skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but for some people "pretty good" isn't enough. As I said before, I've had some very nice solid state amps that I loved playing through. It's just that there are some sounds that have yet to be emulated properly via modern circuitry. Granted, it's all subjective; why does a Fender sound better or worse than a Gibson for a particular style of music? It all comes down to what kind of sound the musician wants to get out of his equipment, and if a solid state amp doesn't give him what he wants but a tube amp does, then I'd say the tube amp is still relevant.
Since when did only non-obvious improvements get patented?
I'm not making that comparison. Not sure where you got that from. If you want me to make that comparison:

The net effect of taking that cash out and burning it or spending it on an Apple 1 assembly is the same. It devalued the moment you bought it as you have shrunk the market.

Could have thrown it at a charity.
Just no. Since old times fingerprints were used as a unique signature, not an unique id.

Unique id could be something as silly as

sha256(concatenate(full-name,date-of-birth,place-of-birth))

or just any unique number, like cell phone number.

Again, a fingerprint or an image of a retina is a signature or password not an id or username.
TL;DR: Ember and Angular are more full-featured than React.js. And Angular gives you the most bang per byte downloaded.

angularjs is mvc (Model View Controller)

react is only the V(iew), so you can blend AngularJS with ReactJS.

The most popular post (about Angular vs React) is on http://www.quora.com/Pete-Hunt/Posts/Facebooks-React-vs-Angu... , but it's kinda subjective i suppose as he works on the React team.

(Note: I use AngularJS, but haven't used ReactJS. So if i'm wrong, please correct me).

Here is a nice comparison though http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/1v4glc/react_vs_...
>He tried to have people killed.

Do you have any proof of that? It looks like the government doesn't.
Ubuntu has been going backwards for at least two years....
- Unity doesn't seem to improve, and just further fractures and balkanizes the linux desketop
- They dropped the installation versions where I can do software RAID setup... all my desktops are RAID0 dual HDD and SSD OS/swap/boot.
- Ubuntu desktops have been getting slower as I upgrade my hardware, not faster.

OSX has maddening keyboard shortcuts, and Windows is committing suicide.

With the excess cores, GPU power, huge disk space, virtualization, and other advancements, I should be able to seamlessly run several OSs at once. There is such amazing potential out there, but it is pretty clear that Canonical is now just putting minimal resources into Ubuntu.

It still mystifies me that Google didn't make a seriously good desktop distribution on par with OSX to destroy the windows monopoly. Instead... ChromeOS?
Nice pie menus!
The Vatican is also turning to crowdfunding and is now seeking donations of €5o save a single page in a manuscript, while donations of at least €1,000 will see the backer included on the official supporters list

If they had literally put this on kickstarter, it would have been sureal.
I do crawling from EC2, and yes, I would not like a 1Gbps traffic spike myself.

Do you deal with generic webpage crawlers that way, or targeted API abuse? Because the first ones can be smoothly shaved away with the help of Cloudflare, for instance.
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399209
Citation please. (I prefer Postgres, but your statement seems harsh.)
I'm on arch linux with kde. I tried ubuntu several times, but I can't stick with it. The installation is a breeze, but for the rest it's not that exiting. Btw, I consider myself as a human being too!

Still, I am very happy with the existence of Ubuntu, helping millions of people moving away from Windows and OSX. This is a huge boost for the development of software for linux.
Will having servers physically located in Germany really satisfy the privacy concern of German clients given that Amazon is still an American company subject to american laws?
Apparently thinking that identity theft (which harms individuals) sucks also means I worship the state. Right.

Religious zealots always get mad when facts ruin their ideological narratives.

Ethereal, you are now, and will always be, an utterly worthless shitstain on humanity. I won't couch this in distancing language. I'll own the fact that you're an asshole, that you're passive-aggressive, and that HN would be materially better if the mods had the balls to ban assholes like you.
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The "authority" quoted in the Yahoo Answers thread is Jack Chick, who's rapidly anti-Catholic (see http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractByKeyword.asp?Subject=Cath...), claims Dungeons and Dragons involves true demon worship, etc. - he's pretty much anti-anything that isn't hard-core fundamentalist Christianity.

The Vatican is certainly wealthy, but Yahoo Answers should never be used as a "see? evidence!" item.
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The source cites Jack Chick as the evidence. He's a lunatic, not just on Catholicism.

http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractByKeyword.asp?Subject=Cath...
Wasn't this mostly Knoppix's accomplishment?
Nice to see something that well made from around here. Currently sitting 800m away from you @ Combinat 56. :)

I remember someone posting in a recurring revenue thread on HN about a similar service for medical doctors some time ago, was that your inspiration?
Hairdressers have to manage customer appointments, accounts, payroll, CRM, inventory etc. Some of that is done online. Source: my wife owns a hairdressing shop in Paris.
It's not (directly) related to sex. Honeypot is slang for a sting operation; it's not only security professionals who use the term but also the police.
Not part of their mandate? They are caretaker of one of the worlds greatest collections of religious texts, and its not in their mandate to promote interest and research into those documents? What do you think their mandate may be?
Similar in nature to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)
I don't know where you get that from. They don't have proof that anyone died, and perhaps no one did. That doesn't mean attempting a hit is any less heinous.
There are gazillion scam companies like this in the bay area. So many indians are exploited thanks for the H4 situation.
"that undertone of momentum". Yes.
Minimum wage is a ban on jobs. It means the government passes a law forbidding people from selling their labor for less than $X.

Before you defend minimum wage, you should try and come up with a coherent explanation as to how is it that any good can come from curtailing people's freedoms by prohibiting them from setting their own prices for the labor they wish to sell.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_T._Chick
You are quoting a guy with a life-long, emotional animus - nobody should confuse his assertions with facts.
Not meaning to sound snarky but it isn't this growth pattern reminiscent of a pyramid scheme ?

Obviously I'm not suggesting SO is a pyramid scheme, but if that's how the reputation system works surely it's an indication that it's broken fundamentally.
Which means grains of salt and skepticism, not outright discarding. Truth stands on its own regardless of the speaker. Otherwise it's ad hominem.

This is not a scientific journal. There is no such thing as an "invalid source", there are only things that are true and things that are not, plain and simple.

The lengths people will go to in order to avoid validating a piece of data is truly staggering..

And look? Turns out, he was right.
I think the example of the carbon-paper envelopes is flawed.

It assumes the elector can recognize the quirks of the signature of the trustee, yet it also assumes that the trustee can not do this (for lack of having a copy of his signature). There are two simple attack vectors here:

1.) The trustee can see who is on the return envelope, and if it is the address of a person whose vote he wants to know he adds a quirk to his signature which he can later recognize. Thus the scheme fails.

2.) The trustee can make a carbon copy of his signing of the carbon-lined envelope. Thus he can identify every tiny quirk of every signature on every envelope. He also knows the return addresses, so he can link the return addresses to the votes.

Or did I miss something here? Or would the trustee in the digital version not be allowed to use different signatures? If not, how would an elector recognize his own ballot?
So you are competing with patio11, although currently targeting a different vertical ?

Edit: and a different linguistic area
That is correct, but I will say that React can enable a different application structure in a way that other view layers (i.e. more "normal" template engines) do not. React can be treated as a function (pass in input, out comes a UI based solely on that input) and I've found that this lets me simplify other aspects of my code.
There's no obstacle in principle to proving that something can't be proved. As far as I understand things, the continuum hypothesis has been shown to be unprovable within ZFC (since ZFC is consistent with both the truth and the falsity of the continuum hypothesis, obviously it is unable to prove the hypothesis true or false), and theoretical computer science produces results of the form "to prove X, the following kinds of approaches cannot work".
There is an ongoing struggle if these laws should be regulated at EU level or at national level since some countries vastly differ in their attitudes in this space and common ground is difficult to establish.

Oh dear god let it be at the EU level. The only way small EU countries full of semi-corrupt conservatives get decent consumer protection law is when it's an EU law.
Sorry! Didn't know that guy. But I provided a Georgetown U reference as well. It substantially agrees with the estimates of size. So Mr. Chick may have accidentally got something right.
I'll concede that "impossible" might be the wrong word choice, sorry. How about "impractical to the point of near impossibility"?

But I only have 22 years experience playing guitar and bass across genres as diverse as jazz, blues, gospel, metal, modern rock, and folk, so hey what do I know?
I've had to rebuild with a new OS install twice. I've run Ubuntu for probably... crap, is it 10 years now?

It usually coincided with a oh-well-might-as-well-upgrade decision...

At least one was a two major version upgrade. But still.
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Phone number and contact details of all their customers? If that's breeched, then you have a serious data protection issue.
btw, after so many startups already funded and sold it could be a nice idea to create by interviewing and maintain a list of what these startups are wishing to have but have no time/resources to work on it. This could be a list of ideas to accept as long as more than one or two startups are wishing for [not necessarily exactly] the same thing.)

My bet is that YC has a list like this, the question is why not to make it public (and dynamic) on this site.

Things like "less buggy PHP" or "less bloated Java" or "Java without aliasing bugs" could be filtered out automatically.
So in this one context you can sit on your high horse, how convenient. I'm sure you spend large amounts of money on other frivolous things that others could judge and crucify you for.

Not sure why I'm feeding you but there it is.
Before the Vatican II sect apostatized from the Catholic Faith their mandate was

"Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Matt 16:15

I can't really believe how stupid your comment is.
Yes -- pass has extensive support for being used by teams. You can set various levels of ACLs by having different combinations of keys for different directories.
The net effect of taking that cash out and burning it or spending it on an Apple 1 assembly is the same.

How so? Now, whoever sold the Apple 1 assembly has $900k. What will they do with that money? Presumably not burn it.
Yup, thats the one.

I'm busy building the sequel right now - hope to have it ready for December this year.
To return to the topic: how big do you think the Vatican is? Net worth, round to billions.
Pass works very well with teams, as it supports various levels of key combinations.

It also will run well under Cygwin on Windows.
or RHEL Workstation, SUSE, etc... but point kind of stands since Ubuntu was, for some reason or the other, highly visible. Maybe those free CDs had something to do with it.
I agree and am mostly the same.

The only thing I also do is intentionally leave e-mails I still need to respond to, as unread, and keep my inbox sorted with unread e-mails at the top.

It works great. The only thing that annoys me is that most (?) e-mail clients automatically mark an e-mail as read as soon as it's opened. I'm constantly pressing "Cmd+U" in Gmail to go back to the inbox, while leaving the item as unread.
Literally the first line in the article states the name of the company. Come on.
Depends on the type of co-founder, I suppose.

Having been more-or-less a technical co-founder (or maybe a co-co-founder) I found the technical issues fascinating, but ultimately, I wasn't sure if the business model was a good idea or not. So, I stuck to technical issues and kept my mouth shut (or tried to) about anything outside my area.

The one time I had to say something was when the Social Media person suggested what sounded like astroturfing. I was against it then and I will always be against it.
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How can you see the 2048 grid without internet? Only the actions are controlled via SMS, you still need internet to view the page.
Naming the location of a business is "inflammatory" now? WTF?

They did name it in the very first paragraph of the article:

Ever heard of Electronics for Imaging? We hadn't either until this morning, but it's apparently a multimillion dollar, multinational, public corporation based out of Fremont, California.
And the documents they hold, are not related to the gospel? Do not illuminate it at all? Are wholly unrelated to that goal? Then why on earth did they collect them.

Ad Hominem is not supposed to be a good argument tactic. I'll just say that, and not cast aspersions on your state of intelligence because that would be wrong.
A source like Chick is invalid, plain and simple. It's like asking Hitler about Jews - some of what he says might be accurate, but you're not going to cite him ever on it.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,833509,... says the Vatican's wealth is $10-15 billion. I suspect their total net worth is hard to calculate given that much of what they have is priceless - it'd be hard to put a price tag on St. Peter's Basilica.
What, to encourage automation instead of using humans? If it really is cheaper to use humans there's no reason to prevent that, there are plenty of places we need automation that will cause technology to keep advancing. Better to let the market chose humans or automation as it wills (and then buff up the social safety net if this throws too many people out of work).
Does anybody know if there are significant differences between Ireland and Germany, concerning things like privacy and copyright protection? Perhaps there are same laws in EU, which are just enforced less in one country?

Yes. Irish data protection law is not as strong as other countries. And the government only care about jobs, and promoting the "smart economy". If big tech companies get annoyed at data protection law, they can tell the government that they'd pull out unless things quiet down. The Irish government don't want to "destroy jobs".
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This is a fantastic example of how to build a service that doesn't target the usual tech-savvy crowd, but regular brick and mortar businesses, where pen and paper is still the default toolset. These are often overlooked.

I see it everyday: I work at a company that manufactures running shoes in Germany and the retailers we sell to are mostly small, very competent running stores for enthusiasts - not your average national chain like Runner's Point. However these stores barely have any digital inventory/order/customer management solution, use way overpriced point of sale systems and often resort to fax machines when submitting an order. Well, what I'm trying to say is that there are potential customers for useful niche services left and right. It's just not always very obvious.

What you're doing, looks great though.
> Or any previous device you might have had with Touch ID. Unless you change your fingerprints when you get a new phone.

Any previous unwired device that has not been power cycled and that was unlocked in the past 48 hours.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5949
Reminds me of that Yogi Berra quote "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
In pry is it possible to return something when I exit the REPL? Like this:

def do_something
return binding.pry

do_something_but_does_not_work
end

result = do_something
process result

It might be very convenient if I put 'return binging.pry' just before the broken code. I can interactively fix the broken code and continue run outside of current method.
Don't miss the video of it in operation.

http://www.bonhams.com/video/17458/
Hmm...what about this then?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/03/microsoft-...
https://github.com/runway7/blip
I'm talking solely based on my experience, which has been much harsher than I wrote in my comment. I know in-person only 1 guy that likes postgresql and he had good reasons for it and experience with many rdbms. While everyone else is like: lol php+mysql for life (talking only people that I know in-person).

Nearly the same experience, but much better is online in my opinion.

Exercise: Go to reddit.com/r/postgresql and reddit.com/r/mysql and see if there is any difference in topics.
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O- makes you a universal donor, so I'd imagine yours is always in demand.
The question is what is your favorite. I use MySQL and Postgress. I use MySQL more, but I would say I prefer Postgress for features,so depends what definition of popular you are using (by usage, or by users personal favorite).
They could put it under a CC licence?
I really enjoy that trend. Tech is a dry topic with typically uninspiring presenters.
Fair enough, I always go back to something a high school teacher mentioned when these types of arguments come up. Martin Luther King Jr. broke the law to make a point, to fight injustice, to "stick it to the man." But MLK unequivocally and publicly broke those laws; he made the statement 'these are unjust laws and they need to be changed' and suffered the punishment for breaking those laws, as determined by a court of law, mitigated by public outcry. Illegally copying and selling movies because you think copyright law is bullshit, as an example, is not living up to MLK's method, it's having your cake and eating it too. You think a law is unjust, fight the law, don't break it and try to get away with it. That makes you, at best, little better than those in organized crime. And, at the end of the day, if you've made tons of money off of the crime, and you stand to make more if the law is repealed, it really waters down your moral/ethical argument.
So does that tactic work because the computers are "in-transit"? What happens upon end of life? Do they need to ship the computers out of country?
There, was that so hard? Googling 'Vatican net worth' and choosing any of several substantially-agreeing links. Sorry I picked the wrong one, but the conclusion is the same: the Vatican is a multi-billion dollar operation.
You're welcome! Glad you like it :)
It looks a lot like a Macintosh color classic.
Are you skeptical that the law will change or do you agree with whatever the law is?
In this survey I learned that dBase/Clipper, as well as Access, are relational databases.

I actually liked working with XBase back in the 80s, but I don't miss not having foreign key constraints enforced, not having transactions, having long data values truncated, not being able to take a backup while running.

Early MySQL was too much like XBase for my taste, whereas PostgreSQL felt like a "real" database. I realize the InnoDB backend makes data integrity a bit more of a priority, but MySQL always felt like "worse is better", even if a bunch of "will code HTML for food" 90s internet crack heads helped make it ubiquitous. Windows is ubiquitous, and that doesn't mean much to me.
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Protect your site, by hacking into ours
Running the Roman Catholic Church perhaps? Providing spiritual leadership to a billion Catholics worldwide?
Wow, the opening sentence contains the nonsense word "unsession" which makes it hard for me to read this, which is disappointing considering the source. However, this is the first time I've been exposed to "zendo", and it sounds interesting. However, as an individual with more than a passing interest in Zen Buddhism, I find the concept of creating a logic game using the words from the religion a little ironic, considering zen focuses almost exclusively on direct experience and illogical statement to break one free of delusions.
My mistake. I thought if it's already been posted then HN would redirect me to that discussion when I try to submit... That didn't happen.
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"Nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle" perhaps?
The pretext for the war was Iraq having an active WMD program. What ISIS has are stockpiles from before Iraq dismantled their WMD program (which was prior to the invasion).
So this article is a year old, I don't know if Apple has managed to improve things since then.

But if it were as easy to get access as the article suggests...

I agree you take the right approach by identifying adversaries. And I agree that it's relatively reliable against kids or random people randomly screwing around. And not against governments.

But there's a whole bunch in between that. Business competitors? Ex-partners or personal enemies, motivated enough to hire a private detective or similar that can easily do this?

I think the line of "reasonable defense against" for this technology is actually probably _just barely_ above random people screwing around with your phone because it was just lying there. And there's a whole lot above that but below national intelligence agency.
A driverless train needs to be entirely grade-separated, which generally restricts it to metros. Big cities generally have legacy metros where it would be difficult and expensive to update signaling to allow automated operation. And driverless metros generally still need a train operator to handle the doors and passenger safety, so the train/signaling upgrades are mostly worthwhile when the line is so busy that being able to run a couple more trains per hour pays off.

And ATO requires a level of competence in operations and maintenance that not all organizations are capable of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22,_2009_Washington_Metro...
How is this an argument for a high minimum wage, as opposed to a basic human (non-employment-linked) wage?