skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't remember the details, and can't find it in google, but ... in my possibly faulty memory the FDR administration produced a similar report in the 1930s on the future of the USA. They missed five keys future game-changing events that unfolded not long after:

1. The rise of the superhighway and the importance of personal long-distance travel and trucking

2. The rise of cheap air travel and shipment

3. Nuclear weapons and energy, and the impact of nuclear weapons on geopolitics

And two others I can't remember. Probably at least one of those was WWII.

My point is that producing reports of even near-future trends is HARD. It is very likely multiple game-changing events will not be foreseen.
Copy and paste this bookmarlet into your toolbar:
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Basically, it allows you to go to a site as if you came from Google. This avoids most paywalls.
And here's a non-paywall link! http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2015/12/21/ericsson-si...
Is there another source than wsj? Not because of the paywall, but because I can't find the 0.5% number in here:

Ericsson said that under the agreement it will be paid an undisclosed amount by Apple, along with ongoing royalties over seven years.
...
Details of the contract are confidential
...
Including the new settlement and business with other licensees, Ericsson estimates its revenue from intellectual property rights will be [around]$1.53 billion

What was the estimation of revenue before the settlement? It could have been $1.52 billion or $1 million.

EDIT:

From the Verge article[1]: but an estimate by investment bank ABG Sundal Collier pointed out by Reuters has Apple paying out 0.5 percent of its iPad and iPhone revenue.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/21/10633084/apple-ericsson-p...
> The whole country seems to be making a beeline to pony up for the high rents because the salaries more than compensate for it.

Only if you're at the top of the income bracket (for engineers in SF specifically, not overall for the industry or area). The average SF developer would be better off with an average salary in an area with reasonable real estate prices and state income taxes.
As it comes up for every WSJ article, scroll to the top of this page and click the "web" link. It's there to allow you to bypass the paywall for sources which allow Google search traffic.
Is it feasible for websites to detect which cipher is being used and display a warning banner at the top of the page if SHA1 is used? (Similar to the cookie warnings most sites are now required to display to US visitors.)

Although maybe the precedent of serving content conditional on the cipher used might not be a good one to set.
TypWrittr – distraction-free tranquility in book writing
Need one about the multiplying backslashes in shell quoting levels.
Meat Is Mulder – a generative art piece which reconstructs images from X-Files
Gazelle – a Lisp-like language targetting JavaScript
Patty is a super-tiny pattern matcher for Picolisp
QICI Engine – JS library with a web-based suite of tools for making HTML5 games
No silos!
Gross. Standards should be open. One if the most expensive pieces of a mobile phone is the wireless chipset. That shouldn't cost more than the cpu/gpu. We live in a silly world.
> Mr. Alfalahi described the agreement with Apple as “quite broad” and covering a number of patents that are necessary for 2G, 3G and 4G technologies to work, such as the LTE technology that enables fast video downloads on smartphones.

It was basically a licensing agreement that went poorly and delved into IP lawsuits. It wasn't about Apple copying anyone.
By the same reasoning, divisibility does not use divisibility. Instead of asking if x is divisible by y you create a set of all products of the form ny where n is an integer, then check to see if x is a member of that set.

I don't buy it. qt = sp looks too much like x = ny to me.
500 computer-generated novels
To get around the paywall just paste the link into google search and click the link to the article from there.
Feedback my startup pls. Sharing platform for who lives in the same neighborhood
> and my salary now would surely be the same regardless of the initial choice.

I wouldn't be so sure unless you've never gotten a percentage-based raise.
Current as of that time. Juniper's released a lot of security advisories since them. Though it's likely that they continue to find exploits. I'd be surprised if they don't have similar reports for any popular product, hardware or software, closed or open source.
I produced something similar to this shortly after the release of https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn:

http://i.imgur.com/rb0GJvQ.gifv

Basically, you create a video, dump the video's frames with ffmpeg, run each frame through the RNN, and stitch them back together. It took me several hours to produce just ten seconds of video. Unfortunately, unless you have a Titan X GPU the max size of each image is quite small (certainly less than 1080p), which may be why the frames in this video are split into four quadrants.
That's why I'm personally fine with doing surveillance without consent for research purposes - observing people behaving naturally seems to be the only way to get results that are not totally messed up by constraints of experiment design. People behave differently when they know they're being studied, doubly so when they know what they're being studied for and triply so if they're being told to "act normal".
The law states options lose ISO status 90 days after termination.
http://www.mystockoptions.com/faq/index.cfm/catID/36274DB1-D...
Never Pay for SSL Again
Show HN: Like/Dislike Viewer for YouTube (also upload time)
I'm tempted to start a blog someday, but my own startup takes precedence (or maybe it doesn't but should, I've been spending far too much time on HN lately), so when I do come up with ideas I often just post them as a HN comment or jot down a first draft in Google Docs for later cleanup. I can make note of this one and maybe come back to it someday, though.
Will it teach Apple to avoid patent trolling themselves, or they'll never learn?
Why should the CPU/GPU be the most expensive component?
HN Feature that might be helpful: you can click the "web" link underneath the article title that will launch a web search for the article. Clicking through from the search results will normally let you read an article without the paywall.
I need feedback for my startup. Positive or negative does not matters.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xdk.intel.ad.c...
IOS : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-circle-local-craigslist/i...
Exactly. It's incredibly valuable to have the CEO of the biggest tech company in the world (the beloved Apple no less) making the counter argument in a debate that has quickly regressed to the early 90s Crypto war levels.
The entire patent system has become so absurd. You know what protects your profits? Delivering actual value to customers. It's something you can't patent, and you can't simply corner the market on. You have to fight for it every day and anybody can take those customers from you without recourse.
If you're logged in, just click the 'web' link under the headline on the comments page.
A company I was working for was acquired and the first thing the new management said in the initial meeting was that they had no interest in owning us. They were only acquiring the company because another office had government contracts they wanted. Also, our equity was worthless now. But don't worry, because no one is getting fired! (Instead everyone resigned within a few months)
Leave it to Psmith - 10/10
Anna Karenina - 8/10
The Code of the Woosters 8/10
Fooled by Randomness 7/10
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life 8/10
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia 9/10
Reluctant Fundamentalist 9/10
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 8/10
The Last Question - Asimov - 9/10
The Magic of Thinking Big - 6/10
The catcher in the Rye 8/10
Models 7/10
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby 8/10
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman 7/10
The Surrender Experiment - 10/10
Untethered Soul - 9/10
The Autobiography of a Yogi - 7/10
Raja Yoga - Swami Vikekandanda - 7/10
Something Fresh, something new - 7/10
Karma Yoga - Swami Vikekandanda - 8/10
Thinking, Fast and Slow - 9/10
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 10/10
The Pearl by John Steinbeck 7/10
What? Apple and Ericsson were having a disagreement over licensing fees. There was no trolling.
The info was on rec.models.rc.air and rec.models.rc.heli and flyinggiants.com for scale enthusiasts, and runryder for heli enthusiasts, and .... etc. They are fantastic resources,but they aren't in-person help.

Local clubs were a much better experience, because they could tell you about the local stores, or lend you the tools and supplies that you only need once (I'm looking at you, green loctite), or help you assemble that tricky part that has terrible instructions.

Also, in a time before ready to fly models, everything came as a broken down, or partially assembled kit. Having someone who knew what they were doing check that you had assembled your very expensive model correctly was an enormous benefit. For a new pilot, having an experienced pilot fly your airplane for the first time, and sort out the trim, etc saved a lot of people a lot of time, money and heartache.

You don't really need any of that with a multicopter - they're so much simpler mechanically. I can see how they've gotten away without that kind of community, but i still think it's a major loss.
Thoughts on Design - Paul Rand, Design as Art - Bruno Munari, Meditations - Marcus Aurelius, Ways of Seeing - John Berger, The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
you found The Martian bland ?! That's...I am...speechless. It is an amazing book. The characters are superbly fleshed out and Andy Weir's humour is par excellence. The calculations were not tedious at all. LOL - if you stuck on Mars, calculations are you best friend. I think the author has actually dumbed it down quite a lot TBH.
Size of programs, in terms of disk, memory, cpu time, and network usage, is bloated by multiple orders of magnitude by all the confused people who think the only thing that matters is "developer productivity". Maybe 20% is worth sacrificing, maybe 50%, but 100x? 1000x? It all adds up.

One really easy and relevant example, sizes of docker images for running memcached:

vagrant@dockerdev:~$ sudo docker images | grep memcached
memcached latest 0868b36194d3 2 weeks ago 132.2 MB
sylvainlasnier/memcached latest 97a88c3744ef 13 months ago 297.4 MB
ploxiln/memcached 2015-07-08 aa4a87ee2c05 5 months ago 7.453 MB

(that last one is my own, the other two are the two most popular on docker hub).

As another example, a co-worker recently was working with some (out-of-tree) gstreamer plugins, and the most convenient way to do so was with a docker image in which all the major gstreamer dependencies, the latest version of gstreamer, and the out-of-tree plugins were built from source. The offered image was over 10GB and 30 layers, took quite a while to download, and a surprising number of seconds to run. With just a few tweaks it was reduced to 1.1GB and a handful of layers which runs in less than a second. It was just a total lack of care for efficiency that made it 10x less efficient in every way, enough to actually reduce developer productivity.

Size matters.
Have you noticed a difference in handling of VBRs in your DJ software? I use Mixxx, and that's not been something I've noticed. Someone I regularly have tag-team DJed with uses VirtualDJ and he never complained about me sharing VBR files with him.

I have noticed that older pre-2.0 versions of Mixxx would sometimes get glitchy (warbly) when using the pitch-correction feature (key lock, I think is the name in the UI), but, I don't think it's related to VBR vs CBR, but I never thought to check.

The only time I've noticed an audible sound quality problem when DJing was with low bit rate (usually 128kbps) files.
So, once again, JSX is JS. You're free to write the exact same thing without XML syntax. If you don't like that either, then what you're really saying is "Don't generate HTML using JS". Why not? The benefits are obvious:

* With React & ESLint you get basic checks to make sure you're not passing non-existent variables

* Your IDE understands what you're doing and lets you jump to callback definitions

* You understand what you're doing because you have one obvious place where you do templating and data binding.

* Your actual behaviour logic is still separated from your template, living in some other JS file.

On the other hand, if you add event listeners to HTML from JS the classic way, you get other problems:

* You're querying the DOM tree by CSS classes or some custom attributes. It's surely a familiar way of doing things, but also fragile and unintuitive.

* It requires your JS to know the structure of your DOM to some extent, and that structure is defined elsewhere. So it's basically the same problem as with mustache templates – passing around magic strings – but the other way around.

* Neither ESLint nor IDE will help you do it.
No - the point is that true constant quality has (almost) no constraints on local bitrate, so one section of a movie might be twenty times the bitrate of another section. Online streaming services continually estimate the current available bandwidth, then choose from a selection of pre-encoded streams to download. For this to work well, the selection must know the maximum local bitrate of each stream to match the estimation. If this local maximum isn't known or constrained, you get buffering because you're attempting to download a stream that's actually currently twenty times more than the available bandwidth.

Whereas your personal video collection probably isn't being streamed over any link slower than several hundred MBit/s, which is more than enough for anything short of intermediate codec bitrates, plus significant buffering doesn't count against any data caps.
Alternatively they could just invest more into patents and then fight heavily against everyone else and earn more than 0.5%.
Imperialism. What the US says goes.
The biggest problem with employee equity is the taxes. Investors pay cash for their shares, and the transaction is completely tax neutral. When a company sells its own shares in exchange for cash, the IRS does not charge a penny.

But if an established company wants to get equity into the hands of its employees now you have a problem. The way the tax law is written, you have basically 3 choices. Either the employee is paying you "fair market value", or you are giving them options with a strike price at "fair market value" and they can hope for future appreciation. Otherwise, if you try to just give them shares, the IRS needs to be paid, and in cash! So, for example, to simply give 10% of outstanding common shares (an illiquid and diluting asset) to your employees, you would have to pay 4% of your company's "fair market value" in cash to the IRS!

The problem is all in how you define this "fair market value" thing. If you sell some VCs equity along with what's basically a note payable (liquidation preference) and then say the "value" of the company is equal to the total raised divided by the percentage equity stake they received, all while totally ignoring the 'note payable' -- that's complete madness! And it's the world we live it today.

If, alternatively, you first subtract off the top of any amount raised the full amount of any liquidation preferences, then only the remainder was divided by the percentage equity stake to arrive at a valuation... For example, raise $10m for a 10% stake with a $10m preference -- then for tax purposes your common stock valuation should still be $0. Now you can grant however many common stock shares you want all day long, and you don't bleed cash to the IRS in order to do it.

Employees would still have to pay the full load of taxes on any gains when they sell the shares. But this fixes a huge challenge of fairly compensating employees with equity without even dodging any fair share of taxes. Taxes should be due and payable when liquid value is actually received, not before.
> This agreement ends investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission, lawsuits pending in the U.S. courts for the Eastern District of Texas ...

Eastern District of Texas? Shocking!
> More importantly I've heard some ideas on how to do this that made my skin crawl.

I would be interested in hearing these, as I'm sure many others would be as well.
Its because startups have become much "cooler" now, compared to back then. Plus its hard to get good returns investing elsewhere. Plus the lowered-bar (i.e. cloud) to starting a large scale company

So this pushes more people to do it, more companies, more investors ... and so over time "stuff gets figured out" and optimized and here's where we end up.

For instance, pretend you have a water leak and call 5 plumbers...how many of them charge basically the same (high) price ...

I too had an experience like you ... company IPO'd in 2001 and many initial engineers got $5+M including someone who started as the admin ... turning $2m into $1BN with no addiitional funding or down-rounds will do that :)
In the past couple of years I've read through the entire Aubrey/Maturin series, and I totally agree that they are some of the best books ever. I've never been into historical fiction but it was a great decision to make an exception in this case. Highly, highly recommended. There is also a very nice (though extremely simplified) movie adaptation.
Considering Ericsson revenue/profit was on the order of 30/1.3 billion USD in 2014, and the iPhone only revenue will be somewhere between 100 and 150 billion for 2015 only and going up, this is great news for Ericsson.
Under capitalism, faced with competition, people find the easiest and cheapest ways to protect profit. Delivering actual value is neither easy, nor cheap.
Maybe, maybe not. See also: "Juking the Stats".

https://medium.com/@peaceandchoi/the-downside-of-data-juking...
A friend and I used this paper as part of an independent study in compilers, it was a lot of fun and I think strikes the right balance of concepts core to compiler construction. I highly recommend it.
A lot of folks have pointed out that there is likely no conspiracy among the companies to attempt to screw women out of money. They're not identical products, there's economies of scale at work, etc, however, I believe there's a few places that marketing has specifically been targeted at women for products that such targeting is not happening (at least not successfully/to the scale of) for men: Shampoo, Conditioners, and Soap. Most men don't care enough about these things (outside of shaving needs, which have outrageous products similarly targeting men), but enough women do care enough for them to be victims of marketing and wasted money.

These products principal feature is the advertising. "Natural" and "Essential Oils" and other common "features" mean exactly nothing (or not at all what folks think they mean). And many use pricing for the explicit purpose of implying quality. Obviously a $90 shampoo beats a $5 store brand.

I freaked out when I found out a shampoo my wife loved was $40! So on one of my shopping adventures, I purchased several different brands of conditioner, shampoo and body wash (up to $30.00 w/coupon and no ingredients she was sensitive to), and generic 1 oz. travel bottles. I filled each and we switched them weekly for a few months. Her $40.00 one was in the middle of the rotation and made it "one shower" -- she hated it[1]. In each case the pick was in the bottom 25% for price. Body Wash: Axe for Men O_o, Shampoo: Kirkland (Costco), Conditioner: a Suave product (Suave was a back-up in all three, consequently -- I buy all at once when coupons/store discounts match up, so we needed a few).

[1] I have never told her that was "her brand" -- she would have taken that as me calling her dumb/gullible when the reality is that these companies spend large sums of money to specifically target her -- and there's just no good reason to be a dick.
> If you do a lot of network infiltration, these boxes are among the most useful targets; unlike routers running JunOS, the VPN concentrators have a large outside-the-packet-filter attack surface, and everyone runs them.

Don't forget that the newer SRX-series VPN gateways are JunOS-based, and seem to be recommended by most Juniper sales people these days. There are certainly a ton of ScreenOS devices, but Juniper seems to have mostly deprecated them in their messaging.

The primary Juniper security track certifications are JunOS-focused, and there's only a basic specialization available from them for ScreenOS. Juniper has mostly staked their future on JunOS from what I can tell.
But you are simply pointing out problems with our current techniques and not why we can't come up with new and better approaches. That is the problem we should be working on. Politicians don't understand it, but that is why we need people from our community to work with them. Our response shouldn't be "no, you are an idiot, that is impossible, you are a fascist for even suggesting it". It should be "I know what you are looking to do, here is why it is not currently possible, lets see if we can work together on a solution."

Nothing anyone posted here has said why there can't be a multikey solution that allows access to data in a reliable way that would not be susceptible to a single point of failure or abuse. That sounds like a very hard problem, but I'm not convinced it is an impossible problem.
The Energy Startup Conundrum
It's not that easy.
Ultrasonics don't work well in fast moving air. High resolution time-of-flight cameras as extremely expensive. Parallax camera systems have prohibitive processing requirements (that may change). Structured light sensors are prone to being blinded by the sun.
Choosing between JavaScript and Swift for developing a simple iOS app
I'm old enough to remember that it used to be a source of humor that women spend indiscriminately on things they don't actually need. Now it's a source of handwringing and overwrought blogging.

This is one of the rare cases where the old days were better.
A copyright infringer, liar, and conman. In New Zealand.

When I silently wish for the extradition effort to fail, I'm not backing him. I really just want to see a sovereign allied anglophone nation tell the US to see that its jurisdictional claims stop at the 12 NM limit, and to please mind its own business. I don't want to see US playing at world police, except for crimes heinous enough that every nation should be combating them wherever they may occur, like war crimes, terrorism, international financial fraud, and hijackings of international shipping vessels.

Why should Dotcom get so much effort? What risk does he pose to US citizens to justify transporting him out of NZ? Whatever that may be, the risk of allowing the US to assert intellectual property jurisdiction over the whole Internet is far worse.

I'd like Dotcom to eventually get comeuppance, but not in a way that establishes an undesirable precedent.