Valley that taxes should be higher to take care of those in need. The potential problem there is that you simply encourage more people to stay or actually even more people to move to the area to take advantage of that benefit.
I bought my "every day" glasses from a "legitimate store." In my case it was an eye doctor in my local Costco. Then I used all the measurements and information from my prescription to order some $15 prescription sunglasses from a cheapo online vendor. The fit was pretty good, but the tint was really lame and "cheap" looking. Fine for my purposes since I rare need sunglasses and I'm not particularly fashion sensitive, but I wouldn't have wanted to wear them all the time. You may infer here that I would've been fairly pleased with my cheapo lenses if I hadn't gotten them tinted. They'd have been an amazing deal for $15.
I wonder if anyone's asked those poor people what they want.

I've seen a few commenters here suggesting using government money to ship 'em out, or retrain or job-place them, but I wonder: what do the poor in Silicon Valley want for their lives? Do they want to be shipped out? To be retrained? Better wages? Cheaper housing?

These are people, after all, and are worthy of being involved in any discussion concerning their fate.
To be fair, you're not running VMWare on the Pixel either (i don't think?). I'm skeptical that it is even a problem for just about anything you can actually run on the OS. It's a Chromebook afterall, running disk-utilizing programs is not it's design speciality.

Sure, you could dump Linux on it - but i'm not sure how many would choose a Pixel over some other highend brands for a Linux machine.

I believe the disk is mainly just used as a cache, for web apps (music/etc). Just about everything is stored in the "cloud".

(I own a first generation Chromebook, but things may have changed)
In a world where cable companies monopolize broadband Internet and cell phone carriers charge for data by the megabyte, I'm pretty sure I don't want to rely solely on the cloud.
> If you work at one of the few companies that is making the world a better place and not just selling ads, social media, games, or other diversions for rich people then my advice may not apply to you.

Unfortunately, I don't (and it depresses me). But then again, I treat my work as a neccessary evil, and I (try to) care about the product's face value, not underlying notion of it making money. That's for sales people to do; the best I can do is to make sure that what we build has at least some value to the end-user. It's about the attitude - when tasked to design a widget, do you primarily care about building a good widget, or performing a ritual of work that will bring the cash in?
Thank you! Hopefully I never have to do this, but I feel much better knowing that it is possible.
I'd say I'm pretty decent at not accidentally clicking banner ads. But for some reason I've been redirected to the Uber app installation page a dozen times when I was just trying to scroll through text (on the same sites). Either I have some adware or uber is paying to js/meta-redirect me.
I said the code snippet looked like raw interpolation to me, and I asked how it could be made not vulnerable to injection. It was an honest observation and a genuine question. No flippancy was involved. You're free to think I'm an idiot, but you are the one being insulting and combative here.
Agreed, I loved the old iPhone 3 UI, since then, it has gone to hell. Android is also in that hell, with the "Flat UI", and my brain hurts trying to find what's clickable.

Damn you flat ui!
No, we need to ask is Manhattan affordable? Are Manhattan prices dropping? Did they ever?

A 10%-20% price difference is irrelevant and will just disappear in just a few years anyway.
Do you have any statistics that show why every parent should use this service? What is the risk of buying a recalled toy, or one that will be, on Amazon or at Walmart? What % of families have at least one recalled toy their kids might be using?
"Lack of consistency" here doesn't have to imply lack of atomicity; In the case of your example, an eventually consistent system could return either the old address or the new address at some point in time X, but never a mixture of both. In your situation, the parcel could end up getting delivered to the old address, but there would be no corruption.
Lots of people lived in San Mateo county before it was all +$1M homes. If you bought at $400K 10-15 years back, you're probably doing fine on $88K/yr.
Thanks. That is actually not too bad, or?
I somehow remember websites that hijack the back button (probably because it one of my larges annoyances). I don't click on links to websites that do it unless I open it in a new tab. It's extremely annoying if someone wanted to see your homepage they would have clicked in the banner at the top of the page. Obviously I wanted to go back, that's why I clicked the "back" button, its not called a "homepage" button. /rant
It's grey hat, and a mild example of fuck the user for profit you see all over the web. That sort of thing doesn't go down well anywhere, but especially on HN.
The main goal of a sound gradual type system is to make it so that any type errors can be "blamed" on the untyped part of the code. For example, if untyped code calls a safe-typescript function and passes the wrong argument type safe-typescript will check and detect the error right away. On the other hand, traditional typescript would accept the invalid parameter without checking and would eventually throw a "method missing" exception somewhere down the line.
Wind speeds in the upper atmosphere can be very fast. These balloons will not be stationary. Based on my limited knowledge of the project, the only way they could have consistent coverage would be to have evenly spaced balloons around the Earth. That assumes that wind currents would cause the balloons to travel around the Earth in a dependable pattern. Considering the circumference of the Earth 40,008km and 80km coverage diameter, 40008 / 80 = 500 balloons would be required at minimum if all the balloons traveled at the same speed and in a dependable pattern. I would imagine the wind currents the balloons would travel on would be greater than the Earth's circumference, so more than 500 balloons would be required. Also, I doubt the balloons could maintain a perfect 80km spacing. I can think of other factors that would make dependable coverage difficult.
If you convince enough to change the laws, then the nature of our system is that they will be convinced. The question is, can you convince enough. Perhaps I see many luxuries as not worth supporting, at least not until other problems are solved (and being government revenue is limited, sometimes being low priority means not being funded at all).
Thanks! Started this originally back in the fall of last year some time. Completely threw away all the front end code of that and picked up the project again maybe ~1.5 months ago? Been mostly weekends and some weekday nights. And thanks for reporting the issue, I'll look into it.
This is rather obvious - everyone nowadays want you to use their paid cloud services and to buy their content.
I personally like to do gardening, home improvement, spend my time with my family over the weekends. My normal work time keeps me deep into coding and I just don't want to do 100% of my week.
It's a way to imply that the all of the fiddly little details don't suck.

Everyone's run into that library, SaaS product, or other bit of software where all of the features sound awesome, it appears to do exactly what you need ... and you'd rather debug a plugged in blender than actually use it.
They've done it many times before:

* Original iMac (all-USB, no floppy disk drive)

* MacBook Air (no CD drive)

* MacBook Pro (no Ethernet)

People have gotten used to it each time.
Is this a front end on top of the current government provided resources [1] [2] [3], or does this include other sources?

[1] http://www.recalls.gov/

[2] http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/

[3] http://www.saferproducts.gov/
I was going to say. Collecting patient-reported outcomes via iPhone is nice, but it doesn't do a dam thing for the big costs, which are physician examinations, sample collection, testing and data analytics.
While many of us routinely spend this amount of money on laptops or other hardware, the average Joe doesn't want to spend more than 600-700 euro on a laptop (which translates to up to $650 in practice).

So yes, for most people, this sounds like a fortune for a laptop.

I think it's actually addressed half of shortcomings of the old Pixel: 4GB of memory has been upped to a reasonable 8GB or a generous 16GB. The CPU bump is also a welcome change. Only the limited disk space is an issue.

I just wished they doubled the storage (at least) and sold them with plain old Linux as developer machines. Would be a great way to get into the hearts and minds of many programmers.
Thanks! Wit.ai and viv.ai are other companies using .ai.

I am not sure if would include .ai in my projects' name though.
I know the reasoning, but I suspect it's based on wrong assumptions. Management is afraid of taking a stand and doing the right thing, even though it would most likely end up well for the company, not bad. I see this as risk aversion.
Not only is this a rip-off of Dots, it's also a rip-off of another game that is on Clay.io

http://connectmania.clay.io
Can anyone comment how Crashplan stacks up vs Backblaze here? I'm leaning towards it as it'll save the data for more than 30 days after deletion, and security's another factor in my choice.
End-To-End Provider Testing at PagerDuty [video]
It's a 3:2 display with an i5 upwards and minimum of 8GiB of RAM. That doesn't particularly fit into the simple web browsing and document processing crowd, who would presumably be much better served with something like the Intel Core M Apple uses, which could easily yield twice the battery runtime at a zero cost for these usecases.

It also costs >$1k, so theres that.
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First, there is no such thing as free speech in the EU. Especially not in the UK

Second of all net neutrality is not about freedom of speech. It is a concerted campaign by Google, netflix, yahoo and amazon to keep costs low.

There is a very real threat that people like verison will charge real money to peer with the above companies. This is a direct threat to their business model.

The reason why its not an issue here is that all ISPs in the UK peer at coop exchanges. The concept of charging $17 million dollars to peer just doesn't apply.

ISPs over here wanted to ban torrenting, as 1% of the userbase started racking up 80% of the bandwidth costs. However as ISPs introduced caps and blocks, other popped up offering light traffic shaping instead, or bandwidth caps. The market forces won.
Internet egress for 1000 GB is $120 for Google and $90 for Amazon, a difference of $30 not $300.
Guardian backpedals on Whisper
I visited the capital of Tonga in 2009. It's a nice place and the locals are very friendly. If I had to choose an island nation to live on, I would choose Tonga.

When I was briefly there, the locals weren't exposed to much gadetry, just basic cell phones. I had an iPhone then, and I was able to connect to a palace's unsecured WiFi.
I have moved on a shoestring many times as well, but it's exponentially more complex when you have a family than when you're a single guy on the make. It's even more disruptive for children who are pulled out of their real-life social/educational network with basically no choice and no agency in how they go about reconstructing that.

We should also strive to encourage a more distributed social life.

Why? I'm not the most gregarious person and I am OK with telephones and video, but it's a far cry from meeting people you care about in person. The problem with helping people relocate rather than deal with these issues at their source is that you wind up with economic cleansing, large enclaves and entire cities where only the wealthy can live and others where only the poor can afford to reside. Naturally there are few economic opportunities in communities of poor people, so people who live in them have to travel ever farther to get to their jobs, with increased cost in fuel/transit fares and diminishing marginal utility of labor due to the extra commute time.

The thing is, the same dynamic is at work to varying degrees all over the country so it's far from obvious where people who are economically dislocated should move to.
The price difference will increase if San Francisco continues to not build enough housing to meet demand.
Absolutely agree. It baffles me why the tech companies in the area don't lobby aggressively for reduced zone regulations and restrict appeals to construction work. The whole bay area would profit massively from a more flexible workforce and less money being spent on rents (in addition to the construction boom).
How to Make Money Writing Poetry
Brain-To-Brain Interfaces: The Science of Telepathy
> Here’s what I’m picturing:

a site with simple resizable text + photos with links clearly differentiated in some way (maybe links are at the bottom or in a clearly delineated box)
or a site with text and photos and no links
no pop-ups, no overlaid ads, no bait-and-switch links
easy and big scroll buttons
maybe two-steps needed to leave the page

I'd like to use this version of the internet too! Where do I sign up?
Fair, but I suspect the OP was confusing empathy with sympathy.
It would be considered exciting and dangerous to go somewhere without the internet. To some degree I suppose it's already true about phone service.
Well yes, I think designing an ultrabook probably is difficult. I mean, you have to cram a lot of powerful components into a very small computer. You've only go so much space, so something's gotta give.
The screen is significantly better, and is touch-capable.

You cannot get such a good screen from Apple, even on a $3000 MacbookPro.
Disable 3rd party URL requests and on most sites you will be presented with plain old HTML. It'll look like the web of 20 years ago. It will have big text, consistent styling and affordances, be responsive - basically everything which as been lost after 20 years of the web's evolution.

I do it with uBlock:
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/02/08/ublocks-all-and-third-party...
Review: Google laptop impresses, but don't try it offline
It's safe to assume this is going to be just like Glacier and S3/Google Storage, ie: unlimited.

Also retrieval speeds increase with your data set size: Note: You should expect 4 MB/s of throughput per TB of data stored as Nearline Storage. This throughput scales linearly with increased storage consumption. For example, storing 3 TB of data would guarantee 12 MB/s of throughput, while storing 100 TB of data would provide users with 400 MB/s of throughput.
Would you much rather it was not built with love?

I really fail to see how saying "built with love" matters at all.
Similar in WebGl (Points are exp to number of bubble in the line)
http://playwebgl.com/games/glubble/
The original Air had one USB, didn't work out very well.
Non-standard PCI device functionality may render pass-through insecure
A 2560x1700 resolution screen instead of a 1440x900 resolution screen
I guarantee this was lobbied for by existing payment companies.
You might want to take a look at the Principality of Sealand as an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
This doesn't seem to be that difficult a problem.

The solution is surely transitional payments to get people to relocate.
Reports (e.g. [1], linked from the volcano/island's Wikipedia) suggest that the island will probably erode away quickly, as it is composed mainly of volcanic ash. If it does not, what you suggest would indeed be interesting to observe.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/new-isla...
Nope. The older you get the less mechanoreceptors are left in your skin. This has 2 effects then: You actually do feel less pressure or vibration from touching something and You can't control your fingers as well because the feedback system has less input for fine motor control into the cerebellum. You cannot feel nor control as well.

Additionally, human touch sensation is incredibly good in the fingers, hypothesized to be related to our use of tools. That we can at all use such a touch screen is a miracle in the animal kingdom. Replacing this is not possible at this point in time as we age. However, larger and more clear buttons will help, along with a training period and good motivation for the person. As we age, we need to have the motivation to access the world and the opportunity to do so. The future requires all participants of every age.

A good place to start on the sources is here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2563781/ . Let me know if you want a .pdf and cannot access the site past the abstract.
Not to mention.. it's a blog. I thought a CDN layer made that sort of a no-brainer. We're not talking a highly dynamic experience here.. this could be static if they wanted, heh.
I'm also looking forward to 2016's. I wonder if they might be able to make the trackpad thinner, so they have space to fit batteries under it (and thus improve the battery life).
Current Chromebooks have a major flaw because they tend to be "locked" by Google.

Without any magical hacks, you won't install Skype.
There is no normal file navigation Explorer, and DropBox won't run either.

Of course Drive and Hangouts work.

Price is very good, but until Skype is accepted and better file tools provided, this is once again a turn off.
Sorry about that. Should be fixed now (assuming it was a localStorage issue) if you refresh.
The Apple Watch paradox: why “you never actually own a Patek Philippe”
The bigger question is why are contact lenses so expensive? The molds are undoubtedly costly but once made they can pump out millions of lenses and it's not significantly more complicated than plastic eyeglass lenses that require more material and have to be cut to the final shape of the frames.

Of course the answer is that employer subsidized insurance has created in industry that can engage in predatory pricing when the bulk of the customers aren't directly paying out of their wallet.
I wish I could tell one EDM track apart from another.
I think you mean 'people ho pay more tax'. People living in poor neighborhoods typically pay taxes as well - on some of their income, most of their consumption, and on their residences since their rent is inclusive of property tax.

I do not understand this insistence that money spent on building more housing here is bad whereas spending the same amount of money on having 'those people' move out of sight to somewhere else is somehow good.
I understand, but please go stand in the corner there and think about what you've done.
All of the value in their homes was created by government regulation. Complaining about the price of your home going down because government regulation is removed is like taxi medallion owners complaining about Uber. In both cases government unfairly created the wealth through regulating scarcity.
The site just probably doesn't like getting DDoSed.
Is it Bill Gates or William Gates? ;)
It's really not though. There's crouton which makes it trivial to setup a chroot - https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton which is good enough for most users.

If you'd rather blow away ChromeOS and install Ubuntu, it's just a few commands on the command line to boot from USB and install Ubuntu.
I apologize, I misread the paper.
Also Thanks for the correction and the paper. I really appreciate it!
very low. I think they forget how much small business owners cheat on their taxes. Teachers make more than 88k in San Mateo County
Silicon valley startup takes the elevator pitch to a whole new level
When my daughter was two and a half she could use the iPad pretty efficiently, because it was always pretty obvious where you should click. At nearly four she now struggles to click things or to even know what to click. It's a terrible regression for a debatably minor improvement in overall appaearance.
Hm, stockholm syndrome?

We live in place with better climate than California, 100 meters from sea. Our total monthly expenses for 3 member family, are probably lower than most people in SV pay for rent. We rent nice house, insurances, school, etc...
I think this is awesome in terms of a product. Could be interesting to expand to other types of recalls (just go through the Ralph Nader list). Most of this information is publicly available, but in such shitty databases that it's not even worth pursuing. If I was a parent, I'd definitely sign up and probably pay a low amount.

Also, if you want some free help tracking your subscription metrics for Stripe, feel free to check out profitwell.com (completely free). Would love your feedback on that as well, if you don't mind. :)
I'm usually against taxes in general, but I'm actually for increasing taxes and using that to have a completely free mass transit system across the entire Bay Area. This would provide a tremendous benefit for everyone.

The problem is that unions will take advantage of all that money and increase wages and pension benefits for their workers instead of hiring more workers and increasing employment in general. This is what happens when there's an influx of money, it causes inflation.
All of these things are true if your expectation of the future has zero value.

On the other hand, if you think that there is any future then non of these things is true.
You're right. My heuristic is not without exceptions.