skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you do need root for that first app if you have android 4.4.2 - which is what the whole discussion is about.
It's not really that kind of library, it's a central store for valuable (or just old) physical objects. They didn't even previously give out membership unless you had a request for a specific title that they hold which wasn't available elsewhere. Accessing all information is not their central purpose, accessing specific information on paper is.
What SteamMachine will you be building?
I'm thinking of building my own SteamMachine http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown for Christmas. Are you planning on building one and which parts will you be using?
> Debian makes up most of desktop linux anyway

Actually, I'm pretty sure that spot belongs to Ubuntu, which is why:

> Valve has been focusing on Ubuntu up to now

They focus on Ubuntu release because that is where their target players are. SteamOS, being it's own release, doesn't have the same restriction.

> If they don't base SteamOS on Ubuntu, they will probably base directly of Debian testing

Nice save, anyways, the argument is moot now: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

Debian being, indeed, The most obvious choice.
Cvx is basically a convex solver that is called from matlab. Boyd wrote it. I'm not sure how easy it would be to divorce it from matlab, but there is a lot of existing instructional material built off of cvx, including examples in Boyd's book on convex optimization.

If you think you might be interested in this topic, it's worthwhile getting a matlab license. A lot of published academic code in this field is implemented with cvx.
Obviously this isn't feasible right now (and probably won't ever be), but this is great out-of-the-box thinking.

I think it's super important to have creatives like designers and science fiction writers conjure a wonderful future as it is exciting and inspiring. Not all of it will make sense (flying cars anybody?), but it capture the imagination.

Full disclosure - I'm not a creative (I wish I was more creative), but just think it's important to have perspective
I can't confirm that. I grew up learning blackletter first (since my mother didn't want me to get bored in school too quickly) and after a few minutes of getting used to it again, it's not at all harder to read to me than modern writing.

Some letters, like the ſ, aren't that easy to get used to, but when you do get used to them they actually help you (or, well, help me) read faster. That is, I think, because letters with an ascender are easily identified, and ſ (a different form for s) is actually very common in those texts.
That's not really possible now that Microsoft shut down GFWL. Just grab the pirate version.
I'm talking about mobile-optimized sites, but yes, I guess you could say that all mobile-versions are badly built.

Which also makes all browsers that allow a page to disable zoom badly built.
By leveraging Flickr, the library frees itself of the problems of dealing with tens of millions of users attempting to access its material.

We already have an open and free technology for that: Bittorrent.
[skims wikipedia] So does that mean there's not even a nicely defined average rate of tsunamis? Can you explain that in a slightly less dumbed-down way for someone who doesn't really know about statistics?
Isn't this a role that 3d printing and Quadcopters are filling for like-minded tinkerers?

Extension projects : for instance, if one has a quadcopter and a go-pro, then the next problem is figuring out a cheaper gimbal mount (using BLDCs and a micro-controller/gyroscope).
> Custom graphics compositor designed to provide a seamless transition between Steam, its games and the SteamOS system overlay

That is the exciting part to me. Anyone have any details? I'm about to go digging.
SPEC: is in private beta.
At $10/hr, you will make $1000 in just under two months.
Can you stop spawning strawmen and projecting your own parents on everyone else?
thats looks amazing, signed up :)
But how would comparing programming languages made by men versus ones made by women provide any useful info about what a 'feminist programming paradigm' is, might be, could be, etc.?

I don't think the idea is comparing existing implementations, but creating a new language, based on that analysis.

I was more than a little offended by the author conflating 'feminism' with para-consistent logic. Does no one else think that the idea of 'feminist' thinking embracing 'contradictions' smack of almost ridiculously self-caricatured sexism?

Maybe; I'm not familiar enough with the feminist critique of logic that the author mentions.
I know, this was just meant more as a general comment on the industry.
Mainframe2 looks really interesting and i see the potential, cant wait to try out more!
Seriously. These were precisely the first words out of my mouth as well.

Worth pointing out that Ray Kurzweil[1] is the director of engineering at google, Peter Norvig[2] is the director of research, and they recently snatched
up Geoffrey Hinton[3] and several of his grad students.

Not sure if excited or terrified. The future of google is going to be very interesting...

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig
[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
It was double that, actually: $1.65 billion. But the point remains valid, that was some incredible foresight on Google's part, even if everyone at the time thought it was a ridiculous amount.
i do not understand the negativity in here. literally the very first line of their copy is

> dataSTICKIES: A design concept conceptualised as graphene-based flash drives that replace USB data drives.

i see this as an appealing visualisation of "if technology gave us storage materials of this form, how might we design a product based around it?", in much the same way that science fiction extrapolates tech advances and tries to imagine devices using them.
Can non-nations apply?

(Thinking of the South Musk Sea)
The time is coming. Remember when computers were very expensive and out of reach for the average joe? It seems likely robotics will follow the same trajectory.

The next generation will probably be playing around with $50-100 robotic toys analogous to today's Raspberry Pi.
The talent war darker side
You'd have to be literally drunk to think that's a good idea.
Does this mean that Google is now a military supplier? They explicitly state that they would continue selling under existing contracts but that they "did not plan to move toward becoming a military contractor on its own."

To me, this sounds half-hearted. What does "on its own" even mean in that context?

Those BD robots scare the crap out of me. When the Big Dog video appeared, my first thought (within five seconds of seeing it move) was: Combat robot.
What is stupidity?
The size of the head of state is rather constant, and that is the only size discussed here – of course the underlying bureaucracy grows larger in larger countries, but that doesn’t mean the president can suddenly be in two jets at the same time.
There is no transactional filesystem that works cross-platform. And even if, say, you stick to ntfs, no filesystem in the world can protect against data loss in the event of accidental disconnect.
From the web page:

Do we need to purchase a Matlab license to take this course?

You will be able to use Matlab under a special license provided to you as a course participant to use for the CVX101 course. This is a limited license for the duration of the course and is intended to be used only for course work and not for commercial purposes. Alternatively, you may choose to access Matlab via a web interface if you prefer not to install Matlab on your computer.
Aam Aadmi Party's open letter to Congress Chairperson Sonia Gandhi [pdf]
> has a tendency to pass popular policies, as opposed to good policies

Isn't that the point of a democracy?

What do you think how many wars, regime changes and dictatorships (all sponsored by the US) South America would have seen in the last 50 years if every single one of those aggressions had to pass a popular democratic vote in the first place?

I do not think that there ever has been a majority in any country (where the basic needs of everyone is met) that would consistently vote pro war.

I my view the real problem is that we only get those "good policies" and never the chance to choose or at least vote for policies we actually like.
Your main things to consider when choosing a country:

1) Which country do you have nationality in / property in (or in this case do your parents have property in). It's probably easier to get paper-work done, bank accounts sorted, etc. in that one.

2) What are your longer term plans for the business - is it going to be a side-project or do you want to build it into a real business ? - in the later case you should be thinking about where would make sense in terms of hiring employees, raising investment, etc.

As for automating accounts I'd just hire an accountant and book-keeper and not sweat automation.

In terms of legal status you may not have even broken any kind of law yet, many countries will let you run businesses as an individual (without registering a company) as long as you file personal taxes on the revenue. Depending how recently you took that revenue in you may not even have reached the filing deadlines so it may just be a case of putting together the correct accounts.

But to start with I'd recommend finding an accountant you trust (preferably one with other SaaS clients).

Registering a business bank account without residency is going to be a huge pain though. Not sure what the best solution is (unless you're willing to actually settle down and become less nomadic).
Linear Methods (PCA) vs. Deep Learning (Autoencoder)
Even though the concept as shown is impossible right now, you can make a USB flash drive that's under a mm thick. Then just glue some paper to one side and you're practically done.
HN has become a site where most of the comments are severely lacking in imagination.

I suppose that's inevitable in the long run.
The Pearlary - extracts phrases, aphorisms and jokes from all the Web.
I had almost the exact same thing happened. I bought Super Meat Boy for Mac. Checked the specs and I was above them. The game worked once or twice but then crashed every time I entered the level screen. I contact Steam who told me to contact the developer. The developer said that it was a problem on the latest version os OS X and wouldn't be fixed soon. They said I can get a refund but it has to come from Steam.

I actually showed Steam my email from them and still had to fight for it. In the end all they would give me was credit for the Steam store, they wouldn't refund me.

I thought this might have been a one-off (maybe I just got a bad customer service person) but apparently not. If I were a game developer I'd be pretty worried that the blame fell back on me for bad customer service like this.
> There is no transactional filesystem that works cross-platform
Frankly I don't see how this is a problem for a project that wants to implement 4GB stick-it notes, doesn't seem to be the greatest challenge.
> no filesystem in the world can protect against data loss in the event of accidental disconnect
If note falls off and copying didn't finish, sure you'd expect to lose data. Otherwise if cache is disabled there shouldn't be a problem.
>> "As someone who sells a digital product, I completely understand the No Refund policy."

I don't. There games are DRM'd and when I FINALLY got a 'refund' (best I could get was store credit) they disabled the game anyway so it's not like I could get my money back and still have the game.
The bit that I liked in the OA was the way you could mount the data sticky by popping it on the bottom bezel of the computer like a fridge magnet. I imagine wifi and some processing capacity in the sticky, perhaps power over radio from the PC?
I'm still surprised how "right" (for lack of a better word) Seadragon feels when interacting. Where things like Google Maps, Leaflet, Openlayers, etc. all seem to get you into, out of, and around a map with a minimum amount of fuzz, somehow the "springy" feel feels more natural to me. Bing Maps also seems to be built with Seadragon.

A bit sad that Microsoft closed Live Labs – a lot of cool things came from there. Fun fact: Ian Gilman, who maintains OpenSeadragon now, was one of the original creators of Seadragon.
It's the barrier of entry of having to download and use up all that hard-drive space. It's like having to install an .exe vs. visiting a website. Even if you trigger the .exe installation remotely, it's just not as convenient and agile as visiting a site at will.
One can only hope.

That was my fantasy upon reading the headline: "Google acquires and renders harmless army of kill-bots"

Sadly, I'm afraid it was a dream.
> Where could google be heading to?

It's probably worth noting that both Larry Page and Eric Schmidt have invested in Planetary Resources.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Resources
[2] http://www.planetaryresources.com/team/
Why are so many people naysaying this? We have NFC, we have super slim (and super thin) consumer-accessible memory cards. The magnetism bit might be a little tricky (getting the object to stick to the data reading surface), but why is this so far-fetched? What they say aside (it seems that they are designers, not really engineers) -- saying this could never exist is an over-step
This spy watch is too complicated
Agreed that "passion is bullsh*t." Talk of passion suggests one can articulate motivations that are largely beyond human control and understanding as if one had control over them. "Passion" in this sense is ersatz. More than this: the assumption seems to me that one is willing to openly discuss what I would consider intimate aspects of one's internal life with strangers. This is game-theoretically weak. I say instead that I don't experience "passions" as such, which strike me as mercurial. Instead, I find myself driven. Driven by forces largely beyond my control, by biophysical processes that I do not comprehend.
> Words are tricky.

Words are relatively easy. Ethics are not reducible to lexicography.
Ask HN: What notable companies offer remote employment? 
I know the Wikimedia Foundation and Mozilla have remote jobs, but are there other companies that allow telecommute?
Imagine if the designers of this watch created iPhone! :D
I've been wanting to support T-Mo as well. Unfortunately, being accessible on the phone is highly important to me :/
The first modern warfare game was at least somewhat restrained in its AFY

Which is, not coincidentally, the last game made by Infinity Ward, the original creators of the series, before Activision fucked them[1] and put Treyarch in charge.

It's fun to compare the current games with the original, where the most heroic campaign was definitively the Soviet, including the climactic end where the player raised the Victory Banner[2] on top of the Reichtag.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward#Infinity_Ward_Em...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Banner
A UK government agency tried to release wartime aerial photos for free on the web and it was a disaster because the site was always overwhelmed with traffic. Now you can only get those photos by paying. This story could easily get picked up by a large news organisation and it needs to be hosted on something with lots of capacity.
Notch Playing Ludum Dare [video]
No, robots are here and now, rather than a future technology. The industry is booming, and the technology is producing spectacular productivity gains (eg: iRobot and KIVA to name two).

The impact however will be as large as the Internet has been. Robots will impact the lives of every person on earth in the next three decades; from resource gathering, to manufacturing, to health care, to war, to self defense, to surveillance, to service jobs. There is no field that will remain untouched by robotics.
cloud306.com - startup, just launched (no press release yet), bootstrapped, wicked uber cool
I think a better analogy would be someone accidently telling deaf kids that "saying <ethnic slur here> is awesome" while giving them candy. The deaf kids doesn't pick up on that and the person probably doesn't realise what he is saying anyway because he just wanted to give kids candy.

Activision doesn't care about sending out propaganda, they just want money and do so by bringing out action games with ridiculously bad storylines that a lot of players probably doesn't even play.
If the robots are used for military logistics (moving stuff around, but not directly engaging in combat) would you consider them to be "robots that the government will use to kill or harm people"?
I've always thought it's the other way around. The success stories are about people who are ruthless about succeeding, who are unable to make a work/life balance because they are motivated to succeed at all costs. The crazy hours are a symptom of what makes them successful, but not the cause of it.
With all these companies listed I'm surprised Willow Garage didn't join up with Google; given that the founder was a googler.
You're half right. Meteor is a great approach to create fast, responsive and reactive web apps and it relies on javascript. It makes no sense to disable javascript to navigate.

If the problem is with search crawlers, the spiderable module take care of it (but it'll improve).
I'm so glad to see that, that I am not the only person with such dual reaction - This is sooo awsomme tech! & ok, were it is going might not be so cool at the end...
The colors and neon style are very neat, but it was indeed the color cycling. Glad to know you'll keep working with it ;)
It would be good to read a similar analysis in 2514 of today's contemporary writings.

"I believe the 2-looking mark is short for a 'too' sound, and the 'lol' throughout the text, although it originally signified laughter, has become a replacement for the end of a sentence"
Agreed - My first reaction was "Google == Cyberdyne Systems". I hope a lot of good comes out of this, but I cannot help but think of worst case scenarios. Then again, maybe I consume too much sci-fi movies and books.
If they go to the military and act as if it is CoD then the only one that will die are themselves. It is an interesting question though, however cheeky my replies may be.
Intel Graphics come with open-source drivers and it's the only graphics card I haven't had any problems with in Ubuntu.
Already built: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867232
I didn't say selling software.

I said very few things have higher margins than software. Google's search engine and ad platforms are software systems, and Google is a software company first and foremost; they always have been, and always will be.

The extrapolated principle is obvious here. Google writes it once, and scales it toward infinity. The same principle worked for Microsoft with Windows; the same principle is at work for Salesforce.com or Facebook or Oracle, regardless of what we call it ("cloud"). This principle is what makes most software so profitable, per user there's usually nothing to uniquely manufacture or create. With scale margins properly skyrocket.

So whether we're talking about software search, or software retail, or an ad business built on software (eg Google's hyper automated ad system) or software services, the difference doesn't matter much.
Clear. What would you if you had invented self-conscious AI? You need data to grow it. Create a search bot and start harvesting as much data as you physicallyc can eat, to make sure you're beyond any competitor by the time they catch up. Send hard drives to researchers to kindly host their data. Harvesting data on the web is cute, but most of the knowledge is given in classrooms and workshops. Start sponsoring online classes, or invent Google Glass, so you can attend MBA and physics classes.

Fortunately no-one has invented AI yet.
Cookie Monster too - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monste... - which is like Noscript, but for cookies.
So?

i could install Linux on any box and then give valve full control by having to run steam as root...

what can I gain with that? It's not like my graphic card will work magically anyway as Idoubt they do anything else besides install the peoprietary nvidia driver
Why do we care about Indian politics on HN ?
I ordered some via Amazon Prime Air and am convinced they'll arrive by 2037.
I could say all mobile-versions are badly built, but I'd be wrong.

Not all mobile-optimised sites have endless scrolling. Presenting the same amount of data to mobile as you would desktop, but linearised, is bad design. Having to pan and zoom is also bad design.

Conditional loading is the ideal http://adactio.com/articles/5043/.

I do this in a minor way on my blog http://jakearchibald.com/ - the side bar doesn't appear on mobile, as it would linearise below the main content where few would see it. Instead, it becomes a navigation item at the top of the page.
When Google starts investing/buying into companies doing bio-compatible materials, this is when we'll see they are moving to cybernetics. It's the basic research that is started before big advances in the field appear.
Yeap, i don't know if flask has some lib to magically expose ORM objects via CRUD services, but i generally don't like those ( orm is already the limit to my tolerance for auto generated code).
But it's not a big deal. With some base class and python getattr / setattr, you can factor out much of the code.

In general, the whole point of using microframework like flask is to keep a tight control of your code base. You may think that some low level libs would be too hard to code, and you would be right, but most of time you can avoid the difficulties by coding only for your specific case.
I was referring more to atmospheric and thematic authenticity. Obviously, no one is going to believe health regeneration is real. In retrospect, I should have made it clear that I was speaking mostly in context of single-player campaigns.

My point was that, what may be dismissed as unremarkable by most people, might be compelling narrative to some teenage kid coming up on military age. Keep in mind that the games aren't fiction in a vacuum, but fiction with real life military unit names, equipment, and in some cases setting. Then, marketing touts the fact that actual members of said real life military units helped make the game. That lends credibility to any perceived authenticity, no matter how misguided.

There is of course the argument that nobody that young should be playing the games in the first place, but it is what it is. On the other hand, if we're talking about Medal of Honor, that might even be compelling to some young adults.

Either way, entertainment which utilizes ongoing conflicts has the potential to leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. It comes off as trashy if poorly executed.

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Regarding ArmA, although it has vastly more realistic mechanics, it's not really a valid comparison due to a lack of virtually any story or narrative at all. It's more of a simulation sandbox at heart, albeit a sterile one.
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Do you happen to have any reports or theses about the animal locomotion studies? I'm currently working on a similar topic (https://github.com/ivoflipse/Pawlabeling/) and its always good to learn from past experiences.
IIUC they're logistic aid, 4 legged all-terrain cars.

ps: I don't think there are, but well what do I know, direct development of 'attack robots' beside drones. Some unspoken fear of things going too easily out of control maybe.
How do you think you'll perform at 50?
Hey jake, great job. I personally prefer left-justfied for this type of document (vs a blog, per se). Just my opinion, you might want to a/b test it.
Totally unplayable... (4.6ghz 8core 15fps)
Most Americans have insurance so your assertion is dubious