skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main point is that Apple is looking to push sensor data up the stack via new APIs in an energy efficient manner by reusing / repurposing components.

True - I don't work for Apple. But I've sampled most "context aware" frameworks and talked to some of the developers that implemented them. Pretty much every "frequent location" tracking implementation works in a similar way. I'm not saying anything revolutionary here (look up sensor fusion).

My 2 cents is just pointing out how meticulous Apple is when it comes to battery drain. There are other examples of this in iOS 6. The best one is how the CoreLocation team used the new MapKit vector graphics to clip GPS coordinates to streets. Again, Apple didn't invent a new technology to improve GPS accuracy, it leverage a new user interface innovation. To implement this Apple released a activity type (driving, walking, etc) API which alerted CoreLocation as to when it would be appropriate to clip coordinates.
>You're a marketer too, you're marketing your opinion.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

I'm not marketing anything because I'm not selling anything for money or goods.
I'll bet at least some people downvoted him because they believe 9/11 truthers most certainly are wrong.
> "I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them," Mr Obama said.

But governments that target pot growers and dissident reporters are A-OK.
I'm going to copy and paste from something I wrote in another thread.

From my experience with warehouses/fulfillment centers, all the other options are same or worse than Amazon with regards to worker treatment. Besides, on Amazon plenty of merchants do their own fulfillment, and those that do fulfill with Amazon are going to fulfill with Amazon on eBay or Rakuten or their own website anyway. To do so morally you'll have to look into the fulfillment details of any individual company you do business with.

Honestly, it just sucks to be an unskilled worker in today's society, its not something new to Amazon.
Amazon's warehouses aren't the future of work. They're its history.

That kind of zero-skilled, follow-the-instructions work is going fully robotic, much more quickly than people realize. Amazon themselves are investing heavily in robotics.
This has been going on in warehousing and Distribution Centers for a long time -- over a decade. Same goes for many call centers.

I don't like the nature of the work, but I look at it like this: if you want robots to take dreary work from people, then that work needs to be quantified and structured. These kinds of things are the last step before total automation.

So in a way, the news is even worse than crappy jobs. These jobs are leaving. This is just the last vestiges of them. What will replace them? Beats me. I think the question itself is wrong, that is, as things change and become more efficient, there are new scarcities having nothing to do with food or shelter that people pay for. If you could predict the future of these scarcities you'd be rich beyond belief. So while it sounds like a good question, "Where do all these people go?", it's not one that's answerable in this case -- nor was it ever answerable.

One thing I know: this issue has nothing to do with Amazon. They're just being used as a prop here.
Im not related to this project, but I thought its worth mentioning here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/offpocket/off-pocket?ref...
> And why don't the people care? Corporate-owned media has a huge amount of influence on what people care about.

Again, I go back to my mom because she's the greatest insight I have into the typical voter. My mom doesn't watch the news. Her opinions are her own. She places a high value on social order, trusts the government, and assumes that the government wouldn't use any information they get from her e-mails to hurt her. And you know what? She's right. They won't. The government pretty much exists to protect middle-aged, upper middle class women like my mom. The status quo in this regard is consistent with her interests. She doesn't need a "corporate-owned media" to make her think that way.
I'm not a novice, but I would prefer that it wasn't trivial for a novice to access my passwords if I'm away from the keyboard for 30 seconds. A novice is going to have not a single clue of what to do with a console, but they can get at passwords in plaintext with four clicks with Chrome. No other browser makes it this easy to get at passwords in plaintext.
Wait, is this a trap article? This is coming from WSJ?
I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I've never really been a fan of Twitter or tweeting... (as this comment illustrates)
And Digital Ocean's predecessor Reality Check Network was hacked and all servers wiped. I think Linode was hacked a few months back too.
Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication
Depends on the fractal. I occasionally make HD animations (using Ultra Fractal), and those run about 1 hour PER FRAME. A short clip takes several months, just to render. (search for jockc on youtube if interested)
first in a long line of failures. Say goodbye to medical care as we know it.
When you ran the numbers, were you pricing things out based on how much the dealership charges? I change my own oil for about US$18, but the dealership charges US$342 (an extreme example I admit).
In face of scrutiny, researchers back off NSA “Torsploit” claim
I keep hearing great things about DigitalOcean, but the critical price parameter for me is flash storage, and they don't seem to be beating AWS here. The larger DigitalOcean plans are $1 / GB / month for flash. An EC2 hi1.4xlarge instance has 2TB of flash. At on-demand pricing, $3.10/hr x 24 hours x 30 days == $2232/month, which is slightly more expensive. But reserved instances bring that down very quickly. A "Light Utilization" instance only costs $3884 upfront for a three-year term. Even if you amortize that over just 12 months, it works out to $1152/month, almost 2x as cost-effective as DigitalOcean. (Of course, with DigitalOcean you're getting a lot more CPU and RAM per GB of SSD, but only compared to the h1.4xlarge which is deliberately flash-heavy.)

This is not to run down DigitalOcean, but if you take reserved instances into account then they don't necessarily beat EC2 pricing. Or am I missing something?
You can always turn the device off.

It really is a matter of features and how they're implemented.

Good luck picking a byte that can exploit a 7400.
Good read, congrats on your success btw!
The best way to do this would be to only take stories with years in the title. These are stories which were old during their original submission, but evidently timeless.
"The Feds Have Figured Out How To Hack The Secret Internet For Criminals"
I once made a C python extension considerably faster by being more careful with malloc and free - I can recommend it as an easy-ish way to speed up a C/C++ program.
For the life of me I can't fathom how moving the bulk of our workforce to temporary employees benefits us as a nation in the long run. Is there anyone here who an provide any metric to support this as a good thing?

I do see where some wish to blame the consumer for this trend which is a bit surprising to me. That idea seems paradoxical in that the majority of people do not have good paying would, by necessity, want things to cost less. Yet if you propagate this throughout ecosystem you end up in a viscous cycle where companies, in order to meet lower price points, squeeze their employees which only propagates the cycle.

Most of us on this site are not the type of unskilled laborers who are currently impacted by this. Yet such trends have a way of working their way up the the food chain so to speak. Companies will trumpet "think of the consumer" as a way to depress or wages.
How much real engineering are these providers doing? How well do they understand their stack? If they're all running the same underlying software, it suggests that setting up such an operation doesn't require much skill and it's heading to "script kiddy" territory. Sketchy? Certainly suspect and needing a lot of due diligence which my gut tells me that (a) they won't fare so well; and (b) they are so low-margin that they would be unwilling to participate.

If Apple got hacked because their dev center was powered by a $10 control panel script then yeah... they'd be extremely sketchy too.
Because they're shitty apps crapped out in a day due to deadlines and then forcefully cross-promoted and spammed across that company's other applications, and paid placement
The (self-described) bland, Python-esque syntax is absolutely a boon for mass adoption amongst those who feel that Python-eqsue syntax is "natural." That, however, doesn't change my preferences for parentheses, or my wish for people to stop fearing the S-Exprs!
The asm.js is not implemented by hand; it is compiled from C++ via Emscripten, so there's no "obvious port of JS code" - it's all done by the compiler.
(I put the title in quotes to highlight the ridiculousness of the headline)
"z = bind -> x.get() + y.get()" seems nice, but when are the attached listeners removed again?

Typically this is solved with weak listeners, but Javascript doesn't support weak references. I'm worried that this library never removes the listeners, effectively leaking like crazy?
Google is putting "screen that overlays with your vision constantly", as a real thing that you can actually have, further into the public consciousness than it has ever been before. They even have a real shot at making it popular.

Without that initial step, it's hard to see any practical path to AR actually becoming a reality.
Indeed. I was being sarcastic in a disappointed and condescending tone, as I don't think that's something we should encourage.
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Except Word is huge and probably can't handle multiple installations. I admit its a hack.
Adding Interval Sets to Redis
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Kannan, if you want to fix it, the Java diff is:

- return ((double)1)/((i+j)(i+j+1)/((double)2+i+1));

+ return 1.0/((i+j)(i+j+1)/2+i+1);

That gives the same count as the JS. It'd be interesting to know whether Dalvik/ARM has the same performance hit on NaN!
I believe the biggest reason for it dying was that a schism appeared in our community. A few people had a public argument, sides were taken, words were spoken, feelings were hurt, etc. We had some people leave, and despite some attempts here or there, we had no new members to fill the gaps.

Another possibility is this place was created back before sites like Facebook, twitter, etc. Once social media came to prominence, some of us started communicating via other methods and we didn't check the forum as much as we used to. When your userbase is that small, it doesn't take much of a disruption to kill it.
Can Computers Write Music That Has A Soul?
The question then becomes what happens to all of those unskilled and now unneeded workers?
Hmm. Could you post the code for your corrected version?

I tried to find where a NaN would be introduced in the C++ and Java code, but I can't really spot it. The equation only has adds, multiplies, and divides, no negative numbers, and no divides by zero that I can see.

If you show me where the problem is, it wouldn't take me too long to re-run everything with the corrected code and update the results.
Polls find users prefer iOS 7 design to iOS 6
Somewhat broad, but good information. Congrats on your success.
i read the title and rolled my eyes... i hate bad journalism!
My my, what an unpatriotic attitude.
AOL Is Acquiring Video Ad Platform Adap.tv For $405M
Seems deliberately deceitful.

After listing historical terrorist events and responses, Mr. Koppel tries to lump in our invasion of Iraq as an over-sized reaction to terrorism from 9/11 which happened eighteen months earlier.

The invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, it was about oil, as we all know now, after the propaganda has died down and people have generally gone back to sleep.

The loss of privacy and rights since then, and currently, is our govt misbehaving, and also has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.
This exactly.

This is not the future of Amazon. This is the current state of Amazon. If the writer is concerned about anything at all with the workers, he should be concerned about the workers losing their job.

Thousands of warehouse workers will be losing their job because their work will soon be automated. I am not saying that it is trivial to replace them. It will be a costly process to streamline and automate current process with robots, but believe me when I say it will be done.
Having worked in deep in the marketing machinery on behalf of big car companies, my take-away is automobile buying decisions are one of the most irrational decisions a person can make. So often, people will purchase a car to address "edge use cases" (e.g. pulling a boat) and most of the time a more economical car combined with renting a vehicle for those edge cases is cheaper.

Oh and each model of vehicle has a target demographic, and you may notice the marketing of any given model targets the lifestyle of the buyer. Young, hip and urban? Hard-working man's man? Eco-concious? A car for every lifestyle.
You could theoretically use the Streaming API to analyze tweets en masse from different sources/individuals. Coding in a bit of text analysis (length, blacklisting/whitelisting keywords, sentiment, etc.) would discriminate between superfluous tweets and the ones you care about. That'd would be a great way to automate the process of scrolling through crap every morning, but you'd need to build a web app to house the results and scroll through that instead.

Of course, that's how I would do it as a third-party developer. Will Twitter ever support this? Doubt it. I don't think it's relevant to enough users to implement that kind of feature. Most people who use Twitter evidently enjoy reading what Justin Anniston and Jennifer Bieber eat for breakfast.
I find it's a lot easier and effective to have integrity if you have a practical moral code that aligns with human nature/emotions instead of platonic societal ideals of integrity. For instance, not cheating is a big one that I have disagreement with. We are naturally inclined as humans not to be monogamous, so to feel guilty for wanting to cheat or even going through with the act is self-defeating.

More important are questions like the "why" of cheating than the "what". Is the relationship dysfunctional? Is it just a fling? etc etc. And are my or my partners life actually negatively affected by it?

Do you have less integrity if you cheat? Maybe. But I think integrity is the art of balancing societal expectations, platonic ideals, and actual human nature/instincts. Adhering to a strict moral code doesn't make you a good person. If anything it makes you bitter, narcissistic, and resentful of other people.

Contributing to society on the whole is what counts.
Overgeneralizations are ...
I just ran across an old dump of HN from April 24, 2008. It contains the first 172,000 items (stories+comments) and the profiles of the first 6,500 users. http://rapidshare.com/files/3129266675/ycombinator-news-2008...

I would guess the secret sauce is spam filtering code. It seems conspicuously absent from Arc releases. The Arc code does come bundled with the HN source code, though, and all of the core features seem to work fine. There's nothing missing except some way of filtering spam.
> I understand that you can have a Vagrant provider for VMWare and VirtualBox, but what does it mean for you to have a DigitalOcean provider for Vagrant?

Instead of spinning up a VM on your local machine it spins up a new droplet in your Digital Ocean account (droplet is DO's term for a virtual server).

> Also, maybe someone can drop a few words in on the typical usage scenario for Vagrant? Other than automation, how else does Vagrant help a developer, and how does it tie into the various VPS services (such as AWS, DO, etc...)?

Vagrant lets you define a server environment that you can turn on with just a simple "vagrant up". For apps that have server dependencies (who doesn't?) like databases or MQ servers, you can isolate them into a standard VM. If someone else is going to work on your app then they can get started immeidately via "vagrant up". No need to manually setup the server dependencies, it'll all automagically build itself.

Once you start using it you'll never go back to manually setting up server dependencies for dev. It pays for itself in time savings the first time you use it.

Vagrant integration with AWS or DO is simply to have the server spin up there rather than locally. Even cooler is the expermental Docker integration (as a provider) as it lets you run many Vagrant VMs with minimal overhead.
It sounds like you're looking for an answer to a question more like "Where did the universe come from?" That's an entirely different question.
You're in good company:

The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be
arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any
conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent
discourse.

<label>What are you doing? <input name=status maxlength=140></label>

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
#include <Python.h>
int main() {
Py_Initialize();
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Thanks!

I think the "/2" should be a "/((double)2)", since in C and Java it'll treat the former as a truncated int divide. I do see the issue with the precedence on the 2+i+1, though. Will fix up and re-run.
That's my problem with HN as an information source as well. Just an 80-character headline isn't much space to convey information, unless it's extremely simple information. A headline plus a short blurb, like on Metafilter or Slashdot, at least gives a slightly more coherent explanation of what this article is about and why the submitter thought it was interesting, and mitigates the tendency towards only promoting stuff that can catch people's eye in 80 characters.

On HN you can sometimes get that by clicking through to the comments first, but it's kind of a frustrating way to browse links. Some subreddits on reddit have moved back to the Slashdot style by only allowing "text" submissions rather than "link" submissions; unlike HN's text submissions those can also contain clickable links, so the effect is to require people to write a little along with the link, instead of just submitting a link.
App.net Response to Brennan Novak, part II
A lot of Malda's thesis seems subjective; a more interesting statement was just a brief mention at the top of the article:

> Then, after taking a year off, [Malda] joined WaPo Labs, a technology incubator owned by the Washington Post Company, the parent company of the Washington Post. (WaPo Labs is not among the companies being purchased by Jeff Bezos.)

I wonder why that is? I don't want to derail the discussion, but I had assumed (incorrectly) that Bezos was acquiring the full Washington Post collective. It strikes me as odd that he would neglect one of the elements that made WaPo, in my mind, somewhat unique.

I'll try to stay away from speculation, but I can't help but wonder if some of Bezos's other labs might be integrated into WaPo's technology portfolio? Is that possible, when the purchase was unaffiliated with Amazon?
Aren't there a few greasemon... aw hell, I'll just look it up for you.

# Greasemonkey script to remove iPad stories from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721

also mentioned in the thread http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
Mah, and who these 'the powerful' would be? Even Steve Jobs had to go to Switzerland to have some form of health privacy.
Detecting Genetic Copy Number with Gaussian Mixture Models
I've never trusted the government or the internet. I trust my family and friends.

"...the three aims of the tyrant. These are, (1) the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; (2) the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another; and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they would not be ruled despotically but also because they are loyal to one another, and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men; (3) the tyrant desires that his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible, and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny, if they are powerless. Under these three heads the whole policy of a tyrant may be summed up, and to one or other of them all his ideas may be referred: (1) he sows distrust among his subjects; (2) he takes away their power; (3) he humbles them."

Politics By Aristotle

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.5.five.html
Ask HN: Do you prefer PostgreSQL or MySQL?
I'm starting a new project based on Django. I would like to know what RDBMS to choose having real life examples and reasons. Thank you.
The solutions to this problem might be really odd.

Personally, I've been testing the Wii Balance Board as a useful input device for the Rift - and it's showing some promise.

One tester did describe my test game as "Dungeon Segway Challenge", but we're getting there slowly...
The Bitcoin Crypto-Currency Mystery Reopened (2011)
Who knows. Unskilled workers make me sad.
Just enabled card aging, looks like a really useful extra piece of visual information. I can see which cards have got stuck in the pipeline and the cards in the backlog that perhaps could be pruned.

The idea of aging is something that I'd like to see in other contexts. For instance in sublime it would be great to have files that I haven't touched in the last hour just close automically. That way my open file list would only include the files I'm actually working on.
I was pleasantly surprised by Tableau. While I feel ggplot2 in R is the platinum standard for sane statistical visualizations, it was clear that the Tableau people have put some thought into some kind of underlying grammar. I'd love to see a ggplot style interface to Tableau.

R was really where I started to see the world through functional eyes. I originally came to R with a background involving a little C, a little Perl, a little ObjC, and a whole lot of Python.

Eventually, I hit a point with R where I was trivially doing pretty complicated things that would have been... ugly in Python. Even my Python now looks more like R. This was partly due to finding Peter Norvig's Udacity course, but also partly due to the fact that his somewhat un-"pythonic" python style really, really resonated with my R-tainted brain.
Did it look like you have money and were you in a place where people that look like you have money?

As an aside, the dealers with the higher echelon cars that I've been to, even just wandering around, seem to be more awesome people. I'm especially talking about audi (used), bmw (new and used), Lamborghini (new)). Even the Subaru dealer I went to with clear motive to just test drive was very polite. Direct, but polite, and that's all I could ask for.
This, with their new webhooks, makes me want to dig in and get this working along with our other project management tools.

I really like the "aging" idea.
Yup, that's what Minecraft VR did - and it works well.
By coincidence, Mr. Deity posted this just today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xGNA7U54Qw
Now, about those chemtrails ...
The Distraction Addiction
For anyone who isn't familiar with the current state of progress on the Rift, I'd recommend a look at

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus

Lots of cool stuff happening.