skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And ties - what purpose do they serve other than social signals?"

Here is an answer: <exaggerate>I am the slave of my company, that's why I wear an expensive, totally useless thing around my neck, that lets me sweat in summer and breathe hard all year round. My company asks that and I do what they say, because I always do what everybody does. And I rather shit my pants than to hold the minority opinion :o)))).</exaggerate>

Well, you are right, its also a social signal.
No lawmakers voted on anything. It's an executive order.
Hehe - I love it for sure -- we considered it but decided on something more 'obvious' :)
China actually is an ISIS country of Communist party
It's been possible to run Android apps on Chrome for a while now, and my experience was that they're terrible for the most part. Cryptic icon buttons with no tooltips and reliance on gestures like swiping in from edges does not make for quality desktop software.

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-run-android-apps-inside-chrome-...
She was not a SME to every patent in litigation but her forum attracted tons of incredible insight. It was not a solo act, to be sure. I guess the person is a shorthand for the forum when I refer to her by name.
No, I interpret that as being Beats paying $14 for them from the OEM (the real manufacturer), and the manufacturer is still making a profit at that price.

That price is about right for OEM price of this style of headphone, see e.g.

http://www.dx.com/p/ovleng-ov-x1-stylish-stereo-headphones-w...
This looks like a nice Cuban Airbnb place to lounge: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/5717762?s=Yoe5
TABS + 1TBS = Pabst Blue Ribbon MF!
While for many products you would be right, for Beats you are wrong. They really did spend quite a while getting the design right. The design was also very controversial, while low end headphones had bass forward designs, they had build costs far lower than $14, and had lots of sound quality issues. (Beats is colored, but relatively cleanly so)

Anyways the design actually was fairly novel, you can read more here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-19/designer-o...
Also an iPhone killer: the Wired website, or at least that article.
Yeah AirBnB hasn't really taken off here in the UK as it has elsewhere. Not sure if that's a cultural thing (letting your home out to strangers) or something else. Like you said, much better to stay at a hotel or B & B if travelling to the UK
There is a thread in their support forum, it seems like they want nbd rootfs. It is a pretty simple (not very good) protocol (from memory) but I dont think there is a BSD driver at present.
There's so much variance on a single host (depending on your neighbors on the server that you occupy) that metrics like this should be taken with a grain of salt.

That said, I'm not sure that someone who wants to squeeze out every bit of performance will be using a shared host, anyways.
I had lobbied for Democritus... unsuccessfully :(
2015 seems to be the year for multi-national globalization to really kick into gear.

TPP, this, what's next?
GitHub has indeed been operating normally since the 31st; see https://status.github.com/messages .
In my opinion, something like the Gigafactory only makes sense in the context of (expected) innovations.

The usual way to lower costs is to specialize, and to have a diverse network of suppliers. The Gigafactory is meant to do everything under one roof, so it's the opposite of specialization (and low costs).

The advantage of something like a Gigafactory, however, is the ability to coordinate actions in-house. Transactions costs are lower, and Tesla is able to "upload" innovations rather fast (compared to a diverse specialized network of companies).
I know. I'm just saying in general.
It would be pretty cheap to hire one of these boxes and try it out.
Tesla is no more a battery company than Amazon is a shipping company.
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To Run a Startup You Need to Become Rocky Balboa (or Wolverine)
How is that personal identity formed, if not by social interaction? I think the dichotomy you refer to is illusory.
Waiting for OpenBSD.
Developing with Vagrant and Ansible
Indeed. I can confirm that after having played Missle Command on the Atari 800 in 1983!
I especially said hardware for decimal floats and didn't include fixed point. You don't need special hardware for fixed point. Addition and subtraction are the same as if you would do it with integers, for multiplication and division you also need to shift additionally.

With floating point you also have endless possibilities how to define them. Next to the standard IEEE ones you for instance have 80 bit ones you had to use on intel CPUs. With fixed point arithmetic you don't really have standards but common ones like Q16.16
So there are plenty of systems that compile portions of a SQL plan to bytecode (LLVM or JVM) or machine code directly. Usually, the part you compile is the SQL plan and most importantly the predicate filters.

Common operations like networking, transaction management and even index walks (except the key comparisons) are already compiled to native code, so you don't need to go all in. You just optimize the stuff that needs it.
Wow, that's surprising, I've been an AirBnB guest about 10 times and generally had a very good experience. I've had 100% response rate and only once had a problem - which was that the host had a problem with the utilities in the flat and had to cancel my booking a few days before. Annoying, but understandable and well communicated.

Perhaps it's worth looking at your photo and description to see if they can be improved, and also filtering your choices based on the host's reputation and description.
Depends on the quality. A $300 silk tie sends a different signal to a $2 tie from a supermarket.
> Do you get to chose between electricity providers?

Yes, here in Pennsylvania. Heck, the providers market directly to me, and I've actually made a choice.
You're completely missing the point. Fashion is the functionality.
Oh you can listen to anything you like. Any mix is fine, and any headphones are fine.

When I say truthfulness, I refer to playback equipment. Truthful means that it outputs something that is close to the input.

My argument is that if a headphone doesn't add deliberate distortions, it can be used for all kinds of music, enhancing its utility. And at the same time, with such a more useful headphone, you can still have the same experience as before, if those distortions are added at an earlier time.
Interesting, the gist of the implementation seems to be

public class RichEditor extends WebView

and some js to set the styling of ranges, etc.
Sure. I'm mad at the headline.

The whole setup is a problem that shouldn't exist, because you're using 7-bit floats for an inappropriate range. When are you going to run into 7-bit floats as the default? If you're not thinking about it, I suppose this could happen if you scale it up, but it's less surprising to say "4862057400958023983457609283094859 can't be represented exactly in floats".
> The future AWS is driving towards is where they are the power generation company that nobody has onsite eithe

Don't you mean "a power generation company." I take it you live some place that does not give you choice.
Can I do this with all my licenses?

I mean, release something as GPL and add "If you sue me in the future, you license is automatically revoked"
It might be useful to have some demo images?
Ruby Koans are great. Some others along the same idea area:

* https://github.com/JoshCheek/ruby-kickstart

* https://github.com/alexch/learn_ruby
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AirBnb doesn't have to do anything to move into a new country. Just accept listings.
You could probably tell the difference as Beats is designed to change the sound, much like putting an equalizer setting would.

Of course whether or not that is a good thing... eh.
Good building security seems rare. I've been pretty surprised at the number of problems I've seen in SF buildings where thieves hit the mail room and bike storage regularly by just following residents in from the street.

Depending on how easy it is to tell if you are home it might be helpful to install a doorcam. That way when thieves knock to see if you are home you can answer remotely.
There's a lot you can do.

* Writing (doc, blog posts, ...)

* Evangelization (answer questions on IRC/Mailing-lists, help your entourage to start using it, go on live conferences, give talks, ...)

* Testing. Test everything in each new release and give the authors a good bug report when needed. Test the tool on multiple OSs, using multiple versions of a lib, test the different drivers, different dbs, etc. Test the installation procedure and the user features.

* Triaging issues in a bug tracker. What's really a bug, what isn't? What's a major blocker for users? What's a luxury nice-to-have feature? What's too old and not relevant anymore?

You can start doing all this, without actually needing any permission or access to anything. I'd suggest you just let the active members of the community know you exist (they usually hang out on an IRC chan or something like that). That's not even required, if you're shy don't say anything and start working.

As you get more and more active, you're going to be naturally contacted by someone active in the project and from here, you'll usually be given more "official" responsibilities.
This article is by the BBC. Most of us Brits consider it a national treasure for providing relatively unbiased and often deadpan reporting on news topics. :)

That's not to say that there couldn't have been criticism if another source provided them with some, but the BBC tend not to provide their own 'opinion' as a criticism (think Wikipedia).
I don’t think it’s dumb at all. Humans cannot survive without the protection of a tribe. Just try doing a startup in Somalia.
I'm sure there ARE parsers and old terminals that may not understand tabs, but I don't plan to make decisions about how I write code based on the possibility of maybe, someday running into SOMETHING that doesn't like what I'm doing. Especially when switching my entire code base from tabs to spaces is as simple as a global find/replace.
>Is it the government's job to prevent legal wage depression? How exactly is H1B wage depression

The problem is the government intervention in the H1B. That is why immigration without the specific form of government intervention that is found in H1B is something I can support. The problem is that the government enforces company loyalty on penalty of being thrown out of the country or worse.

Let them be hired and move here, but let them be just as free to seek a new employer if they ever feel they are being taken advantage of.
Sizing up the startup studio model: eFounders is a company that builds companies
This is inaccurate. The CLR has been released under the MIT, a permissive non-copyleft license that has been certified by the OSI. Microsoft has a separate patent grant that the article takes issue with, but the source itself is open.
social interaction != group membership

I think you're confusing the two.
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Wow, Apple is really working the press on the Apple Watch rollout. It's got to be tough for a journalist to write the kind of stories. Great access, but you are basically just repeating whatever talking points the company wants to put out.
I wonder what effect Beats will have on a generation of listeners already experiencing noise-induced-hearing-loss (NIHL). With the amplified bass, aren't users exposing themselves to low-end rumble all of the time?

I'm pretty sure we'll be confronted with a generation of deaf people pretty soon, given the extreme bass and the personal music players that can output high volumes, and the incessant barrage of noise (radio?) wherever you go.

Additionally, when mastering and mixing, does anyone take into account what their record would sound like on these things? Everyone buys excellent quality reference monitors with as close-to flat response as possible for revealing midrange, non-fatiguing high-end and punchy/deep (non-flabby) bass so they can produce the best sounding record. Some might even listen to it weighted for FM radio broadcasts and have a range of different speakers like those famous Yamaha NS10s (yuck!) to get a feel of how good/bad it sounds on normal home-users equipment.
But does anyone mix/master for these? Those records will sound as thin as a pancake on other speakers if they did; where's the balance?

Furthermore, since bass is mainly felt with the skin, is increased bass in these headphones really as effective as listening to a real speaker?
Is this the reason that Chrome seems be getting extremely bloated on the desktop? It's like running a ChromeOS VM with every chrome.exe process. I guess it's time to go back to Firefox or try Spartan.
Doesn't seem to work in neovim currently, as lua support is being completely changed.
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The Google page linked from the article does not support the claim that this extends beyond ChromeOS for deployment via the Web Store -- in fact, it repeatedly says the opposite --only that the packaging and testing process works on Mac/Windows/Linux.
Did a Soviet Psychiatrist Discover Autism in 1925?
Yes.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/mythbusters-part-3-recycling...

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-r...
So what we mean by designer? 0h h1 is a rip off/redesign of some older game (as it is mentioned in the game's About section).
Yes. These are very important skills you have to make any open source project successful. I know a few developers (including me) who do not love to write functional specs or sometimes even updating a read me, but its necessary.

When I am designing a solution and processes, I need the freedom to do so. When it comes to writing code and tests, updating docs, etc - I absolutely want to be "managed" because self-induced-management is more effort. Even a person who just tracks the process and reminds us "you are not doing this right" is very useful from my perspective.
> I would imagine the software does that.

Obviously the lithium-ion cells themselves aren't doing the computation; software is. But the software should be considered part of the "battery" as a system. Without the software the lithium-ion cells are useless for this application, and indeed for any application more dynamic than a flashlight. So the software development that Tesla has done is essential for making batteries viable in the sorts of applications that people want to use them for to help solve our energy problems.
Could you leave contact details? Or alternatively, find my info in my profile.
Not sure if a hosts reputation is affected by them ignoring requests.

Problem is, if I need a room I need to know quick if it's available or not.
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Free/The Iliad Group is the Comcast/Verizon of the EU...They have horrible peering and transit policies, which they maintain under the auspices of French protectionist laws.
I've recently found out about Diceware and the importance of a strong password [1][2]. Often users choose a really weak password to begin with. I've read [3] that if you have a strong password (like a 7 word Diceware password) even MD4 or MD5 would suffice :O. I'm really curious if this is true.

[1] http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

[2] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/26/passphrases-ca...

[3] https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/180#issu...

ps. for those that use bcrypt and want to ensure a constant user experience on their server see https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt-speed
Agreed that homelessness has complex underlying issues, but homelessness can ALSO be a temporary condition triggered by any number of problems (loss of a job, insurmountable debt, etc). The people are still technically "homeless" though rarely classified as such. Anything that provides more options for housing will help people who are homeless or on the verge of becoming homeless.
I understand your comment, and I agree that there have been plenty of examples of lawmakers misunderstanding technology, but this isn't really an issue that's unique to technology. Lawmakers vote on bills on dozens of extremely complex subjects, ranging from agriculture to foreign policy. No single person could have a deep understanding of all the issues that come up in Congress. I don't think that cybersecurity is any more complicated than health care economics or agricultural subsidies.

It's just the nature of trying to govern an incredibly complicated country.
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Thanks. I'm using Node.JS backend to connect with Twitch and Hitbox. Streaming the game to Twitch and Node.JS at the same time with a nginx setup so I can run the stream on a relatively slow computer.
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Not at all. Your relationship with the landlord is voluntary.
Looking it up in a reference, natural lead is about 1% Pb-204, 24% Pb-206, 22% Pb-207, and 53% Pb-208. These are all of the stable isotopes.

If Pb-204 absorbs a neutron it turns into Pb-205, which isn't stable but its half life is ten million years so it's only very weakly radioactive. The -206 and -207 turn into other stable isotopes, of course. So those don't matter so much: about half of your neutrons enter lead nuclei which can safely absorb a neutron.

The other half, the Pb-208, turns into Pb-209. Pb-209 is radioactive with a surprisingly short half-life of 3.25 hours, so that's gone in a matter of weeks.

The nasty stuff is the lead atoms which happen to absorb two different neutrons during the explosion. This becomes Pb-210, which has a half life of 22 years: short enough that it's going to be emitting a bunch of radiation, long enough that it won't be gone after a few weeks.

So the answer is probably "it's very rare in these sorts of explosions to have two neutrons hitting a single lead nucleus." There are other possibilities (maybe they got the lead from spent nuclear fuel or centrifuges or something and it's all Pb-206) but that sounds like it's the most plausible.
It sounds like you can be an amazing developer evangelist.A lot of technical startups (like mine :) ) are looking for someone with your skill set - writing technical blogs, demos, speaking at conferences, meeting with customers, etc.
You nailed it: for beats, fashion is the functionality indeed.
Speaking as a wee bit of an audiophile, though not a brand snob....

Some folks can't tell, don't care or may even have a personal preference to the type of sound they like that "real audiophile" types would consider inferior. Personally I'm fine with this, it's your money you're free to spend it how you like, and if you enjoy what you bought and they make you happy then that's all that matters.

However...my friend's daughter was given a pair of Beats Solo's as a present and I tried them for an afternoon keeping an open mind and ignoring the celeb brand nonsense. Now whilst being well made and quite sturdy, they don't sound any better than the Sennheiser CX300 buds I picked up for GBP15.00 a few months earlier. In fact I thought the sound was inferior, and these Solo's retail for a whopping GBP160!

I think the point I'm trying to make is that these Beats things are definitely style over substance and the Beats project is basically a massive marketing scam. I think you could definitely tell the difference between Beats and similarly priced non-celeb unfancy workhorse cans.

Personally I own a pair of Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80's, they're damned ugly things but by god they're comfy and have nice sound reproduction. I tried other makes in the same price range (AKG, Koss etc) but settled on the Beyers. I will admit I was slightly biased towards the Beyers because I used Beyer DT100 cans when I did radio broadcasting (they're pretty much industry standard, sturdy and neutral sounding) a few years back and I probably associate them with being "professional tools".

For walkabout MP3 listening I have a pair of Tesco own make in-ear buds. They cost me a fiver in-store and they sound just fine (I applied the principle of "ShitTronics" when I made that purchase decision :) Discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9173017)
> Humans cannot survive without the protection of a tribe.

That's utter fear driven rubbish. Humans survive and thrive all the time without joining a group.
Logically, sufficient distribution of testing doesn't negate sufficient distribution of evil demons. Practically, if the evil demon has state actor level resources, it is more likely to have sufficient distribution than an ordinary commercial or private interest.

On the other hand, I don't think it's really necessary to prove with technology that the 中國人民解放軍 is behind this. Diplomatic logic is sufficient. The behavior is simply an internet equivalent to jamming the Voice of America.[1]

Github is broadcasting. The 中华人民共和国 has a sovereign's policies regarding broadcasting. The 中國人民解放軍 executes those policies. Github operates with a business model that ignores sovereigns at its own peril. Calling one sovereign for aid when dealing with another sovereign also carries peril.

Allowing political content in an online community always comes with the risk of trolling and flamewars. A hands off editorial policy only means Github hasn't made a tough decision about what the Github community is not. Decision day can only be put off so long.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
Sounds like a great idea for it. If you can get someone to be 1 on 1 with you like that.
I agree it would be hard to be sure you had gotten every last one, but it would be easy to ensure that the survivors live in a new stone age with nuclear fallout making most of the earth uninhabitable for people, if not most life. I've been somewhat amazed at how resilient the biome around Chernobyl has shown itself to be, but I'm sobered by the measurable losses attributable to it that accident as well.
Sometimes it's easier just to periodically reset I2C slave devices from the bus master (either with a dedicated reset line or just power-cycling the chip using a FET)
"Oddly though, Beats are nowhere near cheap!"

Point taken. True. Select an expensive fashion company instead.
I don't think the two are dissociable.
because headphones are for listening not for looking
Computer science is a branch of mathematics. If you mean engineering and programming, then you can get by without any math, but I don't expect you to be writing compilers, operating systems, database engines either without solid CS education.
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You can see the host's response rate and typical response time on the accommodation page.

And some accommodation will have a "lightning" symbol which means you can book instantly without any waiting for communication required.
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The not sharing CPU part. Worse average perf but better worse case perf.
>Exchanging peace of mind and a huge decrease of life quality for some extra probabilities of being rich and extra consumption doen't worth IMO.

I don't think you understand what it's like to live in the US and Canada as an educated worker.

>* but they are still "new world" countries, where the main goal of voluntary "colonizers" was/is getting rich and be able to consume more than in their native countries.*

Whoa, how are you using the internet back there in 1912? I don't think you understand the reason that English colonists came to America or how America even works today.

Your whole comment reeks of arrogance, ignorance and condescension but hey what do I know? I'm just an new world American, not a cosmopolitan, wise European who is recently celebrating twenty consecutive years without an episode of ethnic cleansing happening on his continent.
Thats interesting. I always thought bed & breakfast was a British "invention". The b&b's (in Scotland) I've stayed at have always been a pleasure, complete with toast and jam.
Edit: sorry - didn't read your last paragraph about about b&b.
But I would've thought b&b would be in the same market as airbnb?