skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
72 percent chance that a magnitude-6.7 or larger quake is coming to the Bay Area
I mean if I buy an iPhone 6 my 3 chargers + 2 car chargers + Bose audio device are now junked. Thats all I mean.
Congrats, great combination for personal news
Apart from the point where Sam muses about that specific point - expecting Heroic fantasy to be the same as a modern day booker prize novel is not helpful.

Just as a lot of the tropes of classical Athenian Theatre are alien to us nowadays doesn't mean its not great art.
On a structural perpetuation-of-the-organism level, no: you make a good point. On a personal level, I do find it weird that people take critiques of a system more personally than personal insults. We were all born into a system that we didn't create; we reshape it through the actions in our lives.
What a great article. Our culture does seem to believe that touch screens are the ultimate interface and must be installed everywhere.
Just wait a year or two. You'll see configurable hardware. Aka "software wrapped in plastic" (Brad Feld)

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/22/the-maker-movement-starts-...

Go through the products available at a site like sparkfun or adafruit and tell me you couldn't make some awesome customization control panel system? Larger buttons for smartphone-specific functions, some with their own small (and low-cost) discrete display perhaps?
Useful. I'm assuming those are cases where normal pipes would fail too? So you can't do:

cat z | unzip # I know, uuoc, demo only

It's just with the process substitution you have more flexibility to shoot yourself in the foot?
From LA to Las Vegas in 52 Seconds
differences in pitches of adjacent vowels

Screaming isn't particularly well-articulated :)
Why is the raising of an exception a side effect?
CS is also about creatively using fixed rules to get a desired result.

But then, so's engineering.
Highly Questionable: What Time.com Gets Wrong About the Present.

Actually, a decent article, it just doesn't go far enough, or maybe it ignores that old saw about how "Science fiction has always been about the present, even when it’s dressed in futuristic trappings" (https://hbr.org/2009/07/predicting-the-present). That is, what "extractive institutions" do we suffer under today, what "extractive institutions" are we building up right now?

I'd say that the big push to own ideas (in the form of "Intellectual Property") is just about the biggest "extractive institution" we've got floating around today, and if the leaks of the Trans-Pacific Partnership are any indication, our upper crust is trying to strengthen.
wait until he realizes the inherit classicism that exists between wizards and fighters.
...in the next 30 years
Attention decay in science [pdf]
I reject 3.5e as non-canonical. Ha!
Unfortunate they use D&D with its simple and rigid class system.

A classless system like Runequest is much better to express the wide range of possible fantasy trope characters (trope=young boy knows nothing, explorers the world, becomes famous, has powerful enemies, and saves the world by defeating them)

Even more interesting would be a career based system like Traveller, with the restriction of maximum homeworld techlevel 8. So you could start promising with good education and social standing, go to a medical school, but decide to become criminal after school, go into jail to learn even more skills, and start your role playing at career at best age of 29 or 33. Or you can even continue pre game careers, and start as an old wise man, who knows a lot, but where age already took its toll to strength, constitution and agility.

Some games offer much wider ranges of tropes for characters then D&D.
Not to speak for Netflix on the storage part, but Cassandra can run against ephemeral disks in AWS, and is designed for it. As such, I think what they are saying they don't have to think about storage as much.
I think confused (older) person accidentally clicking on ads is a pretty viable business model
My understanding is that gradually typed code, i.e. using "any", introduces unsoundness.

var s : String = "bar";
var a : any = s;
var i : int = a;

Not sure, but I think Typescript's assignability rules, which use structural typing, also introduce unsoundness.

class A { foo() { print('A'); } }
class B { foo() { print('B'); } }

var a : A = new A();
var b : B = a;
“Goodnight sweetheart, I still love you” – a startup founder
Car lock radio devices had a man-in-the-middle attack vector where a repeater could be set up by the car, and a roamer with another would walk thru the mall until they got close to you by accident. Then your car would unlock.

I imagine this is more sophisticated? Geolocation is hard to forge; each device is talking to the internet and not just pinging radio.
More accurate might be, why the shit we are buying that is made in China could be behind our changing climate :)
The limits you think should be put.

A subsidised construction boom tied to population growth, for instance, would tend to help those on median to low incomes twice over. Once by keeping a lid on the cost of housing and secondly by providing a greater availability of reasonably well paid employment. It also helps those on higher incomes (as long as they are not those whose income is merely dependent on continually soaring house prices), both directly in lower rental costs and indirectly by reducing the cost of local services.
Really surprised no one has mentioned Flipboard. They take many of the best news sources from the web and reformat them for great mobile viewing.
ISIS, Communism, and the Lure of Violent Utopianism
Required Reading for All X86 Programmers [pdf]
Very insightful. I don't even consider DynamoDB as I don't want to deal with its complicated pricing model. Basically, in order for me to estimate the costs, I need to invest time and play with it, which I'm not gonna do if I don't know how much this will costs me. It's a vicious circle and goes against the spirit of EC2 and most of AWS pricing.
> I think the last time that the Loon project item was posted here a lot of the same comments were made. I think it was verified that they are flying at the 60kft - 90kft range where the winds are typically mild and in the 20mph range.

From the article:

"In the same time it took the Earth to complete half of its annual orbit of the sun, our record-breaker managed to circumnavigate the globe 9 times, [...] soaring to a maximum height of 21 km and drifting over more than a dozen countries across 4 continents."

So the maximum altitude reached was 21 km.

Also, won't increasing the antenna size on the balloon enable reception of a weaker signal? Although the antenna size increases by a factor of πd^2, where d is the distance between sender and receiver. So an antenna 80 km away needs to be 64 times larger than an antenna 10 km away in order to compensate for the weaker signal.
Yup. The downlink is always easy (from the tower to the phone). The uplink is always the weakest link because the size of the device, the limited battery the limited size of the antenna due to the form factor of the phone and so on. If it was strictly a broadcast solution it would be a lot easier, but even if you are streaming youtube, you still need the uplink for TCP and so on.
I've always been a nerd. From birth. From the ugly glasses and the math team and the BBSs on. From dumpster-diving for computers because I couldn't afford them. From emacs vs vi.

I'm also female. I don't like being pushed out of my own d*&mned nerdy home by people who think I'm invading because I happen to stand up for myself.
What an amazingly succinct description of political theatrics, I'm going to borrow that phrase.
Ever go to YC and then release two new products?
Sure, as a parent you should be able to decide what the appropriate response is. But at least to me this particular class of problems does not need an app but simple common sense.
"File > Print" is in text and how you'd indicate you wanted to print a document. This brings up a dialog, which then had a Print button, with bold borders indicating it was the default so you could just press the enter/return key. Maybe you're thinking of the Chooser port selection which was a printer but did sorta look like Kleenex box.

http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/images/screenshots/syst...

http://kb.epson-europe.com/pf/12/webfiles/Article%20Images/O...
I'm not disputing that the works of Tolkien are classics immemorial. I'm just saying that it's always good to take note of the biases of any creator- and they needn't be biases that run counter to "political correctness", either.

Specifically to race in fantasy, I agree that LoTR wasn't really the place for that. However, D&D is actually the perfect place- RPG sourcebooks are expected to worldbuild, and describe fantasy worlds in detail. So it's a useful thing to think of when exploring an RPG.
Criticises the Romulans for being 'extractive' and thus not having the momentum to become a galactic empire. But ignores expansion, which can fuel growth.

Hm, maybe a better argument for Klingon empire building. The Romulans are well-known for being reclusive.
You strike me as the kind of person who literally believes in everything a politician says, and is unaware of subtexts. If you think that all that people say is only the pure literal surface meaning of their words, than that is very much your problem, not mine.

Also, the trope is "run away, screaming like a little girl", not just "screaming like a little girl".
We're Nomiku and we entered YC has a hardware startup (we made the first ever home sous vide immersion circulator for sous vide, funded by Kickstarter) and now as we're approaching demo day we launched two new products on TechCrunch. One is a meat delivery program where we partnered with BiRite. The other, perhaps more insane one is an app called Tender(heh) which is a database for our communities' sous vide recipes. We got really tired of searching Google each time we needed a time and temp for something.

My husband and co-founder Abe was all like, let's go to YC, it'll be good for our company!

Now I feel like I'm running three companies. Is there a record for most products released by a startup out of YC?
I didn't miss that clause. Controlling for SES is not trivial. And they only controlled for it at the state level. I'm just saying that the variables they measured seem like the kind of ones that are strongly correlated with economic development, so looking for a week association between the variables themselves is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Even if you eliminate 90% of the haystack (i.e. control for most, but not all, of SES effects), finding the needle doesn't get much easier.

Or looking at it another way, my point is that since most correlations like this turn out to both have economic development as a common cause rather than being themselves causally related, I require extraordinary evidence to the contrary before I believe it.
When I was at uni we used to talk about "contact hours", which was basically how many hours you spent per week in lectures, labs and tutorials. In my first year (studying Engineering) I had about 20-25 contact hours a week, that didn't include time spent studying working on assignments etc. From what I remember that was at the upper end of most undergraduate courses.

In later years during weeks with a large portion of lab work it wasn't uncommon to have 40+ hour weeks.

While I was an undergrad I rented a flat with a good friend of mine who was doing a B.A. (majoring in creative writing). He would complian if he had more than 7 hours a week.

There was a certain element among engineering students who reveled in the percieved difficulty of the degree there was a lot of 'machoness' about how hard the course was etc and there was a tendency to disparage other faculties particularly the Arts faculty. Which of course is nonsense.
Not if you had 2 USB-C ports, and you could charge from either side. That would be pretty cool actually.
Lots of schools order them in bulk for students to use in class.
The NBA's “Age” Problem
Traveller's system had the odd effect of making the best characters (those with the most skills) also really old. It was odd as a teenager roleplaying a 48 year-old military veteran. My main thought was always "why am I out adventuring instead of just getting some rest?"
I use Lastpass Enterprise to manage the workplace users and their passwords, overall it works quite well. For personal logins I use Keepass synced using Google Drive.
Apple Desktop Bus was more or less USB 0.
I really don't quite get this. My parents are 83 and they don't live a different digital life than my friends (who like myself are in their late 40s). They send emails, they browse the web, they use smartphones.

My parents, having more time, edit wikipedia entries, which I'm pretty sure most of my friends have never done or wouldn't know how to do.

There's nothing special about being over 80. Your friends are dying all around you, and you start thinking about death more. But if you don't lose your head to Alzheimer's, you still can think, you still can learn. And you certainly can use tech objects like computers and tablets.

Ads are an abomination for everyone. The one improvement for tablets would be the ability to install Adblock at the device level. That would help all users, not just "seniors".
You realize your company has an HR policy that is illegal in most civilized countries, because it is considered unethical for an employer to treat employees that way?

The issue here is that some (many) people need more guidance, because it's not their company, and they have no idea what it considers "the right thing". Should you hire such people, you can't just dump them like thrash because you can't be bothered to manage them properly.

Netflix is going to get into a truckload of legal issues if it tries to scale this practice internationally in countries with decent employee protection laws, which is most of the Western world outside the US.

Netflix sounds to me like a Randian cult.
"As Facebook user and band-liker, I don't want to see every post from a band-- just the posts that are relevant to me."

I think the frustration with music lovers is that relevance isn't really determined by ad spend or what's promoted (I already determined a band was relevant to me by liking them) and it shouldn't be difficult or require extra "boosting" for bands to just have a follower receive each update they have.

I have a friend who is very into music and uses facebook because artists and their fans haven't agreed on some other music centered social app (yet).

He wants the exact opposite of what you described i.e. see ALL updates from all bands I follow in a feed.

His feeling is "Facebook sucks for music because I don't even see the posts from the artists that I follow". I tend to agree. If you are following some niche group or organization and you want to be certain that you receive updates... well facebook isn't good for that anymore. Who knows what you have been algorithmically disqualified from viewing?
You can put multiple base stations on the balloon but I'm not sure what the capacity constraints are so I don't know if that would be a reasonable solution.
- We think the tool can shape the process. We're hearing from teams that use it that meetings that used to have no agendas now have agendas consistently, meetings that used to go in circles now stay focused and end with clear next steps, etc.

- There's plenty to do to fix meetings (and doing so will help improve people's work life), so that will be our focus for the foreseeable future. Funny enough, we did change the name from MeetingHero, we felt WorkLife was more in line with our fundamental purpose and long term aspiration.
Very often the founders of the failed startups get recycled into new ones too, eg. Infogami => Reddit, Kiko => Justin.tv => SocialCam/Twitch/Cruise, Gamador => Parse, Auctomatic => Stripe (after acquisition), 3 startups => Scribd, TipJoy => YesGraph (with stints at Facebook & Dropbox in between).
Schools are a large market for lower-end chromebooks.
both is possible
Vision – Train your sight online
Yep, us too! On our roadmap.
Currently you'd have to do it in the data model as you would in any other database. It's a pretty cool idea, though -- I'll think about what we can do (though admittedly, this is a bit removed from the current direction).
Could you elaborate? I think a better approach would be to revise the legal codex so that it becomes simple enough for individuals to research and lower dependency on professional lawyers.

Moreover, I disagree with the common analogy made in circles like HN that laws resemble code. Perhaps in some esoteric probabilistic language they might, though I don't believe thinking such as "ML will fix this" will yield a proper correspondence.
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So it seems that the plaque is cause and not just symptom after all. That's interesting.
And even cooler if it could charge twice as fast when you plug both in.
I know a beta tester of the new Pixel, and the battery life of 12 hours is absolutely for real. I've been pretty impressed from the bit of it I've seen.
Does the laptop in the splash photo bother anyone else? It looks like they photoshopped the keyboard to be much shorter. Look how tall the screen is, then imagine you folded that down to meet the keyboard. That's no laptop I've ever seen!
> Recently I see a lot of advocates of dropping NoSQL databases and moving back to Postgress or other SQL databases.

This is just from a vocal minority on HN. You just need to look at the facts.

Companies like Mongo, Datastax, Aerospike etc are growing bigger by the day, with increasingly higher valuations. Old school database companies like Teradata are now all about datalakes incorporating Hadoop and Mongo. And technologies like Spark, Impala are now on the front line for many data analytics and processing work.

In the enterprise at least SQL databases are increasingly being relegated to a small part of the whole data pipeline i.e. storing the consolidated, integrated data model.
Why do c-suiters get to follow their bliss while exhausted underlings trudge on?
It would be pretty trivial to add electronic beamsteering but it's not clear it is even necessary: It should be okay if the cells move a little bit.
We are! https://jobs.lever.co/worklife
> galaxies that are far enough away from us (more than a few tens of billions of light-years) will always recede from us faster than the speed of light

Wait, how is that possible??
Aeon recently published a piece on luck, which - as it turns out - is a real and measurable thing.

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/does-lacky-luck-exist-or-...

As the investigation notes, luck - good or bad - stems from the kinds of decisions people make. If you're doing well, you're more likely to place bets with lower risk, which are more likely to pay off. This is how success breeds success; good fortune optimizes for more of the same.

Conversely, if you're doing badly and feeling desperate, you're more likely to take the riskier bet, which is naturally the one more likely to fail. In this way bad luck usually leads to worse - except in the rare cases when it doesn't.

If you're (a) in a position to cast a very wide net by (b) placing lots of relatively small bets in (c) a field that produces rare but ginormous winners, then you can turn the loser's dynamic into a gold mine (maybe!), but that's three hard things you have to get right, and coming up short on any one front will reduce you to the exact same roadkill that your model churns out daily.
sure, will email you.
I feel the same way, it feels very deliberate the way the ad loads just enough to shift a call to action I to an accidental ad click. It cannot think of a solution to resolve this type of blackhat trickery.
You realize that this article is from a pretty noted VC, right? He's pretty familiar with reality.
the app is on FDroid

I recently learned that there is an authenticator in f-droid, but not the authenticator, if one reads the notes at the top of the f-droid listing: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.google.andro...

I don't even know what they would want to stick in the Play store's authenticator above the already open sourced functionality.
Congratulations you removed all the context and qualifiers ("if you approach it from a very generous mindset,... You can soften the racism of deriving personality traits directly from a character’s race") in his statement and made an absurd analogy.
This should change with Java 10. Project Jigsaw looks to be a pretty major change to the way the JVM will work scaling from very small to very big. Remains to be seen how well it pans out.
Wanted to chime in and thank you for your posts in this thread -- good, insightful, correct stuff.

I'm optimistic -- while there's a lot of noise and badness right now, ten years ago people weren't even talking about these problems in the tech community. Imagine where we'll be in another decade.
I suspect he's just grabbed this template:

https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/triangle-multi-purpose-templ...

but yes, you make an excellent point. Equally I agree with his approach of using a $9 template before validating w customers and working out the business model...not sure what the theme site says about the images licence wise but it's not necessarily a bad abstraction to assume that images included with a template are licenced with it if they aren't watermarked etc.
This is super impressive.
I have a tiny bit of (hopefully constructive) criticism though, and it's not really against this work and what has been accomplished.

The TB303 has one of the worst sequencing interfaces of any hardware sequencer, so even as much as it is loved, I'd love to see something more modern in terms of UI for sequencing melodic parts.

Even step select/activation with 16 steps and keeping the TB303 keyboard sort of interface for actually selecting notes would be a lot more usable and immediate. Having to select the step number and enter a note is painful though and not very mouse friendly.. with hardware at least you can mash the heck out of the button.
> waiting for our Displays with MagSafe2 and USB3

And Thunderbolt 2.

And a screen with the same great anti-glare coating as the current two-year-old non-retina iMac.

And industrial design that matches any of Apple's current products, rather than something visually unchanged in six years.
That's what I have been thinking the whole time.

I think it's a shame GURPS is relatively less known in the world!
Chile is a wonderful country, generally very well run since Pinochet was deposed. They are developing world but they are really developing. The government runs a financial surplus and despite being really huge with an odd distribution of population (a huge percentage of the country lives in santiago) the infrastructure in remote parts is quite good. (Quite good on south american standards)

The country is running Startup Chile to build entrepreneurship, and has been pretty successful in jumpstarting a startup economy and culture.

I highly recommend if you get a chance to spend time in Chile, do so.