skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One example of where a CAN/LIN bus connected power window is good is my old Jetta. You could insert the key in the driver door lock and turn it backwards to make the car roll down all of the windows and open the sun roof. As someone else mentioned, you can likely implement features like this via hard wiring, bu then you get massive wiring harnesses.
This is the sort of circumstance where you really don't want to be using a hosted databases provider, to be honest....
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In terms of start-ups, career etc I don't think it's impossible to do it in your 40s, but I'd say you're more explicitly aware of the sacrifices involved and typically have more to lose.
I wonder what kind of rationalization Bob Dylan, The Beatles, et al went through once they reached 30 years of age. Do they move the goal posts to not trusting anyone over 40? Or do they admit that they were youthful and wrong and state that untrustworthy people, at any age, are the only people that shouldn't be trusted.
Hm, I always assumed this stuff was transparent.

In the UK you have the well-known "Sim-Only" and "Rolling Month" contracts, which are almost, not like contracts in the traditional sense given you can cancel any time.

my Sim-Only contract that last's for 12 months is £15/m
I paid £750 or so for the iPhone 5s with 64GB of space which is: £31 (over 2 years)
£46 total a month for two years.

a contract with my provider for my phone is:
£99 upfront cost.
£51 a month (over 24 months).

so, I'd be paying £5 for the privilege of _not_ having cash in hand for my phone.

there are other downsides; like requiring carrier support instead of apple support, which, honestly makes a large difference to how you're treated.

although the UK is under EU jurisdiction about the locking of mobile phones so, it's now prohibited.
I'm in the process of moving from ATT to Tmobile.
Another advantage: an unlocked phone can really help for international travel. I'm heading from the US to Hong Kong and my friends with unlocked phones can get local, prepaid SIM cards for very good voice + data rates.

AT&T has told me that "standard" rates for international roaming in Asia is $2.50/minute (!!) and even the biggest package they have only brings it down to $1.50. It's completely insane. Plus you need to purchase voice roaming, data roaming, and text roaming all separately. Believe it or not, it will actually be slightly cheaper to cancel my AT&T plan, pay the cancellation fee, and switch to TMobile than it would be to purchase all of their punitive roaming services.
Amazing to have some evidence of the processing capabilities dendrites could possess. Though this only makes our understanding of the brain that much slimmer.

With billions of neurons and dendrites interacting all the time, if each are compartmentalized we're going to have a difficult time coming up with a model to replicate the effects. Which, as I understand it, is our goal in an effort to better understand how the brain works overall.

Still, with this insight it's clear we've got some immensely powerful hardware bouncing around between our ears. What a truly brilliant machine.
It's only iOS at the moment.
This sounds kind of like my project, LibraryDSS: https://github.com/priestc/LibraryDSS although, I'll probably never finish it

I was disappointed when the pursuit website turned out to be nothing but design documents and "mission statements". There doesn't seem to be any actual software anywhere...
+10 galfarragem's comment.

End of the day, focus on building strong relationships and you'll find that business gets easier. Don't be a 2D person.
This is a great piece that should go to top of HN.

We can reverse the trend as consumers, by questioning our consuming behaviour. And as hackers, by building tools that the users like and which make the web more free.

Power is where the money is. And power makes legislation. It will only get harder from now on..

But on the upside, software is a very malleable thing. New applications can be developed quickly. And they can replace established ones.
Freud wrote his "Interpretation of Dreams" when he was 43.

Colonel Sanders started franchising of KFC at 65.

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_bloomer
It shows the speed all the time. It shows the turn direction, distance to turn, and street when navigation is on. It works well in daylight. The only caveat is that you can't wear polarized sunglasses.

Here's a video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54FjUQwxPwo
[Chrome Ext] Twitter Neat, get rid of all those buttons Twitter just added
A simple little Chrome extension I whipped up to revert back to changes before yesterday.
I've done this and the math already. We had 3 of us on a shared family plan on contract with Sprint at around $200/month. We broke contract and ate some large fees and sold our Sprint phones. We bought 3 nexus4 phones and switched to T-mobile that came around $100/month. Even after paying for breaking our contract with Sprint it was cheaper than to wait the contract out.

As a bonus, we all got unlocked phones with Wifi tethering (free) and better data service. Keep in mind though, T-mobile signal might suck for your location.
I have tried lots of different prepaid and no contract services and here's where I landed. Virgin Mobile is ok if you like the Sprint network. Net10/Tracfone are both fantastic if you don't want/need a smartphone and just want voice and text. Straight Talk is awesome if you want a smartphone.

I do Straight Talk SIM with an iPhone 4 on AT&T's network and the only problem I've had is no media messaging, which is not a huge deal. Also, iMessage is great for that. If you care about MMS, buy a phone from Straight Talk directly. The iPhone on Straight Talk is on the Verizon network, but since it's a VZW phone, you can use SIM as well.

Straight Talk SIM now supports LTE on AT&T if you want to go that route.

The point is, for phone service, you don't need to spend more than $45 a month and off contract phones can be had for $400 or less for top end phones (like iPhone 5 or Galaxy S3). If you don't want data, you can drop down to $25 a month or less.

There is no reason to be on contract, it no longer makes financial sense.
What is with PayPal and it's ridiculous, spoof-like looking domains?
sadly, you'll still using paypal and all of the downsides that come with that.
No I'm serious. Ha. Hows the dating scene in the 40s? I'm going to be there soon. The 30's came on insanely fast.
Hack your schedule: Trading Coffee for a Jog
Would be interested in seeing a JVM written in Go.
If you read the article, it says they spread out the cost of the phones over 24 months at 0% interest using Apple's financing.
My entire house smells like cat piss! I'm not a Dell fan, but I do have a very territorial cat.
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I'll be at Dreamforce this year and would love to team up with a Salesforce developer for the hackathon. I've created a few apps for the AppExchange with other developers, but none of them will be attending.

50/50 split, I've got tons of ideas and can handle design (Art Major).

You'd handle mobile/Salesforce dev.

@b182n or email in profile.

Thanks!
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You can tell the difference between a bald guy with a shaved head vs. a guy with a full head of hair with a shaved head. I'd bet the social advantages of hair still belong to the full-head-of-hair-shaved guy.
Wow, I've seen noprocrast dozens of times but never thought to use it. Now that I've looked into it, it's actually a fantastic model (maxvisit and minaway). Not hard to comprehend, but if anybody's curious:

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#07nov07

I wonder if there are any chrome extensions that share a similar model.. I use 'stayfocusd' right now, but it's nowhere near as effective.
Geographical information from D3 and topojson libraries are used to create the map used in this data visualization.

http://www.digitalattackmap.com/faq/
A quick browse of the source turns up nothing conclusive. Looks like D3.js is involved, not sure if that's what is drawing the map itself, though.
No one's really interested in the Twitter IPO?
Javascript's Rule 34
The immigration process delayed the start of my startup and I'm sure many others are facing that too. Started at 28 even though I'd been in the US since I was 19.
The Cisco binary should include encoding as well as decoding for it to be usable in WebRTC. Production systems could download Cisco's binary and use it.
Well done, keep it up! I am 30 in a few months and already a developer so it is great to see someone marginally older than me just taking it up. Out of interest, what did you do before?
I wish I could take this amazing advice for granted.
I'm in my late thirties (36) and still can't afford having a baby.
As you may guess, one cannot wait till his sixties for that...

So, it really depends on what's the meaning of "successful" to you :)
Too bad there is no text below the icons for fast searching.
It's like taxes. Nobody will protest paying a lot, untill they run out of backdoors.

PS. I live in Belgium and we have a crazy tax % here ;-)
the "latest technologies" thing is questionable. A COBOL programmer can still charge the highest hourly rate of anyone in the industry, because surviving COBOL programs must be very valuable (or else they would have been replaced.)

In the world where App Academy and the like are churning out iPhone developers, Ruby on Rails programmers, and Javascript (uh, what's the word for person who works in JS?.... ) advocates in eight to twelve weeks doesn't make those sound like skills to hone to get your long-term stability.

Personally, I keep being surprised by how much value there is in just remembering how tech worked in the 1990s and even the early 2000s - Windows and OSX and Linux have changed a lot and iOS and Android seem completely new - but a lot of platform decisions evolved gradually in the changing technical context, and throwback behaviors can seem completely mysterious to someone who's first programming environment was XCode - there's still DOS behaviors hidden in some of these places! I wouldn't be surprised if ye olde mainframe experts had some even subtler knowledge about how-things-really-work-under-there than I do.
So it sounds like both of you advocate both US civilians being valid targets to kill, and also that the USA should be OK with killing foreign civilians yes?
Nice hack! You could use Arduino WiFi shield to directly post data w/o using the computer, no need to switch to Raspberry Pi just for that.
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I think they might respond assuming that "higher salary" means +15%, which is what you can realistically expect in low-paid jobs, and which, for most people, is not worth dealing with an asshole boss, bad work environment etc.

In tech, on the other hand, it can be $70k for a fullfilling job vs $200k for a boring grind in say finance...
As a pianist I do not understand the purpose of music that is not playable by humans.
In my understanding music is a communication method between human souls. A computer has no soul, likewise Black MIDI "music".
Should be renamed to node-java instead of node-jvm, I think.
And of course the landing page https://safesource.forbes.com/ tracks any potential leakers left, right and center.

A quick glance at the source reveals immediately these externally hosted javascripts:

- contextual.media.net (unsecured http)
- js.moatads.com (unsecured http)
- tags.bluekai.com (unsecured http)
- akamai.com
- cdn.krxd.net
- google-analytics.com
- sb.scorecardresearch.com
- i.forbesimg.com (unsecured http)

That's right, the "new way to send anonymous tips" immediately tips off at least 7 external parties!
considering PayPal's ethically void approach to business there are few things I'd recommend to a startup less than having any sort of involvement w/ them
Its interesting to note that I recently read the average entrepreneur is age 35. It may just be selection bias by the press that makes it seem younger.
If that were the case I would be dead just about now. And I haven't even done half the things I would like to before I die.
Going down to 7" has a drastic effect on portability. You can fit a Nexus 7 into a coat pocket and use it much more comfortably while standing, which is a really big deal for a large part of the market. A 7" tablet isn't much worse than a 10" when used on your sofa, but it is vastly better on a crowded train. I think that the 7" form factor is the sweet spot between a smartphone and a Macbook Air, and that 10" tablets are becoming a niche item.
That's true but a couple of generations have already gone by that marry past 30.
Drones are being used because it causes less unintended collateral damage than a bomb from a F-14. Never any collateral damage? No. Less? Yes.
Just some unwarranted advice, the energy thing can be changed with proper diet and exercise, I'm 35 and it's amazing what a difference eating paleo and exercising 3+ times a week has made.
One thing none of these articles mention: on AT&T, you don't use minutes to call other AT&T customers. If your entire extended family is on AT&T (as mine is), this provides a horribly effective incentive to stay.
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Considering such a thing has been underway since well before the recent Snowden revelations, I'd say you're buying the convenient excuse that has landed in their collective laps.
Delanceyplace.com 10/30/13 - the many messiahs in jerusalem
Any startup that wants to depend on Paypal in any shape or form is only setting up itself for a disaster and world of hurt

Paypal are the scum of the scum, with the most clueless customer support, they act like a bank but are not a bank (well here in europe anyways) and hence not subject to same regulations and scrutiny (what little of those there are) so if something happens to your money with them (and its guaranteed they will screw you sooner or later) then you are f%&cked

so beware!
and also related with Google Ideas (http://www.google.com/ideas/)
"Our e-mail, photos, calendars, address books, messages, and documents are on servers belonging to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on."

That's not a given. Not only is it trivially easy to host your own email, there are a number of very positive side-effects of doing so. For instance, when I email my wife, it's just a local copy operation - no network traffic is generated, and thus nothing can be intercepted by third parties.

Further, although I have not done it yet, it appears to be only slightly more technically challenging to provide your own dialtone.

In 2013 the Internet traffic I actually do generate is much more secure than the Internet traffic I generated 20 years ago. Now I have a VPN to various endpoints around the globe. That's much better than telnet to tc.umn.edu :)

The disconnect here is that he is talking about particular consumer properties (walled gardens) that happen to exist on the Internet. It surprises me, given who the author is.
The point is why do we need something specific for math.

Considering that the roots of the WWW are in a scientific research organization (CERN)[1], and considering how much scientific users use maths, then yeah, I'd say it makes sense that maths should be a native part of the WWW platform.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/History.html
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Mozilla already supports (in code, not principle) H.264 by leveraging non-Mozilla code. It's not usually a problem on Windows on Mac since the user has already paid for a license when they bought the OS, but on Linux (gstreamer) it can cause patent violations within US.

I hope (an believe) Mozilla will keep that functionality to use one of multiple backends (Windows's fedia framework, gstreamer etc.) when it adds this Cisco binary.
Yes to ChemicalML:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Markup_Language
Apple's own FaceTime.
Probably not a problem when there is a human flying it, but I wonder how difficult it would be to get an autopilot to recognise/deal with gimbal lock.
"Angular" or "Write things from scratch" is a false dichotomy.
It's astonishingly elegant. I can't imagine nobody's thought of this before, so it's likely that the implementation is harder than it appears.

The added weight of the cage and gimbal system likely required them to use expensive ultra-light material and extra strong electronics. The motor on this thing looks pretty beefy, which in turn would require better driver components and a bigger (and/or denser) battery.

That said, I hope they can get a production version (made of syrofoam maybe?) so I can play with it. My main issue with hacking on quadcopters is how fragile they are.
"We can reverse the trend as consumers"

No, you can't. You can reverse this trend as a peer on the network, but not as a consumer.
That's a milestone for the history books!
What version of java does it handle? Does it support java.lang.*? What other standard libraries?
Looking at that video, I am inclined to say that this system(HN system) works very well. Almost like magic ;-)
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden docs say
Anandtech is the only review I read. Very in-depth and well researched.
Please feel free to fork it, improve and post back.
Interesting take. What's your impression of Musique concrète or - possibly the furthest out - someone like Cage?
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I think this is great scheme by Paypal, I've a few companies that use PayPal as our main Payment gateway although I've always found there phone support great (a lot of people don't realise you can phone PayPal), sometimes with API errors and integration stuff the forum can be a bit lacking.
It's exactly what I thought whem I saw this.
18ms for calculating Fibonacci numbers from 1 to 10. This is definitily bringing JAVA back to the good old days of enterprise execution speeds. :-)

Really cool proof of concept! I would really enjoy seeing more projects like this!
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There has been draft-dbenham-webrtc-videomti-02 published at the end of august.

This announcement seems to be a tactic move to help with h264 push. "See, even Mozilla folks support it".
I know it is trite to say, "No one can afford having a kid." but it's really the truth.

For me, sure daycare, toys, and food aren't putting me in the poorhouse, but there is no way I can bankroll everything I think my kids deserve.
Funny, I had a pretty good year and didn't even realize it.

In 2013 I got married, bought a house, lost a bunch of weight, built my dream workshop, added a bunch of new recipes to the list of things i'm good at cooking, and got a promotion at work.

My goal in 2014 is to not loose it :D
Why? I must be missing the connection between Node and Go.
For me it makes things more pleasant to read, and also makes it easier to re-enable a single site.
I use this - it's not a chrome extension, but an OS X application that blocks sites for all browsers: http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/
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If you're turning 30, you're entering your fourth decade, not your third.
> I often worry about whether my startup clock is running out. I'm closer to 30 than 20

To be fair the largest demographic of startup founders is in the 30-39 age bracket. While successful twenty-somethings with big exits is something the press likes to cover, they are very much outliers.
MIDI was never intended to be playable by people. It's just a protocol, you can do whatever you want with it. So saying that this is "impossible" doesn't make any sense.

That said, this music sounds atrocious when you run it through a computer, it'd sound better if it were spread out across multiple instruments, but whatever.
dub. (classic dub) but Richard Williams in The Animator's Survival Kit draws a good argument against listening to music while working. http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid...
Why... :/
Cisco will open source their H.264 codec
Learn to play Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 on piano. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU
Great story.

I'm 36 and things only seem to be getting better for me, and I know things are only going to get way better. My greatest achievements are ahead of me, not behind me.

Sounds cheesy but it's all in your outlook. Good on you gramps for teaching us yet another lesson in that.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/close-minded
My problem is my house is 50mq with just one bedroom, and I can't still afford moving to a larger one. Where larger means 2 bedrooms.

Context: in Italy you are supposed to own a house vs renting one. Everything in the society and regulations is organized towards owning it vs renting.
Nah. Destroying electronic equipment is fun, but editing hosts makes you feel like you're actually accomplishing something. :P
The linked article is obviously really vague and not technical enough for the HN audience. It looks like the real details of the project are here:

http://www.fp7-pursuit.eu/PursuitWeb/?page_id=158

There's obviously a lot of work going into this, and it's a lot more interesting than just reinventing BitTorrent and magnet links. However, I reflexively don't like the sound of this part (from the introduction to D5.5):

All main documents are being made publicly available and the partners are committed to open source releases of prototype code. This open approach does not adversely affect the exploitation possibilities of the project partners themselves: as originators of the technology, they have a first mover advantage in the initial adoption of the technology, also retaining the possibility of patenting the key results created by them in the project.
Meh, I find it to be useful. Of course it doesn't always get you to where you want to be - but you can always create your own generators as an easy way to bootstrap your own projects.
The example makefiles appear to use javac.

Next step: Java compiler in node
sigh

As I argued [1] several years ago when the FF+h264 drama was in full swing with Mozilla making their principled stand, and way too many people seemed to be hanging their hopes on Google granting the world a miracle with VP8/WebM. So while it seemed that many people got what they were hoping for, the problem was never truly solved.

Instead, the refusal to put h.263 into Firefox (even if done though some sort of proxy/external plugin that simply exported the problem to mplayer/gstreamer/whatever) didn't affect video at all (MPEG-LA still holds all kinds of patents). The real damage, though, was keeping Flash around. When presented with the compatibility mess that is the <video> tag, Flash was (and still is, most places) the obvious choice.

There's a time and a place for standing firm on your principles, but it's also important to pick your battles, and removing that bug-ridden binary blob from the browser would have been a huge win.

[ ok, rant/flame off. I'm not really angry, just bitter after dealing with this particular mess while watching an obvious solution wash away. Maybe building something in minecraft can counteract this particular Sisyphean mood... ]

[1] It was before I know about HN, unfortunately. Second two links are follow-ups attempting to explain the futility of fighting what had already been decided...

- http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1597850&cid=31643970
- http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1597850&cid=31644218
- http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1730576&cid=33009474
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I should try that...
Investment banking jobs are also, generally, available only in NYC, specifically Manhattan, where the cost of living is matched only by San Francisco (in the US). There are still many high-paying jobs in software development in a variety of cities outside of the major tech hubs.
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