skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are your coping tools for ADHD? I know friends who really struggle with it, unless they take medication.
Nice stuff. Java provides so much out of the box that it becomes confusing.
Having myself been invited to join AARP (the most powerful lobby in US, google it) for a few years now I can attest that unfortunately some old people just can't learn internet, even ones with strong engineering background and otherwise highly functional today. What happens to today's users in their eighties only time will tell.
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Venmo and a few other companies have benefitted from Precash's oversight, but asymmetric agency relationships are no longer a viable option.
Not this particular Github repo maybe, but once they start taking down stuff, they will eventually hit something that will make people quite upset. Though from what other social networks generally experience, that won't be enough to drive a lot of users away, usually just the core ones which is enough to start the momentum away from the platform.
| A lot of low level crime could be eliminated if people's communications could be accessed at will by law enforcement. |
Or by not having piddly bullshit actions be illegal in the first place... The only power a government actually has is to make criminals of its citizens.
..Which seems to be fairly on point with your link. Cheers.
I was not talking about blogging platforms and search engines. As another commenter said FLAC has everything we need. A lot of blogging platforms / search engines are as far from perfect as possible.
IBM acquired Rational Rose and was selling ClearCase to F500 companies for if I'm not mistaken: $13K/developer/year and ClearCase Lite for $2K/developer/year.
Twitter is not a public service for the government to censor. Even when it comes to terrorist organizations.
I get that, and I'm exactly the same. I'm not saying I don't need facebook, it's very useful for keeping up with people from around the world. I just need instant notifications (like you) :p
That's quite smart, in a devious way. You're probably much more likely to correct incorrect information than you are to fill out an empty form. I know I am.
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Browsers can influence the power usage of a computer but just having the thing on all day is a significant base load that needs to be met. Compared to that the websites that you visit likely have relatively little effect as long as the pages don't contain javascript that keeps on running, video or animated content.

How much difference there is between browsers then becomes a function of the different base-loads for the various OS's + the base load of using the browser in the first place + the efficiency of the rendering engine when rendering the pages under test.

Finding the power usage of the browser alone is going to be very difficult since you can't really run a browser without an OS and the various bits and pieces of hardware in the laptop which are not necessarily direclty related to running the browser.
For your point to make sense you'd have to believe that people ganged up on Eich because of the epithet "homophobe" and not because of the actions that led to that epithet being applied to him in the first place.
Glad to see someone in Washington speak some sense.

But wow what a disturbingly weak "The Post's View" editorial it has in the related links:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/compromise-needed-on...

It argues that people concerned about privacy "can rest assured" because keys will be protected by due process. Where to even begin, right?

This editorial (talking about my link, not the OP link) has undermined my respect for the Washington Post. Is this really still their view?
I see you offer stock photos, are these the users photos? Do we give up the rights to our own photos by using this service. Can you elaborate on this some more?
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What is YC's involvement in this? What are you referring to?
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By products of the process, left over reagents, whatever was used to extract or separate the product in question. Think heavy metals, intermediates and a lot of mystery chemicals.

It's not FDA approved and probably made in lab with the same stringent quality controls as the clandestine ones in China pumping out similar things.

The 98% purity thing shows that they weren't willing to put in the extra investment to run enough solvent washes / whatever to not poison their customers.
Not only do we have stuff 1000x faster/cheaper than before, but 3D XPoint is backed by intel and micron, both have colluded for decades on how to develop faster, cheaper, durable storage.
Yes, I'd also like to know the status of Flash in particular. However, they were pretty clear about the methodology of their test - their Macbook was factory-restored, they measured power using current measurement at the DC input and integrating over time, and all of the tests were automated usage. It's certainly the best power analysis that I've seen posted to HN in a while.

I'd love to see more of this in the future - a lot of tech gets thrown around on HN for its power efficiency, (GPU acceleration, media decoders, even different CSS animation types) and it would be nice to have actual numbers.
Could Mailcloud be the next Dropbox acquisition?
The rationale for it was an anti-competition lawsuit brought by the EU.

The pricing may be the same, you may even be able to download the components, but the difference exists and there is choice to select something without.

They may have been forced to do it, but you are paying for a product WITH media player, same price or not.
Airspace is big. A central registry where drones announce their flight plans, allowing other drones to selfishly avoid them, would allow for plenty of room for drones to make sure they stay out of each other's way.

I'm skeptical on drones, and I think all this is an effort by Amazon to get in the news. But this doesn't seem like the problem.
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I'm sure Facebook and Google will land on their feet.
> Company I am not allowed to disclose.

Aren't patents supposed to be public information ? One of the (rather hollow in practice) justification for patents is to (also) encourage eventual disclosure of knowledge.
Starting with known offenders is ok- a kind of collective intelligence on the worst ones. The trackers. Fuck them.
If you and people like you hadn't patented these things, they would've been able to use their work.

Thanks for the warning, at least.

:(
A little down the article:

> We used a factory-restored MacBook Pro Retina 13” to test each website on one internet browser at a time. No programs other than the browser were open.

I'm pretty sure a factory resetted Mac is a fresh install and that it won't have any caches or history. And since they don't mention plugins I'm going to make a wild assumption here and say they didn't install any after having loaded up the browsers on the machine.
Would you pay someone to tweak your Gmail inbox?
I'm skillful when it comes to Gmail, I use it from the inception and I developed ways to keep my inbox clean of unwanted emails through complex filters.

Now I'm thinking to take my knowledge to the next level and start a small gig, to optimize others inbox.

I know there are a lot of tips and tricks on the internet to get to inbox zero an so on but not everyone is into tech and not everyone has time to do it.

Would you pay for such a service? If so, how much do you think is fair?
Try doing this 10 years ago, putting your life savings into it, and then VCs and media companies "not getting it", your money runs out, and then you have to sell your IP simply to pay the rent.
> Most likely, that refers to the homeless.

Most likely, it refers to exactly what it says: poor people presenting for certain services; younger, minority, and low-income Americans are more likely than the population at large to be "smartphone-dependent", that is, have a smartphone as their sole source of internet access. [0] While it is (by far) not a majority in any of those groups, its a significant number.

[0] see, e.g., http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/01/6-facts-abou...
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To clarify, I do think that people should have access to the Internet if they want it, but there is a tendency on places like Hacker News to assume that once everyone is connected, we will solve societal problems (as opposed to individual ones, like elder citizens that need help), and it's entirely possible that it could introduce even more concerns. For example, studies have shown that the average viewer of Fox News is less truthfully informed than people who don't consume any news. Enabling information access also allows the propagation of knowingly wrong information, regardless of the source or intention.

If people want Internet access, they should have it, but we shouldn't fool ourselves into believing it will solve our greater problems, or that society will crumble without providing access to these last miles.
What I find most ridiculous is that this not only turns a free game into a paid one, but that they want a monthly fee for it, rather than a one-time purchase.
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Come on guys. Like all patents, the owner must be disclosed to the USPTO. A quick Google search turns up Flixor as the original owner, and "Big Tent Entertainment, LLC" as the current owner of some of the recent patents in this family. A further search of their website indicates it licenses various media technology to companies including "Concept One, Nintendo, Fifth Sun, Parragon Publishing, Harry Abrams, Kids Station, Merch Source and more".
All the details are available on the licensing page: https://tookapic.com/licensing

It's up to you if you want to share those photos as free, or even sell them for real money. You can of course keep all the copyrights and even watermark your photos.

You have all the choices on the upload page: http://cl.ly/c6Qt
Have seen numerous shipping container housing projects over the years and none of them really took off. To make containers truly livable long term (combining multiple containers, decent finishes, buildout etc) it seems to cross a price threshold where a person who can afford to do it would likely build a traditional dwelling.

This is more about creative subdividing to me. Whether it's a tent or a shipping container.
It's my (located in USA) precious data allowance, too. At the price I pay for mobile data - my plan comes out to $0.025/MB - I would not be at all surprised to discover that I'm paying more to be advertised to than you're being paid to carry the ad.
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>There's also the class of subtle insults like "I didnt know you could program". They're harder to correct, but with some self discipline, they aren't that hard.

No. Just. No.

Context matters extremely for this - and the assumption that they thought you couldn't program because of you gender is on you not them. That's why it's called an "assumption".

It's about perception. People who want to see negativity in it will and others won't. What if they're just genuinely surprised you can program because you've never talked about programming or shown you can program and it shocked them you were capable of it? How is genuine surprise an insult?

To illustrate my point:

"Your life is like a blank book."

1) You're free to write about whatever you want, to create your own decisions, and to decide what your book is going to be about. You have the ability to be anything you want to be - nobody has already written your book for you. It's yours to decide. (The common, positive perspective when this saying is used.)

2) You've done absolutely nothing in your life such that you've written nothing in the book. You're completely worthless and have accomplished nothing. If you had managed to ever accomplish anything in your life, your book wouldn't be empty. (Unnecessarily negative perspective that assumes an ill-intent where none was.)

You're assuming #2.
I went back to Cornell for first time in almost 15 years when school was closed for the summer.

You know what was strange, yet so refreshing? All the building doors were open for anybody to walk in, even at 10 pm at night.

It's a shame that I was too young to appreciate the school.
The patents are, but their ownership does not have to be.
Startups should make money
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And by "codes", you mean specific legacy software artifacts written in FORTRAN (note that I'm not even spelling it as Fortran)? Of course that's a problem.
Minimal Open Sound Control library written in C
And it had to be fucking Miliband?!

Well that said: https://www.reddit.com/r/gentlemangabers

(Before you go dig up the actual source code: it just uses a web service to get the coordinates of the faces)
I also wonder what the effect of enabling https everywhere and uBlock.
The statement of discussion was

> User experience is what Apple puts above pretty much everything else, and they’ve decided that they don’t like it the experience available through the ad-supported web, and so they’re going to do something about it.

My points were evidence to the contrary of that statement. I was not discussing the motivations of Google in regards to their users.

My point is that Apple's business model is about expansive control of a highly profitable user base. It uses an expensive device purchase(which increases the pain point of a user leaving) through aggressive marketing to attempt to be the primary source of as many monetary behaviors of that user as possible.

Flash(and upcoming AIR) was at the time a true contender for becoming the cross platform desktop/native type application interface. Once Apple banned Flash, companies moved away from the platform and it withered.

Since you brought up the Android browser, we can use it as an example of a company who would prefer to increase the use of the web. Google actively tries to increase adoption of the mobile Chrome browser as it cannot control the the updating schedules of phone vendors. Bases upon browser statistics it appears Google is having some success.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-US-monthly-201406-...

Google is not any better, but we can look at the difference in their behavior as an example of a difference in business model. Google and Facebook are somewhat dependent(at this time) on some attributes of the web. This difference in these companies(including Apple) can be shown in their support for deep linking.

http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/james-turner-urx-deep-link...

And to prove I am not picking on Apple directly, part of Google's business model is to leverage their search results to expand into other monetary behaviors of their users as well.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/15/8613839/google-adding-buy-...

Technology implementations by large tech companies are typically more indicative of their business intentions as opposed to their abilities. I'm not saying that Apple is any worse than any other company. Only that their particular business model at this time is, in my opinion, the most dangerous to the overall ecosystem and tech economy.
Lots of other commenters have remarked about the lacking rigor and narrow scope of the tests. It would be interesting (and time consuming) to re-run this test with many more parameters:

* Fresh install of OSX vs fresh install of Win8.1/Win10 on capable Macbook. (I'm unsure about Linux or other distros running on Macbooks, add that to the test if it's feasible.)
* Javascript enabled and disabled.
* Flash enabled and disabled. As well as Silverlight and other media players.
* Various adblockers, tracking blockers, and content filters (like Adblock vs Adblock Plus vs uBlock vs uBlock origin, etc. And uMatrix and Ghostery et al.) This could become its own research project.
* Logged into tracking sites (e.g. Facebook) vs logged out.

Maybe this testing could be automated with Puppet/Chef?

Edit: Windows 10 would be a definite option instead of Win8.1. I was unaware Win10 would operate on a Macbook, but in retrospect I suppose there's no reason it wouldn't.

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Note that high-power-consuming sites also consume more electricity on desktop PCs; this is less of a concern because they are on a constantly-replenished power system. The concern may be closer to that for CFL vs incandescent lights, where we can make a few changes to the system and make it vastly more efficient, multiplied by a large userbase.
https://vimeo.com/29348533
Not all users are alike. 1 sr engineer is probably worth 1000 teenagers in regards to revenue potential.
What I could see happening is premium content being bundled
by ISPs. Pay for X package from Y ISP, get content from A, B
and C websites. Kind-of like how TV channels are bundled.

That's a different can of worms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
In fairness, "nobody gives a shit how the sausage is made."

If this product adds value to people's lives, why does it matter if they lifted the website design?
The classic post on the matter:

http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/filestorage/s1tuNpZALtb...
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> Aren't patents supposed to be public information ?

Private agreements can restrict a person's comment on things without regard to whether the information is already public.
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I'm thinking about holding a Tesla Hackathon and looking for a few themes. Any ideas?
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I think there's a lot of interesting things that are going to be happening at the intersection of health and wearables in the next few years. $100k likely isn't enough to start a full-fledged company, but it's enough to create a good enough prototype to get some outside investment

Some ideas for said company that I'll probably never implement because I don't have said $100k:

- Running shoes that give feedback on your running form using pressure sensors and accelerometers. Depending on the type/placement of sensors, could also double as a weight tracking device that doesn't require you to weigh yourself

- Smartwatches aimed at diabetics, which can continuously monitor insulin/glucose levels, while also serving other smartwatch functions. Alerts for low/high levels.

- System that would let paramedics/doctors access recent pulse/skin temperature/etc data from a smartwatch and display it in a usable manner. Could help figure out what happened in the minutes leading up to an emergency call.
For a patent troll it makes perfect sense. Rig the line and wait for a bite.
I was the person on stage with Urs who ran the demo (I'm a computational biologist who went to Google to help them build this kind of infrastructure, because DOE wasn't doing it). Read more about the demo here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/io

I also helped create the original idea for the Broad collaboration. It was pretty obvious that standard HPC was a waste of money and not designed for high throughput biology, while Google published numerous papers (MapReduce, GFS, Bigtable) that demonstrated they were building infrastructure that was perfect for a wide range of computational biology programs.
If he's influencing things, let's hope he didn't influence their previous editorial board editorial on this, because it's downright naive and stupid. See link in my other comment in this thread.
> They built tablets and phones that were very interesting for people who want to add Debian repos to their phone.

Did you ever use an N9? It was nothing like that.

The 770 tablet, and such, sure. But the N9 was quite far removed from the geek toy tablets.
You Tube is not a general purpose computing machine. Look up "turing complete" to get a sense for what the argument is about.
First place prize should be a blow up doll of Elon Musk so people have something to fellate.
Not exactly sure what the article was going for. Maybe the importance of N-type transistors (they are useful just for being more efficient). Silicon transistors are widely known for failing in a shorted state.
I'm not meaning to criticize you personally (at all). I'm just saying that the idea of being able to "declare ownership" of what is essentially a series of mathematical operations just doesn't feel quite right.

I realise that people have to make money some how, but developing a useful, competitive, monetisable product that people are able to choose to buy is, in my opinion, the way forwards. Patenting the technology so that you can operate without competition rather than developing your product to stay ahead of the competition "organically" seems like the wrong way of doing it to me.

Perhaps I'm an idealist, and need to get real...
Agree. My experience matches the test, but that's not surprising: I'm sure Office runs better on Windows, too...
Intellectual property...? Also this is generally the kind of community that cares.
Or instead of thinking of them as potential audiences for whatever you are selling, you could care about them as people, and care because it is hard enough to lift yourself out of poverty, why make it even harder by living without the resources available online?
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Where to begin?

There are many existing valuable codes written in FORTRAN. They work, it's not worth the investment to replace them with something else.

Second, many of the codes are in C++, not FORTRAN. Not clear that's any less of a problem.
Marginal productivity of the nation depends on all sectors having the essentially same infrastructure. Rural and poorer parts of the nation are in such a mess that these people are dissuaded from using the Internet to find jobs or government services.
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The amount of mathematics that goes into automating faceswaps is awesome. The fact that anyone can do this at home with the sole purpose of generating a funny image is great!
My mom was a bit like yours (afraid of destroying it). After I convinced her that there's no self-destruct button on PCs, she doesn't think like that. I don't think my dad had that fear, but despite using computers for over 20 years, he still hesitates every so often to decide whether to right click or left. I have them on Linux anymore.
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I like where you're going with this.
I'd then go with

robot.keys.enter()

(since enter is a function, not a constant) and make it chainable by returning `robot.keys`.

robot.keys.ctrl().enter()
I absolutely agree that the problem remains hard. However, it's not so much that you can't avoid building a system with wants and values of its own; it's that you have to implement a system for how exactly to value what we value, especially when there are a lot of us and we don't all share identical values.
What? Yes they do. They look for the chemical itself or its metabolites. Getting a sample sent off to a lab usually means "give this to a facility that can perform a GC/MS or whatnot and has enough reference samples on hand to determine what is in this fluid"
I think "free with ads" is being done backwards most of the time. It's all about analysing the user to algorithmically determine the best pre-designed ad to serve them. It's tacky and people are extremely good at ignoring it, even without ad blockers.

"Free with ads" should be that my favourite authors get paid to use a product or service and then write about it if they like it. I don't want to see ads for things that a computer predicts I will like, I want to see ads for things that someone I enjoy reading, and share similar tastes with, likes.
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However, since the US military recently labeled climate change as the #1 national security threat to the US or something like that, maybe we could hope for some climate science on the side? ;-)