skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
122 acres for $1M plus $5M a year does not sound like a deal, especially given the RF ban.
One wonders what Donald Knuth is going to have to say about this.
Most programmers spend much of their day not actually programming. Being at the office for 8-9 hours is not the same thing.
Now I'm pondering what a trivial/obvious/easy book is... ;)
I switched from a Sprint MVNO to a GSM operator a couple years ago and then back to another Sprint MVNO several months ago. Before I left, I often had problems with connectivity. After returning, I found that connectivity problems were rare. I suspect that Sprint today is about as good as Verizon was 5 years ago, which is good enough if the price is right.

In my case, I signed up with RingPlus, which charged me once when I activated my phone and has not charged me since. I consider myself to get cellular service for free, which is a fantastic price. Support leaves much to be desired, but that is to be expected at that price point.
Strman-java: A Java 8 string manipulation library for humans
It's never going to happen, or at least, not anytime soon. We live in a country that has its intelligence agencies "Losing" the evidence of their torturing people for years, and really, that's the least of their crimes.
It's fun to see that deck since my first (software) job out college was working with that team (about a year after this slide), when only two of those four mentioned individuals remained on the team, but consequently I got the pretty rare/fun opportunity to write Erlang.

We had a major advantage for new technology rollout as we did "devops" (e.g. the ops team decided they did not have bandwidth to support us and we needed to launch), and were building greenfield technology (Y! BOSS) with relatively few integration points with existing Y! technology (except for Vespa which is similar to SOLR/ElasticSearch and some weird C++ libraries that were somehow mislabeled from "junky prototype" to "high technology" and were ported forward).

Years later, my sense is that the biggest initial stumbling block was getting the existing devs to have any interest in learning a new technology / way of doing things. I think we lacked some perspective there, and should have made a much larger effort to get the team excited and trained with the technology (in jobs since, I've never had a team who turns down technology training), and could have probably won our local team over if we'd been more intentional.

Ultimately though, the final stumbling block was Y! itself, which was very focused on keeping the number/diversity of technologies low. I think at the organizational level this is probably the right decision, so I can't really fault them for that. Ironically Node.js popped up just a year or so later as the great language hope to rescue Y!, and did manage to get significant traction, so if you wanted to study adoption, finding someone who could explain how they got Y!'s Node.js adoption going in the right direction would be pretty fascination.
Looking into it further (it's been a while, never expected to see him back on the front page), it seems he did take the trip but plagiarized most of the images (except the ones of him and his boarding pass) and much of the text/captions.
Why the hell is M 1,000? Shouldn't you use k?
> Ten years ago you could have said anything from money management software, to code editors, vector image editors, remote storage, news readers

Then years ago there almost certainly where more than two options for most of these categories, at least for windows and Mac. But that doesn't mean that there isn't a market for competitors if they can offer something new.

Sketch seems like a perfect example: there already were tons of design packages before, but they found a niche that wasn't covered well and made a product fitting it perfectly. Despite Photoshop being the "king" of image editing software for over a decade there still are commercial competitors around. Despite google maps & co there still are desktop mapping packages targeting private users, not to mention commercial users. They probably are not the most profitable software products, but they are around for years and get updated, so their makers think it is worthwhile.

A common thread seems to be that these are professional or enthusiast tools, where user stickiness is higher, and that they either have unique features that are unlikely to be replicated elsewhere or that they offer a cheaper alternative to established professional tools. Also harder to be replaced by mobile or web options.

Regional markets can be another thing, where global companies often only offer sub-par or way to expensive options.

The biggest issue I see for "studios" is having to find good niches repeatedly to maintain headcount, because maintenance on a product often needs less developers than getting it off the ground, and in many markets you can't sell a new version every year.
Yes, we need to punish people trying to bring systemic wrongdoing to light, and protect poor innocents like Ollie North from the consequences of their choices. /s
Vernier Calipers
Would the south african bank be held accountable for this? or can they get away with this as the cards are fake/stolen ?

The article makes it seem as if Banks of the ATMs are the ones who lost the money.

I'm also a bit surprised the criminals carried their operation in Japan, It would have been easier in a more messy place e.g India / Africa ?
There is a need for something that makes it easy to build and display pivot tables on the web. Tableau attempts to fill this, but it is not as easy and does not have as much functionality as Excel.
As far as I can tell, a lot of that magic isn't in the OS that way, as in, they are using "Wifi calling", which AT&T and Verizon also support on limited handsets (ie, Apple only, even though all modern Android phones support it fine.

A lot of their multiple device calling magic seems to be done entirely in the backend.

I'm not saying there ISN'T magic in the OS specifically for Google-Fi, but they seem to be trying to use as much standard magic as possible before using their own.

Although, it'd be nice if a Google engineer actually confirmed if my suspicions are right.
The traditional RFP process is tedious and costly, in terms of time and communication. I was a contractor for years, and often found that after several days effort to craft a good RFP, only the last page (the price and timeframe) were relevant and discussed. For the last several years I have been on the other side, creating RFPs and evaluating responses from potential vendors. Writing RFPs well takes a ton of effort, and organizing the responses, which are all completely different, is a challenge.

I think this methodology could help. It's simpler for everyone involved, and can get the hard part out of the way sooner, so details and creative ideas can be discussed with a smaller group of vendors. I'll definitely give this process a try on my next RFP round.
That's why it's so cheap. Just building 80 homes could easily be $8 million dollars.
I'm still always wishing that there would be some really good way to manage my information/media consumption in a simple, centralized way. I find Pocket unsatisfactory. I'm talking particularly about books, videos (movies, youtube vids, netflix series, etc) and news articles online. My current system is ridiculously scattered.
It doesn't look like it works on mobile though.
They're getting rare (as they're torn down and rebuilt), but if you stop at a rest stop along the interstate and encounter a men's or women's restroom that has two entrances, that's one that was built during segregation, and it originally had a wall inside dividing it into white and colored sections.
What could Uber and Lyft be using OpenCV for?
There have been more practical, reliable, and proven (and savage for that matter) improvised weapons, traps, etc than anything in this article. Would you rather rely on the flame fougasse, and proven methods to draw someone into an ambush, or a jerry-rigged "weapon"? If you're fighting on the poorly-armed end of an asymmetrical fight, you do your best by embracing that, not trying to make field artillery from pipes.

IMO of course.
Hi! yes we have a regular encryption in our messages, but the thing is not about break or not the encryption... if someone wanna do it it can broke anything (iphone-fbi)

With tex we care about regular users that need secure conversation with friends and family... if you wanna tell a secret, something that bother you or whatever you talk with friends and family every day in person and maybe you dont want to tell them in a message because he will have your conversation always in his phone and can show anyone... or if the other people is with someone it can show it the conversation immediately....

So tex is a message app that give that privacy you have when you are talking face to face to another person... just the 2 know who they are... and all that you say... it disappears...
All the interesting cutlery has also already been made, but people still design new forks and knives. It would be pretty unpleasant if there were only two fork manufacturers in existence.
Probably he will like ;)
Just because one may be true does not make some other crazy claims true. And I see you failed to cite again when you went to your 9/11 conspiracy theory.
How are you going to steal something as large as a train? And how will you bring it all the way to China without getting seen? Dispatchers along the route would have to help you.
I like the idea of a word processor with many of the features we expect in text editors. I've figured out how to make Vim (+pandoc) do what I want, mostly, but I don't expect non-programmers to do that. Word completion, version control, better image integration than Word or Latex...
I thought it said explicitly not to do that in the same paragraph:

The Release Number SHALL NOT be decremented.

Which would break exactly this us case if you followed to a T.
Whenever this type of article appears, presenting a danger-hyping narrative of how anyone can make weapons using modern technology, I like to point out that 70 years ago Allied resistance fighters were able to manufacture good submachine guns [1] by the hundreds [2] while under heavy surveillance by ze Germans.

The Mark III Sten can apparently be built in just four hours in a typical machine shop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bror_With
"Unfortunate" is an interesting adjective to use. I think Derek Low is a despicable lowlife who deserves punitive retribution of some kind. What's "unfortunate" is that he continues to get away with this bullshit.
Switch to nuclear energy
You’ve all heard of Air Force One but what about “NightWatch”?
Apple really, really wants you to use iTunes for this. (Well, eventually, they decided that iTunes manages everything but books, so now we have iBooks, which doesn't even let you manage your own library.) In case you haven't used it, take my word for it that it's a disaster and you probably don't really want that.
These lists leave out some important frameworks these apps are built on. For example, Pinterest links AsyncDisplayKit. I'm curious how this data is collected. If Keyword matching against known popular public frameworks, it might be worth expanding your queries to include all public CocoaPods.
Books are so mid-age..
VR, AR, AI. Three two letter buzzwords. All of them have massive unexplored potential on the desktop.

> It's actually shocking how difficult I'm finding it to answer this question.

You are asking the wrong question, because you are looking at the existing market. You need to analyze trends, news and cutting edge science, have imagination, vision and forward thinking. That's obviously also hard, but it's not like looking for an empty field in the forest where you want to plant your trees.

You might find "Blue ocean strategy" a good book.
Awesome, good content, I won't feel bad when I plagiarize him.
They're all kept in one wing of the Library of Babel.
Nothing embarrassing about pooping in a toilet.
He's a plagiarist. Please don't link to him.
"nroff_b.exe" ?!? Did these guys really have to drag nroff into this?? Better look for an old-school Unix hacker.
Goodnight Moon combines very short length, repetitive format, relatively straight-forward subject matter choice, and a cross-cultural emotional goal. Maybe the book that would have been written wouldn't be word-for-word the same, but if there wasn't Goodnight Moon someone would have written something nearly indistinguishable.
Any space that lacks competitors is probably lacking competitors because there's no money in it, or because it takes a huge amount of work. The bar is high, but we're certainly not "done" with desktop software. For example, if you can create a text editor that's as snappy as Sublime and as extensible as Atom, you have my money.
Mille is sometimes used (eg, CPM is Clicks Per Mille/Thousand)
Printer! :D
Very odd to see this here. I had recently been Googling the writings of the late professor. He as a few lists like this out there.
Hahahaha yeah. I've tried a lot of different systems and tools and combinations, but I've never even gone near iTunes. I'm not sure why, I think I just have a subconscious intuition that it would be terrible.

Goodreads is surprisingly frustrating to use, I wonder why nobody's made a better version yet.
Mille is latin for 1000 and therefore the roman numeral for 1000 is `M`.
Yes, the south african bank will most likely be liable for this.

>I'm also a bit surprised the criminals carried their operation in Japan, It would have been easier in a more messy place e.g India / Africa ?

No, you'd want a location with lots of ATMs that have large amounts of money in them. In my experience India and Africa would both be particularly bad places for this. LE isn't a factor here, mules may get arrested but the perpetrators certainly don't care.
Funnily, Google [itself] has discountinued its "desktop search engine", which is a great pity, as there have been no decent alternatives and then, what do you do when you need to search, say, a document database, consisting of some .xlsx and .docx files (which are essentially compressed XML files, as I get it)?
It's a dependency of card.io/PayPal
Apps always serve the customers. When people used to buy apps, they were the customers. Now advertisers pay for apps, and people are the product. Economics are hugely important, as all behavior eventually will align with what is incentivized.
Pseudonymity is arguably the best whistleblower shield. Drake just outed poor administrative oversight, and he was ruined financially. Whistleblowers like Snowden and Manning are lucky to avoid torture and execution.
> You just have to look at some of the horrible software that he has worked on.

Can you give an example?
I am curious why you are asking the question this way. I would ask what are the most interesting new markets for software. Then you can see if desktop software seems a relevant part of the solution.
It's a feature :D
I don't doubt that that many complicated economic and political factors influenced things, but you're interpreting the fraud data wrong. The US credit card fraud rate as a fraction of transactions value is currently only double (~2.1 times) the EU rate, and only 1.5 times the UK rate:

http://www.paymentscardsandmobile.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

I am unable to find good data on fraud rates in Europe going back before chip-and-pin, but the system reduced fraud in the UK by ~60-70%, at least for face-to-face transactions:

http://blog.unibulmerchantservices.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

So the UK almost certainly had significantly higher fraud than the US before rolling out chip-and-pin. If
seliopou is right, then this was also true for France.

Let me know if you can find better Europe-wide data.
Credit card number scanning.
Seamless Phishing
Aside from the NSA, who would have a need to have 80 (likely very old) homes on a 122 acres on the middle of nowhere with an RF ban. Homes make the property worth less, not more. Demolition costs alone would likely be in the millions and quick search of comparable land prices in the area shows this is over priced.
I'm on your side, no doubt. You got my up vote, your parent got my down vote, and his parent got my pathetic attempt to up vote back into readability, because I think even poorly phrased references to academic concepts benefit the audience. I absolutely agree with you in principle.

With that said, that post about the "naturalistic fallacy" could just as easily been written "Your intuition is not an argument. What are you really saying about this?" There would have been no wall of text nor any deep explanation. It would have been strictly simpler and clearer.

But if he'd said that, I wouldn't have learned about the naturalistic fallacy, and that would have been a loss. The real problem on the internet is not ivory-tower eggheads, but techies who say the adult equivalent of "I don't like green beans" and expect that to be of general interest or benefit.
> You've confused 'identifying propaganda in action' with 'actively engaging in delivering propaganda'.

I do not think you are paid by the Chinese government to write these comments =)

If someone named Trevor argues that propaganda is an effective means of diplomacy, is Trevor part of the propaganda machine or not?

I would argue Trevor is part of that machine. A person can be part of an idea without being paid or asked to do it.

I believe you would argue that Trevor is not part of the machine. You would say Trevor is an outside observer and that he has no connections with it whatsoever. You might also say that I could be part of some machine of which I'm not aware, and I would accept that. I certainly am influenced by my environment.

> Taiwan isn't always recognised as a country. Thats not my opinion, it is the opinion of many countries.. including the UN

I said it's your opinion that China's propaganda helps its international influence. I did not mention Taiwan

It's fine that we disagree. Many nations do not recognize Taiwan as a country. That's a fact. It's also fact that Taiwan has its own directly elected government and does not pay taxes anywhere outside Taiwan. Both of these facts are educational.

I believe countries and the world benefit when all facts are shared. Chinese propaganda says that only some facts should be shared. Every time people outside China identify Chinese propaganda, it hurts China's stature internationally. Sure, plenty of people do business with China regardless. China could do heaps more business if it could stomach more facts once in awhile.
Relative to say, coal, Nuclear is anything but dangerous. The availability heuristic strikes again.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...

Nuclear is safe, affordable and the only alternative to non-renewables that doesn't require us to drastically reduce our energy usage. Because realistically, we all know that's just not going to happen.

Not to mention, throughout the 20th century, we in the first world reaped the benefits of readily available energy to drastically boost our living conditions. To deny that benefit to developing countries by restricting them to wind solar and hydro would be immoral.
This isn't shooting completely in the dark, and obviously there's clear motivation, but motivation, inspiration and engineering are still not theory.

Let me put it another way: that paper reads like a technical report or a paper in an experimental science. It does not all resemble a "normal" academic CS or math paper. That's fine, maybe that's the stage this discipline is at, but I was surprised to see that there's still no new theory since when I worked with NNs in the 90s.
Bing’s Share of the Search Market Is Growing Faster Than Google’s
Works here. Try http://i.imgur.com/mzDNngh.jpg .
Er, if they are transmitting data to a multicast IP address, what's to stop you doing the same?

If they haven't done a check on the IP address that they are receiving the data from, then it would now be trivial to panic people in elevators by recording a fake emergency broadcast.

Not jus that, but what else is that hooked up to? If they are multicasting to your IP address and your IP address isn't the lift, then you can do some IGMP snooping to see what else there is out there. Or you could do a DoS on the lifts to see what happens.

Of course, it might be nothing. But when I get in a lift, I'd hope this sort of thing wasn't possible.
Africa is becoming a testbed for commercial drone services
Chromebook and Android Apps = Trouble for Windows PCs
There are no analysts numbers that support what you said.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-watch-may-not-be-tick...

Metrics from article based on data from Slice
There was also the Sabre C interpreter, early releases of X11 and X10R4 came with the scripts to run it, it didn't do C++ though.
Wait, it's against the law for me to photograph someone entering my property?
I don't think all the interesting stuff has been written. But more importantly, I think a lot of the existing software is just terrible. Big old monsters that can be time consuming to learn, and which kinda lock you in for numerous reasons. Horribly inefficient cluttered user interfaces, with old paradigms that aren't necessarily a great way to interact with the computer... I think there's a lot of innovation to be made.

Money? That's harder, unfortunately. It's hard to innovate when people want to cling on to what they already know. Make an image processing & digital painting utility, and people would only complain that it's not photoshop. Make a word processor, people complain that it's not MS Office.
Can a mod change the title to use the amt listed in the first paragraph?

Current title: 120M stolen from 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japan in 2 hours

First paragraph of article:

>TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A total of 1.4 billion yen ($12.7 million) in cash has been stolen from some 1,400 automated teller machines in convenience stores across Japan in the space of two hours earlier this month, investigative sources said Sunday.

Suggested title: $12.7 million stolen from 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japan in 2 hours
I hope desktop software will make a comeback, because the current situation with web-based applications is ridiculous - you pay on a monthly basis, but at the same time it can disappear the next month and you'll be left with nothing. With desktop software at least you pay once and can use it forever - just because an app is old doesn't mean it's suddenly "bad", if it serves your purpose and you mastered it over the years than why should you change it every few years?
Ask HN: Have you ever lost your confidence?
Have you ever lost your confidence to to point you could no longer perform your professional duties?

If so how did you deal with it/overcome it?
Lol, that's a meta comment.
Augmented reality has potential on the desktop? It kind of depends on being able to move around and look at arbitrary things in arbitrary directions and places.
Hmmm. You can't assume the desirability of background video always correlates to use of a mobile OS. It correlates more strongly to related factors such as connection speed, battery vs AC power and CPU speed. My laptop tethered and away from mains probably doesn't want background video. A docked high-end tablet probably does.
And they wouldn't be happy if you told them about the updates in a different channel? I of course can only talk about my perspective, but nearly every time I encounter such a screen, I couldn't tell you if its contents were valuable or not, because I'm angrily smashing the screen to make it go away. If the prominent button on that screen took me to the app store, I'd be even more annoyed. Given that their ratings haven't tanked because of that it seems that this is a minority feeling, but a user should still be able to turn it off.