skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PGDP does a series of passes on a book. They don't continually update it. If a book makes it through their process with a typo, or more common, made it through the transcription process 20 years ago, there aren't good systems in place to fix those issues.
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HILARIOUS and CUTE
Java SSH Client
Yeah, not so much the phone's camera as figuring out how to strap the thermal camera on and plug it in. It has its own internal battery as well, so it's not the smallest load.
How is this different from awk?
I'm with you. I would still gladly take an iPhone 5s with the 3:2 form factor screen from the iPhone 4s.
I hope Apple segments their phones and makes smaller screens as well. I want something small enough that it practically disappears in my pocket. My ideal phone would be the size of a 4th-gen iPod Nano.[1]

Business-wise, large screens make a lot of sense. Most people want them. They're great for people with poor eyesight, especially older people who won't admit they need bifocals. Women usually carry purses, so comfortably fitting in a small pocket isn't an issue. And of course, larger screens look better side-by-side. A lot of consumers are enticed by the immediate appeal of a larger screen. They forget they'll have to lug around a heavier phone that is harder to hold.

I've looked around, but I haven't been able to find any smartphone that's as small as an iPod Nano. If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IPod_Nano_4G_black_c...
The irony being that the point of the article is that if you didn't code for "Next Gen" consoles you'd get all this lovely rendering. The article title is the opposite of what the story is about!
it is a bad fit for your hand if you're a normal human

I am over 6 feet and I can't hit the corners of my nexus 5 with a single hand. I've had to rearrange app icons on my home screen to be able to switch between spotify and google maps while driving. For a 5' tall person probably the top inch of the phone -- notably where the status screen comes from -- is inaccessible with one hand.

Personally, I'll never use a smaller phone again. I use a lot less of my tablet since getting my nexus 5; in practice, it's big enough that reading on it doesn't suck.
I think now that retina is widely adopted, Apple no longer needs to worry about 2x, 3x, etc.

Even if the phones are 1.457x or whatever, I bet iOS8 will just do its best to scale elements as needed- Since the resolutions are so high already, a scaling error of a fraction of a retina pixel is totally not noticeable.
Idea first, pun after. But thanks!
Even with that... the non-iphone versions they previously sold were thousands of dollars. This is a huge leap in affordability even if you have to buy an old iphone 5 to go with it.

For instance, the E4 they sell is $1000 and up.
The only photo settings in the current app:

- Color (you can pick how the color scale is rendered)

- Sensitivity (matte, semi-matte, semi-glossy, glossy)

They're releasing a few more apps of their own and an SDK, so it might be possible in the future to get the raw IR image.
Donald the dino
In retrospect, I didn't need to make 80k+ commits with my own account.
I used one of these at MacWorld, and asked the rep what distance it was effective at, their answer was less than 15 feet.
So: Photoshop
What do you mean by effective? FLIR's support told me it can pick up the heat signature of a person at 100 meters. I went outside earlier and it seemed alright at a long distance. It's not like it simply doesn't work after 15'.

I think due to the resolution many of the interesting things you can do with it will end up being at short range.

I also noticed it reports the sun's temperature as "> 212º F" so there's that.
Hm...this sounds like a bit of a disconnect from the 1.2 announcement post, which says:

"Note, however, that changes to these files are not saved during a docker build and so will not be preserved in the resulting image. The changes will only “stick” in a running container."

If I do RUN echo "127.0.0.1 somehost" >> /etc/hosts or COPY container_hosts /etc/hosts, according to the announcement wording, this will not persist in my image.

If this is incorrect, could you clarify what isn't saved during docker build?
If this is correct, why is docker build unable to retain these changes?
In fact the campain did deliver product, just not to everybody. As such it did a whole lot better than quite a few other hardware start-ups. They raised a ton of money (1.5M or so) but I think they still very much underestimated the amount of work that lies between photoshopping some watch casings of a nice design and actually producing said design in volume for consumption by a community that has been sold a bunch of expectations.

Personally I think that if you back a kickstarter campaign that will supposedly deliver some kind of hardware product that you currently can not get your hands on that you should see it as a gift to the founders rather than a pre-order for a product.

The android police article has meanwhile retracted the claims about the car and I think they should do a bit more than that (such as issue a formal apology for something bordering on slander, after all accusing someone of fraud without so much as a fact check is really not smart).

Developing a device like this on a $1.5M budget and shipping it (1000's of them) is a significant under-estimation of what it costs to develop production grade hardware and I'm really somewhat disappointed at indiegogo and their ilk that they don't do basic checks on the projects they allow to go through. Imagine if instead of $1.5M they'd only raised their original goal, that would have made it even less likely that this device would ever see the light of day, let alone that even some users would receive an actual unit. At $100 a piece or so it was priced realistically for a run of several 10's of thousands of units after taking into account all development costs, and that's assuming they have all the required competencies.
So what's your point? For what it's worth, Gruber is on record as not going to buy the 5.5" version, as it's too large (the Talk Show podcasts of recent weeks). He also still believes that the smaller form factor is better, but as Apple doesn't appear to be continuing the 4" line, what's a guy like Gruber, who is all-in on Apple, supposed to do? Not talk about Apple?
Unfortunately there's still no proper "upgrade" command for cask, there's a lengthy discussion on how to deal with that on their issue tracker [0] though. For now you'll still have to rely on a workaround.

Currently I'm using an alias to clear the old binary and download the new one. [1]

[0] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/309

[1] https://blog.notmyhostna.me/make-calibre-updates-less-annoyi...
I can't think of a VCS with a better online tool than git and github. With editing books, it is entirely possible to use only the github editor, which effectively abstracts the git command line interface.
there is no security provided here

Actually there is plenty of security[1]. It may not be "as secure" as a traditional virtualization platform, but that doesn't mean Docker/containers don't have plenty of capabilities (ha!) to offer in terms of security.

You need to understand what they offer, but the old "Docker isn't secure" thing is not more truthful than "Docker is a security solution". Security is a continuum, and Docker has some very interesting security uses.

I've already linked to [1], but I'd encourage all to read it.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/jpetazzo/is-it-safe-to-run-applica...
Obvious use of mutable arrays? And making "spaghetti code."
Wouldn't it be cool if they made 5" model just to screw with rumors and then release something entirely different.
Send me a pm at baskohnke (at) gmail . com. I am Dutch and run a YC start up in SF. Happy to tell you more about the Dutch scene.
> they ask you "Dad, my teacher said I'm really smart, do you think I'm really smart?" You'll have to decide what the narrative is.

You tell them that the way they got that smart is by doing a lot of challenging things and working hard.
There are plenty of x oriented languages coming out these days. This has to be the most limited yet.
4" is still the perfect on-the-go smartphone size. Apple has not been wrong about that.

But 4" is too small if it is the only device you have, if you use your device both as your mobile and as a PC or tablet. This has been Apple's blind spot, exacerbated by their focus on higher income customers who can afford multiple devices.

Much of the rest of the world cannot afford multiple expensive devices.

Much of today's youth are mobile only by choice. Since they text rather than make calls, and almost always have headphones with them, the awkwardness of putting a large device to their ear is a non-issue.
> a scaling error of a fraction of a retina pixel is totally not noticeable.

Wat?

For a photo it can be acceptable. Not great, but acceptable. For UI elements, it is horrible. Smudgy, blurry edge makes no one happy.
This particular one is a story because underestimating the work ahead of you and delivering low quality product, late product, or both is one thing. Delivering a late low quality product and blowing the rest of the money on fast cars and nice clothes, is something else entirely. Something that sounds rather like "outright fraud" to me.
This one's rather chilling.

ISIS is employing social media — ‘crowdsourcing’ — to identify Saudi agents. They’ve even got an Android app just for the purpose. ”U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring ISIL’s social media communications identified the campaign as a crowd-sourced effort to gather names and other personal information about Saudi intelligence officials for the assassination campaign.”

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/08/04/terror-and-th...
This is actually a serious problem. There are plenty of things you can put into a major contract that will have the effect of transferring e.g. $10,000 in value from one party to the other. Or you could just flat out argue over the price. And both parties might still agree to the contract either way.

The issue is that it's economically advantageous to pay a lawyer anything up to $5000 in fees if the result will be a 50% chance that you can net $10,000. So the parties could collectively pay the lawyers $10,000 to argue over who should get $10,000, even assuming everyone is acting rationally and has substantially accurate information.

The waste of resources is inherent to the adversarial process. It's in the same nature as a war but fought with money and time rather than blood. It's the same calculus: The fight is very rarely worth the cost but if you have no soldiers you're a victim to someone who does.
The Chairless Chair exoskeleton lets you sit down anywhere, anytime
I think it's quite natural to base your thinking on your current use case. In the 90s we had a discussion about something involving SMS on IRC, and soon suddenly pretty much all the american people decided it was the most stupid thing they've ever heard of and such a thing could never take off in the US.

These were gadget happy geeks on IRC mind you. There are also the famous Slashdot iPod comments. Once the apple fans have gotten used to the larger screens they will think it was the way Jobs intended.

This can be seen again and again in everything from politics to religion .. to tech (which is not far from either nowadays, right?).
Well, as the author of one of the comments being accused of ignorance, I took it quite personally. Little comments like that start the slide and it's all downhill from there...
more like: the onion creates original artwork using conventional methods and software. ok.
LXC and FreeBSD Jails are almost completely comparable[1]. LXC does indeed attempt to provide a security wrapper, in (very) roughly the same way jails do.

Indeed, dotcloud (ie, Docker before it was Docker) were using LXC as a security measure to isolate clients inside their PAAS (see pg 8 of [2])

It has long been speculated that it would be possible to port the Docker API to other container mechanisms.

Personally I don't think this should be a priority - I'd much prefer Docker put all their resources behind building the best experience possible on a single platform.

Nevertheless, asking about it is a valid question.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC#Alternatives "LXC is similar to other OS-level virtualization technologies on Linux such as OpenVZ and Linux-VServer, as well as those on other operating systems such as FreeBSD jails, AIX Workload Partitions and Solaris Containers."

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/jpetazzo/is-it-safe-to-run-applica...
Uber Blocked in India as RBI Tightens Card Rules
Some Chinese movie theaters are covering their screens in text messages
Thank you, unfortunately the 8GB is a requirement as i sometimes work with some large datasets in Numpy.
How can this not be illegal and a punishable offense? Sounds like a total scam.
Outright fraud is when you take the money and run off. Overestimating your capabilities and making a crappy product does not equate fraud by any definition.

Really, people backing stuff on indiegogo, kickstarter and so on should do due-diligence on the parties they throw their money at.

See the other article about the Novena currently on the homepage. That's a group of people that I would trust to deliver.
Have you ever seen "The Producers (1967)"...?
That is like talking about the raw power achievable by a set of muscles. Of course there are some genetic limit to how strong I could make my biceps, but I and most people can probably increase the strength of those muscles many times over if we thought it worthwhile to spend the time and effort to do so.
My guess: nobody who already works there wants to work weekends.

If you have weekend hackers, eventually you need weekend HR, managers, janitors, chefs, receptionists, etc.
Here's what I wrote two years ago, when the iPhone 5 shipped:

> There is no argument that some people really do like these big
> closer-to-5-than-4-inch Android and Windows phones. I was in a
> Verizon retail store yesterday (long story; don’t ask) and
> overheard a relatively small woman buying a Galaxy S III. A
> companion asked if she wasn’t worried that it was too big, and she
> said no, big was exactly what she wanted, because she doesn’t have
> a tablet and wanted to do a lot of reading on whatever phone she
> got. She even said she was thinking about the 5-inch Galaxy Note
> (which Verizon doesn’t carry). It was like a conversation out of a
> Samsung commercial. Such people surely think the iPhone 5’s
> display remains too small. But, trust me, there are going to be
> many long-time iPhone users complaining that it’s too big after
> they upgrade.
>
> In an ideal world, perhaps Apple would offer two iPhone sizes --
> like they do with products such as MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and
> iMacs. A smaller one with the classic 3.5-inch display, and a
> larger (say, 4.5-inch?) one for people who want that.

http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/iphone_5

That holds up pretty well, but I undershot the two sizes by an inch apiece.

Also, I haven't said whether I think a 5.5-inch iPhone is actually any good, because, duh, I haven't even seen one yet, let alone used one.
They can do anything and in different way
Testing a Couple of Watches
Sure. You're pretty hot on the fraud bandwagon here, I challenge you to produce this device for $1.5M in quantity. I don't think it can be done, even if you try very hard.

Let's just wait for the facts to be on the table before reaching for the tar, the feathers and the rope.

I do hope they kept some kind of bookkeeping on how they spent the money. But one thing is for sure, the budget did not include buying any Italian sports cars.
Better to say I expect to prefer the 4.7 over the 5.5-inch phone, personally. But I would never say I won't buy a product before I've actually seen it in person.

(I have seen other 5.5-inch phones, though, and none seem like something I'd want to carry in my pocket everywhere.)
It would indeed be the perfect weapon for a terrorist. Just post a picture of something on the Internet and have foreign military blast it to the ground. Create terror and blame americans, and anyone can do it.
I'm loving the .NET framework as a career. When it comes down to it we have 2 major choices to choose from - Java and .NET framework, with a smattering of Python around.

Given those two choices I'll take C# any day over Java. Where Java has it right is in the ecosystem. It's more mature for obvious reasons and has great alternative language communities - Clojure and Scala. We have F#, which is great.

But for day to programming, I don't think Java and Intellij beats Visual Studio and Resharper. You can become very productive with VS/ReSharper and C#.
It's worse than that, most likely. The cheapest FLIR cameras have 320x240 IR sensors, but they downsample to 80x60 unless you either pony up several thousand dollars for the E8 model or buy a $1000 E4 and hack it. There's no way they're enabling 320x240 IR imaging in a $350 iPhone peripheral. If they were, they'd be trumpeting it all over their marketing literature, rather than neglecting to mention resolution at all as they're doing.

And yes, launching this thing a few days before the iPhone 6 announcement is about the stupidest goddamn marketing move since the Osborne 1. Somebody needs to lose their job over that.

In FLIR's defense, 80x60 is still very useful for a lot of things. The ability to overlay low-resolution IR and moderate-resolution visual images is sort of a cheesy gimmick, but it makes the low-res IR sensors vastly more useful. (My E4 is hacked for 320x240 support, so I usually turn the MSX overlay off.)
Interesting, very close to where I was heading. Thank you for the insight.
Technically OpenTTD is in the same boat. The first version was decompiled to assembly and ported to C by Ludwig Strigeus, the guy behind uTorrent.
I posted this article just want to know why so called "bullet screen" video is only popular in East Asia, like Japan and China? Any theory about why this is not a big thing in the west?
I don't use anything. Right now, I have the ebooks I buy in Amazon and then the others in a folder in Dropbox. But I have no order...
Very funny. But there are actually quite a few very nice versions of basic that you could write enormous programs with reasonable structure in, and a number of those appeared very long ago (For instance, GFA basic on the Atari ST and BBC Basic for the BBC Micro).

Not that that is in any way relevant to the version of BASIC on display here, but there was no reason to implement a crappy basic, they could have done it with a decent version as well. (but that would have been a lot more work).
Just a note on UX and visualization: Mapping temperature to a color/wavelength is not the perceptually best way to convey data. Humans are not good at estimating the distance between two data points when using a rainbow color scale. Using luminosity would be much better, or even a color scheme that uses saturation. See e.g. http://colorbrewer2.org/. Different schemes are perceptually good to use depending on whether your data is categorical, scalar or(/and) has a fixed center value that has semantic meaning. It doesn't look like the actual camera uses this mapping, but the demo pictures on the front page do. I'm not sure which color scale is used for the actual camera interface.

A side note to this: Sometimes, users expect a particular color mapping and will object to using a coloring scheme that is perceptually better. E.g. doctors often view diffusion tensor images where each point in the image represents a 3-dimensional value, using the RGB colors for each dimension. This is a perceptually horrific choice, since practical demonstrations would reveal that there is significant perceptual ambiguity when viewing data represented like this. But an engineer once made a prototype that used this mapping, and now the operators are unwilling to change their habits.
> Git is really simple once you learn it.

Pretty much everything is simple once you learn it. That's what learning is. But git certainly doesn't go out of its way to make that process easy.
Just move to open source. There you are judged by your peers rather than by numerical results.
Is there a demo (or video) of how your TOTP service would work? I'm having a difficult time visualizing the flow and requirements.
I kept being told "You're smart/gifted" when I did something clever, and "You need to try harder" when I didn't. Left me with some self esteem issues.
This is why Salman Khan is one of (if not) the greatest teachers of our generation. When I read this article, I remembered when Khan Academy first started... it was the first attempt to make good education free and easily accessible, exactly the way it should be. Hats off to you sir, thanks for another great lesson I will teach my kids some day :).
> I think it is funny that the author manages to blame everything and everyone except bad software.

What would that accomplish? It's an article about the CAP theorem, not safety engineering or Byzantine fault tolerance.
I like Stallman's idea of it more.

> Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness.

It seems to me more appropriate, More effective, better descriptive, less limiting.

Not that being a hacker means one also has to be good at writing what an hacker is, but Stallman is showing some true hacker spirit here I think.
It is perfectly ok to respond to the contents of the article, the title in case it prompts a relevant thought or both. If someone comments on the article title then it is not ok to automatically assume they did not read the article.

Chucks' comments are one of the reasons I still come here, if you're going to drive him out with stupid attacks like this then the site will be a lot worse than it is today. Have some patience and lighten up.
please let me dictate the speed at which I can scroll through the site without having to wait for the animations to fire before proceeding.

i'm glad to see that Shimano is doing it's damnedest to stay relevant. It's a name from my childhood, along with all of the Italian/American bicycle companies that they bought over the years.
The first 20 hours – how to learn anything: Josh Kaufman at TEDxCSU [video]
In most cases, lambdas are rvalues. That can have an impact on its scope and lifetime.
Has any consideration been given to works which may start in this platform? My wife is an aspiring author, and we'd like more information. I'm sure there are many topics to cover, and we're interested in hearing all of them. However, I specifically wonder about the adoption of open source licensing to such works.

Thanks.