skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reports of the death of email are wildly exaggerated. Seventy-five percent of adults – across all age groups except 65+ – prefer companies communicate with them through email. With various studies showing 4000% ROI on email marketing, companies should love email back.
Nature Communications to become open access only
Thanks for the explanation. It's been a while since the last amendment. If a single, sensible amendment can make it through the current legislative process without unwelcome side effects, it would be a welcome exception to the last few years of gridlock and horse trading.
The problem with big businesses is that even if the organisation needs and wants to cut costs, its smaller organizational units often have little incentive to do so. So the push for a new cheaper solution has to come from above, which means you have to sell the product to "higher ups" and not to the people who will be using the product. Of course that means the sales people and cheapness of product are then more important than the actual quality of product, which I guess is why there are so many crappy products in the big enterprises in the first place.
It sounds like a useful set of new features. I just wish every new batch of features wasn't heralded as the "amazing new way you will communicate in the future!" I also wish that people could look at these innovations and see ways they could be modified, improved, made to complement other ways of doing things, etc. Instead it seems like the pitch-culture of tech forces people to pretend as though one particular set of features shall be the entire future universe entire and perfect, as though you would never need more (or less), or to use it in a different way than designed.
> Is that really a line of reasoning? I can make money by drug and arms trafficking, helping other skirt the law, take advantage of legal loopholes, using violence where competitors cannot to strongarm others into submission, exploiting labor, etc.

By and large you can't, which is the point. We don't stop these things by appealing to people's better natures. We stop these things by making them unprofitable. When hedge funds misbehave it's usually a symptom, not a cause.
Accelerate Your Startup – Matt Cartagena Interview
There's differences in the grammar, just like in English between US "I don't have any..." and UK "I haven't any...". But I was disputing that the differing characters used with Mandarin and Cantonese was to do with the pronunciation of the morphemes/words.
I agree, powerful marketing will make the difference -- seeing as Voxer is essentially the same product.
Jim's page on longevity (looks like it's from the 90s, but it's not): http://www.greenray4ever.com/longevity.html

Jim's biography: http://www.greenray4ever.com/index-88.html

Although his website looks like a mess, a lot of the stuff he's doing and talking about are solid. I posted this, because he's essentially a computer engineer... or use to be.
"The Voxer application, for example, is capable of supporting full-duplex communication, allowing two (or more) participants of a conversation to engage in near real-time communication, similar to a synchronous telephone call. Participants are therefore required to select the PTT feature for the entire duration of the full-duplex exchange, which may be inconvenient after a certain period of time."

http://www.google.com/patents/US20130295982
> Is it true, that a freediver can stay under water for 4 minutes?

Yes. It's true. This doesn't mean anyone can do it.

> Are there techniques, or is it just training?

Yes to both. One technique is to over-oxygenate yourself before diving. Another is to minimize oxygen use while on the dive, easier said than done, but possible.

And four minutes isn't all that special:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154442/Free-diver-b...
Somewhat unrelated: some filesystems also provide online compression (e.g. ZFS). I think that's a more appropriate layer to apply general compression.
Render :super or how we build a highly extendable Rails CMS
Interesting, but flawed. The results have never been completely repeated, so it's more likely a flaw in the original protocol.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4797/can-flatwor...
The CIA Used Artificial Intelligence to Interrogate Its Own Agents in the 80s
Jolla smartphone comes to India at Rs 16,499 or $275
I think you're confusing visual design and UX design. I agree that UX design is mostly about making things work. Visual design (fonts, color palettes, use of white space, emphasis, etc) is mostly arbitrary, touchy-feely stuff. Some people just intuitively know what 'looks good' and what will create that emotional connection with users. This is much different then somebody doing a wire frame with a title and a text box.
> Seeing "how much memory is being used" is a major use case for you using a browser?

Yes, certainly. My development machine has 8 GB of RAM. On a number of occasions I've recovered from a marginal memory problem/commencement of disk swap by dumping Chrome. I should have more RAM, but still.

Chrome uses a lot of memory. Unless you have a ridiculous amount of RAM, there will be times when you'll notice the load.

> If a browsers works fast and doesn't leak memory, one shouldn't care how much memory exactly is used.

Not really. Not if you care about performance.
No article, just an ad. Works perfectly well, I'll never look at “The Esquire” again.
Liquid-metal batteries get boost from molten lead
You call it pigeonhole but a lot of people call it specialization. Some trades require it, others don't. I don't think you can generalize it and call it a problem. It's almost like expecting an expert plumber to wire up your 20 story condo building. Sure you can find a handyman that can do plumbing and electrical, but for your 20 story condo building you are going to call in people that specialize in electrical. And that's okay.
The Growth of Mobile Health App Industry
Slackware uses exactly this system.
Chernobyl wasn't heroism, it was slave labor. The people that were made to work there were gathered all over Soviet Union with no choice in the matter and no knowledge about where they were being taken, what happened, and what dangers they faced.
Explaining Shell Commands in the Shell
Go? Botched beyond hope. I choose to keep my sanity and stay away.
Cirque De Soleil + Drones
My main take-away is that Goldman-Sachs will do anything to fool their customers and dodge any responsibility.

Does Goldman-Sachs still have customers? I can't imagine how ill-informed you'd have to be to subject yourself to their antics.
Increased regulation of health care == increased cost of health care.
Controlling the Control Room; Centralized and Remote Access
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

Obviously, the sentiment has broad appeal. But in practice it almost always goes the other way -- caravans prefer paying bandits off to fighting them; shops prefer paying protection money to defying the mob; villagers prefer paying taxes to declaring rebellion; and, as called out in the poem, empires prefer paying foreign aid to sending their expensive armies off into the middle of nowhere. Paying the Dane-geld is forever, but even when you do defeat the barbarians it's not like they stay defeated. You just get different barbarians later.

Interestingly, the Roman empire liked to make sure that negotiations with border tribes went its way by waging terrifying scorched-earth campaigns against those border tribes shortly beforehand. It worked. But the negotiated settlements would include subsidies paid annually from Rome to the new barbarian leaders -- Rome liked this system because the subsidies (a) made sure the new leaders were pro-Rome, and (b) really helped stabilize the pro-Rome guy against local challengers.
This is a fascinating problem.

- We have mechanisms to prove that video is taken after a certain time (show a newspaper on the video, or get the video cryptographically timestamped via a trusted server).

- We have mechanisms to detect if something is taken before a certain time, by doing something interactive and unlikely with live viewers.

- We have mechanisms to detect if something has been modified from its original form (signing).

You might be able to make a CCD chip that signs every frame with a private key, and then ships the frame off to a public signing server too. Producing that CCD along with the video taken might be proof. But then you could defeat that with a display hooked to the camera, feeding the doctored image to the trusted camera.

I remember learning about Stalin's photo retouching, and reading about the systematized photo retouching and censorship in 1984. At the time I thought it was completely impractical, there's just too much work to do and not enough people to do it. Let's hear it for automation, putting the auto in Autocracy! :)
the pre, during and after service enhances the product and amplifies the experience
Maybe I'm not understanding this article, but relativistic time dilation was experimentally verified a long time ago, in the very GPS satellites mentioned in the article.

Wiki details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_P...
When I say engineering is about making it work, I mean it mostly in the sense that nobody gets to see how the sausage is made. No customer is ever going to critique your code or double check your cement pour. As long as it works, that's all that matters.

On the other hand, the work that a visual designer does is front and center, it is literally the only thing that a client will interact with. For example, when Microsoft introduced Metro that's all anybody talked about (good or bad). Nobody ever talked about what the code looked like that went into producing it. Customers only connect with what they can see.
NWO,BEGIN OF FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS PHIL SCHNEIDA 1995 DEAD BY 1996
TL;DR: Sales pitch. Yawn.
At least, Lotus was something new in its time.
Right. Google is successful because it was the last search engine. It provided a completely novel way to do search (links vs. keywords) and Facebook will be valuable if it turns out to be the last social network. However, to be the LAST MOVER you have to provide a value at some arbitrary, but huge, number. Let's say a 10x improvement over the incumbant (or various substitute products). That is why email is difficult to dethrone. It works well, is relatively secure (you can sort of choose your level of security) and spam settings make it reasonably painless. So this app is going to have to be a much better experience than hangouts (probably easy, hangouts is shit), or whatsapp, or email, or a phonecall, or instagram etc. This can be done, but the execution has to be perfect, the value proposition has to be 10x better than the one or two substitute services it replaces (largely phone & messaging) and it has to have a growth pattern that is substantial enough that it can be reasonably assumed that at least 80% of my contacts are using it.

so to be last mover here they probably need

>a product that is 10x better than a combo(or stand alone instance) of SMS/messaging apps/email/facetime/phone etc

>widespread user adoption

>trust/security

>a revenue stream

It seems cool, but it is a tough space to dominate.
Totport – Time-based one-time passwords, anywhere, any service
Ask HN: Had enough of my day job
Really want to work on my own startup. I'm burning out doing mind numbing tasks at my day job, web developer but no real challenge, yet I am unable to raise enough capital to start something for myself. I've had enough however of what I'm currently doing - feel like I'm stuck, what should I do? What about crowd funding a project? Anyone here have experience with the above?
Trustworthy Computing is dead, long live Trustworthy Computing
I find it very surprising you have said pinyin is slow. It has the downside that you need to look at what you're typing, but it's certainly not slow. With modern IMEs it's more akin to something like Swype in it's usage.

I am appalled when in other regions in China where they do not use pinyin, watching people spending over a minute trying to tell their friend that they just got on the train.
Nature Communications goes open access
There are several paths:

1. JS as an assembly language. This is what emscripten[0], a LLVM bytecode-to-JS does, by following the asm.js specification[1]. This is for CPU-intensive tasks, not DOM manipulation. You can use any language that has a LLVM frontend.

2. JS as a target language, from a specific, new language. Those include cleaner variants that keep the same semantics (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, maybe Dart, ...) or more innovative ones, such as Elm[2], which is written in Haskell too. I'd say that a big innovation that makes the life easier is FRP (which is at the heart of Elm or React.js).

I fail yet to see what advantages PureScript brings compared to Elm.

0: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten
1: http://asmjs.org
2: http://elm-lang.org/
My mistake, I meant ambient as in "ambiance sound" not the musical style (less chatter, more music with melody).

But excellent recommendation nonetheless (listening to the flashbulb on reviews.headphonecommute.com) !
Could there possibly be two worse pictures to compare if you want to see if someone has aged (visually) or not?
Sure, it's just that there's no solution on the other side of the hand-waving ... and your portal to the other side is also a non-standard one with limitations. As I said, I think the exploration is meaningful and the paradigm has merit but it's hard to target general applicability with such an approach.
"Physicists have verified a key prediction [...] with unprecedented accuracy" - First paragraph of article

Indeed a sensational title.
Impressive. 20 minutes. Of course only 10 minutes without oxygen.
As an init system it works fine, but you do end up having to find or invent a bunch of additional stuff if you want similar functionality to what's driving some of the systemd use-cases. The result might still be better (I haven't done a detailed architectural comparison), but you do need something. For example one of the things I find useful about the "systemd way" of things is that it provides, finally, a story about how to apply cgroups to services in a sane way. The kernel provides the APIs, but actually using them from userspace was not fun previously, with multiple incompatible systems, largely based on tangles of shell scripts that had broken corner cases.

With FreeBSD, my impression is that manual shell scripting is still the norm. Integrating RCTL (FreeBSD's resource-limiting facility) with service management basically consists of manually writing in a bunch of imperative calls to RCTL into scripts. There's no way to configure services with limits declaratively, ensure the right thing happens when services are started/stopped, etc., precisely because there's no integration between the RCTL facility and the process-management or init facilities. Or at least I haven't found a way. The closest is that if you need such integration only for jails, you do have the option of third-party "monolithic" management systems, such as CBSD.
I migrated my blog from Ghost to Octopress just a week before and had no issues whatsoever.. I used the same tutorials in their page, there is nothing troublesome there.. As said by AlexeyBrin, the source code is constantly being updated...
Bit-Wallet – BitCoin vending machine
Why is the quality of photos he takes of himself also like they were taken in the 90's.
I agree there's a move towards reuse. I disagree there's any fundamental difference between hypervisor-hosted VMs and containers as far as infrastructure, connectivity, configuration management, monitoring and all the rest goes. I also disagree this is a meaningful step forward for a general use case due to paradigm quirks, but I applaud the exploration.
How horrible.

A classic example of the fact that the mentally ill are more likely to be victims of violence - whether verbal or physical.
Fake app reviews on Google Play
Only someone working for the aei would describe $25k for a family as "middle-class". For reference, in 2014, the poverty line for a family is $23,850 [1]. You don't jump from poverty to middle-class.

He then cites a paper by Meyer and Sullivan [2] which, amongst other things, argues that

the poor shouldn't count because they get food stamps;

the fraction of poor people with a/c doubled between 1981 and 1999 (I didn't realize you could eat A/C)

more poor people have cars w/ power breaks and steering (I am surprised you can buy a car in the last decade w/o either of the above)

etc etc -- the authors go on at length about how consumption rather than income should be a measure of poverty. Which is a classic, but stupid, argument. If you can barely afford rent, are living paycheck-to-paycheck, but now your apartment has a dishwasher, you are not better off. If your used car has power steering, it does not make you better off.

Meanwhile, back over in reality, food insecurity continues to be a problem, the hours at minimum wage required to afford minimal housing in major metropolitan areas continue to rise far beyond possibility, etc etc. But this is what AEI is for -- to kick up confusion about reality in the service of conservatives and the rich.

[1] http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/14poverty.cfm

[2] http://www.aei.org/files/2011/10/25/Material-Well-Being-Poor...
Sure is. The article acknowledges this:

> I never wanted to swim with sperm whales. I'm not an adrenaline junky with a death wish

> while swimming side-by-side with them, sperm whales can accidentally smother you, decapitate you with their tails, and many researchers believe they can also vibrate your body to death with their most intense vocalisations if they choose

I occasionally step on snails despite, for the obvious reasons, being quite willing to go out of my way to avoid doing so. Same problem here.
He's 65 according to the main page.
> No customer is ever going to critique your code or double check your cement pour.

Surely that rather depends who your customers are - I'm sure I've read about places like the military/NASA/whatnot forcing code reviews on external contractors.
The code is necessarily in different places, whether it's within a project or between projects. The difference is having an API that can be found without having to read all the code, and is well-defined and somewhat stable.

It's very "UNIX" to implement things as communicating processes rather than RPC or procedure-call-within-monolith.
Sounds great. Just wondering - were you using another app with your girlfriend and family before Talko? Apart from the voice aspect, your experience sounds exactly like mine but with Whatsapp.

I'm curious to try a Whatsapp-like experience with voice, but neither my family nor I use the Whatsapp voice note feature. I think it's because recorded voice is just awkward.
> This chip also handles switching around which side of the connector is active.

I don't think it does actually, think that's handled mostly by the device - the data pins just connect straight through to both sides of the connector.
Being very involved in the Startup scene, What's more rewarding than a place full of like-minded humans..?
A Bootstrapper’s Story: 10 Years of Kadavy.net
Case in point .. today .. rebuilding an X11 desktop system on Gentoo, some weird set of dependencies around gnome beneath the window manager wants to pull in systemd. I finally work out a way around it, but it wastes half an hour of my time.

My take: Containers are not well managed by general, daemon-oriented process supervisors with a localhost-oriented purview. However, those supervisors would do well to use container-related features to better secure and manage daemons as appropriate. In future, processes will be more likely managed across clusters by parallel capable supervisory systems with high availability goals and network infrastructure configuration, load and topology knowledge. Less and less people will even see the init system, except perhaps behind a logo or as it flashes past while booting their device in debug mode.

(Edit: stumbled on http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/284741 which explains the scenario .. would hate to be on BSD)
Agreed there's a lot of hype, but Skype and hangouts are awful on mobile, so anything better would be nice.
I built a Python-backend and Android front-end to set up motion on a machine, in my case Raspberry Pi, and make it controllable while you are on the go, receiving push notifications on your phone if motion is detected:

http://konrad-reiche.com/security-cam/
Wasn't this the case with older compilers not zeroing padding space too?
Project FiFo – SmartOS Cloud Orchestration
Nice going, and a service to the community. Thanks!
> There shouldn't be any licensing troubles, at least.

Under many (if not most) jurisdictions it's not possible to put things in the public domain, and saying you do so without providing an actual license is the same as not doing anything (aka "All Rights Reserved", the restrictive default).

Even in the US, the idea of putting things in the public domain (rather than it falling into the public domain) is a bit iffy and AFAIK has never been tested in court.
Yeah, I did it. Devops. Another Definition
My FreeBSD system has a 30-second timeout during which the entire boot process is halted because it waits for a default route to the internet... which it won't get, because I haven't configured one.

It's pretty dumb, and not enough of a problem for me that I'd figure out how to work around it, but it's a pretty good example.
Quote: "I've written on many occasions about what I call universal criminality, the crowning achievement of the modern police state, under which there are so many vague, overbroad and counterintuitive laws that every single person is in violation of at least a few of them at all times."

Show a little class -- admit that this is Ayn Rand's idea. It's almost a verbatim quote.
Apple's Lightning connector isn't capable of most of the things that USB C does. It doesn't support anything faster than USB 2, doesn't even have enough pins to support USB 3 or DisplayPort let alone both at the same time, can only deliver a fraction of the power, etcera. In some ways it was actually less capable than Apple's old 30-pin dock connector.
New Level of Smartphone Encryption Alarms Law Enforcement
Reverse engineering NAND Flash Memory – POS device case study (part 2/3)