skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used any of those handsets but it looks like you still have to put the back of the phone against a reader to register. Do any of them allow you to place the edge of the phone on the reader?
So the argument against Amazon is that it is has the potential to do bad things, so they should have restrictions? Surely Krugmen's argument isn't so shallow and petty.
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What you're describing, except search, are all "moats"[1]. They're all ways in which Google monetizes and generates revenue.
Any threat to their bottomline has to come from people getting access to information in other ways: native mobile applications, Facebook's walled garden, television etc.
To their credit, they saw the mobile juggernaut coming early unlike Microsoft and they dealt with it effectively, ditto for browsers and email. They did not deal with social that effectively. In each case, it was their ability to foresee an information flow paradigm and get on top of it.
The argument here that can be made is that they're no longer that force that can monetize new information flow paradigms and that FB, Amazon, Apple are eating their lunch in some ways and whether they can make money without new sources of income (their new bets have not paid off yet). Whether this argument against them is stupid or thoughtful, the fact remains that this is a point that has been raised - not how good their products are, but how much money they can make, which is something a for-profit business must consider.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/25/search-googles-castle-moat/
Ask Metafilter seems to be 80% yandere types.
The reason I included that one is because Uber pushes the fantasy that you can make enough money in a weekend of driving to replace your full time job. The reality is that competition is fierce, especially in larger markets, and unless you're a reckless, aggressive driver you'll never make enough in a full week to pay for the brand new car they require you to drive along with a living wage.

Basically, you end up an indentured servant, getting pennies on the dollar.
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Are you aware that this facebook group of yours is what old timers called an IRC chan ?
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I second Crashplan.
I use it to back up a directory of my office machine (2GB at the moment) where I keep all the current project stuff, including Outlook archives for the last 3-years of emails.

The whole directory is inside a Truecrypt disk, btw (but I am running Crashplan after mounting the Truecrypt volume, so for Crashplan the files are visible).

I did a few (say half a dozen in the last 3-years) restores of a specific file and I did a full restore of the whole directory to a completely different machine (a Mac) due to problems with my old laptop - they replaced the HD and I had to keep working for a couple of days before getting it back.

And another full restore when they finally replaced the laptop with a new one.

In all these cases it worked without a hitch.

I also played a bit with their "backup to a friend's computer" thing, but haven't tested it in depth. Never used their online version, though, so I can't say anything about that.
With a small change to bitcoin protocol it should be possible in some cases. But right now the only viable option is to use M of N oracles:

https://github.com/orisi/wiki/wiki/Orisi-White-Paper
http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2014/06/bit-thereum.html

Basically, you choose a panel of up to 15 independent entities to verify that the funds were locked indeed. The panel can be modified by a majority of votes if some of the entities prove to be unreliable - kind of like the Supreme Court works.

This obviously introduces a new vulnerability to the system, but is the best solution available right now.
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The core FB experience you described is pretty much describing something called the internet (also email/im), something FB is trying very hard to replace (as microsoft attempted in the 90's with its msn).
.london has been around for only about 6 months. Despite living in London, this is actually the first time I've seen anyone use it.
You are missing the point. The __words__ `FAX and email` in fiction (especially Sci-Fi) are at a much higher risk to age and disappear or seem anachronistic than `ridulian crystal` wich has zero chance of ever getting old since it's a made-up word that can refer to any imaginary artifacts or underlying tech.

> A VCR is now Netflix minus the record button.

And `ridulian crystal` can be FAX, e-mail, Netflix, kindle and VCR and the next tech whenever you read the book or see a screen adaptation and it won't get old. It's never going to put you back in the real world old where VCR and Faxes are basically dead and unknown by today's teenagers.
Out of interest, how much data were you backing up? I ask since if I were to go for a cloud-backup, I'd be doing 3-4TB. Thanks.
I don't think that particular behavior is any different than how people naturally select and maintain social groups, though. Some level of homogeneity is necessary for discourse (common language), let alone civil discourse.

I tend to think that people divide because they can't relate on a conceptual/experiential level; they begin with different perceptive assumptions. That's just a theory, though.
Spideroak for photos, docs etc. (and Bitorrent Sync so my laptop and desktop are always in sync). Robocopy and an external USB drive for a monthly backup of large media.

I've been using Spideroak for ~3 years now and its been faultless.
For me it would be instant, remote collaboration.
Unfortunately no web-based IDE offers that, as far as I know.
Google docs for code anyone?
This is why it is a good idea to use your own custom domain with bit.ly
Personally I prefer Gibson's stories and writing style to Herbert but that's another story.
> I think the debate should shift from the means to the goals

Yes yes yes. The conversation needs to change from "if we build the Semantic Web it will change everything" (where everything is unspecified and not discussed) to we need to do this, what do we need to do it.

> What are the relational stores you mention in a) ?

Behind most modern on-line connected websites there's a big Postgres/Oracle/SQL Server database somewhere (and increasingly non-relational no-SQL type of stores). The SW basically chose to turn the web into a giant federated RDF triple-store which, if you think about it, is kind of ridiculous from any kind of sensible performance POV, just accessing the information from the source, the databases that are used to generate the pages, seems to make more sense.
Linkedin needs to protect it's users better
I'm often surprised how different the experience can be between men and women on certain sites, however this one, I think, takes the proverbial biscuit. https://twitter.com/Hella_Rude/status/526689977464524801 People are hitting on a friend through LinkedIn.

I can't see a way through LinkedIn to report this type of behaviour.

What I can't fathom is why somebody would even consider doing this through a professional career site like LinkedIn.
I'm not a data scientist, but I tinker often enough to know a fair share of languages.

I would say learn A statistical computing language and a programming language. If you could mix the two (via apis or other) it becomes even better. I interface matlab+c and Ruby+R, the former for speed and performance, the latter to prototype.

Learn something statistical, be it R/Octave/Stata/Matlab. If you have a budget, go with matlab as there are lots of packages and scripts available, although R is catching up quick. If performance is an issue, R has caveats, since the vanilla version has no multithread support.

I don't know python and use C for everything, but there are so many packages for python, including (GPU accelerated) machine learning that it is IMO definitely the way to go in your case.
Location: Spain. Is anyone really surprised?
Isn't this just file sync, and not incremental backups?

I.e. if I accidentally delete a file on my PC, the synced version disappears as well? No recovery possible.
I remember the days when softonic was "the" place to go to discover new software. Then the whole site started to become shady with SMS for fast downloads and whatnot. At that point I stopped trusting the site completely, I guess I was not the only one.
I don't get the point about declarative vs operational paradigms. LaTeX does a great job separating the data and the processes (it is declarative in this sense), although it allows to mess with both inside the document for flexibility.

I can't see the fundamental difference with HTML: it indeed lacks "operational" commands, but is massively used with javascript that implements the dirty stuff.
Well yeah, people do that all the time.

I know we disagree on this topic, but thanks for having a sensible debate on it!
And the Ask toolbar doesn't get installed without expressed permission, either.
As someone who's just moved out of London I'd rather like to see a "UK-centric" news site.
Show HN: London Feels – Sentiment-analysis of Londoners Tweets on a Map
Hi HN.

I've built a map that takes a geofenced stream of tweets and runs AFINN-111 sentiment analysis on them, and then displays them in real time on a map of London.

Negative sentiments are displayed as Red tweets, happy tweets are Blue.

The whole thing is built on node.js using node-tweet-stream, node-sentiment and socket.io. The frontend map is leaflet with stamen design's Toner tiles.

It's quite fun to watch, especially when there's a football match or a concert. If you click on the "follow tweets" checkbox, new tweets pop up as they arrive, although currently that makes the map pan north.

Thanks!

Dario.
I think you mentally inserted the word "than" between his words "true" and "when". If he had written it that way, then your indignation would be justified. As it is written, it means that when it comes to ride sharing companies, that quote rings true in a profound way.

The way you misread it, it would indeed seem to say that the situation with ride sharing companies violating the law is exactly what old Thomas Jefferson was talking about. But you misread it, obviously.
I've found its typically limited by my upload speed (ADSL2+ at 100kb/s up), took me a few months for a couple of hundred GB.
Welp tptacek has never seen anything like this so it must be made up!

Obviously tptacek is smarter than the entire NSA. You heard it on HN folks! Nothing to worry about.
AB testing.
Is this linkbait? Seems strange to make a comment like that without mentioning the name of the other company.
Not so with proper data analysis; you can't move large amounts of coins (even through mixers) without it showing up somewhere. The issue is the information horizon; i.e. the deal may be done before the analysis can say for certain what happened. Obviously some people in the market have access to better analysis tools than others, and not all analysis is made public; either in a timely or complete fashion.
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BART used to be a regular part of my commute, with the occasional Caltrain trip mixed in, and this: "only those who are impoverished would consider trying to get anywhere using bart + caltrain + public buses." is so totally out of line with my observed experiences that I have to wonder what on earth you were tracking.
I can't speak to the developer experience for Qt vs. GTK, but one day the scrollbars in the GTK-based programs I use started going into ultra slow motion if I held down the mouse button for 1/4 second.

While looking for a place to report the bug, I discovered this is an intentional "zoom" feature. Almost nobody knew about this amazing(?) feature, so with virtually no discussion, it was made to activate automatically to be more "discoverable".

Personally, my life would be better if I hadn't discovered this UX regres-(cough)-feature. This sort of thing also reflects poorly on the software using the library. (Initially I thought Synaptic was broken.)

I'm surprised that a mature library can change overnight in such a far-reaching way on some dude's whim.
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But the biggest reason is that one simply cannot argue with any credibility that Amazon has control over the market for buzz. My book buying habits may not be representative of the public at large, but while I almost always buy my books through Amazon I cannot remember the last time I discovered one there.

Yeah, appeal to the sample size of 1, great argument...

I do use Amazon for discovering new books, now he has a sample size of 2 and Amazon controls a massive 50% of the world's "buzz". That changed fast didn't it.

I'm sure there are good responses to Krugman out there, but this isn't one.
HN is viable because it has a worldwide community of hackers, good moderation and someone writing $120K checks. If the only thing technews.london does is reduce the scope then I fear it won't live long, like so many HN clones before it. I only recall two that were successful and they were successful by doing something HN did not (general business news and designer focused news). London is already on HN as it is.
> There's something almost, dare I say it, Communist Party in my opinion, of how they do things. It puts me off.

Well, don't say it then. Putting GTK's first world problems on the same level as North Korea's atrocious regime is a poor way to qualify the Gnome developers.

That said, I share your opinions on the situation and love QT which feels much slicker to the end user and easier to code. And some of the Gnome dev attitude sucks, that's a given.
The thing I, as a former AI student, don't like about these kind of discussions, is that "AI" is taken to mean Strong AI, human level AI. It's not. We already have lots of AI, and none of it is human level. And we don't need human-like AI, because we already have billions of human-level intelligences in this world. We're better off making computers do stuff we hate and are bad at, and not the stuff we're good at or enjoy.
(Very) Minor niggle but imgur is blocked in my office, so I don't get a logo at the top. Like the idea though!
Because the US isn't the world police
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Doesn't seem to be, as the article barely mentions any more information ("Silicon Valley firm specialized in scraping mobile app stores").
> I assume he is referring to malicious bugs and simple/sloppy backdoors?

No, he's referring to corporate or governmental backdoors, the wilful introduction of a way to bypass security for e.g. legal purposes. Once such a backdoor has been introduced, it's completely out of any control and while the entity for whom it was built will have access to it, third parties may (and most likely will if it's valuable enough) also gain access to it.
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I always though our biggest existential threat were Nukes and other WMDs. AI could potentially become yet another existential threat (especially if mixed with WMDs).

I would not fret over computers using AI to "see" or "hear" or even learn how to walk. I would start worrying the day computers start formulating judgments, I could not find any research in that direction. Anyone knows if such research exists?

On a more personal note, i can't say i agree with some people picking on Elon for formulating this opinion. Especially that it does not sound so unreasonable, really.
You can achieve the same results with absolute positioning, which I prefer.
I think the first use of the term 'vector' is more conceptual - but is actually defining a string type that is implemented using a c-style string strategy. The second mention "Vector" is a more direct reference to the C++/Java Vector class and its imlementation.

Technically speaking, you an implement a c-style string using a STD:Vector by ignoring the length preamble and ensuring room is made for the null character. I got away with this in my intro to c++ class after showing the teacher that I already knew how to implement strings in C from a previous class.

C-style strings: http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/66-c-style-strings/

C++ Vector class: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector

Java Vector Class: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Vector.ht...
You can probably do that with Ethernet extenders, depending on the speed you need. This one does 50 Mbit.

http://www.blackbox.com/Store/Detail.aspx/LinkGain-Ethernet-...
The post is tagged "satire".
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> 'This section is non-normative'

Usually it is a concise or dramatic means to demonstrate something, but not adherent to the norms of that context.

For example, pouring petrol over a sofa and igniting it to demonstrate its fireproof attributes. Not normal behaviour but useful as a demonstration.
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I'm not so sure if most of the people want to use GTK because it's C. Because usually that means that they have to deal with GObject which is not so nice.
What I didn't understand from this blog post is WHY display:table is really bad.
Main point to me would be that it would work automatically on every platform and without needing setup/installation/updating, so I could switch between a Chromebook, a Mac, PC with Windows or Linux without even having to think about whether the IDE has been ported to that platform. If there would be a practical IDE solution running in the browser (or Chromium as offline package) for C++ which replaces VStudio/Xcode/QtCreator I would switch in an instant.
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Pretty cool landing page that shows product use case – Takes.io
> someone writing $120K checks

And that is only possible b/c it's a marketing expense which will generate its return by attracting lucrative start-ups to YC.
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"The good news is that $1B+ companies usually can't afford to target niches. Their divisions are expected to move the needle for, well, a $1B+ business. "

100% agreed. May I suggest OP to pick up "The Innovator's Dilemma / The Innovator's Solution", which really brings the point home on why targeting niches and/or 'lower' marketing segments can be a good strategy.
The article ends in a non serious fashion.So the author discovers his books outside of Amazon.Does this fact has any relevance to how people in general discover books ?

On the other hand, Amazon is Google's biggest threat in general product search(and probably discovery). So surely Amazon is even stronger in books.

And i'm sure Amazon does play with search/recommendation ranking, and publishers see the effect on sales, or else they wouldn't have bothered with this fight.
Many criticisms of Krugman are valid, but he is rarely shallow or petty.

OTOH, the Economist article isn't petty, but it doesn't seem to make any particular groundbreaking point.
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Cool. I'd love to know more about what makes your system awesome - It is a very creative idea! Have you thoguht about creating a DTD out of the schema or vice-versa. Having a DTD to validate the file against would allow for some serious robustness in hot-loading stuff from the web.

I think the big draw for the flatbuffer system is that it can stream data in with a low memory foot-print.
I'm pretty sure you can't, except in the trivial case of a table with absolute-sized everything, or alternatively by reimplementing the table algorithms in JS.
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>> The more important question is, was there anything that prevented Sun or anyone else from implementing those in the other OSes?

> Yes, they made calls to native microsoft frameworks etc.

Uhm, yes, that's how you run things on another platform. You have to call that platform's APIs. Sun's JVM won't be able to create an AWT window without calling WinAPI's CreateWindow. They have to call the native APIs at some point or another.
> Well, don't say it then. Putting GTK's first world problems on the same level as North Korea's atrocious regime is a poor way to qualify the Gnome developers.

I said it because it was the best way with the least amount of verbiage I could use to describe how their top-down, dictatorship-like, inability or unwillingness to listen, it's our way or nothing, you're insane if you think this is a good idea, feels to me.

I wasn't for one second trying to trivialise North Korea's problems - in fact I was thinking more about the Soviet-era - and I find it odd that you connected the two, and found the time to pick out that one sentence and make an issue out of it :)
The GF1 was good but it was a very early generation m43, any recent one from Panasonic or Olympus gives much better performance overall and will easily outperform your D70 (I moved from GF1 to E-M10 a few months ago).
> Putting GTK's first world problems on the same level as North Korea's atrocious regime is a poor way to qualify the Gnome developers.

Woah, slow down there. The way I read it is just saying that all decisions are made by a central cabal and handed down without listening to the people.

North Korea's not the only communists out there, y'know. :)
Well, there's:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_(Company)

* IBM's various initiatives led by http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=...

* Kurzweil is presumably doing something similar inside Google, as well.
Things are changing here. The funny thing is that this company was an example of success for newspapers. We knew this was going to happen, this company has been installing garbage in computers for years, that's not a solid bussiness plan
Of course. It's so easy to use a different book store, even with kindle, that this whole argument holds no water.

Since Amazon doesn't really carry Polish books, I get .mobis from random e-stores all the time. It takes no effort. There is no barrier to entry. Well, except actually having something in stock (easy enough when it's an infinitely copyable file) and making your website/UI not atrocious (not that easy, apparently).

Most will even email it and Amazon will deliver it straight to the device. No need to look for the usb cable.
I don't think it is and I wouldn't mind editing the comment and getting rid of the link. Sorry.

Name of the acquired company hasn't been published yet because it hasn't been disclosed.

Sorry for the confusion.
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Problem with absolute positioning is that you remove elements from the natural flow of the page, meaning that adjacent elements aren't aware of the dynamic height of a fixed footer for example.
It's why click-bait brings in revenue - easy to consume, digest, and cast-back to the masses. I know The Guardian was working with an off-shoot (or maybe it was just an investment) for crowd-sourced journalism, but even that will have it's own biases and trends (in the long run ... initially I'm sure it'll do fine).
It's the same things for web apps, with added near-infinite possibilities for spam.
Around the Corner (1937)

Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization ☞

Sponsor: Chevrolet Division, General Motors Corporation

Probably the source of this re-encode,
with significantly less artifacts, on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/Aroundth1937

☞ Named after Jam Handy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy
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That also depends on the population of your country! In India, you are worthless without a degree. People look down on non engineers. Even bachelor of science in computer science is considered crap. Your value as a developers depends only on how many other developers are out there.
Here's a response to Krugman that I found far more thoughtful than this Economist article, from Matt Ygleslias of Vox: http://www.vox.com/2014/10/22/7016827/amazon-hachette-monopo...

And here's a response to his response: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119977/what-matt-yglesias...