skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While on the surface this seems positive, I am gravely concerned. When you change the rules to allow OTT transmissions it is possible that this could further solidify FCC control. Claimimg the imternet itself is public airwaves and that it has sole regulatory authority over the matter. Need to learn more than a simple blog post to have the information. Hopefully this is just cynicism, however the FCC has never been a friend. I will beleive it has changed when it allows broadband competition (actual infrastructure development) and unfettered access to the WWW.
The internet, as a neural network, "dreams" of cat videos when they go viral. Huh.

In fact, it "decides" for itself which ones should go viral.

Interesting thought.
Rather than being gutsy, I think it looks like it belongs in the Fitbit ecosystem (which maintains 69% of wearables marketshare, according to NPD Group).

It doesn't appear to be hand-specific. Most fitness trackers suggest you should wear on your non-dominant hands, because they give a more accurate step count.

I actually appreciate the fact that its not marketing as an entire smart phone on my wrist. I don't want to browse my photo albums on it or wait 2 seconds for my watch screen to wake up before checking the time. I'm glad its just fitness sensors and simple clock/calender/email/notifications.
Read Nietzsche? Common now, OP isn't a teenager :)
> why should we pay any attention to what you say about the benchmarks game?

I very much appologize and humble myself before the almighty benchmark gods. Please forgive me.
I was about to buy, but the sound of Bongo Beat Down cuts off too quickly. How can I be sure that I'm getting quality sound effects out of the set 300?
Having too much sales sounds like a good problem to have :)

Maybe try engaging with this community and get to know people:
https://www.facebook.com/deutschestartups.org

I doubt this works, but this is a "seeking co-founders" board:
http://www.gruenderszene.de/jobboerse/stellenangebote/suche-...
No this isn't the same. Stallman is referring to Apple's power over its suppliers (developers who sell software through the Apple store). Because Apple is a popular platform and switching platform costs are high (porting software takes time and money), Apple is able to extract value ($) in each and every transaction that could have gone to the developers or end users.

An open platform would remove 1 player from the value chain (Apple) and would increase value for end users, developers, or both.
Indian Startup Creates Portable Washing Machine Costing Only Rs 1500 / $25
This is excellent. I would love to have a bound version of this to sit on my desk as a conversation piece.
I've recently gone through similar rejection myself. I found a company through a Who's Hiring post. I breezed through three phone interviews, and it felt like the company had hired the NSA to find me, as what they seemed to be looking for was me exactly. I had an all day in person interview, felt like I had a great rapport with everyone, had no problems with any of the coding sections, had great answers for their questions, and getting the job seemed like a foregone conclusion. Then a week later I got "we've gone with another candidate". I'm pretty sure that's not true, as it's a fairly small company, and over the course of my interviews, their team page was updated a few times. No one with the position I applied for has been added since before my interview, and the job ad is still up, and in fact, has been expanded upon. So essentially, they'd rather just not have that position filled then fill it with me :\

What's funny though, is that when I first read the rejection email, the main source of my disappointment was not the job, but realizing I'm probably stuck in the midwest for another winter.

My head is up, though.
>-The whole thing is projected as health device and makes me feel that it's designed for fitness nuts. This is going to severely limit the audience and very bad marketing strategy.

Yeah, designing product to specific target audience didn't work out so well for GoPro I'm sure.
>Delivering an app or site based on Drupal, WordPress, Rails, etc. as a finished product to a client that does not have sufficient in-house IT staff -- you can almost guarantee they're going to run into security trouble. And what is required for 'sufficient in-house IT staff' is way more than we thought a few years ago -- even if not everyone has realized it yet (those who have not will get burned).

And that for 99% of the cases (unless they process credit cards and transactions), it won't matter much, if at all.
Always a great site.

http://www.theie8countdown.com/
There's an old Microsoft joystick (the Sidewinder 3D Pro) that hasn't been made in at least a decade, but several friends of mine still use them (with custom gameport-to-USB converters specifically designed for that stick.) Yet another quality piece of Microsoft hardware.
hofstadter has a pretty decent defintion worked out in 'godel, escher, bach" and "i am a strange loop":

consciousness arises when systems in the brain model the external world, and then begin modeling their modelling of the external world, and then begin modelling their modelling of their modelling...
Actually, the median and average developer lose money writing for the app stores, even if on the other devices they gave their software away for free. registering as an apple developer costs 99$ a year, and essentially all apps on the App Store never make more than a few dollars.
Automated Transactions: Turing-complete Byte-code Instructions for Blockchains
I used to work for Amazon, and made it all the way through the Google loops once and I can tell you that you are better than the most of the candidates already, because you made it to the second or third last round.

Applying for positions in these companies comes with hard interview loops and you need to know everything about the stack your code is running on (mostly operating systems and networking). this is true for almost any role there (usually the engineering field is divided: systems, network, software and security engineering. i am not sure what sort of role you were going for but i guess software engineering. those positions also require that you are familiar with extreme scale and you are knowledgable about the usual SDE topics like data structures and algorithms. it is hard to do all of these at once at the level that you are in the top 5% who gets hired.

if you are serious about it, most of the questions and answers are leaked out to the internet so you can just google them and try to understand the problem, study it more if you are not sure (ask stackoverflow etc.) and you can pass the interview the next time (~18 months from now). next time you are going to be more prepared and potentially similar questions going to come up.
My 1-project experience with Drupal is that Drupal is a clusterfuck that any experienced developer will quickly become frustrated with (much like its underlying PHP).
The Architecture of Morrisons OrderPad
Even if they do, it seems that you get the best of it by syncing to MS cloud with algos to run over your data.
The biggest neural network yet built was a 100 billion neuron simulation of the human brain[1]. That didn't exhibit consciousness, but is considerably smaller than the 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) synapses a human brain has.

I'm unsure what the relationship between a synapse and a neuron is. There are claims[2] that a human brain has "only" 100 billion neurons itself.

Of course, it's true that consciousness may emerge from the complexity of the connections rather than the raw count.

I'm unconvinced. It seems possible that whales (500 million neurons) have more complex brain networks than humans, and yet by some definitions they aren't conscious.

Conversely, some argue that birds are conscious, and yet they have considerably smaller brains than some neural networks.

[1] http://www.izhikevich.org/human_brain_simulation/Blue_Brain....

[2] http://www.quora.com/How-many-neurons-are-needed-to-create-a...
Its no different than NFC swiping with the iWatch, Starbucks just happens to be the first major vendor supporting Microsoft's variant.
microsoft is always the "me too" company
>If I'm using something like Composer to manage dependencies, should I be running an update every week on every past website I've created?

Absolutely not.

For one, an updated package can bring some subtle or crude incompatible changes when you don't expect it. Even in a minor/bugfix version.

Second, what if the composer repo itself is that got compromised? Then you are installing backdoors to all your sites automatically.
Flying car approaches liftoff as most advanced prototype yet is unveiled
Yes! Disclaimer: I own an Osmo. One thing where Osmo wins for sure is the name.
The name appart, sprout is trying to be much more than Osmo. I have to emphasize the "trying" though.
Sprout is going in all the directions between the 3D scanning, the touchpad and the projector. Osmo is much more modest with just a camera looking at the table, but this also means they could concentrate on user interactions that really made sense and an incredibly good pattern recognition experience.

Anyway if I have the opportunity to play with Sprout I will!
Interesting! Isn't this the kind of thing Erlang was made for? Telcos being able to swap out and upgrading switching boards on the fly without disruptions?
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-04/microsoft-ma...
From what I've heard, project ara was started by motorolla before phoneblocks announce their idea. Motorolla was working in secrecy, and this work transferred to google when google bought motorolla.

When the phoneblocks people became very high profile, the project ara people decided to reach out to them and let the phoneblocks people that project Ara was already trying to bring a similar vision to reality.

Phoneblocks had no engineering ability, only a great vision and an appealing (though impractical) design. So Phoneblocks threw their support behind project Ara.
Thanks everyone for the support today. The biggest concern has been the license and uses. In trying to make it easier to understand, we have rewritten the license in simpler terms.

For anyone who purchased previously, no rights have been removed. In fact, the new license is more flexible. If anyone has questions, please reach out.

The new license can be found here.
https://soundkit.io/license.html
20 Richard Branson Quotes That Will Inspire You to the Core
Of course not. I own a phone, whose battery lasts a month, I can call people and receive text messages. And its common knowledge that its not a good idea to bring any mobile device to demonstrations for example. In Germany they've been known to indiscriminately monitor all mobile communications at demonstrations and put the numbers on file.
not just the paranoid C/C++ developers

You're not paranoid when they're out to get you. The most recent US-CERT advisory:

Alert (TA14-300A) Phishing Campaign Linked with “Dyre” Banking Malware (Adobe Reader vulnerability)
"...memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution".

This has been going on for over thirty years. It's time for the suffering to stop.
"Forget virtualization and all its doubts, you now have true dedicated hardware!"
This seems very interesting. But I would really like to know the price plans.
The OP was talking about the current incumbent, and the solution proposed does not work for web applications, since the JSON.stringify in most browsers do not sort keys. Sure, you could implement your own javascript version, but it will be at least a couple of orders of magnitude slower.
How did you get to work today? Even if you walked, are there really no vehicles along the road?
Things in Japan maybe a little different. The office lady seems to perform the same function as the architect/contractor does for Toto toilets.

From one of Patio11's old comments on the Japanese toilet industry:

Toto's primary sales channel is "If you build a house or office in Japan and don't specifically talk to your architect/contractor about your post-bowel movement preferences we will take the liberty of using the most current model Toto has available and then invoice you cost plus labor plus 50%."
Toto does not have that relationship with the person responsible for picking your toilet.
Why does Toto have that relationship with the guy who picked my toilet? They've got a sales rep in Ogaki. His most important job is making sure they know of every business start for a construction company and that every time it happens the company gets a wreath (that's considered auspicious and is socially mandatory to buy when someone close to you starts a shop) and the principals get invited out drinking. Toto is, naturally, buying. The sales guy will not be so gauche as to mention "Say, apropos of nothing, do you do cost-plus projects? We have a proposition for you which will put $100 extra in your pocket for every bathroom you build."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4784877
2 months ago I went through something similar. Interviewed at this company: 2 phone interviews, one skype call, and about 6 hours of onsite (flew out to a different city).

I got another offer so I contacted the manager from the first company and the recruiter. Manager calls me up and we discuss the offer, things seem to be going well, I was happy with the offer and we agree to move ahead. Recruiter contacts me the next day saying I should be getting an offer letter by the end of the day. Next day I get a call from the recruiter saying the HR department wants to see my current pay stubs and tax documents from the last year because they want to ensure my "integrity". Things went south after that as I didn't want to give my personal information. I really liked the team and the job (what was described to me by the team / manager).

I was in the same state as you are right now, didn't really sleep properly for 3 weeks. I would suggest taking your mind off the job hunt for next week or so -
- start a new project
- learn a new technology that you have never touched before
- hike / take long walks (helped me a lot as it opened me up to a new perspective)
- volunteer (tech talks / meet ups)

Honestly, a job or a company doesn't define who you are and what skills you have, it is YOU who makes the difference.
Not to be harsh, but I don't know if English is your second language or not, but reading the above statement, I wonder about how you came across verbally in the interview. Can you present your arguments coherently? Did you understand and answer the questions correctly? Not knowing details, I would recommend taking time to practice interviewing.

That being said, both Amazon and Google have interesting interview patterns. I've done well at both and flailed at both -- over the years. So it could just be timing as well.

Learn from it, contemplate on where you think your short comings were, practice those and move on. There are plenty more interesting companies out there.
Person scaling with Azure here. It's pretty awesome and easy.

But dear god, the XML! They've started making more and more stuff code-configurable though, so that's good.
Behold patent US147119[0], issued 1874, nearly a century before Taco Bell existed. The specific word "spork" was common enough to include in dictionaries just a couple decades later.

Hilariously, if you do an google ngram search for "spork,foon"[1], you'll find that in comparison, foon is incredibly popular, completely drowning out uses of spork.

I looked at the book results. It's apparent that the ocr has misconstrued ye olde "s" as an "f"; a mistake I also make, on those rare occasions I read something printed before 1800 or so.

[0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US147119

[1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spork%2C+foon&...
I've twice failed the final round of Google interviews. Just remember that if you haven't failed then you haven't really pushed yourself to the limit. Now that you're a member of the huge family of Google rejects, take a look at the myriad awesome companies out there. I ended up with a fantastic post-series A startup that has exposed me to opportunities I'd never have if I was writing boilerplate Python and PHP at Google. Though Google pays better and had free food. Working for a startup is not without its drawbacks.
> It's this maddening, self-sabotaging dedication to singular vision at Apple that scares off developers from trying genuinely innovative things on iOS.

Developers do all sorts of innovative things on iOS, and minor constraints like this are unlikely to deter them. The "pull-to-refresh" action we all know and love first appeared in Tweetie for iOS -- it became so popular, Apple turned it into a first-class control. Same with the "hamburger menu" if I recall correctly.
That's the first thing that went through my head.
Thought I've not had the OP's success, I've had some of his problems. Doing it alone makes those problems worse.
I've just used this to get a solid undo/redo in our WebGL editor. It works amazingly well, and is very performant. However, our backend is not in Javascript, so if I'd want to use it for data transport I'd have to make a compatible python implementation. So I get the point of a standard, so long as it's up to par.
I imagine it's Windows CE. Is there any reason to suspect otherwise?
The one thing I dislike a bit is that the phone seems to heat up a bit more than via normal charging, so if I have to take a call after it's been sitting on the charger it's a bit uncomfortable. Otherwise, it's pretty slick.
sorry about off-topic but anyone knows the song name in background?
Use Google's new Roboto “Draft” font now
More info here: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-new-roboto....

Get just what you need:

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=RobotoDraft:400,500,700,400italic);

This isn't officially on Google Fonts yet.
I interned at a defense contractor, at a satellite office in a shared space. Everyone (including construction workers, movers, visiting officials, employees, etc) had to be badged and logged past the reception area. And truly restricted areas required swiping in with a proper level badge.

Obviously, it's just an anecdote, but I would be surprised if similar requirements weren't standard for the defense industry.
When I saw a link to an "Atmosphere" page I was curious what did meteor had to do with the Atmosphere project [1], a "real Time Client Server Framework for the JVM, supporting WebSockets and Cross-Browser Fallbacks Support". The answer: nothing.

1: https://github.com/Atmosphere
Go launch something in consumer space. Make a game for pet cats to play. People seriously have these. Games are nice since any UI with a user-achievable action is essentially a game without a score. Software portfolios and investment portfolios are remarkably similar in providing a center of consistent improvement and data feedback on which to get awesome at developing products. Android has a really low bar for entry. You have to be 26-clicks-and-a-credit-card tall to ride the ride. Launch & learn.
If relocation is not an issue for you, there are literally tons of jobs in US. HN's hiring thread doesn't represent even a 0.01% of these... There are many great companies or big enough circles where they even never heard of "Hacker News". So you should consider the world outside HN.
I think they're going after correct audience. They're going after people who probably already record these things. For eg I use a heart rate monitor, cycling computer that records GPS coordinates and speed/cadence/altitude changes when I cycle. If this thing had ANT+ connectivity and worked with extra sensors I would buy it to replace my cycling gear.

I can't see anyone spending $200 for this if they're not at least somewhat serious about their exercise. Counting steps and taking my heart rate twice a day is just a gimmick to me.
I have a Qi charger for my Nexus 5 and I run into this issue sometimes, because eg. I come home and my phone is almost dead but I still want to use it. The solution is pretty easy though, I just unplug the micro USB from my charging pad and plug it directly into my phone if I want to do that. At least when I'm at home I just leave it on the charger most of the time so I don't have to worry about charge.
Announcing Sysdig 0.1.90
I'll be happy to share my data with Microsoft or NSA for that matter, I'm pretty sure nobody there cares how I spend my days, and I don't think they're interested in your days either...
Well and thoughtfully said, thank you.

I find consciousness perhaps the hardest of the hard problems, in particular the self-awareness aspect of the phenomenon. I experience it, as I suspect (but can't prove) do the rest of HN's participants. But damned if I can figure out how it emerges from organized systems such as ourselves or even whether it's necessary.

I can imagine going about my day emitting behaviors without self-awareness: stimulus/response, variation/selection/inheritance over the short and long term yielding the rich behavior we associate with ourselves, our conspecifics, and the other critters we share the planet with. I can imagine everyone and everything else doing the same - behaving, absent awareness. So far, I haven't seen how consciousness is required for behavior.

And yet I feel aware, never mind that I don't see why that's required. Inevitably, that suggests to me a continuum of consciousness, from less organized to more organized systems. For me, it's a long walk from the Nernst equation and neuronal membrane potentials to my dog's happy disposition, which algorithmically seems to be wag more, bark less.

It's good there are hard problems to think about.
I am curious but skeptical. Curious as in, what kind of bus architecture are they running? PCIe with aggressive power management is my guess.

Modularity is cool but the infrastructure always adds to the cost. The more I think about it, Ara makes no sense in the phone market. This initiative is more about the tricorder market, if you will.
>I seem to recall you being similarly skeptical about the iPad - and whether or not that was you, I think this is an equally transofrmatve product.

No, it probably was someone else. I immediately grapsed the significance of the iPad as the ultimate connectivity machine for the sofa and the crapper (not joking).

That said, I'm not sure this thing will get anywhere. I get the possibilities you mention, but I think the crucial thing to get to them is mass appeal (and a mass market), which this wont have IMHO.

The capabilities this affords already exist with existing laptops and tablets + some external peripheral, but they haven't seen widespread use because few bother.

So, the extra convenience for the uses you describe that this device allows, won't help sell it. Only if this is sold on its other merits (and after it sells enough), would the "macroscope" become something people start to use.
It uses Cortana running on the phone itself. Band's hardware does not have Cortana.
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Tech talent needs to be educated in history, classics and languages
Ask HN: What do you do with your old iPhone when you buy a new one?
I read a lot of HN comments/posts where people mention they've upgraded their phones to the new one that had recently come out and such, and I keep wondering what they do with their old ones.

Where do these used iPhones go?
So, a pipe dream.
It also depends on how much the other platforms support deep integration. For example Apple tends to lock down things like Siri(perhaps this can connect as a bluetooth mic) and Google had scuffles over Youtube on Windows Phone so is likely to do everything in it's power to undermine this.
I read this as "cancer and heart attack deflector," and it seemed a lot more awesome than it really is. Oh well.
Ello vs. tsu
Databricks demolishes big data benchmark to prove Spark is fast on disk, too