skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it might not be that they "index themselves" but they index links to google that others post on forums, it's common for people to link to "lmgtfy" so they probably index those links too. I don't see google "googling" on itself while indexing it's own searches. Unless Skynet.
IBM Sees Role for Block Chain in Internet of Things
Similarly, behind every good ship is a trusty Ship's Cat. (...and often whiskey too.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship's_cat
My personal opinion is that when the call terminates in an actual phone number, the voice quality of Skype now beats Google hangouts.
The companion piece is also on Netflix http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=80005608
I disagree with you about zero military applications. Imagine a backpack that can engage thrusters to significantly reduce it's weight for a few minutes. There is a significant difference to sprinting with 20 versus 120 pounds on your back. Details are, as always, in execution. There are a host of reliability, safety, and economic challenges to work out before this could get anywhere.
Even BofA in the USA issued tags that could be attached to the back of a phone (or anywhere else).

That's what I don't understand...why does a NFC transaction have to involve smartphones? What is it that needs the processing power of a smartphone? Is it so that Goog Wallet/Apple Pay can access your transaction data?
JetBrains CLion C++ IDE First Impressions
A simple example would be storing data on your 'logged in user' on a large application that has multiple controllers/services.

A scope only extends as far as a particular controller/service. If you wanted every controller/service to have access to that user's data (eg. that user's ID), you would create a service that would store that data, and then inject that service into each place you need to access the data.
Or you sell one share to a mutually trusted advisor for $1.
With all that data and most users being logged into Facebook on their browser at all times, I cannot for the life of me figure out why they haven't released an Adsense competitor -

I'm assuming there are some deep philosophical reasons about not wanting to encourage any business decision that focuses entirely outside of the Facebook ecosystem, but hot damn, I would drop Adsense on my sites in a heartbeat for a FB version as I'm 100% convinced their service would easily defeat the competition in an ad relevancy test.

I can't imagine it's privacy related, because that's proven to mostly be only a minor hurdle to overcome every time everyone freaks out at every FB change.
They could have shuttered the print magazine and kept the staff on to write for the website. Like all the other tech websites out there. Wonder why they didn't do that.
"it generated quite good machine code, almost as fast as the hand coded one"

I'm sorry but this is complete bullshit. What is expected of a compiler these days (SSA, advanced instruction scheduling, smart inlining descisions) is not comparable with what the first optimizing compilers did.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell you still need to dedicated GV app. It was however just updated today:

- Updated user interface to match iOS7 guidelines
- Bug fixes and performance enhancements
- Support for Google Voice integration in Hangouts
If it's a GC thing, you should also try using various D compilers to compare performance.

There is:

dmd (official D compiler),

ldc (llvm D compiler),

gdc (GNU D compiler).

When I was messing around with D about a year ago, dmd compiled code the fastest, gdc by far the slowest, but gdc produced the most performant code. ldc was middle ground for both compile speed and program performance. Perhaps the GC issue you are having is just a quirk of the current compiler you are using.
The founders didn't think he had the technical expertise to make the app so they didn't involve him in that. A legal statement, made to placate a litigant does not change that.
having debt, high rising debt ... don't think that would play well with early investors... and without early investors it is pretty hard for a startup to live to see the late investors.
End for Google Voice?
They are. But many of them are now freelancers instead of fulltime.
This is already true in certain areas of the public sector. Florida, for instance, has broad public records laws. Since any written communication with a government employee about government business must be archived, the institution I was formerly affiliated with couldn't implement IM unless we enabled archiving for every IM conversation (probably not all conversation were subject to the rule, so you err on the side of caution and record them all).
I've been running without a full wireless plan for a little over a year now. I just connect my phone to the MiFi I have for work and route calls to a Google Voice number through a privately-run SIP server. Using SIP was always a little spotty and inconsistent, so I'm looking forward to trying out the Hangouts calls.

If you're tired of paying wireless carriers $90/month I think this makes data-only solutions much easier to use now.
Might also be ISPs introducing traffic management and whatnot.
Currently it's #2 for me, so it's up there.
The interesting question is, is this happening only at the Ivies or across the board?

I haven't seen any data on grade inflation from non-top-tier universities. I would wager that if we're looking at second-tier (non-Ivy but still very restrictive), top-tier technical (engineering, etc.) and art/music schools, we would be seeing significantly less grade inflation.

Does anyone know if there is any data on this?
Also interesting to contemplate: yes, Jackson was an incompetent, biased, and generally pathetic excuse for a judge, but it's hard to argue that both Microsoft and its customers wouldn't be better off if the company had, in fact, been broken up. Sometimes a blind squirrel (or a sleepwalking one in this case) can still find a nut.
Many paywalls are unpredictable, though. In this case I was able to read the whole article and I didn't see any indication of a paywall.
Googleception! (sorry for the useless comment, but I had to)
Where is the paywall or has the link been changed?
If I click on the link I'm able to read the article and I didn't subscribe/pay for anything...
This might be a good case study for dying traditional form of online media. Credit goes to random dance of Google SERP. As per Alexa, search traffic (for macworld.com) is gone down from 50% to 30% of total traffic, in three months. Google decided to do a (un)fair distribution of traffic.

Niche content companies should remain lean to survive.
Looks awesome, but tens of seconds need to morph faster. By the time 4 is clearly formed and visible seconds read 48. While continuous motion is aesthetic, it is hard to tell time.
Netflix costs 3 GB/Hr for HD[1].

Considering a movie is about 2 hrs, thats 6 GB/Movie. Say they have a "limited" library of 300 movies thats 1800 GB.

Considering a short tv show is about 20 mins, thats 1GB/ Episode. Say they have the latest 1000 episodes of all the latest shows, thats 1000 GB.

Considering a long tb show is about 40 mins, thats 2Gb/Episode. Say they have the latest 1000 episodes of all the latest shows thats 2000 GB.

This brings the total to 4800 GB, rounded up to about 5 TB. If they have complete copy of everything that's 10TB. 4 TB costs about $200 [2]. If you got 3, you spend $800. Even if you triple capacity, you're only spending $1800. Obviously there are other costs involved but I think it's definitely plausible and affordable. Probably also much cheaper to negotiate with Netflix on a per seat basis rather than content distributors separately. Only disadvantage is that you wont get "currently in theaters" movies which a lot of international airlines have.

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87
[2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=...
wish list: Oculus Rift with access to camera feed from outside the plane. talk about flying!
Los Angeles school board agrees to destroy internal emails after a year
I guess my point was this says a lot more about legacy print publishing than about macs.
>The problem is overbreeding causing too many animals.

it is we who, pretty arbitrary, decide that it is "too many" - it means that we're killing them pretty willfully ( just a step before "just for fun" and "the sake of killing them")

We definitely didn't do anything to accommodate cats and dogs inside the civilization they helped to build.

>There are limited options in how to handle overpopulation.

2 myths in one sentence - "limited options" and "overpopulation"
great news! The devs have made a good platform over the years.

Of particular interest is that they will be relocating their HQ to NYC (as well as keeping a Spanish office).
>a "young adult" book is somehow less likely to grapple with important questions...

I don't know that that's a silly assumption. Young adult books would tend to target questions that can be understood by your median 14 year old. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there are at least as many important questions that are out of the realm of median 14 year old understanding as there are within. "Less likely to" isn't the same as saying 'will never.'
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ELI5 why I'd use this in a regular project using say Rails and angular?
As a side note. If you want a 'dumb' watch that doesn't need recharging every few years, try a kinetic one. My Dad had his Seiko Kinetic watch for over 25 years. He managed to smash it in a car accident, and promptly replaced it with another one. No batteries required!

The caliber also incorporates Seiko's unique Kinetic Auto-Relay
technology. It is powered by the movement of your body with
Kinetic Perpetual quartz accuracy and reliability. With Auto-
Relay, the watch will, when not worn, operate normally for 6
months on a full charge, after which it goes into "sleep" mode
for up to four years. The accuracy remains and the calendar
continues to show the correct date, month and year, but the hands
stop, conserving energy, until, once the watch is put on again,
the hands automatically reset to the correct time.

http://www.seikowatches.com/world/technology/kinetic/perpetu...

Take that 'smart' watch!
I wouldn't call Apple's implementation perfect. If you switch to a non-Apple phone, you stop receiving texts from iPhone users completely (and silently).
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> It entered the union as Scotland, legally it is bound to leave the union in the same form.

based on what? your gut feeling?
the UK parliament can do whatever it wishes, a concept known as parliamentary sovereignty.

> Yes, we get to send MPs down to Westminster, but that did not do a thing to stop the massive moral and financial tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq, which the Scottish, right across the political spectrum, where overwhelming against.

your representatives, Scottish Labour, voted for both wars, but let's not let facts get in the way of Yes...
But to respond more directly to your question instead of just sniping... I would say that The Iliad, The Martian Chronicles, The Count of Monte Cristo, Lovecraft, The 15 Decisive Battles in the History of the World, The Stranger, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, and... well, this list is getting mighty long. But they and a truckload of others put me on the path to literature and the pursuit of knowledge, I think.
Device Detection Services (API)
Are their device level targeting APIs out there. It's a pain keeping the device lists with user agents updated all the time. Any SaaS that provides this on monthly subscription?
Microsoft is killing the Nokia and Windows Phone brands
Corekube: Running Kubernetes on CoreOS via OpenStack
Doesn't work in Safari 7.0.6
Today is a great time to be a writer. There are virtually no middlemen between you putting together a sentence and millions being able to read it. There are countless communities where you can find people to give you good feedback to hone your craft.

Unfortunately, that also means it's a really terrible time to be a writer for a living. Like every job that is (a) creative and (b) can be distributed digitally, almost all of the money is falling out of it.
> Especially surprising given how much they're pushing it to replace camcorders as well as DSLRs. I mean, how much raw HD video fits in just 16GB?

Storage space is far from the biggest problem with the iPhone replacing DSLRs ("camcorders" are perhaps a different story, if only because "camcorders" is a broader category that includes the equivalent of "point and shoot" devices as well as higher-end, replaceable-lens, analogs of what DSLRs are for still photography.)
Powdercoating is great until it chips. After that it's inferior to regular paint, because regular paint can be retouched easily.
> too many

It was http://xkcd.com/1338/ that made it clear to me that if we didn't want cats and dogs, we wouldn't have them.
Mozilla Firefox 27.0 works on Linux Mint.
The first Fortran competed with handcrafted code on extremely limited machines so it had to be almost as good to gain any traction. It did help that Fortran at that time was a barebones language so the translation was pretty straightforward.

http://polaris.cs.uiuc.edu/publications/c1070.pdf
Fun. I expect a cheeky onebox to come out of this at some point along the lines of the recursion search.
More background at http://onfoodandcoding.blogspot.com/2013/02/meta-ii-early-me...

Alessandro Warth's OMeta is a modern version of ideas in Meta II, http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/

OMeta is used in KScript and KSworld, from Alan Kay's Viewpoints research, http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2013002_KSonward.pdf

"KScript is a dynamic language based on the declarative and time-aware dataflow-style execution model of Functional Reactive Programming (FRP), extended with support for loose coupling among program elements and a high degree of program reconfigurability

... the KSWorld environment supports exploratory
application building: a user constructs the appearance interactively with direct manipulation, then attaches and refines
reactive variable definitions to achieve the desired overall behavior."

Edit: more on KSworld, http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2013003_ksapps.pdf

"The software for today’s personal computing environments
has become so complex that no single person can understand
an entire system: a typical desktop OS and commonly used
application suite amount to over 100 million lines of code.

Our group’s early experiences with personal computing led
us to understand that much of this complexity is “accidental”, rather than inherent ... About 10,000 lines of code were needed to build the framework, the FRP evaluator, the document model and the editor, including the implementation of the special language created for KSWorld."
It should be possible to test and analyze this.
Anecdotally, last night on the couch my wife was scrolling thru facebook while I was reading in the kindle app. This is pretty typical "wind down" end of day for us. Therefore I did not hear of this meme until it hit HN and I certainly didn't participate although I spend a lot of time reading, in comparison my wife could have seen it and participated, but she's on FB not reading.

Its like asking a bunch of xbox gamers about their favorite PS4 game or vice versa. Well, there might be some overlap in that Venn diagram, but...
Windows_98.css
oh please, seriously?! decline of work :)
Why a throwaway account?
If I were NASA, I would actually pick Boeing for exactly the reasons you would disqualify them. They have a fairly proven, safe solution that could get astronauts into orbit and back. It would be expensive per launch, but since it is all proven technology; it should be done on time and on schedule.

In addition to NASA, I would select SpaceX as they have promising technology to reduce the cost. By funding them, it would basically be buying an option on having a reduced cost solution to replace the Boeing solution if it actually pans out.

SNC is probably a bit to far out to take as seriously as SpaceX or Boeing.
I didn't say anything about the field of work, so I'm not sure what you're getting at. We don't have the context of the conversation or panel in which the supposedly dismissive and/or smug comments occurred and we don't have enough information to make our own conclusion on the behavior or the reliability of the assessment given here.

There are many reasons someone may feel that a speaker is smug. Some may be warranted and some may not. Since we don't know what happened and can't evaluate whether the parent's friends made a correct assessment or not, with this type of matter, it's best to just ignore it entirely. It has nothing to do with our familiarity with anyone's line of work.
Monoprice 8323's[1] have good reviews[2] for the price. I picked them up and I'm happy with them. I really like the detachable cables and the fact that they provide two cables in the box. I did do some modding to the headband to give more padding, using [3] as a guide. I believe I picked up the headband on amazon for ~10 dollars.

[1] http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=108&cp_id=10823&cs_id=...

[2] http://www.engadget.com/products/monoprice/8323/

[3] http://www.head-fi.org/t/619640/modding-monoprice-8323-with-...
link to videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5uF1qx7mT0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF9BC8iz4FQ
I've been hoping for a scikit-learn like wrapper around theano for a long time. Thank you for this, I think it could be extremely useful!
My first experience in team management
Are there many apps written in Unity? Or is it only games?
If you're trying this seriously, consider Patreon. I support some obscure stuff, and that obscure stuff is currently trending between "lucrative hobby" to "middle-class job pay".

You still have to put in the work in the first place, of course, but I think the situation is slowly swinging around to being able to make a living at it again. But... not everybody is going to be able to make a living at it, and that's just not going to change, ever.
Both of iphone 6 plus and iphone 6 together
Nokia would have been better off...
See Sarbanes-Oxley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act
No English Please, We're Japanese Baseball Players
Its the text equivalent of "lets move this conversation to a phone call".
With all that that implies.
(Unlike any potentially on-the-record IM).
So you think that the company should sacrifice in a way that hurts them but doesn't benefit their employees. Sounds like a highly rational thing to do.

If they can't afford to keep their employees the thing for them to do would have been to lay them off between events, which would have meant before this last event. Not a few weeks after this event. If they could have afforded to lay them off a few weeks after this event it would have perhaps been better for both parties for them to wait until the next big event and then lay them off, which would have looked exactly the same as this.

Consider that the past few weeks may have been the extra time MacWorld was gracious enough to give them, while at the same time helping themselves so that they may be doing well enough to provide some of their former employees with freelance work.
Confirmed! Though I had to go outside to get the initial pass code via SMS.

It does not seem like twitter supports this authenticator.
The syntax reason doesn't matter to existing Erlang developers -- you get used to the Erlang syntax, same as any other syntax.

The meta-programming on the other hand may well be a huge draw to Erlang shops.
It seems like it's more of a feasibility demonstration at this point. Blinding would be hard as you say, but if they could incorporate variable pitch blades into the pack it should be doable.
Excellent.

It looks like it uses linear interpolation between the different glyphs, which makes it look a bit jerky. The author might want to try a sinusoidal interpolation so that velocity reaches zero at the key frames and the whole thing thus spends more time dwelling on the legible parts of the animation and looks smoother.
Anyone that can genetically modify one to have fur but not leave it everywhere stands to make a killing though.
Yeah the hyperbolism was on purpose. =P
The gravity constant (or the density of the blocks) seems to be a little low. Like playing Jenga on the moon.
Forever last few days before launching
Sometimes it feels there are endless days before launching an update or a new version of the product: FAQ not done yet or homepage background color code is off, etc. Yeah, just ship it. I know. You know.

Have you been there? How were your "last" few days before launching the product?
thx for sharing video!
C# is hideous to get running consistently (if at all) with recent versions and libraries cross platform. Perhaps this will change in the future, but they've not been particularly brilliant about it over the past decade
As I said, I don't have the specifics so I can't judge the Macworld case.

Assuming it was an unexpected layoff right after a very demanding day of work, I can see some wrong things there.

First, you should inform people as soon as you made up your mind that you were going to fire them. Letting them work (a lot) and just after that letting them go is wrong. Is using them. Explaining the reasons for the layoff is the moral thing to do. Hiding it with an obvious intention of exploiting people's work without hindering their motivation is wrong (for me, but moral is usually a pretty subjective field).

A simple way to assess that you're up to no good is to see how the employees treat and refer to you after you let them go. And in this case, the twitter action does not feel very amicable to me.

Again, I don't know what really happened there at Macworld. But if someone is laid off and ends up feeling mistreated, maybe, just maybe, we should give him some credit and not directly assume that the business is right and they are just chronic complainers.
In addition to skram list of directories and search engines.
Here are some APIs in the travel/flight industry

http://flightstats.com

https://www.developer.aero/

https://developer.concur.com/

https://developer.travelport.com/

http://developer.ean.com/ (expedia)

Hope it helps :)
Absolutely. I would pay good money to be flown out to Cupertino, CA with a press pass to liveblog an Apple keynote, let alone be paid to do it.
Can this be run over SSL out of the box, or do I need to wrap it up somehow ?
Great work, this exactly what I've been looking for. I'd resigned myself to writing it from scratch - so I really appreciate your efforts on this. Will try it out right now.
Why? where they in charge of the streaming yesterday?
The OTR option is still there, see the "Hangout history" checkbox in the Hangout's settings. They did remove the global option to choose the default setting though. By default history is on for regular accounts and off for Apps accounts.
He“Y” – let's create a new Digital Government
Fun. I'd say you should have every number at x/60 or whatever of the way between first and next state, including hour and such, but that would probably just result in a bunch of unrecognizable squiggles.

edit: oops, RTFM devin
I don't understand. I already use Hangouts to make free calls on iOS.
Every Important Link from Apple's 9/9 Event – On One Page
What a psychology experiment can teach you about being a better founder
Needs the ability to rotate the table. Other than that really fun
Does incognito mode work? Not saying there shouldn't be a tag, but that way you know immediately how to access the article without having to rely on someone copying the contents into hn comments.
Publishers Gave Away 122,951,031 Books During World War II