skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When preroll website ads go from annoying to aggressive
I'm now feeling lucky that the OSHUG meeting last night, where the topic was drones, didn't get raided - http://oshug.org/event/20
With audio fingerprinting the content provider must provide a way to fingerprint its own audio and have access to fingerprints of the internet's audio/video. This means a partnership between e.g. youtube and a studio. I'm fairly sure this involves studios above a certain size, resources for programming+API and a fair bit of paperwork and testing for robustness as there are ways to mess with the technique.

With this technique you just enter a few words and look at what comes out.

You're suggesting that the first option is easier?
Sorry, I don't think the chaps over at Luminous Landscape take very good pictures. I can't remember a single picture by them that I have been OMGWOW.

Instead, I think LL tends to pander more to the pixelpeeping crowd. Just my opinion. There are much better sources to learn to take better pictures.
The problem with ClojureCLR is not the platform (that's 100% the same as Clojure on JVM) it's the tooling and lack of libs.

So instead of using DataOutputStream, you have to use BinaryOutputStream.

Clojure doesn't wrap much, so that means very little code written for one VM runs on the other. Plus you don't have lein, which is a bit problem tooling-wise
Are you sure about the subdomain thing? I hear conflicting opinions on that. Thought google actually evened it out.
I guess now I know where comcast has been spending my subscription fees. Apparently on very expensive lawyers. Now if comcast would only upgrade there service so American broadband would be more comparable to Sweden or Japan.
Since you manage to survive using shared host, your proberly dont need a "best" host as most of the host ( VPS ) will be good enough for you.

Check out Linode or Dediserve.
That's valid advice, if you want your blog to feel like techcrunch-quality crap. You could also, you know, take the time to write content that stands on its own and not try to use your blog as a way to shove marketing down our throats. Massive share widgets need to die.
I just want people to know there are avenues to help, and that core developers and many others aren't blind to the mistake, missteps and other things wrong.

I'm exhausted by the vitriol; I'd ignore a bug report (and have) that described things as idiotic, and there are avenues for people to help chime in and guide the future.

Nothing is unfixable.
The Worst Rose I Ever Seen..
It's crazy how the whole movie plot driven security industry has been able to associate naked electronics with bomb making. A friend was commenting last night that the bare PCB of the Raspberry Pi could be seen as dangerous/threatening, and I was speculating about how much trouble I'd get in if I tried to take Arduino based home made toys on a flight.
Looks very convenient. Are their any plans for other language support (in particular on the client side). Ruby and PHP client libraries would be useful.
Didn't facebook largely reimplement php, though?
Are corporations built in to Eve, or did players choose that model of organization because it was familiar and preferred to them?
I think the best way to start developing for iOS is trough Objective-C (especially if you already know C).

Otherwise I agree with what you said about starting with a small application.
Not too much, tbh. It's less Jonah Lehrer, "why smart people are dumb" stuff and more of a historical look at the transmission of information throughout history.

Chapters discuss, among other things, English dictionaries, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, the telegraph, and memes. Great read.

EDIT: saw that you're bored of reading business and tech books. This is definitely a breath of fresh air--it unquestionably falls in a different category than "Switch" or "Rework."
There is no difference if the consequence of failing to meet the demand is the demander not buying, or not doing business anymore. It is just stating the conditions for continued relationship ahead of time, and providing an alternative course of action. How harshly would the bank be judged if they simply dissociated and gave the blogger no option to adjust?

The fact that the blogger is continuing to blog as he sees fit counters any objectively verifiable assertion that censorship was involved.

I believe the term censorship is best left for those situation when a state agency (which one might be able to argue many large banks are anymore) demands changes or cessation of communication under pain (or threat) of fine, imprisonment, or death.
I'm willing to put a few K$ towards the cause of starting an antitrust inquiry against Microsoft for this (and the related ARM landgrab).

Any lawyer (or otherwise knowledgeable non-armchair HNers) knows how I can go about that?

Given that the EU and China antitrust authorities also need to okay things these days, I believe that the we should bring the legal fight to MS, rather than receive the technical battle and fight it on our turf.
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OP makes excellent points. The point is that starting a business is not a risk but it has costs.

However, there is one big risk. It is health insurance. Because it is really hard to put sticker price when insurance company tells you that you are 'uninsurable'.
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We are running a Hybrid infrastructure. We use Rackspace and our own hosted servers at our office.

We are also bootstrapping this thing. At the beginning we thought creating and setting up our own servers (Google-style) was the way to go. We started at our office, but eventually just got to big for us to support.

We are only 4 people in the company, and we have other things to do than to manage all the servers. So we started using Rackspace.

Let me tell you cost-wise, it is not that different. We still had to pay for a good network pipe, and also cooling for the servers. So electricity was also expensive.

It is not a bad idea to host your own servers. It works fine at the beginning, with time it just gets too hard to scale without a team of people dedicated to that, and while bootstrapping that is though.

Using a provider has worked great for us, and I think it was a great choice to use a Cloud provider instead of fully hosting on-site.
I did high school math and science contests en route to becoming an engineer. Should Eve become a respected venue for youth to show prowess as future titans of business and finance?
Google's interactive doodle in celebration of Alan Turing's 100th birthday
Solar power will bring us from a Type I society to Type II... eventually
Usually, yes. The two places I find myself using a count on h or l are 1) in nonce key bindings, and 2) when there's a lot of instances of what I want to jump to near the start of a long word, followed by a gap without the character, followed by where I want to jump. If I'm faced with www.wikipedia.com/something/wouldyouchangethis it's simple to say 10lfwcw - if I'm off by 5 in either direction it doesn't matter and ballparking like that is easy.
"The power of structural regexps combined with proper Undo/Redo is also great - rather than pipe something through sed or awk, I'll often iteratively build up an expression or set of expressions that perform some particular one-off transformation, rewinding and retrying as necessary."

It would be interesting to see examples of this.
>We want open source because we want control of what run on our machines

>That standard goes against it.

>Why not have a per machine signature that you sign your code against?

And the Microsoft UEFI rules for getting a Windows 8 Logo REQUIRES UEFI setup to provide to a physically present user the option to turn off secure boot and add/delete your own keys.

How many times has this to be repeated to the same seasoned and regular commentators on this site and many others in similar stories from the past few months?

Is there a problem with communication here? Or is it intentional misunderstanding with an aim to spread FUD?

Sorry for the outburst, but I am really lost here with the same people making the same 50 silly wrong comments many, many times over and over again about UEFI secure boot. It's like they just see the headline like 'Red Hat to pay MS for booting Linux' and don't care or bother to read Microsoft's, Red Hat's and Ubuntu's take before spouting off in the comments about evil lockdown.
Kochan seems OK.

I've seen the Objective-C book from The Big Nerd Ranch and 50% of the book is about basic C. This is not appealing to me, obviously if you know nothing about C (or you have limited experience) this could be a good match for you.
I have a single password that I use to sign into a bunch of sites that don't require any real information about me associated to my throwaway/spam email acct, that I wouldn't care if it got hacked.

I also have my important passwords for which I use a combination of letters, numbers and special characters which consists of my base password. I then add another string to the end such as a word or zip code, which I rotate every 2-3 weeks depending on where I login and whether or not I feel that connection is secure.

Haven't gotten hacked, yet... we'll see.
I was very impressed on learning that Turing proved that a turing machine could compute any computable number... but then I started to wonder how one could prove such a thing. It seemed you'd need a definition of "computable" and a definition of "turing machine" and then show its equivalence. But how could you define what was "computable", and show it was true? That's the nub of the problem and it seemed impossible to me. Eventually I read his paper, and it turns out he thought so too:

9. The extent of the computable numbers.
No attempt has yet been made to show that the “computable” numbers include all
numbers which would naturally be regarded as computable. All arguments which can be
given are bound to be, fundamentally, appeals to intuition, and for this reason
rather unsatisfactory mathematically.

On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/ieg/e-library/sources/...
Not us. Currently we are working unfunded, so the cost to purchase the hardware and upgrade our home internet service to be reliable enough to support a business server was too high. You would also have to worry about fault tolerance yourself, so then purchasing backup hardware (drives, machine) yourself (and preferably storing offsite) then factors in.

In the end, we went with Amazon Web Services while we build our prototype, etc. I spent an evening getting things set up initially on it (still more to learn), but they have a free usage tier now so there was/is no cost to keep our site there until our usage justifies it. Hopefully by then we'll be making money and can cover the cost.
Yes. Not only easier, but more reliable. The examples you gave are perfectly static sound bits - they don't change. It doesn't make sense to transcribe them to text, just match the audio. Soundhound/Shazam/etc do this easily. I'm pretty sure YouTube has some kind of similar mechanism already in place.

This technology gets a lot more interesting if you want to search for people talking about you or your products.
Broadband is only getting roughly 10% faster per year, so it doesn't really make sense that this would be a universal law. At the very least it's unlikely to continue over the next 5 - 10 years since broadband saturation is already pretty good in the US.
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Ask HN: help/advice with marketing a physical product?
I and my co-founders are working on a side project called AutoMicroFarm [0]. AutoMicroFarm is solar panels for your food: an automated farm system that enables gardeners to grow 90% of their food with a system that replaces time, effort, and agricultural expertise with design, technology, and software. We have a pretty good idea about how to develop and iterate our prototypes (we are following WikiSpeed’s/OSE’s Extreme Manufacture model [1]), and we know with a strong degree of certainty about what we want.

However, I keep reading entrepreneurship advice to begin marketing before starting to build the product, to make what (presumably many) people want, etc. We are following the “running lean” book [2] to clarify the top three problems our product is solving, and we have a list of interested people who gave us their emails/twitters to interview, as well as some other thought leaders in this space whom we would like to interview.

My problem is that I don’t feel I have a firm grasp on asking these people the right questions. The questions I really want answered are:

* Are you interested in producing the vast majority (up to 90%) of your own food if it was convenient?

* If so, are you willing to spend a few hours a week doing it? (I assume that if the person is a gardener, he is already putting in at least a few hours a week into the garden).

* Are you willing to pay one to two years’ worth of groceries for it (since that is how long it takes to pay for itself)? This would come out to $1600-$3200 per adult.

* Is the open-source aspect of the product appealing to you? Will you be tinkering with and modifying the system to your advantage, or just using it according to instructions?

Somehow, I don’t think just asking those questions to the people I’m interviewing point-blank will yield honest answers we’re looking for. How to best approach this customer need discovery/affirmation? If the problem interview is not a good customer discovery/marketing tool for physical products, what is a better process to find out if we AutoMicroFarmers are building something many people want, and not just us?

[0] http://automicrofarm.com

[1] http://www.wikispeed.com/the-process

[2] http://www.runningleanhq.com
I disagree. Blog is great marketing tool. "Inbound Marketing" is the word.

All your other efforts have an expiry date, like link building is not permanent. Tweets expiry and vanish.

Blog and its content stays just like your website.

With Blogs you are announcing, educating and engaging all-in-one.
>He was not forced to do anything

By that standard, nothing short of cutting your tongue off would be an infringement of your freedom of speech. Under the Sedition Act of 1918, nobody was "forced" to do anything; they were just imprisoned if they said bad things about the government.
To go where no Internet Explorer has gone before
Here's what happens next:

1. Drones become more and more popular as kids/hackers toys

2. Eventually a drone is used in a real terrorist plot

3. Our politicians over react and ban drones

4. We all write tweets and blogs about what clueless morons our politicians are because the whole thing has been widely understood since (before?) Scott Adams wrote 'The Religion War'

5. Drones don't get unbanned for use outside of police/law enforcement because of whining from the hacker community
It would be nice if the protocol was published. I understand it's just msgpack and zeromq, but exception handling and message ID's escape me until I dig into the source (or finding the wire format on the pycon notes). I could definitely see myself (or someone else) creating a compatible, low-level C implementation of both a server and a client.
Just beginning to - acme-sac, mostly on windows.

A potentially useful link: https://code.google.com/r/jasoncatena-acmesac/
Yeah, I kind of thought it was funny he missed that too...our entire body operates on electric impulses.
I'm not arguing that unstickered hardware solves anything, I'm arguing that it is hard to construe the sticker program as anti-competitive. As long as the stickered hardware can boot anything, then it is a reach to say that it is harming anyone (I don't find the confusion and unnecessary difficulty arguments very compelling, people that have difficulty twiddling the bios are going to run into problems anyway).

I don't understand the details of the option rom stuff, but my superficial impression is that no other entity is particularly motivated to run a meaningful program for signing such code. And it's still an open question if Microsoft can run such a program and have it end up meaning anything.
Ruby alternative - RubyMotion
C# alternative - MonoTouch

That being said, I still think Objective-C is the way to go if you are an individual developer. For a company with a large .NET base of coders for e.g. makes more sense to use MonoTouch.
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He might be referring to blue brain, though I recall that simulated 100k neurons from the neocortex (not quite half a mouse brain). The thing is that they simulated the physical processes in the synapses and more for a more accurate representation, so it's actually a lot cooler than it sounds!

Here's a link I googled up: http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/cms/lang/en/pid/56882
Paying your dues
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I've watched the first three lessons and looks promising, but if you don't already Objective-C it will became quickly problematic to follow the course.
but they aren't finished with it yet. so why should it be recommended? that's irresponsible.
I dont see anything
Editor for the DRAKON visual language used in the Soviet space program
Yeah, I think this is a big part of it. The mobile ecosystem has evolved in such a way that locked-down devices are the standard, and content providers have had a lot to do with that (apparently B&N's decision to lock down the Nook Tablet after having released the super-hackable Nook Color was made almost entirely at Netflix's insistence). I'm certainly a lot more annoyed at MS over their ARM positions than their x86 ones, but this attitude predates their entry into the sector.
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Water-powered vehicles? WTF?
Corporations are built into EVE, as are alliances.
There's probably no point correcting comments posted online. I think it's most polite to correctly spell or construct a sentence in the comment without directly pointing out the error.

Correct spelling and grammar is not pedantry. If you don't bother with spelling and grammar your readers may think you uneducated, lazy, not able think and communicate with precision. Especially in a technical field you don't want to be perceived as a sloppy thinker. When I see misspelled words followed by (sp?) I wonder why the author was too lazy to open a browser tab and Google the suspect word -- it's so easy to look up a word when you have a computer with an Internet connection in front of you. When I see grammar errors I wonder if the writer finished elementary school.

Writers struggling with English because it's not their first language should be cut some slack unless they ask for help.

Many times in my career I've seen résumés and proposals tossed aside because of spelling or grammar errors, especially in cover letters. If I notice errors on a web page my scam alarm goes off (except for "FAQ's," which I've given up on). The little things do matter.
From, http://9to5mac.com/2012/06/22/facebook-recruits-apples-ui-de...

As for Weeldryer’s work at Apple, he certainly worked on at least iWeb as he is listed as an inventor on several Apple Inc filed patents including iWeb for iPad, multi-touch and gesture related inventions, as well as a number of security related patents. His LinkedIn lists his specialties as: Industrial Design, Interaction Design, User Interface Design.
Very skeptical about this -- mostly because not only is the connector different, but the headphone jack has moved from the top of the phone to the bottom.
It's such a grief that there is no ruby support yet. It would help a lot with our current project where we have site written in ruby/rails and backend services in python. We currently use Redis a broker between the two. At the same we've been looking at zeromq as a possible and simpler alternative.

Can developers share some info about their current roadmap? What languages will be supported next?
I've never been to Detroit, what's wrong with it? Is it as bad as the media makes it out to be? I hear of murders and vacant swaths of previously bustling areas. How much truth is there to this?
You, and the rest of the universe, as your body and everything else disintegrated into various neutrally-charged subatomic particles, the universe becoming a black expanse of floating nuclei.

I think that part of suspending your scientific beliefs means assuming that only the power grid failed, not the entirety of electromagnetics, and relevant physical laws.
I just created my website.
It certainly lacks experimental evidence, but then again so does all other speculation about the future. That doesn't that it's illegitimate, just that it isn't scientific. On the other hand a lot of the terminology and discussion around "The Singularity" does tend to be confused, and I think that we might all be better off if we stopped using that term.

I should also point out that you're exagerating the link between the idea and science fiction authors. Campbell was a science fiction author (well mostly an editor but close enough) and Vinge was too, though Vinge was also a CS professor. The people I'd associate with the other schools of thought aren't science fiction authors, though.
We'll be working on that today.
There is no business advantages at using Python/Rails over PHP. (and vice versa)

You should only use the technology that suits your company the best (in terms of needs and knowledge -never EVER start a company based on a tech you don't understand or know)
Two people with master's degrees bumped into each other on the street.

One's dissertation was "Preparation of Substituted Enol Derivatives From Terminal Alkynes and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Nigricanoside A."

The other's was "An Investigation Into the Appeal of LOLcats."

"Hi, I have a master's degree," said the one.

"Hi, so do I," said the other.

Guess who punched who in the face.
Why not white (or pink or brown) noise?
Vinge is a retired math professor, I.J. Good was an accomplished mathematician, Kurzweil makes hard to swallow predictions but is still an accomplished technologist and I happen to very much enjoy Vinge's writing. Regardless, the idea is worth considering independent of who is saying it.

I am also sure you know that words - such as variety and polymorphism - have different context specific meanings. Singularity in this case as in the kind of thing you can find on a variety but not on a manifold.

The idea of infinite recursive Moore's law fueled intelligence explosions leading to super human intellects by 2030 is something I assign a low probability to. I don't find it hard to believe that there is some point in the future - say 2131 - such that if anyone alive today or previously were transported there, they would never be able to understand what was going on and everyone from that time would think circles around them.
>> * Are you willing to pay one to two years’ worth of groceries for it (since that is how long it takes to pay for itself)? This would come out to $1600-$3200 per adult.

This is a poor positioning for something which does not check the "Calories" box on your prospects mental inventories but rather something which checks the "Moral obligation" box. (My feelings on the wisdom of that to the contrary, people do not garden to save money on food, they garden to demonstrate that they are better than people who save money on food.)
I think you'll be fine.

Friend of mine had a kind home-made led flashlight (small PCB and gangly wires). Friend was pulled aside for questioning and demonstrated its 'torch' capability and then let go thru. The delay was about 20 minutes though. It is silly, but if they've not studied any (even basic breadboarding) electronics, then anything out of the ordinary like that will look 'weird' and arouse caution.
Boiled water, rather
As a fan of Microsoft I'm just glad the media finally isn't brushing off everything as "Something was released not by Apple, it is crap".