skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is an opportunity to test out different battery chemistries that may initially move into their cars. Alternately, the magnesium chemistry could be cheaper than lithium but less energy-dense, hence not a great choice for the cars. Or it could be inappropriate for vehicle use for a number of reasons including safety, cycle lifespan, etc.
Sorry, 100% agree with you but with your life going forward, it's "fell on deaf ears"
Mostly likely referring to Steve Klabnik https://archive.is/BtDaA
I love what these guys are doing, but I find it odd that they're using an actively registered tail number (N22BT) in their mockup images.
Reminds me of a book-quote:

> Miles leaned forward into the vid pickup. [...] "If you surrender quietly, I can control what happens. If ImpSec has to detain you by force, it will be up to chance, chaos, and the reflexes of some overexcited young men with guns and gallant visions of thwarting mad Komarran terrorists."

> [...] "If you unleash ImpSec, the consequences will be your doing," said Cappell.

> "Almost correct," Miles agreed. "If I unleash ImpSec, the consequences will be my responsibility. It's that devil's distinction between being in charge and being in control. I'm in charge; you're in control. You can imagine how much this thrills me."

-- A standoff in "Komarr", by Lois McMaster Bujold
Maybe we could shoot for at least 25% professional?
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Yeah, I agree that it's smart marketing. It might even work. It's still quite a long-shot that raising VC-scale money will get you to a working supersonic jet. But hey...better (for society; not necessarily the fund LPs) than investing in the newest SMS-based, on-demand food delivery service for dogs!

That said, I don't agree with your second paragraph. Investors didn't suddenly lose (or gain) the ability to evaluate technical risk in the late 1970s. There have probably always been big-dream pitches as long as there have been investors, but most businesses started small, and grew. If anything, the throw-money-indiscriminately-at-a-dreamer style of investment probably became more popular since the rise of Silicon Valley, not less.

In this particular domain, all of the big players started tiny, grew off of government largesse, or both. The risk is entirely on the execution and feasibility side of the equation. And a statement from an airline that they'd like an affordable, practical supersonic jet is of nearly zero information. I, too, would like a goose that lays golden eggs.
Well, I have nexus 4 since 2012 and have been using to this day. I just might use it for another year (unless the new Nexus phones this autumn really impress me). Some of my relatives still use Samsung Galaxy S3. It is possible to use an Android phone for more than a year. I have no clue why you went through them so fast. 4 phones in 5 years? So you upgraded nearly every year. Why?
Also worth mentioning, I think the design of the hardware on the new Iphone6 are a massive screwup. For instance how rounded the edges are, they should have a curvature, but not as drastic as it is currently. And the protruding lens from the back of the phone, jobs is surely rolling in his grave over that one.
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I would start at our webpage here: https://ipfs.io/

Though admittedly it needs work. If youre the video watching type, the stanford talk on that page is very good (i recommend setting the speed to 1.5 or so).

Beyond that, come check out our git repos:
ipfs whitepaper and general protocol discussion: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
go-ipfs codebase: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs
And the FAQ: https://github.com/ipfs/faq
>If you find an engineer willing to argue in favor of non-maintainable equipment, he's not a true engineer

And probably not a true Scotchman either.

I mean, obviously only a failed engineer would ever propose not maintainable products -- everybody should use old maintainable razors for example, and not (recyclable) disposable ones. /s
I actually really liked that movie. It's not action packed, but IMO it captures what it feels like to read a book better than most movies.
SIMD is a work in progress, but we have the foundations laid for a much more ergonomic approach: http://huonw.github.io/blog/2015/08/simd-in-rust/
They have no one to watch Netflix with?
Actually, probably not. Sometimes I still make an app that doesn't do too well. I guess this is the downside. To get started you have to be prepared to make several apps (maybe even up to 10) to be reasonably sure you'll start getting a good income.

But when you do get one, it can generate revenue for a long time coming.

I think with some good market research you could probably be more sure though. And also going into partnership with somebody lowers the risk as you can churn out more apps then share the profits when you do get a successful one. Personally I have not had much luck with the Apple app stores because of their crowded/discovery issues etc, but I also have not put much effort into them due to their horrible restrictions (the sandbox is a killer with the way they've implemented it, and a lot of my software needs admin privs to run)
10% Margin? They wish. Boeing is losing $25 million for every 787 it delivers [1]. Boeing investors would be ecstatic to get a 1% margin right now.

[1] http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/will-7...
How many nodejs developers actually audit their dependencies ? In my experience not many. it's just "npm search" without thinking. then "my problem is somebody else now". Frankly the whole ecosystem is just scary.
Chrome is just framing webkit. Its still "safari" under the covers.
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Me too... I think it is the narration that kills it for most people. I get the distinct feeling that someone decided at the last minute that the audience needed to be spoon-fed explanations for everything. Star Wars did just fine with equally cryptic dialogue ("Many Bothan spies died to bring us this information"; "bulls-eyed womp rats in my T-16" etc.). It's like life: people sometimes say things you don't understand.
Red Hat open sources all customer facing software they create. When Red Hat buys a company, it is expected that they will open source its software products. I think "open source company" is only apt.
You must hang out in some strange bars.
Dune needs/needed the Game of Thrones treatment. Full seasons to develop the story and characters.

The film was interesting mess. It was very beautiful visually. It was also very stupid - both Harkonen and the Aes Sed .. I mean Ben Gesserit were just a pale shadow of themselves without the depth in the book. And we had naked Sting in thongs which is something that the Geneva Convention strictly forbids to be unleashed on civilians.
Yes. It's not Kik's fault.

Yes. I'm glad that we have a moment when we can try to discuss and influence how this problem will be addressed.

But... (maybe I'm reading this wrong) what, exactly, is problematic with NPM?

@thedz, I'm not really picking on you, but the words you've used have made it clear to me that there is an assumption underlying this issue that's pretty common. The assumption that this conflict is a problem with NPM, i.e., with open-source.

Is that really true? And if it is, should it be?

Let's hypothesize that for the most part the "corporate world" and the "open source community" keep to themselves, have their own concerns, and don't conflict. -- When they do conflict, why does anyone assume that corporation should get its way, that their concerns are more legitimate?

It's as though we believe that, unless you get paid for something you do/make, it's not yours and you don't have any rights to it. We should think about that. And then we should look at the thing that Kik did to try and draw Azer into their world (onto their turf): they offered to pay him for it. They tried to to transmute something he was doing for free into something that belongs to the world of money.

I agree that it's not Kik's fault. They're just a company. Or rather, "it" is just a company. You can't expect it to act like a person. -- But this just hammers home the point that I'm trying to make, that these are really and truly different worlds colliding. Its not a big thing vs. a small thing. Its two different kinds of things. And we can't just default and use the terms and ways of the bigger thing to decide how to mediate the conflict. That's not right. That lazy. At best. Really it's just cowardly. A failure to think. A failure to believe that anything has meaning.

(Turns out there's a whole phenomenon studied in historiography (that's the academic discipline that studies how history is made) about how when two parties go to war, it is inevitably perceived through the lens of power and technology, -- specifically that the side with better technology is in the "right". Hm.)

In this context, it's uncanny that the discussion has centered around "who was polite" and "how much money". That's not really what this whole conflict is about. It's about whether we value a person's labor, and whether we're willing to devalue it if a company says "jump".
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Its on my top 10 movies of all time.

I love that movie.

Why would anyone think it's bad?
If only it had more sex in the novels, it is basically the next Game of Thrones scale.

Maybe if they "fleshed" it out with more drama between the houses, and Dune's portion only came as the later seasons.

Fleshing out the badassery of:

- Bene Gesserits
- Sardaukar
- Navigators
- Spice use
- Mentats

The alien culture of Dune is kind of it's problem. GOT is basically just a middle ages Europe riff, much easier to understand.

But Dune is still close since it's technology use limits makes it accessible to our imagination. And the things that aren't can be teased out...
All legality, copyright law, etc. aside, how did this even create a problem?

Even on small projects, basic build engineering dictates that you are cognizant of which package versions against which you are building. Furthermore, all packages should be locally cache-isolated on your build server (or local box if you do not have a build server). Building against the most "up-to-date" versions of remote dependencies puts you completely at risk for situations such as this, let alone at the mercy of malicious updates to such remote dependencies.

What sane (pun intended) person would ever build against the most recent version of all packages (including small ones such as this) from a remote build server? Also, for larger (i.e. more than several employees) type operations, how could QA possibly function when building from "most recent version of all packages"?

All these entities that are suffering because of this should immediately fire all their build engineers, because they are not only a reliability concern, but, more critically, a vulnerability concern.
Check out the case law about Mcdonalds v Quality Inns (re: McSleep Inns)

Mcdonald's was able to show that there would be consumer confusion DESPITE Mcdonald's not doing hotels nor Mcsleep inns not doing food.

As a result, Mcdonalds basically has an open trademark enforcement on "Mc-" whatever.

While I'm not fond of the judgement here, it was nonetheless decided thusly, and contradicts your otherwise accurate (so far as I know) statement. (And to weaken my own point, I believe Apple lost a similar case about i<whatever>, so nothing here is clear and reliable.)
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these books are so incredible well written, but because of their style - very inner thought and subtlety focused - I think any director would have a difficult time realizing the intricacies and tense plots of the books.

But if captured in the tone of Frank Herberts novels, I think the series could easily rival Game of Thrones, it certainly is epic enough. And that is something I would love to see onscreen.

Oddly, I have the feeling these novels aren't that popular (compared to Lotr or GoT or even some Philip K Dick), which is equally odd to me b/c they certainly are just as incredible intricant, fascinating and innovative.
Yes, slowly. For almost everything I buy, I want it to last as long as possible without maintenance, instead of longer, but with regular maintenance.

Expensive items are an exception - I want my car to last long, not to avoid maintaining it. But there is space for very few exceptions.
> I'd happily have contributed my old phones to some program where either poor or kids can have them freely.

I asked a Roman Catholic priest I know to give my household's old iPhones to the poor during his trip to India last year. I had originally planned to sell them when I had a chance after upgrading myself and my parents, but I changed my mind when I heard he was going to visit his village in India where there are many poor people.

You could ask your local Roman Catholic parish if any of the priests plan to travel to poor places. They tend to be from all over the world, many are from poor places and they tend to visit family every year or so. They would definitely be able to give your phones to the poor.

Just make sure that the phones are unlocked, supports GSM internationally (if it is a US phone) and have a charging cable. In my case, I neglected to realize that the NEMA outlets used in the US are not typically used in India and included the US chargers. Compatible AC to USB chargers are cheap enough that it was not a big deal.

Also, models like the Virgin Mobile iPhone 4S whose baseband is programmed to only connect to US CDMA networks would only be useful for parts in many other countries. Phones that are locked to CDMA in the US, but support GSM when unlocked for international use, like the Sprint iPhone 5 will work fine, provided that they are unlocked before they are sent.

If it is a CDMA only phone that is not locked to the US, you could check to see if the country where the priest is going has a network compatible with it, although it is hard to find coverage maps for CDMA outside the US to know if those networks would actually be relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CDMA2000_networks
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>Nexus devices have a variety of manufacturers. The current 9 is made by HTC, the 5X by LG, and the 6P by Huawei

Obviously only the latest matters?

And those are manufacturers, not the company designing it, which what matters. Otherwise Apple uses a variety of manufacturers too, not just Foxconn.
I also liked it. Perhaps it had something to do with being 10 years old and never having read the book, but I think it stands on its own as an artistic achievement. There are many ways to adapt a screenplay, but I don't think any of them could really satisfy true Dune fans.
Yeap, there are some for sure!
Frank Herbert seemed to like it...

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5458417/new-evidence-that-frank-herbe...
Albers is great (non-dogmatic, focus on learning through practice), but ugh, Itten is such bullshit (an arbitrary system not grounded in concrete evidence about human perception). No offense, but 50% of your links are pseudoscientific nonsense.

In my opinion, the best online source about color is http://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html
They did something very similar to this for their translate API. Realtime IRC client plugins that translated lines in foreign languages into yours in near-realtime went from "awesome" to "just kidding, nevermind" virtually overnight.
> I'd love to have more startups like this to watch

Keep watching. Maybe they'll have something in 10-15 years.
There's also a (very WIP) "IPFS Textbook": https://github.com/RichardLitt/ipfs-textbook/
If YC provides API like reddit, you can build really good client using web technology. https://hackerwebapp.com/ is best you could do without good APIs.

This is my reddit client. https://reddit.premii.com/ - You can login, upvote, reply, save, and tons of other things.
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Lynch's Dune is one of my all time favourite movies. I watched it a lot growing up and it didn't make a lick of sense to me, but I still loved the world it created. Later on I saw the extended edition (on laser disk baby!) and it became a lot more clear. And then finally I read the book and it all made sense to me.

Yes the SyFy Mini-Series is more true to the book, but their pronunciations make it unbearable to watch for me. "Hark-e-nin" vs "Har-ko-nin" drives me up the wall.

Another thing I love about it is how surreal Lynch creates the future. To me it's one of the most immersive sci-fi movies that really takes you out of this reality and into it's own and it does it with minimal flash and special effects.

The Guild navigators are gross and amazing. The Lynch Baron Harkonin is possibly my favourite Sci-fi villain of all time.
Guess that answers that. Bob may have been going beyond what he should have or what they intended but in the end he represented Kik and they have to take responsibility for that.
"Most" people don't know of either.

Kik is a messaging app, kik is a node module. Was someone going to call up the app store and install a node module? Was someone potentially going to install a messaging app into their node project?

I think there are a lot of slippery slopes here.
Sure, there's a chance for government abuse of my data, no argument. There are also significant benefits to me for sharing with Google. For me (and I suspect for most Americans), the real benefits exceed the likely costs.

I worry far more about things like getting into a car wreck, falling in the shower, and my crappy diet.
It is funny reading this in hindsight. We went straight to AWS, also for long running tcp connections, and never looked at it again. After that I have never recommended app engine.
We often take leading "Why" out of titles here, so we'll do so above. It's a form of bait, as anyone who's read the first chapter of Cialdini's "Influence" knows. (I think it's the first chapter; the one that quotes a study that turned out to hinge on the word "because".)

But that said, please don't post comments of pure grumpiness. It just makes this a sour place.
You are saying that amebas* are intelligent.

* Viruses would probably be a more apt analogy.
Does anyone have data for how many companies from the previous batches have survived so far and what their valuation is?
A bit OT but the hangars at Cardington are amazing.

You see them in the distance and you think "oh that's interesting", then you realise they're a lot further in the distance than you first thought, and you think "bloody hell! They're massive!"
Well, unless the factor is smaller than 1.
Yes super slow
Has Google sued many of their smaller competitors out of business?
Interesting opinion. I am struggling to think of a single standalone webapp I would benefit from... I use a few native apps that work flawlessly and the clean out of the box functionality for phone calls and web browsing. I guess I'll stick with IOS (shrug)
Serious question, what's stopping you?
RequestHN: Ability to save favorite posts on profile
Okay, I'm not sure if "RequestHN" is a common/valid HN topic post, but I have been thinking it would be cool to see an addition to HN that allows us to save a favorite article when we read it.

I know this can already be done with browser bookmarks, wunderlist, etc., but there's something about having it tucked in the app that I think would be really helpful. Especially useful for those articles that you don't have time to read now, but want to save for later and come back to in the future.

Thoughts?
One of the difficulties Concorde had was the sonic boom, drawing attention to it doesn't seem wise.
I came across CMU Sphnix speech recognition library (http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net) that has a BSD-style license and they just released a big update last month. It supports embedded and remote speech recognition. Could be a nice alternative for someone who may not need all of the bells and whistles and prefers to have more control rather than relying on an API which may not be free for long.

Side note: if anyone is interested in helping with an embedded voice recognition project please ping me.
Best job of my career so far.

They pay me to continue working on my desktop Linux project (from the bay area no less) and have in no way impeded my personal direction for the project. Quite the opposite, I now have a team of people willing to help me move faster by solving external problems as I reach them.
> If it was defined, then the Debian RNG bug likely would not have happened.

No. The Debian bug was not the result of a compiler optimization based on undefined behavior. It was due to OpenSSL doing something dodgy [1]. The compilers, being conservative, all declined to do any optimizations based on the undefined behavior. It was Valgrind that called OpenSSL out for the uninitialized use of memory. This is not a bug in Valgrind either! If the C standard defined live ranges for uninitialized values, then Valgrind would still be right to flag uses of uninitialized values, because they usually indicate bugs, and Valgrind is a bug finding tool. The Debian bug occurred because OpenSSL was doing something silly, Valgrind was doing its job properly pointing out that silly thing that OpenSSL was doing, and the fix was dangerously incorrect.

[1]: http://research.swtch.com/openssl
The progress we've made in AI can be summed up by a very nice analogy I recently about Deep Mind beating the Go world champion: "We need to make transistors* and we just discovered fire."

Yeah, you are right. It's some progress.

* For the record, we don't even know if it even possible to make transistors in this hypothetical universe of AI.
Definitely could have been handled better on both sides. Kik should have just bluntly offered $N (where $N was however much it was worth to avoid bringing in lawyers) and bluntly offered it up front. Hinting around like "is there something we could do for you" seems disingenuous.
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People run companies whose software builds depend on random third-party modules to be live on a third-party site that never even suggests to be offering durable hosting?
Oh, lordie.
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Thank you Jake! How come I didn't think of that!

Since Xiaoice has been around for almost 2 years, according to its integrations listed on their official site, it seems that the chat-bot has evolved and proven to be useful in a few very specific use-cases: Haier's smart appliance control app, weather, shopping assistant for JD.com(popular e-commerce site in China), Xiaomi's messaging app(Miliao), Meipai(popular video sharing app in China).
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From reddit:

>it doesn't yield kernel code execution (except on OS X where you can just load kexts with the right entitlement), and it requires execve (which you cannot call under the container sandbox profile on iOS).

https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/4bm9ka/news_proj...