skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true multiple people could be working on the same problem, but I'd counter with two points. One, MySpace came first and solved a similar problem to Facebook, yet two totally different outcomes - execution is key. And two, I think the cool thing about sending problems not "business ideas" is that one problem statement could yield a thousand different solutions.
If homes lose value, so be it. And where would we house all of these people? ~500K people in the US are homeless [1], providing housing for 1/600th of the US population is not difficult.

[1] http://endhomelessness.org/library/entry/the-state-of-homele...
In fact, I'd argue that "transition aids" have significantly hampered ipv6 adoption thus far.

I remember back in ~2007 (edit: actually 2005 I think) when on my home linux system firefox started hanging for 30 seconds when loading web pages. It was because it was trying ipv6 first, but I of course didn't have real ipv6 connectivity. I was more novice back then and I'm not sure what exactly in the OS or router pretended to have ipv6 connectivity. But this problem got worse with Windows Vista and "Teredo" automatic tunnels and 6in4 and various schemes.

Too often, these schemes don't work close enough to 100% reliably, and then to be safe, ipv6 has to be disabled. In fact, ipv6 was enabled in early versions of Firefox and OS X, and then in later updates it was disabled because too many people unknowingly had broken ipv6 setups because of hare-brained "transition aids". And then a couple years later they came up with "happy eyeballs" so they could turn ipv6 back on again.

The major transition over the past year is only due to major cable ISPs offering native ipv6 subnet broadcasts to consumer connections. So much for automatic tunneling, magic multi-homed public-ish 6in4 routers, etc. They added great amounts of complexity to ipv6 and delayed adoption because they were flaky. And only now is native ipv6 catching on.
Funny, I came to the comments to dispute the printer point. I have a <$100 wireless duplex laser printer (Brother HL-2270DW) which works really well. It's not color, but does everything I need it to do. Maybe $100 doesn't qualify as cheap.
Congrats nasa
For some reason, I keep having to do that - it doesn't stick. And every version brings more unwanted toolbar buttons I need to remove. I'm seriously considering looking into building a version of Firefox with them patched out altogether.
Oh really that's interesting. Similar idea, two different approaches.
Indeed that is not relevant to the ignorance.
> No recursion over lists. You can emulate this, but it's awkward.

What do you mean by no recursion over lists? I mean, sure, lists aren't a core data type in JS (JS arrays aren't lists), so list operations aren't either, is that it?
It's actually a legal requirement as of a few years ago, for interests to be disclosed in the case of endorsements, or critical pieces on competition. If that interest isn't already clear.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
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IKEA also sells height-adjustable desks in some (most?) countries. I have one at home and are very pleased.
> If it's infeasible to slow down to get into orbit or land on Pluto, what about the feasibility of designing a probe to impact Pluto at XX km/sec and survive well enough to send back data

That's actually harder to do.

To insert in orbit, you can still have some residual speed, you don't have to slow all the way down.

To land on the surface and survive, you would have to brake even harder. Anything near orbital speed would be a non-survivable impact, even for hardened electronics. Not to mention interactions with the atmosphere on the way down.
It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash
Death to Flash.
I can't tell if you're being extremely sarcastic or not.
Get something like a Varidesk that allows you to put it up/down and is affordable. There's been studies that varicose veins and things of that nature in your legs happen if you stand up all day long.
I have a couple of wide-angle pictures I took inside this past February. I think they capture the magic of the nave better than the picture in the article:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ojbyrne/16528392319

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ojbyrne/16714574002
Progress update on the PS4 Remote play app for the PC
In 2014, 89% of Google's revenue comes from advertising. Google is an advertising company with a lack of focus. I don't think I would call "use the war chest and try a bunch of stuff to move forward" a strategy. It feels like floundering, exactly like Microsoft's "Take the Windows/Office war chest and find the next big thing" doldrums of the last decade.

https://investor.google.com/earnings/2014/Q4_google_earnings...
A (which is arguably not real information) occurred simultaneously with B (actually, I might argue B occurred before A) as the fact that the story was fabricated was evident in the previously unknown and unauthenticated URL which was used to retrieve the "information".
Even if it's that old, that doesn't explain why Infinite Loop would be categorized as Manufacturing and trade, with all the area around it as healthcare and government.
It would happen as soon as enough people were affected such that producers of goods as well as unemployed consumers demand it from the congress and the rest of society. What that tipping point will be I dont know, but it's almost inevitable, if the current trend continues unabated.
Couldn't you preserve the nice trait of working in any browser by having the browser load it with a hash-fragment containing a list of disabled plugins to add to navigator.plugins?
Thanks for that. Saw it in high school many moons ago, just watched the whole thing again.
Ridiculous downvoting.

Check outworlder's post for the xkcd link, you petty graphic artists!
Android is a defensive play. Without it their whole business would be at Apple's mercy.
I hope we can reach even faster speeds for the next missions. This one made it relatively quick, the next one can be faster?
Sit-stand desk is probably the best with the information we currently have.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/13/the-dangers-of-sitting...
http://vuir.vu.edu.au/21403/1/Van_Uffelen_Occupational_sitti...

Like everything in life, moderation is the key. If you are getting up and down from your desk regularly anyway then the health benefits wouldn't be very large. Standing all day isn't particularly good for you either.

I believe the science is still out on this. My main issue with the current studies is that the occupations are different. For instance, what is the difference in stress between a GP and an accountant? As far as I'm aware, there haven't been any studies that compare mortality that control for the 'same occupation'. The studies thus-far have only shown that people who have occupations that require standing tend to have lower all-cause mortality than those whose occupations usually involve sitting. If there is such a study then I’m interested in reading it.
How gauche! No, I don't want to make a Long Bet on that.

I don't live in the United States where every CS graduate gets a Ferrari as a signing bonus (maybe a self-driving Ferrari one day). $USD1000 is clearly a lot more money to me than it is to you.

But if you'd like to take your own side of the bet and choose your own charity, please feel free.

Moreover, I'd like to know what the terms of that bet that you'd be making with yourself. Is it for a generally available car that can drive reasonably anywhere? In San Fransisco but also in small towns without super-accurate cm-scale mapping data (which will never be both everywhere and up-to-date)? Do we consider it a success if self-driving cars blindly drive into construction sites that haven't been mapped? Or crash into newly erected barricades? Because I don't, and that's exactly where we'll be in 15 years.

Autonomous vehicles are quickly approaching what I will acknowledge is probably an 80% solution. In nice weather, when their mapping is perfect in a perfectly-mapped area, and they have a good GPS signal, autonomous cars will work well (and currently are working well in testing).

That's not the standard that's expected. No one lives in a city without road work or construction going on. No one lives in a city where temporary or make-shift signs aren't being erected, or where there are never detours, or where there isn't ad-hoc communication going on between pedestrians and drivers, or where weather doesn't block LIDAR, or, ...whatever.

We will be nowhere near level 4 autonomous vehicles in 10 years time. And not in 15 years, either.

No one in this field is confident of that anymore. Not even Google is making the same bold claims that they were 3 years ago. Their own researchers are publicly hedging now (http://gizmodo.com/how-to-teach-an-autonomous-car-to-drive-1...) and backing away from their most ambitious claims.

The only other group that I'm aware of that's still claiming that we're anywhere near having generally-useful self-driving cars are the established car makers, none of whom have traditionally been serious AI and computer vision research contributors.
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Tried standing desk for a while, imo something that should also be done is film yourself standing for a period of time so you can tell if your standing posture is correct; if you're standing the wrong way then it's pretty much useless
I can't either.
The OP forgets to mention Modulus.io they use as well.
It's depressing that our medicine is so incredibly overpriced in this day and age. This is the problem we need to fix before we worry about getting everyone health care, in my opinion.
The stock opened virtually unchanged but started trading higher right after the open and had already gained around $1.1 by the time the news hit. When that happened, it spiked a good two additional Dollar, but lost around $1.9 of that over the course of the next minutes. Interestingly, someone bought 1700 calls 3 minutes before the event.
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It doesn't surprise me, but I am amazed every time I see something like this and realize all over again just how little of the world I've seen.

I would suppose I've traveled more than the average individual, but I'm still missing out on so many things. This type first-hand cultural learning is what truly excites me.
MET Gala: The Good, the Daring, and the Yellowface
My neck pain went away when I lowered my chair and uppered my screen so the line of eyes is in the middle of screen space.
They did - it was called Edge. The truth of the matter is HTML etc simply can't do what Flash does effortlessly, so it never got anywhere.
Truth is you can't change your gender.

If you care about truth you can start there.
I didn't read the detailed list of what the author thinks we need to fix, but I enjoyed the beginning of the piece. I especially liked this paragraph:

So how do you see into such a blind spot? How can we periscope around the corner of our assumptions and peer into the future? If we want to create a list of the blind-spot problems that await better solutions from tomorrow’s innovators — which is what I want to do with this piece — where do we begin?

I wonder a lot about how new things start successfully. The piece that intrigues me is: If you know you are doing something genuinely different and valuable, how do you cross the chasm from everyone telling you it will never work to actually having some meaningful number of users? How do you get other people to see what you see and that you are not just another dime-a-dozen loser with some half-baked idea?

That intrigues me and I don't know the answer to it.
Do you wear headphones? That might help.
The New Yorker article has more information about the Act that was passed.

>The act gave the towns until February of 2010 to identify and map any potential ancient roads within their borders; these would then be reviewed by the state and added to Vermont’s official highway map over the next five years. Any ancient road not added to the state map by July 1, 2015, would be considered discontinued.

(Re?)Discovered roads aren't automatically recognized but are reviewed after they're rediscovered from that quote. Who know how particular the process is and how many are being added to the book, but it's not automatically so it's more reasonable. Hope fully the process weeds out really bad roads like the one cited as starting the whole affair.

As for the people out there doing it. It seems like a pretty fun thing digging through old documents and discovering things about your community.
Nice good job.

David, if you don't mind answering, what made you decide to call it a day at groupspaces? Was there a certain event or circumstance that made you think "okay lets work on something else now".
Uhm, agriculture is listed as "Number of jobs in NAICS sector 11 (Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting)"[1] which is coded CNS01 in the csv tables[2].

1) http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.0...

2) http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes
A Seattle Transportation Solution for Today and Tomorrow
> standing still for an hour is just as inactive as sitting still for an hour.

That's not true. Everything I have read about it says that standing burns more calories. I notice that I shift my weight and move my legs, etc, when I am standing. It's marginal, but there is definitely a difference.
It's Time for a Critical Discussion on the Gig Economy
How so? I don't have any female friends (I don't have any male ones either). If I started looking for a girlfriend (which I currently don't), I would indeed be looking solely for a romantic relationship, so I don't see how having female friends would be a prerequisite.

That said, I don't think that matters for the site in question. I'm just not a part of their target audience. Doesn't mean their idea doesn't work for other people.
Hacking team hacked Bitcoin exchangers too as it appears
It's not "is that it". Single-linked lists of specific characteristics (access
times, construction times and stuff like that) are one of the few core
elements of functional programming.
This is probably great news for startups overall. Not only does it reduce the chances the next big thing will come out of Google, it probably means Google will be less competitive at hiring people, or retaining people who could otherwise join (or found) a startup.
Could you elaborate a bit ? what does "republish email content" mean ?
I should add that I use ssh_config. I tried the file download feature but I get an error, it tries to scp from MBP.local and doesn't seem to be aware of my ssh session at all.
Quantified Cow: Soon Wearables Will Monitor Animals as Closely as They Do Humans
> I did not claim that.

See the subject of my thread for context.

> What is the point?

Lopsided proportions on dating websites.
"To wit: our digital world doesn’t have a good system for identifying us, or helping others confirm that we are who we say we are. Because no one has solved this problem, we all live in dune-drifts of lousy passwords."

No. It's that we don't want to have the equivalent to "certificate authorities" mess for our identities too. We don't want the "obvious" "solutions" because we are aware of the bad effects of them.
The problem - at least in my mental model, and it's possible I'm wrong, it's often dangerous to bet against Larry - is that new technology businesses often require a closeness to individual early adopters and speed of decision making that is impossible to achieve in a big company. The factors that make new tech businesses successful are often very subtle, and they're discovered only through long periods of direct interaction with users. When you're an engineer at Google, you don't have the freedom of direct-messaging an individual user, saying "Hey, what do you think? Got any suggestions for us?" and then immediately making the change and pushing it to production. In my experience, that seems to be essential for new tech products to catch on. (With the possible exception of Apple, who seem to be able to convince the consumer that they really want an Apple product regardless of what that product does. Even that lustre seems to be fading.)
"Mozilla did user testing before integration and found that people do want it. Remember that techies complaining on HN doesn't mean that the majority doesn't like it."

I'm really not convinced by this as an argument. People might like all sorts of harmful things, once they see them. And the fact that people might want something that provides the functionality that Pocket provides, or something like it, doesn't mean that using Pocket specifically is a good idea.
My query was really - if you short it in advance wouldn't it require the price falling below it's starting price for you to profit. It seems that this was intended to raise the market price in the short term, therefore only shorting it on the way up would make you profit when shorting. Also it did not fall below the original price when it corrected.
In my experience Laser jets have always been much better than ink jets. My ink jet printer requires $120+ dollars for color and black cartridges. Black cartridges are usually much cheaper.

Some advice I received years ago was to forgo a color printer altogether and use Kinko's/UPS Store to do color. The cost savings are very good if you dont require a lot of color printing.
If I were a Google competitor, I'd be very happy about this.

From a Lean (as in Lean Manufacturing) perspective, I see two mistakes: a focus on reducing costs and increasing use of control to do that.

The problem with a cost-oriented perspective is that is too narrow. For example, suppose you're known for making great hamburgers. If you look at costs, you might say, "Well, beef is our biggest expense, so let's focus on reducing that cost." But the easy ways to do that reduce quantity and/or quality, which also reduce value delivered. Instead the thing to do is to focus on reducing waste or increasing effectiveness, both of which increase value delivered per dollar of expenses.

And the problem with adding control structures as a mechanism is that is slows everything down. You want employees asking, "Am I doing the right thing for the company?" rather than having them pray to the gods of the executive suite every time they need to make a decision.

I think a large part of what made Google so successful is that they approached most problems like engineers rather than MBAs. Looks like there will be opportunities for others to pick up that torch.
This.

I'm currently working on my 3rd Android-BLE project and it's incredible how bad those APIs (and of course the vendor's implementations) are. An inconsistent pile of .. well, nothing nice. I don't get why they have no interest in fixing that..
Thanks its just a fun project to learn about web sockets.
Thanks for comment, I didn't know about the Kickstarter Keyboard (I just backed it). I have to use a split keyboard to avoid wrist pain so my options are very limited. If this isn't an issue for you then the Das Keyboard is very nice in my opinion.
In general I've found cheapo monochrome desktop laser printers to be completely satisfactory.

My hypothesis is that inkjet is just an error-prone technology.
From what I understand, it's more of a "death by a thousand cuts" thing. Nobody really complains that the offsites aren't as incredible or anything, but little things like crowding in desks everywhere in open-office plans and lowering the quality of kitchenette foods.
Can you ELI5 'bought 1700 calls'?
There was a good xkcd what-if on this a while back.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
but why is oil going up? I thought that this news would push down the prices further due to additional Iran oil adding million barrells a day.
Rebutting a claim that the default options are poor by providing instructions to change those settings seems, at best, a non-sequitur.
The strength of the background radiation varies from place to place.
question: why don't you make your browser window smaller?

My laptop's own screen is too tiny to be usable for long periods, which is why I plug in a real screen. But on the real screen, I generally have several different windows open and positioned around the screen. I don't get this idea of "well, so much screen space was being wasted anyway that it doesn't matter if junk gets filled into it". I don't have trouble filling my own screen...?
Very sad that this is a measure employees need to consider in the modern workplace.
Not sure why this goes with "Warp 1" when "Warp 1" is the speed of light, something that even a casual Trek fan may very well be unaware of, to say nothing of the general public.
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What about the difference between having one IPv6 address and having all IPv6 addresses?
Does your office culture respect headphones as a request to not be interrupted? Hunting earmuffs are useful if you don't want to actually listen to music. I've used http://smile.amazon.com/3M-Peltor-H10A-Optime-Earmuff/dp/B00... off and on for almost 3.5 years and they're comfortable for hours at a time and block most noise very effectively.
I was slightly curious that Von Neumann appeared at this meeting. The Wikipedia page about him has some more information[0]. Most notably, it states that:

Von Neumann oversaw computations related to the expected size of the bomb blasts,
estimated death tolls, and the distance above the ground at which the bombs
should be detonated for optimum shock wave propagation and thus maximum effect.
The cultural capital Kyoto, which had been spared the firebombing inflicted
upon militarily significant target cities like Tokyo in World War II, was
von Neumann's first choice, a selection seconded by Manhattan Project leader
General Leslie Groves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Nuclear_weapo...
Nuking Kyoto would have been an irredeemable loss to humanity; anyone who has ever been there would surely understand this. The city is concentrated with ancient wonders and cultural vibrance of the highest order. Not to mention that the indelible injury to the national psychology of Japan would have been magnitudes greater.

It's astounding to me that the decision to destroy it would come down to just a few men on a war council. Thank God that Stimson prevailed.
I appreciate the sentiment of this blog post, but wow, those are some seriously ugly creations to have to look at all day.
How could it statistically significant but not be clinically relevant? Either you get it or you don't, and childhood leukemia fucking sucks (I should know, my mom was the manager of the Minneapolis Ronald McDonald House for 10 years and we lived on-site; many of my young childhood friends died as children).
The driver explicitly made himself available in the system, but the choice of hours and choice of location to idle by is still up to the driver. With employee relationship, Uber can mandate the driver be by the football arena at 6 pm.
Ask HN: Which OS Can/Should I Install on HP Stream 7 Tablet??
I have a HP Stream 7 tablet. The specs are in the link below:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Stream-7-Tablet/7439994/model/7482044/document/c04529142/

So I recently installed Windows 10 insider preview on it but I don't like how it is performing on my tablet as it is not build to handle it. So I called HP and asked for restore disk, that will cost me $50-$75 ( I bought tablet for $79). And they would not do it for me if I sent it to them because I void the warranty by installing Windows 10 on it.

So I have decided to experiment with this tablet and try installing various OS on it. I will shoot video tutorials of them for reference so I can do some good for the community.

Here I would like to ask for your help. I need suggestions on what you think I should install on the tablet. Please send me your responses and any additional information is most welcome.

I DARE TO TRY !!!
Interesting that the stock has been sideways since the split into GOOG (Class C) and GOOGL (Class A) in Q1 2014, also around the same time the first dividend appeared.

http://investorplace.com/2014/07/goog-google-stock-split/#.V...