skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that its hosted at Modulus (the guys behind Demeteorizer, which allows you to host meteor apps on Node.js services) would indicate that its almost certainly a Meteor app to me.

I DO think that Meteor is fucking awesome, due to the sheer speed you can crank out commonly requested features (you can add a Google/Facebook/Github Oauth login widget with one line of code), but it sure as hell doesn't seem to scale well these days.
Facebook 3Q results fly past expectations
Recognizing gimbal lock wouldn't be very difficult. Using a rotary encoder on each axis, you could measure their angles and tell if any pair of gimbals was aligned. And apparently there are techniques for arbitrarily rotating one gimbal when lock is detected.
A story how we got from idea to prototype to product
> If you compare a GPS unit the user has to turn their head or worse look down to use vs. a Glass sitting above their vision with the directions always available at a glance, the Glass is pretty clearly superior.

My GPS (actually my phone in a special car dock) is right up on my dash/windscreen, always in my peripheral. I glance at it with ease. And while I am glancing at it, the road ahead of me is in my peripheral. That sounds a lot like what people are describing how to use Glass for GPS. Where are you mounting your GPS that it takes more than a glance to see?
These Guys Help Startups Create Weird Company Cultures to Make More Money
So, what types of widespread abusive things is the government doing to American citizens with all this surveillance?

When you say "convenient bogeyman" it implies that all of this surveillance was built with the express purpose of spying on Americans. I personally believe that to be false, and instead that the massive and overbearing surveillance was built because public officials are so afraid of another massive terrorist attack because the voters are so afraid.

In other words I agree with your basic observations but not the malicious motives.
Before meteor kills Rails, it should really fix the offline mode :)

Blog try to refresh after HN traffic killed the backend.
Ditto. I'd throw my email there.
Insert mis-attributed Henry Ford quote about customers wanting faster horses
Seconded on the tiles. Maybe flip the current scheme? i.e. go white/light gray on the tile backgrounds, and use color on the icons themselves?

Looks good otherwise, and seems like a really useful service.
There is no such thing as a secure system, there is only conditional security. And what does unencrypted internal network traffic within a company have to do with monetization?

Pretty much all regular door locks on the majority of homes in the US are pickable. Have you installed an unpickable lock on your home?
By building the source code independently and verifying the hash on the downloaded blob?

There's ways around the problem.
> It's true, cars have headlight switches, tachometers, gas gauges and electronic mirror controls. The horror.

You forgot climate control, cruise control, a confusing array of wiper settings, CD controls, radio, bluetooth, GPS, fuel efficiency feedback and probably a few others I didn't think of right off the top of my head. The point is not that cars are insanely distracting, but just that Glass is probably not the most distracting thing in your car.
SPOILER:
A year from now we find out this is an NSA black ops project.
MeatSpace Chat.. Like Chatroulette for Web Devs
Veeva is awesome -- congrats on the IPO.
This is what Java guys said about Rails. "Hipness" is absolutely unrelated to whether something is actually good or not. I firmly believe that Meteor is a super fast way to build a certain kind of web app that just so happens to be very popular in businesses: CRUD apps where users can see other user's changes to data in real time. I will admit that older users are actually creeped out by other people seeing them type though. I guess its a generational thing.
It is more sad that people are seriously believing this person who is a designer not an engineer. "I do art and code and sometimes other things. This is my homepage, which as a rule of thumb contains nothing useful. This homepage is where I conduct experiments, which at any given time are usually broken."@ http://jjcm.org/

I am sorry but the only things that are non-modular are computers like the xbox360 and products of that nature that the companies do not want the user to change/upgrade the computer at nearly all cost. It is ridiculous to state that it is "inevitable" to become non-modular. Scientists have been backing the barriers of nearly every science there is in the past 50 years and as such you can NOT conclude that this is "inevitable" it is more likely that by the time we run into a space problem at the level you are implying (which by the way is ridiculous as other people stated... what graphics card uses 2+ PCI slots LOL) that we will finally figure out how to make the first bio-matter computers. Ie: a computer that has a cpu of nearly jello matter that will process data at most likely at first a slower but much cooler rate than our cpu's that we use at the moment.
An interactive video intro to flexbox
Virgin Air's new safety video wakes up sleepy passengers
Also, Narcissus: https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus
> What really pisses me of is this sentiment of thinking of non-US citizens as second class humans.

If this is really what you believe, then start pushing for legislation to include non-US citizens as first-class humans.
Even still, field techs, in lonely outposts, are easier targets than tech that are part of an onsite team.
where's the link to your app?
This would be a good application for google glass (would only work one way). Other than that, I see no benefit over a simple pencil and paper for face to face communication, or a simple text chat for anything other than face to face. Although I will say that I have had text chats with deaf people before, and the text was definitely based off sign language (at times it was difficult to understand because the grammar is so different).
We already have laws relating to it - it's basically a mobile device. It's a special mobile device, and may deserve an exception, but it should be shown that it's less harmful than the other devices that were banned based on evidence.
New Experiment Torpedoes Lightweight Dark Matter Particles
You are correct, I've misunderstood this program and perhaps the parent post I was responding to. Oh well, can't win 'em all. This is in addition to the PRISM programs we've already seen.
Some more info on the project and a video of a similar project at the epfl:

http://lis.epfl.ch/airburr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm90IV3tMjI
Why do people put so much effort in comparing tool A to tool B when either of those tools only cover 5% of all the work that goes into any serious application, and the time saved by any advantage tool A has over tool B is pretty much negligible?

I mean cool, so Meteor is maybe better for prototyping. Because that's all we're talking about here, prototypes and ultra-simple websites.

It's always the same story, a shiny new tools that make the first weeks a little smoother, and after that it's business as usually for entire life cycle of the application.

Except of course you now have to deal with a tool that still has years to go before it's really mature and stable, and any advantage you gained in the first few weeks is completely lost.

This has nothing to do with software development, this is just about fashion.
Sporks are for amateurs, why not Knife Wrench?
http://youtu.be/x22yNaLdiGA
That would solve one of the many, many problems with "Muggle Quidditch". I have a lot of proposals for how they could turn that into a good game though.

First, ditch the brooms. You're riding unicycles from now on. Second, the bludgers need to be medicine balls and they need to be tethered to a fleet of quadrotors flying above using sophisticated algorithms to adjust their flight paths so that they attack players and veer off when hit with bats. And then yes, finally, the snitch needs to be a robot.

Then you'll have something I'd be willing to watch people play.
Sounds like another reinvention of the wheel, the "email" part of http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
Few people said you can't fight google with NSL or force them to do anything because it has $50B in cash.

Easy: Just start an anti-trust investigation - a fed lawyer can drag Larry Page and Google's top level managers into federal court every week for the next 5-10 years. Go thru every emails about iphone, android, bing in the past, and force monitor every single biz decision Google will try to make for the next 10 years.

Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Facebook would love to help out the government(s) in this.

Larry will get so sick of it that he would think give out billions to kill Mosquitoes in Africa/India is a lot more fun. - Remember Bill Gates?
http://racut.com

Currently only available for iOS. The version in the store is a hybrid, we're working on an objective-C build that should be done in the near future.

It's a fun project.
Steve Wozniak: Ashton Kutcher Could Have Called Me
It's usually just the audio portion that they argue about under "wire tapping" laws. The video portion is usually fine.
very nice app. big Like
> every single country out there that has a foreign policy and interests abroad behaves in this way to one extent or another.

I'm German, and I can't remember ever having heard such a distinction - that some things are okay when done to foreigners, but not when done to Germans - apart from neo-nazis.

Sure, who knows what the BND is up to. But "behaving this way" also includes rhetoric that is not just considered acceptable in polite company, but even uttered by state officials... and as I said, I can't recall a single example, so maybe enlighten me? Or are you just assuming?
It will work since it falls back on flash, but that's obviously not ideal.
The paper from LUX is here:

http://luxdarkmatter.org/papers/LUX_First_Results_2013.pdf

Talk is here:

http://luxdarkmatter.org/talks/20131030_LUX_First_Results.pd...
How would not using their products resolve the issue with the NSA? If people switched to other providers than other providers will get accessed like Google.
Ask HN: Should I drop out of college to go work at a startup?
I am a sophomore cs major that has been programming since high school, and working full time as a front-end dev and designer for two years while doing other stuff like node.js, rails, and python for a year or so in my free time. I have recently been talking to a few startups reps for about jobs and have been thinking about dropping out and moving to SF. Am I less hirable without a degree? Will my experience make up for the education? Anyone been in this situation?
I'm sure you do.

We've got a pretty good google maps integration in our rails app & I've found sticking with plain old rails for CRUD and using fancy-pants javascript in high-value places to work out well.

Your milage, and billing rates, may vary.
As someone who has lost a close family member to texting while driving, this is very painful to watch.
Part of Obama's campaign was an end to warrentless wiretaps. Now, if people were paying closer attention, then maybe they would have known better than to trust him (or indeed, any American politician), but I think it is quite a stretch to say that the people are to blame when a politician is less than honest.

Furthermore, the people who are to blame for our current political system are long dead. Everyone alive today was born into this framework and told to work within the framework to modify the framework. They have not had the opportunity to shape the framework free from the constraints of the framework. The facilities the framework provides to modify itself are clumsy, inadequate, and ineffective when everything is working smoothly.

This isn't a system we chose, this is a situation that we were born into, and find ourselves unable to change.
There's room for improvement, but there's a lot of core issues that just can't be flushed out.

The concept of the POW is to stop spam, as all addresses are inevitably public, it doesn't really work though, as spammers typically have access to botnets which can spam all day long. Normal users just have to wait minutes to send a message.

The scale issue is a weird one, they plan to split the network into different "streams" with different address types, which just sort of muddles the entire setup. Ultimately the limit is how much CPU and bandwidth the network can survive with while mirroring the entire content of the entire network.

There's lots of problems with timing attacks that have been "resolved" with random sleeps, though nobody is really convinced of that too much.
Nice experiment and a huge undertaking, do you already support the current implementation of java.util.concurrent? (requires atomic CAS through sun.misc.Unsafe and ability to park threads)
Don't you think calling this a "little app" and "toy campus app" is a little bit condescending? And that dismissing it as a simple rehashing of other ideas is not actually constructive? How many successful new products/services in the last decade aren't just rehashes of existing ideas?

I'd say kudos to the author for actually rolling up your sleeves and making this idea happen; it's way harder and more admirable IMO to do that than it is to be an armchair critic or armchair ideationist.
I had to accept cookies from the site before it would even show me anything but a blank page.
Beautiful mining dashboard for Litecoin the replacement of Bitcoin
Supposedly the US government is tapping fiber they own. Would you fault someone for not having security between rooms in their home?
ShellCheck – shell script static analysis tool
Clayton christensen , the researcher behind "the innovator's dilemma", says there are natural cycles in industries between integration and modularity. Basically , when the performance of a product isn't good enough, there's a need for tight integration. So the winners usually have tightly integrated products.

At some point people don't need more performance , the products are "good enough". Then a modular architecture becomes very usefull because it increased the rate of innovation, increases competition and reduces prices. At those phase the winners are usually companies who control modular products.

Now if we look at the mobile market we see signs of a possible shift: for many consumers , mid level phones are good enough. And jolla unveiled in 5/2013 a modular phone[1] that achieved good reviews.

Incidently , it's seems a few months after that declaration, one year ago, motorola has begun working on a modular phone.

So assuming we can extract plenty of value from a modular phone(an it seems to me that way) , i believe we will see a large shift towards modularity.

[1]The jolla phone is composed of two front, front and back. the front is fixed, while you can change backs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolla#Products
Parent was probably referring to @outside1234's assertion that dash-mounted monitors are illegal even if turned off.
I watch some videos on Meteor website a while ago and I was really impressed. Stuff that's pain in the ass in Rails, you can do it quite easily on Meteor.

One aspect that prohibits me from making the jump though is Ruby's third party gem ecosystem. Ruby has so many tried and proven gems for everything you can think of. Is there a website like rubygems.org in Meteor world?
See what happens when you take down the iron curtain???
And... a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6432112
And by the way, it is not possible to use Youtube without Flash Player. Some videos simply are not played with HTML player and Youtube tells you to download Adobe Flash Player :( Hope there will be some new competitor, who will offer video services without third party plugins. Maybe Vimeo?
Anyone else really wishing for a way to quickly look up the exact text of the laws being referenced?
Oh yeah there is one module, then it must be modular!
I disagree. The issue described is an input sanitisation issue. The same thing would have happen to a SQL query and everyone would have put shame on you.

It IS a bug that the blog engine developers should have catch, in the same way they should have protect the trackback from XSS injection.

Guaranteeing your output will always be valid might not be trivial, but it is way less harder that some people pretend it to be.
Sorry, I wasn't as clear as I wanted to be -- by "behaving this way," I had in mind the existence of government programs for surveillance and spying; not one-sided complaints on the part of citizens about such programs.
I assume if you're using `git diff`, you're not comparing adjacent commits. And asking git for "diff these two commits but ignore this third one" is nontrivial.
because of their underlying lack of ethics. You need to have ethical hackers that are interested in the wellbeing/security of a community/society. Even if they know the systems from both perspectives, if they even have a moral deficiency, what's to stop them from committing insider attacks/writing exploits of the system? You cannot trust that type of people unless you know for certain that they have abandoned their prior convictions and truly follow white hat hacking, and knowing for certain is hard to do.
Are you talking about the impossible reactionless drive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive
I guess the latency depends on how much the recommendation data fits in main memory. However, based on my understanding RecDB implements the recommendation algorithms as a physiccal operator which expected to be much more efficient than implementing it as a stored procedure or a user defined function.
To target a lower iOS can be as simple as selecting from a menu. For most apps, it really is as simple as changing the target to iOS 5.0.
I can think of one reason, although it's not necessarily a good one, or the only way to do it.

Once the connection is established, the server could push down all required resources for the page, rather than wait for the browser to request them one by one.
Ruby and Java don't really compete in the same space, it would probably be better to compare Ruby and PHP as those two are the primary competitor with each other. If you wanted to point to a competitor to Java, .Net would probably be the closest match.
no. I'm 40 and I'm working at yet another (my 8th) start-up. Take it easy.
Don't forget the difference between possessing mountains of documents and having the right documents on your desk.
`git difftool` is pretty much just like `git diff`, except that it shows the diff with your tool of choice.
IMO: If you're not too bad off on money, finish college and work on startups as you finish it.

The amount of free time you have in college is ridiculous, and the gathering of minds is a real thing, if you have smart faculty, and you have smart students, use them (a lot of startup stories seem to start with "I got together with a friend of mine from college"). Also, a lot of the stuff in computer science that doesn't change over the years is what a good curriculum will teach.

As in, learn spanning tree algorithms, computer architecture (and why things are built how they are), graph theory, whereas you might be learning topics like "how dependency injection works in AngularJS" outside of school (which isn't BAD, but it's not timeless, graph theory is pretty timeless).
just downloaded. i can't seem to hit "register" for a new user after i fill in my information.
maybe they are trying to disclaim blue law violations.
I am curious to know How RecDB supports SVD computation online !
If you're going to make a bold prediction about Meteor killing Rails be prepared for some heat - your responses to that heat may progress or regress the argument.
Would you use a service that manually converts articles into bullet points?
We have developed a service which provides you bullet points of top content everyday. The bullet points are created by a battery of trained human summarizers. Would you pay for such a service? What do you expect from it?

Still in alpha. We are launching soon. Don't have a link, I'm sorry :(
"Processing" doesn't have a consensus definition in the neuroscience community, but a neuroscientist could, with good justification, use that definition if they had a particular experimental scenario. In this article, Smith, et al., use a more narrow definition based on well-known response in which a neuron is selectively-sensitive to a bar of light at a particular angle. How a neuron becomes selectively-sensitive (i.e., how it fires to that angle and not to all the others) is the "processing".

It is overly simplified to say that for the processing to be useful that it has to share the result. If a particular part of the dendritic sub-tree was stimulated enough, it could bring the neuron into a particular electrophysiological state that succeeding synaptic input would cause a wholly different computation to occur. Thus, you can see the importance of timing discussed by the sister comment.
I'm actually an engineer at Microsoft. Design is just a hobby of mine.

As for the graphics cards, I was wrong on that account. My memory betrayed me (I could have sworn I'd seen cards that used two slots somewhere along the line, but googling found nothing). The blog has been updated.
Modularity is going to remain very very much alive, at least for mobile phones.

Here's why.

A mobile phone needs to be a certain size to hold it. There's always going to be a minimum size, beyond which it won't be sensible, it won't be usable.

See this? https://www.google.com.au/search?q=panasonic+gd55&tbm=isch

When have you last seen one of those being used? People want their 4 or 5 inch screen, it's as simple as that. The most frequently sold Android devices used to be fairly dinky 320 by 240 affairs, but at the price difference becoming fairly tiny, they've now given way to devices with bigger screens, higher resolutions and more processing power.

The Google Nexus 4, for instance, features a base frame that 's a fairly thick chunk of Aluminium. It's bezel features large back areas at the top and the bottom of more than a centimetre each. It features triumphs of miniaturisation within, sure, but the product itself isn't. It's designed to be used by human hands.

The only thing that really requires the space is the battery and the antenna. The antenna can be built into the base frame. It could even be a sheet that sits underneath the components that could also be replaced. Or it could be a bezel, similar to that starting on the original iPhone 4, that might also double as a bumper frame for the thing. Have a bumper frame with connectors and you're there. Or maybe at some point those extra 3 or 6 dB don't matter much any longer for the majority of the market, especially if a lot of the heavy lifting will be done through WiFi.

When it comes to the speed a phone can accomplish as it matters to the vast majority of the market, then size of the components to make that happen is not that much of a constraining factor.

At some point, the diminishing returns of a modular phone vs. a non-modular phone will bring it to a point where the performance difference, as it matters to the average consumer, will be about, let's say, 20% or maybe even 30%.

But when you can target the one aspect of performance that matters most to you and swap that out, if you can prioritise there, then you have the ability to make up for that.

If you then also have the components, on average, each last twice as long for your needs than would otherwise have been the case, it's just become twice as valuable an investment.

I like the size of my Nexus 4, and any performance penalties imposed by modularisation are outweighed by being able to swap out components and it being a better investment. There are diminishing returns to making mobile phones smaller. Desktop computers have reached a certain size and then they didn't really get any smaller because they had no reason to and modularisation outweighed that. Why not the same with mobile phones?