skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking for a wifi ingress monitor (ideally it would take a picture rather than be a simple sensor) - any suggestions.

Also, re the spark:

"No need to ever plug the Core into your computer" vs. "Power it over USB"

Edit: scratch that, https://www.spark.io/# has details of a "battery shield" with a LiPo - an idea of the battery life when running the OP's sensor application would be nice though?
No, I'm not, and WOW, I didn't knew about that, I'm somewhat shocked also! :D
I hit the dictionary and found that this word is also used for something "exciting". We never-ever use it in this context, there is no such thing in Hungarian language that anything else than woman or men is "sexy".

That's why I read HN, to learn every day, thank you!

p.s. It still feel strange to me naming a women and also a text editor sexy, so I will never use it, but now I understand, it might not be that stupid than I thought. :)
> demos

Asm.js needs fewer demos and more finished production applications. Apparently Epic isn't excited enough about this technology to release one of their games on the web.
Corruption is more cause than effect of poverty.
"Now, like all pieces of medical equipment, it would probably good to culture some swabs off them to see what's growing, and how hard they are to clean." leads to you... "You seem to think every item a doctor carries needs to be autoclaved at clocking out time" and claiming tabloid scare stories.

Perhaps it isn't well characterized to begin with?
Man - a lot of hackers are morally bankrupt.

I understand if their goal is to post Karpeles' information, but they should leave others' personal information out of it. It is really hard to feel sympathetic to their point of view when they a) might have stolen money themselves and b) are so cavalier about intruding other people's privacy.
QA Automation Engineer - Homejoy
Homejoy is a fast growing technology platform revolutionizing the client and service provider experience. We use our platform to provide our clients with on-demand, high quality home services, starting with residential cleaning, at a fraction of the cost of our competitors. In our first year we expanded to more than 30 cities throughout the US and Canada - covering over 100m households. We've delivered double-digit revenue growth every single month, and every new market's growth tracks faster than our first benchmark market.

Who is a Homejoy QA Automation Engineer?

You’re entrepreneur minded and passionate about developing testing procedures and executing test cycles in short release cycles on both web & mobile. You have some coding background and believe that websites & products should operate flawlessly. You thrive in a rapid pace agile development environment.

What you will do:

* Take the lead role in managing the QA process - you get to build it from the ground up!
* Effectively communicate with product and design during new feature reviews and throughout product development
* Propose tradeoffs and provide risk assessment to stakeholders as necessary
* Verify, document and manage report of software bugs

Here’s what we’re looking for:

* 2+ yrs working as a QA automation engineer, preferably in a fast growing startup
* Take the lead role in managing the QA process - you get to build it from the ground up!
* You have worked on a small QA team - embracing the challenge of driving white box testing in addition to writing automated test cases
* Effectively communicate with product and design during new feature reviews and throughout product development
* Ability to propose tradeoffs and provide risk assessment to stakeholders as necessary
* Verify, document and manage report of software bugs
* You’re fast - you walk the fine line between getting products out the door and testing them to perfection
* You’re opinionated and care intensely about the little details that make a great user experience
* Experienced in programming languages
* Bachelors in CS, or equivalent experience
Startup DNA a must

Bonus Points:

* Python experience
* Testing mobile applications using iOS and Android platforms
* Experienced a Homejoy cleaning and already know how we work as a client
I seem to recall that we've got laws that make some crimes have a greater penalty during "time of war", which I assume means declared war.

How do you mean "outdated concept"? Are there no more wars? Are their no different legal penalties or obligations during war any more? Because I'm told that the USA has been in wars since 2001 at least. What are the consequences to me, and to my government of outdating an official declaration of war?
I also found the hardest thing about the game to be figuring out the lag in timing between pressing jump and my character actually leaving the ground. Windows 7, Chrome.
Thank you for using uB as the default unit!

The fact that Bitcoin is "so expensive" is a huge psychological barrier for people who don't understand that it's divisible.
I understand that this is tech news, since it involves the leaders of one of the biggest companies of our time, but any time I see anything referred to as a "juicy investigation", I close the tab and move on.
I edited the story. We had to write it this way bc Otto reports a fiscal year that ends in February. Amazon's fiscal year is the calendar year. So it wasn't exact comparison and we had to fudge.
Design Quips from ZURB
A good (better) source for this kind of thing is the battlestations subreddit. Especially if you sort it by votes.

http://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/top/?sort=top&t=all
Google reveals http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1077764/vpn-and-voip-e... which seem to be slides regarding it.
Curios how many people here actually use Lua ? What are the applications you are using it for ? I know it is used a bit in the gaming industry for scripting purposes, but I am not aware of anything else.

We use it internally to map some of the functions in our library to OpenGL.
> Yes, but bandwidth = speed, so all else equal, a wider allowed bandwidth produces greater speed.

That's not quite true. It's Bandwidth + encoding = speed . And there's tons of digital encoding schemes: ASK APSK CPM FSK MFSK MSK OOK PPM PSK QAM SC-FDE TCM for starters. And those would allow you to pick up and decode using any old computer running a HDTV usb capture card that can go into raw mode.

> Maybe in a perfect world without anyone else competing for the frequencies.

Nobody would bat an eye if I was to start doing UAV control over 145.50-145.80 with a 20KHz bandwidth . I'd just hop on the local repeater and announce that is what I was doing, and have a radio listening in priority mode to it. If I heard of any anomalies, I'd shut it down and investigate what's going on.

And I have no LoS issues and 2M usually has a nice noise floor. Obviously that doesn't quite apply at night, but just stay vigilant in not harming others.

> Note about radio control that, over decades of time, the command & control frequencies have been going up. There's a good reason -- the original 27 MHz scheme was unworkable for multiple reasons, but one of them was limited bandwidth.

Tubes and early silicon made access to the lower frequencies tenable. Of course the lower frequencies will fill up first. So, it does make great sense, for higher bandwidth using services, to use high frequencies. That's why I said the video could be on the 2.4 GHz spectrum, whereas the command can be on 144MHz.

I'd also consider going lower, making AM more usable. For command frequencies, NOT having capture* is a great deal. That's why control towers mainly use AM and digital modes/CSMA variant.

*Capture is an FM phenomenon, where the strongest FM signal that hits a receiver is the only signal the receiver can hear. The receiver is literally captured to that station. AM does not have that, and what you hear is the jumble of every station in range. Just tune at night on AM and you can hear this.
Two Features Android We Need From Android: Kiosk Mode and Individual Permissions
4 Web frameworks for Scala
They were aware and had to design around them. See my point above.
A bunch of photos showing an beautiful Mac... how does this make the frontpage???
I didn't knew about this, thanks!
Yeah, I'm waiting for "dump your stuff in here" boxes at nursing stations that at least give everything a UV once-over or the like.
Hit the nail on the head. There is a plethora of important and difficult problems to solve, and the millenial generation has to trudge through the pile of shit that's been left accumulating for the past several decades. Our most pressing matters involve navigating a new world that is built on the internet.
Firefox's new theme does look a lot like Chrome. The tabs are more rounded and the color scheme is a bit different, but without going into the menus it's hard to tell them apart at first glance sometimes.
No, no. A proper setup is like this -

1. Keep TC container in a non-shared location on local disk
2. Mount it, keep it mounted
3. Periodically backup this location to your Dropbox folder

Now, the trick is to use backup software that is capable of
(a) shadow copying
(b) incremental file updates

Shadow copying works around .tc file being locked.
Incremental updating keeps things quick.

The only Windows software I know that is capable of this is Bvckup 2 - http://bvckup2.com

(I posted this earlier, but then deleted the post as it read kind of spammy. But this is the way to handle TC container backup, so here it is again. And that's one gem of a backup program too, totally worth a plug).
So basically put an iMac on an empty desk next to a window? That sure is simple.
Good. This isn't just a file sharing app... it's an app designed explicitly to make piracy convenient. That's its only real purpose.

This is why people are throwing rocks at Google buses: the idea that computer technology is working to create a world where only programmers can get paid.

I used to be on this "information wants to be free" bandwagon, but then I met some actual artists. Lots of things "want" to happen. Nuclear power plants "want" to melt down, dams "want" to break, influenza "wants" to spread, etc. That doesn't mean it's always in our best interest to allow the default second law of thermodynamics thing to occur. There must be some mechanism in our economy for artists and the people who support them to get paid, otherwise you can kiss anything but the most trite (read: cheap to produce) pop music and plotless explosion-fest movies goodbye. That's because that stuff appeals to people who are either too young or too dumb to know how to pirate.

If people can't get paid to pursue their dreams, they have to shelve their dreams in order to get paid. Then you have one less author, one less musician, one less movie being made.
I think they're getting around it by being a strict torrenting service - i.e. when you add a torrent that is already there, you get one single seed for the entire file, and the person who originally brought it in is liable for sharing it, not put.io
Honestly when you actually use it it doesn't really look or feel like Chrome very much in my opinion.
Looks like something I may use but financial transactions have never been social. If I have to send someone money (friend or someone I owe), I'll use PayPal or something which they can recognize. With bitcoin, a lot of people want to "get in the game" as an investment. Maybe it's just me but I can't relate to a situation where I'll have to send a friend or someone I owe bitcoin through his/her facebook handle.
Taking a second look at free fonts
I'm making a to-do list for Gmail as a browser extension. It'll be free and I should have screenshots up in the next week if time allows. If you're interested, get on the list here:

http://toduh.com
Bullshit. Your entire "zero" approach is stringing customers along. Which is fine. Just don't try to pretend like you weren't doing something you knew would upset your test subjects.
does it work with sites on https?
I'm referring to bare `git pull`.

I've seen `git pull --rebase` suggested as a common solution to avoid excess merges; is this dangerous or a good idea?
Thank you for replying. That was very helpful to see it from a different perspective.
> I guess it depends on what employees are looking for in their career - to be the best they can be, or live a laid back lifestyle.

He could no longer see anything, even though their bedroom was covered with the bright light of a sunny day in spring. As if he knew it was time to go, he held his wife's hand tight. Mustering some energy out of nowhere, gasping for air, he said, "I love you." Before she could answer anything, or even acknowledge his sentiment with a stronger grasp of their hands, he added, "but I really wish we'd been better employees".
Disasters and Accidents DO Happen…….
Not sure about the reason for Hadoop to be in Java. Google's map reduce system which inspired Hadoop was written in C++ for good reasons as well. Systems you mentioned are written in Java I assume, because it's easier for those projects to find developers. In the future this will change, with languages like Rust emerging as better C++ alternatives.
In an ideal world it would be open source hardware where you can review anything from the circuit diagram to the firmware.

However since there's no such thing you will have to choose who you trust.
how does someone send fiat? are you using stripe? i signed up but couldn't tell without setting up 2 accounts :)

looks good overall.. i think as an MVP it's impressive
The point isn't the Soviet Union was some wonderful thing.

We declared the Russians to be the main enemy during the cold war, and devoted considerable resources to spying on them. We recorded personal phone calls, leveraged any information to get more info, etc. We probably spied on undesirables who were suspected "communists" in the US as well. If you were in the bubble of the "intelligence community", you had no problem with that.

Fast forward to 2014. The enemy isn't a nation but an activity -- "terrorism" (maybe "drugs" as well). Because that activity can happen anywhere, the scope of the "enemy" changed from hostile nations to ANYONE. Someone like Feinstein, who is a patriot, is deeply affected when she realizes that she, too is the enemy.
"Electrical Engineering with a Computer Engineering Focus." Don't ask me why Texas State calls it that. Take a look at my degree plan and it's more or less identical to that of an ECE degree.

Indeed I have heard that Qualcomm is hiring like crazy. And I have applied to several positions both in their Austin office --which does admittedly seem to only be looking for experienced engineers-- and their San Diego office --which has many listings for graduates in various branches of the field.

My frustration with simply filling out an online application form for a company lies in the fact that it bears a striking resemblance to this gesture:

$ cat RESUME.md > /dev/null

Of course, I'm probably being just a tad hyperbolic here :P... but the benefit of actually meeting someone at a job fair --or anywhere else, really-- is that it has far better results. At a bare minimum your details at least seem to go into some priority folders. And you'll likely get an initial phone call, even if nothing further results from it.
All I see is nonadjustable desks and chairs that'll break your back within the first few hours.
Since IM is just IM, you could have gone to the phone company and made SMS work. All other systems (Skype, LINE, Kik) are just second system effects with better monetization ideas.
They refute themselves here. They say there isn't a massive botnet, but dismiss it by saying spam isn't unique and most of the accounts are deleted now. So, yes, it was a massive botnet. Sure, it's not uncommon and Twitter deals with them regularly, but that doesn't mean it was not hit by a massive botnet, it was.
I think it is important to note that the Agile manifesto does not say we don't need the things on the right. Instead it says value the things on the left over the things on the right. For example it doesn't say you only need people, no process - that would be ridiculous. What it does say is that people are more important than process. In other words, make your processes fit your people not your people fit your process. Processes and tools are a good thing...if you use them as aids rather than straightjackets. As a final thought, consider the quote 'Justice, tempered by Mercy'. I hope that we can all agree that all justice, no mercy would be very bad. I hope we can all also agree all mercy, no justice would be very bad. We need both, one tempered by the other, just as we need both sides of the Agile manifesto list -- as long as we value the items on the left more.
You are a Marxist – but don't worry
This reaction came from my ignorance...
Thank you for the enlightenment klibertp and dag11!
Sorry if somebody felt offended by this!
There aren't even any native Unreal Engine 4 games out yet that I'm aware of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games#Unr...

That's the purpose of this demo: to show that the Web stack is ready even for upcoming AAA games, not just ones from a few years ago.
I'm surprised no standing desks were featured!!
The Internet sounds like the 1990s, whereas The Cloud sounds like the 2014s.

Sadly, I'm not just being ironic.
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Yes, of course. I failed to mention that.
They do look pretty nice, but yeah, this stuff is everywhere on Pinterest. Not what I expect to see here.
Upvote. Please give me a way to use this to read academic papers!
Whatever mobile ad / paywall BS Forbes is up to, that needs to stop now. Worst mobile ad ever
PC gamers can’t play Titanfall and it’s EA’s fault
Why the fuck are there so many Readability apps coming out now. Why everything on internet is exploding without giving the problem much thought. It's becoming more and more of copycheetahs. Game of 2048 goes multiplier, speed-reading articles are more than 4 suddenly.

Please be of more thoughtful in your creative endeavors. If you are able to produce something like this, you might as well be capable of creating better original ideas.
This is neat and all, but I wonder if things are really better moving to "in the browser." The discussion is of "upwards of 60% as fast as native." Is this using the same amount of processing power as native, or is this "67% as fast as native, using 200% of the CPU as a native solution?"

I mean, I realize that processors and machines are only getting more capable. It seems silly to start requiring faster and faster processors to achieve what slower ones could have achieved. I would rather we just kept achieving more.
https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/11/australis-is-landing-in-...
InteliJ is java, slow. Also, the default VM settings are poor.
I agree. I think, today's Otto Group is not morally superior to Amazon's business at all, at least judged by their Hermes business. At least, I can not see any viable differences.

What totally pisses me off is, the aura of "charity" that Otto is surrounding around himself. He also got a high German medal (the so called "Große Verdienstkreuz mit Stern") for his charities. With examples like these, German high medals become the same value as the "Nobel Peace Prize" that is given to some of the worst persons that have lived.

I now understand, why some people strictly refuse to be dishonored by such prizes.
Is this the best WordPress Shopping theme?
A Silicon Valley VC Firm That Dares to Invest in Diversity
There is a link in this blog post to one from late last year that describes the first commercial game powered by asm.js being launched: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/12/12/first-3d-commercial...
>>> in Europe we are told, that the US is the holy grail of free market

The same forces opposing freedom in Europe exist in US. The US Constitution sometimes slows them down (esp. in regards like freedom of speech, which in Europe is commonly restricted) but they still claim many successes.

Then again, there's probably the difference in approaches in Europe and US. US constitution starts with "We the people" and the EU constitution project starts with [1] "HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, /.../, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND" and so it goes on.
Then again, it was rejected, so maybe there's hope yet :)

[1] http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/euroconstitpreamble.htm...
You and I have much different interpretations of "massive"
For a safer method of interfacing with AC voltage you can use something like the PowerSwitch Tail[1]. It is a little pricy (~$26 at Adafruit.com) and only works with one plug, but it means that you don't have to mess with AC voltage directly.

@cscru There is a 240V kit version of the PowerSwitch tail available.

[1] http://www.powerswitchtail.com
I get it now. I didn't know if he was someone notable.
Funny because when spritz was announced the other day I thought to myself how i would have paid $1-3 for this as a browser plugin.
This link works correctly http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2014/03/wearable-computing-at...
As mentioned in the article, it isn't really. There were mass protests by amazon employees in Germany last year. I don't know if anything really changed since then, but I kind of doubt it.
The only way Apple would become a good choice for PC gamers is if they started shipping computers that competed on price with gaming PCs while offering comparable performance.

I could easily see "casual" PC gamers (people who play games casually, not who play casual games) buying a Mac for their general purpose PC and playing games on the side, iff the Mac offered decent gaming performance (they don't) and were priced around the same as a decent gaming PC (they aren't).

It's a chicken-and-egg problem, though. Studios don't want to invest in making (or even porting) games for a non-gaming platform, gamers don't want to buy a computer they can't play games on, and Apple doesn't want to invest in pleasing a consumer segment that doesn't exist.
I imagine I would pick the phone over the toilet. Seems like an easy choice.

The phone offers to be a multiplier for my life. Whatever I'm doing, the phone may be able to help me do it better. I can get in touch with experts, find guides and advice, make better plans, etc.

Programmers often talk about how indispensable Stack Overflow has become for programming. Regardless of how necessary it is, it certainly can make you more efficient. The same principle can apply to almost anything.

Looked at it from that perspective, it reminds me of Homer Simpson finding a $20 bill and thinking, "Aww, I wanted a peanut!" His brain replies, "$20 can buy many peanuts!" I think that having a phone could eventually let me buy a toilet, but having a toilet doesn't particularly help me buy a phone.

Of course, I say all of this from my first-world house where both the phones and the toilets outnumber the inhabitants by roughly 2:1, so I could be way off.
Testing UberX, Lyft and Sidecar Against a Cab in Six Cities
Drones fly around, listening to cell traffic and logging call data and the position of phones in the middle east (so called "metadata"). These logs are then fed into a computer, which attempts to find relationships between phones. Which phones regularly find themselves in the same location as other phones? Which phones called other phones? The computer is also fed imperfect information that correlates some phones to the identities of alleged 'baddies'.

When phones are found to have close 'relationships' with phones that have at least at one point been used by 'baddies', sometimes the computer decides that the phone must be executed. It prints out an order, which is passed up the line to the President. The President rubber stamps the order. The order goes back down the line and eventually finds it's way back to the computer. The computer, using the before mentioned drones, locates that phone and informs a drone operator. The drone operator then tells the drone to execute that phone, and any people who may happen to be in the area with it. The drone carries out the execution.

Nothing but a bureaucratic skynet.