skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate that HN does that to anyone. It should be reversed only for spam bots and obvious bad faith participants, not someone with an unpopular opinion trying to have a conversation. I've encountered it before too. Sorry that it happened to you. You may want to lodge a complaint with dang so that he understands it's not a good mechanism.

I definitely think that on the outset, it looks weird that 3Taps ended up taking PadMapper's heat, but I think that 3Taps wanted to become a generalized thing-as-a-service vendor. It's possible that PadMapper wasn't 3Taps's only customer for the CL feeds. As PadMapper wasn't contacting CL's computers without authorization, it makes sense that CL had to change the target to 3Taps. At that point, PadMapper would've seen that scraping CL meant a near-impossible legal challenge for a startup and been wise enough not to implement their own solution.

This is all just speculation, but I doubt that 3Taps stuck its neck out for the sole benefit of PadMapper.
MelloNote - Android app to create notes for MP3 files.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adhyet.mel...

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqxAVGRPow0

1. Practice music

* Mark sections to practice and add notes with lyrics or helpful tips

* Jump to and loop sections to perfect your skills

* Create color coded notes to group themes (notes for vocals, guitarists, drums)

* Rehearse with notes played back as time cues

* Export and share notes with others by email

2. Make notes on audio lectures

* Identify key sections and add descriptions

* Jump to relevant sections by tapping on the note title

* Export and share notes with others by email
It's not clear enough what you were doing before that led them to a C&D. Were you doing what Scrapinghub was doing? A web scraping tool vendor and service provider? It sounds like you were doing something shady enough for them to not even email you but C&D you directly.

There's a distinct line between what you do with the data you scrape vs. writing the tools and code to build a script that will get you that data.

You don't arrest the kitchen knife company's CEO because someone used it to stab someone. And the fact that the web scraping/crawler vendors have saturated the market is testament to the fact that you are overreacting.

I'd imagine the fear of facing a devastating legal battle and how it might have permanently shifted your view on web scraping but I see no valid basis for all web scraping services and vendors to shut down.

I also find it puzzling you would be acting against your interests to continue to openly talk in details about a legal situation like this because that padmapper guy pretty much just shut up as soon as the details were involved.

but feel free to provide more details that shows that you were running a web scraping service or software company.
> There is no tracking of where each chip came from.

Do you have evidence for this? I find it rather plausible that casinos have anti-fraud measures built into their chips to allow tracking of where each chip came from.

EDIT:
A quick google shows this is indeed the case for some casinos at least:
http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/12/1-5m-robbery-of-bellagi...
I'm surprised they haven't started putting RFID tags in every chip so they can track exactly how much each player spends at each game. Combined with proper record keeping, if chips were ever stolen, you could flag them and make sure they can't be redeemed for cash. Maybe in Vegas?
I am using a custom Nordic implementation to use them for ranging with a WIFi bridge. The biggest reason is to track small coin cell BLE tags along with detection for smartphones and the like.
It doesn’t really phase me. Alcohol is always available, and reminding me of that fact doesn’t really make it any harder.

I typically cut loose a bit over the holidays, as I’m seeing friends and attending parties, but I try to remain mindful that it’s not to be an everyday thing, especially because it interferes so much with things I want to do—work, hobbies, and relationships. A useful strategy for me is to create obligations that preclude me from drinking excessively, such as being DD.
Strategic Smart Cities Technologies Gaining Momentum
An API would go a long way and realtime information would obviously be awesome. It appears that even if Caltrain provided historical data of actual departure times per train per station, that would be a huge improvement.
I think you're possibly underestimating the cost and difficulty of developing apps using low level code (or whatever web assembly is, lower level than html+css anyway).

its technically difficult enough that I think its main use case will be for somewhat large and well funded companies that have the budget and expertise to deliver a fairly complex client side app that has behavior and design that is not easily done in existing web technologies.

for example, all the stuff that people attempt to do now on HTML canvases seems like a likely candidate to be replaced by web assembly apps. this could lead to an era of high performance streaming apps with pretty impressive graphics capabilities. basically just a huge upgrade to emscripten, right?

I'm just not seeing this as being a real threat/competitor with traditional document based content on the web. I don't think that's going anywhere and I don't think web assembly interferes with that on any significant level.
Doesn't it depend on what it is though? If my todo app breaks, no harm done other than a few irritated users. But if a dialysis machine breaks...
Any mobile?
Thanks! Hit the blue "Refine Font/Color/Style" button the left :) (edit: wrong left, link)

https://twitter.com/logocaster/status/695671140409335808
Just did a quick price comparison of provents and masks compared to my local supplier here in Australia, and even with the high shipping cost the prices are comparable.

While I would still get the machine itself from the local supplier for the ongoing support and biannual assessment, this looks like it could be pretty good for the consumables. Good work!
Having the capability does not imply having the permissions.
Yeah I should have clarified that "two, maybe three years" was not for leaving a company, but rather how long I think you should remain in one job. Moving from junior to associate programmer, going from analyst to engineer, even moving from helpdesk to development, it's a step up. In IBM terms, if you're a band 7 for three years, it might be time to look at other options.

If I am Associate Middleware Software Engineer at Company X for four years, IMO, that's a little too long.
Hmm. I'm sitting and typing this right now, and looking at my elbow and it appears to be a 90-degree angle.

Also, there's different things you can do to your arm that require a sling. I didn't require a cast for my injury, but even if I did, the sling's purpose is mainly to keep your arm in a neutral position, keep you from bearing weight with it, and keep your upper arm from having to deal with the weight of the cast. It doesn't completely immobilize you; you can usually still rotate your arm enough to use a keyboard. Obviously, though, this depends on your exact injury and what's been done to your arm.
From wikipedia on ARM:

The official Acorn RISC Machine project started in October 1983.

But everything else you say is bang on.
As someone who has been around since before the Web, I can confirm that computers today do not feel any faster... despite the fact that your phone is faster than the fastest computer in the world from that time.

In fact I gave a speech about this at Berkeley last week. I think it'll be online pretty soon.

So now you have at least heard someone claim this.
Yeah, time to diagnose & resolve is definitely a key metric.

It gets challenging when trying to tease out the benefit from a high quality bug report versus other factors such as how well the developer happens to know that part of the code base or how simple the required fix happens to be. Perhaps some statistics would be in order to somehow account for these other factors...
Been there. I was your-services-are-no-longer-required at a job in 2013; that's what precipitated my career pivot into devops/platform infrastructure. I was out of work for about eight weeks, five of which were by choice (and my new company paid me a significant bonus to start that early).

That said, yes, the notion of "hey, I could get fired for this" did sometimes enter my head afterwards, but I never feared it, because I knew I had options.
The format of WebAssembly could be Java ByteCode.
please someone send a link of this comment section to warren buffet that he can "figure out" why his IBM shares are down 2 billion dollars...
Is there a way to sort by "reactions"?
Otherwise I think this feature is useless..
I would have preferred having more detailed issues rather than ugly Emojis.
Or, if a dilettantish crypto app provides a false sense of security to political activists, which may be life-threatening as well, depending on their country.
Qubes uses Xen and thus PCI passthrough for gaming can be made to work through the same procedures necessary for any other Xen+Linux OS.

But PCI passthrough for gaming isn't a great fit for the Qubes security model: it requires trusting that the Windows guest cannot compromise the GPU you loan it, which makes it a much bigger risk than an ordinary AppVM.
Play craps? You'll cycle chips pretty much all of your chips, and chips you throw to one side get replaced with chips from another side when making field bets -- for example.

Typical player tracking is done through comp cards, where they account for your buy-ins at the table, and buy out at the cashier.
Um. What does :+1: mean when applied to an issue? "I like this bug"?!
It is worth noting that the companies IBM is competing for IT Services type work is TCS and Infosys for whom most of the workers are in India. It is difficult to see how IBM will be successful in the IT services industry if they don't adopt a similar low employee cost model.
Electrified Caltrain is infinitely preferable to BART.
Trump's Impact on Mobile News Apps
Maybe on the Titan, but I don't see it happen below that. I don't understand why AMD doesn't leverage this advantage. It's a niche market for consumers, but from my experience the people who are interested in this are often people who have more income than the average - which are customers that should be interesting to a company I would think.
I question the need to use the word "journey" 10 times in this post.
In the US most such programmers are likely exempt from the overtime requirements of the FLSA [1].

[1] http://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/fs17e_computer.pdf
Great, and thanks for the link back. I like the idea of a public personal bookmark site, especially if it serves to help you level up your design and dev skills.
A review of game 2, AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol
Exciting New Docker Swarm Experiments in the Hypriot Cluster Lab
I am a bit disappointed. I understand that this was coming our way, but two weeks notice is very short.
What is the upgrade path for Emscripten users? I understand that LLVM will have WebAssembly backend, but how will OpenGL to WebGL translation work, for example?
C'mon dude/dudette .. you are on Hacker News. Read up on what Watson is .. don't just take marketing press for granted. You (and other commenters) are sort of saying Hadoop/Map reduce is going to gain sentience and enslave us all. If your comment was about DeepMind, at least there is some interesting stuff there like Deep Neural Networks :-p
nice! I was actually considering building something like this, for batteries and bilge activity while away. great work!
Is it possible to become Android developer, after 10 years in the oil industry?
Interview with the man behind the crazy VR glasses
Self-Driving Delivery Robots Roll Out in the UK
BART should've taken over SP's Peninsula Commute in the 70s, when SP really wanted to get rid of it. Even better would be if BART ran standard gauge and overhead wire.
A few guidelines:

- Is the bug report focused (one issue), and not riddled with a list of unrelated problems?

- Does it include full environment detail, relevant to the domain (e.g. hardware/OS, versions of the programs involved, environment variable settings, any recent changes, etc.)?

- When reporting a crash, does it include all logs?

- Is it professional and to-the-point, free of distracting and irrelevant statements like angry rants?

- Does the submitter respond regularly, instead of treating bugs like black holes when follow-up questions are asked or test patches are released?
Typically, I think it would mean "I would like this issue/request to be fixed/implemented."
>Many times there one big thread running that can't scale to multiple cores.

The number of applications that can't be multithreaded is very small, and not the kind of thing you run on your phone.
The further we get away from the web as a content delivery vehicle and more and more a delivery for executables

Interactivity is an increasingly important aspect of media and of our culture. People spend more money and time on games than on movies and TV.

I just don't think this is what we had in mind when we heralded the birth of the www.

It's never like the framers imagined. It's always stranger and more wonderful than they could have imagined. (And horrible in some ways they couldn't have imagined.)
I believe they do that in higher value chips in vegas, http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/12/1-5m-robbery-of-bellagi...
What does 'native functionality' mean for a web app?

Do you mean skipping the DOM and making a Canvas for displaying content? Or do you mean something else?
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They are much better in my opinion, but not perfect. Last year there was a pdf.js vulnerability: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit...
Zero hedge has always looked like this. Atleast for as long as i can remember. http://web.archive.org/web/20101230091417/http://www.zerohed...
We're entering a new phase of the web, where almost every home internet is going to have 1Gbps connections, upwards of 10Gbps in some areas (US Internet has already started providing 10Gbps to home customers in Minneapolis).

The idea that datacenter egress bandwidth can continue to be this expensive is ridiculous. A company using AWS or GCP is missing out on opportunities that are about to be created by very fast internet connections. It's an entire "disruptive tech" innovation that these cloud services will be ineligible to compete with (16-30x markups!) I've run the numbers on switching to AWS and GCP numerous times, and the numbers never add up to something I could sustain for Neocities.

I might consider AWS if I'm just making internal apps for a giant company that thinks it's a great deal because their previous vendor was charging 10x more, but as a small startup doing something internet-facing, there's no way I could ever operate safely with that infrastructure risk. I would need success insurance or something. Short term I'd be fine, but long term AWS would be eating my profit margin and possibly even my company.

To say nothing of malicious bandwidth leeching attacks. It's just dangerous all around. I'm not even sure this has a name yet - Economic Service Attack? I remember reading a story of how GreatFire got DDoSed by China and got a $10-30k+ bill from Amazon because of it.

The rest of their offerings are more or less reasonable (their EC2 instances are a bit overpriced IMHO, but reasonable). But the bandwidth prices are just simply not. GCP could get massive switchover from AWS if they simply lowered their bandwidth egress prices.

It's fairly telling to me, lastly, that AWS/GCP/etc. charge nothing for incoming bandwidth and then charge a LOT for outgoing. Just making a backup of the sites on Neocities from S3 to another service would cost over $20 each time I did it (I can do it based on timestamps if I track all the files stored there in a database (double databases == yuck), but I'd much rather have access to something like integrated rsync support to make this process simpler and much more efficient).
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With our website, you can watch videos in real time with your friends. Audio chat is also supported. It is awesome because it makes it very easy to show specific part of a video to anyone! :)
I don't think these necessarily cover all of the responses that can be made, but I think it is a great start to getting simple feedback like this. Like other users mentioned, it would be awesome to be able to sort or perform some kind of action based on the quantify of the reactions.

I wonder if they will allow for repository owners to select which reactions they will allow? I think that would help with the limited selection but still allow owners to select what they consider useful to them.
As a fellow Fifa junkie, this is a really interesting article, and definitely going to impact my trades.

If you ever play online my handle is "spongerbakula"
Fighting cavities could one day be as easy as taking a pill, research shows
This is probably why:

- Only 30% of employees are engaged

- 50% of employees have left a job to get away from a manager

- 25% of Millennials plan to quit their job in the next year.

Unfortunately, HR is who watches over these issues and are totally disconnected from the root problem (bad management issues). They focus on compliance, lawsuits, and stability. Usually their org is small too, so they have no idea what it's like to have 10 direct reports and constant pressure to ship.
Also, if I'm understanding the link properly you'd need an atomic clock for every sensor to make it work.
Worth doing badly as opposed to not doing it at all, ie you have to start somewhere even if that turns out to be inadequate later.
The flip side is that I would rather use a “slightly subpar” implementation than having to roll my own from a Google search and some smart guessing.

For example, if you want to implement a Student's t-test, you soon will run into the problem that you want to have a Beta function or the gamma function.

One could probably copy-paste a somewhat working version together from search engines, add asserts to prevent me from ever calling them with arguments out of the range where it seems to work, but for most of us, the result likely will be slower and less precise than a version that gcc, clang, or commercial compilers would provide.

And yes, I could probably buy an implementation somewhere, but in the real world, that often isn’t a real option, and even then, I wouldn’t know how well it worked, either.
It's supposed to mean: "I agree" or "I have this bug too" or "Yes, this should be implemented"
I think I've seen a few attempts at this before -- do you have some awareness of the previous ones and a comparison of how yours is similar or different?

The name is clever; as a Latin-speaker I keep wanting it to be "sequuntur".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sequuntur

But I bet that would be a lot harder for non-Latin speakers to remember!
aaron patterson, aka @tenderlove. rails and ruby core contributor.

[edit: at least that's who I presume the GP meant]
Wikipedia:

"Defamiliarization or ostranenie (остранение) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar. A central concept in 20th-century art and theory, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, it is also used as a tactic by recent movements such as culture jamming."

The article notes the rough approximation of 100 years since Shklovsky and company began using the term, in 1916.

The horror, in this case, represents the violence around us, and the varying degrees to which we become numbed to it. Ostranenie, as an art form, I believe tried to raise this horror (and joy) back to the observer's consciousness.

The article discusses various artists: Tolstoy, Vonnegut, Twain, and others.
They don't want to, unless you pay dollars, which is why they block passthrough on KVM without workarounds.

Thank god for AMD, basically.
NPM Packages with Native Extensions for AWS Lambda
Bravo! A pithy comment that adds much to the discussion. Surely this has never occurred to anyone without it being pointed out to them. You provide a valuable service.
-1 or the thumbs down reaction, I think is a mistake. They aren't usually that constructive, because most of the time they are used as retaliation against a specific user, instead of constructive criticism. If someone downvotes you, you tend to downvote them. At the least, it should be a privilege to down vote, like SO and HN do. http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-down
"For over 20 years, David Glickman, CEO of Primo Connect has been a telecom innovator, serial entrepreneur, visionary of multinational telecom companies, and, through separate honors in 1998 and 2015, the first individual ever to lead two separate companies to the #1 of Inc’s fastest growing company 500 list. David has made it his mission to take on the large telecom industries by creating companies that make connecting to friends and family more accessible and cheaper for the masses.

Most recently, as CEO of Ultra Mobile -- a nationwide carrier founded in 2011 dedicated to delivering innovative, cost-effective mobile services for people living in the US who regularly call internationally -- Glickman produced an increase of more than 100,000% in 2015’s annual revenue."
Me too, thanks!
This is probably why Netflix gives a "generous severance package" to people that don't work out. Make it easy to remove bad fits, whether it's the manager or employee.
You are depriving yourself of a lot of information by avoiding files based solely on file extension (most academic papers are in PDF format, for example). Avoiding Flash, on the other hand, I completely understand.
I wish there was more "onshoring" of jobs to very low cost of living areas in the USA. For example, I live in Arizona and the cost of living is so much less than Silicon Valley and San Diego where I have worked before.

Life is good in the country and I wish more companies would consider setting up development offices where low cost housing was very nearby office space. Save money and still be in convenient time zones.

I have what is probably an unpopular opinion, but I can't really blame corporations for using foreign development centers. However, I would like to see them penalized via slightly higher tax rates.
> It's beyond me how the 'thought' element of a hate crime isn't protected political speech

The courts of the US have literally always that freedom of speech is not unlimited.
I get the compliance thing but surely in cases where they can see that a request is very likely to be wrong I don't think it would be unreasonable to expect them to send off an email or give you a call to double check if it is really what you wanted.
>I'm surprised they haven't started putting RFID tags in every chip so they can track exactly how much each player spends at each game.

and how would casino be laundering money then? :)
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Like a start-up? More like a normal business plan.
Suez Canal Fires Back: Vast Majority of Ships Not Taking Cape of Good Hope Route
The standard is 1000 pages long. Most reader implementations are written in C/C++.

They are of course exploitable in different ways.

Adobe sometimes does not follow its own spec.

People publishing PDFs sometimes use that non-standard behavior to display some graphics. This is especially true with many research papers that only render on Adobe Reader.
Shut Up and Sit Down
dagnabbit!