skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment is going to be down voted into oblivion but I think startups ignore Windows Phone and BBZ10 at their own peril.

I currently own a WP8 and it's a lustworthy phone. I see a lot of opportunities for app developers. I'm hearing good things about the Z10 too and friends are buying it. Not many apps though. Not much competition it seems.

Reminds me of the saying "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
>no one plugs anything into my computer.

I believe the same, including vice versa for that matter. (That is, I would never plug a phone into somebodies computer.)
Arrington is considered a VC now? Yikes.
I really just wish they improve the darn search feature. It's just lowsy for pretty much anything but a small project.
Encrypting something multiple times doesn't necessarily make something more secure. In some cases it can decrease the effectiveness of the protocols in use, but it really depends on what encryption is used and how it is used.

> The danger here is that the person running the lahana node can read all your traffic after it is decrypted for them.

So if I understand this correctly, if you're in a country with a government that monitors traffic and you connect to a malicious public lahana node that monitors traffic, run by the same government then your traffic is compromised?

But if you run your own lahana node, then it's not (excluding questions about whether or not Amazon have the ability to go into a node for example)?

Sorry if it sounds like I'm being daft I'm just trying to understand the specifics here, so I can figure out ways to address them (if they fall within the scope of lahana, vs traditional Tor uses).
Like the guys selling "get rich with real estate/day trading/etc" why would they sell money generating device instead of just using the device themselves?
Ah, I was assuming you were a developer. As a sysadmin what you're getting is less surprising. Not great for a senior, by any means, but not so much of a ripoff compared to market rates, since sysadmins always get screwed. :)
You mean the G20 riots in Pittsburgh, PA in 2009?

Here's some information on those protests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_G-20_Pittsburgh_summit#Pro...

Those were much smaller, and the reaction from the authority there seems to have been harsh, but not much like what the pictures I've seen have represented the violence in Turkey. Those riots also seem to come in the form of the economically disenfranchised, where what's happening in Turkey has religious undertones, which in my subjective opinion gives it a more powder-keg feel.
I agree that a self-driving car is much harder on the basis that it has to handle other cars alone.

With that being said, a small drone like this is harder than it looks for a couple reasons.

First, there's not enough payload capacity for a good, accurate IMU. You're stuck using lightweight but awfully noisy MEMS gyros and accelerometers along with drifty barometers.

Plus, there's not enough payload capacity for an off the shelf LIDAR or other long-range depth sensing. That means detecting obstacles needs to be delegated to 2D imagers plus CV algorithms, with some short-range depth sensing. IR ToF like a Kinect 2 or even a grid-based approach like a Kinect 1 might work in a favorable environment, but I wouldn't trust it outdoors even at close range.

If I had to build a pizza-delivery drone, I'd use a bottom-facing camera like the AR.Drone does to try to provide a position reference independent of the bad MEMS gear, and I'd use CV algorithms combined with a last-ditch short-range obstacle sensor (like IR or ultrasound) to attempt to avoid obstacles. Once I got to the destination, I'd delegate landing to a pilot, since "finding the front door" is a surprisingly hard problem.
Hardware access is root access.
The problem is centuries and millennia are but fragments of time compared to the entire life of the universe...so it's kind of like the ant analogy of a colony in San Fran looking for one in Paris, but only looking from 2:10 pm and 5 seconds to 2:10 pm and 5.1 seconds. Even less than that, probably.
20% tax gets you up to 320 Euros, and then you still have 50€ mystery fun charge.
I guess I didn't consider that aspect. I have to concede this point.
there is an official gradle support (still a work in progress): http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-gui... .
seriously, what did zunga do/make ?
20. Hire people that you could describe as animals.

Maybe he means you can describe each person as an animal according to his or her personality. People with strong personality can be easily associated with some kind of animal, so this advice basically guides you to hire an interesting group of people.
Will this simplify App building enough to where a novice could build it now?
Possibly, but look at the picture of the sliced out tendon. ACL replacement is an inherently complicated operation, from a highly skilled practitioner. The take-away from that is: you can't afford to play a dangerous sport like rugby if $5-7k is financially crippling.
It was over-priced at $.01, apparently
Either way, C99 in Visual C++ isn't happening, so why beat a dead horse?
Yes, but I mean they don't just come and disconnect your premesis.
How to use CSS Filter Effects on iOS with MobileSafari
GOV.UK - Not Your Father's Stack
Sploder.com Terms of Service (funny?) line
Is last sentence a common idiomatic english expression used in formal license description contexts, or are they being a little bit over protective there? :)

Sploder.com retains ownership of the game engine and all source code, SWF bytecode, graphics, artwork, ideas and concepts presented on and in conjunction with the site. Levels created by users remain the property of the user. By creating or submitting User Content you are granting Sploder.com unlimited license to host, cache, store, maintain, use, reproduce, publish, distribute, display, exhibit, broadcast, transmit, modify, create derivative works of, adapt, reformat, translate, and otherwise exploit your Submitted User Content in part or in total throughout the universe through any medium.
Sure, and it may also be legal to use deadly force to defend yourself when the cops execute a warrant against the wrong address, which happens to be yours. People have been acquitted of murder charges for killing police officers executing their lawful duties in exactly those circumstances.

That won't make you any less dead should they respond in kind.
"Our FarmVille franchise teams continue to innovate and deliver ground breaking new social experiences like County Fair"

I'm not sure he knows what innovation means
I am really interested in this, and it's great news what mozilla is doing especially for the open web. Hopefully, their entire OS will be open source, so I can get a smartphone/tablet that's entirely open source. I'm also interested in the javascript element. With asm.js, node.js, webgl, and this javascript is becoming more and more of a serious language every day.

However, I am curious, has mozilla published any docs or emulator for developers to write applications and test before launch?

EDIT: Found it: https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/docs/firefox_os_s...
As an aside, this is why the US should have longer mandatory holiday. Taking a vacation would be the last thing on my mind if I was laid off, but our country has 5 weeks of semi-paid holidays a year.

Good luck with your decision, I'm sure you'll land on your feet.
Unmanaging change - working faster at Yammer by getting smaller and letting go
More relevant than you might think...

In defense of the Google chef (2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3223595

http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/11/in-defense-of-google-chef...
I'm guessing adoption of 2012 is fairly low.
Not sure how many wouldn't exist, many were doing mail order back in the day. But now they are forced online if they want to remain in the game.
Show HN: Urban Dictionary on your command-line
This was an afternoon project.
I really like codeschool.com
My small mouth
Facebook remove pages for trademark dispute, but never for cyberbullying?
I think the fundamental difference is that a container is built from the _outside_ (the way you would build an executable), whereas a box is configured from the _inside_ (the way you configure a physical computer). Docker is designed for the former, and Chef is designed for the latter.

What causes the confusion, I think, is Docker's premise that the best executable format for software is a virtual computer encapsulating all of the program's dependencies. Because of this, the software you're running starts looking a lot like the computer it's running on - because they're both computers! It's just computers running on computers running on computers, or as Alan Kay liked to say it, "Real Computers All The Way Down" [1].

I believe things are bound to get more confusing for a while, but the result I believe will be one of computing's most exciting development.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/352182/z_programming...
Ah yes I remember this post (and many ex-Googlers coming to his defense)

Ironic that his restaurant is only so-so wrt bang for the buck.
If this were an actual service how would they handle people interfering with the drone en route or during the delivery?
Ask HN: Applying self-service kiosks as those in domestic flights to hospitals
I want your feedback on the following being a good idea to pursue.

Preface:

I remember a time when checking in into a domestic flight involved people looking at your plane tickets, checking ID, baggage etc

Now has been automated away by self-service kiosks, and for those who have not experienced it yet, here are some probably relevant snippets:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577567501420272414.html

http://www.futuretravelexperience.com/2011/06/could-automatic-check-in-herald-the-end-of-the-boarding-pass/#

Proposal and RFC:

How about applying the concept of self-service kiosks to the field of medicine (specially regular checkups or routine followups)?

My typical experience at a medical provider is this:

1. I identify myself and the assistant at the reception looks up my appointment

2. I am then assisted to a waiting area where a nurse takes my blood pressure, weight, height etc (things that I am perfectly capable of doing myself given the appropriate instruments)

3. After an significant amount of time waiting etc I get to see my doctor.
A doctor meeting is only needed if I have something of concern. If this was a regular checkup or routine followup a doctor would not even be necessary and my blood, stool and/or urine would be taken, as was scheduled by the doctor.
Most of this I already have to do myself anyways after being directed by the nurse.

Instead of having assistants and nurses in the loop, why not introduce self-service kiosks instead and make the whole system more efficient?

I am not asking to replace the whole system with self-service kiosks, but atleast reduce this part of inefficiency (I am sure there are far more patterns if we looked closely enough but my appointments don't last more than an hour)

Has anyone attacked this problem before?

Is this a valid before worth solving?

How should I go about validating this idea and signing up customers?
You'd think that it should be "a lot less" for someone paying cash, but this is almost never the case (in the U.S., anyway). Insurers can threaten to remove a hospital from their network if the prices get too high. The hospital doesn't want to risk losing the large stream of sick/injured patients from the insurer, and usually couldn't care less about one person deciding to have surgery else for reasons of cost (edit: see last paragraph).

Individuals paying cash (and individuals without insurance) are generally stuck with the "sticker" price for care (higher than what private insurers pay, and significantly higher than what medicare pays (medicare basically gets to "declare" what they're willing to pay for a given procedure and hospitals generally have to go along with it or they'll lose some/all federal funding)).

It's usually very difficult to renegotiate the sticker price without an insurance provider or the government working on your behalf. If it's a time sensitive or life threatening procedure, you'll often have other more pressing action items than haggling over the price. It's even harder to negotiate after the fact, since hospitals make you sign away whatever bargaining rights you may have had before they'll agree to treat you.

[edit]

Finally, hospitals generate the bulk of their revenue from insured patients. They can and do quote higher prices to uninsured patients, but the fact remains that this is a fairly risky patient pool for the hospital, since many of these patients will sign whatever they need to sign in order to get treatment, despite being completely unable to pay the (relatively huge) prices quoted.

Hospitals have incentives to keep this pool as small as possible, and occasionally resort to extreme measures (legal or otherwise) to get rid of these patients [1]. Though the hospitals often aren't able to collect the full price from many of these patients, you would be naive to believe that they won't send collections agencies after you and utterly ruin your credit rating if you find yourself unable to pay.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646410/
It's a cool idea. I'm sure some would be tempted to capture and steal the drones as they made delivery—they can't be cheap. It will become the modern day equivalent of stealing a plastic milk cart—only you won't be building ugly book shelves with the drones. :)
This is a great tool - it's saved me hours of work.
> Sidenote: Does HN stop editing after a certain timeframe? I can't find a link to edit my original comment to add this.

Yup. The time frame is ~15 minutes, AFAICT. Same with deleting, though I think that's about an hour. Don't quote me on those numbers.
Location: Vancouver, Canada (yes, it looks like the postcards here when the sun is out)

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Sponsorship: Available for technical roles

Type of employment: Onsite, full-time

Categories: Web development and design, mobile, PaaS

What we're into: anything to do with making the web amazing on all devices (mobile optimization, performance optimization, image optimization)

Some of our open source projects: http://github.com/mobify or http://www.mobify.com/dev

Positions:

- Front-end engineers (JavaScript)
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You:

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- Get us excited when we see your code or work
- Have a good sense of humour
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> The machine shops I know will buy new tools as needed, but reuse them on large job runs--and throw them out once they lose tolerance.

Hospitals aren't machine shops, though, so it would be a significant additional cost to equip and staff them to evaluate tools for reuse.

There's also particular costs around requiring additional handling of used surgical tools rather than disposing of them that may not exist to the same extent with used machine tools.

And its quite possible that even breaing all those additional costs, a large percentage of tools would be out of tolerance or otherwise unusable after being used once, so you'd be paying the additional cost and still disposing of them.
As soon as I got this, I was properly braced for the forthcoming downsize (at a company I worked for years ago).
BTC is certainly intended to take on that role. Whether it can is the big question.

Note that barter isn't actually exempt from taxes at all. Transactions are taxed at the market value of the barter. People generally ignore this, but they only get away with it because the transactions are tiny. If e.g. Exxon started selling oil by barter, the IRS would take its share.
"90% less trolling" - where's the fun in that!
According to Wikipedia's article: "In 2011, Arrington founded a venture capital firm called CrunchFund along with M.G. Siegler and Patrick Gallaghar."

It seems to me that being a partner at a venture capital firm makes someone a VC. Why do you think otherwise?

BTW, from CNN: "CrunchFund itself has largely flown-under the radar. It doesn't even have a website."
Finally. I recently switched to a Galaxy S4 and lack of Vine was disheartening to me. I'm glad to finally see a popular app make its way into the worlds most popular app store. I wish more high-profile apps would launch with iOS and Android in mind instead of just iOS, us Android users love cool apps too.
"Considered"? "Now"? He launched a VC fund in 2011. Are there other criteria to be met for being considered a VC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y43qwS8fl4 - Jeff Hawkins recent talk at Google with Kurzweil in the audience asking questions.
I've gotten a meeting invite at 9am for a org-wide all-hands at 10am that day. Always a bad sign.

Since I hadn't left for the office yet, I was able to quickly change into my black "WTF?" shirt from Thinkgeek, and still make it in time to find out that our VP and four layers of management below him had been nuked from orbit.
I'm not sure what 3+ months' salary is for you, but I was able to live for a year in NW Thailand for $20k. I wouldn't be the person I am today had I not done that.
This comment is contentless. It doesn't address a single specific thing the article says. Instead it offers woolly generalities ("Japan was threatened on many fronts and made the best choice it could. That much is clear") and platitudes ("all of the actions, taken together, were the reason for the war to end. Yes, Stalin played a big role. But it's not an either-or situation"). It sounds like it's saying something; indeed, it sounds like it's saying something wise and avuncular. But I've read it three times and can't find a single part that is saying anything at all, other than where it repeats exactly the bromide about how the Pacific war ended that the OP is critiquing ("dropping the bombs on Japan saved millions of both Japanese and allied lives. It served as a quick end to a long war")—ironically, right after it says "Nobody is finding comfort in simplistic stories". If you're going to respond to a critique, shouldn't you answer what it actually says?

It's unfair to put the article in the same bucket as "UFO stories". No one who has read it (and is being fair) would describe it as "speculation". It isn't anything like counterfactual fan fiction. Almost the entire piece does nothing but cite facts, such as: the dropping of the nuclear bombs does not figure significantly in historical records of the Japanese leadership's discussion about surrender; the Japanese war council decided on August 8 not even to discuss the Hiroshima bombing; damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not out of scale with the earlier fire-bombings of other cities; Japanese leaders had expressed a willingness to sacrifice their cities if necessary; Japan's war strategy was predicated on the Soviets staying neutral; and so on. Are these wrong? If so, how? Are there other, more important facts omitted? If so, what are they?

The negative responses to this article so far are so insubstantial that they form a defense of it by omission. I'm very curious now to hear a credible counterargument. Surely there is one?
Even assuming that's true, the universe of crimes you're talking about is probably mostly disjoint from the universe of crimes that involve "cold cases" where DNA evidence could help.
Coding at the Speed of Thought: C# async videos
In fact, in the link you provide, the 7559 euros also cover 75 sessions of physical therapy, a nurse coming at home every working day during a month and various drugs.

It would be interesting to have a global comparison (operation+therapy).

Here, the operation including all appointments before is about 5274 euros.
"9. In the current pivot-happy world, good ideas are underweight. It’s worth the time to think through a good one."

I really didn't understand this one - mainly the first sentence. Can anyone (sama?) elaborate?
> Because you are arguing that the means justify the end here.

An engineer would couch this as designing a system to achieve the desired results.
What I really want is epaper that can refresh fast/high-res enough to code with pen input. Any idea if this will ever happen?
My thoughts exactly. For controlled situations where the photographer can dictate the subject's distance, pose, and lighting, I'm sure an iPhone would do just fine. But often, a photojournalist finds themselves in a situation where the environment is beyond their control: a concert with a laser light show, fast-moving athletes in action, or coverage of a natural disaster where your distance requires a telephoto shot.

Don't get me wrong - I use my iPhone's camera frequently and I think it's great. But as a photojournalist where your story (and your livelihood) depends on "getting the shot", you need to be knowledgeable and prepared to shoot in the worst conditions possible. The iPhone can do some awesome things, but you just can't fake good glass with software.

Full disclosure: I sell event photos to my local newspaper that I could not have gotten at all if I had used my smartphone.
If you turn off stylesheets, you can even read the text.
I would love to see more non-technical/semi-technical posts on the thread as well...

Most of the companies that I've dug into from the "Who's Hiring" thread seem to have non-tech jobs open once you get to their site and poke around but they don't seem to get posted on the thread.
Adding /admin/ as a wink to Django developers
Automated Facebook systems block brain cancer survivor from using his account
Given how good your average teenage layabout is at video games, I'm not sure that making the leap to drones would be all that hard!

That's mostly tongue-in-cheek, but not entirely - the sorts of spatial awareness and hand-eye coordination skills that kids develop playing video games directly translate to fly-by-wire systems.

(The downside, of course, is that teenagers are easily bored and easily amused, and may be prone to wrecking expensive company drones doing barrel rolls and buzzing their friends.)
Really surprised they are getting away with 4.0 and later. That would be like a dream come true for me to make an app that only supports those versions.
It's not foolproof, but it does have a camera attached to it and presumably a tracking device.
Keep in mind that this is the group that thinks de-prioritizing 64-bit windows builds is a-okay while at the same time they need 64-bit windows machines running 32-bit linkers to build their 32-bit windows binaries. ...phew, what a mouthfull.

Mozilla has never struck me as the most... forward looking.
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Vine is down
> Whenever you're creating a function, you're defining a
> verb in your domain-specific implementation.

Yes. And by virtue of it being a function, i.e. a first-class operator in the language I'm working in, I also know _prima facie_ the semantics, cost, and implication of that verb.

This is critical and necessary knowledge. And it's precisely the knowledge that I _don't_ get (immediately) when I use a DSL. I have to know both the semantics of the verb within the context of the DSL, and the semantics of the DSL (as a whole!) in the context of my programming language.

That additional step is, more often than not, a significant burden. I'm disinclined to bear it, no matter how facially elegant it may make the solution.

> The real discussion should be - in what contexts do you
> really need re-usability and/or composability and/or
> succinctness? Not always, I'll grant you that.

This is a disingenuous framing of the problem.
cal works on most Unix systems, but is not part of Windows (is there a Powershell equivalent?)
If you don't have cygwin (or similar) installed, these types of one-liners have saved me a number of times for quick hacks on Windows systems.
I believe it is tied to the OS release:
http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2...