skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The split graph showing async vs. sync time seems like it would be useful, but I'm having difficulty thinking of an actual use case..

If the function is largely async, it won't show up as a CPU spike so you won't even know to look at it, but if it shows up as a CPU spike then it's not likely to have a very large async component...
Can I ask your opinion on the American Revolution or Lincoln's actions in MN?
> You call it Alexa, not Echo.

You can configure what you call it. It doesn't have to be Alexa.

> The iOS app is absolutely horrendous.

The iOS isn't awesome but it's not horrible. I guess you haven't tried the home automation iOS apps like WeMo yet?
Voice interaction works great in situations where you either don't want to, shouldn't, or can't interact via touch. These situations also tend to be the ones where you don't want the distraction of any computer device (eg: driving, sports, etc.).
> Then we'll let HN vote on the projects

You mean vote on the top-level comment submissions? That's not a good idea because comment ranking is influenced heavily by time of submission (more recent comments appear at top, so it would be smarter for startups to submit later and also it means order will not correspond to upvotes), and, more importantly, comment scores are not visible.
All power is energy, except for matter which needs to be converted into energy.
When equity is being traded for a reasonable salary, you lose your lottery ticket. It may not be as big of a carrot, but it's a carrot nonetheless.
I've had one for about six months and the only thing I use it for is as a Bluetooth speaker and as a five minute coffee timer. In fact, when I have friends over I ask them to try to get it to do anything because it's always hilariously bad.

Part of the problem is that it just doesn't do much. It can't seem to answer 9 out of 10 questions I ask it. It's very unstable and I get a flashing ring on top indicating that it needs a forceful reboot about twice a week. It doesn't seem to connect to anything in the outside world other than wikipedia. They did recently add calendar support but it can't read both my home and work calendar at the same time so it's not especially useful. It can't talk to my email, it can't send me emails, it can't look up movie times, it can't look up traffic, it can't price flights, it can't tell me when a book will be released. It has a built-in shopping list and todo list but they are only accessible from its (awful!) iOS app and don't do anything else. It can tell me the population of Florence, Italy. I learned from this thread today that it can do unit conversions. It can reply to some movie memes like "show me the money".

Part of the problem is discoverability. I don't know what it can do and in true hilariously bad form "what kind of cool stuff can you do?" just makes it reply "I don't understand the question"

So maybe you can answer here: what does it do? What cool things am I not doing with it that I should be doing? What am I missing out on? Is "show me the money" the best I can hope for?
worst website background ever...
The Science Behind the Data: Keywords and Search Terms
> Now a days people get their gallon of antibiotics and growth hormones

A century ago there was notably less antibiotics and growth hormones...
How Shake Shack Leads the Better Burger Revolution
The only other current option is "Amazon".
You can change it, but the only other option is to have it respond to "Amazon."
Try babel
Show HN: Upsearch – finds files in nearest parent folder, useful in aliases
> Also, why bring up batteries? You don't need batteries to produce solar. If you have extra power, most people are feeding it into the grid, not batteries.

Because feeding back to the grid is only a sustainable solution when a minimal number of entities are doing it. What happens when the majority of entities are feeding back to the grid? Where is all that energy supposed to go? The answer, of course, is storage.

And this isn't just some made up problem either; it happens right now with a different solution. There's a huge slack in power demand at night. Sometimes enough that the power providers will offer deep discounts to bulk buyers to get rid of excess supply. So you see some industries that use massive amounts of power, like aluminum refineries, shift to mostly night operations. But shifting demand around will only help so much.

Now, while distributed generation is fine, I don't think distributed storage is going to work. Storage cost (both economic and ecologic) and efficiencies are simply much better scaled up.
Doesn't that presume that the base image upon which those in-house images are based is also trusted? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be chicken little, but I don't think saying "we only publish our own images so we're ok" skips the authenticity problem.

Running your own registry is probably the case you had in mind.
Code of the Rings – 24-hour Online Hackathon (Code Optimization)
You can call it either Alexa or Amazon.
Really? You could not use actual paper file and filing cabinet as physical world analogues of computer files and directories? Pretty much everyone understands those metaphors, so why don't your parents?
All this just makes me sick and angry. I wonder if congress will ever represent the people.
It would probably get confused, or whatever watch can communicate with the phone first would be paired and the other would just time out.

Nothing in that video looks like the camera is facing the watch long enough to capture any important data. It might be watching for the <BACK and (I) icons on the screen just to hold off showing the sync video until the watch is in-hand.
Stalin’s minions: an experiment in virality
Nuclear quite obviously isn't 'quite safe' and I say that as a general supporter. Chernobyl and Fukushima show it's not entirely safe. There's a risk with nuclear, even in the safest reactor.

Who knows what might happen in the future to force a country to run a reactor dangerously, budget cuts, government changes, national unrest, wars, sabotage.

There's always going to be a % risk of something horrible happening. And of course, there's the waste.
> My point is that mobile does not change everything, and in particular does not replace PCs.

The point is, for a vast majority of users, it does replace PC's for them. They were never writing software or doing photoshop. They were surfing the web, buying stuff, and playing solitaire. Those people can do that, and so much more, on their mobile phones.

> Still, personally I have no use for mobile devices at all.

You are in the minority and you should just accept that.
He isn't prevented from working at a startup. Startups can sponsor people. But startups need devs not lawyers.
It's funny to click on the linked Tweet and see the person they're quoting say:

"Or the part where my dumb tweet became a scandal on BI?"
"The latter" here refers to the upper bound. By "unnatural" he means negative, as he is discussing the natural numbers (positive integers and zero). By convention these are the numbers used to index arrays. (So, for your examples: for the set 1<=x<12, the sequence is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11; for the set 1<x<12, the sequence is 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.)

As for what he's saying: suppose you decide your array indexing starts at the lowest natural number, i.e., 0. And imagine an array with 1 element. And assume you've adopted the notation a<=i<=b. This array's indexes are then 0<=i<=0.

But what if you have an array of 0 elements? What then? You can't say 0<=i<=-1, because -1 is not natural and therefore not a valid array index.

But if you adopt the convention that a<=i<b, then your 1-element array's indexes would be 0<=i<1, and your empty array would be 0<=i<0. (Or, indeed, 1<=i<1, or n<=i<n for any n you choose - the first section deals with how to denote the range, so the choice of n isn't the key thing.)
What about countries which subsidize higher education? Pretty much all of EU subsidizes every student,so if the taxpayer paid for someone's education, why would they not want them to stay and work and pay taxes in that country?
I have this problem with the PS4s wake word being Playstation quite frequently.
It did not even occur to me to be so overly concerned about an extra "uh". Surely you're kidding?
> what is a bug, and what is a feature)

Well, for starters I wouldn't have a commit message stating that I just added a bug, though I might have one stating that I added a feature. :P
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant -- particularly as regards Iraq -- is "comprised of men, many of whom died defending their homeland from what they perceived to be the aggression of an imperialistic outside force determined to impose an alien set of values on their society, obliterating their capacity for self-determination." [0]

Its just as true of ISIL as it was of the Confederacy. (Now, to be fair, I don't see it as a redeeming feature of either entity, but clearly that's not a universally-shared perception in the case of at least the Confederacy.)

[0] as the Confederacy was described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764589
Check out Medable: API for HIPAA compliant apps
I wanted to reach out and let the community know about my company, Medable (www.medable.com), the API for HIPAA compliant health app development. We are offering free development and free deployment of apps using up to 5GB of data for Hackers. We have been mentioned in Hacker News before and numerous startups are using the platform. Using Medable, a single developer can build a full-stack HIPAA compliant health app in weeks. Check us out.
This help ? http://docs.strongloop.com/display/SLC/Tracing
Regexes: The Bad, the Better, and the Best
I actually predicted your response to my name suggestion in regards to needing the name. :) To be clear, I don't think you should not collect it, just change how you do it. The new proposed approach sounds promising and it's good to see you move fast!
See examples of machine learning live in action
In theory, yeah.

Power supply failures happen a lot, also spinning magnetic disks fail a lot. So do moving parts like fans. So if you simplify a machine that much it probably gets more durable. There is also the surface area vs. volume scaling that means small lightweight things survive getting dropped on the floor (it's why a spider is so proportionally stronger than a person)

Also you could probably figure out (and afford) some backup solution that copies the whole stick, whereas there has never been a truly practical system for backing up a conventional PC.
The most damning argument against using solar or other intermittent renewables as the main form of electricity generation is there aren't high eroei storage techniques. http://festkoerper-kernphysik.de/Weissbach_EROI_preprint.pdf
Tried DSC (even with the quad blades) for several months, had terrible shaves and switched to a Fusion and never looked back. I wanted to like them since they're cheap and the marketing was cool, but the product just didn't live up to expectations.
"my girlfriend"

Could you or someone else chime in with an explanation of how this works? Specifically I see all the promotional material or astroturfing or whatever about how awesome it is for families, and I also see how it links to numerous single individual person services (google calendar, various music services, audible, etc) but I can't figure out how (or if) it handles the 1:n mapping. If I ask it whats on my calendar I really don't want to hear by son's assignment notebook from school, or even something as simple as asking about traffic, my wife and I do not work in the same location, if my wife and I and my son have three separate audible accounts...

As a side issue I have no idea why its so expensive. The hardware looks like my old roku plus a speaker but the cost is that times more than three? I mean on the assumption it would wedge me into the amazon ecosystem, as a bazillion year customer and a prime subscriber, I'd expect it to be free. "Here its free and works with audible now go buy even MORE audible books"
>WARNING! Acme constructs each Klein Bottle from genuine Baryonic matter. Do not allow your Acme Klein Bottle to come in contact with antimatter or unpredictable results may occur. Acme cannot guarantee the dimensionality of the result.

Reading any page is a joy.
Which country recognizes a universal right to naturalize as a citizen of that country?
I'd argue that making solar and storage cheaper is not engineering.

You could, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense as an argument.
Billion Miles
My favorite is the 'empty promise' from ES6:

new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
...
resolve();
});
Running on the High Road
Two major updates to Instagram
How to Jailbreak iOS 8.3
Also http://www.solarham.net :)
Virtual Reality – Inception Inspiration
That doesn't really sound like tracking, though.
By similar logic, it is obvious that the US benefits extremely well from allowing political asylum.

Levchin's family got political asylum in the US. Levchin was about 16 yers old at the time. Unless you include political/religious oppression as one of the qualifying attributes, his immigration to the US wasn't due to 'allowing well qualified individuals [to] immigrate'.

Sergey Brin's family also decided to move to the US because of political/religious oppression. His father had a PhD in math and a job at GOSPLAN, then a temporary research position at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques. Did that make him well qualified?
Until quite recently, many different countries had different popular social networks, including Vkontakte (Russia), Orkut (Brazil), Hi5 (Peru) and so on.
http://readwrite.com/2009/06/07/post_2

Adoption is driven by network effects, so it depends who got traction first. However, the global trend is obviously towards Facebook. It has the biggest network and ultimately the strongest network effect.
Hacking Reddit to Find Killer Content Marketing Ideas
I think that is too limited a measure of control - if you can use the iPad to do a budget, but not MS Excel, then with the iPad you can get an extraordinary amount of control over your own life.

Depending on what kinds of books his parents read those might result in more control too. Even if we account for a loss of control from the computer to the iPad (and I am not entirely convinced that a practical loss happens, given that they can barely use the computer) it isn't possible that the total amount of control, for his parents, go back up.
it's okay, just give it a shot. What's the worst that can happen? (hint: We'll get smart advices from Kevin and Sam anyway)
Quick question about the API: why separate the Split phase and the Encode phase ?

In other words, are there any scenarios where one would want to Split data but not Encode it, or where data is automatically split and all that is left to do is to Encode ?
While I agree with this in theory, I'm going to point you to this fascinating piece on some of the ongoing problems that the French tradition of republican laicity is facing from Muslim immigrants, as a general illustration of the conflicts involved:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/mar/05/france-...

In summary: the very culture of tolerance and openness towards others itself is sometimes threatened by those it wishes to welcome, and that's a hard problem to solve.
They're 5 years late. 2009/2010, the trend was ex-Googlers leaving for startups. When I left in 2014, the trend was ex-Googlers leaving for public-sector service or academia, which we'll probably hear about in another year or two, and who knows where it is now?
Intensities, EROIs, and payback times of electricity generating power plants [pdf]
37 inbound experts share on how to get your content upvoted
The different names seemed odd to me at first but it's not that big of a deal. I presume Amazon thought about this.

An slways-on, self contained voice controlled speaker is an entirely different experience than Siri.
I recently defended a Client for a misdemeanor charge for violating his DUI hardship Drivers License restrictions (allowed driving for work, school, groceries, ect...). It was sad really, Client was a flight attendant, in uniform, arrested right outside the airport catching an international flight (had docs in hand). At the sounding I announced ready for trial and waived jury trial. The Judge berated the poor prosecutor like a child, "you do know you have to prove the charge right? I have never seen such a waste of tax payer dollars." She was right, but I couldn't believe the Judge said that or the prosecutor didn't move to have her recused, I even stuck up for the prosecutor, saying he was smart and fair with me but his hands were tied by his supervisors, and ultimately on trial day the prosecutor got supervisor approval to dismiss. But imagine what a waste of time/money if the trial went forward, especially if I elected trial by jury.
Obama himself has said he has no more campaigns to run:

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-i-know-cause-i-won-both...

So at this point, he's beholden not to the common voters, but to the wealthy who also helped him get into office (and who, unlike the common voters, he can still benefit from in the years to come)

This isn't specific to Obama, but is the game of a career in politics.
I use mine regularly for listening to music while making dinner and we all use it to add stuff to the family grocery list.

I like it for $99, but not for double that.
Seriously, three downvotes for a Megadeth quote? No sense of humour you people....
The first comment gets it pretty much right: discovery. How'd you find the stuff you want to buy/stream?

The simple gravity of business leads to middlemen handling the discovery process also taking a cut of transactions - they're too well placed to offer brokerage services.
Are the 50 most sold WordPress themes fast enough?
Verizon Completes Its Acquisition of AOL for $4.4B
> Nuclear is vulnerable to the weather too.

Technically true. Practically, not as much. Solar/Wind power is several magnitutdes more vulnerable to weather than nuclear.

There is a huge difference that you're out of power because a heatwave is hitting your country, and that you're out of power because it's been raining all day or there wasn't enough wind.
"Words you should use in your titles"

How about instead of choosing from a list of click-bait words, we use whatever words it takes for the title to accurately describe the post?

Did I just invent a new thing? I'll call it "respect-bait". People who click the link will have no choice but to respect the accurate, sensible choice of title.
That article describes previous grants of trade promotion authority, while this grant of authority, by all reports, will require more stringent and lengthier consultation and public notice requirements.

Edit: Sec. 6 contains the public notice requirements: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/995...
>So who's lobbying against this exactly?

About a decade ago I attended an internal presentation at Microsoft, made by a person who was lobbying immigration changes on behalf of that company. He explained this phenomenon - in some parts of the country the voting public does not have the attention span to listen long enough to make the distinction between "immigrants" and "high-skill immigrants". For that reason many politicians who are privately supportive of high-skill immigration still prefer not to try the patience of the voters, and come out against all immigration in public. Especially when there is an opponent who is ready to yell "he's soft on immigrants!".
If one measures fatalities per Kw/H generated, the data shows that nuclear is by far the safest form of power generated.

See for example: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...

Nuclear is two orders of magnitude safer than coal, and is even safer than solar.

The issue of nuclear waste is extremely overblown.
Considering CPython is designed to be so portable, I don't think this means anything about popular compilers.
There's a couple in Scotland, where I grew up. My school did a tour once. (The tour was uninspired and rather dull. The nuclear reactor tour was way more interesting.)

They're strictly limited as to how much they can store. Ben Cruachan (the one I visited) can generate 440MW for up to 22 hours before the reservoir empties. It's used for emergencies and buffer usage spikes; Ben Cruachan can spin up in two minutes from standby, or thirty seconds if they have some warning, and is used to provide power while the much slower reacting gas or coal plants rev up. I don't know how quickly it can pump water uphill, but it's probably a lot slower than it consumes it. Round-trip efficiency looks to be ~70%.

According to Wikipedia the UK uses about 40GW of electricity at peak, so you'd need a hundred Ben Cruachans to store enough to run the country for under a day.

Here's a picture of the upper reservoir: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Cruachan...

See the grey border around the water? Hydro power reservoirs are ecologically pretty bad --- freshwater life isn't equipped to deal with what are basically irregular tides, and so the shorelines are always completely barren.
The competition for music is heating up!
Great. I'm glad they're taking the initiative and voting with their (would be) money. That seems to be about the only way to "vote" these days. I'm really surprised more companies aren't doing the same in the US and other countries with equally bad privacy and software laws. I fully support leaving economies in countries that have laws hostile to privacy and software (UK, US, etc.). Hopefully more companies will do the same, enough to have an actual impact on the economy as a whole and therefore potentially make the idiot lawmakers reverse their idiocy.
How is this question germane to my comment or OP? I am not advocating any universal right. Just bureaucratic efficiency.
Chinese purchase real estate in the US because of the strength of the rule of law. The US borrows money at low rates because investors know it will be paid back. Swombat thinks American is a banana republic because he can't see past his own hate.
No, you're right. Lawyers are protected by their licensing requirements. However the medical profession does protect itself and is opposed to bringing in many foreign born nurses, medical staff, etc.

Lawyers have that nice shield that is the bar exam, but that is also de facto immigration since only ABA accredited schools qualify. So in one sense you're right, the legal profession does not need to lobby against high skilled immigration. However, the reason they don't need to isn't for any moral reason but rather because they can just lock out immigrants through non-legislative means.
Firstly, America as we know it has been changing dramatically and continuously since its inception. I don't see anyone mourning the loss of the Bourbon Democrats or tariff acts, but suffice to say they aren't here anymore.

Secondly, what are you referring to by "what we have now"? Immigration law in particular, or U.S. policy on a macro level?
Thanks. I didn't realize this was the case.
It's called RISUG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm...
Google announces me too...
> To be fair, any FTA (including the TPP) will be made public for a minimum of 4 months before Congress can vote on it (although with TPA they won't be allowed to offer amendments to it).

So not only it completely defeats the point (if you can't make amendments) it gives a joke of a time in comparison with years of development of such agreements when all kind of nasty stuff can be sneaked it which can change local laws. In short - it's not a democratic process at all, it's a farce of institutionalized corruption.
Trials and upgrades are niceties for the developer, not the user. The App Store isn't made for developers, it's made for users. If developers want access to those users, they should build businesses not oriented around extorting money to fix their technical debt.
New canon power shot g3 with super zoom
Yep. At $99 it's a no-brainer and you might consider one for several rooms in the house. At $180 it's a much tougher call.