skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been showing 320x ads on wider Androids just fine...
Advice.

If you are one of 3 trusted advisers who have a 1-in-3 chance of providing critical business advice for a multi-billion-dollar company? You're worth every penny even if your batting average sucks.

The trick is to get into that position. You usually get there by making lots of real-world decisions for yourself for your own multi-billion-dollar company. But -- I'm sure there are other ways.

Good luck!
From the demo video, it looks like a "standard" reader that I've seen in use today.
Similar page in style, form, language choice, and even content!

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html

It's just a joke instead.
If the battery life doesn't suck (which I fear it does given the total lack of reference to it) and the "iPhone required" isn't as onerous as it seems, I might well wear one just for the easy 24/7* heart rate tracking. Granted the optical ones aren't as good as the HRM straps (as best I remember the dcrainmaker reviews) but they're less onerous for long periods.
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Could Ethereum Use Docker, ZeroVM, VirtualBox or JVM?
The payments protocol is called EMV. The wireless transport protocol is ISO14443. Then we have different branding of the combination of EMV+ISO14443 for different card issuing networks (Mastercard PayPass, Visa payWave, etc.) Apple Pay and Google Wallet are further branding of the pair of standards.

A possible reason Apple might succeed where Google Wallet failed: Apple have a better track record of telling MNOs to fuck off. It's the reason the software update process is better on iPhone, it's the reason your iPhone doesn't come with carrier bloatware, and it's the reason they can put a secure element in their phone without the MNO being the root of trust.
Ask HN: HackerNews for Business?
I've found HN to be a fantastic resource for discussing hacker related news. I'd like to expand my business and BD hustle. What resources do you read that you've found helpful?
Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From (2011)
They would freak out if the public comments actually mattered. Unless you know otherwise, I'm guessing the FCC doesn't much care what the riff-raff think is a good idea. They're more interested in maintaining relationships with big business and keeping that revolving door spinning.
Show HN: Our side project – Android to Mac/PC mirroring (Yosemite like)
I asked the Ethereum guys this question, thought people here might be interested in the answers. Let's discuss.
What kind of apps do you see bringing in such revenue?
Apple's Jony Ive Hires Marc Newson
I saw this a few months ago. I never thought I would see it on HN.
Agreed, it just seems like something that Apple ought to mention. Can't find it anywhere on their website. And orientation changing makes sense for a phone feature because people switch between portrait and landscape, while this is a permanent setting that 90% of people would never touch.

It'd be a giant oversight for Apple though, and I'd be surprised if nobody on their design team is left handed.
If anything, it's very Apple-ish.

Apple II+, Apple III+, Macintosh Plus, Apple IIc Plus, Laserwriter Plus, ...
I'm holding out for the iPhone SE/30
The reason I'm against actually slowing down is because they probably won't bother to geo-target it. Net neutrality isn't a problem where I live, there's nothing I can do to help people in the US, so I don't want my day disrupted. A spinner I'm ok with.
Looks like a beautiful product. Unclear to me why anyone would want one. Much like Google Glasses, I'm straining to think of a compelling use case in my own life.
Don't work with jerks
There is a difference between saying that her audience didn't think she was currently a programmer and saying they didn't think she had ever worked as a programmer.

If you look at her blog, you will not assume she writes much code now days. If you look at the topics she speaks on, you will probably assume she doesn't write much code. If you look at what consulting services she provides, you'll assume that you can't hire her to write code for your company.

Perhaps this one talk was not listed on her site. Perhaps no one in the audience looked up her website to find out who she was while she was speaking. Perhaps, the speakers information was completely different than the way she presents what she does on her website.

Or maybe they didn't think she is currently working as a programmer because...well it doesn't currently look like she is primarily writing code for a living.
This may be a larger announcement securing the future of Apple - there is a LOT of Newson in the Apple Watch
There are ways you could integrate this with a web site. You could use an authentication code sent on the backend to the phone for confirmation. It would basically be the same as any two-factor authentication. I'm just not sure which way it would have to go.

Or instead of NFC, maybe the phone is linked to Safari through a bluetooth connection and works with a specific Javascript API.

All of this, is of course implementation dependent. And at the moment, I won't think that we have enough information to rule it out.
I've been "tapping to pay" with my credit cards here in Canada for the better part of the last 2 years.

Does this use the same technology?
Is there any way to link to neovim as a C library instead of using the messaging protocol? Also, where is the documentation of the protocol? I wasn't able to find it after a few minutes of browsing.
My biggest disappointment, they announced a product they cannot ship. I remember the good old days, ITS AVAILABLE TODAY. Now Apple is nothing than just what they used to lampoon, a creator of announcements; not products.

Perhaps we can hope they use the time to take the obvious feedback flowing in and make it right by launch
Weekly App Marketing News
Because watches are bound around your wrist, thus making them much less likely to be dropped (and they're much lighter if they are dropped) - scratching is the big concern with watches. I believe many (most?) high-end non-smart watches already use sapphire instead of glass for that reason.
>> just that enough features can be moved to the wrist to make it worth wearing.

I'm afraid it's not quite so simple as that. It also has to be more than simply worth wearing.

* It has to be worth adding to the pile of devices that you're managing (remembering to charge, remembering to wear, connecting to your phone, security settings, etc).

* It has to be worth taking up another USB port in your charger (since it's not using a lightning or micro USB port)

* It has to be worth taking up more space on your nightstand for charging.

While I see a lot of benefits for sporty/health types and FOMO-afflicted notification addicts, I'm not so sure it's going to eat up the market the same way the iPhone and iPad did.
It erodes, but also enables you to focus on your companies core competency rather than payments.

Also viewing this through the lens that e-commerce view shopping cart conversion rates, this might up initial conversion for new services, which in Uber cases is a win. Just forces everyone to focus more on product.
I don't think Apple needs that handful of extra dollars from early adaptors.

The reason the initial price is high is because its easier to decrease a retail price than it is to increase it.
Have they put the full price list out yet? I can only find the price with a 2-year contract.
It seems like it's reasonable for it to switch orientation with the easily switchable bands. The 'crown' nub would then be on the bottom left of your right arm.
Are you used to people obeying your every whim just because you ask nicely?
I am in both Android and iOS camps and I'd say the Note 3's camera comes very close, perhaps even beating it on stills and certainly on 4K recording. The Note's auto-focus is absolutely hideous though so for short videos/vlogging/Vine/Facetime/Skype the iPhone is still the winner.

I'm still getting the 6 Plus instead of the Note 4 though.. simply because it's three fewer weeks to wait ;-P
what do you do now when the credit card machine isn't working? There's always going to be a point of failure.
Most people I know who are in this situation are

1) Old

2) Have tons of experience and worked hard earlier in their life

3) Have lots of connections that prevent them from being fired

I'm sure there are employees at large companies who collect 6-7 figure salaries and do little to nothing on a day-to-day basis. However, they can only do this because of their past merit and connections.
Your point is well taken.

The thing is that ngrok does not do anything useful beyond printing out the help text when double-clicked, and without the text, I'd be worried that a user might actually try to double-click it again when it doesn't do what they want instead of typing the command with useful arguments, if that makes sense.
Okay, well then, you're awesome. Keep up the good work!
Unless you believe that removing the 16GB model would magically cause all other models to drop $100 in price, then why do you view keeping the 16GB model as a bad thing? I'm sure it sells quite well. If it didn't, they would get rid of it.
Personally, I spend far less on phones than I do on coffee, so I guess I'm not really that price sensitive if I have a preference.
Hill Climbing Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence
Do you know when the new iPhones will be added to the devices menu? Or whether we will be able to save devices and curate the list?

I'd like to add 1080p and 720p screens into the list for some tv screen sized apps I'm building, and to be able to star some of the more common devices while demoting some of the less common ones.
The swim stroke tracker is hit-and-miss for me (sometimes guesses the wrong stroke and length points) but that probably says more about my swimming (which is awful) than the watch.

But I can definitely vouch for the excellent battery life, resilience to water, and usefulness on a bike laden with sensors.

The only gripe I have is that you can have multiple sets of bike sensors but not anything else. That and their approach to OS X software basically being "well, be grateful you're only 2 years behind the PC and that we acknowledge you at all."
Curious to hear what innovations you see coming down the pipeline? The spec also discusses loyalty programs via tokenization, but no one has yet to implement them to my knowledge.
This is a press release about how cool 23andme is, wrapped in a sorry story.
The strangest part is that they don't even show the bulge in the product renders on the site: http://images.apple.com/iphone-6/overview/images/design_deta...

It's as if they're in denial.
What if everyone actually had only one soulmate?
They use the same tech to communicate (NFC) but Apple's security features seem unique.
Hi! We only prefill your email address if you're logged into your Stripe account while looking at that page. Hope that clarifies things.
Exactly how much does it affect battery life? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the answer is "a lot". I'm sure engineers at Apple would love to be able to provide 2GB of RAM (after all, they're using this device too!), but the fact that they're not either means it is cost-prohibitive (unlikely) or has an unacceptable impact on battery.
> I don't want to have to leave an expensive watch with my bag on the beach

While it's sapphire, I recommend that you keep your watch and phone as far away from salt water and sand as possible. One grain gets in the crown and you could be in trouble.

My sport watch is a Timex which is resistant to 100m, but the springs sometimes get sand stuck in them.
Right, marketing scum are tantalizing us all with the prospect of tearing our families apart. Please.
Apple planned obsolescence is a myth. Yes it might be true that the new iOS updates will require more resources, and thus the older models perform less well - but that's akin to running Windows 7 on a PC that was released formerly running XP, with all of the "Aero" features enabled.

I agree Apple does some crappy things; but every large company, government and organisation does. Does that make it right? No. Is there any point in complaining about it in an iPhone 6 release thread? Not really.

Let's talk hardware and new features instead of grabbing our pitchforks.
I'm not sure I fully understand. This is fewer deaths than many seasonal influenza outbreaks (with more flu deaths in fewer months). How deadly is this, because so far, it hasn't had the impact I expected?
Funny enough, Amundsen who prepared much better and actually succeeded doesn't get nearly the same amount of press that the Scott does. It seems true heroes fail.
Companies that sell network equipment to ISPs don’t want net neutrality
Official iPhone 6
Summary: 23andMe's genetic database may uncover shitty behavior of people close to you that they would rather you not know about. They hide this behind a checkbox asking you if you want to see info about possible close relatives, but the author thinks there should be big flashing warnings that it might show information you aren't ready for.

Of course, the other way to interpret this is that his parents weren't really okay with the status quo, at least one of them either hadn't put enough thought into what happened, didn't know the whole story, or was entirely in the dark. The author may feel that it would be better to not know that information, but that information is truth, and represents who the people involved really are or were. I have little patience for being asked to help support others delusion.

Edit: s/rather now know/rather not know/
It's really weird. Using the built-in HTML5 player, half the videos don't load. But those videos do exist — Google just doesn't want you to be able to access them easily. I can watch them on my iOS devices, I can download them using dirpy.com, and I can watch them in my browser using the YouTube5 plugin.
Hardly. This is a story about how 23andme is a good way to find out things you wish you'll never find out, and about how 23andme screwed up their find-your-relatives feature and didn't seem to care about what happened to this poor guy.

This is a story that makes you think twice about whether 23andme is a cool, fun purchase/present.
They don't have to worry about losing any customers to Android though, because nobody makes a 4" phone anymore. Unless you're looking for some Chinese generic with a 320x240 screen and no reviews.

I don't get this trend. I just want a phone that does calls/texts, maps, alarms, music, and occasionally browses the web. Why does it need to be enormous?
Most likely, it won't require any account
GMX has pretty bad security policies, so it's not that surprising to me that someone got access. Last I checked they didn't even require HTTPS.
Docomo is pretty willing to open up their technology to expand the ecosystem (that's what they did with Softbank and au, and JR also has a part in it), because they know it would die if they kept it for themselves. And that's openly one of the role of BitWallet, the joint venture they made for the solution. Actually I really hoped they could do something with that outside of Japan.

I think regarding to NFC, it really depends on where you live. I was commuting on a JR line, and having Mobile Suica combine with Edy was such a boon that I could forget my wallet I wouldn't care. Just having your phone means you can ride the train, buy anything at the convince store, pay the restaurant (you may have less choice, but there's a lot of them accepting Edy or another service), buy music or electronics, and buy drinks from vending machines. It's almost surreal how much you can do.

I later moved to the Keikyuu line and it was still great, but less magical.

In terms of technical control, Apple already choose "standard NFC" (at least that's the quote I have on the liveblog), and I would guess they are bound by Visa and Amex for the implementation. A priori Felica is part of the NFC standard, IF it supports the encrypted protocol it should be OK to have everything as third party apps.
Have you at all bothered to read the blog post?

> In the process of writing up this blog post, I wondered if I could do even better. Is there a way I could eliminate that last support email? After searching around for a bit, I stumbled on cmd.exe’s /K option which instructs cmd.exe to run the program and remain open after it terminates. The soon-to-released ngrok 2.0 contains the final iteration of this feature. When you double click it from explorer, it will relaunch itself using cmd /K so that it executes as if you had opened the prompt yourself and run the command.
Wait, why does the smaller variant have a larger CSS pixel-width? Wouldn't it make sense for the 6 Plus to allow for more text?
Announcing the Intel Edison and SparkFun Blocks
>>"My parents divorced. No one is talking to my dad. We're not anywhere close to being healed yet and I don't know how long it will take to put the pieces back together."

We don't know the circumstances under which the father and his then-girlfriend had given up their son for adoption. However, that seems to have happened decades ago.

I'm not sure why no one is now talking to the dad for something that happened decades ago.
Your concern is well founded, insofar as onlookers of other people's parenting are all too quick to blame parents for all bad characteristics of the children. But if further research shows parents whose infants are at risk for development of autistic signs how to nudge the children's development in the direction of more communication and ability to engage in self-care, I think most parents can be trusted to take research-based advice to help their children.

AFTER EDIT: Here are some more links with news about the currently reported study.

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/09/6690500/uc-davis-study-brea...

http://time.com/3305027/autism-symptoms-disappeared-with-beh...

The link below is a PubMed link to an earlier journal publication by the same research group.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023017/
If that's all it was, they would have picked a happy story instead. It's also a serious actual cautionary tale, one that isn't entirely helpful to 23andme.
I know, but he linked to the web page in order to provide background info on the product he was discussing, and I wanted to point out the extreme difficulty I had in actually obtaining that information from that site. Apologies if my comment was a bit of a rathole (but perhaps it's less of a rathole than actually attempting to visit that site would be).
I'd hardly say it's screwed up. It works as advertised. The author is just upset he has to confront the truth, which I have little sympathy for.
Get ready: The Senate is about to hold a hearing on net neutrality
To all of you criticizing the features, just remember:

It's vaporware.
I believe anyone who did a fair amount of network development in the kernel sooner or later arrives at the idea of a virtual networking framework with switches, hubs and configurable links in between. Half of those will make an attempt to implement it, because it is a fun project, but only few will move beyond tinkering to having something functional. However getting something like this into a shippable production state is a genuinely remarkable achievement :)
That's definitely not true. I work with plenty of Android phones with 4.7 to 5 inch screen sizes, and they feel comically large in my hand compared to my personal iPhone 5s. Even the jump from the iPhone 4s to the 5 made reaching everything with one hand noticeably more tedious, but of course one gets used to it.
It's pretty common for Apple to ship website updates around their launches that they've obviously only tested in a WebKit-based browser....
I've been to the bay area twice in my life. Most of my dating has been in either NYC or (recently) Pune, India. I'm aware the dating situation out west is unsatisfying, I just thought the issue was just that one might need to go out every night instead of only fridays and maybe compromise a bit on quality.

The fact is SF has women and no parental supervision. How could it possibly be this bad?

I'm honestly asking because I'm curious about the mechanics of it.
I agree that for natural language processing, generalized parsing makes a lot of sense.

But since Marpa's documentation and papers compared it to tools like yacc, I analyzed it from the perspective of someone trying to parse programming languages or data formats -- the sort of thing yacc would be used for.

Most generalized algorithms (such as GLR) allow you to generate and compare multiple parses. Marpa is not new in this regard. And while I agree that this is useful, it's a "run-time error", so-to-speak. Given a specific input, it can tell you the multiple parses it generated.

The benefit of deterministic algorithms is that they can give you this kind of feedback at compile-time. They can generate sample input that would trigger the ambiguity, if they were seen in the wild.

I think a static vs. dynamic typing comparison is apt here. A statically typed language can prove that the types are always correct. Dynamic typing defers this checking to runtime, so you don't get the same static guarantees about your program. The same sort of thing can be said of ambiguity checking in deterministic vs. generalized parsing.
Yes, that's fair. If you define "programmer" strictly as someone who currently holds a job title of "software developer", then sure, I'm not a programmer. Nor is, by that definition, a technical founder who's built their entire website. If that's the way you define the term "programmer", then sure, I'm not a programmer.

Of course, if you define it in the sense of what someone can do, has been employed specifically to do in the past, and continues to do as a core part of their job, then I am a programmer.

But, again, that's not relevant to the situation being described. The situation being described is not someone offhandedly saying that I'm not presently employed as a programmer, or asking about why I'm no longer a programmer [by some definitions]. You, and many other people, are creating new situations and saying "well if someone said X after you did Y, then it's totally reasonable." That's not the situation being described. It's the straw man fallacy.

I am describing a specific situation in which someone listened to a talk about data structures, algorithms, big O time, etc (yes, within the context of interviewing) and saying "So when you WERE a recruiter at Google, ...".

The information on my website is entirely irrelevant.
FYI Isis changed their name to Softcard to sound less terroristy

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-03/isis-mobile-wallet-...
9 maps that reveal London's secret history from Shakespeare till today
It's from a google trends graph showing that the number of searches for "why is my iphone so slow" or something similar consistently peaks (at a 300% above baseline rate or more) right before a new iphone model is released.
surely Apple has the ability to determine the minimum space people need from actual usage statistics. I would expect that usage like that is fed back to them. If not it would be one helluva blown opportunity.
When you're talking about profanity, or quoting someone who's being profane, either put it in there, verbatim, or omit it.

Does quoting "That's f*cked" really put people's minds at ease? Seriously? This is as ridiculous as the Japanese censorship bars covering 0.1% of an otherwise outrageously pornographic image.
I don't know how such a minimalist and simple could be so addicting. War on Emperium, PvP, and hours grinding cards. And even on low rates, just getting lost in these various worlds, exploring every little map...so many memories.