skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick update: we're now working to get them transcribed. It looks like it'll take a week, so please be patient with us. We're hoping to also transcribe the back catalog as well, though that'll be a long term project.
IMHO you are being down voted for being off topic, not necessarily for the accuracy of your thoughts. (I did not downvote you BTW, I take pitty on gray comments)
Safari in iOS is missing many newer APIs. For example WebRTC is not in Safari but it is in Chrome/Firefox. No idea if it's been added to iOS8. Even WebGL in iOS8 is currently hobbled.

http://codeflow.org/entries/2014/jun/08/some-issues-with-app...

Also it's not a matter of "clamoring". People have no idea what they're missing. Do you think anyone would have been clamoring for Firefox on Windows in the 90s for they had never seen it and were limited to IE?

Maybe I'm showing my bias here but remember the browsers before Chrome and V8 came on the scene and heated up the competition? Well there's no competition on iOS because you can't write your own browser. Heck, I'd certainly like to see ASM.JS on iOS as one example.
Upon login, an application that created a new database for the user and then imported ALL the data from the api before allowing the user to continue to the next screen. The database would be dropped upon logout.
Login times were in the hours if it was successful at all.

And now think about the security and data integrity problems that implies.
Gotcha. The binary only has two .mp3 files; yo.mp3 and yoyo.mp3.
I've been watching this project hoping that eventually PDFs could be rendered on the client.
Law Enforcement Using 'Terrorism' To Obtain Equipment To Fight Regular Crime
Airbnb Is a Risky Neighbor
This is why the quality of text messaging is notoriously abysmal.
House votes 293-123 to cut funding for NSA spying on Americans
Jython is usually slower than CPython I believe, it has no GIL though.
I am excited for this, if only because it might finally give me a random excuse to learn how to write code in Go. Does someone have more context on what the timeline for 'go 1.4' is?
Except for the fact it's nothing like that at all. The perks are free, and employees are generally paid well - when compared to other professions, if, perhaps not their value add.
According to Jython's (a little dated) FAQ <https://wiki.python.org/jython/JythonFaq/GeneralInfo>, "Jython is approximately as fast as CPython--sometimes faster, sometimes slower. Because most JVMs--certainly the fastest ones--do long running, hot code will run faster over time."

PyPy aims to be (and is in many cases) faster than CPython.

The advantage with Jython isn't a performance one: it's the ability to call Java code directly.
What would you replace it with ?
"Most of the time I can spot a fake dress or bag on someone from <5 feet away."

I'd be worried about survivorship bias. Perhaps you only "see" a sub-set of fakes (the un-convincing ones) and the good ones walk right on by. Isn't this problematic?
Method described would work only on Time Travellers that are stuck in our time with no technical means of going back and no detailed documented knowledge of current time [1]. Two queries chosen (pope and some comet) are non significant in daily life. You would be lucky to find 1 in 10000 people that ever in their lives formulated a question about those subjects out loud. In my opinion it would be more prudent to look for signs of prior knowledge about natural disasters. Stranded time traveller will be more interested in avoiding tsunami, earthquake, tornado or a flood, and will most likely know general time frame instead of detailed dates (unless he possesses [1] device).

*1: $25 WikiReader Pocket Wikipedia

http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia/...

Something tells me time traveller from the future would have modernized equivalent.
Some useful articles on this topic that may provide inspiration:

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2013/12/18/successfully-u...

http://malcolmbell.net/2014/02/28/my-mailcloud-app-10000-use...

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3024472/how-we-got-our-first-2000-...

http://popcornryan.tumblr.com/post/65640245447/how-i-got-my-...

http://www.quora.com/Marketing/What-are-key-strategies-to-ac...

http://blog.yesgraph.com/first-1000/

http://www.austenallred.com/the-hackers-guide-to-the-first-1...
>You're really trying very hard here to tie me to SEO activity //

I was merely suggesting that the guy that did your website might not be the scum of the Earth you seem to believe all SEOs are and thinking that - as you appear to judge characters well in general, obv. not mine ;0) - he might be able to disavow you of that notion. When he designed your reocities layout he designed in on-page SEO ... horror! Indeed his prime motivation might well have been the footer link, perhaps he is evil after all.

OK, so 'everyone loves reocities' (many people love torrent hosts too); but it's still a massive copyright infringement. Personally I think the content that people cared about was saved, moved, backed up already and that very little would have been lost that was worth keeping. The real value was to harvest the content to stick an ad-block or donation wrapper around it.

The point where we started [my paraphrase of course] was that you ostensibly said "all SEO are scum" and I said that as you were able to see past your own tortuous activities to see your perceived good in them I found it strange that you'd classify everyone working in SEO, like your web-designer, that way.

I find it really hard to see how you think making sure a website gets a deserved position in the SERPs (yes SEO can be used nefariously too, I'm not denying that) is so evil. Yet you think wrapping someone else's work up in a donation and ad-banner that take up half-a-screen without so much a as a by-your-leave is fine.

If it's about saving content owners then you can simply announce "all content owners wishing their content to be retained on reocities contact us by December 2015; content we don't have a license to use will be removed at that date". You can even keep an offline copy of the archive if you're in to historic preservation. Even better, if you cared at all about not infringing on peoples copyright would be to have the content available and put it up at owners request - or if a fair use argument for a particular piece of content was made.

I've said it before - you're well off the mark both morally and legally with this one I'm afraid.
The Quick Time Event
Intriguing. I'm not aware of much, if any, interest in Go in the games community, but there we are. C# seems to have finally taken off big time.

What would be cool/interesting is if you can write half decent audio processing code in Go for Android without the GC kicking in at the wrong moment.

They're 100% right about the broader API though.
While technically accurate that statement is really misleading. Nest makes a significant amount of revenue from utility companies who pay up to $50 per thermostat per year for Nest agreeing to turn down their usage during peak times.

This is a very different model than paying someone for a product. While you buy Nest's product, you are still the product (and selling you is a better business for them long-term).
They seem to release an update every ~6 months, so probably around the end of this year.
It's expensive, but not difficult to find. http://www.amazon.com/Runner-Five-Disc-Complete-Collectors-B... (The version without the voiceover is "the Director's Cut.")
I was asked "Is it possible to find the api key's in the binary?"

My answer is yes, it's insanely easy. Don't try to secure your API keys instead try to secure your API.
Generally, the cost of college tracks inflation. It's where the funding that is changing that makes it appear to increase. 40 years ago state funds paid for most state college costs (hence the name, "state" college"). Now, most states are broke and rapidly withdrawing most of the funding support from their universities, shifting costs to the students.

Administrative staff costs are rising as well, but the tenure track professors are expected to do less and less administrative work, theoretically allowing them to teach more classes. I don't know how much this works though.
"The problem is that "software" and "mathematical algorithm" are two terms for the same thing."

This ain't necessarily true. Unless you extend math to encompass reasoning about hardware, operating systems, browsers, other apps, networks etc. Math deals with more basic things.

The real reason software patents are harmful is because the industry moves so quickly, fueled by openness, that the patent examiners don't always know the current state of the art, let alone obviousness. This basically kicks the can down the road and creates waste.
Scrubbed. :(
I guess we wait until tomorrow.
Ah, but could your clients afford to hire you to clean up their messes if they hadn't finished something first?
It sounds like you're saying that Alice is really about invalidating what Mark Lemley calls functional claiming: attempting to claim components by their function rather than by their structure. I read parts of the Alice opinion, and it seemed like that might be what the justices were getting at, but I didn't see the point made as clearly as I would have liked.

Despite your assurances, I am uncomfortable with this decision. Indeed, I am uncomfortable with Gottschalk v. Benson. I don't think a bright line exists between patent-eligible software and ineligible algorithms -- in this I agree with the Vox article. I would much rather have seen a decision that invalidated this patent on the grounds that taking an existing manual process and computerizing it is, by itself, obvious.
dying industry, dying profession.
Any chance we could get audio only podcast version?
The US constitution gives the reason explicitly as to "Promote the Progress of science and the useful Arts" though
I experimented with it back in 2008 to advertise an ebook I paid to have written (my 4 hour work week phase). I was targeting long tail keywords, but no matter what I did, the cost per click was too high to make it worthwhile. $1 a click doesn't make sense when you're selling a $20 ebook. Then I hired a guy on elance to optimize my campaign and for $150 he tweaked the keywords, landing page text, and ad copy, and got the CPC down to under 5 cents. It's all about quality score. If your landing page text, ad copy, and keywords all line up, you get rewarded with cheaper clicks. That is the only way you can afford it.
Is a building a blueprint?
Those are really just feeding on the reactive chemical species produced by the ionizing radiation from nuclear decays in the rock. Pretty nifty, and I hadn't heard of them before.

The other possible answer to this that I know of are the fungi who might be able to derive metabolic energy from gamma rays--- though last I checked it wasn't entirely certain that's what they're doing.
Perhaps they were concerned about leaving Dropcam as a/to a competitor and taking on Logitech; whilst acquiring Dropcam they can take out 2 competitors in one go as no-one else seems to want to take on Logitech? [Pure speculation].
Nest has only recently started operating in the UK so I don't think that any UK energy companies have yet jumped onto that bandwagon. But still I must ask for a source for your claim.

Does the owner of the nest have the option to override such feature? Just because I have a nest in my home doesn't mean my home is well suited to kill the heating during peak times. Yeah it might save me a few quid and the energy company a bunch more killing my heating during peak times. But I am not going to sit in a cold house just because the energy company decide what is best for me. If I can override it or disable it. far enough. But that is like your ISP killing your connection because everyone in your street is watching netflix at the same time you are trying to just have a few good irc take rooms open at the same time.

In a pay per use case (which most net connections don't) we are used to pay what we use. If I need my house heated because I am cold, I want to be able to heat my home.
So the utility company pays their customers, who in turn lower their bills by using less energy? Why?
So I've finally been learning to write Android Java... and honestly, as a C#/Python developer, I figured it would be easy to pick up. Holy crap, how do you people live like this?

Yeah, I'll be trying out Go for Android. Give me an excuse to learn Go. Still don't like the idea of going without generics and exceptions, but maybe it'll surprise me. I figure we're all just biding our time until Rust is ready.
Our Moral Tongue
Online petition: Provide mandatory german tax software also for Mac and Linux 
A german online petition (english translation via Google Translate: https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.change.org%2Fde%2FPetitionen%2Fdr-wolfgang-sch%25C3%25A4uble-elster-formular-software-f%25C3%25BCr-mac-und-linux), initiated by a Mac user, calls on the german finance minister to finally provide the years-lacking but mandatory tax form software ElsterFormular also for OS X and Linux instead only for Windows.
Amphetype: a Python-based (touch) typing analyzer, creates lessons from any text
During high demand the utility may be purchasing the energy for rates much higher than they are collecting from the customer.
I've seen many things in my 10+ years of coding, Here are some favourites:

* No authentication check on any page after login page. (You could type in any URL in browser address bar and gain access).

* GET request updating home page related content in database. (A few of these GET request was picked up by Alexa bot and we hard our home page content change randomly for many days. We had a real hard time troubleshooting this one).

* Use of mysql_query() in PHP. (Deprecated mote than 10 years ago. Opens doors for SQL injection).

* Use of loop variables i,j,k,l,m for 5-level nested loop. (Too error prone and difficult to read).

* Unit testing applied to a highly monolithic code. (The hacks for isolating code units produced more garbage than the code itself). It was a legacy code and the management blindly ordered writing of unit tests when a few bugs were caught in production.
The Best Alternatives to Pandora
Just an introduction: Currently I'm using runsit as an alternative for supervisord and I'm happy with it so far. Stdout and stderror of the processes can be queried with a very simple HTTP interface.
Runsit watches a config directory for any changes and applies them immediately. Config files are in json format.
I don't really mind staying late at the office (with has gigabit nLayer, a 4K monitor, free drinks and snacks, etc.) vs. at home (which has comcast, and is pretty small). The commute between the locations is a pain, but otherwise I have no real difference between "being online doing whatever I want to do" at home vs. at the office.

Right now, I'm working on a TC article and some conference talks on independent research. I'll probably drive home once the traffic is done. I'll go to my co-presenter's house Saturday night to work on the talks again.

The "work vs. personal" distinction is really secondary to me, compared to "stuff I want to do, vs. stuff I'm forced to do"; work-related projects are just as often "want to" as home projects are "forced to".
Unfortunately they will not be mirroring the Android SDK in Go, but only the NDK bits. It's noted in the document that it would be too much of a bear to keep up with the official SDK, and an automated tool would generate crappy, non-idiomatic Go.

I think Dart or another JVM language are the only hope for getting away from Java on Android. Dart is maybe a longshot at this point though.
The catpcha is fairly permissive at letting you make a lot of mistakes (i.e., don't go back and fix your mistakes, just keep typing). It feels weird at first letting yourself make mistakes like that, but you can probably type a lot faster if you don't worry about fixing typos.
The door to the box that holds the air that makes your voice sound funny didn't work. Maybe it will work tomorrow and the part of the space car that falls of first will come back without crashing.
He thinks the lavish perks at many technology companies, especially the free on-campus meals, are a disguised form of mind control, designed to get employees to work 12- or 14-hour days.

WTF is wrong with people!?! I'd work my butt off at a place that provides thrice-a-day healthy, delicious, diverse, vegetarian (for me) meals, on-site gym and sleeping pods!! Hell, I'd have surely done that when I was a decade younger! I hate cooking and it is ridiculously expensive to buy food with my dietary constraints in the open market. Especially food that is not only delicious but also healthy in the long term.

Why is there this utterly misguided hatred against "company food"?

Even after breaking down my yearly compensation to an hourly rate, I bet there will be a marginal difference in the money the company makes by keeping me working the extra hours and the price I'd pay for buying such food everyday (remember, I hate to cook).

Plus, nobody forces you to eat that food, if you really prefer cooking your own food or buying it from elsewhere, keep doing that.

I really feel that good, healthy food is an awesome incentive and stigmatizing it reeks of a bloody first world problem.
In full disclosure, i'm a bit of a Go fanatic. But two things that led me to the language.

1 - The tour. Seriously, just go through tour.golang.org and...you know Go. From there it's just little tricks and best practices, many covered in 'effective go'

2 - It's a tiny language. That's a plus or minus depending on who you ask.

If you aren't new to programming in general, you can pick up the majority of Go in a day I think.
You can have a different constant in every server, for example nanoseconds in server A will always be 0001, in computer B it will always be 0002 and so on. It's cheap computationally and there can't be no collision.
Congrats, Greg!
Nest's business model is to sell a product for a profit. From that perspective, it's the same as Dropcam.

More than the business model though, Nest's goal seems to be to use sensor data and usage patterns to provide home automation with as little management as possible. Dropcam is essentially just another sensor - they're already doing things like recognizing people in the video feed. It's a way to get more data into nest's algorithms, and to get sensors into more areas of your home.
Being planned and discussed right now.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-dev/eqBihsj...
Canine Planar Anatomy (trigger warning)
If you want to avoid the moral hazard of tenants subletting their apartment, and the owners being screwed, you need a mechanism for the contract (which disallows subletting) to be enforced.

So how do you effectively enforce that? Should the owner have cameras in the hallway? Should the tenants be subject to random checks? some balance has to be found to keep both sides happy.

The other question is why are tenants going through the trouble and risks of subletting. And this guy knows why:

http://moodyeyeview.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/toodamnhigh....

You might notice Airbnb has virtually no presence (relatively) in countries where the rent is lower, especially in relation to people's income.
Servo is a prototype – closest to your "Pie-in-the-sky" option.

I'm not affiliated with Mozilla or Servo but from the information on the Servo page and the number of Acid2 and other issues they're tracking, it's clear that there's still plenty of work to do. Throw in the fact that the Rust language itself is targeting the end of the year before they hit version 1.0 and you'd have to guess that Servo as a separate project likely has minimum 6 months (more likely a year) before they examine whether it's successful enough to start integrating with Firefox.

Then they'd need to integrate and test.

Think about how long the new "Australis" UI was in development (more than 2 years). It was just a user-interface change without changing programming language or other dev-tools.

The renderer is the core of the program. And integrating Servo would involve integrating and testing a new language along with the new code. I doubt a large, capable team could perform that much integration and testing in under 12 months – even after Servo itself was considered "complete" (which it isn't).

My prediction: a release of Firefox with Servo code is 2 years away or more (assuming Servo is considered a "success" in 6-12 months).
Yes I do understand it, but it's the way they were giving out contracts at the school. I've seen one of them. It just says something like. You will be paid xxx$/h. Your course A has 40 hours. Your course B has 60 hours.
I had a Dropcam and was excited for its remote monitoring capabilities. As a camera it is excellent and the cloud recording is really well done. I set it up and left for vacation for 3 weeks. During this time, I got so many notifications of activity (at least 20 per day) that it rendered it completely useless. It's an interesting idea but when I got my first notification of activity I got so scared someone had broken into my house I was freaking out. By the end of my vacation I just turned off the notification altogether and returned it when I came home.
Is this an official project supported by either the Go or Android teams, or is it just an independent developer planning to take on this challenge? Who's David Crashaw?
Apple releases a series of books with hundreds of pages and hours of video using Swift, and Google releases a one page Google Doc proposing to use Go. And then people wonder why Apple is able to attract so many developers to their platform...
Hopefully it will make some noise if it changes at the next revision of the privacy policy...
No, the utility pays Nest. The customers get nothing.
And the JSON parser is awesome, it gives user friendly error messages when the file has the wrong format. Very cool.
The problem with Android isn't Java though, it's the Android API being an inconsistent hacked together in a hurry trainwreck. Everything they've added since 3.x has been an enormous improvement, but they never shook off the baggage of the initial push to release.
Why the Capacity for Boredom Is Essential for a Full Life
Lets flip this around: The court considers mathematical algorithms abstract. Noting that it enables you to achieve the very practical utility of posting on this forum, is the software running your computer abstract?

The obvious answer is that our definition of what is an algorithm and what is abstract differs from the court's.
>If it was $10, no one would buy it and if it was $0.01, they'd run out of supply. //

Do you think? Milk is a pretty much fixed use rate for homes I feel - low cost milk is probably more a loss-leader than anything else. If there's a crisis in the dairy industry those who can afford to pay $10 probably will for quite a time. The reason my supermarket doesn't charge more is competition. Milk is fungible, largely, hence competition plays a more important role [we buy Organic milk wherever possible however]. Most tech isn't so fungible.

I guess how that feeds in to your valuation analysis is that USP is important? Even if your business amounts to just another messaging app, or another photo app, you can have a USP - like Whatsapp's user base?

... if milk were 1¢ I'd take up cheese making; cheese is so expensive.
Z3: a high-performance theorem prover being developed at Microsoft Research
they can probably turn off your Internet connection/power warrantlessy so they don't have to worry about that...
Right, I thought I had read you could actually enable some of the chording techniques on a standard keyboard at some time. Though, I don't recall the story. Quickly googling isn't showing too much.

Regardless, I know I could get faster than I am. I hover just over 80 to 90. To get a lot faster, I was always under the impression that I would need something like that. I have also always thought that I have no need for that. So it works out. :)