skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As part of a business plan you have to research your target market. I highly doubt the average person wants to customize their own electronics, much less a radio in the 21st century were people have smart phones with music streaming apps.

Hardware is hard to sell, look at the OUYA project and how it is struggling and trying to sell itself to save itself. They too had quality issues, they too raised a lot of money but had a hard time selling units. Most people just play video games on their smart phones these days, they don't need to buy a video game console that runs Android.

Good research and a good business plan would have saved them from these mistakes. Instead of making a radio, maybe they could have made wireless Bluetooth speakers for smart phones to play music in the house/apartment for the average person. I'm sure that would have sold better than an AM/FM radio.
The Pali Canon is the first source of quotes like this though.
Show HN: progscrape - developer news aggregated from multiple sites
I built this site a few years back as an aggregator for sources that I check reasonably often. I bit the bullet and built an Android app for it this year as well[1]

Both website [2] and Android app [3] are open-source.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progscrape

[2] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape

[3] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape-android
195,000 iphones on a 747: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/plane-loaded-with-i...
This is the saddest thing. Not only have we set up this system of living, but we've also acclimated to it, in the manner of Stockholm Syndrome, to the point where many reflexively defend it and excoriate those who propose living differently.

[And of course 40 hours/week is totally arbitrary! It wasn't determined by science or principle (a nice round multiple of 10 like that (in our arbitrary time units of 24-day hours and 7-day weeks)...). It's just the milepost the labor movement happened to get to before, for other reasons, ceasing to exist as a force of note. Before the standardization of the 40 hour workweek, you could surely hear perfectly analogous arguments for the objective naturality of the 50, or 60, or whatever, hour workweek as you would now for 40.]
From what I've run across, your experience seems quite common. It also seems common that people don't consider what they think while programming.

Do you think that deliberate thought would interfere with coding similar to the guitar?
> But in the real world, two people crashing their cars into each other is a worse outcome than two people failing to dig a ditch.

Wrong. By failing to dig the ditch, rainwater will now flood your properties, ruining both cars.

:)
You're right that there are real, more insidious threats from our government, but these obviously implausible ones deaden or distract people. We shouldn't believe our government is this stupid.

When the rest of the country laughs at Texas for being nutty, it makes it harder for them to acknowledge any threat that might be labeled tinfoil-hat.
I've been working on a Structured Code Editor for a couple of years:

https://i.imgur.com/wvcduDk.png

(in the picture above "string" is selected, and "find" is slightly highlighted because its on the same level. this helps visualize the tree and plan your movements)

It actually started as my final project during undergrad. Here's my 78-page thesis on it (unfortunately Portuguese, but has English pictures):

https://projetos.inf.ufsc.br/arquivos_projetos/projeto_1398/...

Structured editing is much, much, MUCH better suited for programming than plain text. Syntax preservation and source-display separation are game changers, and they are not the only benefits.

Unfortunately it has a Vim-level difficulty curve and people don't realize how much time they currently waste on syntax mucking. This makes marketing kinda hard, even with a fully operational and well polished implementation.

Fun fact: structured editing also works with non-programming structured text, like JSON, HTML and CSS!
>its quite possible for repackaging the same collection of information with a different presentation to be found to be a derivative work //

If you do it by copying a creative work.

The collection must be deemed to be a creative work. The information held in a medical code would be unlikely to be merely factual.

WRT USC see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_and_Collections_of_Inf... for example.
I built this site a few years back as an aggregator for sources that I check reasonably often. It does some naive tagging/filtering/scoring to help surface stories that I personally find interesting. I bit the bullet and built an Android app for it this year as well. [1]

Both website [2] and Android app [3] are open-source.

Would love to hear any feedback -- feel free to fork or submit PRs!

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progscrape

[2] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape

[3] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape-android
I hear this argument often, does it specify white men in the constitution? If so, point me in that direction as I'm curious.
This has to be one of the worst UIs for a slide deck. "Why aren't these questions being answered?" ... "Oh, the slide advance UI changes. Too inconspicuous."
Postgres is there.
> how very seriously the recent attacks have been taken in France

The laws that were passed have very little to do with the attacks. All people are saying is, if the executive power wants to spy, and they can already, they need a court order. Increasing executive powers without checks and balances only leads to tyranny and despotism.

When Obama allows drone assassinations, he is killing in your name - assuming you are american. Today it's in Yemen, tomorrow in Canada, in 10 years in US ... These people that failed protecting us at first place don't need more power, they need less. And it's well known that you stop terrorism with human intelligence, not with spying everybody at the source.
> And everyone scoffs when feminists talk about 'rape culture'.

Thats not a gender/rights related thing. Thats an assault on someone. The guy was pretty shitty, and that could [assuming he knew about it and intended it] be considered an assault. To call it a rape would be wrong.
Isn't this exactly what the article found? (search for split-brain)
Here's an interesting insight on how using a purely functional language (Haskell) to implement an imperative one (Perl6) helped:

> It was helpful in that it's much easier to reason about Perl 6 semantics, making explicit all ambiguities in the specification, because Haskell did not prefer one semantic over another.

It's a salient point because an interpreter built in an imperative language naturally reuses most of the host language's semantics, often without anyone noticing. This can be extremely powerful (SICP's "metacircular evaluator" is incredibly elegant), but also limiting. (Implementing anything sufficiently unlike Scheme using SICP's approach was far more awkward.)
I fail to see the wisdom of assuming children are homo economus capable of expressing consumer will, especially since for the first ten (and even twenty) years of their existence they are mindless meme conduits for whatever mass media monster pumps them full of nonsense.
It's about as anonymous as this forum if you're posting from a cellular or residential broadband network.
The whole site has a "Planet Earth about to recycled. Your only chance, leave with us!" culty feel to it. I quit after the third paragraph... "godcidental?" Is that something people actually say?
Of regulators though, FinCen has more presence than most on the West Coast. It's not a foreign concept, especially once you realize how Visa et al. are headquarted in SF as well.
Apple almost certainly takes ownership of the freight at the origin--either at the airport or maybe even at the factory. The reason for this is it allows Apple to use their buying power to negotiate much lower freight rates with carriers and track incoming shipments better than their manufacturers can. Large importers generally want to exercise more control over their supply chain because it saves them a lot of money and gives them opportunities to optimize it.

Source: I work for a logistics and freight forwarding company.
I don't know. You can look at it ethically, or statistically. First option is really difficult and you can not please everyone. Second... if consistently boys/girls want a certain kind of toy, parents will look for that type of toy for their girl/boy.
Can a “force touch” be detected on older hardware?
Very neat!

I think the issue with high learning curve tools is not that the learning curve is high, it's that the benefit seems (rightly) dubious at the beginning.

You can find videos of people whizzing along with emacs or vim, and it's not difficult to see the productivity gain. So it'd be cool if you had a video of what it looks like to program with this thing.
I'm not sure how I feel about all of these companies shutting down prematurely to return investor capital (the following example is not based on this company, but it illustrates the point). If a $50M investment actually means $10M in risk capital, and the $40M will be returned at the slightest sign of failure, then entrepreneurs are giving up far too much equity because the investor is actually only risking $10M. Further, the signal that a $50M investment sends to the market about a company is far different than that of a $10M investment.

Combine that with other things like preferred shares, and these large investments wind up being horrible for entrepreneurs, unjustly rewarding for the primary investors who are actually risking small sums in exchange for large portions of equity, and unfair for others that invest based upon what the "smart money" invested with a huge headline number.
such relationships extend and survive far beyond the short term of any sitting President or Prime Minister.
I've heard several hiring managers say "recruiting is very expensive in both money and attention; while we don't want to significantly overpay you, we also don't want to underpay you and then have to go through the whole process again in six months when you discover your market value."
> Ultimately taxes need to be paid in fiat, and large organisations will eventually get stomped on for accepting crypto if it subverts government control.

Ultimately global trade will have to occur in the global currency, and governments large and small will eventually get stomped on for accepting only their local currency if it subverts international consensus.
I agree, there shouldn't be clean cut boundaries, but I believe that socially things tend to settle naturally, even if not in the same way for everyone. It's culture, not physics.
I have to admit, I'm not 100% on the entire configuration. However...

We have two clusters of 8 nodes each. Each cluster is setup with 2 factor replication. The clusters are setup with cross datacenter replication.

Your read / write question is a little hard to answer. In Aerospike, a given key will always reside on the same node, something to do with how they optimize their storage. Which means that anytime you write to, or read from, a given key your query will always be routed to the same node.
Is Dart discontinued? Or, did you mean Dart VM?
So are you implying he should not do these things? Or simply he is not doing it the right way? Or is your harsh tone due to perceiving this small change as inadequate for an outdoors guru like yourself? Please enlighten us as to why his small change (which makes him happy) is not appropriate to you.
In that case, sure.

In a lot of cases it's really unclear what intent of the law would be, or the intent is contradictory.
2 - the "pick a username and color" dialog clearly shows the controls and asks if you want to change them already?
'Threes' Gets Pulled from Google Play for Using '2048' as a Search Keyword
This isn't glib, but I had a very discreet van, gas and insurance with a little fuck you money (1.5k ~20 years ago). Living in a vehicle is 1/10th the price of an apartment.

Before that I couch surfed, slept in my truck and took apartments that were highly unsafe (crackling wiring, soft floors).

The trick is to get some sort of fuck you money, stand tall and carry on. You can only be subjugated by will.

I prefer the think of it as houseless. Home is earth.
It would be fascinating to compare the results of this study to one where they used Muslims instead of atheists on Christian subjects, or some other rival religious groups vs. one another.
> it is still just a model, it is not actual reality.

We have a model that includes conservation of momentum. But experiments have shown that reality also includes conservation of momentum--that that feature of the model is an accurate representation of reality.

> Are you really so sure about those priors?

Yes.

> You are also have a very influential prior there which supposes that that if the device functions, it does so because it violates conservation of momentum.

That isn't a prior; it's a hypothesis--the one the EmDrive proponents are claiming.

> Are there really no other explanations which fit more neatly with our current models?

"The experimenters have made a mistake somewhere" is another explanation which fits in more neatly with our current models. Their mistake could be that the device isn't actually producing thrust, or it could be that it's producing thrust because it's ejecting radiation out the back end which they aren't detecting. Either one of those invalidates the EmDrive proponents' claims.
The article was so full of weasel words that I think it ripped my flesh

Has the DoJ or FTC actually put out a comment or press release saying there is an investigation or is it all an echo chamber from a Verge article citing unnamed sources?
How? There are kids in my child's class at school I've never met; I don't know their parents and in some cases there are never occasions where we share geographical location (their kids are picked up by carers). Schools don't give out the parents information; relaying contact details through children under about 8yo is impossible.

Then what? Arrange to meet them at their home to talk to their child for 30s about what they want for their birthday (that's in my price range) - the whole process is costing more than the present at this point.

Am I right in thinking you're not a parent?

Asking a parent you know for ideas for a party present for a kid is quite reasonable, asking the child won't help unless it's a child you're close to and you're spending a considerable sum and I'd warrant know the child's personality pretty well.
Can you drop me an email? I have a project to show you. :)
I'd like to be able to select multiple categories (for example, "programming" AND "science" AND "security").

Also, there's no obvious way to indicate an incorrect categorization (like the one about Ripple being fined; that fits better in "business" or even "politics", yet is the top result in "science" right now). If it's machine-learning-based, it's probably much more useful to be continuously learning based on user feedback rather than generating a model and sticking with it forever (especially when the model is visibly inaccurate in some circumstances).

Also, the job postings should probably be a separate category instead of being lumped into business.
The next logical step is to elide the virtualized network and disk interfaces, and then we're back to shared hosting! See you again in twenty years.
I would include a Bittorrent-based CDN as a first class protocol element and I would make a clear and unbridgeable distinction between "web apps" and hypermedia documents. Web apps would be carefully sandboxed in order to ensure that the user, not the developer, has control.
The new Microsoft Developer Portal loads insanely fast
Thank you, and you're absolutely correct. I think a side-by-side video comparison would work even better, because it's not immediately clear how much time is spent moving commas around, playing with whitespace or hunting parenthesis.

That said, I'm not trying to convert people just yet. It still needs polishing and support for a few more languages (right now it only does Lua, Python and basic Lisp, which is not very exciting).
I think it's not such a rudimentary and obvious question whether they are a money-service-business or not. Their argument would be that they are only providing a protocol, and those using the protocol are money-service businesses.

The counter-argument of course being that they are charging XRP for use of their protocol ergo: money-service-business like any other.

On the other-hand what about Bitcoin in that case? Is Gavin Andresen running a money-service-business because he's developing a protocol? Are the miners because they are collecting transaction fees?

There are a lot of open questions here.
Erm, you don't think they have any inventory ?
Why are you both saying "we need to work on putting together a better social safety net and we need to work on making a whole lot more affordable housing available" and dismissing Section 8 Housing, which, as far as I can tell from a reading on Wikipedia, is a social safety net that provides affordable housing? Is there something specifically wrong with Section 8?
Lawyers threaten researcher over key-cloning bug in high-security lock
In theory, a smart forward-thinking country could come along and look at themselves as a company/reserve and make a virtual currency + exchange that is desired because they will not touch it. They could create a killer currency, a neutral country that doesn't play in the theatre of games. Like the Swiss used to do with banking.

However banking is also getting more regulated. Money flow is living under a rule where "papers please" is the norm, untracked cash is suspect. Many of the excuses for this much regulation on a currency is the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.

The demand just keeps getting higher and higher for a killer currency.
> [Considers status of the Atlantic slave trade, position of women in society, etc., in 1776]

> Um, no. Just no.

It was the Englightenment that made the end of slavery inevitable. For instance, it is written into the US Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and have rights. That made it inevitable that the US would eventually outlaw slavery in its territory (i.e., as soon as it would be possible for the majority of the country to force the minority---and they did, at massive expensive of lives and material).

And it's not like the idea that all men are created equal was originated by the US Founding Fathers---it wasn't. It was part of the cultural mileiu at the time. It was a recent discovery. The United States was not responsible for the Enlightenment; it was a product of the Enlightenment.

So, your comment is incredibly ignorant and couldn't be more wrong. You are trashing the very time period that ended slavery.

Ignore history and you will be doomed to repeat it. (The Germans and the Russians did just that---creating new forms of slavery.)

I'm not interested in arguing the rest of your points. The evidence is out there if you care to look and think.

edit: So, I think I was too harsh on you, dragonwriter. I don't want you to think I'm a giant dickbag. Going to Hitler AND Stalin that quick is kind of crazy. I still think what I said, I just think I was being too aggressive.

Also, if people in Plato's time thought every subsequent generation was worse, they were probably right---at some point, the populace was so degraded that they actually would listen and seriously consider that old bastard (Plato). I'm half-joking here, of course. He did delimit all the important philosophical questions---he just got them all wrong.
The (JavaScript) Question I Bombed in an Interview with a Y Combinator Startup
The best mayonnaise (Belgian) is slightly acidic, usually from lemon juice. Though admittedly Dutch mayonnaise does not have that and is sweeter.

Aioli is different. It is also an emulsion, like mayonnaise, but it's mostly about the garlic, and in some cases doesn't even contain egg yolk (but it usually does).
It makes sense that simple historical happenstance is the cause of much speciation. When learning about evolution and natural selection, we hear so much about nice-sounding stories about Species X and how they got some particular Adaptation Y because it allowed them to be more fit in some particular way Z. While these are likely true, they run the risk of being just-so evolutionary psychology stories that are told not because they are representative of mutations and adaptations, but because they are illustrative of the concept.

There are about 400,000 known species of beetle, some of which are extremely similar. For how many of them can we point to a cause-and-effect meaningful-to-humans story of why they have diverged from their closest relative?

Sometimes weirdness just happens and circumstance leads to change.
"I do think you underestimate how effective peer pressure and caring about reputation can be."

I think peer pressure and reputation are very effective at stopping the "good" officers from turning in and removing the bad officers.
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