skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found a couple Objective-C libraries here:

https://github.com/nikolaypavlov/MLPNeuralNet
https://github.com/devongovett/SNNeuralNet

I can't comment on how it's designed, or whether it's easy to use. But it looks pretty good.
The Windows client was written in C++ (MFC iirc).
> People pay for things because they want them, because it makes their lives better.

Nope. I could really want a cigarette, bottle of alcohol, or a large cheese burger with 2 patties, doesn't mean it would make my life better. In fact, it's likely to make my life worse. So, really there isn't a flaw in grandparent post's argument, the things 'best' for society really don't tend to make the most money.
Ask HN: what are the good developers blogs to follow?
http://signalvnoise.com
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog
http://addyosmani.com/blog

What else?
Right, thanks are upstream recursively transitive.
Really simple solution to this: stop using new technology.

Unplug. Stay away from cities and other people who have devices.
I hope I can strap one on an RC plane or multi-rotor and map my neighborhood. That would be kind of cool.
Irish chip designer Movidius signs mega-deal with Google
How have they changed the industry?
Ha! Now, who's being sexist?
> People pay for things because they want them

Stop right there. With jobs moving abroad and wage that is not going up, how would people pay for things they want.
dont not work for me. I tried amazon am walmart
You could do that, but probably not in WhatsApp's case, assuming that aggressive trademark protection was a condition of the acquisition deal.
You'd probably like San Francisco more; I rode Caltrain daily and never had one social interaction onboard. The same wasn't true in Seattle.
I helped build Chat Simply: https://www.chatsimply.com it is XMPP backed, has Windows and Mac OS client as well as iOS. It is also web-based so you can use it in your browser if you would like. It is free but has some "Pro" features for a reasonable yearly fee.

BTW we officially launched it today, so this is good timing :)
There's a Chrome extension called Honey (I believe one of the devs posts here occasionally) which does this (well, you click a button and it tries a bunch of codes for you, it doesn't tell you upfront you can save).
Is anyone else getting 404?

The requested URL /atap/projecttango/ was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
Another +1 for Schwab. They're truly awesome.

The con you listed isn't exactly accurate. You don't need an IRA, or direct deposit.

In opening a bank account, they automatically open a brokerage account, in doing so there is no minimum balance in either account. No direct deposits required, no IRA, no requirement to even use their brokerage accounts.

Real cons I've found:
1. You have to actually mail in a form to set up electronic transfers to other bank accounts (either your own or someone else's). After learning about square cash I no longer find this to be an issue.
2. You can't do international wire transfers directly from the bank account. You can however transfer the money to your brokerage account and do the wire transfer from there.
3. If you initiate an ACH pull from another bank account you have they place a 3 day hold on the money. Annoying but can be avoided if you can use an ACH push from the other bank.

And the pros:
1. They do refund all ATM fees, including foreign ATM fees. This was extremely useful when I was in Japan which is cash only and where I was getting hit with $15 ATM fees.
2. They also absorb the fee Visa imposes on foreign transactions (both currency conversion fees, an the Visa cross-border fee of approximately 1%).
3. Unlimited free checks, free return envelopes for sending in things you have to mail them.
4. Customer service so good I always put down the phone smiling and elated. I've never been transferred to another person when dealing with them!

All in all I highly recommend them unless you need to make cash deposits, or need to make international wire transfers frequently.
Yes, just saw that. Best wishes to her.
And yet the commentor is claiming that the other tool is able to produce useful output from those inputs.
Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2012
How task tools kill creativity, make you delusional and turn you into a cogwheel
How to economically decide whether you should manipulate your government
Scaling is a problem that happens once you get users, and by that point you can pay real engineers to solve your scaling problems. Scaling is a phantom bugaboo used by engineers to help massage their egos that some punk-nosed kid is kicking their ass at capitalism using Ruby or PHP or Node or Perl with a shitty, inferior product...that happens to have more users and mindshare and potential then that engineer's pet project, oh-so-carefully engineered and constructed.

If you set out to build Twitter or Faceobook or Snapchat or whatever at scale, from the start, you're doomed.

But, cranking out a stupid little Rails app with enough hook and flair to get your initial userbase and attract investors is pretty much just bolting together gems and bootstrap.

Worse is better, the crowds have spoken.
Way to go guys! Keep up the great work and momentum.
Your comment did it. I've been avoiding it, since I know I won't stop until I either finish all the levels or give up after spending too many hours, but I finally decided to give it a try. And it is amazing. As an emulator author myself ( http://www.ubercomp.com/jslm32/src/ ), I'm in awe of the care that was put into the CTF environment. Very nice.

To the people who are wondering if they'll be able to finish the CTF, here are my two cents: go ahead and try for a few hours. I'm sure you won't regret it. I haven't done assembly since the beginning of 2012, and I was able to do a couple of levels in less than an hour, and before I started I new absolutely nothing about MSP430 assembly. The tutorial/manual are so good that I believe even someone who doesn't know assembly at all might be able to finish at least some levels.
its not, structure.io is using Primesense sensor.
Tango appears to be doing structure from motion
Know Your System(s)
Wow. Great app. I would have loved this app back when I was into oly lifting.
Broken Stride
Went through their iOS SDK.
What's up with people shoving so much shit into their public facing API (the interface).
I don't need all those comments if you could name your selectors properly (which you did)

You took a file that could be visible on my 13" and made it huge and bloated.

Still going through the implementation but there are a few flags. (Will do issues or PRs)

Yes I am bored and caffeinated at 11 pm.

Sorry for being overly negative, you did actually have cool stuff that Mixpanel missed out on. Like giving actual readable device names.
I got excited when I got my invitation long ago, but it came out to be an expensive service for me - expensive, as to use it, I had to part with my 1.5% cash back (which totals to over $1K per year) from my PayPal Debit Card. Same with other similar services like Moven, Serve, GoBank, and the rest.
J2EE is officially JEE now:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/overview/index...

But yeah, i still call it J2EE too.
Ask HN: Have I specialized myself into a corner?
I really want a nice envelope budgeting debit card, but for my purposes Simple wasn't it. Most notably, if you mark a transaction as coming from a specific goal, and the amount of the transaction is more than the goal, the goal gets set at $0, and there's no way to determine what the balance was before you marked the transaction. You can unmark the transaction, but at that point you'll actually have more in your goal than you did previously.

Basically I want Simple but with a richer transaction history. It doesn't have to be as cumbersome as a full double-entry account system, but it needs to have roughly a similar level of account history.
The Power of Truly Social Games
There is no fee for replacement debit cards.
Imagine how much they would have sold for if they'd used node.js!
Yes.

Google Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VI0ttG...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe10ExwzCqk
Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters
> The things that are "best" for society also tend to make the most money. People pay for things because they want them, because it makes their lives better

The things that make the most money are the things most desired by the people with the most money to spend. That group of people can only be equated with "Society" if that group of people does in fact form the majority of the society. That's why a large middle class is so important, and why growing differences in income are so threatening.
Was excited after visiting that landing page, but woof on the pricing.

We do custom app development for a variety of large companies, so do hear "analytics, analytics, analytics" all the time. But I would just hear "go with Google Analytics" at those prices.
Is this more so than anywhere else in the US?
As long as these newly minted millionaires & billionaires continue the Silicon Valley tradition of reinvesting their money back into new startups then I think we'll more than offset the potential innovation we lose by them being locked away and their own companies merged/shuttered.

Now if the culture ever changes and people start hording their money, then I'll agree we have problems.
Give me one example of a successful company that is bad for society and I'll give you 100 that are good.

p.s. not actually, I should be working.

p.p.s see my note on my above comment for a proper response to this.
Can't duckduckbot just present itself to the webserver as GoogleBot?
The games aren't flash, and they don't show up on either the search bar in your browser or the search results page.
Interest isn't what they collect on deposits, it's what they pay. Banks lever up and invest those deposits for much higher returns.
I took several of his classes. Brilliant professor and a very entertaining speaker. As an academic, he is a firm believer in fundamental analysis and DCF based valuation. He is level headed so he also understands that not everything can be explained with DCF.
Yes, it's not possible. This is the very same way my wife and I were running bills for years, and yes, that's why I didn't move to Simple due to that feature not being there.
Interesting idea, how does this work for international orders? Do I get the product price discounted, and then pay whatever Amazon lists for shipping?

This isn't immediately clear due to Amazon's price conversion. Here's what I see when I head to checkout:
http://i.imgur.com/2ruNHfr.png

Which matches up with product price + shipping if I swap back to USD:
http://i.imgur.com/ekeMX0y.png

But I'm still unclear how Zinc works with international shipping as the discounted price includes both product price and shipping.
GPS tracking + complete 3D environment history of your presence.

I can imagine how NSA is excited :)
http://html5index.org/
We request permission for all websites since we are rapidly adding support for more retailers. We don't want to have to ask the user for new permissions every time we add a retailer.
That was point of the article: npm is not a valid option for various reasons, but it should be easier for applications to organize the source code in multiple directories which you then tarball.
We're actually cheaper than Google Analytics at really large scale. One of our most recent customers was recently forced upgrade to Google Analytics Premium because they were tracking too much data and decided to come to us instead because we were cheaper.
I use DDG as my default search engine about 2 years. It's still have some issues should be fix. But it't works fine for programmer and some professional users.
Maybe it isn't communicating with Google servers in real-time, but I'd be shocked if Google wasn't uploading all the data gathered after the fact.

> Until a device is actually released that requires you to upload all data

No, no, it won't be required... it will just be on by default, and the opt-out will be buried in a submenu hidden under the "Advanced Developer Options" section.
The mobile analytics ecosystem is in need of an overhaul. None of the existing players offer a great solution, least of all Flurry. Really excited to see how much further Amplitude can take things.
That's true, and I completely forgot that you can do that. In fact, that's how I last deposited a check!
I don't know, I've never lived in the US as an adult. I just moved here from New Zealand.
Benchling (YC S12) Is Modernizing Software For Biotech Labs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe10ExwzCqk#t=19

19 second mark shows they are using monocular structure from motion.

Some Japanese Uni has a working solution(HDL inside FPGA) doing same thing too
http://hackaday.com/2014/01/12/autonomous-quadcopter-fits-in...

you can try it yourself, code is on github
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E35xbo3r8rA
https://github.com/nymanjens/ardrone-exploration
Interesting. I had no idea.

FWIW, the violence in Kiev is very localized to pretty much the Independence Square. Most people that want to stay out of the protests simply do so.

Then again, I agree and hope everyone there stays safe.
It doesn't sound to me like their intention is to build community around this code. In fact they explicitly state their intention to merge everything they can back to Apache Thrift, and the fact that they've been tracking upstream closely.

Working exclusively through open source communities like the ASF can slow you down sometimes, so if you need to iterate quickly on something sometimes the upstream review or release process isn't appropriate - even though it might require more work later. They're still open-sourcing their technology, and intend to move it back to the original project. What more can you really ask them to do?
I don't think so, I'm pretty sure Facebook has given them some limitations on how many shares they can sell or when (ie: they can't sell more than 1B each year)

Companies which offer stock in acquisitions usually do because they think their shares are overvalued
Thanks for taking a look at our SDK. We actually put in all the comments on the interface file to clear up confusion people had when using the API.
Feedaro Private Beta
I've just learned about the Y-Combinator in a lecture about functional programming a few weeks ago. Very excited for the Video as soon, as the website is up again.
Heh. The other day I posted either on HN or Reddit a comment bashing the NSA and literally the moment I completed the sentence, my whole machine locked up and I had to do a hard reset...

Not that I attributed it to the NSA, but I found the incident weirdly amusing.
This possibly refunds buyers part of the Amazon affiliate fees they get for intercepting the order. I don't think Amazon will appreciate that... There are other "cashback" type services like this though, e.g. http://www.quidco.com/ which actually has contracts with many merchants (who appreciate it).
Heart attacks are so common. Another reason developers should watch and track their health (not saying Jim wasn't healthy). All the pizza and sugary caffeine drinks I've consumed just to keep coding probably wasn't smart.
Ambition is a finite resource.
Ask HN: Which are your most favorite functional patterns?
I watched this [0] video for the second time and finally understood it (it amazes me). My Question: Are there any other functional patterns like this that you know and if yes - which are your favorite?

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs
"Luck versus Skill in the Cross-Section of Mutual
Fund Returns"
By Eugene F Fama and Kenneth R French

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/teaching/35150...
In Spain everyone uses it, from 12 to 60 years old. My mother in low just wanted a smartphone to have Whatsapp.
The new trend is Telegram though...
As for #4, does the $10k number apply to only hardware specialists?
What To Do When Your Launch Gets Zero Traction
How about btsync in addition to dropbox?

I tried it and it was easy to upload the design and find the parts. Nice job.

https://circuithub.com/projects/hagna/fivekey (it's five keys on a small board with some wiring) in a volume of 1 will be $919 to assemble, and $95 for just the pcb.
Amplitude (YC W12) vs Mixpanel (YC S09)
New A.I? Lemme fail it.
Ok, let's modify my example from "some guy" to "some guy you know" and imagine that a lot of people know this guy, and he's always standing outside that store. The store would get mad for sure.

Don't get me wrong here, I would happily use any service that would save me money if I didn't believe it was a bit shady. I'm just kind of foreseeing a bit of a legal issue if this somehow took off and got on Amazon's radar and their sales started noticeably dropping.

If legal action could NOT be pursued, it would be easy for Amazon to update their code to prevent any sort of injection like this, and it would turn into a cat-and-mouse game of who could update their code more quickly:

setInterval(function() {
var button = document.getElementById('zincbutton'); //or whatever
button && button.remove();
}, 100);
Kudos for using a HN page to stay in touch
Email me some more information (if your interested) and maybe you can't sell him the iPhone app as a service and not a flat out product, with a bigger name behind it.

I run igniteDDS.com and I'm always looking for new things to provide students / dentists / etc... Maybe we can work together...

If you can turn 1 sale into reoccurring monthly income... you'll be better off in the long run.
This line of thinking is both disingenuous and lazy at best, for several reasons.

First of all, environmental problems are not of black and white type. It's not something where "humanity puts effort", then suddenly the problem disappears.

It's perfectly plausible instead, that nature as we know it today is going to disappear, to be replaced by wasteland, while still having the capability to acceptably sustain human life.

Second, environmental problems are not primarily technical problems.
We have already what we need to keep the environment clean and sustainable (with some limits, of course).
But political and economical forces (and straight crime and bare ignorance, of course) play the main role. And they're not going to disappear, let alone suddenly.

Third, even if there were "solutions", that doesn't mean that they would restore the natural balance as we know it today. Some things may very well be "beyond repair".

Last one, and this is disturbing, it's not "human nature", it's your nature, and those of the people passively and lazily thinking this way. A lot can be done, and many people (and some countries) are trying hard to do it.
Obviously? This was your assertion:

State-allocated capital without a private finance sector has failed miserably

It is completely wrong. It is a lie. You weren't obviously talking about a spectrum, you were talking crap.
According to "FriedPickles" farther down the comment thread:

We do not use Amazon Associates (the affiliate program) in any manner.
Sometimes the API finds savings beyond what we've guaranteed,
which is how we make money.
you raise some interesting points but i think you are quite misguided - despite having the right kind of idea imo.

the fact that you use words like politics and expensive tells me we are imagining very different scenarios and consequences...

what i mean by 'real problem with consequences you can feel' is unavoidable stuff where /nature/ forces you to pay attention or die. i.e. you must respond to the situation because it is vital for survival and doing actual harm to you whilst you do not.

the fact that a flood is almost certainly going to happen tomorrow might make me run away - the flood happening right now forces me to run or die.

/run or die/

that is what i am talking about. not freedom of choice but unavoidable force of nature. i think that is what it will take for people to do something - and it will need to happen to most of us if not all...

i don't think thats a good thing. however i have a lot of faith in how creative and constructive people are when they are fighting for survival. cost and resources become irrelevant if they exist - if you need money (and you won't) then you will steal it because its preferable to dying... you will make a damned good effort too. the real limiting factors will be time vs. manpower (will we finish before we die - will we die trying?) and feasibility (i.e. does the universe allow it at all).

of course we may also just let ourselves die... its a very real possibility that we end ourselves through the fallout from climate change.

as an aside one of the biggest problems for climate change proponents, i feel, is that predictions are constantly wrong and have been historically. the situation you describe there i feel is very flawed... whilst it might be a good prediction is it really the thing to worry about? can you convince me of this?

a classic case to point at in this regard is the recent global dimming due to particulates in the atmosphere - which have caused more problems where people actually have been dying and living a lower quality of life as a result of climate change. we are already not fixing these problems and ignoring them. people are actually dying today because of this problem - but nowhere near enough for people to seriously care - melting ice (nearly harmless artic ice as well which will not cause sea levels to rise appreciably if at all) is so very far away from that level of seriousness... let alone a survival scenario.

... long :I
Are there plans to automate the soldering of components in to place for me?
I think you're right in some cases. There are also certainly some legitimate and pretty big gripes to be made about the industry.

But as someone in the midst of buying a house with some "interesting" zoning, I currently hate finance because I do understand it. :)
I'm a native. I like corrections. We learn best through failure. Something I would think the HN community would appreciate.
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I noticed (coincidentally) that the savings was close to the taxes -- I wonder if they are shipping to tax-free places and rerouting them somehow with a deal with a shipping company?
So how long will it be before someone can take a picture of a person and find all the similar matches on Tinder modulo any profile preferences and desired attributes? Maybe save it for later and use it in a completely different location? In other words, take a picture and then have an app that finds as many matches for that person all while applying any filter preferences the user has in his or her own profile. One person may see exciting matching opportunities. Others may use these modern technology aids in becoming the ultimate modern predator. It's one thing when you want to find a great date. It's quite another when someone uses it to find your son or daughter.
Well, there is that deep well of unjustified fear and hatred I've stored up in my heart. I wasn't going to mention it, because I was worried it might undermine my credibility.
> Is it really possible that American driving manners are better than Japanese ones?

It's absolutely and utterly untrue.

Japanese drivers are generally very good, and tend to be reasonably polite/easy-going (the notable exception being anybody in a Ferrari or the like, but that's universal I guess), both in the countryside and in big cities. There are some annoying ingrained habits in Japanese driving (e.g. there's always a car or two that drives through when the light turns red, they seem to ignore yellow completely), but by and large they're fairly law-abiding. As a pedestrian, one doesn't feel like a target / second-class citizen (I'm referring to driver attitude here, though of course better urban design also helps).

American drivers, welll....... ><
The stay out of jail part isn't even part of the equation these days is it? Considering how many people are in jail for almost destroying the world a few years ago, I'll go out on a limb and say the chances of that are effectively zero.