skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I really like location-aware app features. My favorite is search suggestions. If I'm in BestBuy and I open the app to the products section, chances are I want more details or reviews on the product I'm standing in front of. Why make me search for it? Have "smart suggestions"

The grocery store example is something I've been debating creating for myself. I have a hunch if I stick Estimote stickers underneath stuff at my grocery store no one will find them for a while.
Quantum mechanics in this sense refers to the (very well researched and understood) mathematical theory. This theory permits multiple philosophical explanations of what is 'really happening' to give the mathematical results that we confirm to be correct in experiments.

Any debate about the interpretation of quantum mechanics refers to to this question of what really happens, not to any details of what QM actually predicts will happen. That is, until/unless experiments are devised to separate these philosophical explanations, but nothing much has happened on this front for decades.
In general, ICEs are very efficient at a constant speed (highway driving) but much less efficient when accelerating and breaking is a net loss of useful energy.

EVs have a different sort of performance profile. They're far more efficient at accelerating, they partially regenerate their energy when braking, but they use a lot of energy when cruising at highway speeds.
Dasher: First Messaging App in US to Allow P2P Payments
Sites like rssitfor.me still works to get RSS feeds for twitter IDs that you follow. Site seems overloaded most of the time though.

http://rssitfor.me/getrss?name=wired
The Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser 2.3 is an improvement of The Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser II that includes Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth communication, and the bitcoin payment protocol. Using the bitcoin payment protocol with a Bluetooth connection allows for payment to be made with no internet connection on the customer's mobile phone or tablet computer.

Two new videos have been created. The first includes a technical discussion and demonstrates the NFC, bitcoin payment protocol, and bluetooth offline transaction features using Schildbach's Bitcoin Wallet. The second video shows compatibility of the system with more bitcoin wallets (breadwallet and mycelium) and demonstrates the bitcoin payment protocol using QR codes and HTTPS, and NFC without the bitcoin payment protocol.
Cloud9 was at the first node.js conference (small gathering really) put on by Joyent in 2009 in SF and it was really impressive then but it was such a bummer the only way to pay was with PayPal (looked a year ago and it was the same deal) and billing was generally bad. Has this been fixed? Can I now give a CC and not deal with PayPal?
This is innovation? Why would anyone waste their time developing this?

You know how you find beer and dogs at a stadium? Go walk the concourse! Follow the smell! Flag down a vendor!

What an utter waste of time and money.
Why is that cool? There's no doubt that Woz brilliant. However, I wish he had a second act. That he would come out with some sort of cool wearable or something else.

Steve Jobs kept trying to invent the next big thing. Apple II, Macintosh, NeXT, iPod, iPhone. For some reason, engineers often don't think like this
Ahh yes, I totally forgot about the phones maybe, sometimes, probably could this time work and range the beacons. Half the time my suggested method for getting the ranging to work is to delete app, restart phone, turn bluetooth on/off, redownload app, pray, sleep, buy new phone... It's unbelievable how ridiculously inaccurate the system software is using CoreLocation out of the box. I've written a wrapper for it (https://github.com/Intermark/Buoy/) to make internal dev a lot easier, and even then it's a pain in the ass to find why this prototype isn't working.
I don't think it would have any implications, unless it predicted new behaviour above and beyond what the mathematics already described. This kind of debate is all about philosophical interpretation, the actual mathematics of QM are extremely well understood, and a different understanding of what 'really happens' (be it waves, many worlds, random collapse or whatever) would not affect how we already know quantum computers can work.
PrivateInternetAccess.com is great, they also have a nice android app that will connect on your phones bootup
I don't understand; why hang on to previously freed array space to reuse for new iterations of the array? Isn't the whole point of freeing array space to allow arbitrary other data to use it as needed?
Geisswerks – Gpucaster
Oddly, I get a "only available for new customers" message, even after I enable the API.
This does quite a nice job of it, for me :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A
A lot of people dont know or dont care. E.g. look at mightytexts website[1].

[1] http://mightytext.net/
How does copyright work in space? (2013)
Thank you karpathy. This is a great introduction.
I'd imagine if this data was different Disney might not have made it much past the first year.
Show HN: Ekho – Your anonymous local feed
Hi Joe, I guess you folks are not running containers from customers side-by-side in the same host. So if I scale up my cluster size while I have containers deployed, do you folks rebalance the load on the host machines on the fly (by stopping/relocating some containers) or do you rebalance the new containers?
pg has mentioned in the past that he would like to ban techcrunch, but couldn't do so because they provide so much coverage of his startups.

Submissions from bullshit SV news sites is the price you pay for using a site that primarily exists as a marketing exercise.

Note that 'lower quality' sites about other sections of the tech industry have been banned for years (appleinsider, winsupersite etc).
Elsevier wants $36 for this article. Ha.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~a78khan/cs446/additional-material/s...
Introducing the LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge
Realistically, it's probably more like 99.9%, if we're talking about new car purchasers. Out of the box these are trophies, not race cars.

I bet the percentage of people taking their car to the track is actually quite a bit higher if we're talking about, for example, used 911s. I don't know if that will hold true forever, though. There are a lot of super expensive parts on the newest cars.
I would definitely like to see this ported to vim, I'm just not sure where to get started on that.
Not entirely sure that owning a $1.1M home (now) is a form of retirement savings; I wouldn't be surprised if, by the time I retire in 40 years or so, Silicon Valley looks like Detroit. A bunch of parallels are there: single-industry region, large amounts of shoddily-built tract housing, and a mobile, transient worker population chasing the latest hot industry.
Yes, but for how long? What if my credit card expires and I forget to update it? Is there a 30 day grace period for downloading them or are they wiped immediately?
Cordova is a big one. The ability to have rich queries into some persistent data set is something that's difficult to achieve atm.
For small allocations, memory allocators often cache power-of-two-sized memory blocks, so a 1.5x growth factor will likely be rounded up to the next bucket size and have unused space (internal fragmentation).
Awesome! Congratulations! Thank you for sharing your journey. How has it worked out going for business customers?

Let me know if/when you want to go back to consumers. A lot has changed in 4 years and I think you hit the nail on the head with some of your previous comments. In the current environment, many people are comparing the next hard drive purchase vs cloud storage purchase. I don't believe that was the case 1 year ago.

That was before the iOS 'Your cloud storage is full' alert started scaring mothers and grandmothers everywhere in thinking their photos will be gone forever!.

That was before the (..possible) facebook decline (but my photos are there!!)

you've got a headstart on me, but features I want:

Let me be an Admin and control which cloud provider i'm going to pay for. I'll set up the vendor accounts as needed/recommended by your newsletter.

Let my Wife, Mother, Father, Mother-in-law do the uploading and sharing - seamlessly as they would with their other apps as I change hosting providers behind the scenes for them as I feel the need. the most basic of UI needed for them. - think an app they could launch to see 'All Backed-up' or 'Backing up now'

I wouldn't prioritize cropping, tagging, 'liking', emailing, sharing, communicating, friending, etc

Best of luck!
How does this compare to DataCollection.js?

https://www.npmjs.org/package/data-collection
http://thestorefront.github.io/DataCollection.js/

They look fairly similar. What's the test coverage and do you have performance benchmarks?
Yeah - as a guy named Subu, that was not a good title to read :)
Same problem here in Android, and the browser is Internet.
Yep. I'm a 30 year old bearded man. It said it was 99.7% sure I'm a 47 year old woman. At least it got my race right! Though it was only 77% sure of that.
I think I've tried tags maybe on bookmarks maybe it was some things else.

I am a fan of them maybe I drifted away from them for some reason.
By "amortized O(1)", what's meant is essentially O(1) _per array element_; in other words, O(N) overall to reach a size of N. Note that this is when considering each reallocation to take time O(current length of array) [as one has to copy over all the current elements to the new space].
iOS 8 added many useful APIs, but I find many are hard to use while maintaining support for iOS 7.

For example:
- To share code between your app and your iOS 8 extensions, you want to put them in a shared framework, something which was just added in Xcode 6, and compatible only with iOS 8. So using shared code from iOS 7 means you'd have to keep copies of your source in the main app framework.

- Photos.framework is really great, but is completely different from Assets.framework, so building a photo app means writing your code twice. Yes, you can use Assets framework from iOS 8, but it's unclear how iCloud Photo Library will work with it (iOS 8.0 inadvertently removed "Camera Roll" from Assets framework, for example)

- Can't clean up your UIActionSheet, UIAlertView, UIPopoverController code with UIAlertController until you go iOS 8+

So iOS 8 moves a lot of things forward really nicely, and building an iOS 8-only app has been really great, but I feel, more so than before, that it's harder to maintain support for older iOS versions.

I was hoping iOS 8's adoption numbers would be rising faster than it did for iOS 7, so it'd be easier to justify dropping iOS 7 support sooner, but anecdotally it seems the large installation binary has made it hard to update 16GB devices.
It's fairly obvious that Telegram enjoys the challenge of designing their own crypto. The chances of them outsourcing the design are zero, because it will simply kill all the fun.

That's not too dissimilar to suggesting hiring an ISO-certified shop to redo your beautiful hand-optimized assembly code in an industry-standard Java. It's a simplification, but I'm pretty sure a large chunk of HN can relate to how much of a killjoy letting others do the interesting parts is.

In the end all these not-so-subtle backstabs and innuendos that they are just a bunch of annoying f#cking amateurs is counter-productive. They won't be using SSL and $300K is not enough to run their custom crypto through an audit that will be good for all the "experts". Besides, the main issue with the Telegram is not their crypto, is not the contests, it's the fact that they got off the wrong foot with the public applied crypto community. In theory, they should be fixing that, but in reality they don't seem to give a flying f#ck about it, which to me actually looks more like a show of a backbone rather than of an ignorance.

Ultimately they want the same thing as this Moxie person. They want less surveillance. Now pray tell why they should have their head repeatedly dunk in a toilet bowl every time their project gets a mention?
Thank you for this. I absolutely can't stand the comparison between the two environments. According to NYC's labor statistics [1], Finance as a whole (including all of commercial and investment banking, insurance, and real estate) makes up about 12.5% of the city's private sector jobs, and employs about as many people as the NYC local government does. For comparison, the Education and Health Services sector employs almost twice as many people (~24%), and Leisure and Hospitality about the same (11.4%).

Its much harder to find good statistics on the Bay Area because its comprised of so many different municipalities, but I would bet the Tech industry employs way more than 12.5% of private sector employees there. There's also no real "runner-up" in the region; Finance is one of the industries here, Tech is the industry in the Bay Area.

[1] http://labor.ny.gov/stats/nyc/index.shtm
i don't think that has ever been true; i have a friend who is a professional photographer, and he says gimp has never had good enough colourspace management for serious work.
Yeah, you missed some options:

1) There is a bus the (0 or 0X I think) right to downtown SF from Alameda.

2) Yeah, the ferry is nice if you have your stuff together and can get there on time. (Did it for three years)

3) Drive to west Oakland BART and it is a very quick ride in. Nine bucks for parking is still a steal.

4) You will be in downtown SF in half the time it takes to get from my neighborhood in SF (inner richmond) via MUNI with most options.
> then at one point the cloud storage solutions truly become interchangeable

I remember one famous Steve saying to Drew Houston that Dropbox was a feature rather than a product. I'd say the need for such a thing as Dropbox made "Dropbox as a standalone product" possible, but in a world where every service starts having its own integrated "cloud" backup service, storage and sync do start looking like a feature.
What a CEO does (2010)
Old article, but still great advice
Simba Revolutionizes Connectivity Driver Development with the New SDK
that $160k figure is for residents of san francisco, not the nation as a whole, which is what i was quoting, and is the whole point of what i posted. you're comparing yourself to your neighbors, not the nearly 7 billion other people on the planet or the 270 million americans who are less well-off than you. relatively ordinary is relatively amazing for the rest of the world. it's about perspective.
I suspect a large portion of your performance improvement was just from code inlining. Your simple allocator was probably inlined, whereas malloc requires a function call (as the code lives in a shared library).
Correct -- we don't do multi-tenant on the same VM. The security just isn't there in our minds.

We don't do rebalancing/rescheduling/repacking yet. Those are the types of things that we will be working on moving forward.
With fast user switching, yes, but if you log out, then it shouldn't.
Even ignoring that $300k isn't that much for most companies, there's insurance for big prize payouts where you'd pay the expected % time you'd have to pay out times the prize amount, plus a vig for the insurance provider.
Ninety-year-old man faces jail for giving food to homeless people
Game from 91 patched in 2005 to fix bug, set clock in XP backwards 100 years
Hipster is so overused that it's essentially meaningless at this point.
While I like the minimalism of the beacon API, I wonder if it doesn't limit the usefulness of this technology, as it leads to an over-reliance on mobile Internet (apps need to fetch information after detecting a relevant beacon) and/or preinstalled apps (which will probably not talk to each other very well).

It'd be interesting if beacons could send some structured data along with their identification header. This way you could have general purpose apps which handled common types of beacon data, and an user wouldn't have to install MegaWorld, GroceryMart and BigHealth to get generic grocery or health-related notifications.

For example: if there was a standard beacon format for bus routes, I could install a BusRoute app which would let me see bus routes for any beacon-enabled bus in the world, even in places where I don't have an Internet connection.
I have a feeling that while they implement 20 modifications per week, they will not roll out differently speced cars from week to week. It just doesn't seem possible with the regulation and testing that is mandatory.
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The beacons my company received from you guys must have been out of the norm then. All 3 Estimote beacons are dead, and they all died around the same time (one in super conservative mode, one in what should be a normal use case, and then one in max power mode).

I was excited when I saw your indoor SDK, but it's too simplistic and not realistic enough for the production apps we have and are building (walking around and mapping every single room in a hospital is untenable).

I don't mean to bash your company at all here, so I'm sorry if this comes off that way. I also found that almost all clients scoff at ~$33/beacon when you're pitching something in the 10,000 beacon range. Even then, for $30/beacon I can get ones that run off the wall circuit and last until that's off (for all intents and purposes, longer than 5 years).

Obviously at 10,000 beacons we're talking enterprise pricing, but even if you were to get that to around $5 that's still too much for what's essentially a CR2032 battery and a tiny radio chip.

I'm excited to see where Estimote takes beacons though, since they seem to be doing the most R&D type pushes with this technology compared to the other manufacturers.
Hands on with openSuSE 13.2
One of the things i admire about Woz is that he had the self-awareness not to lust after a second act. He has neither the insecurity to need to do it, nor the arrogance to think that he could do it.

He gave the world a superb, decisive work of engineering, then left the stage to other performers while he went to teach future generations.
Ping-pong ball was a thoughtless example, but many things of different weights will be Good Enough for the junior experimenter, eg plastic ans steel pipe sections dropped straight downwards.
Whenever someone asks why Netflix/Amazon/iTunes doesn't have a show, I'm just going to point them at this article and say, "the licensing rights to pretty much every show are this byzantine".
While the first part of your assertion is almost certainly true, I don't agree with the second part. The name explains what it is. A hipster is a person who's concerned with being hip.
New Zealand MP demoted after suggesting homeopathy use in Ebola fight
It appears tHooft's theory has determinism in common with Bohmian theory, but differs in that it proposes hidden local variables as not violating Bell's inequalities, rather than a wave equation which has non-local dependencies?
Poll shows what people want from their smart homes
"What’s a key attribute of a good UI?

It disappears.

It does not draw attention to itself.

It enables the user experience, but is not itself the experience."

-- Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony

That's the problem. The functional purpose of the UI is to get you to the content or let you do something, then get out of the way. The business purpose of the UI, though, is to get customers to buy the thing. "Sell the sizzle, not the steak". That's the driving force behind this endless tweaking of graphic elements.

Here's another kind of UI - automobile dashboards.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/05/car-dashboards-as-wo...

This is worth careful study. Match up the dashboards with various computer UIs.
Throwing our hat to the ring: http://docknet.io (vxlan overlays for Docker)
Based on several months of experimentation last year when iBeacon dropped, we concluded that Beacons will be more pervasive in personal automation rather than business automation. The author of the post talked about some great business use cases, but in general these expect the user to have the beacon's corresponding app. For any kind of app, the user has to opt-in, so the apps they are most likely to opt into are the ones where users install the beacon themselves in order to have a corresponding app on their device automatically adjust to their location.

There is also much more value to the user in personal automation, and it isn't fraught with the privacy/scaling issues that business automation ideas are. In the grocery store example, how does the app know what the user has in their cart? How many times will it remind the user to pick something up (i.e. what is the user's "push message annoyance threshold")? What if the user decides they no longer need eggs, but the app keeps reminding them to pick up eggs - the friction from opening the app and having to remove an item from a shopping list just so the store's beacons will stop annoying you to buy it will make anyone seriously weigh the value of having the app in the first place. As the author pointed out, beacons in a commercial setting have enormous potential to annoy the hell out of consumers.

What I really want is a beacon that I can install in my home office, and another that I can install in my work office, so my computer can automatically open up the workflow I had open when I left yesterday. A great side effect of this is that I would be much less inclined to start the day with a dosage of HN.
And glacier. I wonder if they've got a good way to guess how cold someone's photos are likely to be.
Avoiding offer negotiation pitfalls – for new grads
Every Saturday, I would step out to do grocery at 10:00am and tune into 88.5FM KQED which would be playing 'Car Talk'. I instantly warmed to the humor and banter the hosts expressed. They were top notch diagnostics as well. No doubt about it, Tom will be deeply missed. RIP.
I was giddy just watching this video! I'm sure his joy was genuine. It's just amazing to see feathers fall straight and bounce(!) when they hit the ground.
> If I understand it well, Loki doesn't entirely do what I'd want: it does not save the data to disk on every change, but less often, if I get it right.

From a cursory glance at the source, it doesn't look like anything internal ever calls .save()/.saveToDisk(), so it is up to you to decide how often you want to be creating your on-disk checkpoints.

EDIT: Seems I am wrong: "In a nodejs/node-webkit environment LokiJS also persists to disk whenever an insert, update or remove is performed." [1]. But I still can't spot where .save[/ToDisk] is called in the source [2]. Anyone?

> That might be good enough if my problem allows for many little independent Loki databases, but if the dataset is a gigabyte and persistence means flushing that whole gigabyte to disk after every data change, it probably won't work very well.

If you're looking at gigabyte+ datasets, then something designed to be in-memory is probably not your best bet. Aside from saving, (one imagines) this would also affect load times (reading->parsing->importing a multi-GB JSON file at launch can't be quick).

From [1]:

> LokiJS is ideal for the following scenarios:

* where a lightweight in-memory db is ideal

* cross-platform mobile apps where you can leverage the power of javascript and avoid interacting with native databases

* data sets are not so large that it wouldn't be a problem loading the entire db from a server and synchronising at the end of the work session

[1] https://github.com/techfort/LokiJS

[2] https://github.com/techfort/LokiJS/blob/master/src/lokijs.js
Do better than Sketch, Photoshop or any other design tool
Telegram allows you to use the same account on multiple devices, which is the main reason why I use it. It's also independent of Facebook, which many people don't trust.