skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does it cost to transcribe All VOICE calls ->TEXT for faster analysis, apply DEEP learning to it, and apply a graph of Everyone bigger than Facebook to these patterns?
Very interesting piece to read about their thought process - and a very interesting product that I had not heard about before.

If I was in the US, I would buy it.

If they get international shipping (EU) at say an extra 10 bucks and no return shipping, I would still consider it, but I fear the cost of shipping + added turnaround time would make it a much less attractive value proposition.
Sympto-Thermal Method. Not rhythm.
Do these people ever heard of screenshots?

Taking photos of your screen in oblique orientations introduces horrible artifacts. Just don't do it!
This is not wearables. It is just a tiny screen mobile device. I'd consider labeling Google Glass a wearables before what was demoed here.

Wearables is the idea of changing what we wear with technological augmentation. Watches have had tech for a long time....nothing new here sadly....
Get all of the hype and exposure that a Kickstarter campaign gives without having to pay them their cut. Makes sense.
It's going to be pretty great now that everyone has shown their "huge black square on the wrist" design before apple has shown anything. Looking forward to seeing them scramble to steal apples design.
I can't help but think of this as a pimped out house arrest ankle bracelet.
Spying is bad for business MIT
Very cool - hopefully '360' is not a reference to how many minutes of battery life it will have. I hope for one that it uses an OLED screen, so the black-background watches will use very little battery. Also, I found it interesting that each of the pictures were of vascular men-forearms. I guess they don't expect this to be well adopted by the female population.
As a person who finds both "okay, Glass" and "okay, Google" to be somewhere on a spectrum from merely awkward to full-on creepy, I would just prefer people could set their own custom keywords.
On a different note, I'm happy to disclose the one heuristic BCC has since I'm the only one who can get negatively affected by it. I have several thousand names of people who have previously bought BCC, and they are a pretty diverse sampling of a slice of the American experience. If you hit the trifecta of a) a first name I've never seen before, b) you use a free email provider and c) you've never actually made a bingo card yet, your purchase causes my phone to light up so that I can refund it prior to the actual cardholder hitting me with a chargeback. I also add it to a spreadsheet that I periodically bug Paypal's fraud team with.

This heuristic has literally perfect detection and recall [+] against a particular carder ring, which was using BCC to test cards (via our Paypal account, sadly, so I have limited pre-charge options to fix it) this summer.

Paypal, to their credit, has apparently shut down this carder ring, since I can't remember that heuristic firing in 2014. (Edit: Poor phrasing. The heuristic not firing doesn't mean I'm safe. Having a historical level of chargebacks, which is less than one a quarter, rather than having the carder ring induced "20+ in a week." suggests that I'm safe.)

[+] Edit: It's 2 AM and I can't remember if this is the right circumstance for that jargon. What I'm trying to say is, of the universe of charges that I can classify as good or bad at N months after the charge, 100% of the ones this heuristic flags are in fact caused by a carder ring and 100% of the ones this heuristic fails to flag are, to the limit of my current understanding, not caused by that carder ring.
We're throwing a IoT/Wearables Hackathon in april. Check it out: http://hackendo.techendo.co/
I was just talking about the cost of storage, not acquisition or analysis.
Absolutely correct. They are almost painful to look at.

I'd rather see them start purposefully small so developers will have to be more creative when adapting to the form factor.
After all these years that SimCity franchise has existed, it seems like there would be a good FOSS alternative, but there's still nothing great out there.
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You can read/write local files from within a webpage. So I guess its possible. It would require looking into how WebGL loads assets and overriding this with diskIO operations not difficult.

The next problem would be asset management, but this isn't an important issue. A lot of game data is already stored locally with little to no protection.

I'd have to look at how javascript handles file I/O it might not be 'that' difficult.
Privileged white male erects straw man. 50 years ago tells blacks "society is racist, so you should just get used to it and STFU".
Any recommendations for overcoming this issue?

I'm working on a project with the eventual goal of creating a crowdsourced, interactive version of a map just like this.[1] We haven't gotten to this point yet (only to the 1930s at the moment), but we will eventually come across this problem. Currently we have "admin" levels (sovereignty > state/republic/colony > region/county > city) but this may be disrupted the further back in time we go.

One advantage of having data like this publicly crowdsourced is that a decision on how the information should best be processed and presented can be made by the community and potentially changed over time. (And now my pitch: help us out! We just started building the community but have big plans.[2])

[1] http://atlastory.com/

[2] http://forum.atlastory.com/
Looking for feedback on basketball project. What should be our focus?
I recently launched Pidgon.com, a basketball community platform aiming to give more career opportunities to players and coaches and looking to connect fans with clubs.<p>We're in very early stages, looking to centralize all of basketball in one spot. I would love to get very honest feedback on this project.
So I'm only seeing white male hands
Dear Koum from WhatsApp: Is that the Whole Truth?
That makes me wiling to try Firefox again, since amongst the Safari/Chrome/Firefox it was the browser that consumed most vertical space, which is an issue on mobile (less than 15") laptops - at least for me.
As a starting point, if and as these services are becoming as necessary as other "utilities", and inasmuch as providers are screaming about and claiming issues of "expense" and revenue and whatall...

Let's, as we do for other utilities (at least, in my country), make them lay it out on the table.

Open your books. What are the real revenues and expenses.

We've all (again, in my country) watched our bills rise and rise, while some of us at least read about consistent, continuing drops in the price of backhaul/trunk capacity, as just one example of what we perceive as a fairly apparent dichotomy.

The practice to this point, has been that the consumer pays for access to those trunks, and hosts pay for their access, and the companies involved live off of that. Now, they want to collect collect twice? They want to pick and choose and charge "premiums" to "prioritize"?

Where is the basis for any of this, in actual, cold, hard numbers? Until this is presented, I'm not even willing to have the conversation.

AND... for one, I don't believe it actually exists -- or need exist. It is varying shades of what I will qualify on the farther end as extortion. It is not of necessity, it is of convenience and greed on the part of those who increasingly seek to hold the reins ever more firmly and exclusively, now that "the Internet" is big business and not merely "some geeky corner".

Finally, as varying flavors of "expert" in this field and topic, we carry I think some societal obligation as well as personal and professional interest, in seeing that this doesn't happen.

Many of our own lives and careers have been substantially enriched and enhanced by the relatively open digital ecosphere we have experienced.

When the same old... "bullies", frankly, show up to try to dominate it for their own interest and gain. It's up to us to keep it out of their hands, and to ensure that the next generation of technology is yet more resistant to that "same old same old".

This is not about shirking responsibility -- and there are responsibilities involved, serious ones including legitimate needs and approaches to e.g. security.

It is about properly identifying it, amidst a clamour of often disingenuous self-interest. And identifying proper, effective, and practical approaches. About empowering, once again, the participants and community themselves. As I see it.
Why are we still using watches as the base of new wearables? Is it because it makes users more comfortable with wearing a computer on their wrist?

Also not really sure about the round LCD, why not a curved rectangular LCD?
Seems simple, if you want to go into development, pick 2. If you want to do Linux admin, pick 1.
If a Malaysian pilot with a simulator DIDN'T have these airports readily available in his simulator I'd be kinda shocked.
This is such an interesting experience, especially with canceling to what seemed to be a promising kickstarted campaign. I am glad you killed the subscription based model and are now selling it simply as a product.
No one is wrong here. Please don't call people wrong because it doesn't agree with your experience. Saying nevertheless is the same as saying doesn't matter how I put it.

Secondly, smartphones don't have the same flaw as Google wearable. Unless you use bluetooth, you can't say phoning someone on a wearable is easier than phoning someone on a mobile phone. Smartphone comes with a large screen and is good for content reading and gaming. Wearable can't go big. How do you text someone? Can you read your email from your watch?
There is, yes.

You have three somewhat simple options for the search/url thing:

1) Have a single box, do not offer search suggestions.
2) Have a single box, offer search suggestions for the
stuff users type in it.
3) Have separate boxes; offer search suggestions for the
stuff typed in the search box but not the stuff typed
in the url box.

#2 involves sending everything the user types in the url bar to the search suggestion provider to check for suggestions

Firefox does #3, because #2 is not considered acceptable from a user privacy perspective.

There are probably more complicated options here like only offering search suggestions if the string typed so far doesn't look like a URL or something that might protect user privacy better than a straight up #2. But it gets easy to screw it up and leak private user data to the search provider....
As the article says, this is fizz buzz. The purpose of it is to decide if you can program, not if you're a good programmer and not if you're a good engineer. Also, it's not an algorithm question. Actually, I'm not sure why I'm writing this up, he's specifically addressing your point in the article.

> I think it’s far more interesting to set aside a real world problem that you have encountered at your company

I would too. But the domain space of (things that aren't dreadfully trivial) intersect (things I can explain to an outsider in <10 minutes, including the relevant domain and context) intersect (things that an outsider can make reasonable progress on in the remaining 35 minutes) intersect (things I didn't just bloody fix when I came across them) is very, very small. I'm not even sure all those circles even overlaps, ever.
Brewster Kahle of archive.org ran the numbers last year as well:

https://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-pho...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuqlWHQKlooOdGJ...
"Working together with Microsoft's .NET team in the last four months has been an absolute delight. So excited about the future."
https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/445681543781285889
OLED makes sense in terms of battery life, but since it's going to be showing a watch face for 95% of the time, burn-in might be too much of a problem.

Looking forward to seeing how they solved this.
That's remarkably cheap.
Yeah, it was sarcasm. I like the look of the page, I guess the pictures communicate what it is enough to explore it further, but the message I pasted is really horrible.
More and more I'm thinking that some sort of Digital Bill of Rights is necessary to carry on in this technological-based World. At first I always thought of it as a nice thing, but perhaps a little too abstract or extreme to really do what it needs to do. However now we have some very large and real threats to our personal lives via this medium.

I just feel like it makes a lot of good sense to produce something of the sort. I'm also naive enough to believe that it isn't too late to attempt to establish such a document and have it not contain all sorts of loopholes that would render it useless.

I can understand why the feds want to monitor the Internet and various communications, however there needs to be that pushback, that line drawn where we can hold their overreach accountable. It may not always work, but there needs to be something that us ordinary citizens can lean back on for protection.
The Moto X uses the OLED screen to effectively support the active notifications feature without burning battery. I've been very pleased with this feature and taking that technology to a watch just seems to make sense in my opinion.
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So is your argument actually that it's not necessary for people to be able to do this? Or is it that it's not nearly in-depth enough. If you're arguing the latter, I'm pretty sure everyone agrees; this was described as his version of fizzbuzz, to weed out people who literally just can't program. If you're arguing the former, that seems insane. Knowing how a TCP/IP network works is great, but if you're incapable of writing code to implement your knowledge, you're not very useful
Tech's Favorite Cartoonist Enters Mainstream Publishing
Depends on what you want. If you want to achieve the same results that are possible with Unity, you would need to use some more complex opensource engines like Turbulenz and would be restricted to WebGL for now. Rolling your own engine doesn't make sense other than learning and maybe for simple 2D stuff.

If you want to create games in a very efficient way and have a quick time to market supporting a lot of different platforms, there is hardly a way around Unity now.
Congratulations to Dr Lamport.

Is there a list of Turing Award nominees published somewhere?
It's the same model. Unless you want him to go black arm, that's what you got.
Apple is interested in way more than fitness tracking
That seemed like the obvious next step for Unity after they dropped Flash and with browsers increasingly dropping NPAPI plugins; always nice to see predictions come true :)
Advice? Give PG the finger and go somewhere better!
> ... until the word is a word, it just sounds like marketing buzzword garbage.

Fair enough, but remember that a word becomes a word simply by usage, not by edict. The old Webster's rule was that, if a word appeared in ten recognized publications with a consistent meaning, it (the word and the definition) would be included in the next edition of the dictionary. I'm sure there's a similar rule in play today.

The fluid and pragmatic nature of words and their meanings can be gauged by noting that "literally" and "figuratively" now mean the same thing:

Link: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

Quote:

1 : in a literal sense or manner : actually <took the remark literally> <was literally insane>

2 : in effect : virtually <will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins>
It's all the same model. Do they need to hire a model from every race to prove something?

Also, now that I look, he might be Hispanic... not that it should matter to anyone.
It's one person. Would you prefer he changes skin-tone between photos?
See that's one of the problems with current tech and these watch devices. First of all, it will take a whole lot of convincing to make me buy another watch as I currently own an $800 Seiko that's nearly 15 years old and I've never had to change the battery (because it's kinetic). Second, if I DID buy a new watch it would take even more convincing to get me to take it off more than once every few years just to charge it. A normal watch lasts at least a year on a battery, and a kinetic watch such as mine literally never "winds down" unless I stop moving for months at a time. And finally, a watch as a display device is fine, but I'm simply not going to use it as an input device. Thus, I can see context-sensitive info on my watch (which is cool, I readily admit) but I still have to whip out the smart phone or laptop or tablet in order to really do much with that data. Now I'm not saying that someone won't make a good interface, but I just think the physical size limitations of making a watch that doesn't look and feel ridiculous will make any such interface very (very) difficult to pull off.
Only theoretically.

Javascript is a way to manipulate the DOM, no matter whan those nutters who run it on servers say.
There's localStorage and there's IndexedDB. The former is blocking and not ideal, but I think you can store blobs in IndexedDB and it's async.
So it's like an amped up google now on a watch?

I'm intrigued, but the price has to be good. Anything over $100 is just going to be a nonstarter in my opinion.

Will I have to charge it 3 times a day, not going to work...etc.

There's lots of difficulties with packing this in to a usable form factor and selling it.

The galaxy gear had a return rate > 30%. But it's also a $300 watch. For $300 it better do more than make it mildly easier for me to do things that I already do on my phone, which sits literally inches away from where my watch would be on my wrist.

And let's say it's wildly successful, I'm really interested in how a watch, on a bus full of people with watches, will know that you are saying "ok google" to it and not somebody else. Imagine sitting in a subway car, and some guy comes in and shouts "ok google, find me a bukake site!" or similar and now everybody on the train has to deal with that.
American here: how much power does the House of Lords have in the matter? I should have thought only a delaying one.
"I don't know much about Rust, but AFAIK it's mostly static linking like Go."

Afraid not, at least by default.
It's trivially easy to create an altcoin that inflates to infinity instead. It's just changing a relatively small amount of code. The difference is instead of a political elite that only cares about themselves & their tribe like most human beings, the monetary policy is set at the start and is completely predictable.

Right now bitcoin is the star of the ball, but the other altcoins represent a significant amount of value. There is nothing guaranteeing that bitcoin will stay the star.
Time for BST code golf - winner does it in the fewest characters!
Asseta (YC S13) is Hiring a CTO
Asseta is building a marketplace for manufacturers to buy and sell used equipment. The incumbents are unscrupulous brokers and the industry has not seen any innovation in decades. That being said, it's B2B, so the status quo is extremely difficult to change.

If we are successful, we will empower a new generation of hardware startups. The next Jawbone, Nest or Soylent will use us to get started faster and with less capital.

If you're motivated by the challenge of building one of the first B2B marketplaces and are ready to manage a codebase, we'd love to hear from you. We've already raised a seed round but are prepared to offer >5% equity for the right candidate.

The full job description can be found below, but feel free to contact me directly, anton at asseta dot com.

https://asseta.recruiterbox.com/jobs/30769
Baby’s life saved after 3D printed devices were implanted
This is very common for binary heaps, but for binary trees that can be unbalanced, this won't fly. The space usage is exponential if you insert sequential items into the tree (Since you allocate the space for the pointers to every potential node in every level of the tree).
Having been in a similar position myself, It's hard to let go of a nice cushy position and it's not always about pay, but in this case, the pay is better in the new job, the risk is higher but then...no pain no gain!

go for it, take the risk!!
I believe all of them are the same person (note birthmark near right side of wrist). Still seeing race?
asm.js is supported, inherently, by all modern browsers. It is just JavaScript, after all. However, only Firefox has a second compiler path especially for it. Chrome has some optimisations for asm.js-like code in V8.
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Also how about trying to make a watch that women will want to buy? I just don't see that happening for most women who won't really care about this kind of gadget (maybe I'm wrong).
Reporters Without Borders declares United States an ‘enemy of the Internet’
I wonder if it's not Afghanistan, Iran or any of the usual suapecta but actually Canada. We've got a puppet federal government submissive to US demands.. A small number of large NSA friendly telcos that reach a large majority of the population, and a large number of immigrants from all over the world. Perfect testing ground for such a system.
Update, this sibling post claims that HN is at least a well-configured website; and so MITM attacks will be on the upper end of the normal difficulty range: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7421558
At the end: "In my next article, we’ll look at an alternative pricing mechanism: charging per hour."

They probably can't say "1 of 2" until the next article has been published.
When I read the title I thought about this game http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/393/SimCity+Classic.html This confused me a bit as it's 100% offline :)
In Unitys case they already had a concept called AssetBundles that allowed you to launch an initial small loader scene and show something while downloading other Bundles in the background. If they port that concept to HTML5 it should be pretty easy to implement on demand loading..
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That's one solution. Or they could....hire two people? Might be a bit easier to pull off.
Count me as one of those people who doesn't like to have to work around backwards compatibility breaks when installing security patches on production servers. :-)

(edit: clarified wording)
> in my nation (India) being gay is illegal

Sorry for the flame material, but why is it that this is rarely mentioned in western news media (at least in the countries whose news I follow)?

For those who, like me, didn't know that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_India
Love it! Price?
Go back in time 15 years, then build a computer as powerful as a modern smartphone. It wouldn't be easy, but it could be done. Now try to power that computer with a modern smartphone battery. Not gonna happen.
That's true more or less, but a "beamformed" electromagnetic field, with highly focused regions of particular interest, still declines in intensity as the square of distance.
As a stylish watch, this is right up my alley. Add that it will probably work awesomely w/ my Moto X and I'm sold.
Or rather, the scientific method from. . . other ways of "knowing"
Thank you for sharing Patrick. Informative as usual!
This could be of interest to someone: http://www.pentesteracademy.com/course?id=7
Sorry, didnt make myself clear...have updated. I am already doing the first job, have been for a number of years. The challenge is still there, albeit not like what the second job offers i.e. a very steep climb.
Care to explain why? My wife wears a "smart watch" [1] every day she runs and so do most of her peers. There're definitely markets out there for this sort of thing.

Also, if the watches switched from the pebble form factor to something like this: http://moto360.motorola.com/ would you still have the same opinion?

[1] - For all intents and purposes, this is basically a "smartwatch": https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/into-sports/running/forerunn...