skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally off topic but this reminds me that I need to see if I can figure out how to get Nvi to compile on OS X Mavericks. I know, I know, but it has a special place in my heart because it was the first version of Vi that I ever used.
Another downside of PEGs: The language that a union of PEGs parses can reject constructs that the individual languages support.
38 maps that explain Europe
Watches are a fashion accessory and have a very wide price range. I consider watches under $150 to be low end, under $400 to be middle end and above that to be high end.

Headphones are different because (until Beats) they were mostly about function and not form. You can get very good sounding headphones for under $100, which is why people whine about Beats being so expensive. Beats's innovation wasn't making good headphones, it was making headphones into a fashion (so they could charge a lot).
Any newer entries? Post-iPhone, Apple (i.e., not Apple Computer) has been a very focused company.

There was an interesting presentation that Tim Cook gave where he said that every product Apple currently sold being was on a single table in front of him at the presentation - can't find the link now.
So it wasn't honesty that was the problem, its was people's emotions.
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UI/UX developer to make the experience of authoring and interacting with a new tablet-based graphical media type simple and intuitive. Strong understanding of design principles and the technical skills to implement them. Experience building UI-intensive applications, ideally with iOS and Android.

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Tell us about yourself at info@mentalcanvas.com
Thanks for pointing that out. How that was laid out makes me rather frustrated at Vox because one would expect that the "full" article would be more detailed than a sidebar story in the much longer article about 23andme and the various ethical issues it creates for adopted people and adoptees. Instead, the linked article gives less of the story and the emotions surrounding it, leading more to confusion than anything else.
Molecules, a chemistry game
Indeed, the line from the movie was "you can't handle the truth" meaning I shouldn't tell you because in my judgement it will be harmful, directly colliding with your right to know the truth if you wish to know it.

It's not a trivial matter at all. Recently I discussed this with a friend who teaches genomics. He was excited about the possibilities of applying genomic knowledge in the public health arena. The idea was testing newborns, even before delivery (in utero), to spot potential health problems and use the methods available to address them.

I pointed out the ethical quagmire this is going to expose. People have a right to know, and as much not know, what their genes might reveal. Forcing people to confront predictions of illness or differences with social implications will be a nightmare to deal with.

The case presented in the article is merely the tip of the iceberg of ethical dilemmas. We certainly are living in interesting times.
Ask HN: What was the first project you were proud of?
One thing I love about the tech industry is the diversity of ideas and people's willingness to share. I was curious what your first great projects were. Where did you get your inspiration? Did it help launch you into a new job or new direction in your career?
This is pretty close to something I've wanted for ages: the smallest possible Ceph OSD. This doesn't have the right set of devices on it but it's pretty close.

Ditch the wifi for gigabit ethernet, slap a sata controller on the pci-e and mount it in a stackable frame with a power bus. Buy a drive, one of these nodes and stack it on top of your existing ones. Bam your own tiny cloud you can expand in increments of one drive (and commodity ethernet). It's probably a commercial non-starter now that 8TB drives exist but I still love the idea.

Or now that I think about it skip the sata and just sell it with some NVMe flash storage built in. Stackable storage bricks.
yacc = LALR. The tools aren't as interesting as the algorithms.
If I gain access to such an account, I change the password to something that no one will ever break. Maybe besides the rightful owner by some account recovery mechanism I am unable to disable. But multiple people having access seems a very unlikely scenario to me. Why would you share the credentials (and risk getting locked out yourself)?
Why do I get the feeling that even if this guy gets what he wants, in the long run he'll end up getting what he deserves?
CODIS already does familial searching:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_DNA_database

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_DNA_Index_System

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/lab/biometric-analysis/codis/fam...

http://www.innocenceproject.org/docs/FamilialSearchPolicyFin...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253037/
23andMe has not proved that the information it provides is sufficiently accurate. It makes claims about an individual's susceptibility to various diseases, and furthermore it markets itself as a reliable source of information (which the FDA takes to mean, a tool for making decisions). The FDA's mandate is if someone makes that claim, consumers should be able to rely on it. That has not been satisfied.
Learning to code? You should learn about development environments
From what I've seen, you need to have a card with an existing payment provider before you can use it on Apple Pay. If you have a bitcoin debit card or a way to integrate a bitcoin wallet into a payment service, you can use it. If not, Apple Pay isn't what you're looking for. It's not a wallet in the same way a bitcoin wallet is.
We have implemented a similar pattern with https://github.com/wavii/darner and a daemon to take the messages and move them to AMQP out of band. It is a healthy pattern to send asynchronous messages to a local daemon before sending them out. Takes the external server out of the path of failure.
Enabling Voice Input into the Open Web and Firefox OS
Well, we know that CIA was doing something like it in Pakistan. It would be a little surprising if the FBI didn't the potential for the technology.
Energy-efficient Bcrypt Cracking (Passwords^14 – PasswordsCon Las Vegas 2014)
You can find it at https://github.com/vthibault/roBrowser/tree/master/
in the src folder.
Or consider the first iPhone which had no 3G. Building your first iteration specifically not to go up against a particular competitor can be intentional, in hardware and software. Two or three generations down the road this watch could prove interesting (or may be not, like the iPad.)
I assume it's tracking chromosomes. Humans have 46 chromosomes, and each chromosome is basically a copy of one from our parents, plus some mutations. You can count the average rate of mutation per generation (which is very low, something on the order of 100-200 total mutations in the entire genome), and then count the differences between one chromosome and another chromosome. When comparing genomes for two individuals, you'll get a low number of differences for some chromosomes and a higher number of differences for others.

So when I hear 25% similarity, I'm thinking that it means that 25% of the chromosomes for person A are very similar to chromosomes for person B, and that the remaining chromosomes are not as similar. This is just relative similarity, the overall similarity will be quite high.
In a perfect world, I'd agree with you.

But, in reality, how many Americans have any real choices in ISP/telco? I have a choice of two mega-telcos (Cox and Verizon), neither of which provides good value (when compared to plans in Europe).

As for the FCC, the revolving door is very real incentive for regulators to do what existing corporate interests tell them. Why would they care if they're removed from the FCC when they have a corner office waiting on K St?
Right parsers make this hard, since they can't tell you what they expected at a spot; only what what they parsed could fit into.

Left parsers make it easy, but aren't as powerful.

Marpa gives you everything you need for both -- a table of "what could happen here", and can parse left languages.
That would be SSL Client Certificates!
That's a great idea. I didn't know older kits were for sale. I'm 10x more interested in the health information than my ancestry!
The facts are rarely in question, always the emotions.

It's like soldiers, no one questions that they conspire to kill people, it's whether they are heros or murderers.
Google doesn't write the bloatware, but its actions allow bloatware to exist on android in a few ways, as far as I understand.

- Android has an open source version (that is, a version that is completely open source). Like you mentioned, this gives carriers and OEMs the freedom to do what they want, even fork and bloat.

- Android has a mixed license version, where you get the full experience of the Google Play store, Gmail, and so forth. Google has a lot more control over who it allows to use this version, since many of the components are not free software.
The von Neumann architecture was also inspired by the working of the human brain and that is why the specific terminology was used (e.g. memory.) Apparently the perception of brain operation has changed since, as it was much more mechanistic back then (i.e. processor.) I wonder how this compares to the IBM's cognitive computing chips.
Actually any watch over a few hundred will have a sapphire glass, so even after 10 years it's unlikely it has scratches.

The body may have some minor scratches, but I think it only adds to the charm.
> I remember the good old days, ITS AVAILABLE TODAY.

You mean like the iPhone, which was announced at Macworld in January, 2007 and went on sale only 7 months later?
Those will be built in to the Apple Pants. You can leave your iPhone at home, you will just need to wear these special pants.
It's because they're a bureaucracy and they are protecting their turf. They call the spit kit a medical device and want to regulate it as such.
can't wait for the same ad for the trip to Europe. Though i hope at least low wages and bitter cold willn't be part of the package this time. Bitter cold replaced by high radiation though.
I had a Moto X. If you're a current iPhone user, and haven't been a dedicated Android user, my advice would be don't. You'll regret it. "Active Notifications" are in all ways inferior to Apple's Notifications, and that's about the only thing the Moto X has going for it over a Nexus 5 besides being a bit smaller/lighter and having better battery life.

RAM matters a lot more on an Android, and even with more cores, running faster, with more RAM, it will be objectively slower at most things than an iPhone 5C (and that much slower than an iPhone 6 I'm sure). Plus actually using it will eat through battery quicker (it wasn't a 36-hour device for me like the iPhone 5C was, despite similar usage) and (this one surprised me) eats more data.

Not to mention if you have kids, the lack of iMessage and the inability to forward an HD video over to your spouse of the kids is almost a deal-breaker all by itself.

Anecdotal, my 2c, etc. But I owned a Nexus One, every iPhone except the 3GS and 5S, a Samsung Galaxy S2, Moto X, Palm Pre, Palm Veer (loved that little guy, just too buggy) and most recently an LG G2.

Discounting Apple on the basis of hardware and perceived performance would be a big mistake IMO. They're head and shoulders above everything else on those counts IME, and age so much better.

I got so tired of the quirky G2 (I swear there was a 1 in 3 chance that just unlocking the phone would launch the Alarms app for no reason, and that forced Menu button... GRRRR) I swapped my SIM into an old iPhone 4S I had lying around yesterday. It's not quite as snappy. But it's not half bad either. From a perceived performance perspective (say that three times fast!), the G2, a flag-ship Android phone released only 12 months ago, is slower in every way than an iPhone 5, a phone twice it's age (and yup, the G2 has 2GB of RAM, the iPhone 5 had 1GB).

If you prefer Android more power to ya. But if you're a long time iPhone user... Maybe I'll convince you to save some heart-ache (and $$$). ;-)
It's amazing how similar it is to all the other clunky smartwatches. More polish, sure, but essentially the same thing. I think they really missed an opportunity here. Should have been two things only: sensors and notifications. Fitbit + Pebble in a slim, beautiful package.

It's already an iPhone accessory, not a standalone device. They could have gone all the way with that, but no, instead it's yet another touchscreen gadget to fiddle with.
Vaporware does not merely mean "announced but not released".
BPS?
Sorry for the problem, it should be fixed for now.
(cause: temporary ipban of the proxy server by the emulator server because of too much floods in the login module).
DNA storage is a very tricky area ethically. You're dead right that even spotty coverage is sufficient to make all sort of inference, while on the other hand we have much more DNA from crime scenes than we have the resources to process, and when we do process it it can lead to the exoneration of people who were serving long sentences.

http://hstlj.org/articles/concerns-associated-with-expanding...
don't most nfc implementations use a coil of wires that are some minimum physical size? I imagine the coil is the size of the watch (horizontally)
Bitcoin now accepted for over 100 San Francisco Rooms
There's a reason that sendmail exists, and that the sendmail book was so gigantic. Because it was terrible software, yes, but also because it was routing mail across a variety of different systems with different addressing rules and what have you.

RFC 822 didn't just come into existence one day.
For the online version they seem to work with stripe et.al. And not charge anything.
That was one of my favorite features.

I've always wished there was some sort of one bit communication for "want to get a drink?" or "want to go for a bike ride?" or "want to watch the redskins game?"

How cool would it be to vibrate someone's wrist with a martini glass saying implying that I haven't seen you in a while and want to go get a drink. No need for email, calling, texting anything. Just so simple, ping someone and say that I want to see them.

I think it's a bigger deal than you realize.
I didn't know that - thanks. I suppose it would be difficult to show that rotating nub without animation.
The problem there is that lack of information gave way here to fairly extreme and charged claims. Elsewhere in the thread, there were people claiming that the half-brother was the result of adultery, which is pretty high up there on the soap opera scale. Not excising that from this article would have made it a better story.
You actually can:

"The alternative is to provide your own server-side solution to receive payments from your app,
decrypt payment tokens and interface with the payment provider. Handling credit and debit
card payments can be complicated and unless you already have the expertise and systems in
place, an SDK from a payment provider is the quickest and most reliable way to support Apple
Pay in your app."

From: https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/Getting-Started-with-A...
What's the difference between the 2013 kits and today's?

Edit: Answered my own question.
http://blog.23andme.com/news/23andme-provides-an-update-rega...
The rate of non-paternity is commonly quoted to be around 10%. If genetic testing becomes more common, we're likely to see even more of these divorces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misattributed_paternity
Gruber talks about this in the latest episode of the Talk Show. He admits that trends change, and what looked stupid a few years ago might not look so stupid anymore now that everyone is doing it. Also, phones are no longer used for actual phone calls so much, making the "brick next to your ear" factor less meaningful.

I wish people didn't feel the need to "gotcha" Gruber at every possible opportunity. He's generally a very reasonable fellow, if aggressive at times.
Email has been around for a long, long time. Besides the major players, there were any number of mail and public post networks that ran on hobbyist bulletin board systems (FIDONet and WWIVNet are two that come to mind on the BBS end, and BITNET was a popular academic network before TCP/IP took over the world).

Toward the end, there were gateways between (almost) all of these systems that worked more or less reliably. You had to keep a text file handy to figure out how to mung an address on network #1 so that it would delivered to network #2.

For instance, a WWIVNet user could send email to foo@bar.com by sending it to foo#bar.com@5XX, where 5xx was a WWIVNet node number in the 500 range (these were reserved for gatewaying purposes). An Internet user could send email to 23@9073 on WWIVNet by sending it to 23-9073@(some site that was running the gateway software).

Similar address rewriting hacks were used for the other networks. Some were pretty straightforward -- I remember CompuServe used addresses roughly like 888,923423. To send mail from the Internet to CompuServe, you just had to change the comma to a period and tack @compuserve.com on the end. Others were pretty arcane.

Probably more than you wanted to know. :-)
Because keeping secrets generally results in more positive outcomes than disclosing them.
Intel's problem is that it's a lot harder to turn their chips into a complete system than it is AVRs or STM32, because Intel's solution is a full SoC running Linux that requires seperate RAM and Flash chips and external power supply circuitry that has to meet some nasty power sequencing requirements. This is basically Intel's version of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module which exists for much the same reason.
When did this supposed lie take place? It's really not clear from the story that any lie was told at all.
Doh! Of course you are probably right. Hopefully the display (like an iPhone) can determine its orientation and adjust.
Show HN: An app which lets you graph (and export) your watch's battery over time
Apart from #5 where they may have been hitting on you (insert mental clicking sound) and #7 where the comment level is renowned for .. well adjectives don't really describe it enough, I can feel your frustration from the other side of the world. I'm (not so) happy to admit I'm guilty of making assumptions of woman in the tech space, and I mentally slap myself when I do. It's a pain when people make assumptions of you, being young I get it occasionally but no where near the level woman and minorities do. Given my occasionally short fuse, I'd probably snap once or twice a week.
The author suggests adding a warning about discovering relatives, but then he also admits that it wouldn't have made a difference in his case because he didn't think it would happen to him and he also couldn't have known his family would have reacted the way they did. In the end I don't think there is a technical solution that the genetics testing company can apply to make this any easier for humans to deal with. When you send your DNA to such a company you should be ready to deal with something like this.
"connect with people" is exactly what the apple watch does. This strikes me as the first tech. product launch that the fashion aspect plays at the forefront. Personally, their watch is not for me. But, this strikes me as Apple's next transition from technology company to a consumer fashion brand (making the Beats acquisition somewhat more clear).

Think about it, Apple's 3 watch models are differentiated by the aesthetic desires of the consumer, not the technology differences. This is the next stage of technology fading into the background and our vanity/fashion consciousness driving ahead. -- I suspect that very reason is why you and I as techies are not excited about the device.
In my opinion you're utterly wrong about VR, it's going to be a transformative technology and will precipitate a massive push for high end real-time graphics. People want new experiences without leaving their sofa and VR will bring that in spades.

As far as the watch goes, I think it will make money but less than the iPad. It's clearly pitched as a fashion accessory and will find a market. Just not a big enough one to satisfy analysts.
To clarify, other estimates put misattributed paternity in the range of 1-4%, but that's still a whole lot of marriages (especially considering that most marriages have multiple kids).
It's entirely possible dad didn't know about the child, right?
The watch-to-watch communication with all the sharing your heart rate and sending little pictures was the most Samsung thing I've ever seen anyone but Samsung do. Seriously, is there a real problem lurking around somewhere for which this is a solution?

The force sensitive display might be useful, I couldn't really tell from the coverage. At least one person there commented that they were having a hard time seeing the big difference between "force press" and "long press".

Is the "Taptic" feedback significantly different that the vibrating motor present on every other watch? I can't really tell, but I think functionally, vibration can already serve the purpose well enough, although the Apple implementation might be a bit more elegant -- I can't find enough information to say for sure.

I would say the Apple innovations here is mainly the digital crown. On every smartwatch, there's a lot of swiping around to do basic navigation, but there's not been a really good way to zoom in and out. Apple's implementation allows for apps like their photo demo to be more practical. I'm suspicious that they might be overusing it -- the idea of needing to zoom around to launch apps seems less like a good idea, but overall the novel input method is an innovation I'd say.

I assume they must have NFC in the watch to handle the payments system. That's (I think) novel among the smartwatch lineup, and maybe that's a thing that really catches on.

Mostly though, I think that the people who complained that Android Wear was just a mini cell phone on your wrist should be disappointed with the Apple Watch as well. I'm not one of them for the record, I'm wearing the Gear Live right now, and I quite like it. But I don't think Apple has revolutionized the smart watch. They've just made what looks to be a solid entry into the market.
Scala Futures and Elixir/Erlang Tasks are different abstractions. Tasks are more akin to Actors in Scala/Akka.
It gives the press an unflattering story to run with besides "OMG new shiny", diluating Apple's carefully prepared marketing push. That's why it has impact beyond just Apple fans.
> It's just information

According to 23andMe (or at least their marketing) it's accurate medical information. The FCC wants them to prove that or stop marketing it as such -- a request that is beyond reasonable.
Are those any different?
In my experience, Google Glass turns you into a walking celebrity, and has been as far from "socially inappropriate" as it can get. I'm not in San Fran, which seems to be the only place that pours haterade.