skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another good way to pitch renewable energy to people like that is disaster tolerance, including ... "what if terrorists blow up all the power plants?"

(And the kernel of truth is that the grid itself is pretty close to capacity in a lot of places, so decentralized generation, even if it costs per-KWh more than centralized, defers or avoids huge capital costs in upgrading the grid, lowering cost overall. That works even if it's cogen with gas turbines vs. something like solar or wind. The subset of crazies on the pro-renewable/green side never remember that the capital equipment also has embodied energy costs/pollution, so avoiding spending on that also is a win.)
Cool i've been looking for a site ugly enough to read while I cut myself
I completly agree with that and it still means freedom to me. Just leaving and going to place where I can't/don't want to go by bus/train/etc.. Take my bike and tent with me propably or just cruise. Leave in the middle of the night, take somebody with me with the person not having to care about transportation money. Making a break where I want to and so on.

I found the articles way of comparing all this and to IPhones very sad. There is some fantasy involved in using a car. It seems that this has been lost also not only to authors but to those kids he's describing.
The title is misleading; what was achieved here was the repopulation of decellularized mouse hearts with human cells, which is very different from building a fully-functional mouse heart.
What surprised me after little digging up was that Leap Motion does not support point cloud. That means you can't get 3D world as points in space from Leap Motion. Their founders says Leap Motion isn't designed for this purpose. This means you can't use Leap Motion for applications such as 3D scanning. Personally I think that would be much more exciting then ability to move windows by waving.
I work for a startup myself and I am really enjoying it. It is a really great place to work.
Moreover, I am working on some projects on healthcare but it is difficult to find folks really interested in this field where I live (Oslo).
The WHO predicts that by 2050 suicide will be the leading cause of death in the West, as we will have conquered heart failure and cancer, but not depression. It got a bit of ridicule - but seeing this, it seems WHO is rounding third base.
truly disruptive.
Yeah, VS2013 looks like a step in the right direction. I probably won't use it myself since I prefer FOSS development tools, but it will be a huge win for interoperability. I hope they implement enough C99 for big projects like FFmpeg to work.
Who Gave This Asshole $6.5 Million to Launch a Bro-Tastic Lady Site?
> the electron approaches about 58% of the speed of light, and its mass increases to 1.23 times its rest mass

Does this mean that as mercury is cooled to absolute zero, the electron will slow down and mercury will become lighter?
National Security Agency?
When I'm root, rm asks if I want to delete a file.

zpool destroy does not believe in asking.
Because driving brings unbelievable freedom.

If I need to go do something, like work, anywhere in the city or near it I can be there with less than a day's notice.

If I need something for work or home I can pick it up when I discover I need it instead of having to wait.

If I want to go to an event anywhere within a hundred miles I can do so without having to make special arrangements.

If I want to make a day trip to visit my friends in Canada or Portland I can.

If I want to hang out at a friend's place until ungodly hours or on the weekend I don't have to worry about massively diminished transit options.

And so on.

Normally I try to avoid commuting by car when I have the opportunity but living without a car entirely, which I did up until I was about 30, entails an enormous number of compromises and limitations. If you live a life of utter routine then fine, don't own a car, but don't tell me that there isn't an enormous amount of value in a car.

Sure I could save money in parking, gas, and maintenance by not owning a car. I could save even more money by not renting an apartment either, or by not paying for internet.
Loved how this article mixes some comedy with a real appreciation of Chinese culture. Can't wait to read some more things from al3x.
Wonder at whose behest they did this.
Twitter eyes scam-busting signatures
1.21 gigawatts!
You can use NPM packages directly within the app too: http://meteorhacks.com/complete-npm-integration-for-meteor.h...
Seems like a big place like Canada might prefer something with a larger combat radius than the Arrow (660 km). Maybe, say, an F-35 (1,080 km)?

They could probably just build four times as many for less cost. I don't know what it would look like once you factored in readiness, basing, pilots, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35
I know, but that is why Walter's information is an article and not a plain simple post. There is too much compiler related information to discuss.
With Quicklisp, the situation has improved a bit. I've used tpapp's libraries without much of a problem.

https://github.com/tpapp/
Just 10? Have you been looking with both eyes closed?
I believe it's 25k worth of projects submitted to their site in the first 3 months, from which they take a 15% commission fee (though they started with a $10 fee).
WTF? An Illustrator that never learned Hand Craft illustration as the core of it's art, is not an illustrator but a guy who uses tools to replace and emulate that art, same way, a Front-End must know how to code. If not is just using tools, not a bad thing, but it's just the superficial layer of the work.
I Sleep In Late, And I’m Tired Of It
Have used ZFS on Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris for a few years now. Had a few startles with 'unrecoverable' zpool failures on both Linux & FreeBSD that were easily fixable with a OpenSolaris LiveCD. When operating a zpool, shouldn't matter too much which OS you're on, but do yourself a favor and use the OpenSolaris LiveCD with the latest zpool version if you need to do any sort of recovery.
You should add Fog Creek Software. I think Joel Spolsky inspired many of the founders of companies you admire. Joel's blog was like HN for me before I was on HN, along with his message board that ultimately morphed into stackoverflow and their job board. I miss the old Joel on Software. Maybe I just don't go there enough anymore but it seems like the blog is dead and the old readers are here.
Well, the point is they aren't going against rules for the sake of breaking the rules, nor to show anyone anything. The closest they come to that is the attempt to game the rules (I've seen several instances of that). I'd wager that's hacking and not rebellion. And yes, I've been left to my own devices as a kid, and I got used to dealing with things by myself. It's fine after a while, and I'm glad I learned it by the time I was 13 instead of learning it with 33.

Regarding their jobs, I'll just list them by their initals.
A. Promoting, Organizer, Black Hat SEO for a while.
B. Freelance Computer Repair, programs PHP. Wants to build a business once he's 18.
D. Computer Sales "Afilliate" proably hits it closest. Then some other gigs he didn't (want to) tell me about.
D. Drug Dealing, lower-mid distribution chain. He did it in highschool because it was easy money.
J. Marketing in an ad-agency, and for some reason he quit biomed to become carpenter. J is an outlier.

I have to say though that only 3 of them are Americans.

On self esteem, I've spent considerable time with this group, and I'm relatively sure that they've got high self esteem, regardless of whether they were marketing or not.
It's generally hard to judge a persons self esteem acurately. You can generally guess it after spending some time with the person, seeing such things as their general confidence (which is expressed through body language more than you might think), and how they react when encountering opportunities and obstacles.
Has anyone looked to see if the NSA Secure Android project has this bug?
The Toolbox.cc is for sale or looking for someone to join
FYI I heard something a couple of weeks ago about ASB (NZ's CommBank subsidary) refusing to transact a fx transfer to a foreign based btc exchange.
Get a dog. You could also consider a cat, but they're more complicated.
Well no, not with Bitcoin at any rate. Every transaction is visible, that's how the attacker knew which funds were stealable.
looks good for a product that CVS can sell to replace disposable reading glasses, but it doesn't solve any big problems like amount of magnification, distance situations and style options in general
Alternatively, someone decided it was worth $5700 to learn whether or not this bug was being exploited in the wild.
It is the routine practice of banks that, if they close one account for security concerns, they will close all affiliated accounts. They will also likely flag you personally for enhanced scrutiny should you ever attempt to do business with the bank again in any capacity. Ask if you're confused why this would happen.

As to why a bank might be leery of having a Bitcoin exchange operating on it despite you having only ~1% disputed transactions at present, they don't merely have to cover your risk today, they also have to cover your risk in the future, against both the risks which you are presently exposed to and cognizant of and those which you are not. A lot of the failure modes in running a financial services operation leave you to wake up to a database which suggests that you owe millions and a bank account with $0 in it.

Your bank has a very acute understanding of that risk, and does not want to be holding the bag if CoinJar should happen to explode, hence they declined your business.

n.b. I am trying to avoid saying "Bitcoinica" because I believe in fresh starts, but the word does not have zero relevance here.
> It's a video encoder, hardly a 'developer tool'.

Quoting from the VideoLAN web site,
> x264 is a free software library and application

That is a developer tool on my language.
Breaking Bad reference on HN?
(I voted against it) In the ballot, they claimed a cost of $45B. But after the measure passed, the cost ballooned to $98B (yes, you read that correctly). Then, after howls of protest, the cost now is $68B.
I'm assuming you're using Chrome. Chrome delays the loading of <video> tags until after <image> ones. It's mentioned on the page I linked to.
That's a great point. I don't think the target demographic for App.net is the regular internet user but rather it is/should be developers who could build great apps for regular end users (leaving app.net in the background as a technical detail). So their messaging should be geared more towards selling it as Social Graph as a Service to developers rather than being a direct alternative to Twitter, Facebook, etc. Maybe it already is but the messaging should be more clear.
having a voting system is good, but Github has this feature already so why pay for bitbucket when GitHub is just free. Also, voting is cool but unless you have the development resources to tackle "popular" wanted issues all the plus 1s in the world won't help you.
It's tradition. Some of the biggest turds in fighter-plane history have come out of big, bloated "one-size-fits-all" development programs (like the F-111). And interestingly a lot of the most capable and long-lived combat aircraft have come about through rogue programs and fly offs trying to remedy the problems of being saddled with planes that just didn't work well. The F-16, A-10, F-14, etc.
People who steal credit cards (usually in industrial quantities, often mag stripe data), then use those credit cards fraudulently. You get credit cards by retail theft (corrupt waitstaff, etc.), site breakins (particularly before PCI and vaulting, when every crappy ecommerce site had a bunch of card data lying around), compromises at network participants like acquirers, corrupt staff, etc.

There are whole communities of people in this space -- it tends to be fairly large and organized groups, since the actual monetization side involves printing a bunch of plastic cards and distributing them to people to make purchases (at retail).

It's related to the ATM skimming/theft/etc. world, and overlaps a lot with "traditional organized crime". Lots of Eastern European presence, too.

Carding sites and forums exist to make a market in credit cards, exploits to get more credit cards, tools to monetize them, etc.
Mutations for Rails
I like JavaScript. It is a very intelligent language, far ahead in its design than more recent products like Dart. If you was not insanely focused on its drawbacks, you could see its qualities too.
Wow, what a plane! Thanks for the link, hadn't heard of the Arrow before. Shame was cancelled.
Drawing graphs with Haskell
Because it takes a lot more time to learn another language proficiently than it does to adapt what you already know to a different platform. It's accessible.
> remotely attestable hypervisor

How does this bit work, by the way? What's stopping an altered hypervisor from lying to say it's unaltered? (This is the classic "how do you verify a player on your FPS isn't running a bot instead of a game-client" problem in a nutshell.)
Welcome to the murky world of the Third Party Payments Aggregator (TPPA).

You look enough like one that every bank in the universe hates you. Why? Because no goods or services are being exchanged in an easily-reversible way.

When a chargeback happens, it is the processing bank who must immediately make good. Not you the merchant. The bank.

As you can imagine, they really don't like that. And so different businesses are treated differently. If you buy and sell physical goods, you are less likely to have your account locked because there is the option for repair, return or replacement as part of the settlement. You are more likely to have physical assets that the bank could seize. A shopfront address where they can send process servers. Etc etc.

But a TPPA takes money in one hand and sends it with the other. The entire model is moving money to and fro. That means, when a chargeback hits the bank ... you might have stopped being to and become fro.

Unsurprisingly, TPPAs have an unusually rate of both chargeback (shady "subscription" schemes) and of there being insufficient deposited cash on hand when a chargeback arrives (ditto).

That you put in an anti-fraud system doesn't really matter to a bank. Anybody can say they did. What you get is a polite nod; they will still feed your business model and transactions data into their own anti-fraud system. If you score badly, expect to be frozen. Especially if you start moving transactions of a size that attract the interest of AUSTRAC.

Finally, the Commonwealth Bank is a retail or consumer bank. That's its history, it's baked right into their operational DNA. Both NAB and Westpac are generally considered to be better at business banking. I've no idea what ANZ's reputation is meant to be.

I suspect NAB got Pin because they're the only bank allowing you to deposit multiple currencies in a single account. Everyone else requires you to open separate accounts for separate currencies.

How do I know all this? The business model I'm working on is a TPPA. When I discuss it with banks, what they want is a locked reserve that they can get chargebacks from. The most generous I've been quoted is 30% of my cash locked for rolling 90 day increments.
Go full-circle and make the steam with a Bitcoin miner.
The Humble Bundles did start with indie games, and one big selling point was the lack of DRM. The ebook and music bundles also had no DRM. Not only do these "big publisher" bundles have DRM, this particular one is also specifically promoting a DRM encumbered platform. That seems like a step backwards to me.

Having said that, I still bought this one. The donation to charity is another big aspect of the bundles that I like, and it's nice to see EA give their share.
ZFS is now available on Linux via FUSE actually.
Your iPhone uses more energy than a refrigerator
> 25 years is a short lifespan for a military aircraft

As of late, and not for a first-of-its-kind craft.
With iOS 7, my concern is beyond the icons
What land were you born in?

What's wrong with hackernews today are a bunch of musq-worshipping, "smartphone" toting, self-righteous dolts opining on subjects they have zero depth on.

Let me guess, you are boss with a joystick on your Apple Thunderbolt display and MSFT Simulator-X.

Do you understand what drives the cost of a physical good? Do you understand why the US government has structured the defense contractors into a prime-sub hierarchy? Do you understand why the US government has cost-plus contracts?

What do you know that I can't read on Wikipedia?

Why don't you Google the Forbes list and tell us about all of the billionaires the government is minting in the defense contracting industry?

You know where the money is going? Look at raw materials.

Why do we have prime contractors? So they aren't "too big to fail."

Why do we have cost-plus contracts? Because no one can hedge raw material and labor costs for projects that are 10-30+ year contracts. You see, the US government issues its own currency and as we have seen the Federal Reserve do since 2008, it can spend and self-finance(quantitative easing) as long as the political will exists to spend. The government has no budget constraint other than the arbitrary ones we periodically invent for it.

Canada's military budget is a fart in the wind and the only reason we are SHARING any piece of the development with anyone is diplomacy.

Tell us all something substantive and save the impassioned platitudes.
How to make a simple CMS with GNU tools?
It's not the first time they could be quoted with completely off-their-rocker statements.
I honestly dont understand this sometimes. Such MNCs fire a lot of people and pays them severage and then after few months hires new people for similar but slightly different jobs.
Sorry -- yes, chiming in with agreement.
I thought the issue was the F-35 could be multirole, and F-22 couldn't, so they needed to replace F-16/F-18/A-10/etc., which the F-22 couldn't do.

I still think manned combat aircraft are probably on the way out, and absent a current threat, we should be life-extending our existing aircraft, spending 10% of F-35/F-22/etc. on combat UAVs, and end up with ultimately better capability (like, 100x more UAVs than manned aircraft, the ability to go on one-way missions, etc.) Kills the aviator officer career path, though.
How does that compare, performance wise, to a 'real' ZFS implementation like on Solaris or FreeBSD?
Why does America have such a big prison population?
The People Smuggler Experiment
Wouldn't this make nice foundations for hardware cryptographic tokens such as CryptoStick?
That's io9 and "they come from the future" so they know better than you :)

io9 is just another science tabloid, I would not trust what they write too much in the first place. I doubt most of their writers have any academic knowledge of Science, but I could be wrong.
eh, lobbyists will block this as much as possible. Unless Mastercard and Visa can make money from Bitcoin transactions this will never be any type of official currency the US and its businesses will adopt
AngularJS routing changes , angular-route.js , ngRoute.
Having a car is useful during crucial times like for weekend trips, grocery shopping or just go out with friends. Renting or using some car sharing app everytime is a hassle.
If you're telling the truth, you don't know it.
In Germany it's the other way round: The renewables are not sitting where the people are who are consuming them. E.g. industry in the south, lots of wind from the north.
Or just don't learn the bad parts to begin with.

That's why there's a book called "JavaScript: The good parts" :)
Yeah, this is because many tend to confuse their C or C++ compiler accepts with what the ISO/ANSI standard states.

Any C or C++ developer doing cross platform development, even if only across UNIX platforms, will have lots of war stories to tell about using different compiler vendors across systems.
> The Kinect chips, designed by a team mostly based in Microsoft’s Silicon Valley office, use a technology called Time of Flight

I was under the impression that the (original) Kinect didn't actually use time of flight to get it's depth data. Can anyone comment on this?
Only because something set up an alias when you're root to pass -i to rm.
Why did you cancel after six months although you had paid for a year?
Thanks patio11 for the insight.

Of course we fully understand and respect the bank's decision if they choose to close our business account. We already had the intention to close the account anyway. What's unacceptable is the total lack of communication (especially when they refused to stop incoming transfers to prevent further fraudulent transactions). On top of that, we have already built in an advanced fraud prevention system (partly outsourced to a YC startup in this field) and in most instances fraudulent transactions were caught. However there was no opportunity or channel for us to discuss anything with the bank.

Personally I have no complaint regarding their decision. This blog post written by my co-founder is more of a contrast of totally different reactions of two big banks in Australia. One of the transactional banking specialists in our new bank attended our startup pitch, and quickly arranged a meeting with us to discuss the products and services they can offer. Not only they acknowledged the risk of our business model, they gave us a great deal of valuable advice and we discussed a new approach to transaction processing (which will launch in September). With regards to the risk, we were more than happy to put up a security to take more control over the banking arrangements and they're happy to give us relatively customized solutions.

EDIT:
Regarding the personal accounts closure, I was severely affected in terms of my personal life and financial wellbeing, because majority of my financial transactions happen with Commonwealth Bank and my only credit card is with them (and it's blocked with full balance due Sep 2). Half of the cards in my wallet became useless overnight. Technically speaking, they have every right to do this and I don't think their Code of Banking Practice will ever protect me in this circumstance. I believe that it's a fine line to draw between "security risk" and "blatant discrimination". Unlike in the US, the "good behaviors" in one's credit history aren't freely transferable between financial institutions (only the "bad events" are recorded and shared). To me, the personal banking relationship is a lot more than just an account number and some dollars. It concerns the mutual trust between the bank and me that both parties have spent real effort and time building and maintaining. I'm a business guy and I know what the bank is doing can be considered "right", but in the end I feel socially worse-off and discriminated against just because of their issue with one of my startups.
Awesome app for real
If you're interested in podcasts, there's an excellent table of podcasts accompanying an episode of Startups for the Rest of Us [1].

[1] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-104-p...
Those are one shot successes, hardly a model to follow for anyone that needs a steady source of income to pay things like mortgage, employees and such.
Why not railguns? Or laser beams?

The point is to deal with what exists currently and what is likely to exist in the service life of a military system.

You're right though. Space will eventually and inevitably be much more militarised.
Honestly I can't say. I've only done basic tinkering on Linux to see if the basic functionality works...sorry.
Keep us posted on how it goes with NAB.

I'm with Westpac (cost, convenience, pretty decent service so far), but if NAB pans out as better for heavily transactional businesses then I will switch.