skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The www.jw.org website (Jehovah's Witnesses website) is translated to 316 languages atm, which is on par with the article's claim (170 actively used + 140 borderline cases). You can disagree with the site's message, but it tries to do a good job into sending the message to people all around the world in different languages. In comparison though, JW publications are printed in 600+ languages, so there's still lot to do for the website.

Edit: Going into "publications" section, there's a picker which lets you select a language from total of 538.
I disagree with the article. I am still waiting for the device which can be a complete replacement for my laptop. That means

* Ability to "dock" to get a keyboard+mouse+monitor Interface.

* True multi-tasking (The music should not stop just because I switched apps)

* A full fledged command line terminal (xterm).

* support for ssh, Perl, python, ruby, C/C++ etc.

This device may not start out as a phone, May be it will be a raspberry type hobby device with a computer on chip running linux which will "grow" to acquire a pluggable phone module, a touch screen and a docking station.

Still waiting for it.
Go talk to Bright.com. They are doing the same thing.
As i see it, this is another move to strengthen Siri...

edit: As Tycho said before me...
You know it seems very suspicious to create a new account to say this.

Especially since the common wisdom (and from my personal experience as well) is that Google's support is woeful.
Orchid - a Tor client and library written in pure Java
Heads-up play will prevent collusion based on sharing your known hole cards with others, but it of course can't prevent the "asking a friend sitting next to you their opinion on the hand"-type collusion. The webcam video feed would prevent that, though. =)

The AI for fixed limit is much better than that for no-limit (you can do more statistical math on the situation); I could have sworn it wasn't that great on heads-up but now you've got me doubting my memory.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/rocket-city-re...
ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH
Does anyone just use EC2/CE though ? Surely it is about the entire platform.
Woah. That's the problem to a T. You hit it right on the head. You are not a special creature. There are approximately 6 billion other creatures nearly as capable as you trying to make a go of it right now, and a substantially greater number who tried to make a go of it and are now dead.

The majority of our daily problems are caused by ourselves, not other people. We think too much about ME and not enough about others. Try taking 30 minutes a day to intentionally improve someone else's day.

And as long as I'm writing here, I'll note that parenthood becoming something we hold out as long as possible to start down is probably one the single greatest issues facing Western culture, and I'm not even convinced it's altogether a bad thing (teenage pregnancy not great, yada yada yada). But the full weight of responsibility of keeping someone else alive is enough to wake anyone out of their delusions of self.
WhatsApp finally updates to iOS 7
9th Circuit Court of SF to Live Stream Proceedings
It's well known music and math are intrinsically related. Apparently, music and engineering are as well.
Product Delivery Within 60 Minutes — By Amazon Prime Air
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is known for taking big bets in the world of innovation, and on Sunday night on 60 Minutes he revealed what might be one of his biggest: product delivery by flying robot drones. The service is called Amazon Prime Air and it’s slated for rollout sometime in 2015, depending on FAA approval.
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+1 for Lift. I gave a Quantified Self talk a few months ago about my first full year using it.
http://wanderingstan.com/2013-10-16/video-what-ive-learned-i...

Good point about the social part: I drift in and out of using it, but it certainly helps when I need to get back on track.
Get Notified Through a Push Notification When you have Mail in your PostBox
Postifier is a Bluetooth device that sends you a notification when there is mail in your postbox. Designed to prevent fruitless walks to check for mail, Postifier is inserted into your mailbox and pairs with your iOS or Android device. Using an infrared sensor it determines when mail has arrived and then lets you know via a push notification.
No. The argument re "rounded rectangles" (actually a meme invented by people like yourself) is about trade dress, which in the US is covered by a design "patent", which is not the same thing as a technical patent. This is not difficult to understand. To this day the level of denial around Samsung blatant imitation of the iPhone is staggering.
I keep extensive paper notes, mostly in sequential "lab book" style, pages dated and numbered, with a different colour pen for each day of the week. I don't fuss too much over structure beyond that, and anything for wider distribution I write up on a computer.

I've seen people struggle with tablets and laptops for note taking, but I find they are some way off the free-flowing UX of pen and paper.
I hope the research cited is better, because the article makes a complete hash of mixing interface language, script and language actually used to communicate. All of these are thrown together as "use of language on digital stuff".

It's quite common around the world to use an interface in language X (because the options are limited) but communicate in their own language. (I personally do it all the time, so much so that I prefer an English interface over one in my own language for the sake of consistency.)

Lack of support for certain kinds of script may be an issue, but that never becomes clear from the article. If the data is heavily based on the formal support for languages (instead of actual usage) then it's seriously skewed. And even if it isn't, the article doesn't tell us where the actual problem is.
A Poem on working in the valley
I'd argue "unclear" rather than "misleading". H7N9 had previously been confined to the Chinese mainland.

Inclusion of an "its" would help: "Hong Kong reports its first human case of bird flu".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9
Marshall, TX: Patent suits here appear to be on the rise again
Thanks. I wasn't thinking that I was setting up a bug bounty program when I created the page, I just wanted to thank people who had helped us so far. I didn't realise what I was getting myself into, so I felt a bit over my head. But you're right there are ways we can make things go smoother.
C++ on C++ = Cling, although it's a bit physics centric
We are having amusing problems with appengine. For example they provide no way to limit the number of instances they decide to start. If for example you run out of datastore i/o capacity (it doesn't scale with how much you pay) they will quite happily start more instances even though they won't help in any way, and actually make things worse.

We switched to premier which supposedly gets us all sorts of extra stuff, but for some bizarre reason will no longer show your daily charge breakdowns.
I think in the end, the best way to overcome it is to just run at it. The screw it, let's do it mentality really helps me kickstart physical projects. I look at where I am, where I need to be and do/buy whatever it takes.
Amen. And of course eventually we'll have something like a massive ecological disruption (or War with China) that will fuck everything up all over again and we wont have time to write asinine op-eds about "what's wrong with people" (or comment on them, pot ... kettle black). We'll be too busy digging our asses out of despair.
Now you can run any out-of-the-box Linux distribution as well as any kernel or software you like. We’re also announcing support for SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (in Limited Preview) and FreeBSD.

====

Finally! I'm going to try and make TinyCore run:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux

10MB images, 28MB of RAM, should boot in under 10 seconds.
That's exactly what I thought of when I read this title. That movie give my friend a panic attack.
Show HN: Server-wide SSL pinning for iptables
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I really got burned by Ryanair's miserable 'visa check' stamp policy. After checking in online (mandatory), passing through all of Gatwick security, waiting an hour for the delayed flight at the gate, the attendant simply denied me entry saying he was not qualified to decide if my visa with a clear 3 years before expiry was valid or not and I would have to exit back to the counter and pass back in through security, obviously an impossible 60+ minute process. Oddly departing Berlin, the stamp was provided at the gate.

Back at the counter, the sales attendant tried to offer me a flight to Bremen for five times the cost of the original ticket leaving 8 hours later. When I asked why I would want a flight to Bremen vs my original destination of Berlin, she simply shrugged her shoulders saying it departed sooner...

Needless to say I cannot in good conscience ever give money to this admittedly clever/cunning corporation. Easyjet is not much more and significantly more humane.
It's also a lot harder to create vaccines for, as a virus that kills poultry doesn't work well with existing production methods that almost exclusively involve poultry eggs.
Erik, also the dots at the bottom for me indicate that i can click to see other images. They do not actually do that. Small UX issue
That seems like a rather conceited thing to say.
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The wit of Mark Twain
Please fix your website so I can read your article. There is no scroll bar.
Age 16 - SAT Score: 2160 - Hobby: Monstertruck driving
No justice yet for bhopal gas tragedy survivors.
Flurry - good for demographics
Mixpanel - great for a) realtime, b) nice retention visualization, c) a bit expensive.
NewRelic - good at also giving visual indicators of api issues.
BugSense - also does analytics. great for bug reporting.

Haven't used google analytics on mobile much...

overall if you have to pick one I'd recommend Mixpanel
No, it's better for Archive.org. The Wikimedia Foundation mostly deals with Creative Commons licensed content.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6831989
Scrolled really long promo page. Still no info.

Look like this is a ruggedized GSM/WiFi/Copper hotspot. Like those you buy from china for $20.
No satellite access, thats stupid.
Do you really think of everything in terms programming? Just wondering.
I can see a scroll-bar but no text (javascript disabled here). What a naive way to design a website! I wouldn't be so snarky if this was a one-off instance. Sadly, this trend is catching up.

Edit: Cut down the snarkiness.

The OP's openness to criticism is appreciated.
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I think you can even just send it straight to the bin with filters, although my memory may be faulty.
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C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

lty distribution.
Without any intervention of law, therefore, the private interests and
passions of men naturally lead them to divide and distribute the stock
of every society among all the different employments carried on in it;
as nearly as possible in the proportion which is most agreeable to the
interest of the whole society.

All the different regulations of the mercantile system necessarily
derange more or less this natural and most advantageous distribution of
stock. But those which concern
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Because the "prompt" (basically, make a cool app) was revealed a long time before the hackathon, which IMHO was a big mistake. It's much easier to prevent such cheating if you make the early work irrelevant.
I would say that some of the spacial reasoning ability is innate to a person, and will determine how easy it is for the person to learn to solve physical problems. Past this, a lot of the ability comes from having seen similar concepts before and being able to create an elegant solution from them.

When I solve problems like this I typically get a vague sort of vision of what the final solution is going to look like in my head (possibly the innate part). Then I take all the little things I know about and slowly build up something that will perform the action I want. After which it becomes a task of optimization by combining and changing things until the final solution falls out (the experience part). When you have 2 or 3 people working on the same problem using this process some really special things often come out of it.
The latter three are covered by Android, and the first was covered by the Motorola Atrix (which bombed) and the upcoming Ubuntu phone.
Not that you're complaining of bad service from Google. But anyone's long term solution should be to treat important things in life as important. In case of gmail, paying $60 a year ($50 for email account and $10 for domain) gets you a permanent address (so if you were to migrate, at least your email address stays the same), an SLA that gives you two weeks to move house should Google decide it doesn't like you (in contrast to immediate termination of gmail free accounts) and phone support from Google. The poorest of us can afford that—no excuses.
Of course, you're both right - it's very little compared to the market leaders, but for a new player it's definitely impressive. Especially considering they were all sold before they were even made.
And obviated by the judges having no easy way to learn and isolate which "part" of the app they're testing, and how such compartmentalization goes strongly against human psychology.
AS400 and undocumented fixed column ASCII files, probably. Been there, done that. It's not funny
Adios OSX
A few comments based on my experience working with these things back in 2009 [0]

1. Yes, this thing has a mortality rate of 30%. What that means is that out of all detected cases 30% of the people have died. The keyword here is detected. At this stage, and without a massive surveillance plan looking for specifically for serological evidence of the virus, authorities are only aware of a tiny fraction of the actual cases (the most severe) which tend to skew the mortality rate. The actual mortality rate for the 2009 H1N1 has just now been reevaluated with more accurate data and techniques [1, 2]

2. So far it doesn't seems to have crossed the threshold to be able to spread quickly from person to person. Doing that will imply a few more mutations that will likely make it less aggressive and deadly (it's hard to spread if you kill your host too quickly).

3. Better than watching Contagion to get an idea of what a spread looks like at a global scale is to watch [3] which is an accurate representation of the H1N1 spreade in 2009. Each edge you see represents the (likely) first infected person traveling from an infected to an uninflected city. You can play with the (client) software we used for these simulations over at [4]

4. Attempts to use real time proxy data like mentions in Twitter and searches in Google to monitor the spread of infectious diseases haven't really been very successful. Google flu trends had some early success but it seems to be breaking down recently. As usual Twitter seems to be much better at predicting the past than the future. In fact the CDC has recently launched a competition to try and do just this [5]

5. In summary, don't panic. Much smarter people than myself are keeping an eye on this and it's likely not as bad as the link baity headlines would have you believe.

[0] I worked directly with the official surveillance data and used it to model And forecast the worldwide spread of the virus. We were actually able to predict (and publish) the epidemic peak for dozens of countries I'm advance You can access all the relevant publications here: http://www.bgoncalves.com/publications.html

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/26/247379604/2009-fl....

[2] http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

[3] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YAf1aXCvvdU

[4] http://www.gleamviz.org/simulator/

[5] https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/11/25/2013-281...

Edit: spelling
A board for WebP animations would be amazing.
mate, I think there is good reason this particular record is rare... :p
What you say is mostly correct, but some stuff Ryanair does seems to be gratuitous pissing off of customers. I only had an issue once, but I hated Ryanair during that flight.

My last appointment before the flight took longer than expected, and then the airport bus came a bit late and was further delayed in traffic, but I still had enough time. But at the airport I discovered I had lost my sunglasses and boarding pass. I tried to reprint the boarding pass at an airport computer (which wasn't free), but I couldn't, because you can't download the boarding pass in the last two hours before the flight, I mean, why can't you? So everything was going wrong, and my bad luck was compounded by the very unreasonable fee for them to print me a boarding pass. That made me a very unhappy customer. I still use them, because in the end I save more, but I have no loyalty to them, even though I am usually very loyal to brands I use regularly.
There are some initial benchmarks here: http://serverbear.com/10151/google-compute-engine
Omission: there's a very nice on-the-fly compiler, which supports writing an embedded intepreter, for (an old dialect of) Lua in OCaml, written by Norman Ramsey [1]. It's part of the C-- distribution [2].

[1]: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/maniaws-abstract.html

[2]: http://www.cminusminus.org/c-downloads/
For projects of any size, I always draft a design on paper first. It helps me ensure my ideas makes sense and that I won't forget them. I've found the real benefit of modeling though to be in solving novel problems that I'm unsure how to approach.
Yeah but what I'm saying having used the web in 1995 is that his insights were obvious then too.
They're very much not vaporware. I was in the first wave, and they've given me 4 invites so far to give out. Meanwhile, they've been iterating rapidly on the software. Feels a lot like the gmail rollout did.
Company developing R2-D2-like robot to serve as security guard on campuses
I simply don't know why we don't handle this like we do tech startups. Start a small $15 million dollar fund with $1 million for each startup and a project whose scope is a very small starting point for the long term project. Give all 15 startups 6 months to a 1 year to develop the first version. Whittle it down to like 3-4 startups and grow the scope for the second round of funding. Give each like $3-4 million. Whittle it down to two or so startups.

Anything is better than this big design up front with a million must have requirements.

I also don't understand why every state has their own portal. There should be maybe at most half a dozen different teams/designs/systems. We could expand on the startup funding idea by having each state act like a venture capitalist. They hear pitches and invest in the teams and designs that are most promising each round.

All code from all participating startups should be some open source license, preferably a Public License, but a BSD-style would work too. This allows the creation of an ecosystem where all are allowed to borrow from one another.
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Researchers Develop Two-Faced “Janus” Nanotubes
But, however much you might bristle at his tone, he has something significant to say, and he's right when he says it.

You can't take this paper (or any other) as an end-all/be-all statement isolated in a vacuum. Maybe his smug tone portends that he might presume as much, but it's a mistake to take it as a one-size-fits all remark.

The thing he gets right is this:

Teaching students "Computer Science" as a new discipline by showing them how to reverse engineer existing examples is a mistake.

It's a mistake in the same sense that you don't teach math by giving students a number and asking them what the problem was. That's an absurd approach to math.

96.

Okay, now give me the equation.

That's the idea he's driving at. And in many ways he's right.

Does that mean that reverse engineering is a completely invalid approach to learning? No. For some disciplines, it is essential, and indeed, for certain aspects of electrical engineering, which ulimately melds with programming, one needs those sorts of strategies ready at hand.

But when it comes down to writing programs, he's cautioning that you should learn the task as a top-down approach, not by starting at the bottom, and then climbing up through someone else's ready-made tangle of spaghetti.

Does reverse engineering work for medicine and biology, or even chemistry? Well, what the hell kind of a choice did we have? Humanity had to bootstrap out of hunter/gatherer mode one way or another, but it doesn't mean we have to approach computer science the same way, and in fact, there's no rational reason to do so.

Read deeply enough into this message, and you'll unravel the mystery of why open source development is beneficial and generous, and proprietary closed source products really do represent a malign animosity toward the end user, by only providing the bald number as the result, and never teaching the man to fish. But hey, there's that old refrain: we all gotta eat right, so how do we make money when we're giving everything away and not rationing a portion for yourself?

Dijkstra comes from the era when computer scientists were a priesthood, moreso than tradesman. Computer science was esoteric, and so there was no fear of "teaching a slave to read" because there really weren't enough books to go around. Computers were high holy temples of time sharing cloistered atop the ivory tower. But in his message here, you'll gain insight into the fundamental truth, that when there are billions of cycles per second, acting on trillions of bytes at a time, there's no hope of brute force reverse engineering the resulting output of the system as a post mortem. Sometimes that's what we're stuck with, but it's not the ideal, and it's an impractical approach, not unlike picking up the pieces of an air disaster on a mountain top. Code needs to be well organized and properly conceived from the outset, and this is the desired approach, and a fundamental principle new students should have beaten into them, mercilessly.
Cocos2dx plugin released - SOOMLA
I don't see the connection between reading and scroll bars. Are you unable to scroll without a scroll bar (a possibility, but many keys work well too)?
Is it the first acquisition by any US company in India or Is it Facebook first only??
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A lot of acronyms and you are ready to buy?
Put it all up on hearo.fm!
Agreed. If you have the wrong algorithm, it doesn't matter how well you implement it: it'll still give you the wrong answer. But no matter how right your algorithm is, if your I/O doesn't work properly, you'll still get the wrong answer. And that's just for things involving a single algorithm; if you're talking about the larger piece of software as a whole (since a lot of programming is not algorithms, algorithms is just one of the harder parts), testing and prototyping and all that becomes even more important.
It is not a straw man to describe the general field of chiropractics as anti-science quackery. Just because some narrow physio-therapeutic component of chiropractics happens not to be quackery, doesn't make the general field respectable.

You could claim that homeopathic therapies can promote good hydration. Hydration is important. But that doesn't make homeopathy respectable.

Semantics matter. Why should I show any respect to people using the chiropractic label when the preponderance of practitioners are subluxation magicians and modern witch doctors?
They're based in Nairobi and they run a technology innovations lab there.