skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP may read as a political rant, but I'm focusing in the first sentence; Brazil restricts a lot of privacy and, for my dismay, people seems to accept it. For example, I have to give up my name and ID number every time I board an interstate bus (yes, buses, not planes), law enforcement officers can stop you anytime and ask for your papers without justification (there is no "probable cause" here), and, beginning the next year, all cars will have to carry a RFID tag for tracking (gov justifies this as a way to "improve the traffic", but it will not happen -- also, a lot of countries with civilized roads never used them, so why we'll need?).

The worst part is that people grown used to it and do not notice how outrageous our privacy issues are.
It's pretty ironic but it's true. C++ is your best option if you need code that works on multiple platforms. You could always write in C I guess but personally I find C too low level for app development.
> Imagine fitting a fleet of drones with this tech and sending them out exploring...

When I saw this submission, this was the first thing I thought of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxmJT5xT5rQ

From related 3D scanning videos, it looks like 3D scanning is already a pretty common operation, e.g. in mining and navigation. Putting the technology into consumer-facing mobile devices... wow.
I'd have to look at the code, but it might not be too awful to get tun/tap to work over WebSockets...

Regarding the heat, I wonder if the architecture has support for idle states. If so, the VM should "clock down" by executing its loop from a timer instead of full-bore. I wonder if this is already happening, though.
This is true for most things on HN.
I am not sure your anecdote illustrates anything interesting. Perhaps a very big rain storm had been expected but didn't materialize. Plenty of Americans that I have seen wear shorts when it's really cold out here in Chicago, I am not sure I would consider this a great idea or a badge of honor
You may have already seen, but add Reno and Las Vegas to the mix:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23087181/san-francisco-probes-...

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/SF-City-Attorney-Loo...
Or if you have a family, or a significant other, or just want a space to get away from work.
I'm one myself, since my 3GS still works.

If iOS7 were any good in my opinion, I would feel compelled to upgrade to a 4 or 5 though, as already happened before for users of 3 and prior.

This App Store change makes people like me even less compelled to upgrade, so this move is kinda unexpected coming from Apple, since it keeps the inertia.
This is why I love Hacker News. Positive, non-judgemental, and unbiased attitudes everywhere. Truly evolutionary and the wave of the future!
Inventor of 3D Printing Scott Crump: "My Dreams Started in a Garage"
> To ensure that the pool would be environmentally friendly, Crystal simulated a retarded dolphin swimming in the dry pool. It was a great success.
> 5. We don't have helicopters yet unfortunately, but when we're mad rich sure :)

I would've thought that a helipad would be a good idea if you ever need to be evacuated by air ambulance
"Corporate-stooge," as an adjective, should be hyphenated.
Lasers.

From the video:"Structure works by capturing a pattern of invisible, laser projected light, which allows you to measure thousands of distances, all at once."
I'm not sure if I can recall a time being as excited about a mobile accessory. Seems like a smart team that is making an honest effort to establish a successful product (even if this may well be a niche market).

Hopefully this gets funded, looking forward to getting my hands one one!
doctors here often prescribe anti-biotics after telling us we most likely have a viral infection.

I think the main thing is to challenge them to explain why. If they can't give a coherent explanation...

I would guess the reasons are a combination of CYA and patients routinely demanding antibiotics even when they have a viral infection.
The legal issue is a matter of some debate (see below). In practice, I don't think the Benevolent Dictator wants ZFS in the main Linux kernel tree at the moment.

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue
It is possible to speculate in real estate, but most homeowners don't. Speculation is typical high-risk and short term. Most residential real estate transactions are neither.
Considering melanoma is lethal, and the treatment (radiating away the entire immune system) bring very risky, this new treatment has the potential to both lower the risk and increase survival rates.
I'll be very interested to see if the side-effects are of any concern, or if we're one step closer to a cure.
If you were already in the country while your visa was approaching its expiration, why couldn't you have set up an INFOPASS appointment at a local USCIS office?
The problem is that it's a bit disproportionate. A 1000 sq ft apartment will not have the same amount of taxes as a 1000 sq ft home.
Not GPL compatible and patents from my understanding. Is there any way they can expect large scale deployments or linux integration?
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I think you're conflating Bezos and Ballmer.
Most people don't buy a house for investment, they buy it because they have reached a point in their lives where they want to settle down and live someplace with their kids for 10+ years.

In that world, I think you can simplify things quite a bit. First, buying a house is more of a hedge against inflation than an investment. The market goes up? You've got more equity to move somewhere else. The market goes down? Well, you lose money, but everything else is cheaper too.

For the average person, I think the real lesson here is to make sure you can afford the house, put 20% down and it is within x2-3 your annual income. If you live in low-supply/high-demand markets like Seattle, SF, then you might end up paying more, and it is just a trade off you need to make.
Cool to see Paulo up on Hacker News. One of our employees wrote a book with him and his wife recently, examining the proliferation of cyber espionage and "cyber war" in the last decade or so. We think it's one of the only sober, thorough and technically accurate textbooks on the topic: http://www.trailofbits.com/books/#cyberwar
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Brazil's Rousseff cancels state visit to U.S. over spying
Petaluma is an awesome place and it has a fair share of tech culture. Bias, TwitVid and a number of agencies are all westside downtown locals. Housing on the westside is getting more competitive though. Nothing like SF I'm sure but difficult to get into unless you make 150k+.

Petaluma has that nice old-world vibe because it sits on a slab of granite. During the big earthquakes of the past century the neighboring cities' buildings collapsed but that slab of granite provided a buffer for Petaluma, keeping its turn of the century downtown. It also ended up being the default relief center during those disasters :) Way to go, slab.
Keeping and installing old copies of app bundles doesn't seem like a very viable option for non-technical users.
Last I heard, the next breakthrough is expected to be the exploitation of quorum sensing. Tricking the bacteria into thinking there are already more than enough of them so they at least stop reproducing.
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I guess it depends on the exact side effects, but if it causes more pain and suffering, then a more painful death is worse than a peaceful one, and on a per person basis - some may take the view they will die anyway and it's worth the risk as a last resort. But good question from the OP.
This is an excellent article, but may I suggest an alternative theory: the lack of emphasis on education in the U.S., at least historically, has been a sign of the strength of the U.S. economy, not a weakness of the culture. From World War II until the 1990's, Europe's economy was stagnant, while the American economy was dynamic.

From 1975 to 1985, Finland's annual GDP growth rate averaged from 0-2%, peaking at 4%. The U.S's averaged around 5%, peaking near 15% and nearing 10% several years. You can use this site to compare: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/finland/gdp-growth.

Fast economic growth means that education isn't as necessary to differentiate yourself and get a good job.
You don't need the whole of Linux just to run gpg though...
CERN collects about 25 PB/year.
Ask HN: Should I change the name of my company?
I co-founded my company (a fashion marketplace) approximately three years ago. We got some seed money from a local incubator a couple years ago.

After two years of pretty much nothing happening (slow sales, no new hires because of no money), we managed to survive and sign a media for equity agreement with a national television.

We also contacted a few potential investors. Things got serious once they found out about the TV agreement.

Some of them kind of criticized our company name, asking if we were sure about launching a national campaign with that name. It's also been said that the name would not be good enough if we decide to target luxury brands and big spenders, but would be good for the masses.

Some others praised the name for its wittiness.
Customers like it a lot.

Both the investors and the customer really like the idea and the product.

My co-founder agrees with the investors and is willing to change the name 2-3 weeks before the first commercial airings (we'd have to postpone that if we change the name).

I'm against it. First of all, I like the name and don't think the opinion of a couple investors matters much. On the technical side, this would mean waste some money (new SSL certificate, new trademark costs, etc) and a lot of time (change the domains, move all the emails (ouch), change all the documents).
Not to mention the difficulty of finding a new name. We'd have to find a nice name, an available .com domain (we currently own a bunch of TLDs and misspells) and hope for it to be available on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram.
Plus, we'd lose all of our web presence (SEO, etc).

All in all, I believe it's foolish and would show weakness.

I prefer not to reveal the name and stay anonymous.
I understand that it's hard to answer without knowing the name, but maybe some of you found themselves in a similar situation and could provide some insight.

Thanks.
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You can leave the district when it hits the fan in a month (or so) if you rent. If you own, you're stuck paying the "rent" aka prop tax or you eat the obvious capital loss. A owner is a sheep ready for the shearing...

The older the district, the worse the financial conditions, roughly. If you rent and move to an exurb that didn't exist in 2005, they can't by definition have employees retiring from the local school in 2015 with 30 years experience and 30 years of benefits to pay out. Also roughly speaking the older the community the more corrupt it is in general, which is expensive. This is before we get into infrastructure expenses.
There are measurable fundamentals that consistently lead to local real estate appreciation, like population growth, economic growth, increasing mean income level, school district ranking, nearby commercial development, nearby infrastructure development, etc.

Of course all of this can be trumped over short time periods by nationwide trends like the recent financial crisis. But with strong local fundamentals, such trends create more volatility than permanent depreciation.
Can I please, please, please have a Windows port?

At work, we use Windows boxes, and I would love to use ZFS on them.
I always order it, just because I like tomato juice. I didn't realize it was that common to order it on airplanes...

That having been said, it does a really good job of coating and soothing your throat if it's dry/scratchy/starting-to-get-sore. Given how often that happens while flying, I'd wager that plays a role in tomato juice's popularity on planes.
The photographer here...

I completely agree it's not a long term solution, but I got the feeling from being with the team for two days that it might work in the mid term. The situation wouldn't be right for the vast majority of founders, but the team gets along better than any I've worked with.

The biggest downside is probably the impact on recruiting for senior employees, especially folks from academia. There might be bigger cultural issues with those types of people though.
Obama's foreign policy track record is in free-fall. But in all honesty what can be done? The NSA has policies dictating that anybody within two degrees of separation with a "foreigner" is fair game, which incidentally results in pretty much everybody that uses the internet.

Even despite laws barring domestic surveillance, the NSA has shown absolute disregard for them by utilizing the above loophole.
ZFS is really a good thing, even if you never use it.

Why?

It raised the bar on filesystems and other filesystems have innovated in response.
The operating systems that are getting support are mostly or at least partly open-source, so good luck with that.
I Am Legend?
Gnu tar happily connects to remote hosts, depending on filename
Today I Learned:

$ tar xvzf wtf:foo.tar
tar (child): Cannot connect to wtf: resolve failed

Apparently the ":" in the filename tells tar to connect to "wtf" using the "rsh" command (aliased to "ssh").

There is no mention of this in the man page: http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_man_pages/tar1.html ; apart from the rather surprising --rsh-command and --rmt-command options.

This actually is documented in the "info" pages:

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC152 :

‘-f [hostname:]file’
‘--file=[hostname:]file’

Use archive file or device file on hostname.

If the file name contains a ‘:’, it is interpreted as ‘hostname:file
name’. If the hostname contains an at sign (‘@’), it is treated as
‘user@hostname:file name’. In either case, tar will invoke the command
rsh (or remsh) to start up an /usr/libexec/rmt on the remote machine

Isn't it dangerous that a random filename could trigger "tar" to connect to remote hosts ?
looks like they're fearing slow/low iOS7 adoption, considering how boldly they emphasize how few legacy iOS users are out there.
You're comparing apples with oranges.

Valve will position their steambox to compete with consoles, which have the same issues with backwards compatibility which you mention.

Physical media will matter less and less in the future.

My HTPC is a raspberry pi running a variation of debian and XBMC. I also have a chromecast for watching netflix and youtube.

I currently do not have a gaming PC and would be massively interested in a steambox when they're released.
I think it's more likely to be a measure of heat absorbed, rather than heat transferred across a boundary. (The Telegraph's wording is "an energy absorption rating"). Starlite is apparently ablative; if this means an endothermic phase change -- the organic polymers vaporizing, without combusting -- it could absorb an extremely large amount of heat. A space shuttle tile is non-ablative (I think?), and can absorb heat only by increasing temperature.
Recurrent neural network handwriting generation demo
You assume the 5% per annum is going entirely to equity. Consider that property taxes, HOA fees, utilities, mortgage interest and maintenance all contribute to the ~8% figure, and your p/a equity looks closer to 3%.

Now let's compare if you were to purchase stock/ETFs with that equity investment instead of investing in your house.

Let's do a housing-optimistic comparison. Let's say you get a 2% dividend (nothing special) on the stock and the stock price declines at 0.5% per year. For the house, let's say you gain 3% equity per year and the home price stays flat. Rent costs are 20% higher than your expenses for the house, so you can only gain equity in the stock at 80% the rate you do in the house.

Over the same time period that you would pay off your mortgage and get 100% equity in a $100,000 house, thanks to compounding interest, your stock is now worth $107,000. That means that you have 7% MORE value in stock--even though you paid 20% more rent for the entire period of investment AND the stock price tended to decline (slowly) over time.

If we adjust to something more balanced (3% equity per year, 3.5% dividend, stock price stays flat, rent costs are 15% higher) the result is even more dramatic: 53% more value in the stock option.

Of course, all these numbers would be better if backed up with real-world statistics, but it's something to think about.
Incidentally, this is the actual advice we give startups about fundraising at YC. This batch I finally wrote it all down, and the s2013 startups used it when raising money.
It probably would've been useful to know before iOS7 app submissions were open, but, if that's their reasoning, it's a chicken-egg problem.
Using outdated and unsupported versions of software doesn't seem like a very viable option for non-technical users.
It appears to be the exactly same as the Kinect.
This is likely an attempt to head off the jailbreaking and app copying that many people resort to after discovering their otherwise fully functioning device is basically a paperweight in that it can't install any apps.

Unfortunately from real world tests it doesn't appear to be available for many truly older iOS versions.
Maybe you could even get 1-(1-0.25)*(1-0.5)=0.625 complete tumour regression with a combined treatment.
"If wages start improving"

LOL a better assumption over a large non-tech area and long term is the median wages are permanently dropping, not holding steady or rising.

That has a certain effect on the dollars that will be available for monthly housing payment even if interest rates are dropping. Look at, say, Detroit.

If you want to clear a market, supply and demand insists that the median income dude will live in the median quality house. All the interest rate controls is given the median dude's fixed (dropping) monthly housing budget, how much of a reward does the previous owner get from the check the bank cuts for the new owners mortgage?
That is perhaps the worst advice I've ever heard. I spent a summer some years ago writing what, in abstract, were hand-coded SELECT and INSERT statements for CSVs. It was a waste of time; the number of bugs was ridiculous and the data integrity was attained by brute force. Today I'd use sqlite and/or postgres.
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Perhaps someone should tell them that Ubuntu comes with spyware pre-installed now.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html
Corrected, should be available soon.

https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k/commit/1285da3247a1a92f6638...
I do agree with you. I prefer too keep it simple too, and not plan ahead too much
According to the KISS principle. I'm not saying hadoop is the solution all the time. I'm just saying that sometimes it makes sense.
This isn't directly related, but is hadoop the only java-based solution to parallel computing? I've seen some examples of people attempting to do work in java mpi[0] again. It seems like dealing with the gc and memory management in general has been an issue when trying to do high performance computing in java, especially at a distributed scale.

0:http://blogs.cisco.com/performance/mpi-and-java-redux/
Peeking under the Asp.net processing pipeline.
Can we deal with the weird interpersonal dynamics that spring up in a group of mixed sexes that is also collaborating on a business

What's "weird" about a nightly orgy?
I understand the theory, but when I look at the data it looks like:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mth

The last real period of rising mortgage rates was in the 70s. You can pretty clearly see that home prices were rising in spite of rising financing costs.
Do they have the experience with this "fragmentation" to pull this off effectively? What will it do from a developer's perspective?
Firefox 24 for Android gets WebRTC support by default
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Fat arrow functions in Javascript
That's pedantry. To the extend smartness is a choice, it's not something you can decide to do from day to day. Being nice very much is.
If this is the talk I think it is, I can say it helped me greatly as a programmer. I'm one of those 'homegrown' programmers with no formal education, and I'd probably horrify some of you with my work. But I'm learning, and very aware of my deficiencies.

What I loved about this talk is that it seemed more a 'philosophy of programming' thing, where a lot of what he said applied even to my shitty programming, and (hopefully) even improved it.
Not a bug, asm.js is basically machine code, so it should run nearly at native speed.
Scientific materialism is merely an objectivity bias within the subject-object problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93object_problem)

Because, you see, if we can only objectively measure things scientifically with instruments then there can be no subjectivity because we can't see it on any instrument! Therefore anybody who continues to insist that it does exist falls into the category of "woo woo," "magical thinking", or "superstitious". And those anti-scientific stances can only lead down the slippery slope into any of those pitfalls--or worse yet--fundamentalism (because there is just as much evidence for a mythical god as there is subjectivity... or unicorns for that matter... or spaghetti monsters...etc)! So its easy to lump all that is non-objective into the same category as unicorns since we cannot measure any of it.

/caricature

This is a fallacy of absolutistic thinking and it is rampant.
It would be nice to see evidence of this, especially since NSA directors have a tendency to lie indiscriminately.
I guess I haven't been around enough small startups (fewer than 100 people) because I hardly get the sense that people are haphazardly spinning hadoop clusters. People generally pick the right tools for the right jobs. This is particularly true in the datawarehousing world.

That being said I can see problems where people pick hadoop without knowing how it's going to integrate into their systems 1-3 years down the road. Particularly with cloud computing these days, you can easily bring large complex systems online with little effort. It's cool and scary at the same time.
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It should be your choice but most people aren't knowledgeable enough to manage versions themselves. You would certainly give up any rights for support in doing so as well.
I read the URL and after hitting #20 I was like "Where are the other 5?". It took me a while to notice the title of the post said "20" so I assume they created a page with 25 then removed 5 and forgot to update the URL.
Unfortunately, Sun (now Oracle) provided the original source code under the CDDL, so re-licensing it would require Oracle's approval, which is unlikely to happen.

ZFS's license is compatible with those of FreeBSD and Illumos, which are very stable operating systems. Given that ZFS is most likely to be used for a SAN or a NAS box, you can quite easily use FreeBSD for those boxes and Linux for your application servers if you choose.
What about patent encumbrance? Has the squabble between Sun(now Oracle) and NetApp been completely resolved? According to this[1], it was a quiet draw-down, followed by NetApp suing some hardware manufacturers selling ZFS.

Are the patent issue laid to rest?

[1] http://en.swpat.org/wiki/NetApp's_filesystem_patents
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Kik is more often used by teens who have Android phones. iMessage group messaging is much more popular on iPhones.