skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it'd be particularly efficient. I need to be able to write proofs (which include lots of math symbols) and draw diagrams very quickly. I've seen people do it with digitizers, but the results ends up being rather poor. Pen & paper still looks best.
I remember reading (but can't find the source, I think it was Anand) that they store a hash of the fingerprint data and a unique identifier of the phone.
I have a spare Pi laying around, and I'm hopeful at least. According to the SteamOS page there's a streaming mode where you basically do the processing on your Desktop / Server, and SteamOS just takes care of input and streaming.

Fingers crossed !
Remember, Gabe used to work at MS. He knows how they work, and knows the pros and cons of the way they do business. Nowadays, you have companies like IBM, Oracle, Google, Amazon, and many others embracing Linux, none of them have ruined the 'open-ness' of Linux, they've all contributed. Gabe should be smart enough to know that all he needs is a platform on which his ecosystem can run. Chrome is a platform, Steam is a platform - it's in their interest to make their platform as portable as possible - in otherwords run on any Linux base...
Two Reasons Apple Sold 9 Million iPhones This Weekend
I don't believe that they'll even focus on users installing the OS, just like 99% of Windows users don't install their own OS. Valve will provide the reference SteamBox and encourage other manufacturers to release their own SteamOS-preinstalled boxes, giving users hardware options.
That's not a good analogy. Switching from PayPal to Stripe is currently very easy (I did it a few weeks ago). Nothing like fleeing an area with a tsunami warning. When switching costs are that low, why not stick with something that is working?
BlackBerry Reaches $4.7 Billion Deal to Go Private
Has there ever been any confirmation for the "PS3 runs FreeBSD" rumor? I've just seen FreeBSD mentioned on Sony's page listing open source components, along with stuff like expat and freetype. They've probably just lifted some bits from FreeBSD.
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That's not a Bundler fail, that's a gem packaging fail.
I hope you're right and we won't end up with even more incoherent binary blob dumps than we have now.
Flywheel makes it more bearable that I am working on a WordPress site right now. Wait, that's a bit dramatic.
>> But everything about race that is poorly researched is racist.

No, it's not.
Also, the second largest retailer in Korea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeplus
I believe Humble Bundle has a partnership with a consultancy that will take care of porting a game to other platforms to enable their Mac/Linux/Windows value proposition. Valve could probably do something similar (though I imagine it's a lot more work to port a AAA game than an indie platformer).
Even if that ends up being the case it should open the door for a competitor down the road with data and facts to get backing for their Linux-based system/distribution. This can be a big step in the right direction, regardless of how well this current iteration plays out.
A coworker and I needed to get an ElasticSearch server up using chef, and the whole time we were complaining that we wished we could just use shell scripts.

So, we spent a friday and came up with http://fuckingshellscripts.org. At first it was just a parody, but then it started to get real after we found a lot of value in just using shell scripts for simple servers.

Granted, we now use ansible and it has been far easier to implement than chef!
Oh yuck, I thought of Server Message Block first. How dull is that?
http://www.hemp.org/news/content/argentina-dealers-arrested-...
Ask HN: Finding a cofounder
Quick background:
I'm a solo founder for a company which has gotten an initial round of funding from a VC firm

I built the app from scratch (tech background) and am learning the business side of things along the way to another round of funding

I'm in the Midwest where there is a tangible startup scene, although my network is limited right now
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I'm seeking advice on ways to approach vetting candidates as I find them.

For a more "tech-y" person, baseline questions about development experience and knowledge seem appropriate. However, the person really just needs some programming chops in my mind, and not a rigorous understanding of CS theory. What are some ways to gauge the more intangible qualities of consistency, motivation and/or diligence for dev?

For a more business / marketing person, what besides the candidate's experience (and my own "read" of the person) are telling traits for a potential fit?

I'm of the mind that this process will take time and needs to be done carefully. HN's collective experience seems like a great place to glean advice from, thank you all for the thoughts that you share.
It should be noted Fairfax holds 10% of BBRY shares (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=BBRY), which means this to be taken a little more seriously than a 3rd party unsolicited bid.
How iOS 7 Will Spark a Boom in App Design
"Touch ID is going to massively reduce the number of totally unsecured iPhones that require zero effort to access. That's the goal."

...while lowering the security of a massive number of iPhones previously secured by PINs.
On the other hand, I'd rather have one Twitter than three BlackBerrys
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What if SteamOS were released to a group of perspective and current gaming hardware manufacturers à la Android? The DirectX platform may be incumbent on the mid to high-end x86 PCs, but if Valve were to target the Wii/smartphone gaming demographic they'd stand a decent chance at commoditizing consoles.
I'd settle for < 4 second load times on the pages within their shitty web based interface.

The old steam was snappy and fast, new steam is a bloated pile of garbage by comparison.
> So the lesson here is get in on this early, profit harvest, and get the fuck out before it crashes due to irrational exuberance.

Investments in early-stage startups are highly illiquid so in most cases, getting in early won't mean a thing because you will never be able to get your money out.
Poor little piggy. In my village the ritual is a little less demanding. Just have to endure 20 minutes of chanting, then strip down and get doused with a bucket of water. Not convinced this has a statistically significant impact on revenues (more split testing required); but it's quite refreshing, and makes my wife happy.
I write essays for my classes and even code a little bit pretty much everywhere. In the car, lying in bed, on the sofa. The funny thing is, I did most of this on an iPad with a Clamcase Pro.

If someone didn't want to do productive input-oriented work, why would they need a tablet with a Haswell processor?
I understand that you might be unhappy with the US murder rates, and you are trying to paint a different picture. I get that. But lets not make up cases, exclude/include different scenarios, races, demographics, etc., a la politicians, I thought this was Hacker News, facts over bullshit. Macro numbers are what they are: "Total Murders divided by Country's Population".

I'm not talking about the cause behind the murders, but just the rate. But hey, bottom line, believe whatever you want, I'm not here to make you hear what you want.
I can understand your viewpoint, and I'm usually pessimistic about human nature... But in this one thing, I'm an optimist.

I think it's a problem that the rich and well-networked effectively had a government-protected oligarchy to investing in the best private companies. Much of the capital appreciation in this country over the last couple decades went to private companies before they IPO, of which mom and pop investors had no access too... because the government 'protected' them by not allowing them to invest their money where they see fit.

The JOBS Act has a good balance. No one making $90k will be able to invest more than 5% of their income in startups. That makes sense.
I hope not. Dalvik is terrible (a legacy of Android's roots in circa 2004 Java-mobile land), I'd rather see native games, and then maybe that can help Ubuntu Phone and Sailfish OS take off on mobile...
Show HN: Lark - an Objective-C REPL
Lark is a Scheme-like programming language whose parser is designed after the paper Higher Order Functions for Parsing (http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/221/1/parsing.pdf), and whose semantic evaluator is influenced heavily by the MetaCircular Evaluator from the SICP.

It has extensive and tight integration with the Objective-C object system, allowing the creation and mutation of the entire object graph, from defining new objects, to defining new classes whose method implementations are provided by lambda expressions. Your entire program is a mutable entity to Lark!

The entire language was developed during over the course of 2 days at MHacks, the largest student hackathon in the world, and won the Most Technically Impressive prize, sponsored by Andreessen Horowitz, as well as Best use of Apple Technology, sponsored by Apple. It is currently open source and available on Github at https://github.com/nateburgers/SnarkDemo/tree/master/SnarkDemo.
I'm just going to post this question every day, since it seems to be so popular on this site : )
"Nearly right" is good enough, providing it's within the accuracy you need for any particular job.
Show HN: Pure recurring income stats/stories, no fluff (from the OP)
exactly the same sort of tricks are possible on windows via debugging hooks and process injection. I don't see how Linux is any more problematic on this front.
"brought in" would be more appropriate than made but yes
Not if you wax/RainX the surface :)
...and Motorola was sold to Google at ~$12.5B[1] at 2011.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/googles-motorola-acquisition-n...
Hopefully this means that BlackBerry will survive in some form and have a future. Their recent phones and version 10 OS have a lot of merit, and I enjoy using and developing for them.
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That is not a good comparison. That is like asking someone, why do they need a smart phone when they can get a regular phone + a netbook for half the price. Believe it or not there is a niche market for Tablet+PC forms. It was one of the main reason and the best decision I made when purchasing the Surface Pro. For travelling, I no longer need to carry my Laptop + Tablet. I just take the Surface Pro (It is setup to use my dev environments exactly as on the PC) and when I get back, I sync the changes to the laptop. Not only can I get real work done on the plane but can also switch to tablet mode and play some useless games when tired. However, that is my experience but your mileage may vary.
Those figures are only for print books, on ebooks fiction massively outsells non-fiction, which is where the 17.7 percent drop in adult fiction sales in print are coming from in your figures. http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/e-book-fans-d...

It is hard to get good figures overall, but if you include both print and ebook, it seems to be about 60% fiction and 40% non fiction.
Nothing new. Commercial software has targeted "Red Hat" since the '90s, forcing the entire Linux world to deal with RPMs and whatever nonsense Red Hat was doing at the time.
If you do the math assuming Apple make's $400 a phone which may or may not be true, and the 9 million figure is correct. Then they made $3.6B however they probably made another 1B from accessories, warranties, apps, etc. So yah they probably did.
Webdev using Basecamp? Screenshots save your day.
While that certainly seems like a good idea on the surface, it creates a horrible single point of failure for your entire setup. I certainly hope you get more hosts than one and distribute all your VMs across them. You'll have zero failover in case of host failure.
OK, let's start guessing who Fairfax is :)
You’re not a Growth Hacker You’re a Marketer
Samsung Galaxy phones do not have proper Android. You (and everyone else) wants a Nexus device but doesn't understand or care that they do.
I'm not saying otherwise, but a "letter of intent" has the same legality be it from an existing shareholder or a non-current shareholder.
Blackberry bought a private jet 2 months before 40% layoffs
Wife sells on ebay constantly. She's a Dr, not a stay at home mom, little free time, and certainly makes more than me!

USPS picks up for free.
USPS delivers Priority Mail boxes/envelops for free (boxes also free).
Print a shipping label from ebay for free (and get a rate cheaper than you would if you buy postage at the post office)

We havent been to the post office in years

You are going to shoot yourself in the foot if you start charging $5 more on shipping vs competitors on ebay.
There's a link below the results that says "sources include USDA" and points to http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/4166?qlookup=14003&ma...
What is the reasoning behind limiting non-accredited investing anyway? Why is it a crime for me to give somebody else money if I am happy with the terms of the contract?
A quick warning for everyone. Investing without having a complete access to the books of the company you invest in is extremely stupid. No serious investor would do that. Don't be stupid.

You must make sure the valuation is fair, this means - check the valuation report, check the reputation of the company who did the valuation report, sanity check it, look for signs of bullshit.

Keep in mind, even if the founders have solid reputation there may be some unethical MBA behind the scenes who can act without founders understanding exactly what he is doing.
BlackBerry Signs Letter Of Intent In Deal Valued At $4.7 Billion
Presumably the GNU/Linux core is libre and Steam is freeware. Why would it be anything else?
20 Second Challenge
They do have some limited success at deterring "script kiddies" and similar, however I think that this is far more difficult to do on Linux than Windows.
Back when there were a few games around on Linux that used PunkBuster (America's Army, Enemy Territory), PB offered almost no real protection and, e.g., ET's mod developers decided to build in some anti cheat protection of their own into the mods which was superior to PB's. (Which, of course, also got bypassed eventually)
Let's not let facts get in the way of political correctness, shall we? /sarcasm

Audience = programmers. Programmers = at least 90% male. I don't know what proportion have girlfriends, but we can always hope the number is pretty good.
i make around 1300 USD a month from this android app i made two years ago. i have to update it every time a new version of android is released, and i spend maybe 5 minutes a day on email support.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benhirashi...
> if your threat model includes "NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA"...

I think there are two vastly different threat model within that - (a) large-scale and indiscriminate vacuuming up of the average citizen's Internet usage data to fill up datacenters and do analytics, and (b) active targeting of a specific subject.

I'm hoping a VPN will insulate me against (a) too. But for (b), I don't think I stand much of a chance even if I spent $400 a month.
They never seem to define what a Living room machine is ? I wouldn't consider a desktop be a living room machine.
That's cause the new steam browser uses a customized chromium engine, while the old steam just used the trident (internet explorer) engine that's part of windows.
Did you consider Gizzard for sharding writes? Can you share why not?
How do you address the quality problem? It seems that most startups don't need just capital, they need capital and connections to help with introductions and hiring.

So it seems that the modus operandi for an early stage startup would be

* join a well-known incubator, get investments attached to that program, if that fails

* reach out to well-known angels and super-angels, rely on them to syndicate, if that fails

* reach out to not-so-well-known angels and superangels, if that fails

* crowdfunding

It seems that the startups that are attracted to crowdfunding are either those that only need capital and not connections (a rare thing), those that have been spurned by incubators and angels, and those that need more capital than incubators or angels could provide but had been spurned by VCs.
JSP is just a tiny part of the whole stack no? You're free to develop single-page app using whatever your choice of JS frameworks.

I believe any Spring view plumbering can process several java-based templating languages (Velocity, JSP, JSF, etc).

You did mentioned Spring but in the same breadth with Servlet+JSP which makes me wonder if you're just using Spring-core and not the more modern stuff.

Keep in mind that there's now "flow" based solution in .NET world. "Flow", while it is not the best choice for the whole presentation stack, has it values for developing wizard-like/shopping cart section of your app.
BlackBerry receives $4.7 billion buyout offer from Canadian investment company
I don't think I'd invest in a privately owned company unless they opened their books up to me in a completely transparent manner (I'd expect the same information that I'd have access to when buying stock in a company traded on a stock exchange). My guess is that this level of information will not be provided, which means that any "investment" in a company like this would be more like betting at a casino.
"being forced to wait for hours while it downloads and applies updates to itself and the game I already have downloaded, installed, and partly played."

The default is to keep the game updated, I believe. Do you have it set to not do that? But then, I also have steam set to start on boot up. If you rarely start the steam client then it's going to need to apply updates. Do you have it set to start steam on boot up?
Not sure about you, but I find these status updates a little insulting: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1379995199...

At least with my cloud servers if there is an issue I at least get an idea of what is going on or an expectation of resolution. Google... what is really going on that an issue remains unresolved for 3-4hrs impacting paying users.
I think they mean in comparison to Windows. They have previously reported getting better performance using OpenGL on Linux than DirectX on Windows[1]

1: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
Blackberry agrees to $5 billion buyout led by Fairfax Financial Holdings
Thanks for the reply. That's interesting, I wonder what Fundersclub aims to gain from excluding smaller investors.

I have another question for you. What prevents your investment from getting squished in future rounds?

I've been wanting to use a platform like this for a while, and that's one of my main concerns.
Just for the record: The original paper in which they found that merging the trees of binary space partition yields set operations: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~amana/research/bsptSetOp.pdf
And while Superman might be a hell of a Super Hero, what he said doesn't mean much. Its heavily dependent on libraries/frameworks/engines and technologies used to make the game.

If you use something like C++ and SDL it shouldn't be too hard (if not automatic), but if you use something like C#/XNA it could be harder (if not impossible?), but anyway I think (hope) most C# game developers and ex-XNA users use MonoGame these days.
It's 2013. I don't think it's especially unreasonable to assume JavaScript is universally available when developing a feature. As hnriot said, if you choose to browse the web with JavaScript disabled, you accept the fact that large swaths of the 2013 web will not work.
Valve has reported better performance in Linux than in Windows 7 for at least one of their titles [1].

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/valve-linux-runs-our-games-faster-than-...
I asked the same question yesterday ... how is this different from Tiny Circuits? I got a set of these and Tiny Lily at Maker Faire this weekend. Those seem to be the same size. There is no ethernet shield for Tiny Circuits but is there a fundamental difference?

Also, side note, was there a recent technical innovation in manufacturing that so many small form factor boards are popping up everywhere?
And Canonical has GPL'd everything they've done. What proprietary bits has Canonical added? Free software isn't some hippie co-operative - it's about the ability to freely modify software the way you see fit. If Canonical's changes were worthless, people wouldn't adopt them. But Ubuntu is #1...
AppleTV sells reasonably well, and GoogleTV would probably be thriving right now if the major networks didn't discriminate against its UA. I don't follow gaming that closely, but I believe most of the consoles released since the Dreamcast use a variant of the PowerPC chip that used to power Apple's computers.

Silicon is silicon; it's the UI that makes a difference. People have been paying money to have gaming systems in their homes since the 80s, and entertainment-center computers have been popular since TiVo in the 00s.

Moreover, these manufacturers are all working on "smart TVs," which is what has been keeping GoogleTV alive in spite of the entertainment industry's hostility towards it. With the right UI and licensing, I could see an LG or a Samung (or a Vizio for that matter) releasing a SteamOS-powered TV.
Valve doesn't need all the AAA titles initially. What if SteamOS were released to a group of perspective and current gaming hardware manufacturers à la Android? Despite the DirectX platform being incumbent on the mid to high-end x86 PCs, if Valve were to target the Wii/smartphone gaming demographic they'd stand a decent chance at commoditizing consoles.
Recentralizing the Internet
The point is that Valve is using confusing language to claim that they are "open", instead of saying what they are really doing: writing proprietary software that sits on top of a free software operating system.
Consider all the PC-only titles. It's safe to assume that many of them make the vast majority of their sales via Steam. If steam promises massive takeup of SteamOS, then it's in their best interests to make them available for it.

From the demand angle, lots of games are console only because they fear piracy on PC versions. But if all these console users are offered a cheap new platform they can use just as easily as their consoles, it's safe to say that many of the users who buy a steambox would start buying games on it too. Console gamers aren't going to suddenly turn into torrent junkies because they wouldn't need to. This would make the PC platform profitable again. And if they start pricing games cheaper, like Steam games are liable to be, piracy would go down even further. Lots of indie PC titles are making money after-all.

Overall, I think once it hits a critical mass it would be a fantastic idea for all parties involved.
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Not only is this possible, Oracle has had exactly that feature since 2002:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e17125/adfns_...
His name is Panos Panay and he's VP of Surface.

I agree he isn't very photogenic but if you actually watch him present....it's a whole different story. You can probably find his part of the Surface 1 announcement on youtube and I'm sure the one today will be put up later.