skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that's just not how the legal system works, at least not in the United States (Kik Interactive is located in Canada, npm Inc. is located in the US, so it's possible for Kik to file a lawsuit against npm in the US.)

Full disclosure, I'm not on Kik's side here. I think they should have let Azer keep the kik npm module. I'm just trying to explain why npm could be legally threatened.

Kik sent npm a request to take down a package with their trademarked name. If npm declined, they could have filed suit against npm. They would not have to prove that their trademark was valid before doing so. Even if they didn't have a trademark, they could file the case, knowing they would lose. It would be a very short case. Npm's lawyers would have to submit evidence that Kik didn't own the trademark, and the case would be dismissed.

But the important part here is that they would need to show up to court with lawyers, and this is not free. This is why (again, at least in the US) legal threats from big companies like Kik to small developers (or other individuals, or even smaller companies) like Azer are so threatening and offensive. Even if the company is in the wrong, and the small developer is in the right, the cost of hiring a lawyer and going to court is so expensive that you're better off just letting them have their way, even if they're wrong.
They're operating closer to engineering limits than your smartphone is, I'd wager.
What 17 Prominent Roboticists Think Google Should Do with Its Robots
https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=smac8

Reached via your username in the top right, then "Saved stories" link. This lists all stories you have upvoted. You can't view anyone else's, I just put your username there.
That's true, the media is filled with bullshit.But that's what Google, HN and everybody else usually feeds you.

So what's your method to search or discover good blog content regarding a specific subject ?
I was a longtime android user. Now jumped to iOS. It was not just the crapware but also the sheer audacity of android developers to access any and every piece of information available on the device. Marshmallow will fix things but the ecosystem still has to catch on and I don't think that developers would be quickly jumping on board.
I remember a very big media house published their first android application in my country. They demanded access to contacts, calendars, locations, camera, gallery...basically everything imaginable. And there was a fierce backlash from users.

It's always a matter of trade offs. For some people, tinkering with their device is more important. And for the rest, they just want to get their work done and for their devices to get out of the way. I have come to terms with the freedom in the latter category now.
Moon used to spin 'on different axis'
If any of thousands of strangers could push a button and prevent me from deploying to production, I have made several bad decisions. This seems to apply to the majority of NPM users.
Another iOS -> Android switcher here. I owned every iPhone up to and including an iPhone 6, and then switched to a Nexus 6.

From my perspective, the two platforms (and when I talk about Android, I mean Android-on-a-Nexus) are pretty much homogenous. They look and feel very similar, behave similarly, etc, etc.
It's not a requirement. It's more of a common pattern.
In stock Android, just click the "face" placeholder left of the number in the call list, then the new contact button on the top right of the screen. Moto is close enough to stock for this path to be present.
Show HN: Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go
Oh, I love it. Not because it's good, it's not, it's an incoherent mess; but it's a great incoherent mess. By which I mean that it tries so hard and fails so badly I end up somehow seeing through it to the vision of the film Lynch was trying to make, which is a masterpiece. It's fascinating.

And there are moments of brilliance to it. The Guild Navigators! The Emperor's Court! The spacecraft design! I even love the poorly matted and ludicrously scaled sandworms, which convey a sense of grandeur that modern films somehow have trouble with. Oh, and Toto's soundtrack is great.

Ah, here we go.

David Lynch's sandworm ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2DMsyy0go

Scifi channel's sandworm ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVqXE9ZY5wk

Which of those is more fun?

I'd rather have a glorious failure like Dune over the polished insult that was Avatar any day.

Next I will explain why Van Helsing is one of my favourite films...
Amazon Robot Event Boasts VR, Ax Making, Wood Splitting
Kik's response to Azer
Since tomp objects to trusting code, then I agree with
Manishearth: if you're never willing to trust code, then you can never have guarantees. Even the proof engine is trusted code.
Of course this is a javascript file that shells out, where bash would have sufficed.

Of course.
Website is just HTML, CSS, JS. Web is open, so other people developed different frameworks for their needs. It seems that goal of the web is to reach as many users as possible without relying on any 1 technology/company.
Thanks. I added your link. I don't know enough about color, or design in general, to comment. I'll create a Short List of recommended references once I get a better handle on it.
I drive a 1969 chevy with a broken odometer and I maintain it myself.
I have a hard time with cars that panic if I reach in through an open window to undo the lock.
You're right, I did catch it on sale at Best Buy, marked down from $100 the week I just happened to be looking for the phone, but it seems like the Lumias often get marked down, and regardless I paid $140 for a HTC One V as my 'cheap phone' that turned awful after only six months.
FWIW, Google followed the same strategy with Cloud Vision (iirc)..they released it in closed beta for a couple of months [0], then made it generally available with a pricing structure [1].

I've never used Nuance but I've played around with IBM Watson [2], which gives you 1000 free minutes a month, and then 2 cents a minute afterwards. Watson allows you to upload audio in 100MB chunks (or is it 10 minute chunks?, I forgot), whereas Google currently allows 2 minutes per request (edit: according to their signup page [5])...but both Watson and Google allow streaming so that's probably a non-issue for most developers.

From my non-scientific observation...Watson does pretty well, such that I would consider using it for quick, first-pass transcription...it even gets a surprising number of proper nouns correctly including "ProPublica" and "Ken Auletta" -- though fudges things in other cases...its vocab does not include "Theranos", which is variously transcribed as "their in house" and "their nose" [3]

It transcribed the "Trump Steaks" commercial nearly perfect...even getting the homophones in "when it comes to great steaks I just raise the stakes the sharper image is one of my favorite stores with fantastic products of all kinds that's why I'm thrilled they agree with me trump steaks are the world's greatest steaks and I mean that in every sense of the word and the sharper image is the only store where you can buy them"...though later on, it messed up "steak/stake" [4]

It didn't do as great a job on this Trump "Live Free or Die" commercial, possibly because of the booming theme music...I actually did a spot check with Google's API on this and while Watson didn't get "New Hampshire" at the beginning, Google did [4]. Judging by how well YouTube manages to caption videos of all sorts, I would say that Google probably has a strong lead in overall accuracy when it comes to audio in the wild, just based on the data it processes.

edit: fixed the Trump steaks transcription...Watson transcribed the first sentence correctly, but not the other "steaks"

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-offers-computer-vision...

[1] http://9to5google.com/2016/02/18/cloud-vision-api-beta-prici...

[2] https://github.com/dannguyen/watson-word-watcher

[3] https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/71d49ff62e9f9eb51ac6

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRzpWiluGw

[5] https://services.google.com/fb/forms/speech-api-alpha/
Google Hasn’t Given Up on Robots
Yay for intellectual diversity!
You don't need to be particularly wealthy, but it does require you to allocate:

* Fridge & pantry space for ingredients. This is significantly easier if you are not splitting that space with 2 roommates.

* Time and Executive Function to keep track of what you need to shop for. This is significantly easier if you spend $5 on an app like Paprika. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paprika-recipe-manager-for/i...

* Money to spend on cooking tools. This is significantly easier if you have friend who also cook and can recommend things.

* Time and skill to spend organizing your kitchen so that you can work reasonably efficiently.

* Time and patience to spend doing a skill poorly because you are learning. This is made easier if you have a snack before you cook dinner because trying to do an unfamiliar multi-threaded task is harder when you are hungry.

* Money to spend on ordering food to be delivered when you fuck something up.

* Time to spend going to the grocery store more frequently for fresher ingredients. This is significantly easier if you own a car or are willing to pay higher rent to live near a grocery store.

* Time to spend actually doing both the cooking and cleaning.

All of this is doable on a software engineer salary, but it does require making a deliberate decision to allocate resources.
Nexus 5 was like a $300 phone.
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I don't think that follows from what I wrote, though it's certainly a defensible position.
>("When would someone ever be without the internet?" "When they're on a cross-country flight!"

Actually, that's incorrect. All cross-country flights by now should have WiFi available.

Now, draw your own conclusions about app developers who think you should pony up $$$ to get WiFi on a plane just so their app can connect to game servers (in single player mode).

Personally, I hope some "blue ice" falls on them.
We're waiting on hers to break too. But I'll be more than happy when that time comes to toss Apple their $600 or whatever they're asking for a iPhone6S Plus (that's what she wants) or 7 Plus. She's a heavy user of it, both games and calls. That little thing has seen a lot of "Cookie Run". :)

It's amazing too because the phone was originally Verizon carrier locked, then Apple/VZW sent out an update to unlock 4S phones through iTunes and now she's been using AT&T and before that, T-Mobile.

I sparsely use my 5S, and will probably replace it with a SE when the time comes. I'm more than happy buying apps from Apples store because of the ability to install on both our phones. My most expensive app was $20 for TouchDown (coming from Android I was using this for work email and liked it). She's able to use it as well. But given something with the right utility, I'd pay more than $20 if it's on iOS.

Apple made the right call in building higher quality devices, providing the best support they can, and then banking on the AppStore to pay off. Since there's only so many iPhones to optimize for, when we do buy apps they Just Work. I had a lot of trouble with certain apps on the phones I listed in my last post.

When she's missing on a Saturday morning I can see she just went to the store without hassling her. If I'm at a Python meetup or other user group, she can see if I'm still there without calling/texting. Just now I see she's 2 miles from being home from work. If she loses her phone, I can locate it or make it sound an alert, lock it, wipe it. iCloud is so nice as well for both backups and getting access to photos without even plugging it in. It's rendered iTunes useless for me, and I was never an iTunes fan.

Yes, a lot of these features are possible on Android but iOS got there first and they just work so well and built in from day 1. Zero additional apps needed. I'm also happy with iOS' interface. It's just ideal IMO. Then the build quality and support as mentioned before.

I use a NUC for my desktop, but she uses a laptop and I've never had a Mac or Macbook but we have absolutely no qualms in buying them when we need new machines. If I weren't 100% satisfied with the NUC, I'd strongly consider just buying a Mac Mini as well.

Anyway, sorry about that. I'll stop singing the praises of our experiences with an old iPhone 4S and 5S. :) But I completely understand how you're happy with a 4S. We're really that happy about our situation as well. And I hated smartphones before. I wanted to go back to no phone at all before moving to iOS.
I love this guys stuff.
You're forgetting the quality control that Uber imposes on drivers through multiple mechanisms.

Maybe it isn't too bad in your particular corner of NYC, but in most other places, taxis are just horrible. They're dirty, nasty vehicles that are falling apart; the drivers won't take credit/debit cards and demand cash; the drivers drive you around in circles to get a bigger fare; the drivers are rude, don't speak English, etc. There's a reason so Uber has become so popular, and it's not just price.

With the reputation system, Uber lets you rate drivers, and if a driver gets too many complaints or low ratings, Uber kicks them out. Regular cab companies don't do this. Uber integrates GPS navigation, so your driver doesn't drive you in circles. Cab companies don't do this; they insist their drivers have "valuable local knowledge" (yeah, of the best ways of fleecing you). Uber doesn't let you pay in cash, all payment goes through their app; cab companies have broken (or "broken") card readers in their cars.

You should take a flight to San Francisco and take some cabs there. I hear that's a particularly interesting experience.
1-You're wrong, any app can do that on iOS/Android. who says that you can't open links from an iOS app ?

2-He was specifically talking about webapps in "standalone" mode, he specifically mentioned using `target="_blank"`. that kind of behavior does not belong in mobile environments, actually i personally disallow that on my computer too, but that's personal choice.
Performance without Compromise
How to Use IPFS to Fix NPM and avoid repeating the left-pad episode
I have to agree with the other responder: this is a low-quality comment.

The big thing you're missing with your idea about running the cabs out of business is that Uber is not a monopoly; they have a direct competitor in Lyft. Before those two came along, cabs were not cheap at all, and they had terrible quality (crappy, dirty vehicles; rude drivers; taking 60 minutes to show up when you call). Just ask anyone in SanFran about how cabs were before Uber showed up.

As long as there's competition, prices will naturally stay low.

As for "regulation", are you kidding? How did the "regulation" help anything? All it did was artificially restrict competition, while not providing any value for the customer. Cabs are nasty, drivers are rude, they drive in circles to increase the fares, etc. Regulation never helped with any of that. Uber's reputation system did.

Honestly, you sound like a disgruntled taxi driver, mad that you can't get paid to abuse customers any more. Too bad, so sad.
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Voice commands for a hardware device. Just saw this today http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/23/google-opens-access-to-its-...
They got a report of dodgy code. Looking at the code, it was intentional but unimportant and also violated the C standard. So they removed it, and they removed it badly.

If it had been valid by the C standard, it is not unlikely that they would have kept it. Then there would have been no disaster. They would not have gotten confused about what was valid and what wasn't.

Extra entropy to mix in isn't that silly.

Edit: In other words, making "Is this code valid?" more complex to answer can have bad effects even in the absence of aggressive compilers.
Thanks! 0.6 now supports cross-account roles (available on pip). 0.7 will support MFA.
I am not a bitcoin user (because I have not find a use case for myself), but this might be an idea.

The problem for me is that if I provide my payment details, I make myself vulnerable to the person level censoring (as do other users of course). I do not think that this is where the WWW should be going.

So in principle anything that decouples my identity from the access to the content but lets me to pay for it might be fine.

If I provide you my payment details I could not be sure that you will not share my identity (even in a form of an unique id) (or start sharing in the future).
I had that same exact feeling! I scrolled to the bottom looking for a date somewhere to confirm (there was none), but then saw the reference to stockfighter and finally dawned on me it was likely a new post. Then I read it.
So true, and it gets even better. If you have to be the one doing the setup and IT support for Grampa, and he needs maintenance for his Chromebook, you just show him how to reset it. Now HE can do his own maintenance.

And if drops it or leaves it on a bus? It costs half and iPad to replace, and the new one is completely reconfigured, software installed, and personal data all ported by...turning it on and logging in.

If it's for watching videos or reading, an iPad might be a better choice, but if it's a replacement for a PC for writing your memoirs, responding to email, doing a budget in a spreadsheet, and other basic, productive work, a Chromebook is better.
Azer Koçulu unpublished his 273 modules on NPM
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346845
The Nexus 9 is a tablet, and the 5X and 6P were released within a month of each other. So they're all pretty relevant, and are targeted at different markets.
Anybody got the api docs yet? I wonder if I can stream from chrome via webrtc.
Yeah, that attitude is off-putting. But man their hardware is nice.

It's kind of like the artist and their art. Leni Riefenstahl and her propaganda films.
already submitted 10+ times, discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346845
The rate of growth was quite high though. If Patrick had continued working on BCC exclusively, I imagine it would be a much bigger business now.

But he had other, better opportunities.

If you thought if looked more impressive then, maybe you hadn't actually looked at the numbers, or were confusing his consulting revenues for BCC numbers? The numbers were never that high. But the point was that they let him leave his work at a Japanese company, and develop expertise he could use to consult for others. And he could have kept going at BCC and grown that instead, of course.

https://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month
I saw it in 1984; fell asleep (seriously). Watched it again over the years and it is in my top ten. The author of the article insists Paul became a superman? Or (and I am way out on a limb here) did it rain because of the massive sandworm activity, creating so much atmospheric dust and electrostatic lightning, creating larger nucleating particles, causing it to finally rain? Admittedly never paid that much attention to that part, just the ambiance.
Were there any changes since 2008 to the sources anyway?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrypt/files/
Ok, so my question still stands, does this mean I will be eventually downloading the entire IPFS network onto my computer? What is the solution to that problem?
That's not a DR plan...
Chaining ActiveRecord::Relation Methods in Rails 5
I doubt I will. There are cases where videos beat textual presentations (I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4, the video about programming Conway's game of life in APL is an example) but they are very rare, and even if a few more years or decades of AI research produce a search engine that can be used to find videos answering questions I have, watching a few of the top 10 videos to apply the final human filter will still be slower than opening the top 10 search results now is.

Visually scanning well-written prose that is laid out correctly (easily recognized headers with good content, good paragraph layout) IMHO is way faster than finding the meat in well-written presentations that are presented and recorded properly.
I have a laptop with in installation that's 4/5 years old, and still running. Except for the occasional things, no problems with upgrading (even transitioning to systemd went fine without problems).
Yes, even with js enabled they are broken.

airhorner reacts to mouse clicks visually but plays no sound. (Debug console says: "EncodingError: The given encoding is not supported.")

voice memos needs cookies or local data but does not inform the user about this requirement. With cookies / local data enabled and after a reload, it does work.

The weather app also needs local storage enabled but fails silently when it is not available.
Etch-A-SDR: Odroid C1, Teensy 3.1 and RTL-SDR
Except for when you have to update the microcode due to bugs that freeze your system under certain loads. Or when certain calculations are incorrect and you could NOT maintain it and the whole CPU range had to be recalled

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/intel-skylake-bug-cau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
Branded Man: The Long Tradition of Outlaw Poets
At my last job, we used to have an Oracle-acquired storage product in a rather critical part of our stack. It was having some performance problems one night, during a peak traffic period. It may even have been Cyber Monday; I don't remember exactly.

Our then systems team lead called Oracle support, and was advised by the support rep — a third tier rep, mind you, because we had priority support, and had the call escalated when the first guy couldn't do anything — to run an on-board low-level diagnostic. He confirmed with the phone rep three separate times that running such a check would be safe to do with live, mounted filesystems, and would not adversely impact operations. He was answered in the affirmative each time.

He hit enter. The site went down. $.75mm in lost revenue over the next 8-10 hours, unfucking that pretty little mess.
Why some New York restaurateurs are looking forward to the end of tipping
If building a supersonic passenger plane with an existing engine was viable, it seems like somebody would already be doing it. Which means it's probably not viable, in which case Boom is an aircraft engine company first and foremost; once they have the engine, wrapping a plane around it should be the easy part, relatively speaking. Developing a new engine costs on the order of $1B, so the development cost for the whole plane would probably be between $1.5-2B. So they'd pay for that with their first 10 planes to Virgin, with maybe some money left over to change their name.
Does it require a Chinese ID number or will a passport number suffice? Almost all unionpay online services seem to require a Chinese ID number, locking foreigners out.
In addition to the other great comments here, I would add: have some extra material. The worst thing would be to get through all of your slides in 10 minutes when you planned for 30. On the other hand if you only get through half your slides, skipping over some in the middle, no problem! If there's a Q+A session, people will naturally ask you to elaborate on certain points, and you'll then be prepared.