skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I felt awful because I was thinking like part of the establishment: there's no way she came up with something that will replace power cords. I've got a degree in physics, and have always been interested in acoustics, and sound in air has some amazing properties, including the ability to transfer non-trivial amounts of power, especially at nodes, and especially when focused with, say, a parabolic reflector.. The best case would be a tracking parabola that follows your device through space beaming concentrated ultrasound at it, and even then the power transfer is going to be a handful of milliwatts. The power draw of modern laptops is around 10 watts (although it varies somewhat). This, of course, is the bet case ignoring inefficiency to transfer that mechanical energy back into electricity (piezo is probably really efficient, but coupling the sound to the piezo won't be).

I was feeling really bad about myself, but then I realized: without such skepticism the surprise and delight of proving others wrong (not to mention being proved wrong) would be lessened, and so my skepticism does serve a useful purpose, and I could go on living with myself again. This is one skeptic who's hoping that he's wrong and that the inventor is right!
no it doesnt and it certainly doesnt feel native either. especially with the latest ios and android os.
I thought I knew most of what is hot and fresh on the software development front, but I've never heard of any "server engines." Mind explaining what it is? Virtualization containers perhaps?
Matt you are a lazy spoiled jerk. No doubt.
> Google have been pushing on exposing more features

Of course they have. This increases the importance of their services. No matter which side the consumer purchases from, both sides of that coin have pros/cons & warts/polish.
> Another explanation that I sadly believe to be much more realistic is that Obama never had pure motives.

FYI, no one has pure motives past the age of 10. There are only people who delude themselves into thinking their motives are pure.
Also, it has a large enough speed advantage that it doesn't have to go straight to the city center to have a time advantage over air travel, and that would be a big part of reducing the cost while keeping it viable.
No, it's not a new idea. It's just being newly applied.

I like this use of piezoelectric devices to turn heat into sound into energy:

http://www.unews.utah.edu/old/p/053007-1.html
I think you are being a little disingenuous here. The title is designed to grab attention, as all headlines are. The article itself is measured and reasoned, as you'd expect form Doctorow. He does write fiction as well, so you'd expect him to choose a title that's going to make people pick up and read.
Violence by the majority population of a state against a minority might be "terrorism", but it's very different from small groups of extremists trying to terrorize people by setting off the occasional bomb.
It’s one thing to pull an idea out of your head and shape it into a prototype. But it’s a whole other thing to figure out how that device will get out of your test kitchen and into the marketplace.

Hum... in this particular case, the problem is to make a prototype. If you have a working prototype for safe wireless energy transmission, no doubts that you'll find customers willing to buy it.
Perhaps we as a community need to dig our well before we're thirsty and start putting tech-literate, sane-minded, ethical politicians in the seat of power before the new batch of liars and crazies get there. After all, the media is the driving force behind it and we're able to harness online media channels that're rapidly becoming more relevant than the traditional broadcast media platforms of yesterday.
I think we may be in agreement. I don't think Americans are deeply frightened of terrorism in the sense that it keeps them awake at night, causes them to be unable to carry out daily activities, etc. However, I think they buy into the narrative pushed by media and government that terrorism is a significant threat and one that we should be concerned about. This is not really the fault of media and government, however, because it ends up as a feedback loop. Government and media amplify the fears of the populace, which then feeds back into the public as a whole. I think that breaking the public away from paying attention to the "This common household product could be killing you, details at 11!" style of TV news is key.
Ok, by default I can do pretty much everything I want, and with a little work I can do everything I want.
Did she have a hard time finding investors because it was a hardware business, or because she was a woman?

Did she ultimately get investment because she was a woman, in spite of the hardware business?

According to a friend's college thesis, there are lots of concrete reasons VCs don't invest in women.[0] In summary, VCs don't take a girl very seriously. The thesis makes the case though that there's real opportunity for women founders, not the least because they're so undervalued for reasons under than business fundamentals.

So maybe Meredith got investment precisely because she was a woman. The collection of investors is curious. According to CrunchBase, Marissa Mayer invested in 8 companies over the last 2 years (+Square in 2009), 7 of which have women founders or co-founders. Lady Gaga's manager, who I thought was not a professional investor, in fact makes a lot of investments. According to CrunchBase, 4 of 16 of his investments have women founders or co-founders. By comparison, VentureSource shows about 1 in 14 startups with funding have women founders or co-founders in 2010—more details in Alisha's paper.

Still, it would be wrong to accuse of sexism the "hundreds" of the investors who declined her project. She's an astrobiologist who wants to run a mass-manufacturing business. I'm not a venture capitalist, but I can see aversion to hardware manufacturing risk generally being the biggest factor here.

[0] http://alisharamos.com/women-vc-funding/AlishaRamos_Thesis.p...
Don't pay the bounty for the bug then. Pay it for identifying the weak links in the security-reporting chain. The links that shrugged the bug reporter off, from the start; didn't have, at the very least, some boilerplate to guide the reporter; didn't have avenues or rules for non-English speakers.

For all we know, the reporter might have thought, "This will never work" or is not up to speed on or didn't understand the rules. Facebook certainly didn't help him, at every turn, including the last email "Sorry, l2p."
Apple/Google/Microsoft/Nokia - Want to own mobile?
I have just added (1) quotes to the code, (2) a section about tab completion, and (3) a note for Mac OS X users. Many thanks again; HN is a great community!

Jeroen
> For some reason breaking stories always seem to be something negative … people would rather watch a train wreck than the launch of a new high speed rail.

In your example, high speed rail launch is hardly breaking news. People are likely to be receiving updates on that rail through mass media since long before its construction even started. Train wreck, though, is a very unexpected event. A black swan.

Media does look for interesting stories (understandably), and it's been noticed that such stories tend to have certain qualities, like:

Freshness
Significance
Proximity (geographical or otherwise)
Famous people involved
Human interest (appeal to emotion)

Train wreck is going to score high by all of these, expect possibly the famous people one. It may involve people we know, it engages our self-preservation instinct, it may directly affect our actions (e.g., stop using trains).

High speed rail launch is probably less ‘news’, as already mentioned (people knew it's being built). Perceived significance is less—long term convenience is hard to judge, and people have been living without it for ages anyway.

So I personally don't find it very surprising that ‘good’ stories tend to be less interesting than ‘bad’ ones, and I don't think it's because we, cruel creatures, love watching blood and suffering so much.

(I'm yet to read the paper you linked to, though.)

Edit: clarity, wording.
Yes, the legislative system is has its game, but sponsorship and co-sponsorship tells a lot. Most legislators tell folks what their vote meant and most bill titles are fantasy. You need to look deeper than the soundbite to determine what the legislative record means.
looks fine I may give it a try to compare it with http://brackets.io/ , can you tell me why would someone choose it over an amazing, free and open source project like http://brackets.io/ ? Why should I use it over Bracket ?
So, by government logic, we'd have to start a War on Government Employee-ism...

EDIT: Seriously, just this 1 thought would warrant HUGE articles in papers like the New York Times. Obviously, this will never happen.
I don't want it often, but when the top comment is a tangent that then leads to hundreds of comments that are all about that tangent and not the link, then being able to minimise it would be nice.
Well according to Facebook, "this is not a bug". Which means the feature works as intended. If he is using Facebook as it is intended, then how can he be breaking the TOS?

When an employee whose job it is to evaluate security issues says "this is not a bug", that determination carries the force of law the same way as if it appeared in the TOS. You cannot rely on people to follow some nebulous "spirit of the TOS" when meanwhile your employees have already made a contrary specific determination for how it applies to this particular bug.
Morals are there for practical reasons. Otherwise they're just random.
Before the Atari and Amiga, too, there were games like Match Day on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 (quite a decent, playable game) and Kevin Toms's "Football Manager" (written in BASIC and goals shown in isometric 3D) from 1982, which precedes the current football manager games. Here's an interview with Toms from 2010: http://theballisround.co.uk/2010/07/29/the-original-gamefath...
It's not "bullshit Terms of Service", it's "bullshit excuse". There is a difference.
Our current voting system is a conservative wet dream. It's designed so that you're voting against every other party, so you're not trying to advance a platform, but rather trying to prevent the onset of a worse one.

It's not our voting system that needs to be radically changed. It's the extent to which we rely on representatives to hold power for us. It's the 21st century; why don't we have tools to collaboratively write legislation?
Or the power efficiency.
I print my boarding passes at home (or use Passbook) and never check luggage, so the only line I deal with is security.

Passing through the checkpoint itself takes ~90 seconds. The other 20-90 minutes is waiting for the queue in front of me to be processed by 1-2 lanes working in parallel. If the airport had a wide enough hallway and a big enough payroll, why couldn't it run 10-20 lanes and cut down the wait by an order of magnitude?

Obviously the federal government doesn't choose to spend money that way, but it could - regardless of the seating capacity of the aircraft. In fact low-bandwidth aircraft make the problem easier because fewer people need to depart at once.

I trust that you know what you're talking about when it comes to security, but I don't see it. Why does Hyperloop's low bandwidth make the security line problem worse than HSR?
Thanks! I'm certainly not hung up on the BDB API, so I will check it out.
There's an acronym for this: YAGNI

You Ain't Gonna Need It.
I believe that was referring to the terms of service of the whitehat program not Facebook's TOS itself.
Funny, I was thinking that most people with an engineering/physics background would dismiss the though that spurred her to investigate the matter in the first place ("why in this day and age should I plug my "wireless" device to charge it") as just absurd, and drop the issue without a second thought...

Wireless power is something that has been researched for years I believe, the fact that to this day there is not a feasible solution (that I know of) means that it's a really hard problem, I guess.
You should not be criminally liable for something that was merely caused by your actions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_%28criminal%29
I agree with you, but as I can choose the software I create and with what I'm not very interested in working with Oracle stuff.

I worked with Java since 0.1 in the enterprise world for over 10 years and with Clojure & Scala I would continue with it, but I don't trust Oracle to do the right thing in releasing source at the same pace or at all for some critical perf/scaling features and I tend to think thats wrong.

How does OpenJDK handle serverside compared to the Oracle binaries these days?
Another possible interpretation on the security stuff is that he's just being outmaneuvered by the people working for him. Most of his information on these topics comes from people inside the security bureaucracy or the security industry (if that's indeed a difference). And those people are lifers; the top ones have seen a number of presidents come and go.

This is Obama's first time as an executive of anything substantial, and I don't think he's ever been a bureaucrat. The US faces some significant threats, and there's plenty more that can be made to look significant. He could sincerely believe that he's striking the right balance between security and liberty. And the political situation, which does not encourage democrats to do anything that increases the risk of terrorist action.

I'm deeply disappointed with this, but personally I'm inclined to apply Hanlon's Razor here. Of course, I also tend to apply it to Bush, who I still think was well-meaning and generally sincere, but incurious and somewhat hapless. Trying to run a country with 3 pounds of meat is an impossible task, so "disappointed" is basically the top end of my scale.
Even ignoring the threat, the sarcasm and tone of blame are unacceptable. What company would want a reputation for being mean to those choosing not to be customers (even if somehow deserved)? There was no value to Groupon in the email sent to the SF restaurant. Of course, I'm sure the sales guy felt better about himself though.
I realise that my comment was not so clear, sorry about that. Yes, to me scanning the whole internet means at least the full port range in TCP (and why not UDP too).

My 'rant' is really about the article sensational title promising to let you know about the result of scanning the entire internet really fast... wich turns out to be about scanning web services. The data is however interessting.
It obviously bothers me that marijuana is still illegal, but I'm more upset about the lack of marijuana medical research in the past. I'm glad the medical establishment is looking into it more these days. It is just sad it took so long for them to come around b/c of the stigma.

The next thing I'm also very, very upset with is the still illegal nature of hormonal supplementation. People say free the weed? I say free the testosterone and hgh. If anything will give people longer, healthier and more productive lives, it is those.

Note: I know TRT and HRT are becoming big business in the US, but it is still quite difficult to actually get these without the right insurance.
Because supporting the Rakudo attempt to implement Perl 6 turned out to be an unpleasant slog through an unnavigable field of abuse and nonsense:

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/02/goodnight-parrot.h...
There is a sweet spot between looking in every trash can and visiting only one of the biggest cities :)
Open Source Google App Engine Clone
Sounds like Perl 6!
The world is in corporate hands, but Oracle and the JVM are far from being the worst of it. At least all Oracle wants is your money, unlike a younger kind of mega-corporations that will give you services free of charge only to hold your most secret information – e-mail, photos, current location, documents and more. Oracle can be infuriating, but it's not scary because it can be easily understood. What companies like Google want, well that's far scarier. It's also a completely different discussion. :)
Wozniak Says `Lot of Things Wrong’ With Jobs Movie [video]
I think the key point you are missing is developer productivity.

Every potential performance gain C++ might have is completely negated by having to touch that complete clusterfuck of a language.
Security researchers find major flaw in Apple’s App Store approval process
Lady Gaga's manager is very active in the startup/tech community and is a known angel investor.
They don't care about design. If they did they would have created something original. Or at least they would have more than one source of inspiration to pick from. If they wanted to take the whole shape of OSX applications, at least they should have picked a different color theme. Here they stole the functionalities, the shapes, the colors and the metal textures that Apple's designers chose. eOS is designed by Apple, there's no one who care about design in the eOS team, at least not for the apps shown in the video. They're receiving bad critics because thieves receive bad critics. Hopefully they'll learn and their next version will have its own identity.
Why do you guys make a big deal of Contractor in the article when actual development of the service is rather neglected looking at your milestones for your next release's beta[0] and Contractor's revision history[1]?

On your mailing list you guys are already getting ready to update your Ubuntu Precise base to a more recent release[2], but why? Precise is stable and will be continue to be so long enough for you guys to spend time developing the developer-facing treasures of your platform, and yet it seems you're a little too focused on user-facing niceties. Or maybe the better question is when will you guys sit down and start making the stuff that'll entice third-party developers?

Let me know if I'm getting things confused, I'm actually a big fan of the project.

[0]: https://launchpad.net/elementaryos/+milestone/isis-beta1

[1]: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~contractor-dev/contractor/trunk...

[2]: https://lists.launchpad.net/elementary-dev-community/msg0257...
You're wrong. Java is a terrible operating language tech bubble 10 reason politics doesn't work! And don't get me start about health insurance.js hype train fanboy.
Show HN:InviteBuzz.com - Create a buzz by calling/sms your clients
I created this as a side project last year and never got around to launching it. So decided to revive it and put it out there to see if anyone finds it useful. With the site you can create a buzz by automatically calling your clients to play pre-recorded message (mp3), computer generated message (it reads your text) or an SMS.
On a tangent:

What happens if p2p systems start requiring proof that a new peer violated some copyright (that copyrighted work can be something explicitly created for that purpose - a guy's family pictures, anything)...

I'm pretty sure the technical side of managing the proofs, verifying them etc. is feasible, if not trivial. Wondering about the legal ramifications, would love to hear your opinions.
We're trying to do just that with Pickie (iPad personalized magazine app) . Still alot left to do to squeeze out every bit of performance though.
link http://www.invitebuzz.com
Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn. There are much better reasons not to learn Rails: http://www.yesodweb.com/
Am I the only one who thinks it's pointless submitting half the links on the Digg homepage every single day?
Excuse my complete ignorance on this - but have you or Mark written about it? (And yes I did google it and came up with a bunch of articles about founders and vesting, however nothing popped out about restarting founder vesting when raising a new funding round.)
> I'm pretty sure you can't build iOS apps on a RPi.

I couldn't build NES games on my old NES either but that didn't stop me from starting programming.
That's an iOS issue, not one inherent with native apps. Android/Qt/Windows Phone/literally any other toolkit provide flexible layouts which are much more powerful and often easier to use than CSS. And if you need a custom layout, you can actually write a new layout manager which is just as fast or faster than the built in ones, no javascript to set absolute positions on everything.
I don't know how common it is in the industry, but it's a damn fine piece of software. It's also under Oracle's control, though.
Very cool. It's a little bit like playing World of Goo..
This prediction is plausible based on the trend to vendor-managed devices amongst the general public. However, all the vendors of such devices need GPC's to make them. And certain big industries (incl. financial, pharmacos) won't tolerate not having root. So GPCs will continue being manufactured and available in the market, though they might become expensive or regulated.

There are factors to consider in addition to the popularity of iDevices, tablets and such:

2. Will there or can there be a non-GPC that is usable for software creation. It is certainly possible for creation of text, images and so on, and some solution that allows using a managed language to produce binaries could be locked down fairly well. Certainly the likes of Microsoft and Apple would promote this, and the dot-net ecosystem already approaches it.

3. A possible dystopian scheme where the government tries to control access to GPCs and allows coding only on "captive" PCs as per (2).

4. Developers being discontented with (2) enough to reject the share-cropping arrangement and create a market for GPCs for individuals.

5. General public discovering advantages of having root on their gadgets and creating market demand, even though they will have little idea of the details ("I can do X with it this way but not when it's subject to the telco")
> Well 9/11 would have seemed a perfect fantasy on 9/10/2001.

Not at all. This scenario was well documented by the responsible government agencies before it happened.
Researcher uses big Facebook vulnerability to post on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall
The https link doesn't render correctly for me. Http does: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/researcher-girl...
Directories for JavaScript resources
I haven't used Digg in years - I like that the interesting links are reposted here, because they're, well, interesting.
I might be able to help a little with this. I have some code somewhere that keeps a stack of "views" and a view controller that pops them in and out of the DOM that can be easily animated to be native-like
A colleague of mine likes to short cut a customer discussion about features by suggesting "We just add an option/tick box". He knows I hate him saying that but he feels happy everybody thinks he's found a solution. When infact he's just creating technical debt.

I distance myself from those that don't take my advice. It's easier on me.
As we prevent more natal deaths due to better healthcare we also allow more mutated gene pool to survive. The by product of our medical advances hold the key to our evolution.
My guess is that these cases are dysfunctions with aspects of the growth / maturation process, rather than outright stoppage of aging. If you look up images of Nicky Freeman, the 40-year-old referenced in the article who "looks like a 10-year-old", he in fact looks more like a 40-year-old with the size and stature of a 10-year-old:

https://www.google.com/search?q="Nicky+Freeman"&um=1&ie=UTF-...
Spreadsheets. Data. In Bed.
In other words,

((16.8 + 16.8) * 1e6) * (2^15 + 2^14 - 1)) / (24 * 60 * 60)

or

((IANA + RIR address) * millions) * (registerable port range)) / (day-seconds)

or

19 million scans / second
And also because general purpose computers tend to become unusable after a few years, because people don't know how to uninstall all the crapware that made its way onto their device and chokes up system resources.
That quote isn't actually Picasso's. It's T.S. Eliot's, and it goes, "Good poets borrow, great poets steal."
If I want to invest in start-ups, is there a list that I can add a company or is it walk-in?