skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It may be easier to take the web to sandboxed containers

http://httplocal.com/ is working on local composition of web pipelines. Micro Xen (Bromium) forks a virtual machine with a fresh copy of the host operating system and browser for every URI.

What do you think of iOS8 extensions and Android intents? Or https://sandstorm.io ? The challenge is maintaining security and composition flexibility. Apple only opened up a few APIs.
Ansible is coming to Windows
Kiwi seems promising, but I've experienced a number of frustrating bugs
Sndtst: 8-bit video game music
First Movie Of An Entire Brain’s Neuronal Activity
Documentation: http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html
ebay doing its hardest to be like amazon, while their actual auction experience is getting worse and worse.
Freshmeat (freecode) is dead (gone static)
Yes, some African Americans may get offended by this. HOWEVER slave does not mean black, in fact there were black people around the world who were in fact Masters.

I could take offence by the limited perspective you put on the word relating it to only African Americans, there are many from Europe who fall in the sex slavery trade who are not black.

In Australia the word 'root' has sexual connotations, so if I was to work on your team would you be happy to change this word, so no more root access, root directory, if I said it was offensive ?

Words can be offensive, but generally they are offensive because of the context. For example, should it be offensive for me to say the night sky is black, black is an offensive word but it is also a valid contextual description.
> If you haven't worked with web tools recently you should
> see how far they've come.

And if you take a good look what native SDKs offer all that progress looks laughable.
hardly any innovative things come out of ebay, nice to see something new... can other sellers become valet ? or is it the ebay itself serving as valet ?
Will it not create conflict of interests? On one side, eBay should make their listing and selling processes as easy as possible for individuals, and on the other side keeping them somewhat difficult will promote Valet service.
Flying riot control drone now available on market
They're doing that on purpose. I think a major turning point was discovering that "buy it now" auctions (i.e. normal, fixed-price sales) were massively more popular than auction auctions.
Seeing as how the quality of the source is already completely destroyed by the 256 color gif, I don't think image fidelity really matters that much to the people sharing these...
It would not be a conflict of interest if the Valet service does not generate more profit per sale after everything is factored in.
On Mining
Isn't amazon already doing something similar with "warehouse deals" and "fullified by Amazon?
5 Signs You’re Going To Make It Big One Dayfac
This whole situation arises from a clause in the bond restructuring deal that was common when it was made. If the exchange deal had a collective agreement clause, this would have been over 10 years ago, and contracts today normally have that clause (that if the majority of the bond holders accepts, the minority has to accept as well).

I am willing to bet that the whole reason the new clause became common, was because of Argentina's or Congo's case with default swaps and hedge funds that exploit that loophole intro a 10000% profit lawsuit.

Irresponsible spending is something that brought Argentina to its defaults, but not to the situation its now facing.

The change in courts and terms are not part of the original default debt, but of the default swap in 2005: before that, Argentina didnt have to answer to the US supreme court for those bonds or to a hedge fund.
When Argentina had economic recovery, and wanted to get rid of debt, it proposed a default swap bonds, at a discount rate. To make the deal appealing to bond holders and give trust to it, they proposed the US courts as a trustable mediator.

93% of the debt was restructured this way, and has given hefty returns, up to 77cents on the original bond dollar. However, the remaining debt is all owned by the hedge fund, whose entire strategy is the pari passu clause. Without it or with a collective clause, this situation would not happen, and the debt on these bonds would have been done and over.
Surely a one word clip would fall under fair use.
They explicitly said it was to "motivate" students to finish, but I see that as kind of a cop out answer since it's also extremely convenient for them.

As for withdrawal, yes, you should know what you can handle by junior year, but that was just one for-instance. People withdraw for all sorts of reasons (e.g. medical). I can't imagine being too sick to focus on your schoolwork and then having your "scholarship" yanked away from you because of it.

Is it better than nothing? Yes. Is it as nice as they made it out to be? No. That's the point here.
This Ubuntu 14.04 bug causes network throughput to crawl to a halt on EC2
Warehouse is all Amazon returns, AFAIK. But you can do used sales off of the main purchase page, and mail in your stuff to have it Fulfilled by Amazon. I've been looking into this quite a bit lately since I have about $7,000 of Canon gear to sell off.

I think I'll stick with Amazon. Ebay's 30% seems ridiculously steep.
Wow, that was a nice piece of rhetoric. Mixing race problems, employer/employee power imbalances and gender issues. So you manipulate the feelings of reader while putting gender issues inside. Good appeal to emotion.

Sexism is still an issue. When decisions are justified because penis or vagina.... it smells sexism and not equality or rational thinking or science. Politically correct speech dominates the media and makes you feel that you're doing the right thing while you're at being a bigot. Power protects bigots too.

Allow me to remove capitalism and racism to focus a bit more in the agency issue.

Shanley is more privileged that the person that was fired. She runs a media outlet (Kudos! good for her), and a lot of people know her and read her. She influences people, she has power.

She used her power to defend herself about a tiny speck on the internet that called her names, and even understood that it wasn't right. I cannot find anything more abusing than being in power and inflicting pain. That is not even justice, it is hatred.

I would say that defending that hatred is chauvinism.

Anyway, you better put your achievements in your profile to "take you seriously"... but wait that would be a fallacy: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic
Storm-docker – Making distributed, multiple server Storm setups easy
Engineering manager on OnMetal here.

Our first iteration, you'll get two networks: "ServiceNet" is our intra-DC network, which is unmetered (ie, free bandwidth) and "PublicNet" which is the internet and will be billed just like we bill for other cloud server bandwidth. Collectively you get 10Gb/s across these, which you can break down however you want. To you these just show up as VLANs which will be configured on build.

We're working on hooking these boxes up to our "Cloud Networks", which are per-tenant software defined networks. If this sounds like a fun project, hit me up, contact info is in my profile.
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Reminded me of Storehaus [1] but taken further. curious to see what K/V drivers they've written so far.

https://github.com/twitter/storehaus
http://www.wired.com/2010/09/fractal-patterns-in-nature/
:( this is really sad.

I guess the typing finger, having coded, has moved on to github etc. But still really sad.
Go utility library for async processing
He didn't spend 13 years making this. Being in prison 13 years is spending (or at the very least 40 hour weeks weeks may be considered spending). This was occasionally putting some time into something for 13 years. I dislike exaggerated link bait.
"If you send in something that valets can't sell, there's a return fee to have it sent back to you." Not very good for me if i send a big amount of items
its like many other sites do it and its much better that way
Just to point it out .. Palantir historically has a strong CIA link... funding by In-Q-Tel, big data/surveillance focus with government clients, anti-Wikileaks work on behalf of Bank of America and a link to HBGary. Not an ethical organization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

Described by Wired as a secretive data mining software firm involved in a convoluted plot to bring down Wikileaks.

This thread is not unlike discussing the material properties of building components with a prison architect.

(Edit: Why the downvote? Intelligent people are ethically aware of their actions and find context meaningful. Nobody else mentioned this reality of the organization. If you disagree, please do so in writing.)
Hike messenger attacks WhatsApp in TV ad
C++ is a pretty easy target to pick on, though. I'm convinced that it is pure machismo that makes anybody use it, rather than a desire for productivity.

Of note on pg 9 is the "resolution time" graph. Look at the time to fix "missing right parentheses". While the median time to fix this C++ error is about 6 or 7 minutes, about 25% of the time it takes so long that the (75 percentile) edge of the box is off the chart - over 50 minutes. (disclaimer - it doesn't say how often this error happens)

What kind of masochist writes such a giant run-on expression that it takes an hour to figure out where to match up the parentheses??? (and doesn't know how to use the parentheses matcher in the editor)

Perhaps there is an untold story for that error, or perhaps C++ just attracts a lot of people who like a challenge.

...

Turbo Pascal (5.5 and above) > C++ as well, but Java was free, and ran on unix.
Formnestic, Formtastic's extension makes building nested model form super easy
Cosmic inflation: Confidence lowered for Big Bang signal
Interesting idea. Would love to see how it works out for them!
The work is very impressive, but the part I loved most was how even
after deciding the problem was "impossible" to solve, he kept at it:

> "Then I thought about the problem for 7 years."
Wondering why the article is not available anymore but here's the cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9XGHjq...

http://pastebin.com/UyvbHcw2
One of ebay's Cottage industry got absorbed into the mothership. I wonder if they made consideration for consolidating all the various auction listing businesses across the country.
Thats because they failed to ever fix bid sniping, switching to dutch auctions would have been better for everyone.

Edit: Dutch auction is the wrong term and I cant track down the actual name. But essentially the auction gets extended by 10 minutes every time someone bids if the auction is going to end in less than 10 minutes.
If you get the "ball" to hit the side of your bar.. it goes kerbonkers.
One of my favorite things about android is some of the high-quality UI modifications that are out there. I've been using Cover for a while and couldn't go back to the default lock screen, it's just too useful.

Also been playing around with Aviate, but to more mixed results.

Between things like that and Facebook chat heads, I feel like Android is the place to be for high-productivity smartphone users.
Thank you. After all this time I'm still amazed. There's always a kind HN reader around with specific knowledge. :-)
This is a common practice for such pre-releases. Though they could have added the APK on the Google Play store but then they will have to introduce a new internal API where they keep a check on the pre-release users. Can be done but I think this manual distribution can be used for many other things!

But it's annoying that they do not want to support rooted devices!
Really? I'm looking across a number of special-interest and social channels right now, most having nothing to do with tech, and I can count one or two people in each who use a web client, despite the web client being linked from a popular web page for most.

I think that if you're going to have people using the web client with any sort of regularity, you really want to give up on IRC and implement something more modern. A new client isn't going to make it any more usable, nor add any new features that users can depend on.
You get 70% of the sale price if your things sell.

30% commission, and the valet's incentives are for a quick sale rather than the best price, if the behavior of existing bulk listers is anything to go by. These people are usually not especially knowledgeable about the items they sell and so have a poor grasp of pricing - often good for me as informed buyer, but a real pain in the ass for sellers.
Transportation is on track to becoming free. That's going to have a huge impact!
I tried Aviate but the UI made me uncomfortable. This launcher looks great to me. Will give it a try soon.
I remember ebay consignment stores that existed locally years ago. They took on the order of 50-60% of the total sale price.

It was a horrible deal, and every single one I knew of is now closed for business.
"Admittedly, the Supreme Court did not offer the clearest guidance on when a patent claims merely an abstract idea, but it did offer guidance that should help to invalidate some of the more egregious software patents out there." Where can i find this guidance?
And perhaps most important: Many forums (and applications) allow embedding of images, but not videos. That <img> tag works everywhere...
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I was a little disappointed because I thought this would be about 8-bit isometric cities. Like Youcity, an isometric map of SF: http://youcity.com/2009/website_front/index.html#

And some cities based on OSM: http://bitsteller.bplaced.net/osm/
You can't set your own price, and you only get a two-week run. On the other hand, you don't have to deal with the cesspool that is being a seller on eBay.

I wonder how eBay will deal with the "yes, please iPad to vacant lot near warehouse Miami" folks, other than immediately transferring buyer's funds without the possibility for reversal. If they did that for ordinary sellers, I'd quite happily ship my iPad to the sketchy address and go on my merry way.
Some considerations by watching the video in the post.

I think testing stills with fixed lighting is pointless: once the light starts flickering through the foliage, or the time of the day changes this things will become very obvious.

Note how the video is not really a video, but a series of morphed stills, I'm sure that a moving viewer and binocular vision will make those things much more obvious.

Why not just get them painted by some artist? Make them beautiful instead of trying to camouflage them.
I'm also at a university that blocks 6667. I wrote a blog post on how to get around it.

http://siculars.posthaven.com/ssh-tunnel-to-blocked-sites-wh...
Do you know how many FDA approved drugs kill people every year due to adverse reactions? [...]

I don't understand your point. You realize that mistakes or corruption happen, whatever system you have in place, it doesn't mean the system is wrong.

On what moral principle can one human seek to imprison another human for growing or possessing a simple flower?

With that kind of argument you could say such things as "On what moral principle can one human seek to imprison another human because it possesses a piece of metal?" (weapon possession).

The problem is the balance between public interest and individual freedom. My point isn't that outlawing <whatever substance> is the way to go, my point is that you have to put everything in perspective and avoid overly simplistic principles such as "what matters is my individual freedom".

You have to appreciate that your freedom stops where the freedom of others start and that your actions have an impact on society as a whole.

It's not just a childish "I'm free to do whatever you want".

You are. If you live alone in the forest.
FOBO (YC2011) has a similar model and it takes only a 15% fee. http://www.fobo.net/
I believe it is fair to assume that Valet service will be costlier for the user. So, if eBay makes the same profit on Valet as on direct selling, then eBay may not feel motivated to push through usability enhancements in direct selling, even though it is definitely beneficial for its users.

Of course, I am over-simplifying things, but I have been in a similar situation wherein the customers of our service started offering to pay us to help them use our service. Instead of accepting payments, we helped the users for free and took their problems as problems with the usability of our tool which we needed to fix. We believed that accepting paid service as a revenue channel would deviate us from making a good tool in the first place.
Beaten to it.

Sniping is hugely frustrating and the main reason people either use buy it now or plain old ads (cf gumtree/Craigslist etc)
Anecdote about eBay, I sold an iPad on the site about 3 years ago, it got bought "Buy it Now" 3 times in a row from fraudsters even after restricting countries and ratings ppl just refused to acutal pay for the goods.

However after one "Free" re-listing ebay demanded that I pay them, even though the item had not sold. So in effect ebay has created an economic model where they benefit from scammers and fraudsters.

I never sold anything on the site again.
For $7,000 of Canon gear, 30% is surely steep. I think you should just sell your stuff directly on ebay. They just charge 10%. I think ebay valet's customer base is people who have something around but don't know its value and just want to get rid of it.
Goes to show how seller-hostile EBay is if they need to provide a service like this.

Imagine if you needed to provide a "valet service" for your SaaS. Wouldn't that say something about your UX?
Gee, not only do people pay for their (social-)surveillance devices, do said surveillance devices reduce their health and their very potency for reproduction, fetishize their surveillance devices as fashion, but they now also want to cede the continued functionality of their devices to a third party as they have been convinced to live in fear of their beloved devices being stolen!

Absolutely astonishing.
I think it's somewhat clear that "physics" and "nature" refer to two fairly different concepts in this context.
Can you elaborate on who is normal and who is not? Thank you for clarification.
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Solution: use foreign language subtitles (since the goal is translation and not helping with hearing impaired people, those effects aren't usually included).
"How do I become a valet?
Valets are carefully screened for inclusion in the program. Requirements include, but are not limited to: (1) ability to list 100,000 listings each month, (2) storage capacity sufficient to hold and manage items received for at least 21 calendar days, (3) ability to list items across all eBay categories, (4) physical presence in all major metropolitan hubs in the U.S. and (5) demonstrated ability to reach Top Rated Seller status on eBay within 90 days of starting valet services. "

http://pages.ebay.com/sellforme/faq.html
Though I have no qualifications in the field of study, it does explain in detail the methodologies, and the specific parameters are narrow and objective.

My only gripe is that the samples are taken from people going to fertility clinics, but it seems to be accounted for as best as possible.

It would be interesting if more studies were done explaining the interplay of biological mechanisms that lead to this from exposure to RF, as well as accounting exactly how much of this is due to device heat and how much from RF exposure.
Agreed. "Experienced" seemed a dubious definition. Experience != Skill, as well.

One of the things in the paper was that there was a population with middling errors that did "many" builds, and a bifurcation of 2 populations that did "few" builds - one with few errors, and one with many errors. (pg 9, section 4.1 "How often do builds fail?")

Could it be that there is a group of gurus who don't need to constantly build, and which batch up testing of larger feature sets, and another group of perpetual freshmen who spend so much time fixing their fault riddled crap that they simply cannot submit very many builds? Yes, I know they attributed at least some of this to the employee role being done, but it makes me wonder. "Experience" would not tease this pattern out. (while it seems to me customary to build more often in the initial stages of using a new language, we've all worked with "that guy" who just bumbles through, year after year)
Android to drop Dalvik VM for high-performance ART in next version
Unfortunately its only in SF and you can just list Electronics.
I never knew CGA could do 16 colors. In my memory 16 colors is EGA.
Love how they used the sprites from The Adventures of Lolo (http://nintendookie.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/adventures-o...) Makes me nostalgic. :)
the Gone! app does this for you, but it's even easier and you don't have to ship anything out (they'll supply and even pick up the boxes for you).

definitely worth a try, but eBay Valet is interesting:
http://thegoneapp.com/
Wow - Trixter from Hornet - haven't heard that name in a long time. Always fun to dip back into the demoscene every now and then. Think I might just break out my Mindcandy dvd tonight.
Version 3.0 of GNU Nettle has been released
The last two recruiting-related occurrences that have gotten past the Spam+Delete stage for me:

* A Facebook recruiter does a copy-paste on an email to an unknown number of iOS developers (including me). This is rapidly determined on Twitter, and the poor person is summarily mocked. A fairly senior FB person reaches out to me personally, apologizes, and asks if I'd be interested in chatting with them. I say "sure," of course. Personal engagement is worth a lot. A recruiter who copy-pastes an email to me and hundreds or thousands of others is worth less than nothing to me.

* An Apple recruiter reached out to me a couple months ago and asked if I'd be interested in an engineering position on their camera/photo team. I declined since I have absolutely no interest in relocating from Seattle to the South Bay, but he obviously had done some research on me to know that—were I to join any team at Apple—this would be my first choice. I was impressed, and replied to give my regrets that I have no interest in living down there.

I get calls and Linkedin invites from recruiters several times per week. At this point, I just reject any phone call I get from unrecognized numbers, and delete any email I get from Linkedin. These people are obviously trying to play a numbers game, which will simply never work with me.
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That caught my attention as well. I wish I knew this trick 3 decades ago.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#160.C3.9...
Appealing to emotions!

Because other people think like him, he is harassing her. Nice logic.

The bonus point is: because other people think I'm an asshole, they're harassing me. That totally made my day.

At least he got a job with an employer that can defend employees against pogroms. Good for him.
Gone! (Techstars company) has been testing in a few areas and is not specific: http://thegoneapp.com/

Affiliated as they are my friends and have a solid team
Lets assume he has none. Is it not appropriate to note the inadequacy of our present actions?
Great point, that's an important oversight.
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