skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wi-Fi kills plants
Yeah, that's correct, and makes more sense. They do have a page explaining the tech: http://www.makanipower.com/how-does-it-work/
Marketing is way more than just ads and PR.
Worth a look (authors include D.J. Bernstein):

We describe here MinimaLT, a secure network protocol which delivers protected data on the rst packet of a typical client-server connection.
MinimaLT provides substantial protections and is extraordinarily simple to con figure
and use. In particular, it provides cryptographic authentication of servers and users; encryption of communication;
simplicity of protocol, implementation, and con guration;
clean IP-address mobility; and DoS protections"
The awesome things you can do when your key product masquerades as a mint.
I'm not entirely sure myself, but it seems to be a bit more involved than that. I recently came across a thread [1] discussing how to add support for Objective-C and it seems the approach is to compile the Obj-C to C++... I think only C and C++ are supported at this point. But I'd bet they eventually get there.

The bigger problem however, is that most of the commonly used languages don't just compile to native executables. They include a runtime handling stuff like garbage collection and just-in-time compilation. Since these runtimes are usually written in C or C++, we'll get there if C compiled to asm.js gets fast enough. That's one of the goals of Emscripten :)

There's a demo [2] showing off various language runtimes compiled to asm.js. I'm not sure how they perform in comparison with JS, but the REPLs work pretty well.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/emscripte...

[2] http://repl.it/languages
The parent's comment was that it is essentially infeasible to have a single div follow the cursor due to performance issues with the DOM. The fiddle includes 160 divs and opacity to demonstrate that that claim is false.

There's an awful lot of red herring going on in your post. It sounds like you have some problems with the web, but they most certainly aren't relevant to this discussion.
for all the technology and cool applications we have today, we can't forget that accessibility is still a key issue. dumbstore FTW.
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Why Sublime Text?
I think he's about to learn that these companies have more and better patent lawyers than god and more money than the devil to pay for an unending trial.

If a schmuck like me can pop that balloon, I hate to think what a half-competent patent lawyer could do.
How do I get to page 2?
Missing nutrients is probably the most obvious, but bad combinations of nutrients having strange effects is certainly possible.

A person's vitamin C needs are different if they are eating a diet that is predominately meat than if they are eating a lot of grains (the reason why Inuits didn't suffer from scurvy). Maybe there is a combination in Soylent that makes calcium very difficult to absorb or alters the body's ph so calcium has to be leached from the bones to proper ph. After 10 years, your bones become exceedingly brittle, and there isn't much you can do about it.

I'm not saying this is less healthy than eating Ensure for every meal, but I would say the exact same thing about Ensure, and I trust a little more science has gone into it (maybe 10% valid nutrition and 90% "how do we get this to taste/sell better" food "science").

The worst part for me is that we have no idea. At best, we have a few anecdotes. But I feel this way about every "miracle food" that comes on the market.
we can definitely get that sorted out for you!
Square now in Japan
PayPal receives license in Russia; plans official launch “later in 2013”
oh, Cif is an english name? How do you pronounce that ?

I am under the impression there aren't many words starting with "ci" in english but I think they mostly sound like "see" (e.g. circuit).

Of course, for me it's pronounced as "cheef", which goes perfectly with "jeef" :)
Cool essay, but :

> Many employees would work harder if they could get paid for it.

is just wrong. See http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
come on google glass in china ! so that the cizitens will photograph and video all the abuse that they are subjected to with the world in real time . i do not think so
That is very cool. I got quite bad rubber banding initially (with a reported 60fps), however after turning off v-sync in chrome://flags I got super smooth 120fps performance.

Would be great if Chrome had this option off by default.
Good essay. Though I'd err new developers to not be so easily persuaded by 'the multiplier' effect. In a company your $80K job is a specialist role. One where you focus and get good at one thing. All the million other things are taken care for you, because you weren't recruited for those roles. Just your one.

Working on your own product or in a startup is a comparatively generalist role. Or should I say multiple specialist role as you need to be good at a lot of different things that are outside of, and dare i say sometimes more important than, technology.

Believing that your 'working harder' is making more progress isn't necessarily true. Does that feature you're building excite your customers as it does you? Working for a month at 3x capacity on something that no one wants equates to zero value.
Windows vs iPad comparison chart
It would be interesting to see an implementation of this on ARM platform. Firefox OS powered mobile device would be really promising with this optimization.
with the wave of other db's (schema and non schema based) that have swept through the industry over the last 10 years, I feel like a small town pastor in my tendency for conservatism and my deeply ingrained faith in postgres.
If you ever have to go to court, you'll see pretty quickly that emotional appeal is very powerful. Even though its not technically supposed to work that way - in reality it works because humans are emotional creatures - not robots.
There are many problems with this benchmark, as discussed here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1e2jhr/dart_vs_...

IMO DeltaBlue is a terrible benchmark typology anyway. Benchmarks have to be localized for them to mean anything; and even then, they don't mean much 90% of the time. Dart's pretty neat (editing a book about it atm), but this kind of language zealotry is just silly. Dart is hardly a silver bullet. And many of the truly interesting features (mixins, isolates, fancier mirrors) are yet to be implemented or incomplete. Definitely keep an eye out for Dart, but don't fall all over yourself thinking that it outperforms Java (whatever that even means).
There is work going on in enabling Javascript to get better at doing things in parallel - both on CPU and GPU.

Eg. check out the ParallelArray() from the River Trail project by Intel: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:data_paralle... & http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Trail_(JavaScript_engin... At least Firefox has an initial implementation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...

The benefit if asm.js being based on ordinary javascript is that they can use these improvements to javascript itself right away more or less.
I really enjoy seeing new WebGL games emerge. This one is very fluid and beautiful.
Does 'inserting a coat hanger into a vending machine' count as 'pressing the coke and sprite buttons together' or 'they left their safe open'?
Sure, git's nice, but there are a dozen, as-good, DVCSs out there. I never said Torvalds wasn't a competent programmer - merely that he is wildly insecure about his technical authority. Alan Cox is 10x the programmer, when does he pick fights with anyone?
Then you'll need to track exact value of food each employee spent, send them invoice and pay them the same amount each month to cover that amount. I can't see how that can be simpler than "free food".
A friend told me that in China, reputation is very important. To do business with a reputed company, you have to have a good reputation. As the company that you're working with's reputation gets worse, so do your chances of getting work done / getting paid. Of course, well-reputed companies are probably in higher demand from both suppliers and customers, just like everywhere else, compared to say, cheaper firms.
theres quite a few postgres developers that i like.
you pop on their channel as a perfectly unknown guy with a complex issue, expose it like a noob, and they actually help you and explain to you what and why.

I find such people amazing. they don't just give you a solution, but explain it well to you. they also seem to understand the problems easily. they're my little heros.
> I think that the whole asm.js thing has got people more people confused into thinking that they can't build fast applications in regular JavaScript

I don't think you can blame asm.js for this. It's not targeted at web developers and regular JS is by all means fast enough for web applications in general. But some high performance applications like games and language runtimes are running into performance bottlenecks with plain JS, and there are large legacy code bases that are too expensive to port. It's not meant to hurt JavaScript at all, quite the contrary. It's an alternative to actually running native code on the browser, like NaCL. asm.js applications can in fact gradually migrate to JS.

> I wish Mozilla and other core browser teams would focus on better WebGL support in more drivers and devices as well as better JavaScript engines

I don't see how this is related, asm.js applications benefit from better WebGL support all the same. It's still JS running in the browser, it doesn't have direct access to any low level APIs.

> There are huge opportunities for exciting WebGL games which don't require the most optimized possible JavaScript, that just haven't been explored yet

I think you can build pretty neat web-based games even with plain JS, thanks to WebGL. Probably not with really high-end graphics or physics, but good enough. However, are you expecting game companies to rewrite their engines in JS just to get into the browser, not even knowing if it'll pay off for them? With asm.js, it's just another platform supporting C++ they can port to (C++ is ubiquitous in the industry). Mozilla and Epic are already working on porting Unreal Engine (Mass Effect and tons of others) to the web.

If browser games turn out to be the future, I'm sure we'll get engines focusing just on browser games, gradually rewriting large parts of their engines in JS. At the same time, we'll see better support for web-based games in consoles and on mobile devices.
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You could just display the smallest multiple of seven that hasn't been used yet.
The only intuitive interface
There's an idea here. You could sell your advice in creative ways! Write books, hold seminars, and blog continuously. You will become known, and fame is power.
This was showcased along many other great WebGL demos a month ago: http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/webgl-...
Ha. That was definitely the man himself.
Zuckerberg meets Poland's digital minister
This is sort of what I want to do with my life.
Yes, and if I find your laptop and login as Administrator and try 1-2-3-4, I am a felon. There is currently no requirement of any due diligence in protecting a computer.
Seems extremely similar to what Intuit has been building in India: Txtweb[1]. The apps support two modes PUSH and PULL. The most common is PULL, where you SMS to some number something like "@appname.optionalExtension <stuff that will be passed on to the application logic", response comes back as SMS. Their experimental PUSH automatically pushes subscribed users with SMSes. I had developed an app, @news a couple of years ago and still see decent traffic on it. The developers are also quite friendly and responsive. If you are interested in a similar platform but in a market that is benefitted from this application a lot more, you should definitely check them out.

[1] http://www.txtweb.com/
I'm sure every 'asshole' will sooner or later be diagnosed, at least in US. Might as well declassify every diagnosis not related to obvious physical damage back to the level of 'assholes needing cultural education'.
I only have details for two people going through their interviews, but one of them took about 16 hours of in person time, and the other involved flying out to a different city for a day of interviews after ~6 hours of phone screening + a clusterfuckload of email time (partly due to some monumental incompetence on behalf of their HR department: when the recruiter involved left they said they had to restart the entire process).
Being able to use any language is better than having to use one language littered with WTF pitfalls because one guy had to hack it together in a week. And the debate about type checking and static analysis is far from settled.
check this --> https://github.com/turingou/Mailmao
Best andriod app like SIRI
The article on The Verge says

While there are likely many who could lay claim to an innovation such as two-step,
Dotcom's patent — filed under his birth name, Kim Schmitz — appears to hold some water.
It claims priority back to 1997, which would make it difficult to invalidate, and has
wide coverage. Despite its age, it illustrates the current concept of two-step
authentication by detailing how a secondary access code could be sent via pager or SMS.

I'm not sure what to believe. A patent lawyer's opinion on HN would help perhaps?
> why would anyone write in a crippled C-like subset of javascript

Because asm.js is not meant for people, but for compilers.

For example the Unreal Engine has been recently compiled from C/C++ to asm.js and is running in the browser: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/
Why would it have to be farmers who make a capital investment to convert this stuff to methane? I would think the yogurt companies would just do it themselves and save on the shipping, nobody needs farmers to invest millions, just buy the manure (or I'm sure there's another way to do it).
> Anyone who hires a paper-pushing-bean-counting CFO should not be surprised when that CFO tries to sacrifice long-term success for short-term balance sheet exhibition.

This is the point. You are not to be surprised, but as CEO be ready that your CFO will require guidance while doing otherwise useful things.
Those links are of little value to the current discussion. If you took the performance profile, you'd find that the primary reason linked lists are used in those scenarios is because the performance worst case for linked lists occurs rarely. Which means the choice of datastructure is irrelavant w.r.t performance in those cases.
People generally mean their manipulation of DOM is effectively slow. That's a perfectly accurate statement, but the problem is calling the DOM slow as a result. The real culprit is often that doing stupid things with the DOM cause style recalcs, reflows, layouts, compositing, painting, etc. Those are all comparatively expensive.
It's easy to win negotiations if either:

- you have leverage and the other party needs you more than you need him

or:

- you can make the other party think you have leverage and the other party needs you more than you need him
Prime numbers are randomly distributed
That's what asm.js is for, meant as bytecode for compilers.

Take asm.js (e.g. an efficient subset of Javascript), in combination with source maps meant for debugging, and presto, you have everything needed to compile source-code from whatever language you want, including C/C++.
Oh, too bad. :-(

Given the headline, I was hoping for an article on how technically inclined people are not ridiculed as "geeks" or "nerds" in China, but are rather accepted as contributors to key aspects of life in the 21st century. Instead, they're still using "hacking" and "cracking" interchangeably in the New York Times. Apparently we're not as "21 century" as I thought.
http://xkcd.com/314/
It's OK - browsing HN all day can make a lot of people cynical. I'm cynical when it comes to cynicism.

You don't need to analyze tone and phrasing here. Just look at the facts. Google has employed some of the most diverse and qualified people in the world to work in a lab with funding that most researcher-builders could only dream of. That alone should excite the mind to think of the possibilities.

We know the lab continues to develop self-driving cars, and that they've already put a bunch of miles on them. I don't care how cynical you are - that is AMAZING! Self-driving cars will change the world. Even if we can cut the death rate in half, that's over 17,000[1] loved ones who will return home each day rather than dying unexpectedly and without warning. That thought should at least inspire us! This is to say nothing of preventing minor wasteful accidents and injuries so common we measure them in millions.[1]

The lab itself might not be secret, but its projects are. Let's not argue meaningless semantics. Judging by the people who have gone into the lab, and the things that have come out so far, there's some pretty awesome stuff happening inside. I for one am thrilled to see what they come up with.

[1] http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.p...
Scrap all user data (with emails) from worldfloat (3m users)
Whats WorldFloat?

Indian's WorldFloat ready to take on Facebook [http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-11/social-media/39185564_1_7-million-users-facebook-user-idea]

How to scrap email and other data from worldfloat?

1) Open worldfload and login
2) Open javascript console(in chrome press ctrl+shift+j)
3) paste the following code and enter

http://pastebin.com/iGfHTRWf

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What responsible capitalism is all about (Miliband at Google's)
Microsoft makes fun of Apple [tablet commercial]
There have been numerous posts by authors (some here on HN) that publishers offer very little marketing these days.

You have to do the marketing legwork yourself, even if you are with a major publisher.

The advances might be the one thing they offer, but then Kickstarter might be an option.
Good point. Minecraft provides a lot of value for me and my family. It is a game we play together, even though we live towns apart. It is also a game that I'm using to teach my girls how to program (on the Rpi). Who knows what my girls will go on and build? Wealth can be created by things we misjudge.
Clickable links

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-11/socia...

http://pastebin.com/iGfHTRWf
Well, games with publisher pressure are often late as well and/or released half-finished, so that's not a shining example of a business layer making a real difference.
Google Code’s download option deprecated due to misuse
Basho Co-Founder Raises $3M To Launch Orchestrate.io, A Twilio For Databases
You should ask random people how search engines work. It is a hobby of mine these days, and its quite entertaining. One young lady told me that se thought Google had a bunch of secretaries answering all of the queries. I did not laugh, because that actually is how things are still done in a lot of places.
Similar services already exist in India and are gaining quite a lot of popularity among users. http://txtweb.com http://55444.in
Yep. Here's a version without using 3d (no layers generated for the followers): http://jsfiddle.net/eymAS/29/

The layout/composition/painting etc is taking roughly 5x longer now. Chrome is smart enough to do it all just once, though, so it's still relatively performant.
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Which code?

Bigger anagram?
Farmers have manure. Shipping that manure around doesn't make much sense. It's heavy, dirty, smelly, gloopy.

Shipping whey makes more sense. It's heavy, but not as dirty or smelly or gloopy.
I cannot fathom that the publisher performs any function possibly worth this much money. How, since we no longer have to ship dead trees, have we not evolved a system that gives authors 75% of the sale price?

Because the dead trees are only about 10% of the cost of publishing a book (and since the tax laws for ebooks are different in many countries that saving is often immediately eaten up by higher taxes).

Because many (most?) authors want to spend their time writing - not publishing. Because producing a book takes time and money. Because publishers also essentially act as the VCs of the book market. Most authors don't earn out their advances.

Take a look at the breakdown of the cost of a bestseller http://journal.bookfinder.com/2009/03/breakdown-of-book-cost... for some vague evidence on how much money publishers actually make out of a book.

(The slice taken by marketing in the above seems high from what others have told me. Its also a somewhat simplistic breakdown since it ignores some of the long-term costs from publishers that aren't related to "books" directly. e.g. the advances to authors who never get published, etc. - so the potential publisher profits aren't quite as large as they appear here - there's other overhead outside the printing/distributing/selling books bit)

Also see http://ireaderreview.com/2009/05/03/book-cost-analysis-cost-...

It's also something Charlie Stross has posted about a fair bit see this collection of posts http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...

TL;DR - people think about book prices being related to cost of producing media. That's like thinking software costs are mostly about the price of printing DVDs or shifting bits. It's mostly about book development costs - not media costs.
> Would be great if Chrome had this option off by default.

Disabling Vsync causes page tearing artifacts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_tearing). It should always be enabled by default. Some new gpu drivers also have "adaptive vsync", where it's enabled by default but gets temporarily disabled when deadlines are not met.
AWARE - Android framework for instrumenting mobile context information
"Android framework dedicated to instrument, infer, log and share mobile context information, for application developers, researchers and mobile phone users. The framework is scalable, where addons take form as Context Plugins and Context Sensors. The framework is event-driven and power-efficient."
Almost surely. There were official remotes for previous generation consoles. It is, after all, a blu-ray player.
you are not expected to write asm.js, it's to be considered a compiler target (for e.g. emscripten etc)
Unless you create your own raspberry pi to used as a (sanctioned from you) mitm proxy that encrypts the paintext on any communication you send to the online services. So basically google get already encrypted mail that only the receiver can decrypt.

So it will go like this - I write hi on the IM client, the Pi intercepts the protocol unpacks the hi encrypts it with the private key, sends some base64 to the server who then translates it to the receiver that has similar device installed which does the decryption.

It is not perfect but it can be done. And I am sure Mr Schneier can think of something much better in its sleep.
Amazon Two Kindle Fire HD Models Now In 170 Countries
$500... http://hacktalent.com sells them for $9
Good luck. There was a company in Redmond trying to do the same with IE.
As part of a long term plan to commoditise the technology and make it cheap, as you no doubt well know.
really? It's the opposite for me.

When I write Java I always feel like I'm using bigger tools than needed. Like anonymous classes, when I just need a anonymous function etc.
Nothing about the comparison is untrue, and I wouldn't really even call it manipulative. It's just Microsoft doing marketing.
Military dad surprises daughter at gymnastics competition
If we for a second assume this is happening, I can't decide if it's worrisome development or something I should try to exploit..