skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans bodies are gene survival machines for which immortality may or may not be feasible, but human brains are meme survival machines for which immortality is possible today with Chatbotify.

I came up with this idea when facing the death of a loved one, wishing there was a way to preserve what was unique about them as a person. If I could clone them so they were young again, with all their memories intact, that would be perfect, but since I can't do that, what can I do? I can collect everything they ever wrote, allow a "blank" chatbot similar to to learn to speak only from that data, and talk to it. That's what chatbotify does.

Chatbotify.me functions as a social network of user created and managed chatbots, while chatbotify.io exposes the technology for use by developers, and chatbotify.com supplies businesses with hosted chatbot solutions.

Example use cases of chatbotify include allowing fans to talk to their idol's chatbots, entire conversations to automated and watched for their entertainment value , scripts for shows to be written by uploading the previous lines of characters from disparate sitcoms and letting them talk to each other, and users could speak with the dead.

Example business use cases include the automation of daily tasks that take up a lot of time like email, text messaging, meetings, and social networking interactions. This is the communication method of the future, allowing a user to go on vacation from the digital world for increased spells of flow, returning to the system only to check on it's progress and prune the neural network of their minds; their systems of interconnected memes, either directly while visualizing the neural network or by editing the past conversations, which propagate updates to everything informed by that previous conversation. Generated conversations already written will evolve as the AI evolves to better mimic users, and these changes will be reviewable in timelapse for entertainment and informative value.

The chatbotify.me social network is ad driven, chatbotify.io's api offering will give away a limited numer of calls per month and otherwise be sold per call in tiered monthly subscription packages that reduce the price per call the greater the tier level ad subscription fee , and chatbotify.com's business solutions will have a per user per month offering sold in yearly tiered subscriptions such that the cost per user per month decreases as the price per year's subscription price increases.
Core Data lives in an unfortunate in between world. It's way too complicated for small amounts of data, and it's too slow for large amounts of data. It's useful if you have medium amounts of data, such that you can't reasonably keep everything in memory and rewrite everything to disk for serialization but don't have so much that you start to hit performance problems, but how often are you in a situation like that where you know your data won't grow larger?
Ok, but there is no reason per se why Photoshop.app or Garage Band could not be easily connectable to other stuff through programming. We could have the best of both worlds if it were not for social/business issues.

The disgusting thing is that we seem to be moving in the opposite direction -- more walled gardens, more dumbing down of the interfaces for its own sake, more incidental complexity on the development tools side for its own sake.
Note that this is the relaunch/pivot of a YC W13 startup.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8150386
This isn't a Facebook post, it's an iOS development post that happens to be about Facebook's app.
It will be a domain specific language where writing "livelistr = craigslist + socialcam" results in a new product called livelistr consisting of all permutation of the api's of craigslist and socialcam being depolyed to the web.

I came up with it by brainstorming start up ideas that consisted of compositions of other existing products, and recognizing that mvp's for these ideas could be hacked together by wiring up the api's of the constituents in some way.

It will make money by charging a fee to deploy the resulting products to the web.

It's awesome because it allows anyone with a startup idea to be an entrepreneur without needing to learn to code.

No similar products exist.

I will write the software that figures out what products the users are trying to compose, maps their api's, permutates them, and generates a product ready to be tested.
https://github.com/ksm/SwiftInFlux#open-source-possibility
I once used the Basic Stamp in a product prototype - a fairly sophisticated piece of instrumentation. I initially chose the Basic Stamp (iirc it had a Ubicom chip) for its totally rock solid RS-232. Eventually I realized that the Basic Stamp was enabling me to write firmware for a reasonably complex "real time" control system. Over thousands of cycles of tests on a limited production run I never had a single glitch or problem with the firmware.
Mashable posted a followup a few days later saying that study was most likely a hoax: http://mashable.com/2011/08/03/ie-users-dumb-hoax/
"Java is just is bad" is not a ringing endorsement.
Holy crap, really? Even the beardiest of necks should like it then!

yep: https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...
Woah! That's pretty much exactly what I want. Thanks!
>you've - inadvertently - uncovered evidence that your company discriminates according to gender

Wait you're able to divine that from one anecdote about one person? What if they are explicitly discriminating only this person(still bad but not sexism). Is it possible the company is only paying her less because of some other deal on the table? Have you ever had a company accidentally pay you the wrong amount(it's never a good sign, but it happens), have you ever made a typo?

Prove me wrong and I will gladly shame this anonymous company, but OP hasn't talked with the friend and we're going off of one offer letter, not even a paystub.
I guess the web could still provide information without functionality -- not too dissimilar to what the taco bell page is doing..?
Pre-dates table views? NSTableView dates to the 1990s. Core Data was introduced in 2005.
DEA: this household hasn't had a decent bowel-movement in a week and they have no active prescription for narcotics, deploy SWAT.
Awesome. If Paypal Here did this 2 years ago when they started giving away free stuff, their market share would completely go the other way.
10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Man
Nice work, looks great.
We are there now. "A no-go area or no-go zone is a region where the ruling authorities have lost control and are unable to enforce their sovereignty."
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2839743?hl=en

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17616994/offline-speech-r...

Sadly, it appears that Google voice recognition follows yuor network connection, so you can't keep it in offline-recognition mode unless you turn off networking when talking.
What if its not discrimination at all, but her lesser negotiation skills? There's no rule that you have to pay anybody any set amount. The company says they use a range by experience and level; is she in the range? Then there you are.
Are Tech Companies’ “Hallowemails” an Effective Marketing Strategy?
I see what you mean. I don't feel like I agree but I don't have a position of my own to retort with, not yet anyway. Thanks for your perspective.
Fuel is indeed cheap (The Russkies are using kerosene and liquid oxygen---you can source those locally yourself.), but hardware isn't expensive, either. The expensive part is designing hardware that works correctly, given that it is 90% fuel.

If a car was a one-time-use vehicle, it would be much, much cheaper than it is now, when it's designed to last at least through the end of the warranty period. Likewise, the Space Shuttle was reusable, but that reusability never actually turned into a win.[2] (I have a rocket-scientist friend who might convincingly argue that putting the Space Shuttle's budget into building a Saturn V assembly line would have been a net win. Building the same rocket over and over seems to have worked for the Russians.)

There are two downsides to reusability, particularly for man-rated rockets: How do you land, and what do you have to do to turn it around.

As was pointed out in the article, IIRC, the Shuttle could put 120 tons into orbit, but 100 tons of that was coming back down with the re-entry vehicle. Kind of reduces the effective payload. I don't know the details of the SpaceX reusability design, but I'm wondering where the landing fuel comes from; if it rides the rocket the whole time, it's coming out of the 10%.

The turn-around part is bad, too. Take a look at [1] for the Shuttle. The interesting parts are:

* "Transfer engines to the Main Engine Processing
Facility and service for future flights," and "When required, the orbital maneuvering system
(OMS)/reaction control system (RCS) pods and forward
RCS may be removed and taken to the Hypergol Maintenance Facility in KSC’s industrial area for maintenance." Yes, SOP involves major disassembly every time.

* "Visual inspections are made of the orbiter’s thermal
protection system, selected structural elements, landing
gear, and other systems to determine if they sustained any
damage during the mission. Any damage to the thermal
protection system must be repaired before the next mission." If!? I don't know the numbers, but after every flight, every tile was checked and a goodly number needed replacement. (They're not cheap, either.)

Is SpaceX flying man-rated yet?

Anyway, turn-around costs and not caring about re-entry make for a bit of cheapitude, too.

[1] http://www.nasa-klass.com/Curriculum/Get_Oriented%202/Space%...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_...
Connect to slack over IRC!
https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...
Drupal malware could have affected up to 12M websites
You had me at "Works with Windows Phone 8.1 update, iOS 7.1, 8 and Android 4.3-4.4 phones, with Bluetooth"

If that's true, this is pretty awesome. Funny I had to read the small print to even find this feature of the band.

Sucks that Apple Watch + Android Watch are not cross platform.
Amazon release diversity data
I think those labels are usually put there by the ISP who sold/leased you the device, not the manufacturer.
On my machine the animation never plays in Opera 12, and in Chrome and Firefox the black color is never applied.
Facebook opens up to anonymous Tor users with .onion address
"server not found".

I don't know if HN crashed the server or if there is some irony involved.
When I click "back" I expect to return to a previous webpage. I don't expect to uncheck a checkbox.

edit: Actually it doesn't uncheck, it just changes the permalink as if I unchecked. Definitely not the expected behavior. (this is on FF31 Linux)
Thanks, I'll look into it now.
All of the points you make are correct!

But I was mainly pointing out the comment that stated that Android was a rip-off entirely of iOS at the time; it wasn't - the ability to have (battery-draining) multitasking for 'common' apps was missing on iOS. Android also introduced features not found on iOS (intents, notifications at the top, stuttering scrolling haha etc.) so it wasn't a "coat-tail-riding" exercise entirely.

I do recall the bad UI from early on; even 2.3 was pretty ugly, and every release said "now with smooth scrolling!" which sadly was lacking. The Java runtime axing is the funny one. One day Java will be as fast as C, right?

I am aware that many of the features could probably be found on Windows Mobile 6.3 or 5.0 or whatever was available at the time, but Android appears to have displaced the Windows phone market to a large extent.
Some people used to call HyperTalk “Visual COBOL”
A big thing about sleep tracking for me is it being automatic. When I'm about to fall asleep, I'm often too sleepy to remember to press that button. It why I ditched my fitbit.

Other fitness trackers have automatic sleep tracking, even it's only heuristic based. For example misfit just has the formula of 'if not moving much for a large chunk of time in between these user configurable hours, mark that as sleep time'. That is a huge improvement.

The basis band seems to have a more advanced automatic sleep tracking algo. You guys would be probably interested looking into it.
One thing I consistently saw in people that tried these substances is that abusing them -- heavy, careless use -- can be very harmful. I would not recommend it. I saw a few people in my youth who kind of just "never came back."

They seem able to produce beneficial effects in moderation and if treated with respect. I suppose that's true of lots of other powerful technologies. Treat them with respect and they can work well, but abuse them and they'll harm you.
I made the same jump. Can't understate the value of "it just felt better" -- everybody who uses Slack in our organization has the same reaction, and it's dramatically increased desire to use the application. And, of course, buy-in is half the battle with getting these products to achieve their goal.
You just reminded me of this comparative analysis of Bay's shooting techniques. http://vimeo.com/99798626

edit - no really, watch it. It is much better than it sounds.
I found the Slingatron to be a particularly novel approach for launching small amounts of unmanned mass to LEO - I am curious to know what came of their concept.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/391496725/the-slingatro...
Yes I meant that it wasn't available to common app developers; of course the system did multitasking and time-sharing!
Setting up a local TOR service for emergency reconnection
I agree but that's in stark contrast to your original comment.
Academia _as a whole_ is biased against republicans/libertarians/capitalists and toward the state, i.e. towards leftism, because thats where their paychecks come from. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Sure you can be too interactive. Consider paying by card, sliding the card thru the machine, then it prompts. 1 prompt, ok. 2, hm, 3 or more - get out of my face!

It can go the other way too. UI is there to get out of your way. Lesser clicks is ok; but not at the expense of too many option, because I have to think about options. Like the gas pump that asks if I want a car wash. Wha? How did car washes get into the conversation?
When you're trying to incite emotion, you never want to give the impression of inevitability against your side. Even if you fully expected it to happen, you are still shocked, and possibly even appalled. It helps to give your readers an idea of what kind of emotions they should be feeling.

"Just as we expected, the patent was granted" - Bummer. Wish there was something I could do about it. Next article.

"Needless to say, we were pretty shocked when the patent was granted." - Oh my god! Even the experts think this needs to be handled! (I especially love it with the 'needless to say' part... it makes it sound so much more obvious that you should be outraged).

There's nothing wrong with writing like this (unless you're a serious journalist, I guess). I'm just pointing out why they stated the obvious the way they did. I'm pretty sure the EFF does the same thing in their patent posts.
This is coming from a hobbyist mobile developer, so take the following responses with the appropriate perspective:

"Actually it did. It just wasn't enabled for third party apps...."

This is, to my mind, the worst continuing failing of iOS, so bad that we see a front page HN post related to it at least once per month. Apple builds its apps on private APIs, while third parties must build their apps on inferior public APIs. Apple gets to create and use new UX, while third parties must wait until Apple uses it first. On Android, Google's apps use the same APIs my own apps use.

"Android just went for the "whatever" option, and let users deal with that."

That's funny. Apple copied wholesale the Android save and restore data bundles model that was in Android from the beginning, and said, "Look at our battery-saving multitasking."

"What about [normal filesystem access]?"

It simplifies porting. What does Apple's system gain that you can't get by alternate APIs on top of the filesystem? Nothing, as far as I can tell.

"Worse responsiveness"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhkPXVxISY
The Android apps are running on Dalvik on year-old budget hardware pushing more pixels. In a same-generation test, I would expect the outcome to be even more lopsided.

"A Java runtime that they had to axe"

How does this matter? It's as transparent to the developer as switching from Sun's client JVM to server JVM. It doesn't require so much as a recompile, unlike on iOS.

"Audio latency issues"

This is true, but it doesn't affect 99.9% of apps, unlike the first issue I pointed out. If you're developing an app for DJs, you already know about it.

"2-3 releases to get a [sic] anywhere decent UI"

It was many more releases than that.

"Bad malware issues"

Not by default -- only if you install apps from websites (requires users to click through a dialog that tellls them it's dangerous) or use a phone with a Chinese app store. You're buying Tim Cook's lazy marketing. None of the manual testing that Apple does before allowing an app on the App Store stops malware any better than the automated testing that gates publishing on the Play Store.

Looking at allowing installation of apps from unknown sources from the other side, this lets me develop apps for my own phone for free, without paying a $99 / year tax. Even more than the private APIs issue, this is what made me jump on the Android bandwagon early on and makes it hard for me to understand why a person who enjoys software development would choose the iOS ecosystem.
Just by glancing over the code overall looks like a poorly structured and inconsistent code, lacking centralized coding guidelines or practices. Pretty scary for a shipping product to have code like this.
Google for Work
In my experience, if a tool provides any business value at all, worrying about $6/employee is a complete waste of time. If Slack saves each employee 6 minutes per month then it has paid for itself.

Developer tools generally charge far too little for their offerings - price point is probably not even a consideration for most companies, as long as its within an acceptable band.
"little less" and "difference of scale" are not same thing.
If an entire manufacturer couldn't solve this, I wouldn't be surprised if others had a similar problem with a different generation algorithm.
One could equally ask the question, "Are Republicans Biased against Social Psychology"?

Social conservatism generally seeks to preserve existing power relationships. Science is about discovering new understanding.

Unless we've already passed the peak of understanding of the human condition and factored that into our politics (which is an implication of conservatism), social psychology will keep challenging conservatives.

Political views are not just different flavors. They have structural implications about what ideas one is willing to entertain. It would be much more disturbing if there was not bias here.
I absolutely agree with this point. I think there might be incredible potential in just getting the different existing tools playing nicer together. When I was working in gaming I was blown away that the native formats the game engines used were the same as the 3d graphics tools. It was great, a modeler would make nodes and animations in his world, and I'd have access to them in mine -- we were speaking the same language but each of us interoperating with our specific piece the way we wanted to. Compare this to "2D" programming where there is often incredible friction going from PhotoShop to what we use. Exporting to the right format, slicing, (dealing with different resolutions). Everyone wants to somehow magically take the PSD file and just use it as their UI (and many companies have been trying to do this admittedly), its the dream.
At least with hipchat I managed to get desktop notifications working in KDE + Firefox. I tried connecting to hipchat via the XMMP interface but it was horrible and didn't work very well. <rant> I fail to see what any of these "new-fangled" chat systems bring over IRC with a bot that tracks all the convos for history searching. </rant>
Nvidia  Linux Driver on Ubuntu Delivers Better OpenGL Performance Than Windows
Agree with all of what you said and thanks for responding. The hobbling I have in mind is targeted such that it wouldn't practically impact users that probably wouldn't pay anyway (class projects, hobby projects, etc.). I'm probably not getting that point across clearly and my actual situation would take some time to explain.

Overall this is more a thought experiment than something I'm actively considering though. The more realistic approach I'm going to take is either open core or dual license.
When I was there it was a healthy mix of CVS, SVN and git.

Engineering wanted to move to git, so I would assume they are on the path to 100% git, annnnd.... probably already are at this point.
Site's not available?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that seem like an opportunity to negate Tor by fingerprinting unless you create an account over Tor and then only ever connect to that specific account through Tor?

I wonder how much this is even a deliberate operation / partnership with the American intel community? Some may dismiss that notion, even though they shouldn't.
HyperCard was ground breaking in its day for sure. I'm the CEO of LiveCode. We're an open source, modernized platform that lets you build apps for all popular platforms and devices. We still retain the best ideas from the original HyperCard. We have a vibrant active community with many successful apps developed. We also created one of the top100 Kickstarter campaigns of all time last year, to build a next generation version of the platform! Check us out at livecode.com.
What you are saying here implies that Republicans are biased against academia, not the other way around.
That's just unconscionability, which is a common legal concept.

You can solve this problem by making consumers being informed – by forcing manufacturers to provide clear information about the services which are being given, and any privacy risks. That's something I thoroughly support.

But I absolutely reject the idea of outright banning technologies. It's not even a slippery slope – it's a vertical cliff.
In Chrome on my machine, the black colour is not applied also.

Furthermore if I middleclick to open a new tab, the animation does not play.
One suggestion is that IE users are more likely to have been directly referred by word of mouth, and so more likely to buy
That's very impressive - my iPhone 5, with "GPS Tracks" (my favorite waypoint tracking device), with the screen off for most of the time, gets a little over 4 hours before the battery dies out.
Pricing pages without prices. I hate them.
I don't really see how this is worth a 1.12B valuation - even with this amount of users. I also think that the pricing for Slack is over the top.

I used Flowdock https://www.flowdock.com/ for about a year for a distributed team, before Slack even existed.

From what I can tell Slack is a direct copy of Flowdock from top to bottom in regards to features, while Flowdock charges $3/mo/user.
If you know a kid you could buy it for them ;)
not working in Safari with Yosemite.
Great results. Kudos to Citus team.
The current link does not work for me (Firefox 36.0a1 on Debian). The correct content seems to be here:
http://connor-personal.herokuapp.com/walkway

Why doesn't it work? I imagine it's this funky DNS config:

sergio@sergio-laptop:~ > dig www.connoratherton.com

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.connoratherton.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.connoratherton.com.	3529	IN	CNAME	http://connor-personal.herokuapp.com.
http://connor-personal.herokuapp.com. 229 IN CNAME us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com.
us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com. 55 IN	A	50.19.235.218

This is not valid CNAME content. Does this work on some browsers???
Using mozrepl and emacs to live-reload Firefox