skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you read the 8k, they doubled revenues but more than tripled losses. all this nongaap bullshit. read the footnotes. they removed stock based compensation and depreciation. how in the hell are those non operational charges? stock soars. hrm... lets make it look like were profitable so our lottery tickets are worth more. no thanks
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Chicago does this.

We're a city of neighborhoods. The Loop is the main tourist destination, sure, but few people actually live there. We live in neighborhoods. Some have houses with (small) lots, some have apartments, some have both. There's a nice sprinkling of parks, and most neighborhoods have amenities like a few independent restaurants, maybe some chain restaurants, coffee shops, bars, CVS, and a grocery store or two. Things you might even find in a larger/denser suburb. The difference is that you can usually walk <15 minutes to a train that comes every <15 minutes to take you downtown.

Unlike Manhattan, buses are best for most short-haul trips while the rail system is best for longer rides (we don't do the "trains go north-south, buses go east-west" thing.)

Public transit is often slower than driving, even with traffic, but you can enjoy the time if you bring your smartphone and/or a book.
Did Bacteria Drive the Origins of Animals?
personally, i think this is a good call on his part. abstract planets are more "casual friendly" than magic in a dungeon. especially as a guy who's seen first-hand several neat games with sword and sorcery theming meet grisley, limited-market death by attrition.
The First Map of the Depths
It does seem rather shocking, given that the city budgetary woes have led to pension cuts and many, many police officers leaving the SJPD, that this would still be a resource to be invested by the department.
Does this mean we'll be able to use the "stretch" behavior when finger-scrolling past the end of a list on a Galaxy, or will we be stuck with the inferior "glow" technique.
Another day, another sensationalist, unfounded security story
It was posted here 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6419056

And it was posted here a few weeks ago as well.
A Definitive Guide to Sensible Form Validations
Where are your costs for labor. Is that all included in your consulting cost? If we as an advertising startup decided to migrate all that internally, I'm sure our costs would go up not only in manpower but also from the distraction of dealing with that rather than focusing on our product.
One of the project ideas I keep daydreaming about is along these lines. An RPG set in a world with two factions, one speaks English and the other French (or whatever language people want to learn). There are characters who are unilingual, and some who are bilingual. Instead of gating progress the usual artificial way (eg. Snorlax blocking the path), all you have to do is understand what an NPC is asking or telling you to do then do it.

Characters would greet each other and converse in their native language, and the bilingual characters would help smooth this out. For example you could ask a bilingual shopkeeper "What does <word> mean?". If you say "Hi" to somebody and they say "Bonjour" back, it's not hard to figure out what they mean, and conversations would escalate in complexity as you progress through the game.
"Signal uses your existing number, doesn’t require a password, and leverages privacy-preserving contact discovery to immediately display which of your contacts are reachable with Signal."

How does contact discovery work? What happens when run on a device without a (valid) SIM?
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Likewise. We have a couple of dozen servers, for multiple clients (we're a web agency).

Provided you're organized, document things properly, and have a standard set of SSH keys, the only annoying part is the 30 seconds it takes to create a new entry in .ssh/config (or whatever ssh client you use).
Alan Kay asked Stack Overflow the same question. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-i...
I would guess that desktop computers are just much harder to fence than, say, TVs, and that you're just a bit paranoid (I don't blame you, considering the situation). A smart thief would also be wary of LoJack-type software on the computer.
According to the article, electric bikes are selling for upwards of $3,000 in Europe. The best selling electric bikes on Amazon appear to be going for $1,200-$1,500.

At $800 for the wheel, you save about half compared to a complete electric bike, and you can use your current or favorite frame.

I agree, if they were cheaper, they'd sell faster, but this appears to be competitively priced, compared to the rest of the market.
Gian Carlo Rota is always a pleasure to quote, despite he knowing it. One from his reminiscence about Jack Schwartz, in his "Indiscrete Thoughts" Book (TL;DR: Markov Chains seen as random maps):

The first lecture by Jack I listened to was given in the spring of 1954 in a seminar in functional analysis. A brilliant array of lecturers had been expounding throughout the spring term on their pet topics. Jack's lecture dealt with stochastic processes. Probability was still a mysterious subject cultivated by a few scattered mathematicians, and the expression "Markov chain" conveyed more than a hint of mystery. Jack started his lecture with the words, "A Markov chain is a generalization of a function." His perfect motivation of the Markov property put the audience at ease. Graduate students and instructors relaxed and followed his every word to the end.

Beuatiful visualizations.
Yes, the market has been climbing healthily for eBikes over the last decade.

I see no reason why this one in particular should catch on better than the others, though. Consumers are buying bikes, not individual wheels.

Also, the competition is very stiff out there. It has had time to mature. This is a new, and unproven and expensive entry.

And as we should all know, superior tech is not a guaranteed win:

>"The Superpedestrian wheel is so far in the lead in terms of the engineering and coming to market that they are probably going to define the market entirely,"

>A big way to open the market will be to make them more affordable

Well this wheel is not more affordable, it has more tech features.
Why Hoboken Is Throwing Away All Its Student Laptops
Leveraging the current trend of channelling and fuelling narcissistic tendencies and jealousy on social networks/apps in order to motivate people to get in shape. Effective strategy.
>The only situation I can think of that might be helpful is when you're not already looking for a solution to some problem and an ad suggests something you didn't even know existed.

I was driving at that, though on review I realize I wasn't clear.

There's nothing stopping an ad from being useful, it can be an option you didn't realize existed, or it can be an option you might not of considered for review (number 2).

Neither of those are an obstruction, so:

>All in all, I agree with GP: ads are neither information, nor decoration, but an obstruction.

This is where we disagree. They could be information, they could be useful, it's just that their current implementation is not like that.

Ad Block Plus used this argument to set up their payment scheme. Which is a shame, but just because an idea is used for slimeball tactics doesn't mean the idea is wrong.
I sympathize with your argument, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be correct.

Arguably, you should be able to implement just the 'drop' event and call event.preventDefault() in that event to suppress the default behavior of loading the file/URL. I don't see a clear reason why any other event should matter, the actual action that triggers the load is dropping.

As for propagation to parent elements, that's not controlled by event.preventDefault(), that's controlled by event.stopPropagation().

I do agree that the author doesn't seem to realize that drag & drop is actually rather complex and that other languages look similar (e.g. large number of events). But the quirks around when you have to call preventDefault() do seem to be legitimate issues.
These guys are doing amazing high-quality work. I'm really amazed that they can pull it off with volunteers and donations. There are very few examples of polished front-end apps in the open source world.
Yes, it's all Openstack at this point (at least our environment is. The 'Havana' release)
Hmm, thanks. It must have been some ad blocker issue, I'll try an incognito window.
"If you don't get a job making at least $60,000 within 6 months of graduation, we give you back your money."
How did you even have a hundred starlings to begin with? Keep the door closed next time I suppose.
Well, I think we'll merge humans and robots before having advanced AI robots.

Basically cyborgs will be the ultimate creation, and since we'll have a human brain with empathy (hopefully) then we will be able to prevent any uprising before it happens.

Just look at all the advanced stuff that DARPA is funding and succeeding in creating. In the next 20 years there is going to be some insanely awesome technology coming out.

I don't like the idea of creating 2 classes of humans though, (those with BCIs/other advanced technology embedded in them and those without) that just seems like it's going to cause a problem.

It would be really nice to have an alien civilization come down and tell us the potential mistakes to try to avoid when maturing. Technology is so close to increasing at an exponential rate that something is almost certainly going to wipe us all off the planet. We'll be very lucky if we don't end up killing ourselves in the next 50 - 100 years, in my opinion of course.
How is this different than Weilos?
EA rep told me "we have no plans to remove any games from The Vault at this time." Hedging, certainly, but there you go. DLC is not included but Acccess people get 10 percent off it and new titles.

I don't think it's a bad deal if you don't mind playing a vanilla best-of library. Got a new Xbox One? Get this and you have a few games to start with. It'll probably be bundled soon - 6 months free. $30 for a year of proven mainstream games may strike many as a bargain.
It's not even really an MMO, I would say RPG. It's not massively multiplayer but I guess it's online.

Still awesome.
They have said repeatedly they didn't have a drone? Did you read the article?
Top Ebola Doctor Dies Of Disease
It's easy to be snarky about nuclear weapons almost going off time and time again from the 50's to the 70's and maybe later, but when you look more closely it's actually an incredibly difficult design challenge.

A nuclear bomb has two design criteria that are at odds with each other; On the one hand it must under no circumstances detonate when it isn't suppposed to. On the other hand it must be easy to detonate when it's supposed to.

How do you design a fail-safe system that lives up to those two criteria?

It's a lot harder than it sounds.
The cost increases dramatically compared to unencrypted comms. Moreover you risk wasting valuable 0-days on targets that may not be worth it.
Not the parent commenter, but: A proven kernel could be seen as taking control away on devices where root access cannot be legitimately obtained. I guess some might perceive it as scary given many people in tech circles root their phones (and similar devices), when root access is normally obtained through OS-level security bugs, and it is often (though I think somewhat decreasingly?) used to install third-party OSes on such devices.
That's insane, I implemented something similar 12 years ago, a massive hack-up involving Excel, MS Access and PHP.

If a clueless (in hindsight; I thought I was God's gift back then, a super VBA ninja) kid can "invent" something, then it's the textbook definition of "obvious".

EDIT: their patent predates this. if someone somewhere is unlucky enough to still be using my fantastic invention, now might be a good time to find an alternative..
Why are there recent Macs without HDMI ports? You'd think that would be ubiquitous by now.
Do you happen to know whether Bulleit Bourbon is the Four Roses basic or Small Batch? Would love to cross-shop on price...
Interesting. What studies did you stick with?
Israil's ‘Iron Dome’ Missile Defense System Compromised by Chinese Hackers
I've been dreaming of doing this for years and I've been considering doing something quite similar to what you're talking about for my next project. The only problem, as another poster said, was investment. I was planning on doing a web-based text-based game, which would obviously turn a lot of people off ("that's not a real game!") but open it up to greater variation and modularity.
Back when I was in college (~20 years ago) I was struggling to understand generative models, and I asked my CS professor.

he said, "imagine god is sitting around emitting DNA sequences. She has sevearl 4-sided biased dice, rolls one of the 4-sided die, BAM, emit an A! Again, roll the die, BAM, emit a A! Roll again, BAM, emit a T! Now, imagine god is a fickle person, and between rolls, decides to roll a die to decide which of the biased die to roll.

For some reason, that helped.
It seems realistic to me. Just send a phishing SMS ("Your bill of $103.54 is due TODAY: http://payments-comcast.net/83954583"), hope the user clicks it, have the webpage exploit one of the numerous iOS Safari vulnerabilities, and you are done. There are tons of vulnerabilities in smartphone browsers: iOS 7.1.2 alone fixed 28 UNIQUE VULNERABILITIES in Webkit (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6297) 7.1.2 was released merely 2 months after 7.1.1, so at least 3 vulnerabilities are discovered and fixed every week.
Exactly. The value of AWS is not in the individual pieces, but in how all the pieces fit together, and how a novice is able to do it.
I recently bought this German bike: http://en.r-m.de/bike/mixte-nuvinci-hs-hybrid/. It does 45 km/h for about 50km. You always have to pedal. A cruising speed of 35 km/h is very realistic. Without breaking a sweat. You can also select for less pedal assistance and the battery almost lasts 100 km. I consider it very real alternative for using a car to commute if you have to travel up to 35 km to work.
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Care to give us a peek at how this works?
I actually find that google has quite good support (where they have support) Google Apps for business for example.
"part of the quest is figuring out what the quest actually says"

I'm getting flashbacks to learning Latin from "Lingua Latina - Familia Romana". Here's a book in Latin with a couple pictures. A pity you can't read Latin, not yet. There's a couple footnotes in English. Also there's enough Latin borrowed into English that you can figure some of it out. If you can puzzle out what the heck is going on, you'll learn Latin. Or you'll get very frustrated. Likely both.

Every couple years I put in an effort until I get annoyed and quit.

All I really remember is the first chapter was a discourse on the geography of the classical era Mediterranean world, so if you know anything about history and/or geography it was pretty easy to puzzle out, and the second (or so) chapter introduced you to your large host family. Later chapters discussed the concepts of time and money, if I recall correctly.

It doesn't really ebook well because of a lot of annotation to "help".

A modern analogy completely in the English language would be the "Diary of a wimpy kid" series. My son read those, and I occasionally wondered if the author of those books knew about or was inspired by "Familia Romana". I'm not implying Familia Romana was a comedy, the funniest part was probably some sibling rivalry in the host family. But it was a mix of pictures and words I haven't seen in a book since early grade school.
I wonder what the world would be like today if Blizzard had partnered with Lifetime fitness, and you could only play World of Warcraft while you were on a treadmill, or other fitness device.
Well, he was massive. And he got a couple of other people involved, making this a multiplayer effort. Perhaps that is close enough, in metaphorical terms, for what he was trying to communicate here.
Mini-Displayport to HDMI / DVI / VGA adapters are less than $10.
We got hit hard with HN homepage and ProductHunt homepage at the same time. Should be up now.
You mean, "You're coming too close to trading classified information, if you're not actually doing so already. Stop it."?

You mean they could threaten this to get cooperation, or that they should do this?

Anyway. Yes, I think.
1) The source, "Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery" is obviously biased towards older innovations. It's difficult to judge a priori the impact of current innovations. (and it's pretty outdated by now)

2) Breakthroughs are simply very impactful innovations -- of course earlier innovations are going to have an advantage: it's like saying "The total number of descendents per capta has been dwindling since the dawn of ages. We're doomed!". Claiming the rate of breakthroughs should remain constant is ridiculous.

3) Additionally, inventions are information. They're cumulative and knowledge instensive. We can't expect them to occur at a constant rate simply because it will get harder and harder to learn eveything required to invent some really new technology/scientific discovery. I like to think of human knowledge as a chunk of information that we compress and pass along. There's only so much we can compress, and our brain hasn't really changed significantly to accomodate and absorb more information faster. The result of course is specialization, and again specialized innovations by definition have limited scope.

4) To claim we had no specialized breakthroughs recently is even more ridiculous. Take the computing aspect of engineering alone (and math) and you probably get more small breakthroughs than there were inventions at all in the 18th century. Telecommunications also developed completely in the last few decades.
18 months is kind a long. As a game developer I suggest you jumping on some easier platform like GameMaker or Construct 2 and just learn from vast tutorials available.

The game is very nice and I like the gameplay - it is engaging. Good luck with sales!
If we extrapolate, we would need to take into account the fact that Twitter's losses tripled as their revenue doubled.

That light might well be a train.
On a recent trip to Holland, I saw the ALDI (a cheap grocery store selling goods from boxes) selling electric bikes for EUR 799 which is under $1100.
There's simply a huge price-range on electric bikes, and picking just one price point does not make for a convincing argument.
Right... and then they said they did.
At $30 per year, I truly fear this is going to turn games into rapidly devolving teasers for DLC that will carry the majority of the game content.

It's like "free-to-play" with a guarantee you won't lose money.
As stupid the "slide to unlock" patent is. Copying it is even dumber. There are numerous equally user friendly ways to unlock a phone. What Samsung does to Android cheapens the user interface and generally makes it worse.

Regardless, they should NOT be sued for it.
My, isn't that a novel idea.
FRPG. Not "fantasy," but "fitness."
Agreed. IMO:

Dungeons, trolls, wizards, magic: No thanks.

Planets, space, advanced technologies: Awesome!
How do I set up a similar system with BitHub rewards for commits? I would like to put $100 towards it and see whether it would be worthwhile to continue.
Where is this data coming from? And why are there no confidence intervals on his measures?
Eh, I know next to nothing about the budgetary structure of the SJPD, so I cannot find the fact that they spent $7k on a drone shocking. The article mentions allocated homeland security dollars. It wouldn't surprise me if this was earmarked for specific things, like equipment vs. salary etc. I'm not being an apologist for the SJPD, I don't know/care about them. It just seems like a non-story to me. Obviously some contingent of HN think s otherwise, which is fine.
Please don't post this flame war stuff.
Without numbers showing the actual quantities involved this cost comparison is kind of useless. Not that I doubt going with your own hardware is cheaper at those levels, it's just not a conclusion I can draw from what you've written. Also, as others said, labor costs need to be factored in.

How much would a comparable setup cost on AWS per year? Once we know that we can draw conclusions.
I agree. Small companies can't get away with this. But if you raise over a billion apparently you can for awhile.
Nobody knows.
Robotaxis are a bit like carsharing, they change the economics. A private ownership car bears a lot of fixed costs, and each mile get cheaper. Once you own one, you are likely to use it all the time. With pay-as-you-go robotaxis the incentives are different. Going car-free will be easier.

Self driving cars will relieve downtowns/walkable places from dead parking space. That means more destinations reachable by foot/bike. Why use a car when you can use your feet?

Self driving cars also means that roads will be safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

Congestion won't go away. Now you can read/work/play in your car, but that's about it.

Last but not least, sprawl is still unsustainable in terms of infrastructure.
You can actually stream the file directly to the chromecast as it's transcoding.

I've got this working in my own chromecast app mkvcast: https://github.com/maherbeg/mkvcast

See https://github.com/maherbeg/mkvcast/blob/master/lib/controll... for the parameters to use.
In many/most phones, the radio can access the ram of the device(DMA). the reason is efficient transfer of data, but with that comes the possibility of the radio reading everything inside the ram, including encrytion keys.
I'd also be happy to give Greek a stab.
Personally I like the "tilt" behavior in the Android 4.x better.
Why is 2 the most Googled number?
This is ridiculous. Would suggest you move out of Linode right away.

It's their job to limit resources on your node, not your job to self-limit. Asking you to limit resources because it's "affecting other customers' performance" is not only outrageous, but also unfair with the other customers being impacted.

This reminds me of the late 90's [1], when web hosting meant sharing the same box with hundreds of other customers, and very limited tools to enforce limits. When you had a resource hog, the only option was really to get them to reduce usage, or move them to a separate box (which wasn't as easy as today).

[1] ps: I know this well; used to have a web hosting company at the time. We had to frequently move customers around, and in some cases to terminate their contracts - e.g., porn sites. But this was a good 10 years before Xen become commonplace.
> This also means that 74 people out of 21,309 (0.3%) paid to unlock internationally compared to 112 out of 5521 (2%) that paid to unlock domestically.

I don't know how many of these are DAU (you didn't say), but these numbers are not as bad as they might seem. 1%-5% is about industry average for % spenders in games. Where you need to tune things is figure out who the spenders are and raise your ROI. You state that you spent $700 to get $261 in revenue which is about 37% ROI. Not good, but its a start atleast. Obviously you want to be above 1. What I would do is invest a little in some analytics, figure out who your spenders are and cohort them. Then see if you can reduce your spend, become more targeted in your buying, while also increasing opportunities to earn more revenue. Just my $0.02
Thanks for this great help, apu! A new issue was created on github (https://github.com/eduardolundgren/tracking.js/issues/88) to register the suggestions =)
Would this bug not have happened with Dropbox for Business?

And didn't Microsoft make an absolute fortune releasing buggy as shit software throughout the entire 1990's?
IMessages are supposed to be encrypted, so no.
Is there a way to replicate this work trivially? It would be interesting to redo it periodically and watch it change.