skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Post your proofs: How much is this worth?
What is the value of a stream of payments rounded to the nearest penny that looks like this: $10 in the first year, $19 in the second year, 27$ in the third, $34, $40, $45 and so on continuing forever, including getting smaller and ultimately paying negative payments. Assume an interest rate per year, compounded annually of 10.12606%
> I guess I assumed when people throw something out, they don't value it sufficiently highly.

When people throw something out, they are valuing the thing as disposable trash more than the thing staying around. This isn't to say that this valuation is "right" or "wrong," which is context that your comment is adding. Specifically, the context is, "the valuation is wrong because it doesn't achieve some other goal that I care about." The labeling of the valuation as wrong and implying it is generally known is what I'm objecting to.

> Not everyone does it and in some circles, storing plastic bags from the store in a drawer marks you out as some sort of frugal weirdo.

Weird. It's totally normal where I come from (Massachusetts), to the point of you can walk into someone's house and ask, "Where do you keep your plastic bags?"

I don't think it's particularly admirable IMO. It's just convenient. :-)
I wouldn't mind a Burroughs on a Chip today given details below

You're looking for the Unisys SCAMP[1] in a Unisys Micro-A. It's a single chip implementation of the A-series mainframe architecture running MCP packaged in a "desktop"(ish) package. Very nifty. These days Unisys will sell you what amounts to an A-series emulator running on a Xeon. For a lot of money.

[1] Not SC/MP. Different chip.
It doesn't have "pinche" which is about the most common Mexican curse word.
Yes, mankind has never heard of a silver bullet diet fad before based on some foreign "secret". This must work.
> ...has anyone experienced or witnessed a Mac virus in the wild?

Yes, my shop has had several legit malware removals for Macs, most of them were either Mackeeper or Genieo (or its variants), which was probably installed beginning with a malicious ad on some site the user was visiting.

(I'm not disputing that the situation for Mac users is still significantly better than for Windows users though.)
I heard a country in europe stopped drugs import from india on quality concerns. Is that true? Is that the real reason or is there more behind that decision?
For what it's worth, the "Nova" story is a myth: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
> Well enough to get three patents and independently invent ray tracing, if anyone is interested.

It seems that Mr. Nelson has an implicit respect for patents, but I don't know why. I guess he can't be right about everything, or can he?
Similar app for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/profanity-check/id923020053

Blog post: http://blog.lexiconbranding.com/2015/05/12/our-first-iphone-...
Hanging round the necks or sitting in the pockets of tourists, most probably.

Seriously, most CCTV cameras are attached to buildings. If there are people genuinely expecting privacy standing outside because they can't see anyone inside the building observing them, then I have an invisibility cloak to sell them.
I don't think most people would mind having their source code on their Grandma's table. Free off site backups :)
System interactions tend to be where there are mis-communications or bugs in API and cause issues during development. Especially if you are building on another companies service.

That isn't it though, there are the non-functional aspects of the system that the design will need to take into account. Things like scalability, performance, etc.

For example, think of a SaaS application that handles taxes. How would you design the interactions with government systems & banks, how would security work and how would you handle performance? That's what I meant by risky areas - risk to the project success, areas that may not be well known in the solution yet and may be "moving targets". Writing out the software that implements the tax law is probably a daunting task but should be very well known (probably a giant if/else tree with basic math).
This is a great article and the estimates are decent for what it is. The ultimate point is absolutely right: you will not make money on your first production run. But there are three big warnings that should be in BLINK tags under the headline:

(1) This is a decent estimate for a completely commodity product (Bluetooth headphones). No iOS/Android app development, no content development, very little custom firmware or electronics development required. (That correspondingly means you face the least differentiation and the most competition.)

(2) This is for a "plastic and PCB" product build. That's as simple as it gets. Any product that goes beyond a PCBA inside a plastic enclosure is usually going to have significantly greater design and engineering challenges, not to mention COGS costs. Moving parts? Temperature? Water? Cameras/lenses? Sensors? etc.

(3) The marketing / customer acquisition cost is either ignored or assumed to be some laughably small number. Even at its highest, this article assumes $3/unit customer acquisition cost. That's ridiculous (go look at Fitbit or Gopro or any other filing statements). If it were true, a lot more people would go ahead and get that initial capital to make their own Bolt-o-Phones.

(Disclosure: co-founder of a hardware startup https://www.pantelligent.com/ and about to ship our first production run.)
Not only does the newborn owe $54k share of public debt on average, the baby also owns (directly or indirectly) $54k worth of government bonds on average.
Does Blaze implement its own BLAS subroutines? Or does it wrap around an existing BLAS library?
Realistically, sadly, it was never going to be a sudden thing. When it does happen, I don't think many people even notice until someone prominent makes noise about it.

This isn't the worst possible outcome by any means.
You CAN (and Should) Measure Software Engineering Performance
If you mean IE9, then no it doesn't. I'm not sure how it handles IE10.
Shameless plug: here is my GPL'd MATLAB implementation of Chebyshev approximation [1]

[1] https://github.com/daniel-levin/numerical-methods-3/blob/mas...
Fortunately! He could have done a lot more damage if he was sharper and it would have taken longer for his contemporaries to come to their senses. Ditto Hitler.
And what of those around you?
Shameless self-plug coming here, but it's pretty directly relevant: I've recently started tinkering with rust on a handful of STM32 "discovery" boards. I'm currently focusing on building a low-level environment to use as a foundation for higher-level HAL projects like zinc. The code is still pretty rough around the edges and evolving fast, but I'm open to collaboration and willing to help deal with breakage due to the current pace of change, as time permits, if anyone just wants to build something on it.

https://github.com/mokus0/stm32.rs
There were a few that were recommended:

1. Side bridge. Laying on your side, raise the hips up with your weight on your feet and elbow. Hold until failure. This improves the endurance of the lateral musculature.

2. This requires a box with an incline of ~55 degrees. Get in a sit-up position with the back against the incline and with the feet secured to the ground. Have someone pull the box back a few inches. Support yourself as long as possible until any part of your back touches the box. This improves endurance of the flexors.

3. The upper body is cantilevered over the end of a bench or table with the feet secured. The arms are held across the chest with the hands on the opposite shoulders. Failure occurs when the body drops below horizontal.

4. Bird-dog exercise. Starting on your hands and knees, raise one leg and the opposite arm out to horizontal and hold for ~10 seconds at a time.

5. Curl-up. NOT a sit-up. Lie on your back with one leg at 90 degrees and the other flat on the floor. With NO cervical or lumbar flexion, lift your head an inch or two off the floor and hold.
Court Says the FTC Can Slap Companies for Getting Hacked
I did a hardware startup earlier this year (http://gameref.io) and tried to fund it via Kickstarter. I need to write a post-mortem one of these days, but even after significant media coverage (including PC Gamer, Vice, Polygon, etc.):

- http://www.pcgamer.com/introducing-gameref-the-anti-cheat-ha...

- http://www.redbull.com/en/esports/stories/1331720277392/game...

- http://www.pcgamesn.com/gameref-is-a-prototype-anti-cheat-sy...

- http://www.polygon.com/2015/2/23/8090221/onling-gaming-cheat...

- http://motherboard.vice.com/read/can-this-little-device-fix-...

.. it failed to get funded. Failure is part of the game and I wasn't too phased by it, but it still sucks. Unlike a software start-up where I can build and launch a working alpha/beta, you NEED some money to pour into a hardware start-up right at the start. It's not easy and, as the article mentions, the margins aren't as great as software. The sentiment of hardware being tougher than software is ubiquitous from what I can tell.

Props to the people that make it though.

See the KS page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1094040691/game-ref-the...
Silicon Brain: 100,000 ARM cores [video]
We used to live in a world where Moore was the name of a law and our libraries changed every second year. Maybe we're reaching a plateau and we've found the right way to do things. Maybe the set of js libraries we know today is close to the final set, the ideal toolbox of a front-end developer. Maybe the next huge development of IT is the cloud, deep learning and Cortana, and maybe since the desktop/mobile power isn't expected to expand anymore, the will to write yet-another-heavier js framework will vanish. Maybe Angular 2 will be the way to do things in 2015.
Really great to see this. I was a heavy Coursera user in high school (took 6-7 courses at a time) and loved it. It taught me a lot about what I was interested in, what I hated, and pushed me to really learn things before I got to college. Many people I know couldn't stick it out, but I finished all the courses I started at the time and met some amazing people.

The interface and experience has come a long way since I first used them. I hope they encourage more community building and interaction. That was one big area that I felt was missing from the education that I've gotten through college and high school.
Also it looks like it is patented tech http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20140240578
I've seen some words with bad meanings, like "cipa" means "polish: penis" according to your site, but it actually means "vagina" (quite the opposite ;) ). Is it good if I just submit better meanings ?
UBC (University of British Columbia) did.
I've seen data loss due to bugs:

* ext3/ext4
* reiserfs (reiserfsck used to eat data *all the time*)
* xfs
* jfs (can't remember kernel version, but friend lost tons of data)
* ntfs

Filesystems I haven't lost data on:

* ufs, ufs2, ffs -- the BSD ufs variants
* zfs

Filesystems I haven't done much with:

* hammer (would be amazing for maildir storage)
* btrfs (avoiding intentionally)
* reiser4 (barely used it and then the whole murdering happened)
* tux (always sounded nice)

There are lots of other filesystems with special use cases, but I'm ignoring those. These are just more relevant general purpose filesystems.

And note that filesystems without journals, logs, or being CoW (ext2, [ex]FAT, etc) I'm ignoring because they aren't designed to handle abuse, power loss, etc.

This paper about linux filesystems is worrying: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...
Really well done. Appears to have some natural language query component as well? I went back to 1995 and was surprised to see "Cigars" as a major component which I couldn't find in 2014 data.
That's not true in the majority of cases, although it's possible that our experiences are being distorted by the fact that users don't tend to bring their machines in until they're nearly unusable.

But of those infected systems, we see relatively few that have truly sneaky, invisible-to-the-user malware. Far more that's just a gigantic pain in the ass to remove as it's hooked into everything in order to display ads at the user or rewrite links or shoddy code has destroyed one or more browser or OS components.
If you're interested in using the http://ipinfo.io API for this, so you don't have to worry about keeping your database up to date and you get additional details, let me know. I'd be happy to hook you up with a free unlimited plan specifically for this site.
It's not a good idea on paper, that's why it fails in practice and always will. It's a horrifically vile idea on paper, and far more so in practice. The results as you note speak for themselves.
My School on the Cloud
I can relate to a "no easy internet" rule. It is possible to download a lot of important information (godoc, cppreference, perl man pages) so that internet interaction is minimised.

It is possible to plan what needs to be looked up. If you have to move room to look things up that sounds about perfect to me.
There is something deeply aggravating about having human hands manually adjusting these settings, when we should have some mechanism to automate it. Compters - our tools for automation - are not automated! It's ridiculous, demeaning, disheartening, and sad.
I don't think there's stigma around Haskell, aside from maybe complexity. I think there often is around Haskell programmers; there's a rep for jerkishness. (Both are commonly attributed to Scala as well, though I think, as a Scala person, the rep for jerkishness is much more earned in Scala-land.)
How I faked my way into the Mac App Store, and how you can too
http://www.economist.com/style-guide/singular-or-plural

Note while 'just' a style guide, The Economist - like me - seems (note not 'seem' ;)) not to consider "Tesco" _et al_ to be collective nouns _per se_.

> A government, a party, a company (whether Tesco or Marks
> and Spencer) and a partnership (Skidmore, Owings &
> Merrill) are all **it** and take a singular verb.
submitted a bunch in Dutch.
Well then go lobby for creating dsPIC support in LLVM! Selling 10M chips at a time is great and all, but designs start with a single engineer. The 16F84 was the hobbyist darling until gcc-avr ate its lunch.
This is the study I believe they are referring to: http://cogdevlab.uchicago.edu/sites/cogdevlab.uchicago.edu/f... (PDF)

> we tested the interaction between parents’ math anxiety and the frequency of parents’ homework help while controlling for students’ grade, gender, beginning-of-year math achievement, and beginning-of-year math anxiety

So the study controls for baseline performance. It's definitely possible that some selection bias remains, but it looks like a reasonably well-executed study on a large sample (438 children) and I wouldn't discount the results out of hand.
Searched several spanish words, nothing was found. I guess no support for spanish yet?
What I really want are all these annoying fixes rolled up into a tool or PowerShell script so each time a family/friend tells me how wonderful/shitty Win10 is, I can at least quickly deploy this for them.
its only one uninvited partner people world-wide are worried about, the US government..that is why China and Russia moved towards no MS software on government computers.
Bitcoin Mining on Raspberry Pi2
SQLite is a TCL extension that escaped into the wild....

I think many people have trouble with TCL because it looks a lot like C and so they expect it to behave roughly like C. But TCL is a fundamentally different language. It is better to think of TCL as LISP with C-like syntax. Once you grok this difference, TCL becomes a very elegant language.
The barrier for entry (intellectual & financial) and the risk are higher. The upfront investment is perhaps the single most important reason why people moved to software (myself included) as all you needed was a couple of $100 and you can get going. I think Makerspace is helping a lot to even out this gap and I couldn't be happier.

Interesting product... they are almost there and the traffic from here should do it.
Emails Reveal Israeli and Italian Companies’ Role in Government Spying
Yep. A 32KB L1 cache can hold at most 4000 doubles. 4000/(2 input vectors + 1 result) =1333.

http://danluu.com/3c-conflict/
Why pass up a perfectly good excuse to abuse lambda functions, ternary expressions, list comprehensions, and even the occasional Y combinator? Never pass up an opportunity to use the Y combinator.

^^ Legendary
I'm having trouble with this article and I hope someone from HN will help clarify for me: why was an initial run of 5000 units selected? This seemingly arbitrary number seems too important in HW development to be relegated to a single non-explanatory bullet point.

If my understanding is correct, product dev teams seem to aspire to an initial 500 - 2000 units for that initial run as the symbolic point of reaching this "finalized" level of development. Any production at this level is considered a finished good ready for the sales/supplier pipeline.

Once a product has reached this level, my understanding is that subsequent runs is typically for 10K to 25K widgets per run ("lot") that see anywhere from 10,000 to 250,000+ widgets for a single SKU per production run.

Above 1 million units, everything changes, but the 5K first-and-only run seems abnormal.
Actually, I think the Betteridge's law was used as a device in the writing, making the reader assume from the beginning that the answer is "no".
I don't know about that. It took 200 years to get this far, which is actually a significant achievement.
In recent years I've started entertaining a bit of a heresy. I wouldn't say I believe this, but it's at least a question worth asking:

Is there actually any such thing as a "grassroots" movement?

Over the years I've seen so many unmasked as the product of someone or something with deep pockets: corporations, think tanks, governments. At the very least it's hard for me to think of any movement where major institutions didn't play some role.

Intelligence agencies seem to figure prominently too, and not necessarily in the areas you would think. The 60s counterculture was in part seeded by CIA LSD research, and Tor was funded by the US Department of Naval Intelligence (to provide two random examples).
This assumes that the police knew the time, whereabouts and subject of the meeting and there happened to be a functioning security camera right outside.

Frankly, there were easier ways of identifying activists and whistleblowers to harass even before the internet.
Excellent idea.

Given the number of people here who missed the "add a word" function, you might want to mention it up top with a negative result.

> No results found for this search. It looks likely that it's safe...

say this in hopes to get fuller coverage because it looks like a useful tool.
It's fun to see how short the distance is when using tracerouting Akamai-hosted domains.
if I'm reading this correctly, they also planning to release a react native competitor?

"Native mobile UI. We're enthusiastic about supporting the Web Platform in mobile apps. At the same time, some teams want to deliver fully native UIs on their iOS and Android mobile apps."
The debt is public, the bonds are held in a non-public fashion so there is a definite asymmetry there.
my android phone has one play store app (Timely). The rest is software from F-Droid. my phone is my business lifeline.
Browsers and JavaScript have changed quite a bit since 2009. You couldn't have created something like Angular 2 6 years ago or even 2 years ago for that matter. Angular 2 is possible today thanks to technological advancements.
I imagine that this is a naïve question, but it's sincere: what does this app offer for its $20 cost that the Haskell platform doesn't? Of their five big selling points, three don't seem really convincing: it mentions that it includes 200 libraries—more than HP, but not the sort of thing one needs to pay for; there is SpriteKit support, of which they say:

> We will release the SpriteKit binding under a permissive open source license for general use as soon as possible.

; and "Let the type system help you", which, of course, is just a feature of Haskell, not of this environment.

A drag'n'drop project manager is nice, but doesn't seem like that big a deal; so I guess that the real selling point is the "Immediate feedback". Indeed, that seems to be a huge selling point, and it's something for which I've often wished while coding Haskell. However, their blurb on it is very brief:

> Haskell playgrounds provide instant feedback, displaying types and results of computations, both textual and graphical.

Is there any way to read more about this, and, in particular, to evaluate how much value it adds before buying?
StartEngine Crowdfunding
> We respect your privacy — input is never logged or monitored.

Except it is logged and monitored by the US Government because this site uses unencrypted HTTP.

Otherwise, a commendable sentiment…
There's a recent trade deal where concerns about data led to ban on 700 meds.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4ded8ca4-3b8a-11e5-bbd1-b37bc06f59...

That follows similar concerns in the US.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/world/asia/medicines-ma...

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA2H06Y20140318

(I've given up guessing what a clean URL should be. Now I'm just going to post whatever stupid URL a site gives me.)
Less than perfect
> That's why we have the emphasis on limited government in the US - the founders understood human nature enough to realize that nobody could be given unchecked power.

I don't see how limited government necessarily achieves this aim. If anything, it could be argued that limited regulation leads to the existence of corporate and financial elites who wield a vast amount of power.
pajero is not safe
> The interesting bit here is that modern viruses don't ever make themselves known.

Not disagreeing with your main point, but this bit is a bit statistically wrong, in my experience. (See also my comment downthread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10118516) We see a lot more malware that is obvious -- or, would be to a more technically savvy user -- and a lot less malware that's being really sneaky.

But there is still a lot of sneaky malware and to the extent that you're saying that people shouldn't trust that they aren't infected just because they aren't noticing anything out of the ordinary, you're completely right.
-1 for making a post sound like a security flaw just to get people to read it.
Was the first thing I tried being from Argentina. Big fail.
That would be me. Someone alerted me to the "30% worse than java" benchmark results, so I did some experimenting. It was my first attempt to optimize a bit of Rust, so I would love any feedback.
What else would you have us expect? That when the US is no longer relevant, and the stock market is permanently declining, that somehow a stash of dollars will be meaningful?

No, for all practical purposes, go ahead and expect it to rise forever. Anything that would make that untrue would make your investment balance unimportant.
You are right. Another annoyance:

- non-optional forced auto updates (except on Enterprise "long term servicing branch" edition)

Give the user the choice. Compare it to iOS, Android, OSX, Linux everywhere the user has the choice to stop the auto-update, often for important reasons no one thought before.
He literally said: "taken their misogyny elsewhere"