skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
was promising until i saw the guy walking in yacht....wait can i use this software to get rich by trading currencies? I got confused. The site looks like one of those 'I make $4000 a day, I show you how" types.
It absolutely did. You may have forgotten, but the early success of iTunes/iPod was in being able to organize your music and get it on your device. iTunes/iPod was the first to really get this right on any kind of scale. And, compared to the competition of the time, they really nailed it. So, a phone that had that integrated was a really big deal, even if it couldn't run any apps (as the first iPhone did and couldn't).
These conclusions are surprising to me. I grew up in the states and lived in Canada for 4 years.

Though I agree with the lack of security offered by a signature, that method of payment is basically offered everywhere in the US. Compared to Canada its uncommon to be asked for a 5 dollar minimum purchase or a 50 cent surcharge for a credit card transaction. Furthermore, the credit limits in Canada seemed downright restrictive.

Say whatever about the security of credit cards in the US but as a consumer the product is much more compelling. I can go almost anywhere, rarely pay extra fees and easily spend all of my own money. Furthermore, why would I care about a signature? Yes its antiquated but who cares if its never used, I can charge back fraudulent charges pain free in the US which has not been my experience in Canada.

Basically, I think the user experience of paying money is really important, but chip and pin doesn't solve that problem.
If it's possible why hasn't anyone implemented such a thing? I'd like to implement such a thing and I wouldn't know where to start, but I would with HLS. This is the 1990's all over again. Different browsers supporting different standards, different video encodings, different JavaScript features, sometimes, when I'm having a spell, I'm not so sure competition is actually all that great anymore.

And no you cannot stream with webrtc without building a complicated back end webrtc MCU implementation which requires significant engineering and is not at all supported by the creators of webrtc who are focused on peer to peer inside browsers.
Single Americans become majority for first time – RT USA
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Studios#Owned_franchi...

Fable, Gears of War, Forza Motorsport and (until Forza displaced it as the Gran Turismo for Xbox) Project Gotham Racing.

Mass Effect also started off as an Xbox exclusive.
Why dont you just use something like Tekkit, FeedTheBeast, or ATLauncher? They bundle mods together and its a click and play ordeal. They are essentially just autoconfigs for Forge.

I find the most odd thing about minecraft is how much 3rd party adds to the game, but is in no way supported by mojang. Even when Things such as pistons and horses began as mods, and were implemented into the standard game years later.

Its been years since mojang announced they'd make a mod api, and it still doesn't exist.
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That's correct, it's not a right, but being free from having your primary and only residence confiscated because you're unable to pay a "property tax" (usually due to a decreasing living standard) should be a right.
I'm very curious about the business side of ApplePay. Is Apple going to get some (miniscule) cut of every transaction performed? I.e. is this a new revenue stream for Apple?
It's probably very smart of Notch to retain what he can regarding the Minecraft IP. What a lot of people seem to miss is that Minecraft isn't only about the "official" game.

It's a platform for development. More importantly, it's a platform that lets many people create things in 3D without having to bother with OpenGL/etc.

If you think I'm talking about pixel art or other static things, or if you think I'm talking about mods, I suggest watching these, which are all stock minecraft only.

* SimCity reimplemented in vanilla redstone & in-game command blocks *

http://www.jigarbov.net/simburbia-map-release/

* FVDisco's Cake Defense, a wave-attack game with many features. (everything FVDisco has done is outstanding...) *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwxD3axvgt4

* Razul, an older scripted rpg adventure game with command-block based quest system *

http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/razul---skyrim-inspir...

* Hypixel, a many-thousand player custom server that works with the stock client *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BdSq8fMtY

--

The larger ideas that Minecraft is effectively a prototype for is basically the VR environments we've wished for over the last several decades. We achieved a lot of the 3D graphics capability (and are ok with sound, the few cases where the developer bothers), but interactivity is just as important for immersion. Not being able to interact with things that are not part of the "intended" experience can rip you right out of your suspension of disbelief.

This interactivity is what Minecraft gets right, and we've barely scratched the surface.

Minecraft : interactive 3D voxel games :: NCSA Mosaic : hypertext documents
I stopped signing a long time ago. Now I scribble, draw pictures, whatever.
Agree, the whole demo looks like an passive NFC tag.

What's new here?
My primary and only residence will be confiscated if I'm unable to pay a "rent".
i find it really curious. the phone is already a device for consuming notifications. now everyone is trying to sell a smartwatch to consume phone notifications.. its so meta...
As a landlord:

A) is rather hard, profiles and credit reports don't tell the full story and lots of odd things happen during a lease.

B) makes sense when you have >2 units to lease (SFR, flats, whatever) and at least one is cash-flow positive. And they will save your mental health.
You need to realize they are trying to compete in a market soon to be dominated by $4 a pop (RETAIL) Chinese modules. They will fail (and so will TI).

http://hackaday.com/2014/08/26/new-chip-alert-the-esp8266-wi...

Galileo was a total failure. Intel gave up giving whole stock to MS, MS in turn gave them out to developers pretending they have viable IoT platform.
http://modbf.sourceforge.net/
Interestingly enough. I also worked on a MapleStory emulator at around age 14. It was all done in C++ and it was an incredible learning experience. I learned about crypto, reverse engineering, networking, packet sniffing, hacking, etc. The strange part was that my current motivation for the entire field revolved around this project I did as a kid. I'm now 21 and working at a game company and teaching. It feels so surreal looking back at it because a lot of the concepts I dealt with at age 14, seem more complicated than some of the network programming I do nowadays.

I still have the source code laying around somewhere and here's a youtube video of its very early stages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH5FLfNPSn8
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth
Nintendo likes that strategy too. But, it's arguably hurting them now.
He probably won't, so I will (somewhat, he's definitely exaggerating, but probably not as much as you think):

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09in12ms.xls

Effective tax rate plateaus at around a half mil in annual income, then starts going down again after around five million.

I couldn't find any hard data about brackets above that. Didn't Mitt Romney pay around 15%?

Then there's my all-time favorite quote, of Leona Helmsley:

>Only the little people pay taxes.

But, that's only anecdotal, heh :-)
Show HN: Announcing SquidKit – Swift code for iOS
Thats great, but STM32 costs ~$.30, STM8 you can get down to ~$.10.

There is no room for x86 at the bottom. Nobody wants embedded chip that boots in legacy real addressing mode to maintain that sweet sweet compatibility with windows 3.11
Have you talked to anyone who's been funded by the Gates Foundation? I have. It's rigorous, and very data-intensive. Whatever imaginary cache of research out there that might exist probably couldn't be qualified-up for a GF funding process.

I've done grant funding as well. People say they want money, but the minute you give them a deadline, they're gone, and they can't collect even the merest evidence required for due diligence.
If you're going down the path of VXLAN support in Docker, I'd love to talk. The company I founded built a Linux distribution for commodity hardware switches that can do VXLAN encap/decap in hardware at 2+ Tbit/sec. The same configuration that works in a Linux container host or a hypervisor works on the switches.

nolan@cumulusnetworks.com
IBM’s proposal for an Internet of things architecture using the blockchain
In the 1990s, people used to write these things called plugins to add features, like support for specific video containers and codecs, to browsers. Now I guess browsers have to have everything built in or not at all. "Progress".
experience? you mean you use assembler? ever touch registers directly? no? thought so. x86 has zero advantages over other architectures in embedded world.
"Steve Ballmer Laughs at iPhone" in 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
So you want a small PC, not an embedded platform.
This is like a more extreme case of saying RPi will fail because Arduino is cheaper...
Just-in-time summoning of unikernels
The advice I've been given about negotiating exploding offers is that you first ask for more time. If they say yes, then you just got something of value for free. If they say no, they've improved your negotiating position.
What are these applications doing?
Do you want to turn these applications completely into Single Page Applications or you just want to have some clean JavaScript instead of the old school jQuery?
What is this? Javascript for Mac?
Yes. And put together in even less time than JavaScript 1.0
Except for Steve Jobs and a few very rare exceptions, nobody really has a second act. Once you get the FU money, you might as well ride the first act for all it's worth cause that's all you're going to get...
Yep, we damn need a bit of more competition within bigs, right now seems just between Google and Mozilla (for the type of language).
I find much to disagree with here. My sample size (5 or 6?) is small, but I've found the Waterloo folks to be solid.

Just to touch on some comments:

> 1) UoW has a really low requirement for entry, of my class many students went to study at UoW most of them had average to below average grade, compared to Oxbridge UoW has a joke of an entry requirement, I later learned they have a very high dropout rate after first year - which explains things, but I think is disingenuous to their students. School should be a place of learning not a lab for natural selection.

Getting solid results with weak students makes this all the more impressive.

> 4) UoW has really bad reputation in the academical world and ppl doing basic research ( look up UoW ranking )

This is very elitist. Not everyone needs to graduate from a top tier research institution. Many top liberal arts colleges are weak in research too.

> 6) Universities historically should have weak ties with industries. The reason for this is independence. I know for a fact that UoW has strong ties with microsoft in the past and used to push .NET stuff on their students ! how do you expect a university to be intellectually honest if they are attached to a corporation ?

Most professional schools have strong ties with industry. Any senior partner at McKinsey (or Goldman) can get a meeting with the dean of any business school in America. This is a technical program, not philosophy or art history. Most engineering students welcome industry ties, and the job prospects that come with it.
That's assuming the virus does not mutate over that many generations which may affect one of several crucial parameters governing how large the outbreak will be when we look back at it from the lens of 2020.
I haven't been keeping up with neovim, but does it completely freak the fuck out whenever I forget I have caps lock on the way that vim does?
Snapchat uses Apple's big day as a diversion to hide some dramatic news
The Tower: un jeu gratuit qui a fait des étincelles au Royaume-Uni
It's different. If your home was previously paid for in full, then it's your private property. If I'm paying someone on a monthly basis to allow me to live in their residence, then it's obviously not mine. Asking someone to keep paying an annual tax on something that's:

1. completely theirs

2. essential to their life

is a form of feudalism and serfdom and a flagrant violation of their right to be secure in their life, possessions and property. You can try to argue this as much as you want and invoke all sorts of broken analogies, but it is what it is.
New record for the worst comment on HN.
I may be in the minority, but I don't use a case. Kind of defeats the purpose of a nice looking, slim phone.
I just want to say, that was a fascinating video. I wish that I could join up with doctors without borders and help them in their fight.
Regarding your first point, see:

http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2011/08/advertising-and-fut...
What is this... a radio for ants? But seriously speaking, at the frequencies used, I'm guessing it is meant for some bluetooth application?
I have worked with Internet services for many years. I think we have missed quite some opportunity to build great web app platform.

For example, we could package web apps in .apk/.jar package, so they can run like native apps without worrying about missing a resource during offline. JS engine can have more freedom optimizing the code and cache the result.

There is no need to install web app like Chrome Web Store does. All we need is bookmarking and implicit app cache (with smart caching policy). Most people don't use more than 100 apps on regular basis, so 1GB app cache is enough for most people. One major mistake with installable web apps like Chrome Web Store is they often come with security permissions, which defeats major value of web, security and privacy.

Offline can be done with smart API design. For example, browser can let web apps create cache files that sit next to cached .apk and share the same lifespan, then web apps can use sqlite to work with such files for storage. It is essentially the same model as Android/iOS native apps. All these can be done without any app install or security permission. The only risk would be you will lose data if an app is purged during offline, therefore it doesn't have chance to sync the state back to server. If you really about data loss, browser can support pinned apps, so they never get purged by caching policy. That pretty much solves the fundamental problem with web app model.

PS: the usability of JavaScript, web APIs and performance are separate issues. That would also need to solved.
I think their premium watches may be more like $1k+ even.
> now they expect me to interact with something more complicated using a tiny, rotating nub?

Did you ever use a Blackberry? Tiny rotating nubs are really good.
grumpy old 10+ myself, I can answer for me: because for me it is boring to play the comedy.
> So, let's not pretend that we know what is going on here.

Absolutely. When we make bold assertions like "X would Y" we are bringing a huge amount of personal bias, baggage and most of all ignorance to the table. It blinkers us to the vast range of possible realities that our impoverished imaginations (and our imaginations are always impoverished) are incapable of conjuring.

As an exercise, before posting "X must be Y" it is very much worth-while thinking of half-a-dozen movie scripts that could tell a story that would fit the known facts. In the present case they might look like:

1) Basil Fawlty-like character goes off the deep end upon discovering child from before his marriage

2) Uptight wife divorces husband for youthful indiscretion

3) Husband's former double-life as a spy revealed by accident of genetic testing

4) Husband's former criminal life revealed by accident of genetic testing

5) Christian wife divorces when accident of genetic testing reveals husband was not a virgin at marriage as he had always claimed

6) Radical feminist wife leaves husband when she finds out he once patronized--and impregnated--a prostitute...

The only thing we can say with any degree of certainty is that the reality is far weirder than anything we can imagine. It almost always is.

In none of the above cases would the marriage necessarily be describe as "not strong" prior to being put to the test.

To claim that "a strong marriage should have survived this" is vacuous tautology: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1087. It is true that a marriage strong enough to survive whatever happened would have survived whatever happened. It is also true that a big enough blow will disrupt anything weak enough to be disrupted by that blow (http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~branderr/risk_essay/hymn_strain.html)
Reported death toll. The biggest cause for concern is that every story that comes out immediately starts talking about how we don't really know how many people are infected or have died, due to the distrust of the local population in medicine.

The second paragraph in this story states that recorded cases of infection are now over 4000. With a 90% mortality rate, the known death toll will double in the next few weeks.

I don't think this is likely to become pandemic, but it must be a very scary situation in Africa.
Apple has a horde of people waiting to buy its devices, it will take off thanks to Apple's marketing and then 2-3years from now, they'll start claiming that they invented smart watches.
Yes, I was thinking that screen savers are back! (AfterDark, anyone?)
That's pretty funny. Definitely a case of life imitating art [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imitating_art
Woah guy ... you mean to say focus can pixels now? Now I'm impressed.
This article indicates that of $316M revenue, 130M was paid to Notch, $57M was spent on other costs and expenses, leaving $129M profit for Mojang. That doesn't seem tiny.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-03-19-mojang-made...
iPython – Rejection Sampling
Re: "It's a cool gadget and I have fun wearing it in public."

Having a camera pointed in your general direction is enough to give most people pause. I have really bad anxiety, and if someone wearing Glass looks in my direction, I will be made incredibly uncomfortable. It's the kind of thing that makes me want to never leave my house. Not saying you should live your life based on how I feel, but I think people who wear GG should at least be aware of the (great) potential for making others feel uncomfortable.
Many of IKEA's catalogue images are renders now too.
Samsung launches VR device
RegEx ftw
Grow Up and Get a Real Job – 5 Alternatives
FYI: Mid-higher end AMD on Asus motherboards support unbuffered ecc ram. The ram is 2x as much and you won't go above 8/4 cores at modest speed, but it's a good option for homebrew solutions.
There's no cooldown period when you guess wrong. They say there's a 24 hour cooldown, but there isn't one. You can keep guessing all day if you solve a captcha for every three guesses you make. Captcha cracking is a cheap offshorable service, $1 for a thousand
Frankly, IMO the student loan situation is as big a mess as any we have in our nation. It is outrageous that it costs $40000 a year to attend college. It saddens and sickens me to know that is the case.

It represents a skew in our priorities perhaps the same as seen in other domains, thinking about health care in particular. The mistaken idea is that we save money by skimping on essentials. The only way to navigate toward solving problems is to see the whole picture, the impact on the entire system has to be known.

The least expensive health care is providing high quality services to the extent people need. The cost to the nation of untreated illness is greater than the expense of treatment, considering the whole cost burden of illness.

Same in education. Encouraging education that permits maximum accomplishment provides a net benefit to the nation as a whole. Under-education impedes productivity, technological innovation, and even contributes to health care costs indirectly.

When I was in school and reliant on loans, the government program asked for "feedback", what I thought would improve the student loan program. I wrote on the form, for the price of one military jet, a thousand students could be fully supported for as long as required. AFAICT my comment had no effect.

So no, I'm not asking you to support me as long as my million bucks holds out. With any luck (my luck), you won't ever have to. But there are quite a few old citizens not as lucky as me who we should try to support.

And BTW, I may be old, but I am still a taxpayer. Retirement account withdrawals are federally taxable, so I'm guessing that would be roughly $7000/year. That's my money, saved out of what I earned.

Some of my tax payments may go to support you or your school. It's OK, I do believe mutual support when necessary is we should be aiming for.
>> Their biggest success is some fly by nights nonames announcing one off $65 tablets.

How about the Dell Venue 8 Pro?
I've been out backpacking in the wilderness plenty before. I was/am looking for something that is the least amount of light pollution I can find in a reasonable distance. There seems to be good resources out there for other attributes of an area so I thought someone might have gathered data on light pollution.
Immediate Payment Service (IMPS)(INDIA)
Just curious...does Google Wallet also do the same thing?
FYI, that mb seems to support unbuffered ecc, not the registered ecc stuff you put in the list... AMD + ASUS MB is probably a better option for under $600-800 price points.
But that's why there are options. No need to up the minimum from 16GB IMO. Not everyone uses their phone as a mobile entertainment device. But some do.
What is the barrier in building your own interface with the payment provider? Is it red tape, or technical challenges?
My take away from the page is that it is entirely focused on cosmetics and construction. It seems loud and clear they are positioning this as a piece of designer apparel... I think Apple understands the most important thing most people in the market for a watch are interested in; How desirable it is to others. The whole page just talks about how hawt it is.

As others have mentioned, I believe Google has put massive thought into smart-watch interaction and how it integrates within your life as a utility. I'm not saying Apple hasn't. But I am saying Apple's watch sales are going to be crazy nuts. People have room for one watch as a fashion statement. If it's not going to be an Armani who do you think they'll go with?
Since we (Zalando) are heavy PostgreSQL users, we also had the need for monitoring and part of the result we came up with is http://zalando.github.io/PGObserver/ and https://github.com/zalando/pg_view
Most MB vendors (other than ASUS) disable ECC for non-server cpu's... Also, it's Unbuffered ECC, not Registered ECC for those looking, and unsure.
I still have an iPhone 4 and don't have Safari crashing issues.
Fun thing, though obviously not quite the same: Transcend wifi SD cards are (or at least were) running Linux on ARM, hosting a Perl CGI script(!) that could be exploited to let you do your own thing with the card -- see http://haxit.blogspot.com/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-...
since reddit obsesses about this stuff,

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2fn6vz/looks...

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2fmybn/so_th...
Well...TIL. Is there any good resource to learn about the technical side of how payments are processed, and this new tokenization/network-level tokenization effort (http://clover-developers.blogspot.com/2014/09/apple-pay.html)?