skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Filtering by country on the Prestashop order list
Adapt or die.

An unfortunate comment, because some of the devices I had in mind when writing those last few posts are in fact medical equipment.

If Java-based UIs are no longer readily available to clinical staff the way they were last week, then effectively their instruments just got broken. Delays and increased suffering for patients are all but certain consequences until the IT staff have chance to fix things again.

Fortunately, the software running on equipment that could actually cause death as a direct result of failure is written to much higher standards and shouldn't depend on this kind of technology in the first place.
Sure, but is there a less public way for me to give it to you?
eheh. happy......and sorry about it. it's a typo.
it needs a bit more polish but already it is head and shoulders above metronic
I agree with @cJ0th.

Praising children for effort rather than skill encourages them to work towards goals rather than attempting to rely on some sort of innate ability that adults have convinced them that they have (i.e. never putting effort towards learning good study habits because you're 'smart').

In the case of 'the Japanese,' putting in long hours at the office is the only metric that they use to measure effort. This also affects sleeping patterns, which affects performance. Children aren't working 80+ hour weeks that could be mostly unproductive and losing valuable sleep.

[ Also, you have to be cognisant of the fact that adults are different than children. If a 4-year-old worked for hours on a project unproductively, you acknowledge that they put in a lot of effort, but you accept that they are still a child. If a 40-year-old is beating their head against a wall unproductively for hours, and continues to do so, you may look on their problem-solving skills poorly. ]
The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneur
What do you think if you are startup?
> "The chances that the most elite squad imaginable of Googlers, Facebookers, NSA geeks, and Government-of-China attack hackers all laid end to end could have made this work at startup? Zero."

Yes they could. Look, one of my good friends works at Duke, and they're constantly pulling from legacy, disparate, the most xml you've ever seen, medical systems all the time. The amount of J2EE -0.35 code would make you cry. Sure this is definitely on a larger scale, but it can be done. By scale I mean the amount of disparate systems, not the comical amount of traffic the site got.

Healthcare.gov is an oversized wizard sign up form. Sure there could be bugs later in the process, but signing up a user shouldn't have these problems.

I'm hoping that as a developers everybody can see that.

No way of knowing the amount of people that are signed up? No, that's either some crap the government is feeding us, or a sign that this is an over engineered pile of dog turd.

> "Could Healthcare.gov work? Sure. It probably will, eventually."
Eventually is a good word, but throwing more programmers at the problem will only make it worse.
We built this for clothes (http://www.shopofme.com) a while ago. It did some fashion specific stuff on top of it but in essence the same principal, alerts when items drop in price.

Might be interesting to chat as I'm still running the site as a side project these days after the primary business model didn't work out. We built a fair bit of pretty solid tech for it so might at least be some knowledge share there? Contact details in profile.
Privacy is dead and here's how
Correct.

1. Give away profit, to increase market share

2. Repeat

3. Enjoy your new monopoly

4. With competition gone and customers additionally locked in via your technology platform: Set your prices as you wish
Not a tutorial but a video, but here's Anthony Cowley talking about using Haskell for machine vision, hardware, and robotics. In the first 5 minutes he writes Haskell code, proves it bug-free using a few tests via a Satisfiability Modulo Theorems prover, cross-compiles it to C, starts up a web server for debugging, then throws it on an Arduino.

Then he proceeds to run some basic vision filters in realtime using OpenGL, OpenCL, and OpenCV all together just to show off all in under 150 lines.

Then after that he talks about how his team built a robot doing realtime grasping and lifting of non-uniform, unpredictable, difficult to grasp, random dollar store objects that are coming at it on a conveyor belt moving at 33cm/sec. The visual processing all in Haskell from the noisy sensor of a Kinect.

The examples aren't immediately there to follow as it's not a tutorial, but it's a good look into the space of some real, complex hacking going on.

http://vimeo.com/77164337
The issue was they weren't making enough money. I seriously think it was a small sliver part of a pie chart dominated by PayPal and Amazon.
So is this kinda of like Tor but without the anonymity and only one peer to connect to?
NO. I can ensure you i did the whole template from scratch. I don't even know what metronic was until now.
Maybe a strange question: I'm getting very tired of those mood movies because it's not me. I'm more interested in the movies shown on conversations.nokia.com because it's showing what the device can and does.

Now I'm wondering does this kind of mood advertising work? And for what audience does it work?
Microsoft, here's my offer
Not so cool if you're a Norwegian taxpayer, one suspects.
While technically true "the US" here is only used as an example, I don't believe the endpoints have to be in the US (if I understand correctly any user of this extension can choose to become a proxy).

An other point in the video (at around 0:50) mentions that you can select your route through trusted friends. If that's true it means that you can decide where your traffic transits.

Now obviously if you use the binary chrome builds made by Google they might put a backdoor in there but that's always true.

I don't think it's fair to dismiss this because it comes from Google, if it's open source and an open standard everybody will be free to audit it and decide for themselves.

If you don't want to use any crypto-product which might be even remotely related to the NSA then I have bad news for you...
Microsoft didn't release this and in fact Microsoft can't legally influence Nokia in any way until the sale has been approved by all relevant governments.
Digia becomes Patron of KDE e.V.
Show HN: FuturePrize Lets You Crowdfund Your Own X-Prizes
There's a comment on the article that links to http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/windows-timer-re... .

Which seems to point to many apps (embarrassingly mostly MS apps) setting the OS timer interval to something like 1ms (from a default of 15.6ms) and not resetting it.

Anyone with any experience with the Windows 8 timer care to weigh in on this issue? I'm well out of my depth when it comes to processor / kernel level power tuning.
Radiant. A tragic tale of romance gone radioactive
What version of FireFox are you using? I'm using FF24 and the sliders and date picker work as expected. Can you provide steps for reproducing?
Uncalled for, I just wanted to know more about the tablet and posted that here for others. I do not take kindly to your disparaging remark.
Thanks for pointing that out.
I'll be on the quick patch this weekend :)
Going up or going down?
Useful to know. Thanks.
A tablet is a computer with a touchscreen that can be carried around and doesn't require the use of a keyboard. This seems to fit, no?
Which cannot be opened in SumatraPDF (the only reader I'll install since it's open source) for some reason. Besides, an image is a lot easier to share, plus I don't need a reader.
As someone who has never used Joda Time, what makes it so great?
Exactly. The whole issue is the inconsistency with todays app-centric views of data (iTunes) and the fact that the path hierachy based view of the files will probably still be around for many years to come. I think the best solution would be for the OS/filesystem to provide a queryable layer on top which contains metadata and guarantees consistency without forcing the applications to lock in their data. I can't see how it would be very controversial, as it actually removes nothing, only adds.
Hands on review of 2003 classic cult Steel Battalion using Google Glass
The contract for the software would certainly include transfer of copyright. This is standard. Otherwise the canadian company could immediately sue and remove the work the federal government had purchased.
Another "free" Google service that blinds lay people from objectively considering the cost vs. benefits of online privacy/anonymity (since "free" tends to make us act irrationally). Instead, consider paying the equivalent of a cup or two of coffee and buy yourself a real VPN subscription. Even if you must get yourself a free VPN, consider someone other than Google, a company that already has so much data on your digital lives.
No there won't be. Netflix requires "HTML5" playback to use their proprietary DRM plug-in (EME CDM).

On mailing lists they've said they don't give a damn about GNU/Linux support.

They will support Google's closed flavors of Linux: non-AOSP Android builds and closed builds of ChromeOS with Google WideVine DRM plug-ins.
Intense debate privacy weakness - I know who you are
Nokia also ran.

See what I did there? I summarized the entire PR exercise in 3 words.
Cracking GSM with RTL-SDR for Thirty Dollars
It's a pity that our history of low voltage DC connectors has been so poor. The 12V cigarette lighter connector is awful, and yet it became, slowly, the standard for 12V connections. The USB cable is not exactly brilliant either. The article touches on it, but the fact you basically don't know which way it goes in until you attempt to plug it in is awful.

Hopefully the manufacturers will have the sense to move towards a slightly more sane connector to use in everything. I think the fear that it has to be backwards compatible is less prevalent now than it used to be (micro USB has completely replaced mini USB in most situations). I'm looking forward to sane relatively high power DC connections everywhere.
So US government employees could install it to read Snowden's documents?

Then the NSA gets a list of those who do?
Major Mega Projects across globe
2013 Longlist - Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards
5. Watch competitors instantly spring up.

*Note: there is no such thing as a non-government enforced monopoly. Marketshare != Monopoly
The big GSM write-up – how to capture, analyze and crack GSM?
I see two sides to this. First; the closing paragraph of the article, clearly intended to convince you amazon is out to get you once they've wiped out all the other competition. That's all fine and dandy, and isn't I don't think directly controverted by evidence; but in the same statement, I think it is far from affirmed.

The second side, then, is what I see this all as evidence of. Disclaimer, I know fuck all about the subtleties of running large businesses, but when you step back and look at the what they're doing at a high level, expanding facilities, exploring new markets, new products, during what is as the article stated an investment boom time and where maintaining a certain level of revenue might be a "somewhat safe bet", it makes sense to me that you would use this time to make more bets. Risk becomes more acceptable when you're not living dollar to dollar; the box of nails anecdote, simple as it is, spoke buckets to me. (maybe I'm overreading.) At the risk of showing extreme naivete, I would LOVE to for once believe that a company is simply using all of its financial resources to continually try to provide optimal and novel services. Shipping goes up in price; that's how the market works when you add more services without anyone funding em, the cash has to come from somewhere. I guess my hope is that the shipping is only raising due to their trying to provide new services, and that there will still be sufficient competition that amazon hasn't killed off to prevent this from going out of hand; and that it was just as I said above, a way to fund growth and try to balance for changing economic times, and not a sign of the impinging amazon monopolypse.

Oops, suddenly essay, and now I'm late for work...
I have a better idea - bring the cost of project loon balloons really low (order of magnitude below the price of the rockets needed to shoot them) and just flood the censoring country sky with them.

The country will either have to bankrupt itself or open its internet.
I'll take your word for it. But you have to be careful with your enthusiasm, because microsoft and satellites are known for their aggressive astroturfing, and you might sound like a paid shill.
Why not just pick a VID and start using it? USB is so well understood at this point that there is no need for anyone to play ball with an "official" organization.

(Whoever gets "officially" issued that VID is going to whine when they notice it's already being used for hobbyist purposes anyway, which means that the technique of just picking one will guarantee uniqueness.)
>Mr Bhatt, who invented it 20 years ago, is delighted. His next plan is to make the USB cable “flippable”—so that the plug fits the socket whichever way it is inserted (for now it works only one way round). That tiresome flaw is because an original design priority was to make manufacture as cheap as possible: few believed his idea would really catch on.
It works great for me, better than Chrome PDF Viewer. Chrome's viewer lacks even the most basic features like table of contents, and it's integrated pretty poorly -- it doesn't show the title of pdf (so PDFs are impossible to search by title in history), and it doesn't remember last reading position.
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Fast, permanent and private email aliases.
What I'm trying to say is that systems don't exist because they are 'good', they exist because they survive. When trying to interpret the world, 'value' is a much less powerful explainer than survival.
Thanks for the links, I ended up enjoying reading about them :)

I ended up on:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SultansDowryProblem.html
Looks like this will be vapormgware.
If it's PR that actually helps build viable tools used to circumvent censorship and improve privacy on the web in general then I'm all for it. Rather that than some silly TV ad campaign, don't you think?
Because the slackers that surf porn at work have no idea how to bring a tablet to work loaded with porn.
Love the idea of Bitcoin Agents. Been reading up heavily on schemes to automate transactions on a trust-less level, including proof of sacrifice to establish automatic identities (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140711).
No

EDIT: Apparently factually correct statements are worth downvotes.
Well the assumption that post-iPad tablets cannot be impressive is ludicrous to me. Nexus 7 is impressive. This tablet in particular: Beautiful and sharp design, cyan color is attractive, it has outlook on the go, and most of all that book cover type of keyboard cover is impressive as seen in the videos. You are allowed to see it as mediocre tablet, but basing it on it being post-iPad is not good. One massive shortcoming is the app situation on Windows platform, which takes the sheen off this tablet.
Exactly. So while applications today each create an abstraction (e.g. SQL index) on top of the filesystem, what is really needed to provide the "iOS experience" while keeping normal file systems below, is simply an OS-level index with metadata. I can't see how it can be preferrable to have each application have an inconsistent DB of files and their metadata, versus having the OS/filesystem provide one.

As for the mp3 scenario: for a 1Gb mp3 player its certainly doable to just scan the contents for the files/metadata once in order to show track titles etc.
The problem is when the collections of files grow by several orders of magnitude and you need instant lookup of metadata (e.g. a 1Tb photo library, which isn't even especially large these days, my camera takes 25mb photos with hundreds of pieces of metadata that can't be encoded in the filename unlike an mp3 track).
Then you shoud take care to not make your posts look like a blatant astroturf.

What I mean is that you have wasted a whole display worth of real estate that could be used for meaningful conversation, while the data you provided could be accessed by a simple click to a single link, or by executing a simple google query.

This is not your average forum, we aspire to higher standards.
Since amazon invests all it's got in expansions and new offerings, It's really hard to talk about how much profit they make. And it's part of their advantage to keep this secret.
I get permission denied on every page on that site.
really?
20EUR to save you -at least- 1 week of work or a paid professional guy to help you out with HTML/CSS/JS while you focus on back-end code?

Seems reasonable to me.
It's a chrome extension, so the source you see is the code executed by your browser.
Some of those clients' security involves (among other things) firewalled private networks, biometric access controls overseen by armed guards, and a requirement to provide complete systems free of charge for several months of testing and auditing before any new software roll-out is approved. There is no such thing as easy and painless upgrades in that kind of environment, and that is by design. You don't exactly want the patient records in your healthcare systems or the performance monitoring tools with access to all of the traffic on your telecoms infrastructure or the card processing systems at your bank to be accessible on the public WiFi, after all.
True, but what if for some reason government considers Amazon too big to fail. It's not that far fetched.
Why isn't there a link to this from the Engadget article? That is useless and shoddy. Do they not know how the internet works, or have a single shred of common sense?
Your definition of "clone" needs a bit of adjusting, methinks. Also, your history of posting one-sentence replies and dismissals isn't terribly productive.
I think the DesignModo guys set the standard for paid themes with their FlatUI pack which is also Bootstrap based.
http://designmodo.com/flat/
Worse! It's just CSS, HTML and a couple images!
I agree location is important.

I asked the same question on HN 1450 days ago, see the responses I got:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916622

Jaipur may not be the best place to start at this point in time but it definitely seem to have some future promises to offer.

I would like to bring to your notice that Entrepreneurship/Startup radar has picked up in Jaipur lately. Several events, groups have come up:

Some examples are:

groups:

startup jaipur: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jaipurtechies/

ceo jaipur:
https://www.facebook.com/CeoJaipur

startup saturday jaipur:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ssjaipur/

events:

Startup saturday event is happening every month

Startup Jaipur also meets physically , a little infrequently though, since December last year. And I plan to do hackthons and stuff under this (I am one of the founding members and an admin on FB), a little short on bandwidth though, would like to take the lead and try a hand?

CEO Jaipur the first co-working space for/by/of the entrepreneurs started some time back. They have space to host other events too.

Then there were some events from TIE like 'TIE mashup' that recently happened.

more events:

Bringing startup weekend to Jaipur is in process.

Overall, it's heating up but agreeably not as mature or vibrant as Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad or Pune. ( Lived and experienced the first three cities and their meetups personally.)

I am from Jaipur too and I run a startup ( http://startuplabs.io/ ) here.

Let me know if you would like to meetup and hangout.
There's no such thing as a country without government, unless Amazon sets up on (and only sells to) Somalia or Eritrea :P
Thanks. I like some of the other initiatives listed there. Digital Attack Map is interesting to peruse though the graphics could be a bit clearer.
The Java library's use of a static method makes it difficult to inject and mock out for tests, requiring a wrapper class to be written by hand to make such things possible.
Did you read the article? It's not a Google service. Why buy a "real" VPN subscription instead of running things through a friend, which is way more decentralized and harder to surveil en masse?
same here - and the checkout doesn't seem to work either, getting the "card is empty" message in chrome and ie.
Incoming:

"Hey, could you resend that? I opened it and then had to switch to another tab for a few seconds, but when I got back the message was already 90% gone"
Remains only to figure out how to route the physical delivery via a US address... anyone know of such a service? I'd find that pretty useful actually. A lot of stuff on e.g. Amazon is only available for delivery to the US.
I think most people so far are missing who the target audience is.
I agree with you as long as we are talking about mobile application stores. The Mac store proposes a lot of over-priced applications, including many applications that used to be free prior to the store release.
"microsoft and satellites are known for their aggressive astroturfing" "paid shill"

Slashdot beginnings on HN.
An important point that should be checked would certainly be if and when the plugin on its own tries to contact servers in the US, be they servers of Google or of the other parties involved.

If it doesn't, it deserves the attention of a more thorrough check.

I really like the idea of this, but somehow have a longing for the world we lived in one year ago, when news of such a project would not have been "tainted" by attaching the name of Google to it.

Sigh.
Sort of. Just because N people from different countries and time zones each need to enter their password in order to make a production change doesn't mean that the organizational structure needs to follow that. For all we care, only the subteam that does production deployments would need to be set up this way.

They would, however, need highly trusted agents in several legal jurisdictions. Agents who they trusted with the ability to bring the company down. Still... I think I might pay for a service like that, if some of the principle participants were people I trusted so I was sure it wasn't a honeypot.
I hear this argument made all the time and maybe it is true at the microlevel. On a macrolevel it appears price discovery is one algorithm's "opinion" is matched against hundreds of other algorithms' opinions and they all tend to go in the same direction.
I recommend documenting that in PHP it's just a curl wrapper, as opposed to a lib that can work with curl, streams, etc... (nothing condescending on '"just" a wrapper'). Also give some insights on requirements (PHP 5.3+ I'd say?)
That's a fairly contentious assertion to make and not one that is universally held by mainstream economists by any means.
Google Acquires Android Performance Startup FlexyCore For A Reported $23 Million
Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Goals, scheduling, shipping
The flat design and teal colors remind me of twm:

http://www.tuxradar.com/files/LXF2.roundup.twm-1.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm
Tuneable light that mimics nature aims to make us feel healthier in the office
From a cursory reading, 70% of the comments in here are people who came straight to this page to say "I don't trust Google/why wouldn't they do <something else>/Google will just shut this down".

Can we stop with the kneejerk reactions? This is a p2p browser extension, doesn't run through Google, wasn't developed by Google, the only involvement Google had was maybe fund it.

Are we going to be getting these comments any time Google is mentioned from now on?
The postage thing was explained a while ago somewhere, possibly HN: there's no "settlement" between international postage services in the normal sense, and there's a HK postal service that will ship to the US for pennies. Once it arrives in the US postal service, it's their cost to deliver it.
How to assess risk when considering cloud computing
Hyperloop Model