skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not actually true. You'll use the plywood because it's stronger and because it's not seen. You get both the cost savings and increased structural stability, which will get you more customers.
U forgot to add, "Awesome!!!" with a truly beautiful UI.
Well, their bias is quite obvious, isn't it?

IMO their articles get far too many upvotes around here. I actually flagged this article. Didn't seem to help much though.
Is there actually a scandal here? An extradition treaty would allow Sweden to remove criminals from Cambodia. Just because there is no treaty, that doesn't mean that Cambodia can't hand criminals over, does it?
I haven't read all of Making Software yet myself, but you would be interested in one of the first few chapters. I don't remember who wrote it offhand, but as I recall, in discussing the standards of evidence needed for software engineering the author concluded, and I am paraphrasing here, that hard numbers were difficult to get and came with many, many conditions; as a result anecdotes were likely the best you could do and were perfectly acceptable. (Was that enough disclaimers?)

You might be able to tell why I lost my enthusiasm for the book.
The Programming Ape (video)
Nasty gotcha: It's using the Allwinner A10 SoC, which is primarily aimed at running Android tablets. The documentation for the chipset is extremely limited, so trying to use it for applications outside the norm may be quite difficult.
Apparently it's an imgur URL?
Django debug toolbar?
Don't see a mention of it there, but by far the biggest thing that helped me (after getting a reasonable keyboard) was software that stopped me typing (AntiRSI for Mac, WorkRave for everything else).

It is by far the most annoying software imagineable, but saved my career, and is worth considering.
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Abuse? I think you may be stretching there…

A closer analogy is we do allow private property owners to decide what signs and other publicly visible items may be present on their property. Property owners are allowed to dictate who's allowed on premises. We also allow private organizations to decide who may join their organization. Stores are allowed to decide what products they retail. Private media are allowed to decide what they broadcast.

The App Store, for better or worse, is not a public good. I may not necessarily approve of some of Apple's decisions, but they have the right to make those decisions.

And no one's being abused. If you don't like it, leave. You're not being forced to support Apple in any way.
> It looks like the GPU on the RasPi is still more powerful, so the cheaper board might still be better for things like a media center application.

Has either of them actually good (foss) drivers? At least Mali400 has "limadriver" project going on, quick googling didn't find anything for raspi.

Overall I'd love that Allwinner A10 got more attention, it seems fairly popular chip in cheapo chinese tablets. Getting GNU/Linux instead of Android for those would be neat.
Another key fact is that "big data" is actually not that common, especially when it gets to the analysis stage.

The median job size at Microsoft and Yahoo is only 15GB. And 90% of Hadoop jobs at Facebook are under 100GB. Clearly you want to be able to crunch large log files, but in terms of day-to-day analysis the files are much smaller than that. (cite: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/163083/hotcbp12%20final.p...).

At Sense (http://www.senseplatform.com) most of the clients we work with are struggling not with the size of their data but with tricky modeling problems that don't fit into standard black boxes and with integrating analytics into actual production systems. Adopting something like Hadoop for these tasks is not very productive.
They've been building the product as they go, in fact they are a team on nReduce themselves. Give them a prod tomorrow after the demo day, they're normally quite responsive.
Github has so much raw talent on staff that such things are totally reasonable indulgences. Why would Kyle be happy working on it if it was going to be ugly. It's that drive for excellence that motivates the kind of people Github hires.

I think it would be a major management mistake to force (or even urge) someone like Kyle to do things half ass.
No, not yet (~30% share) but what you said it's not true. They cannot do "whatever they want." Eventually the Feds will start asking questions.
And even if it doesn't result in higher productivity, it would be a often a good thing to do, because it makes the developers' work more pleasant.
I joined in the hopes of getting feedback, but so far the site has just been broken. I can't figure out how to interact with startups, what each video is, uploading is broken, and the founders haven't been very responsive.

I hope things will get fixed, but the experience hasn't been great so far.
Mapping neurological disease
The standard "they're a private company/Android is an alternative" reply to this argument remains shortsighted. I'm an actor in the economy as well, and and I can apply non-monetary pressure (like editorials) just as well as Apple can (like advertising) to try to get a product that I want and a policy that I want in the same place. "Accepting it" leads to non-optimal solutions. We can disagree on what is optimal, of course.

However, the argument in this article is weak. It's not an argument to stop censoring apps, it's just saying, "continue blocking speech, except when its speech that I like". The author seems perfectly OK with some of Apple's other fairly arbitrary standards because the experience is OK so far.

All curation is "censoring". Being absolutist here isn't that insightful -- obviously there are degrees of censorship and a significant difference between "censoring" political apps and "censoring" malware -- but it is an important point to keep in mind.

Personally, I believe the answer is to allow side loading, trading a bit of pain (especially for security reasons) to allow determination on your own of what is acceptable to run on your device beyond the curated apps. At that point, the curated app store as a good thing becomes a much stronger argument for me, because everything that particular curator disagrees with is still available somewhere, even if it turns out I almost always agree with the curator.

At least (AFAIK) Apple has been less hard on the jailbreakers in the last few years.
The US auto industry _was_ restructured by the government and dealerships _were_ closed. The first link I found with numbers for both said that Chrysler closed 789 out of 3200 of its dealers and GM closed 2600 out of 6246 [1].

[1] http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/05/how-is-chrysler-close...
The power jack is labeled "DC5V@2A", but I doubt that the board would actually pull that much current as the SoC is commonly used in tablets.
Yep that's the one! Good to hear I'm not the only one who enjoys it.
This could transform 4chan as mobile and desktop clients are created. God I hate the web interface.
It's a really insulting bug report!
geosear.ch
There is, isn't there?

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

Google seems to attach an ics to all the cal events it sends out.
This is a good guide. While I have not yet had to contend with serious RSI (knock on wood), I have colleagues who have been plagued by it.

The Kinesis keyboards are very popular, and with cause. However do note that some have reported problems due to the lack of motion that is necessary when using one. Making good use of breaks to stretch and move is absolutely crucial.

For my part, my mild problems were in large part alleviated by switching to an upright mouse as well as a tenkeyless keyboard, reducing the distance the arm needs to travel to reach the mouse. The keyboard also happens to be superb (Filco mechanical), but it is not built or marketed as an ergonomic product.
The average American is barely getting by. Meanwhile, doctors, engineers, etc, are paying 20-25%. That's just non-sensical.
Imagine All of Your Worldly Possessions… in a Dumpster
It's honestly a shame that TF's propaganda has found a home here on HN.
Not really. The file clerks and assistants in question would have to do far more than simply "realize" that they can leak data.

They would have to magically acquire the expertise to leak it untraceably, to handle all the financial arrangements untraceably, and not get caught in any other ways. Meanwhile, the most powerful people in the world will be going after them.

This is already an extremely difficult proposition, and will only get more difficult with time.
Btw, BDTI Benchmark Results for the ARM Cortex-A8
http://www.bdti.com/Resources/BenchmarkResults/Processors/Co...
What is Magic?
Many people write books about magic and the invisible spirit world. There are more spirits than there are people on the earth. There is no ONE truth on this topic. What YOU believe IS magic because it will come true as you see it...
That's not the point Steve Jobs was making. The point is: if you care about what you do, you'll do your best even when you don't have to. Because as far as you're concerned you do have to.
I'm not saying they did, but it is possible thay they threatened to bomb them with buckets of blue paint if they didn't get him.

We currently don't know, and saying either way at this point doesn't mean much. We need some actual proof.

Or, in other words, you can pretty much make up anything and flag it as a possible reason. A common ploy in propaganda which causes the same affect, if you if add a disclaimer that 'we just don't know'
Will your body be the battery of the future?
90% of the 2nd/3rd tier arm market is like that, they certainly have their problems but they're almost all legitimate companies that deliver a product.
An "Ask HN" that's somewhat related:

Is Facebook doing something similar on Android? I have left an application update pending for weeks because Facebook requires access to Phone Calls, which allows the application to "determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like."

This does not sit well with me.
I don't trust google with anything like this. Go with companies that are committed and will not change pricing by 5-10x in couple of years like they did with app engine
Really I thought the UI was terrible. So terrible I stopped reading. I want to focus on content, not shit scrolling. Terrible.
I started making something like this with codemirror. It's got autocomplete too with ctrl+space

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22541447/motorboating-pirates/index....
This is what I got:

imgur.com/5k37g
Recent Java Update Contains New Flaw
Un-official What's App API for PHP and Python: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
hey sorry about that! can you email me again?
Agreed.

Also, some of the recent treatment modalities are genuinely revolutionary. For example, Gleevec (subsequently exposed problems aside) is pretty damn amazing. Obviously, new things are becoming possible because of a long-growing body of research. The question is whether we have reached the tipping point. As I said previously, I'm optimistic -- I think we have. That being said, cancer is fucking complex and even if we were at some tipping point, progress is measured in years and decades, not weeks as the breathless popsci articles always seem to imply.
Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480599
The single biggest (and maybe the only) difference between Game AI and Traditional AI is the optimisation function. TAI optimises for correctness, followed by efficiency, and GAI optimises for efficiency, followed by fun. The inapplicability of TAI solutions to GAI problems is because we (the games industry) don't have any kind of theoretical framework for even measuring fun, let alone optimising for it.

The state of the art is essentially a handful of ad-hoc models of how people experience games, how they improve and how they have fun (and why they stop having fun). Coupled with that, you have an enormous range of player skill - the lead designer of World of Warcraft estimated that the capability of player groups varied over several orders of magnitude (and he's a former academic professor, so probably speaking literally).

Someone in another reply stated that GAI was roughly passing a restricted Turing Test. That seems like a reasonable suggestion to make, but if it's true, then applying TAI frameworks to solve GAI issues is roughly the same difficulty as trying to create a non-Turing-test passing AI that can write a Turing-test-passing AI. It seems intractably difficult with the tools that we have available to us right now.
Put affordable 3D printing and thus production of small hardware enclosures in the hands of honest and open creative people (that excludes Apple). Let the electronic engineers design the boards, and the Asian factories mass produce them. But let honest creative people design and produce the enclosures.

There are so many more creative people out there who could contribute to how electronic gadgets look and feel but who can't because of the closed prototype-->offshore mass production pathway, which has not changed since the 1970's.

Everyone can see that continuing to rely on Apple as the sole source of creativity is not going to work.
Does anyone know if the Mali400 supports hardware acceleration with Google Chrome?

UPDATE: It'd be great if ran Chrome OS, too.
I think it is (I remembered the black bar too).

It seems to be there (but not updated):

https://github.com/fiveruns/fiveruns_tuneup
Or... date someone who can design her own website? ;)
by popular demand: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/50476194/bee_push_01.mov
Not really, per Bruce Hoffman (a Georgetown University professor that's an authority on the subject)

"Terrorism is ... violence - or, equally important, the threat of violence - used and directed in pursuit of, or in service of, a political aim."[1]

Certainly this is political, but I think it's a stretch to call releasing stolen tax returns violence.

[1] Hoffman, Bruce. _Inside Terrorism_. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Print.
Which agency are you at in Metro-Detroit if I may ask? I have friends in that area.

Sick site as well.
You could have said the same thing about Lotus Notes 15 years ago.

The email works fine, apart from the annoying thing where sometimes outlook doesn't include all the recipients properly as they're internal exchange users.
Ask HN: What are good OSX alternatives to iTunes?
Apple did not convince developers that censorship was 'cool,' they convinced developers that they could make more money in a marketplace with censorship. As soon as that stops being true, or the frustrations mount, developers will change their mind. The patent system is enshrined in law, and a far bigger problem.
Packets: UDP for Humans
I know that this is a hopeless request but can we stop using the word "censor" when we are really talking about curation, or editorial policy, or private business decisions, etc?

Government imposed restrictions on speech and/or commerce is something entirely different from plain old business decisions and it would be nice if we didn't conflate the two things by overloading the meaning of "censorship".
Physical abuse isn't the only kind... ok let's use a real legal concept: After an item has been sold, the former owner has no say in how the item is used by its new owner. But Apple locks iPhones to only install software from their app store, and then censors the app store. This effectively limits what users can do with their devices even though Apple no longer owns them. Apple can't put legal restrictions on users (although they did try to claim that jailbreaking was illegal), and I don't see any defense for their technological restrictions.
skype and viber also need your imei to function. the skype example is particularly interesting since it's complementary to the username + password we already have.
Indeed. Interestingly they do mention Ubuntu quite prominently on their front page, so I guess they have managed to get it to run?

edit: Some people at least are managing to run Ubuntu on a similar hardware, so I guess it'll work. http://liliputing.com/2012/07/linux-distributions-that-can-r...
yes... a 100mb/s NAS...
What kinds of questions will Federal Agents be asking Apple? What kinds of illegal activity are you insinuating Apple has perpetrated?

(edit: Disclaimer I previously assumed was unnecessary: Apple can't "do whatever they want", you are correct. For instance, if Tim Cook killed a hooker, that would be bad.)
Totally normal. You're not lazy. You just haven't learned how to overcome your own experience yet. Beginners have the advantage of not knowing what pain they're creating for themselves down the road.

The solution is simple: just dive in head first. Do the simplest and fastest thing possible. Get something working. Don't worry about extensibility or maintainability that much. Make a mess and then clean it up.

Some of the most successful software in the world was terrible in its first versions. Embarrassingly bad.

Also: just use Shopify for this, at least until you've got your own version working.
I absolutely love Miracle Jones' writing (http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/), but thought this story was fairly lackluster.

Definitely check out "Fear Boys With Dolls" (http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/2010/07/fear-boys-with-doll...) and "Mutamate" (http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/2012/03/mutamate-i-decided-...).
Amazon Prime Video gets Avengers, Netflix Doesn't
Plenty of tools get by being ugly, but that's not the point. Github is killing it right now, and they're killing it by having a very well designed product that developers really like to use.

Thinking of your (team's) effort as a zero sum equation can get you in to trouble. Yes, you only have limited time and effort, but on the flip side, all the time you spend doing something, you're training. By building ugly things, you're training yourself to build... well... ugly things.
I'm glad you included the mind. It is so often forgotten, very often the most by people who suffer from RSI, who prefer to acknowledge physical problems over mental problems. After all, a physical problem is something hat's broken and can be fixed. A mental problem is, like, that you're nuts! Right? Well, of course not, but it still feels that way.

More anecdotal evidence here: I believe that many cases of RSI are in fact simply the first manifestations of a burnout. Not all, I bet, but many. If your RSI may be stress related, consider this possibility and discuss it with your doctor.
Also all of the generic comments on the buy page(http://cubieboard.org/buy/). Most of which are asking "Please keep me updated when its available for shipping." and getting the response "ok, we will inform you when ready to ship." Seems likely the Q and A were posted by the same person to give the illusion of popularity.
From your post, it seems like you didn't contact WhatsApp before publishing this post. What was your reasoning for going public with this vulnerability before at least trying to contact them and giving them a chance to resolve the issue?
it's called reverse engineering though. it's much easier to use reverse ios code than that weirdass dex format though imho
Podio launches iPad app
It actually is ASCII data (byte == binary_btc_amount * 256), spelling the string 'http://i.imgur.com/5k6Rf.png.

This PNG image is a QR code, which decodes to the string '01101000011101000111010001110000001110100010111100101111011010010010111001101001
01101101011001110111010101110010001011100110001101101111011011010010111101101001' (newline added for layout, not actually present).

This, in turn, is a binary ASCII encoding of the string 'http://i.imgur.com/i. But that's a 404 page, so this whole thing seems a bit futile.

FWIW, the PNG file coincides exactly with the one generated by http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ for the binary string.
I wonder why this one was down voted?
Think about the timing, releasing this during DNC.

Think about the nature of the alleged hack, so unprecedented. Think about the random process, this has never happened before.

All these combined and hearing alleged doggy practice of Karl rove in the past can leade you to conclude the shady motivations behind this
Hmmm, that was called irony.
Github is generally pretty nippy for me, and it's a pleasure to work with.

Just 2 performance concerns I've noticed:

1. The network graph https://github.com/<username>/<repo>/network seems very sluggish to render

2. The API is slower than normal for HTTPS

Usage: $> time curl -i https://<site>/
For comparison (2nd request's):

* https://www.googleapis.com/ 187ms

* https://graph.facebook.com/ 175ms

* https://api.github.com/ 400-700ms

Not sure if anyone else noticed this
Edoome, a chilean based educational social platform
There already were plenty of ("native") mobile and desktop clients, although they worked by parsing HTML.
I have recently tried to pay attention to the ergonomics of my computer using habits. I have invested time and money on hardware, software, practice and exercise. All of which have paid off but the overall effect has been greater than the sum of the parts.

On the hardware side, I invested on a quality 27" screen that is at a good height w.r.t. head position. I use it with my laptop and my desktop computers. I also got myself a nice, more expensive keyboard, although I'm not quite sure it's the one I want to stick with.

On software, I invested time on finding an ergonomic keyboard-only user experience. I can live without the mouse but I need the keyboard for programming so the choice was obvious. I have almost completely changed the software (desktop, editor, browser, terminal) I use, but I did it gradually, one software at a time.

Regarding practice, I actually spent time practicing typing. I normally use qwerty-fi layout (the least ergonomic of all layouts) but I learned more ergonomic typing with the dvorak layout. I haven't used it before or a lot since, but I spent about a month doing dvorak exercises almost daily and in the end I wrote some boring documents with dvorak.

Finally, exercise. I play the guitar, which makes excellent exercise for the muscles in your fingers, palms, wrists and all the way up to the elbow. The bad thing about guitar playing is that it's asymmetric. I don't always play something musical, sometimes it's just geometric patterns when I'm watching the TV. Piano playing must be good too. Practice instensely until you can feel like your muscles have been exercising, and do stretching and mobility exercises in the end and remember to rest afterwards. (I like fast metal guitar so to build up speed and strength I do my exercise drills until my hand hurts like after gym all the way up to my elbow when doing strength training).
Forward: Crowd funding a software platform
An Open Letter to Bruce Willis
I find myself saying this a lot, but the Github guys do really cool work and whenever I see something new from them, I just want to get home and code.
Not exactly -- the founder in the story is a fictional man named Tom.

The author, Miracle Jones, has a website with a number of bizarre, but well-written short stories:

http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/
I don't like the simultaneous Q&A. I wanted to watch all the teams. It's an 8 ring circus. Of course, I don't like going to conferences that offer multiple tracks, either.
This is interesting. Would surely give it a try and integrate with our app
Coach's Eye Sports Video Analysis App
What worked for me (after numerous issues):

- using Divvy and Alfred on the Mac (reduce the mouse)

- switching the mouse (left/right hand) when it starts to hurt a bit

- yoga once a week

- making sure I'm properly seated
Sadly read-only, though it's not much work parsing the HTML and faking a submit through a Post request. Good luck submitting a 4chan app to Apple's app store though :)