skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this means Hacker News rankings will go down (considering it's almost impossible to read on a mobile device). That aside I think this is a great idea; the rank changes are limited to mobile search only and provide users with better results.

I'm only curious how they make the determination as to what site is or isn't mobile friendly. Is this programatic (I would have to assume it is) in which case how do they determine this? Some sites can make a good mobile site but they do it in an assbackwards fashion (e.g. using JavaScript only for resizing and reflowing); would those be counted? Does it require CSS device selectors or anything similar? I feel like it has to be a combination of things but would really like to know what.
Some of us that use Mac applications don't like to break the law and run OS X in a VM when that is not allowed by the license agreement. You can run it in a VM if your host OS is OS X, but not if it is Linux.

I use OS X with VMware fusion and am very happy with it. I can run the commercial apps I need plus Linux, Windows, docker...
In France there's the issue of train lines basically starting and ending in Paris mean that flights are pretty quick cutting across the country (Lyon-Nantes for example).

But I think most people see domestic flights as a bother more than anything. The love for trains shows in the stats (second biggest per capita usage of trains after Japan), train stations are usually in the dead-center of town, and you don't have to deal with luggage limits.
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Solar power will soon be as cheap as coal
An earlier HN post (Dr. Sussman's reading list) spoke about how to use chaos to improve the measurement of G (and therefore win a noble prize)
> According to Uber, the median wage for an UberX driver working at least 40 hours a week in New York City is $90,766 a year. In San Francisco, the median wage for an UberX driver working at least 40 hours a week is $74,191. Does that sound like a plan for reducing income inequality? Or increasing it?

I don't know. What are the median wages of the cab drivers that these UberX drivers are apparently putting out of work? The article doesn't say.
This applies to everything, though: could an employee in a McDonald's sue for it being an unsafe workplace in that it provides access to service animals, even if the employee has a violent reaction to animal dander? I don't know the exact reason why (I'd guess, "you can choose not to work there," but who knows), but certainly not.
Sorry to hear that it was buggy. I'd love to know the specific issues you ran into - I'm a Kitematic maintainer.
Is this the death of m dot sites and associated redirects?
What cookies? While I purge those regularly, I can guarantee this is not cookies, as topics I did I lot of searching on ~1.5 years ago clearly influence search results today... after erased my firefox profile just under a year ago.

If we are talking other data that may be used for tracking, I do have a static IP.

Besides, cookies don't store complex search histories. That would be stored on google's servers... which was the point (that search history is saved). I'd love to know how searches about unit testing with automake could be tailored from new client cookies to include results that are suspiciously similar to the many searches I made >1 year ago about Minecraft.

edit: Oh, and regarding the amount of uniqueness being leaked by my browser, panopticlick currently reports my browser's fingerpoint only 14.14 bits.
Tell the person they're an employee, because they are. That's the position they agreed to and were paid for. If they don't like it, they can leave.
I thought it would cache 302's and redirect you to the archived version of the next page (if available).
Is this micro-nations fever a by-product of the proliferation and popularity of Clash of Clans and other related mobile strategy video games recently?

I can't help but to make the connection here, what do you think guys?
The Ostrich Developer
I wasn't able to tell from the website but I'm assuming it uses a phone that your delivery person has for GPS tracking, signature capture,... and feeds the info realtime to a website that operators can watch.
Very interesting. I did not know this issue extended all the way to farming equipment. At the same time, I can't say I'm terribly surprised given the state of things currently.

Thread hijack: Am I the only one who finds Wired's... "unique"... styling of links absolutely obnoxious?
In the selfcontrollapp faq they list a linux version http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html that I have seen referenced. I have not given it a try.
The key word there is unnecessary. Having some sort of police or military would be considered to be necessary by most.
Another member linked to this page:

- Avoids software that is not common on mobile devices, like Flash

- Uses text that is readable without zooming

- Sizes content to the screen so users don't have to scroll horizontally or zoom

- Places links far enough apart so that the correct one can be easily tapped

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/11/helping-u...
> I don't like RPM or Yum. In my experience with using it, it has usually done more harm than good.

How is:

yum install <package> -y

And worse than:

apt-get update && apt-get install <package>

A lot of people like to say RPM's are horrible, and maybe they are right... but if you use the package manager, what does it matter to you how the packages were made? It just works...

I can't think of a single example where something blew up simply because it was an RPM.

As a side-note -- the other comments are right, RPM is use an awful lot more in business because most businesses are running some flavor of RHEL/CentOS. If it were really that bad, then it would have been changed by now.
What we were taught as guide dog owners is that many dog allergies are to dander, and that you as an owner are responsible for brushing your dogs regularly to minimize the effect of your dogs on those with allergies. Owning a guide dog is as much about minimizing your impact on those around you, as it is about those around you minimizing their impact on you (by, for instance, not discriminating against you.)

That said, I understand the overoccupied argument and support it. As a former guide dog user, I wouldn't have wanted to live with someone with dog allergies. But if you drive an Uber vehicle then you should be prepared to handle adverse situations. I imagine giving a dog a lift from points A to B is a lot less adverse than, say, giving a drunk person a free ride and hoping they don't vomit all over your interior. :)
I was thinking about all his books.
NetNanny uses a shared private key and root CA
Tldr: Only if your events are extremely infrequent. With an inter-event arrival rate of seconds to few minutes, your jvm processes get frozen and thawed out the vast majority of the time to avoid the initialization/load overhead that would otherwise result.

See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb... for a more complete description.
Boredom conference
Robot with $100 Bitcoin buys drugs, gets arrested
If I missed any great ones, let me know. Happy to add them to the list.
As a student, this was one of the first important algorithms I ever successfully implemented in C using only a formal description of it. This and A* just make me giddy inside. The results are just magical.
It is a good point, but how many businesses want to take that up with the owners at the store. The emotional support animals (I say this because there was an emotional support hamster) by definition are supporting emotionally unstable individuals, do you want to tell that person to beat it?
Go Mobile or Go Home
I got the exact same feeling while reading the post, while I don't necessarily agree at the efficacy of your biting response. However, the excessive quoting of "great" thinkers easily came off as delusions of grandeur.

Anyone can take quotations out of context and use them to sound well-read; what about adding more of your thoughts to the mix?
For what it's worth, Hacker News works just fine on Windows Phone (mobile IE). I'd say it's one of the easier to read sites because it's ready in an instant and not busy adding layers 10 seconds after initial render, loading myriad JavaScript files, and injecting social media assets from third-party sites after I've already scrolled two pages down.
Pakible (YC W15) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers
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You'll be working side by side with the founders to develop the next version of our service. If you want to have a high impact at the ground level, this is for you.

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You should be comfortable with...

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- AngularJS (or experience with other frameworks like React, Ember, etc)
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We're not interested in asking you a bunch of technical interview questions. Instead we want to see an example of a project/site/app you've built.

Tell us something interested about yourself and send us a link to something you've created.

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...guesses the researcher.
Thanks for taking Kitematic for a spin. What bugs did you run into? Would love to get those fixed I'm a Kitematic maintainer.
It's a shame the semantic web hasn't taken off. Yeah, it's neat what you can do with a webpage these days, but 99% of the time, "web design" today sucks to the point where I'm relieved when I end up on an old "black text, white background, underlined blue links" site.

I would love to replace web pages with an RSS reader type program that just displays content and navigation in a legible format.

But with all the fancy stuff that's being added on and on, it seems like the best we're going to get is browsers with a reading "try to unfuck the formatting" button once you've gotten to the content you want.
Nope, though I'm sure many would love that, and many more would benefit.

The provided Mobile Friendly Test does not penalize redirects, currently: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
I'm surprised it took until April 2015 to implement this change.
Pretty sure paying off our debts,educating our kids and fixing the bridges that might collapse at any moment should come before a federally funded train that won't benefit more than 1% of the population.
there are several very different models of a anarchist society, some are based on collectivist/socialist others on capitalism/individualism.
And don't forget about being unable to zoom into an image when it's been made too small to be able to actually see the details.

Thankfully in andorid's chrome you can actually turn off the zoom lock for all websites in the accessibility settings.
Vim Watch
I can start local images from the command line, but there isn't a gui thing for it.
What is actually the Black Swan?
]I've regularly experienced issues with not the development system not being the target system _within linux distros_. Just go the whole way and develop with the target environment isolated from your host system.

You're not running Linux, you are running _some version of Linux_.
Compounding interest? Not a very compelling headline.
Stanford now one of the most energy efficient universities in the world
Is this an inherent feature of polygamy, or simply a consequence of the fact that polygamy occurs mostly in less-developed non-Western societies?

Polygamy is pretty common cross-culturally in agricultural societies, if not commonly the dominant form of marriage.
A little bit off topic : we are trying to use Redis in my office, to use as a high speed memory cache k/v store, with on-disk saving and reloading capabilities.

Problem is, we must stick with the opentech versions since we are running in a windows environment.

It appears the 'fork' hacking those guys made is not very stable. Every once in a while, the fork process fails for some unknown reason, and we are actually trying to fix the code ourself to understand why this fails.

Since we have spent a lot of time on it, maybe it's time to go away as this 'stable' release from ms-opentech appears to not be very stable at all.

What would people recommend ? Is there any production ready solution that exists, with windows stability in mind ?
Two thoughts:

First: I find it worrying that Google has enough power to dictate the direction of the internet is such profound ways. Remember when people would get up in arms when Microsoft created de facto standards?

Second: Doesn't this change only effect 'mobile searches' ? Reading the blog post [1] that is how I interpret it. I think the article could make this more clear.

[1] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/findin...
When it's "accepted behaviour" to down vote merely because you disagree with the opinion stated, telling me "you might want to look at your post to see if there's a problem with tone or content" is fucking insulting.

Do you seriously not see the irony in suggesting that removing dissenting opinions merely because they are not aligned with your own, is acceptable behaviour on a site called Hacker News??

For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM
There is an ES6 label for tracking these issues: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/labels/ES6
The pope needs to step up his hat game.
Some businesses are required to allow entry to "emotional support animals"[1], though not under the ADA. The FHAA requires landlords, dormitories, apartment complexes etc. to provide reasonable accommodation for ESA, and the Air Carrier Access Act (which I hadn't heard of) requires it of airplanes.

[1] I really hate these things--maybe 5% are valid, but the rest are bunk.
Ethiopia has periodic crippling drought. So it is the climate. Water is very precious there. That's the impetus behind the question which can be stated as "Move the people to water, or scavenge water where the people are".

Again, the 'offensive' argument is political. Trying to just compare outcomes, to know what to shoot for in the political realm. Remember, these are already refugees, there against their will.
An analysis of Vox Day and his supporters
It's not bloated, its enterprise!
I've been using 15.04 desktop, and I've finally come around to Unity. It's not ideal, once you get used to its mechanics, it's pretty slick. Multiple workspaces + a stable environment with great keyboard-managed tiling windows means a terrific multitasking environment.
Not mine but you evidently feel free to assume it on my account.
Office Code Pro font now supports Powerline users
Show HN: Landscape parallax effect using only CSS
It loads fine in android too, it's just incredibly fiddly to click the comments link without clicking the story and you have to zoom to click the correct one of the up/down arrows. I'm pretty sure I've dished out a fair few down votes quite contrary to my actual intention over the last couple of years.
Uber is transportation not a place. While I am sure Uber is bound by the ADA, a company like Uber that stayed within a particular state would probably be able to win the case.
I am not a lawyer, so I'm probably wrong on some of the finer points here, but I'm going to postulate an analogy here.

Why can't we equate the software inside a computer inside a vehicle with the mechanical equivalent? What then would our rights be?

It obviously doesn't require permission to move a valve or a gear around. Therefore, it shouldn't require permission to move a few bits.

It also doesn't require permission to draw a diagram of your changes and tell your neighbor what you did.

On the further extreme, one could potentially draw a diagram of the entire vehicle. At some point you're copying the entire idea, and the lawyers can fill in how this is protected. In this analogy, the computer code replacing it should then be protected the same way?
Show HN: GitHub README.md Previewer
Perhaps. It would require providing a place to do it, and good weather. I live in a locale with a pretty hard winter.

And schools are increasingly moving schoolwork to the distraction box, er, the computer.

Less homework seems like a simpler solution.
Its coming to consumer vehicles as well. [0] This will be (already is) an industry standard.

0: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/automakers-say-you-don...
It's fantastically useful as a touch point. It's a point that, retrospectively, the road forked and it changed who we are and what we do, and sort of defined our values. We compare ourselves, and our competitors, to the theoretical company we could've been fairly frequently.

As for the advice even if it was shocking at the time it doesn't seem that scary these days. It does seem a little prescient. The big one was to ditch our largest supplier, Amazon Mechanical Turk, build it ourselves and compete with them, as our success would be limited by them. This wasn't something we were willing to do at the time, we viewed them handling those problems as a major leg up for us. However in the end much of this was correct and building our own (more limited version) was part of us being financially successful as a company.

Most of the advice consisted of start up tropes, applied to our particular business. They basically told us to dream audacious dreams, do difficult things that don't scale to boot strap and build relationships while doing it. But they didn't use any of those words and did apply them specifically to our problems which was pretty helpful.

But the real value was as a touchstone, and illustrating how far ahead people who are good at this can see
Preview your Github project front page README.md without pushing to some sandbox repo just to see what it looks like.

Works offline (doesn't use Github API). Needs wide viewport, because preview equals Github's width.
That's the fun of these service economy start-ups. When you run a hotel and a dog tears up the room, you can off set repair costs with a number of other profitable rooms. If you are the owner operator and your vehicle goes out of commission, what is the offset?
As a sort of real-time answer, my startup[1][2] just had a booth at the NMX/NAB show in Las Vegas and completely blew up from a user acquisition perspective, and had applied to this upcoming round without getting an interview. We wanted to sign about 8 blogs in order to cover the costs of going to the show, and wound up signing over 1200 blogs, 5 major retailers, a couple licensing deals, and a lot of smaller retailers (some fashion startups among them) whose products we could list in our catalog.

I'm kind of glad that the interview wasn't even an option, since we're based out of San Diego and it simplifies the logistics of our operations for not having to move to SF for a period. Having no idea of how NMX/NAB was going to go, YC seemed like the best way to get our idea out there whilst getting their great support system. Now, we can just go heads-down in development and prepare for our June release.

It's always extremely discouraging to get rejections -- we got rejected from EvoNexus[3], TechCrunch Disrupt NY, and YCombinator (twice). This pretty much tells me that I'm horrible at filling out applications. I'd like to think that if the YC partners had walked up and talked to us at our booth, we would have definitely gotten the interview.

This Vegas trip was the most amazing thing that has happened since I came up with the idea of pleenq[4], because we barely had to sell the product -- people were so excited by the possibilities it would bring, and about all the monetization opportunities it opens up. Most of our customers were referrals from others who had seen our booth, and were told to "make sure they saw pleenq before they left the show". I closed every single person I talked to at our booth over the 4 days of the show, which was basically the highest form of encouragement I could have hoped for.

[1] https://facebook.com/pleenq and http://pleenq.com

[2] Demo of PLEENQ that we showed at NAB/NMX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wu4gaiaA7I

[3] A San Diego-based incubator that takes 0% equity and is really great for startups with a little bit of traction

[4] Pleenq lets you tag items in any image on the internet and link them to where they can be purchased
An employee could sue if McDonald's refused to provide reasonable accommodation for their allergy.

Additionally, there's a world of difference between a 1500 square foot fast food restaurant and the interior of one's vehicle.
Why can't we simply ask if this could be done for 'mechanical programming' and apply the same logic.

You don't own that full mechanical engine's construction, you just have a license to use it for the lifetime of the vehicle.

If that wouldn't stand, then how is it any different than code except that code is on a much smaller and and more detailed level. At the end of the day, it is still physical components following the laws of physics to render some result. Does the fact it is more complicated allow for it to stand? In which case, how complex when the fully mechanical engine need to become for the same logic to be applied?
> what we really wanted out of our company was not a startup, but rather a platform to play with interesting technology and business problems and make money doing it

Yeah, the more I read about startups, the less I can imagine taking something I love to YC or some other accelerator. An idea I'm halfway enthusiastic on that will make some money, sure. Something good for the world where the technical work is not my favorite thing, definitely. But if I'm passionate about the work, I want to keep doing it, not pivot, manage, hockey-stick, and sell.
Times New Ramen
Hey, Ryan. Thanks for the kind words!

David, here, CTO & Co-founder at Onfleet. We're quite busy on a number of improvements touching on some of your points.

We released dynamic filtering based on delay time recently which is our first foray into exception-driven dispatching for large volume customers. There's a lot more to come here!

While we think of tasks as the smallest atomic unit of work for a driver -- and so we like to imagine that at most one can be active for a given driver at once -- we're rolling out dependencies soon and will be exposing configurable notifications that support these cases.

Additionally, the concept you mention around exposing ETAs for future but inactive tasks is in the pipeline. The biggest challenges here are around privacy for the driver and other customers and we'll be sure to put a lot of consideration into balancing visibility and privacy.

Often, in the on-demand space, it's common to see companies which expose the driver's location to a customer as they make deliveries to other customers. We do want to allow this feature but it's essential for us that alternatives which better protect customer information are available.
Perhaps you "just did it wrong", and that's the core problem. I know when I'm not familiar with something and I sit down at it for the first time, I make mistakes too... but you shouldn't blame the system for your error.

If you are just using yum or dnf, you simply won't break your system.
How to supercharge your networking at TNW Conference
Looks like gentrification is pricing out the historic black community of San Francisco, &c., because the NIMBYs don't want to build enough housing for the people moving there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9408009