skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know, they don't emulate Xbox 360 games on Xbox One, they port and compile it for the new console, creating entirely new binaries. Not much emulation going on there. Correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_360_games_compati...
"Unlike the emulation of original Xbox games on the Xbox 360, the Xbox One does not require game modification, since it emulates an exact replica of its predecessor's environment – both hardware and software operating systems."

I stand corrected.
That was the association we were looking for :) As people that have nothing to do with perl .pm for us is short from "project management" and also we like how short our domain is.
Ocean Cleanup machine to start removing plastic in 2018
Ask HN: How do you make sure your business-critical software flows work?
Hi HN, we’re a group of senior university students looking into common practices used in the software industry, and we’re hoping to get some insight from people with experience in the field.

1) How do you make sure your business-critical application flows (e.g. user sign in, payments and revenue streams) work in the software you write?

2) What are the biggest issues you deal with when making sure these flows work?

3) How do you typically find out when something breaks?

Thanks for your input!
Ask HN: What is your base-salary in San Francisco Bay Area in 2017?
What is your base-salary in San Francisco Bay Area in 2017 and how many years of experience do you have?
Yeah. Well. When can I get a PC version of fable 2 then ? :-(
That's incorrect and based on an analysis that lumps all sales and general expenses into "marketing".

Also, companies don't market unless it brings in more revenue than it costs (positive ROI). Thus, marketing pays for itself. They wouldn't do it otherwise.
Chinese click farm
> The point of modern RSA is that we use a modulus that can't be factored by any conceivable computer, with limits derived from the physics of computation and projected far out into the future.

I'm sure you know about quantum computers. So what am I missing here? Surely they are a conceivable computer with a practical realization some decades away.
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They make a very good Android emulator as well.
Ask HN: Best GitHub commit status checks?
I'm curious to hear what status check integrations people are using on GitHub pull requests?
Yes. Chinese to English is still awful.
Strategically interesting because, up to now, the Dalvik bytecode runtime and the subsequent pre-compiling ART runtimes were the best way to do ISA-independent application environments. Apple's fat binaries got in early enough in their (smaller) developer community for Apple to avoid being tied to an ISA. Microsoft was handcuffed to an x86 legacy boat anchor. But now they have escaped, and those other approaches are less of an advantage.
Some future advanced features will be available only to the paid plans. Right now everything is available to everyone. Main restriction in place is the number of allowed users on a free project. (3)
I would imagine xamarin is faster when you have a complicated domain.
The same is happening on UW. Not as much.
I assume that reflexive allows for differences in connection strength, where symmetric implies equal connections on both sides.

So to speak.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum
5. How do they solve the problem that x86 has a much stronger memory model than ARM, which makes emulation of multithreaded x86 code pretty hard without introducing a huge performance disadvantage?
EU demands talks with US over possible airline laptop ban
willyoudidyou.com looks like an awesome project!
Just like Trello, but for Gmail
Puzzles Collector, 0.18.3 released
I think it's rolling out slowly.
Dexy: The Most Powerful, Flexible Documentation Tool Ever
Parsey McParseface
To start things off, these are the ones I use daily:

- CircleCI for CI build status

- Coveralls for unit test coverage

- Assertible for integration tests status

For example: http://i.imgur.com/ZrKUK3t.png

Any new ones I should check out?
First sentence:

> The fact that the fingerprint sensors on smartphones are not quite as secure as the manufacturers want us to believe, has already emerged with the first iPhone with this feature.

Ok, a bit awkward

> The technique has improved since then, the methods to crack it but also turn.

Uh, what?

> And not with the means of the analog, but the digital world - via machine learning and an artificial intelligence.

I agree that if you're scanning, you might not realize that you're reading a translation, but it's very obvious to me if I slow down and actually read it.
Yes, that's you :) Enjoying the life (coffee) while your team is super optimized because they use Ora
It looks completely broken on Chrome 58 / Linux.
According to the App Store guidelines, applications can't download code, and must use the built-in Javascript interpreter for Javascript execution (those are the two rules in the App Store review guidelines that are relevant to the execution of downloaded code).

In practice, though, Apple has generally accepted applications that pass user-supplied code to an interpreter, as long as that code is actually user-generated: see Pythonista (embedded Python interpreter), Continuous (embedded .NET CIL interpreter, akin to what Xamarin's doing here with Live Player), Ruby for iOS, etc.

You won't find any compiled languages (which compile down into native machine code) in the App Store, though; even ignoring the review process, there are technical restrictions in place in sandboxed iOS apps that prohibit applications from running arbitrary code.
Because you don't need a license to sell books or vacations but you need one to drive a taxi? Don't worry, the taxi business will definitely change after this.
Are they right in this case? I see the previous 70 years (1877-1947) as having more fundamental change than the last 70. It's hard to top electricity, automobiles, aircraft, penicillin, vaccinations, refrigeration, radio, tv, QM & Relativity as fundamentally transformative. Also, two world wars transforming the political map and doing away with the dynastic empires of the past.

If you define the singularity as being unable to predict the future, then I would say that period of time would have been less predictable than any other time in human history.
What about 2-factor auth or sms two factor auth or access to your gmail client?
Is that project lifetime total users, or daily active users ? Each daily active user is worth ca 1 USD/month ... Just put up a banner like "your ad here ? Contact your@email.com" And write in big letters on the front page how many users are using the program right now. Then call some news papers with a cool story about how you made a program that is used by 100k people, and talk about the DIY movement or whatever.
Hey guys, you can transform your Gmail into organized Task Lists. Drag’s free Task List app turns your inbox into a manageable workspace (just like Trello, but for Gmail).

I'd really appreciate people's opinions on this Chrome extension.
What's interesting thinking about history, would Webvan and Pets.com fall under "no demand", "too soon", or just tried to do too much given the timing? Now we have services that are similar, for instance chewy.com is the modern version of of Pets.com.
Without addressing the validity of patents or the appropriateness of NPE suits, which is being covered elsehwere in the thread...

Are "legal fees" that much more expensive than the cost of actually doing the legal work required?

A lot of companies have in-house lawyers, what's the difference between a NPE with in-house laywers to file patent suits, and a law firm that acquires patents to file patent suits? Or even, the difference between that and an NPE hiring an outside law firm which charges a very low margin (possibly with a contingency fee as well)?
Is this stuff less prevalent in other fields? In tech, you never realistically need to worry about money or losing your job (as it is so easy to find another) - most people don't have this comfort. IMO tech is an excellent career. Just don't become a big spender so that you have to work till your sixties.
And here's a bit of info on it: Drag ‘n drop your emails between stages; To Do, Doing and Done until their complete. It makes the hours spent in your inbox a whole lot easier and more organized.

We use a layout called ‘Kanban’ right inside Gmail. You’ll know it from tools such as Trello or Pipedrive Kanban is a way of managing tasks in a lean way, it allows you to visually map your workflow –we’re the first to bring this to Gmail.
Right. Url changed from https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https....

Submitters: Please don't post Google translate links.
Microsoft is one of the few companies that really grok Systems Software right now.
That's a good point. Thanks!
Okay. And while I appreciate you have your reasons for your decision to pick an OS based on your use cases and hardware...

Why did you bring this comment here? Is your hope to convince other people, or to reaffirm your decision to yourself?

It seems off topic.
> I never put a password on my phone before the fingerprint reader. The apps that I care about protecting have password functionality built-in.

What email client and web browser do you use that protect access via a password?
Does this mean that Windows 10 (not Windows 10 IoT Core) will also come to Raspberry Pi 3?
That's what people said when Obama was first running.
Does the new update fix it working with Windows Firewall? So far it was all or nothing, you could not block any processes seperately that were running within the subsystem. I assume that has not changed?
There's nothing in that description that indicates the Slack app is written using Xamarin. From that link:

"Slack's friendly, easy to use messaging platform is the future of work. Given its preeminence in the enterprise and among mobile workforces, mobile is critical to Slack’s success. Over three million daily users rely on Slack to communicate with their teams, and Xamarin Test Cloud helps Slack make sure customers are productive in all scenarios. Its mobile quality engineers view test reports to see how features look and behave on devices — and can quickly solve customer issues."

Sounds like they just use Xamarin Test Cloud.

Here's a list of decent looking Xamarin apps:

- BitWarden (it's made the rounds recently on HN)[1]

- Microsoft Pix [2]

- A bunch of games that look pretty slick (I've downloaded a few and flipped through some of the screens) [3]

[1] https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile

[2] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/microsoftpix...

[3] https://www.xamarin.com/customers/gaming
In context, I think it (that specific bit) is fairly easy to follow:

The technique has improved since then, the methods to crack it but also turn. The eternal cat and mouse game between team blue and team red.

So, apparently the first sentence means that the technique has improved since then, but so have the methods trying to crack it.

Though, to be fair, I have no clue what rumgeilt means and that was apparently just not translated at all.
I think that's a common sentiment. Sadly the argument is often in terms of would you subject others (terrorists, drug dealers, etc) to this treatment.
Especially Yahweh
Value is socially constructed by people wanting things for complex, dynamic reasons -- it is entirely dependent on the context, which is never static. My understanding is that the concept of "intrinsic value" is flawed and leads people astray. Gold has strong money like properties [0], which is why it has remained valuable for so long (ornamental and industrial usage are a small fraction). Bitcoin has all of these properties as well (perhaps with minor caveats about fungibility), plus some of the very interesting benefits that come from being digital. Being digital brings a few negatives as well, but it seems the positives more than compensate.

There are other considerations -- gold is found in the ground and has limited alternatives (platinum and silver, for example), while anyone can create their own cryptocurrency. It appears to me that the huge network effects, first mover advantage, and the principle of "well, it's good enough" are very important dynamics that counteract the near infinite possible competitors.

[0] Recognizable, durable, fungible/uniform, and very hard to counterfeit. Two other big ones are portability and divisibility, which it's alright at.
The audience of this motion graphics demo reel is budget wielding managment types who desperately want to cloak their company in "young and hip".
Most patents are probably not valid, and most patents used in licensing offers / threats are probably not strong enough to avoid being invalidated or found not infringed if litigated, but the would-be licensor / troll counts on the threatened party to settle rather than pay millions of dollars for litigation.

While there aren't any easy tactical solutions and a policy fix is a dim hope, we should be able to at least partly solve the problem by training an AI to do automated and thorough prior art search and analysis relevant to a patent, so a lot of the legwork of a patent litigation threat becomes orders of magnitude faster and cheaper, and it becomes vastly easier and less intimidating for a trolling target to respond to a patent threat like this, and quickly get their focus and resources back to developing their technology. Software eats patent attorneys, and reduces the burden of patents on the technology community.

(disclaimers: I am a patent attorney and I'm currently working full-time on coding a patent search & analysis AI service, this is not legal advice, etc.)
Sorry, I meant "conceivable conventional computer" but forgot the extra word (I'd used it elsewhere on the thread).

If this was some crazy undocumented advance in quantum computing, I'd have written a different comment. But it's not: it's high end conventional computing, which absent some fundamental break in the integer factorization problem (in which case that break would be the story, not the supercomputer) isn't going to make a dent in RSA.

(I'm a QC skeptic, for what it's worth.)
Sun's later workstations looked super cool, too. I've got a red Sun Blade 1500; won't boot (blown caps on motherboard), but I keep it around because it looks badass.
Samsung has a dock like this for the S8 apparently.

https://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-dex-dock/preview/
myfitnesspal or similar - track what you eat then learn to make trade off's like a sweet at 100cal vs 200cal
Someone send really long email with typos from a "private" email was that you? If so thank you! I think we fixed all typos.
I didn't realize either but I had a very hard time following what was being explained and assumed it was just poorly written.
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/play-xbox-360...

> Xbox 360 games run within an emulator on Xbox One, which means you'll be able to use most features from both systems while playing games, such as screenshots, broadcasting, and Game DVR.
Step on a scale daily at the same time in your routine, preferably one that tracks your weight. I have a year of daily data now, which I think is helpful for me to see progress.
Most dynamic emulators don't do instruction by instruction emulation - they take in a whole block of instructions and translate that block, caching chunks that may be used without any inference (eg. branching). Once you hit a similar instruction block you don't have to do any translation; just execute from the cache. This is why you have a load time for reading from an x86 image.
It's pretty good at European languages, but still terrible at Arabic and Japanese. The system still has a very shallow understanding of the content. One of my primarily Arabic-speaking colleagues was actually offended by Google Translate butchering their language so badly; their culture places a relatively high value on poetry, calligraphy, etc.

As an exercise, try translating your search queries into Arabic before searching. Then, let Google translate the results for you. It is hilarious.
> What's wrong is that life and health should be a right to everybody, not just to those who can buy it out.

I am unable to see how life and health can be right without justifying force and violence. If someone needs a Kidney and if it is a right then it must be forcibly taken from someone else without that you can not call it a right.
Those were the companies I was referring to. I apologize if my sarcasm wasn't clear.
Yeah, AFL is an incredibly useful bit of work - I ran OpenJPEG through it and a number of reasonably actionable bug reports for the maintainers after a few hours. That class of tool used to be a LOT noisier.
every interview with a wingsuit flyer i've seen has them mention a few friends or even a partner who died doing it
Prefer counting as well. At the end of the day weight loss is bound by thermodynamics. All diets are just hacks to help subconsciously tip the balance. May as well cut directly to the root and just count.

Health is a different story and more subject to what is actually consumed.
I thought the Enterprise edition had none of these problems. Might be worth grabbing that instead?
You know, not everyone uses gmail.
Given the recent unpleasantness with the Intel ME, I imagine there'd be a ready audience on HN for anything that makes alternate architectures more practical.
I own STARTUPDEADPOOL.COM and would love to contribute the domain and my engineering time. How do I get in touch?
Where can I download it? Latency on Bluestacks is awful.
Awesome, looking forward to seeing Keybase grow through mobile.
This is cool and it's always smart to check past implementations like this. As long as you learn why the failed not that the idea is impossible. VR is a good example; I didn't see any companies on that list but many gave up on VR because it was too early to be possible until a few years ago. Another good example is digital currency.

Also; you can learn from a comp like Clinkle which should def be added to the list
Maybe they want to run it on a Windows app.
Thanks for bringing that up. We should change the rules to allow that.
Lots of good advice here regarding diet and meal tracking with MyFitnessPal.

One thing I'd like to add which doesn't get nearly enough attention is _periodization_. If you go on an extended caloric deficit your body will adapt and lower your metabolic rate which result is a small deficit for a given intake and commensurately lower energy levels and activity.

So, my advice is to go on a caloric deficit for _at most_ 3 months then do 3 months of maintenance where you're in caloric balance, then go back to a deficit.

Also, weigh yourself every day, ideally at the same time (for me, its right after I go to the bathroom when I wake up). There's a lot of interday and intraday variance (i've have 7# swings in a single day) so any single measurement isn't important but the moving average is critical.

Furthermore, if you are in a deconditioned state (not having exercised in a while) and you pick up weight training or crossfit, you will likely gain weight in the beginning. Thats OK! Gaining muscle will significant improve everything you want to improve (looks, energy, mood, etc) but not be reflected on the scale.
I remember when Apple supported PPC emulation of applications when they made the switch to Intel x86 for a major OS release cycle. I was impressed that the speed there was, in fact, near native enough that the transition was essentially completely seamless.

Although this is somewhat of the reverse in architectures, going from CISCy to RISCy.

The only thing that concerns em about recent Microsoft developments is that they seem very keen to move their OSes into more of a walled garden like iOS and the Mac App Store, and extract 30% from every third party application transaction. They could use one of these sorts of transitions as an opportunity to advance that business strategy further.
From the NYT article.

> The researchers did not test their approach with real phones, and other security experts said the match rate would be significantly lower in real-life conditions. Still, the findings raise troubling questions about the effectiveness of fingerprint security on smartphones.

I wonder what the actual impact/severity is.
You would have really cool behaviour.

+ Not going through glass (although humans do not always exceed in that themselves)

+ Going through a fly door curtain

+ Going through smoke

+ Not going through a mosquito net.

+ Not going through a fountain.

+ Pushing through soft objects.

+ Pushing a half open door.
It's probably because they can use the in-group primitives of the field to construct internally-consistent conclusions that are obviously false or silly to both casual observers and people who try to reproduce them systematically
Sometimes ideas don't work but then they do. Or vice-versa, sadly.
It's for designers, right? That's what I assumed.
While on one hand I agree that yes, touch is a major component in how people interact with computers, I feel like we are being dragged down to the lowest common denominator of user interface.

I cannot think of legitimate business case to implement the Metro UI/touch interfaces on servers.
Show HN: A browser extension that notifies you about new messages using LEDs
what i love about myfitnesspal is how it helps with overall nutrition. it reminds about fats, sodium, carbohydrates, etc.
> "Dr. Memon said their findings indicated that if you could somehow create a magic glove with a MasterPrint on each finger, you could get into 40 to 50 percent of iPhones within the five tries allowed before the phone demands the numeric password, known as a personal identification number."

I don't understand how this is possible at all. I've always assumed that each fingerprint is essentially turned into a hash, and that there must be something like at least 10,000+ possible hashes. I mean, I used to belong to a gym that used a fingerprint reader for entry, and it correctly identified me (flashing my name) from the other 1,000+ members each time.

So as long as the hash space is reasonably large, it doesn't matter what these 5 magic imprints are, they still each convert to just 1 hash, no different from any other fingerprints.

Am I missing some critical aspect here to explain how "master prints" are even plausible -- how they could possibly act as "wildcards" for large swathes of hashes?