skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but Amazon as a retail operation is so well run with such excellent customer service it's hard to imagine Walmart outcompeting them.
While that sounds very good on paper, in reality it's going to be an issue unless they have a good way of keeping track of the sales of the franchises. If you buy into McDonalds you have Millions of dollars on the line and performance metrics to keep up with and thus it's easier for the parent company to keep you in line. If you're only investing $3000, it's easy enough to just mix in 50% beans from other/cheaper sources and claim your selling 50% less then you are. This is a solvable problem but to think the agreement they sign will be enough is naive.
Well, this is precisely what no user wants or needs. Slow clap to everyone involved.
Wearality Sky smartphone HMD review
Yeah but a lot of the moderation tools that the administrators use is behind closed doors.

It's like running a chatroom and doing moderation through a bot with a little DSL built-in. The bot itself might be FOSS'd, but all the little scripts that make it actually useful are shut away on someone's drive.

That's basically how reddit is. Automoderator is kinda neat, but it's not even CLOSE to being FOSS™
It seems to me one of the biggest problems is rampant NIMBYism.
Wow. $9K/year for unlimited private worldwide flights is an incredible deal. I've explored empty leg price specials before, there are even multiple private providers who offer these empty legs through Instagram -- and it's typically at least 9K for one flight (albeit for 6-12 passengers.) Managing the marketplace would of course provide efficiency and a lower price.

Surprised I haven't seen more high end marketplaces, except for at that price many customers expect concierge-level service. Or are there more of these than I have been exposed to??
I don't really understand the technical limitations too much, but the hardest selling point for me is that an ES Bonsai instance cost more than a Heroku dyno.

I couldn't get over the fact that I have to pay more for one feature in my app, than the entire cost of running the app...

I totally understand that the economics does not work out for you guys and that sucks. Hopefully things will change in the future.
Its only a feature if there is a sufficient amount of work one is interested in and a good chance that the recruiter can match you to a job. In my experience, there is a lot of garbage because recruiters throw a wide net without considering whether the job is a good fit.
I'd like to try it for an entire night. I've been meaning to ask my local float spa if that's something they'd be open to trying.

Along with avoiding water in the eyes, also be cautious of any open cuts or wounds (from shaving or blisters) - they sting just as much!
I'm living in Saigon and I've been living here as a "digital nomad" for the last five years.

The visa situation kind of sucks because it's a constantly moving target, though to be fair everything here is a moving target law wise. The government here can't make up their mind about anything.

He's right that the basics of living here are cheaper, but some things are ridiculously more expensive. And the longer you live here, the more that becomes apparent. My living expenses are around $3,000 a month, but I also have a baby and a wife. I live in a relatively high rent district (district 7) in a huge apartment.

I would disagree that street food is safe to eat. I've gotten parasites three times so far, food poisoning too many times to count. I can't remember the last time I had a solid bowel movement despite the relatively high fiber diet I have.

I worked out of a cafe for the first year, but couldn't imagine doing it now.

The traffic is amusing the first year or two, then it just becomes a pain in the ass. I don't drive a motorbike anymore because I have a kid.

Vietnamese culture will wear you down though, despite your best intentions to respect it. There are just some aspects that aren't worth respect, just like there are aspects of every other culture not worthy of it. But I think that only happens to people who stay here long term.
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I got that from a Robert Forward nonfiction book. The craft he described didn't have ramscoops, but were lightsail craft.
Maybe it's just me but I find smoking beforehand to be a shortcut to step 2.
As a San Franciscan all I can say is... where does one even begin to answer such a question? :-)
This appears to be offering a fundamentally different experience from Starbucks, whose business model, as I understand it, is to offer a bunch of weird, vaguely coffee-related drinks, but more importantly, space to sit down and drink them. With Wifi.

There are several variations of these running around Australian cities, however they still don't compete directly with cafes, as they provide a different service.
Great Node how-to Russell, thanks for sharing.
First of all, I like this device a lot. This, plus a good phone, plus a good app, and it's almost Oculus Rift DK2 quality. I was pretty surprised by that. If you're considering getting Google Cardboard or Wearality Sky, get the Sky.

But...

But...

I was never able to replicate the calculation for the 150 deg FOV claim that Wearality makes. My calculations say, for a 6" screen, the arms being 2.5" (I measured them from the 3D model as well as with a ruler), plus a 1/4 to 1/2 inch distance to the eye, you only get 95 to 100 deg FOV.

Better than Google Cardboard, but not 150 deg. This is DK2 range. That's bared out by the fact that apps with which I'm very familiar on the DK2 look pretty similar with the Sky.

I'd really like to know how Wearality calculates FOV. Because for how I know how to calculate FOV [0], for 2.75" from eye to display, you'll need over 20" of display to make 150 degrees.

[0] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9161524/fov.jpg
Here's another scenario: they could have colonized other worlds, but had no interest in setting foot on every last planet. Perhaps their culture is insular, and they are either apathetic to (or forbidden from) contacting us. It's not hard to imagine that we would be unable to detect them, either.
Jupiter is a "planet" in our parlance, though. But I guess that's just an accident of a bunch of very different things having the same range of brightness in our sky.
This was the same argument that salespeople would use whenever you stepped into a bank between 2005 and 2008 in Spain: "Real estate prices never go down". Then they did, and the most of the banking system in Spain went bankrupt. I'm using the Spanish example because it's the one that I am familiar with, but this happened pretty much in every developed country.

People tend to forget that generally we can't predict the future, specially not by extrapolating the data from the past few years. Ironically I think that economists tend to make this mistake more than any other group except for fortune tellers and weather forecasters.

Related to this I won't get tired of recommending "The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by NN Taleb [1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness/d...
His point may have been that there are some really obvious, ugly typos, especially in the BIG RED BANNER segments (which can only be fixed by redoing the imaged).
> I'd prefer if we reserve advocacy for when i get it to the point where there's public documentation, or at least examples :)

Very sorry, I'll keep quiet about it until you announce it is ready! :)
$900 a month for a two bedroom seems really high to me. You can get a nice 2br in Austin for around the same.
I don't understand how a pour-over coffee cart is going to scale (scale in the sense of one cart serving many customers quickly). It takes 2.5 - 4 minutes to make a pour over coffee, assuming the water is already boiled and the coffee is ground; and there is a limit, just based on physical space, to how many you can have going simultaneously in one cart, right?

The Philz truck in San Francisco seems to handle this alright, but they have 3 people making the coffee and 1 person taking payments, and they're charging 4+ dollars per cup for a known/cult brand.
This is great! I'm thrilled to finally see something like this.

I have a question, mostly about MySQL version of it: have you made some effort to natively support SSH port-forwarding/tsocks with this client? Because my experience is that it really works bad with the default client. But, TBH, I don't even know how much it depends on the client/server-side.
Open-sourcing my new blogging engine implementation
That's always been my take on rice too... as mainly a macro for carbs (or with brown rice, a bit of fiber).
One thing I've wanted to do, but is total impractical.. I want to put beacons on trees around the city that will provide information about the tree, for example what type of tree it is, when it was planted, etc. Of course, I could just put little signs on them and it would be available to more people. But it sounds cool.
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If you have the aws cli tool installed this will list all of your instances and their public IP addresses in all regions for you:

for region in `aws ec2 describe-regions | awk '{print $NF}'`; do echo $region; aws ec2 describe-instances --region $region --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[[Tags[?Key==`Name`]| [0].Value], PublicIpAddress]'; echo ; done
Most of the worlds population lives under peaceful conditions these days.
IBM has acquired Compose (Y Combinator startup)
There are many cities with tree plaques modern ones have qcode / nfc, some even have a text number so you can donate to "adopt" that tree.
CRTC accepts no bullshit!

> Bell, Bell Aliant, MTS, SaskTel and Telus, which today are the main installers of fibre optic cable in Canada, have argued that being forced to share the cables will eliminate their incentive for building them.

> But the CRTC said big telephone companies in practice have no choice but to continue installing fibre optic infrastructure, or risk losing market share to big cable companies like Rogers and Shaw. That's because without fibre optics, the telephone companies are stuck using copper cables that can only offer a maximum of about 50 mbps. The coaxial cable used by Rogers and Shaw is already capable of carrying 100 mbps.
My 2c: My previous company was circling the drain (lost main customer, slowly downsized from max of ~25 to me being #5 when I left.)

My job hunting was basically updating my profile on LI and light searching.

Contacted by a Recruiter. They updated my resume to look more professional. Working as a contractor-to-hire at a state IT position.

There is a lot of spam, and I have no interest in the "facebook lite" feel of the site... but I got a 20% raise, will get about the same when/if I get hired - with state position benefits.

Site is worth it for me for, honestly, the minimal amount of effort I put in to keep my resume updated and do slight interaction with those on the site.
Mirrors Edge is practically guaranteed to cause nausea unless you have an iron stomach. Doesn't have native VR support and it's a first person platformer. Not to mention the fact the CV versions of the headsets coming out are going to be a LOT less likely to cause motion sickness with the higher refresh rates, better screens and improved SDKs/tracking solutions bringing down latency and hopefully eliminating any judder.

Still, I don't think we'll really be seeing games like Mirrors Edge in VR for a long time, not until we've figured out locomotion that doesn't cause sickness. Things with 1:1 movement (ie the camera never moves unless you move your head) and/or things with static elements to give you a point of reference (like a cockpit, apparently even just having a helmet in your vision giving you a point of reference helps) basically don't make me sick. But if I try to play an FPS for even 10 minutes I come away rather queasy, whereas I can play Elite: Dangerous for hours with only minor discomfort (because I am sitting in a seat in the cockpit of the ship).
Thanks for the feedback!

Re in-between ads: Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should be :) Definitely something to A/B test.
I remember seeing this app a few months earlier. I'm surprised the company hasn't folded already, but I guess all the publicity it received & having a margin of ~70% (users pay $0.25 per txt, service pays $0.05) keeps it going.
I don't have Flash installed so it can't be that. Hm, maybe a browser issue.
>we're so far away that they would be seeing our "civilizations" in 615 AD: shrinking global population as the old Roman and Byzantine empires are overrun by barbarian hordes and Arab conquest, with some pockets of human progress in China.

Err, the Byzantine empire was still going strong for 6 centuries after that (and still existed, but not in a good shape, for 8).

It never got overrun by "barbarian hordes", but it did have a run in with thieving "supposedely christian horders" on their way to the Crusades in the 12th century, and was finally overrun by the muslim Ottoman empire in the 14th century.
> a customer that sits half a day with a laptop costs Starbucks money.

First, congratulations on your launch! I hope to try Wheelys out soon!

A bit of well-intentioned feedback regarding your positioning strategy: as I am often the customer you mention who sits at Starbucks (or other coffee shops) all day, I can assure you that the owners don't perceive me as a cost even though I don't buy much (I often speak with them and ask about life as a small business owner). In fact, at locations I often visit, it's very common (say 1 in 3 visits) for the managers to give me a tiny freebie. Maybe I'm just a likable guy, but I don't think I'm so charismatic as to completely warp their perception of me being a drain or a benefit.

I think one important point is that I make sure to buy something any time I'm taking up space and the place is crowded (say 70+% fill rate on seating space). But that's at most 2 hours per day (the morning pre-work rush and the lunch rush). In those peak hours I would agree that I am taking up valuable real estate and should contribute something to their upkeep.

Anyway, congratulations again and I hope to see one of your sites soon!
Some grist for Silicon Valley (Mike Judge's show):

> On a tactical level, I repeat this creative destruction almost weekly as I analyze an individual deal; on an operational level I do it every few months (re-evaluating my deal flow, co-investor network, deal structures, etc.); at a strategic level I sit down almost every year and question my overall philosophy on founders, theses, markets, etc.

[shorter: I don't only regret my mistakes but also try to learn from them.]

Otherwise a well-told story. Thanks.
The customer who sits half a day in a Starbucks is doing free advertising for Starbucks. A filled and busy shop attracts much more business than an empty one.
McDonald's was way ahead of everybody in this element of franchising strategy. Almost everything is McDonald's branded and must be purchased from Martin-Brower, their wholly owned distribution arm. (This is back in 1980, but back then the only food elements not McD-branded were the mustard, produce, eggs, and milk... and even those items had to be purchased from and delivered by Martin-Brower).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4843540
cumbersome is only a temporary thing, VR is definitely going to be an enthusiast thing for the next couple of years, but once the form factor/price starts coming down and the content is actually starting to come out at a reasonable rate I can't see it doing anything but exploding.

It's not something you can really understand until you've experienced it first hand, but I think the experience can turn a decent amount of people into enthusiasts.
I consider myself lucky if I get more than one a month. I understand the problem that you and others have with deluges of crap, but some of us are appreciative of any interest we get.

Also, hot Russian girls want to meet you tonight!
> We have sensitive telescopes. If there was life out there, we would have noticed.

I'm sorry, but that's way off.

Our current telescopes can't even see the majority of the exoplanets in our galaxy; we are made aware of their existence by observing the behavior of their host star (wobbling/dimming). Unless something is extremely close, unfathomably enormous, or emitting/reflecting large amounts of electromagnetic radiation (light, radio, etc.) that isn't bent/filtered/reduced to noise, then we are completely unaware of it.
Guilty here. It was a ~$500 lesson learned.
> Huh. It seems I'm the only one here who finds value in LinkedIn.

I don't get the hate either. When it comes time for your next job search, it's incredibly valuable to have a consolidated list of everyone you've ever worked with where you can see where they work now. When I was looking for some part time work while launching my (bootstrapped) startup, I reached out to about 50 people from my LinkedIn network and it worked out great for me.

As for spam, I just filter and/or ignore it (yes, I get a ton of it, maybe 10+ recruiter emails a day).
Replying here so that you'll hopefully see it:

WD Red drives do not have head parking disabled. In fact this is a matter of some annoyance in the NAS world, because the default settings (8 second timeout) lead to astronomical SMART Load_Cycle_Count numbers when used in a typical NAS. Google around and you'll see.

Run smartctl on your drives and check the value of Load_Cycle_Count. That's the number of times the drive has come out of head parking. Most of my WD Reds were over 100K before I noticed - the duty limit is 600K. idle3-tools on Linux comes with idle3 tool, which can read and alter the head park timeout.
There's http://libreboot.org/docs/install/index.html#flashrom_lenovo...

Since you're using gNewSense, you may appreciate what libreboot is doing with coreboot (libreboot:coreboot ~ kernel-libre:kernel)
This seems like a cool product, but there's one thing I don't get: how can the cart have zero carbon footprint if the burners run on butane?
I just had a discussion about this with a coworker.

I very strongly agree with this article. Diversity does not survive in expensive areas and I strongly believe that is worth preserving in San Francisco. I understand the problems rent-control causes, but if it were removed and all residential areas jump up to market price then diversity would be completely destroyed. That might not mean anything to a lot of people who work in tech(the feeling I get when I talk about it with coworkers), but I think it means a lot.
This title is misleading and clickbaity. Takeaway: Both Samsung are choosing to bring chip design in house as a differentiator, Qualcomm is getting its margins crunched because both Apple and Samsung are only buying low cost modems from them.

It is not Apple and Samsung that caused this, it was Qualcomm's inability to stay ahead of their own customers in chip development. If Qualcomm had the best chips, Apple and Samsung would not bring chip design in house.
How many users actually have BT on? I never have it on, and i don't anyone else who has it on unless they pair it with their car, and even then most of them prefer the USB pairing since it charges the phone.

Also abusing an already insecure standard and pretty much stitching this onto it doesn't seem like that much of a good idea to me, I wonder what effect all that spam has on actual compliant devices....

The good thing is that it doesn't support URL's that are longer than 18 chars, and only supports 14 top tier TLD's so pretty much USA only.

The odd part is that all their examples seem to use shorthand url's provided by goo.gl, but the .gl TLD isn't supported by the standard, eh? who thought this through?
Google Patent Programs
I imagine most start a company without ever investing money they can't afford to lose. Sure a few $1000 but nothing to make them broke. Instead the money comes from 'loseable savings', family gifts, profits, loans or investors.
Extremely unlikely. I'm sticking with the non-optimistic theory.

If it were really about protecting user privacy they could just have you re-enter your password to download the contacts, which is the industry standard thing to do when someone is logged in but doing something you think needs extra protection against them having accidentally left themselves logged in on a public system.

3 days is a good number for someone rage-quitting to let it slip off their radar and just lazily remain a user, not really a useful time period for security purposes.
The problem to me is that people want an amazing city with a booming economy and gorgeous landscapes to be "affordable" for the man on the street.

I think our progressive politics IS to blame: for deluding San Franciscans into believing such a thing is possible.
> You identify the key point: there is no distinction between classes and instances. Classes are first-class objects, that can inherit themselves, and so on, and so on.

Classes are first class objects in Python as well, and have their own inheritance hierarchy. (And so on, and so on.)

> Some languages (like Python) find they need these extra levels and introduce 'meta-class'es, this is irrelevant in JS.

JavaScript lacks metaclasses because it lacks the concept entirely… no? (Though perhaps you can take your FooClass and run it through a function, permuting it as desired, but then, you would still need to do that at every base-class's definition site.)

JavaScript programmers do opine often (in my opinion) that Javascript is "prototype -based", and not single-inheritance OOP. Yet an objects behavior in JS seems exactly that of Python; if I take an object, "obj", and access obj.some_attr, I:

1. In JS: look for the attribute on the object (getOwnProperty, essentially?)
In Py: look for the attribute on the object (in __dict__)
2. If not found, start
In JS: follow the prototype chain
In Py: follow the MRO

Python just gives me exceedingly better syntax to do it with, IMHO. (Which the new additions in the article help with — I'm referring to the article's first example, in good ole JS.) This is slightly different from Java and C++, which strictly separate the whole instance-data from class methods.
Yup, but as others said it might be better since Kepler doesn't detect all orbital planes. So it would be 0.0066 * 1/(fraction of orbital planes) -- but this boost is probably less than an order of magnitude? So still probably no luck for planets reachable within a lifetime eh :P
> space to sit down and drink them.

Nope, pretty sure it's coffee.

I spend a lot of time at my local coffee shop. Been going there ten years now, know the owners pretty well. I see way, way more people come in, get their coffee, and leave, then I ever see sitting down with their drinks to enjoy the ambiance.

Having a bunch of regulars does add character to the place, but the volume of business they do directly likely doesn't even make a dent on the top line. On the other hand, I've seen plenty of intown coffee shops with maybe three tables do brisk business.

The real problem with the business model is, unless you can figure out how to give each of these stands a big enough parking lot where you can serve an area larger than your customers can walk to, you're stuck in downtown. Office parks big enough to have their own cafe generally already do, they're unlikely to take you rolling in to compete with them lightly. It's a niche market, which is probably why nobody's tried a franchise model already.