skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not actually seeing v4.0 available in the Google Play store. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram....)

EDIT:

Now the Play Store page is saying "CURRENT VERSION:
Varies with device"

I haven't seen that before. It's not letting me install it on my Galaxy Nexus as of yet. Is there a list of devices that the latest version of Instagram works on?

Edit 2:

Looking at Instagram in the Play Store app on my phone, the description is saying that it's supported on devices with Jellybean (4.1) and above. My Galaxy Nexus is rooted, and I'm running a custom ROM of 4.2.2.... but it is still not allowing me to install v4.0 of Instagram. Strange.
Men built X-ray gun to shoot Israel opponents
A working solution is to make the government provide the benefits, which is what Scandinavian countries tend to do.
Resistance is just one possible evolutionary response. Avoidance is another.
Part of the NSA's surveillance program was already found to be illegal and the executive branch classified the court's ruling:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2013/06/court-finds-nsa-surveilla...

How screwed up is that?
Not really. This would be a prime example of a negative externality, or a cost which results from an activity or transaction and which affects an otherwise uninvolved party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
"We haven’t had a really capital-intensive war in a long time, and while that’s obviously great, I am always astonished when I read about how much real innovation has involved the military or national security—it’s hard to get effectively unlimited budgets and focus any other way."

This "fact" bothers me. War causes such huge devastation, and yet the focus of this article is on innovation for its own sake. If you are going to write about the benefits of war, you should at least mention its cost.
I actually really enjoyed their introduction video, I feel like it captured the human emotion aspect well.

Kudos to you Facebook.
Big Data as a Service: Is the World Ready?
Technically not Forbes though, a forbes.com blogger.

I don't get why they keep running the thing though, it's systematically garbage, are the hits so much more important than the forbes brand?
The biggest issue I've got with this is at the beginning many goalposts are set and our lack of performance is then paraded out without any regard to how silly they are.

The author bemoans that we haven't done better than the jet engine, but honestly we're probably as far along the mechanical design of that problem domain as possible. The fact is, in very many fields, fuck, we've hit them to death. Concrete is pretty well understood, as is analog electronics. Some fields are simple innovated-out, and all that's left is making them more efficient or cheaper or simply more widely deployed.

(This fact, incidentally, is why I ended up doing computer stuff instead of being a mechanical engineer.)
IRONY

Use "Viemo" to promote your video platform :)
Good idea, I'll think about that. It's not that much of a success though (not even near Stuart's app), but I guess it's a good start for a first app without any marketizing strategy.
Any sort of improvement over current antibiotics would be a godsend as the idea of antibiotic-resistance "superbugs" is arguably a ticking timebomb that presents an existential threat to modern society.

Right now the most common antibiotics we have (eg penicillin + synthetic derivatives) use a B-lactam ring to disrupt cell wall production. Now we start to see bacteria that are resistant to this attack, eg MRSA (Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus), that in worst-case scenarios make even simple surgical procedures life-threatening.

Then we bring in the big guns, things like Vancomycin that disrupt cell wall production using different methods. But then we start to see Vancomycin-resistant microorganisms. So governments limit Vancomycin use so as to not give bacteria the opportunity to evolve and develop resistance. Thus drug manufacturers are unwilling to research new antibiotics because they can't make a profit off of restricted-access antibiotics.

So it's largely a game of cat and mouse that could very well result in a deadly worldwide epidemic. New ways of looking at the problem such as the one described in the article could, without even being hyperbolic, save billions of lives.
Between meaningless endorsements, constant spam-like "content", aggressively sending invitations without users' permission (nearly hidden opt-in check boxes don't count as permission), and giving recruiters (who pay substantially) immense access to everyone's information... the amount of trust and respect I have for LinkedIn has eroded significantly.
If it's based on a karma threshold, I haven't reached it yet, which would mean that the bar is fairly high.
Linking your ability to see a doctor for a reasonable fee to your ability to find a decent employer strikes me as a monumentally short-sighted decision (if one was ever really made) on our part.
If you're confident about managing your own server and installing your own software for it, DigitalOcean are superb.
I'd obviously choose no war over war, as would anyone sane. Just trying to point out a potential cause for the apparent slowdown.
This isn't generic "mobile video". This is short video clips, pretty much the same as Vine is doing.
Ember vs. Angular
Funny. That introduction video is on Vimeo.
At best, he's engaging in the typical "tell both sides" fallacy where sanity and insanity are given equal footing. At worst, he's engaging in disingenuous "I'm not saying this is true, but here are a bunch of very suggestive, selective facts".

Start with the crazy headline. Then read the first paragraph, where he says it "looks weird". Then read the second paragraph where he uncritically accepts eyewitness testimony that "It sounded like a bomb went off" to mean there was an actual literal explosion. You have to get pretty far down before he mentions anything non-crazy.

This is like an article about the Apollo program titled "Admit it, the moon landing is weird" that says, "The lack of stars in the supposed photographs from the moon's surface is telling. A writer from a photography site addresses this and says that the stars would be very clear on the moon's surface, due to the lack of an atmosphere. Furthermore, radiation from the Van Allen belts would have killed the astronauts before they arrived. However, a commenter who claims to have been involved in the space program doesn't agree that these are problems."

Sounds like the guy was probably driving drunk and way too fast and got himself killed in a sadly routine way. If the conspiracy theorists have any merit, then they need to present something more compelling than the mundane explanation. Nothing in this article comes even close. By presenting the crazy as if it were just "both sides", then saying "I am not advancing a theory", he's being ridiculous.
I'm as big of a skeptic as they come, but after reading the article, I don't think they're talking about colloidal silver. Rather "silver — in the form of dissolved ions".
Surveillance is orthogonal to camps. They could build the camps first and start dumping in undesirables and then start surveillance immediately after, for all we know.
That was incredible to see!
EDIT:
It's only for iPhone 4S and 5? http://help.instagram.com/261882563951635 (damnit)
What about phalcon (http://phalconphp.com/)? Which reminds me of two things:

[] TechEmpower Benchmark Round 6 was due today, but it was re-scheduled to the 25th
[] Symfony should remove High Performance from their homepage title.
Downloaded it, the interface actually feels very nice. I like the ability to remove the last recorded section from your video and that you can choose a cover image.

Seems like an improvement. Adding video to their app doesn't feel like a clone (though it is) but a logical extension and I am sure many people will be happy to use this. It's unfortunate that twitter still won't allow for previews of these items.

I know vine is not going anywhere but this puts them in a weird spot.
I think this will take over Vine. People are already on Instagram for photos but now they won't have to open up another app for videos.
While this is true, you can't deny that what this article is showing is almost exactly what was innovative about Vine. The short, hold-to-film, no edit clips originated with Twitter's product.

That being said, I'm not excited about this update. I love Instagram, but mostly for it's simplicity; the number of vines on my Twitter feed worth watching is astonishingly low, and this will only produce, IMO, more content not worth watching.
It's accepted by those who benefit and don't get (directly) harmed and those who do get harmed don't get a say. See negative externalities and tragedy of the commons.
Why on earth would anyone think tying healthcare to your employer is a good idea?

Surely care should be available to all - if you are the CEO of a fortune 500, a temp at Walmart or even unemployed.
Somewhat cynically, one could observe that the costs of war are transient while the benefits of the spin-off technology are not. The lives saved by the development of airfoils and communications and medicine far outweigh the piles of bodies.

Then again, it is interesting to note that the more absolute the war, it seems, the better the long-term payoff.
Google Play now supports staged roll-outs, so it may not be available to everyone right away.
To be fair, it's really not like Instagram had never considered doing video up until Vine came out. Hell, I'm sure every high schooler had the idea of "Instagram for video"; it's a very accessible, logical progression from Instagram-style photos.
I think you got it wrong. The exchanges may be a first step in separating healthcare from employers. If I can buy into an exchange there is less risk for me. The risk is spread throughout the exchange. As a want-a-be entrepreneur I think the current system stinks
"PDF is excellent for presenting information on the web"

Except when you want to link to somewhere in the middle of it, or view it on a resource-constrained device, or reflow the text to a window size of your own choosing, or or or...

More here: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumpt...
Linking basic* health care to employment as a default is ridiculously stupid. There is no real relation between a person's health and their job.

You can either view basic health care as a benefit to society as a whole, like a highway or a fire truck, and socialize it, or you can view it as a product for sale.

Viewing it as a benefit of a particular employment is not logical. This is like trying to mandate that your employer pay for your car insurance... there is no connection of mutual benefit.

Basic health care needs to be connected to the individual, while "extended health care" (or additional options, etc) can certainly be offered as a benefit. The employer does have an interest in you getting back to work faster, being in better health than the average, reducing the stress of your medical issue, etc, etc.

Interestingly enough, a socialized (single payer/universal, etc.) system of basic health care with privatized add on's and extras is basically the way every civilized society on the planet operates except the USA.

*You can define "basic" differently, but for my argument I mean a level of care that ensures a respectable level of heath is maintained... usually it is simply seeing health care as a human "right" and therefore not subject to withholding by the state or other actors.
So, essentially nothing can ever be CP, not even a single node, since browsers and humans will never wait forever for something, correct?
The author said that's his next step.
Undoubtedly, but Obamacare could still accelerate the process.

As state-mandated benefits go up, the marginal utility that an employee has to provide to be company asset go up proportionally.
We're talking about anonymity, not secrecy.
It has a search field I will never use. It has social media buttons I will never use (because if I wanted to share this I would just copy/paste the URL). It has a "more" button that I will never use also.

Social buttons are doubly unnecessary in the floating toolbar since you already find social buttons at the end of the article.
Abracadabra!
Yeah. I guess now all those app review sites will cover his app.
Synchronize the contacts and calendar of your Blackberry 10 with OwnCloud
>Interesting. I wonder what would account for the difference in experience? Maybe newer cars are more prone to that? Maybe traffic in your area is moving faster... are the accidents where you've seen this typically on a freeway / interstate, or a secondary road or what?

I suspect that you're right that it's a combination of newer vehicle construction (cars designed to 'fail' in order to protect the occupants), and speed. Most of the collisions I've seen this happen on aren't on freeways, but they are on 55mph county roads (where the average rate of travel is often closer to 65mph).
Yeah you aren't gonna be there that long. They know it. And you know it. So why pretend like you'll move to management when they already have managers? From Engineer to Sales? Not unless you suck, then they may move you around - I've seen that happen to some people a few times
That's very unfortunate. I really wish that stuff like this would take a greater priority.
Powerpoint slides of unverified origin I don't think quite meets the burden of proof that Google is complicit or even involved in anything. They are just that: Powerpoint slides.
Facebook temporarily blocked access from TOR, but not Intentionally
It was actually a very close ruling (5-4) that hinged on whether "regulating interstate commerce" gave the power to the government to compel people to participate in commerce.

Personally, I disagree with the Wickard v. Filburn ruling that gave the power to the government to control what a farmer grows on his own land to feed to his own cattle under the "interstate commerce" power. The Constitution was distorted beyond any reasonable reading of the English language during the FDR administration and we never recovered.

The Republic is dead, FDR killed it. It's just taken us awhile to get used to living in a totalitarian state. Well, here we are.
Node-webkit: make desktop apps with HTML5
Because It is longer than 15 seconds.
Reflexive skepticism just limits our ability to think. We don't need more of it. We need intelligent people to debunk conspiracy theories, not just say 'that smells like a conspiracy theory'.
I swear every single product launch or redesign announcement these days uses the word beautiful.
>> After two or three years, your ability to perform at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you required in college are very different. You’re also fundamentally a different person. You learn and grow, you think about things differently.

While the analysis is correcting some beliefs about interviewing techniques, do I sense them draw a conclusion again not supported by data? How did they conclude the lack of correlation is "because" the skills required are different and people think differently a few years out from college.
Pinterest Will Need a $5 Billion-Plus Acquisition
P.S. Can I hire you for my copy editor? ;)
What are nice places to isolate a team and focus on building a product?
I wonder how Vine will fight back. Will they now also include pictures ? ;)

Anyways, I feel I'm being played by all the media attention that this got. Since when an app update gets all this attention ? Are we getting so superficial that this stuff really gets so many spotlights ?

It's not even a new app or anything disruptive, it's just Vine on Instagram with edition mode.
The genes for penicillin resistance predate the use of penicillin as an antibiotic. Perhaps there are genes which confer silver resistance which will be increasingly expressed as silver is used as a treatment.
It might be interesting to persist snapshots to S3. It might be usable for small projects on Heroku/etc with ephemeral storage. It could be patched here (?) [1], but clearly there'd be a lot of issues with the long network call, how often to do it, how durable it really is, etc.

1: https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb/blob/b1abd34384cefea16...
I'm not crazy about this. Will videos just automatically appear in my feed- and start playing? If they play with the volume up that's going to get irritating (and bandwidth heavy).

My reaction in general is the same as the tagging feature- I'd prefer it didn't have it, as I like Instagram as a service for almost taking abstract photos (landscapes, patterns) than of me and my friends on nights out. But I also realise that it is inevitable, what with them being owned by Facebook.
BProwd.com organizes open source developers to create profitable projects where each contributor gets an equity split on the project.
Break it down into pieces. And then do that again. until it is manageable. Then kill those tasks one by one
Finally, a way to get rid of my old, hazardous, household chemicals and get paid at the same time!
There is no hope if that's the extent of the “solution”, no meaningful work will come in the form of more politics and oppression.

The only reasonable conclusion is that to stop the bloodshed and invasion, one must stop supporting the oppressors.

You are quite literally paying many thousands of thugs to fly to the middle east and support a paedophilic, incompetent, oppressive regime which directly hurts people's lives.
At home you're paying many more thousands to pick on people carrying small amounts of plant trimmings, specifically targeted by the colour of their skin.
Those people are then sent to buildings and force fed in contract-incestuous CEO-laden prisons with an economic incentive to cost more money to their handlers.

Aggression is the problem, and paying people to use it against you, or anyone else for that matter, is probably not going to help.
AFAIK you can't actually eat "real" Fugu in any but the most select places. What you get as Fugu is a domesticated / non poisonous version usually.
There are no taxes if you spend it all.

And as a person who runs what you think of as a "real" company, I still don't like the sentiment that people who are trying aren't real companies.
We are regular people just like you. Connect with us, open up, share a story, take us for a ride. It's a lot harder than it sounds, but it's worth it. I would have thought this was one of your golden rules.
I've lived and worked in Australia and Canada for many years.

In Australia, everyone gets sufficient basic care from taxes, and if you want, you can buy extended care. It has nothing to do with your employer.

In Canada, everyone gets very basic care from taxes, and if you want, you can buy extended care, or your employer might do that for you (implied: If you're lucky).

After living and working under both systems, I find giving my employer power over my healthcare to be a nasty draconian measure that I don't like at all, and I see no benefits.
That seems to be what's happening at the moment. I initially assumed this announcement would cause a panic sell-off, instead it seems as if a lot of users are now converting their USD back into BTC in light of the hiatus. The exchange rate has ticked up pretty steadily as a result.
Propaganda/PR is not just a tool for the government and corporations. I have to give Snowden credit for that, at least.
In my experience in the State of California -- mostly from the government side -- the rule is that there are, for each contract put to bid, rating factors and criteria established upfront and you must hire the contractor that scores the highest on those rating factors. That's not usually equivalent to taking the lowest bid.

That being said, this:

> Even then, the companies aren't really rewarded for doing a good job. They're rewarded for doing a minimal job that barely meets the requirements and using as much money as they can.

...is certainly an issue, especially, as is often the case, where reimbursement is based on hours and the contract amount is a limit, so that the incentive is to assure that as many hours are consumed as possible up to the limit.
It seems to stop working after I use it after a while. Is this a bug or intended?
> Peanuts are fatal to some people, yet we eat them all the time.

Peanuts are banned from most schools.

> Another one is Fugu fish, which I personally ate at a restaurant, and which are known to be deadly if not prepared correctly.

That applies to most foods, e.g. tomatoes, rhubarb, etc.

When is the last time you had chicken-of-the-woods in a restaurant though? Oh wait, never. Because 90% of people find them delicious, but the other 10% cyanose and then start projectile vomiting and shitting themselves. Of course on your own that's not a big deal because you just bioassay it on yourself first, but in a restaurant that doesn't work.
canterburry,

Thanks for the comments. We have actually been running a lot of this setup for 1.5 months now with no real time spent on repair/patching, etc. To be fair, we are using heroku for most of the open source apps, which makes it a little easier to deal with.
The same list of riddle questions has been circulating for at least twenty years. Before Google existed, it was credited to Microsoft. I know they've been explicitly banned at Google for many years, and have seen no evidence that they were ever in common use at either company.
The problem is that quality healthcare didn't become an entitlement over night. For many, many years most (all?) people didn't have access to quality healthcare. Over time more and more people got access to quality healthcare until the number of people reached a critical point where people decided they were entitled to it. Before it was viewed as an entitlement it made sense for businesses to offer it as a perk.
As far as I can tell, they kept the app free for a small amount of time after the 24 hours was up, and paid us for those downloads. I was never sure I interpreted the data right though.
Tonight: Mobile Payments, Bitcoin and the Law (Palo Alto, CA)
For those who don't know me, I'm Aaron Greenspan, CEO of Think Computer Corporation. My company is behind two federal lawsuits concerning money transmission laws. I'll be giving a talk/book signing that will focus on the regulatory hurdles facing mobile payments companies, including Bitcoin exchanges.

Register for free at http://legalforce52.eventbrite.com. Hope to see you there!
LeaseWeb explains why it deleted Kim Dotcom's MegaUpload data
Vast methane 'plumes' seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats
Quantum Computing Firm D-Wave Systems Announces 100 U.S. Patents Granted
Some short code snippets which use all JavaScript keywords
Because it's BEAUTIFUL, duh, Captain Obvious!

add a sarcastic voice to this message
"It’s harder to raise money for software companies working on uncertain, long-term, high-reward projects (like AI)."

That's because "AI" doesn't exist.

Are there people working on computer vision? Yes.

Are there people working on speech recognition? Yes.

Are there people working on robotics? Yes.

Are there people working on computers that answer questions? Yes.

Plus far too many applications of "data mining", "big data", "machine learning" to mention here.

Lots of people making lots of money on all of these things (or at least starting companies to try). But I guess none of those things are "AI".
I remember when I was learning web development how "Accessibility" was kind of a feature to enhance your product. I wonder if anyone even considers it these days. Seems like the mad rush to push out a barely-working product would leave people with disabilities on the sidelines.