skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be blunt, I see no point in getting an Apple Watch for numerous reasons (price would be another one for me). But your 1. and 3. sound exactly like the complaints about all the early Apple devices.

I still don't get why we need something between a laptop and a smartphone (especially since it's not really 50% laptop but more 99% smartphone + 3 times the screen size) but hey, even I am tempted to get an iPad, nowadays. I held out on buying an iPhone for a long time since I found it way too fragile but now, of course I have one in my pocket. And let's not forget about the iPod release: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

I see no reason for the Apple Watch to succeed but even less reason to trust my instincts.
Tae Kim's work is probably the equivalent for Japanese [0]. I think his "complete guide" is still a work in progress, but his grammar guide is pretty much the defacto free resource.

[0]: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/
$9/server? lol.
How can you figure out whether a software is vulnerable? Parsing public CVEs and matching with version number?
Here's another youtube video that goes more extensively into the mechanics of the accident. It's pretty remarkable that they were able to work out the position of the control rods, given that they were blasted around the room during the accident, bent, broken and (in some cases) embedded in the ceiling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbaE_0LANc
Why are these people the "world's top developers"?
You can start in a niche and grow out. Like Brooklyn.
I still remember the frequent Wikipedia vandalism over his conviction.

People were regularly editing the "Comparison of file systems" article to add columns such as "Creator jailed" and "Kills your wife".
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Would it inconvenience you very much to not use such language on HN?
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Unless they're watching updates from repos, it'd be very hard to automate this. CVEs are very far from reliable.
Ask HN: Any tech founders applying to YC Fellow and want a non-tech co-founder?
Hey everyone,

I am a non-technical individual looking to get some experience in startups. I tried two before as a sole founder and failed.

One idea I had for a startup was called Genghis: technical founders can list their profile and Genghis will send you non-technical individuals that actually want to work on your ideas/startup.

I see Genghis as a solution to the question so many non-technical entrepreneurs ask (while pissing a lot of people off): "I have an idea, what do I do next?"

I believe if you're asking this question, the best thing a non-technical individual can do is to put away their own ideas and go out and help a technical founder execute on THEIR ideas/vision.

What do you all think about that? Is it something you would find useful and helpful?

Anyways, I'm going to roll the ball here myself. I am looking to join a startup as a non-technical founder and help you with your startup idea. I can help you validate your idea, market your product, and get traction.

Cheers,
Ari.
Interesting. Also, urban structures are founded upon right angles, and the urban experience is very linear. The rigidity of urbanity is in stark contrast to the variable angular expression of nature. It's interesting when great architects works are praised that push the limits of structural integrity and aesthetic, finding more varied expressions of structure, because that new creation seems to be reaching towards nature in the sense that we are valuing the variation.
I still don't understand why it wasn't.

I distinctly remember the first iphone presentation and seeing [1] and thinking it was the first phone user interface where there was a clear, obvious way to mute or speakerphone a call without checking a manual or accidentally hanging up.

[1] http://i.ytimg.com/vi/c_m2F_ph_uU/maxresdefault.jpg
Apparently there's already a Kepler discovered planet with an ESI of 0.98:

http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/dat...

EDIT: Unless that list was literally just updated with ESI 0.98 planet this thread is referring to...
It's very small and written in golang and up on github https://github.com/appcanary/agent/

We understand how some people might have problems / have plans to improve upon it - maybe we run a proxy or some kind of enterprise edition.

But we think the main pain relief comes from knowing what you have deployed is now fixed.
Thankfully that is incorrect.

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/10/02/what-is-prior-art/id=12...
Thanks for joining the conversation! To clarify, I didn't mean to insinuate that I thought anyone was necessarily lying; it's more of a "surprised" weird. Surprised because:

(a) Based on your story, Airbnb got accepted into YC early (or at least received a strong enough signal that they would be accepted). I don't think that's inconsistent with Airbnb or YC's account, I'd just never heard about it before (amidst a ton of lore about Airbnb's early days at YC).

(b) Airbnb had the foresight to see that YC's deal was better than yours. This would actually have been non-obvious in 2008: Dropbox was only a year old, Stripe didn't exist yet, and YC's best-known successes at the time would have been Heroku and Reddit. Not to mention the fact that you were offering them 10x the cash at 10x the valuation.

So it is "weird" in the way that history is kind of weird. I don't doubt your version of events though, and I appreciate you sharing it.
These are absolutely fantastic books. They hit the nostalgia buttons, but then go into some nitty gritty details about what these things were.

Racing the Beam absolutely changed how I think about pixels on a computer screen in a way that's hard to explain, but is quite profound.
Pretty sure these all apply for Mars and Venus and they're dead planets. Not sure why everyone is assuming some exo-planet must have life when the two other examples we have don't.
Do judges count how it is intended to be used? If we are counting only use and not intended use, then this just means that if a bunch of pirates (or worse) are your initial users then you are in the wrong. That sounds absurd (though I could see a lot of people, in tech and otherwise, wanting to make Tor illegal because of one of its predominant uses). But if it is based on intention, it still doesn't differentiate between the technology being intended for legal use that may not different from illegal use, which is no less absurd. Consider a tool that allows pushing apps onto phones. It is intended primarily to allow apps to be pushed, but the tool has no way to check if the user pushing the app onto the phone has the legal right to push the app and the legal right to push software onto the phone in question.

It seems that making this a legal minefield that requires an existing well funded legal department is nothing short of regulatory capture.
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>> Because of the company's rules my name needed to be on the patent despite my objections.

Then you had the ability to stop it.
I see @stkim1 is also the author of the blog. Performance-wise, how does this RPi cluster compare to a more standard platform? Did you make it only as a development platform or do you intend to have production code running in it?
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My behavior has completely changed in the 2 months I've had one. Notifications are the biggest one. My phone stays in my pocket more often, I use it very actively to pay for things, and of course as a tracker.

Is it a must have? No, but it works very well for me.
I think you may have missed the point. Apple isn't trying to position this as just a "fancy watch", they're trying to position it as the next must-have consumer item.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9928904 (Social Justice, Ideological Hijackings, and Ideological Security)
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I don't think you can legally download the video from Youtube; their TOS prohibits this. Of course I don't think Youtube has sued anyone for this and it's not a big deal.

Copyright wise it's legal I believe to use the content.
Just curious, how is this related to the article on which you're commenting?
Awesome. My name in Korean ( sort of ) http://imgur.com/BelRtBC

Ryan is a genius. This really works!
Edit:

I think OP is referring to the Kepler Candidate KOI-4878.01 [0] with the ESI as 0.98.

[0]: http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/DisplayOver...

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This post is ridiculously clickbaity! There should be a {{citation needed}} tag there or the title be changed.

Anyways, the anticipation for the 9AM PDT announcement is feverish.
While there are some exceptions to the rule, yes this is a problem. But much of what you are going to do with amateur radio links is amateur-related with a custom software stack.

Non-amateurs probably see this as a way to connect to the internet, while amateurs don't really see that as the point. There will be direct connections in some ways, but the same mindset that makes hardware from the ground up is going to be more interested in creating software stacks from the ground up and making gateways rather than simply using modern internet software on an amateur internet.
I've worked for 2 corporations - each time I ended up tired, burnt out and devoid of any social life.

They delivered a lot of perks - money, sport pass, private health care - but in exchange created a very stressful workplace filled with meetings, performance reviews and many people who didn't bother to help when I struggled with some part of project I was not familiar with. I've gained 20kg in a year, was nearly depressed and hated myself for working there. I hated how with all buzzwords and bullshit smiled managers made me fill guilty that I don't sit there more than 8h a day and that I were slower than people who had 12 times (literally!) more experience than I did.

Now I work remotely for startup on B2B. My wage is bit lower, I have no medical and sport perk but finally I have enough sleep and enough time to take care of myself. I often go out and meet my friends as often as I can. I am finally rested enough to workout and I feel my life improve each day.

Whether corporate life makes one shine or feel miserable is a matter of particular company, manager, team, stack and several other factors. Some people are truly happy for being there, some, like me and most of my friends, promise themselves to never ever work there again.
Getting past programming interview questions without a CS degree
I'm a quantitative analyst at a financial firm, but am trying to break into a developer role within finance. I use a lot of Matlab and Java in my work, so I thought I'd be able to do ok on the technical interviews after practicing with 20 or so problems on HackerRank.

At places where I've interviewed so far, I've gotten questions involving abstract syntax trees and dynamic programming. What?? I had to look these things up after the interview I obviously did not do well on.

How does someone like me, without a CS degree, get past these types of problems, or break into these types of roles?
> everyone in the industry should've been more bullish on open source standards

This, 100x this. Look at the pedigree of Xiph[1] - non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests.

1. Ogg/Vorbis

2. FLAC

3. Opus/Speex - low latency voice codecs

4. Theoria video codec

5. Icecast

etc.

These people know how to get stuff done.

There is also Google's VP9. It has comparable quality to HVEC, and recently released libvpx 1.4.0 which adds support for 10-bit and 12-bit bit depth, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 chroma subsampling, and VP9 multithreaded decoding/encoding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9

[1] https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Main_Page
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Even if you can show the intention of the developer was to aid the user in taking a certain action, if that action can be legal in some cases, how can that be held against the developer?

Is a gun scope illegal because it helps a shooter hit their targets where sometimes shooting those targets is an illegal action? Should torrenting be banned because it is often used to transfer illegal files even though there are a lot of legal files in use as well?
Being in a wooded area triggers my anxiety. I'm constantly itching, scratching and worried about ticks (as others have mentioned here). Obsessively to the point of not being able to relax. I have no affinity for flowers or trees or any such thing -- I'm just not built that way.

But there are other ways to enjoy Nature -- the beach for instance. It doesn't have to be a stroll through the woods or a hike. It can be just as freeing and relaxing to be on a beach.

Well, except I'm a pseudo-ginger (red beard, blonde hair, pale and freckled). So I'm usually under a giant umbrella, coated in the strongest SPF blocker I can be. And a big straw hat to boot.

Hell, now that I think about it, the Outside is trying to kill me. I should stay home more.
It has to be powered on, but the iPhone can call 911 from the lockscreen. This was very useful a couple times on the road (where I do my best to minimize non-map viewing phone usage while in motion) before the fingerprint unlock feature was added.
There needs to be an easier way to transition from spreadsheets to an application. A spreadsheet that was based on programming principles rather than business principles would be fantastic.

Also, a spreadsheet that was much more scriptable for someone who didn't want to learn VB.NET would be a dream, as a programmer.

Disclaimer: I don't generally pay for software out of my own pocket.
There's a stunning amount of elbow grease involved in that.

If you're a random company, you have an engineer sitting around whose job involves reading a dozen mailing lists - and we want to save everyone from that redundancy.
Does it cover the whole of Greater London?
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Sorry, I just saw this now and I doubt you will see it 6 days later, but just in case:

The main problem with that approach is (or at least used to be; I would love to learn that it's changed) that the browser will still load the 1x image first. Since the large chunk of retina users are on mobile devices, that sucks.
Roughly eighty full-time people work in fact checking
and the research/library at Der Spiegel. It calls this
its “Dokumentation” department. Another thirty or so
part-timers also do duty at the magazine.

In an advertising/click-driven 'news' outlet, this would probably be considered, at best, not worth the investment, and at worst, ridiculous. The business case for fact checking (beyond the bare bones you need to avoid law suits) seem to be dying.
Earth itself is probably at 0.96 by now.
Kind of funny because a friend of mine was doing Packet Radio TCP/IP around the time this article was written. He was an Amateur who installed some of the first "professionals", police cars with this technology.
1,075 light years away... Assuming we could somehow accelerate a "New New Horizons" probe to near light speed, that's a disappointingly long time to wait for a flyby.
To have an ESI, an object needs to have a mean radius, a density, an escape velocity, and a surface temperature. Gas giants and stars, therefore, don't really have a definable ESI, since they lack a 'surface' where you can take a temperature.

If something has all of those properties, then because of the way it's defined, it has an ESI which is strictly > 0 and <= 1 (it can only be zero if, for one of its properties, x - x0 / x + x0 == 1, i.e. x - x0 == x + x0 - and since x0 is strictly nonzero, that can't happen). So nothing has an ESI of 0. But you yourself, to pick an object at random, probably have an ESI very very close to zero.

Incidentally, the formulation of the ESI is a good generic formula for creating 'similarity' measurements for, for example, matchmaking algorithms or similarity searches.
We have a "flag" link. I believe it is appropriate for this post.
A couple years ago I walked a trail that the US Forest Service had developed several decades prior. There were quite some signs discussing the beautiful views out over the river valley and a lot more trees completely obscuring those views.
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Garmin has a much better offering in their Vivosmart product. Every Fitbit I've owned has failed within 4-5 months and their very developer hostile when it comes to data export and access to your own step data.
That's the smartest take on it that I've heard.
My issue with the tracking is that the data is locked in. My opinion would change if they made an integration/export API.
Oh yeah I know, I think there's value in what you're trying to do. I would pay 9/m if it also covered application dependencies. I was just curious how it works. What's the time between CVE release and getting a notification from your service?
Are you storing the results of computation on the SD cards? Personally, I've mounted every directory that needs to be written to a tmpfs, USB disk or network mount as appropriate, and I've configured fstab to mount the root fs in readonly mode.

You can still write by just doing "mount -o remount, rw /" beforehand.
So, if I, like many here I presume, built one of these time series databases long ago prior to this patent, and that "invention" is still active in real production systems, can I claim prior art?
In many cases, "amateurs" are the professionals. At a local university, all electrical engineering students are required to get a ham radio license. Many radio engineers are also licensed amateurs (how else do we get an amateur repeater on a 750 foot commercial tower?). It is designated as "Amateur" by international treaty, and that refers to its purpose, not necessarily the people involved.

For example, if you read the original article, I certainly wouldn't call the people doing all of that work "amateurs" in any sense other than the laws that apply.

Edit: I'm sorry, I can't leave this one alone. Amateurs do not "clutter" the bands. They have specific frequencies they can use that do not interfere with military or other use. And as a first responder, I can tell you that a lot of "professional" radio usage is very unprofessional to the point of causing problems and even endangering lives. There are many cases where an experienced "amateur" can make much more efficient use of bandwidth than many professionals.
Seems unlikely that anything would be physically going there and back any time soon. We haven't even been able to get some soil from Mars back to Earth yet.
But is it a Class M planet?
Those vans typically drive on the Bucharest-Pitesti-Catiulata-Sibiu-Deva-Arad-Nadlac route, outside of that you won't be seeing them but on that road they're impossible to ignore.

That's also a road on which you simply should not cycle.

Now that the M1 is open on a large part of those stretches it has gotten a lot better, there are still three dangerous segments left (along the river, up the black mountain and near Lugoj).
Ask HN: My startup is getting sued by a known patent troll. What to do?
We are still small enough that going bankrupt is a realistic option for dealing with this.

That's a really crappy option, because we have 2 years of work put in to our product, a community developing around what we're building, and we're just about to start shipping actual product to crowdfunded preorders.

The company suing is a non-practicing entity, and has been shaking down others in our industry for a while.

Are there resources out there specifically for people dealing with patent trolls? This is a stupid patent that has been around for 15 years and never been challenged.

Any recommendations from the HN community on good lawyers for these situations, good resources for locating prior art, or anything else? Even just stories from someone who's "been there" would be helpful.

We're just totally helpless at this point, and thinking of all of our hard work getting destroyed over this is heartbreaking.
I haven't had my morning coffee and I misread 'reply' as the username and thought you were having a big, multi-threaded conversation with yourself. :) I even vaguely thought 'is that guy's name reply?'
When you are the biggest company in the world, everything you do has to be big, otherwise it's a distraction.
To add to the other replies...I bought the sport watch. It wasn't supposed to be fancy.
Not just energy density, it's also a stability issue. A significant chunk of energy usage is constant (base load), and there's also a fraction that varies over time as everyone comes home after work and turns on their air conditioners and ovens (peak load).

Base load is ideally handled by an energy-dense approach that produces a very stable level of power. Peak load can be handled with more variable sources of energy, but at the end of the day these are usually backed up by gas-fired plants that can be quickly spooled up to match demand.

The problem with photovoltaic solar is that its capacity undergoes a significant level of variance on both an instantaneous and a medium-term scale (time of day). As such it's best treated as a peak source. Otherwise you need enormous, enormous batteries to try and smooth the load. Using electric car batteries and so on is a good idea from the perspective of the utility, but it's a raw deal for the consumer. The lifetime of a battery is limited by charge/discharge cycles as well as time, and they're stealing your cycles. A replacement battery is an enormous chunk of change, it's about the same cost as replacing an engine.

Note that this is not true of all solar techniques. For example, there's a solar-concentration technique that stores heat in molten salt, which helps to smooth out short-to-medium variation. When you lose the sun, you get a smooth curve that deteriorates over a period of hours to days rather than an instant dropoff. This is suitable for use as a base source.
OP has other source, this is been making the chatter rounds in SV last night. I overheard from a JPL source.
Doing some ad-hoc searches, it appears that recommendations tend to favor shows with the same writer rather than shows in the same genre. I'm guessing this is because writers tend to have a similar writing style across genres.

For example, search for a Joss Whedon show and get Joss Whedon shows recommended.
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And you can. There is absolutely no law stopping your from picking up people in a car and taking them places. On land you own.

When it is communal land, communal rules are made (sadly they far too often benefit a well connected minority, but the concept itself isn't bad).
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New bacteria probably wouldn't be resistant to antibiotics. The bacteria on Earth is likely far more dangerous.
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I also recommend http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/. Sounds like it would fit your use case well.