skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly not for people exercising, because it clearly won't work for that use case. You can spot that from a mile away.
https://promethease.com can tell you health information
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I wonder how many sperm or egg donors will register on 23andme and receive an interesting email... Or how many children conceived in that way will find half brothers and half sisters. I wonder if you could see traces of "prolific" sperm donors via their related offspring...
Erlang is not supported on x86?
The bit about the two graphs --- plotting the ages of women versus the ages of men who look best to them, and vice versa --- is a hoot.

[EDIT: It's funny because of the juxtaposition -- it shows that what (many) women think about us men finds support in the OKCupid data.]
U.N. to negotiate legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring
> For developers it would be interesting to see how the API looks like and if it will be available at all in any shape or form (which I doubt actually).

Well it's already available through Stripe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8292026 - so I'm pretty sure there's good news ahead :)

more info: https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/
> Why would anyone sell their house for less than their mortgage when they can just walk away and not owe anything?

Credit and taxes -- a short sale is, though damaging, less so to ones creditworthiness than a foreclosure, further, the entire amount of the unpaid principal (in either the short-sale or the foreclosure/surrender case, but foreclosure sales generally return less than a short sale with positive owner involvement would) is taxable as income.
>>Sucks that this guy thinks he's responsible for breaking up his parents.

In this situation I can imagine talking to my father about it, but talking to everyone else in a family was a decision he made. I'm not passing judgment either way, but he wasn't like he was passive here.
N.B. The comment you're responding to was made by Stripe cofounder Patrick Collison (pc).
Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft
Emails started bouncing to the account around 05:00 GMT last night, it's likely that was one of the only ways the attacker could maintain communication.
What do you mean? Most major web servers can be easily configured to throttle connections.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_ratelimit.html

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#limi...
Remember this system was rolled out in 1993, meaning any hardware/software combo started development before that. So the question is: do I believe it likely that a system developed before the internet became widespread has an archaic, non-networked way of handling software updates?

My answer is yes.

(Though for the sake of whomever maintains the system I'd certainly hope to be wrong about this! Either way, an update to all of these machines is likely not the trivial change the author presumes it to be.)
Just search "Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang" and click the first link to see full article.
I believe the iPod HiFi was a success. The purpose of that product was to create a market for iPod docks. At the time there wash't much of one, and likely Apple had trouble convincing companies like Sony et. al. that they should make them. I bet Apple has made more money from "Made for iPod" licensing as a result of the iPod HiFi (which kickstarted that industry) than their gross revenues from the iPod HiFi.

So, maybe a failure as a product, because it stimulated competition that, if it hadn't come about would have left Apple with a %100 share of iPod docks.

But given how many iPod docks have sold, I'm sure that market would have been viable, even if only Apple were making them.
Not sure that's relevant - that's the reality show part of the story. The point is the product that 23andme sells and the risk associated with it is not understood by their customer. In this case it's lead to a family break-up and therapy for the author.
Millions and millions of people did.
The Minecraft modding community just had a ridiculous few weeks with the various dramas surrounding Bukkit (a popular, extensible server mod).

I can't wait to see what the reactions are to this news.
Why doesn't Jony Ive present at Apple's keynote?
Apple's Steve Jobs: 'no one's going to buy' a big phone
"When has Apple ever catered to niche markets?"

-Today, with the presentation of the Apple Watch.
Apple needs the networks and/or the banks to tokenize the CC numbers at the time the card is imported into the wallet.

When the payment is processed, that same network/bank takes the token provided, translates it back to a card number and passes the card number to the issuing bank.

I think it's actually quite a feat that Apple managed to tokenize all 800 million existing card numbers, because of this requirement.
Thanks for the clarification and glad to see RO was a gateway into software for so many people :) I even remember YARE, if only vaguely.

A friend of mine who had a stint in a game studio is convinced he should never have to (re)write a UI in C++ ever again, now that "the web" has created such a lingua franca in the form of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. As evidence of this he often points to Awesomium and has spoken highly of it.
According to the Apple Pay site, that'll be the case for in-store purchases.
> Parser generators [...] are a practical and useful tool for designing languages. You want a compact notation to describe the syntax of a new language, from which code can be generated.

I'm not sure the notation is always that compact, see...

http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/groovy/groovy-core/src/...
The other article mentions that this process "uncorked" years of "repressed" feelings. Divorce is often the end product of a long process; it looks like in this case, the genetic discovery was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
This is also great for us Android/GWallet/Isis/Softcard users, as more merchants will want EMV and have it implemented.
But what's really interesting to me is that Apple has clearly put a lot more thought into how interactions on a device like this should work than anybody else.

I strongly disagree.

I think that Apple actually took the easy way out here - they seemed to have approached the problem as "how can we make iOS usable on a smaller screen" and came up with interfaces like the crown and the (albeit pretty) circle-based homescreen UI to access apps to tackle those issues. Which is interesting, because they started off their presentation explicitly saying they didn't want to just scale down iOS.

Google, on the other hand, approached the problem of "how can we make wearables useful as a platform" rather than "how can we scale down Android" and created the intuitive cards interface (which, as a Moto 360 user, is remarkably convenient) and Google Now-based contextual awareness of info you need when you need it. Android Wear doesn't even have an app selector easily accessible, because they don't want you to use the watch that way - it's hard to hunt for apps on a tiny screen, so instead they push contextual information at you as you need it in an easy-to-use way.

I have high hopes for both platforms in the years to come, but I don't find Apple's watch design to be smarter or better thought-out as it is right now (and I'm typing this on a Macbook Air, so I have an appreciation for Apple).
From the user POV, it's the same:

1. upload your Credit/Debit card info to an app(passport/wallet)

2. your phone must have NFC.

3. pay with your phone at a NFC capable terminal.
This is confusing. "This is how it happened: when you share around 25 percent genetic similarity with someone, that means that either it's your grandfather, uncle, or half-sibling".

I have half my dad's DNA and half my mom's, so does my sister. So therefore wouldn't we both share 50% of our DNA? If we were brothers it would be closer to 100%. So a half sibling should be the same as a sister in this aspect. I have a half brother too, so we both got 50% of our DNA from our mother. So we are 50% similar, not 25%.

Is my math wrong?
Samsung has managed to do it and still maintains (arguably) reasonable battery life. I like Apple products in general, but the whole overpriced/underpowered thing gets a little old.
"Have you ever tried android wear? I read/watched some reviews (even with the 360) and seems to me far to be a completed thing."

Yes, quite a lot. Have you?

Additionally, apple's device won't even be out for a minimum of 3 months (assuming it came out in january).

Which is the not completed thing again?

Truthfully, seeing what I saw, Apple's watch is just not a leap forward in any interesting way i can think of over android wear.

Maybe it'll win because of better marketing or whatever.
But it's interface did not look appreciably better to me, nor did it have anything that i would consider "a killer app" that android wear does not.

(I mainly use my wear device to track my running and biking paces, display notes like shopping lists, and display texts so that i know whether i should pull out my phone to respond to the person)

They could have chosen some axis to improve upon - waterproofness (i can scuba dive with my pebble but not my wear device), battery life, screen[1], whatever.

They are trying "software". Sometimes this is good, sometimes it's not (again though, I also don't find the ipad interface so much better than the android one. For the things i do on these devices, the ipad is a slim win, but has a shittier software keyboard by far).

[1] Sapphire is not interesting to me. My watch does not sit in my pocket with things likely to scratch it. I woodwork, and have worn wear devices for 6+ months now, and while i've scratched phones from chisels, saw blades, etc, i've never scratched my watch.

A higher res display or something would have been cooler.
Having a "pro" means the other option is "un-pro".

Apple knows their iPhones are (to some extent) status symbols, and just like the 5c failed because it was perceived as the "cheap model", they had to come up with a value neutral modifier for "big". And given both 6 models are larger than all previous ones, they could hardly have the 6 and 6 mini.
It seems that the Apple Watch needs an iPhone nearby to do anything useful. This is extremely disappointing and a complete failure from the get-go. Essentially, Apple Watch just becomes a tool for those too lazy to take their iPhone out of their pocket. It's absolutely useless for exercising or other activities where one wouldn't typically carry a phone. That was supposed to be one of the main selling points and one of the main target audiences. As a runner myself, I can't see wasting any money on this unless it gets its own Wifi/LTE/Bluetooth/Storage capabilities and I can leave my phone behind. It seems Apple missed this quintessential requirement.
I have two autistic sons. They are neat people. Yes, they have some problems. I have never met anyone who does not have problems.

I am tempted to make the comparison that I am female and that definitely comes with a raftload of disadvantages in this world yet that doesn't mean I wish I were born male, but, given the audience here, I am not sure that will make much sense as an analogy to suggest. (Yet, I seem to be making it anyway. Oh, well.)
Apple Pay makes developers able to pay merchants on behalf of their customers without becoming a credit card processing middleman.
I was happy to use my Pebble and now, my android wear devices to track my running pace. I run about 4 miles a day.
Honestly, the iWatch is just too pricey for what I would use it for.
I hit that paywall every single time. Can we have a rule against posting links with paywalls? WSJ and other websites can either disable it for HN or we don't link to these websites at all.
Thanks for this! People hardly ever share hard numbers, so it's great to have a specific data point for a lean startup. I hope you continue to share with the same transparency as you grow, but even if you can't, it would be interesting to see a blog post on why that changes.

Side question - I've found that market validation can be an equally significant cost, whether running surveys, or Adwords, or generating content to test SEO. Did you do any sort of market/customer exploration before kicking off development?
> we have much more DNA from crime scenes than we have the resources to process

If it's just a matter of computational power for a given price, that problem will easily be solved in a few years.
Does nothing here, still an article fragment.
Play any video from ThePirateBay with this chrome extension
I'd be interested to see what everyone else has to say. But from my point of view, CLI will always be more efficient. Anything on top of that will only make accomplishing the task slower. Why would I use a GUI when I can automate the task with a script?

It depends on the user, but I find myself with multiple terminal windows open at a time throughout the day. Anytime I get stuck in a GUI app, I feel like I am wasting time.
So, basically, process of elimination: go to his home with torches and pitchforks, detain him for an extended period of time, and if the e-mail hacker shows up, this guy is totally innocent!

hand washing motion
Can anybody confirm whether the wireless chip used (BCM43340) is FullMAC or SoftMAC? The model is not listed on either brcmsmac nor brcmsmac. The wifi driver that comes with the source code downloaded from Intel is not in a Linux tree and it even has IP and TCP related stuff. I'm confused.
usually, the more into the hobby, the more you spend into it. Not the opposite.
Not necessarily. Some Atoms (e.g. Centerton) are now shipping with ECC support; similarly AMD Kabini processors support ECC.
If you wanted to throw coins away, wouldn't a better solution be to transfer them to an address like 12345678901234567890...?
Still blocked for me.

I agree with thepumpkin1979:

I hit that paywall every single time. Can we have a rule against posting links with paywalls? WSJ and other websites can either disable it for HN or we don't link to these websites at all.
Just made 500000/750=666.6666666666666666666
I actually thought it was appropriate. The resolution of the issue is of less interest to me; I thought the point of having the developer as tech support as an excellent way to identify the most salient pain points in the app.
Wow, good for Mojang and notch. I kind of fear that this is just going to be another Rare though. All the talent will move on after the handcuffs are off and the popular franchises will just languish.

edit: Also I hope this wouldn't kill any momentum to get Minecraft on the Occulus Rift. Something tells me MS wouldn't be so happy to have a first class game experience on a competitor's hardware/platform.
Doesn't this only suggest that most people are biased towards happy "personal interpretations" of words? That's a conclusion about people, not "human language," whatever that is.
It does seem to be WiFi related. But if I have to remember to disable the WiFi whenever I want to do some GPS tracking - and if I forget, I basically get random garbage - that pushes it well into "no bloody use" for me.
If you search for the article on Google News, the link should get you through the paywall.

(I just searched for Minecraft Wall Street Journal, and that got me the link.)
The latter for me, I don't know about others.
Perhaps it'd be better to change the link to a second-hand source in these cases, instead of the usual approach of the mods switching the link out to be the original source. I'll take blogspam over a paywall, and the WSJ link will still be available in the blog for those that really want more details.
"e Jakob Porsér and Mr. Manneh, the CEO. The trio remains the company's only shareholders and board members."

Would this mean they'd split the 2 billions by themselves? ... wow. I wonder how do the employees feel about this.
> What Oracle might or might not do with the ZFS patent portfolio in the future is speculation,

This whole post blows straight through "speculation" and into "unpaid marketing for Oracle" in the worst possible way.
This is interesting given that Mojang doesn't actually own the Minecraft IP, they license it from Notch who owns it (I believe) exclusively, that's how he's able to pull in hundreds of millions per year while Mojang makes a much smaller amount. Notch previously said he's had an offer in the $2bn region and turned it down[1] so this seems /weird/, that said anything is possible!

[1] https://twitter.com/notch/status/448900844541726720
You are in the best position possible. You'll be gaining new experience quickly. In your previous position, you most likely were not growing/learning much if at all.

Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you they always want to be surrounded by people smarter than them. Congratulations, you are in that position.
The multi-tone flash on the iPhone is a killer feature that even expensive DSLRs don't have...
I hope so. Just by switching to a Cortex A7 or A53 @ 22nm instead of Cortex A8 @ 45nm, this should add 78% more battery life (according to the benchmark of Ars Technica). And by having a round battery instead of a square one, 57% more capacity. So if this 360 lasts 12h, we're looking at more than 33 hours of battery life. But the 78% improvement with a Cortex A7 would be under heavy load, probably not the same story for IDLE usage.
OK, I guess maybe the original point was that there are super-cheap and super-expensive houses, and software engineers could afford something in between. They have to choose a poor neighborhood where they are wealthier, or a reasonably-priced but distant suburb.
It's a lot better than the 310XT. I don't think it's taken more than a minute of standing still in the last few months. I do tend to start in pretty open sky'd places though.
The thought of the thing buzzing when one of serveral very talkative/verbose friends starts spamming me with SMSes drives me into a rage. And thats just thinking about it.
You cannot imagine a more useless product?
It's also due to be replaced any day now (it's the last piece of the Garmin series that hasn't been updated in for.ev.er.).
Once the new version comes out, 910xt's should be pretty cheap to pickup.
There are better alternatives-- IF and only IF you value certain features that the Apple watch lacks over the features that it has, but that the frontrunner lacks.

The front runner has GPS so you can get GPS without carrying your phone around. That's great. But what use is that GPS? (seriously, I don't get it- it's a 80s era LCD display).

The Apple watch has GPS (in the phone) but also gives you maps and haptic feedback to send you along your route without ever looking at the watch. I presume the frontrunner doesn't do that (how do you put a route into a watch without a map display?)
This is not the case with first run products. The original iPhone's price was $599 (8GB) and $499 (4GB) when it was released in June 2007. Then in September of the same year they discontinued the 4GB model and dropped the price of the 8GB down to $400.

I'm not saying that they will drop the price of the watch but there is a history of them doing this with the first run of a product. Also someone mentioned they did something similar with the MBA in this thread.
...and completely miss the point.
I don't think you can get much more information than heart rate from a non-invasive device whose only input is the surface contact with your wrist.

Electrical Skin Resistance ("Sweat sensor") would be possible to measure, but in my brief experience with it is very unreliable as the sole source of information, since you get the same physical response from many different causes.
good education does matter :)
I like the watch idea personally. Say you're riding your bike and you receive a text message. in order to see what's going on you will probably have to stop and take the phone out of your pocket. with a watch you can simply look at your wrist quickly.
Haha awesome, I would love to meet your friend. :D
If I remember correctly Notch is a partial owner of Mojang, so he might have some say in this.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
No, this is a huge impediment to its usefulness. Having to carry around a phone while running is a drudge regardless of how serious of a runner or athlete you are. Not to mention so many other sports that could benefit from this but won't. This is especially so considering the larger size of the iPhone 6 and especially the iPhone 6 plus.
Awesome! I wish I had the opportunity to work with a large scale docker/coreos deployment like this. I really perked up when you started talking about PXE booting, I wanted to see what you guys were doing to manage updates.

I'm trying to make automated updates when using PXE[0].

When installed to disk, CoreOS's update manager automatically polls for updates and downloads them in the background. On next reboot, the new version is shifted into place. This is unfortunately unavailable when booting with PXE.
Having used a range of phone sizes, the iPhones have always felt quite small to me. And while I'm a happy Nexus 5 user, I admit that it's ever so slightly too big. I really think 4.7" is the magic number for most peoples' hands (based on my experience trying out a Moto X), and adding 5.5" gets them a chance at the "phablet" crowd.
It ought to, since some European customers have chip-and-signature cards for various reasons. There's no guarantee that shop employees will be properly trained on how to handle it though.
> And there has never been such thing as Inspectlet in the app

I had downloaded the crx file before you removed Inspectlet. Yes. There was such a thing as Inspectlet in the app, and it was used specifically to record user keystrokes.
Clear your cookies or use a different browser; it worked for me.
And what exactly are you going to do with an "x86" expensive dev board with 500 Mhz Atom CPUs and 1GB of RAM? Run XP on it?
I would have bought one since that's exactly what I want but they're -still- not shipping outside the US. Think they may have missed their chance now...
Mmmm... this would be quite surprising, actually. Notch always seemed to be very fond of his independence, and he sure has enough money to back his position.
What does "years of repressed memories and emotions" refer to here? You can't repress memories and emotions you don't have.
1. that's no issue when you just use Bitpay/Coinbase to exchange the Bitcoins for USD/EUR immediately.

2. first of all, that's not true. More Bitcoins are created every day so it's inflationary, not deflationary. Secondly: that would be a good reason to accept Bitcoin. Who doesn't like getting paid in something that will appreciate in value?
Also it's significantly lower for people with college educated parents - majority of HN demographic.
Yes and who cares? It still is not secure. Anyone who gains the virtual card number can use it and the merchant system can charge arbitrary amounts of money to it.

A payment system that wasn't cooked up by weirdos would include actual security features such as your phone's display shows the amount of the transaction and you enter pin or password or other knowledge and your phone signs the transaction. That would be nonrepudiable and you could clear such transactions at negligible cost because there's little risk.

Square, which isn't exactly winning out there, at least does include a modest security feature of displaying the picture of the authorized card user on the terminal.
I believe the Fenix 2 has already replaced it - http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/03/garmin-fenix2-multisport....