skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You all seem talking as if consciousness is a Boolean, rather than a float number, which is likely the case. This has been strongly hinted by scientific research on some types of (non-human) primates: those who when exposed to mirrors are able identify themselves as the ones in the reflection.

Is also testable on kids: before the age of 3 they are unable to identify themselves as the people in any reflection. They slowly acquire this ability plus all the other traits we cluster in the word "consciousness"; including things such as conscious self-preservation, language, adaptive/abstract thinking, etc.

>If the idea bothers you that things might exist that are incapable of being verified consensually by society

This is nitpicking: But it depends way to heavily in what "society" means here, there is still people who believe heart is 6000 years old; so is never all people. the majority of people knows nothing about nuclear physics, and that doesn't make it false nor non-science.
America's Bathrooms Are a Total Failure
The whole point in multi-signature scheme is to remove need to trust Coinbase.

Your local client and local wallet are fine, until your keys are stolen by malware. Multisig scheme also attempts to fix that flaw.

EDIT: multisig scheme with user's key on Trezor. This way you are also protected fully from viruses stealing your local key.
Bullshit.wiki
salute! "a better strategy is to get on with it with a sort of calm, peaceful acceptance of things, even when they are negative" and clear noise and relax. I did went offline for 7 days. feel much fresher!
It is my understanding that the JSON encoding of objects is not specified canonically because the order of keys can be arbitrary. That is, JSON.stringify() is free to return different strings for the same JSON object.

Is my understanding correct? If it is, that would totally break your suggestion.
Also, if you really believe in success of your company, why would you give a significant chunk of it to some investor?
It means: try to get companies that otherwise would not go for Microsoft products to give it a try through free product samples, and talking down companies not microsoft.

I really wished that companies like Microsoft, Google and so on would not have a 'HN guy' (and would not have non-disclosed HN guys either, Felix is at least above board on that), it can make it a lot harder to figure out what is a genuine user experience and what is product placement.

Unless the Microsoft stack is something you already have experience with you're much better off using non-proprietary stack software. Anything coming out of Microsoft will sooner or later cause a bunch of licenses to be sold somewhere down the line or monthly invoices for metered usage to appear so make sure you know exactly what you're getting into. $50K in freebies will have to translate into $50K more profit somewhere along the line.
Yep, very much hacked together, but it works well for us.
The presentation is nice. Does any one know if the tool used for generating type of presentation is available?

It would be great format for presenting to upstream project management and friends.
Wow, these guys really should spent some time learning history and plan 9 specifically.

I mean how do they think people will write and rewrite programs using sql when files are already here?
[not an MS employee] I bet on C or C++
> Person scaling with Azure here. It's pretty awesome and easy.

And it's pretty expensive.

Now, if your competitor is on an open stack and on real computers they will eventually run rings around you because they get more control and lower costs. The initial boost you're experiencing will turn into a straightjacket with a hefty pricetag over the longer term.
This was the first MS product that I ever wanted to buy. Seems to have everything I want in a fitness tracker/smart watch, except the barometer and water resistance. I'll hold on to my Suunto watch for a while longer.
>Why not just edit the email/document using a keyboard, you can even do it in a google doc so the other person can live collaborate, but as we know live collaboration is fine in movies but in real life is very very hard to do. Humans are just not build for it.

Because some people prefer a pen to a keyboard when trying to mark modifications to a draft?

Surely you can imagine of at least one situation where a pen is a useful input device.
For Gorilla Glass testers, life is a daily grind (and scratch and drop)
There is an order online link just below the 'Find Store'. Check it out.
(How to) Survive your front-end
And then you read what they show with just email addresses: http://www.imore.com/depth-look-currentc-and-personal-data-t...
I second the comment about the lack of videos / gifs.

Also, what websites would you use if you'd needed sounds for your app?
:) Thank you so much for your advice. Helps me have a clearer sense of how to approach whatever this is. This is new to me though, ''don't feel like you need to have everything figured out right away'' Ill try to remind myself.
To me Renren has always been an unimaginative Facebook clone, so I am in no way surprised that they lost out to WeChat and Weibo.
That's just one instance among many. Other notable examples are:

- The female masturbation app (forgot the name)

- The VLC/GPL drama

- Launch Center Pro

- Bitcoin apps

- Overcast's near-rejection due to the need to register

I can definitely see an ideological threat (sexual content, free software, dumbed down functionality). The psychological threat is that people hold back great ideas out of fear to be rejected. Think different? Yeah, but not too much.
It's ugly, but if I were in the market for a smartwatch/fitness tracker this might be the only one I'd bother with.

As I find myself saying more and more, I love this new Microsoft. It's insane how much harm a single man can do.
Aiguille D’Or: Round Table Discussion of the Grand Prix D’Horlogerie de Genève
Elevate Conversion Rate on Your Landing Page with Multiple Forms
Placing multiple forms on your page, or even a form on each section could seriously make it easier to convert on. You've probably come across this situation before: your internet browser takes you to a landing page that has a great headline at its top, which is immediately followed by a form.
Battery cost of periodic mobile network use
That is nice, but you'd need to first copy this (or 'list') to results to make it do the same as the CoffeeScript example.
But what about the all the other processes in the device? There may be another process at the same time who may benefit from such GC, perhaps a video being played inside a plugin, or just Photoshop being run side-to-side with the browser and things like that.

It may not benefit the app but it may benefit the user, which is clearly a relevant metric.
Okay, what about copyrights? I have already seen logos used on TV shows being put on a shirt where the profits all go to the owner of the campaign. Somehow I doubt the network that own the show or the shows creators themselves would not have a problem with some fan starting campaigns like this for their own personal gain.
Simple code (like CSS) is easier to read than that C code example. Keeping things short so you don't have to scroll is definitely a good thing. But once your code gets so big that you're going to have to scroll anyway, I expect clearer formatting will pay off.
We built a similar JavaScript library to create and apply JSON patches: https://github.com/Two-Screen/symmetry

The format is not formally specified in any way, but it looks like the biggest differences are that we 1) make a distinction between object and array operations and 2) don't encode paths, but instead nest patches.

In practice, we found our JSON structures are never deep enough for nesting to a problem. To save space on the wire, our patch object has single character keys, such as `s` for set, `r` for remove, etc.

It looks like these libraries don't actually create patches? Symmetry has routines to diff between two objects, and implements Myers' algorithm for array comparisons. (Already fast, but can be further optimized.)

On the other hand, Symmetry doesn't have copy, move or test operations. Those are interesting.
presumably to also calculate your UV exposure for the day
Well, it has a few more underscores, but it's otherwise pretty much identical to the JS I'd have written by hand.
> And it's pretty expensive.

Nice blanket statement there. How can you claim it's expensive when you have no idea what or how he uses it?
Those ES5 and ES6 examples are nice, but I believe even ES5 is for IE9+, and not everyone has the luxury of targeting that high yet.
Handy if you want to make a polyglot…
Google Chrome 38.0.2125.104 on a Xubuntu 12.04 LTS and a modern Nvidia graphics card... and my "device may not be supported".

I thought we were in the 21st century :/
Hey, I didn't set out to write an essay on the joys of CoffeeScript. I was just writing some code, as you do, and was struck by this one-liner as a good example of why I like CoffeeScript so much.
That's amazing, even considering the $4500 for the camera (which will probably pay for itself in a couple of months if you're a small architecture/design studio)

I've lost touch with architectural 3D "capture" - who else is working on this space? Are there any consumer-level offerings?
Wow, very clickbaity. Yes, certificates and SNI are indeed in the clear in the TLS 1.2 ClientHello.

We're hoping to encrypt them for TLS 1.3. That's not easy if SNI is needed for the server to know which certificate to use, and nearly intractable if different vhosts have different cipher prefs.

Solutions welcome!
Got it working: a few questions:

Is this photogrammetry?

If it makes an obj, why can't I move arbitrarily?

How does it compare to AgiSoft Photoscan or 123D catch?
Nice modelling.
"Y" U NO have computers?
This place looks like a wardroom :)
No barometer/altitude sensor though?
Makes perfect sense for CSS to me, especially with syntax highlighting.

Not sure it's good for code, though.
I did something similar with colours in the console, but this is much cooler!
Please give a link to a basic C# tutorial for MS Health.
The Next Project Ara Module Developers Conference
>With overlapped IO the amount of buffer memory you need is more by a factor of a thousand because each idle socket still requires a buffer to be allocated to it.

Use the select function then. Wait for completion of that instead. No need to allocate buffers for sockets that receive messages infrequently.

epoll is a horribly designed API. It should absolutely not be replicated on other platforms.
I went to an interview a while back that I was ridiculously well qualified for; it was as if the job posting was a veritable transcription of my resume. And I got absolutely thrashed.

The interviewer was kind of combative and played the 'trick' question whiteboard game. I just fell apart. By the end of it, I wasn't able to respond to basic English. I stared blankly when asked what a 'heuristic' was...

I felt absolutely terrible -- and this was a job I hadn't really even wanted.

I found out that I don't do well with that kind of interview. A lot of people, especially introverts, wither in the confrontation.

And it's ok. Those companies miss out on a lot of amazing developers. And there are a lot of places that will hire people without forcing them to do an awkward dog and pony show.

I no longer bother with it at this point in my career. I have several friends that work at Google, but I'd never even think about interviewing there.

You can make great connections at things like user groups and personal projects. And there are TONS of wonderful places to work outside the Google/Amazon microcosms.
Your First Meteor Application, 2nd Edition (available online for free)
You can do that, but it's more elegant if you define a functional stateful transducer analogous to scanl for lists.
I don't think that a lot of people are saying that it can not be done. What I hear people saying is that it is a bad idea.

Sure, you can make a modular phone -that will be (de facto) technologically worse or more expensive than its non-modular counterpart. But does it make any sense to do that? The question is not how many variations of a phone we can have, the question should be how many variations of a phone we need. And I do not think that every customer needs its own variation or that it is worth developing for that one person who needs a phone with a weak processor and a super strong camera.
And can do this without crashing/hanging forever.
> single threaded lightweight runtime based around call backs

Sounds like Javascript to me, or maybe something like Erlang. I wonder if we'll be able to install apps on the device or just build external apps for cell phones. What about hooking it up to your desktop/laptop for notifications and stuff? I'm thinking there could be some cool features there.
A Warning to Data Driven Retailers (HBR)
We all know where Symbian Web Apps and WebOS ended up.

Besides, the Web has nothing to do with GNU/Linux, which was the point of my comment.

The concepts behind the Web were the hypermedia applications at Xerox PARC and Doug Egelbart's work.
The mapping of only one byte to one symbol results in too many symbols in one fingerprint. Using more than 8 bits per symbol would result in something much easier to recognize. The goal should be "staple battery horse" and not "p k b t v r m n z x t c." Was my key "p k t b t v r m n z x t c" or was it "p t k b t v r n m z x t c," who can see the difference?

However another danger is all the emoji that look too similar. It can be too easy to forge one emoji wink instead of another. So it can be not so good an idea in general. But maybe somebody demonstrates the easyness of differentiation or manages to select only the symbols that are visually and cognitively different enough for the "alphabet." Still I suggest significantly more than 256 elements, and significantly different one from another. That's the hardest part.
Background story from Microsoft: http://news.microsoft.com/features/microsofts-new-cloud-powe...

Interesting that MSR also helped developing activity recognition algorithms for the device.
--freestanding
> If you have a contributor assignment, the assignee can choose to release the changes under a proprietary license.

Exactly! Hence my request for clarification (see above).

If more explanation is necessary: What davexunit is saying is that he wants his contributions to remain free. The AGPLv3 ensures that, even with copyright assignment. But what I guess davexunit really means is that he wants to be sure that all contributors, present and future, are locked into the AGPLv3 forever. I'm not saying the latter is wrong, I'm just saying you should call a spade a spade.
As a comparison, worth noting that the watch does not have GPS without the paired phone. So if you wanted to go out for a run and track the course, you would need to bring the phone.
It's a little more complex when the site is not 100% static. Even a contact form requires a server.

But I do think there should be a good separation between html and admin backend. Security is only one reason. There are other very important reasons:

1. waste of resources. the machine that builds the html from the cms is completely idle for 99% of the time.

2. scalability. the html should be served from a storage server like S3 together with a CDN. there should be absolutely no downtime in viewing html as a result of overload.

the ideal system for small websites is a machine that is turned off by default, and when an admin needs to change something it is turned on (even if it takes a whole minute). After the changes are committed, the system creates html and sends to S3. For forms, comments, and dynamic things it's best to use third-party (like facebook comments and a billion forms services), or use a different small machine that captures user input (completely separate from the turned-off admin machine).
If this thing catches on they will end up with a literal treasure trove of useful data that can be mined for some pretty mind bogglingly accurate stats on some aspects of our health.

I like this sort of thing but I can also understand why some people might feel a bit uneasy about so much data gathering.
A Day with Project Ara, Google’s Crazy Modular Phone
Why we should stop using Grunt and Gulp
One advantage of tracking systems is that they provide a more uniform power output over the day. You get higher power morning and evening. For off-grid systems this seems very useful. Also, there was a news story recently about the German grid having problems with load balancing - apparently they want to put panels on west and east facing roofs to try and get a more even load throughout the day.

I guess that as panels get cheaper, it might be best to have static panels facing East, South, and West. Have we got to that stage yet, where this is cheaper than the moving parts?

About your trackers - do you have any more info? Why did you go for 2-axis rather than 1 tilted axis? Were your problems due to inexperience/teething-troubles, or would you have the same issues if you were to do another system? I'd be interested to hear you experiences, thanks.
Calltag - let contacts know why you’re calling them before dialing
Calltag lets you tag your phone call with information - calltags - on who is calling and why, which is great if you are calling from a unknown number and want to avoid being screened. Available on iOS and Android. http://callt.ag/
Aren't youtube suggestions good enough?
Great work. Keep writing advance concepts for pro Meteor developers.
The important part of the bones link was:

The medical examiner claims this is a male skeleton, not less than 45 years of age, probably stocky and a mixed European/pacific heritage.
Will get to more advanced stuff one of these days. Next step is to write about mobile development with Meteor.

:)
Digital Network Solutions Integrates the Storage Made Easy EFSS Solution
Yeah, at a first glance it looks like this is harder to memorize than some Hex numbers.
If you're interested, this is the general structure and access method of the 'trie' data structure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie

Also, Clojure has a nice functions called get-in and friends:

user=> (def x {:a 1 :b 'B' :c { :x "X" :y "Y" :z "Z" }
:d [{:p "P"} {:q "Q"} {:r "R"}] })
#'user/x
user=> (get-in x [:d 1 :q])
"Q"
user=> (assoc-in x [:d 1 :q] "QQ")
{:a 1, :c {:z "Z", :y "Y", :x "X"}, :b B', :d [{:p "P"} {:q "QQ"} {:r "R"}]}
The Lumia is excellent hardware with a nice OS. Unfortunately I switched away because the ecosystem wasn't good enough at the time.
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Does WebGL usually work for you? What do you see at http://get.webgl.org/ ?
This is Microsoft Band
Well, apparently some people wear their regular watch that way as well.
As a foreigner in Germany I can confirm the 70€/month is for foreigners as well (on a student visa)
Interactive Patient Forum by Philips That Avoids Loneliness of Patients
Report Writing Format
where fit bit and apple tread microsoft will eventually follow.
It works exactly as I expected it too though. I don't look at it every day and think "wow, this is amazing"; it just works and I don't really think about it at all, which is how it should be. I'm not sure that I would buy a phone without wireless charging now.
Not just health - also location, activity levels (meaning a reasonable guess at to if you're awake) etc. This is basically a tracking bracelet.

Also "can be mined" is putting it mildly. Apple, Microsoft and google are all NSA partners. If the data's there, the incentive is to utilise it....
I'm an expat and just finished an english language masters program in engineering in Germany. It is feasible. Combining grad level studies, language studies, and part-time work can be a bit overwhelming at times. If you could avoid the part-time work, I'd recommend it. There are a lot of differences in the German education system that take a little adaptation.
Sounds great. Keep up the great work David. Found your book very good, passed it on to a friend who has just started hacking with Meteor.
Looks like the 3D model is just for navigating the street-view-like set of panoramic photospheres. It's so far a necessary compromise, to get much more realistic photos before you can have perfect structure, material and lighting capture/rendering. (the benefit is clear looking at their scan of the old yc building), but if this is to be useful with VR (and it definitely would be) they'll need something in between those panoramic photospheres.
I was too. But we will continue working on it. Seeing good growth.
Now, if your competitor is on an open stack and on real computers they will eventually run rings around you because they get more control and lower costs.

Obviously it depends on what you're actually doing, but for a straightforward SaaS app (a few servers, a db server, a queue and a load balancer in a few datacentres around the world) one good sysadmin/devops guy costs far more than a set of AWS instances that essentially scale themselves.

Having dedicated people necessary for that 'control' is beyond the budget of the majority of startups.
If the tax money stollen to people to finance the military (and of which a small part is returned as research grants directed by the military), wouln't this money be used more usefully by the people, and why not, wouldn't they have promoted research leading to useful devices like iPhones (but probably without the privacy privating features you encounter in those smart phones)?
Tssk. They should fix the misleading "model" illustrations.. the 2012 is a render, the 2014 is a photo!

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8524360
I can definitely recommend GSAP from my own experience (we're happily using it in a bunch of projects). They've put a lot of attention to performance and the library is very feature rich (with timeline controls, splittext, etc.)
By any chance, do you already know which language(s) the SDK will support?
Ask HN: How big is the Bitcoin algo trading market?
One year after its IPO, the Criteo Mafia emerges
Right. If you click that you're allowed to select your US state to ship to.

Did you check that? It's entirely possible that I miss some hidden 'enable international shipping' incantation here, but I doubt that at this point. The checkout form doesn't seem to include any of that and the very MS store front page lists the band as 'US only', just as I stated above.

Why? I .. fail to come up with an answer for that. I was prepared to hand over $200 right away, now I'm disgruntled and couldn't care less about another thing that might be available here in 3 month from now, maybe.
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Thank you - very informative. I would not have known the behaviour of browsers with regard to that - is there an established standard or accepted behaviour documented somewhere? I'm guessing that the CSS spec only dictates how things should be shown and not what browsers can do with off-screen items.
I keep them in a drawer with the intention of putting them in a frame in an office when I have one. It will be nice to see the evolution of them over time...and that way I dont have to part with them!

I dont upgrade every single time so i only have a 3G and a 4, will probably get the 6S but am quite enjoying my moto e atm!

I also keep them all charged, so the batteries don't get all bloaty. (and I still use the 4 as a camera!)
Good point! But the job descriptions will never specifically ask for strong Linux skills - they want you to code and upload, and the languages are not tied exclusively to Linux (although I don't know anyone running a real production server with PHP under Windows, so you're right!)
Lemon law
Lemon law has existed for a long time to prevent consumers from being cheated by crooked salespeople. If to compare with USA, Canada has employed a different approach.
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Is Choco Leibniz similar to Digestive? Better?