skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wall street doesn't really care about new products.

Wall street likes nice figures. All the figures released during the presentation weren't exactly new.
I think http://terralang.org/ also does a very good job at this. You can just call disas() on any function.
I spend years of soul-consuming work making a game, yet only charge $10 for it. Although I guess fonts are a bit different, because the end user (the reader) doesn't buy it, just the publisher (the writer). Perhaps I should view them more like game middleware - I would gladly pay $100 for a nice toolset.
Actually, as an liberally licensed open-source author, I wish to "escape the network effects of the GPL" because I want proprietary companies to use my software, too.

That means I have to escape the GPL despite your wanting to force me to participate. You can keep claiming this isn't communism, except that it exactly parallels the Marxist notions of shared ownership.
Ask HN: Startup Connectors
I wonder if we can crowdsource and name the top 3 connectors in each startup ecosystem (not investors/deal makers). The idea is build a GoTo directory that we all could rely on (For asking questions/help related to stay, co-working, startup introductions, meetup info and casual networking etc.). What say?
Those examples are all very different. What is your goal - speed? Code size? Portability? Security? Those examples don't all achieve those to the same degree, and I would argue that modern JS VMs are competitive with them in many respects.
> Mozilla makes it a reality

No, the situation makes it a reality; Mozilla doesn't control Apple or Microsoft.
Capitol Bells Indiegogo -- hacking democracy
I spent many years feeling guilty because I secretly wanted to make money. Realizing that it's ok was a huge relief to me.

I'm reminded of the King of the Hill episode "Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?" where Kahn (who always wants to be rich) becomes convinced that the should be in touch with his roots and not want or care for money. In the end he realizes that the people trying to convince him not to be rich are the rich people and he was happier being true to himself.
>Though in the hands of an expert React is the sharpest DOM management tool available and its not even close.

Explain why in comparison to angular?
Just like, pretty much every, android device it uses a USB charger. Many advertisement related images don't include cords and the like for prettier pictures. Using HDMI to power things is a tricky thing, many monitors and TVs din't supply power over HDMI and among those that do (especially Sony TV iirc) they provide less-than ideal amounts of power.
Watch the 500 Startups Demo Day Presentations LIVE
Luckily, Android has a battery usage overview in system settings which tells you exactly what the culprits are at what percentage.
On the Measurement and Audibility of Headphone Break-in
Samsung Chromebox
I wonder which is a better deal for a new tablet owner. A 2012 N7 or a 2013 N7? Seems like a lot of people are satisfied with their N7 and it is getting the new software update. Should I go for the new or stick with last year's model?
It uses a USB cable that is indeed not shown in the marketing images, but it is mentioned in the product description.
The device has a microUSB port. The microUSB powers the device. The device plugs into the HDMI port. The device requires a microUSB powered cable to operate while plugged in through HDMI.
If filling out a form is not a big deal, then why isn't it optional?

I'd have no problem with the form if you could just skip it and click Cancel at the bottom. But the moment you force users to fill out anything is the moment you turn evil.

I agree that it's not anywhere near the same magnitude as it could be. But that doesn't make it OK.
I think the parent is referring to the IR being like having a typed assembly language. IIRC, Apple uses LLVM.
That didn't stop them from trying to launch a mobile phone platform in competition with Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

If they're willing to accept that risk, by comparison, how large of a risk is trying to push through a better standardized browser execution environment, with Google's cooperation?

God forbid they succeed, and we finally have a competitive application platform.
Can it playback DIVX/XVID?
Do you think your art background helped you develop the focus and dedication to work on projects for such long periods of time? Most programmers couldn't manage that.
Google Cast SDK Documentation
Kim Philby spied for political reasons, not for money as were most spies who fled to USSR. They all got KGB pensions and medals.

Snowden has been accompanied by Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks. He is not alone and isolated with Russians.
Vote on Amash amendment to defund NSA domestic call data collection
The latest news is that a vote on the Amash amendment (#100), which would remove funding for the NSA's collection of US phone records, is due to happen this afternoon.

This the first vote in Congress on the NSA's surveillance programs.

As a result, every House representative will have to go on the record either voting for, against, or abstaining. The number of votes for the amendment (and abstaining) will set a strong precedent for future conversations.

You can watch the debate and the voting happen live here: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

And if you haven't yet, now is a good time to call your representatives to tell them you want the amendment to pass. Calling takes just a couple of minutes: http://DefundTheNSA.com
Where's Orwell when we need him?
Thanks. I've previously worked in technology in the financial services industry so a lot of the ideas for auditing/compliance come from meeting the expectations of that market. Our logic is that if it's seamless enough for them to use it and satisfies their compliance requirements, it should be good for most other industries as well.

Regarding SSH, it has the advantage that you can (and should!) have multiple authorized keys for the same account. For example for the bastion host to connect to our VPC of servers we use individual SSH keys tied to the same proxy account. Databases generally don't allow that type of access.

Some allow using client certificates to login (which nobody uses). Some allow integration with external LDAP/AD (which very few use). The vast majority uses standard username/password based authentication that hopefully is going over SSL (seriously go and check ... for most DBs by default it's sent over plaintext).

Some places try to have per user database accounts (possible tied to AD/LDAP) but that usually devolves to the same app password sharing as the privileges aren't kept in sync or it's just too much of a pain to provision vs just giving someone the app password.
At the very least, if some judge in [rural county where Google has a datacenter] issues a subpoena for the keys necessary to decrypt a packet capture obtained by the Sheriff's Office in the course of investigating a local crime

A: They can credibly argue that they don't have that information, and it won't trigger an avalanche of copycat subpoenas.

B: The crypto key being sought by the subpoena is not one that would enable decryption of all Google, but rather one specific to the connection.
Death Happens More Slowly Than Thought
Well this is disappointing.
Harvard Business Review: Can Crowdfunding Solve the Startup Capital Gap?
If you get multiple Chromecasts do you keep getting bundles of three more free months?
God I hate large grey text. Why are you trying to defeat the contrast ratio of my monitor? I paid good money to get it! If you want to enhance my reading experience on longer articles, give me the option of a lower background brightness (a gray background) so that I am not staring at a bright light for long periods of time. The text should stay black.

Also why is the text column to the right instead of in the center? There is nothing on the left using that space! This is a lost opportunity for pleasing symmetry.
God found gamification!
In theory. But it would be my own ideal toolchain. Someone else might make different tradeoffs in its design.
If you're looking for a good deal, just get one of the Asus MeMo 7" tablets. Basically the same as the N7, but $99.
Get hired by Google?
Why would projecting webpages on a screen require some DRM?
Yes I have done this for 7.3, but I tried a Netbeans beta and it said Java 6 is no longer supported.
This is the flaw with the analogy, as with all analogies that try to map meatspace to the internet. It would probably make sense to say that the book has been left in an apparently public space.
Throwing away sharing of code pages (and the security benefits associated with PIC) for a bit of inlining doesn't seem like the best idea.
Only MHL HDMI is capable of providing power, AFAIK. 'Regular' HDMI is capable of data transmission only.

A power cord is included in the box, according to The Verge. You can power it either via one of your TV's USB ports, or an A/C jack: http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/8651957/2013-07-...
I understand that you're giving a personal opinion, however worth noting that the average usage of tablets dramatically favors watching movies and videos over reading Word documents and PDFs.

Having both Nexus 7s and an iPad, I would say that I hugely favour the former for watching movies, and they are essentially equal when browsing the web (speaking purely of the aspect ratios. Safari on the iPad is a dramatically better web browser, so for that reason I usually favor the iPad). Personal opinion, of course.
I'm guessing they'll link it to your Google (Play) account.
I want to learn from your code, but it looks like it's all hidden somewhere?
If they hadn't used real users' names, I'd be inclined to agree. But they did, and I'm not.
The node.js source code as visualized by Gource
I'm just going to go ahead and say that if someone wants to stick with Emacs for all of their editing to learn the traditional Emacs key bindings and not use evil-mode.
Mostly sysadmin stuff, because that's what I do.

1 177 19.2601% ls
2 113 12.296% vim
3 101 10.9902% cd
4 95 10.3373% ssh
7 25 2.72035% rm
8 18 1.95865% grep
10 13 1.41458% df
I already have a "smart tv", what does this give me that I dont already have?
It's the latter, although it also supports local receiver mode, so for example, you can cast your browser tab to the display.
What exactly is "this type of elimination"? Within our compiler [0] your concrete example is optimized by an O(1) mechanism and then there is a more complex load-store-optimization which is O(n^2) I think.

[0] http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/
Out of curiosity, where's the love for knockout? It's mature, and works well, but gets no press anymore.
I should mention that promoting a secondary to a primary in an asynchronously replicated system can (and almost certainly will, under load) result in the loss of committed transactions.

Redis has two resynchronization modes. One just recovers a small delta from the primary, if it hasn't diverged that far. If the primary has accepted too many writes, the secondary has to initiate a full resync, which is much more expensive. Since Twilio's postmortem says their nodes initiate full resyncs, I suspect that had Twilio promoted a secondary, they would have lost a significant number of writes.

Probably best, under these kinds of scenarios, to design the system such that lost writes don't cause overbilling. ;-)
So? That has nothing to do with Android 4.3 as far Google or the AOSP is concerned. Don't buy a device that doesn't give you control if you want that control.

And no, the Nexus line is not the only line that lets you do what you want to. Although not officially supported, Samsung's flashing protocol has been reverse engineered and they've made no changes to block those efforts. HTC's newest One supports the same fastboot procedure that the Nexus line does. Most of Sony's models can also be unlocked and some even have AOSP support.

This is the right move for security. It is not a move to "take control" from anyone. Instead, it is your duty to vote with your wallet. Don't buy carrier-locked phones or other phones that don't give you that control.
NaCL, PNaCL aren't plugins because they're features of one specific browser. I don't know of any 3rd party developers using them.

I think asm.js is brilliant and I hope it does turn out to be the way forward. But it's also a poster child for maintaining compatibility with existing browsers through standard Javascript.
HDMI doesn't provide power, so that makes sense -- unfortunate as it is.
Skype Reverse Engineering : The (long) journey ;)..
Interesting how that is implemented. Didn't quite get from viewing page source. I mean, where is js?
Does anyone know if there will be images for the Nexus Experience S4 and HTC One?
What is maximum video bit-rate this can handle? Can this do real 1080 with 7.2 audio?
Bottom of [1]:

"...you will recieve an email with a promotional code for 3 months of Netflix. Offer valid for previous, new and existing Netflix members, one per Netflix account."

I would suspect not.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromecast
I see. Yeah that makes sense and I like the concept. I agree most "learning" examples are too theoretical. My favorite programming book of all time is still "Practical TCP/IP Sockets in C" [1]. It is just a collection of simple, but real-world examples using sockets.

[1] http://cs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/practical/CSockets/
MongoDB 2.2 and 2.4
A lot of new HDTV's however have HDMI and a USB port (generally near each other).

It would be a bit messy but perhaps you could have it plugged into both at once and then you won't need an ungainly power cable to a socket.
I don't want to over-generalize based on one data point, but on my Galaxy Nexus I noticed that 4.2 pretty handily undid all of the improvements that 4.1 managed in this arena. It was indeed a paradise of smoothness for that one point release, though.
But that would mean that they are charging everyone -- including those not subject to VAT -- a 20% surcharge for VAT. That seems really unlikely
I feel so much second hand embarrassment when an article opens with an image macro.
i have the problem of starting a project, finishing up the "cool/interesting" aspect, and then letting it rot...

http://jeffrey.io/wall-of-shame
I think the author is missing the real problem. Why is there a single "admin" account at all? Why don't users log in with their "normal" user accounts, and then use some kind of authenticated, audited privilege escalation (like sudo, for example) to perform tasks that require administrative privileges?
> "We need a lot of people in the streets protesting to get meaningful legislation to pass restricting the mass spying activities of the US intelligence system. "

That didn't seem to work so well for getting meaningful legislation passed to restrict money in government.

The TV will just push some comparisons to World Peace protests and go on about how they can't figure out what the message is supposed to be and/or how these kids just don't understand how The Real World has to work...
It seems pretty clear from the first picture that it's a male HMDI plug on one end and a female plug (which looks like the standard Android phone USB plug) on the other end. I don't see any images of the device plugged into a TV without a power cord (correction: there is one animation in the Plug and Play section if you mouse over). The images are just of the device on its own, so it doesn't seem deceptive to me.

You comment made me curious: is it possible for things to be powered by HDMI? There is definitely a 5V pin as part of the HDMI spec, but I can't find a good source for details.
I'm taking this approach with my wood-working: http://jeffrey.io/finishing-things
When I was 12 I had treasure chest- an orange Vans shoebox full of printed cards, which I had accumulated via acquisition (new, wrapped, plus stick of gum from the Ice Cream truck) or trade. Included rookie Fisk, Killebrew and Ryan, and an old Walter Johnson, Senators. My Mom threw them away while I was away at college
> I think he's trying to pose the question that he thinks his opponents would ask, before they ask it.

It's amazing how difficult it is to pull that off successfully, even in discussions with people who know you really well.
I'm not sure I understand. The claim is that the only reason to target C is to save money.
That was my first impression, the top of bezel looks huge in comparison with the rest of the device.
I think it can be connected like this with the TV's USB port:

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/8651907/2013-07-...
I see; you're the type who thinks he's smarter than everyone in the industry and just has all the answers and ignores anything that doesn't fit your idea. Never mind that no one has been able to replace JS, just listen to you and all those problems will evaporate. Goodbye.
Be lazy, don't build that feature (yet)
I'm sure you aren't their target market. Personally I went for a bare bones TV because I have so many peripheral devices it made sense to keep using those.

Also - Can you stream games and other random apps to your TV? I would assume this would let you in the feature with supported apps.
I used to have this problem (and still do to some extent) but it's not impossible to improve. Pick an idea and commit to completing it in the way that you envisage it now, even if midway through you discover a new technology or better way to do it, stick to what you originally planned. There is always a better way to do something and if you allow yourself to be distracted by a "better" way of doing something midway through, you'll find midway through the "better" thing there's another new even better thing and the cycle will repeat. The best code isn't always perfect code, the best code is code that exists. You'll learn way more from a project if you work on it start to finish, even if it could have been built better. There's always Version 2.
> I'm missing the times when every release was a new sweet thing.

There's never been a time when all point releases had a new codename. Eclair covered 2.0 and 2.1. Honeycomb covered 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. I don't see any evidence they've changed their naming practices.
Using technology to 'cheat' in the Soap Box Derby
It is not suitable for me as well as I'm developer but there are many people who need spreadsheet software, browser and that's all.
It looks like the latest 32-bit ARM chips have this capability [1]:

40-bit Large Physical Address Extensions (LPAE) addressing up to 1 TB of RAM. As per the x86 Physical Address Extension, still only 32-bit address space is available per process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A15_MPCore
EA made more money on Apple’s App Store than through Origin
I guess I am the only who is not particularly excited about this. Other than the price it is a "me too" response to AppleTV.

One of the most annoying thing about these devices is that because the lack of storage, they need to be streaming all the time (which is a problem with connections with a cap like in Canada) which is very inconvenient if you want to buy movies on iTunes/Google Play.

AppleTV enables game devs to use the TV as a separate common screen for multi users games but that feature seems to be missing with the Chromecast (or at least I couldn't find any reference to it)

So as an AppleTV owner I just can't help but to think this as a "meh"
Probably more common is that everybody gets their own login, but also gets sudo privileges so everybody ends up working as root.
I guess there is no but my question is do we really need one?
I cannot imagine being that age and having that sort of media scrutiny much less while dealing with potentially losing both parents. I do not excuse the actions and certainly the adult in his life played a role. But to have Walker Cronkite call me out on the news, wow.
Tech lobbying reports barely scratch NSA issue
> What is your goal - speed? Code size? Portability? Security?

That depends on the target. I selected them because they represent different aspects of the state of the art.

> ... and I would argue that modern JS VMs are competitive with them in many respects

But not all, and in many places, not even close. JS VMs make trade-offs that we don't need if we abandon JS, and on top of it all, you have Mozilla insisting against shared-state multi-threading supported and exposed by the VM, which discards enormously important optimization opportunities) -- and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Get rid of JS, get rid of Mozilla's self-enforced constraints on the browser, and look very seriously at something like NaCL which blends native execution performance (including being able to drop to SIMD instructions) with security sandboxing.

Let language authors target the low-level machine, and target your high-level general purpose bytecode.

Once you've built a runtime in which I could implement a JS runtime that's as performant as yours, we will no longer be operating in a two-tier universe in which browser makers think that JS is good enough for everyone but themselves.
Just for everyone's edification...

You're unlikely to see an open-source firmware for the 3G/4G cellular radio, the WiFi, or the low level Bluetooth stack (up to the HCI layer). Ever.

The reason? This stuff costs a lot to develop, and the major chip vendors don't want to give any help to their competition.

As for graphics... I had heard an announcement by one SoC vendor who was just putting in more general-purpose processor cores, and they had planned to do all the video decoding (such as for H.264) and OpenGL graphics in software (using Mesa?). This was allegedly going to be possible with a power budget not too much larger than the typical hardware implementations of these blocks. What ever happened to them?
Yes. The GPL doesn't restrict usage, only redistribution.
So it's like an apple tv where you can push streams from your iOS or andriod device (e.g. youtube) but what about browser/app integration?

I would love to be able to create a "widget" that sits on my tv and has internet. I could think of a ton of things. Like snapchat but for videos .. just saying :)
I wish this did a full laptop display mirroring like AirPlay. Looks like this only works with Chrome, so it looks like I can't rent / download a movie on a different service (say iTunes) and play it on my TV.

Bummer.
Apple has delayed shipping to other countries many times. e.g. I got the first iPad the day it became available in the UK (I pre-ordered). That was about 6 weeks after the US launch. As far as I recall it was actually two weeks later than they originally scheduled for the UK launch.

Demand for these products is very high and producing them in large quantities while trying to keep them a surprise is difficult. If Apple, a company that is a hardware business has trouble with this it's hardly surprising Google a web software and advertising company would have problems.
So you want to work at a start up?
You can pretty much unlock any of the bootloaders on any HTC Android device.

http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader

From there you can install Cyanogenmod if your handset supports it, a lot do.

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices#vendor="HTC";

There is not much point in complaining about not being able to root Android devices. Go for a Nexus or shop around. Not sure about Samsung devices -- they are the market leader after all -- so somebody'll have to help me out on that.
I have that problem to. I've found that the best motivator for finishing the boring parts is to have real users.

After receiving your 20th "I forgot my password" email, you're sure to build that reset-password feature.
That's fine, you're just in a tiny minority.

Code-as-data is actually a win that you can't get from procedural languages, which is why I brought it up. It makes solutions to complex configuration spaces possible that aren't even conceivable in procedural languages. Everything else is just syntax.
Thanks for the book recommendation. Ordered this on Amazon.

This was my problem all growing up. I did well on the first exam, then fizzled out every exam after. I wouldn't study out of fear that I wouldn't do as well again.

Anyway, I'll check out the book thanks again!