skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huuuuge problem is reconciling the hundreds of DSLs physicians use to talk about different things--you'd think that they'd use the same terms to talk about the same body parts and diseases, but you'd think wrong. :(
I'm sorry, I completely respect your opinion, but frankly any company that can "use" "free" data from the air and resell it much cheaper than, say, the $150 cable bill, is going to be successful. That doesn't make it lawful, or even good for content creators.

I know I hold a very unpopular opinion in this forum, but I think it's unwise to treat Aereo like some angel of free speech. The truth is, this is a for-profit company with investors hoping to make money. They make that money by shortcutting the existing distribution system and selling something very cheaply that they got for "free."

Is it good for consumers? In the short-term, it seems to be. People love the service as far as I can tell and it's cheap.

But in the long-term, I worry about a service that syphons money away from content producers (and distributors, to whom I'm less sympathetic) and puts it instead in their own pockets.

I simply can't wrap my brain around how content can be produced, grabbed for free, and - importantly - re-sold for profit. I do not think this is a "public demonstration" of work.

Finally, I think it's unfair, as some have, to claim that SCOTUS is a bunch of thieves in bed with Comcast on one hand, but heroic and commendable on another hand with regard to the warrant cell phone case. It may actually be — actually, now it is the case - that if you have an exception with the law, you will need to work to change it.
Most of my private project time goes to Leeroy CI[1], an open source, continuous integration service. Since releasing the first stable version which provides the basic functionality to run tests / builds and get the results communicated back via web, mail or Slack I started working on a web based configuration system, which also requires adding some kind of authentication and authorization system.

[1] https://github.com/fallenhitokiri/leeroyci
To me, all three are the modern Myspaces - albeit much smaller and insignificant in comparison to back then. The brands have been around and stand for something, which will make it hard to pivot and instill excitement in the user base.
To me, all of the three have lost their raison d'etre.

Quora had a lot of potential, but only a subset of people actively used the service and formed it into something that won't appeal to the masses.

Foursquare was great for the unique check-in/gamification thing, but after Facebook made check-in just another feature, there really wasn't a reason to go to Foursquare anymore. With checkins gone and Yelp being as big and well established as it is, there is even less reason to go there now.

Path frankly I never thought had any reason to be there in the first place - no idea how to pivot that thing into anything useful. A "custom-designed, one-of-a-kind bespoke app" if you will...
It's Just Not Big Enough
The claim that 64bit platforms are not exploitable is
incorrect. This is the same mindset that created today's
LZO/LZ4 vulnerability. "No one will ever have that much
RAM to cause a 32bit integer overflow!". Well, today we
do. If this bug would have persisted and propagated
further, surely 64bit architectures would be effected in
the not-so-near future.

Worrying that RAM sizes will exceed 64-bit addressability hasn't been one of my worries. 2^64 is about 70,000 Petabytes. Of course, it wasn't too long ago when a Petabyte seemed unattainable, and not too long before that that a Gigabyte seemed giant, and even a Megabyte once seemed almost limitless. Am I just being short sighted?
Dogs are used to (fraudulently) excuse otherwise-illegal searches, but otherwise evidence is same as otherwise.
I should probably also mention that bif, while functional is still alpha quality software. And so far tests only pass on Linux and the *BSDs. Testers/bug-hunters for MacOS would be appreciated.
Like [1] or [2]? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're asking for, but it's not uncommon to provide interaction guidelines...

[1] http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-inter...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...

edit: oh, maybe by "patterns of flows" you mean the user's flow through an application, as opposed to individual interactions? That's seems less often addressed, but it is still out there: [3]

[3] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
http://taskthemall.com/

My own vision on easy checklists for managing other people (and myself). It's 50/50 made, hope I'll be able to finish it till the end of the year.
Working on my start-up "Staply https://www.staply.co " - smart messenger for groups. From user prospective - it is a web-based dropbox folder with messenger. Planning to participate in next YC.
Yes, that makes sense. I guess it all depends on the level of the basic income. It should be enough to live on, but not enough to live very comfortably.
Voltset, multimeter for makers
Voltset, only 42 hours to go on Kickstarter!
so asking for an example that's awkward would be right on point, then.
What Beauty Looks Like, From Argentina to Vietnam
Also do realize that Atom is not as mature as PyCharm. Don't dismiss Atom so fast. Give it some time and try it again.

Disclaimer: I love PyCharm, and I actually would not replace it with Atom. I believe PyCharm is the best IDE for Python, but Atom has its uses.
Move in the PM direction, though how to get there is still up in the air
"It should be enough to live on, but not enough to live very comfortably."

That is more or less my guess, yeah.
If you'd not met her 8 years ago, and if you'd not started your startup 2 years ago, you'd be right where you are now but without the sense of loss. You gained something, for a short while, and now you've lost it again.

As for your family and friends, whose money you lost: they can handle it. It's only money. It's to your credit to feel bad, but now you need to work to pay back the money you lost. At least some of it, but hopefully all of it. That would be worth more than any apology or self-abnegating behavior. If you're a software developer and willing to live on raman/at your parents house for a year you will be able to save a huge sum. There is probably no legal obligation to pay it back, but there is a clear ethical and moral obligation - and it will give you a concrete goal to work toward.
Spotify's Design Lead On Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid
Similar project: jsos

https://github.com/charliesome/jsos
I'm working on a API derived observased triggered notification system for loan status on prosper.com and lendingclub.com.
Interesting idea. I guess you have to sign up to tag? That's probably a good idea.
Or, if we're going to go with Prolog-inspired syntax, then why not Prolog?

grade(Student, Grade) :-
worked(Student, Work), work_grade(Work, Student, Grade).
work_grade('Excellent', _, 'A+').
work_grade('Okay', Student, 'B') :- tried_hard(Student).
work_grade('Okay', _, 'B-').
work_grade(_, _, 'C').

I'm a bit rusty, and I don't have a Prolog interpreter to hand to test, so I might have got some syntax wrong.
Can you write tutorials that don't require eclipse? Nobody who makes websites uses eclipse for that.
How's that creepy?

It's freakin awesome!
I haven't used it yet, but it seems to be faring okay.

http://riscpi.co.uk/sales-riscospi/?doing_wp_cron=1403977657...

You can also download RiscPC or Archimedes emulators, e.g.

http://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/
Other crap?

Probably DNA. If you suspect someone for various reasons, and then get a DNA match, it's almost certain that you have the right person. If, on the other hand, you have a DNA profile, and you search the 10,000,000 entry FBI CODIS database, there's somewhere between a 1 in 10k to 1 in 3m chance that you'll get a hit on someone other than the person who left the sample.

This seems to be rather understudied. Prosecutors like to talk about the probability that two people chosen at random would match. But that's not the correct value when you use DNA to locate the suspect.

One thing that would be useful would be for the FBI to report on collisions and near-collisions between known profiles added to the database.
Very cute hedgehog.

Any particular reason you're intermixing Go and Python? For something like this I imagine Python alone would be more than suitable. And if you just wanted to mess with Go and learn it, then you probably could've used Go for the whole thing.
I read it as "It wasn't giving me joy anymore and I had plenty of financially viable options that were probably the result of leveraging my academic title."
This is the best article I've found this year regarding housing in SF.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
It's not a straw man for me -- it's what I think of a lot of Lisp code.

I think it's really instructive to compare things written in the early days of Clojure to Clojure right now. Some times I just want to find the author of some code block, shake them, and yell "No! The only reader macros you are allowed to use are ', `, and #() !". Absolutely beautiful language, but way too easy to make unreadable.
What's library hell in JavaScript? I've never heard anyone use that term ever.

Any links for the perf issues you mentioned? There's some massive JS apps at Walmart and PayPal.
I'm working on an on-demand developer hub for APIs or software. Basically, dev.yourstartup.com. I want everyone to be able to have beautiful, Stripe/Twitter/Parse quality documentation. Fully customizable, all docs are collaborative (like a wiki) and versioned, support section, API signup, sync with Git(Hub), error lookup, blog/changelog, etc.

(If you're interested in beta testing, email me at my username at gmail)
I'm not sure I understand the tradeoff here.

It sounds like people are gaining a little bit of extra privacy (by preventing spammers harvesting your email) while sacrificing a ton of privacy (by allowing a a third party MitM to intercept all of their emails to and from that domain).

I actually like the idea a whole lot, but I'd prefer if this could be done in some provably confidential way (where your service has no ability to see the content of messages, only To and From).
Silicon Valley tech startups find a second home in Ireland
Good one. Best wishes for your success.
Recently I started to again actually have enough of free time to continue in improving my toy implementation of Scheme (called dfsch, http://dfsch.org/) into something that is not a toy, but really usable. Given the fact that two months ago I actually sold an app written in dfsch it seems that it might be actually useful.
The site runs over https but loads leaflet over http, so that it get's blocked at least by recent versions of Firefox, Chrom[e/ium] and Internet Explorer.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/MixedConte...
Looks like The Netherlands is one of the most dense countries in the world. I wonder why that is, we (speaking as a Dutch person) hardly seem to use OSM while in Germany it's very popular.

One explanation is the recent addition of the government's address and building data, which gives us close to perfect outlines for every building in the country plus an extra node per address. Or we just have a high number of people per square kilometer regardless of the recent (now almost finished) data import.

Edit: Looks like it's simply our density in general and not this import; last year the Netherlands also stood out while we hadn't even imported 10% yet. From last year: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tyr_asd/diary/19549
Lion King tribute
I've just launched an app for building D3.js charts online. Getting some interesting people sign.

https://app.chartblocks.com/tryme
I was hoping this would be getting V8 to run on the bare metal, removing the need for an operating system underneath. That part would be very cool.
Wow that makes sense. I thought the spacecraft would be above the atmosphere but maybes there are still a few ions in LEO?

Also how could such a generator work? That makes a potential on the two ends?
Maps that show how much time Americans spend sleeping, grooming, and thinking
Of course, this argument is totally nuts. 2^64 of RAM is not accessible, period. It's ludicrous to pretend that a code delivered today should take into consideration a potential issue that might happen in 30 years from now. Frankly, you expect the code to no longer be updated that long and still be used ??
And if I cloned myself right now, my clone wouldn't have all my experiences or learning or history, so the description of cloning must be misleading.
Poachlist: The best recruiter is you
Looks cool. You should make some sample datasets available for the trial accounts to play with.
Related: There are APIs out there which enable you to write an app to allow your users to accept such pings. It costs quite a lot per ping, however, and if i recall may have to be allowed by SMS for each one by the user. It was seriously looked at before the iphone and pre ubiquitous GPS. The triangulation was done on (Vodafone?) proprietary boxes.
You realize a website is fundamentally different than the front door of a house?
You're kidding, right? Not all of use can relate to that metaphor.
I've been working a personal finance web app focused on measuring and improving spending behavior. It goes beyond merely "how much did you spend" and addresses the context and decision making process which drives good or bad spending.

The big challenge has been keeping it simple yet providing the appropriate prompts for folks to reflect on and improve their spending decisions. In other words, the code is easy; the product design has been harder for me.

Teaser: http://www.spendlight.com/

With luck I'll bring the first batch into the beta in the next few days. Invite code "HN" will bump you to the front of the line.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AND_Data ?
I'm working on PhoneCard, a service to make cheap international phone calls without requiring a data connection. You enter the phone number in the webapp and it calls you.

Next time you're using poor hotel wifi or you're frustrated with skype (e.g. multiple disconnects per hour), try PhoneCard for a high-quality call.

PhoneCard can call most places in the world, and in some countries you can also purchase incoming numbers that will forward calls to you internationally.

Still very much a beta product, but check it out at https://www.getphonecard.net

Also working on an Android app which I hope to release soon.
I've started listening to the WWI episodes of Dan Carlin's podcast "Hardcore History." He does a good job of intensely conveying the mindset that got the European powers into that war.

Part 1: http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive/Show-50---Bluep...

Part 2: http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive/Show-51---Bluep...

Part 3: http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive/Show-52---Bluep...
I'm cultivating cosmic consciousness.
Ludwig did :
https://code.google.com/p/lz4/issues/detail?id=52&can=1
Bailey then misappropriate the finding, pretending to have done all analysis, which was all readable and accessible for everybody within this thread.
I always take headlines with a grain of salt.
"trying to stay awake watching one slide after the other" these I hated the most the PowerPointProfs and in their exams question where like "name 6 things of something" where they wanted to have the things listed from their presentation and only their presentation.
Building a simple multi-player Swift game in Playground
Source Interlink Closure and Rebranding Puts 2600 in Limbo
There was no technological reason. Aero exists solely to comply with the letter of copyright law, and, I believe, they do. (As did Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts).

As it turns out, complying with the letter of the Law, was not sufficient to win their day in court.

Ben Thompson, in his awesome daily update to subscribers, did a great constitutional law analysis of the case (In addition to being a Technology analyst, he also majored in Constitutional Law)

A small excerpt (I highly encourage you to sign up for his daily update at http://stratechery.com, it's frequently the highlight of my day)

You will note, of course, that the author of this decision was none other than Justice Breyer, and the author of the dissent one Justice Scalia. What Justice Breyer has effectively argued is that the sort of activity that Aereo is engaging in was clearly the sort of activity that Congress was seeking to legislate in the Copyright Act of 1976. And, quite frankly he’s right.

Scalia, on the other hand, argues that Aereo is abiding by the letter of the law: they have carefully implemented a solution that abides by the Copyright Act of 1976’s prohibition on public performances (your own private antenna!), and that is enough to make it legal. You can see the different doctrines clearly in Scalia’s admission that Aereo is exploiting a loophole.
I use worklog - it's open source and in available via your favourite package manager, a command line tool. You can open the log file as a csv (but space separated, first column is the time)
This scenario also happens in the US college space, experience from a former community college professor in 2 different states. The students basically try to leverage these surveys for grades. Professor decided to become a full time tutor, better pay and less hassle.
I wasn't an Aereo customer, but were they streaming in standard video streaming formats? If so, would it be viable for them to really lease the antennas to people and stream the non-decoded HDTV signal? It would require some sort of software defined radio decoding on the client side and would certainly reduce the features they could offer easily, but by doing that they basically become a simple signal repeater service - a commercial "range extender."
There are some if you go through the chart wizard but that's actually a good idea - we should at least have one sample dataset in the dataset list.
> Clients that use Convergence are effectively CA free from the moment they install it. The others can follow incrementally.

In other words, the servers have to keep using CA certificates for however many years it takes for the rest of the clients to "follow incrementally." Hence what I'm proposing.

> Notary requests use TLS too: If an attacker redirects my requests to other (untrusted) notaries my client will complain because it has the (self-signed) certs of the notaries cached. I can buy two or more servers in different counties, install the notary server on them, copy&paste the cert of the notaries in my client, and from that moment on Convergence works and my TLS connections are secure.

You misunderstand. The problem is not for the client when the attacker controls a DNS resolver, the problem is for everybody when the attacker controls a DNS TLD. You're trying to verify the certificate for democracy.cn which is supposed to resolve to 1.2.3.4, but China changes its DNS record so that it points to 6.7.8.9 which is the Chinese government's MITM server. Now you go out and ask ten thousand notaries, what's the certificate for democracy.cn? They all resolve it to 6.7.8.9, get the attacker's certificate from China's MITM server and tell you they all saw the same certificate. But it's the attacker's certificate.

The existing CA system doesn't solve this. The attacker that can control a TLD is the sort that can control a CA. But you're claiming Convergence would fix it, which is a misunderstanding of what Convergence does. Convergence is solving an entirely different problem.

The thing that (mostly) fixes it is certificate pinning. It doesn't fix it if the attacker starts the attack as soon as the server is put online (which is about a thousand times harder for the attacker to do than the status quo), and I'm not actually sure how they deal with certificates legitimately changing over time, but certificate pinning really does go a long way to preventing any central authority from being able to MITM arbitrary connections.

I see your confusion because Moxie Marlinspike is the one advocating both certificate pinning (i.e. Tack) and Convergence and you can use them together. But there is no technical reason you couldn't also use certificate pinning in combination with DNSSEC. Or use all three together, essentially using the DNSSEC signed certificate as an additional notary.

The existence of Convergence as something cool we should all be using ten years from now doesn't mean we don't still need transitional measures in the meantime. Moxie is playing the long game. If you want to do something today then you need to somehow deal with all the clients that don't support it yet.
There is no such thing as "piracy" in these situations. There may arguably be a freeriding problem though.
That and 3dshapes[1] helped a lot of course, but since we started importing BAG data in March the map size (looking at the OsmAnd map file) roughly doubled. Thought that might also influence this density map a lot but it doesn't seem so.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3dShapes
Current kernel users : zRam, SquashFS, BTRFS, BootLoader
First 3 use small block sizes, KB range.
Last one used the LZ4 file format, which limits blocks to 8 MB.

Yes, there is no kernel program at risk right now, but it's nonetheless good to plug the vulnerability, in anticipation for future usages.

In my view, this does not deserve headlines. Instead, we should be happy to have software coders fixing problems even before they get a chance to happen.
I am working on this Amazon S3 client that is getting good reviews

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Other-Internet-Related...
I thought it was a bit stronger than that, the core message I got from it was that "value" of 'rank' offset the cost of cheating. Which is to say that the expected value of getting your paper into a high rank journal offset the expected value of getting caught cheating. This in turn made the science in high rank journals more suspect which is counter intuitive.

While I agree that 'impact factor' is probably not a good thing per se, there are also a lot of really sketchy journals out there, so some sort of rating is useful. Mixing in the tenure computation and if leaves no independent variables to work with.
> My beef with hackers is that they sometime totally lack insight and design goal.

> ... but if you don't explore any new way of doing things, it's a little sad.

Self involved pretentiousness aside, what are your standards for an insightful, well designed, new hack?

And if a 'hack' doesn't meet these standards, is it worthless to pursue? Should we give up on any curious adventures for fear they might not be insightful enough?
Suggestions about advertising my small team development services
I usually do some freelancing jobs with a partner and I'm wondering where can we advertise our services as a team. I don't think is possible for us register that way (as team not individually) in platforms like oDEsk or Freelancer right?
Any ideas?

Thanks in advanced
Teachers should be judged based on student evaluations - but those evaluations should be deferred until, oh, 10 years later when students can honestly and dispassionately answer the question: "did that teacher enrich my life, prepare me for the livelihood I'm actually earning today?"

Of course, administrations can't wait 10 years for feedback, more's the pity.
Not unless a software patch on the phone introduces significant random variances into the RTT.
But yeah, there will be no pretty way to make the network "think" you are actually near another far away tower. I bet, however, that this is still possible using a vulnerability in the "ping" method itself, like not sending a random nonce for authentication of responses (so that I couldn't send the "pong" before receiving the ping).
If you do try the tutorial, i'd love to see what you create! :)
Drivers written in JavaScript? Sounds like an insane hack. For performance uncritical stuff it might be worth using a language with GC, but if it is performance uncritical you should be doing it in userspace anyway.
prepaid creditcards are quite usefull