skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great. I tried it and it works just fine. I also like the fact that you provide a link to the image.
BLE provides different ways of making requests, it seems the mode with the highest throughputs is when the central (client) subscribes to notifications for a service on a peripheral (server) and the peripheral writes data to the central with or without responses.

I don't have restested to look for the maximum throughput with notification without response but searching the bluetooth mailing list gives this interesting link http://lists.apple.com/archives/bluetooth-dev/2013/Jun/msg00...

Note that it certainly was tested on iOS 6 and iOS 7 has since improved its BLE stack implementation, for instance back then MTU was fixed to 22 bytes while it is now negociated and usually is around 112 bytes between 2 iOS 7 devices (iPhone 5).
Leaked memos reveal GCHQ efforts to keep mass surveillance secret
Facebook Tests New Blue like Button on our blog: How will it affect engagement?
I agree that this frustration is likely an appreciable factor in the market. I use a pretty swift laptop for work stuff and need that power there, but lately I've been noticing how much I've gotten spoiled by the relative lack of babysitting that my phone and tablet have required. And I'm not even easy prey for the toolbar and crapware BS you mention like a lot of people who were previously in the PC market. PC makers worked damn hard to bring down the dollar price, but let the price in time+frustration stay high and grow until they got undercut by the overall cost.
Why Selfish People Cooperate
I don't disagree that the techniques you mention work to attract some women. But did you ever for a minute realize that playing that game just lands you women of the quality which you deplore.

The way I see it... I don't want my wife and mother of my children to be a ho. Yet I have a feeling that this is how you see all of them.
I agree that many articles lack sufficient reliable sources. Only college or postgrad textbooks are considered reliable sources, but not great ones, unless written by noted and/or frequently cited authors.

In my opinion, experts should be sincerely welcomed to kibbitz on talk pages - not directly in editing articles - with a strong invitation to cite sources other than themselves. This approach, optimistically, will keep bias on the Talk page, and out of articles, and give experts a substantial real and perceived voice, currently lacking.
He's not talking about general files but rather gDocs, which Dropbox and Skydrive don't really have an equivalent of.

http://i.imgur.com/mubelYa.png

The first three are only links (or pointers) the last one is an actual file.
When you remove the first three from the gDrive folder Google will actually move those documents to the trash and your link becomes kinda useless, when you move the last one from the gDrive folder Google still moves the file to your trash (in gDrive) but because it's a real file, you still have it. Google does this because they don't offer a true offline viewer/editor and thus it makes no sense (to them) to take up offline space.

With dropbox all files are considered real and therefore when you remove them from dropbox you retain the file even if it's no longer synced.

While skydrive has office docs, they too are stored as real files on your computer and thus if you remove them from the skydrive folder you get to keep the file even if it's moved to the rB in skydrive.

note: (in the screenshot) those check-marks might be skydrive check-marks and not google's, this is because my gDrive folder is inside my skydrive folder for redundancy -- it still wont sync gDocs, but since I don't really use gDocs I'm okay.
Cute story - that provides no value what to the reader - except for pitching how great perfectaudience is.
Commutes are intra-city not inter-city; and the density of large cities in USA is comparable to the density of large cities everywhere.
Possibly use them in sting operations of more underground sites like the silk road. Obviously as we've seen they are still going after dealers, hitmen, CP and this would be a large enough fund of coins to do that from. The only issue I see is how they would tumble and transfer them without everyone watching for transactions out of the main account.
A citation showing what? That Wikipedia deleted PR accounts recently? Or that this article was posted after that happened?

Both those events are easily searchable. Hacker News comments are not a fucking encyclopaedia.
A non-technical user would not think to open it in Notepad, and would likely assume the data is hidden from view but still there.
These days, anyone who isn't getting their way politically just asserts that it is a dictatorship calling for revolution.
Yeah! Although I'm not sure git is the right model. I'd like something where people can have "channels" that are their own contributions, then various levels of aggregation and curation so that I can subscribe to a few massive, "mainstream" channels plus a few smaller special-interest wikis.
Agreed, and well said.
Whether it's "quite common" may vary a lot from department to department; in some places my statement may perhaps have been too strong. In the places I've seen firsthand it's quite common for tenured faculty to sometimes interview elsewhere. I did so, and made a jump.

This is also a common strategy for people angling for promotion or a big pay increase -- get an offer elsewhere, and then use that offer to get a promotion at your current institution. I'm not recommending it, but I've certainly seen it done. Common outside academia too, of course.
In this context, "stupid" isn't binary. It makes strategic sense for law enforcement to invest in systems that create requirements for criminals to be smart all the time; lots of people can avoid stupidity for short stretches, but far fewer of them can be consistently competent over the long term.
Or they've been mostly unsuccessful, or they don't have a leaker like Snowden yet.
Basically, the gov't is allowed to have all your information and see it, and no one else. Enrollment data needs to be protected from everyone but the US gov't is the stance. From this perspective, there is not conflict of interest.
How will the connected car affect tech workers?
Is there like an example test online? I've been in this game for 7 years, but I still learn new things all the time. I'd be curious how well i'd do :D
> Google drive local "files" do not contain your data.

Google Drive local files do, in fact, contain your data, for any files that you put into Drive.

The issue is that the native files for certain web services that use the Drive interface (including Google's own Documents, Spreadsheets, etc.) are just links to content stored with the web service, not containers for the content itself.
For the curious, this 114k seizure represents a full 1% of all bitcoins that currently exist worldwide (0.7% of all bitcoins that will ever be produced). I'd wager the US government won't be releasing them or selling them back into circulation.
Innovation is an organic process. It takes time and many attempts to get things right.

"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward".
Thomas A. Edison, Encyclopaedia Britannica
Yes, this gets my vote hands down. hckrnews looks fine but hn.premii gets mobile right. I use it on my mobile and on my desktop all the time. Only downside is that you can't write comments.
Posted because it discusses flat design and minimalism.

I could quote much of the article to explain why I don't tend to like flat design. It looks great, but often at the expense of functionality.

>remove all the elements you can without hurting functionality, then remove some more
Podcast: Understanding the Dangers of LinkedIn Intro
Why did they do it in groups of 324?
An ex of mine edited a wiki article and added false information to it. I think that sort of thing is very harmful, so I removed it. A day later the edit was reverted. I tried a few months later. It, too, was reverted.

I had someone else try. It was reverted. I tried once more, probably two years later (after the "fact" had time to propagate throughout the internet), and it too was reverted.

The reason it was reverted every time? Apparently I didn't sufficiently explain the edit. It didn't require explanation: it was an uncited, demonstrably false fact. It asserted the existence and publication of a book (in recent history) that was never published. It is impossible to find a copy of it. It does not exist. I didn't know how to explain it any better than that.

A few months ago, I saw that someone finally noticed it was fake and removed it for good.
Tizen phones won't be launching until January at the earliest.

None of these phones are gaining even remote amounts of traction. Even the Blackberry 10 launch is an order of magnitude more successful than even the most successful open source OS you've listed here.

There is a lot of positive talk form techies and insiders about these devices, but I have yet to encounter a customer in the real world who is even aware of any of these devices, let alone interested.
>Solution: clean it once in a while :)

Teach me oh great one. Honestly I've never managed to clean a fan. You can brush off the obvious dust but the noise comes from dust getting into the fan itself.
> One politician asked for a copy of the server logs so that Congress could get to the bottom of what was going wrong.

No need to worry, folks! Your government is on top of things.

I wonder, how many Congress idiots does it take to fix the caching policy on a web server?
Since people are mentioning various other HN interfaces they use, I'd highly recommend to check out Georgify — https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...
What about reputation? I regularly do more than the legal minimum for my clients and there are companies who do the same for me. Meeting the legal minimums only makes sense for commodities, e.g. this salt is 99.5% pure. This software is 99.5% "secure"? This software is 99.5% "complete"?
I live five miles from work. There are bike lanes the whole way with no freeways inbetween. I drive.

I didn't move close to my job to spend 30+ minutes a day commuting.

I don't want to show up sweaty to the office.

I can run errands or meet someone for lunch. After work I wouldn't need to go home to get my car if I, on a whim, wanted to go across town for whatever reason.

Bay area is popular for biking because they make it difficult to park. Where I live they make it easy with large free parking lots. I'm in a large coastal city.
As came out in the presses, http://upstart.bizjournals.com/money/loot/2013/10/08/fbi-can...

The consensus I've read is that until announced otherwise, somebody made the announcement without realizing how seizures are supposed to work (It's akin to me taking a copy of your bank statement and thinking I have wrested control of your bank account from you). This may be that announcement but it sure seems pretty limp evidence so far.
PouchDB is optimized for the use case of one database per user, a logged in user has full access to a specific database that only they have access to (for shared data access you can use replication on the server side)
Even better: items that have been "deleted" don't count toward your storage limit, even if they are recoverable.
What I think wikipedia needs more than anything is a new way to propose an edit without actually committing it, and to be able to solicit feedback or have others fix it for you before having it finally approved and submitted. It needs to be something where an inexperienced editor can make a good edit proposal without having to be completely versed in wikipedia's editing policies.

Talk pages are a horrendous way to implement this. Making an edit proposal should be extremely new-user friendly.

I think a proposal and dialog format would do a much better job at absorbing new content than what happens currently, which seems to be a revert if you run afoul of any editing policy.
This. Wikipedia has reached a point where most of what people are interested in writing about has been written about, or has been staked out by more active participants, leaving the bulk of remaining work either obscure or maintenance, neither of which is motivatingly interesting to most people.

Hence a recurring theme: the great failing of FOSS products (free as in beer) is precisely that a non-trivial amount of work which needs doing doesn't get done because there is no incentive to do it: it is hard, boring, unappreciated, and/or expensive to the point that the only way to get it done is to pay someone to do it. Unless Wikipedia pays somebody to round things out and constantly polish content, it will suffer stagnation.
I agree that Wikipedia's goal is to be the collection of things that we know that we know. So we do need citations. But when an article is wrong and doesn't already have thorough citations for every claim, should we demand citations for every new contribution?

My point is really about process: when someone comes to us with a bit of knowledge, but no citations and limited understanding of the Wikipedia process, how do we react?

The model whereanyone can edit and see their changes live has real benefits and costs. It makes it easy to make your first contribution, but it also means that if an editor doesn't like it, they just revert it. Sometimes, maybe changes should go in a queue or something.

I come to Wikipedia, and dump a ton of graph theory on some page. An editor says "look, this isn't quite how it works, but it looks like you're trying to improve the page. Is this stuff you have citations for? Do you know what textbooks would cover it?"

Maybe my edits don't go live immediately, but it's better than the current situation, where they just get reverted by some guy spouting WP:STQ!

(That's the grain of truth the comment down below that Wikipedia needs to be more like git).
I once worked for a company that did pre-employment background checks. Before I left the CEO was talking about the next big thing in weeding out undesirables from the workforce: a system that would keep track of every time someone was placed behind bars/arrested, adding that to a database, and notifying potential/present employers that person A either working for them or applying to work for them had been arrested, either at one time or now.

Not charged with a crime, not falsely arrested, just simply placed behind bars. I left before really delving into the legality of it, but it apparently was.

Remember, the bill of rights only applies to the government. A private company doesn't have to care about WHY you were placed in a jail cell or whether you actually are a criminal, just that you were detained by the police at one time.

If every protester who'd been arrested (I'm thinking Occupy from a while ago) was now in a database that prevented them from ever getting a job again even though they've never committed a "real" crime, then being legal sure doesn't seem fine at all.

I should also mention that I've worked for a few companies handling private information about people. The lack of security in the private area is astounding. I'm honestly surprised that massive SSN and other personal info don't leak out of private companies more often, most of the time it's not difficult to walk out with a million DOB/Name/Current Address/SSN/Duplicatable Signature on thumb drive, there's no internal tracking and no encryption most of the time. The private sector is the last place surveillance should be happening, it's really frightening to think what could happen should they mess up.
When Genuine Data Leads to Disingenuous Conclusions
With $4M in New Funding, Panorama Comes to Boston (EdTech Center of the World?)
The Java Debacle - Firefox reverses the block
A Tour of the Microsoft TFS Cross-Platform Build Lab
UN Women ad series reveals widespread sexism {using real Google search data}
Closed-source licenses are provided per request and the only restriction seems to be that you don't sell a DB system backed by the lib[1]. If you really want to prevent closed-source abuse of your library, a GPL-based dual licensing setup is the only way I can think of.

1 - http://whitedb.org/licence.html
The bitcoins were moved to this address today, October 25. This is likely an address controlled by the FBI.
Yeah you do still get tracked but you really screw up any sort of referrer tracking - you'll appear to be coming directly to every page you visit. Also in some cases you may be blocked because you may look like a bad crawler...
I used to use this interface, but then I noticed a bug (or interesting feature, depending on your point of view) in that when you were viewing the top 10 or top 20, and loaded more articles, some articles would disappear from the list.

My theory on this is that it was caused by loading articles a certain number of hours back from the current time, and then grouping by day before sorting to the top X.

For example, if the last 24 hours were loaded, and grouped into today and (part of) yesterday, you would get an accurate top X for today so far, and an accurate top X for the portion of the previous day it had fetched.

This was particularly noticeable when I hadn't visited for a few days (I've since rectified this aberrant behavior of mine) and loaded a few past days to review missed submissions. Seeing something that caught my eye disappear as it loaded older content drove me nuts.

It looks like the problem is fixed now, but it's hard to be sure, as it may be more or less likely depending on the time of the day you visit.

I sent a bug report to the developer when I noticed this (in February 2013), but never heard back. I'll happily go back to using this interface if it's fixed though, I found it generally more pleasant to use.
How we use Github for Everything at Sunrise
Exactly, the username / password combination is most certainly to make life simpler for a demo, would never expect someone to do that in real code.

I plan on extending the getting started tutorial with an extention that does a database oer user when logged in (via persona), it actually wont make the tutorial much more complex and gets very close to what it should look like in production (https://github.com/daleharvey/couch-persona)
Yeah, but the talk pages are basically just sewers for a lot of articles. I look at a talk page and my thought is "god, no one will ever read what I write here".
Or spend the time to become the man that 20 somethings will fight over.
It is frightening that people may be listening to him. Surely there's at least one Republican available to Fox News who understands web technology.
Study finds iPhone 5s and 5c touchscreens inaccurate, Galaxy S3 much better
The site wasn't designed to be 100% secure most likely due to it being overly complex and burdensome on the end user, thus reducing uptake. So a comprise was made and that is why it was designed the way it was...thus leading to a subpoena for the entire site since Lavabit didn't comply with handing over a specific users data.

Also it is legal for the site to hand over their keys, it already happened. The only way it will become illegal is if the law somehow gets repealed.
While I am happily married, I have seen the 'sexual-market-value' change first hand now that I'm in my mid-30s. The women my age who are attractive but unmarried and childless seem to now be with men who they would've probably never even considered 10 years ago. They've been passed up for whatever reason - bad relationship choices, too picky, etc. - but still want a family so are willing to lower their standards.

I thought this was funny:

Naomi explains: "He's 36 years old and is definitely someone who falls into the alpha-male category: excellent job in finance, PhD, high income, six feet two, sporty and very handsome. And he's an utter sweetheart."

Just clueless. That guy, if he even exists and isn't already married, has the resources to date a nice girl in her late-20s. Again, it's a symptom of the problem. Many women waited for the perfect situation and never found it. And even if they found their white whale we all know how that story ends.
I hope (naively) that one day, software developer will collectively tell the governments that they work for "Sorry, no amount of money will deliver what you're asking for".

Pretty much every government IT projects I've seen fail, that's most of them here in Denmark, has done so because of politics, laws and regulations. The thing is: the big contractors like CGI, aren't going to turn down the money. They are only to happy to deliver a poor product because they are paid millions and never asked to account for the failures of these projects.

It would be better for the industry as a whole to say NO to projects we know will fail. I don't for a second believe that CGI software developers thought that they could make healthcare.gov a massive success, or even just plain decent. If they couldn't see that, then they shouldn't be doing software development in the first place.

Doing a postmortem this way is refreshing, except you'll never get the right answer: "With the time available (not the money) this was never going to work. The integration with legacy system and the shear amount of these integration points makes this an almost impossible project". In reality will get a lot of blame allocation and CGI won't be made accountable for accepting a project that should have be rejected by anyone with half a brain.
There are far more variables here to measure. First of all what constitutes that fifty you are thinking of rolling out? Lets say you arrive at it and what's next? For an engaged user the AB testing can measure up as you can define clear set of tasks and desired outcomes. But as i stated above, good type often goes invisible. People engage with the content and the not the,medium to tell you anything tangible. One cannot take away the subjectivity from the process when there is not anything tangible to measure.
https://browshot.com/api/documentation#screenshot_create ? Browshot supports upload to S3 and cropping (https://browshot.com/api/documentation#screenshot_thumbnail)

URL2PNG has a WordPress plugin to take screenshots sautomatically
Did you entered some kind of testing form to get fb's button or they just randomly chose you ?
And jchris jumps in with the couchbase marketing, love it. You're right, though, about how rad it is that so many things speak the Apache CouchDB replication protocol. I'm eager to hear Max talk more about syncable because I thought that may be a more minimal protocol for sync than the full Couch dance.
Are you suggesting no one has a car?

Anyway, Android (Linux) dominates the mobile space, and Linux dominates the server and a lot of the embedded space. So yes, cheap stuff outsells expensive stuff.
In order to "seize" ownership of bitcoins, the FBI would need to gain access to his private bitcoin keys. Wouldn't it be possible to transfer all his bitcoin to a different address with a private key that's encrypted? Wouldn't such an action prevent a seizure?

EDIT: That's what appears to have happened.
Open source would certainly help in terms of transparency and hopefully quality but bottom line is that it would not have saved this project. This project failed because of incompetent management.

Requirements came in so late that development didn't even start until March of this year, and requirements were changing right up until the week before launch. Only one week of full integration testing was performed.

While open source should be used in government IT, that's not the main problem in government IT. The main problems are poor project management, a lack of accountability, a broken contract award process, and decisions makers who don't understand IT well enough to guide these projects to fruition. Open source would not solve any of those problems.
Ask and you may receive. Stay tuned.
What is the advantage of this over using dictionaries?