skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Report suggests the Apple Watch is failing
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Sounds like GP is using Phillips Hue or similar bulbs, which can be programmed (via a phone or computer) to automatically change colors by individual light or groups (i.e. the lights in your bedroom change to warm hues at night and cool hues prior to wakeup)
I hope that Microsoft will someday buy Xamarin and give it with Visual Studio Community Edition. This way anyone will be able to publish for Windows Phone, Android and iOS from Visual Studio.

Personally I like my Lumia phone with Windows 8.1 and I look forward to check how Windows 10 will run on this device.
Posting here re https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9851292.

ISO8601 is a mess, and nearly impossible to write a thorough parser. There are uncountable ways to parse it and still come out with valid datetimes.
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Varies wildly with where you're located, how employable you are, what kind of job you seek, etc.

35-80k
Lol HP system. I used to work for SABRE, its far more dependable despite its antiquity. HP is a marginal player in this market which is dominated by SABRE and Amadeus.
Just received a lumia 635 on amazon, great phone, and my battery anxiety has gone away (almsot 3 days with one charge). I hope windows 10 will work on it.
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Thank you for replying!

"nobody knows how to reliably and repeatedly identify interresting problems"

Are we sure of that? In some ways, having access to Google most popular searches can be a way of identifying these problems... Or at least some of them.

I am wondering what are your other thoughts on the subjects. If you care to share, I would like to hear them :)
Generic Programming Must Go
This is actually amazing. Between Nokia and aQuantive, Microsoft dumped over $14 billion into two failed acquisitions. I can't recall another company over the last decade that has had a total write-off of that scale (well, maybe the HP-Autonomy thing, but there was likely some fraud involved there).

I have absolutely no idea why they purchased Nokia in the first place -- it was obvious that they were never going to seriously challenge Apple or Google, and Nokia was another obviously sinking ship. It was like if Circuit City had purchased Radio Shack. I have no idea why the board let Ballmer blow billions on an acquisition they knew he wouldn't be around to see through and that didn't fit with the strategic direction of the company 6 months later.

If I were an institutional investor, I would demand a change in board leadership. This kind of stuff is just unacceptable for a public company. I know hindsight is 20/20, but blowing $14 billion on acquisitions that were doomed to begin with is simply inexcusable. You can blame Ballmer for being a terrible CEO, but the blame really rests on the board for allowing him to make really big, really bad decisions.
Just don't do it
I meant whats the advantage of viewing it in browser? Couldnt you go through the output in a terminal with multiplexers and tail?
Let's get real about the China stock market "crash" -- all major China stock indices are still up between 30% - 70% from 12 months ago. Somehow the run-up in prices was business as usual, but the slide down is a catastrophe. A real crash has much further down to go.
(scroll down to the China indices)
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/world-indexes/asia-p...
I had seen that video before... I found it upsetting as most of it was bragging and ranting, am I the only one who noticed?

There was no material in that video that anyone could use and following the above article (http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html) also was written by Kay himself (which I haven't read yet but will do)... I'm starting to wonder whether the reputation is self made.
"Microsoft will focus its phone efforts on three segments: Businesses, value-phone buyers and flagship phone customers, moving forward."

Doesn't that pretty much cover all potential customers?
Only in the US. It's been pretty much a flop everywhere else.
Congrats Mitchell + Anand + Kevin + team!

Now send someone to softwarecircus.io to talk about it!
I remember one of the LiveJournal outages (IIRC) was caused by a dude in the datacenter thinking that the emergency power off button opened one of the doors.
You might have more luck here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident
But aren't the insurance companies smart enough to figure this out and start correcting their rates to be much higher?And if they actually have their acts together, wouldn't those same insurance companies start insisting on basic audits of their client's systems?

I actually don't know about this stuff, so any correction of my thoughts is appreciated.
For future proofing please use 5 digit years (YYYYY-MM-DD) e.g. 02015-07-08. :P
The cat's miaow
Ah, but they're only focusing on productivity at work and at home, and on the move, so that helps narrow it down.
Cascading failure will be covered in the expected loss, so insurance fees go up and up ?
If you have the resources, seems like an appropriate time to implement a good home infrastructure for yourself. Do it once, do it well, then go into maintenance mode. It's the incessant need for NEW that screws most people up. On the plus side, to a point, it does help the export market. That is if the main importing economies themselves haven't tanked or lost an appetite for your stuff.
Was there a storm or something? Usually there is some motivating reason why flights are screwed up.
Hm, so what's the difference between you and the other guys? Don't really get it. Any examples for additional savings I can get with you?
Apple makes more profit than the 82% of the market that they don't control. That's a kind of obliteration.

"could", you mean "can't." They've been trying to grab 10% market share since the iPhone pushed them below that, and have never recovered, in spite of having the best resources of anyone out there.
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That's right, Blender has made a lot of strides in recent years. I was a Blender sceptic, having tried it many years ago. But recently I tried it again and had my socks blown off! I've since started using Blender exclusively for all my modeling/rendering needs (I don't do animation, so I can't vouch for it), whereas before I had to rely on several packages (e.g. Softimage for hard surface/ZBrush for organic) and never looked back.

If you only know Blender through its older versions, I highly recommend taking another look and even doing some tutorials - it's become an amazing piece of software!
When has success been defined as just being #1 or making money here at HN? And no, I don't consider raising money from VCs or being sold as making money.
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@harryhunt711 Thanks for your feedback. To answer your questions. We use Apache Spark with a mixture of different algorithms to analyze over 1.5b flight prices and come up with millions of new routing possibilities. Meanwhile on every request our algorithm learns from past mistakes and corrects its decision based on new data
C'mon.

> Right away, you'll notice a subtle difference – a more terse syntax is available to you when defining classes:

// The ES5 way
var Photo = React.createClass({
handleDoubleTap(e) { … },
render() { … },
});

// The ES6+ way
class Photo extends React.Component {
handleDoubleTap(e) { … }
render() { … }
}

It may or may not be more terse in longer examples, but ES6 already supports things to make the class syntax less terse here by about the same margin the article claims.
Kubernetes Bootcamp at OSCON – Mesosphere
I have a surface 3, its an atom 7x cpu. I was really worried but for my coffee house workflow of editing html/css/js files, doing lots of email and videoconferencing its great. It all depends on how you approach it. I approach mine as a tablet that can do so much more. These days I mostly leave the macbook air home but then again my load is not cpu heavy. I can see some workloads where the M based processor will be a bad choice...
Control Spotify on the Mac via Slack
Took them until just now to go "oh, we should probably post something that isn't a @reply".

https://twitter.com/united/status/618777538865799168
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Hi! I'm a Bernie fan and would love to help you throw something together.
You're assuming the board knew any better. For all you know, Ballmer fought against it. They could have been screaming at him to get into phones and he found a solution. Full disclosure I revel in the demise of MS.
There are a lot of really good answers at this link, but they all seem to be lengthy versions of "You can't, but..." With a little bit of knowledge about how HR departments work, it seems clear that years-of-experience is currently a "hard" filter.

Though, there is one consideration I didn't see mentioned. I applied for a position "above my head" straight out of college, and the hiring manager had HR change the position to entry level to match my experience. So, while you cannot compensate for lacking experience, you can still apply for positions near your level. You should expect to be filtered out, but you'll be reconsidered if there are not enough applicants which meet the initial search criteria.
Chinese buyers have a much bigger impact on the western coasts of the US and Canada (Vancouver specifically) than they do in the UK. Foreign buyers in the UK are mostly European or from the Middle East and conditions in both places are probably making people favor parking capital in the UK.

If you are Chinese and able to get your money out of the country and into foreign property you would probably hold on to that property for as long as you possibly can; by being outside of China it is worth far more than anything you might use to cover domestic debt.
68 Android apps by Microsoft, you're welcome:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Microsoft+Co...
Was reading this on HN and heard it on NPR simultaneously.

I have a sneaking suspicion that booking systems for most airlines run atop legacyware. It just seems like the type of thing that would've been put in place long ago and then be very expensive to migrate/updgrade.
Or use JSON: {"year": 2015, "month":7, "day":8}
TaskNav: Task-Based Navigation of Software Documentation
How for Entrepreneurs to Meet Cash Flow Peaks
This is (sort of like) humans used to sleep until the industrial revolution. Couple of links http://www.livescience.com/12891-natural-sleep.html http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
We'll get around to it just as soon as we get around to using the metric system and providing universal health care.
Internet is like a loud speaker. Just because some people can use it to communicate some profanities doesn't mean that it should be banned.
Add Mathematica to the list of Houdini alikes. I wonder why it is not more famous, it's such a masterpiece (a tiny bit above that old friend Maya).
I find that taking melatonin for a few nights in a row sort of corrects me for a while. Then I would go off of it until I had a few days of poor sleep (usually off for several weeks).

I started having nightmares/anxiety dreams so I stopped. At first I thought maybe there was something about different formulations (brands) of melatonin but then the 'good' brand also started giving me anxiety dreams. Did they change their formulation to cut costs? Or is it me? I can't be sure.
More Javascript `this` juggling. I really want to write a wrapper around `createClass` which just passes things as normal arguments.
Yeah, you're right. I don't mean transverse in that it is a wave in water. There is no 'water' particles there to be moving up/down left/right.

Interestingly, Maxwell himself worked in a time when the aether model was dominant; that there had to be something for the waves to be moving in/through. His equations held up under both the aether model and special relativity which made aether unnecessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
Life for Greek Small Business
I prefer the suggestion of Positive Money ( http://positivemoney.org ), which is that bank accounts are split by savings and investments. Savings would just keep your money safe (no interest), investments would have a potential return but also carry the risk of a loss. It'd be up to you how you wanted to split your money between savings and investments.

The bank that is the closest to this model (that I know of) is Mondo (due to be launching soon). Along with it's other innovations, it plans to allow you to invest money via Funding Circle for a potential return:

http://www.thememo.com/2015/06/25/meet-mondo-the-app-thats-g...

This is a smart idea on a couple of levels, it mitigates against the risk of bank runs and it provides a better return than many high street banks offer (the current average return rate from Funding Circle is 6.6%):

https://www.fundingcircle.com/statistics
I stopped using JSX with React+CoffeeScript. I think the following looks a lot cleaner and removes the jsx dependency:

{div, a} = React.DOM
...
render: ->
(div {},
(a {href: 'foo'}, 'bar')
)

The only downside is having to extract the tags from React.DOM.
Why SV Is Failing Miserably at Diversity and What Should Be Done About It
If you are an OS company, then it makes a lot of sense to be in the hardware business.
Wouldn't the PC term be middle Native American?
I love how they write the dates when you hover over the image. XKCD.
Cool UI, tried it on my recent flight, but for my case I could find better deal on Orbitz.

Example: WAW -> SFO (July 18, Aug 2)

IMO best: WAW -> AMS -> SFO (14h25m), SFO -> CDG -> WAW (14h5m) 1256$

Your flights are a bit cheaper, but the shortest available outbound is 18h40m.

Maybe you can tweak your algorithm to optimize for shortest flight for people willing to pay 5-10% more if that saves several hours.
No Balmer was known to have thrown a temper tantrum and was ready to quit on the spot if the board didn't approve of the Nokia purchase: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2475938/it-management/s...
@cneumann81 thanks for trying tripdelta. A few examples that might explain what we do differently.

-We find hidden flights by combining rival airlines (https://tripdelta.com/results/SFO/LON/28-10-15)

-Our smart area search looks at every airport near your start and destination and checks every single combination to find better alternatives (https://tripdelta.com/results/FKB/BOH/01-10-15/ )

-We split your return flights into open jaw tickets (https://tripdelta.com/results/SFO/YVR/11-09-15/YVR/SFO/13-09... )

-Wanna do a short world trip? Better check this one out (https://tripdelta.com/results/SFO/BER/18-09-15/BER/DXB/25-09...)

I hope this explains what we do ;).. If you have any more questions, let me know
I read into that that they'll make business Lumias, for value customers not make Lumia but instead make cheap Androids or Ashas and only make Lumia flagships otherwise - basically far fewer Lumias and basic phones. I could be wrong of course.
Fungus used to quash cancer-causing toxin
Vipps vs. mCash: What happens when the incumbent is the startup?
I have it figured out. A long-winded explanation:

Honestly I hate the react-rails gem. Whoever was maintaining it kept doing things at the whims of issue requestors. I remember one instance where they broke our apps with an upgrade because someone decided it would be a good idea to shim a definition for `window` into server prerenders. All because an issue creator who didn't really know what they were doing supposedly "needed" that to get browserify-rails working.

So we made this: https://github.com/revelrylabs/execjs-rails. That handles the server-side rendering for us. We only use react-rails for its assets, never for its helpers.

And here's our own (always-evolving) layer on top of execjs-rails: http://toolkit.revelry.co/pages/core.

Examples are written in dusty JavaScript, but we've successfully used revelry_core with sprockets-es6 several times now.

EDIT: Still no modules yet. It doesn't help that Josh Peek deleted the old sprockets-es6 repo and all its issues before passing off maintenance to someone else.)
Should we go to reddit to read news like this? Look at the frontpage, we have two entries for the blooding Chinese stock market. Please let's get away from these stories and stay with what Hacker News should be.
Because printf is just a function, and doesn't have access to the type information at the call-site.
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> Which raises the question of why so many of these people are vehemently opposed to e-cigarettes

I'm a smoker myself (quit a few times, for periods up to a year, I will quit again, but damn that addiction is going to chase me for life).

I'm not "vehemently" opposed to e-cigs, but I don't like them either. When they first appeared, I saw a few friends switch to e-cigs, and considered perhaps getting one for myself. But after a week or two, every single one of them "cheated" and occasionally smoked a real cigarette, citing that it just wasn't really the same. By now, nearly all of them have switched back to smoking real cigarettes.

Then I realized, e-cigs just keep the cravings and addiction going. I knew I wanted to quit, and quit for real. For me personally, from experience, only the first week or so of quitting is the hardest, after that the craving subsides (for some people this takes longer). Then comes the period where you're really happy you're no longer a smoker, feel cleaner, smell more things (not always good, but very worth it, and sign of progress). Then comes the long stretch where you just need to never, ever smoke a cigarette again, for the rest of your life. Because even just smoking one, after half a year, weakens that resolve, and I should consider myself "on notice" for at least a couple of weeks, because the threshold for smoking another one becomes so much lower, and before you know I'm back at step 0. It's (for me) not particularly hard on the day-by-day basis, it's the part that you can't ever give in to it again, for the rest of your life, that makes it hard to keep up.

That's why I don't like e-cigs. For someone who is really addicted, it just keeps the door open to fall back to regular cigarettes any time, because you don't do anything about the habit and nicotine addiction, you just make it less unhealthy as long as you stick to e-cigs only.

The only positive thing I have gained from smoking, is learning what addiction really means, therefore understanding other people's addictions better, and decidedly staying away from other addictive substances.
I would implore anyone who's thinking about playing with a Rubik's Cube to not read any of those "how to solve it quickly" things.

It may have taken me a year of chipping away at it and my process is definitely suboptimal, but at least I have the satisfaction of having worked it out myself.

Also, play with it! It's an incredibly simple but totally mind bending device.
Oh, it's not a suspicion.

http://www.pacbiztimes.com/2012/04/06/united-takes-a-step-ba...
Ah yes, I tried f.lux for some time. I was annoyed sometimes late at night that it would battle me, forcing me to recognize that I should be going to bed...but I guess what's best for you isn't always what you want.
> Why should business units that are part of a large company be punished harder than those who are part of a small company?

Because large companies are bad for society? They're inherently anticompetitive and risk large societal impact when they fail (which in turn leads to the "too big to fail" problem).
I can't fall asleep because I can't get my brain to STFU.

When I can lay down, regardless of hour of night, with a quiet brain, I fall right asleep.

95% of the time though, my brain won't stop. I stay away from screens after a certain hour, I try not to think about work (not always successful). But still, sometimes my brain just won't quit. It's super frustrating.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Microsoft+Co...

Looks like they got that covered.
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$229 million would probably be exceedingly punitive, despite their ineptitude. $229,000 in compensatory damages, seem to me at least, to be more than a suitable remedy.
Not that I know of. My particular flight was delayed because they had to replace a piece of the navigation equipment on the plane. This delay caused me to miss a connecting flight and that's how I ended up in an entirely different city.
There are other differences: Japan was essentially a fully developed nation by the time the crash hit, while large parts of China are not. Also, Japan has a more or less functioning democracy capable of letting its people changing those in power peacefully, while China does not.
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You know what's easier to criticize? Manipulating LIBOR and nobody going to jail. The downstream effects of instruments pegged to LIBOR is staggering, well, would be if the industry / reglatory agencies actually did anything of merit.

Remember, the main rationalization for Bernie Madoff's unbelievably consistent returns was that he was front-running, and fund after fund after fund after fund lined up to give him money. Besides, front-running isn't really where the big money is anyway. Insider trading is way, way more profitable from an individual standpoint.
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Sure, you're right to be concerned, it's no picnic. Some companies will go bust, and some investors will lose their shirts. It will hurt. It's not yet a systemic risk though. Of course the more the Chinese government panicks and tries to manipulate the market back up again, the worse it will get but right now it doesn't have to be all that bad.
It is a classic speculator's Ponzi Scheme, based on social contagion and mass hysteria, what else?
Still, a lot to pay for just refusing to remove a number from your IVR system.
The amount of daily UAL passenger seats doesn't change or grow radically over weeks or months. What is the scale-up here? Everyone using their phones to check rez/status/boarding passes?
Sure, we can just forget the past 30 years where they've been very successful at partnering with OEMs instead of trying to be one.
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That's a pretty bad way to look at a bubble and feel calm. In reality, most bubbles at start are bought in by smart money, insiders, big boys etc. and at the end (peak) are bought by retail investors - mom&pop, grandmothers etc. who are not sophisticated and put their life savings or borrow on margin and bet on single stocks (not the index). They see the rise in individual stocks and get in too late. These retail investors are feeling the pain right now and their loss is huge.

So yeah, I wouldn't feel calm about the bubble bursting.
It's not that impressive considering an article positing doom and gloom for China's economy has been in the mainstream news about once a week for the last decade. :-)
"Restructures" as in making it much smaller.
Assuming the basement did not get overly warm or humid and the tape was not wound too tightly, you have better than a 50% chance of recovery.

Most recovery labs will offer you an estimate of costs before you commit any money.
Microsoft is going with a bold new strategy here, to cover all market segments at once and try to please all customers. It's never been done before.
This is precisely why I moved to VoIP.

At least a couple of times a month for about a year, we'd get a fax call at around 2am. The phone company refused to do anything about it, saying that if it wasn't explicitly harassing, it was OK. That makes me not want to be their customer anymore.

So we switched to a VoIP service, which we can set up blacklists or whitelists for as we like. No more problems.

I think the underlying problem is that the TelCo just doesn't care: they're happy to lose you as a POTS customer. They lose money on residential service, so if they can go by the book for regulatory purposes and still shed those unprofitable customers, they're winning.
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