skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but imagine you can use it at the grocery store or a restaurant. Also, PayPal has a questionable reputation, so I wouldn't want to rely on them for all my day-to-day transactions.
Aren't these a requirement for any Russian auto insurance?
great idea - this is how I can fill out offers for things and get the freebies and never be overcharged!
I remember once as a kid trying to setup a sprinkler to ice a hill at ~(-15c/5f). I spent around 45 minutes puttering around out there in what was soon a wet shirt and long pants. I would then warm up for a while inside and then try again.

PS: Next day, I wanted to try again, but the hose ended up freasing that night. I remember my Mom being less than pleased with the idea I did not want to ware a jacket because it was just going to get wet.
Not to mention another instance of technology that will interfere with people's abilities to drive. Remember the epidemic of people texting while driving. Now imagine a device that allows you to do that, as well as surf the web, read the reviews of the movie/restaurant you're going to, check sports scores and stock prices, etc. all at the tip of your tongue, and not made illegal to do so while driving, yet.
You may already know this, but the "Game Mode" on modern TVs is just turning off the 120Hz/240Hz interpolation that is done to "improve" the picture (or is required for certain 3D systems to work).

The interpolation introduces significant latency that its obvious (and frustrating) during gaming.

I actually run my TV in game mode by default, because the interpolation done in 120/240Hz mode makes everything look like it is slightly unreal and shot on video. Definitely uncanny valley territory.
I've seen Common Lisp start to make a great comeback in the past few years. I started programming in it seriously about a year and half ago, and since then the packaging system (quicklisp) and libraries for it are maturing very rapidly. A lot of people are making useful libraries for practical purposes.

A lot of people say the language's timing was off. I couldn't agree more. However, it's starting to get a second chance. There are several open-source implementations that compile to machine code and/or support threading/networking/etc. Deployment is essentially free. For every feature that an implementation has that's not in the standard, there's a library that creates a standard, cross-implementation interface for it (for instance threading and the "bordeaux-threads" library).

The language is screaming fast, extremely expressive and powerful (insert mandatory macro hype here), and becoming "standardized" all over again via its libraries. I use it (Clozure CL) in production and haven't ever had an issue.
I grew up in Oregon, and did a lot of riding in weather like that. With proper gear, you stay dry and warm about an hour, and then you start getting wet and cold anyway, because with enough rain, it seeps through pretty much anything. 5 degrees C and rain is way worse than snow and -5C for staying outdoors for long periods of time.
My favorite tool in this vein—and one of my favorite examples of an essentially perfect one-page web app—is Rubular (http://rubular.com/).
Why is KG being used as a unit of pressure?

500 KG applied over 1 mm^2 is a VERY different amount of pressure from 500 KG applied over 1 m^2.
Missouri joins Nebraska: Drones go to j-school
clickable: http://routehq.com
I really think the wearable glasses format is doomed. Its just clunky and lacks style.

I was just watching a video of Sony's newest smartwatch and how it integrated with Android. I could see myself wearing that. Glass? Probably not. I'm not even someone who is into fashion. I just want crap on my face and, my god, it looks super dorky.
I specifically said "1000 linked lists" with an unknown amount of nodes in each.

"Just keep four cursors" - why four and not N? This involves rather ugly and not quite portable/"scalable" code (different processors can issue different amounts of outstanding memory requests). For a large N, you run out of register names for variables, and register renaming only gets you so far.

There are cases when ILP is easier to express than TLP and there are the opposite cases; it's not "just as easy" - in many cases one is much easier than the other. Having to keep multiple cursors is the perfect example when TLP is easier; consider the fact that different lists have different lengths, which a load balancing scheduler can take care of nicely without any programming effort and your single-threaded version will have trouble with.
Actually, I think privacy concerns could be alleviated by something like this. It's just so much information, getting anything useful is like taking a sip from a fire hose.

Imagine your hypothetical break in is in downtown Manhattan. Do you really expect law enforcement to sift through video data of the hundreds of thousands of people who fit that profile? How would they know if someone's feed was missing? Basically, there's so much noise, the signal effectively gets lost.

Granted, big data applications could be brought to bear on the problem, but then it's the same cat and mouse game criminals and police have been playing forever.
I disagree that the technology is currently dangerous as very few people would opt to allow the government to view their video feed. It is as you say - something right out of 1984 - and most people would recognize that and not give permission.

Unless the video is uploaded without the user's knowledge, I think we do not have to worry about government usage of these cameras.
AOL deploys 56-kbps standard (1998)
This needs an about section to show who is behind the service.
> I think the first successful VR you'll see will be closer to an arcade machine than a home console.

I was just thinking about this. My development rig has 2 27" screens. If I added a 3rd one, this would cover most of my field of view horizontally. What if someone sold a console rig packaged with 3 screen and a mount? (Work with IKEA to produce a compatible cheap desk.) This kind of thing is already done and is awesome for vehicular games. (Racing, tank, aircraft...) A 3 screen rig also could still strike a kid as "awesome," so would draw money from the wallets of parents.

Or, for arcade-type settings, how about a seat with a projected 360 dome, HOTAS controls, and motion simulation?
There are instances of people stealing babies out of maternity wards. Sometimes this people just want to steal the baby just to raise it as their own. They want a child, and the easiest way seems to be stealing someone else's for whatever reason (e.g. maybe they are infertile).
Not really. Go comes with code rewriting tools, unsurprisingly since they were used to update the standard library and 3rd party code when the language changed before Go 1.

I don't want to use a language that doesn't come with a parser in the standard library anymore.
I've been a beta user of Streem, and how fast my videos are ready to view is pretty incredible. Other services I've tried easily take an hour to transcode, but Streem gets it done in a few minutes. Really excited to see more folks using it.
It doesn't look like this site was built with Weblocks :-)
If performance does not matter, I would prefer Django. I tried to find more comfortable framework as Django, but, unfortunately, not found. If you plan to go big and fast grow, with more than 20 people, I would prefer to use compile safe and strong typed language. Play2? Read play's mailing list - there a lot of problems and limitations. But it's depends on your needs. If you are not a linux (or mac) geek (as I), take a look on C# and .net.
No, it's not phishing.
Exactly!

Ideally, human rights should include ...

1. The free movement of ideas

2. The free movement of capital

3. The free movement of goods & services

4. The free movement of labor

Right?
Harlem Shake till you break - viral video roundup
I bet he likes it, now users don't even have to submit anything any more to be monitored :/
Most likely that was a mental arithmetic error or he thought that 1 bp = 0.1%, but changing it from 0.5% back to 0.05% back really changes the utility. If your average CC transaction is $100, you're breaking even compared to picking up a nickel. I'd rather get on with my day then stand there waiting for the authorization or picking up a nickel.
There's a video of Deutsch giving a lecture which focuses on why flowers are beautiful, following much of the same line of reasoning as in `The Beginning of Infinity'.

Worth a watch, if you've got an hour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT7DFCF1Fn8
Fuel cell powered cars are easy. Anyone could build one, the equipment is out there. The problem is that they aren't very practical. Compressed Hydrogen is not the best fuel choice for an automobile, and even aside from that the power and range you'll get on a fuel cell car is worse than a purely battery powered car.
It'd be interesting to throw Erlang into the mix, too.
It'll be completely jailbroken within a week of release, like everything else in the universe.

And if they try to force tight integration with G+ and youtube at the expense of Facebook, they'll just be insuring that consumers want to install the break.
If a gun exists, it's only for killing. <== another irrational (on some people) fear
We kind of have a different problem. Clients all want it in the apps we make, but analytics show that very few users use those features. Which sucks because it takes forever to implement all that stuff -_-
Thanks for the link, this looks very helpful!
Sage 5.7 released
Selling chips for mobile phones doesn't cannibalizes intel's business. Selling chips for tablets might, but at this point in time it would be very risky to think in such a way, and they know this very well.

So why hasn't they given their top game for this fight, i.e. offering 22nm mobile/tablet chips ? I think it's because their 22nm is expensive and not very fit to manufacture cheap chips. From what i read, their 22nm tech costs 30%-40% more than using TSMC 28nm (for manufacturing the same parts). Maybe their rising investment in fabs is due to this problem.

Another explanation would be that they are planning a coordinated attack: better atom and an LTE chip using a 14nm process. That combination might let them seriously decrease power over competitors. And doing that in bang has strategic value of creating pressure/fear over mobile handset makers and carriers to accept their new design, or be left out.
presumably you could do all that on a phone too, yet they havent....
Why we all think we're so great?
Show HN: jsonget - Extract values from JSON on the command-line
Google I/O 2013 registration opens on March 13th
Are you a repo person and my car loan invalidated? Did I steal my car from someone else? Was a car matching my car's description involved in a crime nearby that a judge ordered a warrant for a black ford F150 with a "geeks rule" bumper sticker? Are you a Customs/Border Patrol Agent and I do not have the proper paper work on the car I'm attempting to drive in? Are you a police officer and I do not have a driver's license on I-75? If any of the above, lawful seizure by government authorities, not theft.
Chicago Wants To Be the Smartest City on Earth
The fact that everyone would be broadly better off in the long run doesn't change the fact trade and immigration barriers do indeed benefit the local incumbents (At least on career (ie, decades) timescales). It's similar to the idea that a monopoly is bad for the economy as a whole, but great for the monopoly.

Though I strongly support relaxing immigration constraints for principled reasons, from a personal financial standpoint, it's almost certainly better for me if no foreign programmer was ever allowed to work in the USA.

And that is why the debate will continue: Rational Self Interest (admittedly, at the expense of the "greater good"), not economic misconceptions.
On a phone, you could ignore the ad, and there's limited screen space. On glass, you ARE going to see it, and the screen space is your entire field of vision.

Edit: I think Glass actually solves a huge problem with mobile for FB/Google/MySpace/etc: displaying ads. Right now, they make virtually nothing from mobile users, which is a threat to their company as more people use their phones/tablet/etc to access the site. With more screen space, they would easily have room for non-intrusive ads, and ads similar to what is displayed on the desktop. So they should be able to fix their problem with mobile.
It's easy to game your answer as an interviewee though. HN actually had a post a while back about someone who "interviewed" for a living while on unemployment; by the time he was done, he had mastered pretending to think deeply about the answer to any interviewing question.
Yes, but "college" is still the generic form, as in, "Did you go to college?". In America, one would never answer that question, "No, I went to university."
Interesting marketing term for what is traditionally known as a "customer".
That's incredible. I will have to check this out.
> very powerful hardware thats not very consumer wallet friendly.

Yes, but the mobile landscape may well have changed this.
If you want to see what Mike has been up to most recently you can also check out http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock. This displays all of his most recent gists/experiments - many of which never make it to the gallery page.
Police software mines social media [NZ]
So, is it possible to move/rename class/method/field smoothly using those tools? Extract code block to new method?
You can't really photograph it, it's so close to the eye.
Ask HN: Need help finding a blog post that was a personal data viz
I read a blog post from a developer (I think he worked at etsy/bit.ly, but that could be wrong) where he tracked his total songs played, how many lines of code he wrote, etc. and made a data visualization of it. Im planning on recreating it myself, but would love to find his original end of the year viz.<p>It was on HN, anyone know what Im talking about?
I for one have no reason why randomdrake is requesting such extensive pedantry: I thought your API does a wonderful job of speaking for itself, and adding more ceremony to talk about it would only have gotten in my way.

Edit: I totally see the value of the "hack it out yourself" flow he discusses though, and agree that making people do it themselves would be a more likely to be useful learning experience.
This author has obviously never been to Latin America nor understands that America is situated next door to a third world county. We limit immigration for a reason, and it is not mercantilism. We limit immigration because hypergrowth from third world immigrants hinders our infrastructure, which gives us things like traffic, crowded emergency rooms, and high unemployment.
Not just finding a user on Facebook with an email address, because they also log into the Facebook account and add their app to it. (Hence the re-activation email as well.) Very shady.
In the case of Mars the use of in-situ resources helps lower the cost of Mars missions and reduce risk, so colonization becomes a natural byproduct of exploration.
PayPal’s New U.K. Card Reader Exposes Inferior U.S. Tech
it's incredibly UNFUN to use your head for movements that your eyes could otherwise have done for you.

That's only a problem if your FOV is too small. With a large enough FOV and a light display there's no reason why eye and head movements shouldn't work exactly as they do in real life. The Oculus Rift has twice the angular field of view of the SU2000 in both dimensions, for 4x the subtended angular area.

Edit: Oh I see, your complaint is about using the head tracking to control a game, e.g. by pointing a gun. Yes, I think that's a bad idea. Head tracking should only control the camera. All game interaction should happen through a controller. A motion controller like the Razer Hydra would probably work well for this.

if you move your head for any reason you can't maintain focus on objects

Again, only true for crappy hardware. With a good enough display, 120 FPS, and low latency, there's no reason why tracking moving objects shouldn't work just fine.

I think a lot of people got disillusioned with VR because there's a lot of crappy hardware out there. Even the expensive stuff is crap. I tried Canon's augmented reality system at SIGGRAPH last year and the latency and FOV were awful, despite the $120,000 cost. But it doesn't have to be that way, and the Oculus Rift is the proof.
What would you call it? Asking for information for activity X and using it to do activity Y without your permission sounds exactly like phishing to me.
Seven Databases in Song (video)
NY Man's Candy Bar Resume Lands Job
> Isn't that just repeating the “all languages are equal”-myth?

No, it's debunking the myth that you can compare any two languages and say which one is objectively superior.

There is no such total ordering.
If you want immutable collections in Common Lisp, try FSet: http://www.cliki.net/FSet
Reminds me of this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk by moxie. We thought we would get facism, instead we got social democracy.

We will be able to deal with this, though, using appropriate laws. Europe will certainly go down that route, the US will probably follow. For example, using the camera to take pictures or videos that are stored or shared (vs. just processed by some augmented reality algorithms) could enable a small lamp on the frame of the glasses. Just like a video recorder, but without the ability to (easily!) turn it off.
I'd be shocked if they sell hundreds of thousands.
I agree he the OP is overreacting and thin on details (and whiny) but this post completely misses that the main thrust is card-not-present situations and the US.
Fortunately the anti-fraud solutions out there are pretty effective, which helps control the damage a stolen card can do.

In my experience, not reliably. For example, I've known people who gave their credit card info to a seemingly legit company, which then proceeded to make monthly debits without authorization, and this went on indefinitely. The credit card company was unwilling to intervene, and said it had to be worked out with the merchant.

That may sound surprising to you, because you're aware of chargebacks and other checks and balances. However, for some reason or another, none of that helped the victims in these cases. It's little consolation to them to say that "in theory, there are mechanisms in place to prevent this kind of abuse."
Jsonget - extract values from JSON on the command-line
They wouldn't need to give permission to the government. "Get Glass today with 1TB free cloud storage. Access your precious memories from your phone, tablet or television!" Once it's in Google's cloud it's just a subpoena away.
My personal favourite: http://rubular.com/

Surprised no one brought it up
A lot of security falls into that "firehose" analogy. Your door lock is relatively trivial to brute-force. What is preventing thieves from entering your house is that you live surrounded by other targets.

Problem with the Glass approach is that we now require police to sit through videos, but eventually it will be easier to mine all the data with algorithms, especially if we get better at facial recognition, etc...

Personally, i don't mind a glass-pervasive society. I worry about the fact that all the data goes around a single company's infrastructure and the fact that, for this specific company, hardware is a commodity and data is what they are after.
Just a note for everyone on HN who is starting a business or working on any project: THIS IS HOW YOU SHOULD RESPOND TO CRITICISM! Classy, doesn't expect the user to research beyond the page, etc.

I have to confess: my initial reaction was "isn't this kind of self-explanatory" and "dude, if you want to know what rethinkdb is, look at their damned website" or even the dreaded, and admittedly elitist "if you have to ask, its not targeted at you." However, reading your response, I am reminded that I can be a smug asshole, and I'm going to remember how you responded for the day I release something to the public.

Your response, on top of the fact that I've already examined, installed, and liked your product, adds even more to my confidence that you guys are creating a great longer term product.
I'd imagine getting an accurate visualization of how glass actually looks (without simulation) would be a bit more involved than just sticking a camera in place of the wearer's head. It certainly seems like the type of thing you simply have to put on to get a sense of how it feels.
The Qt/QML User Story
Debuggex: A visual regular expression debugger
With tcmalloc I get a few messages in the log about a large allocation on startup, but you can probably find it with this.

# as root or sudo
pmap -x $(pidof mysqld)|grep malloc
I believe no-one here at the time knew how aggressively he was being treated. If we had known I'd like to think people would have been more supportive.
You and VeejayRampay seem to have misunderstood me. I'm not saying the language is all bad, or that the technology is crap, or that there are not programmers who love everything about it. I am saying that there are reasons that many people dislike Java; it isn't just some sort of blind prejudice.

@VeejayRampay

Considering the love Clojure gets on HN, I reject the notion that Java gets a bad rap due to historic shortcomings of the JVM or ecosystem. No, the language itself is disliked, not the tech. Its constructs and its idiomatic usage. Things that your standard PHB will find difficult to quantify. This is in stark contrast with how the JVM is perceived (from my perspective, it seems to be widely adored).

I'm saying this as someone who currently makes their living programming in Java.
> It might be surprising but Scala actually has significantly fewer language features than Java. It is also more regular, there are fewer special cases and surprises.

Yes, that's what all the Typesafe employees repeat ad nauseam at conferences and on mailing-lists. Anyone who has spent more than a year coding in that language knows how ridiculous that claim is.

I'll just pick one example: _ has six different meanings depending on where you use it.

It's fine to like a language (I love quite a few myself) but don't drink the kool aid and try to remain objective about the strengths and weaknesses of your tools.
"Extremely unpleasant"