skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a matter of perspective to some extent.

If what they say is "if you add this extra functionality without our permission, we will sue you", it is not OK. This cripples peoples ability to innovate.

If they on the other hand say "This is the basic functionality, and you can buy this add on package for $400 if you want extra functionality", I have less problems with it. The latter opens up for third party addons, possibly being more innovative than the original addon software. What I find abusive is the attempts to prevent people form innovate using the law.
Yeah, it totally sucks to have a dictionary that has words definitions that reflect common word usage of the past 20-30 years.

And literally isn't defined as figuratively. It is listed as both a synonym and an antonym meaning to figuratively.
Well...I'd say that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 has become much more notorious than the Arianne launch; but it's also a UX fault, not a straight-out software error.
Islandwood was het project name, i had to search ( according to my standards ) a long time. Here is more infromation : https://dev.windows.com/en-us/bridges/ios
Easy (but VERY controversial) solution: people with pacemakers must have a tattoo in the wrist or somewhere else.

On a separate note, maybe we should all have a tattoo with some basic info: name (optional), blood type, chronic diseases (diabetes for example), medication allergies, pacemakers, etc.

Kinda like the SS tattoos, but without the SS part, naturally.
Nowadays there's a general purpose computer inside every thing, and larger proportions of functionality are done in software.

Also a larger proportion of problems tend to be software problems, not hardware.

Hardware with open software interfaces might be the way of the future here. There could be whole ecosystems with that.
There's more to report than simply an awesome library. Two days ago, someone allegedly unfamiliar to the project (Paul Banks) appeared from the ether, applied a few "simple" patches, and improved the performance of libmill 7 fold (for OSX at least). That just doesn't happen, ever, in open source.

https://twitter.com/sustrik/status/666360179802402816
No HTTPS,

Ran a whois against the domain and found out,

Domain Name: betagoogle.com

Registrant Name: Edwin Fennema

Registrant Organization: BrainMedia

Registrant Street: Bijlmermeerstraat 16A

Registrant City: HOOFDDORP
Or more generally:

You currently have a share in the company which you want to sell. Without real revenue the company's value is almost entirely subjective. The right price then is basically what you can convince your partner to pay you for it.

If your partner calls your bluff and is prepared to scuttle the company that could well be $0. If (s)he believes in a bright future for the company it could just as well be $10+k though.
Not saying it shouldn't be submitted here, but discussion of SpaceX news is one thing that reddit does better than HN, thanks to the generally excellent moderation of the /r/spacex subreddit.

Here's the corresponding link to this story on that sub:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3t31gt/ula_says_it_...
Literally has had that use since the early 20th century. Of course a descriptivist dictionary is going to describe that use.
I don't pretend. You make it seem like I need to defend my choice of using an adblocker, I disagree with that premise. There is no sales contract, and I have no obligation to waste my attention on webpage ads anymore than I have an obligation to listen to TV commercials. There is no moral argument to be had either, as long as we ignore the morality of user profiling by the same ad community.

Besides, the cash flow for ad monetization is so convoluted that it would be very hard to conclusive demonstrate financial harm by my actions.
> AES256 with 10 million encryption rounds.

Applying AES multiple times/rounds doesn't yield anything. AES is not adaptive (like BCrypt) so the cost of brute-forcing doesn't increase incrementally with the number of rounds.
I learned it as part of my 2nd year mechanical engineering design course. It was a great way to teach concept generation to novices and expand awareness of alternative solutions. As our experiance grows, we become more aware of the possibilities. I don't think any of our class still uses TRIZ in their professional work, but learning the process of seeking inventive solutions from other applications is critical.

A parallel is perhaps biomimetics [1], an active current research area of 'design inspired by life/ biology'. Often, it is controversial if the invention was truely inspired by nature, or just made for good marketing. 'Shark skin' swimsuits were named by marketers after the actual invention [2]. Our experiance with heavier-than-air flight was terrible until we stopped trying to mimic how birds fly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics
[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/swimsuit-is-not-li...
The flatscreen producers would probably prefer you came back every 2 years to buy a new TV with updates to their OS, instead of just every 10 years.
Maybe it was a dropbear?
Oh, designing something is easy, no worries. (As compared to "getting adoption above 0.0001% before the heat death of the universe": how long did it take before we finally got somewhat workable Unicode adoption, even with the mess of about 5 different Unicode encodings, astral planes and whatnot - 15 years? 20? 25? And all the other bazillion "extended ASCII" encodings are nowhere near extinct, either.)

TL;DR: Betamax.
The topic is very large. Why should we think differently when there's no real evidence that mass surveillance, or lack thereof, is relevant?

Are you also going to ask if our views on car rental, access to firearms and explosives, foreign military involvement in the Middle East, discrimination on basis of nationality, religion, and ethnicity, etc. have also changed? Since those seem rather more relevant to what little we know about what happened, yes?
The problem is they became interesting only decades later, when the ability to actually watch them arrived with hdtv.

It's a real shame, but not many organisations are that farsighted.
Downvotes don't count as demonstrating ;-P
As others have said, there is a difference in Erlang between `Foo` and `foo`; the first is a binding the latter is an atom.

Many languages encode information in capitalization. Go uses it for functions which are exported. In OCaml and Haskell, constructor names always begins with a Capital letter (to distinguish them from values). The alternatives are usually not that alluring: either you need some symbol like a backtick, or a keyword in front or behind the value. So capitalization it is.

The particular Erlang-case stems from Prolog as already said. And as you note, Unicode provides its own headaches with respect to these rules.
Keep the faith, man!

Of course the taped copies we have now must have been recorded on multiple tapes. So are the transitions on them from switching tapes to record the broadcast, or are they actually the transitions from the original faked broadcast? If the original broadcast was faked and broadcast from tapes, you'd expect to see both types of transitions in the modern copies!
I find your exchange of comments very nice because it so perfectly illustrates a pet peeve of mine.

The assumption "free market = good" is so widely spread and deeply rooted that anything which is identified as "bad" is then assumed to be against "the free market", when really, it is often perfectly aligned with "the free market", and the truth is that "free market = good" is naive. Free markets have good and bad sides; the good tends to significantly outweigh the bad, but unless you recognize that there is some bad in there as well, you're not going to end up with a very good policy mix.

One can try to excuse the naive way of thinking by pretending that one is merely using a shorthand, but really, I'm doubtful that that's anything more than an excuse.
I was a rdio subscriber and their Andriod app was unreliable - it would just stop working and have to be force killed. Yes, I can do that but for most people, that is pretty horribl. Even I switched to Spotify after a while.
Why not just an rfid chip in the pacemaker itself?
On a visit to South Korea, I was astonished to watch a national weather report on televsion. It showed the weather in Seoul, in Busan, in a few other major cities, and on Dokdo! (Dokdo is this tiny island mentioned in the article, disputed by Japan, with two people living on it.)

In this case, the status of the island is largely a proxy for remaining Korean bitterness over WWII, towards the Japanese who (at least in the eye of many Koreans) have not yet fully owned up to their war crimes.
NOD should be by default in every big company
Ha, well played BBC! You mean the state broadcaster for the UK managed to avoid mentioning the Falklands in an article about disputed barren islands. I'm truly shocked!
It is user-space threading if the scheduler is in user-space.
Very cynical view, but it's one I share in most cases as well. Not every startup I meet falls in to that category, but enough do that it's not some outlier random fluke theory.
If their business model is poor, it's not up to me to compensate them by dealing with their obnoxious, psycholigically manipulative, bandwidth hogging, performance-crippling, potential malware attack vector ads.

If their business fails, it fails.
The ULA launchers use the Russian produced RD-180 engine
The pricing is ridiculous. In Germany it costs 120€. I really don't get why Google is constantly making their products so unaffordable here. That makes it slightly more expensive than the Intel Compute Stick with Win 8.1 which goes for 110€
TLS is really just higher version of SSL. Your comment reads like there's some significant difference between them. Tls actually fixed known ssl issues, so whether you like it or not, originall SSL is just insecure. I'm not sure what you mean by running TLS for SSH - they're quite separate.
Would be great to be able to run Android apps on other platforms, even if they don't replicate the native host UX or have access to all the platform APIs.

The only solutions I've seen are

-Myriad Alien Dalvik (which isn't free)

-Google's ARC Welder (which is very fast but only works inside Chrome/Chromium, doesn't work with all apps, only runs one app at a time and quite clunky to use)

And emulators like Bluestacks or Genymotion, which are generally quite slow.

Any other alternatives - especially for Linux?
So we need a different set of prosecutors for going after abusive police.
SCiO Molecular Scanner Unboxing [video]
Days since new time-series database released: 1

Days since new graph database released: 0

;)
seems interesting but I started clicking around, specifically in the Python section and this website seems to have been released too early, the text I am not sure is right(it says I need to use a ruby engine settings for python?) and some links don't work or give 404.
I love how easy it is to browse for music by record label on rdio. Not something you can do on other platforms and it's a great way to discover new music! It'll be sad to see it go.
3000 people live there...hardly barren
Nice. I've implemented basically the same thing about 5 years ago: https://code.google.com/p/graphpack/ (future dev on https://github.com/amitport/graphpack)

never had time to publish proper documentation though.

you should also check out the paper that was published a few years after:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2226/abstract
I was really hoping for something intelligible. I couldn't get past the second paragraph. Is the blog new or was it on hiatus for a year? Does he usually blog about technicalities? "me and my colleague," "write write-ups," "Bug Bounty Bugs."
Mitro is really good, probably overkill for what you want though.

When it was bought by Twitter they open-sourced it with bits missing. Some have added the missing bits to run it in Docker, but there may be dragons:

https://github.com/servomac/mitro

(comes with browser extensions, server, etc etc)
Hello everyone! We just launched Sketchboard for Slack, a digital whiteboard for visual remote teamwork. We'd love to hear what you think about the tool.

We wanted to create a way for people to explain concepts visually to their teammates on Slack using structural sketching.

We're also on Product Hunt today, if you want to join the conversation there.

Looking forward to hearing from you guys!
Desss: send drawings to your friends
If [1] is true (and I have no particular reason to believe otherwise) you can get an 8" tablet with Cherry Trail SoC, expansion ports, acceptable screen resolution and HDMI out for $0.11 less than a Chromebit.

[1] http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_252625.html
ULA's vehicles were designed around the RD-180 rocket engine [1][2]. This is an engine built and designed in Russia.

After Russia annexed Crimea, Congress banned the Pentagon from using Russian rocket engines. Russia responded by counter-banning the Pentagon from using its engines [3]. This made things complicated for ULA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180

[2] http://www.ulalaunch.com/faqs-rd-180.aspx

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-13/russia-ban...
ON Semiconductor to Acquire Fairchild Semiconductor for $2.4B in Cash
Come on, Argentina has never given a toss about the place until they needed to ramp up the jingoism.
They have good OpenCL and MPI support. Intel has tools that help characterize the performance of programs running on it. They are, obviously, complex tools that take some time and dedication to master.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780124104143.do is an introduction and weights more than 400 pages.
Pocket spectrometer lets you measure the molecular makeup of nearly anything
Using OpenStreetMap and GraphHopper to visit every pub in Dublin
Agreed. This sentence especially makes me think this is too much magic:

>Nanobox detects your app type and automatically configures the environment and installs everything your app needs to run

and

>Each Engine sniffs the code looking for a positive match to determine which language / framework your app is written in

and lastly:

>The matched Engine generates a Boxfile defining the services your app needs to run and how each should be configured

This sound quite fragile imo. No specs or configuration, it just guesses what all my deps are, and how to configure redis,mysql, and "other data-specific services" etc.

So an enourmous abstraction over everything except my source code with no configuration and a promise to "take care of everything" and forcing me to use their pipeline. Hm...
This is quite Snow Crash as well.
I'm aware of a scheme in the UK where Doctors got paid for signing the forms post death certifying a pacemaker is not present in the body. At the end of the week these doctors could collect their not insignificant (roughy £100 a body) 'ash cash'.
Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
It's irrelevant to his legal rights and whether or not he should be released, but perfectly pertinent to the point the post you were responding to was trying to make.
Can't see the letters, sorry. Not everyone is sitting in a dark room.
I was about to migrate a side project using docker containers to AWS Lambda just for fun... Now I guess I'll stick with docker a few more months... =)
Show HN: GraphPack- a decentralized graph database
I have really enjoyed Nick Harkaway's novels. He is John Le Carre's son. He also has a story in the latest MIT Tech Review Science Fiction Anthology.
I wrote this article and this made me laugh, so thanks :)
> If your partner calls your bluff

If you ever find yourself using those words when considering an action plan, run in the other direction as fast as you can. There lie antagonistic business practices. Ruining a friendship over a petty startup issues is not worth it. Nor losing your dignity. You're still friends, settle this as friends, each trying to make it beneficial to the other party.
ISIS operates a crypto help desk – report
I for one welcome our new programming overlords.

Fuck that is impressive. I've seen some talks from Google Brain people referencing bits of this but never understood the full picture. Damn. We should all go home now.
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall
> their branding is "pure, original, undiluted Islam"

That's actually true, and it's not just "branding," nobody can deny them that they are qouting the words in the primary holy books. And still some people believe in "peacefulness" of that "pure, original, undiluted Islam." It's the opposite: only by "diluting" (honestly reforming) it can the violence induced by it be avoided long-term. But it's easy to imagine how those that don't want the reform will behave: more "pure, undiluted" acts.
Given the brutal reality of the streaming music business, it would not shock me if Spotify suffered the same fate.
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I'm not expert on encryption, so could you clarify this a bit? If the source data is encrypted multiple times, surely then decrypting needs the same number of passes to get the original?
I wonder if anyone other than NASA was picking up the direct broadcast from the Moon? I've got to imagine the Russians at least would be doing that.
And tiny machines are functions with a bit of state.
Many of us carry Neanderthal genes. What is this rogue DNA doing?
Unjamming music with convolutional neural networks
Had bionics (the older name of biomemetics) on tip of the tongue for analogy sake too, but felt am not familiar enough with it. I however worked and shared hobbies with a few people who were into TRIZ: our alma mater was one of the hubs. Never seen it make a difference, but maybe it has its merits as pedagogic tool.
I'm impressed that the modulated audio from the sending modem was intelligible by the receiving modem when it emerged out the other end of the cell network!
that's employee time, thus, money.
Sensu was originally built to solve the problem of having to monitor ephemeral nodes[1], now however, it's a a versatile monitoring platform. I would argue that it's much more than just what it was originally designed for.

Regarding RabbitMQ and difficulty in debugging: it's true. You can now use Redis as a transport if you like. I'm sure support for other transports will be added in time, too.

1. https://puppetlabs.com/presentations/puppet-sensu-love-infra...
Interesting points:

>What's more, the amount of Neanderthal DNA in Eurasians ranges from 1-4%. That means the fragments I carry may not be the same ones that you carry.

>Researchers discovered that 20% of the Neanderthal genome can be found in humans today. No one has all 20%: it is spread across various populations.
Nothing in the text you quoted says that it is a twelve sided die, only that twelve faces of the die are numbered. That part of the statement doesn't tell you how many faces there are in total.
Could I use multiple services like LastPass, and then have my password be the xor of all of those? That way each service would have to fail at the same time, or I would have time to change the stolen piece?
What is the proof of existence of 'universal time' as physical phenomena instead of being a 'derived property' of some or other physical process?

Rotation of Earth around Sun is just a process, there is no time in it apart from the mind of an external observer. Similarly with any so called "atomic clocks" or any other physical process, including so called expansion of the Universe.

Time, of course, could be derived as a concept from an observable change (a process) by mind, but this does not imply its physical existence, like it is with what we call physical forces.

Space is more subtle, but it is also require an observer and at least two particles related via this or that set of forces.

Two random Photons share nothing, and without an observer there is neither space nor time among them.

Mathematics does not imply existence of described abstraction.
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Better they expend their border-dispute resources over these barren islands than the inhabited ones.
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There's also the Savage Islands that are disputed between Portugal and Spain. They are barely habitable, but make a big impact in calculating the EEZ of each country in the northern Atlantic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Islands
23 Year Old Russian Girl Bench Presses 375 Lbs, Wait Until You Hear Her Voice
I got the Internet in 2006. I feel like I missed out on so much :(

Invest anti-establishmentarianism and experiment with psuhing your own boundaries, and get rewarded with access to this totally new new thing - technology - that was everywhere, powering the world, and Important(TM)...

I can totally understand how that would be quite attractive :)

That said, this author seems to have had a bit of a lucky break with the authorities, and I can't say I (or my family) would be particularly enthusiastic to have to deal with this side of things.

But I guess the fact that it was a two-sided coin added to the attractiveness in a way.
Because then you need to equip every single crematorium in the world with a RFID reader, not to mention that it will be useless to millions of people around the world that already have pacemakers.
> "More people have landed on the moon than have landed on Rockall."

Charming place.
CloudFlare supports ISIS? [pdf]
Why is there anything to discuss? As far as I see you have a coding project together, not a brand or a company (both needs actual paying customers). Everybody gets a copy of the code, release all contracts of shared interests and there should be no problem.
Nobody ever fought over Rockall.
> 95% of classes end up just being fairly random containers for data and behaviour and OO just does not offer anything of value.

Thank you. I always feel I'm doing something wrong since my OO code always ends up like this.
hope it pans out, lithium air with 10x energy density of li-ion will be revolutionary
This is neat on so many levels.
Yes they are very different things, but they don't contradict [1] most of the time. According to legal theory of positivism [2] what is written rule is a set of validated moral laws.

And indeed, as I said my way of thinking gives me huge library that suggest me what to do and what is good and what is bad.

Most importantly I think that human beings ( and animals in that matter ) have really big spectrum of emotions that we carry over thousands of years that are not here today, because we need to fight them.

Fear can save your life sometimes ;

Anger ( adrenalin ) can make you a better fighter in time of trouble ;

Jealousy sometimes give motivation of doing good deeds ;

etc.

If the results of those emotional decisions are not regulated by law and only by moral ( of your cultural ancestors, family, education, etc. ) then I really think it's up to me to decide, otherwise we will all be copies of the moral we inherited and there will be no change at all

1 : http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/shavell/pdf/4_Amer_Law_Ec...

2 : http://www.iep.utm.edu/legalpos/
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"Rdio, I guess, made the mistake of trying to be sustainable too early," Miner says. "That classic startup mistake of worrying about being profitable and having a business that makes any sense before you’ve reached this astronomical growth curve."

A. Mistake of having a business that makes sense? Are you kidding me?

B. Spotify and Pandora are heading straight towards the same fate as Rdio.
3 Golden Rules for the applying systems thinking at work
Massive discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562207

Also submitted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567561 (now deleted)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10565577 (now deleted)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10561347 (still active)