skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When RFID came out, investors and media argued that all products will have RFID embedded in just a few years.

Fast forward 10 years, we see RFID applied across logistics industry and some parts of finance/security, but it wasn't cut out for everyone everywhere. In the beginning, people argued that the distribution wasn't happening because RFID wasn't cheap enough, but with the recent production costs nearing cents, now it's evident that it's due to lack of clear use cases.

I do agree that the development of use cases requires more creativity and has a big room for innovation, but saying there's going to be a chip in every physical item sounds similar to "there's going to be Uber for everything."

I don't want to sound pessimistic, but I think as with all startups, you have to start with a clear problem (other than gaming/entertainment startups) and develop a customer value proposition compelling enough for an industry to emerge.

I'd bet more on VR having a broader implication in the next 10-20 years, and expect to see more digital items produced vs physical item ever created in the history of mankind.
the OWASP Broken Web Applications project (owaspbwa) is worth mentioning in this context. It's a collection of vulnerable web applications for web security training, demonstrations and testing. It can be downloaded as a VM from [1]. I don't have a lot of faith in sourceforge, but it seems to be the official source.

[1]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/owaspbwa/files/1.2/
I was being dead serious. A good espresso machine is a big investment and I think it's common for people to use bottled water in them when the local tap isn't ideal for taste or machine health.

I can imagine that kind of tap water being extremely frustrating. I've been very satisfied with the tap water everywhere I've lived, but it sounds like I'd be a bottled water guy in Copenhagen.
I still get surprised I can buy booze. I'm 31.
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And a digital currency will be needed to transfer value from chip to chip
WA is nice, but excruciatingly slow when you need something NOW.
> is basically an ad-hominem. Argue the merits, not the source.

It's not always ad-hominem. It might seem so because of the obvious tone used but at certain times it could just be that the context that a person is coming from could have a really significant impact on his reasoning (for or against).
This is an extremely short-sighted view. There is no question that connectivity is a vital resource necessary for equality and that we want everyone to have access to the internet. The question is how we expand the network to them and — most importantly — who pays for it?

A network paid for by foreign business interests and advertisers is fundamentally different than a network paid for by its users. But even though the foundation is different, they are in many ways substitute goods, meaning the presence of one will inhibit the popularity of the other. By the most basic economic reasoning, Free Basics will hurt the spread of user-funded peer-to-peer networks like the internet, just as distributing free clothing will hurt a local textile industry.

Based on that model, we can also predict the more fundamental difference between the two networks to be in the details w.r.t. privacy interests, not limited access.
Ooops, yes, as the other comment says, I forgot to mention it was in programmer's view. Otherwise the number shows correctly.
This is fine, as long as not every physical item has a unique ID, readable without authentication from a distance.

I don't want to walk around covered in cookies.

Then again, in 20 years, AI will probably be able to ID us anyway.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10790861
It's not about reaching gender parity, or shaming. It's about merit and bias.

Jobs that are, on average, more suitable for a person of a certain sex do exist. But it's a loss to society to culturally enforce gender-based barriers to entry: You want to leverage the high-performance end of the bell curve of either sex.
I sometimes use "bc -l", but mostly I use ipython as my calculator.
As do the comments at bottom (first 3 'wow omg' comments are from people with direct relation to the company)
So they give away stuff that's effectively irrelevant to their business and that should cause a positive impression? You shouldn't let what might be called a Trojan Horse to change your impression of them.
Even chips?
Original Story in Science News: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/culture-beaker/few-key-sign...

Paper: http://vene.ro/betrayal/niculae15betrayal.pdf
I built http://highbetastocks.com as a way to scratch my own itch (was too lazy to have to login to my brokerage account every time I wanted this info). And in the process learned a little bit of Meteor js ^_^
Because all the good compasses, protractors, sextants, transits, and maps are marked in radians, right?
I got carded recently. I'm old enough to have kids who are old enough to drink (I don't, but I could have).
There is no such thing as 100% security. You can build a fence and try to say "but someone who really wants to get in will bring a wire-cutter," but that's just missing the point. The point is that a fence is cheap, and you want as much security as you can reasonably afford.

There's no way anything will stop anyone who really wants to get on a plane. But when you play a game of chess, you don't try to play a perfect game, you try to play the game that gives your opponent the most opportunities to make mistakes. You force your opponent to make decisions, because that's how they end up making the wrong decisions and get caught.

So go ahead and make a fake ID. You'll fail to board more by doing that than you will if the airport doesn't even bother to ask for ID.
On the otherside Windows Live Photo Gallery has no vendor lock-in (maintains the file metadata) and is a superb photo management application that was introduced with Vista (similar to iPhoto/Photos/Lightroom). It stays in low maintainance mode since its Vista days (moved to Live apps bundle) and it would have a better home in the open source community. Given that Microsoft recently open sourced the related Live Writer software, there is a small hope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10706044
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There will be computers at every desks! Oh man, they were so wrong ;)

And internet too!
That's not true. The App Store version of iPhoto (9.6.1) runs just fine on El Capitan.
I guess there are a lot of other things that may have been responsible, but I can believe it. I just saw blackfish and was impressed with how much that changed public opinion. Bernie and Goodfella got people out of jail.
You should really think before spouting off, and you should honestly admit if you're biased in this instance.

I've followed India's cellular revolution with interest, seeing (as I mentioned earlier) I grew up when India had almost no phones. My dad, due to his work, always had a phone; and I, being the youngest, was the errand-boy, running to distant houses to tell people that there was a phone call for them, and that the caller would call back in 20 minutes, so please can you come quickly?

The reason cellphones took off in India is that the government tried (some would say, not hard enough) to level the playing field and to remove barriers. What if you could make calls on Reliance to only Reliance folks? Or what if Airtel charged you Rs. 20/min for calls to Docomo, but Rs 1/min to calls on Airtel? This kind of balkanization would be disastrous to the cellphone users.

Similarly, if you want internet use to spread, you cannot do that by placing barriers and toll gates all around. It has to be unfettered access. Sure, this "basics" thing may be available right _now_ ; but users will then be locked into one mode of operation forever.

People who are arguing against FB are not just "intellectuals"; but people who have a lot of experience. I, for one, remember when the first Internet line to India was hooked up: it was a 56K modem, a Trailblazer. For the entire country of India. From there, we have come to terabits/sec fibre lines. So yes, I do know something about the Internet.
Intersting point! I haven't considered that.
just checked on Win7: calc.exe is 897KB
And there we have it, a Christmas miracle: The most Hacker News comment there ever was.
These Earthquake-Proof Beds Are Absolutely Freaking Terrifying
Probably. But honestly, not losing your investors capital is priority #1. tl;dr Don't do stupid stuff like this.
The design sucks it is not minimalist and most elements are too big. Do you even use Vim/Emacs?
Did something change recently? I forgot my ID a few years ago and was allowed to board. I just had to go through extra security checks.
I never said they didn't, I was replying to "If they manage to make self driving cars legal at all."

They are already legal and they are coming, this isn't a far out concept. Semi self driving (requiring a driver to take over if needed) consumer cars probably will be first then fully automated ones a few years later.
I am reminded of this Thoreau quote:

"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."
Does this nvidia-hosted history include the hundreds of thousands of man-hours developers have spent trying to get their models to train on nvidia GPUs in linux?
chips all the way down, until you hit turtles.
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All Starbucks stores in the US are company-owned. They do not franchise.
RFID is more recent and a closer comparison.
Yeah, I see people reference colonialism in general as well as the EIC in particular.
Books are not the only things that people read "to function in society", and failing to read some other things can "lead to one's life being ruined".
1) Vue itself has little to do with FRP. "Reactive" doesn't necessarily imply FRP in any way. However it's pretty easy to use Vue with RxJS: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-rx

2) & 3): See http://blog.evanyou.me/2015/10/25/vuejs-re-introduction/ and http://vuejs.org/guide/comparison.html
Is there any rationale for LN?

As I understand the situation: Bitcoin has a hardcoded limit for the number of transactions that can be processed every 10 minutes. Having such a limit is a good thing, because nobody can stress the network with an unlimited number of transactions. But the limit should be close to the normal usage of the network. So the hardcoded limit should rather be a setting that gets updated from time to time.

So there are the Bitcoin Unlimited guys who propose a client that has a setting for the limit.

And there are the LN guys, who propose a whole new layer on top of Bitcoin. Why?
The answer to question #3 is yes. The framework is written in ES6 https://github.com/vuejs/vue. And here is an example app using ES6 https://github.com/vuejs/vue-hackernews.
Give Mosh [1] a shot! From the site: "Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes."

Great for being on an intermittent and/or slow link.

[1] https://mosh.mit.edu/
VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places. (1995)
As a counter-prediction, I bet that non-Internet-enabled services will become a luxury/boutique item, e.g. doctors, dentists, and lawyers who keep paper medical records to ensure privacy on the part of their clients.
>There is no such thing as 100% security. You can build a fence and try to say "but someone who really wants to get in will bring a wire-cutter," but that's just missing the point. The point is that a fence is cheap, and you want as much security as you can reasonably afford.

TSA Annual budget: $7.39 billion (2014)

>There's no way anything will stop anyone who really wants to get on a plane. But when you play a game of chess, you don't try to play a perfect game, you try to play the game that gives your opponent the most opportunities to make mistakes. You force your opponent to make decisions, because that's how they end up making the wrong decisions and get caught.

Yes, but when you play a game of chess you try. Have you even seen a US state ID? They're not trying.

>So go ahead and make a fake ID. You'll fail to board more by doing that than you will if the airport doesn't even bother to ask for ID.

And by asking for IDs you achieve what? How many terrorists has the TSA stopped because they had fake IDs?
Or, on a more optimistic note, there wont be any computers by then. We will be left of humanity will live in caves and hunt giant mutant rabbits with bare hands and sharpened sticks.
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How about job availability?
Indian here. The manipulation has been incredibly blatant and scummy. It's not even funny anymore. Friends who categorically denied having sent a mail to the Indian telecom regulatory authority on Facebook's behalf (conveniently supplied by Facebook) show up on my feed as having signed the mail.

It's an all-out blitzkrieg. I've seen full page ads in newspapers, banners at bus stops, even ads on local Indian websites.

It's one of the scummiest things I've seen from a major company.
Just as a random contributor here on HN with no formal role or standing, could I ask that you make the effort to be constructive. Your comments here may or may not be accurate, but it's expressed in a manner that's just
plain nasty.

I'm sure you have a lot to offer - please make the effort to be helpful with your criticisms.
"it's all a product of lazy / greedy regulators."

Uh, I think it starts with greedy traders. If they weren't so greedy, the regulaters wouldn't matter.
Every single time sexism in tech is mentioned someone will crawl out and say "but what about women in mining?" or "what about men in nursing?"

What's happening? Are people too stupid to put "women in mining" into a search engine? Too lazy? Too dishonest?

WIM (Women in mining)

http://www.womeninmining.org.uk/

Male Nursing

http://www.nurselookup.com/index.html

http://www.aamn.org/
In case the blockchain forks, it will get really interesting. And how I understand it, some people will get stinking rich. Because you can then effectively double every old coin by mixing it with new coins. After that, it is valid and independently spendable on both forks. So people in the know will probably buy old coins like mad, mix them with new coins and immediately sell them on both chains. Then use the money to buy old coins again.
Doubt it. The utility of a chip attached to a thing is access to the thing's state - which is besides its location usually nothing. Even things where IoT would intuitively bring the most value, such as smart remote control lights, aren't getting that much traction. So I'd say IoT wil be much less widespread than some people believe or wish. (Although there's one use case where IoT might become popular - power consumption measurenment for home appliances - so you could see real-time or monthly chart for example.)
Exoskeletons are covered in this Breakthrough episode:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/breakthrough-series/vi...
How about azidoazide azide or 1-diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole (C2N14)?

It will "literally explode if you move it, touch it, disperse it in solution, expose it to x-rays, expose it to light, and even if you did absolutely nothing to it." [1]

[1] http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/09/things_i_won...
Andreessen is overhyped. He says these bombastic things which, as bombastic things usually do are either not original and/or usually not true. Say, one of the most famous of his is "software is eating the world" from 2011 but Alan Cooper (you know, the guy who invented Visual Basic) in his "The inmates are running the asylum" book from 1998 (that's 13 years earlier) already argued that everything already is or will become a computer with some peripherals. That's just one example, I am not saying Cooper is original but certainly Andreessen is not.

His examples include a modern, computerized warship which predictably crashed... When looking at his investment, sure, people will talk about Facebook but leave out Groupon and Zynga. The guy does not, at the end, shit gold.
Sounds like the mark of a beast, some religious text have prophesied ;-)

In all seriousness this is nothing new. RFI was an initial play and the tech is just maturing (getting smaller & better). But really will my toilet paper have a chip and communicate with my loo to tell me how my experience was.. I don't think so.

Will smartphones go away. I don't think so. They are the evolution of a PC. Being human we want control over things. This means a mobile interface, a remote control, with an intuitive interface. Whatever form smartphones will take I doubt the interface will disappear. But they will talk to all those chips integrated into our lives.
Here's a screenshot of what's the permanent top-notification if you're an Indian and on Facebook- http://imgur.com/uykRY8G
So I don't have to carry around keys all the time
I think "You Can't Pray the Baby Away" would be a more suitable title, considering the prevalence of the abstinence movement and their goals.

I weep for the children who gain such a burden so early in their lives.
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Andreessen is in the business of hyperbole, obviously.
It's called grad school ;)

There's tools like BLAST that can use this data to answer questions like "is there a copy of influenza virus in pig DNA". It's basically a fast fuzz search engine.

If you grab a lot of these, you can concatenate pairs of genomes, estimate ancestry distance based on compression ratio, and then produce a phylogenetic tree.

Project Rosalind (http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/) has a series of simple programming problems related to bioinformatics.
News Flash: Andreessen is in the business of hyperbole.
Logically speaking, we could apply this the other way as well, right? I wonder what horrors shows like "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and "Housewives of Beverly Hills" have done to our society. "But it's just entertainment, I don't take it seriously"......bullshit Karen, bullshit!!
Absolutely! love this calculator miles ahead of anything Windows has ever offered
You kind of have to assume they will be maximally greedy, though. That's the game.
The authors primary concern is that lightning will produce a hub and spoke model.

The design has been a true peer-to-peer payments network without hubs for quite a while[1].

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/20...
SpeedCrunch is great too, it was originally inspired by the WinXP PowerCalc - probably the best calculator from Microsoft: http://dan.hersam.com/2010/11/10/powercalc-in-windows-7/ (SpeedCrunch still lacks the graph rendering part, though has other features and improvements)
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I have yet to see the "shell across from a shell" though. I wonder why?
> I am not saying Cooper is original but certainly Andreessen is not.

Same goes for Thiel and his "tech stagnation" theories. From Why celebrity “genius” Peter Thiel is grossly overrated [0]:

> Thiel arrived at this “contrarian contention … about 2008.” That’s odd. The thesis that the most recent wave of tech innovation was slowing, or would soon slow, was discussed in the 1990s by Neo-Schumpeterians like Carlota Perez, and more recently by economists Robert J. Gordon, Michael Mandel and Tyler Cowen, among many others.

0: http://www.salon.com/2014/09/11/meet_the_anti_gay_sexist_cel...
I would caution this thinking. Plan B pills are very expensive- $50 at your local Walgreens. Teenage pregnancies are highest in areas with high income inequality. Most of these families are living paycheck to paycheck, and the kids have no money. They cannot simply walk into a store and plop $50 on the counter after every time they have had unprotected sex.
Because then we can sell fancier software calculators?

Penny Arcade has some great quotes, but re: porting scarcity to virtual goods being 'like if the first thing God decided to create was AIDS' is my favorite.
The classic that I read every time it is posted. It is just perfect. Gloriously perfect.
I would have loved to see a few more heavy ide such as visual studio and xcode and a few others. Though it was still quite great
Not "every time", because I'd say this is the kind of thing that is supposed to happen just once... or twice.

We all have been horny after all, but having unprotected sex just because of it means you have another problem I'd say 8-)
And python...
Anyone else download it with the intention to work through it but never actually do it?
I agree server-less is not technically accurate. That's why I put it in quotes. However, in the spectrum of

bare metal server <-> VM server <-> Heroku-like PaaS

I'd put this architecture to the right of Heroku. I have less to worry about from an Ops perspective than I do running the app on Heroku. On Heroku, I would need to think about and managing one or several processes. With AWS Lambda, there is no concept of a processes exposed to me like Procfiles expose on Heroku. That's nice in many ways but also limiting in many ways.

Also, note that I wasn't building this for rock hard and huge scalability production. I was building it to learn and hopefully help others learn about a fairly new way to build a web application.
Yeah, I don't believe in long-term predictions unless they're predicated on human nature itself. That never seems to change. So, in IT, economic principles like squeezing more ROI out of investments, backward compatibility, lock-in, and ecosystem effects were good indicators of what would stick around & how it would change. Past that, it was a bunch of crap shoots all thrown onto same table overlapping.
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See if you can dump all of the files that iPhoto uses to store all of this data, then write (or ask someone to write) some software that is capable of reading them. Make it open source too, do the world a favor :)
I usually just use python for my calculating needs.

I've set up Win-P to launch a python terminal with math pre-imported for that purpose.
I use python as a calculator all the time as well since longs have no limit.

$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 14 2015, 19:46:27)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.39)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> hex(17281580835365214242)
'0xefd4823541245822L'
In the two shops on the street example, Hotelling's explains that while it would better serve the customers to be each located one quarter distance from each end of the street, but that neither shop would risk letting the competitor relocate to capture more of the market.

Can this be expanded to mean that Hotelling's law allows for a third competitor to approach an adjacent pair and simply steal all of the business from one side of the street?
Yes, but without that agreement you're infringing copyright.
Ask HN: Best holiday gift this year?
You can only pick one, and you can pick whether you gave or received, but would love to hear what people are geeked about this year for the holidays.
Thank you. We changed the URL to that from http://lithub.com/the-importance-of-being-orwell/ and added the year to the title.
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Exactly. Plus, the title doesn't imply it's his money. The second you find out his job you know he lost $200 million of others' money. The number plus losses by those who trusted his skill let the impact sink in.