skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
financing working capital is a highly competitive business where banks are really good at (large balance sheets that can compete at 'no cost'). yes, this service might go to businesses that are underserved by banks, but then at what cost is this service to the smb? 10%, ouch.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the ruling this article writes about is related to the 'right to be forgotten' law passed recently.

I happen to agree with the right to be forgotten - I should be able to have my information removed from Facebook, etc.

I also sort-of agree with this legal ruling. After you've served for your crime you should have the ability to start over. Europe more sees prison as rehabilitation while the u.s. more seems to want to punish people for life (e.g., not allowing felons to vote, buy guns, etc)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track_legislation#The_Ri...
Learning how to manage a difficult superior is a very valuable skill, increasingly beneficial as your career advances. Take this time as an unique opportunity to figure out your boss.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/understand-other-people/...
I mentioned earlier in this thread, privacy was already kind of broken. Given your account was registered with organization email, admin could reset your password and look at your private chats (like when you leave a company). Doing that would perhaps be violation of terms, but I don't think many would care particularly in developing countries where legalities of such things are joke.
A holodeck is just another means of exploration. Spatial exploration (be it space, underwater, etc) is not really that interesting. If we went to Mars right now, we'd be really, really, really bored. There's nothing there except rocks.

Using the Oculus Rift (and associated VR technologies like the Leap), I can experience all sorts of amazing things that I've never experienced before. Like fighting aliens for the survival of humanity. Or jumping through floating sky scrapers. And I can create new experiences for others.

Exploration has never been more popular. It's just moved from the spatial to the conceptual.
Oh, his followup is equally daft: "“I don’t believe that, in many cases, people ‘lost’ any control over their information at all, because they never really had any real control even before the Internet existed,” Mr. Cheshire said. “We often conflate privacy through obscurity with inaccessibility, control or security.”"

You used to be able to find out certain information (if for some reason it had been reported on) in records offices or, like, on microfiche at your library ... therefore pervasive data-gathering on everyone in a more or less instantly accessible way hasn't changed anything materially.

Moreover, conclusion "so you never had control anyway" is only one of several possible results here; another is "so there was a problem all along which, since it's now exacerbated, we should really fix".
How sure are you that cars without controls guarantee neither?
Such poor design for mobile. Almost unusable on a nexus 4. Ironic given the emphasis mobile gets in the presentation.
I've read the Kickstarter page twice, and I still can't figure out what they are going to spend the $1M on (or how they arrived at that number). I know it doesn't cost $1M to build a website.
I rarely upvote, but when I do, is because a good comment has been downvoted unfairly.
I've used pure on a couple of sites and found it a pleasure to work with. I could probably do a bunch of this stuff manually, but not being a "real" front end guy it's often a surprise battle on different devices. It's nice not having to deal with this. Thanks people who did pure.
'Local monopoly' is meaningless. Every single business has a local monopoly on supplying services under the contracts they've made with their customers. And yes, Apple's total control of iOS is very much part of the contract when buying an iPhone.

When deciding if a monopoly exists, the relevant threshold is whether the customer had other reasonable options at the time of entering the contract, and in the smartphone world they unequivocally did have other options.
Glad to see them working to promote reading! Though I wonder...

Why didn't they start with the web to begin with?
You can use a web-based solution on a tablet (given a decent design), but you can't use a tablet-based solution on the web. Now they're trying to fight that 'limitation.'

I understand the 'novelty' and the sheer boom of tablets at the time and the better physical mapping from tablet experience to reading a book, but technologically there's doesn't seem to be much of a reason for them going with an iPad app first. Possibly offline support (valid) or performance (shouldn't be a problem...). There's probably a much more practical answer such as: their technical team had experience in app development OR maybe Burton just really liked his iPad and that's where the movement started.

On another note,
I loved the show growing up and like they're trying to continue it. I'm a bit conflicted about the subscription part of the service. I want it to be sustainable, but wish there was a larger free offering. Maybe latest content is free, archived content requires a subscription (ala Hulu)? At least they'll offer it for free to needy schools that's nice.
I came from a car-dependent city to NYC, which is one of those cities where being car-free is less of a hassle than owning a car. However, I still want a car. No, I do not want to have one car for each person in my family. No, I do not want a massive SUV. No, I don't want to commute by car (hate traffic). I want a simple hatchback or wagon that I can use on weekends to haul stuff, I want to be able to drive to the beach or the mountains whenever I want. Renting / sharing isn't the answer. ZipCar sucks, to be frank, and is too expensive. Renting from the majors in NYC is a complete nightmare and is prohibitively expensive. No, I'm not going to use Uber or Lyft to get my groceries or go to Home Depot or to take a road trip.

This is why cars will never disappear. The solution is self-driving cars. Cars are a menace when operated by humans. Reducing the danger, traffic problems, and parking issue with cars is the answer, not removing them entirely (although I do support banning them in dense urban areas and business districts -- people can always park on the outskirts and take transit in).
You can do it with code generation, though, right?
It would be one thing if this was just built-in apps that need special capabilities. It's reasonable for, say, Settings to use private APIs, because it's special. (I don't agree with that, and would like third-party apps to be allowed to change that stuff too, but I don't think it's an unreasonable stance.)

However, this is iBooks, which you get from the App Store just like all third-party apps. It's explicitly competing with products from third-party developers. In this area, there should be a level playing field.

When us third-party developers distribute on the App Store, we have to agree to a contract that, among other things, states that our apps will not use private APIs. Why do Apple's apps, when distributed through the App Store, not follow the same rules? Why should they get special treatment for apps that aren't built in to the OS and which are distributed using the same channels the rest of us use?

This popover example is fairly trivial, since nothing stops you from building your own version of it and shipping it in your app, but it illustrates the point. A more significant example is the screen brightness control. iBooks has a slider that you can use to adjust the brightness of the screen. This brightness adjustment uses private API, and because of that, other eBook readers cannot replicate that feature. There is no technical reason third-party apps couldn't do this (they have the same access to the device that iBooks does) but Apple doesn't allow it.

The Kindle app, for example, has a brightness slider too. Except it doesn't adjust the screen brightness. It just adjusts the gray level of the white background, while leaving the backlight at original strength. This means that you lose contrast and use more battery power, meaning that the Kindle app is inherently worse because Apple isn't playing fair.

This is less important these days, now that Control Center lets you easily access the device brightness from anywhere. It was a big hit against Kindle's usability for years, though.
I once met LeVar at a bar at a restaurant. As a fan of Star Trek, I wanted to go up to him, but figured he must get bothered by a lot of intense trekkies so I broke the ice with a conversation about Reading Rainbow.

He talked about Reading Rainbow with me for a good 15 minutes straight. He was unbelievably proud and passionate about the work he did on that show, and so I'm very pleased to see this video today.

Proof https://twitter.com/dmitric/status/405038964001996800
I hacked the Leap controller at the SF Music Hack day. My team and I built an app called leapJ: multiplayer DJ'ing with your body. (https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-san-f...)

Leap is a great little device. My main complaint is that the API is too low-level. We would just fire events roughly every 20ms, in a markovian (stateless) way. For this reason, the instrument control was somewhat janky, because we didn't have the time to de-jitter hand paths / infer a tracking spline.

My wishlist for leap is:

* Higher level APIs, that apply the sort of sophisticated filtering and tracking that many people are liable to roll themselves.

* Multiple leap devices per computer. Needing a separate computer per leap is a big barrier to working with several leaps at once.

* ARM support. I'd love to have a RaspberryPI for each leap. Then they would be truly mobile. For right now, I think I'm going to have to get a mini ITX motherboard,
Google's Driverless Car
Xamarin.Forms: Build native UIs for iOS/Android/WP from a single C# codebase
> you still need to orchestrate and verify that state.

Only if you limit yourself to testing using unit tests. Two of the strongest testing tools care not one bit about internal state.

Combinatorial testing tests all possible combinations of input pairs, and looks for the system to fail.

Fuzz testing creates a fairly large volume of noise as input, and looks for the system to fail.

Integration testing should be in your toolbox right alongside unit testing, and will exercise objects which are not appropriate for unit tests.

> inheriting a lot of external dependencies that have little or nothing to do with your test.

I've found that this kind of thinking leads to development practices which rely on unit tests & production as their sole methods of testing. If a component is part of your production system, it should also be part of your test system.
True, but I can't recall any having the syslog module out of the box.
NO. Imagine how betrayed the client is going to be when, not if, but when the client finds out he's been lied to. All it takes is one lie to set up an atmosphere of distrust.
My company actually built one of the first fully digital aerial mapping systems (commercially at least) using the slightly newer and publicly available Kodak DCS's (~94). They were very nice cameras, especially for the time. I cant even imagine doing this kind of work with film, it would be so tedious. The speed to process the data was incredible when going all digital. This made up for the loss in detail compared to film for most jobs, especially since our costs were quite a bit lower.

Also interesting, is if i recall correctly Kodak actually made about 100 colour infrared versions too which was nice... until we couldn't reliably source them out! We ended up having to burn the filter off of the CCD of the standard RGB cameras systems with some sort of acid solution turning them back into their natural CIR mode.
Restaurant managers can teach us how to run a startup
Yes, I was not going to comment, but now that you mention it...

Downvotes are intended to be cast for people that add nothing to the conversation in course. But many people weaponize them and use them against points of view they feel strongly against. Shame of you... you know who you are!

I have formal training as an Technician Acupuncturist, though I can only practice legally under the supervision of a MD with specialization in Human Acupuncture (and being a programmer, that does not make economic sense to me). Since I was at school, I witnessed several times how some GP got offended by this or another pieces of ancient lore and dropped out of the program.

The thing is, you could see they were not thinking. They did not question if the thing worked or not. They just heard some random stuff like "Qi of air and Qi of rice transform into True Qi" and snapped like a devote Catholic would if told that "Virgin Mary was not really a virgin". They were also completely unable to imagine that "Qi of air" could be oxigen, and "Qi of rice" could be glucose, and that both of them get transported by blood vessels to preserve life of tissues across the body. Which from our point of view is a remarkable thing to have been figured out 3 thousand years ago.
It's funny how patents are now used as an indicator of innovation here, while seemingly vocal majority here on HN would happily dismiss complete patent system as meaningless and and because it suppress innovation.

That being said, why would German companies rush to register their patents in US patent office? What is the ranking of US companies registering patents in Germany?
Stop Buying Load Balancers and Start Controlling Your Traffic Flow with Software
Have you been outside the east coast?
Which would be breach of terms, resulting in unlimited civil penalties. It should be pretty easy for Xamarin to track that kind of behaviour.

If said enterprise was so inclined they could share a valid license, or simply create new trial accounts every 30 days.

Organisations I have worked for tend to be pretty hot on their licensing obligations. Fines can be pretty steep.
I can attest to the effectiveness of the iPad app on my 5 year old. This app stimulated her interest in reading even more than us reading to her every night. She now reads at close to a 2nd grade level.

I was amazed to find out that she had been discovering books via the app completely on her own. She would have the app read a book to her, then turn off the auto-reading and learn to read it by herself. Now she uses the app to read to her little sister.

Kudos to Levar Burton and all those involved in bringing Reading Rainbow to the next generation on a new medium!
The fact that Apple, with a half-dozen products, is holding some 50% of the smartphone market against thousands of spec-equal competing products from hundreds of manufacturers shows there is something important lacking in your argument.
I am the author of the book, "How We Did It". For the book, I interviewed 100 entrepreneurs from all walks of life. From the tech world, people interviewed include the founders of companies like Freelancer, Udemy, Fiverr, Tagged.com, Unroll.me, PluralSight and Grooveshark. Other people interviewed include consultants, Yoga trainers (YogaFit),bakers, jewelry makers, etc.

Writing the book was a huge experience for me thanks to the inspiring stories that these entrepreneurs told me. You can find it on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/How-Did-entrepreneurs-struggles-experi...
10 New Companies for Techstars Summer 2014 Chicago Session
Google's Prototypical Self-Driving Car
Google is building a hardware empire, and this is what it looks like
I don't see where it says it's already a feature. The note itself (not that post) says it might be available in the future but it's not there right now:

Messages and files shared in 1-1 chats are only browsable and searchable in HipChat by the two people involved.

"While admins do not have access to browse or search 1-1 chats through functionality within HipChat, this is an option we may provide in the future for organizations to opt-in to. If made available, it will not be retroactive, and we will be sure to address how affected users can be notified that their chats are subject to viewing by their admins"
http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/articles/358098

It does say the organization can email them and ask for that so while technically possible it's not so easy for the admin to snoop.
How to travel the world and get companies to pay for it.
The example given is a $10k advance with $11k paid back, but the article also says that "fees appear to be 1/8 to 1/10th of what you’d pay a typical loan organization to get your hands on cash." I'm curious how they're defining "fees," since I can't imagine a "typical loan organization" would charge 80% annual interest.
You are blowing the post you are responding to far out of proportion. (Who said anything about self-driving cars becoming mandatory?) Your whole comment seems to be spoiling for a fight where none was sought, which is much more disagreeable to me as an HN reader than any of the other behaviors you mention.
I think it's a SlideShare issue unrelated to this site. On my system, SlideShare bumps the CPU usage up to 50% or more in both Firefox and Chrome.
I think you're both right. It'll probably be fixed into the price, and they'll probably just lease them to avoid legacy issues.
Very, very different problem domains and technology.

Consider: how much variation is there between bodies and hands? How much larger is the work envelope of the Kinect vs the Leap? How much more information do you get from the Kinect vs the Leap (depth buffer, positional audio, etc.)?
C. Haters gonna hate, but you never really get over your first love. Even if it's an abusive relationship.
Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed? Share your opinion
I'm interested to hear the feedback. We did the design for the site and tested it extensively on mobile. What issue are you seeing? My email is in my profile if you want to drop me a line.

edit: The slideshare embed is having some issues on mobile and desktop unfortunately. Very slow. They are working on it.
It looks like it is time to literally dust off my leap motion.
"I dread the day when self-driving cars become mandatory"

The upshot of this is that this probably won't happen until after you become unable to drive yourself. I'm sure there will always be a market for enclosed driving courses/racetracks anyway.
As a kid I never liked this show. I loved reading books. I always thought, "why do I want to watch tv about reading books?"
> I should add that a quick perusal of their comment history finds them engaged in many, many Go threads, always dismissive of Go. Again, to be active in Rust seems to be some sort of call-to-arms against Go.

I certainly don't see it that way. I comment in Go threads occasionally because I have experience in the areas people are discussing (for example, garbage collection). Again, I think Go is a really practical language for the kinds of things people are doing with it, like Docker and Camlistore.

> In many other domains it needs to be analyzed, and there are no hard and fast rules.

Sure, I agree with that. The question is what you do when it becomes a problem. That's where having precise control can help.
I just used Pure for the first time on a small Flask site I'm building and it's been great. Love it as an alternative to bootstrap.

Not wanting to spend a ton of time designing the site (yet), but also wanting to keep it small, made Pure the perfect fit.
Show HN: Scapes, a Messenger With a Slightly Different Twist
What topic is that?
I've never had mine work anywhere near as well as the demo implies, even in well lit environments and placed in a pre-tested spot.

edit: That said, maybe the new API is ridiculously better, but I doubt it.
Detailed review of the v. 3.0 Enterprise Edition here:
http://www.drdobbs.com/240168321
It's well known that US manufacturing is down

manufacturing employment is down.
Original PDF: http://s3.amazonaws.com/kpcbweb/files/85/Internet_Trends_201...
Also, in order to be paid that much, you usually need to live there. It all depends on how you value certain things.

Ample parking, day or night: $2500/yr

People smiling; kindly neighbors: $5000/yr

Public schools that don't suck: $15000/yr

Parks/public spaces that you actually want to visit: $2500/yr

Low violent and property crime rates: $5000/yr

Political and cultural compatibility: $2500/yr

Good local television and radio stations: $1250/yr

Things like that add up, and are highly subjective. But when I see significantly higher salaries in very specific geographical regions, what I see is one of two things: either people there tend to be more valuable than others, or they are demanding compensation for all the crap they have to put up with and/or purchase that they can get for free or at reduced cost elsewhere.

For instance, in Chicago, I had to pay an extra $100 a month for a parking space behind my apartment. That's $1200 a year already. Never mind if you actually wanted to go anywhere in your car and park in the same ZIP code. That costs you additional time and walking distance or additional cash. And it certainly impacts your property and casualty insurance premiums.

Having grown up in a different city, where parking had never been an issue, that threw my own freedom of movement up in stark contrast, as something that had calculatable value to me, and which likely differed significantly from other people. The costs of having a car in Chicago were only partially mitigated by having CTA and Metra commuter service. Grocery shopping is a lot different when you can only buy what you are willing to carry in your arms for as long as it takes to get home. You buy a lot less of the things that are mostly air (additional volume) or mostly water (additional weight).

That was but one of the reasons that I found the local pay was not worth the local costs, and moved.

For a variety of reasons, the people deciding on the location of a business do not value those local costs in the same way, and do not realize that their employees may demand more in compensation because of them. Or they just don't care.

As for myself, I could probably get 1.5x my current pay in SV or 2x in NYC. But it would have to be 3-5x to be worth it. I currently rent a 3br 2.5ba house for about 12% of my gross pay, and can drive to work in 20 minutes. Is that even possible in SV or NYC on income less than $15 million a year?
Hey guys, loving the detailed preview, do you have any idea when the public launch will be?
What do you think of it? I've been considering buying this for a while.
I would much rather be a welder or even a line worker in a factory than a call centre employee, personally. Though, I'd certainly take living in this decade to living in previous decades.

I do think something has been lost though. In a healthy manufacturing area of generations past someone who was 'hardworking and reliable' could get a 'decent' job. The financial rewards, self esteem and such from these jobs were deemed adequate by the people of the times. Get over the hurdle and you can be fine. Today, 'hardworking and reliable' is not really sufficient. Those cookie cutter jobs don't exist. I think politicians are at a loss because it just isn't clear what a person needs to do to qualify them for employment in this world.

Some new jobs are highly specialised, like programming. These are hard to get people in to, but at least it sounds possible to train people for them. But, how the hell do you qualify people people who are 32 and have been unemployed for the past 3 years to be social media analysts?