skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can only be used as "micro-surveillance tools" once you install an app that shares your proximity to a beacon with a remote server... and by installing a 'malicious' app you've already lost.
Python vs. SQL
Presumably because LokiJS is faster. (I don't know if that's actually true.) And no, I just looked at the source code and Loki does not use localStorage under the hood. It's an in-memory database without a persistence layer, so you lose the data when you leave the page (in the browser).

Edit: Actually, reading more about Loki, it looks like the whole point of it is to provide querying/indexing capabilities to data in memory. So I don't know if there would be any value in using it as a replacement for key/value stores.
I wonder why they didn't include telegram?
I just paid $90 to pre-order the new Cowboy Bebop blu-ray box set, despite already having the series on DVD and it being easily found on TPB.

Some of us like owning the actual product.
$ fun=( 'Preview' 'QuickTime Player' )
$ work=( 'Terminal' )
$ for i in "${fun[@]}"; do osascript -e "tell app \"$i\" to quit"; done
$ for i in "${work[@]}"; do open -a "$i"; done
Between this and Band I'm actually impressed with Microsoft.

While it was new at the time of it's release, Dropbox has fallen behind in usability and has sorely needed to effectively break into being a more collaborative platform. While I don't know the numbers, I can imagine SkyDrive hasn't exactly picked up with users.

All around this benefits both companies.
Nice bevels.
These articles miss the point of "hipsters" being anticonformist in that "hipsters" aren't anticonformist, they are merely alternative. Meaning they're ok with someone having tatoos and giving you legal advice, that you can look atypical and not be a boogie-person.

It seems that either writers tend to ignore the rich history of counter-culture movements in the society (the beats, hippies, off-griders, Latter Day Saints, MOVE, Black Panthers, goths, punks, anarchists) or are simply ignorant of them.
I'd love to see something like this for NASA missions, Cassini, New Horizons, The Voyagers.

Really cool visualization of the missions.
That's remarkable. My Prius V (2013) gets about 49 mpg when I drive 55 MPH on smooth, level roads. A couple of times I've hit 50 mpg. Also, I frequent the Prius Chat forum and I've never heard of anyone getting 60+ mpg. Have you modified your vehicle? Is it a plug-in?
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And in the modern Internet-driven society, with unlimited diversity of music, TV, entertainment, and games, there really isn't a "mainstream" culture any more.
>hipster, at least in the modern sense, is an umbrella term for people who don't subscribe to the standard mainstream culture.

hipster is the standard mainstream culture today. Just look around.

>the typical urban hipster with his fixie.

"i was biking fixie way before it was cool". 30 years ago in USSR the geared bikes were much less available even if you had money for it - it costs 130 rubles - 2/3 of an engineer's monthly salary vs. fixie costing "only" 64 rubles. Going uphill on a fixie i dreamed about unreachable gears :) With wide availability of geared bikes here biking a fixie in SF is a cool way to beat those self-whipping monks.

Another bunch of urban hipsters on fixies feeling cool :) http://english.people.com.cn/mediafile/200906/08/F2009060815...
As always, you couldn't want a better KDE integration. Good distro for GUI fanatics
i want to sort by performance, and see what language is used in each framework at the same time. the performance view has no language, and the table view has no sortable columns.
Yup yup, it is NASA Plumbrook, the old reactor south of Sandusky. On the way to Cedar Point as a kid I was always in awe of the place as it was so big and you could only get within a few miles of it. My sixth grade teacher claimed a three eyed frog he had in a jar came from a nearby pond.
> Because the applied crypto community points out issue after issue after issue with their product and is met with variations of "nuh uh, it's fine!"

Well, no. That's the thing. That's a Hollywood version of it. He said she said it's all horrible piece of shit, because of something someone else said earlier on an unrelated subject. What makes rounds is the regurgitated abstract hate towards Telegram, whereby the factual matter has been long forgotten.

Let me put it this way - name a couple of open design issues with the current Telegram protocol.
Meanwhile a number of twitter clients do have unread counts (Tweetbot certainly does)
Paul Rand and Steve Jobs (2011)
When your hourly pay gets high enough and/or you get interested enough in other things, it's cheaper & easier to just shell out $175 for the complete BD package. Fiddling with torrents (with corrupted/bogus links & content, delays, technical obscurities, assuredly illegal activity, etc) is not free, it's spending time & resources & risks which could be used for earning more than $175.
You can also use them in the browser to cache data to reduce server calls or improve client UI performance (a la meteor.js).
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Do `hipsters` claim themselves to be `hipster` ? So far it looks like, to me, from western europe, as a derogatory term for people seeking attention and following the beard-flanelle-piercing-glasses trend.

I can spot people following that trend on the street but I can't tell if they'd label themselves as hipsters.

Hippies, grunge, punks claim to be hippies, grunge or punks.
There are known MD5 collisions of the same length.
These kind of experiences are entirely up to the app developer to implement properly in a way that's not annoying like you describe. It can be done in a way that is nice (i.e. not notifying over and over). Not saying they'll all do it right at first, or even for a while.
Ask HN: What project management software does your team use?
JIRA? Anything more general-purpose (like Mavenlink)?
> I don't know if that's necessarily true

It's not necessarily true, but it happens to be true.
You can't compete with free piracy for digital products, period.

Legitimate retail isn't in competition with the pirate bay.
It's not too hard, I adapted Ian Hill's Soda (which clearly was also used for a lot of the UI in this theme) to Solarized for the same reason here: https://github.com/jrolfs/sodarized. I'd be happy to answer any questions about doing so for base16.
There is no circumstance under which Firefox should be allocating 4kb of heap.
High Turnover = Increased Risk in Info Security Industry
My favorite as well.

It's also a perfect match for the Numix desktop theme, which I find lovely: https://numixproject.org/
Not exactly the same--but NASA has a pretty cool dashboard for the Deep Space Network: http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
It's there if you select "All Tools" instead of "Featured Tools" in the dropdown.
As usual, APL wins: ⌽'string' . In J that's |.'string' .

See http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string for plenty of other examples.
Looks like a real government quality project. Must have cost a fortune.
Quite right. Hipsters are far from genuine counter-culture.

Adbusters (the mag that sparked Occupy Wall Street) has a great piece on this: Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization. It's subtitle is Counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum, stripped of its subversion and originality.

https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
How about 49 lines?

https://github.com/samphilipd/the-little-schemer/blob/master...

I wrote an implementation of Scheme in Javascript to use as I work through the excellent book 'The Little Schemer'. Turns out you can implement a basic version of the language in just 7 functions.

It's Turing complete and you can use the base methods to build any function you need.
This Device Could Make It Easier to Find Your Veins
Google Hangouts, iMessage, fb Chat "Audited"? Wish they could point readers to those audits..

Skype "encrypted so the provider can't read it" even though MS is a known NSA PRISM partner? Recent disclosures quite strongly suggest otherwise.

Also weird that they didn't sort these options by ranking. it took me a while to realize that they weren't displaying everything ranked by default (or the "winners"). to see that, choose 'all tools' from the drop-down.
If, in some future year, you can no longer afford this luxury you might have to cancel your subscription.
Parent poster didn't say hipters live in suburbs. He said hipsters have a "suburban" mindset.
As the Microsoftie in this thread I feel compelled to point out that you don't need an extensive partnership with us to integrate with office.

And I'm not talking about the plugin development hell (never had to work with it, but that seemed, erm, "difficult"). Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions, or just read the docs yourself (http://dev.office.com/).
I was going to buy this: https://www.zoolz.com/Zoolz_Home but if Amazon can support .DNG files it is easier.
visiting time.gov directly redirects to time.gov/HTML5, which is a 404 (no www.)
Test it in the browser: https://www.mashape.com/faceplusplus/faceplusplus-face-detec...
You can pay for a lot of two-day shipping with $100 a year. I don't want all these dubious "value-add" services, like Prime Instant Video, Kindle Library, Prime Music, and now this photo storage service.
I have always heard that no one self identifies as a hipster. Is there anyone here who can tell me how someone riding a fixie and wearing a hipster hat describes themselves?
What if they need to price hike the service again? Also losing tax incentives in many states starts to swing the value proposition, but features like this will raise it.

Also, this opens the door to amazon tapping into multiple-prime-accounts-per-household, which would be a nice benefit for them.
I don't know why everyone is talking about pushing ads in the first place, whenever BLE beacons come up. As if the visual clutter created by outdoor advertisement wasn't enough, now I'll get garbage on my phone? No, thanks. Really, No Thanks.

As the article mentions, it's not obvious what value iBeacons provide compared to direct audio/visual information. For the same reason QR codes never took off. Ever since QR came into existence I haven't seen a single person who'd voluntarily scan a code (or an NFC label for that matter) in the street, anywhere in the world.

Clearly iBeacons/QR/NFC are not interesting in terms of providing information "on the spot", let alone advertisement. OK, then maybe microlocation? Finding lost items? Checkin/checkout? Payments? I don't know, none of these is so unique and indispensable that it triggers the excitement light bulb in me. Most of these things can be achieved somehow else, except maybe finding items lost within 20-30m from where you are.

Maybe the problem is that iBeacons are a bit too passive/static. But even a full BLE device that can transmit a bit more complex information is still debatble in terms of value. Where are the BLE A/V remotes, why aren't they replacing the IR ones? Would you trust a BLE baby monitor? How important is BLE for fitness tracker users? (Answer: somewhat, but if BLE never existed everyone would just use the USB connection to charge and exchange information at the same time, no big loss).

Plus purely engineering problems, such as unreliability, poor battery life, etc.

So let me be that guy who turns out to be wrong some years from now, but: despite the hype BLE turns out to be a niche technology with poor capabilities and questionable benefits.
Yeah, there are several apps that check every box, but aren't displayed in the 'featured' list.
Even worse than the classic source:

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html
.NEF files are not an included extension and are not included in the unlimited storage.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
I complain about very little now. Having already been dead ("M'am, everything is going fine, they're stopping his heart now"), I know how bad it can get, survived that, and know nothing can be worse.
> Office already has "direct" OneDrive integration and it's pretty useless, how could it be any better on Dropbox?

> The whole "save in the cloud" nonsense that desktop Office programs have these days feels like a mistake.

I feel exactly the opposite way. As a student, I have all of my schoolwork stored on OneDrive and I don't know how I would live without it anymore. I can access all of my documents from any computer via onedrive.com (very helpful when printing for free in a computer lab) and I can check and edit OneNote notebooks from my mobile device. I don't understand what you mean by desktop Office going for a "no files" design because it seems to be the opposite in my view.

> The only problem with Dropbox and Office is how Office locks the files so they're only synced after I close the Office program, not after every Ctrl+S. Fix that, and it's integrated.

OneDrive can sync files that are being edited with an Office program. With this news, I'm sure Dropbox will have the same functionality soon.
They then used those classifications to market to people who were explicitly anti-consumerism. For example: Don't market cars, market jeeps. Cars are for squares who need to go to work for the man. When you get a jeep, you aren't buying into the system, man. You are attaining the freedom to get back into nature!

'The Century of the Self' is excellent. It explained to me how my commune-dwelling, sandals-made-from-old-tires wearing parents were converted back into happy consumers. It also cleared up a few other questions like: Why was the V-Chip was such a huge deal and then was suddenly forgotten?

Pay for it http://www.amazon.com/Century-Curtis-producer-Power-Nightmar...

Or not... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD989035A4E8883D
To tell the truth, I don't have experience with one running dead yet. We've had a few around the office for the last 4~5 months now.
I think the last 25 years of people trying to make money online has proven that the answer is going to be 'no'.
While I agree with you 100% I think that this isn't a very good argument against lock-in. i.e what if Amazon pricing model changes making it not cost effective, or what if they start limiting their services or what if a better service crops up and Amazon cannot compete etc...

Lock-in is always an issue to consider regardless of how shiny those golden handcuffs are, end of the day they are still handcuffs.
This is the same as the jump from iOS 6 to iOS 7, except that was more UI code. It was difficult to support both and keep the correct look and feel between the apps without a lot of extra work, even more if you weren't using auto layout. The basic controls changed a lot and the change with the status bar still affects apps today.
One of the screenshots here shows a user storing both personal and business documents under the same account. Is it no longer the case with Dropbox that if you link your work and personal account, and your employer removes your work credentials, then all your personal files get deleted?
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Mesos and Kubernetes share lot of commonalities: both are useful for managing (virtual) compute resources for a given application. Primarily, as an app developer, you are interesting in specifying the required resources at a high level: 10 front end instances, 20 middle tier, and 3 back end database instances. You may not care how the resources are provisioned as long as some underlying SLA is satisfied. This is useful for boosting service uptime since in any long running service the nodes may go offline anytime and the framework will re-provision the resources automatically--often within few mins.

Mesos is useful to share resources across multiple clusters (i.e., multiple departments using Hadoop within a same organization may want to share the resources), where as Kubernetes seems to focus on container applications using docker. In addition, Mesos implements dominant-resource-fairness (DRF) scheduling, which has some nice properties [0].

Lastly, Spark is just an application running on the top of Mesos or Kubernetes. Using my earlier example, Spark and Hadoop can run in a single datacenter on the top of Mesos without statically partitioning the clusters a priori each having an illusion that they own the entire datacenter.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/event/nsdi11/tech/full_papers/Hindman...
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CryptoCat, the very same client that had an abysmal MitM attack exposed in which the author said "don't worry, it's on a prototype debug version" when infact it was on the deployed real-world version?

Yeah, nah.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7518761

EDIT: I get that they're choosing more "user-friendly" and "freely available" applications for featured, however this is really only going to get seen by people who don't mind a bit of fiddling around. ChatSecure + Orbot I see as the most reliable on there, yes you'd stick out like a sore thumb (why are you using Tor?) however privacy-wise, you'll be just fine.
The button he pressed when dropping had a label that said something like "launch jet sequence" (don't remember exactly). They probably have a modular set of actuator and rigs they can easily mess around with . :)
Picturelife lets you specify your own S3 backing and lets you use their interface.

And I'm feeling really bad for picturelife right now.
From skimming the presentation it looks like a project similar to Meteor's Minimongo and Miniredis (https://www.meteor.com/mini-databases) used for browser caches. Minimongo, for example, implements a great majority of Mongo selectors (there are no secondary indexes, though).

(I contributed to both Minimongo and Miniredis)
Are you saying that the Amazon Cloud Drive client is allowing to access files on the cloud, that are not synchronized to your machine? If that is the case, this is a first, and it is great to hear!
I just git cloned the repo - looks interesting. I look forward to playing with the code after looking at the general DRT documentation. BTW, on the linked site, starting with the image links "screenshot 1" and "screenshot 2" shows a simple example - might be quicker for getting a top level impression than by looking at the documentation links further down the page.

BTW, I recently open sourced my little Haskell NLP hacks: https://github.com/mark-watson/kbnlp.hs
I get that, but i can't believe anyone that can crack encryption would send their banking information over email.
I don't typically drive more than 250 miles a day, so I charge at home almost exclusively. Everyday I start with a full charge.

Imagine every few days having to take your cell phone to a special store to charge it. That's what we've been doing with cars and we just accept it as an inherent part of car ownership.

Fueling at home is extremely liberating, more than making up for the rare need to find a charger.
This is actually a pretty old idea:

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

The primary benefit of it is that it makes space reclamation more efficient.

(At least I think so. Might not be true with modern garbage collectors.)
That's because the link from the GKE page is for the free Google Cloud Platform trial ($300 credit), which is only available for new customers.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291643
3D and video mixing with Three.js
(Disclaimer: Work at TAH) I totally agree to what you are saying. We have had a similar experience working with our devices and SDK.

http://tah.io/get
I've been using a dedicated server from liquidweb for about 3 years to serve several high traffic Web sites at work. The only problems I've ever had with it are ones I've caused. You can pretty much get any level of 'managed' that you want, which is nice. They are not a 'cheap' host though. My server is about $230 a month. But it's worth every penny, and more.
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/primephotos

(If you don't feel like visiting TechCrunch.)

Just for the sake of argument, why rent when you can own? For $99 a year, you can buy a 2-TB external drive (Seagate's is $90 on Amazon at this time) and keep backing up your stuff to fresh hardware.

If you plan on subscribing to Amazon Prime in perpetuity, great. But if you should change your mind, you have a pretty big downloading task ahead of you to get all these images and move them elsewhere. Of course, you do have them all safely backed up on at least two local devices, do you not? In which case, why pay extra for AMZN's service?

I let Google+ back up my phone photos and videos because why not? It's convenient. But I still plug in the phone and pull the camera folder onto a hard drive periodically.

There's also the privacy consideration. Now that we all know the NSA can take our data arbitrarily, secretly, and with impunity, do we really want a pictorial guide to our lives to be out there and available for them to peruse?
Not to mention their sales team will chastize you for using them in iBeacon mode since apparently the price is subsidized by the use of their API.

Unsubsidized price then? No response.
Thats the thing: everyone thinks of themselves as an individual, and others as types.
Also, they'd lose all their customers and probably shut down the Google Drive program entirely

While I agree with your thesis on the whole, I am sad to say that this probably won't happen. People will just think, "Well, I'm not writing a novel so this doesn't affect me" and keep on using it.

My interpretation of what they are trying to say is that they may need to modify stuff by wrapping headers on it and so on to make it work with their systems, but they won't steal your ideas or give them away.
The genius in this is how Paul led the reader from one variation to the next (no pun intended), until ultimately arriving at his final proposal.
“Chappie” movie to explore human reaction to AI, machine learning
Net neutrality and the global implications of a tiered internet
Because of the domain registration costs, using emailing with Pawnmail is not free. This should dramatically reduce the incentive of using Pawnmail to spam.
Btw, @vortico I'm using Pawnmail for my new domain name and it looks quite nice so far, thanks!
If you arn't concerned about an attacker, then Murmur and fnv-1a are attractive hashes http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/which-h...
For the cryptographic newb, can someone explain how this contest is rigged, and destined for failure, like the previous one apparently was?

The rules seem much more liberal this time, to my uneducated eyes...

Even if it's still a contest in bad faith, why not break it and claim the money?
> Then you seem to have misunderstood the point of my initial comment entirely

Yeah, I agree, sorry about that.

> I find it hard to interpret that as anything other than a suggestion to use a single, giant regexp.

Now that I look at this you're probably right. I assumed any meaningful compilation is actually impossible with a single regexp and so tried to interpret original comment in a way which made at least some sense for me.

> But personally dragging out regexps is the last thing I'd do for illustrating the conceptual simplicity of compilation...

Well, there are some advantages to using regexps as an example: they are widely known and they also are able to describe regular languages. But I have no experience at all talking to people about compilation, so I'll assume that you're right and that using regexps makes it actually harder to explain things :)
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=spacecraft+for+all#!/story/forever...
Are they really? User-lovers, I mean.

Just a few days ago I got an email from a plugin developer (Sublimall), anounching that they're stopping development. Quote from the email: "There is no community, no documentation, API is not well designed and there is absolutely no communication with Sublime Text developers.".

I don't know if I can recommend it, really. There's a real risk other plugins I rely on won't be maintained anymore.