skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel we'll see the same thing with the Wii U. Everyone is dismissing it right now and for good reason (lack of games). But Nintendo did announce at least 1 game for every major line they have running at the last E3 so I expect the Wii U sales will start to jump up right around we see the PS4 and XB1 releases.
I thought the $1,500 price point of Glass only applied to the early testers program and that the retail price has not yet been announced. Is that not true?
>Organizations supporting traditional marriage will immediately be called "intolerant, bigoted, hate groups" and shouted out of the debate.

Stop couching your views in pseudo-PC language and call it what it is. You do not "support traditional marriage" because that is a meaningless phrase. Nobody is campaigning for traditional marriage to go away - you can go have one right now!

You are not supporting a thing, you are supporting keeping that thing from someone else.

What you ACTUALLY support is that people who happen to love someone of the same sex should not be able to marry. That they should not receive the same spousal and tax benefits as couples who love someone of the opposite sex.
Can anyone click the link at the moment? I just get a 504... Really interested in this, it sounds amazing but I can't see it.
Django powered CMS - Opps
Before widespread communications networks, credit card imprints were taken with machines that look like [1]. They are still sometimes used when networks are down or when there is no phone/Internet network (think temporary locations like fairs and carnivals). The security is that the credit card company will (hopefully) void invalid transactions...

[1] http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-new/ehow/images/a04/b9/g6/cre...
"Outside the ability of science to test"? Nothing has been so thoroughly tested throughout the the world as IQ, and the measurements of climate data don't come close to IQ differences in terms of predictability. Whatever fuzziness there is in IQ measurements pales in comparison to the fuzziness in climate measurement, yet an outfit like Mother Jones would declare the former "unsettled" and the latter fully proven except to wacko right-wing "science denialists".
How the Tesla Model S is made [video]
The position of government on various issues is far from meaningless. It is as close as we can get to a tangible representation of the common (majority) opinion and common will of the mass of people that makes up a country (see below for a caveat). While you shouldn't base your own opinions on what everybody else thinks, it's ridiculous to think that everybody else's opinions will never affect your life.

So, I think it's unsettling that the question whether Britain still thinks what they did to Turing is OK is even an open question. UPDATE: `notahacker` pointed out that this last sentence is an oversimplification. I think this only strengthens the point that it is important that the government clearly state its position through actions such as pardons.

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Caveat: Really, government's representation of the common opinion of the masses of people is not direct, and always a bit out of date. However, the government very directly represents what the masses people are going to do with the common resources they share. For example, whether they will use these common resources to persecute gay people.
Where do Nuns come from if they don't have babies?!?! /s
> You have to make a conscious decision not to support that

To emphasize - Skype had that solved years ago, to the point that e.g. back in the day in my university, they announced at some point that Skype is banned (because it was a bandwidth hog - the uni had a bad connection) but they were unable to enforce that at the firewall because their firewall couldn't tell if it was a skype connection or not.

Skype was built by the people who previously made Kazaa, the most efficient P2P app at the time. There was VOIP software before Skype, but non worked as well -- and it wasn't the Skype voice codec that made it work well (although SILK when introduced later did wonders for quality, and SVOPC was not bad) - it was the P2P architecture that provided excellent connectivity, that other VOIP apps at the time did not have.

Furthermore, Google did not purchase Skype BECAUSE it was P2P/distributed, which goes against the spirit of every Google service.
You arguments are good but not airtight. I'll pick out the ones I disagree with.

> To be clear, there are difference in say how gay couples reproduce
Straight couples can reproduce with their spouse - gays cannot. That's not just a difference, but a complete opposite.

>Let's be honest - opposition to gay marriage is based on religion, ignorance, or personal aesthetics.

I agree that most people oppose gay marriage because of religion, but religion may have underlying logical reasoning for it. I don't think ignorance/personal aesthetics is a reason, because if someone is intuitively disgusted by two males sodomizing, there may be a biological reason for it. Ignorance is better than false beliefs.

The reason I'm against gay marriage is that I don't want the definition to change, and I don't want my children having gay propaganda pushed on them. That's it. These are good reasons in my opinion.
Ask HN: Best way to decide on a new app icon?
We are interested in changing our app icon, and I want to do it based on data, but I am not sure the best way how.

Thoughts?
"You own all of your data and you have full control over it."

Somewhat bullshit. It clearly states on the App Store page that it's a subscription service.
Please be fair, people hate Nickelback because they make bad music.
It's been down since Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:26:42 +0000.
https://twitter.com/iOS_DevCenter/status/357869041005760512
I wish BitTorrent Sync had an option to sync encrypted data with relatively "untrusted" nodes, so you could throw it up on a VPS or whatever without worrying too much about the how secure the server is.

Kind of like tarsnap or Tahoe-LAFS, but auto-syncing, etc like Dropbox.

The first open source project to give me Dropbox-like ease of use/functionality with strong encryption will win my support.
It should be working now; the traffic may have brought it down!
Waarom is rijstolie een gezond alternatief voor olijfolie extra vièrge?
Because the ideal use case would be people seeing promotions they want. Not what google thinks they want.
Completely agree on your last point. I have written a compiler for a small subset of something like Pascal for the JVM and it was among all other things a big exercise in software engineering. E.g. several times almost all the structure of my code became obsolete because a change in grammar or a need of doing different passes through the code / parse tree was required for a new feature in the language to work and that completely changed how everything else needed to work.
Excuse my ignorance, but have any companies succeeded by just replying "Go Get Fucked" to patent trolls?
Top 2 choices:
- Send an email to our list with a couple options. I would expect minimal response
- Build in a popup in our app asking existing users to choose between 3-5 options, including the current. Report those stats to analytics and make a call from there.

Anything else?
Screenflow can do this. http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/
No, Apple's answer is no upgrade pricing, just releasing it as a new app is good enough.
I work with hydrogenases, and the amount of horizontal gene transfer is incredible. There are so many mobile elements in the environment... E coli, the humble gut bacterium, seems to have four copies of hydrogenase. Two come from the broad class of "formate hydrogen lyase"; the other two are "uptake hydrogenases". Almost certainly they come from horizontal gene transfer, because other gammaproteobacteria may or may not have some or all of these hydrogenases; and you will find uptake hydrogenases scattered through bacteria (and archaeal) phyla.

the hydrogenase that I work with is part of a mobile element; it's found in our organism in a gene island, but also straight up in the genome of another organism that was isolated 5000 kilometers away, in a totally different ecotype. both of these guys are found in the ocean, but none of the other members in the broad family that it comes from are oceanic: they come from terrestrial volcanic mats.

So obviously species-wise discrete or fuzzy taxa do not work for me; but even protein phylogenetics can be muddied by things like random gene fusions and convergent evolution. I'm not sure that some of the trees that I generate are actually taxonomic, but may be the result of selective pressure against a highly conserved scaffold.

Of course, they're still useful, even if they're bullshit... Because I don't care about phylogenetics, I care about function. If the tree that I make is an unfaithful representation of the historical record, no big deal, as long as it faitfully clusters function.
XBox360 crushes PS3 in virtually every microbenchmark:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071217224458AA...

2x faster Triangle Setup rate, 4x faster Vertex Shader processing, 50% faster pixel shaders, 2x faster Anti-Aliasing...

The PS3 makes up for it as they use all of those Cell processors basically as a GPU. But in terms of pure GPU Girth, the XBox360 was just straight up easier to use and more powerful.

--------------

Basically... despite all the major press about the PS3 "supercomputer", XBox360 was a simpler, better designed gaming machine. In in this upcomming generation, PS4 out-xboxed the XBoxOne. The PS4 is a dead-simple straightforward architecture that simply throws more hardware at the problem. (while somehow being cheaper...)
So I've seen some gorgeous images from Cassini, but I could've sworn they're all much higher than 1 megapixel. Do you have any info for how that works?
How prevalent is Angular in the wild? To me, it's always seemed like something people would learn to show that they know more "cool" technologies. With its steep learning curve, how useful is it to spend the time learning it properly?
Misconceptions about evolution video has its own misconceptions
"Everyone can marry within their own race! See, no discrimination!"

It stuns me how often you people straight up plagiarize the arguments of opponents to interracial marriage.
How Yammer makes itself disruption-proof
Unix v7 for x86
Too easy to game. With the minimum legal cost of a successful defense being $200,000, what kind of monthly rate would cover that?
I recall a story of an expat living in South Africa with his black wife and their daughter, during Apartheid. I believe the very confused racial classification officials finally decided their daughter was "Indian".
This is really sad. I am unable to understand why the mainstream web companies like Yahoo! Google has such disdain for pornographic content.

I can fully understand that they do not want their family traffic to go there, but then why cant charge us a small amount and give a better access to all those adult blogs in much more efficient way ?
As a chronic rrredmail user, I wish to state that this message for this site is 100% real, and its statements concerning the news that it conveys are of top quality. Visit this site regularly for the latest information about your field of study.
Additionally, you can disable the promotions tab individually. I just have "Updates" and "Forums". For now, it seems very easy to opt out.
IQ is not synonymous with intelligence, nor is IQ a measurement -- it's normalized by definition. In fact IQ itself isn't even a 'thing', since there are dozens of different tests.
The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Part 2
Right, because the only two options are to accept his argument or think he's a dick.
Here are the steps I did.

1. Signed up for an account.

2. Created a project called "test" using default settings.

3. Created a blank file called "index.html".

4. Your icon keeps flashing in the main area, and Firefox seems to be waiting for something to finish. As far as I can tell, this never ends.

The result being that I cannot actually create the contents of index.html. My Divshot username is same as my HN username.
Full-screen Gmail Compose Box
From what I have seen this project uses the Dropbox Datastore API. The Dropbox Datastore API has very limited support for conflict resolution:

- DBResolutionRemote: The remote value will be chosen. This is the default behavior for all fields.

- DBResolutionLocal: The local value of the field will be chosen.

- DBResolutionMax: The greater of the two changes will be chosen.

- DBResolutionMin: The lesser of the two changes will be chosen.

- DBResolutionSum: Additions and subtractions to the value will be preserved and combined.

So with these limited conflict resolution options conflicts might occur but they can be resolved automatically. I am not saying this is good or bad but beside setting one of those resolution modes there is nothing else to do - except explaining to users what happened to their data in the case of a conflict that should have been resolved with a more sophisticated mechanism.

iCloud+Core Data on the other hand allows custom conflict resolution on the clients.
They die sooner.
Do you think your experiences are typical? I get that MS does have some good offerings but at the same time I think the average consumer's perception isn't as good as it could be.

> Let's see how it is when Windows 8.1 is released generally and people have time to react to Haswell processors having been released.

I'll be interested if the consumers even notice - is the average consumer clued up enough to understand the significant of a point release or what a new processor adds? In my (somewhat pompous) view, Apple's success is its focus on selling the consumer things they can understand the need for, not numbers. I see MS is taking this approach with the new Win8 marketing but it'll be interesting to see if they can pull it off with 8.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_...
They say "you haven't made it in business until somebody sues you." This is the type of shit that keeps me up at night...
I was thinking about this last night. As a designer (UI/Front-End), I had the alarming thought of "what am I going to do with what I know now in ten years?" I'm fairly intrigued by the idea of space, space travel, and space colonization. But in regard to learning how to design spacecraft instrumentation, I'm at a total loss.

It looks like this will give me a rough rule of thumb for what it's like, despite being deprecated technology.

Does anyone have any resources (books, similar tutorials, etc.) where I can start to dip my toes into this type of work?
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003, ET Tech speech)
You do not need any particular kit. You will need:

* Raspberry Pi
* SD Card with OS (Raspbian Wheezy is the simplest to use)
* USB power cable
* Internet connection (Ethernet cable or USB WiFi dongle)

The rest is software that is described in my article.
What a Chief Software Architect looks for in an iOS Developer applicant?
I passed a very technical interview which was all about iOS, Cocoa Touch, Foundation Framework, Objective-C and Design Patterns in iOS.<p>I will have the next technical interview with the Chief Software Architect of the company. His background is mostly in java, Websphere, IBM tech centric ...<p>What do you think he will look for in me in this interview? I'm trying to find out what to study for the interview.<p>Thanks,
Really like the site.

Feature request: Shortened URL so the surprise isn't given away.
Does btsync have file rollback like Dropbox does? That's saved my ass so many times.
My thought too. If one plane with a person in it is not bypassing the legal system, then 2 should be fine. And 10? Or 100? Scale should not have anything to do with whether the legal system is bypassed or not. Either none can do something or all can do something.
Disney's Crazy Invention Lets You Feel Phantom Objects Floating In Air
So any justification for race-based admissions and government minority preferences programs is coming to an end, you'd say?
it is another dimension - "anarchy is the mother of order".
I think technically, it's a worm, not a virus. :)
incidentally, I've also worked with phaeodactylum tricornutum, which is an eukaryotic diatom, that has 60% of its ORFs prokaryotic in origin....
That's rather harsh, don't you think? All models have their limits and scopes, but that doesn't preclude them being useful in their own right. For instance, Newtonian physics simply can't cope with molecular-scale events, but it still gets used every day for the cases where quantum or relativistic effects don't matter. Likewise, phylogenetic classification is still a hugely useful tool within biology. The fact that it has assumptions and limitations merely defines it, rather than diminishing from it.
I think he means that Apple users, for example, weren't demanding an iPhone. That's not why Apple built it. They didn't ask the customers what they wanted and the resulting product was the iPhone.

Apple came up with the idea of the iPhone and built it. When the public saw it, we thought, "Holy shit! I've gotta have that!"

The point is that the people didn't know that they wanted an iPhone until Apple showed it to them.
A prophet is not without honor except in his own town
I second all of these conclusions and have a few anecdotes of my own to add.

WinXP is still the dominant Enterprise Operating system (crazy I know).

Exchange email is seen as a relic of a time gone by for new companies and something that admins usually hate in large companies. Outsource it (and I'll note that the largest reseller of Exchange, Intermedia, doesn't sell Office365).

The first windows phone I had was Windows Mobile 4.0. The flipphone handsets that came out during 6.0 were good, but every one of their gigantic, flagship, Halo devices, was terrible. HTC had some of the most badass, feature-packed phones ever, and the Operating system killed them. It's just a pile of bloat, the same way WinPhone7 and WinPhone8 appear to be. Look at the work they've done with Nokia where they basically paid Nokia billions of dollars in marketing money to attempt to promote WinPho8 and ended up hemmoraging marketshare in the transition from Symbian (Elop's "Burning Platform" memo should go down as the worst corporate writing ever, and it's not lost on me that he came from $MSFT).

I won't even dignify the surface with commentary. It was an unmitigated disaster that everyone saw coming.

Azure is only large because of promo usage. It's not competitive even with Digital Ocean in terms of scale (my personal opinion, I have no facts to back this up except anecdotes I can't publish). There's a lot of empty instances in Azure land.

Microsoft is making a lot of obvious errors. They continue to be unable to remove FUD and the Cruft of age. If they go down this path, the inertia will eventually kill them; it might take 20 years, but Microsoft is already becoming a place that finds it hard to recruit. I would argue that without their ridiculous abuse of the H1B program they would not be able to remain competitive.

In short, there's a lot of stuff to fix. The bright spot for Microsoft, as always, is licensing, but that's an ugly, ugly business.

My $.02.
Count the number of indie-developers on XBox One. Now count the 140 currently announced titles on the PS4 (most of them indie games). The current joke: PS4 has more exclusives than XBox One has launch titles. (slight hyperbole, but the number of PS4 exclusives almost gets there. 30 titles from Sony themselves, ~10 exclusive indie titles announced at E3, and all of a sudden the game environment for PS4 looks mighty tasty)

It is dead obvious which console has won the support of indie developers.

Microsoft may have superior documentation... but when you _require_ indie gamers to find a publisher before they're allowed to make an XBox one game, the number of titles on your system will suffer significantly.

A number of PS4 indie developers want to program for the XBox One, but they can't due to Microsoft's boneheaded policy. It doesn't matter how good the XBox One development kit is, if Microsoft fails to hand it off to innovative developers.

Again, XBox One _POLICY_ is bad for indie developers.
You could say this about a lot of tech that just wasn't quite right, failed, and then someone tried something at a later date and it took off. Google wasn't the first search engine, Skype wasn't the first attempt at consumer-level video over the internet, World of Warcraft wasn't the first MMO, the list goes on.
Scheme does the same thing too:

scheme@(guile-user)> (define (foo) (write where-did-this-come-from))
;;; <stdin>:1:14: warning: possibly unbound variable `where-did-this-come-from'
scheme@(guile-user)> (define where-did-this-come-from "the damn global scope")
scheme@(guile-user)> (foo)
"the damn global scope"scheme@(guile-user)>

Munificent's assertion that this doesn't represent lexical scoping is wrong, but his assertion in another thread that with() is an exception to lexical scoping is correct, and therefore JS is not lexically scoped, just mostly lexically scoped.
Rackspace releases CLI for managing cloud via Ruby
Sort of like how reddit bootstrapped, if you have a support forum it could be beneficial to "seed" it with common problems that QA has run into, with corresponding answers.
I would checkout the FAQ page @ http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/faq/

I am not sure how the Cassini imagery works, but for something like Hubble Space Telescope (HST), here is what a raw image [1] looks like of M51 [2]. Typically the images you see from HST of M51 [3] will be a compilation of dozens of raw images using colour filters.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/qtQdcBS.jpg

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Galaxy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Messier51_sRGB.jpg
India: FMS students show how to earn Rs. 13,750 from a mere Rs. 500
I see many mid-size and larger companies deploying O365. They do it because it's familiar to their IT, it fits in with their existing policy systems, and it works well with their existing MS Office workflows (office web apps, and sharepoint in the cloud). In some cases, I know Google tried to win their business too.

Try google search autocompletion of "google apps vs" and the first result is office 365.

Whether O365 can "win" is another question, but it's definitely a credible competitor.

(Not to be an MS apologist -- we've tried Azure and had to hightail back to EC2, they screw up many other things, but O365 fits a purpose for many companies well)
Instagram [Facebook] is hiring Android Developer
We're growing our Android team! Are you (or is someone you know) interested? Drop us a note at android-jobs@instagram.com. Our Android team is still pretty small (6 people) with huge impact.

-Mike Krieger

Source : https://www.facebook.com/mikeyk/posts/10100686276907373
> But I have a webster's dictionary from the 60's and the definition of marriage quite clearly reads between a man and woman. Marriage having that meaning dates back centuries (millenia even?), back to its original conception.

Marriages that are not between a man and a woman (judging both by biological sex), varying in both the number of partners of either sex and whether, among the partners, are not even remotely unprecedented before the modern debate over the current restrictions of marriage to opposite-sex partners.

Its notable that in many cases these were well-established traditional practices that were pushed aside by the advance of Christianity in the effected regions, so that the Christian model of marriage was the one that was redefining marriage away from the its existing "traditional" form.
Thanks for letting me know. Right now I do most of my "journaling" in either notational velocity or byword, but having something that is less rickety would be nice :)
I recently switched from Fastmail to iCloud, and I can say I'm very happy. (I initially switched from Gmail for the reasons you describe).

No functional difference for me, and I save some bills. I don't consider it a free lunch, either, since I basically pre-paid when I bought my iPhone.
And I would do this 10x over if proved to be profitable.