skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It being not a US passport would be reason enough for me. Travelling anywhere in the world (save US or maybe Liberia) I would much, much rather be showing a CA passport than a USA one.
Now, what portion of them would be willing to shell out $50 for a stylus?

This is an irrelevant question, because most iPad owners would not spend even a single dollar on a stylus. A better question to ask is what percentage of iPad owners would spend, say, $20 on a stylus but not $50? I suspect that the $20 to $50 jump is not that large for most people who are actually willing to pay for a stylus.
Awesome, always happy to meet readers!

I've tried to be pretty diligent about categorizing offices by location, so if you're interested in a plain ol' list: http://officesnapshots.com/location/
How can I be the first one to notice how fucked this math is?

> Blockchain.info estimates the energy usage of Bitcoin miners to be 74,204.76 megawatt hours for a period of 24 hours. Now 74.2 / 24 = 3.1, so this corresponds to a power requirement of 3.1 GW.
> It wouldn't even be surprising if they sold the consoles at a loss

Of the Wii, the XBox 360, and the PS3, only the Wii wasn't sold at a loss at release. The idea that they would sell at a loss isn't new. They make their money on the games.

IIRC, there were even people promoting buying the original XBox just to mod it and run Linux on it, because every sale was a hit to Microsoft's pocket (since you weren't using it for games).
I've been offered (and turned down) 6 figure salaries. Honestly (as mentioned in the article), the freedom from time-sheets, PTO, HR, rules, and regulations makes startup life a no-brainer for me.
Yes, and one of the reasons BTC is cheaper is because it's a market, and not "a nice central-custodian system like that run by VISA, Mastercard" or any other monopolist.
Are Bitcoins The New Gold?
The difference between catching types at runtime or compile time is much less important than the common feature of catching type errors at all. A runtime type error in C simply trashes another subsystem's data. A runtime type error in Python or Ruby is caught, so can theoretically be prevented from cratering the entire system.

Sure, I (as a heavy Haskell user) would rather catch such things at compile time, but given the choice between catching them at runtime and not catching them at all, I'd almost never choose the latter unless there are other overriding concerns.
For me the user interface was always snappier and felt just all around better. Now with webkit they have a faster render engine and feel like a lighter and faster version of Chrome (plus you can install all addons from Chrome with this extension: https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/download-chro... )
Show HN: Are They Using Google Apps?
The deflation risk can be solved, I think, if the core developers and core decision-makers (key movers and shakers in the community, like miners and vendors) all agree to a "split" event moment where every 1 previous BTC transmutes into say 1000 subsequent BTC (or whatever, picking numbers out of thin air). Making it easier to get BTC because old values which were too close to the smallest fraction floor now become splittable and more easily transferrable again. The core folks driving Bitcoin at the moment are already well aware of this risk scenario and what the set of decent mitigation actions can be. This mitigation/evolution is not unlike when key folks in the Internet community realized that IPv4 would run out one day and thus something with a much bigger pool of addresses would be needed: IPv6. A similar hack is possible with Bitcoin too, or with any other e-currency or cryptocurrency. It's all just software. We can make it do anything we want, revise it, migrate to something else. Everything's based on trust and honor system anyway, even the notion of physical property ownership in RL: a home is only "yours" as long as your neighbors/community/government continues to honor that notion, or until/unless people with guns come and forcibly take it from you under threat of violence.

The lack-of-guaranteed-taxability risk is a larger one, imo. But I know it's possible to build a kind of wrapping/middleman service on top of Bitcoin, to give one example, if a government wanted to, and legally require citizens to use it in order to ensure their income/sales are tracked and automatically taxed (with fees taken out automatically to act as tax inflows to that gov). It's physically possible, anyway, without requiring any physical change to the protocol or blockchain. Just the Ages Old solution governments everywhere have used: the threat of violent force for non-compliance.
Really? Do you know when that policy changed? As of 2012 it was quite possible to fly without a photo id. (e.g. http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/flying-without-a-p...)
The cost of purchasing moleskine notebooks each month has gotten out-of-hand ($16+ per). As a previously die-hard paper/pen guy, I've attempted to make the move over to iPad based note taking only to find its abilities completely lacking. There are great apps and stylus hardware, but even when tightly coupled to overcome the iPad's lack of hardware support.. it leaves much to be desired.

You see companies like Jot and 53 having to invent far too much in attempts to solve this problem. A shame for otherwise great tablets.
I don't, really. My point is that Google has shown that they're willing to act.

Here's the article that was submitted to HN about a recent thing:

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=12330&MediaType=1&Ca...

Here's the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213162
That's what that means. The Earth has to be on the plane on which their ecliptic sits.

However, yes, our ecliptic needn't align with theirs.
Only if you count one photo sent to ten people as ten photos...
Surface Pro (or any windows tablet with a wacom-like stylus) with Onenote addresses all of these issues.

Especially since you can easily screengrab portions of the screen (e.g., a relevant theorem from a pdf) and 'print' anything to any onenote page, it's really clean and easy to get all relevant content in one place. It also makes your handwriting and printouts searchable. I also really like using the webcam to take pictures of whiteboards/lecture slides to annotate on top of (really helpful for 'old school' classes or Professors that don't share their slides).
It's the easiest question you can ask and one of the simplest security processes you can ever put in place.

Let's assume you are a bad person on the no fly list.

1) Go to an airport, hang around the bathrooms in the pre-security area. Wait till somebody drops a boarding pass. Board a plane and do bad things.

2) Go to an airport, have an associate who's not on the no fly list buy a boarding pass. He gives it to you. Board a plane and do bad things.

Both are scenarios that are stopped by simply requiring matching ID and are lower effort then getting fake IDs.
At GE there was only one objective, and that was to force honesty

I thought the purpose was to fire thousands of GE employees? Most of the articles I've read on this make it should like whatever problems/frustration it caused at Microsoft stemmed from the fact they were using stack rank without the goal of reducing headcount across the board.
Did you read the examples in the link? The issue is with different server settings when running locally which is one of the configuration settings that I think anyone can edit to anything they want. Why is it outrageous if someone wants to run their local server at a different port than someone else?
It's a thing I have noticed in intelligent forums such as HN and also in real life.
Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)
But Information Wants to be Free! If can duplicate it cheaply, it shouldn't have a price and no one should get paid for it. They can make money from selling t-shirts instead. You shouldn't expect to make a living just for creating things. /s
Typical Vancouver approach, ban all the things to sound more richeous. "Best place on earth" yeah right.
Silver - a brif history of demonetisation
The Wii was sold at a profit. Also I believe they are still making a loss, since the component breakdown doesn't include costs of marketing/development etc.
The emitted code need not be lazy, and most often isn't. To a lesser extent the EDSL technique is also the technique that Accelerate uses to build fast array computations.

[1]: https://speakerdeck.com/mchakravarty/embedded-languages-for-...
In the past 6 months, at the urging of my friend Dave (sup!), who suggested this style of development, it's all I've done, even for small personal projects. I sort of take it further, eschewing frameworks somewhat, relying on libraries around actual "Business Logic" to deliver stuff as needed to outside clients.

It's been an eye opener. Sometimes it requires a little more upfront thought, but I end up with a much more maintainable project at the end of it. TDD is your new best friend if you go down this road, and the best part is: it's easier to do test driven development when things are nicely separated like this!

It's basically SRP writ large, and something tells me it's another one of those "ideas" that the grey-beards learned a long time ago that we are only re-learning now. Although REST does kick the crap out of SOAP...
I've used one that worked like a pen. It had a small plastic disk at the tip that swivelled so it would keep contact and not slip. I never found out who made them though. It didn't feel like a giant cumbersome crayon though.
There are plans to implement Merkle tree pruning.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability#Storage
The key here is that they only recently started breaking even on the PS3, and it was released in 2006. I think they've learned their lesson.
If you have kids on the way, I highly recommend knobs over levers for the exact reason Vancouver is specifying the opposite: they're harder to open.

Between 1 and 2, it's invaluable.
Hi everyone! I'm one of the Ghostery devs.

Ghostery started offering Click-to-Play (c2p) functionality a little while back for some of the most common elements. Its very useful and our users love it -- it simply and quickly answers the questions like where did my video or comments go. Click-to-Play is configurable through Ghostery options and may be disabled if the user wants. (http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023750)

Heres a how Click-to-Play works in Ghostery. We have several databases that are shipped with Ghostery, one of them is a click to play mapper that is associated to particular trackers in the database. If a user happens to block a tracker thats on the c2p map, Ghostery will take an extra step to examine the DOM of the page where it blocked the tracker to find the visible anchor where the element was supposed to sit and inserts its own Ghostery control to let the user know at the expected place that Ghostery took action. In some cases, we advise Ghostery to attach to the parent node because the element we anchor to may be hidden or invisible. The anchors are provided by our developers when c2p entries are created.

Troy runs his blog on Blogspot, and the integration Disqus has with Blogspot is non-standard. Because of this, Ghostery selector for c2p relied on specific Blogspot format and attached c2p warning at the parent. A recent change in Blogspot templates have created a condition in which Ghostery sometimes removes the content of the site, like in Troy's case. This is a bug that will be resolved in the next release.

To cover some other topics raised in comments:

- Incognito mode is a good defense, but its not foolproof. Blocking and running incognito mode is even better

- Disconnect is an alternative to Ghostery, but the reason you don't see this issue with them is that it does not offer click-to-play nor does it block Disqus

- Ghostery, while not open-source, hosts its source for review here: https://www.ghostery.com/ghosteries/chrome/ or https://www.ghostery.com/ghosteries/safari/. Additionally, you may simply unzip the contents of any extension to see what it does and how it works
That's pretty at odds with my everyday experience. I see Xbox One advertising ALL THE TIME. I'm in NYC however and I'm sure it varies by location.
The PS4 is actually out. The XBox One is out in a couple of days.

You can't do reviews, post tear-downs, complain about performance (or DOA consoles) when no one has the console yet (other than a handful of reviewers that might get a pre-release peak).
IOS Goodies - Week 2 (Part 1)
Show HN: Fiddlewax Adds Realtime FX
It's not a random guess - it might surprise you just how low the yield actually is on CPUs.

Yield is inversely proportional to die size, so the larger the die, the lower the yield. Yield is also lower on newer manufacturing processes. Both apply here. Furthermore, although some chips might be only marginally defective and 'binned' to a lower SKU that option isn't open to Sony. They have no use for those lower-clocked chips.

Chip manufacturers never publish their yield figures, but if you look around you'll see yields of around 60% are certainly not uncommon or unheard of.
Regardless, if you'd asked him to send the suspect to Guantanamo Bay he would probably agree (and thank you as he should have thought about that first).
A plant has a value in itself. People consider tulips beautiful.

I don't know it's worth $0.10, $100, or $1000000...
I wonder what would happen if I had a movie on my USB stick I wanted to watch, and it happened to be in the same folder as a few documents that happened to be named with my personal identifying data.

My name, address, tax number, drivers license number, passport number, etc, etc.

Now they've slurped that off my drive without my permission, and transmitted it in the clear. Can I sue them for "unauthorized access" or identity theft?

What if the file name was some industry secret under NDA or other protection?

(For example Apple_iPhone_7_2015_design_spec.pdf or NSA_POTUS_PHONE_LOGS_2013_TOP_SECRET.csv )
Well, yes, yay Google+Wikipedia, but at any rate it's not surprising to see English used in ads produced for India and/or Pakistan.
That's full blown derp. Computers managed to do inter app copy and paste for how many decades before anyone though it would be sensible to send local data over the internet to another app on the same device?

The NSA wins again.
Any plans to open source / apply a free software license?
Enjoyed this :)
3D printing and the third industrial revolution
Running the same projects on the same team and you want to run it in a different configuration? ... Sigh.
...That's pretty sour. Come on over, we'll grab a Tim's and talk things out.
Count me in. I'll help with the coding.
It's still not being sold at a profit. Software engineering, marketing, etc. are not figured into the price.
No ... I was just commenting on the linguistic part whether the two phrases mean the same. I moderately don't give a frak about the services due to my irrational, passionate and relentless hatred for everything cloud related. (I love the underlying technologies, I just hate the feudal model of a foreign service holding your data hostage)
I'm curious if all regulation will eventually turn from a blacklist approach into a whitelist one? When every minor detail is finally legislated, the logical end-game is to be told what you can do at every point, instead of simply what you can't.

Note how in this example, it's not just about "banning" door knobs, but about requiring levers.
US immigration can be complicated, but if there is nothing that would raise flags in your passport, why don't you give it a try for holidays so you know what you are missing (and what not)? It's at least an interesting experience. I love staying in the US for holidays, even if I probably wouldn't want to work in the US.
Sure. And I'm just saying that it doesn't really matter what year ObjC got them because they're not a big deal anyway.
Daniel (Chelsea) Manning, David Weber, Gina Grey, the recent Secret Service harassment whistleblowers, etc.

Few of them have the press that Snowden did, but Snowden isn't an isolated whistleblower. That said, seeing the lives that Manning and he have been relegated to post-whistle, I'd be surprised if the current administration hasn't scared off a good bit of would-be whistle-blowers from doing so in the future.
Docker cheat sheet
> That is only $18 shy of the PS4’s $399 retail price, leaving Sony little profit margin on the sale of the device itself.

Wait, the retailer takes a significant cut too. They're not selling these things for free. Sony doesn't receive the full retail price, so Sony can't have "little profit margin", they're definitely selling them at a significant loss. Or am I missing something?
The tip still gets me. I just have a hard time with the thick tip where I can't see my connection to the 'paper'. I keep wanting to try out the Adonit Jot http://adonit.net/jot/touch/
Can any artists on HN comment on how useful styli are with tips this thick? I suspect the added thickness is required for capacitive touch screens, but I always thought my fingertip was far too thick for accurately initiating thin lines or dots (e.g. in games like Draw Something). Something like this seems like it would require far less erasing:

http://www.wacom.com/en/us/everyday/bamboo-stylus-feel-samsu...

*edited for clarity
That's interesting: the remote was one of the two reasons I ditched my Boxee (the second being that the UI was painful). Initially, the keyboard was a major selling point for me over my AppleTV remote but grey text on black rubber buttons? No backlight? Trying to use the keyboard functionality of the remote in anything other than full lighting was an exercise in futility.

To be fair: UI (virtual and physical) is hard. Thus far, the AppleTV is my favorite but it's a "lesser of two evils" scenario.
Lean, mean client-server Javascript architecture with AngularJS and Express
Do we know how prevalent the ASIC rigs are? I'd be really interested to see a rigorous study of Bitcoin's energy costs. Even so, it seems like the estimates on Blockchain.info are off by an order of magnitude. I've amended my comment to include the power consumption on which my estimates are based.
Terrorism is anything the government doesn't like.

In all seriousness, how would we realistically ever find out which criminal cases were hinged upon parallel construction of evidence? The whole point is to conceal from judges and prosecutors (not to mention defendants) the true nature of the evidence-gathering techniques used. This completely flies in the face of due process of law, and I doubt anyone in government would willing own up to specific examples.
Part of the issue was trying to cram a BluRay player into the console at a time when BluRay players were new (and could cost $1k). HD-DVD hadn't even lost the battle when the PS3 came out. That, and going with the Cell processor probably really pumped up the cost.
The project file is a source file and should be in source control.
ycombinator.com

Busted.
Yes, but from the point of view of the people I am describing that is an implementation detail, not "the entire point."
>One reason is because it supports multiple languages and frameworks. Not just .NET.

You do know that visual studio has been supporting multiple languages well before there even was a .net? It still continues to do so.
Ok, that makes me feel better. I've been watching and waiting for Windows support to get better, and I'd hate to have it fizzle before I really got to play with it.
> Memory issues out the ass.

As others have posted, this is indicative of bad code. Java can certainly leak memory in the form of retained live references.

> Of course you shouldn't be using version 1.2.3.4.5, our code only works with 1.2.3.4.4, everybody knows that.

That's completely independent of the language or runtime being used, and is purely a project management issue (which breaking changes go into which version).

> that only runs on an obscure 6-year-old JVM

If there is code that imports classes specific to a JVM (com.sun, etc), then that code is doing something pretty much universally agreed on in the Java community to be a 'bad thing'. Otherwise, bytecode from Java 1.0 still runs on the latest JVM without issue.

You can use any language or runtime badly. There is a lot of code out there written in Java, and a lot of 'commodity' Java developers writing it. Of course there is going to be a greater volume of bad code, that's not an indictment of the platform itself.
You're not missing anything. The gaming console market has almost always been driven by a give away the camera and sell the film type of business model. They'll make their money on games and dev licensing once the installed user base is big.
At this point I'm fairly certain you're just trolling me... can you give me any example of why you frown upon running with different local configurations?

We have a dev environment where all our code builds upon checkout and then we have our own local environments to actually do development on. What's the problem with someone deciding that they want to run at hostname alias so-and-so on their local machine or port whatever instead of what's the default?
Tesla extending the Model S warranty to cover all fires
10W/GH is a pretty old number. A lot of miners are now around 6W/GH on average from butterfly labs & asicminer. Newer miners that have been released in last few months are 1.5W/GH from KNC & BitFury. In a couple of months it's going to be 0.7W/GH from Cointerra and Hashfast.

The amount of hash power in reaction to these cheaper and more efficient miners is going to go up although, so the total power consumed is going to be similar in the end.
In light of an article about prejudice, did you mean this comment to be ironic, or...?
They make money on game licensing for sure, but the economics of consoles is based on the falling cost of production over the lifetime of the console. That's why consoles have 5+ year lifespans.
He didn't seem to have a vision for tablets replacing pen/paper notebooks. The tech is here and prices are getting low (e.g. dell venue pro 8 with a stylus for ~$400); soon mainstream consumers will go fully digital and trash physical notebooks. Apple still can capture this opportunity, but they need to get past this idea that stylus==bad.

I'd guess the first company to get a 10" tablet with a good notebook application and stylus for under $300 will be the big winner in the classroom for the long run.
It doesn't ship to Germany. I was ready to buy an ipad just to give this a go for my note taking needs though.
My bad! I guess I missed the sign-off bit at the very end.
For those who would like to help him, the most direct way is to buy and then review his book on Amazon. He will receive more money for the paper edition than for the Kindle.
I've known Tony now for 6 years. He's smart and extremely resilient - two great qualities of an entrepreneur.

I know little about GPU compilers though. What are the key factors to make this successful?
I agree on all fronts here. I should note that we support all modern RESTful request methods for CRUD operations: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. Internally it simplifies our routing as each corresponds very well to the type of action we're performing.
Computing Has Always Been Personal