skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As noted on the linked page, the Computer History Museum will demonstrate the Babbage Difference Engine for the last time at the end of this month. After that, it will be returned to it's owner (Nathan Myhrvold). It's been at the CHM much longer than originally planned, which is a good thing, as I only got to see it in operation just over a year ago. If you haven't seen it, I encourage you to make the effort, it's an amazing machine.

This is a significant loss for the museum, but they have a lot of other excellent exhibits and I'm sure they'll fill the now-empty space with something great. Or maybe they'll help build the Analytical Engine...
I have not been there, but I use something called the Internet to learn about more than my physically-accessible world.

Anyway have you been to the Occupied Territories while you were there?
Wrote about this recently: http://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-i-learned-to-get-consulting-le...

The gist of it is, as many here are saying: Don't use marketplace sites. Instead show off your knowledge in a way that gets attention of potential customers, then they'll come to you.
Is Rhodecode completely open source like Kallithea?
Drones for smuggling in this week's Drone Center roundup
I wonder how much biomass a tree grows throughout a year? Seems grass would be more as it just keeps turning air into leaves nonstop.

Just picturing all those piles of composted grass compared to the pile of leaves raked up in fall...
You should check out Daniel Somerfield's talk at OWASP, "Turtles All the Way Down: Storing Secrets in the Cloud and the Data Center"

https://youtu.be/OUSvv2maMYI
The sales figures based on market research has it about 10 million/year.

And I am very confused what desktop setup you are getting for $149 that is going to be as polished, seamless and easy to use as the AppleTV. Remember the market here isn't geeks it's parents, children and people who don't want a huge, ugly black box sitting next to their shiny new 80inch TV. They don't want another computer to backup, update, check for viruses, install drivers for etc.
From May of last year (2015)
Anything other than a perfect vertical landing is likely to result in damage to the structure and components. Thus negating most of the value in landing the 1st stage.

Sea water is also highly corrosive to many materials.
bettercap can't be recommended enough. A very very friendly developer too. It's a spectacular piece of software that will only improve.
You can encrypt and deploy secrets using Distelli.

https://www.distelli.com/docs/user-guides/securing-your-appl...

Disclaimer: I'm the founder at Distelli
Γαλλία Κύπελλο: Γνωρίζονται καλά Παρί Σεν Ζερμέν και Τουλούζ
I recently ran onto this for the browser: http://responsivevoice.org/
Tried the boot camp route, went to demo day and chose our 6 favorite, out of those 6 interviews we hired 3, one turned out to be pretty good but honestly needed so much hand holding it wasn't worth it in the long run. Plus all of the boot camps have been putting 6 figure dreams in their head which is truly unjustifiable for their experience. If I want entry level, I'll go with college grads, just way less headache.
The same stage probably won't be ready to relaunch but imagine an assembly line of reusable stages that land at the same facility where they take off and then head right into a service center. With enough stages in rotation you can have a near continuous stream of launches.
One of the best global hackathons I've been for a while --- best minds and cool people came together
This is just amazing, you're awesome, thank you Gitlab team.
That isn't very applicable to this example. The majority of the super rich in the US do not inherit their wealth and never have. The majority come from the middle or lower class.

The US has a bias of inequality through wealth creation, with one of the highest median incomes to go with it.
Parachutes also have the problem that you can't as easily control the landing point.
Just research it for a bit (google "ashkenazi intelligence"), I think it's pretty evident.
Appreciate this compliment :) Please open any issues you see with the App in the issue tracker, helps me prioritise new features and candid feedback helps!
> As for the actual device itself: why would I buy it with the remote, subscriptions, dongles, etc. when I could buy an HDMI cable and use my laptop's "apps" instead? Is Apple trying to create an app ecosystem with the TV/Siri Remote as the form factor instead of the iPhone/finger Macbook/trackpad/mouse? That makes absolutely no sense to me.

You wouldn't, and that's just fine. But for the cost of an afternoon at my parents' house, I can have them set up with a handful of services that I know they like (Hulu, Netflix) and add a few things I want them to use (Plex, namely), give them a super simple remote and a tutorial, and off they go. And since they already have iPhones, they understand the concept of an App Store that lets them install new stuff, and I don't have to worry. So, yeah, the Apple TV isn't for you, but it's for plenty of other people.
‘Infinitesimal,’ a Look at a 16th-Century Math Battle
This is why it's so important to have examples available for children that demonstrate someone outside of the "norm" taking part in an activity.

My brother is 14 and to him it is reasonable to expect that the president could be a black man (not quite there on women yet unfortunately). My family has gay friends who are married with children and these are regular facts of life to him. I don't think either of my parents have spoken to him very directly about these issues and he has managed to evolve into a pretty open minded and cool teenager.
Recovering Teletext data from VHS recordings
"If I'm trying to wade through some 10-year old spaghetti code, it would be much easier for me to re-write it."

It would be easier to re-write it if you had an exact spec of what it needed to do. But if you had to reverse-engineer the spec from the code itself (which is, in my experience, far more common when working with old code), re-writing it would be harder than reading it, since getting the spec would involve reading the code first anyway.

"It's that most programmers don't write code with the intention of having it read by other programmers."

I think that's a very important point. Nobody would ever try to read a novel written by someone who didn't care about the reader's experience, but we rarely see novels that bad because nobody would pay for one. However, code that's written without the reader in mind is unfortunately very common (it may, for example, be a quick solution for a short-term requirement that works well enough to be somewhat useful).
Perhaps it's possible to use some sort of active cancellation - like what noise-cancelling headphones do - only in this case you would be trying to minimize the correlation between gyroscopic data & microphone data.
Roku, FireTV, Wii, WiiU, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and the Xbox One.

The consoles obviously cost more than $150, but provide the same services.
You're not agile unless you're using behavior-driven development
Comfortation bias.
Throwaway Children: The Tragic Consequences of a False Narrative
> Say buying a $200 desktop with a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Most people don't want to plug a desktop into their TV and use a keyboard and mouse to watch Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Video. It's a TV, you want to use a remote, and a user interface that has been designed for a remote.

The Apple TV isn't competing with low-end HTPCs, it's competing with the Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast, and other plug-and-play media devices.
This reminds me a lot of Visual Studio during the ASP.NET webforms era. The tool looks really cool and as a non-iOS dev this would really help me get a prototype up quickly. Kudos to the team for a great product.
CDG (Communications Design Group) at SAP is where Bret Victor and a lot of other people work on research. I think a big focus is changing how we program in the future.
I don't think it's do-or-die, so much as, a lot of startups these days are founded by people without as brutally strong technical skills as in the past, as the businesses are a lot less technical, so a typical hiring strategy of "hire people who we communicate well with and aren't that expensive and work really hard" causes the yolo nodejs rockstar culture. You can't work smarter than the CTO - A hires A and B hires C, etc. None of this matters anyway though because the best talent knows how to find people like them, and the people who want yolo nodejs rockstars know how to find them too and everybody is happy. It follows that the middle ground companies will be those working on more technical problems with more technical founders/leadership, but it also follows that the hiring bar will be higher at those companies.
The "32 bit Runtime" is a misnomer. Its a difference between the modern and legacy runtime. iOS (and iPhoneOS) never supported the legacy runtime.

The name comes from it being the only runtime for 32 bit OSX apps.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...
Sounds like something telecoms would like, buying those big expensive phones that keep you on their 2 year contracts (24 months)
As the owner of chromecast, an Apple TV, and numerous raspPis I am frustrated by my inability to play movie X on Apple on the TV with chromecast and vice versa

Until this problem is solved (and I am trying hard not to learn the ins and outs) Remote TV apps are going to stay niche.

Each time i think about how I can't play the iTunes movies I paid for on the SkyTV and vice versa I feel ripped off - and don't remind me of the DVDs

When I can move a tv show from th set to th set as easily as Tom Cruise doing his Minoroty Report thing this is never going to fly.
I would be devastated to hear my daughter say that but I'm also bracing for the inevitability of it.

May I ask how old she was when she said that?
Investing in VR- https://gfycat.com/SafeWatchfulAmbushbug
I wrote some of my thoughts on the topic, and the primary motivation behind SOPS [1] (which uses PGP and KMS): https://jve.linuxwall.info/blog/index.php?post/2015/10/01/In...

The initial trust problem boils down to trusting the API that controls the provisioning of your infrastructure. Failing that, you have to ask a human to manually authorize new nodes to retrieve secrets (that's how puppet approves new agent certs).

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/sops
Some people can spend lots of money, but not lots of time. Which makes them a "casual" player, rather than a "dedicated" player.

I'm in that boat. I can spend $1500 on a Rift... but I might only get to play with it 7 hours a week, or less.
On the hardware side, no, a person dropping $600 for a Rift + $900+ on a desktop to run it is unlikely to be a casual gamer. I think the parent comment is referring to "casual" in the context of game style, though. EVE Online has a very steep learning curve and can sometimes devolve into life-sucking "spreadsheets in space" gameplay, which does not appeal to people who just want to jump in a game and have fun shooting stuff. E:V seems more casual friendly in the sense that you can learn to play it quickly and have fun in matches without needing to invest dozens of hours in mastering the metagame.
cui bono? Mike and his peers have everything to gain by trying to splinter BTC. Given the stability and distributed nature of Bitcoin itself the weak point is obviously the developers and that is exactly what they are going after.
"Hence reading code without human communication does not tell the original purpose."

Unfortunately, when code is useful enough to survive for many years, the people who specified, designed and wrote the code are long gone by the time some unfortunate developer comes along and has to understand the code (e.g., to add features or fix bugs). So being able to figure out the original purpose of the code under such adverse circumstances can be a very useful skill to have.

In a startup there isn't a lot of legacy code, but in big companies that have been around for years or decades, old code like that is very common. (However, even in a startup, you might need to be able to make sense of poorly-documented open source code whose developers don't have the time to talk to you.)
This paper focuses on statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS). SPSS is only 1/2 of the text to speech problem.

SPSS is the problem of going from linguistic features, phenomes, etc, to speech audio. These features are more or less golden, either derived from the audio itself or hand-labeled. So things like tonality, cadence, emphasis on words is already encoded as features which is why these samples sound so good.

Deriving these features from pure text is very hard, and this failing is the main reason most text to speech systems sound so dull and tone-dead.

That being said, these results are seriously impressive, sounding very natural. Would love to see someone try and train an end-to-end system from pure text to speech. I think we'd see some big improvements like what Baidu has done for end-to-end speech to text.
is this fixed? Doesn't crash me.
I feel like the "run any iOS code on Mac" part of this is being overlooked. Doesn't that mean you guys (@creolabs) re-implemented UIKit on top of AppKit, a la Chameleon? If so... that's HUGE in and of itself.
I'm a newbie to all this, but I can imagine it could be useful for speech compression.
How to overcome the creator’s block
Agreed, the design immediately reminded me of the following ancient DailyWTF article, one of the few ones that stuck in my head ever since I read it. They called it the "Inner-Platform Effect" - might apply here.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect
NASA’s newest cargo spacecraft began life as a Soviet space plane
Looks like a simple version of Pivotal Tracker. Am I right?

As someone familiar with those kinds of tools, it's obvious to me. To someone who is has not used tools like Pivotal, it will not be as obvious.

Perhaps some examples of benefits from using teamclerk.com would be a good addition.

Nice work!
Ivona, acquired by Amazon, is a hugely notable example. They're great folks, and do great work. Alexa'a voice was done by them, but an early customer of theirs was the Polish public transit system.

A lot of really great work is happening in academia; I'm not going to name names because I'd forget someone deserving.

(Shameless plug: we [0] do speech and language consulting including custom TTS.)

[0] cobaltspeech.com
This is the solution I've come to use as well. Role-based access in AWS makes a lot of these type of things really nice. Too bad it's not enabled for everything. For example, their hosted ElasticSearch service doesn't yet work with VPC's, and using the role-based access is tough (though possible).

On the subject, I typically store a file containing env variable export statements on S3. When the box is provisioned, the file is downloaded to it. Since the box has role-based access, there is no point in downloading and deleting the file: any process on the box can download it again from S3 at any time. Basically, I trust that the EC2 instance will remain secure. Then the file is source'd in any context where my application code will run.

For applications outside of AWS, I just keep a local non-version-controlled copy of the secrets, and then upload them to the server when I provision it.
My initially reaction were similar ideas, but thinking about it some more i am not sure if the empty tank could tolerate the stresses from getting caught in a net. And with a landing strut failure like today, you would probably lose the engines even with the tank not completely tipping over.

But SpaceX seem to be exceptionally good at control systems, fast and precise automated planning. Maybe they will just skip the level of passive rocket catcher structures and intend to move directly to a three-axis actuated landing table? A system like that that could take responsibility for a tiny little amount of deceleration (think extra suspension) and a fair bit of balancing completely outside of the mass budget of the rocket.
That's exactly when I'd use realloc.

Looking who wrote the text, I also respect cperciva and believe he must have some good reasons and I'd be glad read which use cases he had, more than just "what's wrong with different reallocs." Because I'm not surprised that the corner cases aren't to everybody's (or even anybody's) satisfaction. It's C. Less is more and all that.
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Its for the 1% casual gamer. Indeed not sure if that market exists, the richer folks tend to buy Macs instead.

In a sense PSVR will probably be most people s first VR experience.
I had a mac mini with a wireless keyboard and mouse. I then switched to an Apple TV a while ago.

The Apple TV is imho far superior. I don't have worry about the machine being turned off. I don't have to use a clunky mouse and keyboard to get to the right app to watch a show. The Apple TV "just works" for watching movies, shows, trailers, youtube etc.

Could it be better yes. Having a keyboard occasionally for searching would be great, the UI is sometimes a bit confusing, and I hit frustrating bugs. Overall though a dedicated device plugged into the TV beats a generic computer, it even beats my PS4.
Getting in the Habit
Check out BarEye in the App Store. I think they've narrowed down to a single geo now for advanced features like "send a drink", but the basic features like "which club are my friends at" work everywhere.
Can't speak for the parent poster, but over here, yes, we use Consul's ACL. It's pretty solid and easy to use, and the GUI helps a whole lot. In terms of auditing, I've not dug too deeply into that, but there is really good logging.
One other thing - Enterprises using Apple TV?! What use case is there other than the ubiquitous CNN / BBC news channel that some how seems required for any office these days
> I've always felt that by 25 you are who you will be

If that's the case, I (25) think I'd rather get a bottle of whiskey and a handgun and end it now.
Not exactly what you've asked for, but you can use Vim in Emacs (see spacemacs or evil mode) and have org-mode and everything.
Take a look at this [1] article, especially the first chart.

True, a slight majority of principals are women, but it's much more illustrative to look at the career progression. Those selected to be moved up the career ladder are clearly primarily men.

1 - http://www.womenonbusiness.com/men-women-the-glass-escalator...
This will improve in Swift 3.0, via an improved mapping of Cocoa APIs into Swift (naming wise):

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...

At some point in the future I imagine we would also see native Swift APIs.
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Thanks! Yeah I'm a long time pivotal user, but I work on a lot of other types of projects than programming. I also do music, art, construction, etc and Pivotal doesn't really fit with those things. I've wanted to build a similar tool that could be used by any kind of business for a while - without all the crazy features that come with things like asana and without the specific tasks types/workflow of pivotal.
How come "Darwin's Theorem" appears so often? It's quite unknown, with one review on Goodreads and 4 reviews on Amazon

Is this a result of the author spamming his own work?

Edit: Looks like it, short skimming of "darwin's theorem site:news.ycombinator.com" shows that all links are from user tjradcliffe, who is the author. A case for manual curation of data.
It seems like it, which I think will be super fun!

They mentioned there will be microtransactions in game for cosmetic things and xp boosters. Ain't no need for xp w/o rpg skills!
To paraphrase the song, "It's there conference and they'll cry if they want to."

2016 is shaping up to be the year that the ad / adblock war goes from cold to hot. I wish there was a sort of "universal" subscription service.
Why isn't HTTPS everywhere yet?
This sort of thing has happened before, with the "fog a mirror" interviews of 1999 and all the offshoring that happened a few years later. In the first case people all thought there was plenty of room in the "new economy" but our jobs would all be dumbed down permanently, in the latter there was a lot of doom and gloom about how software development was no sort of future for first-world children.

But in both cases, the results were brutal to the companies that jumped in thoughtlessly. I've no doubt the same is true here again. Over the long term I expect we'll see some big changes in career education but I don't think established professionals are going to be overrun with high school dropouts anytime soon.
You're getting downmodded, but you're right. That's one problem. The other is unfair international trade rules that allow oppressive foreign regimes to compete against workers in liberal democracies with slave labor and no environmental laws. There is no way domestic industries can compete with that. It always costs more when you have to actually pay people and comply with OSHA regulations and when you can't spew unscrubbed coal ash into the air by the megaton.
Will E:V come to the HTC Vive?
We used them in the office in conference rooms to make presentations easier via Airplay. There is a qualifier that we were a startup, though.
Show HN: Static photoessay generator using gulp
I wonder why the dev team opted not to put more information in the HUD and instead forces players to look at in-cockpit controls. Seems a bit odd since HUD info has been a part of modern fighter aircraft helmets for years, and it's even cropping up in cars now.
I found the bit about looking down at the console in the ship to be interesting. I had a bit of a similar experience after playing racing games for years, then finally getting on the track in real life on a motorcycle. In a racing game you can pretty easily keep an eye on the speedometer to set corner entry speeds, etc. In real life you simply do not have time to take your eyes off the track and look down at the speedometer. You have to do it by feel. It's a very important skill for real life racers, and something you could never develop to any accuracy from a tv screen - a sense of your actual speed.
A lot of the news coverage is claiming that he had a role in recruiting specific people to CDG, and even names some of them (eg. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-29/sap-looks-... ), which would be more than just lending his support even if he's not really running the place. I certainly can't confirm if that's accurate though.
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New York state introduces bill to ban sale of encrypted smartphones
Personally I think in the next 30 years we will be programming with thesame languages popular today. They will evolve to handle multicore better though. With tasks, async, couruoutines, actors, etc. Before too long we will have a mix of thousands of cores. Gpu, cpu, remote cores. We will have to figure out how to spread our programs across all of them. Well all be doing supercomputing.
There's a desperate need to have an HTPC capable of HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2/4k@60Hz. It's ridiculous there is basically nothing worth mentioning... Not even the latest Skylake NUCs... A/V Receivers are finally updated to 4:4:4 4k@60Hz/HDCP 2.2 - why not mainstream HTPCs??? Personal computing used to be a way ahead of other computing devices in the past, why is it now trailing?
Factoring is almost certainly not NP-hard. That would mean that NP is contained in BQP which would be a staggering result. While there are some NP problems that are in BQP the idea that somehow NP-complete problems are solvable in polynomial time on a quantum computer seems kinda ridiculous to me. I'd be happy to be proven wrong some time in the future though.
"... a new startup out of Y Combinator that hopes to end many Bay Areas commuter’s slow, soul-crushing daily drive down the 101 with a scheduled, WiFi-enabled, private bus system to transport them anywhere from San Francisco all the way down to Sunnyvale."

This is awesome! One of the biggest real issue with traffic and now finally someone hits on that. Kudos!