skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people have only two valuable assets - their brain and their time

While I don't disagree I do think the statement itself is amusing for its inherent assumptions: that we can usefully generalize about all people, that it is logically coherant for strangers or society at large to attempt to value the activity of individuals, and that actions should be directed towards some commonly agreed upon goal. There are many cultures and philosophies out there that would reject such assumptions.

Effort in education and experiences can make all of your future time more valuable.

It depends how you choose to value your future time. Would you value it now, guessing at what you want in the future? Would you value it in the future, admitting that you may be totally ignorant of or worse - outright incorrect - about your future wants and needs, here and now?

If you go the defacto route of economic rationalism, then you'd usually be right (ie. 'education leads to more income' is still true in many circumstances, but more weakly of late) though one could draw in to question the associated costs in non-economically rationalizable experience, skill and thought, such as art and philosophy.

If you just relax about decisions in life, adding effort where curiosity deigns to dangle its carrot, would you be any worse off?
Except they 'fixed' stuff that wasn't broken, like Groups.
It had been retargeted, with its last couple kgs of fuel, to a potential year-2020 asteroid encounter:

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1112/17deepimpact/
It depends on where you cross the border.

I've had nothing but good experiences crossing the border at the Thousand Islands Bridge or Massena, NY. Both ways, everybody was kind, friendly and patient. I hear nothing but horror stories about Niagara falls and the one time I flew into Vancouver was less than pleasant.

Just some more n=1 to stir the pot. :)
Why not Samsung? I would imagine having a portfolio of patents that they can use to keep Apple at bay would be worth 6-7 Billion. Plus, they could use the enterprise advantage that Blackberry has to further dominate their Android position.
Nice page, Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the layout, which is strange.
It is still useful when the new version have problems. It took some time before Google finally removed the old Google Groups, and they made it easy to switch back and forth during the meantime.
>"With DLC and other bells and whistles tacked onto many games these days that would have normally been part of the core game, the base price quickly inflates to be more in line with inflation."

1.) Assertions about what "would have been part of the core game" are certainly popular, but not necessarily true or provable and certainly not universally applicable.

2.) Standard new game price held steady at ~$60 through three console generations prior to common place DLC. If inflation had been taking its toll we'd have been looking at $85 games prior to "horse armor".
Memory places things in context. We don't even know what we know unless we can remember it.
Samsung sends spies to uncover Apple's iPhone line phenom
Ask HN: Open source project to group website content by keyword
A couple of weeks ago there was a post here on HN regarding an open-source tool that was parsing the content of a website and then grouping the content by keyword and count of keyword.

I forgot the name the project, and cannot find either the HN post or the corresponding github page in my browser history.

Can anybody point me in the right direction where to find an open-source project for python that can parse website content and output all keywords and the count of each keyword per site?

Hopefully somebody else read that previous HN post as well and can post the URL.
Thanks in advance!
Why don't you leave Canada, go live in Arizona or Utah.

Have you read the Charter of Rights of Freedom, you know that law the entire country including Quebec is suppose to follow. I mean your to busy undermining the values of the country so you can have your own crappy value system. Why don't you people go live somewhere else like France where this sorta thing is so popular and productive.

Doesn't seem like the rest of Canada agrees with you. And I'd argue letting Quebec do whatever the fuck they want is the reason this is an issue in the first place.

Cognitive dissonance to the max.
'Dark Souls II' Gets A Release Date, Tons Of New Details
This would be even better if it were a real terminal command-line app for OS X (and installable via brew) and Linux (and installable via apt).
I've been waiting for Ubuntu on Android but it seems to never come. Their site still says "Get in touch" at the bottom trying to get other companies to get involved with it. I want it to say "Download" or at least "Where to get it" damn it!

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android
The web interface for Yahoo! Groups is more or less unusable. The admin panel doesn't load, can't read messages, can't approve people - More or Less - its non functional.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
This is like saying that "so what if game runs at 15 FPS, it's still better than a worse game running at 60 FPS", this may hold true to certain kinds of games and be a huge deal breaker for others. E.g. Chess/board games vs. Counter-Strike/FPS games.

In the end it boils down to user preference, user experience and individual weighing of those. Some people don't care if the image stutters a bit at times, and for other's it's a major annoyance. Thus simplifying this all to "performance doesn't matter, good ideas do" absolutism is nonsense.

Besides some of us care about things like efficiency. I don't want to pay for a 1200 MHz processor when a 800 MHz would be equivalent given that programmer would have thought a bit more about how to implement things and not just ignorantly thought that "prematu... ALL optimization is root of all evil!", as it seems to be a common "wisdom" these days. That's nothing but sloppy culture, laziness and ignorance mixed together with a bit of cost analysis thrown in. User experience matters, and poor responsiveness is one of the most detrimental things when it comes to that in many applications.
It just sucks that Yahoo's market was basically People Who Don't Like Change.
Some people ordering coffee aren't going to sit around for a lot more. So the nominal cost of coffee would be the price where offering coffee or not offering coffee yield the same profit and we can't really tell where that is. On the other hand, maybe having expensive coffee on the menu will impact other buying decisions people make, it's perfectly possible that coffee at any price will have a negative impact on profit. It's not a simple question of supply and demand because of the mix and crosstalk.
Thank you for mentioning jsmn, it was very enjoyable to read through jsmn's code.
That's the NPE/patent troll sales pitch, just sell them your patent and they'll worry about that.
There are JNI transitions happening between C++ and Java when calling the Apps event handler anyway.

For those that bring NDK up, the generated code runs in a separate thread inside Dalvik, and you have the delay of using UNIX pipes for the events.
I have a summer birthday, and our schools use a September cutoff, so my parents had me do kindergarten twice, so that I would be the oldest, rather than the youngest. Instead, I ended up skipping 1st grade after that, negating my age boost.
MIT Computational Camera class
Ask HN: Startups: Tell me 3 problems you wish somebody would solve for you
3 really painful problems you have NOW that you wish somebody built a solution for, right now!
The construct is a complexity class, meaning that it is a set of problems which can be[1] solved by quantum computers[2] in a reasonable[3] time. Those three aspects correspond to words which get initialized as the name of this complexity class -- BQP, bounded-error quantum polynomial-time.

Aaronson's proof involves an observation that PostBQP = PP, in other words, all of the problems you can solve with an especially powerful quantum computer can also be solved with an even more especially powerful classical computer, and vice versa. Since the quantum computer is easier to reason about, you get a hard result as a freebie.

BQP is not a tongue-in-cheek thing; it's also not a well-understood thing -- just "anything which quantum computers can do in this way quickly with bounded errors" -- but it's certainly better understood than this amplituhedron is. The real problem he's highlighting is that complexity classes like BQP have scary names.

For the sake of this discussion, you can imagine a similar problem with "programmable imperative syntax" and "monads". Really all that monads are, in a computing context, is a way of formalizing a programmable imperative syntax as a purely functional programming construct. The issue is that when you say "functional" and "monads" then people kind of just shut down, they don't want to hear about it. Does that make sense?
Fullish humans
Official Common Lisp Standard from ANSI
SPDY and HTTP 2.0
I haven't used My Yahoo in about 4-5 years since switching to igoogle, but since iGoogle shuts down at the end of the year I just gave My Yahoo another look as I'll need a new dashboard/news/weather replacement soon. The old My Yahoo was hideous, that looked like it accumulated a bit of Bitrot over the years, the new one actually looks like a breath of fresh air, quite polished and well-designed. It's more likely I'll be switching back to My Yahoo once iGoogle goes out.
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3XfpYxHKCo
> "Basically, it was a Y2K problem, where some software didn't roll over the calendar date correctly," said A'Hearn. The spacecraft's fault-protection software (ironically enough) would have misread any date after August 11, 2013, he said, triggering an endless series of computer reboots aboard Deep Impact.

Men build a $267m spacecraft, send it to space, target it at a meteor, manage to make it inspect the meteor upclose at thousands of kms/hour... and still, writing correct software is an impenetrable problem.

Amazing.
Google's Protocol Buffers?
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
1) A replacement for http://stickam.com/

2) A really good text to speech app for news so I can listen to it in my car

I can't think of a third right now.
Hackathons: Development by Swarm
When Duke Ellington played Kabul
Because pretty much everything that was possible to discover with earth based telescopes has been discovered. Sure, you can always do "science" with earth-based telescopes - reconfirming existing theories, making sure theoretical data matches up to real observed data, but there's a limit to how much "discovery" can actually be done.

Extra-planetary experiments like the deep impact mission allow scientists a glimpse at new experimental data that can confirm theories that there is no other way to confirm. Sure, you can observe a comet's tail to figure out its surface composition - but that has limited resolution and many elements simply can't be detected that way. This isn't even taking into consideration all the sub-surface elements that would be utterly impossible to detect from observation alone.

In essence, even if the Deep Impact mission mostly failed and scientists only gathered a limited amount of data, it is still very much worth its value when the alternative of building permanent terrestrial telescopes does nothing more than confirm data that has been confirmed countless times in the past.
This sounds like a really interesting project. Have you written it up anywhere?
How do you calculate churn?
Do you think information given here is accurate?

http://blog.churnbee.com/defining-customer-churn-rate/

Basically

number of customers who churned / number of customers who could have churned
> A replacement for http://stickam.com/

TinyChat is the closest one-to-one replacement, but it's not quite the same, and its business model is a little annoying (crippling the product for a paid upgrade). But ChatRoulette and Omegle, while not the same, stole a lot of Stickam's audience, and a similar site is never going to get to be as big as Stickam once was.
awesome idea, unfortunately doesn't work with a mobile browser keyboard
If you enjoy these, you should check out some of the installation pieces by Olafur Eliasson. His oeuvre is more about playing with/exploiting perception -- one of my favorite pieces was a part of his exhibit at the Chicago MCA in summer 2009, which was a dark room with a central illuminated waterfall. The combination of a single reference point coupled with a totally matte darkness at the periphery meant that every step someone took that wasn't directly towards the waterfall resulted in them reflexively extending their hands to avoid a (possible) collision. Really exceptional stuff.
Just like the pixel density of an image, beyond a certain value, makes no difference to the human eye, perhaps the touch screen response time also gets perceived only up to a certain speed. Any faster and it makes no difference. Outliers with above average visual capability do perceive things differently and maybe you have a similar ability with respect to noticing touch screen response times. That might explain why most people don't care so much. Just theorising here, but if anybody has any numbers, it would be good.
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What I had taken away as the big impact of the original "amplituhedron" article was that the researchers had found a way to replace long calculations with a shorter, geometrical calculation. Which, unless there's some profound connection between quantum complexity classes and geometry that I'm not aware of, wouldn't be the case with the "unitarihedron." So perhaps Aaronson isn't giving the amplituhedron concept the quite credit it deserves?

(Disclaimer- I haven't the background in complexity nor physics to have any idea, obviously. But geometrical calculations playing a key role in a theory that "did away with space" seemed like a wonderfully cool paradox.)
"Clicking 30 times to update 30 apps is a bad user experience."

I am OK with the rest, but I can see a button named "update all" in iOS 6 and have been using it for a long time.

and to answer your doubt yes automatic update is in iOS 7.
In season 1, episode 6 of Vice on HBO, they also went to the ghost cities of China. http://hbo.vice.com/episode-six
What's so special about that date? I guess in whatever datetime representation they were using, it overflowed at that point?
Stickam was a place where you could just kind of hang out. TinyChat annoys me for some reason, maybe it's just me though, although I haven't tried it in a while. ChatRoulette and Omegle require you to actively participate.
I've always been a fan of

make config-recursive && make install clean

which runs `make config` on the package and all dependencies before installing. It's the best of both worlds IMO -- the port will build unattended and you still have a chance up-front to skim the available options for things you need.
or you could collaborate your presentation using 3d. that also would be easy to track under github.
You can't import the extra tabs to the new service? The decent engineering talent has clearly left the building at Yahoo!

MyYahoo has been my default RSS reader before there was a google (yes I'm ancient) and it was a real gem. I have 10 tabs in the damn thing and the idea of those not being easy to transfer is a really great reason to find something else.

I guess my real lesson is NEVER trust a third party with the data you love. And I don't care if it's Google or Facebook I'm telling you now as you become an older nerd that those services will go the way of GeoCities one day.
On-chip random number generator in Intel CPUs could be backdoored by NSA
Product customization tool for iphone case
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Would like to get your feedback on this.

I would like to turn this into a product customization framework for any kind of product.

any suggestions?
Yahoo just broke Yahoo Groups a few weeks ago. The new UI is god awful and makes some stuff impossible (like posting in plain text with proper quoting). It's also literally rather broken: author search doesn't work at all. Also they are losing and delaying emails at random and have been for weeks, and stopped answering support emails about it.
Here's my 2 cents... maybe they'll settle and walk away with some cash. I too would love to see the evidence of this presented.

In today's world - individuals' data is the digital goldmine for any company.

LinkedIn is a publicly traded company (LNKD), like any publicly traded company their main goal would be profits, plus assets like customer data, etc.

This info can be seen in their financial statements: http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CI...

Nowadays it's common practice for our digital footprints and identities to be designed/built/directed so that before we can gain access to a company's services, data or content that we would need to read and agree to the terms & conditions and the privacy policies, etc.

This info can be seen in LinkedIn's:

Terms and Conditions http://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement?trk=hb_ft_usera...

Privacy Policy http://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement?trk=hb_ft_usera...

Cookie Policy http://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?trk=hb_ft_cookie

What, you mean I'm supposed to read those things? Yes.
This sounds like an outright BS claim. There are two or more scenarios that may be presented as evidence.

i. LinkedIn used the users current passwords with their external addresses to access the external emails. ( impossible)
ii. Linked in use some sort of Oauth/google authentication access to information permission thing(can't remember the name). (highly unlikely)

In any case I think we can only be certain with the actual evidence.

The Customers filing suit should know that LinkedIn is a publicly traded company and not a scam site.

Because even these claims are outrages if not utter BS.
I just came from a project that required heavy use of HTML5 audio, and let me tell you that the 15+ ffmpeg calls during the audio build step were the least painful part of the process.

HTML5 audio in iOS is a bit of a black box, with variable, unpredictable and undocumented behaviors between iOS5 through 7. These guards are intended to shield users from obnoxious behavior, but in the process, make the feature useless for everyone else.

You get one HTML audio element whitelisted in response to a user-initiated event, so you need a "click anywhere to do something useful!" screen. Also, you've got that one element to work with, so something like sound effects with a background track is out of the question.

Once you've got a whitelisted element, you can then re-use that element to play individual sounds by swapping out the src attribute of that single whitelisted audio tag, which queues a new web request and plays back the sound whenever the web request finishes... which is usually several seconds after you wanted it to play.

This happens regardless of whether or not the sound has been played before; the result isn't cached locally.

So, if you want to produce something remotely workable, you do audio spriting and never switch out to a different audio file. You create a build step that pulls in all of your audio, all of your sound files, puts them together into a single wave file, generates an audio atlas, and re-encodes audio to mp3, wav and ogg to hit all the major players (rinse and repeat for other channels of audio). Which works on most devices, but iPads decide to ignore currentTime assignments on that audio track, so the whole thing is kind of botched.

That's before we try to get stuff predictably working in IE, which can go anywhere from screwing the whole thing up to unpredictably mutating volume levels. That's before we support Firefox, which doesn't loop audio like everything else does and randomly stops playing audio. That's before we support Android, which exhibits different behaviors across the stock browser and Chrome, and so on, and so on.

If you want to play a single audio track in one or two desktop browsers, then sure, the technology is somewhat ready for you. Codecs are the least painful part of the problem. Anything beyond that is a travesty.
Ah the vocal minority. As Henry Ford said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". Don't let a few troglodytes stand in the way of progress. Look at your analytics for approval/disapproval, not your inbox.
Change is just fine — but the inability to port your extra tabs (which may represent the majority of your feeds) is technical incompetence! You wouldn't upgrade your email if the transfer ate half your old emails.
I disagree that "cowardly" is the appropriate adjective and suggest "pragmatic" instead.
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Would be pretty easy to test. Make an account with an email address pointed at a server you own, tail the logs and wait for the inevitable HELO from LinkedIn with the same credentials. Busted.
Fair point, however I'm using the market build now and the transitions still feel unnecessarily slow.
It has strayed well off-topic. Even though I think it should stay on the front page, it is fairly obvious why it has been buried.
Try zoom rects, no later than '95 and System 6. Old school compact era.
My experience matches this. For a serious project, it is a clusterfuck of dogshit proportions.
This isn't even a new development. Back in the 70's and 80's my father had two passports, issued precisely to prevent being constantly detained and/or harassed when traveling.

His work took him to relatively long visits (anything up to 4 months, but usually just 2-3 weeks) to about half the countries in Arabian Peninsula and roughly 1/3 of the countries in Africa. (I've been told that I met the Namibian foreign minister when I was 3 and surprised him by apparently trying to sing their national anthem.) During that same time, my father also had to occasionally travel to US and, I believe, Israel. One of the passports was used when traveling in Arabic and (communist) African countries. The other was reserved for rest of the world.

I've been later informed that this practice was not as uncommon as I would have believed. People working "in the field" for industries that were involved in development aid projects did sometimes have multiple passports, for the very reason of making their constant travels easier.
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This may be lost here, as most of us aren't yahoo's traditional market. Yes, I have an address and it even has early emails with my wife. That was years ago.

I've already heard from one family member about changed, an aunt, not going to be fun doing family tech support.
Have you seen the actual site? It's atrocious.
In case anyone is interested in some really old stuff, I recently dug up some of my articles from 1997 for a Wired/Hotwired reunion. Here's a doc with some pointers to the wayback machine:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIMWHlxe_SFilR2YTzGCAmlF...
>homosexuals

I can understand foreigners, but why homosexuals?