skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone that wants to hack this system of corruption, should join Lawrence Lessig (Aaron Swartz)'s cause:

http://www.nhrebellion.org/
This possibility was the reason I never bothered to even consider Ubuntu One as a file locker.
If you look back at the timetable, Google realized the Chromecast was a better direction then Google TV and but all efforts into Chromecast. That's why I'm really disappointed Amazon choose to create yet another platform for companies to develop apps and games for instead of building on one already in place. Games work just fine on my phone and tablet. So does searching for content. I say that as a parent that has been doing a lot of Netflix->Chromecast streaming of kids shows & movies lately. I would like to buy some of the content that Amazon has and Netflix does not without plunking down $99 more and another boz to manage and another ecosystem.
Since you have access to Cortana's notebook, you can set boundaries as to what she tracks about you. This and what I heard about them making Cortana work offline, I just hope Apple and Google would follow suit. Honestly, I am just tired of storing every bit of information about me in the "cloud".
> "Unlike many technical disciplines, design is impossible to automate"

I disagree. You have design-as-a-service with things like 99designs.com, you have great templates with WordPress, you have Bootstrap and other CSS frameworks that get you 90% of the way there (works on different form factors automagically, lots of flexibility), you have style guides for native iOS and Android apps...

You don't "automate" design, you share it based on principles that just about everyone likes. Your design doesn't need to be unique, but your idea and purpose do.

Design seems a lot easier to get 90% of the way there than get code to a point where programmers are less needed.
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I've never been charged a fee for using Amazon Video on our Rokus. What are you referring to?
Yes and no. We're starting with solving for web designers, and the vast majority of their work comes nowhere near the complexity of full-blown applications. The fact that a designer has to know how wire up a form submission, or have to write JavaScript just to get a navigation bar working, or worry about setting up a MySQL server just to get some dynamic content on the page seems broken. It feels like what blogging used to be in the 90s - code HTML and push via FTP. But we've moved past that, and I know we can move past hand-coding HTML/CSS/Wordpress when creating dynamic websites and simple applications (of which many are glorified CRUD form wrappers).
At the moment, the position has only been posted to HN, though it should be up on the site and other job boards today. It just opened up, so I was eager to get it posted in this thread.
Actually there are many examples. It's basically what VCs and investors have been doing since the dawn of time, giving out money to entrepreneurs with no revenue yet, just ideas. Personal experience here besides general observation.

Nowadays investors are demanding more visible traction before investing in the web space, but that didn't always apply, and still doesn't apply to spaces like semiconductors, biotech, etc.
ownCloud is pretty awesome. It's like a self-hosted version of Dropbox.
All open source, too. https://github.com/owncloud/

Check out their main page as well: http://owncloud.org/
That is some seriously sloppy "evidence" to be citing.

It makes no reference to any accounting for the popularity of the candidates before and after ad campaigns, the competitiveness of their districts (for House campaigns), incumbent status, and so on.

It also says

> Also interesting is that this doesn't even include outside independent spending, like money from Super PACs.

as if to imply outside spending (a) is totally proportional to direct campaign spending and (b) has the same effects, to the same degrees, as direct campaign spending, neither of which is necessarily true.

> People who spend more money win.

The shoddy evidence you cited directly contradicts your absolute.

EDIT: toned down wording of the last sentence
Um what? These restrictions are everywhere, just a little different across platforms.

For example

- All iTunes content is available on Mac, Windows & iOS devices, and all downloaded music is playable on all devices that support AAC. Apple doesn't offer a pure streaming service (AppleTV masquerades as one) so you're stuck with iOS, Windows, and Mac for purchased video content.

- Google Play content can be streamed to any device with an app or modern browser (Linux requires Flash hacks), but can only be downloaded to Android devices. You can't download a movie to play offline on your PC, Mac or iOS device.

- Amazon Instant Video is streamable to any device (Linux requires flash hacks) EXCEPT 3rd party Androids -- Amazon requires you to buy THEIR Android Kindle devices. Downloadable/offline content is only available on Windows.

- Netflix is streamable to any device with an app (Linux requires silverlight hacks). There is no downloadable content.
Yeah, but it is better to cover for the users who won't be aware soon rather than the users who are aware but wouldn't care soon enough.
They're under the same umbrella now too. I personally think that will be a central theme in Android 5. Imaging how you'll be able to run Chrome packaged apps on you PC, tablet, phone, and Chromebook, with the same application and data stored in the cloud, synchronized everywhere. You only have to look at the changes they made in KitKat to see that Android is destined to become ChromeOS for mobile devices.
Just use Debian Testing. If you find a "Debian-based server OS that is a bit more up-to-date", odds are they're just repackaging testing or unstable anyway.
Actually coveragr only shows you that the code executes, it doesn't tell you if it's testef.
Where can I find Web library to convert sign language from/to Text
I am working on a web-app. I want to convert sign language to text and text to sign language. I know that this is an area of hot active research. I don't want to re-invent the wheel, I wanna use this as feature in my app where users enter input-text or an audio (using the speech to text api) then translate the text into a sign language corresponding to the text entered.

I am looking for an API, framework, open source or research project to embedded it, or a database in a form that could be easily translated to animation in 3D (DB of word to sign language 3D animation ) to integrate it in my web application.

I found some frameworks using Kinect, and other extra devices. But in my case, all what I wanna use is web-came.

Can you please recommend any helpful tool/resource ?.
WinJS project by Microsoft Open Technologies
Documentation: http://try.buildwinjs.com/default.aspx#listview
That one(Yify) redirected to the other(popcorn-team) one, if I'm not mistaken.
Do you not see the big 'A' at the start? 'At its Build 2014 conference' makes sense.
While I would enjoy living in such a world. Changes like this often take a very long time.

Have you used a self checkout machine lately?
The only crisis here is fueled by people like @nelson who want him to to either spout empty words or resign from a position that he's the most qualified for.

Eich is ignorant, no doubt about that, but shaming him into resignation is not the moral high ground when he's reaffirmed Mozilla's strive for equality. Further: just because he's ignorant doesn't mean we should throw around labels like homophobe or bigot, and comparisons with the KKK, in communities that should know better.

There's also a factual innacuracy in the blog post, the shake-up of the board of directories was planned well in advance, and isn't a crisis, as per Mozilla's statement:

>The three board members ended their terms last week for a variety of reasons. Two had been planning to leave for some time, one since January and one explicitly at the end of the CEO search, regardless of the person selected
I don't think it will -- it's really hard for MS to provide the tooling for making universal apps more or less feasible, even if they all share most of the WinRT APIs. Integrating Chrome/Android will be much harder.
> Is Hack-strict, apart from type annotations, a proper subset of PHP?

No, but it's close. Here's a fairly comprehensive list of missing language features: http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.unsupported.php

Theres also the question of HHVM—the runtime at the core of Hack—and its current support for PHP (which indirectly affects Hack's own support for PHP features it intends to have). It's also close, but not quite, at feature parity with PHP's internal runtime: http://hhvm.com/blog/2813/we-are-the-98-5-and-the-16
I swam in high school, out of everyone who was on my club team, which had pretty serious commitments, I think about 90% had some doors opened for them with college that wouldn't have been there otherwise.

It isn't always a full ride at a D1 school (only true for 2 out of about 30), but many got into schools they wouldn't have otherwise, others received partial D1 scholarships, and many others received large "leadership" scholarships at private D3 schools.

All this to say, there are some real benefits in the college process to competing at higher levels of high school athletics. Even if all the student gets is to spend a night on campus, and meet the entire team, and see the campus as a student, there's some real value to that.
* Requires $500+ companion device.
That's very easy to tell during a coding and problem solving interview.
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Right, so one would expect something like Intrade or other prediction markets to leverage both the statistical "wisdom of crowds" and insider information to be even more accurate.
Your Chromecast takes 30 seconds to load content? In our house someone pretty much always has either their phone, tablet, or laptop nearby and with the HDMI-CEC, you don't even have to find the TV remote to switch inputs, you just queue up want you to want to watch and it plays. And then people can take turns with their respective devices (if you're watching YouTube videos or playing music, etc.)

We also have a Roku and used that before the Chromecast, but the Chromecast is more popular with everyone (kids) in the house for the aforementioned reason of communal use. It's like the Nexus Q was supposed to be, but for video.
Tech specs here:
https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/device-specs.html
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When I was using it, it felt too good to be true! :) It's got a lot of moving parts and internal integrations, however, so it's got to be a ton of work to make open. Still hopeful though.
"We can build the technology, that is the easy part. Turning a product into a sustainable business is the challenge."

Technology is 'easy' if your portfolio ( http://www.coshx.com/projects) consists of applications such as poll management and event scheduling.

In reality if you are going to build something awesome, it's not going to be easy.
You have a right to speech. You DO NOT have a right to be heard.
Youre probably well aware of this but I do gather that:

One of the biggest problems with coffeescript is that when you are troubleshooting production code you need to decipher the generated JS back to what was actually written in coffee.

It strongly suggests haste will present the exact same problem perhaps in greater scale.
I think this will be huge.

It will only take one great game for this thing to pop. With a system that enough users will have in the living room someone is going to put together a fun free-to-play FPS and that will be enough for it to be the clear winner over AppleTV / Chromecast.

Voice search is a big deal if it works the way I think it does. TV is easy, everyone knows how to use one and how to find what they want to watch. Navigating between Netflix, Hulu, Instant, iTunes, Cruncyroll, NBC ... is a pain. Even on my AppleTV navigating Netflix alone is the worst.
Hold on. Isn't BTC property, not money? By that logic this is like stealing corn, making candy corn, then selling it. Still illegal, but not money laundering.
I would love to think that way as well, but it looks like most justices (not just the majority) do agree that there is a free speech issue at play here (without saying "money is speech", however). Reading the majority opinion and Breyer's dissent ("collective good should overrule free speech"), I'm inclined to agree with majority as in the current political climate the alternative is much scarier.

It's worth noting, that while Breyer is often considered a liberal, he has also dissented (with similar logic) in favour of upholding a ban on violent videogames: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchant...

Additionally, ACLU did file an amicus brief in Citizens United case (although the law in question was much more unambigious restriction of speech) in favour of Citizens United and while they did not do so in this case, there does seem to be an internal split on the matter:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/03/the-aclu-the-mccutcheon-ca...

An analogous situation may be access to abortion: opening an abortion cleaning is not the same as getting an actual abortion, but restricting the clinics severely curtail the options available to women (I can't find the citation now, but this was the logic used in a recent decision in a federal court about an AZ law). Keep in mind that abortion is a non-enumerated right, in theory enumerated rights like free speech are held to even tighter standards.

Ezel vs. Chicago (also from a district court, but drawing on SCOTUS precedents) is also similar: while the right to open a shooting range is not equivalent to the right to bear arms, the court ruled that since a Chicago requires range practice in order to receive a firearm license, the city must allow ranges within its limits. So far there isn't a clear scrutiny standard set for the second amendment, but it seems to be converging on "heightened scrutiny" which (again) is less than the strict scrutiny standard applied to the first.

Don't get me wrong, I am not happy about money in politics, but I am not willing to jeopardize the right to free speech (or general way individual vs. collective equation is evaluated in regards to constitutional rights) to fight it.
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> Design seems a lot easier to get 90% of the way there than get code to a point where programmers are less needed.

Not to mention, the last time I checked, we hadn't solved all computable problems, nor will we in any future timeframe.
Amazon added this about six months ago, but it requires another iOS device:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/17/amazons-instant-video-app-a...
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Constantly?

http://us.playstation.com/support/systemupdates/ps3/history/
This just in...Universal apps run on Xbox one.
I agree, I don't think this is about eliminating programming "jobs" at all. It's really about eliminating the "meaningless repetitive work" you mentioned. In that way it could actually be freeing to developers -- allowing you to focus more of your time and energy on the really innovative things that CAN'T be automated.
But do these "universal" apps still run full screen on 30" monitor? If so, then it's not a good UX. The benefit of a large high resolution monitor is to display lots of information at the same time, this frequently implies more than one app/window visible at the same time.
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Exactly. TLDR From the article: Developers must automate their work, and once they do that, designers will be more relevant than they.

An entire article of wishfull thinking.
Ah.. weird I have no idea then. I've got an Eclipse running on Win7 SSD that has been open for over a month using 3GB of ram out of 16GB. It's very very snappy. I do have an Eclipse running on a macbook pro SSD 16GB and that one has about a 2-3 sec freeze when swapping back to Eclipse after backgrounding it for awhile, so I thought that was your issue. Maybe Win 8.1 works more similarly to OSX than Win 7?
How dare a developer double check his work to make sure he's going down the right path and has an optimal solution. Instead, he should sit around for a few hours trying to figure out why his B-Tree traversal is suboptimal. Because that's the best use of a client's time.
Thank you, I started this project a few days ago with the intention of being an inspiration to designers, hackers and all those who have disruptive ideas of technological innovation.
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No, but that wasn't an SCM. ;-)

More seriously, I believe that SourceSafe was maintained on Microsoft's fork of Perforce, but I don't honestly know, nor do I have contacts at this point who'd be able to find out.
You can write Lua middleware to do the Auth if you want.
The traffic monitor website is protected by us, but the actual proxy is not authenticated as it could interfere with API you are using.
Wow, they're rolling this out globally next week.

I just recently switched back to Android (Motorola Razr Maxx) and will be switching back this weekend when I upgrade to the Nokia Icon. This latest update is coming out a lot sooner than I thought. Unreal.
This text has an error rate of about one factual error per sentence, as you'd expect from someone who capitalizes "Linux" as if it were an acronym.
You need to watch 'Her', the Spike Jonze film ;)
Ouya only supported selected games because games designed for a touchscreen interface are hard to play on a TV and with a gamepad. Amazon can support all games if they want to, but they're going to run into the same problem where most of them suck.
Has anyone tried Crunch: http://www.crunch.co.uk/ ?

What appeals to me is that they are your accountant too, and seem geared to handling single person UK limited companies and the tax implications.

The downside is they aren't as big as Xero etc. so it isn't clear to me they aren't a bunch of cowboys. Has anyone used them?

Similarly, can anyone recommend Saasy: http://www.saasy.com ?

They're a payment provider not accounting software but what appeals to me is that Saasy acts as a reseller and so handles all VAT. As I understand it, which isn't very much, as a UK based company I would need to handle all the wacky VAT jurisdictions and invoice requirements of Europe, on top of submitting VAT to HMRC.

On the other hand, 8%...

How are y'all handling tax with your accounting software?
Interestingly enough, the 'What is Fire TV' video heavily features HBO content (Game of Thrones, Veep, etc), but doesn't support HBO Go?
I actually AirPlay amazon prime to Apple TV from my iPhone. In Vietnam, playing anything off the iTunes store can be a lengthy process but somehow Amazon is almost always instantaneous.
For what it's worth, I think when this comment was made the submission linked to a different article-- Tweakers.net, the current source, is the most respected Dutch language tech news source.
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Consider the diversity of design we see in printed magazines, and the lack of diversity on the web. That's not really automating design, it's making it bland and uniform. Imagine if web designers had a tool like InDesign, and it actually worked by generating the right code - I personally think that would be extremely liberating to designers.
From what I understand, Manhattan is based on the ideas from ElephantDB. Unfortunately, development has pretty much stopped on ElephantDB despite the fact a book by Nathan Marz is being written about big data that is dependent on it. http://www.manning.com/marz/

Summingbird (bear with me, I'll tie this in) is also twitter's answer for writing code once and seeing it run on a variety of execution platforms such as hadoop, storm, spark, akka, etc... Not all of these have been built out, but the platform was designed to be a generic framework to support write once execute everywhere.

Summingbird is written to support Manhattan's model as well. The high level idea is to use versioning to determine whether a request is precomputed (batch), computed (realtime) or a hybrid (precomputed + computed). These are expressed as monads with basic functionality present in algebird. One way to bring support to this model to the open source world would be to implement storehaus bindings for elephantdb and to resurrect elephantdb or build a similar service to provide storage similar to Manhattan.

Overall, very early yet promising work in the open source community.

[edit: book is not about elephantdb, but is a critical component. modified wording. Also added link]
The lag is terrible with mirroring. Apple TV won't be viable for gaming until the game is played on the box itself and there is a low-latency controller.
What baffles me is why the hell Microsoft didn't follow Apple's route of controlling their own distribution? Now Windows Mobile users have to figure out when their network is going to distribute the update[1]? That is hideous from a user standpoint.

Microsoft has the money to convince the carriers, and probably a lot of weight as well. Why wouldn't they avoid that nightmare?

Granted I don't have a windows phone so it doesn't affect me, but my brief foray into the Android world frustrated the hell out of me in this regard. With Android it was an extra step: Android released, phone manufacturer needed to build their own version of it, then my carrier needed to decide when I could access it.

When Apple announces an update, I can download it whenever I want it.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/micros...
5 Tips to Get Started with Android Development
Just sharing, I wrote a small piece for the Safari Flow Blog:

"With sales of Android devices growing, there’s no better time to get started crafting your first Android app. Here are the five things you need to know before creating that first killer app."

http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/android/2014/04/02/5-tips-to-get-started-with-android-development/
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Impressive, they beat Apple TV and Google to the app/game punch. This could be big. Disappointed in Apple doing nothing with TV apps/games, all the while having years of lead time.
If my smartphone is the remote then no-one can use it when I'm not at home. So instead you have to set up every smartphone as a remote

That's not how it works. Anyone connected to your Wifi, is "set up" to use the Chromecast and can stream from any number of apps like YouTube, Netflix, Google Play Music and Movies, Pandora, and now even Rdio and Vudu.
it's just an android sdk add-on: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/overview-gs.html

that's not quite the same as a whole new platform.
To my knowledge, you cannot stream Amazon Instant Video content to an Android portable device that isn't sold by Amazon.
Indeed. In case you've never seen it, there is a great documentary on Louis Kahn, the architect, with beautiful footage of his works: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373175/
Simple math applied to a large enough set of predictions will let you know whether or not your probabilities are accurate. It is the same as playing poker - every hand you are essentially betting on probabilities multiple times (okay right now I thing I have a 50% chance of winning this hand and the pot is X and I have to put in Y to keep playing, I'm going to continue). In the short term it is very hard to know whether or not you are putting money in when you "should" because of variance. In the long term, the variance disappears and you can see that, for example, you are making an estimated 2 bets/100 hands you play which means you are "more correct" than the people you are playing against at estimating the odds. A little more complicated than that of course because you are also using bets as weapons to drive better hands out through bluffing and semi-bluffing, etc but the general point holds that a large enough sample size of actual results versus compared results means that your probabilities will hold or they won't