skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"I think it's ridiculous just because it clearly involved a lot of effort to solve a problem that doesn't really need solving. "

I suspect something similar was said by the horse owner the first time they saw a car.
Any idea if/when that'd happen? ;)
Evernote is down
Tiny, stackable, Linux-based IoT module hits Kickstarter
It is, but I don't see how any material that hasn't been disclosed yet could somehow offset the revelations offered by what has been.
> "Maybe they're not the present, but they ARE the future."

That reminds me of Sun in the early 90's.

I'm not saying you're wrong. But I don't think it's inevitable you're right either. Especially since browser UI toolkits are still stuck in the stone age compared to native counterparts.

Until that gets fixed, I actually think it's probably just wishful thinking.
Frustrating when the whole point is to "stay connected." I have a critical meeting where I prepared notes and they didn't sync and now I have to just deal with that.
Move the decimal point to the left. Boom, %10.

Move the decimal point to the left, then double. Boom, %20.
I created an account on justin.tv a long time ago and my username was 'grapefuckingjelly'. For awhile I couldn't log in because of a new validation on the log in form for swear words (the validation eventually went away). These days, I constantly hit a screen when logging into twitch.tv to transfer my justin.tv account over. It never seems to work... probably due to some validation.

I tried logging into twitch last night and it kept telling me my username/password are invalid, so I think my account is inaccessible again.
$440? You could get a Lenovo T440 for a few bucks more in the Lenovo outlet
If a neutrino is a little neutral one, I'd like to think that an expressino is a tiny expression, in this case of privilege.
Thank Rob,

If you did add geographic info, what would it be base on? area code/NXX? How relevant would it be considering LNP?
Blaming derivatives is like citing the automobile for the reckless actions of the drunk driver behind the wheel.
Derivatives are not inherently evil, nor is any 1 (longstanding) asset class.
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> My point is that if you have your phone in your pocket

When I'm in the privacy of my own home, and I'm not expecting guests, you'd be hard pressed to find me dressed at all, let alone in anything that has pockets ;)
Aside from a lot of technical details and extra features, caching details, performance tweaks etc, etc, the vision is the big difference.

Our big vision is to make static sites a viable mainstream alternative to Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc, etc. Especially for all the people out there building sites professionally, whether they're agencies or lone freelancers.

Static sites are faster, safer, cheaper and simpler and for 90%+ of all the sites out there, they ought to be the default.

But you can't make static sites a mainstream alternative if the recipe for starting a new project is going to at least 4 different services and configure each of them, have plans with each of them, etc, etc. That's just a setup story that's so far behind just picking a Wordpress host and doing a new CPanel install that it's not even funny.

Our big goal is to make starting a new project with a static site generator just as easy as starting a new Wordpress based project. There's still some pieces of that puzzle missing, especially when it comes to collaborating with non-technical content editors, but we'll be presenting solutions to those as well.

Apart from that, typically people building sites or apps professionally have a pretty clear value put on their time, and simply having a one-click option that will setup everything and give you the best build/deploy and CDN performance, is typically easily worth the price whether they're building websites or single page apps.
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Falling prices due to productivity increases isn't deflation.
> Because I don't like dealing with assholes like you. Maybe that means I'm weaker than you. But whatever. You're a fucking jerk.

You had me until your final paragraph. For reference: you're the jerk and I'm flagging your account.
Actually, I upvoted this, but on reflection I think this is wrong. Here's why:

- Most Chromebooks are freely bootloader unlocked, allowing
any operating system to be loaded on them.

- ChromeOS follows the same open source model as Chrome—Most core features open, with things like Flash/Wildvine/API keys held secret.

- There are no native apps on ChromeOS—the correct question
is not "Can Mozilla write a browser for ChromeOS", its
"Can Mozilla write an app for ChromeOS" and "Can Mozilla
write a browser for Chromebooks". Both of these
statements are absolutely true.

So I fail to see how Chromebooks are "more extremely locked down" than iDevices.
> She thought she was ordering a dose per kg, not a quantity of tablets.

Actually, she thought she was ordering a single dose at 160mg, and accidentally ordered dose per kg. 160 was the size of the dose, so the patient's weight became the number of pills.
This is why Vonnegut is my favorite writer. I would read a 500 page novel about paint drying on a wall if he had written it. I'm sure every sentence would be entertaining.

There was an interview or podcast (some sort of video) with Ira Glass about this same idea. He describes a man waking up and getting coffee, the most mundane activities, with incredible suspense. You really have to appreciate that sort of ability. It's not even apparent until someone else points out how boring it would be if stated differently.
A similar effort: http://breach.cc/

it uses nodeJS's webkit binding. You can open an inspector on any element of the UI
Can't trust anything on April 1.
2 words: "accredited investors." 2 more words: "no recourse."
NYU's case was somewhat forced by financial problems in the '70s. They had been maintaining two campuses for decades (one in the Bronx, and one in Manhattan), and in 1973 sold the Bronx campus along with some of the programs that were housed there (most notably Engineering), to try to sort out the budget problems. Nowadays NYU is overflowing with cash, so was able to "acquire" the former Brooklyn Poly to get back into engineering.
I think part of it was that there were so many horribly specced Windows devices sold. As in, the specs were not good enough to handle the OS. 2GB, a single core first gen Atom, and a 5200RPM drive is painful to use even Windows 7 on.

Had one of those machines for work. Even after a fresh install, the lag was positively infuriating.
One thing to realize is that Apple is gearing more of their products to the Chinese market with the golds, reds and other cosmetic choices.

The other thing to note is that Ive is a silversmith's son so he may be drawn to metallurgical interests and choices from a deep psychological place.
"ARM wrestler" haha
I feel like Apple's fallen of the wagon on this one, however. Look at the iPad line. From what I can tell there are at least 6 different models and all of those are available in different storage capacities and with different connectivity options. Additionally, there are 3 different iPhone models. If you're a consumer walking into Best Buy for an iPad, I can definitely see you getting a raw deal if you don't already know what you want.
Well, no. In the US, lawyers can't work for non-lawyers; that is, they can't work in a position where their legal judgement is subject to review by a non-lawyer. Part of their code of professional responsibility.
I like how he qualifies his extensive computer security background then a proceeds with textbook examples of how to be a script kiddie. Out-of-date and improperly configured software being at-risk to canned exploits is nothing new.
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But there's only one law "protecting" them from one specific kind of bad money decision. So I guess we're saying payday lenders are ok for poor people, rent-to-own is ok for poor people, but we must protect them from investing in the next amazon or dropbox at all costs. That's much riskier than the lottery.
It depends on how you work, so I disagree that you always lose the core functionality. I could totally go without the type cover if I wanted to because I just don't travel much.

As a matter of fact, I think when the Surface Pro 4 comes out, I will not buy the type cover and take the savings instead. In any case, I really, really disagree that Microsoft is being sleazy by offering a choice. It's more like they're going all-in on the idea that you can use all of Windows without a physical keyboard.
Yes? Here are a number of essays that lay out the issues with the current government and ways to make a better government written by a number of influential U.S. figures during the war that led to the U.S. independence from Britain.

You think the British weren't concerned at all about who was writing this propaganda and weren't willing to violate the "rights" of their colonists... because I think the authors were quite concerned.
I don't think having a "full OS" factors very much into the decision process for someone considering this kind of device.
Scala has macros [0], and as you reasoned the type checker has to run after the macro expansion. That's not a huge downside; to the user it still appears to be a single pipeline (parsing -> macro expansion -> type checking -> compilation).

Haskell also has very powerful metaprogramming facilities, like template haskell [1].

[0] http://scalamacros.org/
[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Template_Haskell
Sometimes non-physicists accuse physicists of ad hockery with regard to dark matter and dark energy, and chameleon models are very useful in that case because they show what ad hockery really looks like:

"Chameleon models are not especially well motivated from the standpoint of fundamental physics, admits Burrage, who began studying them in graduate school, but since dark energy presents such a profound mystery, physicists are willing to consider just about anything."

They are also something to bring up when your New Age [1] friends claim that some weird effect "can't be tested by science" because it only happens when no one is paying attention, or something. Chameleon models are specifically designed to be "not there when there is a detection apparatus present", and yet to be useful as an explanation at all they have to have some interaction with the rest of the world, so it turns out we can test them regardless.

This is a general property of things that are useful in explanation: if they can explain something, they can cause something, and if they can cause something, they can be investigated by systematic observation, controlled experiment, and/or Bayesian inference.

[1] I just realized how dated the term "New Age" sounds. It turns out it went out of fashion in the '90's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age#Social_and_political_m.... We really need an inclusive term for the whole swath of people from across the political spectrum who reject science.
You should actually post a specific criticism. I did read the article, that is my take-away. I'd respond to your issues with my post but you forgot to let us know what they are...
Yep, I hoped the article would be about that or something similar. A toxic, irrational compulsion.

Using && and a command line option - really? I hate to go "you're not OCD enough" on the author, but I basically only ever see people commit+push that way.
maybe they should stop with unscientific tests (polygraphs)
Ask HN: Will Google Eventually Shut Off Its Static Image Charts API?
Back in 2012, Google announced that it was retiring its Static Image Charts API, which allowed you to supply data parameters as a URL to get an embeddable data chart.

API homepage:
https://developers.google.com/chart/image/

The April 20, 2012 announcement:
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/04/changes-to-deprecation-policies-and-api.html

I don't know if they ever announced an official date for the deprecation of the charts API, but I had always assumed it would be 3 years from the announcement date...which may have just been a mistaken assumption that Google APIs all previously were under the 3-year policy?

In any case, almost all the other APIs that were announced as retired in that Apr. 20, 2012 post are dead (Moderator, Portable Contacts, Feedburner) or superseded...the ClientLogin does mention an exact shut down date of Apr. 20, 2015.

The static image charts API page was most recently updated in January 2015. The deprecation note simply says "we officially deprecated the static Google Image Charts way back in 2012. This gives us the right to turn it off without notice, although we have no plans to do so."
I think it's funny that anyone anywhere thinks that whether you smoked pot in the last year is "a matter of national security".
Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war
Adiós GPS: Darpa Working on Alternative Position Tracking Technology
Same here, but just a notes app on my phone. If I think of a thing, I put it in there, and I get to forget about it. I then pull it up when I go to the store.

Is this like, what society wants though? Are we all here to be waited on hand and foot, have our every need taken care of? Do we end up being able to solve more real problems this way, or do we end in a dearth of imagination? Interesting implications - we either end up with a higher percentage of people being self-actualized or an idiotistopia a la wall-e and idiocracy.
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I think it's posted on HN exactly because it's a topic that is foreign to many engineers. Nothing wrong with it if it works.
A Slack notification is a great idea. I just have the Voicemail Twimlet set up for my personal numbers but I've been wanting something more sophisticated for awhile. Thanks for the ideas, and the OpenCNAM link.
I'm completely unsurprised that you think it's fine for matt manser to shame people for using a sockpuppet to express an opinion, but totally unacceptable to call him a fucking jerk for doing so.

It's really really disgusting that you decided to censor my reasoning because I happened to call a jerk a jerk.

[accurate but embarrassing information about jacques deleted]
Sure Apple allows native code.

Apple doesn't allow third-party interpreters/compilers if they can run code from untrusted sources (Codea and some Python environments get around it by only running locally written code).
Given the nature of secondary transactions, many people don't want to talk publicly about their experience. That said, if you're interested in working with us, I can make introductions to a couple shareholders or investors that have worked with us in the past (and have agreed to share their story).

I'm also always happy to chat and answer any of your questions. Feel free to email me: sohail at equidateinc dot com
I think games like Myst succeed in cases where, when the player changes to the state of the world, the consequences of the change make some kind of sense (be it mechanical, symbolic, imaginative, etc.). If you can follow the wire from the switch to the lamp, then you can reasonably deduce that the switch controls the lamp. If you see a rune in two place, then it's reasonable to draw a connection.

Games (and software!) fail when the connections between elements are too subtle, too complex, or simply too inconsistent, and sorting them out passes from being fun to being work.
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Folks aren't talking about FirefoxOS replacing laptops or desktops though, unlike Chromebooks, if you follow this thread. Nor does Mozilla do a lot of cloud business nor is it in the business of tracking users for advertizing purposes.

The PC software ecosystem has been open historically, even with Windows and OS X, and now there's talk of it being replaced by a completely closed alternative
One of the first investors of Facebook was In-Q-Tel, the VC arm of the CIA. Let that sink in for a moment. For me the hardest thing about this is getting over the shock that the CIA has a VC investment division.
Good idea, bad UI. A table view would be much more readable, scannable, and familiar.
As time goes on in a homeostatic environment, you'd expect fewer records on either end. That's not what we're seeing. The pockets of newly extreme cold weather are neither surprising nor contradictory of a warming planet. And the increasing number of record high temps and precipitation events provide still more evidence to heap onto the mountains of proof already provided by climate scientists.

The politicization of climate science comes from the deniers.
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One of the problems I run into when recommending Chromebooks (I tried to convince my 75 year old mother, for example) is that almost every user turns out to have a need for something you can't do on a Chromebook. It ends up being a 90% solution for 90% of people, rather than a 100% solution for 80% of the people.
But yet we still allow drinking, but drunk driving is illegal. We don't blame derivatives, we blame the reckless users of derivatives for the damages they caused.
Here is another good example of that in a different medium: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/adayinthelife.html
He simply asked you a question.

I'll ignore the rest of your factually incorrect prose on the assumption it is there simply to provoke some kind of response.
Swedish landlines seems to not work. I manage to lookup my old mobile phone number and it say Sweden correctly. But if I input +4686736000 I get 404 back.
To build on this, there's a growing body of scientific research that shows that an idle mind (to the point of boredom) is necessary for creativity.

There's also obviously a lot of evidence that meditating, which can be considered a form of intentional boredom, is very good for you in a lot of ways.
I've also seen this system in my search, but it doesn't meet the criteria:

1) This system is listed at $199, not $149.

2) In the questions at the bottom, users do not recommend this as a Minecraft or gaming system.
Apple allows native code. What they don't allow is the use of any other rendering engine besides WebKit.
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And how many Windows users installed Linux? If it's easier to run Linux or use Crouton on a Chromebook, then that's an argument against the view that they're less open than Windows or iOS.
Its the fundamental sub-particle of privledge; might not have any mass but it still smells and looks like overpriced coffee and arrogance.
Or, presumably, which were never copyrighted as in the case of "A United States government work is prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties." http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

It's probably also worth noting in this discussion that (as per the referenced link) subjects in the photos may have privacy or publicity rights for photos used for commercial (non-editorial) purposes.
Loving the discovery of poets here.

I'd like to point out: http://www.reddit.com/user/Poem_for_your_sprog

All the comments he/she posts are poems in response to the post or comment. The comments usually are guilded.
I doubt you're paying for the "free" software -- it's all loss-leaders. If anything it may be reducing the cost of the device.
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Bullshit that's 'simply asking a question'.

'Why did you make a throwaway?' is an attack, an attempt to intimidate, and nothing more. Context matters.

[more accurate and embarrassing information about jacques deleted because it was wrong of me to stoop to his and matt's level]
> That's what I mean when I write "most of the time".

I absolutely agree that in the scenarios you've described, the thread implementation makes no difference (again Little's Law), and that this is "most of the time" for traditional web apps. But we're working with people who are working on IoT, where there is constant ingest (and queries) from all sorts of devices, where we're easily surpassing 100K concurrent request, and expected to grow beyond that by several orders of magnitude.

> No matter what you do, you have to do it now as the UI is being displayed, because you can't de-schedule the user that is looking at the screen.

Ah, now I understand what you mean (thanks for being patient)! Still, I think this pseudo code (which gets run in a fiber for every image):

display stub image
fetch image
display image

is easier than any callback-based alternative. You can even make it more interesting:

Future<Image> image = get image
while(!image.isDone) {
display spinner frame
sleep 20 ms
}
display image

This is a lot easier than the async alternative.
The "I am the best"[1] SP3 commercials were still better than the cringey Surface 2 commercials [2], IMO.

[1] https://youtu.be/1jP4O7rEHQ8

[2] http://www.ispot.tv/ad/75ZE/microsoft-surface-2-teacher
On your former point I actually agree, but that's not the way the 'deflation = bad' argument is usually presented. It's usually presented that "people will defer purchases", full stop, and that would be terrible but it's hard to believe. I agree it will happen on the margins, but that might not be a huge deal.

Investment wise, it always comes down to risk and inflation adjusted returns. Hiding your money under your mattress results in a risk free positive real return in a deflationary environment, but this just the same as buying a short term treasury bond.

It's self evident that just because you can get a risk free positive return, it doesn't mean capital won't take on risk for a higher one. If that were the case, nobody would invest in anything other than government bonds.
That's true. Consultants and bankers are also overpaid worker bees.

Edit: but at least they report to other consultants and bankers.
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When you do something that causes me problems, and you aren't willing to accept the costs, then yea, I'm going to blame you.
If someone works with a piece of software every day, they're going to start navigating it by the position of elements in the software, not what the text around the elements say. If the "erase form" button was placed below and to the right of a web form, where the "submit" button usually is, you bet it would cause a fair amount of swearing.

If the doctor is used to working with older/larger patients (over 40kg) they might get that screen only rarely, and perhaps because the patient was so close to 40kg, she wasn't thinking in "pediatrics" mode, and expecting it to come up.
1. Mortgage contracts are too complex for a layperson to understand. Often the amount of time people are given to sign them is less than it would take to read the entire contract through just once.
2. Getting a mortgage is an instance where the seller is also the advisor (similar to an auto mechanic or a doctor).
3. Consumers were actively advised to take out mortgages that the seller knew were more expensive than the consumer could afford.
4. If a predatory auto mechanic deliberately advised a customer they needed repairs that they did not, that would be fraud on the part of the mechanic. The same thing applies to predatory lenders.

(There certainly were people who just made bad decisions. But there was also widespread, documented fraud on the part of lenders.)
I like the idea but I think http://supportdetails.com/ has a more pleasing UI.
> Nor does Mozilla do a lot of cloud business nor is it in the business of tracking users for advertizing purposes.

What does that have to do with how open the devices are?