skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited about receiving short messages on my watch. My wife for example gets kind of upset when I misplace my phone somewhere on a table or in my backpack on vibrate - having a way for her to contact me in case of emergencies or whatever (since she's the only person I don't mind interrupting me) would be great. A watch would also be practical when walking or bicycling around the city in case you need maps - way more practical than keeping your hand occupied with a big ass phone. Also, I find Google Now alerts on time to work or similar stuff to be useless, as I'm not really keeping an eye on my phone. Being notified that it takes 30 minutes to get somewhere I need to be, suddenly starts seeming useful.

Personally I'm excited about this and I hate being interrupted, but as will all things, with a little care you can filter out things you don't want.

> OS matters, and I would bet that someone could do way better than running Linux in a watch

There's tremendous value inherent in using a mainstream operating system, while the disadvantages are only short-term. Using a half-assed operating system widens the gap between idea to implementation and this friendliness to exploration and being general purpose is what makes smartphones these days great.
Icahn has bought a stake in eBay. It appears to me like he is trying to force out some of the eBay board by publicly criticizing. If he succeeds in basically kneecapping the current board then he can have much more control of the company. Just skim his wikipedia page to get an idea of what the possible outcomes are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Icahn .
Yeah, we already got some contacts about that. I think we'll add it to the repo README
http://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals

http://ref.x86asm.net/

http://www.sandpile.org/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110713081927/http://siyobik.in... (anyone know of a mirror? this was nice)
8450 citations according to Google Scholar...that's pretty impressive. I think the CS average was <5 last time I checked :D

Will be interesting to see how many more the paper will have due to the award :)

Congrats and well deserved.
Why would they think it was related? They're about 2,000 miles away from where the plane was originally thought to have crashed, and saw it hours after it supposedly crashed.

Imagine a plane goes missing in Hawaii and hours later you see an unusual plane over San Francisco. The news is talking about how the plane disappeared over Hawaii and crashed into the ocean around there and lots of planes and ships are combing the waters around Hawaii... are you really going to connect your unusual sighting with those events happening half an ocean away?
I think a Digital bill of rights is great, but completely unenforceable. Largely because the powers that would be enforcing it wouldn't desire to be signatories.
That's when the flustered interviewee can either fight (patch his solution) or flight (start all over using a class with refs). The most obvious patch is to use a large hashmap instead of a massive array. Still inefficient, but no longer that desperate (and actually has some added benefits).
It's still "simulated" which means Photoshopped / After Effects. I"m actually pretty nervous because there's no "simulated" disclaimer, yet these mock-ups are terribly rough:

- fake / inconsistent lighting accents & bevel

- screens in the photos are pixelated (looks like a screen-res quality source was rotated), yet the 3D model's screen is totally smooth suggesting 400 dpi or better

- clip rotation angles are off

- the cropping is poor, has antialiasing problems
Maybe the device is larger so that you can have a bigger screen, and anyone who wants one can wear it regardless of gender. Ignoring free will, fashion also seems to be accepting of larger watches for women recently.
Nice write up Adam. Just thought I would mention that your usage of former/latter is backwards.
While I don't fly much, Google Now was absolutely fantastic the last time I flew. From notifications about flight delays to checking in. It was one of those things that I didn't think I was ever going to use, but when it came into play it was magical.
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Very eager to get one. When are you opening up orders to Canada?
It doesn't matter whether it was premeditated if the end result is the same. They're still arguably screwing Kickstarter here (do Kickstarter get anything at all for their side of the work?)
Nope--issue came to a head after my insurance company wanted me to put a GPS tracker in my car to get lower rates.

So, I do without now. If I decide it's unavoidable, I'll buy an ancient clunker (preferably one with as little electronics in it as possible, think classic car).
No it doesn't. That would be like a programmer writing "Hello World" in C over and over again.
What about the blind who use screen readers or braille displays? Why should the page become so bloated that I can't read simple text simply?
I would be amazed and/or shocked if it had a 3G radio in. It surely has to be paired with a phone for data access. The power requirements alone would result in a watch that had a 2 hour battery! I suppose it could use WiFi, but that seems unlikely. I am guessing bluetooth pairing...
Are there any yc companies that would really benefit from your company? Reach out to them and ask them for feedback and explain that you chose them because you believe they understand the problem because they experience it.
I also use a Moto X and really like this functionality. However, it doesn't work for me 100% of the time, more like 90%. And I have managed to take several photos of my pocket, though usually while skiing or during other active pursuits. Just another data-point.
See also: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583021&pag...
I'm left handed when I write, so I should put a watch on my right hand. But I mouse with my right hand so I should put it on my left hand.

After years of getting irritated with watches and leaving them off half the day, I just stopped wearing them and I've very rarely ever regretted it.
Sure. At one time every doctor had a medical bag with scalpels, sutures, basic medications, etc. that they carried with them everywhere they went. I think it's still pretty common (though maybe not as common as it was in the days when doctors made house calls).
I'm a man and it still seems gigantic and something I wouldn't wear.
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I like to see them swinging back at Icahn.

He uses wildly over-dramatic statements ('ebay is the worst run company ever') to try to force boards to do things that are specifically in his short term interests. He has absolutely no concern for the long-term well being of a company. After he gets his stock pop, he liquidates and is gone. Icahn's entire strategy operates strictly on the basis of greenmailing the leadership of a company into discharging cash into his lap. He will say anything he has to in order to generate that outcome.
That's just one of the issues - however like I said, I'm naive enough to believe (and donate/protest/assemble) if there was a strong enough movement for it.
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Your exclamation is probably not a reference to Gert Fylking [1], but it would be hilarious if it was.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Fylking#Radio
This is very, very interesting. I wonder how much it'll cost.
You are assuming that the altitude reading would always be off by (close to) the same amount.
It probably helps, but having experts may not be necessary in all cases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
Near the end of the page it says it'll come in a variety of styles. As a guy that finds the large watch face style to be absurd, I'd hope for something a bit smaller if it's going to grab my interest.
If this was deliberate, and that pilot is the one behind it, then he probably put some thought into what was saved on his home flight simulator also.
Anyone who vanishes a 777 for over a week probably put a little effort into details like that.
If you're looking for a video like I was, there's one on their blog post: http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/03/moto-360-its-time....

It's light on product shots, however.
Your reaction makes for an interesting contrast with:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/20q8qf#cg5q70u
> bicyclemom: As a woman who really wants a smartwatch but who absolutely hates the big, manly square look of all prior efforts, I want to kiss Moto on the lips for doing this.
Or it could serve as a signal that the US is the best country to align with, since they know everything.

This whole NSA debacle could serve as an impressive advertisement for the strength and stability of the industrial spying complex, justifying great investment and pushing important business objectives.
B/c Regan's $20 oil to destroy the USSR worked out so well.
I love Marc and understand he's upset about the accusations, but it's time to move on. Nobody who knows anything about Marc takes them seriously. I'm obviously not privy to what goes on in eBay's boardroom, but the notion of Marc being some svengali forcing them to cede him 100s of millions is blatantly ludicrous, not to mention insulting to the other board members. If I were Marc (and it's probably much easier to say this since I'm not) I'd just ignore.
Can you explain how his financial company employs 60,000 people?

Or did you mean he has ownership stakes in industrial firms that employ 60,000 people? Because he most certainly has never created 60,000 jobs by starting a company.
It's rather poorly documented, though.
Just another pyramid scheme.
> Are you still on MongoDB?

> Oh god no.

Pretty damning condemnation of MongoDB, no?
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Nope, it's the truth. You can have JavaScript without the DOM in a Node.js or a CouchDB environment, for example.
Interestingly, Brian Kerninghan and Christos Papadimitriou have not received the award yet.
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I don't believe that idea that other countries wouldn't do better.

They had the military radar data the night the plane went missing, indicating that the plane did not in fact crash near where the transponder shut down, but flew west for over an hour before disappearing off the radar in that direction.

Despite having this information available, they either ignored it or didn't think to ask for it or something, and as a result they wasted massive amounts of time and effort (theirs and that of other countries) searching the wrong ocean. For a week.

That military radar data is probably the most important information in the investigation that wasn't immediately known. Yet it didn't actually come to light until days later, and then when it did their immediate reaction was to deny that it was true! It took another couple of days before they finally settled down and admitted, yes, we tracked this plane flying completely out of the search area and far away from where we've been telling everyone it is. And we knew this for a couple of days, but we let everybody continue searching the wrong place anyway. In fact, we'll still let them keep searching for a couple more days before we refocus.

There is some serious WTF going on. I hope there is some massive coverup or conspiracy going on, because they're verging on criminally incompetent otherwise.
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What if it stopped there to refuel and then took off again?
That one knob could be a really short joy-stick type device. Giving you 5 different inputs: up, down, left, right and push. Or even 7 if you can also turn it each direction. (we have a 7-input knob for the navi in our car.) So depending on how you mapped those movements, you can achieve all the actions you want.
This already work.
Remove the separate search bar and you are ready to go.
That's good to know, but also a bit disconcerting, that Google has a voice print profile for me sitting on their servers somewhere.
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Yes, in many circumstances it is advisable or necessary to perform calculations in front of the analog front end. Even the simplest "digital" transceiver amplifies and mixes before the AFE. However, I don't believe any of that is relevant to our criticism of the article, which focuses explicitly and extensively on performing calculations with cams, gears, and shafts at an "infinite level of resolution" and why the author thinks this is supposed to be better than digital computation:

> There are no least significant digits dropped, and answers are continuous rather than dependent on “for-next” clock-driven computing cycles.

Even if the article had talked about improving accuracy by skipping the digitizing step for gyroscopes, wind vanes, etc, his claim would not have been credible. It's not terribly difficult to digitize mechanical motion to the subatomic level (AFM is from the '80s) and many modern data sources (ring-laser gyroscopes, information acquired from remote ships and satellites) could not be coupled to the mechanical computer in a way that could be expected to beat digitization error.

A GPS chip likely has something to gain from correlating in front of the analog front end but a firing computer does not. You pay a fixed cost to go in and out of a digital representation, but with analog you keep paying for each calculation and, given that one of these firing computers weighed 3000lbs, I expect that this application saw digitization errors that were tiny next to calculation errors.

Thanks for being thorough, but I see your post as a tangental point rather than as a counterargument.
The pill is exactly the same. "Lower hormones" is just marketing fluff. All hormonal birth control methods work with more or less the same principle (suppress ovulation, make cervical mucus less fluid and thus reduce survivability and movability of sperm).

That means that if you have problems with one pill, you're very likely to have problems with other pills/hormonal methods as well.
I hear this often but when the frack do you ever interact with a raw tcp api or a 0mq bus that's existentially the same application as your web app??
Programmers making tools for programmers who makes tools for programmers who makes tools for programmers.
Yeah, it's "Sirius XM radio" now, and I got used to it when it came 90 days free with my car. So now I pay something like $8/month to listen to it.
This seems to be the initial announcement. I'd expect (especially as more styles get announced) that they'll do exactly this before the release.
It's because it has gotten personal between Icahn and Andreessen. Icahn has been specifically dragging Andreessen's character through the mud since it became obvious he wasn't going to get his way on eBay.
No, but I also didn't think people were going to be crazy about browsing the web on a small touch screen. It's fun to think about at the very least.
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I am a FOSS advocate as well, but I disagree that this announcement is a bad thing.

First, Mozilla has and does assist in the creation of FOSS game engines and tools (Gladius, CubicVR, help to various web ports like JSMESS and various open source game engines, etc.).

Second, even the LGPL shows that absolute avoidance is not always the best thing to do regarding closed-source code. Reality is more complex. Sometimes interoperability with closed-source code is good for everyone including free software.

In particular, a big benefit for free software here is that Unity games can now run on the web, an open platform. Before they required a proprietary plugin that did not work on Linux or BSD, but as JS+WebGL they can run on those platforms. (Yes, the games are proprietary, but visiting websites using proprietary code is basically unavoidable, both on the client and server-side. At least we can do it using FOSS tools now.) So this helps support free software OSes.

A final point, while the Unity engine is a proprietary codebase, they also have lots of code that is FOSS, see their github page. They are also working with even more open source code for the WebGL port, as it uses emscripten.
>Also to me the sending of a letter "via lawyer" seems fairly suspicious, adding some air of legal legitimacy to the claims without actually suing Newsweek or taking action that would open the issue up to real legal discovery.

What do you think he can (successfully) sue over?
It requires pairing with a phone via Bluetooth(Low Energy). I don't think at this time it is economically feasible to have a phone with data service, touch screen and a juicy battery all in such a small foam factor.
"One of the many things wrong with the "package manager"
paradigm is that it encourages people to write software
which is a tangled web of dependencies. Software should
have few third-party dependencies, that makes maintenance
and porting a lot easier."

Or it means that you can share the fruits of your porting with others.

If you and I work on a project that depends on module foo, only one of us needs to port foo to platform bar once for both of us (and everyone else) to gain compatibility with platform bar with respect to our dependencies.

What you want instead is a way to have package managers support defining cross platform modules so that bar doesn't have to be forked and published as an entirely separate module.

"The primary reason why people did not, could not upgrade to
Python 3 was because they had to wait for all the dependencies
of their apps to be ported. Many are still waiting."

Then the problem is a lack of tooling to aid with porting the code to the new platform. Creating a tool that parses code into an AST and analyzes the code to help define how it can be made compatible with the future version of a language should be a tractable problem for 1-2 developers.

At the end of the day package managers are first and foremost social software whose role is to aid meatware in achieving eventual consistency. We've only begun to scratch the surface of what is possible in this respect.
I agree, and I can't help imagine that there isn't some overselling of the "seriousness" of the onboarding problem to (probably) non-engineering VCs.

That said, I can see enormous potential in this as an education platform. Having trouble with you CS homework? Open up Nitrous and get someone far away to help you out.
The pain of setting up your development environment is not something to be avoided. Not only will you gain a better understanding of how everything actually works, you might also uncover some outdated documentation which you can update.
This article is so misleading, starting with the title.

"Cops find five Indian Ocean practice Runways..." seems to suggest these runways were used for practice by Shah. This article says nothing more than these were runway options (out of probably thousands) that were available for simulation. There is no useful information from this piece at all, and it is leading to completely unwarranted speculation, especially by folks who have no knowledge of flying and simulators.
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I wonder if this discovery is a result of OpenBSD switching its focus from Apache to Nginx ?
I associate Draft with Nathan Kontny's wonderful stuff
https://draftin.com/about

(edit) I see it's been renamed! Should have gone past the banner image!
That kind of tech is definitely coming, but the game studios aren't developing it. They'll buy it once it comes out though.

Game studios aren't VCs. A VC buys pieces of HIGHLY speculative companies trying to maximize his/her odds of a 1000:1 exit. Game studios fund a small portfolio of games and try and make a profit on every single one.

The culture in a studio is so completely different it's very unlikely that anyone high enough up at a game studio to have the budget and other resources to try and develop it in-house won't have the risk appetite to actually do so. And the people who have the risk appetite won't have the budget.
$1899 / 12 = $158.25
Nothing new in this article at all.

Remove the CEO. Start over. No one at 22 can lead; especially not one coddled by the Stanford/quasi-ivy/ivy-league system.
I've been using Nitrous for three months now. Here's why I stick with it:

1) I don't code offline any more. I have too many languages I work with and there's too many points of failure that can be easily fixed with a Google search or StackOverflow. If I'm offline, it's usually a waste of time and most likely, I should be taking a walk.

2) Having a dev environment that is remote means my computer can completely fail and in 5 min, I'm deploying production code again. It means I can move between machines without ANYTHING being different. Leave your work computer at work, work from a friend's computer, yours, it doesn't matter.

3) You actually have control over your box resources. Cloud9 boxes were abysmally slow, even though their editor was better. Koding was way too focused on social and attempting to do too much. Nitrous is simple and fast.

That being said, here is what Nitrous needs to work on:

1) Uptime has been sub-par. They've had problems, especially with US-East, that have led to me not being able to work. This has been minimal, but enough to make me concerned.

2) The editor is very minimal. There is no fuzzy searching for files (like in Sublime), no auto-complete, no code hinting, no error checking other than really basic stuff, like indentation in Python or broken div tags in HTML. Having dabbled with Cloud9's editor, which is fantastic, I def think they need to focus on this.

3) Collaborative editing seems half-baked. Each user has to open the same file and then press a button "Collab Mode". If either forgets to press the button, your editing different files. There's also no sharing of console output, so this means if you are running a script that you are both working on, you both cannot see the same console output. Probably a pretty tricky problem to overcome, so I don't totally blame them.

All and all, still really like the service and hope they keep improving.
The speculation around this seems rather pointless. Obviously, at this time, the plane has neither crashed into anything or magically converted water into fuel, nor has it landed anywhere it could fly off from again.

So how about we find it first (stuck in some jungle as its guaranteed to be) and then let facts guide our wild speculations?
What about confidentiality and privacy?

Love it, but some of my notes are highly confidential. Obviously, I could use a separate notebook, but is there any thought towards privacy or assurance from these guys that no one is reading these notebooks when they're digitized? The video makes it look like a fairly manual process. Ordered one anyway to try it out.
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Why on earth would you edit in your response rather than reply? HN's format is already bad enough for actual discussion, lets not drive it into the ground even further, OK?

>You cannot evaluate the merit of patentablity without considering the benefit to society.

You misunderstand my point. You are evaluating the potential patent after we have observed its impact and thus judging it as too important to patent. We do not have a crystal ball to make these sorts of judgments in general, so using that as a rationale for the particular case of FFT makes no sense.

>We are sure as shit better off in a society where anyone doing ML research doesn't have to license ideas from IBM.

So the new ideas that IBM created will languish in IBM research for however many years/decades then? The alternative is an environment where universities and researchers can expand on their ideas freely. When a new product is created, sure they would have to license tech from IBM, but this is preferable to total secrecy. Patents have not prevented a myriad of other inventions from impacting the world, why would you think these examples of software patents would be different?