skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redesigning Reddit’s AMA app
At $1000 a machine, if they can get the accuracy up these things are going to be everywhere. There'll be absolutely no reason for any lab tangentially related to DNA not to have one.

Like that is not even a blip in a normal research budget for equipment.
How lucrative enough is it for mobile app developers?
ORMs – You're doing it wrong
Improved OCaml Memcached Client with Core and Async
Dream: "Common Lisp/Guile, and a Chromium based rendering engine".
As a somewhat frequent visitor to The Hobbit in Southampton, the litigation is laaaame.
There are actual save converters that work "upwards" (time-wise) across their range of games? Amazing. Sounds like an awful amount of hours to go from 769 to 1948, though.
This is, "how to define your ideal startup roster", like some people define their ideal mate. This has nothing to do with actually finding said people.
My first thought is that the first screenshot should be of the game. Not had a chance to play it yet!
Just so everyone is aware, Steve has ghost writers. This may or may not have actually been written by him.
> Americans are generally a lot more friendly to strangers than the average European

Americans include Bolivians, Chileans, Colombians, people in Alaska, New Yorkers ... Is the average a Guatemalan?

Europeans include Southern Spaniards, Finns, Germans ... is the average a Luxemburger?
Amazon Reportedly Seeks to Enter the Ad Space
Boilerplate to create lightweight webapp using Flask and React
Zeus was the bomb. I wished they made more of these games.
Man films attempted gunpoint robbery on GoPro
> Assuming of course you live in a somewhat business-hopping city

That is an issue. In the UK outside the largest cities coworking spaces are few and far between. I will continue searching...
FIFA is better than the alternatives.
Sony Widens Expected Loss to $2.14B
I would encourage people to really read this post and try to reason about the implication for the Bitcoin "protocol" the claim that the Bitcoin Core software project is, and must always be, the only usable instantiation of it. (n.b. While this claim is extraordinary I don't believe it is actually wrong.)
Write: Distraction-Free Text Editor
The best combo I found.
The boilerplate standard signing bonus is recoupable if the employee leaves within a year. You're right that he should make sure that's the case for his own bonus, but it's more likely than not that he has to return it.
> I’m calling /usr/bin/time here to avoid using my shell’s built-in time command [...].

I prefer to use command in this scenario.

$ command time
Agree, I'm 80% software these days but ~8 years ago I discovered Eagle and found it was a huge relief at the time coming from Protel (now Altium).

I've been getting my feet wet again; perhaps Altium has fixed the UX which drove me away originally but they don't seem (until now?) to have had any entry-level appropriate pricing.

And whilst I could pick up Eagle 7 recently and get productive again real quick, the fact that I still had to draw my own PCB footprints which are intrinsically inseparable from the overall component definition is so disappointing.

A separate PCB footprint library, separate in the sense that component packages should be normalized and trivially re-usable across devices without error-prone copy-pasta madness seemed painfully obvious 10 years ago and it's still painfully obvious now. Drawing a new schematic symbol and wiring that up to physical pins in a PCB footprint is no big deal, but I just hate having to draw a new PCB footprint from a datasheet. Even on the off-chance that you can copy-paste from some other device with similar enough package, you still end up with inconsistent silkscreen/gate naming conventions etc. because each part library author does things differently.
> My guess is that, for most mainstream titles, they are doing a poor job educating about history. For example, while I loved Bioshock, including the story, it very much misrepresents Rand's Objectivism.

I have neither played Bioshock nor read any of Rand's work, but it can't possibly be more ridiculous than, say, the representation of Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator. Comparatively, and taking into account the need to translate real life elements into abilities and stats, video games haven't done such a bad job compared to Hollywood.
>The "nascent payment system" which is Apple Pay is better supported by the credit card companies than Google Wallet. It only remains to be seen how many retailers will switch to NFC.

Regulations in the state requires every POS to support the EMV technology by October 2015. From what I've seen, most retailers will have to upgrade and the new machines pretty much all include NFC technology. So by the end of next year, NFC should be available with almost every retailers. I don't think it's a coincidence that Apple is releasing NFC now (they could have easily done it with the iPhone 5 or 5S)
jeez, I don't care at all about that.

what a tale for such a irrelevant detail. iPhone users are such a category of people of their own, talking about iPhone rumors and truths is like new ways to make conversations.

do you know you can have a smartphone that has the same functionalities, for one tenth of the price ? how is that not news ?
One humint technique is to send her more than just your spies. Some civilian scientist in the RADAR division, some engineer from the jet engine department, a file clerk in working in .mil headquarters... And counter intel, send her out with suspected spies. It wouldn't be hard to convince the other side that she's primarily a counterintel worker. And of course do some counter intel on her, send her some guys with orders to act like German spies, "hey baby, I bet you have a long list of English spies and I have a large pile of money, maybe we could trade" and see what she says. And you can salt the earth by telling her / paying her to tell the Germans a line of BS all day long. "Oh yeah, that crypto clerk who works for Rommel, he's got a huge swiss bank account. Ignore the man behind the curtain at bletchly park, whats going on is all this crypto comms clerk working for Rommel who we're paying off, oh and about ten other guys including of course Hitlers mustache comber..."

This is aside from the rather blindingly obvious solution of keep her busy... if the only guys she talks to are your spies, then when is she meeting these theoretical German spies?

Another problem is you vet 3000 people and its going to be extremely hard to describe them all. "Well, they look english, like bangers n mash, they say "bloody" and "god save the king" a lot, kinda average height..."
Shouldn't it also use webkit or something for rendering?
So.. change the rendering, change the language... shouldn't we just write more editors from zero?
One of the more interesting ways of protecting ATMs that I've seen in the Bay Area is that (this applies more to bank branches) instead of ATMs being built into a wall and facing the outside, like they normally do, you need to swipe your ATM card to be allowed access to the room that the ATMs are located in.
Maybe: they might not be the most socially sophisticated people, or they might not put as much effort into presenting themselves in a polished manner, or they might not be so good at day-to-day organization of their emails and such. I think it means that the person is good for results, but not necessarily the best candidate for corporate management position. Rough around the edges, perhaps.
I was wondering where the downvotes were coming from. I meant to be accurate, not insulting.

I thought that hive-minded accurately described the seeming desire to centralize authority and form a collective, trusting that those in charge had the best interests of society in mind.
The best interview question. Period
No it isn't. There's no reason for a complete course on this. Everything that someone needs to know about cryptocurrencies can be learned in a couple hours unless they are going to be creating their own, in which case, a single course isn't going to be in-depth enough to get them anywhere near that point. As an example exercise in class, sure, but an entire course would be nearly pointless.
Because UserScripts.org shutdown. See http://www.ghacks.net/2014/03/29/greasy-fork-userscript-org-...
every time this space-x stuff comes up, I always take a moment to remind people of Reaction Engines and - Skylon [http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon.html]

I realise there's practical differences in terms of the current rate of progress between Space-X and Reaction Engines, but in the long term (and making the huge assumption that they'll get Skylon built), I think Reaction Engines has the better plan.
Imagine giving the ATM a high-five.
Partly ignorance. People I know see them a bit like those little toy helicopters, rather than as a stable, flying camera.
I still use it all the time. But probably, people are more comfortable with browser plugins or something.
>> They used to ask your phone number and address for any purchase, any at all

When stores ask for this, do not feel awkward about saying "Can we skip that part?"
Show HN: Yigler truly anonymous messaging
Cool Hack Mirror Your Android and iOS Screen to PC or Mac Like Chromecast/AppleTV
Yes, was walking passed UK bank as it opened the other day and the anti-pinhole camera protocol was being carried out. One of the staff went round all the ATMs sweeping his hand across all surfaces to check that there wasn't anything untoward.
That's a good point, makes me wonder if the main menu screenshot is even worth showing.
Here is a critique of this system by an expert: http://omicsomics.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/reanalysis-lays-ba...

It's a great achievement and I'm hopeful, but the accuracy needs to go up before it competes with current standard.
Some years ago the a clisp maintainer actually made a minimal demo of Emacs hosted on clisp with just a compatibility layer for Elisp via macros/functions, which seemed to work pretty well. But it didn't progress any further because Stallman vetoed basing Emacs on Common Lisp (he considers CL to be too big a language, and to some extent just doesn't like it). In retrospect I'm not sure this was a good call: Guile as a general VM with custom infrastructure to support both Scheme and Elisp is not really a more clean, minimalistic infrastructure anyway. The semantics of Elisp/Scheme are too different to be able to just stick in a Scheme implementation with a smallish compatibility layer, like you could with Elisp hosted on CL.
You can change it by appending ?ts=4 to the URL.
Can you explain more what FFI support would give? I understand that Emacs is a C+Lisp system. Is it about calling other languages from Elisp easier? Or possible at all?
Hate FB? Hate it enough to spend $9k? Web country club built for the rich
What an irrelevant comment about such AN irrelevant detail.
Get your app featured by Apple, how and who to contact
Really not sure what the point of either of these would be, could you fill in more of a real word example?
Bulk transmission through the material should be similar. But sapphire has a higher refractive index than gorilla glass (1.77 vs 1.5 or thereabouts) and thus reflects more at each surface. Reducing reflectance with a coating works, but as the article points out, costs money and is less durable.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I for one really appreciate how Emacs can run in a terminal, over SSH, with almost no feature-degradation at all.

Besides Emacs being a very nice programming (and programmable editor), this is one the key features which keeps me from even considering other more "modern" options.
I would be so happy to see many of these games transition to tablets, are there good equivalents and/or have some actually been ported?

I have played PC strategy games ported to the iPad along with arcade classics from Atari, just missing some early games like Keen, Empire, and the like.
> Yigler let's you post anything you want anonymously, and see everything people within 2 miles of you are posting.

In rural areas that makes you about as anonymous as if you signed your name to every posting.
Just came across this on /r/startups and figured it might be of some use to everyone here too!
I've been playing around with julia[1] this week and discovered the inclusion of a pipe-like operator that removes a lot of the parentheses from functional programming; you can write,

x |> a|> b |> c|>s->d(s,y)|>e|>...

in julia instead of

e(d(c(b(a(x))),y)) or (e (d (c (b (a x)) y))

...or whatever is your flavour. I reckon it is impossible to make a serious case against that readability gain.

[1] julialang.org
I predict this will be used to write malware. Many more people know JavaScript than AppleScript.
That is usually just done to keep homeless people from using the ATM vestibule as a makeshift shelter. Almost any basic magstripe card will unlock the door to the ATM, it's not a level of fraud prevention.
Micro radios could connect trillions of devices
Try ShinyROM, it's an almost-exactly AOSP build of 4.4: http://shinyrom.goofball.org/
The low-end watch won't have a sapphire screen. To an extent, the reason the expensive ones will may simply be that having sapphire screens is a thing you do in the >$1000 watch industry; it's expected.
Won't most popular languages be used to write malware, at some point?
"they made two critical mistakes"

I'd say there's a third critical mistake, harvesting the customer stream and selling them an "every two years" phone which they pay for by postal mail bill and never have a reason to return to your store again and if they did you know they'd have $100/month less to spend at your store. And abandoning whatever reason the customer stream had for visiting so you will never get any new customers.

It would be like a bar forcing all its employees to do absolutely nothing other than convince thirsty patrons to quit drinking and start going to AA meetings in the church basement, and paying them a commission when the customer agrees to leave and never come back to the bar. And doing this for so long that everyone in the drinking community knows theres no reason to go to that bar anymore other than to get harassed to go to AA meetings. Hmm I wonder how long a bar managed like that would last?
AppleScript and the Open Scripting Architecture[0] long predate OSX, and could be used by third-party scripting languages[1], that just never caught on with developers/users.

Apple had caught up with WSH before WSH even existed, the underlying technology[2] dates back to System 7 (1991)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript#Open_Scripting_Arch...

[1] http://svn.python.org/projects/stackless/Python-2.4.3/dev/Ma... note how this is an OSA bridge on top of "classic" MacOS, not OSX

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_event
You don't need to read the manual, or even any tutorials, IMO, as long as you know that function application in Lisp looks like (f arg1 ...), know how to program, know that Lisp has macros, almost everything else follows.

It took me a few hours to learn enough Elisp to customize .emacs, add custom macros, and start using defadvice to wrap existing commands with extra behaviour, like preserving the selection for text replacement in a selected block. I even went as far as writing a macro that could use defadvice to generically preserve the selection for any other command on the second day of using emacs.

A bigger hurdle was learning the Lisp jargon, so that I could find the correct function to call when searching for it, whether in emacs itself, or online. But once I knew about the point, that the selection is called the region and is the text between mark and point, that files are called buffers, that open is called find, etc., it was pretty smooth sailing.

It's fairly trivial to find the source for an arbitrary elisp function - just C-h f <function-name>, and follow the source link. Plugins like helm (dynamically filtered list searches) make it very easy to find relevant functions too.

Elisp has a couple of features that make it work well as an application extension language: dynamic variable scope and function advice are two that are fairly unique to Lisp (technically, Javascript has dynamic scope via the eval function, but it's not usually a good idea to use it). These things make it easy to tweak behaviour from the outside.

However, contra other people's opinions, Elisp is not fast. It is slow, very very slow, compared to efficient languages. My startup time is just about tolerable on a modern machine, but not tolerable enough to stop me starting emacs --daemon every time I reboot. Scrolling through large files with line numbers enabled is slow, and the UI has a few milliseconds of lag for almost every non-trivial action. Dynamic searches need very noticeable debounce delays for list refreshes or otherwise things get unresponsive.
> Apple has always, always had price delineation across the range.

They're likely to be considerably starker with this range than anything they've ever made before.
Too often it seems RMS is why GNU can't have nice things.
Right. The problem with natural-ish language processing is that it's:

1. Inherently imprecise.
2. Not true natural language processing, so it's not as forgiving of
syntax errors as you'd think - making it even more difficult
to try to say what you want to say.
It's a concern, but can't you just set up a camera on the ground, or any number of other ways? The benefits of accessing the third dimension are far greater than the benefits of restricting it.
SwiftKey Keyboard for iOS 8: A first look at themes, and a price reveal
Start one? :)

It can just be an office/studio that you share with others too.

Another option is to find existing companies. For example, maybe a design studio could let you use an office, or a desk.
So what's the best way to inspect the ATM before use?
Ebooks at the gym!
In Germany the part where you put in your card is made of green transparent plastic which is illuminated from the inside. Inbaddition if is shaped in a way which makes it really hard to add some skimming mechanism in there.
You may be in the minority in terms of the total number of users, but most of the Emacs developers will have the same mindset. Terminal-friendliness is a part of Emacs tradition. The developers would surely keep the ability to run Emacs in a terminal.
Yep, I agree. Modernization efforts (a modern emacs) should be attempted on products under a new name.
"If SpaceX can deliver on their long-term plans"

Exactly. Minecraft is work $2.5bn now. SpaceX may well be worth a lot more in the future, but neither company is at the same stage of development in their respective fields.
And our startups will succeed or fail quite independently of what Peter Thiel, Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Marc Andressen, Ron Conway, et al., think.

Even if that's true, it's beside the point. You still care what the VCs think of you, independent of their effect on the success or failure of your business.

If it succeeds, you need to be sure that the board keeps you in place. What use is it to build a successful business if you lose your position and equity? (You're an idiot if you end up in a position where you lose all your equity, but what I'm saying is still valid.)

If it fails, you need the VCs to line you up with an EIR position or an executive role at a portfolio company so you can recover your savings, repair your reputation, and get out there again.

If you don't have the VCs in your pocket, then the personal pressures that are on you can keep you from being able to make the right decisions for your business. So, yeah, they matter.
I think https://gamebrokerage.com/blog/?p=132 is probably the more appropriate link as it's the actual source.
RubyMotion for Android public beta
> This support was pulled at some point in the OS X days.

The underlying tech ("open scripting architecture") has been there all along though, so third parties could have implemented OSX bridges regardless of what Apple shipped. I can only assume nobody really cared much, leading apple to remove alternative implementations and nobody to take up the slack (because nobody really cared much)
I am going with the line in the article about the fragility of the sapphire, it simply does not take impacts as well as glass especially in the sizes being used. Kind of like how yields are with semiconductors, getting this large requires much better processes than they have now.

I am simply glad we got past the use of glass on the backs of phones like the iPhone 4 generation had. All that did for me is have me learn how to swap the piece myself.

I think glass breakage is pretty low in the issues people have with these phones, weight and battery life are bigger issues.
The Wacko in the Morning Show 09/17 by the Wacko Network
128k a year... living in the US... and yet complaining...

I only wish I had my grass that green.

I think you are doing fine sir, just stop comparing yourself to others. If you are unhappy -- change jobs. But don't be a slave to other people opinions about how much money you should be making or your job. You'll always be unhappy that way.
Notes on C Programming
OSA does not support things, it's the underlying platform hook. AFAIK third parties have always been free to implement OSA bridging. In fact one bloke did exactly that[0] when JfA was first announced.

[0] http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2014/Sep/m...
Mailchimp is another fantastic bootstrap success story. Hugely successful, but not talked about much because (1) they're not in the Valley (2) didn't raise boatloads of VC cash. Oh, and the founders still own almost the entire business (not as if that is important or anything)
Home Free? Giving the Homeless Homes
Is this not what A Small World is?
With adequate separation of concerns the backend could either be V as full Dom or as a terminal friendly minimal DOM (no css fonts attributes, pixel positioning, box shading etc).
Why Apple stock is down today?
> there's presently a forward looking mandate from big Army to drop flash and java clients

I would feel way safer if the IC & military disabled Flash & Java in their browsers, along with the rest of the web. Those two plugins have shaped up to be quite the vehicles for zero-days.
If I were the company writing this, I'd include a remote uninstall command that left as few traces as possible, and encourage its use. It lowers the probability of discovery.

Since law enforcement typically wants convictions, it could be a selling point to prompt for uninstall when a warrant expires.
> Hopefully this represents a system they can easily extend to other languages in the future.

The system ("open scripting architecture") has been there since the 90s, before OSX. Apple used to ship support for alternative languages, and osa's always been there for third parties to interface with.
Some observations from 6 testruns:

- works good when i "like" with a very broad category (i.e. click on all icons, landscape/city, maps, people - regardless whether i actually like the picture to hang on the wall or not)

- sometimes shows repeated images

- if a category has not enough pictures in it to show, it doesnt work (synthetic images / pop art)

- robbie williams and elvis presley portrait appear in result even when i liked landscape only, likewise neuschwanstein and beach oilpainting appear when i liked people portraits

for a poster buying decision i would enter "epic landscape", or "elvis presley" or "menger sponge render" into a textsearchengine and the result would be much more precise to what i actually like to see and much faster.

I see two usecases regarding buying a poster:

1. i am a robot and need some poster out of a predefined set of broad categorys

2. i am a tasteless human who enjoys klicking like and who needs to hide a hole in the wall with some semi-random image.

So my main problem with using this for a likeable-image decision is the constant collision of what the picture actually contains for me as a human to read into, and what the pixelbased train algo wants me to do (which i am unsure of what criteria it has).

But all the poster-buy-stuff application aside this is really interesting and for my understanding a difficult problem - nice work!