skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried it for a few minutes, and never went back to it.

The manual "enter ToDo items in a few lists, categorized as follows..." work really gets old for me, to the point that I won't ever do this again, no matter what clever algorithm optimizes whatever useful for me. Just stop asking me to manually put stuff into lists one by one. No kind of "gamification" helps with this, either.

Actually I use different kind of ToDo Apps... For example:

Evernote Premium - I don't ever manually write a note by myself, but all kinds of input channels are here collected in notebooks, just in case I need something later. A letter from someone (photographed/scanned by the mobile app, done), a cooking recipe someone showed me, some activity data from my trackers, a few GPS-triggered events via IFTTT, and so on.

Instapaper Premium - Okay, not a classical todo-list, but the "read later" aspect is kinda the same: I save stuff on the internet for reading later (buttonclick on a browseraddon, done), and on some bored weekends I go through the accumulated list and read it (if still relevant for me), discard it, or move it into a Evernote Note If I might need it for referencing later.

Apple's Todo-Appish-Thingy don't know how it's called, together with a Google calendar account, for automatically adding real todo's on lists/schedules when someone mails me something. For example on OSX mail, you can click on the text "meet later on 9PM at the restaurant?" and create an event in the calender directly. Also I can copypaste some cooking incredients from online recipes into this todo-app-thing on my iMac, and work through the list on my iPhone while shopping in the grocery store.

...

There's more, but the essence is: I just don't enter "ToDo Items" manually, tag them, priorize them, sort them, whatever. At least for me it's outright irrelevant how great you gamify your app or do clever algorithms, the data input process knocks me off.

On the plus side: I really liked the tone of your tutorial popups, it's really refreshing NOT to read the same phrases over and over again, like copypasted from decade old websites. And I'm not a native english speaker (as you can see from my terrible writing style).

Just my $0.02
You mean IPv6? That suffers from exactly the same problem: ISP's just don't give a damn and don't roll it out.

You cannot expect your average internet user to know about these things, so they get away with it.
Cryptographic hashes have many different properties that make them useful and distinct. The most fundamental properties the Collatz function shares with hash functions include it being deterministic and non-invertable. Applying the modulo operation to map the input/output to a finite field provides uniformity. Change the function to b^k and you have the discrete logarithm problem.
Controladores DJ – Masquesonido
Interesting. I didn't realise those things had progressed so far into "generally stable and usable" territory client-side - an occupational hazard due to most of our clients being stuck on IE8 so I only play with less ancient "standards" when I find time for projects outside the day-job. I really need to try arrange some proper play time for myself soon!
honestly i was thinking we will see actually what they say about apps, but all we can see is they +1 it
Hi, it has some game mechanics, but it's not exactly a game. I mean that you get trophies for using this app like completing tasks, making projects and such. The trophies are unique and funny. You can also get them for various activities in the app like using three exclamation marks in the name of the task :) You can also compare with others, because you can invite friends in this app to share a project with you.
Hope that somehow clears things up :)
Thanks a lot for your comment!
Google's self-driving cars are coming to public roads in California this summer
Open Street Map India is back online
> I would give my life for that of another, even a complete stranger. In general I make decisions like this without any consideration for my own best interest

I would suggest your current circumstances should cause you to reconsider that approach.
This is great, allow users to create issues for a repo too and I'd use this everyday!
Look great! I wanted to see more on the calendar it self, but I have not found the demo link on the main page. IMO, you should add a presentation of your calendar without requiring to create an account.

https://calendar.sunrise.am/

(and also: add a link from your blog to your product)
I didn't say anything about the Arctic mate. I said the Earth. We have a southern hemisphere too.
Thats not a great website IMHO.
Anyway you use frameworks for base styles, to assist you in setting up the ground work.

For example, reset and grid styles.
Bootstrap is quite bloated but you can mix and match and use whatever you like.

If you are learning then just use reset style sheet
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

and work out rest yourself.
If Spacex to manage to make a "Just add fuel" rocket they're striving so hard to do, automating the logistics if a robot connecting a fuel pipe doesn't seem so bad.

That is a rather large hurdle to get over though.
My experience is that the note at the end of the article-- that most issues like this one go to court or worse-- is the sad reality.

I fought my company's general counsel for an entire quarter to get them to honor a verbal promise of a stock bonus. The bonus was decent (+20% of my original grant, though they had lowballed me originally) though essentially worthless (<$10k over 4 years) at the time. I was a junior-level individual contributor. After a quarter of fighting, the general counsel denied me by having the board change my grant without my signed approval. By then, it was basically too late to sue, the grant didn't have any value anyways, and I wouldn't have had much of a chance of vesting the grant (over 4 years) had I sued anyways (as the management had been historically liberal with firing people). I eventually got the majority of the value of the stock awarded after bringing to light the experience of another employee who had been treated with a similar gross lack of integrity. They didn't fire me, but they aggressively managed me out of the team (into a role where I had essentially zero chance of further bonuses).

Oral stock contracts are tricky business. Sometimes a court will uphold them, sometimes not:

* http://calcorporatelaw.com/2012/10/court-of-appeal-upholds-u...

* https://books.google.com/books?id=Db1uzraBVugC

It's really, really appealing for companies to weasel out of unwritten contracts, especially if they feel there's little monetary risk and their legal team has reviewed what might be discovered in a potential case. While I agree we shouldn't set such a low bar, we've yet to engineer a solid mechanism to steer companies towards the better. The law expects businesses to keep good records. We shouldn't let them abuse the privilege of non-documentation.
Rx.Net extended to include an observable cache and an observable list
It may not be a shit deal for some people, but it is for me and I wont be visiting your website again.

I'll give you credit for getting around my adblocker though, although that just pissed me off more.
Yes its a shit-show. They even had a (hidden) working equalizer in the OSX version, but decided that this too was a feature that should be removed.

I still have no idea how to find a specific album in an artist's page, but of course that is a minor concern, compared to their ability to "to work with whatever frameworks they need, without the need to coordinate tooling and dependencies with other squads".

The one thing Apple got right is to always optimize for user experience, never for engineering convenience. Native code, no garbage collection - still pays off today.

What would be a good cross-platform tech stack that satisfies those needs, and isn't C++? Anything with a QT binding I suppose?
You write pretty well, but it's not for me to judge, because I'm not native english speaker too :)

Thanks for the kind words on itemz. I get that the formula is just not right for you and I really appreciate that you explained it. We're planning to adjust itemz so you would integrate more data from various sources, but to be honest - I have no idea when will it happened. It's still on "someday" column.

But thanks a lot for your feedback it's really useful.

All best :)
This one, I imagine: https://blog.pusher.com/porting-the-pusher-integration-tests...
Thanks, I'll pass it on to the author!
What are the best cities to work in data?
The pH of London air was sometimes as low as 1.4 back then. People were basically breathing sulfuric acid.
European carriers could block Internet ads for their own benefit
I have not created any works that can be considered prior art for this patent application (which is actually now abandoned). My research primarily involves exploiting the computationally intensive aspects of the Collatz function (and its inverse) to construct cryptographic systems. Systems whose elements are computationally difficult to deconstruct, but trivial to construct and verify are of particular interest to me.
Helping to choose the best t mobile prepaid plan: technology
Rightcorp fails to extract customer details from ISP using DMCA
I know, that's why I linked to those patches in the article, then subsequently mentioned their existence in another response to you three hours before you wrote the above.

That doesn't change that people won't use it until it's in openssl properly and they don't have to maintain a patched version themselves.
In my country the rate of burglaries is currently sadly rising and the police advices homeowners to invest into security measures like doors, enforced doors, enforced windows and cameras. They say that most burglars stop if it's not easy for them.
Toca Boca apps generally get good reviews: http://tocaboca.com/
if we were serious about the social benefit to having a failsafe black box that we can sometimes under extraordinary conditions retrieve intelligence from, then companies should be required to operate these programs (send data to that black box) without benefit, and over their protests, by law. they shouldn't be paid for it. it should be a burden.

It should be like taxes - companies should hate the burden, and try to avoid it, but in the end do what it takes because society has said that it's necessary. companies should certainly not receive transfer payments from the public in exchange for spying on them. I mean think about it, this means you are LITERALLY paying taxes, to be transferred over to a company and returned to shareholders of a company, where that company has received the transfer... so that it can operate a special level of secrecy... in order not to tell you... that they are spying on you. Which you paid for. I mean I get that you're covering the cost of the equipment, but this is about EXTRA payment.

I mean that is a level of absurdity that is beyond the pale. It is like handing a waitress a tip and saying, "this is for not telling me that you were spying on me." I mean, regardless of whether this creates a puzzled or a guilty look on her face, it is a pretty absurd transfer payment!! "Wait, what...you're paying me extra...NOT to tell you...that I'm spying on you?" - "Yep!! In my book, that's how you earn the big profit." Pretty absurd. You don't give companies profit for these programs. It's some burden they do out of civil responsibility and legal obligation, if at all.

It's also why a for-profit police force is a pretty bad idea. Some things are best left to a minimal government mandate, and not these artificial market forces.
http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
PostgreSQL anti-patterns: Unnecessary json/hstore dynamic columns
This is cool. I used that same SSA data for a fun agency project for J&J about a year ago: http://hellomynamemeans.com/en/
I don't really see a big niche for these vehicles in the cities I've lived in. Most people would rather share a full-featured car than own one with severe limitations.

Parking is the biggest hassle with having a car in a dense city, and making the car electric doesn't solve that problem. Car sharing, on the other hand, can help a lot.

Maybe there could be a car sharing service that features this class of a vehicle, and is cheaper than Zipcar, etc.
Nice work. It would be even better if the author packaged it properly so the dependency is installed along with it :)

Ruby projects are always gems, Haskell projects always have a Cabal definition, and Node projects are always available in NPM – but so often I see Python scripts or libraries that don't have a setup.py and friends. The state of Python packaging is a bit of a mess still, granted, but it's not difficult. The guide is here: https://packaging.python.org/
Alt-tabbing into Spotify and then pressing space does not pause the playback on my Windows 7 system either...
I have always wondered why they didn't do that, it seems to be such a simple optimization. With UTF-8 you would give up some constant time operations like character lookups, while ISO-8859-1 shouldn't have any performance regressions I can think of. Because once you add a non-latin character to a String and the encoding has to change, the data has to be copied anyway due to String immutability.
Look at the subject materials with the perspective of learning not finishing tasks. I'm back to school after 6 years in industry doing master's. I hate these assignments and some subjects I have to do where lecturer is just too much to tolerate. However, all subjects and it's contents are interesting.
I have 3 projects to finish in 3 weeks and 4 assignments each week on top of that. Just thinking of them encourages me to quit. I feel depressed. I wake up at night worried and heart beat really high. But I think I have developed some resistance after all this time.Now I take all tasks from the persective of learning. When I think oh I have to finish this project, then I feel stressed But when I think "Oh, lets read what that is, and what about that, how does this work.." then the stress is far less
How hacking makes the world better place- first wireless hack in history
Some strange looking mortality on low volume names, I used Irish names, Male-Darragh, Female-Clodagh.
E.g Clodagh goes from 13 to 5.5 between 2009-2010
I am not expert front-end coder, but I like to meddle with front-end.

Bootstrap and Foundation are huge and terrible for load times. Moreover, most websites built with Foundation and Bootstrap look the same.

I usually choose grid systems like simplegrid or skeleton and build up from there.
Not using HTTP codes is much, much worse. I've dealt with SOAP/RPC APIs that return nothing but 200, no matter what. The actual status is an english word in the response body (i.e. OK, ERROR, etc.) That is a nightmare to deal with because you have to manually decode each and every request instead of using a library to do the heavy lifting for you.

Sometimes I have questions on which HTTP status code to use, but most of the time its pretty clear. And if you stick to the official codes most client side libraries will just work without any drama at all. As a bonus, all of the intermediate processes (proxies, firewalls, CDNs, etc.) will work as well without any finagling on your part. :)
Yeah, your arguments make sense. Especially the last part. Educational games are often quite boring, at least as long as you play them by the rules.
Excellent choice there. If you want to know what they mean by "tone" when talking about guitar, listen to that...
Also very reasonable argument!
Discovered: Quartet of Quasars, a 10M-to-One Find
I also love chess and DCSS. It's just the older I get the more I feel I'm wasting time every time I'm engaging in a game with that much focus.
Chinese army bans smartwatches and wearables over security concerns
Everton FC published something similar to show their stadium pre-match - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkNUotXTKpk
Cloud SQL Tool and Better Metadata Cache Management in Skyvia 3.5
Russian firm debuts VLIW Elbrus 4 CPU with onboard x86 emulation
Google’s Vint Cerf Warns Against Fragmentation of Internet
I guess at the time the JVM was less aggressively optimised, and UCS-2 was a single simple approach that represented all required code points. Anything else would probably have looked like a micro-optimisation.
If you want to learn more about him I highly recommend the recent documentary 'Life of Riley'[1]. Incredible story.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2259306/
Sounds a little like harsh criticism, but it's actually a really good question! Yes, it's not so different if you have meta talks about life or if you discuss how to kill the CEO of a virtual space corp.
Yeah, the prices seem to have gone down again since the last time I checked :)
Self-healing concrete fixes it's own cracks with a limestone-producing bacteria
Ahh, good call - my monitors are absurd. I tried it first on a 2048x1152... but I have that thing rotated sideways, so it's about twice the height of a typical 1080p monitor. Didn't fare much better on my normally rotated 2560x1440, but even then I nearly reach the bottom of the gradient before text colors change.

I guess I should just count myself lucky I haven't set up a rotated 4K monitor yet.
Given that smartphones are already banned, this is probably a pretty common sense response to smartwatches.
You might want to change your DropBox pass -6,937,081 accounts alegedly hacked
>> It runs about five times slower than the equivalent program
> I'd be interested in hearing more about how these were benchmarked. On my machine, they both run in roughly the same time, with a degree of variance that makes them roughly equivalent. Some runs, the iterator version is faster.
It's common to forget to turn on optimizations, which _seriously_ impact Rust's runtimes, LLVM can do wonders here. Generally speaking, if iterators are slower than a loop, that's a bug.

In my novice benchmark I found similar results as OP.

running 6 tests
test for_range_100 ... bench: 89 ns/iter (+/- 2)
test for_range_1000 ... bench: 929 ns/iter (+/- 98)
test for_range_10000 ... bench: 8815 ns/iter (+/- 414)
test for_while_100 ... bench: 36 ns/iter (+/- 3)
test for_while_1000 ... bench: 294 ns/iter (+/- 27)
test for_while_10000 ... bench: 2768 ns/iter (+/- 268)

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 6 measured

https://gist.github.com/simonz05/afd76c549d6c8afb8081
(2011) Wozniak: Apple Couldn't Emerge in Singapore
Google Apps for ISP EOL
What data is this based on?
Aero is a vista+ thing. Hover over a playing vlc in the taskbar and you see skip/pause/play.

Foobar is classic to the cost of UX. We've figured out for a long time now bigger buttons are important, there's no need for separate pause/play especially if stop is right there.

It doesn't need a slew of crappy gradients and fancy shit, Just drag the interface forward a decade that's all. Usable with a touch screen should be a minimum now.
Google will probably force the use of secure and encrypted https, add-blockers will not work on encrypted pages.
> * Searching in playlists was removed

This is driving me crazy. I managed to stumble across this feature via cmd+f one day and as quickly as I find it, they remove it. Seriously?

The only way this feature could be used was via a keyboard shortcut, it wasn't a something cluttering the UI or adding additional cognitive load in a menu for a user - and it was damn handy.

The day where the update removed this feature I wanted to find the product manager at Spotify and yell WTF at their face.
also: let our direction arrow visible while playing (or draw a small car), It will be easier to predict our trajectory.
> "their only alternatives are mopeds, bicycles, public transit or walking, all of which are clearly inferior"

I stopped there. I have trouble imagining in what sort of mind a slow moving EV could be thought better than bicycles or walking.
A reddit commenter compiled a key:
http://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/35qtqy/food_cubes/cr73...
When Smart Grids Meet Dumb Crypto
Increased speed/ux of sites is a big win
Lectures taken by SDSLabs – Edit
Show HN: Cloning the Voices of Alan Rickman, Carl Sagan and Robin Williams
As a European, I often read HN in awe, but this beats it.

I find it a testament to American culture that the vast majority of commenters here are amazed that someone kept a promise.

How can you do business like that? If you can never just look someone in the eye and make a deal?
The Jacob and Justin rises correlate very well with the baby-boomer generation beginning to have children.

It's interesting to note that the increase in the use of Justin has a matching (if slightly lagging) increase in literature[1], while the increase in Jacob isn't[2].

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Justin&year_st...

[2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Jacob&year_sta...
Somehow I doubt that.
Spotify connect is the most frustrating problem for me. I use it at work on my laptop and it drains the battery on my phone, tablet and my partners phone (as we share an account).
The Times does have plaintext archives of pretty much everything - aside from anything else, it's how they make the print edition.
Find the high-res file, look very carefully. The piece of fish has enough fine features to reliably distinguish it from a different piece of fish.
I can see your point and agree with it. But at the same time I feel motivated through your questions. Why should it not be possible to do something for the real community in 15 minutes in a bus if you can do something in that 15 minutes for your virtual community? If a world as big as Eve and a company of 300 game developers of all kinds can be financed by $15/m, why could we not find a way to bring food to 3000 homeless?

Also there are other meaningful things one can do that a perfectly possible with these ressources. One that I spend a lot of time doing is learning another language. Clicking through a few vocabs on Memrise is certainly possible on the bus. I do that for years now. And it's also quite possible to pay for online/skype lectures with 15 bucks a month. What do you think about that? I think that's also doing something for this world. Learning a new language will make you better and will bring you closer to another culture, and by that brings both cultures a tiny step closer to understanding each other better as well, because your friends will read your FB update about that awesome book or movie you enjoyed in that other language, and you will start explaining how things work in your country to friends using that other language you've learned. What do you think about that?
Some of their art is really quite cool.

This one I particularly liked: http://lernertandsander.com/aux-raus/

and this scared me a little: http://lernertandsander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/every...
I'm all for basic income and minimum wage, but I think the luck mindset is quite detrimental. It strips men of their own agency and fosters cynicism.

> I even said some dumb things like, 'Why should they have granite countertops when I don't.' However, I've come around.

Unfortunately, he ends with However, I've come around to realize that this makes financial sense. Silly me, I thought the change of mind was about empathy.
I have been working on a side project that attempts to clone human voices. www.voiceclonr.com presents the voices of Alan Rickman, Carl Sagan and Robin Williams. Appreciate if you could give it a try and leave feedback.
I was a regular visitor for a long time, but as Matt's segued it into (as he himself put it) "a gateway for social justice activism" it's become far too heavy on the pitchfork-rallying.