skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the article on that topic:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/09/20/sex_a...
Only 30 times more expensive than this:
http://www.cableandcase.com/products/stylus-touch-screen-iph...
Is it 30 times better though?
I'm a little surprised that these are all held up as "bad examples". For example, I looked at the picture of the Windows `wget` gui and thought "that doesn't look that bad." Sure there's a lot of dense information, but things are pretty well explained and it's pretty clear how it works. It is ugly, but it's also totally functional.

I guess ultimately, I really don't care how ugly something is if it's at least consistent and informative. However, I know I'm an outlier in this.
On Western media's response to Mangalyaan
>The end goal for Fasetto, said Christmas, is taking back control of our technology.

So this will be FOSS, right?
Digital Ocean is great.
The only thing keeping us from using it is lack of private networking in Amsterdam DC.
I tend to think this is an impossible hack, or at least the article is grossly exaggerating things. From the sound of it, they somehow managed to get directly into the wifi and bluetooth chipsets, hijacked them to use [something?] to magically transfer data while they are disabled somehow below the TCP/IP level, within a sandbox...

I mean, assuming they actually did manage this, it wouldn't be portable either. It sounds like they'd have to implement their own driver, which would mean hardware dependence.. and then theirs the fact that they are apparently breaking out of the sandbox and getting direct hardware access, a major exploit..

I call BS

edit: Note, I know that wifi is capable of P2P/ad-hoc connections, and it's what bluetooth uses exclusively... The article seems to say that this app doesn't use that though and has these things disabled
$19 "Swag"

$100 for raspberry pi and... a BOX!!
The new Mendeley iOS update is a vast improvement over their previous version. May be worth a look
A lot of academic work has been done on using GPUs for general purpose workloads. I would recommend familiarizing yourself with the literature if you have not already. Some work that may be interesting to you is the idea of Persistent Thread Groups [0].

Also, have you considered using Xeon Phi instead of GPUs? Seems like this would be a perfect use case, and it would probably be much easier to work with x86.

[0] - http://cs.olemiss.edu/heroes/persistentThread.pdf
>> There is no way we could print the $2000 trillion dollars[1] of derivatives now in existence.

This is a red herring. You also couldn't print the money to pay for all the patents now in existence. Or all the copyrights in existence. Or even all the software now in existence. These things still get bought and sold in USD on a regular basis.

>> The USD is currently backed by absolutely nothing.

At the base, USD are backed by the fact that one can only pay taxes to the US in USD and US bonds are denominated in USD.
"0 but less than 1"
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We've seen a lot of articles on Google about the product side. This is the first I've seen in a while on their internal management. This is important for them to nail to avoid becoming the next IBM or Microsoft. (Both did well in their own ways, but Google aspires to be neither.)

Are there any GOOG alums who would like to comment on the article?

My impression is that data driven HR is a good start, but that it can leave outliers. I have heard anecdotal stories that things are generally well run, but you have to please a lot of people to be promoted as a result of the 360 degree feedback loop and general flat structure. Again purely anecdotally I've heard that there is a lot of email communication required of management, but this is true of most large tech firms. (Oracle, IBM and HP to name a few)

As an outsider my impression is that it's a great place to hire engineers from because they're learned the right things. The salespeople aren't as reliably solid, as they may not have needed to be scrappy.
Every time, every two weeks someone does this post, the buckets are bad.
Twenty years ago low flow toilets were more evidence of the heavy-handed iron fist of the Orwellian state into our every day lives.
No free lunch, no free web: Thoughts on advertising
I'd like to see them automatically versioned and the "right" one selected at load time somehow. .NET can do it with assemblies, and it's a great idea.
The problem is that the active molecule itself has a complex structure, and it is very hard to get a high-resolution image of even one of its structures (melanin can be folded in lots of ways). There's some potential for better imaging with fairly recent discoveries in partial-wavelength resolution microscopy using weak-measurement, but it's still a new technology. Melanin's mechanism for absorbing ionizing radiation, if understood, will definitely open up major applications for a perfected, synthesized solution.
Also just a simple registry tweak: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10859173/how-to-disable-a...
Recently moved a few sites to a single, 1GB droplet and am very, very happy with it. Also have been using a 512MB droplet for the last 3 months or so to run a tor relay. Their "one-click" installs are nice too, and WordPress runs really well on a 1GB droplet.
I can't even find LG Electronics UK Ltd on the data protection register...
It's a lighter weight form of the same idea. SOA had a lot of great benefits for its time. This revision of those ideas also has a lot of merit.
Humble Mobile Bundle 3, now with Spelltower and Ridiculous Fishing
If I can throw my own in: http://john-sheehan.com/blog/dont-build-the-best-rest-api-bu...
I have difficulty thinking of _anything_ that went from being as volatile as that to stability.
What many people are also overlooking is that while a gap of $18 at console launch doesn't leave much profit margin, over the length of the console's life they may become much cheaper (more profitable) to produce and sell, so maybe they are offering a future-adjusted-yet-still-profitable-if-all-goes-according-to-plan price point?
iPads do not play nicely with fine tips.
I think we would see fewer comments that technologies like Bitcoin (or cold fusion, or for that matter Google) would be successful if monetary bets depended on them. Or a lot more broke futurologists :)
Bitcoins start to be money once people have less than 0 of them.
To be fair, it's not some amazing flash of brilliance that led to square realizing you can "refund" a card without a charge first.

About 4 years ago I was building a payment processing solution for an ad network (something along the lines of an adsense clone) and for new users we needed to support micro-deposit verification. Usually this involves ACH deposits but to cut down the time it took, I implemented this using the Cybersource API against debit and credit cards. Obviously sending somebody money only reliably works with debit cards, because many people don't use a credit card often, but I just want to downplay the rhetoric in this post about squares unique brilliance in this regard.
Wow, love the house-printing. The Material introduction reminds me of 3Doodler, but larger.
A new site was just launched to help with this: apicommons.org

My general advice is if it's internal, build what feels right to your team. If it's external, research the APIs you like or are popular (Twilio, Stripe, etc.) and don't be clever.
There are problem employees and management feud battles, but measured as a percentage of my time that I have to spend dealing with them, they are less of a problem in 35,000-person Google than in the 10-20 person startups I've worked in.
Been a big fan since their first deploy... grandfathering is nice for unlimited bandwidth... Use them for most test setups now, proof of concepts, etc... heck I've even got a domain pointed at them, and I've run my own DNS servers since the early 90s ;)
I am not sure what this means. It's easier because it's harder?
A lot of smart people said something that was eventually done with software was "physically" impossible? Who were these smart people exactly?

I'm curious about the security layer. It sounds like a one-time pad kind of setup. If true, does that mean the devices involved have to be synched up in a different secured environment to share the encryption codes and the protocols on how they should be used?

Eventually it will offer phone calls and text messaging? So you can call people in the immediate vicinity?
"That means you can’t have your iPhone in airplane mode while using PDQ, for example, because then it wouldn’t be able to tap into its wireless chips."

The only radio that's disabled in Airplane Mode is the cell radio. WiFi and Bluetooth still work if you turn them back on (Airplane Mode turns them off, but does not disable them).

Maybe they didn't actually mean that or understand what they were saying. But that's what I'm saying: BS article.

And it's not like it really matters. You can hardly talk directly to the WiFi or Bluetooth chips from an iOS app sandbox either.
AirDrop does do what they are describing. Airdrop uses ad hoc wifi to enable iOS devices to communicate with each other without a router or some other networking device in the middle.

But it is not cross platform, obviously.
I think he's trying to say that we enjoy trying out new tools in interesting and unintended ways even when it can be pretty obvious a more boring traditional approach would be better. It's a pretty core hacker trait.

"when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail"

vs

"Look, everything looks like a nail! Let's use that screwdriver over there as a hammer."

So despite having multiple tools, everything still looks like a nail. Think of your typical boring webapp development that most of us have done a thousand times.

Rather than use the same tools you always have and are familiar/bored to death with it's often quite tempting to use something else to help keep things interesting while hoping that it might actually end up being better than what you've used in the past. Chances are it's not. but that's what learning is all about.
I don't expect you to be able to do point to point GSM comms. That's "reasonable".

Further, while it disappoints me that you can't easily do point to point wifi between, for instance, iDevice and winphone, I'm not really surprised.

But I do not understand the bluetooth part. Granted, I have a very, very dumb phone so I'm not doing things like this at all, but I assumed that simple file transfer via bluetooth would work just fine between, say, iDevice and Android ... it's really troubling to learn that's crippleware.

I mean, that's the whole point of bluetooth.
Still very improbable that this app has direct, hardware-level access to these chips. Or--if it does--that the sandboxes won't be patched to fix the hole this app is using.

You may as well invest in a Kickstarter for a free energy machine.
Physically on chip, they are one in the same, especially since they share antennas.

There's no way apple will let this through. A lightly secured connection protocol that can talk to your device disk sounds like a security nightmare. A nice 0-day exploit and a stroll through a downtown BART station sounds like a blast.
1000x? I won't believe it until you can provide a simple, open source example illustrating your technology, or at least a technical write-up on your testing methodology and associated raw data from the benchmarks.

Or maybe all that time building apps in college you forgot to attend your statistics class?
Yeah, I think the lesson I've learned from not embracing Bitcoin sooner, is that I should spend more time analyzing a novel idea, and not be dismissive of one that might seem crazy initially. However, with all the information flow these days, it's kinda hard, but sure worth the effort.
Some people getting rich of bitcoin doesn't make everyone else worse off. And a "new aristocracy" is a huge stretch. A few people will get rich off it but not like that.

And the value of bitcoin won't deflate forever. Eventually the price will stabilize.
Game changer for HPC: IBM and NVidia novel architecture
Stop posting this shit, nobody cares and this offers nothing to the community. Nothing ever comes of this. The "range" comment always comes up.

Flagged for spam.
I personally liked this explanation better: http://www.quora.com/Square-Cash/How-does-Square-Cash-work-t...
Poll: How much money do you have in your bank accounts?
Now that you've changed the ranges, my vote is in the wrong category.
Bit of a chicken and egg problem, really; if you're selling something, you probably don't want to be using bitcoin unless you're either a True Believer, or your product has extremely high margins and you're confident that use of bitcoin won't cannibalise use of more stable payment options. If you make a 5% margin on your product, you don't want that to be erased by a currency shift.

The big non-True Believer users thus far have largely been either illegal materials, or ultra-high-margin things (reddit gold, Humble Indie Bundle etc).
Debit-card only is something you'd need to determine yourself. But any merchant account API lets you issue refunds in this way. I've used Cybersource for it myself.

And of course, has anybody verified w/ Square that it MUST be a debit card. It could also just be a marketing distinction. For me, I NEVER use a debit card -- i abhor them -- and put everything on a credit card. So I wonder if it would let me provide a credit card number. For a friend sending me $20, it's no difference to me whether it goes directly to my Amex or makes a brief stop in in my bank account first.
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IIRC Sony made far more selling insurance than their entire hardware division.
Can we stop posting weekly bitcoin ownership polls? Adds no value here.
I'm not really intending to hand-wave it away. I just assumed it would come to pass, based on past evidence (there's more vendors every day, with the pace accelerating). I may be making an incorrect assumption. There are, in fact, a lot of assumptions being made by those who are bullish on Bitcoin, and some or all of them may be wrong. In some cases, if the assumptions are wrong, it will mean the end of Bitcoin. In others, if the assumptions are wrong, it'll just mean Bitcoin is more limited as a currency than we might like.

But, it can't be anything other than a hypothesis until it is tested; neither you, or I, can know how this is gonna play out. Bitcoin isn't quite like anything else that has existed before, including gold or other currencies, so we're all guessing. I've laid out what I think will happen, and a bit about why I think it will happen.

One last point: Gold, precisely unlike Bitcoin, is not easily or cheaply transferable over the Internet. That's a big distinction and, I think, enough to make it clear we're dealing with a different thing entirely. I left it unstated before as I kinda felt it would be obvious to HN readers. But, any time anyone compares Bitcoin to gold or another traditional currency or store of value in a general way (without being specific about how Bitcoin seems to be behaving like that other subject in one way or another), I question the validity of the analogy straight away. I genuinely believe Bitcoin is something new, and new human behaviors will develop around it.
So? I didn't know anything about that "Paper" app before. Anyways, I guess you don't get what I mean.
Powerful dynamic forms for Django
> Our adaptive palm rejection instantly knows whether it’s your hand or Pencil touching the page. Rest your hand on the screen, write from any angle. No calibration or setup. You’ll forget you’re creating on a tablet.

Does anyone know if this works with iPad gestures enabled?

All of the other apps promising palm detection/rejection (like Penultimate) require you to turn off iPad gestures.
I'm loving Browser Link. Being able to edit CSS in Chrome dev tools and have it automatically update my CSS is beyond cool.
This was my reaction as well. I think there should be a whitepaper explaining the comparison as many GPU/FPGA application acceleration companies tend to do. I would say a typical GPU speedup would be in the 10-20x range with 100x being possible for highly "regular" data parallelism. I have no doubt the GPU wallclock time is correct so I am guessing the CPU implementation is just very poor.
So apparently this is a device to be used with iPads. Would have been nice if the company put that somewhere on the product's webpage.
It's still cool for android and windows mobile though. It implies that the transfer speed is much faster than the existing options on those platforms.
It is a very unpleasant experience being refused entry to a country, which has considerable lost costs as a result. I had much a similar experience as OP and can only agree.
I was beyond skeptical when I saw this link earlier, but this is outstanding.

The commenters on RollingStone and other sites, seem to have wanted some magical rose-colored nostalgia trip to 1965, but the whole point of contemporary Dylan is that you can't have 1965 back (and even if you could, you don't want to).

The lyrics to this song are like the anthem of Holden Caufield... a wry, disillusioned, antisocial, anticonsumption, post-war love song. Anyone who ever thought otherwise, is a turd who only loved this song because it was Top 40 and reminiscent of some lost High School dance, despite the fact that the song itself is completely anti-pop.

There are so many little easter egg mashups you can find as you click through: the CNBC styled wall-street guy ("threw the bums a dime, in your prime, didn't you?"), the QVC home-shopping girl's deadpan delivery ("take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe"), reality TV girls desperate for attention ("how does it feel / how does it feel/ to be without a home/ like a complete unknown").

I think this is really the only video this song could ever have :)

and Danny Brown shows up
Not the most popular, but test suite veracity is my favorite "pure Python" selling point.
This is all irrelevant when Bitcoin supplants all these silly money transfer companies anyway.
Did you research categorizations of human knowledge?

I've always wanted to see a discussion site that uses LCC (think, like Dewey Decimal, but free). Preloaded with the whole LCC catalog of human interests. Maybe the names in the LCC are not terribly intuitive but I'd like to subscribe to QC and QD.

There are of course many other knowledge classification systems.
If you're bored and want a story about it: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_angelsshare/all/1
I'm actually curious on that statement as to how it affects the rated MPGe. My understanding is that the car is low to the ground for better handling and better aerodynamics. Even if this change doesn't result in lower MPGe, what would happen if a OTA update to a future car resulted in lower-than-rated MPG? I wonder what the EPA would have to say about that.
There should definitely be some kind of whitepaper accompanying this marketing claim.
We already have melanin in our skin to block radiation though, don't we?
You sure it's not Polish-Ukrainian-Russian? My mom can sit down and yak the night away with her Ukrainian friend, but when I spent a few days in Russia, "ne gaviria po rusku" because I couldn't understand a damn thing.
> My conspiracy theory is that editors that allow you to enter code real fast encourage a personal not-invented-here syndrome.

If your "million lines of code" project isn't well documented or designed, then relying on an IDE to find pieces of code doesn't really help.

It is also my "conspiracy theory" that because IDEs are so good at hiding the junk under the carpet, developers become sloppy and stop carrying about things like modularization and API design, immersing themselves into sloppy code and factories of factories. E.g. no project should ever get to millions of lines of code, because no developer is able to keep it in one's head, which is why monolithic code bases are a mess. If you're not splitting your project in multiple modules/libraries, you're doing it wrong.

And such users can't see it, because they are developing in languages in which IDE usage was encouraged from the start (e.g. C#, Java), so libraries are naturally developed with IDEs in mind, being really hard and frustrating to use them without an IDE, creating a vicious circle. It is also my opinion that IDE "users" (because seriously folks, many of you are not the kind of people that can adapt their environment to their needs, therefore you are just users) have never tried to develop in Vim or Emacs in combination with a potent REPL, plus the Unix toolchain. Unfortunately for you particularly, you'd also have to change languages and immerse yourself in the Unix culture for that to be a pleasant experience. But seriously, try it sometimes, you might just like it.

Note that I'm currently using IntelliJ IDEA, from the same guys that are delivering ReSharper, the plugin that makes Visual Studio usable. IntelliJ IDEA is a really potent IDE. But many times I hate it and I can't wait to get back full-time on Emacs, unfortunately I have to use IntelliJ because I'm dealing with Java's ecosystem right now. Well, at least Java has Maven and SBT.
Any electric car is a compromise. It's a compromise on range, on refuling time, on flexibility. That's not to say they don't have certain advantages too.

I don't understand your "cannibalizing their mainstream car" argument. Either way they are selling a car.. what's being cannibalized?
IPv6 is something we get asked about a lot, and it's on the way. Unfortunately it's not something we can just "turn on" - We have to make sure it's build out properly and also fits in with some of our other roadmap items that our community will love in the coming year.

So yeah, love the feedback and actively working every day to bring any suck to zero.
Notice the mention of Vic Gundotra.
Senate Banking Committee Hearing on Bitcoin [video]
What's a typical input size, if you don't mind me asking?
A House For Refugees, Made From 100 Shipping Pallets
And your claim, of course, is not based on any evidence.
The point of marketing is to influence him in a negative manner?

My point is that if you're letting a marketing decision come between you and a great product, you're shortchanging yourself.
Melanin has about a 30% absorption rate of ionizing radiation in the gamma spectrum, and remains stable (not oxidized in the traditional rate) while producing a current. The fungus is able to produce an acidic fuel source from the current that it feeds off of. The fungus is definitely breaking down radiation, incredibly, but it's mechanism is very poorly understood.
That doesn't make any sense. Refugee applications/admittals are normally counted per year. A refugee who was awarded citizenship/residency would be counted in that year. But there are very few of them (certainly not hundreds of thousands) since Howard introduced the TPV in '99, and anyway who cares? Do you also need to know how many Australians are descended from 1 pound Poms to see how many refugees we should allow in this year? Does the refugee policy in the '80s being reasonable somehow excuse how awful it is today?

You should know that 'resettlement' actually means 'sending to a third country', and yes we do resettle more refugees than anyone but the USA and Canada. That doesn't get counted in our refugee population because we sent them to another country.
I can help answer that:

They didn't, changing channels or even leaving it playing is awfully slow, though the site's probably getting hammered by Reddit/HN. Great concept though.

EDIT: Or apparently they did and my connection is still too slow to catch up.
> What if we could genetically engineer ourselves to use this melanin pathway for ourselves?

I can see this being totally feasible, more than the other approach, which would be to engineer ourselves to fix our own DNA:

http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/dis...