skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Raspberry Pi doesn't have any high-bandwidth peripheral connections, and the CPU is too weak to do high-speed routing with QoS. What's needed is an open source board with a modern CPU, a mini-PCIe slot or two for the wifi, and at least one or two GigE NICs. In other words, this:

http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm

Although once you add the wifi, case, power supply, and SD card or mSATA SSD, it's a bit on the expensive side.
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The more information you have the better. You could still dispute the numbers the IRS. I fail to see any downside in such a system (other than for TurboTax and CPAs)
More work but they are also in a very high rent area compared to all other steps.
Danso -

Kevin from intelliPaper here.

We appreciate the honest perspective.

I'm always looking for ideas - what comes to mind for lucrative forms of intelliPaper? (If you don't mind sharing...)

I'll jump around a bit here...

USB offers a familiar experience for accessing data. Many markets respond very well to this experience.

In our other products you can specific the digital content of the usb chip - and if you don't want to link to the intelliPaper servers for redirection (or even do something else entirely) we have a well-versed team to assist you. The SwivelCard product-line offers simplified features for mass production and adoption and doesn't offer these extended options.

Read/write is coming to intelliPaper - and we're exploring that impact on SwivelCard. We're not there yet.
One concern I have is that if YOU can overwrite your own card before distributing it, should the person you give it to be able to do the same? I'd like to think you would be able to control that. We're currently refining the firmware, and exploring what methods work best for the average users to connect to the card to write to it without folding it. We'll likely come up with a small helper socket to assist in physical connection for reprogramming, but this is not refined yet.

Yes. Hosted/online services can, and do, go down. If the cloud goes down, SwivelCard is offline. While not ideal, most online services experience this problem and we've taken steps to reduce this happening. We're willing to embrace this because of the flexibility it affords the product. Given that static content can be obsolete fast - we're willing to work with the cloud because of the flexibility it provides.
Buttons, switches, levers, and LEDs on an F1 racing wheel [pdf]
Hi,
Glad you liked the demo, it is a GPL project at https://github.com/zubairq/coils.

I may have fixed the bug with going back in time, not 100% sure though, but maybe try it again as more fixes have gone in.

Regarding how people are storing data for react, this is a big topic in itself. I personally (and with Coils) keep a UI only data structure which updates the React GUI, and then synchronise the state from a Data store totally independantly, although I have seen that other projects mix this up a bit, or don't give an opinion on it, which can caue misuse. Does that answer the question?
It's clear you don't have children who play on a tablet.
>Authenticate each individual sector? Where do you store the MAC tags? There's an awful lot of sectors on a disk. Also: what does it mean to have a single corrupted sector in a file consisting of many sectors?

openbsd does this with their geli tool[1]. Look at the tool's documentation for the "-a" option.

The authentication stuff are stored on the sector itself. I remember looking at their implementation a while ago but cant seem to be able to dig up the documentation link at the moment.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manp...
Yes, this is pretty old news...
Who said I read the first half?
Has nothing to do with the Dark Mail Alliance, right? http://darkmail.info/
Using Stylebot with Drupal's CSS Injector Module
Stylebot for Chrome is a great way to quickly create the CSS code needed for the CSS Injector module in Drupal. The Twitter link (https://twitter.com/techbootcamps)has a couple of pictures attached to two tweets on the topic, but if you use CSS Injector, you'll instantly get the connection. There are a couple of pictures that show the process at the Twitter account @techbootcamps in two posts by the same topic.
You know what a killer app for this would be? An "app store" of stupidly-simple-to-use server software.

Routers are most people's only always ON computer, and having the ability to run decentralized applications on them like media, backups, microblogging, chat bouncers, etc. as easily as one would install a smartphone app could really tip the scale back toward the edges and away from centralized services.

Money can't be ignored though. There has to be a (cryptocurrency-y?) way for people to voluntarily "subscribe" to recurringly give money to developers of these services, and it has to be so simple that it's almost easier than not giving.

Costs could be offset by the user by renting out cpu/bandwidth/storage in a similarly one-click way by running specialized apps that handle that.
That looks interesting, but a bit confusing.

Imagine I want to do a PCR but can't do it myself, I must really a) have no bio facilities to speak of, b) don't know anyone else who does. What am I then going to do with the PCR product? Further, presumably I must also sent you the sample to amplify, and what kind of samples am I likely to have if have no bio facilities?

You might want to read the comments made elsewhere about something similar: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/07/09/outsourced_a...
Spending a lot of time commenting and, especially reading comments, is usually sad-making, as you're likely avoiding a better alternative as you would with a video game.

As well, there unhappiness-producing currents in many "we are all so smart" commenting fora, but I expect most people can expect a positive or at least enlightening experience if they're wise enough to avoid ego-tussles.

If you find you're getting less out of a group than you used to, likely you've grown more than the group. You wouldn't necessarily have done better to avoid it in the first place.
I agree with your point that in general one shouldn't be able to use money to skirt the law, but I can hardly be infuriated with Uber for violating laws that only exist to fleece consumers by preventing competition in the taxi industry.

To make an analogy, it's clear that civil disobedience should not be practiced against laws forbidding murder or theft, but in the case of jim crow laws or similarly unjust laws I would fully support acts of civil disobedience.
Ask HN: Any tips on how to spend my semester abroad?
Hello HN!

On Wednesday I'm going on a semester abroad to Perth (Western Australia) until December. Until now I was not quite sure how I should spend my Semester abroad. Now I've got this idea of using the semester to do a lot of sports and live as healthy as possible to prevent any diseases that might be caused by future stress I will probably have to face when joining the labour force. As I was told that the academic level will not be too high I should have enough time for that.

Do you have any ideas or experiences what I should additionally do to to gain as much positive and sustainable effects out of my 4 months in Western Australia?

Thanks :)
Decoding Birdsong With Machine Learning
GitLab B.V. CEO here. Thanks for mentioning GitLab! I was pretty disappointed not to see it in the overview and a pull request from my teammate wasn't merged https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/pull/38 It is hearthwarming to see three comments mentioning it here.
Hell, the past two UberX drivers I've had here in Charleston quit their taxi job and went to Uber when it became available here.
In app purchases exist because there is no free market for apps - everything is purchased through two portals, who set the expected prices and act as unsupervised quality controllers. Because the prices are so low in app purchases and super-star hits are the only ways to profit.

If there was a free market here, there would not be any need for this, products would be priced at sustainable levels, and I as a parent would never ever ever purchase a game that had in app purchases.

I would rather that I could download apps from anywhere and there was still a rating and quality mechanism. Many options exist for that. But I will take this as an alternative

I think the European Union has this weird attitude that a free market works the best and where there is no free market then there should be regulation to guide the path towards the ideal, or there should be protection against the excesses of the unfree market. I, in the main, agree. It all kind of depends on your definition of free and regulation.
ISPs would hate this and the security implications of all of these routers running various services available to the internet is quite bad.
That a guid should be unique, i suppose
And it is better to worship a deity that at the very least created "this earth full of such suffering and sorrow" if it isn't actively controlling it depending on your view of the deity's role in the world?

As for purpose it isn't that hard to have one; it can be as simple as to having a little happiness and trying to make the world around you just a tiny bit better rather than worse.

There is also no reason why for most people days should be things in general to "suffer through".
Similar to why we don't move people with the teleporter in star trek. It kills you ripping apart the atoms in your body then reassembles your now dead body at the destination.
People would rather get an electric shock than just sit and think
You don't believe it distracts. I and others do. Insisting without discussion that your personal standards win without question is a dick move.
It's an example UUID from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
I'm not bullish on this field. While there are certain biological operations (e.g. sequencing) that are "embarassingly parallelizable" (to borrow a CS concept), most are not, and require aggressive "interrupt handling".

I make a mutation of enzyme X, then test it. Ok, the procedure works, now let's scale it to 48 mutants. Uh oh, the procedure stopped working at #28. Why? Because the batch number for our competent cells from NEB changed and it no longer accepts our plasmid. (real situation) Etc.
It happens to be the example UUID on wikipedia [1]. Not so unique, after all?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
Why would children should have a tablet in the first place?

Can't they just play on consoles?
So does the rest of the companies along the delivery chain.
Fair enough. I was only sharing my thoughts and impressions, thus the phrasing "I think" and similar words.

My preference doesn't in any way imply I think less of others that like playing games. I generally like playing games/watching movies/reading books, it's just my priorities that often direct me otherwise.

Yes, maybe the OMG Nerd sounds offensive to some, but then that's just life. It's how others see you if you happen to be a nerd. I am also a bit nerdy, so I also have to accept that reality sometimes.
To be entirely fair, this is a city that setup a sting operation to give bike-taxi drivers $1000 fines for giving impromptu tours of the peninsula. It's the kind of place that requires you to keep the horrible single-pane windows on your home for the historical aesthetic. The kind of place with a mayor well into his 4th decade of office. Wanting to get any meaningful reform is a pipe-dream.
Thank you - been looking for that explanation for a while. It's the same if you substitute "professional" for "happy"
I love the idea. There are quite a few people who regularly submit
research papers to HN, usually as pdf files, but papers take more effort
than articles, so seldom is there much uptake or discussion. You might
want to look at the past pdf submissions on HN to help build up your
library of papers. The Algolia HN Serarch does really good with this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=#!/all/forever/prefix/0/pdf

At present, I know of no way to find all of the HN submissions of
abstracts, but searching for sites known for having abstracts (along
with freely available papers) like arxiv.org should help find some more.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=#!/all/forever/prefix/0/arxiv.org

Good Luck!
These projects are implemented in major languages: Python, Matlab/Octave, C/C++, Java, Scala, Javascript

And most of major algorithms are supports: DBN (Deep Belief Nets), RBM (Restricted Boltzmann Machine), dA (Denoising Autoencoders), SdA (Stacked Denoising Autoencoders), CNN(Convolutional Neural Networks ), and more
Is there an argument to be made why $HELL is not a problem for the human race?
The reasons were in my post:

He has no real criticism of his original article. What he says about it is incoherent, not merely hard to read, as I point out in my comment.

And he makes reference to nature vs nurture, which is completely irrelevant to the actual issue, and only makes sense in the context of a political apology.
Don't forget the "War on Touror" wherein undercover police officers hand out $1000 fines to college kids after they've asked them to give an impromptu history tour of the peninsula.
In another document [1], the author writes:

The Dscript principle can be extended beyond alphabetical language. It can also be used as a 2D notation system. By using the letters to represent elements for example, a chemistry notation system can be devised.

The first attempt at such is Dchem, a chemistry notation system geared toward bio-chemistry and bio-molecule notation.

Dchem sacrifices stereo-chemistry, bond strength, and hydrogen's.

Leaving out the hydrogens is entirely reasonable; standard organic graphical notation does it too. Leaving out stereochemistry is fine for a lot of uses, and it could easily be tacked on to this notation when needed. But leaving out bond strength is madness. A singly-bonded carbon and a double-bonded carbon are enormously different things; a notation which doesn't distinguish them simply doesn't let you express organic chemistry.

Other than that, though, this notation is beautiful and fun!

[1] http://dscript.org/dscript.pdf
I can't say I'm persuaded by the civil-rights-era civil disobedience analogy. While I might support civil disobedience to help rectify a centuries-long history of racial discrimination, I can't say I feel the same way about helping consumers find a cheaper and easier way to get around town (or to help drivers sell time and space in their car without getting a taxi license). And this is, of course, to ignore the real motive: Uber is actually only flouting the law in order to make a profit. Not exactly Selma.

Also, does it not bother you that this particular form of civil disobedience is only available with extremely deep pockets?
I don't usually pay any attention to who submitted something, and one of the biggest issues I see with HN is the imbalance in points between someone who submits an article and someone who has valuable input in the discussion.

Half of my karma is from 2 submissions but I think a good comment is much more valuable that being the first person to submit a link.
Indeed, thanks. It's strange, that link on the homepage, which invites to start reading skips the preface.
That would have to be thoroughly thought of to offer a simple solution, maybe even at the cost of defining stricter boundaries of what such services would be allowed to do.

But there's no reason why running servers should be so scary that only the powerful are able to run them. And "server" is not synonymous with "webhosting". There's a lot of p2p to be done if we want a decentralized internet.

I regularly run a Bittorrent "server" available to the internet and never had any problem. I also run a Ricochet "server" (also a p2p app), no headache either.

We have to get past the FUD and dig ourselves out of this hole.
How would an open market fix this? Consumers have shown they no longer want to pay for anything. Movies, music, or apps. There are some people though who are happy to pay large amounts of money. In-app purchases allow those people to spend and the people who don't want to pay don't have to. In a more open market consumers still wouldn't want to pay for apps so in-app purchases would still be necessary.
My Synology DiskStation has a nice set of packages for things like that. As does my OpenWRT router. Both are pretty awesome.

Something as nice as the App Store definitely requires some sort of revenue model. The Synology stuff is about an order of magnitude friendlier than the OpenWRT: the apps are more curated, better polished, etc. Which makes sense; polishing an app to consumer-grade UI levels and then properly cataloging it is a lot of work. Work that doesn't often happen in the open-source scratching-one's-own-itch context.
There's an honest to god biography on Elon Musk coming
A small note that bears repeating:

Most of the big money-maker IAPs are so devious because they sell the same thing that people 20 years ago got from gaming magazines: Cheat codes.

The difference: These cheat codes work only once.
"perfectly within its rights to impose a licensing requirement"

How so?

I can think of two example of near unanimous modern agreement where lower governmental levels are not allowed to impose additional randomly purchased rules on subjects regulated at a higher level, its a thought crime to even suggest the rationale behind these historical issues:

1) Poll taxes and election tests

2) Enforcement of immigration law
That (and not having daft slow loops is) what got me into Julia from octave. I tried it a while back and the biggest issue was the in equivalency of array{n} and array{n,1} now that that's been fixed, it's awesome.

Parallelization in Julia is still a little scary though, I'm waiting a bit before delving into that.
Watt once had a lucrative Wall Street career coding software
for real-time stock-trading systems until he wrote a packet-
sniffing program for a long-time friend and found himself
embroiled in a multi-million-dollar bank card heist that
netted him a two-year prison term.

I love how puff-pieces always trivialize the things that would run counter to their narrative. He didn't really do anything wrong - he was just helping his friend[0][1].

People do what they do, and that's cool - but let's not pretend he just accidentally found himself tripped up in some fraud situation, oops don't know how that happened hey look an awesome product in which trust is essential!

0. There's a slightly more complete look here, though not focused on Watt: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/sex-drugs-and-the-b...

1. Wired did a similar sympathetic piece last year in which they made Watt's past seem like a minor misdeed (some wording is essentially identical to what I quoted above): http://www.wired.com/2013/04/stephen-watt-stalked-by-past/
Edi/Disclaimer: I do feel like I benefited intellectually by reading the original Sequences on LessWrong. The general idea that strong AI might represent a risk to humanity seems plausible, although I'm not sure how credible the specifics are.

Well, I don't feel intelligent or well educated enough to critique most of what they (EY and supporters) say point by point. However, one thing I recall seems indicative of some of the systemic problems with how he/they think about the world:

EY once wrote that he tried "exercise" (unspecified but presumably steady cardio) and found that it "didn't work". His conclusion was that he....inherently was unable to improve his physical fitness due to some genetic trait that a minority of the population was cursed by.

That is so breathtakingly arrogant and foolish that I was taken aback and it was one of the many small things that led me to question his 'rationality'.

Presumably, EY was a baby, and like all other babies, gradually developed increased muscular strength and coordination during the process of learning to walk. Thus, his muscles are capable of responding to stress and adapt to that stress by getting stronger. If EY had the grit to actually try rigorous training such as progressively loaded barbell squats I'm quite sure he would experience at least a modest, but measurable, increase in physical fitness. Instead, he rationalized his physical weakness and chose the easy road. Plenty of people do this, but they're not so 'rational' as to try and intellectually justify it on their own website publicly!

* I don't feel like searching LW to try and find a citation for this - but does anyone really doubt it? Just look at a picture of the guy.
I'm not interested in "winning" or being "right". I'm more interested in providing information that people can use to make up their own minds.

Well, unless its politics and then I just want "my side" to win. ;)
Uber's controversial method of recruiting average citizens to drive for the service

I wasn't aware that average citizens becoming taxi drivers was particularly controversial. There must be some minimum level of oddness normally required I guess. Which would explain a lot.
I got reminded of academia.edu.

I hate that site. Way more than I hate LinkedIn. And that's something.

Sorry for derailing.
Our cooking techniques have improved a lot. I read somewhere that when lobster was fed to prisoners it wasn't boiled live and served like we do today, it was old and salted. I would bet that today's fresh-cooked lobster with drawn butter tastes a lot better than what the prisoners were eating. It's not only expensive, it's delicious.
I fail to understand why the prices would rise to sustainable levels if there was the free market you envisage. Where would this "rating and qualiy mechanism" come from?
I think that was the point. I don't know what the author's motivations were for writing this piece but I would speculate that someone, sitting in their comfy chair reading a story about how Maine lobsterman are complaining about getting only $4/lb for lobster, and seeing it as the $60/plate special at the restaurant complained "Gee someone is making bank here at our expense!" And the author deconstructs that notion by putting names and faces on all the people in the path of harvest to production.

But given the title, he will get people who think they are being ripped off to read it, and then they will perhaps find they aren't really being ripped off, there are just a lot of hands between them and the lobster's origin.
Serious question about the bar time thing: Is that a poorly disguised blue law where they're doing the "big lie" PR technique, or are they actually serious because bar close time is currently 9pm on school nights or some similar paternalism?
It seems to me as though iOS 8 addresses all the concerns raised here (at least regarding "[Apple having] no firm commitment and no timing hav[ing] been provided for the implementation of such possible future changes.")
A YouTube Video Is Doctor's Secret Weapon Against Back Pain
Pretty much. A $30 steak in a restaurant is probably either something like an 8oz filet or a 12oz strip steak. You can cook either of those at home for around $10 (plus the cost of seasonings and sides).
Could this be solved by a collaborative protocol? A simple home router has the advantage that all resources are being consumed by a small group of people that already are used to cooperating around resource allocation.

E.g.: The router has some sort of bandwidthd. The Torrent app checks in, asks how much it can use for a low-priority bulk download, and gets a token good for a 30-second lease on 10 megabits down. Before that expires, it tries to renew the token, and maybe it gets only 5 megabits because somebody is watching Netflix. If at some point the connection quality gets bad, the router's owner gets an email saying that the router has noticed a lot of BitTorrent traffic from "Timmy's MacBook" and that maybe they should switch to a BT client that supports bandwidthd. And so dad gets Timmy to upgrade.