skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a guy on HN recently showing off his startup which makes sunglasses with built on camera. Cops should be required to where those by law and we should pass a law that basically states that an arrest is automatically invalid in any situation where a camera "malfunctioned" or was turned off.
> They're comparing it because people are starting to use mobile devices as replacements for PCs

Sure, if you spent all your time on Twitter and Facebook and you like 4" keyboards it's great.

The only interesting comparison here would be between tablet and notebook sales, because they are the only 2 markets that somewhat overlap.

How many people do you know who own an iPhone and don't have a computer as well? Saying that people buy new computers less often because they spend some of that money on smartphones could make sense, but saying smartphones are taking over sounds kinda silly.
How does that work when you want to buy them an expensive item like a bicycle, segway, computer etc. that would take them too long to save up for?
It depends on whether their lawyers are willing to take a chance. The rules actually change all the time so you have to keep up to date. Some people are more willing to take a chance than others.
Really, why can't somebody make a PC laptop that can compete... Required things to sell:

1. Good battery life. (7hrs or more under light use)

2. Good form factor - this means light weight, metal chassis + decent smallish lightweight charger, ideally with non-fatal charge connection when power cord is tripped over by animal/small child/drunk person. I don't want a 2kg laptop if I have to carry around a 1kg charger.

3. SSD + good GFX + high res panel

4. Good keyboard + trackpad

The only thing I've seen come close is this: http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/08/gigabytes-aurous-dual-gpu...

And that gets a three hour battery life, which fails on my no. 1 priority list. Looks like I just need to pay up for a Macbook Pro Retina, which according to Apple's site, is "New" and it was released in October 2013.

I will happily drop £2k+ for the above.
The website looks depressing if you have Javascript disabled: 0 people saw the banner; 0 emails sent; 0 signatures ...
I'm just curious your source on this? Not that I think you are lying, just curious.
Bitcoin supports want Bitcoin to take over the world.

If the blockchain can't handle a few spammy message transactions like this, how could it handle taking over the world?
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Disadvantage: this site does nothing to make cryptography more accessible / easy to use for the common person.
And why did you assume I would be the one to pick a fight? Even though I'm a peaceful person who never ever assaulted anyone, I've been assaulted several times for no reason, and in different countries. Friends of the aggressor can testify against you and then you're in trouble. I picked club fights as an example, but the point is that bad luck can put innocent people in trouble with the law in any setting...
Contrary to the millennial gripes and the 'trophy kids' syndrome, I believe that there's a generation of highly specialized and highly educated people out there whose expertise is going to waste because they are not getting the first important steps to start working on the job. The work gap that most of these people are going to experience is going to have irreparable harm to the product, with regards to all the papers unwritten, projects unstarted, and lessons learned - for all of us.
i've been glancing at felix every so often for years now, but this week i finally took the plunge and worked through all the installation issues. it's a promising languages; definitely not production ready yet, and the combination of incomplete docs and unhelpful error messages can be pretty frustrating, but the creator is helpful and enthusiastic, and so far i'm having fun. now that i'm getting more into c++, the ability to interop with c++ libraries is a strong selling point.
Don't forget the percentage that were American.
I think his point is more along the lines that regulatory burden and concern for the possible cost of error disincentive for change that effectively borders on paralysis rather than it being a physical reason preventing changes. The same sort of obstacles you see with large companies, but with an extra layer of possible fines on top.

A few years back, a designer blogged about a similar redesign for American Airlines. He was contacted by one of AA's in-house designers, who wrote about the internal politics and hurdles that get in the way of changing things. AA later sacked the designer for violating his NDA and the articles were deleted from the blog, but the entire episode was pretty interesting. If you're interested:

Copies of the Dustin Curtis & Mr. X posts
http://www.flipthefunnelnow.com/dustin-curtis-%E2%80%93-dear...

Aftermath
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091106/0337536829.shtml

Even if a redesign doesn't touch any of the regulatory verbage and requirements, it still has to go through largely the same pipeline of internal approval as if it did. So even minor changes are viewed the same as significant ones.

Take the boarding pass. Given the limited amount of information present, redesigning them for a better experience should be a fucking no-brainer. No matter how long you search, I doubt you'll find anyone genuinely satisfied with their boarding pass. They're big, ugly, and reasonably unclear at a glance. You see tons of redesign experiments online, but no airline ever seems to take the hint or be inspired by them. Here's a semi-recent one that I love:

http://petesmart.co.uk/rethink-the-airline-boarding-pass/

Beautiful typography, perfectly sized for your passport, and easy to read at a glance. Throw in the time difference and predicted weather for your destination, and the redesign is utterly perfect. What's not to love? And yet, nothing.

I see two big problems with the status quo in that regard: first, you the almost reactionary mindsets that seem to become not only more common, but also even more reactionary, as a company grows. Self-deceptive thoughts like "change is scary/costly/will scare away all the customers" are pretty damned powerful. Along with a lack of genuine demand for the change in the first place: bad UI hurts customers and drives away sales, but quantifying it directly in a way that makes it a priority in itself is difficult. They're all the more powerful by the fact that they originally stem from genuine concerns. And these attitudes are practically everywhere. Hell, even apple.com took the better part of a decade to see a significant shift in its UI + design:

http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/graphics-roundups/the-evolu...

It's really no wonder nothing changes. Until we start to see shifts in those attitudes, we're going to be largely stuck with the same bad UX in far too many places. :(
I agree entirely - and that is the reason that one shouldn't say "It is perfectly possible to secure a bitcoin one owns."
> What do you call a stereotype when it is backed by statistical data?

An inconvenient truth. Or perhaps the elephant in the room.
Yes, what's most important is that you're for freedom, whatever that means.

Libertarianism = Freedom.
Communism = Freedom.
Liberals = Freedom.
Conservatives = Freedom.
North Korea = Freedom.
USA = Freedom.

Seriously what country isn't free? Who is against freedom?
None of this should surprise us. And never again should we believe anyone that says that this doesn't/isn't happening.
First off, only my mother gets to tell me to "watch my tone". Random jackoffs online can go fuck themselves if they think they've earned my respect by default, especially if those same jackoffs use political rhetoric to harm and steal from others.

My tone is simply a reaction to the tone of arrogance and superiority most objectivists and commenters take. If you don't want to be ridiculed, then don't write like a arrogant douchebag with zero self-awareness. Those kinds of people are due a large dose of insulting and "tone".
if you've not looked at ocaml recently, the community has really taken off in the last year. it's an exciting time to be using the language.
This is probably one of the most excellent argument with respect to why we choose mainstream technology I've ever read.

You're on the money with Apache foundation (and other great quality tools/libraries/software written in Java). The ecosystem is just too huge to ignore. The other day we saw ElasticSearch at the top of HN when they announced they just released v1.0.0. I know tons of hi-tech companies are using it.

Meanwhile, there's no group or organization that invest in Ruby or Python the way Apache does to Java.

It's kinda sad. I really really wish (and want to see) similar thing happen to Ruby/Python but it's 2014 and sadly it hasn't happened. Outside Rails, I don't see anything else in the Ruby world that reach that level of adoption (maybe Jekyll or Octopress). Django seems to become minority. Plone seems to quiet down. Turbogears is probably dead. Flask is on the rise. Twisted doesn't seem to be the defacto solution.

Just that in general, Ruby or Python community seems to be locked on CRUD for web-app but nothing else.
OMG, it make jump a little, seriously ;).
The sound isolation in the drag-racing video is quite compelling. If I were on Verizon, I would be doing the same.

I'm on AT&T, so I need to wait for a similar 5" device. No phablets allowed in my household! I'm hoping they have something fitting right in time for my 920 contract to wrap up.
Does anyone know if any politicians have publicly stated a change of opinion after the protest? In the wake of the SOPA/PIPA protest, there were a lot of politicians who came out against those bills who were either supporting it or neutral before the protests. Isn't that, not something like raw number of tweets, the true watermark for success or failure?
Except it's no longer accurate (e.g. native backtraces work just fine). Would someone really think that OCaml sucks and maintain an accurate page about that fact for 6 years? That sort of nonsensical dedication should at least prompt you to check its facts.
My point is, why contest anything in that moment? You just broke the law and could've potentially caused serious bodily harm to someone. I feel like there's a small window an officer gives you to get out of the ticket. They walk up. They ask you what you did wrong. You tell them. Everyone moves on. Sometimes they write a ticket or a warning. Parent dude completely and intentionally overcomplicated the situation. Wasting his own time and the time of the officers.
You're embarrassing yourself all over this thread.
Well, I don't know. The "No polymorphism" section is misleading (though polymorphism doesn't carry the same meaning from one language to the next):
There's this comment on higher order functions not being supported which surprises me. See the section 7.13[1] and 7.14 of the OCaml documentation. These features are availabe since ver 3.12 of the distribution.

[1]: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-4.01/extn.html#se...
> If governed regions are worse, why aren't you living in one of the ungoverned ones?

There are, practically speaking, no ungoverned areas. The ungoverned areas are either unsurvivable due to circumstances unrelated to the existence of governments (like the oceans and Antarctica), and the otherwise survivable areas that briefly don't have governments (like Somalia) are undesirable due not to a lack of government, but because of events which caused both undesirability and lack of government (like poverty or armed ethnic conflict). Of course, plenty of people have argued that Somalia actually improved during its period of "anarchy."

Of course, this line of argument is pretty silly. You could, following this same logic, ask where someone would like to move where murder does not occur. Again, the only places where murder does not occur are not survivable by humans, or are undesirable for other reasons (like living in an abandoned missile silo, or in solitary confinement). Yet I would still claim that a society without murder would be a good thing.

> Thanks to government, my landlord can't kick me out without due notice

Why would a polycentric legal system not be able to provide a system where landlords can't kick tenants out without due notice?

> big guys with weapons can't "protect" me for a fee

That's not true. If you have enough money, big guys with guns can and will absolutely protect you. In fact, a lot of armed security and even what we could call "law enforcement" is done by privately contracted firms, because public police forces are ridiculously inefficient and ineffective. The same goes for arbitration and courts.

> and I can travel for free wherever I want on well-maintained roads without paying arbitrary fees.

Firstly, you do pay arbitrary fees for the roads you drive on, or at least the roads in your tax jurisdiction. In fact, the average person pays a lot more than what is economically efficient, because road funds inordinately subsidize industries like the freight industry. A usage fee is a far more economically efficient way to fund roads, and even government roads which also collect usage tolls tend to be a lot more well maintained. Secondly, the "who will build the roads" criticism of libertarianism is so exhausted that it has become a running joke for many libertarians. I can discuss it more if you like, or point you to several "libertarian FAQs" that should address most of your road- and infrastructure-related concerns.
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Due to the intricacies of ECC (the cryptography used in signing transactions) the signature can always be mutated to produce a different, but equally valid signature.

If the developers want to avoid transaction malleability, they will not be able to include the signature in the hash.
I don't begrudge this couple their 'solution' to whatever 'problem' with chore distributions exist in their life.

What I find amusing is this sort of money-as-substitute-for-all-valuations thing going on. No matter how "cute" or "novel" this idea is, underlying it all is the implicit assertion that every single thing a person does has a monetary value. I understand the appeal, and the rather strong strain of libertarianism/Jon Galt-ism that runs rampant in computer science makes this couple an unsurprising place to find such a viewpoint in practice (even if they personally don't adhere to such a view).

It also absolutely does not work well with children. Children, as even these two no doubt can attest, don't value things in terms of money or opportunity cost or any other such abstraction until and unless they have been taught to do so. They have basic needs that must be met, and generally in a way that isn't compatible with the incentivised behavior models that this couple present.

On a personal note, I find it a bit too "nerd cutesy." It's like they're trying too hard to be hardcore nerds about their everyday life. My first thought wasn't, "wow, that's a novel way to bring levity into the daily chore drudge." It was more like, "this reminds me of people parodied in Portlandia scenes where the main characters are having a back-and-forth about who knows who or what trendy indie publications/books they've each read." More power to them if it works, but it's not for me.
Dime Bag Donny is hardly pablo escobar.

If it took the FBI 2 years to track him down, unless he fucked over the Zapatas exactly nothing will be done about this. But then again the Zapatas hide behind guns, not crypto currency.
Mojoconf 2014
Ughh, Ghostery isn't FLOSS, but that does not make the code invisible, many places where you can see it like: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/vers... or ghostery.com/ghosteries/chrome/

And there is this: http://www.areweprivateyet.com
It's not entirely race. I'm certain that e.g. poverty and lack of opportunity play a role as well. Growing up without access to money, good schools, or positive role models can be crippling to success regardless of race.
What about the USD's value is based on something other than a mental construct shared by billions of people?
I've spent an entire weekend in holding for resisting arrest. There is no food and nowhere to sleep in holding. On Monday, when I finally met the magistrate, all charges were dropped because nothing happened.

When I tell my white friends this story they logically conclude I must have done something, police don't simply "detain" you without cause. Yes, they do. My other friends are much more understanding. Either it has happened to them or someone they know.
Excellent release. That this is a "point" release amazes me. It adds so much functionality to an already amazing CMS, it blows my mind more people don't use this day-to-day.
Just want to say cool art work on the landing page
I also feel that, if you are an adult and you've served your sentence and paid your debt to society, that your file is closed to the public. The only time it would be accessed is in determining the sentence for your next crime.

Adults deserve a second chance, too.
Shenandoah: An almost pauseless garbage collection algorithm
Build a random forest with all these quant algorithms as the decision trees?

I wonder how good that'd be.
If this in fact went down exactly as described, the officers who initiated use of force need to not be officers. I caution against undue private agitation against the officers named, though, because that's a big "if" - I don't expect the story was deliberately colored by the narrator (although we can't completely ignore the possibility) but the way humans work it always gets colored somewhat and we don't know what things seemed like from the officers' POV. I do hope the incident is taken seriously - this tendency of the police to make themselves enemies of even the law abiding does nothing for our safety.
i made my girlfriend a website (instead of card / flowers / whatever else) for valentine's day in college... made it from scratch and made it rather lovely. It did not go over well.
Great advice overall - but this sums it up best:
-"When you can deliver more value for less money—and do it in a scalable way—you know you have a better product/market fit than companies that have come before you."-
I agree. We're putting a lot of effort into this at Tokutek with TokuMX: http://www.tokutek.com/2014/02/introducing-tokumx-1-4-major-...

Personally, I think the company formerly known as 10gen is doing a lot of good work, particularly with the aggregation framework, but it's orthogonal to the improvements we've made with the storage subsystem.
Saying "let's get rid of rulers" is like saying "let's get rid of the ends of a piece of string." It's a logical impossibility. All you can do is replace rulers.
Hi Chris, a few comments:

1. I like the site design, the story flow on the front page does a great job of explaining what keybase is.

2. I see (from the abovementioned story flow) that keys can be verified by reviewing signed tweets/gists. Is this functionality extendable to arbitrary links; i.e. verifying keys against personal blogs, Tumblr, WordPress or does the third-party site need to implement a recognized API?

Again, thanks so much, and it looks like a terrific site so far.
Heh, it may not sell it to ad agencies, but it sure sends data back to them.

DNTMe is probably the worst choice to use for tracking protection, heres a study we have on the topic http://www.areweprivateyet.com
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> The worst thing an officer of the was able to do was inconvenience you for a day.

Wrong.

Job application. Have you ever been arrested? No job.

Mortgage application. Have you ever been arrested? No mortgage. No house.

Rental application. Have you ever been arrested? No apartment.

These are just a few places you will have the door slammed in your face. Now, the OP was lucky, because the matter was dismissed, the arrest record evaporates. If he was convicted of even the most minor criminal offense because the judge was having a bad day too, his life is now fucked.
Please stop flaming this thread. We understand -- everyone else is hilariously incoherent in their views
Disadvantage: I spilled my coffee.
Celiacs are not the only ones who react badly to gluten. There's non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

See, for example:

http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/glutenintolerance/a/Gluten...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gluten-sensitivity...
And then they can get a boat to sell these things like they did for Google Glass and it'll be called "DaaS Boat"...
Indeed, that's the Joint Purchase Auction we talk about here: http://messymatters.com/autonomy
I find it sad that the officer could be a "joke around the precinct" - presumably incompetent and apparently eager to abuse their power - and still be an officer.
I'm sure there will be something that I've overlooked that disqualifies it from your requirements, but I've been using a Yoga 2 which seems to do what you want. Graphics aren't great (Intel :/), but it runs DOTA 2, so that's me covered. Decent battery life (6hr of video playback), excellent form factor (kinda the point of the machine), 3200x1800 screen, and nice leopard (though that's subjective I guess)
This is effectively how bitcoin transactions work now. It gets considerably more complicated when you include multi-party signatures. In this case, transactions are signed by multiple private keys, but none of the parties will know the other signatures before they sign the transaction themselves.
In a nutshell, in every country there's some number of political positions that have a certain amount of broad political popularity, and these will be captured and represented by some set of political parties. ("Captured" is a bit more aggressive than I really want here, but it really is sort of like a territory thing; positions are malleable and can move between parties over time.) In anything with a voting system that matters, these parties will tend to grab the vast majority of the middle ground. (In the US, the two parties actually play the part of multiple parties in a proportional representation system as in much of Europe; the popular positions are still all covered, but you do get some really bizarre pairings under one tent sometimes.)

Consequently, the ones who are left out of the resulting parties are nearly by definition outliers. If one studies statistics, one of the things you'll learn is that in anything that has even a faint resemblance to a Gaussian distribution, the outliers are always more diverse than the main body. So on those fringes, you can always find some real nutcakes, along with a group of people whom you may merely find eccentric but forever bear the burden of being tarred by association with the loonies.

(It isn't necessarily the best plan to judge a fringe belief by an even more fringe set of loonies; for every stone you might be inclined to toss at the "other side", it's worth bearing in mind you've got a matched loonie on your side. Naturally, the loonies are the loudest, everywhere.)

I claim to be libertarian, but probably even more accurate would be call me a Classical Liberal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism (Albeit not every bit of that; 18th century Classical Liberalism can not be simply blindly applied today, but I think it's closer than later philosophies, or, perhaps, ironically more appropriate for the 21st century than the philosophies of the 20th, which I think were too greatly influenced by the accidents of the Industrial Revolution, which fade as we continue through the Information Revolution.) Anyways, following through that on Wikipedia would probably give a helpful perspective on the general ideas, moreso than a loud loonie. There is an actual respectable intellectual tradition here, even if it is not the one currently in favor.
Don't give away things that others will value (such as how to get rich) for free.
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