skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife showed me this, to my surprise, some months ago already.
The behavior seemed a bit unexpected at first, yet I came to a conclusion similar to the one discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166731

So, unless you're not in fully-trusted access-controlled physical environment (a.k.a. home, arguably preferably with no adolescent kids around) always lock your OS when leaving it running unattended.
Envelopes - Mailing for human beings
> UIs that float at the bottom of the screen feel very odd when you move your head around and they stay at the bottom of your vision.

I haven't used an Oculus, but just thinking about it I suspect the solution is going to be to locate HUD elements in world space locked to the player's position.
I have two rails SaaS apps that generate increasingly fulltime income on heroku.

combined costs currently at $140/month
each app has 1 free web dyno, 1 worker, starter postgres DB, ssl, plus a few extras

Looking at the new offerings like digital ocean, i'm really tempted to switch over, but a voice in my head keeps telling me it makes no sense as I don't really have strong linux-sysadmin type skills. Even getting rails to work on new macs takes me 1-2 painful days.

Anyone have an eta of what it might take someone with limited sysadmin skills to cut over to something like digital ocean from heroku?
No, SSO is different solution to some of the same problems solved by a password manager, it is not a means of having a password manager that stores passwords in an irreversible form.
Performance Matters A lot
Webix Grid - 1 000 000 Rows and More
Came here to post this as well.

In the end, he decided it might be irresponsible to leave the app on the market and encourage people to throw around their shiny new expensive phones.
Jack of All Trades: The Fearless Entrepreneurial Pyramid Builder
You're right about the 'unnatural food'. It's sick, disgusting, and just plain mad science trying to play God with peoples lives.

How on earth do people think with all the variables relating to individuals and environment, finding 'causation' or 'safety' in something like 50 year cancer and heart attack risk studies is remotely plausible? What about reproductive issues? How many generations are needed to 'prove' something is 'safe'?

Nutritional science is a bunch of quackery topped only by the pretend science 'economics'. Sure, find some correlation dots, or simply say 'it hasn't been proven UNSAFE' when you're peddling your chemicals via the FDA.

We'd all be a lot better if we followed the oath of 'First, Do No Harm'.
Welcome to Def Con - You've Already Been Hacked
In one of the previous threads on this there was some lack of sympathy for people who get compromised because of this 'feature not flaw'.

Do bear in mind that your private information is often secured by other parties.

For instance if a colleague or partner is compromised every private email you've ever sent to them is now visible to someone else to read or forward.
> The difference between DigitalOcean and other low end providers is that DigitalOcean isn't interested in making money as a business

Except for that part where as they grow they develop economies of scale that allow them to undercut the "lots of providers". There's more than one way to play the game.
I like it, not because I like cheating but because I think it exemplifies how bullshit this notion that more commits == more commited is, and how it encourages people pulling shit all the time. Even Linus is mad about it xD
Congratluations to DO! Sadly there's so much hard work involved in this space and so little money ($5/server/mo) to be made in "hosting" that founders always eye an early exit. Also a $5/server strategy is proof this isn't sustainable in the long run. Revenue isn't enough to cover capex.

And this kind of growth almost always means founders are looking for an early exit. Yes it's all a happy ending for the founders but what will happen to the end users?
Your ad idea is stomach-turning. I see enough ads without having to subject myself to new streams of advertisement.

Conversely I'd happily install an app that put art over billboards. It would be nice to go to Times Square and feel like you're in the Louvre.
Xen provides these features as well.
Don't people buy art now by looking in a catalog from an auction house and making a telephone call? Is it THAT different to go to a website?
Interesting: it include the ability to include jQuery (1.72) and Bootstrap (2.0.4). Why the old versions? (Looks like I can add my own newer versions, but still...)
Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News
My interest is not just knowing if I can keep my integrity, but how to keep it. What beliefs and behaviors motivate integrity?

For me, I remember a simple realization. Once I was alone in an elevator, tired. I slouched, a behavior I don't like. For some reason it dawned on me that slouching when no one could see me mattered as much as any in public.

I extrapolated from this otherwise trivial observation to everything and the words "It matters even when no one can see" entered my daily thoughts and beliefs, guiding decisions and behavior. Though the observation sounds trivial, one, it works and two, that's what integrity means: even little things count.

(Not that it's a big deal, but I wrote it up this summer -- http://joshuaspodek.com/belief-promote-integrity-authenticit...)
Gist meets GeoJSON
Looks like he deleted his post but here's the cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
The real reason is simple. Get people to fear their real life circles so that, by contrast, they'll be more inclined to share their private information on the Internet.

After all, google's business model depends directly on how much private information is shared over much of the internet.
I hope DO would consider have a special add-on like: $5 per month per node for priority support (< 1hr response time), then I think more people would consider moving more production systems to DO.
I think the proceedings are open and transparent and the employee whose employment is in question would be a part of them. They could start with a group meeting where a discussion takes place about team members' misgivings about the performance or contribution of said employee, with a chance for him/her to respond. After a couple of rounds, if the concerns are not addressed then a decision is made to let them go.
Cute, but my money's still on the guys doing it with the stores' existing wi-fi network's AP infrastructure. Economies of scope.
There is a difference between "Oh I can't talk about it we're in stealth mode" and not running an ad campaign notifying the world of what you plan to do. As a start up Google and MS literally pay no attention to what you are doing. It is only after Apple picked them up that the big G even bothered attempting to put together voice search on android and did it relatively quickly.

what benefits did they derive from stealth? None as far as I can tell. Google didn't care about trying to re implement their idea until Apple showed interest and they needed a counter to Apple. As a general rule of thumb no established company is going to steal your startup idea until after you have launched and proved successful, pre-launch they have better things to do.

What did they lose by not talking about it? Who knows people around here like to talk about the serendipity of bumping in to the right person while at lunch.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089264
Six ways to get the most out of your accelerator experience
London2012.com and the linkrot problem
i think the future just arrived while i was on lunchbreak
Pyrox - The high-speed HTTP middleware proxy for Python
A lot of people live life without a car at all. I'm sure there are quite a few people out there who could really benefit from a short-range commuter, but never have a need to drive a car beyond the range of an electric car. For people like that, a Leaf would make perfect sense as their only car.

I wouldn't do it, you wouldn't do it, but I wouldn't say that nobody would do it.

For people who do want to drive long distances, but not frequently, it could still be a good way to go. Cars are pretty easy to rent, whether from a place like Zipcar or a more traditional rental company like Enterprise. If you drive long distances rarely, it could easily be a win to buy something like a Leaf, then rent on the rare occasions you need more.

I find that people often try to imagine every possible eventuality when buying a car, and want to buy something that's capable of it all, no matter how rare these things are required. Well, they say, this car is perfect for our daily needs, but when the sister and parents come to visit once every two years, they won't fit, so we need something bigger. Or, it's perfect, except it won't handle that road trip we've always been dreaming of but never got around to doing. Buying for typical needs and renting for atypical needs is usually cheaper.
Omni is smell-o-vision. Neat, but a bit too gimmicky.
Small Business Interns Less Likely  to Stay With Company
Comment got down votes, not because the commenter was right or wrong, but for the rhetoric commentary that basically does not contribute anything constructive to the discussion. It's sort of an I told you so rhetoric.
I think its completely correct, as I think the issues you enumerate are encompassed within the portion starting "at least...".

However, the enumeration of those other avenues to liability is valuable.
If Amazon is the future of work, then be afraid
Resource management in Python 3.3, or contextlib.ExitStack
http://progrium.com/blog/2013/06/19/dokku-the-smallest-paas-...

https://medium.com/code-adventures/438bce155dcb

&&

https://flynn.io/
>It would use a lot of processing power to examine the camera input and attempt to extrapolate positioning for overlayed elements.

What camera input? Why go all in such a roundabout way, processing the image to determine the location?

What he proposes just needs the GPS/compass (if Google Glass has one, else it's trivial to add one). You get relevant wikipedia articles for your location (including the direction you're looking) using Glass's GPS, and the screen displays them.
Leaf=21K, Accent=14K, Commute=11 Miles.

It doesn't make economical sense to pay 7K more for a car who's primary feature is low cost per mile, then hardly put miles on the car. Maybe that's just me.
Not long. I had zero sys-admin skills, but DO has a slew of community guides that step by step you through setting up pretty much every application you might need.
Why does your work matter?
At least two people aren't typing on the same keyboard.
Exact same laptop, distro and window manager, except it dual boots with Win 7 for Windows-only programs.

I also have a mid-2011 13" Macbook Air.

Since I've been doing iOS dev again, my X220 has been laying unused on a shelve, for around a year now. Shame on me, for its a very good machine.
That's not been my experience at all - I can't say I've ever seen tmux perform noticeably worse than screen, but under extreme load tmux always seems to cope better. e.g. dumping 250k lines takes screen over a minute, while tmux will be done in under 3 seconds and be more responsive while that's happening. It's nice to be able to ^C something spammy and not have time to go make a cup of tea before it responds.

I have experienced lagginess with tmux, but this has been more down to VTE and/or mosh performing particularly badly with large terminals. A fullscreen 266x188 tmux session on urxvt is massively smoother than with Terminator/gnome-terminal/Terminology/etc, and with remote sessions ssh is similarly massively smoother than mosh. Kind of disheartening given today's ridiculously powerful hardware.
Apple succeeds: dismissed ITC patent case against Google's Motorola alive again
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As someone with a rift, I've experienced something really cool: Youtube videos in rift format.

It's a way different experience than watching a 3D TV is, where you just get that fun little bit of pop. Just like when playing a rift game, you feel as though you're physically present in the world, and it's incredible. The thing they're missing is the ability to move your head around in the video -- it's a little bit disorienting to have to look where the recorder looked.

I'm aware of a few ways to marry traditional video entertainment and videogames with rift support (there may be more):

1 - 360 degree video with free head movement
2 - Extremely linear, story-driven games without cut-scenes
3 - Re-living movies or TV shows by being placed within them (a la in Ready Player One)

We're very close to having 2, and 3 is very similar to that but it's in the distance still. 1 is something we're not really doing yet, but I think it'll be a pretty big deal when it hits. Videogame replays and streaming are already a big deal, and they're growing fast. Being placed within them and given the ability to look around will be fantastic.
Under New Standards, Students See Sharp Decline in Test Scores
To be fair, in your the OP's case at least your editors are included in the terminal category.

For me I find that even on 25" screens full screen is usually too much. I prefer to split at least once for every screen now. It was different when monitors were 4:3, though. I made things full screen all the time and was happy with it then.

I'm not 100% happy with tiling WMs though, tbh. I find their focus on being completely mouseless and minimalist integration-wise kind of limiting.
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> Even so, given soy's ubiquity I suspect that no one would seriously be turned off by it at this point.

I actually know many more people that would be turned off by the word part "soy" than by the literary reference.
How LinkedIn use transactional email to activate their users
Does he understand security at all? "Hardest target"?

This is not a smart man.
Would Siri not have worked if the company hadn't been in stealth?

Google and Microsoft had already been working on speech technologies at this point. In fact, Google was already integrating voice into Android in 2008, well before Siri had a personal assistant. Microsoft has to date failed to capitalize on their significant investments in speech recognition in any meaningful way.

Siri seems more successful in speech technology than Microsoft, despite Microsoft's heavy investment and more than a decade of trying to make it work for them. If anything, this seems like proof that execution is what counts.

What about the idea, then? Would Google have cared that Siri was launching a personal assistant if they knew in 2009? I doubt it: they already saw natural speech as the future. Brin and Page sometimes talk about talking to computers naturally being on of their visions almost from founding. Computer personal assistants with computer voices appeared in sci-fi movies as far back as the 80s, and perhaps even farther back. This was not a new idea.

It's Siri's product - the execution - that made waves in the industry. Large organizations tend not to take notice of startups with ideas. There are simply too many people with great ideas for large companies to worry about.

Stealth startups may, in rare cases, be the right decision. I simply doubt the extent to which Siri's success was highly dependent on it's pre-launch stealthiness.
Hi Matti,

there are several approaches to Bluetooth Low Energy beacons. Project called Tail (http://www.thetileapp.com/) is building sensors that you attach to products and when they move or are lost your smartphone can use the Bluetooth radio signals to detect its proximity.

Our www.estimote.com beacons are designed to be placed in a fixed location such as retail store, museum or park. They broadcast their location to all the phones or devices (like your robot) in the range.

The devices could pickup the signal and estimate the location very precisely, down to inches - so it is definitely a technology that could be used to indoor-navigation for robots, machines in the factory or doctors in a hospital.

We at Estimote are focused on retail, but we also have an API and presale Dev Kits, so anybody could experiment with the technology.

Shoot me an email jakub at estimote.com and will be more than happy to advice on how to use it for robots.
This is a very very old feature of Chrome. It has been there since I started using Chrome a few years ago.

Must be a slow news day.
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Of course replying to an inquiry that the project is in stealth mode is like a slap in the face. This can be avoided by using a decoy project. This will be less brutal and will avoid attracting attention.

Regarding secrecy, obviously the secret sauce has to be kept secret. But the problem one tries to address can be exposed and will allow to collect new feedback. This is valuable because if the existence and seriousness of the problem you try to address is confirmed you earn a new prospect and a new validation of the pertinence of the project. You may also learn new aspects of the problems or expected solutions you may have initially overlooked.
I would worry that after the copy and paste into the browser, copies of the password are found decrypted all over the place in RAM, and then if you don't have whole disc encryption it may creep in plain-text into swap.
Amazon carries a surprising amount of expensive merchandise already. I've never seen, e.g., luxury watches at Target: http://www.amazon.com/IWC-IW356502-Portofino-Automatic-Black... — and notice that the only reviewer opted to buy the piece at Amazon (Prime eligible!) rather than a brick-and-mortar boutique.
Thank you guys for your valuable comments and suggestions. We are still gathering requirements and i myself is not aware of the level of security they needed. I am evaluating different solutions for different components of a big architecture. Thanks again!!
Mozilla seems to really want this.
Unless your phone includes "a substantially spherical housing suitable for being projected into an airborne trajectory", I think you're in the clear.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
Facebook's recent React framework is also worth mentioning (http://facebook.github.io/react/).

A nice JS library for reactive programming is Bacon.js - https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js - it's smaller, the source code is easier to read and I found it a little easier to use.
Apple used to allow that (well, developers figured out the right URIs to use), but they broke it in iOS 5.1.1 or 6 IIRC.
As someone who has just this week started serious study of Erlang, I'll have to look at Elixir as well. Ending statements with periods does take some getting used to!
On one hand, it's great that the author did all this work. On the other hand, the benchmark is quite dubious: aside from the Javascript-engines-are-heavily-optimized-for-SunSpider thingy (which, if you click the link at the end of the article, ends up often making plain JS faster than asm.js), the most obvious port of JS code is likely not the most obvious way to write Java/C++, let alone the most performant way.

Still, the fact that you can compare Javascript and C++ without needing a log scale is quite an achievement.
Well the things he has worked on and pioneered arent a result of just hard work, as computer graphics is one of the most complex fields in our industry. There is no doubt that he is a super smart guy with an unparalleled work ethic.
The point about memory allocation is similar to Walter Bright's explanation of D compiler performance [1]. There, the issue was deallocation; Walter "cheated" by never deallocating any memory since the compiler is a short-lived process.

As a complement in this Mozilla test, Kannan Vijayan believes that Asm.js ran so fast in the Binary Trees test because there is a single large allocation at process startup, much like a memory pool. The moral of the story is always be aware of what malloc() and free() are doing to your code.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6103883
So, a vulnerability in the control panel used in probably >90% of all lowendbox providers, combined with a specific person applying the exploit to Ramnode, makes them sketchy now? Man, Apple must be the sketchiest company out there now, you know, with the week long downtime for the Dev Center.
I was a bit torn between LiveScript and TypeScript. But after using both a bit, I think I like LiveScript better.

I feel TypeScript doesn't offer much beyond static type checking, and this can be compensated by using closure compiler together with LiveScript.
I didn't mean YOU personally.. I'm currently eating a fatty bigmac, fries and drinking coke made with high-fructose corn syrup... I don't pretend it any more or less healthy than Soylent.
You can do some pretty interesting stuff with this using julia's pycall library: https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl
If they can make this work in Tahoe that would be great. A few commercial airlines have tried service to South Lake Tahoe, but the weather has made service too unpredictable. It might make sense to use Reno or Minden NV airports to access Tahoe.
>the weight and aerodynamics of the object being thrown

Somehow I doubt that's included in the Android API. ;)
Will Chromecast revolutionize online shopping?
Thanks - ordered this as well. I've been on a self-help book binge. I shudder to think the ads I'll be seeing from google and amazon.
OP is clearly not in it for the economic sense.

A $1000 Craigslist beater or a $20/month bus pass can probably do that commute.
So if the african, muslim countries, and india adopted a one child policy tomorrow like china did, how many people would starve? versus your proposal of continuing mad science and putting it in our bodies.

We have 1 billion undernourished today (note that there were only 1 billion in the whole world in 1804). And most of the rest of us are getting diabetes due to massive sugar and starch intake, promised by science as being 'good for us'. We also have mercury in our fish, hormones in our cows, insecticides in our veggies, fracking chemicals in our groundwater to get natural gas to make synthetic fertilizer, chemicals fed to pigs to make them grow faster (in the US anyway, china doesn't even allow that crap to be sold)...

So why exactly do some people still think malthus was wrong? How exactly can some people defend population growth?

How exactly are you going to prove this shit is 'SAFE'? When scientists for 50 years haven't even been able to prove if animal fat is healthy for us or not? And we have been eating that for a million years? Do you understand 'First, Do No Harm?'
Energy surplus is a huge public health problem. Also, the brain runs on glucose, fancy meat isn't going to help with that.
I've been watching a bunch of this JS performance stuff unfold over the past few months (including that huge rant a while ago). People lament the lack of JITing in UIWebView or that JS is inherently slow or whatever but if you're targeting mobile, there's usually only one thing that matters:

Can your JS rendering code consistently execute within 16ms?

JS (even without JIT) is certainly fast enough to do this if you offload anything intensive to workers (in fact, I recommend that you put your whole app except for the real time aspects in a worker if possible) and schedule long running tasks over several requestAnimationFrames.

Usually the only issue is that GC pauses can cause hiccups > 16ms and you're in no control of that. This has traditionally been seen as a deal-breaker.

That's why I'm excited about Asm.js (and LLJS) -- even on generic JS runtimes, it's my understanding they don't generate garbage, and can execute without GC pauses. So I'm looking forward to writing most of my app in traditional JS in a worker, and the realtime components in Asm.js.