skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope there are some proper backup methods beyond IMAP to backup Gmail.
Am I the only one who has no issue with Facebook whatsoever? I love it. It's free. I find incredible value in it.

People need to get a grip.
A Technical Look at the Xbox One
This is an interesting point, but the situation here is very different. For space launches there is a very little market, and if eg the Russians undercut you your potential customers will go to them and you're going to lose money.

For electricity instead there is so much demand to satisfy that the inventor could make MUCH more money than he ever dreamed of just selling it in the Countries that would respect his patent.
Thank you for pointing this out.

The researchers are using a Beagleboard device for the exploit. Based on what they've said to the press so far, it sounds like a no-interaction tethered jailbreak (if it's truly functional on all Apple devices) or at best an untethered jailbreak on limited Apple devices.

If this presentation is claiming the ability to install software on ALL non-jailbroken Apple devices running the latest OS version that survives a reboot of the device (once it's detached from the charger), then that's potentially worth more than any "malicious USB charger" talk (since the jailbreak community is currently unable to to do this).
Employment in the Automotive Industry Remains Very Strong in China
Ask HN: Launch App during or after WWDC?
My iPhone app is (finally!) ready for submission to the app store. Would you launch right into the noise of the WWDC, or wait until after it had subsided?
I'd stay away from GAE, personally. The lockin is not worth the benefits, though you will certainly find lots of happy GAE customers.

The big thing is that GAE is only suitable for certain types of apps, so make sure your's is one of those before even starting.

The one small, hobby app I wrote for GAE was unsuited and it was a painful process to port away. My company, with a real GAE app, has a cost threshold where we know it's cost effective to move from GAE; write heavy apps are expensive in the GAE environment. Each day we inch closer to that threshold.

At this point the headaches of using GAE are more than the headaches of not using GAE, but I won't miss it when we pull the trigger on moving away.
This is a pretty bad headline. First off, there should be a article in there, like "A Bitcoin service". Secondly, the service appears to have been shutdown to protect the owners/operators of the site from further legal action. They are not being forced to close. The state thinks they need a license and they think they don't. Instead of risking jail time on the possibility they don't need a license, they are taking the cautious route and shutting down until the legal issues are resolved.
This is Femi from Hipmob: we looked at this more like instant search results (similar to what most search engines do already) where the server updates the results as the user types into the query box. The human operator does increase the privacy questions, though.
Are you actually your first customer? Then prove it.
North Korea, the Next International Ski Destination
That is certainly the story that we so often hear from people at the top of their field. They say "my family is so important to me, spending time with them really grounds me" and then in the same breath you find out they leave for work before their kids wake up, and come home to have dinner with them for 1 hr and then go back to work, and then work all weekend.

A sports analogy is apt here: I have a friend who when he was young used to play competitive rugby at the national level. He said that through high school and even varsity (university) teams, what really put people at the top was their drive, motivation, training, and also of course skill. At the national, world professional level however, it was different. One needed these ingredients of course to gain entrance to this level of play ... but once there, now what really separated the top say 10% from the rest came down to something rather simple: the extent to which you were willing to injure yourself. The best players were the ones that were willing to get concussions over and over again, to perform manoeuvres that resulted in high probability of broken bones, etc. He ended up quitting because he was not willing to hurt his body to such an extent that he would pay for it for the rest of his life. In essence the top players were the ones who were willing to become extreme, who were willing to sacrifice things most people valued in their life (their future health) in order to stay at the top.

So it is in business, finance, academia, you name it. The people you will find at the top are the ones who have made the choice to sacrifice things that most people find valuable, in order to be the top of the top in their chosen field of work / study.

Said differently: if you are trying to achieve top success, you will face the following over and over again: there will be times where you are faced with the choice: work late into the night and miss your son's birthday party, or go home and try to catch up in the morning. Take that work trip for a week even though your wife is sick at home and needs help with the kids, or don't take the work trip.

There will always be someone else at work who will be willing to do the things you are unwilling to do.

It's nice to talk about modern and sympathetic work environments that value well rounded lifestyles but man, it's a jungle out there, this is a fantasy, when the shit hits the fan.
Canadian Government Says Cellphone Contracts Can Only Last Two Years Max
We looked at this more like instant search results (similar to what most search engines do already) where the server updates the results as the user types into the query box. The human operator does increase the privacy questions, though.
I'm keeping the bubbly on ice for now. Not because the reactor may be a hoax, but even if it's wildly successful -- by which I mean CF replaces all current power generators -- does the estimable readership of HN think it's really going to reduce our energy bill?

Think of what goes into your bill -- it's not all a pass-through of whatever the provider had to burn, there's also labor and infrastructure.

But let's assume for argument's sake that CF is a plug-in replacement, and it's 1/10th the cost. What makes you think the utility execs will just give that away?

They have armies of lobbyists, decades of experience at bamboozling the public, and control of the infrastructure -- in some US states, they even have the power to seize property by force.

And when pressed, they'll just restructure their business so that their cost of buying energy is low or nonexistent, in order to justify their rates.

Or, more ominously, they'll manipulate the markets for CF materials to maintain or increase their rates.

Just a dose of reality. But, hey I could be wrong.
Some quick feedback after trying the demo:

1. Your www.happyhealth.me worked, but leaving off the www (happyhealth.me) didn't. Need to add a DNS record so both work. (be sure to redirect users to one or the other so your analytics are consistant.)

2. When I'm viewing my profile on a different tab (for example, Medical), then I press the edit button, I'm shown the Personal tab rather than the Medical tab. To fix this, you could store the current tab in the session and pop them over to that tab when they click the edit button.

3. Looks like I'm only able to add three allergies and three medications to my profile. Might want to make a little 'add more' button to those, or just always show an extra empty field(s) when editing these.

4. On a similar note, it was unclear how to remove a medication from the profile.

5. When viewing the Midwest Health Center form, the race / ethnicity was left blank even though I added that information to the test profile. Same for a test middle initial on another test form. (I realize this is a test profile and may not yet be complete)

6. Just a suggestion, but I'd leave off the signed date incase the person is printing the forms a day or two early.

7. I'd also suggest that you do not ask for / keep the social security numbers for anyone. Other information like address, phone numbers, etc. are (to me) o.k. to submit to the form, but the social security number is something I'd not be comfortable sharing with a convenience application like this. Might be better if you instead flagged areas on the various forms where this sensitive information should be hand-entered, where you needed to sign, etc. I also realize that once printed out, or handed to an office staff, this sensitive information is no longer secure, not keeping this info in your application would reduce your liability / worry about stuff like that.

8. Another quick suggestion is to add a place to store your preferred pharmacy.

Looks like a lot of work went into this so far. Like I commented earlier, a service like this would be a big time saver for people.
Why Developers Are Such Cheap Bastards
Because browser "apps" are not.
Would auto pointers and weak references work better? I've always liked that paradigm...single transferable ownership just feels conceptually clean.
One way Google could mitigate this would be if webmasters could tell Google about new/expected links. Obviously some links are unexpected (great!) but if Google new you weren't trying to add 50 links, and 50 links showed up, perhaps they could take that into account.
WesterosCraft: Game of Thrones completely recreated in Minecraft
The Problems with Managing Privacy by Asking and Giving Consent
We looked at this more like instant search results (similar to what most search engines do already) where the server updates the results as the user types into the query box. The human operator does increase the privacy questions, though, but this wouldn't be any different from accidentally pasting something sensitive into the Google search input.

Also, we do not log Typeview information.
PaintCode is on sale
This is a terribly bad idea. Don't do it. It'll hit you hard at some point.
Totally a privacy concern. The opt out option should be easily accessible and not obnoxiousness hard to find.
Founding a startup is entirely a series of time management decisions. Build vs. buy vs. rent vs. skip. People that say you can't run a startup without sacrificing nearly everything are the same people that say programming on a schedule is impossible - it's only impossible if you don't FIRST focus on managing your time in an effective manner.
If you tell me you're an architect that doesn't code, you lose credibility (with me).

It's an overloaded term these days, and things like "information architecture" are very different to "software architecture", so I wouldn't put it quite as strongly as you did there.

That said, I agree completely with the point I think you were really making. To me, a software architect is just a senior developer who has particular responsibility for big picture and integration issues, possibly along with other development roles they play. It's the breadth counterpart to a technical lead, who is a senior developer with particular responsibility for specific parts of the system and a deep understanding of those parts.

IME having a software architect becomes useful somewhere around the time that anyone on your team can no longer talk to anyone else just by swivelling their chair and saying hi. They don't have to have the word "architect" in their job title, but somebody had better be making sure that Andrew, Bill, Claire and David are all writing code that's going to fit together in a maintainable way and that the tools are there to build and test the combined code.
Dock speakers connect to the iphone through the same interface. The high end ones have ARM cores, they have wifi, they might even run Linux. There is a theoretical chain of trojan --internet--> PC --wifi--> speaker --usb--> iphone.

This is, of course, insanely unlikely today. But in a few years, when everything has a 1GHz ARM core and an internet connection, we very well might start seeing malware that jumps devices and infects entire households.
Why Telecom and Technology Billings so Difficult to Understand and Manage?
"They are not being forced to close."

"Instead of risking jail time (...)"

I see some contradiction in here. If you feel a threat of violence upon you, isn't it very definition of "being forced"?
Emissions Flow Chart
The best part of this analysis was the tone - he was polite, non-judgemental, and understanding of the fact that it's tough to launch something new and yes, the developers could have done it better, but no need to pile-on, they're probably kicking themselves enough as is.
Apple always suggest launching it after WWDC so it doesn't compete and get lost.
> They are not being forced to close.

They were told they "must" close by the state. I'm not sure how anyone can construe that as voluntary.
Network Solutions Now Manually Reviewing Transfer Requests
Seems to me the general solution to negative SEO is instead of an unknown-quality-link bonus and a bad-link penalty, unknown-quality links should have no value and good links should have positive value.

The problem is it is probably harder to split the world into probably-good vs. unknown links rather than probably-bad vs. unknown links.
Rust bootstraps by downloading an existing snapshot of the rust compiler, which it then uses to build the stage0 rust compiler, which then builds the stage1 rust compiler, which then builds the stage2 rust compiler.
I thought so as well, but I'm not really that interested in "organizing" my friend list. Ideally, yes, I would. But there's too many corner cases and overlapping circles that it's never exactly what I want and it quickly gets out of date.

For me, Facebook did work the way I wanted long ago- people tagged you in photos and it was fun to look at photos of you and your friends. The problem is that in order for Facebook to grow, your feed needs to get broader and broader (status updates, youtube videos) and it gets filled up with things that are not as relevant.
Google Wave had it too.
Quantum tunneling increases the rate of energetically favorable reactions, but it can't create energy from nowhere. Eg. in the muon catalysis case, the reaction (D + T -> He4 + H) produced a huge amount of energy as soon as nuclei could "tunnel through" the barrier. In this case (p + e -> n + v), no energy is produced even after the barrier is overcome; the energy used to overcome the Coulomb barrier goes into the mass of the neutron. Hence, that energy still must come from somewhere.
> It sounds like they did this voluntarily

No, they were forced by the state.
I didn't mean to imply that the fallacies have anything in particular to contribute to symbolic logic. It's just that, when one takes a logic course, one expects to leave the class with better logical skills, both formal and informal. Gracefully, most logic teachers and books take the time to briefly cover some additional topics such as the fallacies.
I don't know anything about the law, I just assumed that this kind of thing isn't something big companies really want being spread around and I've gotten used to living in a world where legal action or at least the threat of it is a default response. Good to hear it's not like that in this situation!
I never understand the point of these types of posts, which unfortunately seem way too common.

There are lots of occupations that can be demanding and stressful (doctor, lawyer, investment banker, etc.). Why is it a surprise to anyone that a career requiring a significant commitment of one's time leaves less time for other activities?

There are only 24 hours in a day and if you're ultimately not happy with how you're using them, the solution is to change how you're using them, not to spend time complaining or lamenting what you've chosen to give up.
The state of VA is making the argument that bitcoin services are money transmitters, so it seems like they'll go after everyone in the state.
Well they have to allow transfer and install of apps over that channel (30-pin/USB or Lightning/USB) right? (How else could things such as app updates via iTunes/USB work?)
Makerbot Opens New 50,000 Square Foot Factory In Brooklyn
Linux and Android gain NIST-certified security support
> you simply cannot compete with a slow CPU, a crippled GPU and a non-retina display. I am never, never, never going back to a non-retina screen.

> And it's 325 EUR. For just a little more I can get a Nexus 4 that has really good specs.

So, in fact you just don't put social values before the specs...
> The lockin is not worth the benefits, though you will certainly find lots of happy GAE customers.

> My company, with a real GAE app, has a cost threshold where we know it's cost effective to move from GAE

These guys may help: http://www.appscale.com/
The Point of Knowledge
I have found, however, that my Facebook experience has greatly improved once I started hiding posts from people i don't care about as much from my news feed.

Oddly, I've found the opposite to be true. Apart from clearing out app-request spam, streamlining my facebook feed to only the "friends I care about" tends to result in the most predictable updates. It seems to me the outer-circle friends have the most potential to be interesting.
Dedekind cuts were the first, but they are not the most important construction of the reals. That would be Cauchy sequences.

A Cauchy sequence is a sequence that is converging. More precisely it is a sequence x_0, x_1, x_2, ... with the property that for any epsilon > 0, there exists N such that if n, m are both larger than N, then |x_n - x_m| < epsilon.

Two Cauchy sequences x and y are equivalent if they "should converge to the same spot". Technically this can be stated in the cute manner that x_0, y_0, x_1, y_1, x_2, y_x, ... is a Cauchy sequence.

With all of those definitions out of the way, a real number is defined to be an equivalence class of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers. It is straightforward to prove that you can define the usual algebraic operations on them, and they work out to the real numbers.

These two definitions look different, but are exactly equivalent. Why, then, would I claim that Cauchy sequences are more important than Dedekind cuts?

The answer is how you generalize them. Dedekind cuts depend on the existence of an ordering operation on the reals. Cauchy sequences only on the notion of distance. But there are a lot of mathematical objects of interest which have a notion of distance but usually not one of ordering. They are called metric spaces. The Cauchy sequence construction generalizes to a construction of the completion of any kind of metric space. The Dedekind cut construction pretty much only works for constructing reals out of rationals.
> But it also means there's nothing to lose and everything to gain by buying links for your own domain.

Well, nothing to lose except money: to discourage this, you just have to have links-of-unknown-quality produce no benefit, and links-with-positive-quality provide positive value; this is better than links of unknown value providing positive value and links with negative quality providing negative value.
Release 1.1 that will contain a lot of polish will come out in November and will then be launched in Eastern Europe on Telenor markets.
This might also fit the bill. Unfortunately, ebay or an overseas order are probably the only options. From what I could tell it uses topre switches.

http://www.personal-media.co.jp/utronkb/
Well, it's $50, but here:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Virgin+Mobile+-+PCD+Chaser+No-Co...
TKF's Emacs IPython Notebook is definitely worth checking out. Allows you to create and edit IPython notebooks in emacs, with inline graphics.
The difference is that search-as-you-type is immediately obvious that it's occurring. Unless there is an obvious user cue that their typing is being sent immediately across the network, I'd consider this more scary than helpful.
Thanks so much for the info! I will be sure to get in touch once I get a bit more acquainted with my role!
Brett,
we looked at this more like instant search results (similar to what most search engines do already) where the server updates the results as the user types into the query box. The human operator does increase the privacy questions, though.
Ask HN: I want to build an alternative to Yelp.com
Recently, I feel that Yelp is good as a directory listing, but getting worse for reviews.

Some of the problems:
+ The quality Yelp Elites (full disclaimer I am one) are getting worse and worse. To let you guys know, Yelp Elites get priority sorting whenever reviews are displayed.

I've met several elites who review things who aren't that knowledgeable or who even haven't eaten at a given restaurant.

+ Review average is skewed

I feel that the reviews should be based on a rolling 6 month average to give businesses a chance. Those who start off with bad reviews, but eventually get better should not get penalized with their initial launch.

+ Yelp's 'premium service' are a bit dodgy

I know that this area is a bit vague, but I have several restaurant friends who have been called by Yelp to get a 'premium service', so they can choose what reviews to highlight. But what people say is what Yelp can do is help 'raise' your review average through a premium service.

What I am thinking I would like to launch is the follows

+ Provide a structured review format

I would provide a review template that hopefully businesses would find more useful. For example, 3 text boxes with: "the good", "the bad", "and what can be improved." The goal would to actually provide input some your local business can get better.

+ Change average display system

I would introduce the ability for users to view the averages on things like a rolling 6 month window (as indicated before), or other metrics to show how the businesses is doing through time

+ Business Analytics

For businesses, I would rather work with them so they can extract their daily reputation easier so they can track what is going on. They would get a weekly report on things they can improve on, and their ratings.

Ideas/thoughts/comments?
Justices say police can take DNA upon arrest
From what I remember, Wave had it optional as they even said themselves a lot of people were uncomfortable with the idea of people seeing their train of thought (and mistakes). It's an interesting idea but it's a horrible way to treat the user.
If you have no balance in your life, is it because startups are that hard, or because you have no balance? (Yes, it's a tautology, or perhaps recursion) Is the startup just a means of running away from other things by running toward something else? Is it fundamentally different from, say, alcoholism, or serial monogamy, or any other semi-consciously self-destructive behavior?

Of course, there are sacrifices to be made. But ultimately, it's about priorities. If your startup is SO important that you're losing your health or your marriage, then there's something wrong with how you're prioritizing. The startup can still get MOST of your time (like any career), but without ruining you.
Yeah. Where, oh where, have all the slaves gone? Why, back in the day, you could get yourself a whip and some shackles and you'd be set for life. Now these goddamn lowlifes have choices and the law agrees with them. Why, they can walk off a job for mistreatment and still be paid for it! WELFARE. Big, crowding, intrusive government getting all up in my business.

I don't pay you trash to think. I pay you to work at scale!
Google Instant has instant feedback based on what you type, which quickly and easily cements the idea that Google is processing what you type as you type it.

The demo in the video doesn't have any instant feedback, so doesn't continually reinforce the idea that intermediate data is being sent.
Well, technically, in this case since the response from the server doesn't matter, this has always been possible. There are lots of pre-AJAX ways to send data to a server from JavaScript, including requesting Images (which is what Google Analytics uses) and generating dynamic iframes.