skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting the April fools pranks a little early over there.

At least that's what I'm hoping.
i'm ponying up for a couple of axis cameras...
Please don't submit titles in allcaps.
I like browsing through other people's designs just to see what parts they use. When I see something useful, or something that comes up again and again, I add it to the list of things to consider in the future. Yeah, it's a huge pain.
FVEY PSYOP (previously dismissed as tinfoilhattery when reported in places like The Guardian[1] or elsewhere over the years) has been revealed in The Incercept's reporting on Snowden documents[2].

As for legality, the important parts of Smith-Mundt were repealed several years ago. But you should totally trust them, PSYOP would never be carried out on their own populations, in social media or media in general.

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/ is a good read, for those interested.

As is a history on Smith-Mundt: http://mountainrunner.us/2012/02/history_of_smith-mundt/

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...

[2] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
The linux kernel uses a make based build system.

When you kickoff a unlimited parallel build with `make -j` you get one gcc process per .c file.

As you can imagine this over subscribes the CPU by little bit.
> Using CircuitHub’s “Part Rank” the community decides which parts should be used. When all of the designers are using the same 10K resistor or Atmel chip, we can buy 10,000 of them instead of just 6 for your project alone.

YES! As someone who has bootstrap designed many PCB boards I am still skeptical about how cheap this will actually be, but I'm interested.
I've generally kept costs around $100 per prototype board by using OSH Park to make the boards, Pololu for the stencil, and assembly by myself and a toaster oven. The downside of course is that this way takes more time and effort on my part. It would take a HUGE price drop to be cheaper than one night of my time + $100 + 2 week wait for PCBs though.
I am not sure. I am on Linux and nvidia binary drivers.
I have seen a fair share of problems, especially webgl based pages eating away CPU, or new tabs eating CPU cycles until they become active for the first time.

This is the first time though I believe that I saw a site eating GPU cycles and this is why I mentioned it.
If you come in under budget it won't help. The reasoning is that we should each be encouraged to experiment. One of us may go heavy on the art while the other focuses on marketing. Either way, there should be no punishment for trying as much as you can within the rules.

If one of us goes over, that will count against the final profit.
LogStash : tool for managing events and logs
ShowHN: $digest-free event aggregation in AngularJS
Whatever the hype, Gooseberry is a demonstration of technical and economic feasibility.

Stories are cheap, lots of people are out there who have great ideas for movies but just can't realize them for technical and economic reasons
maybe you could look into starting a kickstarter project.
Stack Overflow launches Unicoins
if 4chan.com is not cheating or bluffing with 4chan.org,
it should not be handed over to 4chan.org.
Typically, funded companies get incorporated as C corps for non-tax reasons. The $20k goes into the corp as investment and out as expenses. The corporation will not pay income taxes for many, many years, since it will be managed to avoid making profits. Founders receiving salaries will, naturally, pay income taxes on those salaries, just like everyone else receiving a salary. Founders will generally pay for their rent and ramen out of their salary.

It is, generally, not a great business practice to have the company underwrite the founders' living expenses just to save them a wee bit of money on taxes. Note that your tax burden on e.g. $2.5k a month of subsistence wages for San Francisco is very, very low. You're better off spending the brain sweat on making your business successful than trying to get whole hundreds of dollars of advantage vis-a-vis the IRS.

Speaking more generally than funded startups, there exist many ways for small businesses to decrease the tax burden of their owners. One of the prominent ones is classifying as business expenses things which are in a gray area between clearly a business expense (e.g. the insurance premium on errors and omissions insurance) and clearly personal (e.g. the cost of taking the founder and their significant other to a nice restaurant on the average Saturday).

The IRS has some fairly toothy rules for discouraging abusive classification of expenses in some common hot-spots. Two of the big ones are the home-office deduction and travel expenses. They take a very dim view of e.g. having the business pay for 100% of your rent and claim the entirety of it as "office rent", even if you -- in fact -- do do substantially all work out of your home.

Paying for your founders' food is a pretty clear no-no unless a) the food is served on the business' premises for the convenience of the business, b) the food is on a business trip lasting 1+ days away from your home city, or c) the food is Meals and Entertainment where you're e.g. wining and dining a prospective client. You get to do a bit of extra bookkeeping and have to be able to identify who you were eating with and what the explicit business goal you hoped that business meal to achieve was. The maximum deductibility is 50% of the meal, and you only get to include meals which are necessary and customary in your line of work.
The value of currency has very little to do with absolute quantity, and everything to do with proportions and distribution.

If you can outbid 99% of the people at your marketplace for the things you want, you're in the richest 1%. That number is not the same in New York City as it is in Lagos.
Hey seddona, how do you parse Altium files? Did you reverse engineer it? Do they have documentation or a dev kit/API? Thanks!
A movie industry isn't going to produce "really strong" until it is cranking out piles of movies every year. Even then, most of what's produced will be total crap.
Apple also uses a similar strategy with the iPhone. The iPhone 4 and 5 both made major form changes (retina display and screen shape) whereas the 4S and 5S were focussed on refinement (faster CPU, 64-bit CPU respectively). It has also been noted (possibly on the Accidental Tech Podcast, or somewhere similar) that a 'tick' year for the phone tends to be a 'tock' year for iOS and vice versa; iOS 5 and iOS 7 (released with the 4S and 5S respectively) were bigger changes than iOS 4 and 6.
This is really cool; thanks for sharing it!
Stereotyping stay-at-home parents, paranoia, and and blaming women? Please give your comments more effort so they won't be taken badly.
What incentives will there be for newbies to join?

Suppose I am a high school student interested in learning to code. I am not a networking expert/hardware guru/etc. so I have nothing to contribute to advanced topics, and therefore cannot get anything in return.

Some of us learned by hacking away, breaking things, and then sheepishly asking the pros for help over and over when we couldn't fix our mistakes. This would not have been possible under your proposed system.
I received same email: they crawled linkedin because i set a specific company (my own company!) and they told that other 3 facebook friends of mine were using it, but i never had a facebook account!
I decided not to write a blog post because i don't want to make a spot for them and help them spread their name.
The supply of pronounceable, human-readable, reasonably memory domains is also effectively infinite. There are even lots of short ones left available.
Hi, my credit card company is not listed there, yet it exists: my IIN is 6371.

I'm afraid this is not completely accurate at all. There are many credit card IINs and those are just a very few and will not work with some international cards (including international visa cards). Those numbers are issued by the American Bankers Association - in accordance to ISO 7812. They are not attached to a credit card flag, but to a company and a single company can have only one IIN. What happens is that Visa is composed of many companies in many countries, that's why they have many IINs which may or may not start with the same numbers, there are no strict rules about that.

The number this website calls 'prefix' is actually named IIN and it's composed of 6 characters, not 4 (nor 2 or 3). They are disposed in groups of 4 for a variety of reasons and no issuer owns whole lots of IINs.

The only completely correct way to detect a credit card is to just contact ABA to obtain a list of issued IINs.

This is what an issued IIN looks like, we also have many:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Sa2A0cesh4eDVMY3NwQ3ZEVlZ...

I also built a thing to help me parse those numbers (ruby):

https://github.com/eduardordm/iso7812
Band uses car and loop pedal to reimagine American Authors latest hit
Square now lets sellers accept Bitcoin on their own storefronts
We too use Trello for our non-profit website. Its easy and fast, although not always entirely intuitive to everyone.
I'm not sure how well it would scale to a larger project though.
also check http://www.savetheinternet.eu/ 2 days in Europe before the vote
The Tangled Web of the Chinese Internet.[infographic]
What is the author using to make such nice charts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the--let it hang out, so to speak?

DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that--

HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.

DEAN: It's a limited hang out.

EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.

PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

Cute. It's like those kids discovering music from the '70s.
But... but... but... It's not April Fool's yet!
If the chart didn't tip you off, this should have: Links to this post - Google April Fools' Day jokes for 2014 | TalkAndroid.com
As an immediate step, data analysis sounds good. :)

As a theoretical, how about medicine, pharmacology, every flavour of engineering, fine art, music, architecture.

Coding, graphic design seem to have a few things going for them that make them a very natural fit for self learning online. Part of it is not needing much outside of a laptop and an internet connection, but math needs even less and you find far fewer autodidact mathematicians.

I suspect that not needing a curriculum is actually a part of it. I don't dispute that having a curriculum available to you can be useful and that following a curriculum will get you from start to finish will probably give you a relatively efficient, high success rate path. But, I think that the more self contained and small an effective quanta of learning is, the more suited it is to self learning.
My car has one; useless. Its covered by road grime or slush or a raindrop all the time. I can see out of it for 10 minutes after leaving the car wash and that's it.
Something just as grand could be attained by turning a War machine into a floating city, and leaving it in places where it is most direly needed. At any one time, a simple nuclear-powered submarine could solve a lot of headaches in the world, peacefully, were it simply ordered to do so.
Check Georgia Tech
Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2001)
Incidentally, here are the original requirements that these drafts were intended to satisfy:

In a number of United States Government applications,
it is desirable to have some material with the following
properties:

1. It is contributed both by client and server.
2. It is arbitrary-length.
3. It is mixed into the eventual keying material.
4. It is structured and decodable by the receiving party.

(Amusingly, this comment got downvoted.)
CERN is a second pokemon lab/center. Bunch around there. Also some searches for town names worked: "Palette", etc.
I want to use it as a currency to buy things, not an investment. If all you're doing is investing, this is easier to keep track of. If you want to regularly be buying goods and services with cryptocurrencies, it becomes much more difficult for the average person to keep track of.

Don't be an ass.
How do you "make sure people are able to responsibly operate their vehicle?"
It isn't about responsbility of drivers. It's about decreasing the probability of a motor accident, at least, within reasonable cost.

No matter how responsible and safe you are, you are only human.
Or about the various illegal antitrust practices all those companies have been found guilty of.
>Property rights over tangible things (whose use is physically exclusionary) do not require the defense of a coercive third party.

I would still claim that the distinction you're drawing is arbitrary. Yes physical objects and ideas are different and the ways one goes about defending them will, of course also be different. The defense of intellectual property does not, in principle, require enforcement by a coercive third party. I could defend it by keeping it a secrete, or announce to the word that I am in fact the inventor (ownership of an idea does not necessarily have to imply exclusive use of it).

You're claiming that the attribute of physical exclusivity is essential to the notion of "property"; I can argue that it is incidental. The import thing is that thorough appropriating your property, I am depriving you of some tangible benefit. In case of physical property, the benefit is the (necessarily) exclusive use of that property. In case of intellectual property, the benefit maybe competitive advantage (if I choose to keep my knowledge secret), or a revenue stream (if I choose to allow others to benefit from my knowledge in return for compensation), or reputation and status (in being acknowledged as the inventor).

That paper makes the same erroneous assumption:

"Only tangible, scarce resources are the possible object of interpersonal conflict, so it is only for them that property rules are appli­cable."

This obviously wrong. Reputation, influence (political religious, etc), honor, status, competitiveness -- all quality sources of "interpersonal conflict".

In fact, the paper conveniently avoids tackling some forms of intellectual property--trade secretes and trademarks-- by dismissing them as "less problematic" (thus tacitly acknowledging the validity of the concept of "intellectual property") and instead chooses to focus on copyrights and patents (both of which are indeed severely flawed -- today even more so then when the paper was originally published). It is thus drawing an arbitrary distinction between different forms of intellectual property -- something it goes on to condemn later. Note that the classification of physical property is also essentially arbitrary (e.g. the notion of "private property", as applied to physical objects, was far weaker in the Soviet Union, and still is elsewhere in the world, than it is in the US).

EDIT: grammar + clarity.
Mastering Parallel Coordinate Charts in R
Thanks for clarifying. Admittedly, the article was a PR move to show the inherent security weakness in apps like Dropbox, using copyright as an example. I touched on the actual surveillance aspects of the app here because the original comment asked if doing what I'm doing is something to be proud of. Violating copyright holders' rights is not (and I don't condone it), but providing storage for people who need/want privacy is something to be proud of.
Thanks Chris! I'm looking forward to that. :)
Sure, but most things are easy because someone else has done the heavy lifting. I was just pointing out how easy building the Android kernel is, something he described as "physically painful".
It's probably possible, but it's not really worthwhile.

In the best case scenerio, it's the same amount of work as writing one in C++. The benefits and nice features of those languages would cancel out the drawback of lack of control.

In the worse case, the lack of control means you can't use the features of those languages which would make development easier, and you'd miss C++'s low level features which have no equivalent in higher level languages.

Since the reality is somewhere between these (in my experience, it's pretty close to the worse case), and implementing a high performance game engine is such a large task, it's a much better engineering decision to just go with C++ (or another language which allows a similar level of control) from the start.
Show HN: Google Maps + Pokemon, for real this time: Mobbles
Following the Google Maps April's fool and seeing the reaction around it, I feel the need to post about our app: Mobbles ( http://www.mobbles.com )

In a nutshell, it's Google Maps + Pokemon + tamagotchis

It's a real-life creature hunting. Once caught, you'll need to take care of your creatures (like Tamagotchis), you can then trade/fight them with your friends!

Some creatures are only catchable in Asia.
Some creatures are only catchable in France.
Some creatures are only catchable during full moon nights.
Some creature are only catchable early in the morning.
etc.

We've had some users tell us they go out at night and hunt! Or users actually putting their alarm clock early to catch this one Mobble! Some feedbacks are quite unbelievable sometimes, like someone crossing the whole city of LA to catch an exclusive Mobble we put around the convention center during E3.

HN is actually responsible for this game since we applied through our incubator (I/O venture) after sseing a link here.

Anyway, for those who are frustrated by Google's april fool, you should give Mobbles a try! Looking forward to your feedback!
Really?

Mine (A MB GLK) works very well. It's never been too dirty to see, and it has a great overlay showing range to objects and current trajectory.
MariaDB 10
I bought the S4 last year, there were a few close options but the removable battery and flash memory slot made the difference for me among the premium android phones. I am also a big fan of the galaxy's screen, which I know is a deal breaker for some. After a year, I am definitely happy I could easily remove my battery the few times I needed to. The 64gb of flash memory has also been useful, not only for storing audobooks and podcasts (i have a 20 mile commute), but also for use as a portable drive utility for moving large files in unusual circumstances (for example, I wanted to grab a 10gb file from my father's desktop, he has a 1Mbit internet connection, so having 40gb of free space on my phone was quite handy).
One of the Blender video projects that I really liked was En Passant[0]. Although it was a short movie (only around 15 minutes) it tells a powerful story, and shows some of the impressive capacity of Blender.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7HI1Ujx7B8
While I agree that reinventing the wheel every time you start a new project is not an efficient method of development, I've grown to become weary of volatile APIs. A service which has only been operational for a short time and is under constant development means that my implementation may no longer be supported 6 months down the road if the service iterates significantly or worse yet, the company goes belly up. I understand this isn't going to happen to the likes of heroku overnight but unless there is an obvious, well supported api to use for a particular functionality, one should still take the time to consider the advantages and disadvantages of doing so.
Drivers Education and driving tests are two ideas that come to mind.
I'm happy to see that the article (briefly) mentions the current regulations requiring side mirrors instead of side cameras. Side mirrors are the bane of aesthetic and aerodynamic design. They even cause excess cabin noise, especially in electric cars. But current NHSTA regulations require side mirrors, and don't accept side cameras as a substitute.

For example, the Nissan Leaf (like many other cars) has funny-shaped headlights to prevent excess cabin noise and drag from the side mirrors: http://www.nissanusa.com/buildyournissan/vehicle-images/2013...

Tesla's early promotional materials for the Model X show side cameras instead of mirrors (http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx ). But apparently they have given up on the regulations changing, because their newer design prototypes have side mirrors (http://green.autoblog.com/2013/01/14/tesla-model-x-makes-aut... )
Easy to just put black tape over it. Or smash the lens...
I totally agree.

This ruling really just makes cars heavier, and as a result, less efficient. It's the reason a modern Insight is less efficient than a CRX from 20 years ago.

Are you any less likely to get into an accident with that CRX than a new Insight? Probably not. As long as humans are behind the wheel, they're the ones that need to be trained better, not the cars.

It's useless.
My car is cheap; a Subaru Forester. Tiny plastic bubble lens. Live on a gravel road; drive in all weather in town.

Maybe this summer it will be better, but its been crap all fall, winter and now spring (in Iowa).
Having more is great, up to a certain point.

I think that point is probably after you can buy everything that you ever wanted for yourself, and still have some left afterward. After that, unless you actually hire someone to spend your money for you, or you learn to want bigger and more expensive things, you are turning the economic flow from a perpetual circulation into a one-way dead end.
"Anyone will be able to access the internet of things and use big data and analytics to develop predictive algorithms that can speed efficiency, dramatically increase productivity and lower the marginal cost of producing and distributing physical things, including energy, products and services, to near zero, just as we now do with information goods."

Saying that the Internet of things will bring the marginal cost of energy prices to near zero because of big data seems like a stretch to me, as well as some amazing buzzword bingo.
That is what they appeared to satisfy then (2006-2009). We know now that if implemented it would allow them almost real-time or even real-time decryption of communication of whoever uses it, as we discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7503287

We also know extended_random_value is actually implemented in RSA's BSAFE library, as the paper http://dualec.org/DualECTLS.pdf shows.

And we know http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/43164/which-prod...

"the RSA BSAFE library uses Dual_EC_DRBG (...) by default (...)

I can easily find (hint: use your favourite search engine to search for the terms "This product includes" "RSA BSAFE") implementations, oddly skewed towards imaging and gaming devices: surprisingly many printer/copier/fax devices use BSAFE, though for unknown purposes.

Including Ricoh, Minolta, Océ/Canon, Brother, Fuji/Xerox, Epson ...

Your Playstation (PDF), PSP, or your Nintendo DS wifi (PDF)

Software from Adobe, Hitachi, Oracle and HP Some Nokia phones(PDF)"
Threes doesn't look all that interesting to me. I didn't care to try it out when I first heard of it, and 2048 didn't change that opinion. I'm not going to go out and buy a different game just to support the concept when I'm enjoying something else that by all accounts is not really the same game.
Can this be more overhanded? I really liked Google's older jokes, they were more subtle.
>Several safety advocacy groups sued the government and asked a federal judge to require backup rules be adopted.

I would be interested to know if these advocacy groups received donations from any camera manufacturers.
Definitely. ECS feels very functional, in that it purposefully eschews OO in favor of something more dynamic.
You're right, that's true.

It's not the ideal metric, but it's one that is realistic to compute with limited time and resources. To analyze that statistic using a growth metric like "largest 30 day average contributor gain" across such a gigantic dataset, consisting of hundreds of millions of rows and tens of millions of unique repositories, requires resources and engineer time which few people possess. We certainly don't want to divert too much of either of those things away from development of CodeCombat just for a fun data science experiment!