skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought one of the handle bar mounts for my phone and have really rather accurate Z, this is also in London too, AFAIK the software isn't using map data to help either, but surely that would be a good way of doing it too. Archway Hill has always been accurate, even on my old Garmin thing.

Again I think it is mostly for faster aqusistion, as i doubt how this will help anyone who isn't keeping their phone in a correct posistion for accurate sampling. These barometric sensors weren't that accurate 5-7 years ago when I played with them, I can't imagine them helping when in a pocket or waterproofed running strap / cycle case.
This is - quite simply - one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. "In game" tutorials are such a fantastic way of demonstrating functionality in that sector - why shouldn't websites be the same ?
Thanks Bamdad Jan :) I glad to hear that you want to use it.
Great to see our good friend Jacob Perkins aka Streamhacker referenced several times in the article. The man's a genius and an inspiration. Turning Text Processing into a successful self-sustaining API "project" http://streamhacker.com/2013/02/27/monetizing-textprocessing...
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In addition to whatever else is going on,maybe you have an "aversion to doing" what the world says you should do vs. what you'd like to do. You said you are a jack of all (many?) trades, so you're obviously accomplished in some areas. . .just not the areas you think you should be accomplished. Maybe engineering is not for you. . .or at least being an engineering student. Also, you seem to have a few close friends that you click with. That's great! The world at large may think you need lots of "friends" and acquaintances with whom you may or may not click. . .but many people (introverts!!) do just fine with only a handful of close friends. There's nothing wrong with that.
To be clear, I still write a ton of stuff in shell. I try to think ahead to whether what I want to do can be accomplished in shell + standard unix utilities more easily than in Python. I use Python if it's not easily possible in shell + unix utilities, or the script is likely to be more than a few hundred lines.

Here's one I probably should've written in Python - https://gist.github.com/jaysoffian/f39fa2da8e7f340550f9
I can see the relevance in that. Thanks!
Keeping Configuration in Source Control
Treaded Robots for Everyone
You don't need to be logged in to see any of the openly published letters. But to edit and doodle, you need to be in-session yes.

This letter has only a drawing, but you can have typed text too.
What ever happen to Heroku Garden?
Check out thedailywtf.com if you want to see example upon example of major WTF perpetrated by non Indian dev teams.
RollFWD A rolling prediction list of future headlines. What's yours?
We're keeping a rolling list of headline predictions, for a reason yet unknown.

Future Headlines as of 03/10/13:

1. Wyoming Joins Texas as Second State to Issue Own Currency In Wake of U.S. Dollar Collapse- matterhorn

2. Following Dennis Rodman Visit, Switzerland Declares War on U.S.- matterhorn

3. Bloomberg Bans Bottled Water: Claims It Robs Our "Precious Bodily Fluids"- matterhorn

4. Patent Troll Claims Rights to Inhalation of Air- matterhorn

5. Demands Licensing Fees From All Breathers- sixQuarks

6. 155 year old sentenced to juvenile detention for tampering with town's singularity machine- devonbarret

7. Outrage as pedestrian killed by self driving car- devonbarret

8. 90% of car accidents caused by self driving system errors.- snowfox

9. Google glass banned in McDonalds- smewpy.
Any idea which Vanguard this is talking about? Financial services? The university? The furniture company...?
The RSS Apocalypse
Interesting idea, but I'm feeling like you were trying to pass one by in the line:

> ...a bitcointipper account will be automatically created for them.They can leave the bitcoins in their account or withdraw them to a bitcoin address .

So if the user does not claim, you're not returning it, but presumably claiming it for yourself after a certain timeout. This doesn't sound very honest.
This actually fills a need for me, I've been toying with writing one for a while but always find something that needs my attention more.
The transition from full-time to contracting is what terrifies me. Having to constantly look for a new job every few months just worries me. Of course, it's probably because I am the sole breadwinner for my family but how do you overcome that sort of paralyzing fear? I've had thoughts that maybe I will do it later on down the road when everything is more settled but I don't know if things will ever be "settled".
Interesting mix.

So my thought was not 'sharing' in the sense of having your friends know you just read an article on TechCrunch, rather that you and your friends characterize the TechCrunch feed as '"news", "gossip", "opinion" => related to (startups)' so that when I or they start reading other things that are 'related to (startups)' the reader could mention or perhaps occasionally inject articles into that 'feed/grouping' (Pandora has the notion of a 'radio station' which is similar).

Basically the extent of your "sharing" with the rest of the community (with respect to the reader) is that you think agree that TechCrunch is about startups. The community helps create the taxonomy of the feeds they are reading so that the reader can know if some feed that one person is reading might be of interest to someone who is reading feeds that are similar to that. (with no knowledge about who is reading those other feeds, just that the the other person has the same sort of interests you have expressed for a feed)

I'm going to assume the app adds on to every article the familar /tweet/share/like/etc tags so if you are a social media engaged person you can push it out to your social media stream as well.

Even though I am "stuck in the 70's" in my music tastes according to my wife I enjoy the music Pandora finds for me on my originally 'bands from the 70's' radio station.

The only thing reader seemed to be missing for me was a way to discover new blogs to follow. That function is being provided a bit by HN these days but its hit or miss.
The discussion above is not about formal definition, but about common perception. Common perception of buying is getting full ownership. All other cases are far less common.

In general, the whole notion of attempting renting the content obscuring it as a sale is not a honest way of doing things. And using DRM to enforce those rental limitations makes it even worse, since it uses unethical preemptive policing methods to do it.
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financial services, I think!
Most likely the financial services people.
You do bring up some interesting points. Restricting a program to physically secured hardware along with software protection would definitely make it extremely difficult to get the program or information outside of the way that the maker wants you to. Although I am not entirely convinced that it would be impossible. The issue is that it still must be a deterministic system. And this means that with enough money, expertise, time, precision someone could produce a situation in which they would be able extract the code and edit it. Now in most cases the amount of resources and effort that would be required to do so would probably not be worth it which would mean that it wouldn't be worth it to pirate, but i would be hesitant to say that it would be impossible to. Any deterministic system can be compromised the key is to make compromising it so difficult/expensive/time consuming that compromising it is not worth it.

Now from a practical stand point I don't know how well this would work in a consumer market, but can certainly see it being used in areas where protection of information is extremely important. It just seems a little to costly to implement on a wide scale to me, and I think consumers would see it as too invasive and resist it, so if there were alternatives in the marketplace I think a lot of people would opt for the alternative.
website should have thought ahead and put themselves on coral before they got hakr'd.

http://www.goodboydigital.com.nyud.net/pixi-js-is-out/
But what if many people measure their local microclimates? Couldn't one 'add up' all those measurements to get the 'real' temperature out of it?

Would be like a high resolution heat map.
Vanguard the financial services. I'm less concerned about the furniture company's security...
I think he's pointing out that this is a repost.
I'm curious as to why they are still benchmarking against node 0.2.6, which is quite old.
No, it's a wrong comparison. DRM is not only stupid, it's unethical. Comparing it to a lock on your apartment is not proper, since it totally reverses the idea. DRM is more comparable to placing a police robot in your house, in order to "prevent potential law violations". I.e. completely the opposite - privacy breaching, unethical preemptive policing.

The TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is an oxymoron. Trust is relation between two sides (users and distributors). It implies mutuality. The whole DRM concept is built on the opposite - i.e. not trusting the user, on treating users as potential criminals by default. Since users aren't trusted, there is no reason for users to trust DRM schemes, which should be treated as spyware and privacy intruding methods of control.
It is dumb, especially with digital distribution.

But don't forget that digital distribution is only relatively recent - it wasn't possible for many people before. (Also, content producers had a weird aversion for peer to peer distribution models, so distribution would have been expensive for them).

So part of the reason is that they're slow to change; they will change, they just haven't got round to it yet.

Another part of the reason is that Americans are rich, so they get charged more. People in country X are poor, so they get charged less. Price differentiation is a strong reason for region locking. But, as you say, it's dumb, and some content producers know it's dumb and are moving away from it.
As I said I support faster GPS (my last line in the post). I think it might be a faster, data light alternative to the A-GPS thing, but I can't really see it narrowing it down that much?

I'd have thought dual tuning GLONAS and GPS was better? After-all the error for these sensors will be vast depending on where you are. My understanding (may well have changed, I don't know) is that currently most work on one or the other, not both.

A reason I am saying this is I remember the first time I flew a plane in Asia after learning in mild weathered UK I was getting challanging readings from my static source. As such I'm not sure how well it would work as an optomisation.

I'm not saying its bad, I'm not saying it's not fun for geeks considering the no doubt low cost of this scale.

But I still don't see the need for faster Z, as most smartphone users are on the terraferma?
Have you ever looked at Common Lisp syntax?

Just the LOOP macro:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_loop...
Dark Clouds; internet becomes more vulnerable as 80% of all data now hosted in 20% of the world's data centers.
One example of when goto is a good idea.

Why is Lua 5.2 so much faster than Lua 5.1? Lua 5.2 supports a new goto keyword. This is incredibly useful when doing this kind of compilation as it allows me to pass execution directly from basic block to basic block. Lua 5.1 doesn't have this, which means I have to fake goto using what boils down to a switch statement. This is much less efficient.
You're missing the point. The author can understand it doing these things by default. But it appears to be regularly loosing / ignoring his opt-out.

Something with full privileges, ignoring your specified preferences? That's far worse than something that has them by default but allows you to change it.
I was just pointing put that your statement on Iran was obviously false.

I never understood why France had such a hard time with muslim immigrants when they seem to completely integrate in the states within one generation. I'm sure it has to do more with the differences between Americans and French then...the immigrants themselves.
The original announcement/prior art: http://9fans.net/archive/2009/07/278

"All functionality is implemented using a simple abstraction called a Hub, which is an attempt to expand the traditional unix pipe | to have multiple inputs, multiple outputs, and the ability to connect and disconnect from the data stream dynamically."
GPS provides far better altitude data than a barometer. GPS altitude fixes are typically accurate to about 20m. An uncalibrated barometer can be off by 300m or more, depending on what the weather happens to be like at that particular moment.

I'm sure the barometer is useful for something, but providing better altitude data than GPS gives you is definitely Not It.

Edit: I should note that if you calibrate the barometer to the local atmospheric pressure, it can be extremely accurate, down to perhaps 3m or so, if it's a good barometer (like the one usually called an "altimeter" in an airplane). But it's not likely that a cheap phone barometer would achieve that, and of course you need some way to get the local base atmospheric pressure to begin with.
GPS coordinates are calculated off what are known as psudoranges: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorange. You can imagine these 'ranges' as a calculated distance to a given satellite. Knowing the altitude ahead of time allows you to calculate your 3D position faster because you don't need as many range samples, or satellites, to do accurate estimates of position.
The SPAM potential here is amazing. Now instead of follow-spamming someone you can tip someone 0.0000001 BTC with a nice spam message, and who could resist not picking up a tip?
I knew; I just didn't know what to do with it.
Argentina: it's going down in flames at an alarming pace, but has been doing so for the past decade. Every ten years there is an Earth shattering crisis in the country, and there has been a 25-30% inflation for the past 4 years, likely to grow. There is a pararel market for US dollars, as it is controlled and it's almost impossible to buy legally (unless you are travelling overseas, 60 USD per day with a top of 1000 USD per trip, 2 trip max per year).

If you have international clients, you'll get ARS at the official rate (5 ARS == 1 USD) but will have to pay international providers with the parallel rate (8 ARS == 1 USD). That alone, coupled with rising insecurity, blocked imports and unpredictable government, makes starting a company there a very unsound decision.

The good things about it is that you have relatively cheap workforce (30000 USD will pay a good engineer), there are many good engineers, it's in roughly the same timezone as the US (GMT-3) and culturally is much more similar to the US than, for example, India.

Having said all of the above, I've moved to the Netherlands, and couldn't be happier so far. I've been in Silicon Valley for about 3 months total, and Amsterdam is as safe as Mountain View is, but without the heavy police presence and you can actually walk anywhere (the city feels like a town in that regard). The only downside is that I'm earning about half what I'd be earning in the USA.

I've been to Paris, and although it didn't seem unsafe, the military in the streets did freak me out.
DRM is not just a stupid idea. It's unethical idea. No execution of DRM is proper. All of them are improper with various degrees of evilness and stupidity.
Most of what you said above is a strawman. I said one specific thing.

"it's a lot harder to track down bugs for a newcomer"

This statement is FUD. You seem to be defining "language deficiency" as "hard for a noob before they become proficient". I think that is absurd.
Bower is fucked
Disclaimer: I normally hate "foo is broken" type posts, but jesus.

If you're curious/masochistic just look at my twitter feed for the last few hours: https://twitter.com/rich0H
Apple employees downgrade Tim Cook on highest rated tech CEOs list
Nice. Very pithy.
I'm guessing the balance isn't that fragile because the people in question have had been drug-free for seven years on average. They must have had some minor illness during that time period.
Same here, using Firefox 19 on Windows XP.

You can go back to normal by clicking with the mouse, the more you click the brighter it gets.
One thing is the relatively large number of packages available for Chicken, especially for C libraries on UNIX. Therefore many use Chicken for systems and desktop programming on UNIX.

A list of packages (called "eggs") is available at http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html

(Disclaimer: I don't know much about Gambit, and cannot comment on their respective implementation capabilities.)
Good point. I think last night I was just high on accomplishment. It has been proposed that I obfuscate my research some how though I then question the value of it.

I guess this is why pseudonyms are popular.
Are they still infectious, do you know?
So is this like company script? I mean I wouldn't want to be paid in BTC unless it was widely accepted.
I'm curious as to why they are benchmarking against code compiled with GCC -Os instead of GCC -O3
If you roughly break down my purchases between leisure and utility, the former is the only one for which I will always go online. Even if I don't have domain expertise (let's say a stereo system), I'll basically just sort the list for the right combination of popularity and price, click away, hope for the best, and usually be satisfied.

When it comes to utility purchases though, I want to be in a small, niche store, talking to an expert, handling the good in question, even if it means something of a drive.

The classic example of this is the mom-and-pop hardware store. Rarely it seems is there the town without one, even if there's a Walmart or Home Depot a block away sucking the soul out of everything else. Going to Home Depot with any kind of question, I feel like I'm one of the ghosts against an advanced pac-man player...then when I finally catch an employee, they often can't answer the simplest of questions.
Generally, it's hard to convince nerds that something trivial to them is not trivial to non nerds.

In what reality is it obvious that "to 'get more of something' I have to copy a url (what's a url?) from a browser tab to another web application?"

Before telling me that poeple just have to click the "feed icon", watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ and ask yourself if you think people will go from:

"I want more of this site" to "Why don't I click that funky little orange icon in the address bar?"
Prior art isn't going to matter pretty soon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5379944
Excellent, excellent question. The thing is that money can be faked (that's why we need to fill out all of our personal details on every payment form we ever see), but Bitcoins are cryptographically secured. You have to be aware of the risks if you want to be really secure, but at least you can be assured that Bitcoins are legitimate and not counterfeited.
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – The Sticky Note
The goal is not free trade, the goal is a common market. Is that really so hard to understand? Of course, labor regulations play a role there.
How Manufactured Smells Are Making People Shop Longer And Kill Better
It is more difficult to forge a stamped receipt, true. As to whether it proves that you purchased the item is debatable because both a receipt and a stamped receipt can be easily forged. The question is: is it necessary? Tally up all the man-hours a country spends stamping receipts. Could that time be put to better use? North America seems to function fine without them. Perhaps we've come to realize them as redundant - or are we too gullible to not demand rubber stamped receipts in the first place?
In my opinion best marketing is to talk with more bloggers. How about connecting with some schools via their Facebook pages? I see that you have liked a bunch of Facebook pages. You can also think of running contests on these pages. Since your marginal cost of production is zero you can get some good free publicity. Running banner ads (which are a lot less expensive than search ads) on sites like appadvise.com may lead to sales with positive ROI.
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Petition to keep Google Reader running reaches 100000 signatures
The very first domain name ever registered, turns 28 years old today
Not to mention it adds nothing descriptive to the link, and serves no purpose whatsoever.

Can we get an editor to change it to: "Why DRM is such a stupid idea"?
we are building a minimum tipping amount into the system to combat this issue . It will probably be around 0.05 USD.
Is Apple underestimating the threat posed by Samsung?
Not nothing.. that $9 buys emails that can be sent on a "Pay as you go" basis.
a thousand times better

I was under the impression that MSE routinely did OK in AV benchmarks and rarely even ever held the top spot. How is it a thousand times better?

Or does it's ability to keep you safe not really factor into your analysis of the software?
The Samsung Galaxy S 4 And Its De-Googling Of Android
> Do you not still buy and sell licenses?

Exactly. Which is why I said that it sellers should be required to use the wording "Buy a license", or something like that, to make sure that customers do not believe that they are buying the digital goods themselves.

> And seeing license is just going to confuse them.

And I'd be confused if I walked into a store and was asked to sign a long agreement at the checkout. It's the seller who wants to do something confusing instead of doing a simple sale. Why should he be allowed to hide this fact while giving the buyer a much worse and unexpected deal?
It does seem rather bad business for them.

I mean if their users drop their address numbers down to below 2000 just in order to suspend their account they likely won't re-add those addresses later when they need to renew since the whole thing is a massive hassle.

Plus a $9 cancellation fee is going to leave a bad taste in most people's mouths which they'll remember when it comes time to send e-mails again, I know it would me.

And all this for what in return? To make $9 once? Lose potential repeat custom for $9? Meh.

It is their business so their choice. I'm sure they have run the numbers on this to see if it makes the most money, but I try to avoid companies that operate like that (both in my professional and personal life).

Just for one example, a DVD rental company (similar to Netflix) make it SO difficult to cancel their service when I wanted to rent DVDs again I decided to take my business elsewhere, since the competitor let me start and stop it online as I wanted...

So it might discourage some from cancelling their subscription but once people do successfully cancel they will never return, because you never forget how big the hassle was to cancel it.

It is just classic MBA short term profiteering where they pretend metrics like reputation and long term growth don't exist. Just as long as THIS year looks grand.
I really enjoyed this. It's a good practical example that's helped me to make sense of a lot of the words that fly around in this space.
Google Reader and the Open Web
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Every time Racket or some other Scheme-like language is on HN I wonder why they aren't used more. It's probably just an illusion of the bubble I live in.