skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for Apple during Snow Leopard and Lion, and I was still excited for his reviews post-launch. To his immense credit, he would always manage to cover some new feature or other thing I didn't know about, and I wrote parts of the damn operating system.
Chrome starts pushing Java off the Web by deprecating NPAPI
How are you going to fit Wikipedia on a cheap smartphone which most poor/lower middle class Indians use. Most of them dont even have a PC.
Siracusa's OSX reviews offered the same quality and attention to detail Apple puts into their best products. The reviews were also an incredibly valuable resource in the early days of OSX when it was hard to find any good coverage of the Mac news in the mainstream tech media. The reviews were my only exposure to the Mac platform at this time. His obvious nerd credibility made me stop and pay attention to what Apple was doing. I believe Siracusa's reviews helped create a new generation of Mac users.
+1, received the same email this morning.
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Funny you should mention meteorological use cases. At a previous startup, we built global historical weather data sets (at 5km resolution, 30+ year hourly time series), accessible via a metered API. This took HPC, storage, and engineering investment about an order of magnitude less than Planet. We also had a whole room of tapes filled with satellite imagery from the world's governmental Met offices...

Our main use case was for wind and solar renewable energy, but we also entertained other uses, like architecture and agriculture. These data sets turned out to be difficult to monetize; while the continental US data set may have broken even, the rest of the globe never recouped the cost of storage, let alone the supercomputer time. It's not that people around the world weren't interested in the data, they just couldn't justify paying for it.
yes, i very much am. my ultimate goal was along those lines but more complex:

https://github.com/neyer/dewDrop
>If we weren't talking about something as hot-button a topic as sexism in tech, but someone was all "tiny invisible biting demons? I just don't know about this so-called germ theory...", wouldn't it be fair to ask, what's their background in medical research?

Medicine makes concrete, testable predictions that are used every day. Sociology isn't there yet. Sociology, to me, lies somewhere between theology and medicine on the credibility scale. I wouldn't expect an atheist to educate herself on the finer points of of the Trinity and the Holy Ghost before taking her opinion on modern American Christianity seriously, for example.
My 2 cents on this.

You need to think ahead a bit on how you might use the user management layer down the line. Even if you decide to move away from XYZ service that you started with, you need to at some point replicate all the functionality that made you want to go with them in the first case. Ideally, your best bet is to use this kind of service for as long as you can to minimize service disruption to your users. As you pointed out, "A dedicated third party company is going to do this better than me."

A better approach, IMO, is to go for an authentication service that is flexible for a longer term and satisfies your core requirements today (ie user management functions). The payment stuff is anyway custom (as the nature of your plans are unique to your business) and can be easily achieved a 3rd party platform where the user layer is integrated via OAuth.

One simple approach here is to use Wordpress with WooCommerce (ready packages exist) as your "sales" layer + an integration module to Stormpath/Auth0/etc to sync the user auth layer. This is a solved problem for Wordpress sites, and you just need to link it to an OAuth layer that does what you need. I get that you don't want to write any code, but no two businesses are alike especially in the subscriptions game, and you're better off spending a little time to get this setup the way you want, instead of having to live with what someone else gives you.

We just went through a similar exercise, and this is the understanding we arrived at. We're using Auth0 (www.auth0.com) instead of Stormpath as we plan to deploy quite a few micro-apps linked to a single login, and we don't want to be charged by the number of apps we have, but by our user volume. Otherwise, the service feature-sets are quite similar.

Hope this helps.

P.S We're using ChargeBee (www.chargebee.com) to handle our subscription billing management and we're writing some minors scripts to automate our user layer based on the payment status.
That's really not how it is. For example, here the one single implementation of the madvise() syscall in Linux:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...

This entire file is compiled on all architectures with MMUs (madvise() is pointless on architectures without MMUs and hence without virtual memory). Everything architecture-specific in this file is abstracted away by macros like PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_SHIFT.
"..with every OS X release I was more excited about reading Siracusa's review than upgrading."

I feel exactly the same. Partially for the content, and partially because I knew that the reading experience would prepare me for the best and worst; cushion the blows, and highlight the bits to be savored.
California water issues are very complex as you state, but one big issue is going somewhat unaddressed by government - use of non-renewable underground sources. Currently, farmers are able to even increase production in the drought, but few know how long they'll be able to keep this up because underground water is not unlimited.

California could go the desalination route, but so far that progress is painfully slow and the methods being selected may result in significant harm to local marine ecosystems: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/15/us-usa-desalinatio....

Something like this would be much better: http://waterfx.co/. Unfortunately, last update in their blog is a year ago...
I presume this is meant to be pronounced 'rapidscript' but the 'y' there makes the first bit sound like 'rape-y', which is probably not what you want in a project name :(
actually yes, I hate windows desktop search. Will try this!

edit: perhaps a website redesign might help your revenue issue? when I see a tool the first thing I go for is the "download" section. I didn't even see the purchase section and still am not sure what the free version entails.
The reason you do not understand is simple: there is no logic here. Google is not a monopoly. The parallels drawn here (by EU and by people on HN respectively) are:

1. Microsoft. This is wrong since while it was mostly impossible back then to buy a PC without windows, it is quite possible today to not use google. In fact not using google is easier than using google (you can skip typing google.com into the address bar)

2. Comcast. This is wrong since in many markets comcast is the only internet provider. No markets exist where bing and yahoo are inaccessible.

Really this is just EU punishing google for getting too big. Unfortunately for EU, even their own ridiculous (IMHO) protectionist laws do not have anything about a company being to successful for their liking. I imagine this will be a huge money and time waste for the EU, but in the end they have no real case. Google owns google.com and may display whatever it wants there. Until someone forces EU citizens to use google, or until bing and yahoo die, they are not a monopoly, even as per EU's ridiculous (IMHO) definition.

Google does not owe foo.com or bar.org or baz.info any place in their results page, unless is so chooses. And foo, bar, and baz are only there at google's mercy. Just like EU cannot force _YOU_ to include content _I_ want on _YOUR_ page, no matter how successful and how non-european you are and how unsuccessful and how european I am, it has no real power to force google to index foo, bar, and baz, or place any content of theirs (snippets of text and links to their pages) on google's property that is google.com/...
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I've never been a mac user and even I thoroughly enjoyed his write ups! John's certainly earned his place in the long form tech journalism pantheon.
The ghosts of products past
Yeah I was thinking keeping electronics in the freezer probably isn't great, there would eventually be build up of moisture inside the key housing itself right?

some aluminium foil would do just as nicely!
Obviously they've just decided to start charging for it, unless I'm missing something?
Musk commented himself on twitter something to the effect that the explosion is from the pressure difference of the fuel canister when it is breached. Also the fuel mostly burned at high heat and didn't explode per say.
That's certainly the case. It has to be entirely self-contained to the rocket.
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> There's no question smartphones are completely different, I'm talking about laptops and desktops.

My point was that the thing in your pocket runs circles around the 10.4 machine, and the high-end desktop machine runs circles around that. But I agree with sjtrny's comment that you might not notice it if you don't try it with the right workload. (Although, with the way web browsers burn cycles and RAM these days ...)
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> This is because European companies aren't good enough to get to "monopoly" status, much to the commissions chagrin.

I think you misunderstood what the OP said
Android already does ship generic apps and let users install their own app stores, browsers, maps, and so on. In fact, you don't even have to use the Google play store to install them because you can install arbitrary APKs.

In iOS there's no chance of installing an alternate app store by default, and yet with Anroid Amazon was able to make the Kindle devices (fire phone; tablet) that run Android without any hint of Google services.

A user can already choose to purchase a device without those services, it just happens users don't want to. I, as a user, enjoy having Google's services and enjoy that I can install alternatives if I so desire (like alternate and better email apps).

That's one of the reasons I don't use iOS
Someone needs to make a version of this for a Falcon9.
Back in high school our library had absolutely ancient DOS machines from the early 90s. It was always fun to make autoexec.bat call autoexec.bat on boot...
Maybe they're using functions so the values can have names? Perhaps easier to debug.
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He is not drawing that conclusion. He is just questioning people's insentives for staying in shape. You get longevity, but actually the great part is you feel better day to day. It's like telling a smoker to quit because he'll feel better day to day breathing and being able to walk longer without catching their breath rather than telling him to quit because he'll die of cancer.
It is the case.

Amazon's devices do not have any of Google's services.

However, it's fine... Google isn't doing it for anti-competitive reasons, they're doing it because all of the Google services are needed to have a stable system.

Various custom roms let you install only a subset of the Google services, and that option invariably leads to bugs. Of course Google shouldn't want to support that.

Your complaint is akin to saying that firefox is anti-competitive because to use their XUL interpreter I have to use their mozilla compiler and rendering suite.

There's plenty of freedom already on Android. Plenty of third-party manufacturers bundle their own app stores and users can create and/or install plenty of alternatives.

This is an entirely different story than on iOS.
It does. But this vulnerability is specifically with HTTP.SYS. HTTP.SYS is kind of like a SSL terminator and request router built into the OS.
Remeber that a lot of these consultants get hundreds per hour, but sometimes only get 10-20 hours per week (other times 100 hours per week, just saying.)

I've been consulting for going on 10 years now. haven't had a boss in god knows how long. Do it! There is more than enough work to go around. You can probably link up with a larger consultancy and get some work outsourced to get you going.
I agree, it's a feature which their core demo will take to like a duck to water, while those who don't "get it" will fail to figure out.

Tinder Plus, on the other hand, doesn't help anyone.
The number of interviews listed in the article is way off. By as much as a factor of 4.
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for a dedicated?
Many people prefer Apple hardware, and OS X gives a better experience on Apple hardware than Linux. (Ubuntu doesn't even provide a correct keyboard layout for my keyboard!)
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Agreed, but android did not remove user freedom.

Picking sane defaults gives you good user experience; making them only defaults, not requirements, gives you freedom.

Android is open source. There are plenty of custom roms that let you pick and choose between each of google's default apps.

Android is (mostly) free software, and you can choose to remove almost all the proprietary bits (ugh kernel blobs, firmware blobs).

I love it when a company gives you both user freedom and user experience by simply picking good defaults and letting a poweruser fiddle with them.
Yeah. Its everywhere, even on Embedded Devices http://cylonjs.com/
setarch x86_64 --addr-no-randomize myprogram args...

(or -R for short)
You can currently change your google now provider.

Firefox Beta, when installed now, registers an intent for search, and when you next do a google-now swipe-up, it'll ask you to pick between google now and firefox beta.

Google already has the solution for android of letting apps register intents, even for core things like maps or search or (hell) even the homescreen.

Google's solution of letting other apps register intents to handle things and prompt the user, while having default apps made by them that fulfill those intents, seems to be the best compromise on usability and extensibility.
It's hard to get that much pressure variation with an aeropress. The plunger is around 5 cm x 5 cm, so the full body weight of a male human (say 90 kg) only gives you 3.5 bar. That's if you're standing on your aeropress. A real espresso machine puts out 9 bar.
Yes, am working with it, and seems true to form. The large scale aspect requires a re think. Couldn't be integrated into an entire code base like mine. Too much code, too few engineers.
Depends on the audience. Consumers speak .com, geeks - .io, so, server.io is perfectly fine, but dating.io is not.
An inspiration to architecture and a lesson to designers in general
Speaking of CRISPR, how big of a discovery/invention is that ? Is it going to change medicine forever ?
I banned Buzzfeed as much as I could from Twitter and Facebook. This article made me warm up to them again for a bit so I went to their homepage. After the main content here's a few of the top articles as I see them:

Which Porn Star Should You Date? (Get ready for your big D…ate)
12 Gross Smells Every City-Dweller Can Relate To
20 Times Disney Accurately Described Course Registration
This 11-Year-Old Kid Produces His Own Music And It’s Insane
The One Big Clue Bruce Wayne Gave Gotham That He Was Batman
21 Celebrities That Defintiely Put The “F” In DILF

I must be getting old. This is some low-value (but I'm sure highly profitable) content that is good for 99% of the web but me.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9139766
... Unless you have a push button start...
not Foxconn, it was a subsidary of Foxconn who built the phone for a subsidary of Amazon, thereby working around the OHA restrictions :)

They didn't really try to hide it, but they did the motions of some shell companies at least so they were maybe technically in the clear if you squinted enough.
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I find this a bit surprising given the amount of testing they did with F9R.
I had indeed posted it previously.

I am reposting it because it has been changed significantly since then in almost every respect, both algorithmically and in the concept.
Good to see young programmers exercising their chops.

I am having trouble getting it to work in FireFox on Ubuntu. Chrome seems OK.

Keep it going!
Repo just went down. I know traffic isn't causing it. Did they have a regret?
However, it is much easier to clean than a French press, doesn't require a particular grind size, and you can use either a paper or metal filter if you are worried about cafestol or like oilier coffee.
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The Windows version my school ran dumped these hashed password files of everyone who logged in. It was trivial to copy them and crack them at home but it certainly gave me an uneasy feeling so I stopped.
A quick and dirty calculation: I bought 28 shares from OX2 windpower coop, which entitles me to 28,000 kWh at cost price. Which is what our house/home office uses per year. The price is about €700/share. But I bought shares from the market (people that want to sell their shares), which for some reason are cheaper. I paid about €590/share.

Over the last seven years (I haven't had my shares that long), the saving on cost of electricity, which is tax free, would have been about €960/year. Which is about 5.7% ROI /year. Better than bank rates but worse than index linked stock market investments (I think).

http://www.ox2.com/en/wind-power/private-users/

I don't think OX2 offer electricity in Germany, but maybe in Finland and Poland. Even if they did, it would also depend on how the German regulator has structured how this can work, as well as how taxation on this is structured.
Thank you for the encouragement, and for checking it out.

It is a known bug that it has trouble working in Firefox, and I am currently working on making it cross-compatible.
http://planetmath.org/anysigmafinitemeasureisequivalenttoapr...
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Which of the two Hario grinders are you using? I have the mini mill, and use it daily for my aeropress without any annoyance. But you need to have a quite coarse grind (no finer than filter grind) and do an inverted brew. Grinding out something like espresso fine coffee is a pain.
Ask HN: Which YC Company does A/B Testing for anything
I remember reading an article or blog post, there was a YC company that did A/B testing but could be used for offline. What is it called? Are they still around?
How do we access secure web services in Java Program?
The article states:

Mr. Danev said his company was in talks with several car
manufacturers to install a chip that can tell how far the key
is from the car, thereby defeating the power-amplifier trick.
A key piece of information we don't have, but Space-X does, is how much fuel was left at landing. Landing has to be done with minimum fuel, since it comes out of the fuel budget for putting payload into orbit. They have thrust vectoring on the main engines, and have attitude jets near the nose. They have to land vertical, at near zero velocity, with near zero angular rate, with an underactuated system. Underactuated means there are more degrees of freedom to control than there are controllable parameters. They have 5 controllable degrees of freedom - 2 axes of engine vectoring, main engine throttle, and 2 axes of relatively weak nose thrusters. They have to hit a point with three translation constraints, three linear velocity constraints, two angular constraints, and two angular rate constraints. So they have 5 DOF in and 10 DOF out. That, mathematically, is what "rocket science" is.

This under-actuated maneuver has to be solved as a two-point boundary problem, or, in practice, re-solved continuously to cope with problems such as wind gusts. You can see what happened; they had too much angular rate at landing, requiring more torque than the nose thrusters could impart to keep the rocket upright once the main engines could no longer help. It looks like they made a big correction shortly before landing to hit the target, and lost angular stability doing so.

If they'd had a bigger landing area, so they didn't have to apply big corrections to hit the tiny target, this would have worked.
>Do you think human milk is dangerous too?

For adults? I'm not positive that it is, but I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it were. Adults aren't babies.
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Europe Challenges Google, Seeing Violations of Its Antitrust Law
Whenever I find one of these AI chat programs, I like to start by typing in "this sentence is false", and yours gave me the most unique response (after quite some time calculating): "It seems to be, and it's actually a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language."

On a side note - I work in tech education, and I have to say that the software projects that motivated people of your age are creating is astonishing. Keep it up!
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In general, protecting an unpatched server takes work - perhaps manual configuration, perhaps extra server load on your proxies, perhaps retrospective damage control when it turns out your proxy rules are buggy - but it's clearly not reasonable to require them to do that work for free.
well, it's a specific zero: dx.
Excited to give this a try but it doesn't seem to work in FireFox?
Plot twist: The 14-year-old dev is actually itself an AI bot.

On a serious note, this is a super cool project!
Very nice, I like it.

Any chance you can offer some insights into how it works?
Thank you for believing in somebody who probably had nobody to believe on him. The fact he reached out for help in learning to program is awesome. I wonder if he'll figure out the puzzle.

Quick question would the solution be 10 factorial?
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It feels a bit Markov-chainy, but I'm quite impressed overall. Better than many other chatbots I have used, to the point that I was able to have an argument with it. Good work so far!
What the sum of an uncountably infinite bunch of zeros is, is the subject of the Calculus. There are systems that treat dx as something strictly different from zero (but not any finite value), though.
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The video shows a lot of white caps in the ocean so the wind was blowing pretty hard. If the wind was gusting on top of that it's not hard to see why it would be hard to keep the rocket from being blown over even if it landed properly.
Very impressive, at your age I was still 4 years ago from my C Hello world! Putting altogether an AI, and a webpage is even more impressive.
it asked me the same question multiple times sometimes, I was disappointed by this reply:
I'm glad that you like good food!, though personally I don't like good food! that much. I'm just not a fan of something that is interesting and relevant to whats available to learn on the Wikipedia article on this topic about Food Records.

I guess it make sense for a bot :)

(I see the exclamation point was kept in the bot reply)

Would you mind sharing what languages/framework you used here?
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