skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main concern would be that I have to input all of the toys my kids are using. I'm just not sure that I would ever do that. But looks cool.

Also, the right side of the site doesn't seem to be constrained; I can scroll way over - http://take.ms/P4CZQ
This is what Netflix looks like running on an NES
I think that it has more to do with "which ones they look best in". Luxotica, somehow, seems to decide which ones look best.
The newer versions of VMware are html based instead of using the thick client. Managing them and accessing the console should work in theory. Also the Citrix receiver and Remote Desktop clients both work well on the newer chromebooks. If you mean running vms I would consider a more powerful machine with more ram and a supported operating system.
Frozen Goat dies
I recommend you to attend a meeting like the Wave Gotic Treffen in Leipzig. You'll see exactly those things happen and it's called "generation change".

My other pet project for a long time was moderating a metal board - what do you think happened when people came up with Nu Metal? It was an outrage.
If You Feed Your Baby the Paleo Diet You Should Be in Prison
Bootstrap favicon? :)
Dixons Carphone CEO Sebastian James on the Connected Home
> I don't get it anymore... 8-16 GB RAM for what?

So they can run our online 3D modeling and rendering webapp: https://Clara.io ;)
The new Macbook is not a Macbook Air. The post I was replying to was specifically talking about Macbook Air. All its comparisons were with the $899 existing Macbook Air not the new Macbook.
During my day to day use, the only time I plug in to anything is when I sit at my desk, power, Thunderbolt and HDMI to get a glorious three display setup out of my MBPr.

That being said, when I am in meetings, or on the move for work, I don't carry dongles with me. Pure laptop for me. All of our meeting spaces have Airplay compatible projectors, so I sit down, make sure I am on wifi and connect to the display.

Transferring large files? We've got 1 Gbit to our desks, I can sling data from our Denver location to our St. Louis location at almost 300 Mbit/sec sustained. Also, wireless N/AC throughout the building.

In the world where you no longer NEED those ports, having a smaller lighter laptop makes all the difference. I already don't carry dongles with me, the new laptop with less ports wouldn't change that.
The transport for this service is HTTP? I imagine most competitors use that as well, right? How does encoding factor in here? I have to transcode my data to base64 in order to put it in or take it out, I assume? I "know" I'd only get billed for the data stored as the original octet/binary encoding. But what about the egress fees? Encoded or decoded data is the input for the billing?
There is one, and only one reason to be 'data driven'. Or to test one's hypotheses, for that matter. And that is to make sure you aren't fooling yourself; that you haven't fallen prey to the myriad cognitive biases; to prevent your preconceived notions from clouding your judgement of reality, aka what is actually going on.

While data always provides more information, the less strong your prior beliefs, the less informative your experiment will be -- If you believe something and it turns out to be majorly false, you get a nice shift in expectations. If you believe in something and it turns out to be very true, you gain lots of information in terms of quantifying the effect you are looking into.

If you are Google, looking to eck out every last 1/1000th of a penny on ads, yeah, maybe a/b testing the shade of blue of a button can be justified.

The more other companies are "Data Driven" [like the somewhat unfortunate examples the author chose], as opposed to "Hypothesis Driven", the more there is room for somebody else to fry bigger fish.

In other words, it's not the "data's" fault, it is ours.
There is also zennioptical
Woops. Thanks! :D
>Some glasses are expensive because it's what people are willing to pay.

That's a truism. The question is why are people willing to pay that much? Why hasn't cheaper competition gained a bigger market share?
That's great. Yeah, I just wanted to bring forward that I use a pretty slim criteria for when I'm deciding to unfollow an account on SC. Essentially, if that account is not posting or reposting any tracks that I'm interested in for a while, I unfollow them.

So I would hate to see this to you at a larger scale... "Well, Daily Drop isn't posting anything I'm interested in anymore, so I just won't use it". Having more control and options would very much help protect against this. Best of luck!
I don't have the impression that the browser extensions can be installed on the mobile devices.
I've been using/following RethinkDB since I started as Lavaboom's CTO. It's been a smooth ride so far, and the occasional perf improvements are always welcome. Some aspects of the database are especially lovely, like the web admin or painless deployments of new nodes, especially if you're using Docker.

Shameless plug (we've just went open sourced most of our services): https://www.lavaboom.com/
This article neither asks that question nor answers it.

It just espouses a simplistic "Stick to your principals! Have a plan! Work hard! Spend your time wisely!" set of life values - which aren't bad in and of themselves but are pretty bland advice.

Personally, I won't measure my life because in order to do so it must be over, and I will at that point be dead.
The struggles of the poor ("poor" as defined by the original post) are not the same as the struggles of a fresh college grad.

Households on minimum wage are often paycheck to paycheck, and thus have no buffer with which to even find a roof in a new city, much less hunt for a job in a less-reliable industry.

Also, familial connections are not just purely for joy - they may provide some amount of free childcare that would become a financial burden after moving away.
Mike last updated that page in 2012, and I'm not sure if he's publicly committed any code for it. I seem to recall him requesting a sponsorship for it.
or really good A/B testing.

"Our A/B testing shows that this design increases ad clicks by statistically significant amount"
Stackoverflow was one of the biggest offenders to me. They would state that something was a duplicate of something else, with no link to the other thing. Except there was a link. I just couldn't find it without 'view source.'

I must confess I've been guilty of it too. I 'invented' a style of link whereby the link has a border on all four sides and is filled with a transparent pastel. I've even seen this around some (apparently it is kind of an obvious idea). But all in all, I've gotten away from trying to invent my own UI.
Look up CplApplet.
Same here in Canada. Apple do that better.
You'll want the 16 GB version if you ever run facebook and g+ at the same time.
I found OSX with MacPorts to be quite enough most of the time. I can run editors and such on the Mac side and test the application from within a small VM.
Why does Amazon charge like this? It seems like on the rare occasion that you need to send some person to go grab the tape/disk from storage and bring it online, Amazon would want you to get all the data you need and put it back in storage.

Incentivizing users to bring the data online once a day to trickle it out seems bad for all involved.
Codified rules also mean that we can figure out who is responsible, rather than this where the management can't be held accountable, as there is nothing to hold them accountable to. It's all on you.

Even when we account for HR being an organ doing the bidding for the parent org.
The 'Buy Now' is giving me a 404 in New Zealand.
...or that there are buttons at all. Have watched countless seniors struggle with interfaces because to them it's all just a 2D space.
I agree completely. In fact, I think that the only hacker values that are true hacker values are progressive, and that the people invoking "hacker values" to justify misogyny, objectification and sexualization of women, etc., are going against hacker values in a truly insidious way.

But if anyone thinks otherwise, they should know they are on the losing side of history in every regard.
Maybe this is an experiment of low attention span Twitter-like "tweet" article? Seriously at most there was like 3 whole sentences per slide...

I felt like I was reading a highschooler's Power Point...
How to create a great brand that’s both current and built to last
It's only $12 a year for the premium service. Do you feel you're not getting at least $12 value for the ability to have a reliable, secure password manager that is actively supported?

I'd skip lunch for a day to pay for it.
Too bad that VMWare still hasn't upgraded their VMWare Integration plugin to use the new plugin architecture for Chrome, and that Adobe no longer makes Flash for Linux because right now the only way I can manage my VMWare/vCenter is using the Freshplayerplugin that wraps the Pepper Flash version that comes bundled with Chrome so that I can have the VMWare integration plugin function so that I can upload/download OVF's.

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Suffice to say, the newer versions of VMWare are not HTML based. It's a full on Flash application.
Until the day comes when balloons stop working for some reason.

That's when the fun begins.
Living in an area can be more than an emotional decision - for example, nearby family members might provide free childcare. Moving elsewhere would cause childcare to be a (large) financial burden.

A family on the edge doesn't always have the luxury to move.
> couldn't even run Skype on it

Hangouts?
As mentioned in another thread, automagic failover the one still pending, and geospatial indexes/searches (now in the product).

It's wild how many options there are that tailor themselves to all kinds of data out there.
Not so expensive here:

myopticalshop.com

You can get rimless glasses for $50 and high-index (1.71) lenses with frames for $200.
Benevolent sexism: Men who open doors for women as sexist as those who are rude
I would have no problem with the NSA creating crazy intrusive hacking tools if public citizens were allowed to do the same.

If a regular person created tools such as what the NSA made they would get in a heap of trouble, even if they did nothing with them.

If the NSA does it; it's ok? This is the kind of logic that leads to abuses of power. Government are just people, and they are just as likely if not more likely than the average person to abuse their power.
Wow. Rhode Island is 1/5th the size of San Diego County, and 1/3rd the population.
This article is foolishly binary. People are either world-class or are poor performers.

Your people are at least nominally competent. They got you to this point, after all.

So, all of his points about people already inside the organization are much more easily summarized as "If someone inside your organization is performing poorly, you don't have the time to do anything but fire them." I probably agree with this not because I think that your startup magically needs to move so fast, but because most managers are far too unwilling to fire people that desperately need to be fired.

As for an external executive hire, the whole point of pulling them in is to add a needed skillset to the mix. If they don't actually have the skill you needed, why did you hire them in the first place.

As for long term, this article falls into the trap of assuming that management is somehow an inherent talent. It is not--it is a learned behavior. This is a huge problem in business since people who believe that managerial skill is inherent never strive to measure or improve their skill.
This seems like a case where the country shouldn't matter. A recall in the US could help your kid no matter where you live.
Was it this?

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
Little Girl Shuts Down Bully at School When a Boy Calls Her Ugly
https://sputnik.github.io/
It's health.

People are willing to pay half a million for tiger bones in order to cure "diseases". You can't go around selling tiger bones for $2, they would obliviously not work.

Same thing for glasses. Same thing for walking canes.
also 1/10th of the fun :-)
There's nothing wrong with a girls or guys night out. When it's a work-related function that's quite a different story.
Apple Multiple Store Services Working Again
hmmm, not with 100mw, in the old days of CMDA perhaps if the phone had 600mw which some did back then. But Loon is using LTE as I understand it, and I think it said they are using unlicensed spectrum, which, although I have not seen it spelled out, I am guessing in the 5.8Ghz band but even at 2.4Ghz, you are not going 50 miles on 100mw especially not since LTE is not CMDA, in the downlink LTE is OFDMA and in the uplink SC-FDMA, both of which have a much larger Peak to average ratio than spread spectrum so unless you are using an extremely narrow beam antenna (hard to aim while moving), that signal will probably be below the receiver sensitivity).
Most of the value in the "per square foot suburban Palo Alto" number comes from the land, not the structure.

If all those single-family houses were torn down and rebuilt as high-density, then surely the price per square foot would be cheaper. Property rights are pesky though.
I understand the motivation for wanting to avoid frameworks when it looks like a native solution is right around the corner, but that’s just it – it’s not here yet. There isn’t even experimental support for Web Components in either the most popular desktop browser or the most popular mobile browser, and the polyfills are simply nowhere near as mature or well-supported as React and Angular are for the same purposes.

So yes, you could develop for Web Components today, and it would “work” everywhere and it would be the platonic ideal of future-proof web development. It just wouldn’t be very pragmatic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113515
You could also say that more civilized locations have better doctors capable of diagnosing ADHD.
Credit check API
> Software is built by groups of people who most defitely
> cannot be modeled as mathematical entities.

Putting aside whether mathematics is up to modeling human behavior, why does a project schedule estimate need to be modeled using people?

> Weather is a bad analogy here.

I was using weather as an example of complex things that can be estimated, not as an analogy for software development itself. Sorry if I wasn't clear about this.

> Those market forecasts are often wrong.

Useful forecasts/estimates are seldom binary, and "wrong" versus "right" is a bad way to evaluate their usefulness. Estimates have both precision and accuracy. For example if you want perfect precision (as in the wrong/right example), you may in turn get a very low accuracy, i.e. the estimate will often be incorrect. If, on the other hand, you can live with less precision, you can often get higher accuracy.

> The real reason schedule estimation in software
> development is so hard is because, regardless of which
> system of software development is used, the problem of
> simultaneously optimizing to maximise a desired quality
> while minimizing the cost/schedule is inherently hard in
> a mathematical sense. Changes which promote one oppose
> the other, and the sensitivity of a software development
> system to unknown and unpredictable future changes
> cannot, obviously, be predicted in advance.

Again, this is true only if you need very high precision and very high accuracy. If you can live with lower accuracy and precision, estimation becomes quicker, easier and cheaper.

So I stand by my original assertion that software estimation is not impossible.

(edit: To remain consistent, I should say that software schedules are certainly predictable, just not perfectly predictable. Most teams can get by just fine with good enough predictions.)
anecdotally the founders I know were young, single and were roommates due to financial constraints. It wasnt until after funding was established that they could afford to live on their own. The cost per bedroom drops in 2-4 bedroom places compared to studio/1bd, naturally.
>> 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.

The whole point of going with raised buttons and such was to provide a visual cue as to what was clickable. It seems UI people who missed the early 90's are getting to relearn this lesson. When I saw flat I just shook my head.
Correlation link only at this point. From the abstract:

> Overall state water fluoridation prevalence (not distinguishing between fluoridation types) was also significantly positively correlated with state prevalence of ADHD for all but one year examined. [...] The relationship between fluoride exposure and ADHD warrants future study.

Still, it will be interesting to see what more comes out of this.
The other piece of that of course is to communicate clearly to the rest of the executive that this is your approach in case some of them have expectations of you coming in making radical changes from day one.
Can Spark Streaming Survive Chaos Monkey?
A very simple network analysis of pg's collaborators, based on who he thanks at the end of his essays. Source code[0] and clean data[1] are both available. This is an updated version based on pg's comments.

[0]https://github.com/avyfain/pg-essays

[1]https://github.com/avyfain/pg-essays/blob/master/clean_essay...
Using GPL to Protect Your Ideas
That's because you're supposed to store all your data on Google servers (this is not sarcasm).

For 1000 USD however this is ridiculous. Just go DELL or Asus or similar. The XPS13 is excellent for example, come with proper ports, disk space, is light, is fast, has long battery life, has great screen, etc.

Getting an Apple or Google ultra-light laptop just because they're big, rich, trendy companies doesn't seem like a great idea this year. Maybe they'll catch up next year.
I don't think they were being tongue-in-cheek.
Your base point is a question? I assume you meant that your base point is something we should do with the answer to that question. Could you please restate your base point so I do not have to guess what that something is?
Why Product Teams Should Care about IoT
A comment in the thread, or an email to hn@ycombinator.com if you want to be sure we know about it.
Brian from Backblaze here. We do angst over the idea of a "hot spare" where the very second we fail a drive it can begin rebuilding elsewhere. But that takes up redundancy even when it is not used (an extra drive waiting) which raises cost.

At our current scale it is becoming less and less of an open debate, because we now have 7 day a week staffing at our datacenter and the datacenter techs jump right in and replaced failed drives often within an hour or so. A "hot spare" would only save a couple hours of rebuild time. But remember, your mileage will vary - until you reach half our scale you cannot afford even a Monday-Friday datacenter tech, so you might only be able to replace failed drives on Mondays and Wednesday, which widens your exposure.
People I know who aren't interested in computing per se.

They are buying them for children (to avoid malware and viruses and the general cruft of maintaining an OS), and for themselves (because, again, viruses and cruft).

Meanwhile, this OP may well be about a very expensive Chromebook but the other killer advantage of them is they're very lightweight, have very long battery life, and are VERY cheap. If you're sick of Windows and the fact that it just gets slower and slower over time (and everybody is), and you're not the sort of person who has 30 tabs open (which is more or less everybody but us), and you actually need to have a device you can type on, then they're great.

I recommend them to most 'civilians' I know after making sure they don't actually need one of the few things it can't handle.
Just trying to help. Sorry if it sounds wrong way.
Sorry, it's a 'feature' of Zorium: https://github.com/Zorium/zorium/issues/21

Should be fixed soon
I believe regulations require multiple immediate exits available from each apartment in case of earthquake/fire. Makes underground ones a non-starter.
What kills me is how car radios are getting touchscreens now. What good is a touchscreen in a car radio? The whole beauty of the traditional design is you can operate it without taking your eyes off the road.
At this point, I find this whole thing funny. Again.

How many times has Apple done this in modern times? Remember the outrage when Apple removed floppy disk drives? Optical drives? Ethernet ports? Remember how mad everyone got when Apple replaced their old, thick connector on the iPhone 5? Nobody complains about how thin their phone is now that the old 30pin connector is no longer the limiting factor on size. Nobody is bemoaning the fact that they can't watch a DVD on their laptop - we've moved on from optical media.

Nobody will even bother examining the bellyaching about this in a couple of years because we'll all be so happy with the obvious (in hindsight) decision to switch to USB-C.
"nearline, still online, but we could make a graph that is supposed to make you believe its not"
After reading the title and the paper's abstract, this seems to me like just one more instance of the many, many statistics that are strongly correlated with overall economic development of a society, and hence strongly correlated with each other without any causal link. In this case, the relevant factors would be "water fluoridation prevalence" and "capacity of doctors to diagnose ADHD", which are both almost certainly correlated with the overall economic status of a society (not of individuals).
The last item is "engineers who aren't hackers".

I have no idea if Meredith is bisexual or Texan.
Sputnik mode = Laptop loaded with Ubuntu (Developer's Edition)
that assumes the user is going to take the time to figure out which of their toys originated in the US OR waste time entering toys with the mistaken belief that the service is watching for them.
I wonder if this issue is actually in hardware or just in the MRC.
Exactly! A lot of people feel that they are entitled to live in the city they grew up in. They feel that the rising cost of living is unjust, and that they are the victims.

What needs to be understood is that we cannot force the cost of living to drop, and we cannot force the median income to rise.

Either search for a job that pays more, or search for a home that costs less. If that means moving away from where you grew up, then sorry, but that's literally your best option.

Is it fair? No - but life isn't fair. If you find yourself living in a place that you cannot afford, then you are the problem, not the world around you. Fix your own life, because nobody is going to do it for you.
Ah okay carry on then.
I always recommend getting a warranty through your insurance company. My wife got a surface pro, and in her hands I give it a 2 year half-life. We got a personal articles policy on it that is about 45$ a year, and it covers any situation except terrorism or government/cdc seizure. Those policies are a good read. Squaretrade was over 100$ a year and did not cover theft etc. Oh and no deductible. She broke the 60$ charger a few weeks ago and got a new one fully covered.
What? I thought the encryption was the whole point of a password manager…