skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pluginless distributed P2P over WebRTC would be interesting!

The whole trust could be built client side and the servers used only for handshaking clients.
We could then imagine clients that are aware of multiple servers and distribute both the client webApp & server on different URLs and the whole network could somehow connect in a yet to be defined network structure for efficient traversal.

The one part missing is a w3c standard allowing web of trust signing of the packaged webApp, debian keyring style, to be able to host it anywhere and still trust some set of developers.
Arguably Windows doesn't need to implement this because alt-tab is already a window switcher and not an app switcher.
What are you working on for your new startup?

I think that Java 8 is such a large improvement that I will use Java more often, and use Clojure less often for back ends.
Tools.pingdom.com is top of the heap. Great for seeing what is slowing down your page loads.
Excellent; how does it compare to Pusher.com?
Actually, the "Americanized" names were mostly picked by the crew on board the steamship line (Cunard, White Star, Holland America, etc). The immigration inspectors just worked from the provided passenger lists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island#Records
> Kobe is right next to Kyoto and recently had a major earthquake (1995?).

Hey man, I live in Kobe :) Kyoto was left largely intact after the earthquake in 1995. Of course they felt it, but nothing was devastated there. Kyoto is further up in the middle of the land, further from the seismic rifts, and relatively safe in terms of location.

> (those Shinto temples are rebuilt every 30 or 40 years I think

I think you are refering to Ise Jingu which is destroyed and entirely rebuilt every 20 years. But that's a very different thing. Most large temples no not get rebuilt very often, and their trunks can last centuries.
It's the old price - no discount for g2 instances ;(
I think she is just using average life span.

There was an old apple app (I think called death clock), that when you opened it you entered your birthday and it would tell you how long you have to live. Every time you opened it would just recalc. Always counting even when not running. It was a little freaky.

"Your older than you've ever been, and NOW your even older, and NOW your even older still..."
_TMBG
I have heard of a couple of companies working on maps: local crime rates, parking tickets and school ratings allow them to improve property estimation. OpenStreetMap is a big source for them correcting official occupation maps. They sell the resulting maps to real-estate agencies and distribution companies.

Funny detail: their maps are more accurate than official ones on many aspects; when I asked at a conference if they’d consider giving back to the community and authorities, they’d say it wasn’t worth it, they wouldn’t take it. When pressed (fairly certain OSM would welcome and had detailed APIs for it), they confessed not trying, because it wasn't in their commercial interest.

The impact of their work appears to heighten urban issues: segregation and white flight, gentrification and pricing out incumbents… But then again: that’s the obvious consequence for more information. I doubt the solution to those issue is by regulating those services.

Local volunteers for OSM are aware of the free riders and would consider negotiating giving back, but they don’t thing it's worth their non-existant legal ressources. Government officials appear intellectually unaware that this could happen.
This older post explains better why we should care about it (or not): http://libccv.org/post/an-elephant-in-the-room/
What was the name of the book you were reading?

One of the better books I read was by David Kahn "The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing"

I love cryptography and am always looking for good books on the subject.
For that purpose, the redboard is essentially the same as an UNO. I have one of each and can swap them out with no problems.
Twitter and Skype apps crash == Nullpointer Exception
I think you're missing optics. Each pixel maps to a perhaps meter wide spot on the Earth. Which means that each color line which is separated by maybe a few hundred pixels of distance on the sensor maps to hundreds of meters of distance different on the Earth. A plane travels at hundreds of meters per second, which is hundreds of pixels per second in sensor space.
Stay tuned. We've gotten a lot of feedback around this and will get a lot better at this.
It's been a while since I looked, but I recall GPU prices being around $2 and hour (and thus writing them off).
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Maybe so, though I don't know how to cultivate taste for interesting problems or even whether it's possible per se. All I ever managed to do was train myself to explicitly focus on important problems.
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Free software for freedom, surveillance and you [video]
If you continue on reading you'll find OPs comment below it:

"@StephenTouset -- indeed. That's actually a feature; see Its OK to Ask and Answer Your Own Questions. As [it was] pointed out, the question was prompted by the computerworld article [1]."

[1] - http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/23698/google-customer...
Transmission had a http interface for a long time already. This seems like something quite similar. If you need to install a plugin or app to make it work it's not 100% "in the browser" imho.

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/WebInterface
Nice and true, obviously. But I do think that hard-sciences folks, when it comes to this very issue, sometimes refuse to understand what it is that they're seeing; worse - they refuse to examine it. It's understandable as unscientific views are infuriatingly ignorant, but that's no justification!

Why is it that in an age of science and technology and their palpable, measurable advantages, do so many people intentionally choose to "hate on" science? What is it that's missing, at least for them?

As an imperfect product of nature, rather than perfect observers of it, we are subject to illusions and delusions, that from a phenomenological perspective are as real to us (or as important to us) as gravity. People have the ability to never consider walking out the window but to believe in astrology at the same time, and that's probably not going to change. And yes, people are going to die as a result of intentional ignorance, but people die of many things, many of them are just as stupid.

Instead of constantly trying to fight this, I've been trying to open myself to these views, not because of any physical reality they possess (as they possess absolutely none), but because of their phenomenological reality, and what they teach us of human nature.
I like that SO lets you answer your own questions, it makes good references for other people to link to. (And if you saw the background from this[1] blog post it makes sense to have made it).

[1] - http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/23698/google-customer...
Yes but clearly he has a pretty good nose for cheap PR.
I've been suspicious that the "changed at Ellis Island" story may be more of an urban legend. My family was always told that was the case, and then we found records proving my great grandparents changed their name years after migrating to the US, and for some reason they had hid that information from my grand father his entire life. My theory is that it was a point of shame having lost the family name, so they chalked it up to lazy immigration people.
Buttons are nicked from Windows Phone yet this is totally broken in WP IE10.
Well, WW2 went there first. Most of Japanese cities were burnt to the ground, so yeah, most buildings are relatively recent.
> There's a risk map

I think you are referring maps of the risks related to an earthquake (ex: tsunamis, landslides, rivers overflowing, wide range fires) and not the risk of getting an earthquake.

In Tokyo, the area of Odaiba would be a super high risk area due to the artificial soil and the proximity to the ocean for instance.
The arduino is really just a breakout board for a microcontroller made by Atmel, with a simplified development environment to lower the barrier to entry. The microcontroller chip itself has always been a couple of dollars, and was before the arduino was invented.

Really you could say that paying $20/board to break out a $2 chip was the insane bit (of course, if it makes the difference between you tinkering and not tinkering, totally worth it). It certainly hasn't been the cost of making arduinos that's been holding back your 'amazingly disruptive disposable electronics' - no chinese factory will have been paying more than a few cents in total parts costs for their mass-produced widgets of this sort for years now.

If you want garage-tinkering-friendly microcontrollers, can I tempt you with the newish NXP LPC810 [1]? It has a 32-bit core which can run at 30MHz (as compared to the 8-bit core running at about 16MHz on the arduino, iirc), and they're $1.37 in single units, less than 60 cents if you want 1000. ARM maintain a whole GNU toolchain [2] to develop on them - it couldn't be easier.

[1] http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/LPC810M021FN8FP/568...

[2] https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded
With the added benefit that if you click a picture, you'll have to scroll all the way back down again!
As the saying goes: what do they call alternative medicine that passes double-blind clinical tests?

Regular medicine.
Remember when the U.S. was the "shining beacon"? Where someone coming into questioning couldn't be held indefinitely as a "material witness"? Or to first have all assets seized and then assigned a terrible attorney because of insolvency? When it would not be a stupid move to submit to questioning
on U.S. soil?

Yesh, that's what I thought.
~$400MM in stolen BTC?
This is a easy passive income project generating $30/month.

http://bit.ly/QjA7eg
Yes please. Its a stack machine anyway, so it should map nicely to the hardware right?
> Once a home is built, the Japanese invest almost zero money/effort into maintenance.

Not really true. There are hundreds of companies in every city specializing in what Japanese call "Reform", which means making older houses/building more modern (either through maintenance, renovation, replacement of installations and so on).
A book club for startups. It could be interesting, but how would it solve the problem of prioritising what to read, if everybody is expected to read the same?
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This is a detailed description of the architecture: http://millcomputing.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu-....

It describes Mill's approach to specifying inter-instruction dependencies, grouping instructions, and handling variable-latency memory instructions.
How exactly is the user information passed to the app download?
When was that? The slavery era? The prohibition? The seggregation? The McCarthy era? The J.E Hoover era?
If you're interested in that kind of stuff I highly reccomend watching Karsten Nohl's "Reviving smart card analysis" talk from Chaos Communication Camp 2011 [0].

Basically he takes pictures of the circuits on the smart card and then reverses the logic from that.
There's even software to assist with that [1].

As a pure software guy I was pretty baffeled when I saw this the first time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFx6Rn57DrY

[1] http://www.degate.org/
I've been a self-publisher for a couple of years now. (My current e-book is about backlogs, or to-do lists. Shameless plug: http://tiny-giant-books.com/backlogs.htm )

I've also been a freelance writer since my teens, having been published in books, magazines, newspapers, and weeklies. And I read like heck. So I know this arena.

There are a few more problems the author does not mention. The number #1 problem on the internet is that everybody wants to be an author, but nobody wants to be an editor. You can click a button and poof! You're published. Back when you had to send it to somebody, and get sometimes biting criticism, you tended to think more carefully about what you wrote. As a self-publisher, you have to be extremely paranoid about quality. And even then, what you don't see, you don't see. It's hard/impossible to replace a good professional editorial staff.

The second problem is that the physicality of books is different from e-books. Don't get me wrong: I love e-books. But for certain things, like learning a new complex skill, I want to have physical books scattered around the office opened to certain passages with other passages dog-eared or bookmarked. E-books just ain't the same.

I also wonder if we're not selling a shitload of e-books that nobody is ever getting around to reading. A lot of people buy books (or e-books) for their imagined experience -- not for the real one. When you have physical books, you can see when your stack is growing large. With e-books, it's very easy to over-consume.

Not sure a book club would help with that, but it would solve the problems the writer mentions. Perhaps some other features could be added to the group?

(I also need to mention that years ago I started a website for startups/hackers to recommend and share books. The idea was something like a social network, but instead of posting or sharing links or status updates, you posted new book titles and shared them. http://hn-books.com)
I agree with the overall point of the responses that Google isn't in fact evil to be doing this, but I want to disagree somewhat with one point - the idea that Google doesn't have any obligation to respect users wishes just because its a free service that no one is forcing you to use.

The problem with this is that Google's very existence makes it harder for similar services to exist. There are a few reasons for this, including:

1. Google benefits from economies of scale

2. Google benefits from having massive amounts of data to crunch through (for example, its hard to build a span filter as good as Gmail's without a training dataset as big as Gmail's)

Its kind of like the argument for the minimum wage - conservatives would say its not needed because you can just choose not to work for a company that isn't offering enough money, but sometimes you don't really have an alternative.
Periodic Table of the Google Apps Ecosystem
Yes, I know it is feminine, but my mental list of Irish name is short
That was a short article about kaizen in Ethiopia, not history of kaizen. But thanks for the reference!
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This isn't so much the problem with self-published books, as with books that are self-published and more or less "self-sold". I wrote a bit about Authority here: http://blog.liberwriter.com/2013/11/21/nathan-barrys-authori... and think this is a real problem. I don't like not having reviews. There are some books that look interesting to me, like this one: http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/books/the-profitable-side-proj... where I'm a bit reticent because of the lack of reviews and Amazon integration, combined with a higher price than I'm used to.

I don't think that everyone selling their own books on their own sites is a stable equilibrium.
> The project lead explained that he didn't accept unsolicited commits

Isn't that sort of contrary to OSS?
Not sure. I have not seen the data myself, but I have heard more than one that acupuncture has had demonstrated benefits in clinical trials. And chinese medicine usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials as well. I wouldn't discard everything out there, but homeopathy is, for me, clear BS - from the theory to the data generated.
> placebos are actually somewhat useful.

Would you go to a doctor who you knew dispensed ineffective sugar pills to the sick?

Would it be ethical for a doctor to dispense ineffective sugar pills to the sick and conceal this fact?
Kinda unfortunate that browsers don't allow general socket access.

The browser could ask for permission (and possibly disable access to cookies or saved credentials for this tab), and it would be pretty safe. You can do that with a signed Java applet, and I believe it was possible with Flash and a couple other techniques, but they have all been killed or are on the way out.

Imagine what you could do... Bittorrent clients, something like Popcorn Time, Anonymous P2P, Anonymous instant messaging, Tor in the browser, ... or less nefariously, Mail clients, Mashups, ... all in simple HTML files, hosted anonymously on a free webhoster. You can build awesome stuff, but can't be hold accountable by your domain name, etc..

puts tinfoil hat on The paranoid part of me thinks the restriction is on purpose, to prevent this kind of app in the browser. Apple, Google & co. control the walled gardens of their App stores. They don't control the "open" web, but they have subtly pushed it in a direction where it is very powerful, but has very specific weaknesses.
"The proposed bill would bar all other auto makers from bypassing franchised dealers to retail cars"

A potentially adequate solution for Tesla that offers no change or threat to the status quo to assist future industry challengers? If my reading is correct I am disappointed.
How 'bout Joanne?
As "Joan", "Joanna" or "Jane", presumably.

Slightly off-topic: I can't find a link, but I'm sure I read somewhere that Irish speakers in the nineteenth century would routinely anglicise their own names when writing in English: e.g., a man called Sean would sign letters as "John".
Interesting

It even mentions: " However, many last names were altered slightly due to the disparity between English and other languages in the pronunciation of certain letters of the alphabet"

Unfortunately their source [34] is a link that does not exist anymore at that URL
Pretty much. I set one up for the first time a couple weeks ago and it could not have been easier. Bare minimum "hello world" would basically just be a board, a USB cable, a computer with a USB port, and an LED.
I suppose it's nice to have the rationale written out somewhere, but does anyone anywhere actually balk at being required to use HTTPS?
My understanding is that these satellites are using push broom scanning [1]. So I don't see any meaningful sense in which the different scanners are separated by "a few hundred pixels". They're separated by inches, which corresponds to time.

For this same reason, I don't see why the altitude of the satellite is important. But I've never really studied this so I'd be happy to be corrected.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_broom_scanner
It's usually anglicized as Shivon.
Linux, Windows, and Mac are all supported by the tools. Additionally the tools are very light weight, just about everything can run them no problem.
Just because a book isn't sold on Amazon it doesn't mean you can't find reviews somewhere else (e.g. http://www.goodreads.com/ ).
If you get a normal Arduino (there's a bajillion variants, so I won't address all of those) you need any computer made in the past 15 years running Linux / Windows / Mac, and a usb -> usb A connector. Most Arduinos include that. I suggest, however, you buy some electronic parts - a couple of LEDs or sensors - via a kit and a jumper kit (a bunch of pre-bent color coded sized wires) and a breadboard to experiment.

Also, check out for local hackerspacers, as there will definitely be people that to set you on the right path.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Chevonne
The argument has been made that Google's free products and services are anticompetitive dumping which makes it harder for a competing service to survive.
Not sure if it counts as an americanized name, but this reminded me of Godfather 2; in Ellis Island, Vito Andolini from Corleone was "rebaptized" as Vito Corleone.
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Twitter is still banned.
Can you learn Objective-C without knowing C?
I wonder if it might become standard to leave your name off a resume, only giving anonymized contact info and such, similar to how it's standard (in the US, anyway) not to include a photograph in order to avoid charges of discrimination.
Your PLOS stuff sounds really interesting!
Could you point me to some of that please?

Whilst plugging away at my thesis I have gotten interested in data analysis, data mining, etc. and my default data set consists of PLOS articles.
I blog about stuff I do here: http://georg.io
Heyyyyyy, no bogarting Clarke's third law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
You'll want an Arduino that has headers and a usb connector already soldered on and the usb cable to fit it. That's really the bare minimum. From the article, this one looks like it would fit: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11575 and only $9 on sale day.

Now if you want it to do something you can see other than in the logs from within the IDE, that's when you start needing more stuff. Generally a breadboard, wires, and some components like leds and resistors come next; for making blinking lights, who doesn't like those?

As far as the computer, it can be best answered here but is just about anything you have: http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage in the getting started section.
I'd be happy to hear your thoughts - whether you agree or not.
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Wait, does this mean your approach to static scheduling is in fact just-in-time compilation? Nifty, I can see how that would work. :)
Kaizen + Aquatic Park in Video
Indeed, not even on high-end smartphone does this produce over 10fps (Tested on iPhone 5, Nexus 4, Samsung galaxy s4)
Should We Have a TCS Ethics Board?
Do you believe there is manipulation going on with gold and crude oil
Anglicise, surely ;0)>

"Shavaun" ~10 per million in US census name information. "Shavaughn" seems similarly [un]popular too.

Also, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amusing-Misspellings-of-Siobh....
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Fun variation. Darn difficult and more luck based, though.
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This is true, although you still need a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the libraries behind the three environments. The best developers on these teams will most often (not always) be the ones that have also worked on native Android and iOS applications.
I haven't had a facebook account in some time, but when I did I hated it. I used it because there was this fear that I'd miss something, I'd be left out of some loop.Once I left, I realized that was nonsense, the people who mattered text, call, or email me.

My dad hates facebook, but he uses it because there's some family and friends on there that make him feel obligated to stick around.

Breaking away is easier than it seems at first, but there are plenty of people who dislike facebook who still use it.
Truth and Death.
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Prepackaged patterns and components, built on top of Bourbon, Bitters, and Neat.
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I experienced VR decades ago in an SGI cave, circa 1995.

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

Which is about the same time PC graphics were picking up, and games like Descent came into existence.

So, like GP, I agree that widespread VR has been overdue for a long time.

What does maturity even mean in a capitalist system? All hail the philosopher entrepreneur? Give me a break.
I sometimes imagine Spokane being inundated with refugees from the Big One, whether earthquake or Rainier blowing (or both). I've got a couple of spare rooms ya'll can use for a while. What'll be really interesting will be when the refugees realize that a house that would cost them $1.5M in Seattle will run about $300K in Spokane with no quake/volcano risk and no shortage of Starbucks shops around.
I did that on some university servers around 1999. We had a few Alphas dedicated to batch processing, and I set up S@H to run on them.

One catch was that the duration of batch jobs was limited to 12 hours, so I couldn't just fire and forget. I ended up scripting it so that when the job ended, it automatically resubmitted itself to the batch queue.

It took about a day before I got a surprisingly friendly e-mail from the sysadmin asking me to please stop.