skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens when the vendor has a certain degree of control over their market; however, if the market is large enough, an overly-restricted platform becomes a liability, and customers move to better solutions.
Why is a programming language without any open source implementation getting so much attention?
I'll just leave this here...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2175826/softwareinus-tor...
You have to charge those headphones?

- One reason I'd prefer Beats solo2 over these, they don't need no charging...
Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication
agree. What's the killer App for it? Maybe it's the HealthKit related things, but they hardly appeal to core Apple buyers: young people! It'll be a historical change if Apple starts to add oldlies into its base.
A Superhero of Sorts in a Hunt for Artifacts
So, a very heavy overlap with pdftk then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk
We worked together at dozeo.com. From the beginning we became really good friends and always wanted to start a project together.
Thanks, I was planning to create a black hole simulation on the web and that would be the intro. I've inspired from the computer simulated animations but there are real images out there.
Windows Server 2003 Migration an Imperative for Businesses
Just noting how much I hate the practice of deleting comments, especially after someone has replied to them.
China, too.

Taxis in China are incredibly cheap - depending on city, base fare ranges from approximately 8 to 13 Yuan for the first 3 km (around 2 miles), with each additional km around 2 Yuan. Also depending on city is the driver's 'knowledge' but usually it is quite good.

Several Uber style apps to hail a taxi have taken off, the most widespread seeming to be 快的打车 but used by licensed taxi drivers only and fare calculated via the meter. Getting a license doesn't seem hard depending on carriage company and ability to drive dangerously.
It's cheap to borrow at the moment, so it doesn't hurt employees who are paid monthly but want to borrow more.

It would really mess up your cashflow to pay yearly.
It's not necessarily futile. If Intel can grab enough of a slice of the Android tablet market that developers of Android apps that use significant native code start caring about x86 Android... all sorts of opportunities open up for them.
SteelSeries Siberia V2 Full-Size Gaming Headset [1]

I am wearing those up to 5 hours a day.

- Fits nicely around me large ears

- Cable has an extension

- Audio quality feels better than with any beats I have worn

[1] http://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Siberia-Full-Size-Gaming-H...
The question is whether a mode-less interface (that necessarily displays more information at once and is therefore inherently more complex) would have caused more problems than this single instance of a problem caused by the mode mechanism.
"Pretty much all the distros out there" except for: (from TFA)

"The PCLinuxOS distribution has not adopted systemd and, so far as I know, has no plans to migrate to the new init software. Slackware Linux, CRUX and Gentoo Linux are all Linux distributions which are unlikely to adopt systemd as their default init system for philosophical reasons."

The philosophical reasons being the centralisation of control over a key aspect of Linux to a group of developers that aren't universally trusted?
it was destined to happen ;)
I can also verify this. One of my gmail accounts was in there, incidentally the "trash account" I use when I sign up for various services online.

And the password was one of my lowest security "trash passwords" I use with this e-mail as login sometimes if it's a service I wouldn't trust or don't care if it's compromised.

So I wouldn't worry about this. Someone had their site hacked most likely and these are logins to the site, not from Google.
Is there anything similar for Newrelic out there? Nice project btw.
I can't wait for their C# IDE...
Indeed. However, I think, a wish to not provide a link between your DNA and your name is somehow understandable. Anonymizing a subset of social graph isn't something completely wrong, although, indeed, I agree, it's unlikely to work well, because, it's very likely that only a single node would go without a name.

(However, if all his near relatives would do the same, all one could figure out that John Doe is probably a relative of a Jane Doe. And they're somewhat related to other people with real names, but at least deanonymizing requires more work and other databases.)
Why do you remove the repo of Hydra?
That's almost exactly what the headline of the article says!?
A bit more on the timing: USA is finally switching to EMV based credit card payments (chip and pin) during this year and the next, meaning that most terminals will likely be able to accept NFC payments as well (Google Wallet, Apple Pay, whatever else that follows the spec)
Wow. Thank you for that link. A (computer)game that kept me interested for more than 30 seconds is pretty rare.
It is a shame it only supports MinGW and not MinGW-W64 at the moment.

I hope they settle on Clang/LLVM for the main tool chain and include a complete version of Clang for Windows (when the Clang standard library is done).
Has It Become Way Too Easy to Create a Start-up?
Because:

- it brings interactive programming concepts (Playgrounds) into many mainstream developers.

- it belongs to the ML language family

- it recognizes the advances in mainstream computing in the last 30 years

- not everyone like to type @somekeyord and [some method call] everywhere.

- many of us do buy development tools and open source is just a nice to have feature
Genes and human disease
Hacked Celeb Pics Made Reddit Enough Cash to Run Its Servers for a Month
You should note the date on that article (April 3rd). Kay Sievers rights have been reinstated by Linus.

It's also important to note that the issue was with Sievers specifically and not with systemd. As Linus said "[...] you don't fix problems in the code you write [...]".
Link-time optimization in GCC, part 3 – LibreOffice
A really old skit by a Dutch comedian went something like this:

In old days we had only 1 digit phone numbers in our village. 0 was the operator, 1 was Dr. Jones, 2 was the parish priest, 3 was the butcher, 5 was the greengrocer, 6 was the local contractor, 7 the constable, 8 mrs. Smith, 9 the Jacksons and we had a secret number.
What good is the language without its libraries?
Ask HN: How much should a back end dev know about sys admin?
Hi there,

I'm a backend dev (mostly JVM) and consider my strengths/focus/interest in developing clean, scalable code. I don't know if that makes sense but I'm more a "algorithm" person than anything else. I had never really an interest an the underlying hardware. Actually I loathe any sys admin work.

Now, being a freelancer I often find myself working with smaller startups that need besides developing backend code someone who knows his way around servers, cloud computing, virtualisation etc

My question: how much should I force myself to learn those things? Esp. given that I want to continue working as a freelance / remote developer?

Or should I just say that's not my expertise but then I'm afraid of closing doors.
While I might agree that contributing a simple idea to a startup isn't generally worth a stake in it, driving that startup with a broad, complex vision over its development certainly is.

Unfortunately, I've met founders that equate the latter with the former, and think it's fine to steal off with "ideas" that people have worked on for years because "well, ideas have no value, only implementation does." If the "idea" is several paragraphs (or even pages) long, and includes comprehensive implementation details, it has value. No question.

Now, SnapChat, I agree, there isn't really much going on there beyond a one-sentence pitch. But not all ideas are that simple, and the complex ones are given inherent value by their complexity.
A lot of detractors miss the fact that the Knowledge is about much more than just memorising routes.

The Knowledge is a very egalitarian way of hugely increasing the value of a taxi permit to the holder, creating a strong disincentive against any behaviour that might jeopardise their license. If you've spent four or five years working to get your Green Badge, you'll think twice about cheating a passenger or taking liberties with traffic laws.

The exams ("appearances") are conducted in person, and are deliberately intended to be highly stressful. Examiners want to see not only that the candidate knows the routes, but that they can remain calm and courteous under pressure. By design, the Knowledge is a long and arduous test of character that happens to impart practical skills.

If your interest has been piqued by this article, there is an excellent (albeit slightly dated) BBC documentary on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvFKh_3evC8&list=PL759B26B05...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007796l/modern-times-s...

It is also worth noting that the iconic black cab is a perfectly designed tool for the job, not just a kitsch symbol. It is fully wheelchair accessible, has a durable wipe-clean interior, and is designed with a very tight turning circle to maximise manoeuvrability in the tight streets of London.
If they pay you enough, sure, why not.
Why Do Mobile Games Often Fail at International Expansion?
Fucking zombies and its butt sucking media...
Coincidentally, I watched an episode of Channel 4's Black Box series just last night that discusses this accident. The whole series is worth watching but this episode is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wp-Dbb2CO4

Start at 3:34. Very revealing comments at 5:20 about pilots having to fight with the "strong but silent partner" in the cockpit.
Only when languages die.
Technically it's controlled by a Dutch not-for-profit organisation (not a charity)
Its supposed to be >100MHz Xtensa. Should be enough for a lot of things if/when it gets hacked (as long as it has SPI for fast interconnect).

Then you have $10 modules based on 360MHz Ralink Mips soc, or $15 Qualcomm AR9331 400MHz (overclockable to ~500MHz) ones with 32/64MB ram. Those are very capable on their own.
Amazing things with reporting
Hello,

I have a pretty large web application that collects a lot of information that our clients use for both business reporting and machine to machine data moving.

Today we provide a handful of reports that cover the basics, and then develop custom reports in php.

It’s painful, slow, etc…

What I am looking for is a reporting server solution that will let advanced customers create their own in a web browser and optionally a desktop client and have them run in our service.
And for those who need assistance, give tools so there is no coding needed unless it’s some scripting that’s part of the reporting ‘service’ and is for some advanced functionality.

I have worked with Jasper and Brit in previous projects, but there must be some new and interesting products out there.

I’ll be taking a look at Zoho and Pentaho.

Where else should I be looking?
Why Apple's Live Stream Was So Bad During the iPhone 6 Launch
I dig my audio-technica. I was happy to see a lot of people at [MHacks](mhacks.org) with them. I got mine for about $150 on sale, just check around the webs.
Apple Watch: More Details and Hands-On Impressions
There was another: "The simple leather classic buckle references traditional watch vocabulary".
This piece is inflammatory click bait using generational warfare rhetoric, pervasive in social media.

Things are completely different in the US. Other speculations about the aged here are age independent. To approach the actual problem, you must first replace the word retirement with injury or downsize.

In the U.S. healthcare is a tool for culling. Oh, look - Apple has new products...
Steve, the browser debugger should work with all extensions... what isn't working for you?
Aside from the fact that JetBrains make incredible IDEs, basing it around CMake is a great idea as it means project files that aren't tied to a specific platform or IDE. You can develop a project in CLion just as easily as you could with vim and the build instructions would be the same.

I very much hope this is the future and the tooling around CMake is improved too. In my perfect world, this would include dependency management - even if that just meant a reference to versioned sources that you could easily include in a project file and the tooling was responsible for pulling them down and building them.
Apple could sell 10M iPhone 6 on the opening weekend
Jugaad. India's first step towards Mars is worth the price
Can't comment on Apple specific technology, but the RemoteTalk seems like just another brand name. It looks like just microphone built into the cable - which is nothing new - you can get unbranded versions which will work with any headphones that have a detachable cable.

Problem is maybe finding a suitable cable and headphones with detachable cable. A number of those higher quality headphones use 3.5mm male to XLR male cables, and I doubt you'll find one with a microphone. (they all seem to be 3.5mm male to male).

Could just buy a wireless BT mic instead, and get a decent set of headphones.
Same.

But the downvotes trickle in even after you realized that your arguments, or emotions were not quite up there.

Idea: Functionality to mark your own post with "I concede", keep it grey like downvoted posts and block further voting.
I spent a few weeks trekking trekking around the northern part of India a few years ago, around the foothills of the Himalaya mountain range. Miles from anything, only access is by foot and the only power was available by a generator that ran from 6am-10am and 6pm-10pm. It's amazing what is out there.

What amazed me the most was the number of shooting stars I saw, what I thought was a rare occurrence but if it is dark enough even the smallest particle of dust throws out an amazing glow as it enters our atmosphere.

For those of you in the Southern UK, I highly recommend a camping trip to Durdle Door. The camp site is a few hundred metres from the cliff edge and miles from any light pollution. Amazing views of the nigh sky from there too: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=durdle+door+night+sky&tbm=...
It looks like you could use thumbor (or any similar solution) as an external resource[0], so it doesn't matter what language it's written in.

That said, it usually feels safer to have something that works with the same stack.

We're using carrierwave, and it's pretty neat, but we had a few times where we had to scale thumbnails differently, and it turned out to be a pretty long batch operation, especially since we're storing images on S3.

I think that 'on-the-fly' conversion and caching could work better for larger sites that tend to change. Pre-processing doesn't scale so well.

[0] take a look at https://github.com/rafaelcaricio/thumbor_rails, which I believe is using https://github.com/thumbor/ruby-thumbor

EDIT: added links
Many businesses offer cash discounts, much more so than digital.
iPhone 6 vs. Samsung Galaxy S5 vs. Nexus 5
Just wanted to put in a vote for a writeup. Mind sharing a few more details here in the meantime?
Support is planned for audio and hopefully text - I am working on building a million song dataset to recreate the work Sander Dieleman did for Spotify, and have had some possible support in October for the weights of a trained speech network! So yes, feature extraction from other domains should be on the horizon.

We are specifically trying to make it easy to say: I want to transform an image (or audio, etc.) using a pretrained net. Download the weights, extract the features for me, and give me the feature vectors so I can do something with those. This seems to be really, really, really hard in all the tools I have used and usually involves training yourself, which is not very useful for things on the level of ImageNet.

Of course, having nice examples and good docs is one of the great parts of scikit-learn, and is actually one of the things I have been working on most recently. Our docs aren't to that level yet, but I hope they can be one day.

DeCAF (precursor to Caffe) and OverFeat binaries were really kind of the first in this regard (about 1 year ago now), but IMO one of the limitations is that they lose interaction with the rest of the Python ecosystem for data munging, and simple algorithms for exploration. By wrapping the weights, we hope to leverage the support of the Python ML ecosystem easily, while still being able to use the power of these networks.

Right now the most compelling use case is as part of a scikit-learn pipeline i.e. make_pipeline(OverfeatTransformer, LinearSVC) or whatever. Feed images in, get predictions out. I am also working on a demo of "writing your own twitter bot" similar to https://twitter.com/id_birds , written by Daniel Nouri . I like sloths, so it will definitely be a slothbot.

I also hope to support recurrent architectures from Groundhog (https://github.com/lisa-groundhog/GroundHog) as several researchers here at the LISA lab have been using it to get pretty amazing results in NLP and audio, both of which are potential targets in the future. If we can leverage their work, it would be a very nice way for people to immediately play with SOTA architectures in different applications.

In any case, just loading in weights and extracting image features easily is nice, and was a benefit for both Michael and myself in a research project this summer.
Rocket Internet targets $1bn IPO
I do have an OSS client, but the very first step to enable Gmail's 2FA is to give your phone number.

I agree that there are good reasons for asking that, but the comment above apparently raises a good point, namely, that you apparently cannot enable 2FA without giving Google your phone number.
Is it possible to load Makefiles?
This is much better: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fedorahost...

Open source fork of the (now closed source) Google Authenticator.
Opt-out is really to blame here. Almost everything is opt-out in the US. Go look at how the EU handles data/privacy sensitive stuff: most of the time, it's opt-in.
They already have ReSharper, that combined with Visual Studio is pretty good.
Contact me at zq@nemcv.com, I have personally helped 1000s of people in your exact situation to find the right job. Just be ready to take the red pill! :)
The big downside about JetBrains' IDEs is that they work and look absolutely awful on OpenJDK on linux, and there's no way around it.
I spent about 20 minutes reading through some of the now 650+ comments, and I'm a bit surprised how common the arguments are on both sides. It feels like the entire tech community has the same basic argument every time a new 1.0 apple product is released:

Those who don't like the product:

- it is feature incomplete

- the hype doesn't match the actual product

- it doesn't actually look that great

- there are other, better products already on the market

- it is overpriced

- one or two interesting feature doesn't equate to "innovation"

And those who like the product (or love Apple) tend to have counter-points for each argument.

I'm curious if anyone has compiled a list of day zero critiques over the years for Apple successes (Mac, iPod, iPhone) or failures (Mac toaster, hifi, etc.)? It would be fun (and maybe a bit informative) for the community to review.

Edit: fixed spacing and wording.
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We're developing chartbliss, that is a tool for creating dashboards (but obviously you can create tabular reports as well). Check it out at http://staging.chartbliss.com/, feel free to get in contact with me in private and I will get you access to our private beta instance.
Overkill HN: Paying in the Age of the Smartphone
So to pay a coffee via Apple Pay you need...

- A bank account

- A credit card linked to the bank account

- An iPhone

- An Apple account linked to the credit card

All this complexity. Why isn't the bank account enough? Starbucks could simply send "Please pay $3 to ...." via NFC, you tap "OK" on your banking app and you are done.
Well, they have no choice. Because technically the copyright of each image is still held by the people who took the images (or in some cases the people in the images). Are weights of a trained network based on ImageNet a derived work, a cesspool of millions of copyright claims? What about networks trained to appoximate another ImageNet network?

There is a lot of legal gray area here unfortunately, so the signing of the license to work with the images seems like a CYA move to me.
'OMG. I've just thought of a great idea for an app' What's next?
The article says it has a CPU, therefore in theory it can check digital signatures.

That said, I don't see why would it need to be passive if it's in a light bulb, or any other device that can be actuated. It'll need more energy to do whatever you tell it to, so it can also use that energy to actively power the CPU.
Better teach the people not to produce children if they can't nourish them.
Cash still works when a city does not have power and ATM machines don't work. I've had a few instances of this in my life and I was caught without having much cash. Emergencies, cash still rules supreme.

The point about it getting lost is actually worse for a phone. You can also lose your smartphone. Losing your phone is a greater risk than losing the minimal amount of cash you carry on you. Think about it, if you don't have a password on your phone or you do and someone gets in, how much data are you exposing? Facebook, mass messaging all contacts, Banking, App stores, Email, the list goes on and on.
Not to mention you're phones likely in a contract and you hold a few hundred dollar balance remaining on the item itself.

The problem with any technology is that even though we put our best foot forward, there will always be bugs and glitches. Cash, always, just works.
I don't get why this is down-voted. I think it is excellent point.

My thoughts exactly when tried to view the live stream.
Your Network Is Already Hacked, but LightCyber May Be Able to Save You
"most sailboats have two primary operating modes"

I have a better example for your argument, using sails.

Reach port sail config or reach starboard sail config. Its been 20+ yrs since I've sailed but for the landlubbers that means the sails are hanging off one side of the ship or hanging off the other side of the ship.

Tacking between them is quite hazardous you can get whacked in the head and knocked out and swept overboard or if lines are not handled correctly you could tangle a foot and get tossed overboard etc etc, and thats before operator dangers like improper line handling hurting you or rope burns or who knows how else you can get hurt while mode switching. I suppose if you screw up the guying of the mast you could shatter it while tacking and that just isn't good.

So yeah, to a landlubber, a sailboat that can only deploy sails to starboard is obviously a huge UI win because its modeless. Of course that makes the boat uncontrollable and useless most of the time. This is how sailboats would be designed if landlubber UI professionals designed sailboats.

If you'd like an EE analogy of modes, look at multimeters. You're not going to get away with selling dedicated ammeters or dedicated hardware voltmeters other than specialized apps (clamp on current meters, safety inspection high voltage voltmeters, thats about it). People would rather switch modes than pay twice as much. Of course its worse and many meters do semiconductor forward voltage drop, and continuity, and resistance, and frequency, and capacitance, so next thing you know you have 50 meters on your desk or one multimeter.
Quick comment.... If you really like your music, get some kind of headphone amp/usb-connected DAC so that you don't rely on the sound card of your laptop/desktop. Why spend lots of cash when you're using a 30-cent component?

Echoing another comment, closed-ear cans are a must for the office but I think open-ear cans sound better when you can use them. I have Grados but ears are a personal choice thing. There are some excellent in-ear earphones (Etymotics, for example), but these take some getting used to.
Thoughts After the Apple September Keynote 2014