skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To me this makes as much sense as the argument that since a plane carrying people can fly over you, it is perfectly reasonable to put a blimp with an extremely high zoom camera on that spies on your home constantly, detecting not just visible light, but also infrared. Also, since when you talk things vibrate, and since it is possible to view those vibrations though a window, I'm actually broadcasting my speech to the public and thus don't have any expectation of privacy.

I doubt anyone is making that argument; in Kyllo v. United States the Supreme Court held that infrared cameras constituted an unreasonable search. Recording vibrations would also likely fall in the same category.

Police spying on you from a blimp is fairly unlikely, since it would be fairly conspicuous, not to mention expensive. Far more likely they just stick a camera on a utility pole as in the recent United States v. Houston, what you're most likely alluding to. The Sixth Circuit did uphold that tactic, but the law is far from settled there.
"Design by natural selection"

otherwise known as evolution. Design implies some kind of thought process before creation.

There are plenty of counterintuitive examples of traits that have been selected by evolution. Dogs seems happy all the time and they have not been made extinct yet.
Dumb question: Why is this positioned mainly for non-U.S. entrepreneurs? Isn't a $500 setup kit useful for U.S. startups too?

You get: $15,000 of AWS credits, easy incorporation & bank account setup, tax/legal advice. Even if you don't ever take a consumer payment, that seems useful (even if only for the AWS credits!). No?
Seems like plenty of Unicorns will need this picture
They want devs to write for Linux because they are a services company who make money from Azure VMs including those that run Linux.

They don't want end users to run Linux desktop.

So devtools/languages/cloud divisions inside Microsoft like Linux.

Those in ms who deal with end user applications (home users in this case, as ms push Lync to business) probably see little point in investing in development in Skype for Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheism
Show HN: Angular-bind-notifier. bu-bye watchers
This may be a stretch, but this vulnerability could be used to kill a child or pet left in a car on a mild to hot day. Turn on heat, crank to 100+.
Something I whipped together some time ago to reduce the amount of watchers on a heavily populated page of dynamic data in an Angular 1.x setting. Not finding a lot of time lately to improve and/or 'innovate' on the project (unfortunately). Figured I'd show it off and see if someone out there has some sound ideas on how to do so.
You seem to have an ideal of purity in mind that I don't believe ever existed. I certainly can't think of a time when "the best business came out on top" as a general rule, unless you make the definition tautological.

No one is forced to "beg" for money from investors. Every entrepreneur has the choice to go it alone and build things the way you describe. Parsimoniously, that means that the VC market adds value to those who choose to use it.
I have found that a lot of the audio editing software you can get away with quite low specs. I record my podcasts on a 8 year old laptop running Windows XP. It rarely connects to the internet and I record to a thumb drive that is backed up so there is nothing to lose on it. In this particular case something similar might be the best option. For pod-casting anything over 2 or 3 ms in my headphones throws me off my game.
Is it the N900?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900

I've seen people with it because it can run Debian.
Video game about murdering high school kids
Yeah and using UI Engineer as an alias for frontend developer is fine. But the term "web developer" is a more broad term that covers front and back end work, so I think it's a bit weird to start referring to all web developers as UI engineers.
Could you please clarify how I should answer when people ask questions that I directly, and obviously answered already?

Especially when multiple – in this case 2 (!) – people ask the very same question, again and again.

Asking redundant questions is also discouraged in the guidelines.
This article really gets me going - there's really nothing more inspiring for me than to see a person fighting all his life, fighting against all the odds, fighting against the status quo to make his dream a reality. I really hope Pasternak can do it!
NASA Crashes Helicopter to Test Safety Improvements
I find this fascinating actually. Just the other day I ended up talking about this with my lawyer. I met with him for a consult on some LLC/Corp setup and mentioned how I had originally ended up on LegalZoom before contacting him. I said something to the effect of "You must hate them".

He thought about it for a minute and then said how he honestly didn't think about them much at all. It was a completely different industry as far as he was concerned. He was in the business of offering problems to solutions whereas LegalZoom was offering a product.

Whether you agree with that or not (I'm not qualified enough to make that distinction in the legal field), it really resonated with me. If you were to ask me if - as a freelance developer - I hated Wix or Squarespace, my response would be that I honestly don't think about them much at all. I'm actually largely ambivalent about them. I freelance full time and I've never been busier than I am right now. I would chalk some of that up to dumb luck, most of that up to good referrals, but at least a portion of that up to the fact that I don't provide a product for a client. I (try) to provide solutions to their business problems.
UUIDs are 120 Bit or less. Depending on the Version you use. But you lose 8 bit on any version because 1 byte is used to decode the UUID version.
Top tip: use Skype, make yourself comfortable, and block out at least an hour to be on hold.
The USPS can't read the letter without breaking the seal. That's different from Tor, where the three parties can team up and exchange data, and they'll know who visited what, without breaking any seal.

If the mail is unsealed, they're allowed to open it. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/39/233.3
even unrolling 3M tape generates X-rays.

https://youtu.be/LQBjRF9mX1Y?t=250

I as anybody want the cold fusion to work (and i believe that palladium experiment 20 years ago did work, and that there is something to their approach), yet "medical" X-rays from heated hydrogen gas/Li/Ni interface doesn't struck as something unexpected or pointing to any physics outside of chemistry and EM.
Ghost Words and Mountweazels: Mistakes in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
That actually doesn't work, as there's a long history of people hiding batteries in their fake overunity devices. You can also have devices that might have other forms of stored energy that might be slowly depleted, such as mechanical strain being relieved, chemical reactions taking place, etc. You can also have devices that work by taking advantage of solar power in a subtle way or other external effects.
I don't think this is true at all. There's a million new jobs online every day.

There are a few problems I've realized about the industry:

1) Far too many clients are going with talent that will leave them in a bad place in the project. Usually this is to save a few thousand dollars now: a very modest $5,000 proposal gets shot down for "someone that can do it for a few hundred dollars."

2) Good clients, really good clients, are hard to find. This is because they're probably working with good developers. All the amazing clients I've found have been because their current dev is not able to handle the work for whatever reason and I got lucky to pick them up.

The business is there, but it's repeat business. Stop looking for one-off work. Start building real relationships with your clients.
It doesn't need to be available to the public, only available to third parties. There are a finite number of people (either 3 or 6) that together have all the data needed to identify the user.
No offsense :-)

Just read about TicketMaster on his site.
Yeah. What is even web design these days? I consider myself pretty good at making a website look nice, but I don't design it in Photoshop.
I am confused. Are you referring to 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked'? That's obviously very useful for dynamically generated content. But what advantage does it have over a simple Content-Length header?
This may seem like a stupid question, but does your home office really need to 100% tie to your funder's office? I go to KPCB [0] and see a lot of Bay Area companies, and quite a few that aren't. As a Bay Area local, I hear a lot about "Put whatever you can in a place like Austin for lower costs are more employee stability."

If the business is a good deal for investors, they won't let an Austin zip code stand in the way.

[0] http://www.kpcb.com/companies
Confusion as Indian Supreme Court Compromises on Data Privacy and ID Number[pdf]
Urgent Safety Recall STOP USING IMMEDIATELY Bebehut Car Seat by Veelar Ltd
The Ford Model T, "generally regarded as the first affordable automobile" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T), over 15 million manufactured, had a hand crank. A '40s era tractor that my family "inherited" when we bought our 25 acres of land had a hand crank.

That said, while hard to use, that tractor's hand crank automatically disconnected well enough once the engine got started. Then again my father, born in the early '30s, grew up using them.
> on a humanity level, it feels completely fair that your wages going a little down while theirs go up, tremendously

It's not just "wages going a little down," it's more like the entire economic fabric of large areas of the country has been disrupted by globalization and has been slow to recover.
Given bunnie's knowledge, I had expected the cover to be an usable circuit boards which you just had to solder in through-hole components and you'd have a working book cover - maybe via a very thin PCB on the "back side" of the cover ;)

Seriously, it looks very nice and I hope to get my hands on it soon!
Beyond even random changes and telomeres shrinking, VDJ recombination actively splices genes from B-cells and somatic hypermutation further modifies certain regions. Sampling two B-cells that share a common ancestor will likely have some genomic differences.
This could work really well with minor fixes. There are additional "enhanced status codes" available for SMTP that aren't used much. IMAP servers could return a new status such as "2.2.5", with meaning "Delivered, recipient notified". That would indicate an active NOTIFY connection between IMAP client and server. That means the client is listening right now and will display the message.

With "forward while connection is open" mail forwarders, that code would be passed back to the originating SMTP sender, which can then display an indicator in the bubble that the message has made it all the way to the recipient's device.

Now it looks just like messaging, but works over email infrastructure.
Austin is indeed (!) the "self-proclaimed music capital of the world". They should invite musical delegates from all other lesser cities (like New York) to represent at the Austin Capitol.

I do love a lot about Austin -- just not the self-promotional parts.
In a sense it's a question of vertical versus horizontal integration. (Figuratively and literally) Do you want to concentrate just on what you're good at, or the whole stack? There's not a right and wrong answer, but it's best not to have too much value tied up in something that you're not focusing on.
The most valuable docs for me are rest Api contracts stored in confluence. Easy to collaborate on. Also, getting started guides in confluence for new hires, and architectural diagrams again in confluence for cross team collaboration / understanding / discussion.

As for code, auto generated docs from jsdoc etc. headers are fine but I never use them honestly. I find unit tests to be the ultimate documentation in terms of code level docs.
I'm genuinely curious as to why HN so regularly has articles about various "wouldn't it be great if this worked but obviously it never will" scams/inventions/measurement errors on the front page.

Is it because there is a contingent of HN voters who are true believers in this stuff?

Is it "point at the silly people and laugh"?

Is it some kind of attempt to make a meta point about credulity or discuss scams or something?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027369
This thing is supposedly a fusion device. Run it until you've drawn more energy than could possibly be provided by burning an equivalent mass of hydrogen, and then you know it must be a nuclear effect. If it can't provide that much energy, then it's a worthless fusion device.

I can accept that such a test may not be totally 100% definitive. But if the device is real then it could definitely pass. The fact that they're fucking around instead of just doing the obvious shows that they're full of it.

Edit: regarding potential external effects, these devices are supposed to put out a megawatt of power. There's no solar trickery that's going to let you fake that.
Exactly what I was thinking. They are probably going to go with a business model similar to Amazon's Lumberyard
I am message passing thousands of financial ticks per second to hundreds of terminal-user consumers, each of which may wish to preselect filters that they wish applied to each series, or combinations of series. This is trivially easy to organize in Erlang/OTP, it is trivially easy to scale, and I have no clue how I would organize it in Ocaml without going to message passing first principles, and in which case I would have to build the entire load balancing, PID and security infrastructure from scratch. Moreover I do not see how you do not see that multicore and multi-node are related. On Erlang, having two 8-core boxes is almost the same as having one 16-core box. Again, if there is something I am missing about the Ocaml environment I would be happy to know about it.
It would be interesting to see, I mean the argument is that my head phones don't need FDA approval and they can damage my hearing if I turn them up too loud. But some kind of limits would be important to ensure safety.

And this post is a question because I don't know the answer, so I am just guessing (a lot). I hope someone with actual experience in getting FDA approval for a medical ultrasound machine actually reads it and answers, with how much it cost and what hoops they had to jump through.
> Still in litigation?

Yup.
That's a BS comment. Of course it isn't.

It did counter the "I didn't realize he was black until halfway through" however. I think most reasonable readers assumed he was black pretty early on.
As a member of the Compose product team, it feels good to launch this product. It has been a product that we've been working toward since Compose started.

Like any product launch, this is the beginning, not a finish.

Cheers to the team!
"More energy than can possibly be stored."

For it to be a real test you'd have to exceed the total energy output of any plausible chemical system. Calculate the total amount of energy of a stoichiometric mixture of, say, liquid oxygen and kerosene, and then draw power until you have exceeded that. At that point you can be pretty damn sure it's not a chemical battery.
Ask HN: Are bots allowed on HN?
I wrote a little bot that watches for links that are rising quickly and submits them to archive.is just in case they're not on servers that'll be able to handle the load. I just did this to scratch an itch myself, but it'd probably be useful to others too.

I'm thinking about rewriting it so it works better, would it be helpful (and allowed) if I were to make it post a comment on any submissions that it notices have gone down after it archived them?

I didn't see anything in the rules that talks about bots, but I also don't see them used, so I figured I'd check.
I don't have experience with Drupal, but it says "plan for periodic upgrades of their project to the latest major release (every 6 years or so)". So, even if a new release comes out, you have _literally several years_ to decide when to make a switch. For perspective, Backbone.js was released 5 years ago!
It's now possible to crowdfund a router and it's not even that expensive. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-omnia-hi-performan...
I think the answer is simply NRE is amortized over a small number of units. This is the case for a lot of test equipment.
Having spent several years freelancing and now on my second stint as an employee, I have to say: giving up freelancing and becoming an employee is not the end of the world.

Sure you don't work with as wide of a variety of people and projects, but it is still possible to work from home and have a fair amount of autonomy. Plus you can get paid vacation, sane hours, and reliable pay. It's also generally less stressful.
Huh, didn't that happen a few months ago? Or what am I confusing this with?

I thought this was announced end of last year already, with Xamarin moving there products to Roslyn and Microsoft offering Xamarin's products for non-Windows platforms... or did my mind just make that up?
Medical device manufacturers should be the next industry to get put on notice about this.
It seems like you are misunderstanding mikeash. He's saying it's ok for there to be a battery (or other store of energy) inside, because the test is only passed if the system produces more energy than could be stored inside the box.
.NET now needs a solid compile-to-browser story - which is presumably coming with some future version of web assembly (initial version doesn't support GC or threads)

I'm looking forward to the day where I can ditch C++ for portability - .NET really is an ideal replacement for most apps - you can write apps that don't stress the GC by using value types and can control memory layouts relatively well (unlike Java) and at the same time you can use reflection, GC and all the niceties of modern programming platforms - unlike C++.
Ohh, that brings back memories. The one I had was the N800 though (but I really missed the keyboard of the N800).
Not a bad question! We see the biggest need in non-US markets, especially for banking, but think it's great if Atlas ends up helping US entrepreneurs too!
You can sign up on regular Uber.com
I follow reddit Austin as well and while the sleaziness of Uber's actions is apparent to many, they also have a lot of fans. Recently it came out that one of the councilpersons who resisted Uber had a recall petition filed against her by some notorious political operatives (1,2) and with that, the pro-Uber voices seem to have died down as the identity of the operatives became known. It was never clear if the pro voices are shills or genuine fans as traditional taxi services have genuine issues.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/43fco8/can_someone_...
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/46q8z5/ann_kitchen_...
It would be awesome if they make it fully free. That is one way to take on iOS/Android. Microsoft doesn't have anything to lose anyway
It may be doable, I am not trying to be overly negative. It's just that I probably wouldn't target minimum wage workers with this robot.

Also you say "no costs" but do you honestly think these would be maintenance free? There would probably be a fairly significant cost to keep a fleet of these robots running as they are incredibly complex as compared to say an amazon warehouse robot.
But the "old" major version will still be supported for a very long time frame. In the case of D6, it was supported over five years after the release of D7.
If it's using the API, automation would be the expected behavior.
I don't think it's so much of a size issue. I'd use it for applications where you don't have too many simultaneous users of the same dataset (in future - that constraint would be only about simultaneous writing users).

When users have their own private datasets, that's ok to scale up number of users though.

This limitation comes from a) invalidation requests and b) limited ability to do server-side conflict resolution
So when I send data over the internet, am I "giving" it to everyone who owns a router along the route? I wouldn't say so.
nope. have to use it daily as my main number is gVoice. sadly.

no dropdown whatsoever. Also to dial via gvoice you need a hangouts dialer addon, and everytime you last selected sms on hagouts and select to dial with the dialer addon, it complains that the sms account can't dial.

it's a train wreak.
Sorry which features is it lacking in?

https://html5test.com/compare/browser/chromemobile-44/firefo...
Don’t Turn Away from the Art of Life
If they have patents, why don't they publish a real scientific article on this with all the information needed to replicate?

This stuff is permanently in my 'put up or shut up' category, and putting up means true independent open replication by more than one party.
And this is not a theoretical: I've made a lot of money having to fix exactly that. Not very fun work, but definitely paid the bills.
More power to them. I'm just saying that for me, it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If I have a feature phone it means I no longer have access to useful information like maps, business information, documents I may need when running errands, etc, etc.
VirtualBox does support PCI passthrough. See https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#pcipassthrough
This was my reaction exactly. On the one hand, I'm sick to death of modern phones that can't hold a charge, keep crashing apps, and get super hot after just a few minutes. On the other, a dumb phone seems too excessive a reaction. I mostly don't use my phone to make calls. I use it to read. There's something to be said for a phone that has a nice touch screen but doesn't provide a browser, just a few basic apps for reading and taking notes.

A few months ago[1] I was day-dreaming on HN about an alternative to html designed from the ground up to minimize webpage bloat and avoid tracking. Now I have a further refinement in mind: build a device that has exemplary reliability and power-utilization with a big touch screen and a cellphone number. Build a bare-bones browser for it supporting a tiny subset of html (no images, so no pixel tracking). Have the new device proxy through an ISP server that also as a bonus filters out ads and third-party cookies. Gradually encourage people to build hobbyist or paywalled reading experiences out of the subset of html and fork off a new world wide web. Then win :) Or something. Who's with me?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10496611
So don't.

You can buy heroin on the street corner too, it doesn't mean you have to do it every time you walk by.
There are quite a few consumer EEG headsets now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_consumer_brain%E...

Would it be possible to train the music against user-collected EEG data (coupled with cognition tests or sleep data)?
Windows 10 Sends Your Data 5500 Times Every Day Even After Tweaking Privacy
They weren't actually performing calorimetry or energy extraction/measurement; the interesting effect was the repeatable, sustained burst of low-energy Gamma radiation at table-top temperatures and pressures.
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Not really regarding what, but on the how front, I remember that one guy invented what he called "hive plots", and he seems to be claiming they're some kind of a panaceum to so called "hairball" plots:

http://www.hiveplot.net/

(His (?) earlier invention of a "circular graph" seems also to have gained some traction in sciency publications - see http://circos.ca/intro/circular_approach/)
> What do you suppose you should do when people start demanding interactive features and capabilities that can only be done client side

You are free to use jQuery in your theme (aka frontend code), or D3 for visualization, or any other JS stuff you may need. On a private project, I'm using a current jQuery, D3, and SCSS and it works quite fine for me.

The only thing in D7 that can be a major PITA is proper multi-language support, because it's a bit sparsely documented.