skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I think that's kind of the point isn't it? Out of the box, the watch will more or less do all the thing anybody really wants it to do. It's going to be very hard to build a large viable app ecosystem for these things. At best I think Smartwatch apps will just be secondary notification displays for apps you're already buying and putting on your phone.
Yea so you can buy old models at a cheaper price. 2 years from now maybe you'll be able to buy the Apple Watch 1 for $250 or something but most people will want the latest version. I seriously doubt we'd ever see Apple sell the Watch for $100, that's just not how they do business.
> Casio, Seiko and Swatches

They're already in trouble. Astonishingly few people wear watches anymore. We're basically never more than a glance away from a time keeping device and display pretty much anywhere we are these days.
>>[The telegraph] was an amazing breakthrough in communications. You could actually send messages from New York to San Francisco in an afternoon. People talked about putting a telegraph on every desk in America to improve productivity. But it wouldn’t have worked. It required that people learn this whole sequence of strange incantations, Morse code, dots and dashes, to use the telegraph. It took about 40 hours to learn. The majority of people would never learn how to use it. So, fortunately, in the 1870s, Bell filed the patents for the telephone. It performed basically the same function as the telegraph, but people already knew how to use it.

It occurs to me that programming languages are like the telegraph: you can do amazing things with them, but at the end of the day they require someone to learn a "whole sequence of strange incantations," and the majority of people will never learn how to use them.

I wonder who will invent the "telephone" for computers -- which would, in this case, allow ordinary people to create software with languages they already know how to use (speak). I know it sounds far-fetched given how computers work, but I'm sure the telephone also sounded far-fetched to telegraph operators at the time.
So...what happens when the next Gurbaksh Chahal[1] gets funded by Felicis Ventures?

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gurbaksh-chahals-ugly...
He is right. The IT revolution has dwarf the petrochemical revolution.
How many successful businesses have actually be built by using landing page tests as the primary mechanism to evolve the product idea? I feel like the lean startup fashion is overplayed. The most important thing for a startup is to have a lead customer - a person that passionately wants the idea to exist so they can use it, and knows what it should do. That lead user needs to be either the founders or someone the founders can work very, very closely with.
IMHO it can be done, using UNIX-based operating systems and standard open source software, if the infrastructure designer takes security seriously and is committed and knowledgeable.

It's NOT the system administrator's work to secure the network. The ISP/minor IT company should have a security engineer to overview the network, although some sys-admins are extremely skilled when it comes to security.

There are so many security layers that can be implemented on a Linux/BSD server that makes the machine virtually un-hackable and IF anyone enters, all bells and whistles could start cheering.

Examples: GRsecurity[1], IPTables[2], Snort[3], chroots (or jails), VPNs, malware scanners (clamav, spamassassin), encryption and what-not.

To me securing linux desktops, especially simple ones (e.g. window manager + basic programs... almost like thin clients) is easy. Securing Windows XP/7/8/etc is extremely tricky BUT can be done.

Once you do all that, I'm 100% that you're going to be one hell of a target for anyone. And you really don't trust your team you can always hire people to test your network's security and improve it.

The most important thing though is having a strict general user policy: What users can and can not do must be crystal clear with no exception. When a 'tiger team' finds a secure network, they usually target the people not the infrastructure.

[1] GRsecurity: https://grsecurity.net/

[2] http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/

[3] https://www.snort.org/
Static Web with jade,scss/sass/less,coffeeScript without task runner/frameworks
When you think about it, that's not a bad definition of government in < 140 chars.
Michael Jordan on deep learning
At best I think Smartwatch apps will
just be secondary notification displays
for apps you're already buying and
putting on your phone.

My expectation is that the only way an app will get on your Apple Watch is if it comes bundled inside of an app you have installed on your iPhone, a la iOS 8 extensions.
> Jobs: No, I’m afraid not in computers. And this puts a responsibility on Apple, because if there’s going to be innovation in this industry, it’ll come from us.

Always like to see how pretentious Jobs has always been, thinking he was the only source of innovation in the whole world. He has been proven wrong many times.
> You're entitled to your opinions, but this is a patently false statement. There is plenty of C code currently running on my machine that was written decades ago and is still actively maintained.

You're right. Sorry. You can do it by enacting a fair approximation of stapling your eyelids to your hairline. I apologize for not being exhaustive.

> The Go community actively embraces Worse-Is-Better. If your opinions are well formed enough that you know you want nothing to do with it, then what is your point exactly?

That I've had more than one long night dealing with an inherited Go application and it sucks and its developers should feel bad.

(OK, the last is mostly facetious. If they can't be bothered to use modern tooling, though, they should be tasked with maintaining their own crap...)
what was it like to talk to hackers on steroids?
This has to do with a lot more than crowd conformance. All the examples cited reduce to quickly reacting to faces, which governs many other behaviors, like fight/flight survival instincts, emotions, negotiation, socialization, etc.
What a confusing product! Its like a swiss army knife in a cooler, as in it does many things you are likely to rarely use, except everything needs electricity.
Cordata / Google Now / Siri

People just gesture at the terminal, and the software interprets it.
Seriously, what utter crap: http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Nishiura-cur...

Did they seriously screenshot that image with a tooltip up?
Very interesting! I am interested in how data synchronization works. What data stores does the ORM currently support (my guess is mongodb so far)? How was it implemented? Would it work with multiple servers? I am not proficient in Ruby code, reading some code didn't give me a lot of information :)

https://github.com/voltrb/volt/blob/master/lib/volt/models/p...

(edit: I probably need to note here that I contributed to a similar part of Meteor, that has data-sync to persistent storage too)
You misunderstood. I'm not saying that invasion should happen or that it is even a proper choice at this time, only weighing in on the morality of it in light of American invasion history if at some point it happens to be the best choice.
You beat me to posting this. He was as right as Asimov in 1964 about landing unmanned rovers on Mars by 2014 but still no people, and he was as right as Paul Graham was in 2001 about software moving to the server and clients moving to pocket computers that might be called cell phones by historical accident [1]. Predictions might be fun to boast about in hindsight or to demonstrate through entrepreneurship, but reading documented quotes that were just this spot on is really cool.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html

"With Web-based software, most users won't have to think about anything except the applications they use. All the messy, changing stuff will be sitting on a server somewhere, maintained by the kind of people who are good at that kind of thing. And so you won't ordinarily need a computer, per se, to use software. All you'll need will be something with a keyboard, a screen, and a Web browser. Maybe it will have wireless Internet access. Maybe it will also be your cell phone. Whatever it is, it will be consumer electronics: something that costs about $200, and that people choose mostly based on how the case looks. You'll pay more for Internet services than you do for the hardware, just as you do now with telephones."
Is this the guy who's did the paper which is refuted by researcher Rhonda Patric Phd in medicine. Quite simply if you are on of the 96% of americans who don't take vitamins who have deficiency of said vitamins in your blood it does help to take them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u8UdZeOhc
Why? When you are going to die you should have the choice to go on a treatment which is untested. That's what people with AlS have been asking for YEARS and still cannot get because they have to follow the usual regulatory process.Cancer patients can get drugs as soon as Phase I, I don't see why we don't allow other patients who are in critical condition to try whatever is new out there. What do you have to lose?
>It's a calculated risk, sure, but I don't think the Thalidomide example is particularly relevant.

It's very relevant. It shows that people are too willing to take risks with major unknowns. Where do you make the cutoff with your drug experiments? Only people that are certain to die? People with high exposure risk? People that are having difficulties recovering? Any selection you pick there is completely arbitrary because you don't know the potential downsides to the experimental stuff you want to try.
Look at used infiniband gear, you will get much better support (hardware, software, cabling). Same price or lower.
Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save
penis.js
I never thought people will actually come up and defend code duplication. It's definitely more than ugliness. The need to fix all the copies when they need to be updated is a bigger problem.
New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It
I was under the impression that the CAs only know what public keys where tied to which domain. The CAs shouldn't have the private key... I'll look into it some more.
The original iPhone was on contract but unsubsidized. The iPhone 3G was launched at $199 with a 2 year contract and every iPhone since then has stuck exactly at that price point at launch.
it is definitely a great product. what I like about Show HN is that it utilises reputation systems but lets everyone submit creating less of a filter bubble experience. Anyway, as you said, its only 6 months old. i just get the feeling though that people living in the valley can't actually see or understand the filter bubble I'm talking about.
> "The developments will be in making the products more and more portable, networking them, getting out laser printers, getting out shared data bases, getting out more communications ability, maybe the merging of the telephone and the personal computer."

Looks like the iPhone was in his mind for a long time.
To be fair, an MRAP is quite a step above armored car—including being huge, heavy, fuel-hungry, and designed for use in war zones.

And MRAP use was somewhat controversial even in Iraq, where they were designed to be used: https://web.archive.org/web/20070718130937/http://www.defens...

For a lighter look at what an MRAP really is, thanks to Top Gear (though this is a South African vehicle, not the ones we deployed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoRmT0iRic

They're not tanks, but I can see why people would call them that.
Actually, there's a chance both you and the professor are correct. To an anthropologist, the word "group" might mean something closer to "subculture" than "organization".
A large chunk of the older membership don't really post much anymore. We've seen countless iterations of arguments over vi, emacs, lisp, haskell, tex, bsd, keyboards, standing desks, the controversial geek hero/traitor of the year, epiphanies from recent college grads who have plumbed the deep mysteries of life, morality vs money debates, disconnecting from social media sites X, Y, and Z, hacktivism, hack-the-self, hack-your-job, hack-your-toothpaste...

After awhile you just go into a semi-permanent lurk mode, waiting for the odd gem to show up. I remember a similar experience with Slashdot in the late 90s.
On this note, is it possible to set up real-time alerts with Google analytics? I'd like to set up an alert like "If the number of real-time simultaneous users rises above n, send an email to this address."

I don't believe it is possible, but it seems like an extremely useful feature.
Liked how the interviewer was posing tough questions around the failures of previous product launches and around any resentment towards folks who had deemed him incapable of running the Lisa division. Didn't seem like the interviewer was sitting inside the distortion field. Having said that, I must also say that Jobs fielded the questions rather well.
I recall it being fairly obvious to everyone who was familiar with them that things were going that direction. It was prevalent enough that Neuromancer pretty much nailed it, a year before this interview, despite Gibson not having ever touched a computer.

Shockwave Rider covered it in 1975, and described a network worm.
I agree about information density of the slides. There are some potential solutions:

(1) Write most of what you would say as notes on each slide. Some presenters do this to help them get through a presentation anyway; you can do it to help readers after the presentation.

(2) Encourage the venue to record video of the talk, or at least audio. This can be synchronized with the slides using various software packages. The audio needs to be very high quality--a camcorder mic in the back won't do.
You guys are only talking about the states right?
"Handle with care."

Hey guys, let's unzip this so the next guy can run it and spread the worlds most advanced malware on our home network.
I've written a few data processing systems over the years and one of my foundational principles is to eschew complex command line parameters and instead just use the filesystem to infer things.

For example: building a comic book library? Where do I store the publisher, title and issue metadata? Why not just infer it from the organization of the file system?

D.C.Comics/Batman/The Batman #123.cbz
Marvel/Avengers/Avengers - Ultimate #12.cbz

I once built a text processing and conversion system that used a different scheme.

You mount or copy your text files into a folder "source" and it picks up whatever's in there processes it and dumps the converted result out to "sink".

Later I set it up to have some filters on the data. So "sink" turned into a hierarchy of different pre-filtered results.

sink/Car_Makers
sink/countries/France
sink/countries/England
sink/Truck_Makers

And in the end, only documents that fell into one of those classes appeared in the relevant sink folder. At a glance you'd know if there was something relevant to that class of documents or not just by running "ls" or "dir" on it.

It cut hundreds of hours off of analyzing the results since you'd know a head of time if it was likely you'd find something productive related to one of the output classes.

This work with fuse is really exciting.

Imagine dumping in your text files wherever, fuse mounting it and then just exploring the results in all kinds of useful ways. Maybe you write an "entity extraction" filesystem.

So "Mobydick.txt"

Gets turned into

/mnt/mobydick/characters/ishmael/chapters/1
/mnt/mobydick/characters/ishmael/chapters/4
/mnt/mobydick/characters/ahab/chapters/4
/mnt/mobydick/characters/queequeg/chapters/3
/mnt/mobydick/characters/queequeg/chapters/4

/mnt/mobydick/chapters/4/characters/ishmael
/mnt/mobydick/chapters/4/characters/ahab
/mnt/mobydick/chapters/4/characters/queequeg

/mnt/mobydick/locations/Nantucket/chapters/1
/mnt/mobydick/locations/Nantucket/chapters/4
/mnt/mobydick/locations/Pequod/chapters/4

/mnt/mobydick/chapters/4/locations/Nantucket
/mnt/mobydick/chapters/4/locations/Pequod

/mnt/mobydick/chapters/1/text.txt
/mnt/mobydick/chapters/2/text.txt
/mnt/mobydick/chapters/3/text.txt
/mnt/mobydick/chapters/4/text.txt

And now you can use the fuse filesystem as an analytic tool
I pasted this in the gist comments, and I'll reproduce it here from Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes: [0]

> But the dangers of convenient facilities are notorious. For example, the repetitive commands with input guards may tempt the programmer to write them without making adequate plans for their termination; and if it turns out that the automatic termination is unsatisfactory, reprogramming for explicit termination will involve severe changes, affecting even the interfaces between the processes.

[0]: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cop4020/sum2009/CSP-hoare.pdf
oh, I did exactly the same thing last week. I only manually checked 20,000 domains (by bulk domain checks) and got 200+ domains. But unfortunately I didn't find any one I like too much.
I pray for self driving cars, so these idiots can use their phones all they want.

I was following a riced out Acura today that was flashing the brakes all the time, GF said ?old person?, but grandma doesn't drive that car. Some rapper's white girl friend in head to toe pink was diddling on her phone WHILE DRIVING and tapping on the brakes every time she looked up. I see phone usage while driving everyday and the majority of it isn't talking it is interacting with the device itself. Madness.
WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end
Three's a charm: NIST detectors reveal entangled photon triplets
Hmm...the prediction came through fairly precisely.
I didn't see any zips. Though zip is not the only vector one should be concerned with. For downloadable files, handle with extreme care. Exploration of the database content however is static and i'm sure the Internet will thank you if you parse and compile a list of interesting patterns you find from it.
Probably because it's the most commonly supported format by portable players?
Time to face some brutal facts here.

1) We are due for another pandemic. If this one isn't it, there will be another.

2) Democracies run on public opinion. Right now everybody is riled up about some homicidal idiots in Iraq. This is off their radar. Hundreds of thousands of people die from some natural cause or another all of the time. It's not a huge spectacle on YouTube.

3) The enemy really isn't Ebola. Ebola is just the opportunistic pathogen that came along. The enemy is really weak governments with little or no public health systems, combined with very poor local sanitation practices.

4) There was a time when air-dropping in a thousand healthworkers with tent hospitals might have stopped this. That time is over. Now it's in the big city, and trying to control or service a population of several hundred thousand is beyond most any country's ability to project intervention.

5) If it doesn't go airborne and stay lethal, which is where the safe money currently is, we'll end up with hundreds of thousands or millions dead and it should burn itself out over the next year or two. That's the optimistic scenario. We have no reason not to believe that's the way it's going to play out.

6) If it goes airborne and stays lethal, we're in for a major shitstorm. But I really don't think second-guessing how we responded will be useful. There are different countries in the world. They have different governments. We do not have one world government, nor do most of us want one. That means that there are always going to be large pockets of humanity where something like this can take off. Structurally humanity is huge. Disease is going to be an issue for us for a long time.
That is Russ' blog post, not Rob's.
Note that this is Copenhagen interpretation. There are others, and at this time there's no way to tell which one is correct, if any.
That level of tiredness is truly worse than drunk.
Wonderful link!

"...no online database will replace your daily newspaper..."

"Newsweek now back in print!"
Also worth noting that a scale model of something (plane, auto, whatever) has the same Cd as the full-size version, showing that Cd does take area into consideration.

We're not disagreeing; we understand English differently. You say "Cd does take area into consideration" to mean that area has been divided out from drag measurements to produce an area-agnostic number; I say "Cd does not take area into consideration" to mean that Cd does not vary based on area (because area has been divided out).

These are the same statements. Both underscore my point that CdA, which is (by definition!) proportional to both frontal area and to drag force, is the worthwhile figure of merit for passenger vehicles (where lesser drag force translates directly into fuel savings).
Looks like he couldn't have been more wrong on that one. Now we have messaging apps and minecraft selling for billions.
I know I was about two months late overall with mine, and people actually told me that I was doing better than most campaigns...

http://igg.me/at/minilaser/

Small scale stuff, but it was interesting to think in 100s of units rather than in 10s.
Ask HN: What's the most interesting trigger you ever set in iTerm2?
That's mostly just Alan Kay's Dynabook from 1968 IIRC. And the networking and laser printers etc. were the "Interim Dynabooks" aka Altos + networked laser printers (Ethernet) he saw at PARC.
Thoughts on craftmanship: Worth Striving For
Probably could have stood to fail one more time.
Serious question: what is the purpose of asking? Do you need moral support, validation, ... ?
The state of antivirus for Android
Cool-- thanks for the responses. I agree with the issues in JavaScript, but I'm not sure I see them as justifying a new web framework. For example, the Math.max() boolean behavior is simply the result of treating true and false as 1 and 0, which isn't unique to JS. Blocks are a type of closure (which JS supports) and there are ways to achieve multiple inheritance and even mixins as well.

That said, the larger point seems to be that data synchronization is the biggest benefit. If you can write a model once and have JS objects automatically created that'd be a good start. I'll have a look to see what other capabilities are there. The HTML rendering when a URL is called directly could be particularly powerful.

Thanks!
Students Flocking to Computer Science
It's an incredibly entertaining Kickstarter video, and a product that I could actually imagine owning (if I lived in the suburbs). It doesn't violate any laws of physics. I think what he's already accomplished is completely worth celebrating, and hopefully the first step toward a long series of thoughtful, innovative products.
Exactly. Raising money is not the greatest accomplishment in the world. What if all that money came from a rich uncle? It's up to the founder to correctly allocate the capital once he/she has it. That's the real challenge. Getting a sizable return on assets, and furthermore, getting a large slice out of that for yourself is the goal of the owner of a for-profit business.
Yes, a 'build your own Uber for X' kit costs only $400
That's not how bribery works.

> is to find something they are really really embarrassed about

I don't think NSA needs to employ high school level tactics.

If they want to pin something, they will. True or not.
Or just get a Galaxy Note and email yourself your notes when you're done.
With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise
shared pad for compiling patterns: https://pad.riseup.net/p/gO8Ng806lNnl
Alternative: This script synchronizes a music collection recursively one way from a
lossless format source directory to a lossy file format target directory.

https://bitbucket.org/ghorvath/music-collection-sync
It would be fun to install in a VM though! Or maybe not.
I don't know about that. Isn't raising 13m $ the equivalent of receiving tenure? Even if this fails somehere along the way, it sure will be a success for the "inventor" .. and thus be a success-story for other hopeful wannabes.