skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond Kinect: Is This Controller the Future of Gaming?
Kozmo definitely still resonates with me. I was a huge fan of them while I was back in college. Where else can you order Ben & Jerry's at 11PM and get a refund because they were late on their delivery?
However I hear that because BART shuts down early every night, you can't go to a nightclub, or even out to dinner, or work late(!) on the other bay, because once BART's closed, you're out of luck. No bike or pedestrian access on the bridges.

Is this true in practice? How big of a hassle is it if you don't have a car (and don't want to spring for an expensive taxi/Uber ride)?

(This reputation is a big reason why I don't want to ever move to the Bay Area. I currently live in Brooklyn, and can easily get home from Manhattan in 20 minutes... at 3am if I want to. In Cambridge/Boston the T shuts down, but not until around midnight and you can still bike or walk.)

(Edit: I was misinformed. I'd heard the BART shuts down at around 10pm, but it seems it's actually more like midnight, similar to the Boston area, and I didn't know there were all-night buses providing service between SF and Oakland when BART is closed.)
Facebook Developing Artificial Intelligence to Ponder Our Updates
Red Pen allows designers to get ‘effing fast feedback’ on designs
Absolutely!

I LOVED IT.

Once I sat on plane next to one of the founders and told them nt only that I loved it - but how fantastic it would be to allow for me to define my location and then search for stuff nearby that I wanted Kozmo to bring: "Show me all indian restaurants within walking distance of me"

Yeah - that was coming... just not from Kozmo. I will totally support this resurrection.
Twenty Five Reasons Programmers Should Love Cold Calling SaaS
For those who don't know about the author of this post. His name is Mark Jason Dominus, the author of one the most awesome programming book that one can ever read.

Higher Order Perl, is available for free download. If you read it you will see some amazing insights into programming techniques most people would have never heard of encountered in MegaCorp jobs. You will also grow a great appreciation for Perl in general and understand how it can be an amazing language of choice for a wide variety of problems.
Three technologies that want to improve on JavaScriptThree
Kindle Fire HDX Tablet - Personal Movie Tablet, Best College Tablet
Depends on how many Aeron chairs they end up buying during the relaunch :)
It's worth noting than back in 2003 an attempt was made to introduce a backdoor into the (CVS mirror of) the Linux kernel[1].

It's never been clear who was behind that attack, either.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/57135/
Interesting.

Considering that solar is essentially "free" after you buy the equipment, something like Moore's Law can be applied to the price of solar panels or their longevity. We got plenty of space in our roofs :-)
Urshoutbox: Instant on-demand chat rooms to share with friends and family
It's a side hobby I've been working on and I wanted to share it with everyone. urshoutbox is instant on-demand chat rooms(shoutboxes) that you can create and then blast it out to your social networks and start chatting with your friends and family.

The idea is people can get in touch with their audiences, friends, families and meet new people while being on different social networks.

It works on desktop as well as mobile/tablet devices just fine.

I created a shoutbox for Hacker News for everyone here to hop in and try. Share it out with everyone, see how many people can get in there. Let's load test this sucker.

http://www.urshoutbox.com/e523GW/hacker-news-discussion

If you want your own shoutbox, go to http://www.urshoutbox.com/ and simply give it a name. Then your chat room is ready to share with all.

I'd love suggestions/comments/feedback. Thanks everyone!
Starting at 0:50 of the video.
What am I missing, that link just says:

"Too busy coding, follow us on twitter: @crypticstartup(coming soon)"
Google's dilemma: A faster but fragmented Web?
He didn't exploit it or sell it and he's fucked. We're ignoring intent because a crime has yet to be committed. Intent doesn't matter without a crime. If intent is the only dividing line, you are in favor of thoughtcrime.
An hourly rate has the effect of focusing the client's mind a bit.
I upvoted your comment because I agree completely with the core of what you're saying.

On the other hand, overseas customers, like myself, pay a much higher shipping rate for used books purchased from third-party sellers.

If I buy a little out-of-print paperback from an Amazon Marketplace seller, I will pay the listed price, plus $16.95 for shipping. If the weight of the book is over 1lb, then I'll be paying $23.95 for a single book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_2...

It used to be a single rate, $13-something. Before that, it was $11-something. I can remember it being $9-something not many years back.

That hasn't stopped me from buying used books from Amazon altogether, but it has made real impulse, curiosity-driven buys less frequent.
The reason the fee was there was to pay for the 0800 thing.

Some executive rightly saw that paying you to render that useless would free them of that service and the need for the fee (which i bet was not turning a profit)

But, since big companies run on cargo cult... that happened.
It's your lucky day. There are two data sets you can purchase for a decent price:

- 30M news headlines and 500K web sources, 30gb of JSON data ($300)

- 15K news domains that are the most popular in US market ($100)

These were gathered by Andrew Montalenti, co-founder of Parse.ly. See more info here: http://pixelmonkey.org/pub/python-crawling-slides/
ELI5 the prime pricing model?
Google Wants To Extend Your Life
Another major site compromise (part II)
But I value my work at $50,000/h, so I need to focus on my startup 100%, that's why I didn't want to spend more than 10 days in sustaining myself (10 apps a 24h).
Safeway.com
Well, the text-as-image (with dithering) suggests that somebody is trying to take us back to 1998, but perhaps Kozmo 2.0 has only raised a small seed round. Once the $6 million Series A closes, they'll be able to afford to hire a top full-stack engineer in the Mission who can create a real landing page using Rails and Ember.js, or something cool like that.
Google buys more buildings in Silicon Valley
Developer Finds It Takes Just Under 4K Downloads To Break Top 10 Paid iOS Apps
US corporations tend to do that. Instead of a big raise, small raise and "senior". That can even be negotiated in hiring, so you may join as senior for a position just created in the market.
>Working off of a list provided by the Fed of news organizations participating in last week's lock up, CNBC contacted each of the news organizations that offer low latency data services to ask whether they transmitted any data out of the Fed's lockup room. A key question is whether or not any organization transmitted information out of the lockup room and into its own computer system before 2 p.m. If that was done, the data could have been moved to computer servers near Chicago before 2 p.m. and publicly released the information from there at precisely 2 p.m. – enabling subscribers of that data service to get the information milliseconds before others in Chicago relying on transmissions from the Federal Reserve in Washington to arrive.

Sounds like the most reasonable explanation to me.

But of course I'm not 100% sure what a lock-up room is. It's being described as reporters restricted from speaking before 2pm. Obviously, that has nothing to do with millisecond precision.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101056168
10 Startup Lessons We Can Learn From EDM
Free MIT Python Course
Amazon unveils a trio of new Kindle Fire tablets
And at another thread here people were saying how they add a fake hardware requirement (e.g front facing camera) just to deny people from installing in older phones because 'it run slow there'.
Are you sure it just happened? Verizon has been running IPv6 on LTE for at least 2.5 years.
The CNBC article has more information: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101056168

It looks like there's plenty of opportunities for the information to leak out of the lock-up early - for example: Print reporters were told they were allowed to open a phone line to their editors at headquarters offices a few moments in advance of the hour, but not allowed to interact with people on the other end of the line until exactly two p.m.

A print reporter could prearrange to call one phone number at their office for "taper" and another for "no taper".
Amazon Approaching Game Developers Over Set-Top Box
Mining One Percent of Twitter: Collections, Baselines, Sampling
There's also Candara and Constantina.

I think they did a bang up job with them, especially Cambria (If I never saw Times again I'd be happy).
During non-peak hours. In contrast, it will take an hour or longer to drive over on a weekend afternoons.
Hey, halfcat, I hope you revisit this thread and see this, but you are apparently hellbanned (only those of us with "showdead" on can see you. I actually can't imagine why, your comment history all seems pretty reasonable. Anyway, figured I'd leave this here to let you know. Good luck.
I'm not arguing it's fair, just that the graph would end up with a much more constant slope.
"Rich people financial crimes" involve an aspect of violence too, or at least can have the same impact as violence. When Bernie Madoff screws someone out of their savings, and that person then can't pay their insurance/medical bills, I would say that fits under a broad definition of violence.

For someone with Madoff's connections, it wouldn't be hard to acquire a false identity and resume some kind of low-level fraud. Putting him in prison is the best way to protect the public IMO.

I personally think that prison sentences are just as valid for non-violent crime as violent crime anyway. It's a disincentive, it's aptly punitive in cases such as Madoff's, and it makes it harder for the offender to re-offend.
Beyond all the life support you can now remove, the unmanned can now pull G's that would be unsustainable for a manned plane.
Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome
milliseconds. only a few orders of magnitude off. fuck.
We have unlimited land, but I don't think we have unlimited Silicon with which to cover it.
I actually think that starting the fee after five years and doubling it every time it was up for renewal (maybe every one, two or three years?) wouldn't be a half bad way to go about it.
I see where you are coming from. It seems that you are already into selling emails business therefore you see others doing a legitimate thing as "harvesting emails to sell for millions." or maybe you are living in your own bubble and has never gone out to try to build something that non-technical can relate to solving their problem.
Good luck and next time try to conduct yourself with little humility and that would go a long way in helping you achieve something.
So when does solar power become cheap and efficient enough that it's a real game changer? It seems like the numbers have gotten a lot better in recent years, at least in terms of efficiency.
One way of counting efficiency is by looking at waste. In that view, a 44% efficient process becoming "twice as efficient" means that it's half as wasteful, not that it's 88% efficient.

In other words, a 44% efficient process which doubles in efficiency by this measure is now 72% efficient.
eh? but OP didn't LOAN him money.He just used a fundraising platform developed and run by a friend of his. So since everyone donated the money to platform (like kickstarter) and the platform didn't transfer it to OP, the platform became indebted to him.
Web Forms or MVC?
Amazon launches Mayday, a virtual Genius Bar for the Kindle Fire HDX
My instinct is to agree with urbit here but I just wanted to thank you for the sudden enlightenment that many intelligent people probably find legalese, spec-ese and RFC-speak (or as I refer to it, "plain English prose") as awkward and unnecessarily painful to read as I do conventionally written math papers.

It sounds trivial and self-evident written down like that but most long overdue revelations probably do.
An NSA Whiz Designs 4 Fonts to Foil Google’s All-Seeing Eye
You're reporting accepted/denied, but previous experience leads me to think that "abandoned the application when prompted" is likely to be a large number. Is that in the "denied" stat or is that number non-tracked, in which case the true acceptance rate is (significantly) lower?
If a blade has to be flat enough to fold against the screen, it can't really offer tactile feedback. Why not a second touchscreen, just cost or power?
Amazon Introduces Mayday, Amazingly Useful Live Tech Support System For Kindle
Previous discussion of what appears to be the primary source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417511
There are several microwave radio networks built to link New York and Chicago for high-frequency trading purposes.
These paths are several milliseconds shorter than the fiber paths and are a few years old at this point. The article should have mentioned this instead of jumping straight from fiber to neutrinos.

Some details: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230406570457742...
There's a very simple solution: sub-cent prices. Eliminate much of the profit made by HFT.
I don't know what SF is like now, but CNet, Wired, Craigslist, and a few other companies started out there. There was also Hyperreal and SF.NET, the ravers, and Mondo 2000 up in Berkeley too. Maybe it wasn't the same kind of startup or the same people, but there it was.

Anyway, I was almost instantly burned out on that hype almost before it happened. It wasn't the tech but the whole utopianism that was tiresome. Technoids in fantasy land. Ugh.

I couldn't afford SF and liked Oakland a lot more, especially Chinatown and the area around the lake, and the swap meets, and the tiny computer stores. The Black culture, southern culture, Black Muslims, all that was new to me. The crime, not so cool, but whatever. SF had hella crime too.

I guess my old San Francisco and old Oakland are no more.
Marathon (released in 1994) did the same sort of thing - lots of backstory revealed in drips and drabs via computer terminals. The team that did the Marathon series (originally a Mac-only title) later went on to develop Halo.
"One who can actually sit with the stakeholders and build the system on paper and go through each of the problems as the diagrams connect."

Reminds me of an old saying: "If you don't know how to do it, you don't know how to do it on a computer."
My process is sorta similar:

1. Netflix?
2. Hulu?
3. Amz-Inst
4. Shady streaming site.

And since the vast majority of what I watch is anime these days that hasn't been officially brought to USA yet, I pretty much go straight to #4, animehere.com or animecenter.tv or similar. I even have scripts that scrapes the page for the direct video-file URL and fetches it. I run it every Saturday night to get the newest Attack on Titan & Hunter-x-Hunter-2011. Here[1] is a bash script I put together to download all of the One Piece video files from watchop.com . Of course, now that I've posted the script it'll probably stop working in the not-too-distant future.

1. http://pastie.org/pastes/8353546/text
Yes, but it's equally ludicrous to say that the stopwatch "didn't give the visual feedback". It started incrementing those huge numbers, didn't it?
Could you use quantum mechanics to get around the speed of light limitation?
A couple of months ago I put together some lists[1] of movie availability on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu plus, based on the IMDB top 250, 2010 Oscar nominees, Sight & Sound 2012 top 250 poll, and the 250 biggest box office money makers from 2000 to 2012. I was surprised at how poor the selections they offer turned out to be — it depends on the list, but none of them had more than a quarter of the movies available.

1. http://davidjohnstone.net/blog/2013/07/netflix-amazon-and-hu...
You could absolutely work late (not sure why you'd want to be at the office past 12, but whatever), The new eastern span of the bridge that went up put a pedestrian/bike lane on one side of the bridge, although it only goes to Treasure Island. The long term plan (apparently, which is a surprise to the taxpayers) is to put a connecting version of it on the western span, but it'll be about 500 million bucks and who knows how long. I've been to Brooklyn. It's what I liked most about visiting my sister in NYC, to be honest. It's the total beta city and Manhattan is the alpha. Oakland is the beta here, and obviously the alpha is SF.

You could take the all nighter AC transit bus (get a clipper card) http://transit.511.org/accessible/schedules/routeinfo.aspx?c... which runs from SF to the east bay.
At my work, one of the astronomers once sent a feature request that ended with this sentence: "I am not a software engineer, but I know enough about programming to know that this must be easy enough to do."
There's a thing called a bus. Who the hell wants to bike across the Bay Bridge?
There was a thread on Reddit a while back were a few users said that Nvidia are not that great at documenting their hardware internally.

"Nope. One of the reasons is that NVIDIA still doesn't document anything. A friend of mine worked there, and he told me that most of the knowledge was gathered by having little gatherings with the "village elders" as they were called. Seriously. He even leaked a humorous internal video to me called "Zero Documentation" in the style of Zero Punctuation."

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1anev9/a_nice_little_...
"The Room" on iOS is a puzzle game with a very similar feel, albeit on a much smaller scale. (with no outdoor scenes - you're just figuring out a complicated multi-part artifact inside a room, complete with an ominous backstory that gradually gets pieced together).
That's not entirely true. First, increasing amounts of haptic feedback can be faked with vibration.

Second, the surface keyboard had raised keys. That's very useful for quick operation where you are not looking at the keyboard. Something that I don't think you can do with a tablet without sticking things on the screen.
There's no good way yet to uniquely identify a person based on a (dodgy) picture of them or sample of their voice

Surely this is sarcastic. We can easily identify with great certainty from a relevant set... as Facebook does, for instance. You have a relevant set if you are many governments (the local government, and in many cases Israel via AMDOCS and its intelligence allies - primarily the US, but in some cases possibly their intelligence allies) or a motivated attacker (eg. with an insider, or hiring an insider via a private investigation firm), because you have the device call/messaging/physical location records from which to cross-match. Even if it's a land-line. You also have easy access to additional voice data (voicemail recording, 'this call may be recorded' records at large companies such as banks or wings of government, etc.). Public data sets on non-secret government telephone interception frequency even in 'free-ish' countries like Australia suggest extremely broad cultures around acceptable collection. (For .au I read a raw statistics report I can't seem to relocate recently, but http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/be-careful-... is a good overview.)
Bingo.
A surprising number of modern web problems can be solved via static pages - speed, usability, scalability etc.

I remember finally turning down one project after failing to convince the small businessman that his site didn't need an unskippable flash intro with techno music.

Edit: I think that nowadays web 2.0 needs have been replaced with 'BIG Data'. I have a current client whose data set is less than 30 MB, but he insists that it is not just big data, but HUGE data! Which is a shame, As it is an interesting problem he has, but I will probably turn it down too.
>Generalizing through an extreme example is the problem.

Why? It made my point that he was dangerous, though to an unlikely extreme conclusion, which I admitted was unlikely before I even said it. I would hope everyone reading comments here would be perceptive enough to recognize hyperbole when they read it, especially since I called it out as an exaggeration. Given that no one is likely to take it literally, what is the problem? What is the real danger you're warning against?

Not sure what your goal with these comments is, honestly. Seems like I hit a sore spot, given the temperature of your replies. Apologies if I somehow hit close to home.
Privacy Opinions [xkcd]
Yes, this is potentially innovative, but not in the same way that the standard iPod/iPhone connector is. On iOS musical devices you can already plug them into music hardware - guitars, keyboards, mixers, etc. That's already happening.

I would actually argue that Surface Blades are not the best thing ever simply because for things like mixing you want 3 dimensional tactile feedback for subtle adjustments. Big buttons on a flat touch pad is probably better than a purely visual interface, but it seems like they are straddling the line between a non-optimal software interface for a middle ground that isn't the same as using a real mixing board, but it's maybe a bit better than using an on screen UI.

My guess is that musicians aren't going to flock to this unless they get some established producer to use it to mix some awesome beats and even then it's unclear that this is much better than a dedicated hardware device experience yet.
LOL, yeah, move to Fresno or Kern County.
A veteran! Ah yes, i have been thinking that for a while now after reading those posts. Adobe didn't CREATE that stuff. they simple acquired it.

PS: Been playing around with Flash since Flash 4! (was a wee little kid back then). Pretty much learning programming from actionScript. So it really does break my heart to see that Adobe is letting it die
According to some interpretations, anonimity is not forbidden, it's "just" that it's not considered protected speech. [1]

In any case, it's true that Brazil doesn't really have real free speech in the sense Americans do. We have a nominal right to free speech per the Constitution, but there are so many loopholes: draconian slander laws, protection to candidates before elections, etc.

[1] http://www.conjur.com.br/2013-set-06/rodrigo-dornelles-veto-... (in Portuguese)
Yea--I've noticed a pattern too, but it seems like I'm wrong
so many times--especially with the stock market. The first
crash was easy to spot, but this one seems different. I know so many people still living off the bubble money they
made in 2000. I see a lot of people struggling. I've seen
wages go down, but the average american tries to keep up
appearances. I sometimes wonder if Obama secretly knows
how bad the economy is going to be in a few years? I think
he knows the minimum wage will be very important to
so many people in the future? I've noticed that divide
between the rich and poor is really getting bigger.
Our local paper (stltoday.com) uses Facebook comments on its stories and the discourse is notoriously bad. Either these people don't realize their real names are attached or they don't care.
Jeff Bezos wants to delight you: A chat with Amazon's CEO
Adobe Air? isn't that what League of Legends is made on? (though they might have been moving away from it in recent updates... not sure about that)
IOS 7 audio only FaceTime a threat to telcos
Need articles or papers about distributed cracking system.
hei folks, do you have any paper about how to crack a hash with the power of computer network?
so, we dont need to brute force hash with single gpu only.
Thanks for posting this, Josh! Really came at the exact right time for me as I work with our first production-worthy RubyMotion app.