skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(And I'm not a fanboy of Google/Android, I wish we had a FOSS OS with an open ecosystem, but Android just works, unlike ios)"

:D
You most definitely are or you somehow managed to mix iPhone and Android in every single sentence. Most of the stuff are not even opinions, they are just simply wrong information/lies.

"The user interface (which it was supposed to shine at) is just bad. I can never find items I'm looking for. I had to read an article to find out how I'm supposed to turn on the Hotspot feature (And it actually seemed like editing xorg file!)"

If you are serious about this I gotta say I'm speecless. It's actually amazing you were able to turn on your computer and open the web browser since it take just as much as turning on that hotspot: Pressing a single button...
Ask HN: Does Dart programming language need mvvm frameworks?
Hi! I'm new to everything, specially web application development.

Taking a look into the insane JavaScript ecosystem, and seeing how many libraries/frameworks are being released every minute. Makes me want to better start writing web applications with the Dart programming language. And leaving JavaScript alone.

Or does Dart have the same amount of insanity in its ecosystem?

I mean, I just don't want to be spending my time in Angular, Backbone, Knockout, ... , React, ...

Thank you :)
Suspect in custody was working as Uber driver during Kalamazoo shooting spree
This is a good point, but a very tough one for most people on this forum to swallow.

I think it's good to give everything your best effort, to strive for greatness, and constantly check yourself to make sure you're giving it your all.

But then, if you don't succeed, find peace in life's way. Be okay with yourself, your progress, and your place in life. When you step back and realize how truly random everything is, then just knowing that you played your cards to the best of your ability, should bring happiness and a sense of peace.
Steve rotated his "costumes". I handled some of NeXT's strategic technical accounts and also worked on some special projects in Engineering. The bowtie and turtleneck were unusual at the time, since he seemed to favor the Pumas and beat-up Levis when he was being seen by the public. I think he felt that the bowtie and turtleneck had run their course.

Something that people don't appreciate is that Steve was a marketing person - and he described himself in that way. He carefully crafted his image and carefully selected his words. His success was not based on his personality in the way that so many people seem to think. There are lots of short-tempered and demanding people who are complete failures. I wish that the business community could understand that - they seem fixated on the superficial.
> Exceptions are represented on the bottom of our page.

Are you referring to this?

fileAge = open 'age.txt' . to Int
age = age.catch e:
print 'An error occured: ' + e
read 'Provide your age: ' . to Int

First, I think you probably meant to write fileAge.catch there. Second, what would that look like as a graph? Having a visual programming language is not really interesting if you have to go back to text for exception handling. Maybe you should show a side-by-side comparison of the other examples as well.
Have you heard of Zewo and SwiftAndroid?
GCD is the best I've seen in terms of language design for concurrency. It's also a bit higher level than managing threads on your own. Though I might be wrong.
Yup. And the people complaining about it will then obediently re-elect the politicians who give in to those groups. Nothing will change.
I've been a Samsung supporter for a long time. I've had the note 2, 3, 4, and now 5. I really do love the Note 5 but I'm really mad at Samsung for creating another generation with no removable battery. I maxed out the storage in the Note5 when I got it since it also wasn't removable and I've never had issues with that.

However, the battery life which was pretty decent at the beginning is now horrible. At home, on wifi, I'm lucky to make it 12 hours with minimal usage before needing to charge. On previous notes about half a year in I swap the battery with a replacement and get full life again. Can't on the Note 5 and looks like the S7 series is going to be the same :/ Really poor choice Samsung.

I see why they're doing they're not making the battery removable though. They're pushing portable chargers.....
FLASH is old, unpopular. But still  so beautiful
Samsung is already hammering the marketing, thats why they are as high as they are.
Well, I don't know what techniques you use or why you call it "deep learning". It seems even markov chains would tend to produce more sensible definitions, by mixing things that really do follow after one another. What were the techniques you used? Is there a write-up?

Note that I'm not a ML expert, just curious. I do have one specific advice: don't make up Greek and Latin stems - that seems like something you really can use deep learning for.

By the way the quality of the words themselves is pretty good - however you're generating these words/spellings, it seems pretty good.
Does this create a new DHT entry per tweet or per user ?

I think the DHT itself can quickly become overloaded/slow - DHT does impose some b/w overhead for each node
Show HN: GitHub Notifications on Slack Using Clojure and AWS Lambda
That use case is very intermittent though.

A killer app would be something that you use 5-10x a day like maps, camera or email. I think it will be contextual based on what you are doing. At home it will be assistance (search, instructional) and entertainment based. At work it will replace monitors. In transit it would replace phone/dashboard GPS.
I agree with you in principle, but a hot swappable battery is actually a feature I'd really appreciate. I'd take that over more ram and a faster processor.
I'm 40 and would rather just look up the answer and be done with it. OTOH as a child I was the proverbial person who skipped ahead to the end of a murder mystery
Another random killing by a gun? Would these happen so often if guns were harder to access in America?
The scene is from Terminator 2 (1992) not The Terminator (1984).
> I love when big agriculture pays for studies to protect corporate interests.

This appears to be the actual study - https://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0034-1389991 - I don't see any author disclosures of competing or corporate interests?

Low-carbohydrate, high-fat/protein diets are warned against by almost all nutrition and medical authorities of the world. You should have a look at plant-based vegan diets. Many of the benefits of paleo, and none of the baggage of meat. May I also recommend you carb up with sweet, natural sugar from fruit, not resort to using stimulants like coffee!
Why not both? Learn from highly specialized experts. But since even the experts are not free from their personal biases, supplement the knowledge with 'wisdom' of the crowd.
Much like Android apps that offers a choice between ads and paying to make them go away. Opera was initially for pay only, much like Netscape Navigator. IE was the really odd one out by being offered for free (and why Netscape pulled Microsoft to court over antitrust charges).

Opera introduced the banner after Mozilla was formed and started offering first a rewritten Netscape package (these days called Seamonkey) and then Firefox (after some back and forth about naming).
Poor choice of words, I meant general "closedness" of the platform - from undocumented design, through lack of source code up to centralized code signing.

The only reasonable way for law enforcement to deal with even a single one of those factors is to request help from device vendor.
It would be awesome if it was possible to interpolate between the frames to provide a smooth experience - for the two locations I tried, it seemed to be a little jerky.
The interesting pattern I noticed in the output is just lack of context in word roots. So you get a word that's clearly a portmanteau getting a completely unrelated definition.

Fortunately, breaking a word into parts is exactly the kind of thing a convolutional network should be great at...
I'm curious to hear what your experience with NATS will be. We haven't played with it. I do know that a ton of the work that went into Finagle was around resilience at scale: things like backpressure, circuit breaking, and generally tolerating slow, bad, or flapping servers. Personally I would want to see that sort of thing in any RPC system before using it at scale.
Indeed. The best way to not have information stolen is to not have it, and particularly not have with someone proven to be incapable of security. http://www.softwar.net/stupid.html

EDIT: add after the comma.
I mean this is just about tradeoffs. I'll happily trade a hygrometer and thermometer for being waterproof. The former gives me marginally more information about my environment is some kind of specific niche cases - the latter prevents me from needing to buy a new phone and also allowing me to not worry about it around water.

No brainer.
I don't follow. You're suggesting a good DAC can make crappy MP3 sound good over crappy earphones?
Django-machina: forum engine for building powerful community driven websites
Really cool - I tried from SF to LA and I found a couple "bugs":
1. when close to a highway exit, some frames show the street below the highway
2. more or less on the bay bridge (SF), at a certain point, the view started to be from the other lane, which looked like I was driving in the opposite direction

Beside that, the concept is great! I can see this being pretty useful if you could show a mini-video of the most important steps in the drive, for instance when I have to enter the highway, when I have to switch to another one, when I have to exit... that way I can visually remember my travel. (I'm considering driving, but biking is pretty similar I bet)
Consumer Rift? It's worlds better than the DKs.

My opinion is that the consumer headsets launching this year already offer too good of an experience for VR to 'fail' this time around. Virtual boy was a miserable experience from what I've heard (I never got to try one). The CV1 changes people's perception of whats possible with computers.

Obviously we are in the early adopter phase of VR where the utility is not obvious to many people but that's always how great technologies start. Gaming will provide enough momentum to keep the industry alive even if a killer non-gaming application isn't found in the short term. We are in the Apple II phase of VR for sure.

In 5 years once there are portable all-in-one headsets that give better-than-current-desktop quality experiences for <$500 and with applications built from the ground up for VR... I can absolutely see every other house in america owning a kit.
Until they dropped it with the transition to a Chromium base, the "tabs" in Opera was full blown MDI.
yeah i think that's an important point that this article should have mentioned:

rather than a company trying to embarrass the government for asking, it's the government trying to embarrass a company for not complying! -- the opposite situation from what's addressed by the UK Law.
Currently working through that now, the issue du jour is that the class loader apparently does not find classes in the APK unless it is called from JNI_OnLoad from the application thread so I am going to have to cache references to the three or so WebRTC Java audio classes that it needs.

http://developer.android.com/training/articles/perf-jni.html...

Because I'm sure everybody on here cares haha.
And this is a problem because?
Clem (the project leader), and his team have created a great distro, but they have made some worrying decisions in the past that have made me question the team.

The DNS Hijack by pre-installing OpenDNS on all installations is one of those cases: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1133777
"Factually correct" is never the whole story. You can produce many radically different articles with no incorrect factual statements that lead the reader to different conclusions. WP tries to correct this with "neutral point of view", but that too is a mirage. History and politics in particular require interpretation in order to make sense of the material at all.

Fundamentally compiling an encyclopedia is an act of summarising - declaring certain information to be more important, interesting or relevant - and it is impossible to eradicate subjectivity from that.
I think it's just a known fact that fitbits are wildly inaccurate, and if that isn't a known fact, it should be. My charge is so off with the step calculator that I just know it routinely overestimates my activities and calories burned by 30-40%.

Sometimes for kicks I'll wear three heartrate monitors and compare them all at once and they're ALL off. The most accurate one will be the polar heart rate monitor with the strap that goes around your chest.

I'll compare the steps of my fitbit to three other pedometers I have on me, my Garmin forerunner 920xt (that has GPS), my moves app on my iphone, and an old school pedometer that straps on my belt. The charge will be over everything else by 30-40%. I'll get 1000 "steps" on the fitbit from driving my car and 2000 for chopping celery.

Fitbits are good to use as baselines to compare them against themselves (was I more or less active today than yesterday? is my heartrate higher than it was 10 minutes ago?) but the information exists in a vacuum because the data is just NOT ACCURATE.

Anyone who depends on a fitbit for accurate data is willfully kidding themselves.
I think he may have had goatee as well. Definitely headline-worthy detail.
We are working on a pluggable SDK version of ZeroTier with a tiny embedded IP stack that will allow p2p using standard unmodified network code, libraries, and protocols. Full interoperability with servers and desktops and other members of virtual networks is also nice. Basically the app is just a "device." An embeddable IP stack sounds fat but it's actually tiny. Whole ball of wax is similar in footprint to other p2p libraries that don't allow normal protocols and full code reuse. I'm a bit partial of course, but the approach is amazingly cool.

It will be for Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, and eventually Windows.

https://www.zerotier.com/product-netcon.shtml

Currently GPL with dual licensing for proprietary closed use, which may or may not change later depending on how other things go.

Linux and iOS are working. Android and Mac next.

This gives you totally easy p2p transport but not things like a distributed database or identity, etc. But there are lots of other projects for that that become easier to use when you have transparent p2p.
Is $15/month a real number? That sounds high to me for what you would get from advertising.

For instance, if you have a CPM of $15/thousand-ad-views, then to get $15/month, your users would have to view 1000 ads a month, or 30 per day. Is that right?

[EDIT] Alternatively, assuming a CPC of $0.05/click (which I gather is pretty typical, though this varies a lot), each of your users would have to click on 300 ads a month.
If you haven't seen it recently, I really can't recommend this movie enough. I showed it to my then 6 and 8 year old boys, and they totally got it and loved it. It just holds up incredibly well.
Yeah I've thought about rsync. It just seems like a half solution and I'm not really sure how well it would work when I'm off my home network. Sometimes I ssh into the desktop because my laptop is old and run into limitations with front end build tools.
> A Ruby on Rails inspired Web Framework for Swift that runs on Linux and OS X.
The reinforced doors they introduced after 9/11 make this strategy particularly good. The passengers can't do anything if the pilot decides that he has a death wish.
Indeed. I'd like to assume that people are smart enough to explicitly call out other companies and piss them off. Selling your imported arrows as "Better than Archery Tag" is just asking for trouble.

The actual mechanics where the man is getting sued for patent infringement is likely an unrelated lash-out by "Archery Tag". Archery Tag just saw this guy deliver the "first blow" since he was purchasing Google Ads explicitly using their trademark without permission.
We're a small shop; each of our clusters are currently a couple dozen static servers at most. So we don't really do anything at what would be considered "at scale". For us, developer ease of use and performance is a higher priority.

But we're slowly moving towards a setup where we'll likely rely on autoscaling, and where we will likely need a more robust architecture.
not a bad idea to keep a separate branch for doing that. I might try that out.
Don’t Learn to “Code”; Don’t Be a “Coder”
> while it's a matter of public record, it's also secret.

Is that a typo, or is it "doublethink"?!
One DHT entry per tweet. I do agree that it does create overload on the DHT. Initially in fact I was looking at implementing it as such: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/issues/19#issue...

Problem is that you don't get the "hosting" effect that you get with the DHT so you always need a peer seeding your feed or else it won't be reachable.

Anyway, I hope others take on the challenge of implementing alternatives looking at different methods.
Yep, and it is awesome.

Need to research and compare a bunch of sites at once? Throw the tabs into a window of their own and tell the window to tile the tabs.

One of the reasons i still stick with Opera 12.
Psychology's Replication Crisis Has a Silver Lining
I think there a a lot of insight into the Wikipedia phenomenon in this rant on Penny Arcade:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2005/12/16

And in Jaron Lanier's article:

http://edge.org/conversation/digital-maoism-the-hazards-of-t...
I'm ... not so certain I'd expect to see a balanced or even accurate view (in cases), of Trotsky by Lenin, of Yosemite by Muir, of Wilbur Wright by his brother, etc.

I'm not saying that "balance" always achieves improved results -- see the Baathist Guard of Kochinistas standing jealous watch over any article concerning the Koch brothers, Koch Industries, or the various political influencing organisations. But what Wikipedia has that Brittanica did not is a "show history" page revealing who's made what changes to a page. That is often far more revealing than the page itself.

Now: if Wikipedia would grow a pair of balls/ovaries and actually do something about rampantly partisan editors, that'd be peachy.
Very cool to see Verdun's centenary commemorated by its greatest historian 50 years after he wrote The Price of Glory.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Price-Glory-Verdun-1916/dp/0140170...
For those interested, the reason the Official Secrets Act removed the public interest defence was that someone successfully used it. (Clive Ponting disclosed details of the sinking of the Belgrano, an hugely controversial action during the Falklands conflict, unanimously acquitted.)
That's actually a good argument, I'll give you that.
It's interesting that you bring up fairness. Your customers presumably know exactly what they're getting when they use your product. But do they know exactly who ends up with their browsing information, exactly how long those parties will have access to it, and exactly what the terms of use are for it? In other words, do they know exactly what they're paying?

Edit: fwiw, I don't mean this rhetorically or combatively. I'm genuinely curious about what someone in your position thinks about the asymmetry of the exchange.
That depends on the type of work. AR at the desk is superfluous.

AR at the assembly line, on the shop floor, or any other job where standing and walking is done for most of the day is a very different thing. But then plugging in becomes a real problem.

That said, perhaps we will see some development in hot swapped batteries. I recall seeing a video some years back about a no-brand tablet someone found in a Chinese market. It was powered by two Nokia batteries that either to be hotswapped while the other remained in place.
https://github.com/tannernelson/fluent
Crashing highjacked planes was a known scenario. In fact, FOX broadcast a fictionalized scenario where a commercial airliner was highjacked and set on a crash course with the WTC about six months before 9/11/01.
Introducing Cloudnode Developer Shell
Yes, the issue is whether the various string operations are lazy or strict. But whether it's possible to implement lazy operations does depend on the type itself. If the type is implemented as just an array of bytes in memory, it would be impossible to do anything lazily, because there's nowhere to store thunks (unevaluated values), only data.
Why do you believe four requests from python would lock a database but hundreds from js wouldn't?
This can be summarized with the serenity prayer:

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can,

And wisdom to know the difference.

The author is a curious case of 'got the right idea, haven't internalized it fully'.

She seems to be coming from a place of trying to convince herself that she doesn't need to try so hard, etc.

Maybe it's frustration with the world she finds herself in, where everyone has a 'bunsen burner up their ass' as a buddy of mine put it :)

Good article overall though, I'm glad to see this on HN :)
Yes, a lot of the math/science articles are terribly written. Somewhere in a drawer I have a dusty old Physics degree, but even on subjects I understand very well, the Wikipedia article is frequently badly written and hard to comprehend.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086 (127 points, 1 day ago, 97 comments)
It was over a year ago, so I'm pretty sure that means it was a dev kit Oculus.

> My opinion is that the consumer headsets launching this year already offer too good of an experience for VR to 'fail' this time around.

I really, truly hope that you are right about this. VR is a technology with such awesome potential. It'll be like living in a William novel. I'm just not yet convinced that this generation of devices will be what actually pushes it into the mainstream. That's the reason I brought up the VirtualBoy; not because the devices have similar technology, but because I'm worried that market performance may end up being the same.
Probably 600-650euro in Europe
I'd claim that you don't even need prior art for this stuff to not be enforceable patent. If specialist on the field thinks about shooting an arrow to human being and not injuring him/her, that technical solution they have is pretty obvious. That alone would be grounds to deny the patent at patent office.

Unfortunately you can sue with unenforceable patent. It's just that you lose if the other guy has enough money. But in many cases the other guy doesn't have the money.
Very interesting, wanted to install and try until I read npm.

I do not feel very dumb, but dealing with node takes more energy than I think I have right now.

So summarized: still very interested but won't try unless someone explain how to like node.js.
I think the general trend is that computers start to understand and be aware of physical world, rather than just numbers entried by humans. And not just understand, but manipulate, which means that you can go to forest and run forest.foreach(tree => { if(tree.length > 5) cut() }) I.e the world becomes computable (or rather manipulatable).
I dare you to read this and still feel good about tipping
America Is Now Fighting a Proxy War with Itself in Syria
The NFL's magic yellow line is a wonder of computer science
Is it really technically difficult to add a supercap? I remember laptops in the 90s with hot-swappable batteries. The feature will add expense and bulk, and if people refuse to make the tradeoffs then that's worthy of complaining, but this particular feature seems totally reasonable to ask for.

Same deal with constantly wanting more RAM and CPU. Computers have been getting steadily more powerful at a nearly constant rate for maybe half a century now. Asking to keep that going is totally reasonable!