skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had no hype, probably because I'm boostrapped, but I'm in this for the long haul. What would be the point of giving up six weeks in because I only have X users and the experts say I should have 1000X? The experts are not financing me. If they were, then I could afford to create hype.
Show HN: Invert, an Android game based upon the Inverter web game posted here
What I got from the article is that these patterns are guidelines, not paths carved out of stone that you have to follow. How he presents it is irrelevant to what he's trying to convey.
"revenue doubled, but losses tripled"..

There's a reason they brought in that Goldman Sachs guy. And it looks like he has delivered, extracting "profit" out of the numbers.

I'd love to short the stock if I had the spare cash. But as they say, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. :-(

Also: how much of this jump is due to the World Cup?
Bluetooth
- easy to use, no wifi link or router required.
- use anywhere, work/gym/home... works seamlessly with other scales. data is on your phone, not on a scale
- simple connection to devices, no wifi router headaches. just like a bluetooth headset
- smartphone compatible so all your information is at your fingertips

Open Source
- apps/developer access
- modifications by the community encouraged
- no third party web host, your data is your property

Affordable
- $59 kickstarter special, $75 retail price
- vs. $150 to $280 for a competitor wifi scale
Is poverty an individual phenomenon or a structural phenomenon?
Can't wait to see fake hollywood bitcoins in the movies. I'm sure they'll just 'cat /dev/urandom' for awhile and call it good.

My assumption based on the title was the article would be a discussion about hollywood accounting where numbers are manipulated until only the studio wins. I was pleasantly surprised to read about fake currency.
Maybe a stupid question, but is the app sending this encrypted voice over the cellular channel, or is it making a data connection independent of the phone?

Also, on a different point, if I were trying to eavesdrop on someone's conversation, I would probably just try to hack the microphone with a different / already loaded app...
Why do people have their eggs in one basket? More specifically, whenever hosting comes up on HN, it's always DO vs Linode. Why not Zoidberg^Wboth?

In the age of DevOps, it's not hard to configure different providers. I have been using Linode and DO for a while now. I noticed DO go down last week, checked my site, and it was UP because it was being served via Linode.

I flinch every time I hear someone say to me that their service has redundancy because they use multiple Amazon regions. Multiple providers people! And preferably multiple providers in multiple states, paid for by mutually exclusive credit cards!

Redundancy doesn't mean having multiple hosts by the same provider, within the same data center, within the same rack, provided by the same power strip.

tl;dr: Plan for outages.
> On my first day in (laboratory) research, I was told that if there is a genuine and important phenomenon to be detected, it will become evident after taking no more than six readings from the instrument.

This is the reverse of a rule of thumb I find useful, that if you wish to measure something and get an approximate picture of your uncertainty, you should measure it 7-8 times.

The author's rule of thumb hinges delicately upon the definition of "readings", in particular upon the reach and precision of a given reading. I can look in the sky on dark nights and see Mercury, but even if I watch it through binoculars for years, I'll never resolve the "Genuine and Important" precession of its orbit [1], the first solid evidence for General Relativity.

Some important phenomena are subtle and rare. You can watch a liter of pure water for ~1500 years before you can expect a single neutrino from the Sun to interact and make a tiny flash of light [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Cla...

[2] http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/super-kamiokande
Interesting. Whats a use case for this?
Just went through the security theater myself no less than an hour ago and along with everyone else: Eliminate TSA. We all know it's a joke, I even had my pat down guy joking with me about how ridiculous the whole thing is. On the way out to my destination I had 100' of 8-wire cable in my carry on, a multi-parameter water quality probe and various solutions for calibrations (fit into the appropriate containers) and no one said anything. On the way back the multi-parameter probe was questioned like mad. Their practices are inconsistent and ineffective. However, they are effective at slowing travel down and spending tax payers monies.
So why are they letting you choose the tool - I'm quite surprised there is not a standard if the place is quite rigid.

I would be tempted to ask the person(s) who will be acting as your overlords what they really want. Setting up digital teams is hard enough without having vague expectations and delivering wrong outcomes. If all they really want is a RAG
Status for two projects then you need to talk about SLAs and recovery and mitigation options (risk management) not set up and learn another tool.

Do let me know more - really interested to get a feel for what your situation is. Just nosy is all :-)
I was shocked when I realized how little difference there is in height between being above or below water level sometimes. Like the first image on this page: https://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM You can't even see the transition, it's so flat.
You're welcome! Enjoy the course!
Poptip Joins Palantir
Session Hijacking Vulnerability in Instagram Mobile App via MITM Attack
Mel Baker commented on the article and pointed out ...

>> If you read the original work he refers to the empty quarter because of population density

I do get your point on the "Extractotopia" name for the region, but personally would be more inclined to view it as ExtractoDystopia, ( google earth - fort mcmurray then you decide)

Of course after the oil and mining companies are done with it, the name "The Empty Quarter" could once again be the most applicable

Edit: spelling
that's really the cherry on top of all of it. my 50 cents are, that all the ecosystem hype in the desktop space sides with os x. all the new fancy tools are done for os x and ios and android. i'm sure 99% at google, fb, github, stackoverflow etc. use macs, while the other 1% still believes that thinkpads are still the same thing as they used to be 10 years ago. and the those on thinkpads probably use linux (ubuntu, mint, elementary etc.) because honestly, who can live without a decent shell? why do windows users still bother?
I know, that's why I'm saying there should be a way.

One solution would be for Facebook to host the app, and to run its content in a sandbox (using something like Google's Caja?).

Another approach would be a system permission at the browser level, where a page could explicitly request to restrict what it is allowed to do.

Then you could have an approach where the app asks Facebook for this and that permissions, but accepts to be sandboxed to only have access to Facebook's domains. The request goes to FB as it does now. FB calls the return URL, but it opens it in tab with specially sandboxed permissions.

Everyone wins: the app makes it clear there's no information leak possible and the user is feeling safer.

I'm not saying any of this is trivial to implement. But it would make sense from a user perspective.
This has nothing to do with the Stingray devices though.

Apple can certainly decrypt any iMessage, as explained very thoroughly in the article you linked to.

If Apple can decrypt them, then law enforcement can decrypt them, so they don't really even need the Stingray device.

Nobody knows whether or not the NSA stores all iMessages. They certainly can, and from everything we've seen if they can, they do, so if you are concerned about privacy you have to assume that they do. The thing about the NSA databases these days is that they allow multiple governments and other government agencies to access that data.

Imagine how many peoples lives would be "ruined" if someone took that data and published it on the internet, "here is every iMessage for the past year".
Also of note: trees strategize by game theoretic rules. See the chapter on communication in the amazing "Natural History of Trees" http://www.amazon.com/The-Tree-Natural-History-Matter/dp/030...
Calculating Averages
Expected 1 cent per share loss vs 2 cents per share earnings. Not a huge surprise.

I think this jump had everything to do with Noto.
Assessment Tools : Psychometric vs. Simulation Assessments
I really disliked that post: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/11/links-for-july-2014/#co...
Debunking AI Doomsday Scenarios
That's not true. Edmonton and Calgary have each been over a million for a while now. Alberta has also been the fastest growing province for probably a decade now.
Makes sense - do you know if they will be re-branding RedPhone on Android? Just curious.
Show HN: Shrub is an iOS app for making drawings with your camera.
Haha I like your interpretation :)
Booker, Christie, and Zuckerberg's attempt to reform Newark’s schools
My experience was with Oakland, which probably skewed my data, to be fair. I also have only lived in CA (or outside the US entirely) so perhaps that has biased me towards thinking walkable areas like Berkeley, SF, and Santa Monica are incredibly expensive.
The first three articles you linked to refer to commercial space, not residential space. I'd argue that they don't support your argument since I believe we're talking about residential spaces. Moreover, densely packed commercial centers aren't unique to cities. However, I suppose we can talk about those articles as well. They all refer to one specific case, the building of a Taco John's. The argument against it isn't that it takes up too much space, it's that it provides less value (in terms of tax revenue and how much money is being funneled back into the town through jobs) to the town than another comparable area. However, it's not just about the density of businesses. If we were to imagine a X-story high-rise containing X different businesses was built in place of the Taco John's, would that necessarily be better than the Taco John's? Not necessarily. You would need to take into consideration many other factors: the extra strain on the utilities, the generated tax revenue, whether or not it fits in with the characteristics of the surrounding neighborhood.

As for the last article, that one does talk about residential housing. I will agree that the article does talk about urbanization as the natural progression of town maturation. However, note that the article talks about progressions/increments (i.e. going from a house to a duplex, from a duplex, to a row of houses, from a row of houses to an apartment building) and not skipping those progressions (going straight from a house to an apartment building). In fact, the article specifically outlines that the changes must be natural, be compatible with the neighborhood, and must fit in. Overall, Marohn's more concerned with adding value to properties than increasing population density. He even goes as far as to specifically address our topic of discussion. I quote:

"I am going to pause now before going on to the next step and reiterate something important. I know there are those of you reading this right now, sitting at the kitchen table of your nice single family home, saying, "There is no way on God's green earth that I'm going to allow a set of row houses across the street from me. Who does this Strong Towns guy think he is?" Fair point, and the reality is that most neighborhoods will not grow beyond the single family stage. That's okay too, at least as long as the public infrastructure and services stay scaled to that investment level." Emphasis mine.

He states that what's tantamount is responsible spending.
I got something similar working in Java by simply exec'ing ffmpeg and getting a handle on the stream. Not being able to seek kind of sucks, and Chromecast does not like infinite streams. However, I've seen that he Chromecast will actually stream some MKVs just fine (so long as the underlying codecs are supported).
How to make music for (almost) free
Can someone who knows more than me explain why tech companies are including non-GAAP figures (that are more flattering)?
How to Prepare for a job as a Data Scientist
All of you are approaching this the wrong way. Suburbia was born out of government policies, not because a bunch of towns decided to plan their cities differently.

Here is what you do:
Keep government away from the mortgage market. Bring back the historic minimum of ~20% downpayments at ~6% interest. End mortgage interest deduction. Basically scrap every stupid law that has been passed in the last 50 years that has the keywords "home ownership", "american dream" blah blah blah in them because it has done nothing but the opposite. Raise the gas tax so we don't have to bail out our highways using general funds and to pay off our accumulated infrastructure debt which is estimated to be at a trillion dollars.

The result:
No more free mortgages to every peon on the street to further inflate housing costs. Real home-ownership.
Gas goes up to $7 a gallon and suddenly you'll start seeing buses and sidewalks everywhere... places like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Cincinnat...

become worthless overnight. Cities and neighborhoods will naturally start organizing themselves towards a more traditional and sustainable pattern. Problem solved.
Aftermarket activity is not a great indicator or what will happen the next day. I doubt it'll be up that much tomorrow
And they were affordable? I am genuinely interested. I think when I wrote that I was unfairly thinking of SF, LA (well, Santa Monica and Venice), NYC, DC, etc.
That's not a Ponzi scheme, it's just poor planning.
In case the site isn't loading for anyone else: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.pol...
I'm guessing it'd look really similar, except with far, far less hours logged in WoW.
I agree and disagree. :) I think it is silly only if you assume it is incorrect. But, although not from a robust source of data it still could be the correct result. And in that case, I couldn't call it silly. But who knows, the word "innovation" is subjective, so you could probably argue against any dataset, pretty easily.

That being said, I agree that identifying something as an innovation is going to be heavily weighted to past accomplishments. At this point, innovations in theoretical physics are so complex that I can hardly begin to really grasp the importance of discoveries beyond my niche and I myself have a Ph.d. in physics.
The initial cost was with labor included.
The labor is the consulting cost.

But to be honest there is not like one has to do much width the hardware.

When one hardware server fails all the virtual machines will still just continue on another hardware server.
Vmware takes care of that stuff and it just works, at least in our testing of pulling the cords to the server (stuff has not failed yeat).

Well if money is no object, you are definitely doing the right thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR3fSL9WMdg
Merovingian: What is the reason? Soon the why and the reason are gone and all that matters is the feeling. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it; but it is of course a lie. Beneath our poised appearance we are completely OUT OF CONTROL [:winks:]
Reminds me of bicycles in general. You can pick up a used bike for >$100 in most cities, or you can spend $3k on a sweet carbon fibre racing machine. For that matter, cars vary in price from >$1000 used to... the sky's the limit.

Until battery prices fall, there will definitely be a high bottom limit for electric vehicles. The lower that limit gets the more adoption will happen, for sure. Still, an $800 wheel on a $300-$500 bike is competitive with most POS electric scooters.
Ransoming Citizens, Europe Becomes Al Qaeda’s Patron
I think it's a great idea (well, see my above comment :)! Keep the scope small - this doesn't need an MMO to be successful, make it single player. Start with text and find an artist along the way.

On my walk home between posting my initial comment above and this one, I started thinking about how to make it happen as a side project and the conclusion I came to was writing the entire script/story out first as that would be the hardest part.
The attempt to give a formal treatment to data as subjective as "innovations" is probably not much more than a fun exercise. And, from that perspective, I did have fun reading it. :)
A Nuclear Probe to Explore Earth’s Interior
A guy I knew in Japan told me about a friend of his who learned Japanese from playing Final Fantasy. Everyone who met him wondered why he spoke like a thousand year old samurai.
Afaik the first Church Committee never ended. Sure Church got shut down[0], but the committee is still technically "active".

BTW, it would be a good idea to wear a radiation sensor.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church#Death
For the very reason you suggest: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-10-04/an-accounti....
To my knowledge, Jitsi fulfills your Holy Grail of Secure Communications requirements. It certainly much more trustworthy than Skype.
You guys are all focusing on the financial numbers. The real news is that TWTR added 16M MAUs, when the bulls forecast 11M, and the bears forecast 6M.
This is why drones should bother people. There is nothing wrong with drones themselves, but they make an inappropriate (but legal) degree of surveillance practical.
One of the biggest problems we find on most computer vision libraries is the fact that a lot of knowledge in the area is required to use them properly. We think the complex APIs that are exposed to developers that try to make CV apps can be the reason why we still don't see many apps exploring the potential of CV. So tracking.js was created with the goal of being as powerful as the best CV libraries, but without exposing the inherent complexity of the area to the developers that wish to use it. From what I saw of jsfeat, it looks very powerful, but targeted for people that have some knowledge of CV.
I considered that, and I think it might excuse "Boston mooninite" sorts of paranoia, but seeing lights turn off on a landmark and jumping to the "terrorists" conclusion? Nearly 13 years later? This wasn't a low-flying plane or an odd device with blinking lights, this was just some lightbulbs going out.
I don't recognize the situation you described. In my school system, if a book had excess damage (beyond normal wear and tear) then the parents had to pay damage fees. That is, the kids are "answerable to their parents for the cost."

Eg, from http://kennedymiddleschool.weebly.com/textbook-replacement-c... : "The parent, guardian, or other person having custody of the student to whom the instructional materials are issued shall be liable for any loss, abuse, or damage in excess of that which would result from normal use of the materials."

The same holds for library books. Eg, http://www.christina.k12.de.us/pulaski/library/ "Please be aware that if your child takes out a book and either loses it or damages it, the school district requires that the book be paid for or worked off. This can affect whether or not your child receives a report card."

Also, textbooks can last for many years. http://www.rcsnc.org/departments/curriculum_and_instruction/... for example uses a 5 year depreciation schedule. Wouldn't your proposal mean either that parents are paying about 5x more than they should, or introduce new overhead costs of creating a secondary market for parents to sell used textbooks to other parents?
Yo Twitterwhats with all the #KIK spam?
<p>Is it just my twitter account or is everyone being bombarded with #KIK spam on Twitter at the moment?<p>It started about 3 weeks ago for the first time but now i cant open my email without seeing at least a few #KIK spam posts to my various Twitter accounts each morning.

http://mytblocker.blogspot.com/2014/07/yo-twitterwhats-with-all-kik-spam.html
Totally agree, I would like to extend your comment with my personal point of view about New Spain. This nation, in the past decade, has known how to get adventage of the IT industry, with a growing population of Engineers mostly "immigrants" from Mexamerica and Metromex (I´m one of those immigrants, I came to New Spain from Mexamerica for better oportunities as a Software developer).

Cities as Aguascalientes, Guadalajara and Queretaro are creating a big IT industry, with superior salaries and better work enviroments which are attracting developers from all around Mexico. International companies from the US, India and Mexico are investing a lot of resources there. Mexamerica is kind of falling apart, with some exceptions as Monterrey and Ensenada, let´s see if Mexamerica finally wakes up and starts doing something about it.
>extremely crowded soup

>realize it is not the way it looks

Can you blame them? I mean adding even just the free water molecules to the first video would result in two color static music video.
This is exactly what I'm doing, down to the MFP app and the Withings scale. The results have been amazing so far, and I look forward to writing a similar blog post by the end of the year.
I needed to do screenshots in my Rails app, and I couldn't get the screen shotting service to work in Ruby.

I already knew how to do screenshots in Python, and was tired of relearning this stuff in a different language for each project.

So I made an API that takes a screenshot, and now I don't need to learn it ever again :)

https://api.blockspring.com/users/mapsup/blocks/07b6410853fa...
I can help with the Greek translation along with StavrosK. Created my account at Transifex today, but have to get some sleep now. Will get in contact tomorrow, if you can create a GR version/repo.
No, of course not. But those that put in enough work, are observant, etc... can make it to say, the 80th percentile. Then of those, the most talented might make it to the 95th. And those who have connections, or funding, or the right idea, might make it to the 99th. But either way, achieving success and being 'lucky' means putting yourself in the position to achieve success and be lucky...

Chasing girls is a great example. The guy I've known who has been with the most girls has also been turned down more than anyone I know...
And bathed in a constant stream of Detroit Techno, Electric Six and Dirtbombs.
Their business model is advertising seems pretty obvious. Am I naïve?
You were in an especially horrible part of LA. For what it's worth, Venice Beach, Hollywood, Santa Monica, etc. are better (but still atrocious).
It's a better experience when you're dealing with a complete file and not an in-progress transcode anyways. With a file you can seek and pause/resume. That's much, much harder with a stream (if at all possible). The other trick is that the Chromecast does some poking around in the stream to figure out the total time. This requires that you support Range requests and return correct Content-Length headers.
My understanding was that all of the Bulleit Bourbon is Four Roses juice.

But, later: I may be totally wrong about this!
How man SaaS companies have monthly fees with free apps? Then, after you login, the features that you have paid for are available. I can think of plenty.
Why GTA IV keeps looking better on PC
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Plants do not have intelligence. This article directly compares plant "behavior" with that of animals, including comparisons with neurobiology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology)#C...
> Ads aren't inherently "wrong".

Yes, psychologically manipulating people and lying to them for money is wrong.