skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always the potential for misunderstanding. The world's a wide place, and there'll always be the exception that proves the rule. We'll get early stories about situations that blow up bigger than they should've, and then things will settle into a new normal (whatever that turns out to mean).
if you sum jabber+icq+yahoo+msn+etc.. you get probably 5 users. :(
Just noting that many answers here are of the type "an aggregator for x" to unify something (news, messaging, sports data, storage across devices, ...).

Perhaps interesting would be to find these themes that make good idea-builders.
You can check out what bird does. This Python script showed me that the Whatsapp desktop app was consuming a couple of gig:
https://github.com/bwesterb/blame-bird/blob/master/blame-bir...
Genuine Portable Nuclear Battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densitie...
> European Union ministers today admitted that a giant EU-US trade deal is dead in its current form, with drastic change needed to salvage any hope of a deal going ahead.

The devil, as always, is in the fine print - a cynic might read that to mean "TTIP has gotten such a bad reputation we would rather wait a few more years so the public forgets all about it, then try again."

In fact, I am tempted to quote Lovecraft here, except that a few years hardly count as "eternal".
I've started moving away from reddit for any kind of actual discussion about technical topics. It's just so... Toxic.

I don't know if it's just my point of view changing, or if it's gotten worse over the last few years, but when I see a thread there later, the top comments are always negative, dismissive, and so full of bullshit.

Just look at the recent Lenovo issue, HN had some good discussion on on what could be the actual causes and how to fix some of these problems (and why MS isn't entirely off the hook there), but reddit was just full of "Microsoft loves Linux!" Jokes and whichunting with very little to go on.
An operating system which would run all modern games and be good enough for development such like the Linux is (i.e. being posix compliant-ish and have all the open source tools helps).
I think open source MS Windows with all the spyware removed would be nice.
https://github.com/aperezdc/notmuch-addrlookup-c
This is a cool idea. Could we use github repos as the training data?
There's no config file for default options. You probably want to add an alias to your bash/zsh/fishrc:

alias ag='ag -s'

I tend to favor aliases over config files. It reduces complexity and improves startup time. Startup time may not seem like a big deal, but it really matters if you're running something like:

find . -ctime 2 -exec ag blah

(Find all files modified in the past two days and search them for instances of "blah".) If 10,000 files were changed in the past two days, and your search program takes 10 milliseconds to parse a config file, that's an extra 100 seconds wasted.
Or just get a plastic bottle and craft a small cover to stop the rain getting on it. Mine is angled slightly downwards and is covered (the license plate part and camera are recessed into the body a few cm), so when it rains it's not an issue.
Right. So I imagine the OP would like a reliable service and not have to keep playing whack-a-mole chasing unauthorised sources.

A lot of the 10ft apps available on e.g. Amazon Fire TV etc fall short here too - I don't want to keep selecting the next 3 min clip, just instantly play me a curated stream.

Mark Cuban had good thoughts on TV vs VOD many years ago e.g.
http://blogmaverick.com/2010/10/26/the-value-of-your-time-an...

The issue is not technical, its the usual problem with audio/video content and vested interests - regional locks, contracts, existing cash cows etc etc. Tough for a startup to negotiate deals against Eddy Cue, I see the solution coming from the big tech Cos...
https://www.reactos.org/
Also, in the now famous introductory presentation of the iPhone, Jobs even spoofed the audience that there were 3 products he was about to release, spinning them all into 1 item.
RAID isn't dead yet.

* outboard RAID provides write amplification across physical devices

* soft RAID1 (simple mirror) is nice for things like boot volumes and easy to fix when it breaks

But yeah, ZFS and similar strategies work much better than soft RAID-5/6 for file store resiliency across visible LUNs.
Do you suggest that all billion dollar companies have been already founded and there's nothing new which can be done? I find such way of thinking harmful.
It also supports anything that pidgin supports, which gives you WhatsApp, Telegram etc.
Who is this app. You take a picture of a person and app looks through your fb and LinkedIn contacts and gives you short description if you know this person and their interests.
First of all the Ecrypt project is is really outdated. Second you're reading the table wrong. Curve25519 gives you 128 bit of symmetric security, but the curve is 255 bit long. So from your table this compares to 3248 RSA.
Third I'm no fan of such key number tables, it's a bit arbitrary and doesn't really reflect the complexities of modern cryptography.
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What is that speculation based on? Why wouldn't Google want more browsers to be able to Cast?

My opinion: I feel like this is a pro-user move with an unfortunate side effect of breaking/unsupporting an extension. If I just want to cast to my TV why should I have to hunt for an extension. I'd rather it "just work" via a context menu in the browser.
Something that kills proprietary feed algorithms on popular social websites, and lets you browse data chronogically
Yeah, there's hope.
Update your android resssource or code without reinstalling apk
"Sports (and events) Netflix/live streaming"

The issue here is rights.

The rights to this content are very tightly controlled, it's very expensive, and contracts are allocated usually in the billions.

It would take a startup literally with billions to 'out bid' some entity for right to a sport, and then make it available.

FYI - if you subscribe to ESPN etc. for cable, I believe they actually do have streaming available, but since I'm in Canada, I can't say for sure.

It's not a technology issue, it's a value-chain issue.

A lot of entertainment markets are kind of screwed up because of this - and how arcane some of the systems are.
A service that provides a URL for a song. Right now if I write a tweet or a blog post that links to a song there is at least a 10% chance (even if to is an official post by the artist) that a few weeks from now the URL will be bad.

Some official service that the label can update when it decides to change it's "official streaming partner" would be great.

Perhaps it can be done without the cooperating of the artists/label. There are only some 100 million songs out there.
2048 bit is fine.

It's probably not secure for a hundred years because of quantum computers. But none of the currently supported algs in openssh protects against quantum computers, therefore there's nothing you can do against it right now.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox_tweaks is worth skimming
That doesn't really answer my question. I've seen this flame war before and am not really interested in fighting it again, hence my asking whether it comes up a lot in Haiku-land.
Related analysis of TiSA, Sep 20, https://edri.org/tisa-leaks-set-alarm-bells-ringing/

"Despite the rumours and assertions by several Member States that TTIP is dead, the fight for safeguarding citizens’ rights and freedoms via so-called “trade agreements” is far from over ... Greenpeace Netherlands has released another batch of crucial and worrying documents ... EU privacy and data protection standards are endangered and diminished in 6 out of the 9 analysed documents ... Exceptions for “essential security interests” are a Damocles sword over every single part of the agreement ... TiSA can limit the access and transfer of software source code."
Apart from helping with better code practices may I know what other areas of expertise one can hire you for? Genuine question. Oh and all the best by the ways.
Sounds easy in theory but the machine would need to figure out how to sort any kind of clothing and may require a lot of space.

How about restricting only to dress shirts and having an automated inflatable dummy that uses steam to "iron" from inside out?
Apache Allura is more than just for software
> I imagine Oracle's argument isn't "if there was no Android", rather "Google is so economically interested in Android existing, that they would have paid us a license for the API copyright".

More likely they would have just not used the API, as Apple has done this whole time.
Yeah it was working before with the Google cast extension on Chromium.
That's good to know—thanks! Also good to hear that there are modern browsers available for Haiku :) I think I'll try it out on my old netbook.
A robot to clean my bathroom, clean the floors, tidy up, do my laundry.
I would argue for a logical and in there. Cocaine makes life more enjoyable for almost everyone, but it's hardly life enriching.
Snapchat unveils $130 connected sunglasses and rebrands as Snap, Inc
You are misunderstanding. Curve25519 offers 128 bits of symmetric security, or the equivalent of a 256 bit elliptic curve key.
Get a thinkpad
And it worked, now didn't it? History is written by the victors.

Anyways, all sides in WWII that were able to bombed the crap out of civilian centers when they were given the chance to do so. That's what total war means.

If any other nation had had nukes, you can bet your ass they would've used them--because in such a war you have no choice other than full mobilization of your warmaking abilities or surrender.
At least in Germany I'd be careful to use your project because a declined applicant could sue the company for age discrimination [1].

EDIT: I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I just would think about rephrasing the wording on your website e.g that you are looking for "geeks with at least 15 years of experience". IANAL but I guess that could be ok from legal view.

[1] http://www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/Download...
After weeks of Microsoft bouncing every mail our server sent to any of their mail properties (due to, I guess, some history on the IP before we owned it), I have begun to doubt the premise that no one owns email. The major providers can make your mail server useless to 20%, or more, of email recipients. That's a pretty big club to wield. (I understand why a mail provider would block, and I've instituted IP-based blocks on my own mail servers in the past. It's just that email is such a mess, and there's not a good way to solve it.)

But, I would love it if RSS made a huge comeback. Twitter, facebook, Instagram, etc., I'd love it if I didn't have to open any of them, but could still follow my friends posts. There's no technical reason for them to be walled gardens, only business reasons, which are at odds with my privacy and general happiness.
The sun is subject of the same effect. When the sun is low on the horizont it may some times look big, and even huge. Making a picture with a camera of it shows only a small dot which is disapointing.

Another data is that the percieved diameter vary from day to day when looking at the moon or sun from the smae spot. This excludes a psychological or perspective effect.

The last relevant experimental data is that when the moon or sun appear big and when you look at them through a small hole, they appear small again. It works also when looking through a small hole made whith your fist.

My idea is that this effect is due to the combination of two factors. The first one is strong humidity gradients of the air which can vary from day to day. Living at the sea border, these gradients may have bigger amplitudes. The same magnifying effect can be experienced when looking at the same mountains on a long period.

I once saw a big low depth aquarium (20cmx1.5m). I could see the back of it through the water or by looking just above it. There was a huge magnifying effect when looking through the water giving the impression that the things in the back were much closer and bigger then they really were. The effect was still visible with only one eye open but with a slightly smaller magnitude. Looking through a small hole I made with my fist, the magnification nearly disapeared.

The second factor is due to the eye apperture and how our brain process Input information. The exact mechanism is still unclear. This would explain that cameras don't see the effect or that it vanishes when looking through a small hole.

I suspect that our eye and/or brain is able to restore focus of images by deconvolution to compensate out of focus images due to big apperture which we need in low light. Our eye doesn't work exactly like a camera. It has a powergul image processing unit behind the captor. The wide opening of our pupil would allow to capture light of the moon from a much larger surface than a conventional camera. And this would make our eye more subject to magnifying effect resulting from humid air refraction.

looking though a small hole reduces the surface (apperture angle) of our pupil and reduces the effect.

This idea should be tested. The first test should be to verify the correlation of humidity gradient of the air with the magnifying effect. This could be done in a lab. the second test should verify the correlation of pupil apperture with the magnifying effect. Changing the ambient light in combination of a fixed but significant humidity gradient should do the trick.

The fact that not everybody see the magnification effect could be due to varing pupil apperture.
Not yet. I believe they will be using AWS to serve Australia and/or Brazil. That or offer completely new service built on AWS, given $400m contract. Heroku runs on AWS, but its hardly integrated with SFDC.
There is one argument to be made in favor of large key RSA when it comes to quantum computers: ECC may fall a bit earlier. There can be a situation where it's feasible to produce a quantum computer large enough to tackle a 255 bit ECC key, but not a 4096 RSA key. I have heard from (a few) cryptographers that this is a reason to stick with "old school" DH/RSA crypto.

I discussed this with various people involved in the postquantum debate and the general feedback I got was that this is likely not a big issue, because once quantum computers can be scaled it'll probably not be that hard to scale them up to RSA-breaking size. I think DJB once said something like "this will buy you a year" to me.
How to change the world while you sleep
Which performance aspects of the FJ40 aren't addressed by modern 4WDs?

Is it just nostalgia? Or do you genuinely want a car that has readily removable doors and windscreen?
so this may be real: http://atmotube.com/atmotube_user_manual.pdf

If every urban commuter biker had this w/ phone+gps app, the dataset over time would become very interesting on many levels. Think local governments, real estate, state tranpo authorities etc.
Would you pay for it?
Go Green. Go Red. Go Japan
I think this is brilliant. Even the press details seem perfectly crafted, with one article referencing Evan's "supermodel girlfriend."

Snapchat can win here based on brand alone. The hardware features are a plus, but they're going to sell a lifestyle. Think GoPro + Versace. Commenters here are caught up in the tech. It's not the tech. Get a few celebrities in these, people will buy them and barely use the recording features. They're cheaper than Ray-Bans and I bet you and half of your friends own a pair of those.

Snapchat can assemble an AR powerhouse from the ground up with brand goodwill. Evan and his team have figured out the best market strategy to do so. Google is not "cool" and could never attempt to pull this off.

I have tremendous respect for Evan Spiegel right now. Bold move. Amazingly positioned. I wish them the best of luck. Dare I say, it has the scent of Jobs to it - the vision, the risk ("we make sunglasses now!") and definitely the "cool-factor." Don't misinterpret - this isn't the iPhone, not yet anyway, but I think they're on to something very big.
It's good to see language communities/committees taking steps to improve UX.

That said, since we're all using this to announce our idiosyncratic package managers, I use Nix.
Maybe not so technical but as a curious person i feel i collect so many articles in instapaper but never take the time to reread them.

I do read though, mostly offline. Books, newspapers and articles. My focus is better offline.

Combining data mining and my offline focus, it would be great if you could make a tool that categorizes my instapaper articles and converts it to theme numbers (big data, health care, artificial intelligence, food, etc) that can be downloaded in pdf.

Would be so cool! Thanks for asking the question.
An aerial personal transportation vehicle.
The name escapes me for a moment but they're already working on a new secret deal. (Since 2012, so that's why they're so easily letting go of TTIP.)
I disagree. It's better because the marketing doesn't suggest that it's anything more than a toy. There's no expectation that you're going to reorient your lifestyle around the Spectacles, but it was implied that you would be filming your entire life 24/7 with Google Glass.

As a productivity device it's weak, but as a toy it looks pretty fun and I'm amazed at the sea of people screaming about what a stupid idea it is and how it'll never catch on. If I had disposable income I could certainly see myself buying one and playing with it.
People build these kind of projects on Kickstarter with far less than 1.8 billion though
SystemTap: simplify gathering information about a running Linux system
Or better yet link to another article without advertising modals and auto playing videos.
Game: Something between overthrown.io and ingress.

Even greater would be if battles had to be waged in real-life like sports events.
Snapchat has a lot of cool tech for video augmentation (Lenses: https://support.snapchat.com/en-US/a/lenses1).

If they simply live stream the video from the glasses to the phone and do the same augmentation, I think that counts as AR.
Why not just use an alias?

alias keygen="ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C ''"
> There's no technical reason for them to be walled gardens, only business reasons, which are at odds with my privacy and general happiness.

Then pay them! Hosting fees are not gratis.
I used to be an organic chemist. These fake marijuana substitutes are pretty horrific: unscrupulous vendors read the scientific literature for newly developed cannabinoid receptor activating chemicals. These are then sold, without proper testing in humans usually.

The side effect profile of these compounds is worse than natural cannabis, with high incidence of psychotic symptoms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_cannabinoids

Edit: i completely overlooked rpedroso's substantially identical reply, haha...
>It's awkward to pull out a phone and start taking video when you're in a club

From my perspective, that's a feature not a problem. It's obvious what you're doing, and of you try to photograph something really inappropriate, I can always slap the phone out of your hand. With snapchat (or google glass) style specs, I essentially need to attack your face to stop you filming, a far more aggressive action. I'd love to be able to bank on people knowing when not to film, but theres always one shitbag at every emergancy callout trying to get a really gnarly shot of someone elses broken arm so they can get dank internet points from their friends.
> "Thunderbird" as a chrome application

https://nylas.com/

https://github.com/nylas/n1
Don't worry, patches will now be released at the end of every week to fix the bugs.
Like this? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-...
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Ah, sorry, I completely misunderstood.
One would need the entire dataset from the social website for this and that's not something any platform would ever make public.
Indeed , there is no screen like Glass had. This is just a camera strapped on a frame.
Just remove their commit rights or fork the project.
This is a ridiculous product... reminds me of the classic upper management/CEO "ideas". You know the kind: obsolete, neglects societal concerns (security???), nobody around to tell them it's a bad idea.

> (Why make this product, with its attendant risks, and why now? “Because it’s fun,” he says with another laugh.)

Sometimes you can look at something and just KNOW that there is not a chance that pile of junk is gonna gain traction.
But you're supposed to be looking forward and not on your phone.
I would like a vi for spreadsheets. It should run in the terminal, and be able to read/save csv/xls/xlsx/ods files. It should understand formulas. I should let me navigate with vi-style keys, and have a separate mode for editing a cell's contents (with escape to go back to navigation mode). It should perform well even for very large documents (many rows or many columns, but especially many rows). I propose that it be called `vc`. :-)
I wouldn't be so sure (and very similar laws apply in the US and many other countries). The explicitly ask people to

> Write something to encourage older applicants without discriminating against younger ones

It's not so different from encouraging women to apply which is commonly found.

But obviously people could still sue and maybe you wouldn't want to fight that battle.
I am kind of dissapointed that posts about "good practices" dumbly enumerating those like SRP and DRY without adding any value get here a lot of upvotes. Where this paper stating why we should use best practices has like 10 points. You can also infer from it why you somethimes should not use "good practices".
That was the other thing people told me. I was never sure which was most accurate reason.
Chronolapse: Easily create and publish your owntime-lapse or stop-motion videos
If you resell stolen property, the police will take it from whoever ends up in possession of it and then everyone who bought it will each in turn end up looking to their seller for a refund. But that analogy doesn't fit at all.

It's more like what happens if someone steals a bike and while riding around on it sees a billboard which leads to profit for the advertiser. Are you saying the advertiser now owes the bike owner something?
Something that classifies all my open tabs (or articles saved for later) by similarity.

Edit: or PDF files!
a) That's the general problem. If you are being encapsulated by the algorithm, there is no way out of the bubble so it doesn't help at the end that they use collaborative filtering, because majority of people ends up watching the same things.

b) They chose the metric that made the most business sense. That's why if you spend 6 months working on your video and somebody else produces one video a day, you'll never show up anywhere close to top of the suggested videos.

c) Agree. Amazon has one of the better ones, but it's still terrible.

You hit the nail on its head with your assumption. This is in general Google's approach. But even with deep learning, the system is heavily biased, intentionally.
Goofy but clever. The kind of thing that might be a hit with a certain youthful demographic. And you need to be "cool" to pull something like this off - i.e. not Google.