skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The basic thought here is that there's a ton of energy in our environment, specifically in the form of high-amplitude RF waves from TV broadcasts, and we should be able to use that energy to do work.

This project is trying to figure out what the equivalent of an rfid tag looks like with that power model. They come up with a scheme of being able to absorb versus reflect the ambient signal to communicate between unpowered tags. Maybe the most productive way to think about this is as a step into the larger research area of how to effectively harvest energy and do useful stuff with devices that don't need batteries.
Yes, a many-year-old effort called SFLan in San Francisco: http://archive.org/web/sflan.php
Words that trigger DHS surveillance
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If only Super Wi-Fi could become a realty, mesh networks might become much more usable over large areas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Wi-Fi)
If I get a $270 check from the government every week (14K/year), what incentive do I have robbing a gas station, which will probably have less than half my weekly pay in the till (unless of course I carefully time my robbery).

It would be like a developer who makes ~$85K/year breaking into someones bank account online and transferring just $800 out. And consider the punishment of that crime versus armed robbery.

What you would likely see is people collecting wages off the books. People working odd jobs part time for maybe $250 a week and collecting their minimum income. Way less risk than crime; much better pay. This is bad, but nowhere near as bad as robbery or working the black market.
The Apple ad reminded me a lot of the Google Dear Sophie ad. Both were trying to tell the viewer "Hey, we are a part of your life and making it better." Except the Apple ad had to say it, while the Google ad showed it.

Show v Tell; show wins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vkVHijdQk
It's funny how people seem to want Apple to both stand still and invent the future at the same time.
You seem to be confusing a basic income with minimum wage, which is a completely different thing. The apple sellers are also receiving the basic income, so whilst you are free to raise your prices, others will not, and you will lose out.

Did people like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, who were proponents of a basic income, overlook this basic point, or is it in fact you who "doesn't understand capitalism" and is "smoking crack" (your words).

(I don't mean to be hostile, but your tone really doesn't help your argument.)
This is crazy talk. No countries are waiting until they see a prima facie case of harassment and then saying, "We've seen the facts and we're giving asylum!" Every country that could conceivably do that has weighed the damage to their relationship to the US and stayed well away.

I don't even think that the collection of Latin America would-be asylum-givers are very serious. In the most likely case, they are just grandstanding for their own reasons.
You seem to be conveniently ignoring the 5 other apple sellers in you hypothetical town, all who will gladly undercut your business. Or the fact that everyone in town now has a basic income, so starting a competing apple selling business is much less riskier, as they have the BI to fall back on if their venture fails.

More demand can raise prices, that is fair. But implementing a BI does not necessarily mean that we are getting rid of capitalism, a system that tends to keep the costs of goods close to the cost of production. Also, it's worth noting that BI would most likely replace current welfare systems, so the 'net' amount of money that is put back into the system would be smaller than you are probably expecting.
>no icing conditions

Icing in the fuel lines may be caused by fluid flowing through an orfice (pressure differential). All that is needed is water in the fuel.
A fun diversion. I got up to about level 6 or 7 before it 404'd on me. I hope they bring it back!
Since it has deterministic destructor and RAII is easy to implement, garbage collector is not needed. It works not only with memory allocation, but any other resource you need to release: mutex, serial port, window handle, file handle etc.
Also move schematics really helps with performance: create, copy & destroy can be avoided altogether. No garbage, nothing to collect. :)

BTW, Normally you should avoid "new" and "delete", only very special use cases need it.

Specifying the closure variables is optional and it is both for performance and encapsulation. You can specify "nothing", "everything by reference", "everything with copy", just some by copy or reference - mix & match.
If this is too much to start with then just copy everything with [=] and clean it up later if it turns out to be a bottleneck. The point is: you can save on cycles if you want to/have to.

If you think C++ is not a match for you, that's OK, there are plenty other languages.
You don't need performance all the time - some are OK with 400 queries/sec, others want 7,000 on the same server: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...
And most of the the rest own an absurdly tiny amount, like a few hundred dollars in a 401k plan.

A venture capitalist trying to get legal changes made by putting on a faux-populist claim of "it's for the middle class" is vomit-inducing.
Can someone explain this to me, please: Because IPOs democratize wealth creation and create jobs for the 99.9% of Americans who are unlikely to be the next Zuckerberg
I think a more interesting question that the article just briefly hints at is what will replace the smartphone, and when? If the phone is a PC, what's the laptop?
If you do not want ugly borders around links in latex:

\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/823/remove-ugly-borde...
So write it yourself if it's so important to you.

Can't please everyone.
Stop writing meaningful things on Facebook
There is video of every take off and landing. It is not released to the public.
I was thinking the same thing, then I realized while I may not feel the moms at the park are suspicious of me, I am more ware of my actions while there, and may even go so far as to say something out loud to make it clear I have a child present (for example, call out to my son or daughter from where I am).

The truth is, while they may not show any signs of being wary of me, I feel the need to assuage any concerns they might have, as if the fault is somehow mine, just by being male and present.

I'm not sure I've ever really examined it deeply before. it's eye-opening, to say the least.
There are plenty of folks who like to say they love Adam Smith but have either never read his works or seem to conveniently gloss over his very real problems with privilege and inequalities.

I really love him and Hume though, what amazing thinkers and especially ahead of their times!
This looks awesome, but I find it odd how similar things on HN seem to pop up in bunches. It's as if once one thing hits HN, a very similar thing is automatically submitted and promoted to front page. It's a fairly strange social dynamic to be sure.
Singapore Inquest Rules American Killed Himself
More of this Hollywood movie plot version of network security:

> The analyst can then decide what he wants to do - the computer of the target person does not belong to them anymore, it then more or less belongs to the U.S. government.

This is kind of like when he said:

> You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine.

Software types reading this stuff know that this is not how computer networks generally work. Maybe it is a dumbed-down reference to some sort of government malware. If so I would like to see more technical precision from Snowden before I can say that he has any chance of knowing what he's talking about.
The point of this interview was the manipulation of perceptions. Sandman is a guy whose job it is to do just that: manipulate perceptions, without regard for the reality (though if he does his job right, he's not directly lying).

OTM _is_ one of the better programs around, but it is, as the title states, "on" the media. That is, a reflexive looking at the media and how it covers issues.

It's mostly pretty good, though at times Brooke in particular strikes me as rather pointedly naive (with her cred and background, she really shouldn't be). I've got a copy of her comic/book The Influencing Machine, which is also mostly pretty good, though there were multiple occasions I wanted to reach through the page and shake Brooke.
Wait.. why is this in .au/australia Google only?

Roswell happened in New Mexico I thought.
No doubt. But we are still talking about a handful of people at most.

How many geeks have ownership of the roof of a tall building ?
Since the underlying storage system is based on a modified version of Tokyo Cabinet [0], I don't see why it wouldn't be appropriate for small apps where a discrete DB would be overkill.

[0] - http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/spex-en.html
If a site can show they have a lower percentage of adblock users than standard, it's a boon for them.

If I am not blocking their ads, there is a chance I'll see something that interests me and click on it.

You don't need to explicitly state "I will click ads every day" to make it not "dumb".
Ask HN: Alternatives for high end network monitoring
Looking for an alternative to things like Landscape, NewRelic - ideally something self-hosted, free, pretty. Something more user-friendly, less intimidating than Nagios.

Ideally, but not necessarily, multi platform client support.
When I was at university, there was a final year undergraduate project that used similar technology. In this case, the student was trying to build a passive radar jammer, which modulated the reflected radar signal in a way that the driver of a car could select what speed they wanted to appear on a traffic radar.

The method was to build a corner reflector out of three orthogonal conducting sheets, but to connect one of the sheets to ground via a PIN diode switch. By turning the diode on and off, the reflection coefficient of the corner reflector could be modulated, in turn modulating the reflected signal.
So it's not really some new uber-complex 'recycled communications network' as much as it is purely "Radio Solar Powered" ...
I am looking at website, I always thought this would be excellent way to communicate and if I can contribute somehow, I will. I see you are looking for people in higher buildings.

Mesh reminds me of the BBS scene I really loved, and kind of puts you in contact with your neighbors.
Right. As cheaper smartphones penetrate the developing world as the new globally dominant internet access and personal media consumption devices, they will provide huge potential for many people who have formerly been educationally marginalized to seek and impart information freely. That will also have some market changing potential, particularly in certain ubiquitous services.
Creatively share
Again, I must offer a disclaimer that I only read a fraction of the total source code, but I would assume it would involve similar use-cases to sqlite [1]. For example, IIRC, the Firefox web browser uses (used?) sqlite for storage. However, reading over the list I just referenced, I must correct myself and say that for most websites, you would probably be ok in using it; however, this seems to be an embeddable replacement for mongodb, which is typically used for high-traffic environments anyway. I'm coming more from a background of high-traffic sites with large datasets, so I typically rely upon more tailored solutions, but I should be careful not to see everything through my own narrow perspective!

[1] http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
People want karma points so if they see something is of interest to the crowd, you get more of it.
Why don't you show them who's boss and write your own damn driver. Nobody owes you cookies cause you have a glass of milk in your hand.
Are you kidding? China has more cash than anyone right now.
Google News search:

site:foreignpolicy.com cameras catch mystery breakin

Or if you use ddg, use the search bar and a bang code:

!gn site:foreignpolicy.com cameras catch mystery breakin
It astonishes me as to how certain apps are laggy on phones that are twice or more powerful than an average netbook. Smartphone don't even support true multiprocessing so where are all the resources sucked up to?
Show HN: Weekend project - an easier way to store places I like to eat.
I live in chicago and meet one of their requirements. Unfortunately I don't have access to the roof of a 5+ story building. I could probably put one in the 7th floor of a west loop office though.
I agree that price is simply a measure of what the market will bear, but I don't see how a basic income results in exhausting the additional supply of disposable income through inflated prices.

To continue with your apple market example, you could try to charge $2 or more per apple, but pretty soon other people will realise that they can employ their own staff to run an orchard and deliver apples to the same market at a marginal cost far less than that, and competition will drive the market price back down.

With a basic income, people's basic needs would be met and any additional income earned would be a supplement. If they agree to work for $1 an hour picking apples, then that is the price the market will bear for that particular skill and the price for a single apple will be reflective of this.

A minimum wage on the other hand works in the opposite direction. If it is set to $50 an hour, then sure, the costs of apples, along with most other things, will skyrocket, but there will also be a huge amount of deadweight loss as people simply choose to forgo employing others for many skills in the first place.
> Yes, that's why Amazon had no effect on the retail market before disappearing. Because fat margins are the only important thing.

Fat margins implies you have room to bring your price down and pick up additional market _if desired_. Your example of retail vs e-store is also odd, because retail space has its own costs (floor space/power/personnel/supply-chain/shipping/stock costs/etc), and thus margins are usually thinner.

Also, someone selling 100 widgets for $1 each, has to support customers/returns/fix for 100 customers. Someone selling 5 widgets at $20 each only has to support 5 customers. It would generally cost less to do so (fewer customers).

So.. Not sure what point you are trying to make, but maybe it was lost in the snark?
http://burakkanber.com/blog/modeling-physics-javascript-grav...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/a-visual-explanatio...

or, take your pick http://pineapple.io/?type=tutorials&sort=all_time
On what topic? Any?
End of the day, swat teams exist because the guys on the department like cool toys, and the Feds pay for them via grant programs.

My local police department has a "command center" rv and telescopic lookout post that the Feds paid like $3M for. The machine guns are usually bought with seized drug money, and tactical training paid for try the Feds. Most cities don't need paramilitary squads, so they end up using them for stupid stuff because they get to have fun, or they get extra overtime for a detail.

Fire departments are similar. A local volunteer fire department near me got a $1M state grant for some insane fire truck with all sorts of gizmos and an aerial platform that can reach 5 stories up -- in a town with no buildings higher than 2 stories and about 70 total calls per year. (I think they had to call in another department for a fire because the thing is so big that it cannot make it down roads) Total waste of taxpayer resources, but at least the firemen won't kill you!
A huge, enormous part of this is having a vigilant press. It's impossible for everyone to individually do investigative reporting on every relevant issue. You may be able to shame people into reading good investigative reporting but first somebody has to write it. That is really where we've failed today: People get their news from outlets that run stories about Obama's birth certificate and what color Phil Zimmerman's lawyer's tie is and what a shame it is that the cops have dirty shotguns (never mind that the dirt is the blood of innocent civilians' innocent puppies) so now we had better give them a trillion more dollars for additional military surplus equipment or the terrorists will win.

Job One should really be to solve the problem that the most popular news network is also the most factually inaccurate.
Not till the developing markets have been penetrated.

I'm shocked that this article doesn't even non first world markets. If current smartphones have surpassed user needs, then clearly we're in a classic innovator's dilemma situation where there are opportunities abound for new entrants at the bottom of the market. This shift to low cost smartphones is still in its early stages. Let's see how that spectrum develops.
The contract model isn't going anywhere.
Facebook Will Begin Making Graph Search Public On Monday
I'll grant you FAIR's slant (Democracy Now is another independent, though slanted, program I'd recommend).

But NPR has been showing a bias to my mind over the past 15 years or so more of timidity than ideology. There are places it simply won't go, questions it won't ask, and fire to which it blatently refuses to put the feet of recalcitrant, evasive, and often simply lying interview subjects (I witnessed a case of this with the coal industry shill organization "Institute for Energy Research" on the KQED Forum program last week). Perhaps simply asking the same question 2-3 times (and having the other side freely answer the same question) is enough, but I am somewhat fond of the (former, if not current) BBC "hard talk" tactic of asking deliberately pointed questions and highlighting evasions. NPR simply won't go there.

Noam Chomsky has also noted that he's been explicitly censored on multiple occasions (he's also very, very rarely given time on the network's flagship programs).

So, while I catch OTM more often than I do FAIR, I appreciate both views.

And with the Snowden / Greenwald reporting, I've also added The Guardian to my list of must-read news sites.
I fully agree; databases that store JSON (or something close to it) natively are really useful when your application mostly inputs and outputs JSON.

I feel there are too many JSON-store databases, though. Competition is good but it's been getting kind of ridiculous.
Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton http://www.amazon.com/Never-Rest-Biography-Cambridge-Paperba...
>Since Seattle, this had become the template. At the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, police conducted peremptory raids on the homes of protesters before the convention had even started. Police broke into the homes of people known to be activist rabble-rousers before they had any evidence of any actual crime. Journalists who inquired about the legitimacy of the raids and arrests made during the convention were also arrested. In all, 672 people were put in handcuffs.

And people question why the government collecting intelligence on innocent civilians is a problem.
"Dear Sophie" legitimately makes me cry. The linked Apple ad makes me yawn.

It's an extremely odd reversal, because a few years ago I would have unquestionably told you that Apple was the king of technology advertising. They got "Hey, what's important is how this makes your life better". The iPod ads, with the dancing silouhettes, were a perfect example of this - it wasn't about the gigabytes or the interface or the price - it was about this product that was great because it made you want to dance. It facilitated your happiness.

Now, we have an ad from Google which absolutely nails "this is how our product will make your life better", while we have an ad from Apple that says "We think a lot of ourselves and think you should too."

I wouldn't have expected that, at all.
We've passed the adoption peak, but a truly good smartphone is still somewhat rare. If you look at where we are with laptops, you can walk into Best Buy and pick up a 15", Core i5, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD laptop for ~$500. For smartphones, the equivalent would be a Tegra 3 device with a 720p screen and 1-2GB RAM for $100. We're not there yet, and when we are there the potential to harness the collective mobile power will be incredible.

Edit: And all of that is just focusing on the US perspective. The adoption of smartphones in less developed countries is a whole different topic.
Since the storage engine is a modified version of Tokyo Cabinet, I am assuming that you can have simultaneous readers, but a writer will lock everyone else out. From the Tokyo Cabinet specs [0]:

'Tokyo Cabinet provides two modes to connect to a database: "reader" and "writer". A reader can perform retrieving but neither storing nor deleting. A writer can perform all access methods. Exclusion control between processes is performed when connecting to a database by file locking. While a writer is connected to a database, neither readers nor writers can be connected. While a reader is connected to a database, other readers can be connect, but writers can not. According to this mechanism, data consistency is guaranteed with simultaneous connections in multitasking environment.'

[0] - http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/spex-en.html
An unfunded liability is money you've promised to pay and don't have, I.E. debt.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732335320457812...
Stay-at-home dad fist-bump. Here in Ontario, parents have the right to split their parental leave. We did it the traditional way for the first two... for round three, we split it 60/40, and I got the big side.

I wouldn't trade this for the world. My kids are juggernauts of exhausting destruction, but I knew this was my only chance to get this kind of extended time with them and I wanted it.

One thing is that the only sentiment I agree with is the frustrating low expectations. I'm not superdad, I'm regularparent. The patronizing "you're such a great husband" thing constantly makes me cringe. I'm not even good at this - I shout at the kids more than I should, and when I get overwhelmed I just bury my head in my phone and read Facebook and HN and ignore whatever they're destroying.

But otherwise? Maybe it's Canada, maybe it's that I live in a university neighborhood, maybe I'm just that awesome, Idunno... The local moms have accepted me as one of their own while we bitch about homework. I don't get suspicious looks at the playground, and I'm as scruffy as the next geek (sweat pants are unacceptable though, have some pride, man).

But then again, maybe I'm just oblivious. I know my wife has gotten some... unfortunate questions and comments about going back to work with a 5-month-old baby, and that's not cool.

edit: I think I may have my wires crossed between whether I'm replying to the FB post or to one of the other commenters. Sweat pants was not in TFA.
He has a nice idea about a prospective path of resistance:

"The [telcom] companies should write enforceable clauses into their terms, guaranteeing their clients that they are not being spied on. And they should include technical guarantees. If you could move even a single company to do such a thing, it would improve the security of global communications. And when this appears to not be feasible, you should consider starting one such company yourself."

Google and Facebook don't seem to care, but the people here can create the kinds of companies that do. Let the PRISM collaborators starve of a talent storage.
don't forget bankers, whose punishment is a multi-Billion dollar gift from the treasury