skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The president is a malicious actor who is also a lame duck-- he's protected corporate interest at every step, and this step in his presidency will likely be no different. He campaigned on promoting net neutrality, and has of course stayed aloof/ineffectual/silent/absent during net neutrality's fulcrum moment so far.

As for Wheeler, he was a lobbyist before he had this job, and will likely return to lobbying after his tenure as director ends. Wheeler also proposed the fast-lane, aka the death of net neutrality, which passed a vote. In summary: a lobbyist who lobbied for the cable companies he is now "regulating" and who is now pushing a proposal against net neutrality. Where do you think his allegiances really are? He's acting strongly and specifically against our collective interests regardless of anyone's personal judgments.

Our voices matter only in the sense that we can use our voices to organize with each other and effect change as a bloc by raising money and threatening the status quo.
I could do with some clarification on what problem the product solves, and actually, what the product even is. To me this looks like a new DB, and an ORM style interface to interact with it?

I like that it is multi-platform, but SQLLite is a pretty mature DB store available on all the major platforms anyway. I get that it is faster... but presumably there are there trade-offs for this speed gain. I would like a better understanding of what they are. Transaction support?

(PS: I would also much prefer if your objects can be typed in a way so they are plain, rather than forced inheritance from RLMObject)

EDIT: The blog post at http://realm.io/news/introducing-realm/ answers some of these questions.
I wonder if it would be practical to programmatically generate an audio file for the game so that it could be loaded straight from the web without using a disk. Similar to the Apple Game Server http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/
Colbert raises a great point about the practicality of it though; why would you take the time to pour a beverage into the Vessyl just to get the same readings you could have obtained from the initial container?
Thanks for sharing what the possible use for this could be.

That's a quite a price to accomplish just that...

7 years bit was really great.
A "toylyt" would be a good medical analytic device actually. Get it on kickstarter Steven!
This isn't a "grey area". It's illegal to test web applications run by other people for security vulnerabilities. The examples you've seen of above-board security research targeting web apps fall generally into these buckets:

(a) Web apps run by other companies but which are available for download to run on one's own machines

(b) Web apps run by other companies that have published bug bounties or other forms of permission for testing

(c) Web apps tested carefully and, at first, usually anonymously (or, if not, then by researchers working from jurisdictions where CFAA is hard to enforce)
Could we beat Germany if players born in December weren’t discriminated against?
U.S. House backs permanent ban on Internet access taxes
It's difficult to guess the scale, but at least the caption has some information:

> This rock encountered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called "Lebanon," similar in shape and luster to iron meteorites found on Mars by the previous generation of rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Lebanon is about 2 yards or 2 meters wide (left to right, from this angle). The smaller piece in the foreground is called "Lebanon B."
A journalist can't do her job if she's afraid of upsetting her subjects.
This is good to know about Scribd.

Up until now my encounters with Scribd have generally followed this scenario: I'm reading a news article[1] and notice a link to some of the source documents for the article. I click on the link and then am sent to a scribd page that displays the document along with nice little download buttons that purport to let me download a copy of the document[2]. Of course clicking any download button gives me a modal telling me I either need to "Login with Facebook" or create a scribd account. Back buttons are pressed, tabs are closed.

In the example links above these documents are not books, they are not part of a curated collection put up by the "serious author" or publisher of the document. It looks much more like a publisher looking for an easily linkable or embeddable document viewer was snookered into believing that by uploading the document to scribd it would be easily accessible and "available" to the world.

There are countless scribd accounts were I imagine the author really intended their upload to be freely available, not used as bait for scribd to suck people into account creation. For example, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory[3], various government officials[4] or agencies[5], and in fact entire scribd categories seem to be documents which are neither authored by the uploader, or copyrighted at all, such as public court filings[6].

I think your "Netflix for books" is a great idea, and might even be something I would go for, except for the really bad taste the above interactions leave in my mouth. These documents don't fit into the two categories you say scribd is really good for and you mention you are sorry you haven't done a good enough job explaining who you are as it has changed over the years. A great place and way to explain this would be right next to a download button for this type of content that doesn't require someone to "Login with Facebook" or create an account. Instead of getting the feeling I've gotten suckered by clicking on the link, I might think it is great you are hosting and making available this type of content and I should explore some more about this "Netflix for books" thing you are talking about.

[1] For example: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/in-18-months-feds...

[2] e.g.: http://www.scribd.com/doc/204954147/Lolli-v-BF-Labs-Journal-...

[3] http://www.scribd.com/USNRL

[4] http://www.scribd.com/SenatorMarkUdall

[5] http://www.scribd.com/stlouisfed

[6] http://www.scribd.com/browse/BusinessLaw/Court-Filings
I had a record showing that I had tried to be reasonable, so if anyone reasonable was willing to talk to me, they could see that. But the reason I didn't just cancel the card and leave it at that is exactly that reason. After a month of them trying to bill me on a cancelled card, I called them and offered to pay the ETF PLUS the late fee if they would just let me email them proof that I had moved. It was still cheaper than flying back just to show them my drivers license.
Hello Jonathan ,
I am trying for job at google but I haven't received any response. Would it be possible for you to refer me if I send you my resume ? Although , I haven't worked for very high profile companies like FB, Twitter , I am good at what I do.
I would really appreciate your help if you can.
Knowing that somewhere someone conspired to sneak up to a sleeping homeless dude and fill his tin with $300 in $0.25 coins without waking him -- reaffirms my faith in the race.

gl breaking the cycle Nate.
Reminds me of pg's essay on Addiction.

http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
Can someone tell me what he used to code that website? Javascript and bootstrap or something else?
That reminded of this article, http://petapixel.com/2012/09/13/1909-lincoln-penny-used-to-c...
"Coin" being used for camera calibration on rovers. Not sure if they can be used to show scale too.
I touched on it upthread and the wiki very briefly mentions it, but politics killed the F-20. It essentially ended up being a direct competitor to the F-16 which the USAF had already selected as its light fighter.

The USAF wanted the F-16 to be adopted as widely as possible to help reduce their own operating costs. As a result, friendly nations that had previously been customers for aircraft like the F-20's direct predecessor, the F-5 Freedom Fighter, were being lobbied quite hard by the USAF to adopt the same aircraft. The USAF either didn't promote the F-20 at all or actively downplayed it versus the F-16.

It didn't lose because it was inferior. It was a very solid aircraft and, in some ways, actually exceeded the F-16; it was BVR capable from the start while the F-16 didn't gain BVR capability until years later, for example. But the USAF was already all-in on the F-16 and Northrop lost the political game.

The Scorpion is targeting a completely different market than anything the USAF really has a vested interest in currently other than the Air Force being hostile on spending on anything that isn't the JSF. I don't have particularly high hopes for the US adopting it given that, but the market they're going after is different enough that they're not fighting for the same customers like the F-20 did.
This already exists. I saw a live (text) feed of a toilet that would post statistical information about the contents — get this — in real time.

Apparently it could also determine if you have STDs, and which ones.

[EDIT] here's the site: http://quantifiedtoilets.com/#feed
Apparently it also tracks blood alcohol content and doubles as a pregnancy test. The former sounds convenient for a toilet in a bar: it will tell you if you're legally able to drive before you leave the bar.
The catch is that there's no better way to appear low-status than pretending to be high status. When someone acts like a bully, it's a key clue that they don't have anything to offer and are using misdirection to try and pretend that they do. Most people who do have something to offer won't fall for it.
As I implied above, it's a problem in particular jurisdictions, not necessarily everywhere. China for one is aggressively pro-nuclear. If thorium reactors are everything their advocates think they are, countries that throw too many obstacles in their path will disadvantage their economies.

Aside from that, nuclear reactors don't necessarily have to be gigawatt-size. Even in the U.S., smaller reactors are starting to make some regulatory headway.

But even conventional 1GW reactors don't have to take decades to build. China's first AP-1000s at Sanmen are being finished up this year and next for a construction time of five years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Plant

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-First-Haiyang-AP1000-ta...
While we're at it why don't we unite North and South Dakota to form one universal "Dakota"? What about the glorious state of "Carolina"? It's very irritating that the conversation always seems to be about California. California shouldn't be divided just because different regions offer different things.
Doesn't work in Canada.

See this link for Canada: http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?vid=39...

It is the full episode with annoying ads at the beginning...
A Clever Plan to Build a Nationwide Network for the Internet of Things
I'm not sure that having an internship you hate is an indication of what you can expect in your post-internship experiences. Interns frequently get assigned the work nobody else wants to do, and frequently get less respect than regular employees. It's important, however, that you create a favorable impression of yourself as an intern, since the recommendations and contacts you get from that experience can improve your prospects when looking for a permanent job.
very old game called lights out
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No, but it's the only way we'll win this game while still playing by the legal and social rules.

Not enough people care, and even if they do care they probably don't have enough money, even when combined together. With some products, it might be possible to inflict economic damage against our enemies by boycotting and hopefully reducing the amount of money they have to lobby, but that's nearly impossible with the monopolies that the ISPs have built.

We have to try, though-- if only to save ourselves from hypocrisy.
Groovy isn't slow. My guess is that the performance is quite similar, where Kotlin is faster in some cases and Groovy is faster in some other cases.
So It Begins: Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves
I meant that mentor thing in the context of IBM. I agree that it would not be much better in the case of Project Zero.

That said, I still think that a positive approach (positive criticism) cannot be worse than plain critics.

> "You come in here and think that you know our applications, but you don't know the history and the specific compromises we decided to make, etc, etc."

That's exactly the sort of answers that team should prep for: it is obvious to me that whatever compromise I made for my software stack, if there's a security issue, I will have to reconsider them. The whole point is to not rub it up my face for me to accept the issue more easily (not everyone is an adept of egoless programming). I was also saying that with the perspective of the Sony situation: in Japan, losing face is an extremely serious matter. I don't know how this situation was handled by this guy though: perhaps he did all he could to manage their feelings. It's clear to me though that doing it the IBM black team way did is a recipe for failure.
What is the everyday benefit of this for the regular person? Humans have been drinking things for a long time without knowing the exact stats of their beverages. What is this product trying to optimize?
Google is a big place; Dart and Polymer are funded as products under the Chrome division (that has budget to spend on big teams and marketing and developer advocates like Seth Ladd).

GWT is under the platform/languages team, e.g. the same org structure that manages Google's contributions to, say, GCC.

So, right, it's not surprising that there is not a lot of marketing pizzazz around GWT, but I don't think that fundamentally affects it's future viability.

Frankly, I'd be much more surprised to see Dart go away than GWT: a) GWT translates to JS, which will be here forever, and b) there are literally 1000+ projects (both public apps and LOB-type stuff) inside of Google that use GWT.

If Dart can't get over the hump and truly become a first-class citizen, eh...

Admitted that I'm coming to this with biases.
The only reason I can think of is the listed nutritional value isn't always accurate. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't understand how this cup can be any more accurate than the label.

Honestly if I wanted to count calories and monitor my nutrition, I would rather speak to my phone what I'm currently eating and have it tally everything up. And I would gladly pay $10 for an app like that over $200 for a cup, so until someone can bring this technology down to $20-$30, I don't care.
> Hardware access (not exposed by other languages), speed, and possibly executable size are the practical reasons one would write in assembly.

This is a bit misleading, accesses to physical memory, disks and to other devices are usually protected by the operating system, not by the language. So you don't have direct hardware access because you program in assembly, but because you run a program without the control of an operating system. This can be done in assembly, but also in C or in any other language that can generate native code.

The only thing that you can do with assembly and that you can't really do with higher level language like C is accessing processor specific registers/instruction sets (e.g. SSE). And this is typically done using inline assembly snippets, as there is no reason to write a whole program in assembly when you only need to optimize a single function.

So I would say that having better hardware access is not a good reason to write an entire program in assembly.

On the other hand, building small, standalone executable file that use very little (stack) memory is still relevant for programs that run on very small (usually embedded) hardware. Especially when they need to run fast or to have low energy consumption. So speed and memory usage are still pretty good reasons to use assembly :)
But it's not. Its referring to phpng as 5.7.
Wine connoisseurs would probably scoff at drinking out of a giant cup. There's a whole art/science to the cup shape and ritual of drinking wine.
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It is dangerous to go alone! take this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen
This is exactly why I started using iTerm. You and I even use the same key combination! It is so convenient that whenever I use others' machines, I try to bring down the visor and get frustrated when nothing happens.

Terminal.app can do this with the help of TotalTerminal. I used to use that, but switched over to iTerm for the greater degree of customization.
Computer vision researchers are starting to work on the food calorie counting problem. See this video demo from SRI International: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH2c_F6YB-A

Related information:
http://www.psfk.com/2014/04/siri-creator-builds-platform-tha...

http://gigaom.com/2014/04/03/dont-eat-that-sri-built-a-calor...
Appropriate to the 7 bits comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE0n_5qPmRM
The knitting industry also uses the word "Thread" to describe some other thing. This is going to be a nightmare, I tell you.
Good point. The Craigslist post* was under 'rants and raves' dated July '14. Even then this anecdotal evidence fits with observations on society. Is it news? I'd argue it's no less newsworthy than much of the crap published by news organizations--mind you that's a pretty low bar.

*https://web.archive.org/web/20140712154835/https://newyork.c...
Did you not read the section in the linked article about how WebP is not measurably better than JPEG?
"The original point of patents is to provide protection to inventors and give them a head start in implementing their inventions"

Not really true; the original point of patents (in the US, anyway) in the minds of Jefferson and others who (in some cases begrudgingly) defined them was to enhance the amount common, public knowledge by enticing inventors to publicly document their inventions rather than hold them as trade secrets. The "protection" and "head start" bits are really the payment made in return for that public documentation, but not the actual reason for the system to exist. The idea that patents exist to protect "the little guy" is a modern idea, ironically invented and propagated primarily by big corporations and "big law".

This makes most modern software patents (which are routinely violated by people reinventing fairly trivial systems even when having no prior knowledge of the existing patent implementations) all the more ridiculous.
Yup! Est. 1995!
Here's a Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(game)

I remember playing a version of this game that was posted on HN a few weeks ago. Jennifer Dewalt (the person who learned to code by making a website every day for 180 days) made it! http://jenniferdewalt.com/lights_on/game

The mathematics behind this game are apparently pretty interesting. I'm not big on matrix math, but I bet a lot of you guys are.
Did you see the study that just came out which stated that money was far more important than "democratic" channels when looking at political outcomes?

We're cynical about the usefulness of democratic action specifically because there have been numerous elections without any major changes to our country's current death spiral.

The poor and middle classes constantly advocate for their own needs (jobs, money, healthcare) but are consistently beaten by the rich's purchased politicians.
In addition to that, Firefox handles many tabs very well because it is a single process application and does not use as many resources as Chrome does. Tree Style Tab is the best when you are researching something and you basically keep all open tabs under a single branch. When you are done, you just close all branch.
this is pretty cool! It would be a lot nicer if it had python 3 and maybe some external library support. Also, I imagine most of these 'apps' will be more CLI based, and the output should probably be monospace, so it mimics how it would look in a terminal.
That's true. I mean, I'm very respectful about the work I am assigned, when I manage to beg someone into giving me something to do. Everyone is very nice to me, I'm just... Bored. But good advice on building networks. Who you know not what you know and all that.
Probably calorie consumption tracking, which is becoming increasingly relevant with the all the fitness technology and the obesity epidemic.
> How about the fact that net neutrality has never actually been a thing on the Internet? Paid interconnect agreements to ISPs are as old as the Internet itself. To force companies to roll that back at this point would cause catastrophic damage to the Internet as a whole.

That's not what this is about.
Any suggestion about medical technology startups on HN inevitably brings a rain of comments (often including one from me) about how the regulatory burden is too high, getting approval is a job for lawyers not coders, etc. Kudos to MedXT for doing it anyway.
That's not real:

> This was a thought experiment
I agree Lync has its drawbacks, but still is pretty useful in terms of sharing desktop, integration with calendar, etc.
> But from a consumer's perspective, it seems like a solution in search of problem

I think the company to look at is Philips. They really understand how to create appealing connected things. For example this article[1] that talks about their controllable color lights, cooking assistant and coffee maker, all controlled through an app to great benefit.

And once something is connected, bluetooth becomes a limitation - say you want to choose coffee type at the living room with your guests ? or you want to watch the cooking assistant while being at the kids room ? Considering that the cost of full connection should be similar to bluetooth in the best case scenario , why settle ?

[1]http://gigaom.com/2014/04/04/lights-cookers-and-coffee-a-dee...
About two hours later, I've switched back: Vertical Tabs is very slow, and makes Firefox 30 on Ubuntu 14.04 seem slow. Ah, well.
Detecting rohypnol, or similar scenarios where you are "truth testing" the ingredients. Pretty sure rohypnol detecting glasses (or drink umbrellas, etc.) exist, but I am not Googling that.
My thoughts exactly. The tech of a 'smart' cup could have cool applications to the kitchen, like measuring how much liquid you're pouring for a recipe. However as a weird 'fitbit for what you drink' device I'm really scratching my head trying to understand it too.
>Wheeler seems to genuinely have consumers's interests in mind, but they're going to have to push back against a _lot_ of business pressure from some of the largest lobbyists in Washington.

Tom Wheeler, former lobbyist for National Cable Television Association, and the Cellular Telephone & Internet Association; genuinely cares what I think? You can't be serious.

>Don't get cynical, your words matter and enough voices coming together on an issue has worked in the past (SOPA) and will work in the future.

What are you talking about COPPA/DOPA/COICA/SOPA/CISPA/CIPA/PIPA keeps getting resurrected, time after time, they've tried everything. Anybody who has been paying attention is right to be cynical.
Apple and IBM Enterprise Partnership
It also gives a ton of power to a few large organisations at the expense of small dev shops and advanced users.
http://news.ubc.ca/2013/11/08/slacktivism-liking-on-facebook...

This was an interesting analysis, I read about it in Science News. It "feels" like something was done when it wasn't. I applaud your active participation.

I met one of the FCC lawyers at a conference two years ago and asked him to include some of Sam's and others very cogent talking points into the "debate." And I continue to work on my conceptual 'the last mile is a municipal infrastructure problem, not a private sector problem' pitch to local government.