skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Unix shell is great exactly because it operates mostly on plain text. It makes most programs easily interoperable through piping.
The Anti-Store: How Price Club and Costco Made Shopping Harder [audio]
One of my favorite articles is from Esquire Classics. About the early days of the Silicon Valley: http://classics.esquire.com/wolfe-noyce/
Great man, I would like to purchase this clock! Please sell me that prototype :D
Is the display fast enough to include seconds?
Such apps basically exist, in various permutations:
- http://www.copblock.org/apps/
- https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct
1901 South Park School Photo Plnkx-Ified
The Bloodhound Project – to set a 1000 mph land speed record
Dieselgate: How exactly did the software know the car was being tested?
I just got curious on this Dieselgate scandal. I read that VW used software to check if the car was under test conditions. I know that a car has a bazillion sensors, controllers and such but...

How exactly did the software know it was in a test environment?

I'm still catching up with the story, but I'm more interested on how the software managed to detect the test environment. Is the test environment really so controlled that one could just simply pop in code to tell the car to cheat whenever sensors picked up the right combination?
Is there a GoPro that auto-uploads to Youtube? Would be really handy for dashcams or bodycams or whatevercams.
Every time I come across one of their products I am underwhelmed. Jira and Bamboo both feel half a decade behind the game and are each clearly large, fumbling beasts that seem to get in your way more than they do assist you. Their ecosystem is very closed and you can feel the pain of this when you visit an organisation that's drunk their cool aid and is now locked in. I'm making it all sound a bit fire here - which it's not but I really just don't think that they're good, modern products.
Crowd-Sourcing Indoor Locations – Google Patent
We changed the baity title to a representative sentence from the article, in accordance with the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
This patent was accepted July 23, 2015.
Does it mean Google is mapping our homes/offices with our phones?
As Volkswagen Pushed to Be No. 1, Ambitions Fueled a Scandal
Actually, to me, it makes no difference. So Christians took yuletide traditions and appropriated them. No difference to me. Etc, etc.

Take whatever you want as an individual, I don't care.

If it were not for "appropriation" society would not be beyond farming. The greatest philosophical lineages which allow us to have these discussions are mostly Greek and Chinese traditions. The rest of us have appropriated those institutions along with learning and education which have all allowed us to ponder these things.

Else we'd be like nomads and tribes who have traditions and culture but are little conscious of their provenance. It's not as if non modern cultures just up and spontaneously developed in cultural vacuums. We all have borrowed taken and appropriated consciously or unconsciously with and without premeditated purpose by weaker and stronger parties. To me, neither make a difference. Let everyone be what they want to be individually. In large groups their use can seem unfair, but individuals are not their groups. Not only that, but to not appropriate can only work in unconnected monocultures and I really don't think that's the direction either groups or individuals want to take, by and large.

To some degree it seems denouncing appropriation is a bit like wanting to eat the cake and have it too.
Mindless ideologues are the absolute worst. You've fallen so in love with this ideological position ("always bet on text") that you can't even recognize where it doesn't actually apply. The idea that those five words capture the photo is absurd.
Maybe to make a point- an Australian company can 'make it' in the US.

Something to point to when pressuring the Ausi gov't?
American Innovation Lies on Weak Foundation?
Is Informatics a Science? [pdf]
Kinda weird, I have not (yet) felt the compulsion to shop ebooks on Kindle that I won't begin reading immediately. And I do have ridiculous Steam backlog and relatively many unready physical books, so I definitely am familiar with the phenomenon. But with Kindle buying books as you go is so easy and pre-buying books does not really seem to give similar benefit like for example Steam sales or having the book available like with physical books.

With Kindle if I find an interesting book I can just click it to my wishlist (which is very convenient) and I can generally trust that when I want to actually read it it is still available and not significantly more expensive. In contrast if I see interesting game on Steam at -75% the rationale for buying it is that the day I want to play it it will probably cost a lot more if I don't buy it now.
Move the Stone game – challenging puzzle for iPhone and iPad
We'll have to admit that some cops are just bullies who entered the system to have a legal way of being who they want to be. They need to tighten the psychological profile/test required to be and remain an officer of the law.
I really want a handheld, in the form factor of a Canon SX50 or thereabouts, that can upload via wifi or GSM.

Who is making this?

edit: to clarify, I mean upload in real-time, like a live broadcast.
I'd be interested in what products you use? There are so many bug tracking products - even researching them can be hard work.
I can assure you, worse tools than Jira populate the project management space - Jira is definitely one of the better options in the space sadly.
I quit facebook 2 years ago. I found out that Facebook was just another place on internet for wasting time, not for communication and staying in contact with someone.

Now when I meet someone new, and he's like add me on Facebook, I give them my email and always get that look in return.
Last I checked, Police Tape did not actually upload video in real time, but stored it and waited until after the video to ask the user to upload it. Is this still the case?
Jira was a godsend compared to the shitty BMC ticketing products it replaced, but it now the shitty product that needs replacement. Atlassian make some great apps, like SourceTree, but they're like Microsoft Office: popular, and still selling loads, but having lost much of their edge and influence. Next step is Lotus-land, where the once-dominant product becomes completely irrelevant.
Work Email Is Dying. What's Next?
Some Quick PgAdmin Tricks
I worked directly with Boz over many years at Facebook and found him to be just a bully. Boz rarely takes the time to understand the nuances (unless you can distill them down to an 8th grader's level) but is quick to form opinions.

I'm a little surprised that he hasn't left already. He's mostly checked out at this point.
Uh...I don't think there are too many instances of cops working 24-hour shifts. Firefighters have 72-hour shifts but that includes bunking at the department.

If you go to publicpay.ca.gov, you'll find the state wide databases of city and state employees. Police officers make up nearly all of the top non-executive positions. Second, police officers want overtime. If you've watched The Wire, there are more than a few scenes/threads in which eliminating overtime is seen as punishment to officers. This is also chronicled in David Simon's non-fiction book, "Homicide", which The Wire is heavily based off of.

This is not to say that we shouldn't staff departments in a way that overtime isn't excessive. But I doubt you'll find much political support from the officers or their leaders on that.

In fact, the use of overtimes is one of the best way for police officers to ensure a huge pension...Pensions are often calculated on based on the last year of a retiring officer's salary. So an officer who makes $64K base salary in his career can retire with $82K in annual retirement, by working $120,000 worth of overtime in his final year:

http://www.nola.com/crime/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2015/05/how_...
Most of the innovation in consumer clocks is aesthetic. Anyone can pick up a clock from Walmart that does everything they need and will last for years for cheap. Displaying the numbers by manipulating magnetic fluid is an interesting and pleasing way to do things. It's never going to be cheaper, more reliable, or more efficient than and LCD display. However, it doesn't have to be. That's not the point.
I haven't heard about such a word. That's probably because apps without use is not that noticeable. Books on other hand, are painfully visible in small rooms in typical Japanese apartments. The bad feeling from having unread books occupying the room created the word, I guess.
In my country it's "eee?" (prolonged "e" sound).

One joke about our local equivalent of a redneck, asks how one of them would say: "I'm sorry sir, I didn't catch that, can you repeat yourself please?"

To which the answer is:

- "Eee?"
Very glad this post inspired you to do it all the way to zero, congratulations! You'll probably see some things pop out in your feed once in a while from pages, groups, and such. Just remember to unfollow those as well when it happens :)
>> But getting someone's Facebook is less socially awkward than their email address.
>Really depends on the setting. Quite a few people I know would be more comfortable sharing a mail address than their Facebook info, even if we ignore the percentage that doesn't even have Facebook.

This is part of what's backwards about Facebook. Sometimes I've had a 5-15min conversation with someone at a bar and they're like, "Do you have Facebook?", and I'm like, "Give me your phone", and I will search for myself and send myself a friend request.

If I exchanged phone numbers or e-mail addresses with this person, it would be really odd IMO to ask the sort of questions to which answers are offered to me by facebook, and by its' algorithm, but _less_ odd to personally contact them IMO. So I'm kind of a wierd voyeur in basically a handful of strangers' lives and fairly rarely actually ever again meet up and do things with various people that seem to be a lot of fun to talk to when I meet them.

I've had a lot of interesting friendship circumstances arise, but also just spend a lot of time wondering who the fuck most of the people are, even on the new facebook. Even the people I decided to carry over, I don't know, it's a semi-random distribution based on how Facebook was already filtering my feed, I think. People I like, but I dunno.

It feels like Facebook has more influence over who I think about than I do at times, and I wonder if it isn't influenced by what relationships tell them things they can advertise based on or something.
It's a cult called Social Justice Warriors. Pretty much most of San Fran is brainwashed by them.
So that brings us to a question what app would you use to

a) Secretly record a video on your phone.
b) Stream the video to a cloud (youtube, dropbox, other) while you record, so that even if the phone is snatched from your hand and crashed by a heavy police boot, as much of the video as the network allows will be already uploaded.
>a nasal vowel not followed by a nasal consonant

Maybe depends on where in the English speaking world? I'm thinking of Scotland, Ireland, Australia, etc.
>As an example which has been annoying me the last few days, "database/sql" doesn't automatically prepare statements; so preparing is a separate step

Not exactly. All the "database/sql" functions actually use prepared statements under the hood.

You only need to explicitly create a prepared statement if you're reusing it (since the internal ones are also auto-closed, although I think there's also some kind of connection cache so they might be reused anyway...)
It could, currently for animation i use 5 second interval, because its much more nice to look at because liquid slowly transforms. I will include new videos an GIF to show this.

However seconds would be doable but it would result in animation being constant since it needs about a second to transform, so i finally decided to go with HH:MM

Here is another video of this little thingy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoOMQ8TaTyE

you can see that the liquid is quite different, it was long time ago, but it basically acts the same but looks more blobby
Then why have a specialised privileged set of people held to a higher standard. Why not just slap body cameras on everyone and say "if you see a robbery, go round and ask some questions, we'll review the tapes later"

Police (and others) are given special privileges but expected to act to a higher standard than the rest of us. Quite a lot of them do. It's like accountants and lawyers and doctors. Taking a random sample of doctors and a random sample of, say, HN readers, the doctors would be ... Better.
You could buy an SX50 + Eye-Fi card to accomplish this.
John Fowles wrote the very famous book "The French Lieutenant's Woman". At least it's famous in the UK. It was made into a successful film in 1981. The Magus appears to have been filmed as well, but in the 60s.

This goes beyond a failure of google-fu, surely. Most European languages have about the same information density as Latin so I have no idea where the idea that Latin is particularly concise came from.
Would you guys agree that MVC is on it's way out? It just seems like a mess to couple things like this over just simple views and a dispatcher.
If i use the regular ferrofluid it can last for quite long, however i dont like the effect of the fluid in that case, it has spikes and doesnt really look like a blob that i wanted to achieve. I have samples that are year old and work just fine so far.
I had a problem with my hosting, however one of my friends solved it. Thanks so much for jumping in :)
Their software is plenty good enough and it's cheap -- particularly their starter options, which are in the neighborhood of 10 users for $10 per year.

Everything installs and runs easily (usually "untar and run the startup script") and it all integrates together easily (i.e., give product X the URL to product Y) and deeply. That's what gets people hooked.
50 m might definitly lead to problems in other settings.

"Because both ends of the RS-232 circuit depend on the ground pin being zero volts, problems will occur when connecting machinery and computers where the voltage between the ground pin on one end, and the ground pin on the other is not zero. This may also cause a hazardous ground loop. Use of a common ground limits RS-232 to applications with relatively short cables. If the two devices are far enough apart or on separate power systems, the local ground connections at either end of the cable will have differing voltages; this difference will reduce the noise margin of the signals. Balanced, differential, serial connections such as USB, RS-422 and RS-485 can tolerate larger ground voltage differences because of the differential signaling.", cited from:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232
Only problem I have with the article is they mention that lame, corny ass fake Steve Jobs. That buffoon was nowhere near Startup L.
If you just record a video with the default video/camera app on your phone, Google photos (assuming you have the app and have it set to auto backup at default quality) will back it up on the cloud.
I am just working on this :) Somehow we missed to put a part of the transforming numbers in the video because we were on such a tight schedule. I will be updating website and more important i will launch the making of document of the whole project that will show all of this.

GIF on the way :)
thanks a lot!
Starving african child watched by vulture. Whoops, that was six
Thank you, much appreciated. I think this is my favorite project so far just because i learned the most.
But you don't want one service being able to link all those identities together.
> So revolutionary is this new genome editing technique that rival groups, who each claim to have been first to the tech, are bitterly fighting over the CRISPR/Cas9 patent. This new gene-editing protein called Cpf1—and maybe even others yet to be discovered—means that one patent may not be so powerful after all.

Just goes to show the silliness of patents. Even the lightbulb was invented by multiple people at the same time. Yet only one got to have a 20 year monopoly over it. Why should that be the case when multiple people invent it at the same time? Just let them compete. Competition is always good.
Thank you so much. I am really, considering the fact that i started almost 4 years ago, then paused after few months and then spent almost the whole last year on it. Thanks again!
How liberal can you get LOL!
تور کیش در هتل های گردشگر پسند کیش: هتل پارسیان کیش
Guys that made video know what the song is, its a bought from audiojungle. I will find out whats the name or url
A smarter you in 15 minutes
I used to use Repetier Host to run Slic3r and send the serial signals to my printer, but over time I've grown to prefer Slic3r's interface, and now that it has OctoPrint integration (send to your Raspberry pi print server wirelessly), it's the only application I need on a computer to print on my Reprap.
Literally who cares about this?
Its a stock music from audiojungle :)
Learn about 11 Advertising and Marketing Startups in 2 Minutes
I'm not optimistic. How can China enforce a ban? I can't imagine the government caring enough to act. Give it a year or two before we celebrate.
Piping text is great until you want to make something that is robust to edge cases. The various conventions for separating data, and the ways these interact and must be escaped, are a usability disaster. This is why tools like find end up tacking on a million flags and options instead of actually encouraging you to compose simple operations.
Their crackdown on sales of shark fins was relatively successful, it went down by 70-80% IIRC.
Exactly. I think you put it better into words than me.
I think the author intended that both formulas and pictograms are forms of text. They're both made up of abstract symbols that can be composed to create meaning.
"Social Media vs. Personal Media"
The point is that you are not a statistic. You have far better information about yourself than anyone else does, so use it to make decisions that are in your best interest.
It's pretty close. You can setup a system yourself if you want.
Company rejected my idea, now they want piece of my new company
Here is the situation. I cofounded a company with group of friends. Our product failed to attract beta customers. I informed the CEO that we might be building a product that customers dont want and I presented him with what I think is the right product. He completely rejected the idea and dismissed me for not believing in his vision.

I talked to lawyers in the field of employment, IP and corperate to make sure that I am not doing anything wrong. Since There was no employment agreement in place, they advised me that I am entitled to continue.

After 3 months of working on this product. I was able to attract customers immediately. Now the company is coming after me.

Has anyone had issues like this?
From your link:

"You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for."

Look at the third example. This seems to be about on par with what is offered now. Depending upon how much their release cycle changes and how many features make it into each major version.

Edit: spelling!
actually this was the hardest part, how to make numbers look thick and REAL, and connected. Here is a GIF that shows this nicely:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/066c8502j2zwlwo/rheiani.gif?dl=0

Thats the reason why i had to work with ferrofluid and change its structure and composition, i wanted to have thicker numbers. Whole screen is 10mm thick inside, and numbers sometimes go up to 8mm of thickness. They are especially nice from the angle because the seem like they float and not simply stuck to the wall. I will make better photos definitely.
The project proposes a model that will have significant (negative) implications on client performance, server performance, developer cognitive overload, and latency (despite transactions).

It'll also introduce a very big attack surface for malicious agents to DDoS your server and possibly exploit the server-side V8 once an appropriate vulnerability shows up.

And it'll also produce application tightly coupled to browser API emulation, which would become an obstacle to the server being able to properly support native mobile and desktop applications.

I can put these issues aside for a moment, and attribute them to me being too cynical to believe in a new way of doing things.

But let's look at the benefits. This is the example being given for the kind of client code that SyncNinja would enable:

someDatabase.lookup('users', 'john', function (err, userData) {
console.log("User's real name is " + userData.userName);
});

This is already possible to do on the client-side, in plain JS, and any kind of server, as a very, very thin wrapper around the available AJAX calls provided by the server web API.

So my point is, I see no convincing examples of SyncNinja making something possible that wasn't already trivial before, and without the big overhead. Maybe you guys should work on what the value of this system is in practice.

Your "before" example doesn't show limitations of the browser, but simply a missing thin client library to abstract the AJAX calls.

Additionally, you have no prototype of this concept at all. Even a toy prototype with just one kind of event, or something. It sends the message that everything written in the paper doesn't come from experience, but it's merely hypothetical. And there's a giant leap from an idea to a working prototype.
Vide is a product of two very talented guys, Djordje Stojiljkovic and Nenad Veljovic. I will pass on your compliments to them. As for the website, that would be my primary profession UX/UI design :) Althugh it was all done in 1 day.
As I understand it, this only saves after the video is stopped, right? I'm talking about real-time transmission, like bambuser.
I've been looking for a similar app for iPhone, for either video or audio (preferably both). DropVox isn't too bad, but I'm not sure what happens if you break the phone before pressing "stop recording". Any suggestions?
Followed, then unfollowed after some weeks. Pretty sure it's just a spam bot.
The curators of public libraries, at least, should learn better than to accumulate 800 page treatises on HTML, CSS and Java.
So you contreted your idea by concreting time as an object without a solid susbstance. I guess you got it right. :)

Thank you for the explanation. ;)
I posted this story because it highlights the paradox that decreasing the lethality of weapons increases the risk that they will be abused.

The purpose of the electroshock belt is to protect people in the courtroom if a situation arises in which the defendant poses a risk of imminent violence. Before the adoption of that technology, the machine employed for the same purpose was the bailiff's firearm.

It would be unthinkable for a judge to order the bailiff to shoot a defendant for refusing to stand up while addressing the court. But this judge apparently deemed it acceptable to torture the defendant by administering a five-second electric shock that made him writhe and scream in front of the jury.

The judge's behavior was a gross abuse of power, and I'm not saying we should eliminate this technology. Electroshock belts seem valuable for a number of reasons, including the fact that they allow fewer defendants to be tried in full restraints, which may prejudice jurors.

Nevertheless, the entire sequence of events offers a chilling case study about the unintended side effects of decreasing the negative consequences that result from using force.