skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is that app (in the YouTube video) using famo.us or not?
It generally works out. If U.S. customers were harmed, the courts will hear the case, and the resulting judgment can be used to attach any property the company has in the U.S.
No, the meaning used here (and to the OP's defense every JavaScript/WebSockets library uses this definition) is a persistent connection where events are pushed instead of pulled.
How about a JVM?
Hacking Word-of-Mouth: Making Referrals Work for Airbnb
You just said it. Most call themselves web devs to begin with. Not software engineers nor computer scientists.

You also alluded to a division which justifies this usage: this is a project by web devs for web devs. Web devs might use different language than software engineers or whatnot.

Meteor.js isn't a meteor, says the cosmologist.
Could do with a way to submit on keydown of the enter button
People keep mentioning funding etc. Anyone have a link to a quick backstory for these guys?
Its not a torrent client in the browser, its an overly complex interface API.

Why you wouldn't just use the transmission API is beyond me.
Yet Another Graph Partitioning Problem is NP-Hard
I wonder if the new mobile GPU's are any good at mining scrypt-based currencies. It's possible that this could be fairly profitable. I don't think that long term this is going to replace ads though. Cryptocurrencies are too volatile at this point and I'd wager that ads are going to continue being much more profitable.
If so, they're being rude toward the rest of us.
A C99 compiler pragma, FP_CONTRACT, lets the programmer decide locally whether using an FMA instruction for multiplication and addition is allowable.

The debate is whether the pragma should be on or off by default. I am a strong proponent of the “off” default. Some argue for the “on” default. Even if the “on” camp wins at some point for some compiler, you can always use the line below to make a standard-compliant compiler that is otherwise respectful of IEEE 754 respect multiplication and addition:

#pragma STDC FP_CONTRACT ON

But the point is that you will have to use the incantation explicitly.

If you are an ordinary programmer who does not know about the incantation, you will eventually encounter a situation where, say, (a * b + c == a * b + c) evaluates to false despite the results being finite, and it will reinforce the superstition that floating-point is black magic. And since this example is remarkable, you will tell others about it, the example will be repeated and distorted, and the superstition will never die.
Yeah, I'm sure puncturing the skin can cause a release of endorphins which relieves pain. No doubts there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/acu.html
I hope you use something similar to fail2ban
Or a Chinese one.

Just a few years ago, Chinese hackers were caught hacking into the US for no reason. The fact of the matter is that Huawei, with its close connections to the Chinese Government, could be straight up responsible for this.

Remember, half of the western world have banned Huawei devices from their country.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25417332

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/01/australian_confirms_...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044398290...

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Keep up with the modern cyberwar people! The Chinese National Security Committee has already deployed "The Great Firewall of China" and banned the use of VPNs on their shores. HTTPS connections fail randomly in China and encryption is illegal.

Between the US and China, there is one country where people disappear for saying the wrong things on the internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeng_Jinyan
That is the mechanism by which events are shown at the time when they occur.
In Scala you can specialize for primitives btw. It has some gotchas, but if you know what you're doing, it works OK.
That's the guy's apartment. I guess he lives and breaths electronics (but not the fumes, he has an exhaust for soldering).

Nice setup. I was almost expecting an RF anechoic chamber for the bedroom. The bonus would be you can shut the door, and it would be a very quiet sleeping space.
> An other element to consider is that Boiron, the largest homeopathic manufacturer in the world is a french company.

Yeah, and they have actually moved their site to my home town in France, and they have detestable practices. They grab all the land around them to expand their operations (even though it used to be land reserved for agriculture) by threatening the mayor to leave the city if they don't get everything that they want. They're just a bunch of bullies and I wouldn't be surprised there's some shady thing going on with them and politicians at the national level.
Forest fire: a 2D cellular automaton
I believe that what you are missing is the distance between the satellite and the plane. planes are at ~10,000 m altitude, GPS flies at 20,000,000 m altitude. A very small angle of distortion creates a very large distance at the plane.
I would love to see smaller, more puzzle like challenges on solvers.io .. I love the idea but a lot of the projects are kind of big!
Ask HN: Commercial software license claims ownership of our patches?
Hi HN,<p>I'm reviewing a commercial software license for a JavaScript library that claims ownership over any patches that we write. Is this language typical for a commercial license where there source code is accessible to the customer?<p>I'm worried that we could accidentally "patch" the library and unwittingly transfer ownership of parts of our application to the vendor.
Asus crafts a tiny $179 Chromebox out of cheap, low-power parts
Random sidenote, but I've never seen an SO answer be upvoted in realtime until now. Didn't even know they programmed such functionality.
It is easy to track the real result of the computation with floating-point intervals: round down when computing the lower bound, and up when computing the upper bound of each interval.
When on vacation...Wear the hotel bathrobe
Just to nitpick, Java has had type inference for static methods since Java 7.
Eastern Range Radar issue delays upcoming Cape launches (SpaceX CRS-3)
I liked this part:

"Similarly, Joseph Gentle who is an ex Google Wave engineer and an author of the Share.JS library wrote: Unfortunately, implementing OT sucks. There's a million algorithms with different tradeoffs, mostly trapped in academic papers. The algorithms are really hard and time consuming to implement correctly. ... Wave took 2 years to write and if we rewrote it today, it would take almost as long to write a second time."
I was going to say AeroPress! The most amazing way to make coffee. So I will add if you have an AeroPress you should get a temperature controlled water warmer and Blue Mountain coffee.
Indeed. Even if we dispose of any debatable improvements in recovery from various illnesses that may be caused by reducing stress, etc., that still leaves the rather broad category of physical ailments that are largely psychosomatic (that is, the physical distress, though very real, arises as a result of or is greatly exacerbated by mental state). That being said, the purely psychological effect needs to be used responsibly, scientifically (that is, the patient needs to be monitored on the basis of more than just feeling) and in conjunction with real medicine - the peddling of woo-woo on its own by people who are essentially answerable to no-one and who believe in the woo-woo (or at least disbelieve in or pathologically distrust scientific medicine) is dangerous and deadly, and it's just about time to put a permanent stop to it.
Kim Dotcom’s new IP address…Internet Party, that is
To me, it only shows that Mighty Google cannot get booking to oversubscribed events right...
Not mine, but I stumbled on this site recently that packages open data in different DB/file formats: SQL, Excel, Access, CSV.

http://www.easydbs.com/

Edit: typo.
If you like larger copy on your workstations 50" may work really well it equates to roughly four 25" monitors in a two by two setup.

I found the 50" version a little too large for my purposes I have my monitor wall mounted about 3ft in front of my face and 50" would create the Wimbledon effect.
Yep, at RPI we had a research project doing something a bit similar by tying bitcoin transactions to the HTTP protocol itself to enable on-the-fly payments with an alternative of on-the-fly mining.

RPI lawyers told us to stop after we asked for counsel due to money transmitter laws. A few months later the MIT kid got hit with a subpoena. Bullet dodged for us but I really hope he pulls through with a win.
I'd like to say I don't care what anti-vaxxers think but sadly I have to as their children don't deserve to be lumbered with their irresponsible idiocy and the overall impact on herd immunity means that they're causing significant problems even outside their families.

There are two things here:

1) What's covered in the scientific literature

2) What's reported in the mainstream press

In the former you're absolutely right, in the later I don't think so (and the original link is the the BBC, not the NEJM).

Most people don't have the skills, time or subscriptions to go and view medical papers. When Wakefield got coverage for his bullshit for most people there was no "this is obviously wrong" because they had no evidence to suggest Wakefield was wrong. As a result his position became commonly and widely accepted.

When that happens I think the papers should spend time covering the refutations and trying to inform the public when real research - even if dull or obvious research - shows something which will slowly help the public adjust their incorrect viewpoint.

I'd love to think that the MMR/Autism thing has run it's course and we shouldn't have to do this any more (and hell, with even Jenny McCarthy backing down some we are getting there) but sadly I think we still have some way to go.

And in that vein, long live the promotion of tedious (but factual) research.
WHO certifies India polio-free
Oh, I know, I have seen the studies. I meant, we are still waiting for clinical trials to prove that they work, because so far all trials show it's just like placebo.
I worked on a VLIW processor long ago and it had a theoretical peak of 700 MIPS (iirc) back in 2000. It was a neat architecture but required fairly low level knowledge to get the most out of it.
Dash (Zeal) and Julia
What differentiates Mill with Itanium?

Also, what are the 2.3x power/performance improvements based on? Is there silicon for this?
A comment on the answer perfectly encapsulates this post:

Did you just troll security.SE and then reasonably answer your own question? – Stephen Touset
NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio To Lay Out His Tech Plans At Internet Week
> The earthquake risk is everywhere in Japan,

Not completely true. There's a risk map established by the government in Japan and several areas are considered "safe". For example, Kyoto has not had major earthquakes for centuries.

> A good chunk of the property owners fees go into renovation to make the building earthquake-safe

That's not true either. Usually buildings have a "shelf life" in Japan and whenever they reach the end they end up being destroyed and replaced by newer ones (built with the latest standards). Besides, older constructions can be actually pretty solid, it's rather all the newer stuff with large window panes and less walls that tend to be more fragile.
I am in my 40's and past my prime for working long hours, but just coming into my prime for managing a company and staff, and getting better at planning and managing multiyear projects. Life also tends to be less complex when you are in your 20's, before having kids, dog and mortgage(s).

There is not much point worrying about it, until someone invents a time machine or age-reducer machine. I am sure we will read about that on HN first.
I think that you are missing relative height. Plane is at 10km, GPS satellite at 20Mm.
A Year's Look at Postgres
Google Earth is now on Mainframe2
That is mostly because of war, and not due to natural disasters.
I think you missed my point. I'm not saying that Oculus is now farther from their goal of "VR in every home" (I don't even know if that is their goal).

But whatever their goal was, it is now in the hands of Facebook. Sure they now have resources, but they also have a new master who has his own agenda which may be in line with Oculus' goals now but what about tomorrow? If Facebook hits hard times do you think Facebook will continue to have a hands-off approach with Oculus?

Also to address this specific point:

> Facebook is in every home. Being bought by them obviously helps Oculus to be in every home.

Facebook software is in every home. The Oculus Rift is not software, Facebook lacks the manufacturing/distribution/RMA/support infrastructure for consumer hardware products so that has to be built up anyways - all Facebook brings to the table (that I can see) is money and HR capacity. In many ways this makes less sense than an IBM/Microsoft merger back in the day because IBM was already selling computers with operating system and Microsoft could have naturally piggy-backed on that.
There are no values of a where a * a * a differs from a * (a * a), because floating-point multiplication is commutative.

With arbitrary numbers a, b, and c, it would be a different story for a * b * c. Without further knowledge of a, b, c, there would be no particular reason to do the operations in one order or another, but the result of a * b * c and a * (b * c) could definitely differ by one ULP, probably by two in ordinary cases, by more if underflow occurred (but one of the variables would already have to be very small for this to happen).
Show HN: Wrdz – A place to write whatever's in your head (built with Angular)
Sorry but Steve is hardly phenomenal. All his talks are just hype and have little content. Have you attended his talks face to face? So much talk and so little actual stuff.

EDIT: compare him to the other Steve. Jobs only ever announces stuff that is pretty much ready for shipping. Now that's phenomenal.
"Cancel"/"No" should be on the left (go back) and "OK"/"Yes" on the right (proceed).

(There may be guidelines that do the opposite and I guess RTL locales may reverse it).

Deliberately ignoring HMI guidelines and switching button placement is irritating and does not remove the muscle-memory (?) problem. Doing it randomly is nuts and leads to mistakes that are IMO not the users fault.

It you want to interrupt a sequence, there are kinder ways of doing it like double confirmation.
What about the "RedBoard" (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11575)?
Looks nice too!
So where do I buy one and test it myself. I love the theory, and some of the claims are awesome, but I am reminded of the Cell-BE and the chatter around it at release time. It wasen't untill we got the Cell into the hands of developers that we learned it's real limitations. I want a Mill I can write programs for and run benchmarks against. My benchmarks on my bench.
Why do you have to reauth? Websockets can carry cookies or query strings just like rest. How else do you prevent the need to reauth on every http query?
The animation on the site you linked to is very janky and that's part of the problem with building mobile apps using web tech, it's really hard to get a solid 60 fps. If these guys cracked the problem then there is definitely a huge market for it.
Is the issue that it's very difficult to come up with a universal popularity score? It seems like they were trying to find the clique that rules the high school, when in the real world we listen to different people for different things. Of course one score is much easier to sell to marketers than a large series of scores based on different attributes.

The strange thing is - as long as advertisers pay people to Tweet, there is a need for something like this.
Home Automation UI
I am surprised how often W. Edward Deming is left out of articles like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

"n Japan, from 1950 onward, he taught top business managers how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing, and sales (the last through global markets)[1] by various means, including the application of statistical methods. Deming made a significant contribution to Japan's later reputation for innovative, high-quality products, and for its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage."
Decompression Bombs (2006)
Here, have some water.
How we Teach Introductory Computer Science is Wrong (2009)
Following the major landslide that just occurred up here, was poking around and came across this fascinating article on what is likely to happen to Seattle in a large earthquake.

http://faculty.washington.edu/allstadt/Kates_website/Seattle...

TL;DR - major landslides

Here's a video of an "underwater forest" discovered by some divers in Lake Washington, seemingly caused by a previous landslide: http://vimeo.com/35477614
There is already a "flag" link available to those with sufficient karma.
The problem is that earthquake insurance is so expensive and so high-deductible that a risk analysis only concludes it's worth getting if you live in an especially risky neighborhood, or have an especially at-risk house.

So only the riskiest buildings get it.

So the average customer of the insurer skews ever closer towards the extremely at-risk end of the spectrum.

So the insurance companies have to raise the rates and deductibles.

And then you go back to step one, and the vicious cycle gets even more extreme.
Does this "entity" have any assets?
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I do not. That would interfere with my experiment. My hosts stand on their own on the Internet. All account passwords are 160-bits. Have at guessing them.
In that case Japanese law enforcement can do with him what they will. What's the problem?
Famo.us is a sad company that doesn't know how to die. All their sessions and talk are just hype. I am guessing they built some fancy DSL at the end of the day.

It is simply not possible to revolutionize HTML without changing/updating the runtime. Sadly for us, the runtime WebView shipped as part of Android is super underperformant. The one shipped with iOS is stripped of features and JIT.
Rule number one of floats: don't use == on them.
- Walter Bishop
Ask HN: Where are reliable page perfomance tools?
We are going through a process to analyze our website for speed and reliability. We don't know what we don't know. Any suggestions?
Unicode has the initial 32 control characters, so this is technically still relevant and useful information for processing text data, even in 2014.
Not the first time this has happened. Zicam was marketed as homeopathy, but recalled because it had real active ingredients in it. (slightly diluted zinc acetate and zinc gluconate) They caused some people to lose their sense of smell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zicam
Surprise You have ntp
Agreed. I wouldn't say either should be illegal though, as suggested by ama729.
Some of their demos run really bad on my machine. If they cracked the problem, they aren't showing it yet.
Immutable documents and Restful API: cache forever, update instantaneously
Have you used fixed-point arithmetic much? You need to specify the width and the position of the dot for each intermediate variable (for instance, multiplying two numbers that have 20 bits for the integer part may require 40 bits for the integer part of the result). Since the operands in 20.44 format had only 64 bits of precision, it only makes sense to represent the result to 64 bits, so the format of this result should probably be 40.24.

If you don't do this, your program may still work but you are wasting space. For instance, if the multiplication of your two 20.44 numbers does not overflow the 20.44 format, good for you, but it means that between the two operands, you were wasting 20 bits in total for leading zeroes that carried no information.

Consider floating-point as a way not to have to make all these decisions at compile-time and still use space extremely efficiently to represent as much precision as possible.
Did you read the article before commenting?
I had some Shures, opted for Westone UM2s after awhile - I found the fit and over all sound quality better. I've since moved onto some Westone 4Rs (not in the $100/budget range).

That said, the UM2s and Shures are around in case I misplace a pair or for going on rides/etc. where I am concerned about sweat.
Couldn't agree more, I had a great manager for many years and the way we worked together is that we were working together but were handling different parts of the problem.

We would met before he went to an important meeting or before he took an official position on something, he'd tell me what he thought about it etc. We discuss what we could do, if there was something I needed or something I didn't want to happen. Sometimes I couldn't get what he needed, sometimes it was the other way around but it was very functional.
Rescue cat saves diabetic girl's life 20 times
Factual and MapBox are two companies making money from open data.
Show HN: Another 2048 clone (sorry): 2048+-/*
You know where this is useful? Databases.

No, please, put the gun down... let me explain. Sometimes you have a database that's so complex and HUGE that changing tables would be a nightmare, or you just don't have the time. You have a field that you want to shove some serialized data into in a compact way and not have to think about formatting. You could use JSON, you could use tabs or csv, but both of those require a parser.

With these ascii delimiters you can serialize a set of records quickly and shove them into a string, and later extract them and parse them with virtually no logic other than looking for a single character. And because it's a control character, you can strip it out before you input the data, or replace control characters with \x{NNN} or similar, which is still less complex than tab/csv/json parsing.

Granted, the utility of this is extremely limited, probably mainly for embedded environments where you can't add libraries. But if you just need to serialize records with the simplest parsing imaginable, this seems like an adequate solution.
There is most definitely a moral hazard. Look at parts of Florida that have to be rebuilt year over year at the federal government's expense.
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I think the most compelling argument for “off” being the default is xx - yy. If FP_CONTRACT defaults to “on”, most uses of this expression will become fma(x,x,-yy), which will result in the expression not being exactly zero when x == y.

The most compelling argument for “on” being the default is that most users don’t care, and “on” allows compiler optimizations that save energy. Numerical consistency or independence of Russian gas[1]?

[1] Yeah, right. "Numerical consistency or 20 seconds longer playtime of flappy bird on a charge?” is a way better argument.
I was refering to the experience of seeing, to the state of my mind. In other words, when I feel pain, I know with absolute certainity that I currently have this unpleasant feeling that I call pain.
ASA ruling says Microsoft can use pig latin in anti-Gmail ads
Well, people who do the actual real time systems (for mission-critical firmware, high-frequency trades etc.) certainly do care about it.
And sometimes "Americanized" means "the guy at the immigration counter didn't know how to spell their name so he put the closest thing there"

If you knew how to spell Matthäus, good, otherwise it was Matthew

"Over half of Russian migrants Americanised their names; only 4% of Irish migrants did so."

Not surprising, and I would bet the 4% consisted of Siobhans, Padraigs, etc
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Technically it is not a matter of precision but of accuracy.