skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any implication that they can is absolutely false.

This is the brilliance of this PR tactic - it seems just like that, doesn't it? I mean, when you sign a cell phone contract the contract you can't negotiate it, it's offered to you take-it-or-leave-it, right?

But MCX is retailer owned - and even if it wasn't, there is nothing stopping MCX from varying the contract at a retailer's request. If Wal-Mart came along and said they would sign a contract, but only if the exclusivity language was removed, do you think MCX would turn them down? Of course they wouldn't, they can and they would change the contract.

The exclusivity clause is there because the retailers want it there.
Well it's an uphill battle that's more than an hour. English isn't my first language. I suppose that's a shitty excuse.

I did take the time to write substantive polished articles, and it works. Especially when we do interviews with customers to find gems.

This was our famous post: http://medium.com/@linktexting/10-000-apps-later-lessons-lea...
As many here told, the process of applying is valuable in itself.

Our application was rejected, but you can sign up for a beta invite here: https://userium.com/ Soon 400 sign ups and counting. :)
Should definitely highlight (at least to the HN crowd) that this is an Android device and you're exposing some APIs that can be built on. This is really cool.
Calling lotteries "tax" is only a cynical hyperbole; they are not actually a tax. People voluntarily play lotteries, whereas taxes are coerced. You do not face fines or jail time if you quit playing lotteries, like you do if you don't pay taxes. Being voluntary, lottery bets more closely resemble donations than taxes.

(Taxes on lottery winnings are a different story, of course; not talking about that here).

I'm appalled that you would suggest that it is better that people be coerced into paying for something which is adequately funded by "donations" through the lottery system.
At the same time, at $1800, it still makes a solid all-in-one PC with decent specs. I tried to configure an iMac with similar specs but there weren't any 1:1 comparisons.

An iMac with an i7 of roughly equal speed, same 8GB RAM, a screen 2" smaller diagonal, similar nVidia graphics, same native resolution display (without touch capability), similar 1TB hybrid SSD/HDD, and none of the fancy projector/camera stuff would cost $1899.

Obviously these are going for different users and the iMac comes with Apple's trademark thin, industrial design whereas the Sprout adds the touch screen, pad, camera, and projector. Still, if you wanted an all-in-one and had $1900 to spend, I can see how you might pick up one with equivalent "guts" which came with the unique input options.

Worst case you don't get much use out of the projector stuff and still have a solid all-in-one on par with an iMac of similar price.
Many people are still upset that it ever included Amazon results - the article casts doubt on the idea that this is even a victory for privacy advocates since it took so long for Canonical to back down.

I say "better late than never".
Piling on here. Marc Ecko's book Unlabel does a good job touching on this. There's gatekeepers and goalkeepers. YC is very valuable to be sure, but the real goalkeeper is getting your customers to pay for your product or service. That's really it.
The idea is cool, but possibly the market is small?
WKWebView vs. UIWebView for HTML5 apps
BodyEcho – Reclaim Your Sleep with Serious Sleep Tracking
Right now it's updated whenever you install something with cider. You can update it with whatever you currently have installed using `cider [cask] missing`. Defaults are the same way - cider supports the same syntax as the `defaults` command, so you should be able to use it as a drop-in replacement in most cases.

Symlinks and scripts are manual, but I plan on changing that: https://github.com/msanders/cider/issues/3
> It's also possible that OneGet deprecates CoApp.

That sounds like it's the case:
"CoApp's features are going into OneGet, WiX, NuGet and Chocolatey. I had the opportunity to take this approach to get it in-box OS, I figured that was worth it."

http://coapp.org/news/2013-10-02-State-of-CoApp.html#disqus_...
It makes me thing it signals mutation.
Does it mean that my research (reading about HP 3D printer on hacker news today) should become public the second I make this conclusion? I just told roommate that HP has very interesting and potentially profitable product.
That's actually a good point. I guess I'm mistaken.

Well at the very least, PH allowed us to focus on product and customers entering the funnel rather than think about PR etc...
The defaults are sane, and in fact the user here had to explicitly turn them off in order to do the thing they wanted to do. Once you reach into a configuration file and change a setting, I can't think of a software system in the world that protects you from your choice. Could you maybe name a few?
> looks like it's cross platform too!

Well, the announcement says its cross-platform because it runs on two flavors of Linux (Ubuntu and CentOS) and on Max OSX.
> How much bigger has twitter gotten in the last two years?

They're up to 284M: https://about.twitter.com/company
...

At least state why you feel that my opinion is not valuable.
The most protracted piece of vaporware in history is actually Project Xanadu, at a whopping 54 years.
> I think the mischaracterization is of what mobile is replacing. It isn't the PC.

Are you sure about that?

I am a developer. I have a computer for programming and a couple of LAN party games. I have a phone for everything else.

I have a monster custom built desktop at home that I don't even bother plugging in.

PCs are becoming work devices. They are cool because you can take a laptop home and do professional stuff on them for cheap, but they aren't ubiquitous or necessary like they used to be.
Maybe they can take what they've learned and scale it up to tablets (and maybe laptops)?
Dockerizing RightScale
Some of my hour long blog posts got a ton of traffic. What's your blog?

Here's one of my posts that I did in 15 minutes that got a ton of traffic. I'm not even sure why.

http://www.kumar.vc/i-sat-in-a-bank-on-friday-2/

What's your blog?
FBI cut hotel Internet access, sent agents to “fix” it without warrants
Cross-platform just means it runs on more than one platform.
I don't think the rocket made it that far.
I think OP is seeking wisdom, not fictitious accounts of historical atrocities.
Benford's law (2012)
> That second field was so weak — less than one-third of 1 percent of Earth’s field — that it could only have influenced a quantum-sensitive system.

While I love the idea of quantum robins, if I had to place a five dollar bet somewhere, it would be on that assumption being incorrect.
Reminded me of the original Microsoft surface
Cool, very good to hear!
find older business full color laser printer instead. I got oldish HP LaserJet 3600n which have both cheap cartridges and a way to override low toner lever warning.
The thing about liberal arts is it teaches you to argue any point of view, right or wrong, with equal facility. With engineering, you cannot argue that the rocket didn't blow up.

I.e. with engineering, reality is the check on the validity of your critical thinking. With liberal arts, there is no such check.
If this project works it could prove a godsend to users with disabilities, even though it can't by definition ever be state of the art (as observed elsewhere in this post modern phones have zero wasted space, and housing/integration will necessarily require more space per feature).

A functioning Ara ecosystem would allow the economical creation of devices with smaller production runs. One version may have a much bigger amplifier/speaker unit for hard of hearing users. Another may have a huge screen for those with impaired eyesight. Yet another could be optimized for those with extremely limited motor function à la Stephen Hawking.

It will also be a godsend to me, because even though I have giant farmer hands, I detest phones bigger than an iPhone 4S.
Who unfriended whom on Facebook during the Gaza war? The stats are in
I contemplated doing that (something like the brew-cask syntax), but it ended up not really being worth the complexity, especially when you consider that not all of the commands necessarily correlate to those in Homebrew (e.g. setting defaults). Might consider doing something like that in the future though, if it ends up that people aside from me want this.

It's also worth noting that even projects such as Homebrew Cask are also merely extensions to Homebrew (AFAIK, there aren't any plans of it getting merged in anytime soon).
Pangu8 1.0.1 Jailbreak iOS 8.0 – 8.1 with Mac OS X Untethered Steps
Though I agree with you this leads to risky security issues, the mere fact that a major Bitcoin exchange is allowing users to hold their own private keys really puts a smile on my face today.

It is completely unheard of in the financial industry (and usually technically impossible before cryptocurrencies) to have a bank give away their "middle man" access of people's money and empowering their customers with complete control over their finances.
IBM and Twitter Just Announced a Huge New Partnership
Will I have to buy official HP brand plastic cartridges?
The world doesn't owe you property rights either.

Never said it did. I don't think the world owes anybody anything. The question is, when is using force / violence justified. My position is that initiation of force / aggression are not justified, but force can be used in self-defense.

It takes force and coersion to enforce whatever guarantees and protections you feel you are entitled to under "your" system of property.

Defensive force though. I'm against using force to compel people to participate in a system, or do things, against their will.

And if you claim it does, why can't I claim that the government should also, say, help ensure my right to life through emergency medical care in a hospital?

IF your structure (whether you call it "government" or something else) can accomplish that end without using initiation of force, there is no reason at all why they shouldn't do that. BUT, and here's the problem... in practice, "government" as we know it is pretty much always predicated on using violence to achieve its ends. Taxes are collected at the end of a gun barrel, and people aren't given an option to "opt out" in any realistic sense.

After all it's a really barbaric society by 21st century standards that lets a man die if it means that no other man doesn't have to give up 2% of his fiat currency.

Sure, no argument against that. But I'd argue it's an equally barbaric society - or more so - where we institutionalize the initiation of violence to achieve our ends, no matter how noble they sound.

In short there's nothing magical about states or property rights. If you had other organizatonal structures they'd still have to enFORCE their policies / laws and still have a management team / government. Corporations, co-ops, neighborhoods etc all have these things. They all have to be run somehow and enforce the policies.

The difference between a State and other structures is that States (in practice) aren't limited to voluntary association, and they claim for themselves the "right" to use force in a non defensive mode. Build a State that is strictly limited to acting as the collective extension to our individual right to self-defense, and I'd probably be onboard.

Finally the govt can just print fiat money to pay for this which doesnt "force" anyone.

Except, by and large, we've seen States refuse to allow anybody else to compete with their currency. If you try, they send men with guns to come and round you up and take you to jail. It will be interesting to see what happens with Bitcoin in this regard, since it is so decentralized.
Being a middleman would be extremely hard as you have to provide a profile picture and passengers use the picture to verify they have the correct driver.
Mcx is a publicly traded company

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Commodity_Exchange
I assume you're implying that their 2D printers suck. Even so, a 3D printer that was as reliable as a terrible 2D printer would be ridiculously awesome right now.
CC can be great for a lot of things. The biggest issue is that many people require attribution which can be tricky depending on the project. But there are some good options for CC that work well.
Here's an example of such a post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425385
"(Minerva) it’s highly exclusive, boasting a 2.8 percent acceptance rate", you can stop reading here. Quality in, quality out, you can bring in brilliant motivated kids and have them do literally almost anything and at after 4 years or whatever they'll (still) be relativity great.
There's nothing simpler than printing a hole. I just did one now using my powers of the mind.
Thank you.

Yes. You are correct. The killer functionality that we offer today is for people on iOS. We solve a very explicit problem for them.

Today we're integrating with BranchMetrics, which will offer additionaly utility to Android and iOS Developers.

There is an equivalent functionality. You can install from the desktop browser to iOS, it's just a bit more friction because it requires a cable.

The only other alternative to LinkTexting as an SMS form creator is Gravity forms, but it's a bit awkward unless you plan on using Wordpress for your mobile app landing page.
What SW/HW did you use to make these?
Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter
For all we know, he disclosed it 4 days ago. Merely disclosing a vuln doesn't mean an appropriate amount of time has passed where it could be patched. Remember, real users' info is at stake.
This reminds me so much about osmo
https://www.playosmo.com/
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Show HN: Tiny mongo docker image for developers
Roughly the same way the original author did:

"Having purchased a Kobo Aura, it had built-in access to their book store, which made it easy to download the book that I wanted. Then, I simply connected my reader to my laptop and copied the file over for safe keeping."
Actually, you can use Meteor as a frontend-only framework. Just have the Meteor server be the client for a standard REST API. I've built an app using this approach.
I looked for the picture I saw somewhere on the MCX website, but can't find it, so I'll have go with the same pic but from the MacRumors site: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/27/currentc-mobile-payments...

If I'm reading that diagram correctly, not only does the consumer have to scan a code, but the vendor then scans another code. So not one, but two QR code scans. The success is built in!
I've long since discovered what a large impact specific diets have on my mood, depression and well-being. I ordered a gut sampling from uBiome last week and am looking forward to having measurements to manage.
Planet-forming Lifeline Discovered in a Binary Star System
Computer World: Twitter and IBM team up on analytics app
What's interesting, is that you called out three technologies that are all definitely going to be market leaders in their particularly category over time. If we consider IE 11 to be the "Category of Microsoft Browsers", Python 3 to be the Category of Python Languages, and IPv6 to be the category of IP.

Here are the dates on which each will be category leaders:

o IE 11 - 2014
o Python 3 - 2016
o IPv6 - 2022
SV can keep its Teslas and robotic cars: Slovakia’s AeroMobil unveils flying car
Turns out it's not too difficult to encrypt an individual file using OS X. OpenSSL is already on every mac out there.
I wish something like this shipped with every version of linux just like WMI does on Windows. This is awesome to see.
Fair point. I got the impression it had been fixed, but that may have been wrong. Hopefully, once it is fixed, they will be named, otherwise I don't see how things can ever get better.
I don't think many people will click the "buy now" button on a $100K+ printer.
The court document that shows how Tim Cook does business
It's not even 'on Linux'
> Good questions!

Thanks! My post's intention was to suggest that Mozilla revise the privacy policy to clarify it for everyone. What are your thoughts?
Do you have to install on your own homebrew and homebrew cask?

I'm asking, because I am in the process of creating an Ansible playbook (http://docs.ansible.com/homebrew_module.html and http://docs.ansible.com/homebrew_cask_module.html) and I want to write a small bootstrap script to install homebrew and homebrew cask first.
That's true. This product is weird, and apple doesn't do weird.
How to build a million-download mobile game
Thoroughly enjoyed reading the anecdote (more than the original article). You should be a writer.
It's hard for me to grok this project's design goals. I mean, the basic idea is simple enough to understand: I want to run SQL queries on metadata about my hosts. I've built and run several different iterations of that same idea, but they didn't require thousands of lines of C++.

The usual implementation is simple: take any host monitor (say, collectd) that can export key/value pairs from a host, or take a log stream over the network and pair it with a host monitor/log scraper to create key/value pairs. Then insert into an SQL engine while appending to a log for a historical record (or PTA/PITR/whatever, i'm not a DBA). Separately you can create a database application to query/modify the database as needed.

But we're talking like, a handful of python scripts that don't ever change except to add new search features. This seems like a big departure from the simplicity of that approach. Am I missing something?
A Dozen Suggestions for Being Creative and Maybe Getting Paid
I created the Max space filler. too bad it's very volatile inside
http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/pwtOc
> This is an instant fail company.

This is a project largely driven by Walmart with some buy in from other merchants. Walmart has recently announced it'll provide low cost checking accounts to its customers[1]. Walmart's profits are basically driven by volume and beating up their vendors for low prices so they can in turn sell to customers at low prices - the margins are razor thin. Cutting out 2-3% from credit card fees has got to look attractive.

I'd never touch this product, because it's got shitty implementation and security written all over it, but I'm not so sure if it'll be instant fail or not. If they offer a portion of what they save in credit card fees in flat discounts to people, they might be able to make it work.

Of course, I don't really see what non-Walmart merchants are gonna get out of this. Helping them improve their margins seems like it'd only make things worse for places like Target or grocery stores.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/business/finding-a-door-in...
And in fact, it would work against the company to do this. Either you're going to pay me a salary I consider acceptable, or I'm going to move on. I don't care about your expenses from sourcing talent.

As an employer, the trifling cost of a referral that leads to a hire doesn't even enter into the conversation. Any candidate who would go around a recruiter (regardless of the fact that their reasoning is misguided) is demonstrating bad faith already, and I would not hire them.
FWIW the old page still loads in lynx and w3m.
Introducing osquery
True, printer ink is mass production so it should be much cheaper.
Which makes me wonder... The keys are generated in-browser. What if the users computer is compromised, and a malware succeeds in capturing the keys + bip38 passphrase? I don't know if this product will be pain in the ass for coinbase, if the user funds start disappearing from these multisig addresses.

All the best luck for this product, though.
In one web page, we are able to see all the problems with HP vs. a start-up's minimal viable product:

* Employees used to make HP webpage: 1. Web Designer for responsive web page, 2. Industrial Designer (Printer Design) 3. 3D Graphics for video 4. Audio Editor for video 5. Audio Talent for video, 6. Copy editor for corporate speak (probably one for video and one for webpage) 7. Legal department for footnotes. This is all before a single product can be purchased. Compare this to an MVP where there is a video demonstration of the product and how you fit with it.

* Video does not show a single printing machine doing just an imagination of what can be, suggesting this is a corporate video for shareholders instead of users.

* The product is not available for purchase and there is no time line to expect purchase. There are a number of 3d printers available to purchase right now, no need to wait for this printer to come out.

* From the paper and soggypenny's quote: "shortcomings of the STL format..." is a great reason to introduce an AutoCad / Microstation / Sketchup plugin software to easily render for a 3-D format.

* Call to action "Connect with Us" takes you to a multi-line e-mail form for their internal databases. Compare this with an MVP that just wants your e-mail and your name.

HP, great step forward in your effort to try and recover from potential insolvency. Please look at your competition before getting my hopes up and dashed in one web page.
How I use Gmail
What if the economy is the AI?
Accessibility and USA law: http://warc.calpoly.edu/building/page_design/javascript.html
How to make cannabis oil?
Looking at the challenges, it would be cool if GitHub picked that up and published best practice guides for teachers and also collaborating researchers. Such guides could come from this study and others like it. I remember they're doing research on how researchers use GitHub already.
Federated queries across machines would be quite cool.
[Hacker, Wifi, Botox] = these are now Spanish words
Is there a way to sign a transaction offline but still run it through Coinbase? When it comes to decrypting private keys in the browser, unless the user inspects the javascript each and every time they use the site, there is no guarantee that it hasn't been silently replaced by code that steals keys.
Because that's the convention in lisp?
I kinda got bored by the 4th paragraph. Your writing style leaves something to be desired.
This is interesting, but I'm still not 100% that the graph is not a fake.

It's a pity that the final Gaussian approximation is not correctly fitted. It should be moved to the right.
On the software side it's a combination of Reason for synth sounds and Audition for recording and editing. Sounds were recorded with the Reason Balance box and with a Zoom H6 portable recorder using various mics.

Everything was mastered in Pro Tools at another studio for consistency.
Writing "proprietary" instead of "innovative" is one example of a company looking at things from their own perspective instead of the customer's perspective. Unfortunately that's so endemic [1] that many people have learned to automatically translate it and don't see it as unusual.

[1] see http://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-mistakes-of-web-manag... from 1997
AVS has nothing to do with GPS. AVS is about the home address registered with the card, not about your current location.
Hey? LINQ? What?
Interesting. Interviewee can't use GitHub for their class because the servers probably are in the US: "Copyright is a big issue. For instance, we are working with a novel. In Canada, that novel is in public domain so it can be accessed online, but not in United States."
> These idiot executives in MCX are so blind in their zeal to track customers everywhere, they never stopped to think of how reckless it is to make the customer liable.

Do you mean reckless or potentially lucrative? My god! suddenly we don't have to eat fraud from credit card transactions (in increasingly large amounts come 2015 when liability gets pushed down to merchants by the card companies). They get extra customer data AND reduced liability. Sounds perfect.