skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: I'm Paul the designer

Some background - this board is in late beta testing, we're going to kickstart it and release it (with papers scheduled at a couple of conferences) - it's hitting Hacker News a little early - but keep us in mind when we do finally release to the public - at the moment we haven't published the design - we'll be putting up both the firmware an hardware designs on GitHub when we think it's ready for the public (almost there)

If you want some idea of the code and development system it's largely based on the dev system for out IoT project:

http://www.moonbaseotago.com/cheaprf/

Meanwhile I'm happy to answer questions
I think this is a very interesting move. Watching the video, it looks a bit like NFC tap to beam (which most android devices use) or bump (now shut down) except with the OS level integration.

I'm not really sure how good doing it at an OS level is. It could create a real barrier to adoption - you can't just download it from Google Play.
There is also a Wikipedia page for this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
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I was done with Sony after my investment into Playstation Linux (PS2), as they screwed their PS3 follow up.

It was more closed down than Yaroze and PS2 Linux, and eventually kicked out the door.

The PS4 makes use of clang and BSD and where are the contributions back to the communities, besides a few talks at LLVM summit?
If I were to buy a new Sony phone, is there a way to stop this from happening?
I'm fairly sure that the "accept" does not refer to "absorb without any countermeasures". It's a bit poorly worded.

I think it refers to the fact that if your device fails due to interference below the legal limit it is your problem to fix, not the device that generated the interference.
Only online for this week ...
After someone published Aug 2013 material, it was clear that Snowden isn't the only one. There's no harm in talking about two whistleblowers at that point.

Emphasizing that there's more than one might encourage even more whistleblowers.
Talking about a certain number might also hide that there are even _more_ out there.

Knowing the exact number of sources might help the agencies assign publications to sources, and thus, support in locating them. If you try to assign material that is actually from five sources to just two, you'll have a hard time seeing a clear picture.
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the actual firmware is far smaller than that (see my explanation about how we pad it out above) - essentially the way you verify it is by compiling the (open) source and getting the same binary image

(and then of course one verifies the source by inspection)
> I'm pretty sure that for the Kimmel segments, they ask the interviewees different questions

So, without evidence, you're confident of this?
You got it in the reverse; the shielding is to ensure conformance. It's part of the device.
Well 100,000 token limit is for only for clients (correct me if i'm wrong) not for apps that using Twitter to sign in (Apps that sign, without Tweeting or Direct messages permissions).

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/09/05/twitter-releases-next-ve...

You are free to fork it to add a custom login system :)
Should you repeat your tweets? Facts and figures from 1M tweets
If it's the phone (Z3?) in question, it seems that an update that purges this is incoming (though I wouldn't trust it until we have reports proving that this is the case).
Even the Met Office's press release just says it weights as much as 11 double decker buses rather than any actual technical details. I presume they didnt buy it by weight, why dumb everything down.
So syncing all of your data to a 3rd party server?

I can't see how that can go wrong.
I do think that the post should be higher then the ones before it... Looking at the raw metadata, it's more relevant and more recent. The whole point of the popular section is seeing more popular and recent news that you could have missed out.

The chance you missed out an article from 1 day ago is higher then one of 2 days ago. The chance you like it, is bigger if it has 90 votes then 50 votes. So there is no reason at all for putting it lower.

PS. I recreated HN for a client (it included tags and custom input fields), so i do know what HN is in the core.. I do not know the algorithm specifics though, but neither does Google :)
Tiger versus lion
actually it is a reverse biased transistor
Are there any projects trying to reduce the email-server complexity on linux?

Mailpile seem to be going in the right direction on the client side, but I have yet to find any self-contained MTA/IMAP solution. With self-contained I mean its configured in one location, doesn't use linux users and has easily extendable storage options.
I doesn't matter.

And being in a semiconductor it is a quantum process (in fact most sources of noise in circuits are quantum in origin - not that it matters)
Firefox Beta just got Opera-level responsive for me on Android and no rendering issues so far.
Ah Cray has some actual details[1].

[1] http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsA...
The Black Night Satellite, Carlos Muñoz Ferrada and Asteroid 99942 Apophis
Great Video:)
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I don't really understand this comment. You can host exim+mutt anywhere. With a megacorp, in the cloud, even under your bed... The only problem you face is getting the giants to accept your mail so you will probably want another server acting as a smarthost if you host at home.

I also don't remember being involuntarily offline in the last four years so I don't optimize for it any more. Plus, it's email. It will be there when I get to it. You can incur hours of downtime and other servers will just dutifully keep trying to deliver messages. It's a pretty laid back service.
That's untrue, just because it's a semiconductor, doesn't mean it can't generate data effected by non-quantum properties such as temperature.
Yeah, but you have a reliable source of entropy you don't need to get a lot of random numbers from your CSPRNG before reseeding.
padding the image to the size of the ROM (256k, the runtime
image is ~10k)with random data making it incompressible -
signing the image (including the random bit) so that the
image can't be altered

You could pad it with data that looks random, but is secretly compressible. For example, the output of a prng with a known seed.

Why not pad it with something that's already compressed, but which has information content, like a nice jpeg or something?
oh... Now I get it. I take my suggestion back xD
as part of our kickstarter we'll be offering programmers as an added reward - you can build the image from source and program your device - and we hope you do and share the results with the world

You can't program it over the USB (although we could) we consider that that would be a security problem - and given recent security issues with programmable USB devices ....
There's a very clear exposition and implementation in the book and code library _The Stanford Graphbase_. It's reasonably simple for the computer. It's not so simple for the algorithm designer.
"it can't generate data effected by non-quantum properties such as temperature"

And do you think quantum effects are not affected by temperature? REALLY?!

Start here http://ecee.colorado.edu/~bart/book/distrib.htm
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Also worth mentioning is Karel Zak's mutt fork:

https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz

It uses notmuch for mail indexing/tagging/searching and allows you to use notmuch searches as virtual folders.
> Needless to say, I will never use this phone

No Cyanogenmod ROMs for the Z3 series yet unfortunately so it looks like a return is your only real option.

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices#vendor=%22Sony%22;type...
Designing a 68K Single Board Computer
My Work: Kanban Tool CEO's favourite widget is out
the playstation unit that progressively dropped features from the ps3 you paid top dollar for? you are too kind.
The case of the battery: Don’t blame the tool, blame the user
IIRC the lens profile format adobe uses for Camera Raw and Light Room is human readable and editable so you may be able to use it directly.
Ah I actually skipped the PS3 and just went for PSP/PSVita. :(

Thanks for making me aware of this history.
Why wearables still are a failure and the brain they are missing
This is a very literal LOL moment.
I have used the same setup for the past five-ten years. I have IMAP setup for when I want to travel, but I find console access to mail just simpler.

Though I migrated from mutt to lumail[0] (which I wrote) as I find the ability to script operations in Lua very useful.

0 - http://lumail.org/
Their music arm is much much more morally elastic:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/22131876/Underground-Resistance-v...
100 tons, according to the radio this morning.
Unlike some other fortunate users who reached the editor, I never did:
http://tuxdiary.com/2014/10/28/polarr/
I can't imagine a situation when using external CSS could make something to be much more difficult to understand and maintain. And no, I am not trapped by any religion, I do use inline CSS and <table> from time to time (only way to handle styling for e-mails) - and it is always a very, very painful experience.

It's simple as that: if you don't have to (e-mails) do not use inline CSS. Never, ever. And the same goes for <table>. It will actually save you a lot of work.
This is a direct benefit of coffee (along with donating blood) in my book.

The chances of you developing anaemia because of coffee are dim.
I worked for an e-commerce retailer focusing on gifts for a time, during my stint we came upon a style of breathmint that contained caffiene.

they were pretty potent and they worked, but they had a warning on the side which said "do not exceed 2 mints in 6 hours"

Some guy had 12 mints at 80mg of caffiene each, promptly had a heart attack- we never sold the mints.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2453928/John-Jackson...
Great resource. Thank you.

You do have an error in the link, https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-prot... though
Vente Privée’s failure in the US blamed on founder mismanagement and megalomania
Ukrainian government officials have been spied on by hackers
MS spent huge amounts to time and money making sure lots of programs with oddities and bugs worked successfully on Win XP - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
The Leaky Science of Hollywood
Congrats!! Waiting for mine now :D
3 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Receive Work from Freelancers Witho Getting Copyright
Two genes linked with violent crime
Get Google Inbox without an invite
Magic May Lurk Inside Us All
Eloquent Ruby was on my shortlist, it is a good book but I think Practical Object-Orientated Design In Ruby just pushed it out of the top 3. Good to see another Sinatra fan here :)
21 Times Siri Outsmarted All of Us
At best, as harmless as Google's command & control channel to Android devices (=not very).
15 Minutes of Free Fall Required Years of Taming Scientific Challenges
"epic housing bubble stoked by the machinations of financiers and the ignorance of consumers"

Isn't he being prey of his own effect?

So the "epic housing bubble"(consecuence) was caused by "the machinations of financiers(cause 1) and the ignorance of consumers (cause 2)"

If this is true, why 2008?
Clearly cause 1 & 2 were present waaay before 2008.
So maybe the bubble have other causes?
How does it compare to the NeuG? Which entropy source is better?
http://www.gniibe.org/memo/development/gnuk/rng/neug.html
My bias tells me that it's probably better to eat a healthy varied diet; get exercise; expose yourself to a bit of direct sunlight (10 minutes per day) but not too much; have good sleep hygiene; have good work habits; and so on.

These steps build resiliance against mild mental health problems and increase physical health.

I don't have any evidence and I especially don't want to be judgemental about it.
Aquadata looks like a very interesting application, I'm often surprised that there's so much support for database ddl and querying, but not so much support for actually doing something more with the data, like graphing and other visualisations.

And to plug my own little endeavour :-) if you're on Linux and are looking for a
quick and easy to use Forms builder, here's my early beta http://www.data-forms-action.com/

Supports MySQL and Postgres currently.
Well, at some level almost everything can be described as using math. However, loads of software used by millions and netting millions can be and is written by people who most would describe as barely mathematically literate, from most sorts of business/accounting software (unless arithmetic is math) to device drivers to dating sites (where you could and will use heavyweight machine learning to match people but it kinda seems that having actual people on the site delivers 99.99% of the value regardless of said machine learning.)

There are counter-examples in every area, of course, it's just that the majority of programmers out there aren't great at math and are very much employable. And more often than not, people who're really great at math go to great lengths to avoid programming even when their work revolves around computers.

CS is a branch of math, of course, but this fact happily co-exists with all of the above.
> The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed, UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour, rather than every three.

Let's say an order of magnitude speed improvement. :wow:

I wonder if it will be able to model the local microclimate effect of powering and cooling 140 tonnes of compute?
How Coconut Oil Can Stop Hair Loss Naturally
One of the kickstarter rewards could be the ICSP programmer HW (i'm guessing that's what you're using) so who ever wants to program it could do it.
The reasons cited here are basically why I built Storytella[0]. Writing tools seem vastly inferior to developer tools when it comes to basic layout and document conversion. At the moment Storytella is aimed at novels for self-publishing authors so doesn't have much in the way of complex formatting - I want to update the Markdown syntax it uses to include some of the extensions available such as table formatting.

[0] https://storytel.la/
The CTO role is completely different depending on size of company. Here is my experience.

Startups: <10
I have had roles in small start-ups as CTO, but did the role of a Lead Developer in reality, it was important to get investment that they had a CTO on board that had a track record and could talk to investors, but I still had to build everything as well. Thinking back it would have been better to get a 2 day a week CTO and a full time Lead dev.

Mid Size:10>40
In a company this size with a dev team of 10ish its more of a Development Manager Role, this is some times worst than a startup as you have to be hands on, speak to investors and run a team.

Larger:>50
This is where a real CTO can really make a different, by this size you would have a couple of functional managers as your direct reports to look after day to day and get the time to focus on culture, team, investors, new tech, presentations etc.
Google Driverless Car and Its Limiting Destination Abilities
Soverign provides a good basis for an email server setup. It describes itself as a "set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more."

https://github.com/al3x/sovereign
In the curved-tube image, clearly the ball will exit with a clockwise spinning, because it'll be rolling on the external wall of the tube (based on the "Newtonian principle" of inertia). I'll bet if you try it as a experiment (inside the atmosphere) the ball will follow "C"... Am I a confident idiot?
Just for that I will support you guys when it goes on kickstarter!
well you have to consider me (the designer, the guy putting the original code in the device that you want to verify and make sure that it's not someone else's code) as trustworthy. After all I'm the one who's trying to protect the integrity of my product, I'm not going to give you a compressible bitstream if I can possible help it - and I'm going to publish the bitstream I am using so you can check
Here's a Wheeler quote from the link: 'Actually, quantum phenomena are neither waves nor particles but are intrinsically undefined until the moment they are measured. In a sense, the British philosopher Bishop Berkeley was right when he asserted two centuries ago "to be is to be perceived."'

Could this be used as an argument that we are inside the simulation of the universe? I mean if I were to design a game, I might leave the state undefined until it's necessary for it to be known (by some consciousness perhaps).
The article doesn't talk about aggression. I'd be interested in seeing some good quality research comparing people's responses to stuff when they're had caffene vs not.

It's frustrating that the evidence around mental health is so poor. I think that small amounts of caffeine destroy my sleep hygiene so I avoid it after midday. But it'd be great to know if a couple of cups of coffee in the morning was probably good or probably not good.
Hope so! Then I don't have to keep maintaining http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/

But for now email servers are still hard. Not too difficult to set up, hard to maintain.
Some pictures of it running at MozFest:

https://twitter.com/graphiclunarkid/status/52643541881717555...
https://twitter.com/graphiclunarkid/status/52643423950471168...
It would be interesting to now how Firefox performs with regard to battery usage. Apple in particular seems to be focussing on battery life as much as performance, given that the codebase is shared across iOS and OS X.
Ask HN:Would you like to have your company site or portfolio site done for free?
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> we're going to kickstart it and release it

Do you have any timescales for that yet, or are such decisions still heavily dependant on feedback from testing?
What if I'm suffering already?
How to Stop Your Talented Employees from Leaving
Igor Minar Angular 1.3 and Beyond – Angular Material Design implementation
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This is the link to Google Material Design implementation under development by the Angular team https://material.angularjs.org
The Worst Comment

"These things make me genuinely happy."
-sandmanxc

I'm a horrible person.
Warriors died young from violent deaths or infectious diseases, not from a chronic diseases. The appeal to nature is simply following the idea that we are what we're best adapted to, but I agree that working solutions and not always the optimal ones. In this case though, it's more of an attempt to avoid poorly working ones. That's why I strongly believe in having a solid base as a diet and optimize using "hacks" like turmeric and coconut oil, for example. I'm not adapted to those as my predecessors didn't eat those foods, but I eat them and they optimize my ancestral diet further.
http://hired.com/
Ebola’s Information Paradox
Worst comment: "With such small income you cannot live correctly in France."

Apparently I'm a saint, or I don't comment that much.

I want to make the world a better place.
Typography in Web design
Er, my "most insulting" comment is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293794

I guess the algos need more training, which I'm helpfully providing with this comment.
You have to design devices such that they don't fail when subject to interference.

Put a mobile phone near a radio, send a text. You hear some burbling. Imagine that burbling is picked up by an insulin pump - you don't wan the pump to increase or decrease the dose based on that burble.

See also analogue mobile phones which used to affect some gas station pump billing readouts. (CertInly some CB radios used to, whih caused bans, and phones are still banned in some stations today).
Wow, I didn't know about this suicide :(

Is the project really dead though? I have no personal experience, but these stats show a growing number of active users: http://pods.jasonrobinson.me/
Yelp acquires Cityvox to double down on French market
Did you mean Flux or Flow? I can see a few things on "Flow" around but nothing that matches very well.
testing is good, no known roadblocks, we planning on a Decemberish time frame, we think we have a final firmware load at this point.

We have a small pick-and-place machine/etc setup we'll do a small in-house run for those who want to pay a premium for early delivery and then possibly a slower run depending on demand.
Mercedes introduced the S 600 Guard – The best armoured vehicle on the market
255 Terabits/s  noa
I'm a former Sequel Pro developer and I wrote a Postgres client for OS X: https://eggerapps.at/pgcommander/

I'm currently working on version 2.0 which includes a table structure editor: https://eggerapps.at/pgcommander-prerelease/
Uhhh, Apple? I'm typing this on a ThinkPad T42p from 2007. It has a 1600x1200 display. They are also available with 2048x1536 (QXGA) displays. These machines were rather pricey when they were launched, but so are those made by Apple.
we use a home-grown programmer - it's cheap but the bed-of-nails cable costs as much as the board - we wont be making any money on them
This is kind of problematic indeed.

On one hand, it sounds reasonably "fair" for everyone involved. It seems that T-Mo is committed to impartiality (the site repeatedly mentions that all legal music services are eligible). They aren't double-dipping, since it's on top of the metered bandwidth you paid for (as opposed to charging the user for unlimited/unmetered data and then throttling services that don't pay up).

On the other hand, it's terribly opaque. Are they charging the streaming providers? Do the providers need to install dedicated proxies for T-Mo customers? Are they charging everyone the same? Is every service on the same terms? It's quite obvious that they have a cross-promotion deal with Rhapsody, but does Rhapsody get preferential treatment?

It seems that T-Mo are aiming for a compromise in regards to net neutrality. It doesn't seem too bad at this point, but there's always the risk of a slippery slope.
Ask HN: How did you hack traffic to your site?
I would love to hear of creative/hackish ways you got traffic to your site/app...
more here http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nph... ... this is exciting ... im too poor to afford the subscription to skim the paper, looking for a 'free' version
Ask him "Are you listening, or are you just waiting to talk?"
Hand-made Cotton Bags Making a Contribution Towards Sustainable Livelihoods
So? That's irrelevant to the discussion.

Google/Chrome also works hard to support "what's already out there", which is what you mention, but what we're discussing now is building on your supposedly-open-but-really-proprietary platform _against_ other players, whether that's policy or coincidental with constraints.

Microsoft spent effort making sure Windows itself WON'T run on DR DOS before that. They constantly ignored web standards after they won the browser wars (conveniently working well with Microsoft tools that produced non-standard markup, though) ... up until the moment they lost them again, at which point they started to pay attention to standards again.

With their last few releases, Google seems to be adopting this Microsoft style of evil. Some people defend that, and some don't.