skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint(s): A lot of the stuff they make is fantastic (and works fantastically) because their analytics help determine what that website ought to display or what you probably meant by that search query.

I get an email from a friend inviting me to a workshop Friday evening. When I open the invite it asks me if I am going. I click "yes" and it adds the event to my calendar. After work on Friday I use Maps to find the quickest way home through rush hour traffic. Since I have typed in my destination and run the mapping app, Google's algorithms can tell when I get home. Later in the evening, my watch buzzes and I see a notification that tells me that I'll need to leave by 7:34pm to make it to the workshop at 8:00pm in the current traffic. I swipe away the notification and get ready to leave. Once I leave, my Nest thermostat switches over to "away" mode since I don't need to run the a/c nearly as cool while I'm away. Thankfully, since it's 94 degrees today, it will use the weather info in my area as well as the indoor thermometer to calculate the most efficient time to start cooling again when I fire up Maps to head back home.

This is a scenario that I run into just about every day. I may not use all of those things every single day but I do on some. Other times it's more basic (calendar reminders or HVAC auto-tweaking for energy efficiency). Either way, none of it works without analysis of the data I choose to feed it during the course of daily life.

And as far as I can tell, they haven't "sold" my data to anyone. What they have done is use it to make educated guesses about where I live and what may be of interest to me. That way when they sell ad space on the Youtube videos I watch later this evening or on the sidebar of a web search, they can sell that ad space to others who will pay more in the knowledge that their ad budget will be more useful than just a guess.

I certainly remember the web before this sort of thing. Ad space was worth even less than it is now since the only way to stand out was to make your banners more annoying and more abundant. It was worse than cable/tv where a quarter (or more) of every hour is filled by advertising. The advertising is almost never relevant to my interests. It's loud and stupid and on top of it, I still have to pay for cable. To complete the analogy, if Google started a cable network, they could charge $15/mo, show only 10 minutes of ads during an hour-long program, and the ads would at least be for things I would conceivably buy much of the time.

There's plenty of down sides to targeted advertising but the selling of access to my eyeballs is not the same thing as selling my data. It may not seem like much but it makes all the difference to me. In one scenario I consent to one company using the info I give them to enable the services I use. In the other, I'm giving consent for a company to sell my actual info to unknown and undisclosed third parties.
This is the first time I see Urbit, looks interesting. Do you have some context about the project? Project homepage (http://urbit.org/) doesn't seem to explain anything and Github page just describes the language.
After plunge in oil prices, hope fades for group of long-beleaguered workers
this is what M$ is good at. it's the heart and soul of the company.
That map indicating truck driver as the most common job, is fraudulent in concept.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-truck-driver-isnt-the-mo...
> Yes, water is common—in fact, it is the third most common molecule in the universe.

What are the first 2 most common molecules? H2 and O2?

In another thread on HN this morning, we learned that Hydrogen, Helium, & Oxygen are the 3 most common elements in the universe. To tangent off a different commenter's remark, the 1st and 3rd most common elements in the universe create the 3rd most common molecule.
I wonder if you need a camera that stabilizes the image or it's not needed or you simply get used to the motion.
I said this because on of my projects at University was doing this same thing but for RC cars, and ooh boy!, we can't drive more than 10 minutes without getting dizzy.
That's just everyone's preferences rather than anything objective then. Perhaps those horseback riders damage the serenity of the mountain bike riders or the hikers by crapping all over the trail. Well, their horses, I mean.

Also, remember that horses are not an indigenous species in recorded history in North America.
Not really the same though is it? A mobile doesn't strap on to your face and add half a kilo of weight to your head.
My favorite part about the TSA is that you can pay about $80, fill out some forms and show a couple of pieces of identification and now you can bypass most of their security. It's just a money making scheme; being able to pay money to bypass most of their security shows their security doesn't do anything useful (otherwise why would you be able to pay to bypass it?).
That's good to know about the contact lens solution. Thanks for the tip!
There's an Old Work Rule: People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses.

It can be extremely difficult during the interview process to determine the true, unvarnished nature of personalities. Next time, be sure to meet with your potential team members and counterparts. Ask probing questions about the bosses management style and company culture.

So move on; quickly now. Cut your loses today if all possible. Chalk up the experience to nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Deepstream is using a TcpPort to allow for connections from other Node-processes (and hopefully, going forward Java, C++ etc..) and engine.io for browser communication. Engine.io initially connects using long-polling http and upgrades to Websocket if available.

A (rudimentary) overview of the message structure can be found here: http://deepstream.io/tutorials/message-structure.html
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There are volunteers and paid developers from other companies (Fastmail, Softmaker) working on or contributing to various parts of Thunderbird.
for some readers is skimming is like just skimming but not understanding the true essence of the article...and for some readers they like to read it a loud than with eye...I believe every human has their speed and capacity to do any task..in this case some people raise their speed of reading after reading certain paragraphs(not skimming) but reading literally.....and then they skim in the middle...if the speeds drops out...they read literally again....flow goes like a pulse....
Not even close. The screens for each eye probably have about 1440 pixels of vertical resolution (I'm guessing they are Samsung OLED screens, similar to the display on the Galaxy S6). Imagine that resolution stretched out to fill your field of view and distorted by the lenses -- the perceptual resolution available for a virtual monitor would probably be less than VGA.

VR environments that can do high-quality typography will require something like 10k pixels vertical resolution. It's going to be more than a decade until we have the screens and GPUs that can push those pixels.

(I have a Samsung Gear VR with the Galaxy Note 4 which is a 2560*1440 screen split for two eyes, so I have a pretty good idea of what Oculus VR looks like on a 1440px screen.)
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Is Out, Jack Dorsey Back In
That statement is like saying "This antivirus works really well on my computer that's not connected to the internet, I haven't gotten a virus yet!"

If there was a threat, the TSA would probably do a pretty crap job at stopping it, every test that's been run against them shows it, not to even mention the myriad of people that accidentally bring a pistol, knife, or whatever through the checkpoint and discover it when they land!
The value here is that the building can be preconstructed, before knocking down the one it's replacing. This way the residents of the current building only have to find a replacement home for 19 days (barring red tape).
Dick Costolo Is Out as Twitter Chief
I was rather disappointed. I wanted someone to point a finger and yell HAAAAXXXXX!!!
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Having a founder and product visionary (Jack) in the driver's seat at Twitter is absolutely the right move. Sure, Jack has his quirks, and seems a little bit crazy and minimalistic, but that's exactly what makes him the right person for the job.

Twitter is executing on its vision now just fine, but that's just the problem: There hasn't been any vision left in the company. No truly big moves have been made, and the product has remained almost entirely the same (with the exception of fonts and colors constantly moving around the screen and a lot more ads).
Are 15 different links about Twitter's CEO change enough for HN?
Have you notified the local newspaper?

Seems a great story.
No probs, and great choice of model by the way, offering the web version for free.

For learning a programming language I actually prefer the web format to the ebook. Now I've figured out how useful this book will be by reading a few chapters, I'll certainly purchase a copy anyway, $12 is more than reasonable for the value this provides!
Another anecdote.

In 2015 my teenager will start High School in a small, rural, school district and each student has a Chromebook. No, I don't know what they will be used for besides googling information, but times are changing.

I emphasized small and rural for a reason.
This is beautiful, thank you for the link!
serious: which states are police states? did you / do you live in one?

i live in China and i do not miss the cops in the US.
I really think a lot of this is driven by $$$, although some part of it probably is, yes, the CEO trying to gain control of Reddit, although judging by Yishan Wong's exit, that hasn't been possible for this site previously. As someone mentioned in another HN comment about the issue (I forget which thread), advertisers are scared of content they can't control, content that is in the hands of users who could go off-message at any moment. That's why small, "indie" sites never make money and why the most popular sites, such as Buzzfeed, as I mentioned, are so bland and universal as to offend as little of their demographic as possible.

As to the first part of your question, I'm hoping some people more qualified in historical analysis than me can jump in :)
I would like to see driver support for punching in the numbers on your eyeglass frames to adjust the focus to the prescription automatically.
This could be like Steve Jobs coming back to Apple, or it could be like Marc Pincus coming back to Zynga. Hopefully the former.
Probably H2 and He.
I know Ev Williams is working on Medium (which I love) but it would be awesome if he would return to Twitter. Back to the original founding team.
More generally: From my (limited) experience 90% of the executives studied law or economics and simply worked for the company long enough to out live all competitors. At one the "Big four" companies I worked for the managing director had a degree in strict sciences, and worked his/her way up by specialising in security in the financial sector.

Three psychological factors before they got to the highest echelons: they were efficient, they knew the business VERY well, and they liked taking risk (many did extreme sport like freediving etc.).
40.0.2214.91 was released months ago http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-upda.... (Irony of no https).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1166031 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138554 say explicitly wontfix for 38.0.5

Maybe you manually fixed it some time ago and don't remember?

Check both https://weakdh.org/ and https://www.ssllabs.com:10445/
Resolution of the final hardware will be 1080x1200 per eye (2160x1200 total) over a 90* field of view.

I'm not quite sure how to translate that into pixel density properly given the resolution is spread between your eyes, but I'd guess at least as good as a 1080p screen that fills a 90* angle of view?

The user experience would be quite different, as you could simply rotate+tilt the viewport to see sections of a larger virtual monitor screen. So it wouldn't necessarily be as restricting as low resolution on a fixed screen.
You're right. But there's something about standing in a high security area with these serious looking people wearing gloves and swabbing things and big x-ray scanners and leading people away in handcuffs and it puts all kinds of ideas in your head. It makes the threat of terrorism seem that much more real and prominent. And my mind says if it's going to happen, it's going to happen right here. Not up there.

I was just debating with my wife last weekend about how people are so terrified of guns when cars are so much more dangerous and random and senseless. But it's human nature to worry about danger when someone is actually threatening you with that danger. I worry more about accidents when someone is driving dangerously in front of me. I worry more about terrorism when someone is screaming at me to take my shoes off so they can check for a bomb.
Twitter stock is up 7% on the news:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWTR%2C+&ql=1
China has a billion too many workers presently.

They have ~500 million farmers, with nothing else to do than pretend to be farmers, held in a form of land slavery because there's nothing else for them to do and nowhere else for them to go (and they're not allowed to own the farming land). So China intentionally retards the progress in farming, keeping their productivity extraordinarily low. If they changed course on farming productivity, China would rapidly find itself with hundreds of millions of unemployed farmers (the US needs 3 million farmers / farm workers to feed 400 to 500 million people; China is using ~500 million farmers to feed 1 billion people). This issue likely terrifies the central government.
Keep in mind Jack Dorsey the interim CEO, so it's only temporary until they find a permanent CEO.
Oculus Touch gives you natural, hand-based VR control
If you have a VR headset, you may as well get a comfy reclining chair too. Or lie down on your bed/couch -- either way, your head can be supported by things that are not your neck muscles.
A readable 80x24 text mode is the bare minimum for programming IMHO. It's probably detailed enough for that, but it's not going rival your laptop/desktop experience any time soon.
Datatables with ReactJS
as inglor said, this depends on strict mode:

> var isboxed = (function() {"use strict"; return function isboxed() {return this instanceof Number;}}());
> isboxed.call(5);
false
The 19 days is to erect the structure, not to make it habitable. Your overall point still makes sense, but it's not like people can move into these buildings as soon as the structure is up.
The comments on the article address this concern, but what actually happened was eating human brains led to the kuru endemic. This left behind the individuals genetically resistant to various forms of brain diseases including kuru, mad cow disease, and dementia.

The title makes it sound as if eating brains led to some health benefit, which is simply not the case.
Ev as CEO would be a better call than Jack, IMO. Ev's passion is still in a related space where as I don't think Jack's heart is as connected to the Twitter product as it is to Square these days.

Really though, I'd take a random bum off the street as CEO before Anthony Noto. So there's that.
> No truly big moves have been made, and the product has remained almost entirely the same

Third-party clients have been and are "accidentally" banned and subject to rate limitations, for example.

The Android app is a UX mess.
One problem is that migrating away from phpBB is hard (especially if it's phpBB 3). Anyways, it's not hip but it's not horrible either.
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I think it's going to be more like Jerry Yang coming back to Yahoo -- not much of a change either way.
After listening to "Hatching Twitter" I don't think the founding team could work together again however, I think one of the founders should run the company.
It's gotta be a weird feeling when getting fired causes your company to gain 1.7B in value.
I make it simple, black on white:
font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
line-height: 1.3em;
font-size: 13px;
IMO this sums up one of the biggest benefits with Go, and unfortunately goes against your own point. There's no need to know about a variety of community built tools, or what's the "best solution" in language X - the std lib gives you what you need. You can stand up a service quickly because it's simple, and there's no "in knowledge" required.
Why Hiring for “Culture Fit” Hurts Your Culture
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You claimed that LibreSSL is a great step forward, but there's no reason to think that it's a "great step".
It's also good to remember that deer, bear, and untold numbers of other species crap all over the trail also. That hasn't ever been an impediment to my backpacking.
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I recently returned my Oculus Rift, not even two weeks after buying it. Dropping Linux support is not okay.
It's quite possibly a waste if they were not refrigerated along the path from manufacturer to storage facility to store. iHerb ships refrigerated for good probiotics. Not sure about specific strains; I use Garden of Life Raw Probiotics, since they seem to have a good mix of different types and the manufacturer really makes an effort to keep them refrigerated.
Our goals for this tool is to make it dead simple to deploy and run. The binary and a json config file is all you need to check a host. When you combine it with consul, we can integrate service discovery with host monitoring and push checks out to the edge nodes instead of relying on something like Nagios.

We're using this tool to monitor cluster configurations and test deployments of https://github.com/CiscoCloud/microservices-infrastructure.
I guess he couldn't invert a binary tree. Idiot.
This is wonderful and impressive.

For others curious how long it took: judging from the first commit on GitHub (https://github.com/nineties/amber/commit/bdb49d27968d6bc4588...), which references a first commit from 2009, it seems at least 6 years.
Yesterday: "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo laughs off 'crazy' calls for his resignation"[0]

[0] (warning: auto-play video on page) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-laughs-off...
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People aren't indigenous to the americas either, having introduced ourselves but a dozen or two thousand years ago.

I don't think one should consider nativity very much when deciding if something is good or not in a given context. More what the impact is, irrespective of nativity.

Never the less, bikes are even less native than horses... At least horses are organic.
I found this on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdM3jT5swRA
As a pretty heavy counterexample, compare public transit funding vs. highway funding pretty much anywhere in the US, or education funding (which screws both urban and rural, to the benefit of suburban). In terms of cities I've lived in/near, Philly, Pittsburgh, SF, Chicago, and Baltimore all get pretty thoroughly screwed by the state governments, which are all districted to minimize urban influence.
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It's not like ESA has commissioned them to start work on a python implementation for microcontrollers from scratch. Micropython already exists and works.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7840566
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Completely agree. I love his philosophy on product. What he has done at Medium shows how he can build a product. It's incredible.
Twitter removes 140 character limits from Direct Messages
But Helium doesn't form into diatomic molecules. The binding energy isn't there.
>You could probably claim contact lens solution as a "medically necessary liquid," which is exempt from the rules anyway.

That's not a loophole that could be exploited. /s

On a side note, could one seek to get water treated as a medically necessary liquid? It is, and the rules say nothing about being limited to only counting medically necessary liquids that cannot otherwise be obtained on the other side of security.
I think Dorsey is too minimalistic. It was the reason why Twitter is losing traffic to IG and Medium (ironic). Vine lost to IG video because you couldn't follow Vine accounts via the Twitter website at the beginning. Take Square for example, it had a huge head start, but no business other than small coffee shops and food trucks can use it. https://medium.com/@hungrycharles/3-things-twitter-can-do-to...
Q. Where does the name Hodinkee come from?

A. I Googled “wristwatch” in about 25 different languages and picked the goofiest. Hodinkee is derived from a Czech word, “hodinky,” which means wristwatch. It’s a silly name, but it works because we’re talking about incredibly expensive things that could be perceived as highly pretentious. It really cuts us down to size and says, “It’s just watches.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/fashion/hodinkee-watch-che...
> Yet, here we are, over 30 years after the original IBM PC was released, and there's still a corner-office audience for "what is a computer?"

As someone who got their start on DOS and BASIC back in the 80s, I say you raise a pretty good point. There are so few languages depicted in this web brochure that it does not illuminate anything.

So many people stopped learning in the 80s that the 50s are starting to catch up with them again.

This is the stuff that cardboard box forts are made of.
Amazon's European Woes Continue with New EU Investigation
Probably - if you are like me and have terrible eyes and program in emacs at 18+ pt and 80 chars across.

The vrdesktop demo is impressive and gives you an idea of what is likely possible. I think if you want it enough you will put up with it
Jack is a wild card. They'll give him a shot and see how it goes.

If it goes well they can pull an Apple and say, "The founder is finally coming back!" If not they can quietly find a replacement and say, "Now Jack is going back to Square, just like they said he always would."

It's PR insurance, basically, which Twitter desperately needs considering they go through CEOs faster than I go through freelancers.
> You split schools into elementary-middle-high (for no especial reason) then treat it all as 'grade school'.

As someone who went to school in the US, no, you're wrong.
> Each floor would have to be inspected and certified as safe and I don't believe that could be done in under a year.

"Nobody" spends that long on modern highrises - the processes are generally well understood and most of the structures are "cookie cutter" designs with solid margins. The ones going up in London now typically takes 1-3 days per floor for the structure.
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Tipping Point in Transit
> Can't it be easily added, considering an or pattern is trivially expanded to two (or more) patterns?

At least limited support has been done as a library providing a quasiquoter [0], and there is an open ticket for it as a ghc feature. [1]

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/OrPatterns-0.1/docs/OrPa...

[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3919
This is a correlational, not causative study. It's possible there's some third factor that cause both an increase in eating fermented foods and a decrease in social anxiety. Amount of free time, for example, or belief in healthy eating, or vegetarianism, or income. They do try to control for confounding variables (fruit & vegetable consumption) but there's no way to control for everything.

Let's wait until someone conducts a double blind study before drawing too many conclusions from this.