skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except, we're talking about Express here and not barebones Node.js. Express implies a web framework competing against all the techs you listed: Rails, Grails, Django....
Manning's best bet would be to make an unsworn heroic sounding testimony. This way, he has a good chance of getting a full presidential pardon from whoever is the good guy in office after nobel laureate obama.
Yeah, I'm missing the infinite wardrobe hallway.
In that case I apologise, I didn't understand what you were saying. Ironically, I totally agree with you! Sorry about that.
An interesting article, and seems to be nicely referenced. Most of the detraction of the article seems to be attacking his dismissal of Musk; that shouldn't matter, given it seems to actually quote sources for details. I found especially interesting this quote:

> If a famous question could be solved in ten pages, it probably wouldn’t still be open.

Which of course isn't saying that it's impossible, but that claiming it to be so requires overwhelming proof.

Hyperloop seems like an interesting idea, and certainly worth some investigation and research (as is, any proposal and idea). But large scale hand waving and dismissals of the problems as ad hominem attacks don't help lend an air of legitimacy.

My personal view? I find it interesting that he proposed this, but initially didn't want to do any of the development or payment himself. That doesn't sound like someone who truly believes in their "vision".
Yeah, sorry, I meant similar to HBO Go in terms of standalone app + network built distribution. And the reason you can't buy HBO Go without cable are exactly what I outlined above.
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2oa3rqz3esq8az13wzl1z1v
Further automation is the most likely outcome for the chains. A lot of in store prep has already been removed. Self serve drink stations are abundant as well. I would go as far as the entire preparation of some items could be automated.

When labor increases its cost businesses will not sit idly by. Fast Food line work is not exactly skilled labor, most of your effort goes into making sure they don't injure themselves and that they can get the product out
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Wait, how comes on the fifth map, "McDonald’s Across the World", Iceland is shown as not having McDonald's, but at the same time it's listed as the third most expensive country for McDonald's burgers?
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I don't think Google's servers have enough space.
In my day, a framework was a number of interconnected standards, ledgers and transoms. Made from steel and the sweat of man.

These days, throw a bunch of fucking zeroes and ones together and it's a framework.
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Samsung Introduces World’s First 3D V-NAND Based SSD for Enterprise Applications
Is it possible to write Go in a functional way? Are there first class functions? Anonymous functions? If so it seems it would be possible to write highly functional code given the flexibility of interface{}
Go version 1.1 was more than a significant increase in net handling speed.
> "Hey so LeapMotion is still being developed, I better hurry to write a blog post and complain about it before they improve it"

If you take someone's money and give them a product they have every right to review it and point out both the good and bad points about your product.

I thought the review was very fair, and I"ll be the folks at leap would to. They just got a bit of press and some tips on what one of their clients thinks is broken.
New York had it in 1873. Well, they tried to have it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
I wrote a silly script for noob openbsders like yours' truly: it builds the usage from functions' comments in the script on-the-fly. https://gist.github.com/6120072
BTW this is one reason net neutrality is so important. If we're going to start rebuilding existing services over dumb lines (IP) then it's imperative that we maintain competition. The big problem with cable right now is that it's an oligopoly (monopoly in many places). By separating the infrastructure from the content delivery we can hopefully avoid many of the issues people currently have with cable. If we allow Verizon to charge an extra $50 to carry any non-Verizon-based "TV show bundle" then we really will be right back in the cable boat.

It's pretty amazing though that Moto wants $800 for a cable box and Western Digital can sell the same thing for $150. Shows what competition gets you.
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Don't take the PR newspeak at its face value.
Up to a point, but go's limited datatypes make it difficult to write the kind of code you're used to writing in haskell/f#/etc.
McDonald's Iceland franchisee pulled out because it was too expensive. (they renamed the restaurants "Metro", I believe)

cite: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8327185.stm http://metroborgari.is/
> You've just found Google's business model !

This is essentially correct. Google makes money via providing access to content created by other's.

Try "Who Owns the Future" by Jaron Lanier. It's an interesting read.
Just in case someone is actually confused: I am sure you can buy McDonald's-equivalent burgers in Iceland or at least estimate the cost of a burger if it were to be sold there (in the appropriate quantity typical of such a country etc.).
hey thanks :)
I'm really unsure about the author's assertions regarding the maximum accelerations that people can take. Those might be the normal regulatory limits for passenger rail, but I'm pretty sure that the accelerations I've experienced on planes have also gone up into territories the author would consider utterly unacceptable.

On the other hand, I think he has some good points regarding the cost numbers. If pylons have all the advantages that Musk claims then why aren't we all getting around city on monorails?
It works by detecting infrared light - the lightsource is likely an infrared one that you can't see, possibly your monitor.
There are many ways to gain celebrity. Some people like Musk actually do things, create things, say clever things... others like this Levy are parasites who lack the ability to do and create but can harness enough wit and attention to criticize and attempt to destroy.

Critics will always have an audience in the envious and the shadenfreudencia.
"kinect already is capable of tracking your fingers"

I will nitpick the word selection that "capable" is nearly useless in a user interface. It needs to be nearly 100% reliable or its useless. 99% of my interaction with Kinect is my daughter crying that she can't navigate menus in her dance games and is all frustrated, followed by me being all frustrated and swearing about how if only I could bypass this POS and use the buttons on the controller I would be done twenty seconds ago and I hate Kinect with a passion. It works fine for gross motor like my daughters dance games but useless for fine motor. Perhaps in the future I will write SQL statements by performing an interpretive dance at work, but I hope not.

The failure rate is vital... If I'm typing this at 100 WPM, which is probably about right, then a 99% motion detection success rate means I'd swear and hate motion detection and have to stop and fix an error, what, every six seconds or so? All day long? Forget that, I'm sticking to the keyboard and mouse, I don't have the patience for 99% success.
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Your argument suffers several flaws. First of all you are assuming that equality currently exists, and therefore anything that might have show a bias is inherently unequal. If your assumption were true, you'd have a point. However, it is not true: there are lots of places where imbalance exists.

Second you are assuming that the imbalances are based on some inherent gender differences (in a previous point you make some claim about "socialness"). This point is somewhat contentious, and not well evidenced (that is to say, there is at least as much evidence for as against such points), or just plain shown to be false. If you can show a preponderance of agreement in facts, I will change my position. Evidence required for such.

Third, your claims that, corrective actions to an existing imbalance are the same as those same actions when furthering an imbalance or creating an imbalance. This is true in the pedantic sense - the actions are the same. However, the consequences and motivation for the actions must be taken into account. If the motive is to correct an imbalance, and the consequence is imbalance correction, then different considerations must be made. If I use a scalpel to remove someone's kidney, the circumstances surrounding the action matter a lot - as a surgeon performing a transplant it's ok, as a psychopath getting his jollies it isn't.

Finally you are using a slightly different definition of sexism than many. You will argue till you're breathless, use annoying semantic pedantry, general point missing, and other disingenuous BS to try and counter me, but here it is: the sexism people are talking about is systemic, the fact that statistically speaking, women are faced with an imbalance that seems only to apply because of gender. The sexism you are using is "acknowledges gender in actions". They are different and have different implications. Too bad you keep demonstrating a basic choice to ignore things like implication, multi-step reasoning, and acknowledgement of definitions of words that you don't like.
Elon Musk’s hyperloop
Is it possible to build viaducts for $5mil/km?
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You are blatantly point missing for my response to 1. I merely stated that designing a system that cannot be used to comply with warrants in no way stops the ability of hackers to be malicious with the system. Period. End of assertion. They are different considerations from each other, just they have some overlap. I presume the rest of your post is more of the same, therefore won't read.
What tool are you using for your benchmarks?
It is monomorphically typed, however, which limits the use of higher-order functions.
I played with a LeapMotion last week and was impressed by it but within 5 minutes my arm was tired.
Yeah, not sure what happened but this was the link below a few minutes ago.

http://bbs.studygolang.com/thread-278-1-1.html

Notice that, despite English content, the forum looks Chinese-language oriented. I think it is cool, but not normal to me.
> If there's no high growth potential, it's not a startup.

How would we determine that a company has high growth potential without actually starting the company and trying to find out? Does this definition mean that a company isn't a startup until it finds this huge growth potential? (That would mean that almost all companies that have received angel investment are not startups, since so many will fail to find high growth.)

(edit: I should have said: "many companies that have received angel investment are not startups, since so many have no obvious high growth potential." I sort of get it that as a founder I'd want to be conservative, and launch into a large and well understood market if I'm taking outside money, but that seems to run against the spirit of what VCs are trying to do, that is fund companies that are trying to discover new, untapped markets, in order to reap larger rewards.)
Well, they do say "McDonald's burger" not "equivalent".

Give what ronaldx said, I suppose it's a case of using different dated data for each part of the map, but this doesn't look good, someone should have catched that before publishing.
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All U.S. Embassy Sites Down EDIT: Site Back
Had to check something and noticed the Frankfurt Consulate and Berlin Embassy sites were down. Checked Tel Aviv and Singapore out of curiosity and they are also down...along with any others. Any insight out there?

EDIT: Sites are back, but I found it nevertheless strange for them all to be down over an hour during prime working hours for Europe, Africa, S.America and half of N.America
What's the lag like?
Likely. I don't think the "docs" of the core framework are so bad is that there's nothing that really explains "The Why" well. I have a hard time with understanding unless I know The Why, and it's mostly an exercise in rote learning until then, and I think rote learning for something complex like AngularJS is a bad thing
The literal translation of the Chinese name for Switzerland is “Swiss Scholar”? I smell recursion…
> BTW does anyone here remember how clumsy were mice on PCs in, say, 1992?

I came here to state this. I'm studying interaction design, while I understand the author's frustrations, the problems do largely seem to be to be poor interface design for how to use the data the leap collects about your hand (and the visualiser demonstrates how accurate that data is).

Basically, the current basic demos try to mimick a mouse by way of using extremely clunky gestures. That won't work: for this to take off, the interface needs to be designed from the start with gestures in mind. I have some ideas on how to do that, but it will require some further tinkering and testing.

The sensor itself is amazing and in my experience very reliable - although I might be biased after having tried to design gesture based interfaces with the Kinect and not succeeding due to its technical limitations and unreliability.
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You need an equal number of 0's and 1's, and you can use compressibility to see why. If there are more 1's than 0's, your compression tool could start by assuming that all the bits are 1's, and only storing information about where the 0's are. To minimize compressibility, you have to make sure there's no bias toward certain patterns, even patterns of length 1.
Four students at RIT are using this to develop a sign to text app.

http://motionsavvy.com/

So it does have potential/use.
Actually they only have the latest git snapshot available from the main page. It's not even RC2.
480 miles in 5 minutes is 5757.87 Miles per Hour. That's going to be quite a ride...
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not necessarily a good thing -http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/first-ios-malware-fou... - Still could be on devices, no reason it should be
That site looks fine. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://germany.usembassy....
It works in the new Google Maps version. You have to use the arrow key instead of the mouse.
Is all writing seriously boiling down to animated GIFs of "reactions"?
The similarity of so many websites is exactly what I mean is threatening: It downgrades design, to a degree, in favour of cleanliness and utility. Which, I think, is a good thing. We all go to websites to achieve a goal, not to marvel in their unique take on user interfaces.

To the devs who feel threatened, I am referring to people who currently sit on a large bulk of custom, in-house code that has been often rendered redundant, if not obsolete, by projects like Bootstrap. I would contest that all front-end devs use Bootstrap or something similar, as the overwhelming majority of devs work on projects with very long lifecycles, quite unlike the common HN manifestation of short-cycle apps.
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I showed this app to my dad, who's a doctor, and he was blown away. He was visibly excited about the potential for a device he can use to spin around CT and MRI scans in the operating room without having to touch a mouse/joystick - currently he has a person doing this for him to keep things sterile, and this can sometimes be frustrating.

This is exactly the value proposition of my startup, TouchFree Labs. We're developing software that uses the Leap Motion Controller to allow surgeons to manipulate medical images inside of the operating room. You can see a demonstration of an early prototype here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaO-cimDOEQ. Demo starts at about 35s. (Apologies in advance for the low production value.)

Right now our bottleneck is medical expertise, and we're looking for surgeons who would be interested in collaborating with us. We're developing workflows that are tailored for different types of procedures, which requires very specialized knowledge. The application also learns the nuances of individual users' movements to improve gesture recognition, which requires lots of data.

I don't know how far away you are from Toronto, but if you could pass the message along to your dad, I'd be very grateful--if only to get some basic feedback. But if he's interested, he could be among the first surgeons in the world to use the Leap Motion inside of an operating room.
apache benchmark. I did exactly what the article suggested to benchmark.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html
> "compressing in general" is a good idea

Unless there is any opportunity for the attacker to control part of the plaintext?
I built this solo.. it took about a year to get it this far. Feedback is appreciated.

I wrote the filesystem, webdav server, and a web framework (used for the website and webdav server).

Written in C... and it runs on Debian + Apache + PostgreSQL

The filesystem has support for dedup, encryption, end-to-end checksumming, and a few other features.
Copy-on-write... so it keeps a complete history of changes. It uses the userid + filename + date/time to reference files,
so the complete history is accessible. The history is controlled by the "erase delay" setting
right now, but I plan to create a nicer interface for it later (so you can browse your files at any point in time).

When files are uploaded, control is passed from the WebDAV server to the fs.. so files are encrypted as they're uploaded.

So what do you think?
It's wrong to think that Einstein was "coming from a different field". He had a PhD in physics from a good school. In his day, physics jobs were much scarcer, so perfectly ordinary physicists tended to need to get non-physics jobs for parts of their careers.
The local BestBuy had one set up & I played with it for a few minutes. Really Interesting, but not all that applicable to how I use a computer on a daily basis.

I think it's greatest potential will be in gaming. Imagine casting a spell by using the appropriate arcane hand gestures. Or swinging a sword - it can tell the difference between an overhand and a side cut, and a blocking move.
For spam, yes. But does it implicitly allow Google to scan for building a user profile of a gmail user ? And of a sender from a different service ?

Why would google be allowed to build a johnchristopher@fastmail ad profile based on the mail sent to my gmail correspondents ?

The analogy with snail mail is blurry because every snail mail exchange doesn't include the full transcript of the conversation.
Mice worked pretty well in 1992. They worked well in 1984 on the Mac, and five years before that, on Xerox hardware and LMs (though they suffered from "really small ball bearing" disease, and easily got dirty or cranky and refused to roll well).

With a mouse, you have at least one button you can signal an event with.

Imagine doing a UI where you didn't have a mouse button. All you can do is move and point. That's a Kinect, for the most part.

I haven't used a LeapMotion, but I suspect it's the same problem; there's no way to generate a discrete event. It's all fuzzy. Did your fingers touch? Did you wave in a particular way? Some fuzzy matcher is pumping out "90% probability of event X, 75% probability of event Y" every few milliseconds, and it's up to higher layers to turn this goo into decisions that people are happy with. It's hard at all layers.

I really think you need a button, a clicker. Something "hard" in the UI that slams a voice of reason into that fuzzy tower that's continually only able to /guess/ what you're trying to do.

[We wanted a clicker on Kinect. Politically impossible. I think it would have helped a lot.]
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I would add he completely ignores the fact he runs a SpaceX which has significantly under cut a long established industry. If you look at his numbers there Basicly estimates for actual costs before padding where large contractors pad construction costs as much as possible because that's how they maximize proffits.
Some argue that the government has no right to investigate the contents of an individual's email accounts, even with probable cause.

There's always a way to access the data. Cloud-based email is...cloud-based...which means that it's susceptible to man-in-the-middle and other forms of attack.

It's possible that the government was asking Lavabit to modify its systems such that the encrypted data guarantee would no longer be real, and then they demanded that he hide that fact.

I'm honestly not sure what to think about that. Should private data storage be permitted? Is there a difference between your private data in the cloud and your private data on a system at your home?
I think you missed the part at the end where they said other techniques won't be ready for more than a few years, so this tech has a chance in the near-term.
Having worked on the F16 at one point in my career it kicks the F35 is the ass every day and twice on Sunday. Plus you can buy 20 of them for every F35. It's all about money though, the F16 is too cheap to keep Lockheed in business no matter how much you upgrade it.
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There's a general assumption that the Minority Report interface is the interface of the future.[0] There are few reasons why I'm saying no.

1. First and foremost, gorilla arm.[1] My presumption with the "interface of the future" is that it's needed for prolonged use. So, first thing's first, the interface can't be one where our arms require our hands to be higher than our elbows. Unless of course our species got a whole lot stronger in the forearm to support such a feature. Don't see our species doing that anytime soon.

2. Feedback - Right now the feedback loop is eye->brain->hand->brain->eye (repeat) where the hand's pressure against a solid surface is the most important feedback response. With the minority report style interface we currently have a massive delay (comparatively speaking) between the brain->hand->brain loop. We also have to iterate the whole loop much more because we need to constantly assess with our eye where our hand is in 3D (not digital) space. Now let's say the technology gets much better and reduces this to 5ms. We are now bound by the differences of our synapses firing between touch and light. I could be wrong, but it's my assumption that due to the speed of light being the way that it is, that "touch" will always beat "sight" in performance.

For prolonged used applications my bet is on adaptive surfaces. For short term (turning an stove on, flicking a light switch, etc) interfaces I potentially see this Minority Report style interface happening. But does the benefit cost of innovation? Personally I think we are fooling ourselves.

[0] - http://www.ted.com/talks/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_wit...

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#.22Gorilla_arm.22