skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it sounds like a hack performed by some back-alley doc in a dystopic science fiction story...

I mean, they did manage to give him back his sight for a limited period of time, that's pretty amazing technology if you ask me, not the kind a hack would achieve, but yes, it's very unfortunate that he lost it again, that must be some terrible pain.

I agree it might not sound too professional, but it seems to me that it's more about how this article is putting it and the reality may be more complex.
In effect, the long term direction of the Discworld books, especially since the start of the watch sub-series is basically "What if the industrial revolution happened in a (mostly) traditional fantasy world?".
> The right of way. . .

This is a situation where bikes don't necessarily have right-of-way under the law. If there's a bike lane, then yes - and in that case there really should be traffic markings to make it clear to motorists that the right turn lane is on the other side of the lane.

But if not, then bikes are using the same lane as every other vehicle on the road. So when cyclists pass waiting cars on the right at a stoplight, it's just as dangerous and illegal as if a motorcyclist or scooter rider were to do it.
If people decide that this is a good idea, I will have to an add automatic reply with something like

"
You use this crappy service either because:

- You didn't spend enough time thinking about that email because you either want to edit it later, or delete it from my mail box

- You expect me to answer by some specific date, which implies you want me to be on your schedule.

- You want to violate my privacy by tracking if and when I read your email.

You also require me to use a third-party service to read your email as a text. That's unacceptable.

Remember you're trying to contact me, no the other way around. Send it plain text or don't send it at all. "
So why not use RF for data, and magnetic induction for power?
But you chose to donate in the first place. How is this anyone else's fault?
I want everybody to stay out of Ukraine!
The patent system was introduced to solve the latter problem: By openly specifying a solution to a problem, more people could benefit from that solution. Combine that with a period of time where only the original inventor is allowed to benefit and you catch two birds with one stone:

- invention is incentivised as people can expect to be protected for a period of time to get their investment back

- to do so, they have to share their inventions with the world which then can use it at a later point.

The problem today is that the period of protection is much longer than necessary and sensible given the speed of innovation. Just a few decades ago, waiting ten or twenty years for a patent to run out was much preferable to spending ten, twenty or fifty years trying to solve the original problem yourself.

The patent system is not the problem, its parameters are.
"...some educators worry that three years isn’t enough time for young people to find themselves intellectually or emotionally."

Almost all degrees in England are three years degrees.
Especially with the radio on.
Hacking could be a problem, since there is no centralised way to resolve whether information received packets are lying or not.
I've been wondering about these for dealing with that issue - anyone have any experience with one?

http://deltacycle.com/airzound-horn

Heck, I'd appreciate having a version for pedestrian use, too, sometimes.
No, they delete files from skydrive and block accounts if they don't like the files you are storing privately . And, we are not talking illegal material: http://www.neowin.net/news/man-says-microsoft-blocked-him-be...
Mozilla and Free Speech
"The reason for the dearth of older hackers is the same reason there are few people running marathons at age 60 or 70: As we age, our bodies and minds degrade."

That is an overgeneralization that could lead to needlessly depressing conclusions. Research is pointing in directions that are much more encouraging and that vary tremendously from field to field. If you are interested in this subject, you'll definitely want to see the summary that the following link, which, among other things, says that the output of scientists appears to peak in their 40's and decline only in their 70's (assuming, I would guess, that they are choosing to continue to pursue their vocation):

0. bit.ly/1kzXKIz

To help maintain your brain power as you age, research is pointing in the direction that the best thing you can do is, perhaps counterintuitively, physical exercise:

1. http://www.sciencedaily.com—081118071144.htm

2. http://www.kurzweilai.net—how-exercise-boosts-brain-health

3. http://www.brainfacts.org—physical-exercise-beefs-up-the-bra...

4. http://www.nytimes.com—how-exercise-could-lead-to-a-better-b...

5. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com—ask-well-exercises-to-prevent-...

6. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/exercise-may-protec...

In contrast, claims that "brain exercises" actually help are quite controversial.

Also, there's evidence that caloric reduction reduces cognitive decline:

7. http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/2036/20130522/low-ca...

8. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/sirtuin-love-calori...
I hear you. I never saw this before, and it's rare to see a new concept in UI for the very first time. So that one had me slightly excited, too :)

Though I generally dislike loading bars for images (I prefer progressive jpeg), some sites do insist on using them, and I think this particular effect could look fantastic for thumbnails. And enhanced to use two colors, it could also be used to indicate buffering status and seek position when playing short audio samples (a gallery of birds and their song is the first thing that comes to mind haha)
Well that's because Occulus presumably isn't a scam. But I don't see how seeking crowd funding in and of itself makes something inherently untrustworthy.
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A major difference is that a senior developer does not limit themselves to just software development. They learn something about ops, they learn about tuning a database (whether SQL or noSQL), they learn about business problems and so on. The most important difference is that a senior software developer is evolving into being an engineer who understands the total solution space, not just the software. By choice, some people stick with software development rather than moving into software engineering or devops, but a senior person makes that as a choice, not because they are ignorant of engineering and devops.

What is the difference between a software developer and many other professions? A software developer is constantly learning new techniques, new languages, new technologies. Therefore a senior software developer knows a lot more than a junior one and has more hands on experience with more aspects of the trade.
Awe, I was in the middle of writing a scraper for this and it seems they have now "fixed" it.
People haven't seen the device yet, but they're judging these guys primarily because they're Russian. If they were a YC-funded SV startup, this article wouldn't exist.
Without the first part, a whole orchestra's worth of sawtooth oscillators playing octaves is pretty boring. The effect of the beginning is to build tension, which is released at the point when all the oscillators converge on the single note.
Tension and release is the basis for most (if not all) music. Whether its in the form of a V7->I cadence, which builds tension harmonically with a tritone that "wants" to resolve to the root. Or the "riser" before the drop in electronic music, just a single note with it's pitch going up and up and up or a filter sweeping through white noise up and up and up with drums doing more and more subdivisions until a second of silence and then boom...the main theme. In and of itself it may be interesting but only within the context of it being the release of tension built up previously does it have that profound effect.
The wealth produced by capitalism that allows rising standards of living is a historical aberration. For nearly all of human history Malthusianism was correct and most people lived on the brink of starvation.

Feudalism was no different from any other pre-industrial social structure, a parasitic rentier class taxed the peasantry to support their lifestyles. This was true from the god kings of Sumer, Mycenae and Mexico, the cultured, civilized, literate empires of China and Rome and the warlord kingdoms of Europe and India.

Most of human history was a boot stomping on a human face and if we're not very lucky this Dteamtime will end too.
If you're going to make Chrome a dependency for an always on technology to stay in touch with your users, maybe invest some time stopping Chrome from costing half their battery life.
1 notmagi.me:
55 bytes, 1+1+0+1 records, response, authoritative, noerror
query: 1 notmagi.me
answer: notmagi.me 1800 A 207.97.227.245
additional: . 32768 weird class

Nice.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/977/

And ‘wrong’ is certainly too hard a word, or at least there is no projection method that is less wrong than, say, Mercator (or Robinson, for that matter). But, hey, you can only expect so much from the Daily Mail…
Fixed a DNS bug and it's available at http://www.robfordthegame.com/

We used Quintus.js, which is a relatively new HTML5 game engine that I'd highly recommend. The docs are a little rough around the edges but overall the framework works really well to abstract the hard stuff about javascript games.
You know... there's a lot of writing about that too. You're presenting a false choice, and then suggesting a theory that doesn't really have any basis but suggests that people writing about problems are actually part of the problem they're trying to solve.

I know women who have great experiences in math and computer science. I don't think any of them haven't had their experience at least partially colored by male privilege.
The device in the article was implanted over 10 years ago.

I'm sure there are research teams looking into the wireless methods, in 2002 it just wasn't possible yet. Magnetic induction has it's own challenges, especially when being used with a device inside living tissue.

Wireless power for medical devices has only been practical for the past couple years, and even now the technology is in it's infancy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer#Timeli...
One of the proposals for unlimited corporate liability is for _pro rata_ liability, where the shareholder is only liable for his share of the damages based on how much stock he or she owns. If you bought $1,000 worth of stock, you might lose what you invested plus a few thousand on top of that, but not necessarily all your savings.

It could still be a disaster for some people—what if the claims on the company are 100x the share price or 1,000x?—but it’s more workable than joint and several liability. Liability in general partnerships, for example, is joint and several. Even if you only own 1% of the business, but you are much wealthier than the other owners, the creditors will come after you for everything.

There would also be some thought put into which shareholders would be liable, and perhaps someone who only held the stock for a few days would have less liability than someone who held it for years while the toxic waste was being dumped.
Expect an irate call if you try to hack your Tesla Model S
Oh I don't, it's a system that works quite well for us. I was adding a counterpoint to this statement: "Increasingly business wikis and social networks are the norm." I don't believe that to be the case outside of silicon valley, unless you count the stampede of completely terrible sharepoint implementations we have floating around. But I don't think that is what the poster of that statement was referring to.
tl;dr: Old man hangs on to antique sense of his neighborhood and memories from youth, decades after gentrification; is complaining about the rent.
They could also just standardize their storage sizes on the higher number and still advertise the higher number -- i.e., instead of selling a 300GB hard drive, they could sell a 322.12GB drive, which stores 300GiB.
Privacy? If you want to track when I read your email, your violating my privacy.
Have been going through those to learn how to build out the rendering for my game framework. Awesome stuff! Your tutorials have saved me a lot of grokking time.
They already have a good shell, it is named PowerShell. The problem for most old Unix beards with it is that it is not a Bash like shell.
Pertinent to eye-witness testimony. It entirely depends upon the sequence of impressions.
You can "Hold for Will Call" (Request packages to be held for pickup at a UPS facility) for free -- but the usefulness of that will depend on the hours and location of your local UPS facility.

You can also sign for the package online or provide the driver with "leave with..." instructions.
I suspect I am confused. If you're feeling generous (and notice this comment 6 days later, heh), would you mind correcting my mental model and slicing up the difference between NAT and firewall?

Suppose that there is one external ip, we'll say 1.1.1.1 which is NATting two internal ips, 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2. When a packet comes in, say a TCP packet attempting to open a connection on port 80, what are the options that a non-firewalling NAT has to figure out which internal ip to route it to? Assume that both ips are running webservers.

I know of two answers to this question, one is port forwarding, where the NAT is explicitly configured to forward incoming port 80 traffic to one of the internal hosts (meaning that only one of them can listen for traffic on a given port). The other doesn't work for new incoming connections but just has the NAT watching for outgoing traffic and allowing incoming traffic to come back (using (foreign ip, receiving port, sending port) up to route packets to the internal IP that started that conversation). My understanding is that NAT traversal techniques typically try to first ask the NAT to forward a port for them (uPnP / NAT-PMP), and if that fails then they try to exploit the second method using ICE.

What am I missing?
How does chrome battery use compare to other browsers?
Don't forget sshuttle: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
If my mom's friend was put in front of OS X and Windows 8.1 (giving the start menu the benefit of the doubt), she'd find OS X to look much more like the computer she knows than Windows. Even Microsoft is acknowledging that with the return of the start button and recently revealed return of the start menu.
And yet, boredom often leads to time feeling like it is progressing at a snail's pace.
Really? Give us 4-decimal-place conversions and that's supposed to solve something? Insulting if it isn't meant to be stupid, else stupid.
The ones that are interested are getting subtly insulted and pushed out. That's the point of the article.
Tobacco plant has key to fighting cancer
Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season
My father was a mortgage broker back in the 90s, so I had a chance to see hundreds of deals done - and there was zero "trust/faith" when it came to credit. Everything requires collateral, and the presumption, going in, is that the borrower is going to default, and you will need to seize the collateral in order to make good.

Even in 2007/2008, there was a weird twisted logic that suggested that because, historically, the market for real-estate doesn't all go down at once, that the collateralized debt obligations were credit worthy on the basis of the their underlying assets.

That logic, of course, turned out to be based on false premises - but not because the bankers had any trust/faith in the borrowers.
For me the deal breaker is that I need a unix based foundation if I ever go back to Windows. Regardless of development platform.
Curious what the negatives to Google Now are (aside from battery life, which seems to be a theme with Android)?
And? You just have to create an empty repo on github without pushing anything.
No. Not too late.

It might be, perhaps probably is, too late for Windows Phone. This might be the last generation of high-end game consoles. Buying Nokia was a bad idea. But those things are not existential threats.

Microsoft has a long way to go in other areas, such as embracing the right side of DRM, patent, and open source.

But there is no chance of Microsoft becoming RIM in the next five years. Microsoft could suck in an ocean of money just by raising the price of enterprise-oriented editions of Windows.

They have plenty of time, and many very good people.
Thanks, it looks great.
I guess it's a good thing I have my laptop setup to use google's dns no matter what network i'm on.
NATURAL WAYS TO GET GLOWING, BEAUTIFUL SKIN AT HOME
Looking at the status tab I'm surprised India is 60% done in cloudfunding, the most.
this is interesting, but in a way it's also really scary from my quick look at it it seems that is sql to store the emails. any reason to use that over mbox, or milder, which you can then easily index?

it also implements a small imap client(which may work fine for just reading gmail, but imap is a scary thing, everyone uses it a little differently)

https://github.com/naspeh/mailr/blob/master/mailr/syncer.py

that said i guess it's a nice example for writing a mail client in python.

you might want to use mailpile which had it's first release a while back:

http://mailpile.is

but even for that, if you don't care about fancy guis, you're probably still better off running mutt, imap, mu on a shell you have somewhere

edit: i didn't pay enough attention, as was mentioned it's using imaplib, which is the same library offlineimap uses. i do believe though that a lot the work that happens is how people deal with the rfcs. i remember reading about frustrations of the offlineimap author with different servers, and clients. but basically imaplib itself is just a basic protocol implementation, everything else happens on top of it.

and while you can indeed easily store your terabytes of data in postgresql and you can easily setup full text search, it's still much more portable and easily to handle backup and syncing purposes in different formats. Archiveopteryx looks interesting though, so thanks for the hint. if i never write a service to handle mails for other people i'll revisit it.
P2P OS: Networking for the masses
Yeah like historical omnipotent despots cared about their cattle or were smart modern people who understood economics.

Every storey about feudalism is about the sadism. Why? Because its exciting I'm sure, but also because it was an absolutely common theme?
I can't relate to this. The fact that you have lived for 23 rather than 10 years might make a single year feel less significant in retrospect, but there is no obvious connection to how you feel about that year when it is actually happening.
I find interesting that scrypt asics are on the way: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/kncminer-sells-2-million-wo...
Feudalism is terrible for the people (well, at least more than capitalism), and I'm not suggesting otherwise (in fact, I was warning against inadvertently going back to feudalism by trying to build a "trust-less" economy). But feudalism wasn't absurd, either. It was very logical.

In fact, most systems where power is concentrated in the hands of the few, while the majority is exploited by the powerful make more sense. It is the crowning achievement of the West that we've been able to slowly and excruciatingly build large democracies based on trust in the system. While (very) far from perfect, these democracies are closer to the humanist ideal than any other system in human history.
Try https://www.cloud66.com/, it does what you want, but for some money.
I had the same problem - I was able to fix it by going to about:flags and disabling 'enable experimental ui for notifications'. This prevents chrome from using the native osx notification center, and instead uses a bell icon in the menubar. It also fixed the weather notifications issue for me.
The article is out for vengeance. "Titstare" isn't even a real app, but satire. The article uses this joke as an example of technology's "man problem."

Men: you cannot make sex jokes in public, especially at tech conferences. Any sexual innuendo will be labeled misogynistic. Don't forget about the two guys who got fired after joking about "forking" and "dongles."

Male co-workers can make crude jokes between one another and laugh about it. But say anything sexual and if a woman hears it, you will be labeled sexist, misogynistic, and reported to HR or shamed on Twitter.

And women wonder why they feel excluded from their male peers...
"RAMASAMY IS ADMIN" -SBI
I work on both sides of the fence. I respond to reports by researchers and I submit my own fair share to a large number of companies. The problem that is always present and which all employee's taking vulnerability reports need to understand is that there are scenarios outside of their realm of thinking which could bite them. In this case Schofield shouldn't have pushed back on the researcher and instead used the report as justification via a 'headline test' with the development team to make what should have been a simple code modification to use a strong random identifier. Instead Schofield introduced organizational bias that the information wasn't sensitive and now looks rather silly as a result, especially given it looks like the issue may have just been remediated. It is never good when a problem can't be tackled within a 30 day window at the frustration of a security researcher but can then be tackled within a matter of hours over a weekend.
Just like slave merchants and slave masters depend on their slaves for their well being.

Regarding the minimal basis in history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom#Rights_of_serfdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Knout.gif
Punishment with a knout. Whipping was a common punishment for Russian serfs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom#Slaves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_1956_Supplementa...
Google Now is broken. I get to work, and there is a "time to home" card, and vice-versa. It also thinks that I would like to go to work in the middle of the night on a weekend. It keeps showing me directions to places I've never been to or never searched for.
Or, I arrive somewhere and it immediately shows me a card for "time to home". Even though I have a calendar entry that has a location (so it knows I'm where I'm supposed to be) and it knows how long I'm supposed to be there.

There's also all sort of other idiocies. For instance I only got google now recently and then I traveled back to my home country for a couple of days. And what google now did was bombard me (hundreds literally) with cards for directions to every bloody address I've ever searched for in that country (months or even years ago). Wtf?

I really appreciate the complexity of a system like now, but as it is it would be better if they turned it off. It is broken.
That's pretty clearly not the story here. This isn't some Robin Hood trying to save medical science by flying under the radar, but rather a shyster trying to avoid getting exposed.

There's a very simple way for Healbe to clear the air: release their supposed science. Publicly released scientific data has a much better chance of changing the status quo than a sketchy-looking crowdfunding campaign.
I agree. Windows Phone is looking fantastic. I was highly impressed at Cortana and the other changes at Build.
http://m.siouxcityjournal.com/iowa-farm-labor-shortage-fuels...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48725145

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3996502/

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324866904578513...

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/02/15/2830734/farm-labor-...