skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's literally an extra camera and a "depth sensor" (which is likely itself just another type of camera). So no, the analog would be the camera you're already carrying around with you.

It's far more likely (if this catches on) that this will just be another sensor in your phone that apps can use, and if Google wants to improve maps or whatever, they'll just ask people to "contribute" scans, like they've gotten people to basically make street view for them[1].

[1] http://www.google.com/maps/about/contribute/photosphere/
Venezuela: What's the crisis about?
Common Crawl's Move to Nutch
Good app. But you misspelled the name: BarSense.
I am a long time Dogecoin booster. We would love to have support for Doge, either through Coinbase or through some similar entity.
It's painful that every GTD tool starts with what's probably the last step in getting something done - the task item. When it should be starting with the big idea in the beginning.
I think the thesis is correct - but I couldn't finish this piece.

I tuned out after the comment about diamond scarcity. Diamonds are their own example of economic rent extraction through monopoly/artificial supply.

Might be more interesting to explore the parallels between diamond cartels and banking cartels.

Once concept that is largely dead in American thinking is "anti trust" - the idea that powerful companies might act in mutually beneficial ways. The recent consolidation of mega-financial institutions is a fairly obvious case, but america is either willfully obtuse (or deliberately) in not seeing this as a problem to address. Sure, let one company have larger notional derivatives exposure than the entire world economy (JP Morgan) - what could possibly go wrong? What are you, a communist??

It's hard to do commentary well, referencing a wide range of subjects and facts. Details need to be right.
Incredibly moving to see such an outpouring of support, condolences, and remembrances on a commit page like this. Wow.
Biotech is going to be eaten by software, that's not in question. It's clear that Kleiner lost their first bet on health startups, which means that I'm looking forward to seeing the next batch of startups give it a go.
Every article on security ends with:

* Update your anti-virus software
* Apply all software updates
* Pick a hard password

Rarely do these matter: ransomware, Target, etc., are exploits unrelated to these defenses. Why do we push them so hard? Does anyone feel safer and more righteous from advocating this security theatre?
on one hand this sort of thing concerns me, but on the other hand that's just amazing. just comes down to trust I guess
> It allows you to concentrate on the fun other bits of the business.

So wait up, what you're saying is that correcting reverse entry errors is dull and boring.
Congrats to Benchling! They're a phenomenal group of guys who are really going to do great things.
It sounds like the article author used the MtGox price, which is irrelevant at the moment.
Disclosures: I work at Ally and my team is building Ally's new online banking interface.

- Unlike Simple, Ally is actually a bank.

- We take deposits and then turn around and lend that money out primarily as auto loans.

- The rates we can pay are currently capped because we're still a TARP company.

Interface-wise there will be significant changes in the future (October-ish). Our entire online banking will be a single page application built using Ember, inspired by Simple. The transition will be ... interesting ... but after things settle down you can know that we're aiming to compete at least interface-wise in the space that Simple is in. (They have some fun things on the backend that we're not attempting yet.)

And if you look under the covers once we launch you'll notice that there is an API driving nearly everything. I wonder what might happen if that were, say, usable by others?
Affected by the Namecheap DDOS today unfortunately. Just switched over to Amazon Route 53 but it's taking a while to propagate to everyone.
Geeksphone launches the first multi OS smartphone
i wish i had this when we were fundraising for experiment.com
Getting a 404.
Privacy is a social construct and so it must be dealt in a social way (regulations, etiquettes, norms, etc..) Stopping, hindering, slowing down, or complaining about technological growth for fear of privacy violations, is the same logic used by religious bodies hundreds of years ago to today, regarding advancements in science.
"The difference is that the world diamond market is largely controlled by a single private enterprise, the South Africa-based De Beers cartel. The geniuses behind De Beers recognized early on that a stable, profitable diamond industry depended on controlling both supply and demand. De Beers rarely discovers new sources of diamonds; rather, it focuses on controlling existing ones, limiting production, and if necessary buying up surplus gems and stockpiling them to prop up the market. It sets prices arbitrarily and cuts off supplies to dealers who buy through unauthorized channels. On the marketing side, De Beers hired advertising firms, starting with N.W. Ayer in the late 1930s, to render axiomatic the idea that diamonds = true love."

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2524/is-a-diamonds-...

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-rise-and-fall-of-diamond...
I also find the classification problem fascinating. Of course, the real technicality isn't explicit in the text of the relevant law. The real technicality is that the law is meant to please content creators/distributors. If Aereo does something they don't like, they're going to fight it, even if we spectators think that Aereo is technically following the text of the law.
This is completely destroying my sense of living in the future. I have no choice but to delete this discussion from my memory.
Today, I have been sold to Facebook for forty bucks
Ally's current app is built using http://www.kony.com/ which is why it is less than awesome. We're actively working to improve our native applications (and web experience), look for updates coming soon in your friendly neighborhood app stores. :)
Continuous archiving (WAL) is something quite different from incremental backups.

Incremental backups involve taking a full backup once in a while and then making interim backups of the changes since the base backup. WAL ( or archive logs in Oracle terminology) are still used for point in time recovery for changes that have occurred since the last incremental backup. One advantage is that if a row is updated 100 times between the base and incremental backup, you will only essentially be backing up the last change in your incremental backup versus WAL which will have all 100 changes. For big DBs, this can be very handy.

"somewhat harder to swith back"

Thats my point exactly. In Oracle switching between primary and standby is easy and you can do it back and forth as needed with no need to worry about rebuilding the database. In Postgres this is not yet the case, but most of the infrastructure is there already so its surprising it hasn't been done.

I'm also looking forward to logical replication. RAC is different however from master-master replication. Essentially its a specialized cluster with storage thats shared between all nodes in the cluster (so there is no replication going on) with "cache fusion" to share in-memory data between nodes .

PG lets the OS do the stuff it does best versus RAC which is largely a OS cluster solution specifically tailored for a multi node DB - so its unlikely (in my opinion) that the PG developers will ever produce anything similar.
Whoah there - that's a huge leap from investors finding out that the entrepreneur is lying to them to the investors colluding on price. One is fine, the other is not.
<sarcasm> Thanks for reading the blog post </sarcasm>

I'm not arguing in "Change for change's sake" What I'm saying is that when banks were conceived they had a simplistic and singular purpose (keeping physical money there because it was not practical to keep it all at your own house)

The reason I think we should be seeking a fundamental change in banking is that we're not literally having to store gold(or even that much cash) in bank vaults these days.

Most money is moved in a non-material sense(which is why the reference to data)

"Why? Because so-called big data is "in"?" No. Because moving money is moving data, and simply put the information that allows you to move money lives online, it IS data. The kinds of things that can be stolen or leaked from any provider can allow almost anyone to spend your money like its theirs and they don't have to walk into a retail bank to do it.

This is why banks are fundamentally data problems at this point.

So while I appreciate your opinion I would relegate your opinion to banking not being broken back to a pre-2007 world where smartphones did not exist.

Was communication broken? YES Did people not realize it? ABSOLUTELY ... just because you don't see it at first sight doesn't mean it does not exist.

Let's think outside the box a bit. that's where true innovation is bred.
Google is enormously huge, and the breadth of their product line is jaw dropping. This fact causes the instant reaction of connecting every "innovation" that comes out of it to be connected to greed for more and hunger for data. This would be an overtly exciting Kickstarter project to find out about, but when it is from Google, the perception is that they are managing to invade one more market.

They are the Internet, they have the half of cellphone market, they sell apps, books, CPU cycles, they sell Chromebooks, tablets, they make maps, they provide apps for chat, video conferencing, they've made an online office suite, they store your documents, they make the mobile OS that is sold on other company's mobile phones, they do mobile payment, they create programming languages, they employ Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, and probably the guy you envy the most, they have quantum computers and they do a sh*t load of other things that I can't bother to remember (Translate, Youtube, G+, Blogger, Groups, ...).

It is not possible (for me, at least) to attach Google the childish excitement that two geeky weirdos with scruffy hair bear for their fundraiser. Google is now the hot kid in the school, who's tall, strong, handsome and athletic, who also plays guitar and is very successful at his exams, speaks three languages and represents his school in the drama festival, and also participates in the school band as whoever the guy who gets the most attention in a band.

Innovation is good for science, but it is harmful to the collaborative efforts when it comes from companies that should've been saturated. When Google dies (like anything else), it will fell over the crowd that lives under it's shadow.
The things that make the most money are the things that money has built the best marketing for.

People pay for things they want out of the choices they are aware of.

"Analysts" - politicians, Joe College, HN posters - tend to use an overly simplified economic model, based primarily on the "Turn Lemons into Lemonade" 3rd-grade economics primer they read as a child.
Yeah, I was really disappointed at the time that Nintendo didn't move on it, as it obviously worked really well out of the box, with no hardware modifications needed.

It could have made an awesome additional experience to some games (even if it was optional), and they could have done it with no accessory required.
Ukraine Crisis Worsens With Biggest Death Toll So Far
Death toll in Ukraine's fresh violence rises to 35 – Xinhua News
Crowdsourcing a database of patent trolls
Indeed. Or even "don't click on suspicious emails or visit suspicious websites" which are actually always harmless. How about simply "don't run a program you don't trust" and we wouldn't need virus scanners at all.
DIY Publishing with Substance and Github Pages
Co-Founder of Vessel here, thanks guys for your feedback. We will reward it as, A/B testing without any code changes.
That wasn't supposed to be there. It is now removed.
Good god I am so sick of reading comments like this. This view of the world is just lazy. Almost as lazy as "remember, if you're using a service for free, you're not the customer, YOU'RE THE PRODUCT!", which seems to get parroted every single time there is any discussion related to google, facebook, microsoft, instagram, twitter, or any other web company that uses ads as a revenue model.

Yes, google can know what your room looks like. Google could also know literally every place you go, every message you send, every transaction you make through a bank, every website you visit, every photo you take, every person you meet, when you use the bathroom, when you sleep, etc. etc. etc.

Who cares? If you don't like these services, don't use them. Nobody is forcing you to use this device.

Have you, or any of the other people on HN who repeat this ad nauseum, ever considered the possibility that the people running google are actually just hackers who got lucky enough to have the resources to pursue projects that they think are cool?

I mean...what would you do if you had google's resources? If I had google's resources I'd probably be doing exactly what they're doing. Things like trying to improve the broadband situation in the United States, protected rhinos from African poachers, developing cool future-tech like self-driving cars, etc.

If you don't like modernity, stop using modernity. Move to a homestead in the pacific northwest, never use a telephone, never use grid power, grow your own vegetables, grow your own cattle, and keep away from the evil, scary spies at gooooogggllleeee who are trying to...uh...give you better targeted advertisements? Or provide you with better search results?
He says "Suppose that Yahoo had pledged to allow Google to operate independently...Chrome and Android likely would never have gotten off the ground." But Android was...an acquisition.
That would exclude me from using dominant majority of the software I use daily.
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Arrested By The FBI
I see only one result on DDG for vbuf_queue. Maybe they changed it in the last 4 hours?
could they have used a better example than MUMPS tho....yes, I know it works with its peculiar brand of duct tape, chewing gum and baling wire, but still...
The quote is for full turnkey, so it's pcb + parts + assembly.
It will let you see through walls.

Imagine being in a complex refinery, factory, etc., where tons of infrastructure is hidden behind walls or a couple of rooms away. Just hold your device in front of you, and peer through its virtual portal through the walls onto your hidden surroundings ...

Being able to know where everything is, along with an overlay of real-time status, etc. will be valuable.
Nice app! Quick spelling check though:

You can focus on and isolate part of a rep to really understand how well "YOUR" performed
Link?

I need motivation.
Yep, I wasn't able to get to everything. I had to update a ton of the content via the Django admin without a source checkout (which is now available), so I couldn't grep for placeholder text. We'll get it all straightened out.
A pretty low-tech system I saw in use in the '90s, without having to go all the way to serial cables, was just FTP with delete/overwrite disabled, to a machine with no other network services running. You dump a snapshot and FTP it to the backup host over your local ethernet. The FTP server accepts new files, but doesn't allow deletions or modifications of previously uploaded files (lots of FTP servers have this option, in order to be able to create a public "anonymous upload" folder without people overwriting each others' uploads). If you ever need to retrieve the backups, you physically log in on the backup machine and do something from there.

This does rely on the FTP implementation being solid (vsftpd seems like a reasonable choice).
Malware aside, it's annoying that people still think Bitcoin payments come "from" an address. It's not something you can rely on or expect in Bitcoin, and certainly shouldn't be used to identify payments by a client. A unique address per payment requested is the proper, expected method.
That's not my experience. Chrome is my main browser and although it is using significant energy according to battery indicator, the notebook is never running hot nor do I have problems with battery.
Protecting American Inventors and Innovators
Really? Which television station was that?
"Let me put this clearly. Y’all need to step it up. The time to discard what you thought you knew about the way things work in Venezuela is now."

Done. But I didn't really know how things worked there before either.
Unread replies to your comments. Like how the message thing on reddit is red when you have unread comments. It's too annoying to click "threads" on the navbar, and look through old threads to see if there were any new comments.
Jesus was an ass
Most people are pretty bad at deciding which programs are trustworthy.
Thanks for the suggestions!

We're on cocoapods, have tests, and a sample app locally but haven't pushed all that to Github to keep things simple for everyone looking at the source.

Model name tracking is an issue- we've fixed it in our backend so we can remap unknown names to display the correct thing on our website interface. We just haven't yanked the code from the SDK.

Agree on rearchitecting it with separation of concerns. We have to be very careful with any changes we push. The code's already running successfully on 10MM phones without any issues and we have to make sure not to introduce any new ones- so that process takes a while. Thanks again!
PAYWALLED. Sigh!
btsync is an interesting option. We are thinking about a GitHub link too so it would track your GitHub project.

Our pricing is high around some edge cases right now (low volumes and simple boards). That's going to get a lot better over the coming weeks as we refine the process.
So no, I don’t think it is deliberate that PHP gets very little press. PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?

Rasmus Lerdorf, http://www.sitepoint.com/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf/2/
Agreed; I'm getting sick of this faux-friendliness that's trendy in American customer service these days. Banks and B2B startups are equally as guilty. I don't want to be asked how I'm doing or discuss the weather every time I call you for a quick question, wasting lots of time with useless polite banter. I'd rather a business call with an established vendor go like this:

* Ring, quick answer

* V: Yeah?

* Me: I need X changed to Y.

* V: Got it.

* Me: Thanks. end call
An answer wiki.

http://www.quora.com/Quora-Answer-Wikis-Feature/What-is-an-A...
Copenhagen Wheel allows cyclists to bike 'faster, farther'
That just indicates that it hasn't passed Class B certification yet (under Title 47 CFR Part 15), which basically means that as an unintentional RF radiator (that is, at least in part not an intentional radiocommunication device), it hasn't yet been shown not to interfere with other devices. Even the wall wart for charging your phone needs to meet Class B in order to be sold or supplied for household use.
I am not sure we have any evidence that Clinkle has a huge amount of talent - in the absence of a product it is hard to prove either way.
That protection and responsibility is defined in your contract or registration agreement with NameCheap. You can consider DNS or DDoS protection NameCheap's responsibility, and they'll decide -- like any business -- which one they can afford.

While offering some gift or compensation for ANY negative incident -- especially one outside anyone's control -- is nice, that's not something everyone can afford under ANY circumstance.
(It does, I got 23 upvotes.)
Welcome to Algorithmic Prison
I think that a feature that would allow for more rational discussion would be good.

Like, you declare claims, say how they depend on each other, and participants could say which claims they agree with, and which they don't. Within each claim, there'd be a thread where you discuss it.

I think that this would seriously improve the quality of discussion.

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/bc340a52f6a4
Tudo 2
> You took a file that could be visible on my 13" and made it huge and bloated.

You're angry about this? https://github.com/amplitude/Amplitude-iOS/blob/master/Ampli...

Selector naming isn't a replacement for documentation, unless you happen to know how to express invariants like these entirely through naming and the type system:

"Property keys must be <code>NSString</code> objects and values must be serializable."

Also, I think the problem you might be having is that you're trying to hold other people's software to the constraints of your particular way of using a 13" consumer laptop.
I tried out his demo back then and unfortunately it isn't as impressive in real life as it is on video. The problem is that at the distance you usually have your television the most important depth cue is the stereo separation of images, i.e. what you get when wearing 3D-glasses.

So while the objects move around as if you would move in relation to them - your brain still tells you that the image is painted on the surface of the television.
"Your hypotetical driver that owns a motorcycle for 30 years is more likely to die over 25 than under it."

That's a very weird statistic. Sure, since those riders spend most of their 30 years riding time over 25yo.

From your link: "The highest death and injury rates were among 20-24 year-olds, followed by 25-29 year-olds."
$1.7 billion is a misleading number. The number that matters most in banking is your total deposit assets which they did not reveal in the blog post. The purchase was for two assets: the total deposits on hand (easy to calculate return on) and the technology. It's likely that at any bank of reasonable scale that it would take 2-3x the $117 million to build something comparable to what Simple already has. (I've worked at Wachovia, Wells Fargo, and Ally, and live in Charlotte so I know BofA's story too.)

This is an excellent purchase by BBVA, and a steal at that price. In short order they will move the assets over from the holding bank (that's the guaranteed money). At that acquisition price I suspect that Simple was struggling to return a profit since they were not actually a bank.
I'm sure they will. Just a matter of balancing stuff, of course.
Ask HN: What are some good web development related IRC channels?
Mainly for HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (presentation/view).
Beat big businesses by owning your small size
oh cool, are you looking for the metal and laminate? I guess somebody needs to do a CircuitHub for metal!
Ah right, YOLO! Different people, different points of view, all valid of course :)
Sounds like a typical tarsnap set up. You can have a key that only appends backups, but can't delete them.
Well, I did leave the industry in 2008, but last 2 projects I worked on we used Unreal Engine and the ratios for software developers vs everything else (except publisher's people) were about those 30% I mentioned. We didn't have many 'scripters', mainly some level designers that used Kismet and maybe a few UnrealScript classes but apart from that, most was done in C++ by software developers.
Emulating a touch screen in Chrome
and oftentimes get TUE (therapeutic use exception) for Ritalin for this reason

http://www.baseballnation.com/2012/6/29/3104332/is-there-an-...
> What more can you really ask them to do?

Nothing, of course. But it would certainly be wise for anyone to relying on their code to reconsider: if you try to participate in the community, you may simply be wasting your time.
Or at least cause you to consider the risk of loss compared to the value of using the software while not panicking when you receive a spam email with a suspicious looking xls file attached.
A Small Orange (http://asmallorange.com). Simple, clean & top-quality support. Used them for 2 years now - and it's been a pleasure.
Great, but why don't learn a real thing instead? Like this: http://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/