skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First Selfies, Now Shapies? Scanning Booths Capture the Moment in 3-D
If you get out of rent controlled areas like San Francisco, you'll find it's actually quite common for landlords to foot utility bills (except electricity), or at the least charge a flat fee per month that doesn't vary with usage.

Having individualized water meters isn't nearly as efficient or convenient for large apartment complexes as just doing it centrally, especially when the landlord is also using a large chunk of the water (eg for communal lawns). Rent control regimes prohibit separate fees (or higher rents) including the price of the water, so landlords in rent control situations will pass such costs directly to residents any way they can, even if it is inefficient. They'll also pass the costs of upgrading fixtures like toilets and showers, since they're not allowed to charge for them either.
Networked apps running on the desktop != Terminals
I like how the documentation and example area laid out side by side, anyone cares to describe how they accomplished that? Thanks aot.
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Content, like code, should be free!

We also need a judge somewhere to rule against the shark who hijacked the Groovy codebase and turned it all into something it wasn't originally intended to be - surely that's a copyright infringement. Instead of a specified language with many open source implementations and much documentation as per its creator's vision, it's all being controlled by one corporate with hardly anyone contributing. The project person who makes the announcements is now using his own personal blog instead of the public mailing list to announce new versions, and is trying to replace the open communication channels by soliciting for subscribers to a personal mailout that mostly contains links to tweets.
I don't see how, can you elaborate?
It has been integrated into Chrome, but hardly anyone uses it.
Universal SSL: Be just a bit more patient
What are some alternatives to Loggly? I really like being able to aggregate my logs with minimal setup (and cost). I'm logging with Logback (Java), and there is a convenient extension that forwards log statements to Loggly.
4DSOUND evolving changes in three-dimensional positioning of sound
> No, because the human immune system can learn to defend against propaganda.

Not only after a lot of damage has already been done.

Also keep in mind that they're not blindly evolving propaganda, they are engineering it. All that work goes to directly optimize propaganda to be effective and hard to counter. So by very definition, a good propaganda by their standards is the one you can't defend against.
> The Scala team has further caused optic issues here by using what appears to be a semantic version number but in no way shape or form following semantic versioning procedures around compatibility breaking changes.

a) Scala and the major.minor.patch version format predate semVer. You don't get to take the format that a lot of projects are already using and declare that it now has your particular semantics.

b) Scala does comply with semVer if you take "compatibility" to mean "source compatibility", which is the most natural interpretation; the spec talks about API rather and not about ABI.

c) Java's version numbering history is a total mess ("Java 2" is much older than "Java 1.8", for example). I really don't think industry is massively concerned about version numbering schemes.
And there are other barriers (I actually think the bandwidth problem is solvable, by caching large parts of the program). Before SaaS, a poor kid from Egypt could (although it's illegal) get a pirated copy of Photoshop, Office or Visual Studio and improve their skills with modest means. Now they need software subscriptions that they can't afford.

I can see two things happening: it increases the popularity of FLOSS software in such countries and/or companies will adjust the monthly subscription fee to be proportional to e.g. the median income.

Anyway, I think thinks can be said for both models. Regardless my worries about SaaS, I also like always having the latest version, not having to install and maintain programs, etc.
Ingenious Games That Modify Themselves According to You
Yeah, poor. How dare they go through their long established QA for something like this? How dare they do what literally every other company does.

Seriously, why do you think companies like Microsoft rather write workarounds to issues on their website instead of putting out a 2 line code fix for a given issue? Couldn't possibly be that their QA process would take so long that it is easier to just publish the work around, right?

Let me guess, Apple could not have done right by your standards. Had they just published a how-to in order to update bash by hand, you would bitch that this is insufficient. Had they published unstable versions of the fix (like your mentioned "other distros" did just so they could say they already have a fix) you would have piped up along the lines of "nice going publishing unstable fixes that probably introduce more leaks than they fix"
> spoofing your IMEI is a federal crime

Can anyone cite this? I've seen references to the bill S. 1070--113th Congress [0] and earlier versions of it, but it hasn't passed or really gotten started at all.

I read through a few online discussions [1][2][3] and it always seems to turn into a flamefest about how it's so "obviously illegal, been so for years", yet I haven't seen a concrete reference proving it. Sometimes discussion is suppressed, because it's clearly illegal in most other countries, which is fair.

I would not be surprised if there's some obscure application of FCC regulations, or even a generic reference to changing identifiers on property, that ends up covering it, but am curious if anyone can point it out.

Note, that the IMEI does not authenticate a paying subscriber to the network (SIM cards do), so it shouldn't be covered under theft of service.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/107...
[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852166
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.legal.moderated...
[3] http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1786541-How-do-yo...
On Jupiter, You Can See Neon Rain
With “Crouching Tiger” Sequel Netflix Takes Aim at Hollywood
The update package itself is signed.
> I'd gladly do so if Stallman wasn't part of it.

If it wasn't for him, the tools that many love so much around here, would never exist.
OJ – Unified Templating
Ionic's widgets aren't web components and aren't usable outside of Ionic/AngularJS. This means they're not recognized as custom elements by the browser (no future dev tools support). They leak DOM and CSS internals into the page. Worse, they require the host application to be Angular based.

Brick components are encapsulated, both with shadow DOM and scoped CSS, and usable in any web page and with any or no framework. You can freely mix Brick, Polymer, Bosonic, or "raw" custom elements in a single page.

edit: It looks like Mozilla is dropping X-Tag in favor of "vanilla" (what I called "raw") standard web components APIs. This would make Brick a collection of components, rather than a web component helper library like Polymer, and more akin the to Polymer project's Paper Elements.
no I don't think this restriction for "Swiss citizens only" really exists. I'm resident in Switzerland as a non-Swiss and can get the same privileges being an EU citizen (I have a permit to reside in CH with my work).
No thanks.

A glorified X-Windows/RDP/VNC/... terminal in form of a browser.

I love my cores, my GPU, my hard disk, ...

I rather stay on my beloved island seeing the ships sailing away a certain destiny of doom.
It's really hard to distinguish the Chromebook on the photo from a MacBook Pro. The Chromebook designers should really come up with something of their own instead of copying Jony Ive's design for Apple if they want the laptop to have a better image than poor mans MacBook.
Which way did the D0D0 go???!

There are much worse ways to go -- like the way of the Oracle, for example. ;(
I signed up for the next season of the GJP after reading that article when it was on HN. Pretty excited to get started.
MH370 search reveals vast underwater world
SwiftOnSecurity: A story about Jessica
TED: Big data is better data
wth is going on at mozilla? There seems to be a lot of excitement to create stuff, without much attention to whether it's needed .. or where the lifecycle goes beyond creation.

http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2014/09/professional-transiti...
will the ssl be available on Chrome 37? by newer clients what versions of browser exactly?
Late reply:

I've seen off-label pill use, marijuana, and cocaine at work related events (or just casually around the office) in at least 5 states, ranging between the West Coast, the East Coast, and Texas. The settings have ranged from small companies and start-ups (which have the most drug use openly) to large corporations like Microsoft (where people at least hid in the bathroom or private areas while doing lines). Marijuana is the most prevalent that I've seen, at 8 different states and between widely varying social groups.

I've even been offered ADHD meds not prescribed for me by senior people at the company I worked for at the time, to keep me working long hours and more focused at work. (Hey, if it works for college kids, it works for adults.)

The simple answer is that not everyone agrees with laws against vices, particularly things like prostitutes and drug use - and see no reason to follow them.

If you're not aware that things like this happen, you probably give off the impression that you'll try to get people arrested and seriously damage their lives because they take an intoxicant you were told was bad, rather than alcohol or any of the various other legal ones.

tl;dr: It's all over, and if you don't see it, people are actively hiding it for you because they don't trust you to make reasonable choices.
Firechat – Independently networking mesh chat
The IMF, in 2011, claimed :

“a 10 percent permanent increase in oil prices reduces oil demand by about 0.7 percent after 20 years.” [1]

So to put things simpler : there is no elasticity in the price oil to speak of. It is almost like this : for all intents and purposes, people will die, rather than stop buying oil (in most of Northern Europe, of course, people will die without oil, ditto for most of Canada, Alaska, Russia, ...) (another way to say this would be : look at why the US/"West" went to war at any point after Vietnam. Decide for yourself why those wars happened, what would be the cause ? Oil price. Even ISIS and Sudan, to a significant extent, are oil wars. Well, it's muslim lunatics, but they wouldn't be a threat to anyone without oil)

As for peak oil, it's happening. Oil production has plateau'd since 2005. Conventional oil peaked in 1998, but horizontal drilling got it to go back up. In 2007 we really started to see a drop of 1-2%, but then the shale revolution happened (massive production spike, supposedly short-lived, in America matching declines in pretty much everywhere else in the world). Of course, the shale revolution skipped Europe. This is distorting the picture in America. In America it really looks like oil production has gone up, but that is not true globally.

Recently, (massive) consumption slowdowns in China have masked a small decline, but that's probably noise. To be honest, it is extremely scary that this has not lead to a significant price decline (talking 5-10% here, we've seen 1-2% at most).

I would also argue that while small declines are indeed noise, there's 2 factors that I feel still deserve some attention.

1) Since 2005, oil has been on a very small, but very (very) steady decline. The amounts are less than the noise, but it's hard looking at the graph and not see a decline.

2) Production has remained somewhat steady, but consumption has definitely shifted. Firstly internally : middle eastern countries' oil consumption has grown on the exponential curve. The same goes for pretty much all significant oil production countries. Since the internal market is subsidized in nearly all cases, this means that effective oil available on the international market (where e.g. Europe has to buy it) has gone down 5-8%.

3) The fact that the US did not have a way to export it's oil is masking fuel prices within the United States. It's one more factor that's making oil prices lower in the US than you'd expect given the rest of the world.

[1] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/01/pdf/text.pdf
FireChat also doesn't encrypt communications, which makes it rather dangerous in such situations. There have already been reports of government agents infiltrating in the protest movement to install malware in their phones.
Definitely, though when it comes to UI frameworks, many developers want a complete (and styled) solution, and usually stick to a cohesive framework. Brick is obviously more modular, but that's not enough yet. It still needs more components and perhaps themes in order to be looked up, but I recognize it's a new project. Hopefully, the exposure today gets it some contributors.
Fantastic article. Thanks for sharing
Also worth a read: http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
Speaking out against something you don't like or think will have a bad effect on something you hold dear IS NOTHING LIKE being entitled.
> And particles of air are affected by gravity, therefore I would very much expect them to follow Earth's curvature.

Gravity isn't the reason sound waves curve around the earth. One reason is that the curved surface is the only avenue open to them. There are a number of other, less influential reasons like different temperatures at different altitudes, but gravity isn't on the list.
Propaganda (and immune responses) have been co-evolving for as long as recorded history. The difference now is that we have free access via archive.org to much of the offensive and defensive literature prior to 1920s, mostly categorized under "occult" and "religion". Newer defensive material can be found via web search, youtube, etc. Offensive material is everywhere.

The ultimate form of propaganda is to convince the target that resistance is futile. It's not. The mere thought of resistance begins to alter the outcome. The best techniques have little to do with technology, e.g. watch "The Prisoner" UK TV series from the 1960's, much of which remains relevant to modern media, http://www.crackle.com/c/the-prisoner
If I had a nickel for every apple fanboi claiming google steals from apple I'd be rich. Please, get over it, let's not act like apple doesn't copy.
Software as Art: Ted Talk
Can I use this client-side? From what I read on the page this seems to be only geared towards a certain server-side-setup with node.js, brewer and stuff.
True enough. But if everyone of those apps are just a poorly constructed X Server equivalent (nothing going on locally if the connection drops) ... the difference seems a little semantic?
He is talking about hybrid music. There are many examples of music with lots of tracks with low volume. The most famous examples got to be Phil Spector and later Michael Tretow's work as producer for Abba. Doing this automatic? I don't know.
I don't write for either end of the Apple platform (at least at present -- I once did many years ago), so I can't create this, but I hope someone does -- it's an obviously good idea. All you IOS developers out there listen up. :)

As for Android, I've already done it -- it's part of my free app SSHelper:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arachnoid....
SQLite with Java
What you described in your last paragraph has already been done, and it works. Here's an article about a prank performed using a similar idea: http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
Ferrets are awesome. I wish they were legal in California.
Ask HN: Question to ask to white label solution provider
Can anyone please list important question which a guy should ask to white label solution provider? Any particular thing to keep in mind while discussing things with them?
>and if you take away the ability for people to monetize media

He is talking about figuring out another way for creators to monetize their media without artificial restrictions on sharing/copying. He doesn't want to take away money from creators, just the copyright. And i couldn't agree more with this idea.
Auditing Scala for Insecure Code with FindBugs
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Just curious, isn't more "sterile" to use robot? I mean, a ferret can poo in the middle, it can leave fur and feet traces inside the tube.
Algolint – Online Algorithm Practice Tool
The paywall kicks in after X free reads. People submitting links to paywalled articles may have subscriptions; they may not know about the paywall and not have reached the paywall limit yet; they may routinely use paywall evading methods.
+1
ADHD is real.
It was a lot harder to get a career as a software developer started. I feel like without finally discovering the root of my problem and taking meds at age 18 it wouldn't have been possible.
All those afternoons spent over procrastinating on homework.

Excercise helps. I feel lasting positive effects on mood and concentration when I lift regularly. Sadly, It doesn't alleviate the symptoms completly and doesn't cure the syndrome.

I think we'll be able to treat ADHD much more efficently when we have cheaper EEG that can be worn always. Recently the muse headband was introduced. I own one and it's a great leap forward. Sadly there's no app for neurofeedback training that is working with it yet...
I think people who are happy to acquiese to the music recording industry pleas for pity are failing to observe a simple and normal economic event wherein the value of what is being sold is not what it was 10 years. Industries change and then they die all the time. There is little novel about music anymore compared with the joy once brought in a less media entrenched time by the simple pleasures of buying and listening to an album, say 20 years ago.

Your point can roughly be paraphrased as the commoditization of media creation processes.

Schumpeter's gale:

""process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.""
Can we get a package manager for package managers?

There is so many already, its hard to keep track what names come from what repositories of what package managers.

It used to be so simple, yourDistroPackageManager install whatever, now there is x2000 versions of packageManager.
Why don't you think that the sound waves would go in all directions, and be absorbed / redirected at the edges? What you see following the curvature of the Earth is the result of that, and once you factor in the second-order wave reflection, it's still on the order of 1/r^2 isn't it?
> The facts are there: Russia is invading Ukraine.

Russia had invaded Ukraine and Ukraine could do nothing - Crimea.

The war in Donbass isn't "defending your country from a Russian invasion", it is volunteer battalions of nationalists, heavily armed and supported by Kiev government airforce, trying to pacify the region. Russia is supporting the rebels of course (for historic precedents read about "Zaporozskaya Sech" - it is amazing how history repeats itself). If Russia actually invaded, there wouldn't be any war already, like in Crimea. Several paratrooper battalions and tank assault groups occasionally performing some combat incursions isn't an invasion, just a favor to the rebels when it was absolutely critical for the survival of the rebellion (in August, months after Kiev started the "pacifying" operation).
36 hours is a very short amount of time, certainly if you are dealing with a bigger company. They can need time for internal discussions and probably have other projects to work on too. Too soon to worry I would think!
Yet another misrepresentation of what I wrote.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372340

Original link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_r...
4. Where is this preinstalled anywhere?

5. This isn't a full blown Twitter client, just a CLI interface. There's a difference.
Yeah, looks like it's modeled after the Stripe API reference docs:

https://stripe.com/docs/api

The doc generator used for this, readme.io, generates this three column layout automatically, so no fancy coding required.

The three column layout is nice for being able to scan back and forth between code and instruction. I like how it blends the purpose of the docs with the implementation.
Thx. Glad you like. The best is to come yet :)

Yes it s implemented with Ext JS. But not in JavaScript. We wanted to write Ext JS at scale so we wrote a GWT wrapper for Ext JS (http://opensource.ahome-it.com/#ext4j). It s free and opensource and might help you aswell.

Agreed with that bootstrap button :)
We will come up with something better in the next iteration.
Thx and keep the feedback coming :)

Cheers
>As copyright is regulated federally

It's even worse, copyright is regulated by international treaties[1]. Every time someone comes up with an idea to reform copyright, shorten the terms etc. it's immediately shot down by the argument that we are bound by those agreegments and cannot change anything ourselves.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_internationa...
Do you trust Google to remain just an adware company forever?

Or will they (a) sit on your children's data for all of their life and (b) within a decade or two break out of the adware niche with Google Services for Health and Life Insurance, Google Services for Banking and Credit, Google Services for Human Ressources, and Google Services for Law Enforcement?
Banking's future: Goodbye credit cards, hello social media probes
Lectures for mining massive datasets
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Origin Server Connection Security with Universal SSL
Could your credit score soon be based on your FACEBOOK FRIENDS?
>On the flip side, you can consider that traditional proprietary software installs usually have full access to read and modify your system, often in ways you don't expect or wouldn't consent to.

Perhaps for non-technical users. For technical users this is a solved problem for a few decades now. You can restrict read/write access for any software in any which way you want.

>Running in a virtualized environment in a browser significantly reduces access to your system.

Why would I want to kill my software performance by running it on an inferior browser platform when the kernel is perfectly capable of compartmentalizing software.
"I see you as X, and I dislike X, and I want to prejudice people against X, reducing their opportunities"

Indeed, I accept your extension of such slurs' usual import.

The extended version is still a true statement, which accurately communicates the facts of the speaker's views and preferences about X, moreso than it actually defames X. So let slurs be said. When someone wants to say, "I am an idiot/bigot!", and that statement is true, why make that truth illegal?

And yes, there are many potential dimensions of free speech, as in your two reduced examples. But in practice the variables are highly correlated.

Remember the example that started this digression, fines for offensive tweets in the UK. That's not a different kind of 'free' speech, it's simply unfree speech in that dimension – and it's an accurate hint that speech is generally less-free in the UK than the US. (The UK is also notable in its plaintiff-friendly libel/slander laws and expansive secrecy/press-gag orders.)

Similarly, you justified 'hate speech' restrictions by tenuous analogy to defamation. And trademark/copyright are often enforced differentially to silence fringe expression.

A jurisdiction that penalizes one kind of speech is more prone to penalize others. The rationalizations and enforcement mechanisms become familiar, and build on each other. Each punishment of speech is the opposite of free speech, not some nuance of free speech.