skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll just clarify one misconception: it's not really the case that iPhone is considered an international symbol of prestige and luxury. While they are expensive, they aren't that expensive, compared to Samsung phones. Anyone who can afford a top-line Samsung phone can easily afford an iPhone.

In addition, South Korea's dreadful web ecosystem (you can't buy anything using Mac OS) has the effect of substantially reducing the appeal of Apple products. IMHO, using Apple products in Korea is more viewed as being "that weird guy who is being different just for the sake of being different" rather than having an "international symbol of prestige," whatever that means. (Of course both are exaggeration: people don't really care that much what kind phone you use.)

Also there's the matter of Apple's customer service: for some reason they have a reputation of being absolutely horrible in Korea, which leads to fewer sales, which again makes Apple think it's not worth the trouble to set up decent customer service in Korea...

* About Samsung being Korea's national icon.... haha serves me right for not fighting hard enough to throw its leaders into jail, I guess.
Shorter version of pure css fizzbuzz :)

http://codepen.io/livingston/pen/xGVbGd?editors=110
This is when these things will find their true purpose:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41blwh4qNWL._SL500_.jp...
I guess you have to assume such a small percentage of people will actually be using this, so the numbers won't be too bad??

You don't "have to" assume that, but why start worrying about the source of error in your metrics now?

The cumulative wight of this and all the other problems with your data probably won't dip their utility below zero, so just go back to plugging your ears and yelling "lalalalala".
While somewhat true, it's pretty bad that you basically have to just roll over and accept it if you want to own a house in an area not in economic crisis. You can live as frugally as you want, but a half-million-dollar mortgage sucks up a lot of income.

I've been seriously considering getting a really really really nice few-year-old RV (one of the 50' bus ones with expanding sides) as my home in order to opt-out of the housing stupidity and apartment renting game. It'd be nice to be able to own my home after just a few years paying the equivalent of what I currently pay for Bay Area rent. I'd still have to pay e.g. National Parks for staying the night, but I'd much much rather have my money go to them vs the slim land owners and apartment places here.
Apparently based on the hand device.
>Let's build a better paywall.

and hasten the death of print journalism
s/Mozilla/Netscape/
Video made me want to have a more active life. I thought "cool!" but then I imagined my video output would be hours of me typing, browsing HN & Reddit.
Actually our team (Actor.im) is thinking of trying to provide messaging services on such machines if someone will be interested in government-like organization.

Because we are will be open-sourced soon and in russia there is there own smartphones (but build in china yes) we can try to provide most secure solution in market.

May be some countries like Germany are interested in such things.
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One feature (or use case) that I would like a follow-me drone for is path-lighting.

That is, let's say I'm going on a walk in the dark and I don't want to use a flashlight or wear a headlamp - I've thought of a drone flying 8-10 feet up, a few feet ahead of me, shining a light to light my way.

Since the Lily people seem to be here answering HN comments, I wonder, how far off is your product from doing that ?
FWIW you can run GAE apps on open source implementations such as AppScale.

https://github.com/AppScale/appscale
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There's a lot of the "write X% in slowlang and (100-X)% in fastlang" thrown around, but I have to say, I've not seen too many such projects around.
This same sort of transmitter is used on all sorts of cheap wireless remotes. Here's a cleaned-up capture I took from a Westinghouse wirelessly controlled power outlet: http://a.pomf.se/aqdzgd.png
That's a tenable position, but this extension should not be useful to people holding that position.
Somebody should do a spoof video of their marketing video that shows exactly that.
i think the question is what tech does it use do accomplish this
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Is having more than one car per family relevant to the question of whether having kids implies having a car?

In any case, it looks like the answer is more or less "yes." The difference in car ownership per capita is not that different between the US and many other first-world countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_p...

But this counts a lot of vehicles we wouldn't consider "cars," like tractor trailers. If we just look at passenger vehicles, it seems that the US is nowhere near the top:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its...

The discrepancy is pretty big and this doesn't fit with what I'd have thought. Plus the source is not available. But other sources corroborate:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/30/energy-europe-automobiles-b...

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Transport/Pas...

http://www.acea.be/statistics/tag/category/passenger-car-fle...

So not only is the US not unique in being in love with cars, we're not even the most excessive at it. Maybe the next time somebody feels like getting all nationalistic about criticizing car culture, they'll point the finger at Italy, Germany, or France before they decide to aim for the US.
The submission is literally a link to the website.
Wow. This is purely amazing! Definitely ordering one.
When your vision is:

>> While Apple is a closed, proprietary company, they are not a spyware company like Google.

>> Together, we can build a future where we have independent alternatives to the spyware of companies like Google and Facebook.

I can just say... good luck and good bye!
Solve what? The lens gets wet just like any other waterproof camera. At least this one will blow dry itself off in short order.
This sounds very similar to the Gimlet Media (http://gimletmedia.com/) / Startup story (http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/). I wonder if we're going to start seeing lots of VC investment in podcast production companies. I sure hope so!

Edit: add links
Please leave the scrolling behavior alone already!
This is exactly why I've grown wary of pre-orders.

Even with huge savings for being "an early backer" - I've found I get more for my money (and sometimes anything for my money) if I wait until an improved "v2" ships a few months after initial release.
There is typically not enough force in the rotation of the blades (they are designed to be very light) to do more than hurt a little bit.
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Why is so much importance to written language? Why not practice casual writing like casual speaking. I think many of these expectations put lot of pressure on the people who wants to communicate in writing but that language to be written is not mother tongue or might not even gone to high school.
Listing sites people cannot access does sound like a bad user experience.
As people tell their AOL stories, note the other front page post today that Mozilla has released Firefox 38.

Thank you AOL!
Yes, but they all come out

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well your build system should all be in version control, so that a red herring.

The issue with a developer building something and then throwing it over the wall to ops is one possible workflow, but I think it's a stretch to say that's what Docker "encourages". It only encourages that if you have inexperienced people doing your build system. Docker actually dovetails nicely with DevOps movement to break down those kind of throw-it-over-the-wall silos, and if you have someone experienced and skilled in charge of your build, this poor workflow won't happen.

So what do you gain? Well, you gain lightning fast, reproducible server deployments. You gain production / dev parity. You gain the ability to develop multi-node distributed systems locally without crippling performance overhead. Obviously this all comes at a significant complexity which may exceed your gains (hence why I say the jury is still out), but the problems it solves are very real, and not acequately addressed by pure configuration or VM technology.
Alternatively, it would be good if extensions could have a whitelist and/or blacklist of sites that they are enabled on, with most extensions having a default blacklist of all financial sites, banks, brokerages, email accounts, etc. Perhaps also create a way for corporations to blacklist their intranets. It makes me very nervous that if some extension owner sells out to the wrong person, suddenly they could see my private information.
ZeroBrane Studio dev here: I don't have anything in the installer that changes any of the existing type associations. I do have a plugin that registers file extensions on Windows, but it requires explicit user action. This is how the Linux installer script looks like: https://gist.github.com/pkulchenko/3574e47ba1ad89501f91 and I welcome suggestions on how to improve it.

The only extension based code I have in the IDE is from the project tree where you can launch the application linked to a particular file, but the IDE doesn't change any of the associations.

I'm not sure what happened in your case and will be happy to investigate (my email is in github profile).

Update: I did further investigation and it turned out that in the .desktop file it's associated with MimeType=text/plain;application/lua, so it could get associated with text files. I've pushed a change to limit that to only Lua files. My apologies for the inconvenience.
ZeroNet is quite similar to this (but runs as a seperate program):

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet
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Nice. We were doing sailing last week and was quite hard to figure the whole activity with a GoPro, because I was focusing only on what I was doing, but my fellows trimming the sails were not that much in the video.

So I was thinking of a drone to film us from the side or above, but our skipper thought that no drone could handle the 15-20 knots with 30knts gusts winds we were sailing in.
I can't speak for the Lily blades, but I have a couple of drones a little larger and the blades are harmless - they stop as soon as they detect obstruction and they are flexible/not sharp. It won't cut anyone.
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Even people inside the NYT know the pricing for digital subscriptions is excessive. They're high because circ department won an internal war and inflated digital prices in a misguided attempt to protect print subs. The NYT has experimented but is still clinging to the past.

Which is why the "All Digital Access" subscription costs more than Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Now combined. Give me a break.
>doesn't specify what level of knowledge is expected of you. Familiarity? Proficiency? Master? Do you need to know how v8 interprets Javascript?

It says "experienced with OO JS". That's vague, but not so vague that it can mean "I don't even know the basic operators of the language".

And that from someone who claims they can "teach others to code". (http://notlaura.com/services/teach-me-to-fish/)
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Doesn't work with a zero-length input (although that's easily fixed).

That being said, that's much cleaner. Thanks!
w3schools isn't an alternative to w3.org. MDN (developers.mozilla.org) is. And so is webplatform.org.

w3.org is the W3C, the actual organisation that publishes the CSS and XML specs (and the versioned snapshots of the HTML spec).
Where is the Telescreen integration? Do you also have a work out program? It would be nice if the camera had a soft red glow around it.

If you get high enough penetration not only could you get a great FoF graph but also physical location tracking of people w/o cell phones. I think a better name for the project would be "Papers Please"
Employee says she was fired for deleting Xora GPS apps
That's unfortunate. I'd pay for it even if it were free otherwise because I like the service so much.
Damn, that's impressive. I want to know the top speed and what kind of wind it can handle.
On iPad the り is only visible in the furigana. On top of that, the furigana is displayed below the text.
The broadcast channel support looks promising. Does anyone know if Chrome plans to support it in the future?
The university I went to seemed like it was half Java, half .NET, and half databases. Seriously, databases leaked into everything, and they had database classes that were just as extensive and in depth as the other two 'tracks'. We also had an ORM god for a professor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Halpin
I generally agree, but I would also argue that they've left off the things that relate to being a good engineer, at least for engineer in the traditional sense.
I thought so too at first (and its not like FizzBuzz is hard), but if you read the post you'll see the job advert was for design, only listing JS as "HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript" after talking about design up until then (and then only listing further JS stuff as nice to haves).

The person made clear that they can do all the design stuff and can use JS to add basic interaction to the frontend.

The job post didn't ask for a programmer. I don't see how its the designers fault for not being a programmer.
It's not quite that simple. For example FaceTime claims to exchange session keys peer-to-peer without revealing them to Apple. It's no big deal to do technically.

Of course Google/Apple still would have the power to backdoor the clients, as long as they can issue app updates. But it seems that US wiretap orders can't force them to go that far.
Whilst that may be bad, I hardly think it puts them in the same tier as GoDaddy. In fact, it seems your problem is mainly with Tucows, rather than Hover. Nevertheless, the problem with GoDaddy isn't the feature set or product offering, it's the way they treat their customers. Hover could certainly bring the price down on DNSSEC support but that really doesn't make them a "scumbag registrar". Do you really think that's fair?
There are definitely drones that can fly way faster than 30 knots, but they are not waterproof, and the ones I've seen are rather dumb, they don't follow you.

Here's a drone that can fly at 100 mph (87 knots):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p5uDf9i_Yc
I guess the drone wouldn't be able to launch from the water if it had landed upside-down?

(As a concept, this is amazing - excited to see how well it works in practice.)
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I think we found the guy who writes all the testimonials on the internet! :P
Curious as well... Which sites?
>> "If there was a way for me to get what I want by paying quickly, maybe using some sort of a federated payment platform (much like downloading apps doesn't require subscribing) I'd be more inclined to pay."

Isn't this what Flattr tried (and failed) to do?
https://circanews.com/ for the interested. I use the app exclusively though and haven't spent much time on the website.
This is a sweet concept!
it's not that simple.

For situation when you'll hear from management that they don't see you as engaged as others I guess your answer would be to just leave, it's that simple.

Thing is not everyone can easily change jobs. And it's not only a matter of (un)sufficient professional skills. (Less money outside of corp. environment or even number of jobs in particular location (and moving is also not on a plate sometimes))

Enjoy your chance not to participate but it's not really that simple
Is this a reason that many merchants don't accept AmEx?
> autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields

Super cool. Don't tell me what not to auto complete!
New Chapter in the Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns: Django
That's not being fair. That's your own problem. I'm also a self-taught programmer, but I don't feel like I need to compare myself to her.

The point is that she didn't fit the requirements of the job.

As a result, she did not get the job. That's pretty much end of story. If the job requires her to be "experienced with JS", that means that they want her to know the language.

And it's not just modulo. She didn't know how to convert a timecode string to seconds.

I have no idea how someone like that would be able to understand the code. Nor why she would think that "it's okay" not knowing those things and yet be an engineer at their company.

To repeat what has been said - she was not applying to a job as a designer. She was applying to a job as an engineer and designer. She didn't meet at least half the criteria (and she didn't have degrees, which is probably why they even asked her those questions to test what actual knowledge she has).
About maintenance of wind turbines: but when you compare the actual costs of O&M on wind turbines they are actually still pretty cheap compared to traditional energy sources, and it will likely get cheaper as the tech matures and common problems are addressed through improved manufacturing and better tools.

But I agree that for places on earth close enough to the equator to have plentiful solar irradiance, also in the winter, solar looks like it is going to win hands down.
Is the graph of the top a representation of the neural net? That is, are 11 neurons in 2 layers enough to operate the game?
It has commoditized basic software development sure, thankfully there are lots more interesting things to work on top of that.
Like a selfie stick, but way cooler.
While there's technically nothing racist about a small variation in intelligence. But this comment leaves a bad taste in my mouth, as we know that.

1. Individual variation in intelligence dwarfs any population level measure with regard to race.
2. The evidence with regard to IQ differences by race is suspect at best, especially because it is unclear that one can accurately control for socioeconomic factors.
3. It would be ignorant to assume that transporting an entire people from one continent to another, forcing them to serve as slaves for much of our history, systemically suppressing their political representation even after granting freedom, and an extremely efficient police-prison-industrial complex that disproportionately targets that minority would leave no lasting ill effects.

It suggests to me the motive is a writer's true belief is in racial superiority, which given the hellbanned account, seems the more likely option than an honest attempt to further a scholarly discussion.
Yes, only Firefox 38 has support for advanced ruby text, unfortunately.

While advanced ruby text degrades great in browsers with no ruby text support at all, it doesn't seem to degrade well in browsers with basic support :(
Well "fork over" comes from the system call fork() which creates a new process. "Shell out" as explained by the author means to run an external shell command, which has been implemented in some languages by forking a shell, and then spawning the process. fork() is known as so because it results in a hierarchy where there is a parent process and a child process, and so forth. Shell just seems to be a general term for an interface used to operate an OS. [0] So no, just a coincidence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)
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Base system: $0. You have to manually edit a bunch of config files and compile some things from source.

Easy point-and-click installer: $$.
CanIUse pointed at a proposal for Chrome support which eventually points at this bug:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161070

There are some work-in-progress patches posted there.
I hestiate to speak because everyone will turn it gray, but it's worth pointing out that the whole idea of enums having C-like "discriminants", which like four people have yelled at me about, is entirely missing from the book.

I had to go look it up in the reference, where it is sort of hidden too.
Anecdata: I've done quite well in my software engineer career without knowing much about compilers or AI (aside from what they generally do), and I doubt that I've "mastered" cryptography that much.
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> Add to your repertoire - Java Script, ...

Should I ignore this as a typo? How am I to rely then on this as a classified information?
Source code: https://github.com/lwburk/hnsort

I wrote this as a user script a few years ago, but it recently broke due to site layout changes. I took that opportunity to rewrite it using Flight and convert it to a full Chrome extension.
>You have made a common mistake. You have pattern matched what I said to commonly said things that you have an opinion on, and then have proceeded to respond on the belief that I said something that I did not say.

I wouldn't call this a mistake. It is a very accurate heuristic not just in this particular case but in online discussions in general. There will be errors, but deploying a heuristic instead of a perfect algorithm makes great sense when dealing with the internet. Less acceptable for something like a scientific paper.
Anyone else having issues with the bookmarks toolbar in 38? Mine draws blank when you open a window. I have to hide/show it before it draws correctly.

This occurs each time a window is opened.
No, because of the word "only"
"There some flaw in an otherwise well tested and understood theory, so let's give credence to an unsupported and discredited conjecture that ignores all the other theories proven virtues." That's pretty much the definition of 'woo' right there.
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Yes, using alternative ports does sometimes work. In the past, I had used NoIP or whatever the name was at that point to route incoming from 80 to a non-standard port. CloudFlare could probably do the same, but then have you defeated the goal of self hosting, since you have a provider in front of your site?
How frequently do you replenish your spices/WD40? If you are a restuarant, then a button would make sense. The dash, in its current form, seems suited to high-turnover products where the sales generated over the devices lifetime can cover the initial cost.

As someone else mentioned though, think of it as "Dash, the physical button" + "Dash, the API". The API is probably the long term goal, the physical button is just a (temporary) drop-dead simple API client that people can use today. Amazon is likely betting on smart-fridges/-pantries/-homes catching up in the future

Edit: in the near-future, I imagine Amazon adding a touchscreen (so it's not product specific) without adding much to BoM. They can also charge manufactures for on-device screen-time (who doesn't like ads that convert to an immediate sale?)
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To me, it seems like in the future Rust could occupy the same niche as Java + RTSJ does presently. I'm just not clear on how or why Rust would be sufficiently better to overcome the track record of Java + RTSJ.
Do you know if it's possible to have the loading of the standard libraries offloaded to a separate thread? For example, if I have a program that displays a UI, can I have a progress bar or loading message (or even basic interactivity) using Java code while another thread gets the scripting part of the application spun up?
That's not quite correct. Both Backbone.js and Underscore.js were extracted from DocumentCloud — a nonprofit organization.

But I am currently a Graphics Editor at the NYT...
Interesting. Thanks for clarifying that!
I thought the Knight Foundation was working on highly intelligent Drone Auto Vehicles with AI - Project KITT and a mysterious guy called Michael Knight, no?
It's a shame that this only works on the iPad; it seems awesome.
or via framebuffer!

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man1/fbi.1.html