skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this already exist? Apply for a small-business loan[1]. If you're a startup, you probably will have a hard time getting it, which is why VCs exist, but if you have a solid business plan, you can probably get a decent-sized loan at reasonable terms.

[1]: http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/loans-grant...
I'm not sure why you would want something like that, unless you really have a lot of existing code C++ business code you want to reuse, or you really love C++.
I was assuming you were joking. but no, it's in there, point 6.c)

... Wat?

EDIT: I am a dumbass, the terms and conditions are clearly facetious. Read them, they are hilarious in parts.
I am really excited about this release. Every app should be as collaborative and fun to use as Google Docs... we are trying to make it a little easier for developers to implement realtime collaboration, user presence, etc.
Most likely just a coincidence. "Neo" is quite common nomenclature. OpenMoko has been using Neo name for quite a while, Neo1973 was released in 2007.
Why do you use them at all if you know that they leak your readers' privacy?
Concurs with my calculations.
Python: The fact that they broke the syntax with Python 3, splitting the language in two parts: one that is widely deployed, and one that is actively developed. I never had the luck to use Python 3 in actual work.

If I could, I would make Python 5 (2+3=5), which is Python 3 but accepts all the legacy syntax of Python 2 (especially the print statement).

I'd solve the str/unicode problem by providing

bytes, str, unicode = python5.legacy_strings

or

bytes, str, unicode = python5.modern_strings

that you would put at the top of the file. I'd make the modern strings builtin for system modules, or files with the .py5 extention. Problem solved.
This is actually really interesting to me. I can imagine the complexities of building a programming language (it was a undergrad course in my school!) but how is building a new multimedia codec that much more difficult?

Does it have anything to do with most multimedia techniques being patent encumbered?
On a tech front, it's an interesting use of a peltier junction device. They are horribly inefficient yet really interesting. It is, effectively, a heat pump. It will make one side colder than the other. And that part is key. You must take away energy on the hot side or the entire thing will get hotter and hotter. Without heat removal on the hot side it would get hot enough to burn you very quickly. The article says they are using pulsed heat which might presumably deal with this issue.

As others mentioned already, tricking the body like this could have negative consequences. I wonder if any studies exist on this (ice bags on the wrists or some such thing).

It brought back memories of going sculling at the peak of winter. Due to the danger of falling into extremely cold water [0] I experimented with wearing a kayaker's dry suit. It worked reasonably well. A surprising find was that wearing a wool head-cap made me overheat. It was really amazing how quickly this would happen too.

I can see this MIT gizmo having some effect because our skin is sensitive to heat flow, not absolute temperature. Not sure I'd like to trick my body that way though. What are the consequences of messing with the mechanism that maintains proper thermal balance?

[0] There have been many incidents of rowers drowning in cold water within swimming distance of the shore. Swimming in cold water while wearing thin clothes and your heart pumping hard due to the physical exertion of rowing is extremely dangerous because hypothermic effects can be greatly accelerated. Even accomplished swimmers can drown fifty feet from shore.
holy cow this is cool...

seriously impressive stuff, I have to say.

do you have a list of supported browsers, and/or fallback gracefully if someone attempts to join with an unsupported browser?
I totally agree that cooking can take significantly longer then "a few minutes", but there is plenty to be had in terms of a quick meal. For me the most worrying part is when the creator of the supplement is stated to have no time for meal preparation due to his work. It is ok to just eat a quick sandwich or a joghurt/fruit combo every once in a while, but if you cant spend some time on proper meals your life is going in a very wrong direction.
According to a fiend of mine, Soylent doesn't change you hunger patterns. You still get hungry around lunchtime and then its just a matter of whether you choose to eat a regular meal or a prepare a Soylent shake.
My greatest concern over the approach Soylent is taking is the "one size fits all" mentality.

If the company would put forth an application for biometrics/ some sort of personalized formula calculation, I would feel better about this.

People have different biochemistry, allergies, metabolisms, and nutrient deficiencies. Hell, even different climates and geography cause changes in the way the human body works. It just seems like a huge issue was overlooked in not taking into consideration these variables.

I have a friend whose SO and himself are working on a similar project, however she is a nutritionist and knows the pitfalls. They are trying to take into account the person to person variability and make personalized formulas based on individual needs. I would be much happier with this approach.
I've only worked for fairly large companies, that recruit 10s if not 100s of people each year. I guess they get an "economies of scale" discount, and we've always had good candidates. If a recruiter was not to offer a good candidate then there will be 10 more in their place that would send the CV of that same candidate. In a digital marketplace I put my CV out once and I have 20 recruiters looking for me. It's a tough marketplace, and to the candidate they don't care what the recruiters fee is.
Thanks for the feedback. We're continually working to improve the product and lists, along with support for other elements are on our roadmap.
Interesting roundup however I disagree with the premise that OS X Mail is deficient. I'm glad the author wants his social networking integrated with mail but I for sure DON'T (and I bet plenty of other folks don't either).

I want my mail client to handle my mail. OS X Mail does just that in a very efficient and simple way. I have no trouble handling multiple Gmail and IMAP services. The automated rules are robust enough to handle most needs and smart folders break our messages in whatever arrangement I need.

I fail to see what else you'd want a mail app to do.
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I imagine the poor sod who invented the shower just got blank stares for the first 5 years from people who wondered 'why would I ever give up taking baths?'.
FAA to Allow Airlines to Expand Use of Personal Electronics
Great, thanks you like it!

We currently support all recent browsers with websocket support.
"How Making Tacos Enhanced the Toilet Paper I Used."

This is going to be one disgusting post.
HarvestAI raises 11.8M in Series C [pdf]
My alarm does 10 minutes regardless of how long I take to wake up. In other words, if I set the alarm at 8:00am, wake up and hit snooze at 8:03am, the alarm will still go off again at 8:10am, not 8:12am. For a digital alarm clock, it seems pretty trivial to just add 10 minutes to the current alarm time.
It seems like only the person who starts the session can do most things? (like form filling, moving Google maps, etc).

Is it a leader/follower model?
Social safety nets that are available to EVERYONE allow people to take risks and try things. That and limited liability companies.

I have a saying: "Companies create products. People live lives." If you want to do something, start a company and have it be subject to market discipline. But people should have a safety net to shield them from the market's full discipline. When companies run out of resources, they close. When people do, they often become homeless and hungry or worse.

So in short ... ANY kind of safety net that is available to ALL people (whether it's basic income, or negative tax ala Milton Friedman, or something else) will do this. There doesn't have to be any concept of "wage earner" or "entrepreneur", just how much income you make as a person. (I am ignoring here the repetitive schemes some would use to hide their personal income by making their company purchase things.)

And those of you who are for the free market and think the "poor" would have a moral hazard and wouldn't work if they got free money ... look at the word "free" in free market. Is a person who can't afford the SWITCHING COSTS of educating themselves for another career or starting a business, and forced to do the same sort of job in order to feed their family, really a "free" participant in the labor market choosing from among the available options? Or are they artificially kept locked into a particular industry because they can't afford the costs to switch between their options?
Cost of living varies greatly around the US. In Boston, $7 for a "good" lunch is pretty average, and can easily reach $10-12 if you aren't careful. If you shop anywhere except Whole Foods and cook everything yourself, $7 a day is a little more reasonable, if not limiting.
There are many people who were and are wrong about certain things in life. Does that mean we should ignore their contributions in other areas out of spite?

I can enjoy Polanksi's films whilst not condoning his private activities. I can appreciate the remarkable skill of Wayne Carey on the football field whilst acknowledging he is probably a prick in his personal life. Humans are all too often both brilliant and flawed in equal measures.

Leaving that aside, did you read the article? Card isn't producing the movie. He sold the rights years ago. So unless you have a time machine, any lining you provide for his pockets is likely to be so indirect as to be inconsequential.
If you repeatedly test another password, the prompt changes. Quite hilarious.

Also, the terms and conditions are fake too.

"If you read all the legalese up to this point (or just got there by random scrolling), you probably have noticed that this document is complete nonsense. [...] First, chapter 10 of Mary Shelley's /Frankenstein/. Second, a copy of some treaty."
I just tried opening google.com and it continues to redirect to redirect me to google.de (German). Is there a way to disable this functionality?
The Open Pandora 1Ghz has the same hardware, and is already very much open as well, and has a better keyboard and a lot of software already available. It can run Android and Slackware, Bodhi linux, Debian and so on, in a pocket size format. The only difference with the Neo900 is that it's not a phone.
It's not going to be one size fits all. Right now it might just be a single product (and they're struggling to even get that together at large volume), but Rob's blog posts talk about customization as a key advantage of Soylent. Customization will surely come if they're able to get the ball rolling.
We will publish extensive tutorials soon, for now you can find some examples on http://leaningtech.com/duetto/examples/

In addition, the full source code of Nontetris ( http://allievi.sssup.it/jacopone/cnontetris/ ) will be published in a couple of days, with a 'guide' on porting a C++ game to Javascript with duetto.

Stefano of Leaningtech
People are voting it up for a reason, it's great

Congrats to SI
A government loan is not a good idea. A government loan should only be given if it serves the public good or serves the government's own interests. Otherwise, people will scam this thing and bankrupt a country. Think dotcom boom/bust - a lot of people lost money.

The government should allow people to take loans against your own retirement funds (like a 401k loan but with looser terms). This way there is fear and validation of an idea goes through a more vigorous process.

Also, they government should provide free resources to people and companies to help get started. Like office hours for starting a business, managing money, employees, etc. Incubation programs in empty buildings, libraries, and universities is an interesting idea too.
You can't do that. That's one of the upshots of the way Linux handles filenames.

Linus has talked about this in the past... because of the fact that Linux only cares about 1 "special" character (the ASCII slash), the only sensible way to do unicode for filesystem names is to use UTF-8, which is backwards compatible with ASCII and thus obeys the kernel's expectations.

It's one of those "you can have any color car so long as it's black" ultimatums... you can use whatever encoding you want, so long as it uses 0x2f for slashes, and slashes only.
It isn't unfortunate at all because it is a choice. If you don't want it, don't buy it?

There are some people very un-interested in cooking and would just like to not die. Soylent seems like a solution for those people. A former coworker of mine was ready to immediately throw down his credit card for something like Soylent. Before Soylent, he often lamented that the "Bachelor Chow" from Futurama wasn't real.
Likely relevant for people who are thinking about investing/buying: The (resistive) touchscreen of the N900 is not capable of multitouch.
Ask HN: How does the NSA manage to hack elite companies?
This disaster? Just part of the process. Mandating coverage, limiting profits of health insurance companies, baby boomers aging onto Medicare at an increasing rate.

I'm 30, and I would bet large sums of money we'll have single payer by the time I'm 40.
Yea, and it's a $400 circuit board instead of a $5 switch.
"One of the fundamental appeals of Soylent is its potential for individualized nutrition, and from the beginning we have envisioned a future where anyone can order a Soylent blend customized for their specific nutritional needs."
Care to develop why it was shitty?
Show HN: WebRTC Parallax.js Halloween Experiment
What an exaggeration. I have a device with the same resolution 800*480 as well as a Galaxy S3 with much higher pixel per inch resolution, and honestly I don't see much difference and both are very comfortable to use. That's marketing effect at work.
The nature of the instrument doesn't dictate its soul. A digital piano was made with just as much care and soul as a regular old piano.

Even instruments with very limited expressiveness are no less important. Yanni regularly brings listeners to tears and he plays as much on a synth as he does on a traditional piano.

"Soulfulness" didn't stop with the digital revolution. You're simply no sophisticated enough to perceive it. Even instruments like a tb303 have brought deep meaning, and communicated emotional soulful intention, to millions.

Your emotional range is just too narrow to feel it. Blame yourself not the instruments.
I really love C++ and I bet with the currently developing standard (C++11, C++14) more people will start loving C++ again :-)
Why can't this be used to replace all of the java applets or allow java back into the browser? I know there were security issues before with native Java, perhaps JS sandboxed Java could solve the security issues.
Wow. A bit scarier than CryptoLocker...
Letting the browser generate the unique ID (such as a guid) may actually have benefits for users. As long as the identifiers are kept secret you would have the benefit of a login without the site needing to store any personal information. This gives much more positive control to users than an opaque cookie. It is also easier to make legislation around as you could mandate that the user supplied unique ID is the only information (along with basic browser details) that can be stored.
Context: In Italy you have free education, healthcare and higher education is dirt cheap (and not necessarily bad) compared to other countries. It's by all accounts a first world country in terms of civil rights and development (regardless of what some italians, and non italians, think).

There are way worse countries to raise a child in (economically speaking). I was raised there with a brother and a sister just with my father's (lower middle class) salary, and I had a fantastic childhood.
> People that cannot produce a nutritous tasty meal for under 3 dollars within a few minutes

-shrug- Assuming the brown powder thing works out, why would I want to? It's not like I've ever got much pleasure from eating.
Yup that is correct, we'll add some instructions so this becomes clear.
I think you're confusing multiple things here. Guantanamo is not the same category as police torture in Germany by police forces. Guantanamo would be comparable to German soldiers guarding a prison in Afghanistan and arresting people there. Do you really need sources to convince you that German "prisons" in Afghanistan (and maybe other countries) exist and operate independently of both German law (because it isn't German citizens getting locked up) and local law ? I also don't think it very far fetched that the "rights" of prisoners in those prisons are not getting respected at all by (amongst others) German soldiers.

So you should only compare German police using torture Police, FBI or DEA or some department like that using torture inside America on American citizens. There I think it's much, much less clear that the rate of torture in Germany is higher or lower than the rate used by American law enforcement agencies. I'd guess the rate in Germany would be lower, but not that much, simply because America has many more regions where heavy violence against the police happens very often.

As for what the BND does, is it really so hard to find ?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/germanys-intelligence-service-b...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/german-...
...

(note that information they forwarded, they obviously collected first, so yes, it does in fact prove the BND spies on all German citizens as part of normal operations)
Ex-NSA man Edward Snowden gets web job in Russia
No, unfortunately there isn't.
Haha! Perfect
I came here and read some comments because I was wondering the same. Previously when something got >1k points, it would stay on the homepage at least a full day. Now it's almost off the front page with ~1.5k points in 22 hours.
Digital literacy hub to open in downtown Toronto
Btw, anyone knows why this submission dropped from the front page? Was something wrong with it? Or is is just my view that is missing it?
An analysis of the financial records for 387 hosptals over 9 years
Links are provided for all extracted data as well as for the original records. This study is an analysis of the financial records for nearly every California hospital from 2003-2011.
OpenFoodFacts - the wikipedia for food products - is looking for devs
Don't believe thorium nuclear reactor hype
I don't think the N900 was the embodiment of the dream of what Nokia could have been without Elop, the N9/N950 were.

Both were beautifully designed phones, with a unique and powerful operating system: swipe-based interaction, social feed screen, multitask, beautiful applications, good development environment (Qt).. This was the direction Nokia should have gone toward..

Edit: typos.
Maybe you have a project that you want to target both native platforms and the web. This becomes an option to let you do so with C++, in addition to being able to do so with Javascript. Maybe you don't like C++ personally, but more options is rarely a bad thing.
Insect-like drone is 'crash happy'
Insect-like drone is 'crash happy' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24758935
So, this isn't so much about the "end" of using cookies to track users as it is about the "rise" of enhanced methods enabled by the fact we are constantly logged in to services like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.

The thing is, even Google services (Search, Analytics, etc) and Facebook (the Like Button, etc) use cookies to track users. It's still fundamentally the same thing. The difference is that by logging in to the same service (Google, Facebook, etc) on difference devices and browsers, they can "link" the cookie data together for a more complete picture of your online activity.

Adding to this cross-cookie data, these services can include data from their actual services (Google Search, the Facebook Social Graph, etc), and are starting to include data about the Apps you use (in their respective ecosystems). It's a nice bundle of data they can sell to advertisers (indirectly, via ad targeting).

The scarier question is: will the tracking be enabled at the client/device level? Will your Google or Microsoft web browser (or OS) directly collect and track information about your browsing? Or will it still be limited to "web tracking" (with enhanced ability to connect cookie data across multiple devices)?
More likely Red Hat or someone else will buy them before that happens.
As a product of the tech startup culture, I prefer talking about ZeroCater. At least, they provide real food.
Fukushima: The Ticking Nuclear Bomb.
Hi Stefano,

there are four important things required for this to work out:

- List of benefits of your solutions compared to other C++ → JS compilers (emscripten)

- Great documentation and good community support (forum, wiki, dynamic list of projects using Duetto)

- Very good debugging capabilities in the produced JS (Developers need to work with the code, an invisible layer sometimes means a lot of trouble)

- Big tech partners who will do complex projects with Duetto to iron-out the compiler and show "real work" can be done with it

rgds, Kira
Snopes says the frog jumps out:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
The story seems to be that these companies want to do ad attribution across devices. Example: I click on an Adword on my phone, and come to your site. I then come back later on my desktop computer and buy something. Google would like you to consider this when you evaluate the ROI of that ad campaign. The author of the story sounds completely clueless.
Ghostery seems like a good thing... but how can you really trust them with your privacy? Isn't installing a browser plugin potentially a lot worse for your privacy than just being tracked with cookies? Hate to spread FUD, but I just don't understand how I'm supposed to trust these guys - I would certainly like to.
A Frog Won't Jump Out of Gradually Boiled Water - False
The 6 Scariest Things About a Startup
The Local Big Bang
This was my reaction as well. It seems like pandering in a degrading way. Right now in Las Vegas, there are street vendors that will let you kick them in the balls for $20. It stirs a weird mix of pity, respect and annoyance: Why are you like this? That's pretty clever/funny. What about me, makes you assume that I would want to do that?
What I understood from the badly-written article is this: the big platform companies will start blocking third-party cookies (where applicable, say Chrome) and replacing it with their own centralized, incompatible, proprietary, wannabe-monopolistic version of third-party cookies.

So instead of having pretty much anyone on the Internet tracking you by default you will have pretty much anyone on the Internet tracking you through Google - except for people Google doesn't like. And in the Apple world Apple will be the gatekeeper and so on.

I don't see how this is an improvement.

And thank god for Firefox for keeping these people in check.
I don't know that it's "great SF literature" in the sense of a Lord of The Rings or a Neuromancer, but it seems to hit people of a certain age in a certain emotional place. OSC managed to capture something about that experience that resonates with people.

I'm curious to know, what did you dislike about the book?
What sites are going to have Twitter's scaling problems, though?
I like the idea. The fact that your Twitter account has a ton of fake followers is a bit shady, though.
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I don't think anobody stated that Firefox is the perfect browser. Each browser has its strenghs and weaknesses but I am more keen to accept flaws on a browser that's opened by nature: that's why I have always been using Firefox, even when in term of performance it was way behind Chrome. Today I am happy that Firefox has caught up and is even doing much better in some area.