skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honda should think about using some 'deploy then code' philosophy with ASIMO. I know ASIMO works hard in theme parks and in the lab, however, ASIMO really needs to be in a movie to reach a large appreciative audience. The things ASIMO can't quite do now could be CGI'd in or there could be some (stunted) stunt doubles dressed in a suit.

From what I understand the target audience is elderly care. I have done a fair bit of this myself on a neighbourly basis and I have witnessed how professional care workers can work - they can fill in lots of forms and somehow avoid any actual care. Imagine how dystopian things could get if elderly people had ASIMO and instead of care workers visiting them they just had an engineer to care for the ASIMO. Then imagine the Alzheimer's disease kicking in. ASIMO could be sent off doing the same thing three thousand times a day, with a feedback loop formed, making matters worse.

Clearly the distant relatives would interface with ASIMO rather than their grandma/grandpa. The senile yet devious grandma/pa would do things to outwit ASIMO like regurgitate their pills or eat the bag of sugar instead of their microwave meal. So situations could develop without relatives knowing what was going on. Obviously at things like family weddings the elderly person would not actually go, instead ASIMO would do the duties including standing in the pictures, front-row due to height reasons. You would also have the problem that we have with cars - most houses have lots of them. So some people could end up with more ASIMO than occupants.

So, I look forward to 'ASIMO the movie', where the basic premise is basic care work - as intentioned - and how it works out in practice, ideas fully worked through on the assumption that the code can be written, e.g. to do things like change bandages. Using this 'deploy then code' we could determine if this 'looking after old folk' scenario is realistic.
This absolutly got my attention, going to check for sure. I'm older, and when I was in school we learn OS with Minix, a port of UNIX on the 8086 architecture. But this is so much more!
I should definitely open a blog detailing the progress on the webapp. It's just I never felt having the writing skills to do it. But these kind of skills do not come without practicing, so I will surely go ahead and see ...
Single points of failure everywhere. This is not the future we were promised. At least the fixes are in our hands.
Hi, it will be available at https://github.com/digitalfondue/ in a few months.
While true, you also have to take into consideration that generally submarines are in normal pressure conditions, as they are not really designed to let people in and out all the time. I would imagine that living in a submarine is way more comfortable than what described in this article.
I don't get it and I'm dying to know. Is his comment drive-by envy or a drive-by compliment?
Samsung data center fire causes outage, errors on smart TVs and phones
Within the next 50 years, Linux will dominate the OS market.
I actually felt that the video was frank as can be, without the usual kickstarteresque shameless jazzy sales and marketing schmutz.

Openworm is genuine out to improve biology. Not the money, they just need it to continue working on the project. Many kick starter campaigns, can easily be deduced as shameless money grubbing through fake passion pleas. Not this one. And yes, you may call it poor marketing. But hell, that's at being genuine appears to be. We're not used to genuine kick starters.
BBC licence fee payment matching scheme

You must buy a licence if you live in the UK and use a device to watch tv as it is broadcast. The licence costs £145 and non payment is currently a criminal offence (although that may change). Non payment of those fines has caused imprisonment.

Outside the UK it is quite hard to give money to the BBC. You can buy their DVDs or subscribe to their channels if available.

IDEA:

Have a website that connects these two groups - people outside the UK can pay for a tv licence to be used by someone inside the UK.

The UK side would take referrals from a small number of existing voluntary groups. The people being referred would have been though debt counselling and some kind of budgeting guidance.

The website would earn money by skimming a small amount off the top.
3500 BC, Louisiana, Earliest dated, complex construction in the Americas
Interesting take. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
How about bitcoins?

* Very low transaction cost
* International Transfers is same as local transfers.

Suggest to read up more about pros/risks before proceeding.
Kayaker Aleksander Doba paddles 5,400 miles across Atlantic
If we don't start building (and pushing for) more distributed/decentralised systems then this is the future we can expect more of. Aside from this, why should my TV need to dial home at all?
Micrsoft did far nastier things to Borland. E.g. During the Windows 95 preview stage they added code to the app launcher that would detect binaries compiled with Borland products and generate bogus errors.

There's plenty not to forgive Microsoft for. It's just so much cuddlier mow that it's a little desperate.
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I seem to recall them getting a big fat law suit when they tried to bundle things with their OS. Perhaps they don't bundle things anymore for a reason?
Ah wow. Quite amazing irregardless of the truth value. I would consider Christ's crucifixion to be one of the most enigmatic and polarizing sacrifices. But memorization is still a bit aweing I suppose
Custom and open operating systems are the only way forward against this sort of bullshit. It's not just crappy engineering, it's also TVs doing analytics on what you watch, always-on cameras, etc..

As long as we have the power to root these devices and install our own software on it, we will be fine. But for how long is that going to keep up?
What a bold prediction!
Cafetiere can also mean a moka pot.
I get the feeling this is sarcasm, but I could be wrong.
A good step taken by the Linux Foundation. I think I'll join the project, it a nice way to rank myself...
Apple devices also had a similar problem a while back http://www.zdnet.com/what-went-wrong-with-ios-6-wi-fi-700000...

When iOS or Mac connects to wifi, it hits a similar URL to Apple to check if the device is stuck behind a captive wifi network. If the check failed, it attempts to throw up the networks login page.

But Apple's check server went down, and therefore peoples iPod touches, Macs and iPads got stuck in a nasty cycle of trying to throw up a non-existant login page.
This is completely wrong.
Escape velocity is the speed, which is required to break free of the gravitational pull, BUT in the case that no additional propulsion is available. In other words, you shoot an object with that speed from the surface of the earth and provide no additional force to accelerate it or keep the speed constant. You can leave the earth's gravitational pull with ANY speed. Assume that there was a magically (geostationary) floating platform 300 km above earth. There are absolutely no problems for someone on that platform to pull you up with a rope. Imagine a 1km high skyscraper... Do you need to reach certain speed if you were to be pulled to the top of the skyscraper?! No, speed is irrelevant. What is important is to have a constant force, which is in the opposite direction of the gravity which is equal or greater than G.
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Chrome can be quickly installed (free) on all platforms. If I don't have a Mac, which I don't, how would I install this Mac application?
A data-center fire is still something they should be able to handle (i.e. they should fail over to another DC) but if you think "ordinary day" applies here then they're not the ones Doing It Wrong.
The question isn't necessarily about rooting, seeing as the vast majority of people don't know what that even means. They shouldn't be tracking what we watch in the first place.

Reminds me of this story from a year or two ago, where LG continued collecting data even after the feature had been disabled on their TVs.
This guide is really good as it goes almost whole mile.

It also does very good if not excellent job at illustrating how hard it is to set up, secure, and maintain your own email service. There are lot of places to go from here, including multiple MX'es, backup/recovery, etc.

Nevertheless. I've been using my own email infrastructure for almost ten years years. For last four I'm totally over it. Yes, there are some things to do if you absolutely want to be free to chose your email provider whenever you want to - having clear choice where to go, having backup off service provider, having migration strategy in place, etc.
nice weekend project, are you targeting some specific audience in particular ?
I assume Samsung is using Linux as the underlying OS here. If so, does Linux have a "Network Awareness" API? I understand that Windows has one. More info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766017%28WS.10%...
The cutting-edge tech behind the hunt for lost WWII planes
One year deprecation is not long enough for anything enterprise. I wouldn't put anything in Google that can't be picked up and moved to another provider with minimal effort.
Actually it wasn't that the server was down, it was that it was misconfigured and returned unexpected 404 responses which made it look like a captive portal.
I think amazon payments has special terms for this kind of thing
What's the point of being a great artist if you don't produce? Only one movie in the last 12 years of his life is sad for him, and for us.
Why? To confirm connectivity.

Welcome to HN, where answering a question gets downvoted.
Heat. If there's no airflow around the blower (and therefore the blower motor which is usually integrated, then the motor will run hotter. Temperature has an inverse relationship with motor lifetime. The hotter it runs, the sooner it will fail. Even if it never exceeds its maximum rated temperature.
Got lobi.mobi domain, Have no idea.
This is spot-on. The university I attended offered a MS MFC certification trail ('97), I politely declined after using Borland C++ Buider during my internship. MFC had so much Win32 cruft percolating out of everywhere! I was amazed the VCL managed to insulate the user from most of it.
Agree! Seems this is the most important thing and I'm surprised it's not available. Without it, this api doesn't seem to add much value.
You might want to have the ability to designate something as "adult". It might not be what you envisioned it for but I could see people using it to share something explicit.
My browser doesn't do that so there's really no need for a TV to do that.
But even if you are correct, there could still be civilizations several millions of years older than us. Earth's history would have turned out completely differently if it wasn't for various asteroid impacts and geological events. The chance of two intelligent species evolving within a few thousand years of each other is pretty low.
Actually most European countries are 230V not 240V (though that was the standard in some countries previously (like the UK who dropped it for easier compatibility with continental systems (back in 93))).

Prior to harmonisation Europe was mostly 220V so 230v was the average of the two common systems (in reality because of tolerances there are big overlaps).

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/etc/guide-voltageoptimisation.ph...

Interestingly while the standard is 230v the average supply in the UK is 242V (but within the tolerance of the standard).
I predict overdoses. Something tells me that it'd be way easier to consume too much alcohol too quickly if it's in powdered form.
OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
If "restricted supply" was relevant to the price, then you would be able to sell a diamond after you purchased it, which, from everything I've read, you can't (unlike gold).

De Beers contribution isn't so much restricting the supply, as it is ensuring that once purchased, diamonds lose most of their value.
No, it just states a scientific sounding premise for the idea, but it doesn't make the concept any less absurd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Mind

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics is a 1989 book by mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose.

Penrose presents the argument that human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not capable of being modeled by a conventional Turing machine-type of digital computer. Penrose hypothesizes that quantum mechanics plays an essential role in the understanding of human consciousness. The collapse of the quantum wavefunction is seen as playing an important role in brain function.
This movie already exists, and its great - I've watched it twice. The robot in the movie even looks like the Honda robot.

Movie: Robot & Frank
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/robot_and_frank/
After watching some more they appear to be getting them all from yoyogames which is like the youtube or imgur of Game Maker games. There are some very good indie games published there but also a lot of crap.
Oh boyo.

We have samsung smart tvs at home, which Plex runs on top of... looks like I'm going to have to implement something like this with openWRT in future..
Exactly. Plus Amazon is the market leader so they have little reasons to drop prices like that not to mention that as the article say, their other business (amazon.com) doesn't bring them huge profit. Google on the other hand doesn't care as Ads is their true money maker, they can afford to have little to no margin on their cloud offering.
Who is funding this project? Hard to believe anyone would run a free 7-week course because they like to teach.

This is similar to a course taught by General Assembly here in the US, but that course costs $11,500.
Or perhaps their website hasn't kept up with the restructuring? On another note, why are these reports saying the engineers were "fired"? It's one thing to be let go when a project was discontinued but nobody wants the stigma of being fired on their record.
Are you sure your browser doesn't do that? There's usually some code that checks for 'captive portals' - i.e. wifi providers that want you to login before giving you a real internet connection.
We've used https://github.com/EvanOxfeld/node-unzip/issues in production and we've had a surprising number of corrupt zip files created by it. We've switched to using a barely wrapped zip command line tool.

Is PSZIp better?
Yes, people who:

A) don't want to be everybody's fb friends/g+/etc who were in a friend's birthday party, but still wants to share the photos she took at the party

B) easy for anybody to share an album and other to participate - usually after such a birthday as mentioned above, one person's photos are in fb, other one's in G+, third's in dropbox... in other words, people who wants to share together.

So basically everyone who has a need to share photos but they don't have a common service to do so.

(edited the format)
Criminals using drones and infrared cameras to find illegal cannabis farms
I agree that CLI are awesome and you can do way more using it that with any other UI (specially a web one), but taking HTTP API testing as an example, postman lets you do a bunch of stuff that are so simple with one click that I can see some people not wanting to dive in the CLI world, write a bunch of stuff and also having to store environment data for requests with extra files (I think thats where the 'difficult' from the previous comment comes along, but that's just me guessing...)

Taking that into consideration, Postman's web interface lets you

- See all the request history that you can easily reply any of them with one click

- Save requests and share them (including a collection of requests)

- Have and share environment variables to change, for example, between production and development API urls, password, params, etc (I know, a CLI also lets you do that, but it soooo simple to just select and preview the environment variables from the list)

- easily handle oAuth and other authentication forms out of the box

But you will suffer (a lot) trying to use Postman to
- Handle binary input/outputs

- Stream responses

- Handle cookies

So, depending on what your day to day problems are you should use a different tool... Oh, and I didn't know about HTTPie, thanks for sharing :)
As someone who is learning OCaml at the same time as Rust (and who already had some Haskell), I can attest that the power of pattern matching is well-worth the extra "let". Plus, in addition to the signal it provides to the compiler, it also provides me a signal to know that I've got a new variable and the option here to do destructuring pattern matching. Very cool.

pcwalton: after getting over the hump of Rust's pointer semantics, I've found that it's a very elegant and fairly simple language. So I was partially wrong about my assessment of Rust as a "complex" language (I say "partially" because the pointer semantics do add a significant layer of unavoidable complexity).

I'd encourage anyone put off by the complexity of Rust's pointers to just push on through. I think you'll find it's worth the trouble.

Rust is definitely the language of the future for games, embedded programming, system programming and other areas of programming that require a high level of determinism. I can't wait until it's stable enough to use for real projects (hopefully sometime this year).
You would have to crawl all OCSP providers on the internet to generate the list.
Ask HN: Working with the Amazon Web Services console
I am working on a small academic project trying to understand how software developers and architects utilize the consoles and dashboards of different cloud providers, especially in their product development and deployment workflows.

I would be grateful for some responses to the following 3 questions specifically about the Web console of Amazon Web Services.

How often in a month do you use the Console to...

1) reconfigure existing AWS instances or other service units (like an S3 bucket or a load balancer)?
2) add new AWS instances or other service units?
3) replicate existing AWS instances or other service units wherever applicable?
I was hoping to find an empty discussion on this article, thanks.
An open letter to journalists
I'm sure it doesn't. I just checked Options -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Revocation, and it's not checked by default.
True. But as I see it, if people want to share something explicit they are more than welcome to do so. Right? Or did I understood something differently than you meant?

The owner of the album has the right to delete any photos of an album if they find some "too explicit" for their taste.
I find your response to be really arrogant. Postman is an easily installed Chrome extension that can be supplied to everyone on your team, regardless of skill level. Requiring a cli isn't as easy as a one click install - there's dependencies (Python etc.) that are required which, while easy for many, aren't as simple for a lot of web developers - especially those who focus on front end development and may just need an easy tool for inspecting API requests they need to make.

There's still a wide market for GUI based programs, and Postman is an excellent extension that I've used for years (even though I'm a CLI guy myself). It's always there, easy to use, and powerful to boot.

Edit 1: Grammar / Spelling
This looks great! Thanks a lot for the recommendation, I'm going to buy it now. Postman also looks good so installed that too!

(I think your comment was fine - it serves a similar purpose so if people are interested in this thread there is a good chance [like me] they might be interested in this too.)
This is why I would never use Google for anything mission critical. You can't trust them to keep anything going.
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Styleguide Driven Development
… or get a wireless keyboard with Bluetooth – it should be safe enough.
Devices that infer that connectivity to one site implies connectivity to the Internet are flawed. Having connectivity to one site means only that a route exists between you and the remote host. That's it. It says nothing about any other site. It's generally not good to do "Internet connectivity" checks. Just check to see if the site you want to connect to is responding. In the case of Samsung, who cares if samsung.com is down if I want YouTube. Just connect to YouTube and if that's down, then tell me.

The only useful exception to the above that I've seen is for Wi-Fi hotspot detection (e.g., checking a known response from Microsoft NCSI). The key difference here is that if the NCSI server is down or not responding, the user is not blocked from trying to connect.
For some reason your "I had taken an hour out of my day" comment really bothers me.

The guy you interviewed probably spent ~4 hours preparing for the interview and then all of the time in the actual interview.

Let's say he takes 7 hours out of his life to interview for your place. The least he deserves is a legit reason why he was declined because your company still benefits from not hiring him. You get to refine your interview process based on real feedback.

The interviewee's time is just as valuable as yours. A wall of text complaint sounds pretty good. There's probably a lot of good feedback in there unless it happened to be filled with insults and other garbage in which case you should have been able to figure this out quickly and then not replied.
The API Bunny has hidden Easter Eggs Start Exploring to find them :)
The story behind "the most viewed image in the world"
Yeah. I've written wildly inefficient code in Delphi. And guess what, O n-squared complexity is still a killer when n gets large.
Well, NetworkManager can tell you whether you are connected to some network. But verifying you are on the internet is outside of its scope.
PEG parser generator in Vimscript
As soon as my economy clears up i gonna subscribe.
Of course it's sarcasm. Why would anyone waste their time writing such a prediction? Right or wrong, it adds no value. In the year 2064...
What I mean is that my browser (Safari) doesn't dial home (Apple) to decide whether or not it can try serving me content (HackerNews). NB That doesn't mean it never connects to Apple without my knowledge (or elsewhere), but rather that it's not a point of failure.

Edit: I'm making a distinction between what my browser does vs the OS and wifi. In any case, your home TV doesn't really have to deal with captive portals.
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One place where Google's admin console is better, I think, is in aggregated logs that are supported by good filtering options to drill down as required. I don't know what Amazon's internal developer experience is, but Google has great tools for internal developers to examine logs, and in general very nice infrastructure.

All that said, almost all of my consulting customers use AWS. I have never had anyone pay me to do work on Google's public cloud offerings, although I sometimes use them for personal projects.
Is it an entry-level course? Which are the skills that will be learned?
People have complained in the past[1] and only received the same vague BS that the blocking notice gives. The Daily Mail ran an attack piece when BBC Future launched[2], but it didn't prompt them to change anything. Whether due to incompetence or apathy, BBC Worldwide seem incapable or unwilling to improve their communications.

[1] http://halfblog.net/2013/01/16/why-is-this-bbc-website-not-a...
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208251/Global-BBC-w...
I tried JSZip not too long ago for my side project and it was quite slow. I've been using http://gildas-lormeau.github.io/zip.js/ and I'm very happy with it. I hope to release my web app some time this week.
I actually hadn't noticed that Google's announcement (this year) also came as part of an event; touche!
Your Mac does exactly that actually.

http://blog.erratasec.com/2010/09/apples-secret-wispr-reques...

Apple broke the page once and everybody's wifi broke in response. Single point of failure.