skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most smartphone users would disagree that no keyboard equals minimal text entry. Phones are hardly used for calls now.

But I also know a lot of people with keyboards for their iPads.

But really I think that most non-technical users aren't using their keyboard enough to really need one. If you are hunt-a-peck typer, a physical keyboard isn't that much of a necessity.
Chile volcano: Authorities order evacuations as Calbuco erupts again
I shopped one of his classes...quite sad, he was still young.
Custom cell images for programming languages would be fun.
That's fair. I say Microsoft "scares" me because it's historically "uncool," which means it's likely that the (open source) developer community is less dynamic and comprehensive. People are rightfully picky about the work they do for free!
> "At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we need a progressive tax system in this country which is based on ability to pay," Sanders said last month in Washington. "It is not acceptable that a number of major profitable corporations have paid zero in federal income taxes in recent years, and that millionaire hedge fund managers often enjoy an effective tax rate which is lower than the truck drivers or nurses."
- http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/29/politics/bernie-sanders-announ...

In other news GM CEO earned $16.2M in 2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9468108
Title Inflation and the Rise of the Startup Ninja
You added a point by mis-clicking very near the analyze button. It tried.
That's a sad reminder of the level of labor exploitation that goes into luxury products and profit margins.
Google – Open Location Code: Addresses for Everything, Everywhere
Microsoft Looks to Software Subscriptions as Mobile Computing Spreads
I want to note that this is corruption as judged by business people. So it may not be much better,
Mobile apps? Backend infrastructure? Trivial.

Try building one.
Mother Jones, sensationalists.
NASA spacecraft spots possible ice cap on Pluto
And much like other rockstar developers, his company isn't profitable.
Ya, I can't imagine they can actually assemble the watch for $2.50/unit.
LKM(4) support had mostly been only "compile tested" for years. Practically nothing used it, and at the time of it's removal the ports tree contained a single module.. a firmware flasher for some old Dell servers.
I'd recommend to talk to your tax consultant. In Europe it's normal to have a tax consultant, because the law is very complicated. I don't know if this is usual in the US too...

I am working in a Germany startup and we have considered to hire some remote employees. But because of the size of our company and our internal strategy we decided us against remote workers. We are a quiet tiny company with less then 20 employees. We think that a transparent and frequent discussion is very important. We believe, that this can't be done with employees working remote in an efficient way.

Please feel free to answer and to disagree.
Not that I have a better suggestion (except something might be wrong with "disbalance"), but this is pretty obviously "that that good"

http://i.imgur.com/m8MOtUU.jpg
We must be taking about different things, as F# hasn't had macros and thus cannot get improvements to them.

Quoted code is nice, but it's not a real substitution real macros.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2015/04/08/...

"To achieve these benefits, we removed the GUI stack, 32 bit support (WOW64), MSI and a number of default Server Core components."
People on HN refer to it as an "intellectual community". That should be you all the answer you need.
The Forge API [1], which this is basically just a wrapper for, is already available on every platform (it's Java).

You could use Eclipse or any Java IDE.

https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge
F.A.A. Orders Fix for Possible Power Loss in Boeing 787
C#'s added tons of stuff without breaking changes, right?

And you could always feature gate them if you needed to have syntax breaks.
Does anyone have a link to the actual pitch document? I couldn't find it in the article or on google. Interesting excerpts but I'm greedy and want all the context in the doc :)
So, go with 77 tonnes = one 747 = 300k iPhones.

30% of 74.4m iPhones would be 22,320,000 iPhones. Divide by 300k (which is a planeload) and you get roughly 74 planeloads of iPhones per quarter.

Currently there are about half a dozen 747 freighters each day flying PVG-ANC. So at most it's about 12 days' capacity of that one route each quarter, meaning it tops out at 10% of the overall capacity on the route each quarter.

And it still is a drop in the bucket compared to worldwide air cargo. Remember one planeload of iPhones is 533,841 RTK. We're talking now about 74 per quarter, which is 296 planeloads/year. 296 * 533,841 = 158,016,936 RTK represented in iPhones coming to the United States in a year.

And global air cargo is 208,000,000,000 RTK/year. Divide 158,016,936 by that, and you get a figure of: 0.0007596968076923077. So if we add up a reasonable estimate of all the iPhones that come to the US in a year, and a reasonable estimate of how many 747s it takes to haul them from China, we get a figure that is... just over seven hundredths of a percent of a year's worth of global air cargo. In other words, all the iPhones that come into the United States in a year, combined, are still basically a rounding error of global air cargo.
This is why we use L_1 regression!
Rad article. The Maya API feels like a bad experiment from 1994 sometimes...
Personally, I think the biggest benefit that the internet can confer to FW is someone reading it out, rather than providing easier access to annotations.

I suspect FW is best enjoyed when done at pace, letting the poetry of the thing wash over you, rather than sitting down and assiduously looking up every single word, which I can only imagine gets incredibly boring very quickly.

What struck me about Joyce's reading of FW is (a) how quickly he makes his way through it, and (b) how this novel/poem is written for an Irish accent.

Compare Eliot's reading of the Waste Land: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqvhMeZ2PlY
This jumped out at me.

>I am now lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel to many different countries and I sadly realized that this planet is not nearly as big as I hoped when I was a kid.

Fly less. I find that my sense of how big the world is is related to how frequently I fly Vs traveling by train, bus, motorcycle or anything else really.

Hurtling from one airport to another at ~800km/hr gives you a false impression about the distances you are covering. I suspect the speeds are simply so fast that we don't have the ability to intuitively appreciate just how far we are traveling. When you take slower forms of transport you suddenly realize how freaking huge the world is.

Flying also isolates you from the area you are traveling across. When you don't fly you see that there is in fact a vast amount of stuff (cities, towns, farming areas, mountains, rivers etc) between the airports. When I fly a lot the world is reduced to a network of airports.

An example from my own life. My wife and I once flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia then traveled overland (trains and buses with the occasional ferry) through Malaysia, up through Thailand, around part of Laos, back into Thailand and then over into Cambodia.

Travel time => 8 months.

My impression of how big the world is => absolutely massive.

Then we flew back from Phnom Penh to Kuala Lumpur, where we started.

Travel time => less than 2 hours in the air.

After a few additional flights, my impression of how big the world is => tiny.
Your language doesn't need to be interpreted to have a REPL. Haskell has a REPL. The Immediate window in Visual Studio is essentially a REPL for all .NET languages (so you get that and the VS debugger together, win/win).
Irate Congressman gives cops easy rule: “just follow the damn Constitution”
First, citation needed on DDoS being a major mobile threat to actual phones. If you mean the iOS wifi bug, that's not major or a DDoS.

Second, OK, we ditch IP and flip to OSI protocols. Now apart from decreased security due to all this new software that'd have to be made, how would that make things more secure, at all? Everyone will still want to use the Internet, so it's not airgapping.

This argument makes no sense.
Can't you already install arbitrary OS to most Android phones? See Cyanogenmod & company.
195 oz for all his things...

Pretty impressive for a 2500 mi trek! I think my bag weighs something like that biking to work most days.
Maybe TLC can put some of those 1person groups together.
Ask HN: Authors, how did you find your literary agent?
I've got a crackerjack idea for a book (doesn't everyone?) and have succeeded in securing a decent amount of press coverage for my tentative self-publish by date.

Of course the goal is to eventually win the attentions of a literary agent and find a publishing agency to take the project further.

Does anyone have advice/stories from their own experience, going through an agent and publisher? How did you make the contact? What was your approach? Or was it just a matter of don't-call-us-we'll-call-you, star-is-born type discovery?
There are lots of family farms worth more than $10 million dollars. An average Saskatchewan farm has about $1.5 million dollars worth of land and a similar amount in equipment; farms 3X in size are not uncommon. Typically a $3Million dollar farm is run by a farmer by himself; a $10Million dollar farm would either have a single hired hand or more typically be a partnership between two family members.

Of course, the farmer himself is not worth $10M, large mortgages and operating loans are usually required.
Thanks Jacob. It's our dream to be able to roll it out in Brisbane, but given the size of our team and how young the project is, it won't happen quite so soon :)

Much like the concierge services (ie Magic) out there, we want The Loft Club to provide simplify people's habits of dining out. The added element of a pleasant surprise - as you mentioned - is something we want to focus on too as we build out the service.

Happy to chat more in person, DM me @derrickko.
You can buy demand, though. "All rides free for first month" plus a ton of money in advertising will get you plenty of people switching if there is enough supply as well. It's just perhaps too expensive to buy demand when in the end people can switch back to Lyft or Uber just as easily.
Not really. Cyanogen is OK, but it's just Android. The hardware problems are still there: i) no drivers so GNU/Linux can't be ported ii) the baseband processor is usually badly isolated so it's easy to attack the device.
I agree it is going to expensive but it's not because of memory. You could probably just try every (x,y) center and have all points vote for the radius, and just keep max before moving on to next point.
And it's open source!

https://github.com/Microsoft/vsminecraft
Security by being different has another more common name- security through obscurity.

Security through obscurity is not entirely worthless, but certainly not worth the cost of starting all over from square one.
> as many small villages marked on the map as possible

Based on this image: http://www.dominik-schwarz.net/potpourri/worldmap/images/DSC... the entire continent of Africa looks only slightly larger than Greenland (when in fact it's about 14 times larger), and substantially smaller than Russia (when it is actually ~1.7 times larger).

Greenland has a population of ~60,000. Africa has a population of ~1.1billion.

I think Africa would have more small villages than Greenland (and Northern Russia) combined, yet is afforded less space.
Not everyone is a web developer or working on mobile apps.

Games and business software are two huge industries which are almost entirely Windows. Everyone using the massively popular Unity engine is a C# developer.
Twitter, LinkedIn, GrubHub, and Yelp all had decent quarters, and yet they all reported tepid outlooks. When they're in such disparate industries, how did they reach this consensus? Shouldn't this be reflected in the broader economy somehow?
This is almost an aside, but you should take a look at some of the stuff that comes out of Microsoft Research. They employ some of the biggest names in Haskell (Simon Peyton Jones for one) and have done some really interesting and bleeding edge work.
Seattle PD Guide to Handling Protests [pdf]
Could someone comment on why the monthly hosting is $3,042.68? Is that the cost of running their servers?
Latitude and longitude coordinates can specify any location, but they’re long and cumbersome

I'm not sure I understand how this is easier to use than lat/long. WIth open location, how can you easily tell if one location is North or South of another location? Is it useful mainly as a wrapper for lat/long that needs to be decoded before use?
I don't know what happened, but in the last six months, the number of Surfaces I've seen has absolutely exploded, they're almost everywhere now.

I think there's been a push in some corporations to start offering it as a truly mobile device in lieu of less portable, and not as useful Dell machines and the folks I've talked to about them absolutely love them.

The idea of having a tablet you can easily show documents and presentations off of, and when you have to type the cover is the keyboard, drop it in a dock and you've got a large screen with mouse and traditional keyboard, grab it and you're immediately on the run. Great battery life, runs all the important applications without fuss, decent specs.

I've definitely felt some envy for the beautiful doc, especially when I'm struggling with all the various cables and dongles and crap I have to plug in and out of my Mac to make it a useful desktop machine. Maybe the new Mac Books will solve this with USB-C?

sidenote I have a Note, and it's easily the best portable computer I've ever owned. I've easily gotten through an entire day's worth of meetings using nothing but my phone to deal with emails (while listening to music or podcasts), get directions, make some calls (often while surfing the web), and then when I'm there, scribble pages of notes (which I can then email out to participants before we've left the room). A couple places I go even have Chrome casts and I can just mirror the screen and present right off of my phone.

It's kind of a magic portable office device, and I don't think I've ever drained the battery on it. I know other phones offer all of that, but there's something about the Note devices that clicks (once you get rid of all the crapware on it). It might also help I have one of those fold-over covers that makes it look kind of like an oversized Moleskine.

But it's reduced the amount of stuff I have to haul around to meetings to something I'm already carrying.
His articles are largely based on studying history, I'm not sure what your point is.

If he claimed to be say an Economist, then I would be more sceptical.
The BACKRONYM Vulnerability
“The birth of the Internet in the late 1990s
revolutionized information flow, and exposed more people
to the trail. You could sit on your PC at home, research
about a subject to your heart’s content, then discuss it
and ask questions in online forums. These discussion
sites have a way of stoking passion, and I think that
passion started translating into more people taking
action, and tackling the trail.”

I relate to this happening in Southern California. There's definitely a healthy cultural atmosphere that's sprouted from the internet's ability to let people know about niche hole in the wall shops or obscure happenings hidden amongst the vast seemingly desolate sprawl that someone who would never have otherwise left their house can now discover from their bedroom.
This is so awesome to read about, but I just can't imagine dropping everything for 150 days...
I've been developing with F# for about 4 years now, and ever since the beginning I've found the F# community to be wonderfully helpful and friendly. The community is, for sure, smaller than the Ruby or node.js communities but I think that's kind of nice since it makes it easier to get to know everyone personally.

If you're interested in F#, or even if you just want to dip your toe in, I recommend checking out your local F# meetup. I've learned a lot there over the years and made some great friends too.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy syntax errors are to me

As drunken COBOL coders

On a Brainfuck spree.
6 things to prevent 90% of Due Diligence
So, a man started exercising and stuff in his older age.
You are absolutely right that corporations do this. It's important to understand how this is happening though. In order to do so, they must add their own Certificate Authority to your browser so that it accepts a certificate signed by a non-root Certificate Authority as valid. This is easy to manage at a corporate level thanks to things like Active Directory that allow you to install root CA's in the browsers of your domain users. It is far more difficult for an ISP to install a non-root CA in your browser, therefore mitigating this risk.
Well, they are already several weeks into another quarter, and perhaps they are seeing a down trend.
Or Google Docs...
Looks like a step in the right direction, where a lot of other developers already are. When they were pushing TFS, I didn't know if it was a 'me too' kind of move, or an attempt to provide an MS proprietary solution, or what. But getting in step with a lot of other developers, and hopefully playing nice, will get them a seat at the table with all developers, instead of projecting an attitude of: the world revolves around us. MS has been making some remarkable announcements at this Build conference, and making it easier for developers to get into MS technologies as well. This is a much better approach than when Ballmer was CEO.
Tesla moves into storage batteries to power homes
I'd recommend to watch the sales videos of AWS (http://aws.amazon.com/) they give you a non technical view about what a cloud is.

After that you have a good clue about what the cloud can be and then you can dig deeper into the topics that you what to learn.

Unfortunately I don't know a site that teaches a practical way to cloud computing. They are always tending to a product. But if you understand the basics it should be easy to compare different providers by your needs.
SE-Radio Episode 225: Systems Performance
I'm no lover of LinedIn, and I bet they do some shady thing. As to your second email address, I wonder if it's someone trying to 'connect' to you input it. LinkedIn asks for an e-mail address of the person you want to connect to if they're not close enough to you in the LinkedIn graph, and maybe a person put in the other email.
I use mine for 3 things where my largish Note won't cut it

- light, but extended, web browsing. Usually long-form articles

- comics

- tv, movies while lying in bed or on a couch in a room without a tv or just resting somewhere.
I'm an original backer. I backed at the machine level, so would have received a unit.

My full take away from the situation was simply that they had bad business sense and burned through cash on a several bad decisions, then hoped to pull success from the jaws (or more realistically, the stomach) of defeat, so made ridiculously upbeat postings in an attempt to hand wave over the cracks in the project.

It was a risk; I took it on. Not my most expensive bad investment by far. I checked out of monitoring the Kickstarter feed once it became clear that it was going no where. That was well before the final gasps from the ZPM people.

I'm glad that Kickstarter has pushed projects to post risks, avoid renders, etc. None of that would have mitigated the bad-businesspeople issue, however.

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Edit: To make things clear, I really don't hold a grudge on this. I threw money at some clever ideas, but we all know making them happen at scale can be hard. They didn't handle things well but I felt that the hugely negative response was largely an overreaction.
'saved you a click'
Does anyone know whether someone packing today could carry the same functionality in a lot less weight? I imagine a lot of the electronics items and compass and maps could be replaced by a top-of-the-line phone.
"As someone involved in the project from its beginning, he felt entitled to know everything."

As a business owner, and a fairly transparent one, that sickens me. In what world should customers feel "entitled to know everything" about a business.

Absolutely entitled to ask, to take their business elsewhere if they don't like the (lack of) answers, but entitled to know? No way.

This sounds to me like another group who confused Kickstarter with Amazon pre-ordering, or an investment fund where they became shareholders. You assessed the risks, took the risk to put some money down, and it didn't work out.

It's often said that Silicon Valley works, in part, because of its acceptance of failures. This is a witch hunt that says more about the hunters than those they are chasing. Good luck building the American Dream in a society where failing to deliver on a Kickstarter project means it's "entirely appropriate that he never work in technology, finance, consulting or the coffee fields (sorry, that kills the barista career) again.”
a one-way pager is very literally one-way its the same as being unable to track a car radio.
if there's one thing I never expected it was to be downvoted for asking a legitimate question.
Start with vagrant/ansible, then move on to AWS/DigitalOcean. After few months, you can call yourself 'Cloud Architect'
Sure there are risks. But assuming that lyft-line or uber-pool succeed in filing rides with few people in return for lower costs they will have an advantage, because average occupancy and a reasonable ride length is highly dependent on amount/density of users.

And BTW, according to some uncofirmed twit[1], more than 50% of lyft rides in sf are done through lyft-line, which is a pretty new service.

To a lesser extent, user density is also related(in theory) to driver ride time, both in reducing wait time, and reducing time from call to passenger.

Also there might be a possibility they can subtly incentivize drivers to only drive for them by giving complying drivers a bit more work, or better work.

And as for your risks lists,you can paraphrase it as: the hand of god(government), a darpa scale technology(self driving cars), very well resourced competitor.

But every company is under risk from the first 2, even for businesses with a strong competitive advantage.

[1]https://twitter.com/DavidELPC/status/593832295968059392
1) So you can revert the merge very easily.
2) Merging without a commit.
3) A branch on a remote server that you have a copy of locally and you want to keep track of the status of remote against the local copy (who's behind and who is ahead?).

This is my basic understanding in terms of how I use git. I like Mercurial too and don't have a horse in this race.
Maybe Android is kind of like small laptop. But Windows phones and iPhones definitely aren't.

I can use my laptop without having any cloud identity tied to it - I don't need to give anyone my email address or card number just to log in. I don't have to upload my contact list or communication history to the cloud. I can install software on it that Microsoft or Apple haven't approved, and if I pay for software Microsoft or Apple don't take a cut. I can install different operating system, if I want. I can develop software on my laptop without special license and without paying Apple or Microsoft. When I develop software, I can share it with other people with laptops and they can run it. I can access filesystem in any way I want and directly modify, share or create files without them being transferred to the cloud.

Modern smartphones are very not like laptops.

Android is perhaps more like actual computer, but I'd guess that's mostly legacy - if Google made Android now, I'm sure they would make it more closed, and they are making it more closed with every release.
Yes it is, it wasn't obvious on my phone...

Another one: https://www.walldecalcompany.com/product_images/x/995/world_...