skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I broadly agree that trying to completely mimic native apps with the web is unlikely to yield great results, and the author points out some of the obvious strengths of web applications (in an update he mentions URLs, which he missed initially. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i28UEoLXVFQ).

I think he underestimates the web, though. In particular, there is one aspect that he fails to mention and that I view as one of the best aspects of web development: the stateless request-response-replace-UI model of remote application development. This model is incredibly simple for developers to understand and work with, and eliminates a whole slew of complex problems found in traditional client-server development.

(I would note that these problems are being reintroduced with client-side web technologies like Angular and de-reintroduced by technologies like intercooler.js.)
This makes me doubly sad to think that IPv6 backed away from requiring IPsec at all times. Very Sad.
2 weeks off can go an awfully long way to both seeing the problem more clearly, and correcting it. I've gotten to the point, several times, where I was ready to quit my job and tour the world with a backpack rather than go in for one more day. In each case, I opted for a short leave of absence instead, telling myself that I could quit for real if I needed to after that. In each case, 3-4 weeks vacation was more than enough to satisfy me.
I really recommend Kodi (previously XBMC). It's open source, the ecosystem is vibrant, and pretty much everything plugs into it. http://kodi.tv/
Garbage collection is much faster on 32 bit JVM than a corresponding 64 bit JVM. Therefore I prefer to my small web applications or component that don't need a ton of heapspace on 32 bit JVM.
The Proof of Wagner's Conjecture and Why It Matters
32-bit is with respect to addressable memory. All JVMs still have 64 bit longs and doubles, etc.
I was at a command brief once where one of the officers was presenting a 300+ slide powerpoint show. Fortunately his boss was having none of it, and spared us most of the lecture.
> But don't we have a window of minutes to shut down the system in case of an earthquake?

No.

> I thought we could get advance warning from P waves. (This doesn't work if you're in the epicenter, unfortunately.)

Yes, but the advance warning is on the order of seconds, not minutes (per Wikipedia, for deep, distant, large earthquakes, 60-90 seconds is possible, but that's still at most a minute and a half.)
Sivers' advice on valuing ideas:

https://sivers.org/multiply
Compute remotely
The smartass in me would be tempted to get around this hypothetical ban by using LibreOffice Impress.

More seriously, you could make the exact same arguments for banning Photoshop. The more widely adopted software is, the higher the numbers of people who use it improperly. Not much of a solution here beyond deliberately crippling functionality.
What they can do on iPhones is quite limited there, yes. Although there are probably some things they could do. With iTunes installed, iPhones show up as cameras on Windows, and there may be some way to integrate with iTunes.

In Android's case, apps can do virtually anything. They could make a sync app if they wanted to.
But Media Centre has the ability to record DRM-ed cable. XBMC will never have that.
I would not call it gradually rising. Pods would be moving at huge speeds and then hit viscuos fluid (compared with vacuum)
It would be like hitting a wall. Pod should be constructed like supersonic jet to avoid crash.
I recently installed Win 10 on bare metal to have a go with the Win 10 IoT version for the Raspberry Pi 2. Works well on an old MacBook Pro with a bit of disk swapping even if bootcamp says it won't.

Seems OK but it definitely wasn't intuitive (and I'm already running Win 8). The only thing I can think of is they are making it an easier learning curve from Win 7 than from Win 8. It's a step backwards in some respects but I guess that's the idea.

I'll probably upgrade once the first round of patches are out for the stable version. More than I can say for the Raspberry Pi version which I won't be touching again unless it gets a lot better. Sticking with Linux on that for now. At least the mouse is usable.
Out of curiosity, what time interval do you think of when you hear the term "the 1900s"?
Yes, and Google Books was hampered by backlash from authors. That's why I noted both projects had a history of ups and downs. However, both are still going.

The point is that, if we're talking about Google's history, they have shown an interest in preserving data. And in regards to the Internet Archive, they'd only be serving as a backup storage provider, not in a frontend role.

This is not to say that Google (or Amazon or Microsoft) should be the only backup provider for the Internet Archive, for example, but it would hardly be a bad thing, as tracker1 suggested, if they cared to donate the resources.
How do I find a mentor?
Beyond views you need a way to layout them. Would you not be simply reinventing the DOM?
Anything you do that distracts from the speaking is probably not a good idea. Don't pass around papers, treats, demos, and don't clutter your slides with too much reading. Keep your audience focused on what you are saying.
Media Center does exist in W8, but it's basically completely untouched. And now I think MS would really rather you get an Xbox One if you want to interface with cable etc - big shame.
With respect to pure speed, at some point it would be cheaper/faster to show up at the facility with a trunk load of drives and plug right in. Superficially, this is a game for the locals, not someone like me. Then again, looking at how little it costs to ship me a couple terrabytes of drives, maybe this isn't as crazy as it sounds.

I can get a cheap empty prosumer NAS box for a couple hundred bucks and a couple TB of drives for a couple hundred more. If I gave someone (presumably the internet archive) a kilobuck and told them to keep the change (which would be a small but nice revenue stream for them), they could assemble a couple TB nas and ship it to me and I could plug it in and give it a public ipv6 address and aside from the kilobuck it would cost me a couple hundred bucks a year in electricity and presumably bandwidth, but at least it wouldn't have any labor cost. This might be going a bit far for individual citizens but you could probably guilt trip corporations into hosting your custom made NAS boxes for you. Just an idea to think about.

Another intriguing financial model might be to partner with public libraries and schools and double charge private companies in order to give public libraries and schools free backup NAS.

The world of non-profits opens up strange new ideas.
I meant for your coworkers. :) For you the choice was obvious.
Thanks, that is the one I thought of when I saw the headline. Great video. Though now that I watch these with my kids, my favorite episode is the one where he goes to a restaurant and they make him a cheese sandwich. It's just so darn normal.
Also contains an important lesson about how statistics mislead: 6% doesn't imply an even distribution within the sample!
I am very convinced that a full proportional representation would be very much better than the status quo. Can we have a referendum again? When would be an optimal time?
Nailed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4074053

(especially the parenthetical)
Yeah because CA is going to depopulate because of the drought. Come on be realistic.
Ask HN: Does parallax effect have any practical value?
I am a web developer and I have never had to implement parallax effect. But looking through many pages that use it I can't keep but wonder what it adds to the page. Is it just flashy a novelty or it contributes to usability in some way that's not immediately obvious to me?
For what such a remix would probably sound like, check out Ruckus Roboticus (particularly his "Never Play with Scratches" album). Lots of mixing on mid-century children's records (among other things).
The article makes it sound like a flea could come in there and kill everyone.
I was laid off in 2006 as a Sr. Software Engineer writing systems software in C++ and Java. Thankfully my employer provided 3 months of severance. Through local connections I was able to land a new job immediately at the same title/level (albeit at a slightly less salary but higher total compensation). Thus I started my new job the Monday immediately following my last Friday of work (e.g. with no gap). So I banked the 3 months severance.

In retrospect, I wish I had taken advantage of the break between jobs to spend more time with my kids.
On a somewhat unrelated note, this

http://alturl.com/qr2n3

and this
http://alturl.com/coph3

are "decision ready" maps of the towns (Reston, Virginia and Linkoping, Sweden) where the company is located. Both might be useful to "special forces" for "decision support" and, who knows, "air operations".
That explained nothing whatsoever.

I'll even quote:

"At some moment, the radius of the star drops below the Schwarzschild radius - that's where the yellow and orange lines intersect. At this moment, the star is pretty much doomed. Right now I am not sure whether one can generally prove that the event horizon becomes inevitable at this point but I am sure that it is going to be there in a moment according to the picture above which is surely realistic."

He simply skips right past the impossible point: "the radius of the star drops below the Schwarzschild radius". It will take that Sun an infinite amount of time to do that. Any conclusions you draw after that point are unscientific.

He draws all sort of conclusions from the diagram, without ever showing that his diagram is actually true.

There was some talk of how to be a stationary observer near the black hole you must keep accelerating, but a: I fail to see how that explains the infinite time, and b: who said I have to be near the black hole to look at it?
Instead of banning specific tools, try promoting officers and enlisted personnel who do a good job, including public speaking and presenting ideas.
>I just installed the latest Windows 10 build in a VM, and I'm remarkably impressed

wat.

> Cortana is working much better than expected,

wat.

>and I'm loving the new start menu.

waaaaaaat.

> been on OS X for many years

oh. now it makes sense.
That is true. A terminals-only Hyperloop would definitely capture more of the market share than a terminals-only HSR.

I'm assuming you already acknowledge this, but successful marketing involves positioning to avoid competition and attempt monopoly on the market segment (It seems Thiel is the latest to rebrand this concept). Low-cost stops at minor intermediate cities is a competitive advantage that no airline would ever be able to compete with, as the costs of takeoff and landing are huge relative to the cost of the trip.

Major city termini > 300mi apart, however, is a huge competitive advantage for airlines. No matter how fast you get, you are always going to give up some market share to airlines on more marginal considerations like schedule flexibility, seat size/comfort, baggage limitations, etc. That is a huge and potentially very expensive rabbit hole for competition that a city-to-small-town transportation system can mostly ignore.
Kinda think Mrs. Nelson in underdressed for the occasion....

With that said, I've always found that the greatest musical works are created under great constraints. Eddie Van Halen did amazing things with his electronics to get extra performance out of them that just didn't exist back then- everyone just sounded like eric clapton or jimmie page.

When I first began recording in the mid 90's I had to rig up two computers to do a digital 8 track recording because I couldn't afford a real one. Refining my process within those constraints I believe made a much better result than if I had something like Garage Band. It required a ton of creative engineering and that excitement that was reflected in the music.

The guy in this video is doing some really amazing stuff with such simple electronics.
That's because apple's apps come pre-installed on your iPhone.
Accusations of shilling without evidence are typically boring. This post is not an exception.
The biggest problem with this headline is that it suggests that the hyperloop is "getting" a test track. When the actual situation appears to be that the hyperloop is getting a plan for a test track that is heavily contingent on highly speculative funding.

If it actually had a test track, then most of the discussion in these comments could be obviated.
Oh, neat - I wrote the top answer there (over two years ago apparently!)

I stand by the modelling, although it's embarrassing to read my two year old code.
I understand the purpose, but what I don't understand yet is why would you ask retail investors to fund it at this level of risk? Remember, these guys aren't associated with Musk in any way [1], they are just taking the ball and running with it. So huge risk, probably going to flame out, very small chance they become the folks with the 'expertise' in building Hyperloop type systems and thus the primary engineering contractor for building them.

Since they aren't one of the big engineering infrastructure companies (Halliburton, Bechtel, Etc.) its unclear what they can do if they run into hiccups (like say nobody can fabricate the parts they need).

So do a $100M series A? Sure I could see that, a collection of billionaires wishing to bet on them making something that can work, but we should have trained people in the 90's to not buy stock in companies that have no hope of revenue in the forseeable future. (and say what you will of the recent Tech IPO's they have all had revenue)

[1] "Now, the company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. (which is not affiliated with Musk or Tesla) has inked a deal with landowners in central California to build the world's first Hyperloop test track"
Traveling the world made me a better entrepreneur
The title is misleading. He doesn't reveal any secret plans here, he simply "reveals" that he plans to turn it into a real business. Not exactly newsworthy.

tl;dr: Evan Spiegel stole an idea for disappearing photos from a frat brother and hit the viral lottery with it. He now hopes to monetize without alienating his large and fickle userbase, but advertisers are thus far unimpressed with the results.
The no-install, and especially the sandboxed environment, is an argument that hasn't been discussed much here yet but which i think is a big factor to take into account. Sure, device and browser compatibility is nice but really, being able to open a news site without having to share my contact list, my location and my photo album is what makes the web a no-brainer.

If native installs could cater more for this scenario it could win some more ground, especially on windows, there you have no control at all over what goes into your machine. Android Play store and and Apples App store would also need to improve on this. They pretends to have support for it but the permission categories are all to vague, they are either all or nothing, and they have been abused to the point where nothing can be trusted any more.
However much you might try to simplify this whole discussion for your weak attempts at clever retorts (that are never actually clever, though you seem to be convinced that they are), the root discussion was about those who preach success versus achieved actual success.

There is often (if not usually) a disconnect. It's a pretty important subject. The best part was when you comically claimed that I should be quiet about not charging $40K/week because somehow this made me a failure, which is so....utterly juvenile. I find it hard to believe that someone hasn't taken over your account.

You're a troll.

You are one the worst trolls on HN, and have been for years. You seldom address comments, instead resorting to comical misreads or misrepresentations (and if it doesn't get the immediate reaction from your adoring fanclub who've bought your weak gimmick, you edit until you do), in a way that almost always somehow ends up serving your own use of HN as a sales vehicle. 95% of your contributions have been snarky, completely disposable garbage replies.
Alternatively, also check out Plex (http://plex.tv). IIRC it's a fork of XBMC, but in my opinion is more polished and the non-free price is fair for that polish. If you're just using it on one PC you should be able to do that for free.
When would it make sense to go 40%-40%-20%?

Maybe in some corner case where it isn't a waste of energy? That's why it is worth at least considering Joel Spolsky's advice:

https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078

By the way, 40-40-20 is no better from a control perspective than even thirds. Two can sell the other out. And control is a bigger issue than percentages in the sort of pissing contests that matter. Even worse, the person with 20% has more to gain by cutting one of the 40%'s out...as do each of the 40%'s.
Astrophysicists do not see an event horizon. All they see is massive gravity.
> For example, a person who is 30 years old has entered their 30's.

This is a different linguistic construct. We have decades like the 1990's, which are like the 30's.

Linguistically, we have:

1800's = 1800-1899

19th century = 1801-1900 (since AD started in 1, so the first 100 years, or century were 1-100)

One of those forms is linguistically similar to your 30's, the other is not.
I get nostalgic for my HP-41CV RPN programmable calculator. It had a printer as a peripheral! And a magnetic card reader, and an optical wand. It's a totemic device for me.

But I don't think there is a market for either my old calculator, or candy bar phones, outside of nostalgic ebay purchases.
Meh. If I give you $100 for a 1*10^-6% stake in your company with a guarantee that you will pay me back at least $100 before honoring any other debts or issue, are you really a ten billion dollar startup?
http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23meerkat&q2=%23periscope&via...

Meerkat is treading water, and due to the higher burn rate of 1-to-many video, even with $11M funding it will die out quickly.

Periscope is doing better but not enough to justify a $100M acquisition.

The spike is due to the piracy of the Mayweather boxing fight: if piracy becomes the sole use case and gets even more attention from content providers, both die immediately from the resulting lawsuits.
oh, that 600 million dollar per mile tunnel?

not a great use of transportation dollars, think of how many EV buses they could buy, which on the whole buses tend to go where people want and do it more often than light rail which not only costs a fortune to build but maintain as well
One of the slides in the WP story credits Edward Tufte, who has written and published an essay on the subject, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within" [1]. This, along with his seminal text "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" [2] are great reads, and I think should be required reading for anyone who has to present anything, technical or otherwise.

[1] http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp

[2] http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
dont' blame the tool. If a website is ugly, should we ban the internet?
I think it was originally a fork of XBMC, but they rewrote from scratch with their new "Plex Home Theater" application.
Reminds me of the guy who answered some question about Python how to put two strings together, and then 3 years later commented 'Oh look here I am asking the same question I answered' lol
I believe this is a test case, as it's not entirely clear if manipulating libor was against UK laws, as they were at the time.
> You don't have to keep up with everything, perhaps just general trends. Just watch out for that gentle slide into irrelevancy. ;)

I would argue that wasting time learning the JS "framework of the day" is not the best approach to stay relevant.
Learn the logic and math behind programming and you can watch the industry slowly catch up...
I haven't tried YouTube on IOS but the native YouTube app for android is better than watching YouTube videos in mobile Chrome for me.

Evidence: ^
My primary devices are an Ubuntu laptop + an Android phone. Both are very flexible for my needs. I'm scratching my head to figure out why should I be excited about all that integration, perhaps I'm not their customer. Don't get me wrong, I love & own Windows laptop too, but my Android phone does almost everything that Cortana is supposed to do, Dropbox gets me the files I need, I've moved away from MS Office...

It's just that the stuff mentioned in the blog isn't as magical as they are trying to project.
not very exciting, but I was relatively new to the company (9 months or so, surrounded by a bunch of veteran employees of 10+ years on average). i had been kicking ass, delivering real value, getting recognition/awards/etc, but spending way more than 40hrs/week and it was costing family time/marital strife (holidays were rough at this employer).
Then, as usual, company hires some gunslinger C-levels, and began outsourcing the entire department, and immediately labelled me "redundant".
For me, it seemed like a pretty good deal: i was going to get severance and a planned exit several months out, for which i could just pick up another job. mean time, i would just be providing a bit of knowledge transfer.
however, my immediate boss found the whole scenario absurd and reached out to a different department to see if he had any openings. long story short, i ended up getting a better offer from the other department (something like 10-15% bump), and a start date a couple weeks out.
Once the previous department head got notified, they tried to put the brakes on it (company wanted the ability to "change their mind" if transition wasnt hitting milestones). By then, it was too late.

it was definitely a learning experience.. a few life lessons i took away:

* networking, even inside your employer is critical to success
* make sure you are always getting paid your market value
* never personally sacrifice your career, health, or happiness for free (i would even go so far to say for anything)
* employers owe you nothing but your wages
* dont buy into the "we are family" mantra, culture and leadership can change and leave you unemployed and out of date
* you owe them nothing more than an honest days work.
* having a good manager is way more important than whether the company sucks or not.. but remember managers can leave too
Re/code Daily – Apple’s Jony Ive Got a New Job
He's asking about their Ergo Pro keyboard. http://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/*

Oh! I see. In that case I hope the quality is higher than the Tactile Pro 2.
The design only calls for one station at each end. Many people have said that the best way to deal with thermal expansion is to let the ends (at the 2 stations) move ~500 feet at each end. The alternative is expansion joint every so often along the tube.
does snapchat support live video streaming?
Expert Advice for Men: Don’t Mention Bitcoin on the First Date
You know what's even more boring? Someone replying with "This is boring." without contributing anything.
Thanks, I really appreciate your frank thoughts and sharing the perspective of a potential co-founder before I actually insult anyone.

My initial thoughts were to have an equal split amongst 3 people. I was warned that 3 co-founders would be too many and would not leave much on the table but I don't fully agree with that notion. I was willing to bet that anyone would want an equal share in return for what they bring to the table.

Just for clarification, when we raise at 20%, then all 3 of us would share the 80%? And how much do companies usually leave aside for employees?
Matter gets added to the hole even though an outsider never sees it fall in. This should lead to the increase of the schwarzchild radius . It has been proved by Penrose that once the mass falls inside its horizon, the singularity is inevitably formed in its center: http://www.quantum-gravitation.de/media/2d2cde3ec9c38fffffff...