skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this version have the arbitary "we hold you funds a-la paypal style-e"? functionality you have started to roll out to standard stripey?
On Android the Google Wallet app is being replaced by Android Pay, so it is more of a re-brand.
Pakistani CEO arrested for selling degrees from “Barkley” and “Columbiana”
cssnext is following w3c standards. That's the only reason, and the best one I think.
For those of you who weren't aware: this seems like an adaptation to the work their interns were doing for MaterializeCSS (materializecss.com)
I thought it was set to 1 CPU because that's the only way for Go to guarantee thread-safety. Is that fixed in 1.5, or does Google just choose to ignore that in this release due to the performance benefits?
The keynote claimed they took two identical Nexuses side by side with Lollipop and M loaded it up with a bunch of common apps. The standby battery time with M was around double.
If you already felt like it looked like a play, then that's why people didn't like it. Sets look like they would on a stage, not what the stage represents. If the story takes place in a castle in 18th century England, you want the viewer to be thinking "I'm in 18th century England right now" and not "I'm in a theater watching a film about 18th century England". Creating a film is a lot about suspension of disbelief, so if your brain is saying "that looks like a set" instead of "that looks like a castle", then you've lost that battle.
Can you go into details about why a financial organization requested this?
One disadvantage to the employer is that the premiums will be higher for individual plans vs. group plans. So the employer will have to pay more for each employee.
@SwiftLang: Sorry we've been quiet for a while. Working on something…
I feel like Saclay won't rival Silicon Valley any time soon.

To me, part of the magic of silicon valley has little to do with Stanford (although the article references Harvard??) or the mega businesses, but the overall culture of northern california.

For example, would Apple Computer have happened if Steve Jobs had never done LSD? How about BSD? Or many other highly creative and innovative systems.

Maybe it's a coincidence but the European hewing towards authoritarianism thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
This is a little more crypto-oriented, but might be along the lines of what you're looking for.

https://gist.github.com/tqbf/be58d2d39690c3b366ad
Wasn't this invented by Disney in the 50s? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle-Vision_360%C2%B0
Apple Acquires Augmented Reality Company Metaio
If you use a good player with a good adaptation algorithm, it will not switch from 720p to 240p ... of course poor players will do that. But a good player implementation will rather switch from 720p @ 3 Mbps to 720p @ 1.5 Mbps if the bandwidth decreases ... so the quality difference is really limited but the video continues to play without a problem. we've a lot of demos where you can try it out yourself at http://www.dash-player.com/demo as well as http://www.bitcodin.com/live-streaming/
Since you mentioned it ...

rsync.net has been around since 2001 and, if you care about openness and interoperability[1], is an even better place for "anything you want to stick around".

Yes, more expensive, but the "HN readers discount" for new customers is currently 8 cents (vs. S3 @ 3 cents). Email us.

[1] http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html
Did Google fire their UI and UX team? Wow. Is this Web 3.0 - the final chukkah for full-on awful craptastic interfaces that finally drive us back to lean text sites?
If that's what you think, having kids is certainly not for you, regardless of what any "guideline" would say.
You can totally support partials. By default, csssnext inline @import directive. Like all css processors.
I used strings to mean both. Byte strings can be sliced and indexed no problems because a byte as such is something you may actually want to deal with.

Slicing or indexing into unicode strings is a problem because it's not clear what unicode strings are strings of. You can look at unicode strings from different perspectives and see a sequence of codepoints or a sequence of characters, both can be reasonable depending on what you want to do. Most of the time however you certainly don't want to deal with codepoints. Python however only gives you a codepoint-level perspective.

Guessing encodings when opening files is a problem precisely because - as you mentioned - the caller should specify the encoding, not just sometimes but always. Guessing an encoding based on the locale or the content of the file should be the exception and something the caller does explicitly.
I can assure you, it's not just you. To me, this is more of an artistic style than a design. A designer needs to communicate usability to the user. You need to know what's a button and what's not. You need to know the borders. And you need to be able to look at the interface without it causing undue strain (this is the part that google got wrong- bright colors are an easy way to make something look fresh but they increase eye strain.)

The impact isn't so bad, though because once you get past this style into an app you're looking at a mostly white screen with color for the buttons and the buttons are well placed in standard places most of the time so you can know they are buttons.
i don't think you have any idea what you're talking about.

lots of special-interest (cars, outdoors, extreme sports, etc.) youtube channels are filmed primarily on gopro rigs (suction-mounted, body-mounted, drone-mounted, etc.) and they make millions of dollars of revenue.

"professional" means a lot of different things. the content production market is massive and very profitable.
"what if we could use google's unique capabilities take back control of helpless people's digital lives?"
Do you use Kotlin with Gradle? I like Kotlin a lot, but it feels very slow on my laptop, do you know if there any special optimizations to make it faster?
This rig isn't the answer. Content creators are already using better rigs to experiment with creating immersive experiences.

Using Cardboard is disarmingly cool the first time you see it, but it's incredibly clunky and not immersive enough. And over time they literally fall apart.

The Samsung Gear VR is a much more likely candidate to drive mass adoption. It's higher quality than both the cardboard and the Oculus. If you already have a Samsung phone it's a small investment to get a great VR experience.
There is little evidence of an unaffordability of everyday expenses (beyond inflation) apart from housing costs. There are three underlying trends driving super-inflation of housing costs are:

a) House prices are correlated to what the maximum monthly mortgage a household is willing to pay in a geographic area. For most of developed world, the average household now has two income earners.

b) The previous generation benefited greatly from the suburbanization of cities. Cheap land was converted into reasonably priced housing (subsidized by highway expansion). We've reached the point where this cheap land is now so far from the city center that the downsides (commute, job opportunities) exceed the cost savings.

c) We are seeing large economic network effects in agglomerating around fewer large metros (ex: NYC, LA, Bay Area, Chicago, Houston, DFW, Atlanta, DC). These metros have not responded with sufficient housing construction or transportation infrastructure despite the continued growth in population.
An alternate hypothesis is that starting in 1971, labor union participation in the US began its decline.

Rather than needing to use leverage, as you suggest, they just directly filtered the increased productivity gains to the top of the company.

Also, I'm not really sure that your graph shows anything except that the financial industry has been growing since the 40s.
Amazon still doesn't have the selection that Costco does for some items. We mostly just buy frozen meats at Costco and then hit the local produce stand for fresh stuff to add for meals.

I would love if Costco got onto the local delivery bandwagon for households.
You aren't paying the full price of same day delivery, when you order something same day, even as a Prime subscriber, they recommend a tip of at least $5.
It means programmatic design. You design relations and interactions between things instead of coloring pixels.
Meet the guy who is currently ranking #1 for “Google” and doesn’t even know
Displaying characters on the screen, and giving the ability to select text, is indeed quite a difficult and complex question in the face of full support of the world's written languages.

Glyphs vary in width. There are combining characters. There are ligatures (and in some languages, ligatures are necessary for the text to be readable, not just stylistic). There is contextual reordering of characters. There's bi-directional text, which can switch direction mid-sentence when quoting some Roman text in Hebrew or vice versa. There's vertical text. There are a number of fonts, font weights, font styles, font sizes, font features like alternative characters, language dependent selection of glyphs, and so on, plus fallback if the user doesn't have the designated fonts or fonts that cover the given Unicode range installed. There's line breaking, which can't always operate on spaces because not all languages include spaces between words. There's justification of text, distributing the spacing between characters to make a block of text even on both sides.

All of this complexity exists regardless of the encoding that you use. Simply picking a fixed width encoding will not do anything about the vast majority of the complexity; and the fixed width encoding will cause problems of its own (size bloat of strings in memory), as well as leading people astray in thinking that maybe they can get away with making some of the same assumptions that apply to ASCII on a fixed-width terminal (and even there, assuming that 1 character equals 1 unit of width fails in the case of tabs), when in fact they can't and most text handling beyond simply appending strings together is best handled by dedicated libraries that have had hundreds of developer-years of effort put into solving all of these problems.
Cool tilt effects (scroll down for better implementation)
You sound like someone who hasn't tried Oculus Rift. In that case I'm happy to inform you that you're wrong.
This test tells you if you're really cut out to be an entrepreneur
Silicon Valley is unaffordable even for software engineers
A fun idea, a great idea to build some sci-fi on, but not really a serious idea supported by the totality of the evidence we have from history, in which humans have been musing about the nature of consciousness for basically all of recorded history.

Unfortunately this brings us to a bit of a circular argument, that recorded history began because consciousness began, and vice versa.
OMG, at this ant the other responses. Because you didn't have to pay it in taxes, you can buy food with the pieces of paper you... didn't pay in taxes!

Ok, I'm out. I think you guys don't care about the poor at all, you reject economics out of hand and are just pursuing an ideology. Good luck with that.
Agreed. In the 80's Reagan fired the striking air traffic controllers. It was the start of society's war against unions.

The US was very strange at the time in that most people viewed themselves as upper middle class. Of course they weren't but the idea let many people look down on union members as an undeserving underclass. That in turn was used by capital owners to create support for legislation outlawing activities by upstart union members against the more deserving mid and upper classes.
Then we can't reimburse on a pre-tax basis. :-( http://www.irs.gov/Affordable-Care-Act/Employer-Health-Care-...

(Plus the premiums are higher.)
The short answer is that we will expect you to move forward and to the right whenever possible. Above all, we don't want you to put yourself into a dangerous position.

If you're at a red light with an emergency vehicle behind you, the best course of action might be to make a (safe!) right on red and then go around the block to get back on your original course.
It wasn't very long ago (before the multicore era) that essentially nothing running on personal computers was truly parallel. Yet multithreaded applications (concurrency) worked just fine.
No, that was one of the reasons for GOMAXPROCS=1 on App Engine, which is a hardened environment.

For your own code, we trust you to fix your races or deal with the consequences.
Only if you live in Denver.
Excellent diversion, thanks for posting. Byron does not come across well in this.
The KS Bacon is hit and miss. I'll get a package that is 75% great and then a package of razor thin bacon slices. We also had a quality issue with their Italian Style Meatballs, one batch had way more filler than usual, the kids wouldn't even eat them, it was like mush.
You should expect this trend to continue. Semiconductors have become a hideously expensive business, aggravated by fewer fabs and more draconian fab/IP acquisition costs. It's a well known that nobody on Sand Hill road will touch semiconductor startups at all, leading to a stagnant collection of semiconductor companies founded 20+ years ago. There was recently announced a semi-only incubator here in SV[1] because nobody can raise any traditional VC money, although time will tell how many successful exits it will have.

[1] http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1326501
The most iconic feature of "material design" to me is the "create" button in the lower right-hand corner. Except if you're in landscape in, say, Gmail, it's in the center bottom since it's a part of the message list.

Can someone explain why a create button is given this privileged and inconsistent position instead of being in a menubar like every other button in every app ever?
Google Cloud Test Lab
"I don't think people intentionally get hurt of course, but rather when they do sustain an injury it becomes economically advantageous to prolong it as much as possible since the job is hard and their pay for working is so low."

I have a friend who is a private investigator. His typical day is following a person like this around, filming from a distance, eventually gathering up enough evidence to prove the fraud. Business is booming apparently.
Been without for about four months. Burden lifted.
IMO, you do many organizations a disserve if you do custom programming for them. They won't know what they want, it'll take longer to build than you expect and they won't be able to maintain it.

Instead, provide consulting on how to use off-the-shelf software or existing commercial services to achieve their business goals. That way, when you part ways, they have a shot at actually being able to continue using whatever you introduced to the org.

If you want to scratch the developer itch, do open source. Filing tickets, improving documentation, or actually contributing patches.
I'm really interested in alternative political or economic organizations... but there's an enormous gulf between those who look at what we have, deeply analyze it, attempt to understand how and why we got where we are, do a 5 Whys-type analysis on the problems, and think about how we might be able to avoid them, even as they are aware that what we have is likely a very strong strange attractor... and those whose approach is basically "Capitalism's, like, evil, man. Let's do whatever that isn't. Consensus, is, like, probably really good. Let's do whatever someone somewhere theorizes might lead to it."

I wish the latter were a strawman, but, alas, at times it's rather accurate. Particularly the part where someone, somewhere comes up with a really nice sounding theory and it makes the leap straight to Accepted Truth, without passing through much or any intervening testing of the theory. You can also see that happening just over and over in the education field, too. Entire massive multi-decade enterprises, if not occasionally multi-century, can be erected in the economics or education fields on things that often turn out to basically have flattered some group of intellectual's fancies, and have little other basis. (Everybody's lists might differ, ahem, but everybody interested in either topic ought to be able to come up with at least a couple they'd describe that way.)

On the direct topic, note that there's really no trick to governing, say, 20 people. Anything works at that scale, especially for a group of self-selected people who came together due to some unifying interest, which is Easy Mode for governance. Your hypothetical governing method isn't even interesting until you're at least bumping up against the Dunbar Number (regardless of whether it is "right" or "true", it's still a decent heuristic), and you're still four or five orders of magnitude away from something that can run a modern society at that point.
I don't know what you mean by "guarantee thread-safety". Whether your program is thread-safe is up to you, not Go.
Yes, I forgot about the magical money tree. You know, social security, "war on poverty" and all that counted on the magical money tree too. And you know what you got? More poverty?

When are you guys going to stop making the same mistake over and over again? There really is no excuse for it.
Task boards now available everywhere
Newspeak's UI paradigm is one of the most interesting things I've seen in years.

The Hopscotch video from 2009 at http://www.newspeaklanguage.org/podcasts-and-talks covers some of it.
I was just thinking about how the idea has been around a long time. Even back in the early 2000s I was working on a project that used a camera on a special tripod that would let you take pictures in 360 degrees and stitch them together with some software in post (quicktime I think?).

But I think the neat thing is using readily-available GoPro cameras and stitching the video together quickly. That takes a lot of processing power to do on the fly.
The decline of labor unions are the symptom. Unionized jobs were exported now that the world was safe for global trade.
Codepoints and characters are not equivalent. A character can consist of one or more codepoints. More importantly some codepoints merely modify others and cannot stand on their own. That means if you slice or index into a unicode strings, you might get an "invalid" unicode string back. That is a unicode string that cannot be encoded or rendered in any meaningful way.
In order to do Stereoscopy properly, you need the axes of the camera barrel to intersect having a set of cameras all radially pointed outward doesn't achieve this.
The performance improvement brought by 1.0 is significant. It's finally time to try Polymer in production environment. Congratulations to the team.
What you're saying sounds a lot like the thesis in this paper: "Conscious Thought Is for Facilitating Social and Cultural Interactions: How Mental Simulations Serve the Animal–Culture Interface" http://users.wfu.edu/masicaej/BaumeisterMasicampo2010PsychRe...
It's not for capturing 3D images.

It's for capturing 3D movies, which can then be stitched together and viewed immersively. There's similar technology used in "Circle 360" theaters in Disneyworld (EPCOT) and other places, but the cost has generally been in the content-production side of things.

Cost is still in the content-production side, but by basing it on commercial off-the-shelf components, they're bringing it closer to the masses.
Don't be so hard on them, they've done a fantastic job. Material design is a purely graphic framework, not a way to decide which feature is going where (which googles still desesperately sucks at).

The guys that created material design should be put in charge much more, because they're obviously the only one that have a true vision for that company. To me, that reflection should have been made on the very first iteration of android. Much like microsoft went with tiles, and ios initialy went with skueumorphics ui.
So many places have great return policies, so it doesn't really matter anymore …. http://www.zappos.com/ is a good example.

Of course it doesn't undermine your point, but it's worth noting that this is not a fundamentally different example to Amazon; Zappos is, at least in a sense, part of the Amazon empire (http://blogs.zappos.com/ceoletter). To be fair, they did have the same great return policies before the acquisition / merger / whatever.

(Another example of a fantastic return policy, in a rather different domain, is REI's (http://www.rei.com/help/return-policy.html). It used to be even better—lifetime, or maybe just 10 years?—but my understanding is that people would take ridiculous advantage of it.)
One of the first computers I used was a TRS-80 Model 4P.... wow that thing was great... I mean.. you could actually carry it around! (potential back problems notwithstanding...)
Polymer 1.0 the future of app development.
Exploiting Memory Corruption Bugs in PHP Part 3: Popping Remote Shells
Looks like it is (was?) targeting roughly the same space as Julia.
Weird.

I have 2,200+ e-mails in my inbox dating back to 2011. They're all read and just archived and I positively give zero shits about them -- except occasionally I do a search to find an e-mail that I got months ago (often package deliveries or itineraries or something like that). If it scrolls off of the page then its largely out of sight and out of mind. I didn't respond to it, so I probably won't.

Maybe the solution is to just stop caring about them as much and be a bit more brutal about your instant triage of if you're going to respond to them, and how much time you need to spend responding to them?
I agree. Edited my comment.
The first GoPro is garbage. I have one, and I have the 3+ one. The first one is noisy, has horrible compression, absolutely horrible at low light, doesn't shoot 4K, doesn't do 60fps at 1080p.
Pavlov.js – Reinforcement learning using Markov Decision Processes
Well, that is interesting. I wonder how much R&D will continue and in particular what happens to Gottfried Ungerboeck (inventor of trellis modulation). This will be interesting to watch.
Jenkins’ Multiple-Configuration, Dynamic repositories and auto push to Bintray
FYI I believe you are thinking of Dr. David Woodley Packard, the son of Dave Packard, who was a professor of Greek and Latin studies among other things. Super interesting guy! He did a lot of studies into classics and language and used much of his families technical background to make strides in it.
Except that somehow, data size for some usecases hasn't really increased. My main disk has the same size it had 2009 (and if SSDs didn't happen and had clear speed advantages, it probably would be the same disk it was back then) and I don't see it becoming to small in the next 5 years. So a SSD bought today could be useful spec-wise for 10 or even more years.
Extensive user testing has shown that the "headache" you're experiencing is actually from a rush of incredible clarity and intuitiveness with this new design! :-P
I find bicameralism interesting. When I was younger and religious I could experience a particularly pious state of mind where the internal monologue became more of a very pronounced internal dialogue. It was as if the primary conscious part of my brain could ask a question and get a linguistic (seeming) response from some other part of the brain.

The internal dialog wasn't smarter or supernatural or anything, but it was interesting. I would like to know if any research has been done to try to induce this state of mind, and then find a location (if one exists) of the internal dialogue using fMRI.
Manipulating Landsat scenes with Schooner
Adventures with Clojure's core.async
Overdrive is amazing. I live in Minneapolis, MN, USA. There are about 4 library systems where I have Overdrive accounts (Minneapolis, St Paul, counties, etc). I can find most books I want. I can also find many in audiobook format, which I listen to on my commute and when walking the dog.

Personally, I would love to see more "philosophical" programming books in audio format such as "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning", or "Dynamics of Software Development".
What's fair?: New theory on income inequality