skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a company in Austin called Mutual Mobile that got its start in 2009 with a similar app called Hangtime: http://www.texastechpulse.com/interview_with_john_arrow,_mut... They're now 300+ people and build mobile apps for enterprise clients.

So...CarrotPop is off to a good start I guess.
I guess they could do some virtual reality meetings.
Bezos is not saving journalism, he's saving Amazon
>> Should you buy this mediocre Mary Cassatt lithograph for “Price: $185,000.00 + $4.49 shipping”? (Jeff, is WaPo charging you $250 million plus $4.49 shipping? I don’t think so. )

If you have an Amazon Prime subscription, I bet you don't have to pay the $4.49 shipping.
Leap Motion?
There's also these:

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

https://github.com/will

https://github.com/kanzure/streak
Here in germany the system is a bit more complicated but there's also candidates that get selected by a majority vote and it used to be that people said "if you're giving your vote to the greens, the vote is wasted." That used to be true since nobody wanted to waste his vote - until enough people did so. Now there's three strong parties contesting.

Even if the greens/liberals/whatever don't get elected, showing that there is a growing support for their positions sends a message. It's better than not voting or supporting the lesser of two evils.
Python Web Framework Performance Comparison (2012)
Let's say you run a barber shop. You could always set the hair on the floor on fire, right? That'll clean it up! What could possibly go wrong?

...or maybe you could just sweep it up.
Nice to see the HN discussion quoted in the article.

Presumably, based on Justin's comments in the other thread, Google's happy to see this article. After all, it will help keep users from having a false sense of security when using Chrome :)
Wine emulates an API, not a CPU or a machine. The original meaning of WINE was WINdows Emulator. [1]

The word "emulator" in tech sometimes acquired an association with CPU or computer emulators. So for whatever reason (joke, marketing, etc.) WINE changed the meaning of the acronym. But it's still an emulator, just an API emulator rather than CPU emulator.

[1] http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/
Gary Sussman: We Really Don't Know How To Compute
- The SSDs are a main selling point

- Their website is easy to use and clear

- Access via a simple API

I've used them for some side projects - although they aren't feature-full for bigger ones, they are great to use.
Fair enough - however there is no evidence of how far up the stack that data goes - accelerometers do sudden movement sensing on-chip - not via the CPU.

My other points still stand.
Nope, because phones don't have altitude detection. The only thing it can go by is accelerometer data, and you can infer what that data should look like using high school physics. They probably measure the duration of "weightlessness" (freefall), and maybe also check that there are large enough spikes of acceleration at beginning and end, although those will be mostly outside the range of the accelerometer. You can probably fool it by throwing it from some high point (bridge, building) and have someone catch it at the bottom.
Would be great to be able to deploy to multiple locations with one button. Even better, to deploy to an arbitrary number of locations based on how many cloud instances are running at the moment.

Also, maybe a multi-stage deployment.. One button to push from Dev to Staging, another from Staging to Production.
Livescript is technically a fork of coco[1] which is a fork of Coffeescript.

[1]: https://github.com/satyr/coco/
Looks slick! It's not super clear - is the index update synchronous?
I was slightly confused when I opened this link. I was pretty sure I didn't click the "Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever " link which also was on the front page at the time.
...then your friends are dishonest, and their dishonesty raises the price I have to pay when I buy a product from Apple.

Did you criticize them when you found out they did that?
On the Edge of failure: Ubuntu smartphone looks
Shameless plug: My 2d canvas-based game engine supports LiveScript out of the box: https://github.com/superjoe30/chem/
I get extreme rage/anger and think somewhat suicidal thoughts when I skip a meal, so I don't think this would be such a good idea for me.

Edit: In fact, if I eat an early enough breakfast, I will need a snack before lunch hour to be able to remain focused.
I apologize if you really didn't know that Apple didn't make that accusation.
Frank Chimero's “The Shape of Design” Is Now an Online eBook
I use ctrl-_ for the tmux prefix, which is often available from ctrl-7.
When friends ask which smartphone to get, I often recommend the iPhone, despite being a long time Android user and fan.

The reason is that Apple has a very generous straight replacement policy (at a fraction of the retail new price) even if you don't subscribe to any of their care plans. This is a world different from makers like HTC and Samsung who fully intend to double dip if you have an issue with your device, where a replacement of a broken device costs 100% of its original price (meaning you are paying again for marketing, R&D, profit, markup, etc). I have faced exactly this twice (both with Samsung), once where they claimed nebulous, unproven corrosion damage on a device that had never touched water, and had all clear water sensors. As a user there is nothing I can do to contest this, their warranty being effectively useless through no negligence of mine. They nicely offered to fix it for just over a thousand dollars.

Samsung and HTC and others want you to bust your device. Apple doesn't, because they have a stake in it as well, making no profit from your own misadventure.
Their support is absolutely amazing. I opened a ticket to ask a question, submitted it, and before I could navigate away from their website, the ticket had been answered (i.e. within 5 min).
great place for the dhs to blow shit up and give the tsa reason to fuck around.
i hear they're policing highways already.
about time for these assholes to expand to europe. it's more likely i get struck by lightning but i'm so afraid of terrorists! come grope me!
I've been reading the Julia docs this morning, and it actually looks like it might be a good fit for my problem domain (video); most of the real heavy computational lifting in my applications happens across a C API boundary, but I still push enough bits that having e.g. unsigned ints (gazes balefully at Gosling) is a requirement.

Hmm.
he's done the dual executive thing for many many years.

he used to be id first, armadillo airpspace second.
now he's occulus first, id second.

it'll only preclude him from doing much programming.
You bypass a password manager the same way you bypass Chrome. Just open it. If someone left the PC unlocked, there is a good chance the password manager is unlocked too.
It's not just the UK. Recruiting is a rough industry pretty much everywhere.
Right now your phone is as much AR as the google glass. Now if Google starts letting us use the camera for face recognition we could see some proto AR stuff.
And, how is this helpful you say?
I own an Oculus and even before I read this I knew it was the next big step in gaming, now it is beyond question.
Is the Galaxy Tab version available? That could get dangerous.
I started with Digital Ocean after I saw them on here and have been nothing but impressed. Seems like really good value, and it's great to have such cheap dev environments to work/play with. Great for budding full stack devs. I'm glad it seems they're here to stay.
I'll be curious to see what the first steps Bezos takes.
I knew this trick from C++. And while it's a fun example, I believe it ruins the natural flow of your code. So please don't.
Really well deserved! These guys are awesome, very helpful and friendly, their site is even fun to use.
The Tools That I Use For Design
Ah! The opinion of someone who cares nothing about the functionality of the web as a whole.

JavaScript shouldn't be considered essential to use a website. If it is, the site has failed as it's job.
Then they might chose to use IE instead, which doesn't show that disclaimer yet is no different. The teaching that needs to be done is that letting a bad guy access your computer unlocked is game over.
So it's a pretty good product hamstrung by a shoddy dealer network/deployment plan(incompetence, arbitrary rules for purchase). This seems to be a trend...

A couple weeks ago, after months of research, I decided to buy a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. I went to my local Jeep dealer and took a test drive. The sales guy was fine. It's always kind of annoying when you know more about the vehicle than the person assisting you, but this is mostly par for the course, and he was polite enough. So then we get back to the dealership and it's instantly good cop/bad cop time.

I was accosted by a close talker with a fake tan and gold jewelry giving me a hard sell and telling me that he could definitely work something out for me today, while the other guy apologized for him interrupting us. This is a $40,000 vehicle. It's not an impulsive purchase and I was there for a test drive, which they knew. There was zero chance of me buying a car that day for circumstances that had nothing to do with me or them.

Anyway, it was a stereotypical scene from there. After 10 minutes of being polite, but firm. I had to physically walk out of the place while they were still talking to me, trying to make a sale. I felt rude, but what else could I have done. I'd still be there if I hadn't.

How is this good business? It must be, because I've purchased 5 vehicles (different brands, different geographic areas) in my life and this experience has been about the same for 4 of them. The 5th was a great experience I had with a VW salesman. Even so, his finance guy was rude and tried to screw me over with nonsensical add-ons and a hidden fee that he himself was "surprised" to see in the paperwork when I pointed them out. WTF? The conversation was also full of obsequious fawning BS like, "Wow, I've never seen one go for this low before!" It was very strange.

I've been following the Tesla fight against the regulatory capture that car dealerships have implemented. I hope the dealers get buried. Why can't I go online and order the Jeep (or whatever else) I want and have it delivered or pick it up from a non-jackass?

Anyway. I'll be buying a used, low mileage Jeep from Carmax. They have fixed pricing and I can view their entire nationwide inventory in detail on their websites. I wish the car manufacturers would get with it. (This is not an ad for Carmax. They are the least of many evils in this situation.)
I've been playing with TypeScript a fair bit lately. Really like it: http://www.typescriptlang.org/

Haven't used LiveScript yet.
A simpler and safer version of this would be something where you spin your phone and catch it right-side-up. Scoring could be done by counting the number of times this was done successfully in a row without catching it the wrong way or dropping it, or double-triple spins etc. I do this for fun all the time. So far, no drops on concrete.
I have a simple solution to the problem of recruiter phone calls. If I haven't solicited them first I hang up on them as soon as they've identified themselves as a recruiter. It's simple, efficient, and makes my point very clearly.
Of course they would... smart people tend to want to be around people smarter than they are.
I agree it is not really important.

The main difference between the two I see is that partial application basically binds a certain argument to a fixed value, while currying only changes the way the function is called (thus allowing for easier partial application). It is easier to see on a function with more than two arguments. Imagine f:(A×B×C)->D. Currying it will yield f':A->(B->(C->D)), so you would call it as f'(1)(2)(3). On the other hand, partially applying on first argument it would yield f'':(B×C)->D.
Ask HN: Can we use Node.JS in banking app?
I have read a lot about Node js and want to use it in a certain portion of a banking app where users can collaborate in a forum like interface. My question is, considering security is node.js is maturated and capable enough to be used in a banking system? With security i mean HACKERS.
That would require a new language/syntax layer, which we wanted to avoid. (There's also something to be mentioned for being explicit and reducing "magic," which was part of what drove us to create this library in the first place.)

That said, you could imagine a simple implementation by reflecting on each sub-expression (or auto-lifting operators/functions), where something like `z <- x + y` is compiled to:

z = bind ->
tmp0 = if x instanceof ObsCell then x.get() else x
tmp1 = if y instanceof ObsCell then y.get() else y
tmp0 + tmp1

Rather than forking CoffeeScript for the `<-`, you could start with a simple expression parser:

z = rx.expr('x + y')
> Nothing gets emulated in any way

Except for the Windows API, including all of its bugs and oddities.

Emulation != Vitualization
I am afraid that I am almost entirely ignorant of psychological literature, and I shall seek to remedy my deficiency in the directions that you have mentioned, with my grateful thanks for your suggestions.
This appears to just be a stubbed out simplistic API at this point[1]. Currently, only method names, without even parameter types are listed. The project is also requesting funding[2]. Seems a bit premature to me. But, I wish the project luck.

[1] https://github.com/gcloud/compute/blob/master/images.go

[2] http://gcloud.io/faq.html
The Kinect has an accelerometer (to help it sense tilt, and find the floor normal).

I wanted a gaming achievement: "30 seconds in free fall". With a follow-up five minutes. The first one you might get using the Vomit Comet. The second probably requires significantly more expenditure.
So you are saying Russia has threatened to legislate the execution and torture of any gay athletes simply for existing?

Common, I'm all for enabling all minorities across the globe to live in peace and without fear of persecution, but let's make an honest effort of it and not via hyperbole and political posturing.
I generally agree - but the only thing I'll say to defend stealth startups is that sometimes it makes sense to keep quiet until you have something to show people. Not for competitive reasons, or because you're worried someone's going to steal your idea, but because you want to stop your idea from being judged out of context or before it's ready.

Once it's ready (enough) to be shown, at least then people will judge it fully baked, instead of basing their opinion on the elevator pitch.
Sadly it seems to be promoting a false sense of security for all other browsers. Both by getting facts wrong, and by the general tone.

Luckily for everyone, no-one pays any attention to this stuff, sochrome are free to continue trying to improve security.
Udemy, with 1 million students, brings market dynamics to online ed
> it torture peoples and holds them indefinitely without charges

Actually, the policy of holding them indefinitely after having been tortured is based on the assumption that they will be extremists after having been tortured.

Yes it is as insane as it sounds: the military is torturing them, and then holding them in custody because they were tortured.
Whoa! Are those going to be recorded and made available? I would love to see the presentation on Building A Robot Army Of Raspberry Pis!
I think you fit the profile that Nissan was pursuing. Your commute isn't too far and you own another car for the longer trips.

I can't see anyone buying a Nissan Leaf as their only car. The range is a big inconvenience.

I am curious to see how the battery will handle the cold winters in the long term.
Your opinion on politics reveals how you think, which is why people tend to be defensive of their opinions: They don't know any better -- anything that directly challenges how they perceive the world is too threatening to be the subject of a rational conversation. If you talk to someone on a similar wavelength who has similar experiences, you can probably have a meaningful conversation. In this case, politics is like music: Not everyone has the same taste or understands/appreciates the same things, so it's hard to explain the virtues of Radiohead to someone who only gets a buzz from the best classical or, forgive my elitism, someone who can't see past Lil Wayne. It's hard for polar opposites to hold meaningful conversations for the same reason it's hard for a super smart person to hold a stimulating conversation with an idiot, or for an old person to do the same with a young person (they're effectively from different worlds). People on significantly different areas of the spectrum perceive the world very differently and have dramatically different experiences to draw on.
A smartphone is a better AR platform than Google Glass because you can hold it up directly in front of your field of vision and use AR apps.

Google Glass is wearable, but the display position is fixed relative to your head. You have to look up to see the screen, so unless you tilt your head down in some awkward manner to point to what you want the AR overlay on, it won't work. Not a very good AR experience.
In addition to what sibling comments say, DO uses KVM which a) gives better isolation and dedicated RAM, and b) looks and acts much more like a normal Linux machine. I've had issues re-using things like firewall rules on an OpenVZ VM.
Good to hear. I hope they will finish id Tech 6 some day. I've been sold on sparse voxel octrees since I first heard about them, and I think the super-scalable level of detail would be great for VR as well.
Carmack is a workaholic of legendary productivity. If there are truly 10x programmers out there, he is undoubtedly one.

Another important point is that it's not games he develops, it's game engines. Other people do most of the game logic and design. Working on a 3d display for those engines doesn't seem so far removed from that, and of potential value to future id/ZeniMax work.
I've talked to my less-technical relatives who use browsers, and they've all known that saving passwords means that someone who gets access to their computer means they get access to their accounts and/or passwords.

Not everything is black magic and dark arts.
From DigitalOcean's cofounder on Quora:

We applied to TechStars in NYC first because we were based in NYC and we got in right before the early app deadline. After meeting David Tisch at TechStars 4 A Day he flat out told us he doesn't understand our space so it would be hard for him to pick us, because part of his decision is to determine how he as the program director can help accelerate our growth.

We did become a finalist but weren't selected and he recommended us to TechStars Boulder. So we flew out there for TechStars 4 A Day and went through the process again.

Full post: http://www.quora.com/Startups/If-youre-rejected-from-an-incu...
RamNode has been offering less expensive SSD VPS hosting for longer than DigitalOcean has been around.
DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (Making CAs Obsolete)
Try Minecraft with the mouse and keyboard, and the HUD off.

It's a spectacularly immersive experience with the Rift - the first "holy shit, I totally lost track of time there" experience I've had with the technology.
I wonder if Michael Hayden reads any of this? Or even if there are any officials tasked with summarising & reporting on these opinions?
I have been following Julia development for a while now (about a year and a half). It seems like it will be a great tool, but it is still VERY immature. The amount of breakage, especially with regards to important packages like plotting, has become something of an "in" joke. I'm really looking forward to seeing them get their package management situation worked out and a set of core packages nice and stable.
Russia seeking Snowden's help on data security
There will always be software that is worth the equivalent of millions of dollars (at least for the foreseeable future).

Maybe you can build a SAAS equivalent to SAP that puts it out of business... but companies will want a HumanBrainSimulatron (R) or a perfect weather forecaster or whatever the next complex software is, which will still be multimillion dollars' worth.
I'm not sure seed round means what you think it means.
Consider a case of some average user(who doesn't have the skills of your said bad guy) got on your computer while you are away, he can easily view your password to all your online account that's accessed on your browser.
But that's cheating...

Do you want to work for a company that buys this lie and make them believe you are a code machine?

That lie WILL bite you in the back some day.
NSA Pricked The “Cloud” Bubble For US Tech Companies
I don't see the special character on this one. On FF/Ubuntu.
It should stream data via a socket realtime to a server somewhere. Then when your phone breaks, at least you get a new record.
If they're autofilled, which is the very reason to store them, then it doesn't matter how deep you store them. The browser will dig it for you automatically.
The birth of Bit: Making ideas happen
Julia does seem promising. Interesting that you see it as more along the lines of python than R.

I just finished the data science coursera class, and while we used Python, we didn't get into R. I've played around a little R on my own, and while I certainly don't think it's too difficult to learn for a programmer with a math background, as a programmer I feel much more at home with Python. Given the choice, I'd rather use Python than R just because it feels more natural to me.

If Julia is a truly a programming language, I'd agree that it would be more of a competitor with python than R (in the sense that its audience would be people like me who would lean toward python)... but I think it could be very successful by making it very easy for a programmer to stay within a programming language. In other words, it wouldn't compete with R, it would compete with python by bringing what you get from R to a programming language.
Sorry, that was a reply to a different comment! I was going to speculate on the selection process, but the OP has done a good job of answering that above.
Mr Obama and NSA spymasters, meet Mr Blowback:

In a survey conducted after the Snowden leaks, 10% of the foreign companies using cloud computing services said they’d already cancelled a project with a US cloud provider and 56% said they’d be less likely to use US-based providers. Conversely, among US stakeholders in the cloud sector, 36% said that the NSA leaks would make it more difficult doing business outside the US. The report estimated that if US cloud companies lose between 10% and 20% of their foreign business over three years, it will cost them between $21.5 billion to $35 billion.

But the report cautions it could get much more expensive “if foreign governments enact protectionist trade barriers that effectively cut out US providers.” In Europe, momentum in that direction is growing.

German Federal Data Protection commissioners threatened with new bureaucratic hurdles. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich announced that “whoever fears their communication is being intercepted in any way should use services that don’t go through American servers.” And Justice Minister Jörg-Uwe Hahn called for an outright boycott of US companies.
I am quite surprised this isn't at the top.
Thank you for clarifying this for me as that was my intent. "To forgive and forget" was the ideology I was attempting to relate.
I've seen worse. Some people on the Internet seem offended by the very concept of other people making money off anything but manual labor.