skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a SDR subreddit that has a wiki with some info. I had it bookmarked from a while back when I was looking into purchasing one, however that's something I've put on the back-burner for now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/wiki/index
There's a great BBC documentary on the synthesizer and it's role in the rise of electronic music (in Britain particularly) in the 70s/80s called Synth Britannia, worth a watch if you like this sort of thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1P93r9xes

Also on Netflix is a documentary film called I Dream of Wires about modular synthesizers, which I'm yet to get round to watching but is supposed to be very good.

Really must have a play on my synthesizers again, they've been gathering dust while I've been focussing on other things but a good synth really is a joy to play with.
In my experience, this isn't really true. Google still can't crawl most non-trivial javascript-powered apps, and if it doesn't work, there's little insight on what you need to tweak to get it working. It hasn't been able to crawl our javascript-powered parts of the site across two major architectures without prerender, and I know a lot of other companies with the same issue.
the new 'best practice' is to have a universal app - that renders on the server on first load, and runs as a js app subsequently. This way crawlers and browsers w js disabled still get raw markup. Also, with SPA, you can add the urls to url history, so back button, bookmark etc aren't a problem either.
Interesting perspective. I had no idea that this was a concern.

But, I can certainly relate. As someone who is often involved in hiring, I feel a similar pressure. I try very hard to be objective. But, in order to feel comfortable with my decisions, I (hopefully only slightly) err towards over-hiring minorities and women.

Not that this presents much difficulty these days - it's hard enough to find qualified (and interested) candidates, in general.
Well, that's sort of missing the point. If you have a fully static front end, you put in S3 and never ever worry about it again. Literally ever. Then, you have a json api that both your website and any mobile apps talk to. Makes websites and apps into the same api consumer model. Takes the number of moving pieces down quite a bit actually.
Evernote is such a great idea and in its early stage, it showed a lot of promise as the "trapper keeper" of all things digital. But as time went on, the client became bloated and there were weird products like Evernote Food that were pushed on users.

I'm still using it for certain parts of my work, and I'm increasingly frustrated with the pop ups in the application every few days to upgrade to Evernote Premium.

Someone is going to make a product that looks a lot like Evernote that's going to succeed. But I think Evernote's best days are behind it.
They might have nailed down the science, but not the efforts necessary to gather the fissile material. And then, even if they did have the resources, actually doing all that so close to the action and with the risk of bombing by air or spies, would be inconceivable. The american, actually the canadian-american project as that's where the uranium came from, had the advantage of vast open spaces well outside the range of any enemy aircraft.
My problem is not with using politics to fight for what you believe and agree in. My problem is with threatening to shutdown the government if you don't get your way. There's democracy, and then there's being a child and throwing a tantrum. We should expect more from representatives then that.
But that's EXACTLY what they said???

>>Though we're not scared of what they'd do, mind you; usually it's what they'd say that's the problem. Non-allied parties who know classified information they shouldn't are effectively infohazards from a government's perspective.
It can be toggle off by an obscure setting:

Inside Gmail: Press the Gear Icon -> Settings -> General Tab -> Images -> Ask before displaying external images
Isn't this more or less what happens in a native app? The only difference is that on the web each view is identified with a URL. If so, history.pushState should make this trivial.
Or is it a rational discounting of uncertain distant future results compared to the relatively more certain short-term gains?

Or taking another look - how much of your income are you investing for retirement vs current consumption? Why?
Definitely the first step is to get a cheap USB dongle. There is a RTL-SDR compatibility list[0] that you may find useful. Once you play with a cheap one you'll have a better idea of the parameters you can improve by upgrading to more sophisticated/expensive hardware.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/wiki/compatibility
According to that video, it increases cancer risk at a higher rate than cigarettes, and it is very addictive to some percent of the population.
React will render HTML on the server side using the same code and data structures you use for dynamic components on the client side. https://facebook.github.io/react/
Why do the benchmarks not include luajit, just lua, luaj and other java-based vm's? It's easy to lead the one-eyed.
iOS/OSX Reminders. It does what I need it to do, and it's integrated with Siri.
> API server and a static front end – the future?

It's not static front-end, but SPA - Single Page Application.
It's the part of the larger Serverless / Backend-less computing trend.

We already have:

- static websites (i.e. served from Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage)

- static blogs and CMSes

- frameworks for SPAs (Ember.js, Angular, etc.)

- Firebase and the likes

- Amazon Lambda and the likes

And yes - Serverless is the future.

> Write the back-end initially in RoR or Flask, move it to Elixir or Scala when your servers start crashing.

why not to write it in Phoenix/Elixir from the start? I don't think it's any more harder than RoR.
They're just increasing the prices of everything else. In earlier decades, restaurants used to sell their food at a near-loss because everyone had a couple of high-margin alcoholic drinks with their meal. When that started to go by the wayside, the restaurants had to increase the menu prices of the actual food. I expect we'll see the same thing happen if people stop buying beverages entirely, especially at fast-food restaurants where the soft drink is almost always the highest-margin element of the meal, making up for loss leaders like the "dollar menu".
Would that include cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, broccoli and cauliflower? Those are all man made.

http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/6/5974989/kale-cauliflower-...
When you lend your phone to my mom and she asks how to do something, will you say "just 3D touch that" to her?

The name is just a silly attempt to create a hype, "firm press" or something similar would be just fine. But yeah, it wouldn't pretend that it's a "new concept" then. It's just like it was with "retina" - my phone had "retina" screen years before Apple started to use that word.
Did anyone else notice the recent Evernote update in Mac's App Store have a lot of suspicious positive reviews? Most of them were by accounts that had only submitted that one review.

When you compare it to the reviews of their past updates and the fact the current update just fixes minor bugs, their image improvement campaign seems a little over the top.
It's not just more predictable - it is smarter. Your human "intelligence" in such a situation is only as good as your snap judgments, and because a computer works so much faster it is absolutely smarter than you or I in that particular setting.
Also note that it is messy (duplicates and rough locations) and contains many historical features that have not yet been marked as such.
it's especially confusing since model checking and verification research has been lively for the past twenty years and recently produced some pretty good results (like bedrock and ironclad), but this is all willfully ignored by the langsec community...
The solution to the one problem he mentions is straightforward, isn't it? Embed the data needed for initial page load in the initial HTML delivered by the server. Perhaps as JSON in a <script> tag.

I'm not too familiar with the new front-end frameworks, do any of them support this seamlessly? If not, I'm surprised, it seems like a fairly straightforward thing to architect.

What dismays me more about the rise of the static front-end single-page-app, is it really means the death of the idea of the architecture of the web. It's going in the opposite direction from the 'semantic web' dream, as well as REST.
> Maybe it wants to create utopia for its humans.

... and the best way to minimize human suffering, in the long run, is to kill everyone, as fast as possible.

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Edit, to make things clear, I'm not advocating for that, it's just an example of how a benevolent ideas carried to their logical end turn out not to be desirable.
True. Like Sunrise (http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/11/microsoft-acquire...) and Acompli (http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/01/microsoft-acquire...)
Wasn't really suspicious - there was a call-to-action at the top of the app to help Evernote by leaving a review (the reviews help their app store optimization).

There are a lot of die hard Evernote advocates out there that'd be happy to.
HORNET: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer
The normalization constraint is enforced by the limited size of the front page (30 entries).
That was a great article, if a bit of a nonsequitur here.
Well we'll see how long Europe can go before it completely burns itself down. I think we are up to almost 70 years (the record is what, 99 years?).
What on earth is weird about not wanting to have government founds go to groups you don't like?

I agree in principle, but abortion is a really stupid place to draw the line. I recognize that legal abortion makes my country a far better place, and likely a far safer one if the theories about the decline in violent crime being partially due to a decline in unwanted children hold any water. I don't have to "like" or "dislike" abortion to recognize the ROI in sound public policy.

When it comes to abortion and contraception, social conservatives want all of the authority and none of the responsibility. I don't want them to have either.
Funny, I thought the article was about safety, about not killing people, rather than any sort of car-bike urban balance.

>>One way to improve safety on this type of urban street is through a road diet. [...] with any leftover space going to curb parking and perhaps bike lanes.

It would seem that making thing better for bikes is a lower priority in the OP than pedestrian safety, even lower than on-street parking for cars. Given that the author draws the bike lanes between parked and moving cars, bicycle safety is clearly not the goal. They are out to protect pedestrians from all things faster than a walking pace. I wouldn't read in any car v. bike politics.
> one blob away

I'll believe it when I'll see it. All we have is their word for it, and I really don't like the way they are promoting their product so far.
At that point you just call it a supercomputer. Private companies already buy time on government/academic supercomputers, so I don't know if there's a compelling opportunity there since your startup costs would be immense.
Saw this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2k6TMPMRo - a while back from a Finnish hacker, partly concerned with hacking bus-stop signals. IIRC it gave good details on her process and some info on the tech used.
I learned to solder when I was in grade 8. At first, it seemed kind of stupid and I really didn't have all that much to solder. But then I became an adult and developed a problem with synthesizers. I bought a broken Juno 106 on eBay, got it shipped, opened it up (because hey, it was already broken) and was excited to find that all I needed was a soldering iron. A few minutes later and holy bass...

Years later, I moved into a smaller place and had to part ways with most of my synths. Sadly, my 106 was a casualty (since a Juno 106 is basically an eviction notice with a keyboard attached), but I sold it to a wicked musician who made some amazing sounds with it.

I still miss that instrument. I hate spelling fat with a 'ph', but the Juno 106 can only be described as phat...
I emailed the .NET Native team asking them about this. They confirmed that they reverse out IL to higher-level constructs. So they aren't really working at the IL level, they're working on C# represented as IL.

This isn't entirely uncommon. A lot of code that deals with Expression<T> does so very poorly and won't work on many valid trees because they weren't able to get C# to emit certain expressions.
Linux-4.2.3 release compromised
"The Free Software Foundation loves this laptop, but you won't"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2879086/the-free-software-fou...

--

Why the FSF loves these old ThinkPads

- Trisquel GNU/Linux operating system.

- The low-level firmware on the laptop was replaced.
Nah, it's fine, just not normally a viable business model.
the efforts necessary to gather the fissile material

That's what the plutonium path is all about. It doesn't require a lot, and between the uranium ore from Africa they got when the captured Belgium, and the not as rich ore from Czechoslovakia, it was judged it might be enough.

You say it's "inconceivable", but it was indeed "conceived", considered to be possible, if perhaps unlikely, by lots of scientists and engineers working on the Manhattan Project. Who as it progressed had a better and better idea of exactly what was required. And who knew how long we dicked around with the concept before committing to it, and then putting Groves in charge.

There's also the danger of 20/20 hindsight. For example, the critical March 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisch%E2%80%93Peierls_memoran...) laid out the scientific path to success (fast fission) and estimated about 1 kg (2.2 lb) of U-235 was required. Later it was learned it was 52 kg, and plutonium-239 a much more modest 10 kg. Suppose the universe instead allowed 1 pound of Pu-239? Is that still "inconceivable"?

Was the V-2 effort "inconceivable"? It required a similar order of magnitude of effort, we knew more about the project because they had to test fly it, the threat was obvious and it did cause a lot of harm, and yet the "risk by air" was not enough to take it out prior to that harm.

The final detail is that even if low priority (you're not going to convince many it was truly impossible), the consequences of their getting it before it was too late for the Third Reich were ... well, it would have been existential for them.
Arduino robotic watercolor painter replicates color painting mechanically
> most of it is open source.

None of it is open source. From your repo:

> not licensed for reuse

Simply making the source available does not make it open source. Open source has a specific definition; to continue to use it in the manner that your project does is disingenuous.

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

http://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source

This is a wonderful project though. Thanks for sharing!
awk -F'", "'

That's apostrophe, quote, comma, space, end quote, apostrophe.
It saves webpage / clip as a picture. Really not what I want.
BBC always seems to add commentary where there is no need for commentary. It's like they are trying to stir up controversy just to sell people on the stories. Personally, I don't think there's anything boring about a car driving itself. The fact that it is so safe, is actually really exciting. If it is proved that these cars are better, safer drivers than humans that is something really exciting. Can you imagine human driving being illegal in 20 years because it's so unsafe? How's that for excitement. There's no reason for BBC to try so hard to appeal to our emotion. The story is great in and of itself.
Was the parent comment arguing in favor of $2 trillion for invading Iraq? I don't think so, they didn't mention anything about Iraq or being in favor of that sort of military spending, so what's the point of that sort of straw man? Why not focus on what was actually said?
The issue is not AOT vs JIT, but one of language semantics and levels of abstraction.

You could prove this point in a trivial way by JIT compiling C with LLVM. The binary would have an increased startup cost, but would otherwise run identically to an AOT compiled C program. It might even run faster, since the LLVM JIT could run with the equivalent of the -march=native to the AOT compiler. (In an AOT environment, you can only do this if you can guarantee that the binary will only run on the machine it was compiled on, or otherwise know the exact specs of the target machine.)

A much more interesting example is Terra[1], a language with C-like semantics embedded inside Lua. The Terra-Lua combination allows you to use Lua as a sort of C++ templates replacement, giving you much better metaprogramming than traditional C/C++. This allows you to do cool things like implement a version of matrix-multiply which is specialized to the target hardware, allowing you to match or almost match the performance of ATLAS and Intel MKL. Mind you: these are not your usual C/C++ programs, they are mostly written in manually hand-tuned (or auto-tuned) assembly.

What we're really looking at here is a difference in abstraction levels. It's not that the JVM JIT is incapable of getting C-like performance. Obviously it can, in certain cases. The issue is that the Java semantics prevent the JVM from getting C-like performance in a predictable and dependable way from idiomatic Java programs. This should not really be a surprise, given how far Java is from C.

What we really need to do is take a step back and reconsider our assumptions. Our modern programming languages lock us into certain assumptions about language design and semantics that can be blinding at times. Consider that even C doesn't get optimal performance in all cases---this is why Fortran still exists. What would it take to get to programming language with nice semantics and truly optimal performance? I don't have a closed form answer, but I'm confident that the solution will require revisiting some of the assumptions baked into not just our compiler infrastructures, but also our languages.

[1]: http://terralang.org/
pro-tip for anyone trying to kick a soda (or alcohol) habit: get yourself a seltzer maker, and an assortment of bitters (Fee Bros Cranberry, Walnut, and standard Angostura are a good place to start).

This is just my personal experience, but I found that most of the unhealthy drinking I was doing was out of habit and boredom. I’m just as happy with a seltzer + a few dashes of bitters as I was with a beer or a coke.
To demonstrate this point for those not familiar. Here is an example of using React + Redux on the server to render with an initial state.

https://github.com/GordyD/3ree/blob/master/server/universalA...
Most people don't disable JavaScript but beyond that edge case (I consider JS disabled an edge case) I agree that this architecture isn't necessary and overused. A single page app is great on a MacBook Pro with 2 tabs open but run that on most "normal" people's machines and it gets laggy quick.

People always mention disabled JS and SEO as pitfalls but I think performance and practicality are the obvious reasons not to do this that get overlooked. SPA architecture is something I use alongside server rendered pages. When you have one page or a series of pages in a particular user flow that would benefit from no page reloads and are heavy on interactivity then it makes sense but otherwise I can't see the value. I think developers will realize this and take a more balanced approached with a practical mix of pages rendered server side and pages that use XHR and JavaScript to enhance the experience.
LSRepeater: an NSTimer block based replacement for Swift
ProjectMQ: The Social Media App for Indie Gamers Worldwide
ProjectMQ was voted the most popular entry in the Consumer Products category in the 2015 "Create The Future" contest. Check out the launch window for the upcoming pilot: http://bit.ly/AnnouncingProjectMQ
HTC calls monthly android security updates unrealistic
The study he's referencing took into account exercise as well: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871403X15...
If you disable JavaScript, I'm afraid you're not the target audience of 99.99% of the commercial/content internet. The web is no longer static, and websites are now essentially applications. This is a generalisation, but it mostly holds true I think.

As for bookmarking - any dynamic single page content site and many applications will support linking directly to a certain content or section of the app via various techniques.

JavaScript is not a nice enhancement. It IS the web.
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I suspect these are actually healthier because of the additional calories - which come in the form of fat and protein, dulling the impact of the sugar spike from a soda.

Even if you're overweight, a latte is more nutritious and likely to make you feel full than a soda.
My favourite account of the German nuclear programs (note: using the plural here is deliberate, and significant) is "Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall" (http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Uranium-Club-Secret-Recordings...), by physicist Jeremy Bernstein.

The centrepiece is a curated set of transcripts from secret recordings of the candid conversations of a group of German scientists detained together for months after the war (specifically for the purpose of surveilling such conversations).

Some vaguely YC-ish lessons on how their failure to produce could be attributed in many ways to seemingly mundane organizational structures that were debatably inherent to Nazi German society and internal politics.

Also some borderline pornographic payoff when they find out about Hiroshima. At the time, they were convinced they were 10 years ahead of anyone else, and were being detained as a prelude to being showered with honours and put in place to bring American and British science into the modern age. Then they set about convincing themselves they failed on purpose for moral reasons.
Evernote has me hooked on cross device persistent notes. And I will change to the first quality alternative that lets me import my existing notes from Evernote.

Evernote still can't handle even simple non-overlapping changes on two devices. Every time I close my laptop I have to wonder if changes were synched. Especially embarrassing because superb open source code is already available for conflict resolution (git, for example).

EDIT: someone should write a notekeeping app built on github.
HTTP/2 seeks to address this as well, through server push, I believe. How successful that is isn't something we'll know until take up increases.
Interesting question I read in another thread on this. Suppose a driverless car is going for a collision scenario, and its computer gets the choice between hurting the driver but no one else, or protecting the driver but hurting several people. What should it take ? Does your car have a responsibility toward you its owner, or should it go for "the greater good" of saving the most lives possible ? And what if it's not your car but one you rent per use "a la Uber", which will probably come to exists rather soon ?

It does not apply to the google car since the way I understand it their maximum emergency level is "full stop", but it's something that would probably come up at some point, and I'm not sure what the "right" answer is, if there is even one.
In Latin America tap water is not drinkable so most people get their drinking water bottled.
We support bookmarking via url parameters and hashes. It does take some extra coding to update the hashes in the URL as each action is taken, and to check them and pull in the correct data and application state on reload... but it is definitely a solvable problem.