skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, on Firefox 33.0.3 on CentOS 6, it is just a lot of white space with some text interspersed. I'm guessing I'm missing something :-)

That said, the availability and usability of these 9 DOF modules has really made this sort of stuff doable for folks. Opens up a lot of possibilities and for me at least I think it is the single biggest reason the quadcopter market exists :-)
There are some excellent cells out there developed for KERS. One example:

http://www.ebaracus.com/product/a123-ahr18700-f1-kers-cells
There are also 100k+ contractors employed by the NSA
and other intelligence agencies. Each one knows hundreds
of people, a few of whom might be love interests or otherwise. The Snowden documents demonstrated that querying
the database, given only a first and last name, requires
very few credentials.
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The mention of Bill Gates probably wasn't fair, since he wasn't blogging at the time of being CEO. But several people come to mind: Joel Spolsky, Coding Horror. And how about ... Paul Graham and Sam Altman?
There's no such thing as a meritocracy, unless you include ability to game the system in your measure of merit. Either that, or every system is a meritocracy, and you're just not trying hard enough to win.
But that's not constantly transmitting my voice to the internet without my knowledge unless I'm being specifically targetted.

I wouldn't put something like the Echo in my house. Similarly, my Smart TV isn't connected to the internet. But I'm not afraid of carrying a smart phone with me wherever I go.

Two completely different things in my opinion. One requires specific targeting (which I'm OK with to a point), and the other can be collected with a dragnet.
These speech search endpoints should have open APIs so that we can use our own hardware and software. I want to guarantee that whatever device I might ultimately use for such a service isn't openly listening. That would also enable usage of whichever search provider you prefer without needing new vendor-specific hardware. But the first of these benefits is by and large the most important of the two.
With such low market share, they had to do something. Giving it away is not the answer. They're thinking that a loss leader will increase sales on their regular Office licenses, but that remains to be seen. All I see
is further validation to the market that mobile apps should be free.

This is bad news for independent developers and established software houses alike.
The library is simple and works well for us and Tweetdeck. Everyone is welcome to tweak it.

The value like stated in the blog is that the permissive licensing of this project/graphics will enable more spread of emoji across platforms. (see something like this blog for why licensing has been a PITA: http://words.steveklabnik.com/emoji-licensing)
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> in addition you forgot to mention that you're an Ember contributor.

I don't have any patches into Ember.

I believe they added in the migration path after I had read it, as that's why everyone had been so upset over the announcement.
I am also a "library of mp3 luddites", and to me it sounds as though the Echo can do any Bluetooth audio, like a modern head unit. So you might say, "Computer, play Bluetooth audio", or "Computer, skip this track," and it would work just like pressing play and skip in your car.

This may just be wishful thinking on my part, however.
I actually thought it would be interesting to do a tune along those lines.

Have a quartet where each one is playing something with a different time signature. Hellish to coordinate, but could be interesting at the same time, as instruments wander in and out of sync with each other. Chord progressions forming with two and three instruments while the others are doing something else.
Many thanks for writing that out! I can't parse most of it yet, but it looks like I have some nice pointers for further study :-)
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"unfair competition" is all you really need to hear to understand that these companies hate the free market. so do the politicians that make laws to secure oligopolies.

the doublethink on this issue is amazing: the telecom companies are providing crappy internet, so let's make a law preventing competition, which is the nominal foundation of our economic system.
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He would spend so much time in the UIUC ACM office working on that thing. Pretty impressive for an undergrad ;)
That the data is already accessible. It has an app, it has a website. If you can use the accessibility features of any smartphone then you have access to it.

The leveling of the playing field you mention is not some moonshot, some dream to hold dear to one's heart. It certainly can still be done better, but it's already done competently.
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This is an interesting line of thought.

I figure even a war profiteering corporation like Raytheon has some departments or projects that are a net positive for humanity.

By refusing to work at Raytheon, even in a positive role, you doom the company to hire less ethical people. if that happens enough, where good people won't work in good departments, eventually Raytheon will stop doing the good things, and become more evil.
Hopefully this is not too obvious, but what is the advantage of ECC crypto compared to what GnuPG 2.0 is using?
Interesting idea. I think you won't be able to dissipate enough heat this way, but I'm not sure.
What you're missing is that people who don't have anything to hide don't want to be forced to adopt hiding practices, even though that might benefit other people. The choice to give away privacy in return for convenience is as much a feature of liberty as the choice to do the opposite, notwithstanding the disutility for a minority that can arise as a result of network effects.
Agreed. Also, in this case, I think the Techcrunch article meets the requirement for vetting by a news agency. Hopefully the SF-related subreddits will give this greater visibility.
That's not proof of my privacy being violated though.

The probability that my privacy was compromised by a mandatory court subpoena is very low, hence the person used "rarely touched privacy".

Premising your argument about government agencies all over the world is argumentum ad absurdum.
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I nearly fell off my chair laughing at the Kubrick-esque shots of "Alexa" in the foreground, watching the out-of-focus humans cooking, sleeping, going about their daily lives. Always watching. Always learning. Always Getting Smarter.

Whoever made this ad knew exactly what they were doing.
I really hope this guy is OK, but the number of young men "disappearing" in San Francisco is strange and maybe cause for some questions: http://sfappeal.com/2013/12/families-of-men-who-disappeared-...
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What people who dog on beats are missing is that "muddy, exaggerated bass" is exactly what most people want. The beats are so successful because they gave people what they wanted--strong bass and good looks, and audiophiles and technophiles lose their shit over it.

There is a lesson to be learned from the beats phenomenon, and it isn't that "beats are crap".
wow, unless you got a different question that I did I am amazed at your response. The algorithm is used often in CS, that you didn't know this kind of makes my point. Sure you can probably work as a programmer for years and not care about writing well optimized code, processors are so damn fast these days you can ignore the code quality and get away with it.

Also if you couldn't reason your way to the answer how would I have any confidence you could reason any other problem of similar difficulty level. This kind of problem shouldn't you more than 5 or 10 minutes to figure out.

Sorry, we pass on your application :)
Brilliant! Thank you.

Off topic: And good to know about that site. I've always wanted to be able to match the space shuttle backflip with this music: http://youtubedoubler.com/dOSz
> I used openlibrary to pull the metadata (not sure the restrictions), but may be nice to mirror all that data somewhere for low/no cost?

If you mean the Internet Archives OpenLibrary project that data is apparently in a messy legal situation:

https://openlibrary.org/developers/licensing

The Internet Archive actually has an API that I didn't notice and would have coded against instead if I'd known about it, I'll probably add a mention of it to the article as an alternate source of ISBN numbers:

https://openlibrary.org/developers/api
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Hi Kyle,

I freelance in Sydney, Australia and have been doing now for about 9 months. It sounds like I pretty much went through the same thought process as you when I started. I didn't know where to find work immediately either. What I found out quickly though, is sites like freelancer.com help in no way to providing a reasonable amount of work at a good rate consistently. In fact just the nature of them are geared towards 2nd/3rd world devs/designers that are able to get a good return relative to their lifestyle costs. Which you can't compete with. Starting out I had great success going to meetups where people might need my services. Eg. Small Business meetups. Once you walk in the door you will find that non-technical people have great difficulty meeting and finding the right designer/developer for their websites, apps, projects, etc.

The other bonus is you have met face to face and from a sales perspective you will have far more success in converting people to work with you.

This has been one of the ways I have successfully managed to get work, consistently. It certainly doesn't hurt.

Cheers,
Markus

http://mstrazds.com/
Check out what Brennan Dunn @ doubleyourfreelancingrate.com says about these topics, you'll find them useful.

PS - I'm not Brennan, and don't get any money from sending you over there.
Today we're better at everything, but through history the situation "the people in the past were better at X than we are now" has been quite common.
>> For example, when downloading a file from a website, what default name should you use for it? There is a header to tell you, but not ever page supplies such a header; so the browser needs to do something. It chooses to pick the last component of the URL as that filename.

Yeah, and that's slop in the protocol. If the header was required everything would still work, web sites would just have to fill in the header. What's easier to do, comply with a protocol where your site brakes if you don't, or to have swiss cheese and then make site developers learn a bunch of security best practices and hope they get it right?

Also in there is the good old "this site wants to blah blah" and ask the user to decide. If you have to ask, the answer is "No! fix your site so it's not on the user to decide". Broken certificates? Not my problem, browser should just say "sorry site security is busted" and leave it at that. It's an old debate, but AFIAC there is no debate, only lazyness.
It seems you read this as support staff for the underlying webhost. However I get the impression the undercover agent had a role akin to an admin or moderator on other user content generated sites.

If that was the case, they didn't need to know where the server is hosted. And the "private" parts of the back end very likely opened up methods of code execution on the underlying host (eg. editing php templates, etc.)
But is the host reliable? Will the server be of decent quality? Does customer support exist?
Yes, you have and it is a very special reason. But revealing it would ruin the magic, sorry.
I have also emailed requesting a ping. I imagine many people here would be curious to see it!
Privacy is different than culpability.

Just because I can legally have sex with my wife doesn't mean I want the government to have a recording of it. Some things are meant to stay private.
Yep. As much as commenters want to paint me as just anti-innovation, I really do want an end to the taxi monopoly. The difference is, I don't want a different taxi monopoly, and I do not like to support two robber-baron startups who essentially consider themselves not necessarily beyond the reach of the law, but simply more important than the law.
Drone saves window washer
It's Anna Bocci, the hipster mom in commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMkeVeslg-w
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7IEc/pepsi-next-baby-tricks
Perhaps you should edit that to remove the sentence beginning "because your brother..." You're talking about a person's loved one - compassion rules...
I've got a few products on Assembly and have some thoughts to share. I think Assembly has a shot at a product that makes revenue by helping startups/products/teams navigate the pain points you described. You specified their business model. It is incredibly difficult, but that's why it's worth paying for. CPA and regulatory compliance as a service. I think it should function to VC's as project greenlight does to steam, a platform to get started and build traction on before getting called up to the big leagues. It needs a lot of work, a top to bottom rethinking to account for the legal quagmire you touched on, but if it can do that, and function as software for vestment, and allow these app coins to be purchased by the public, they become an instant idea to ipo company.
Can you elaborate on this sentence?
> There's not as much of a loss if they are not part of the larger loss of a metro area.

I appreciate you posting the link, it was an interesting counter-point. Yet your comment doesn't really address anything he writes about, instead going off-topic with something about lobbying.

Focusing on his article, what is your response to his study of 75 municipal-operated ISPs/telecoms all costing the region (often significant) money?

Is there a reason you consider his main point wrong? (Specifically, his point that the discussed regulations only require voter approval before undertaking a costly ISP infrastructure business.)
The Terms of Service should cover how your voice data is being used, who it is shared with, and the purpose for both.
I couldn't even finish watching the intro video. it's boring! And I guess it's another trap to suck up my fb/twitter/github/trello contacts/info so that I can do forum/email/IM/project management/crowdfunding/flirting with my own contacts all in one place under another name/concept.

- "Work together" is not a selling point. I just want to make things, I'm not interested in yet-another-social-network.

- "Community" is not a selling point. There are no such thing as community, there are individual men and women.

- "Focus on what you like" is a lie. I bet all I can do on this platform is communication, nothing more.

- "Keep your share", oversell?
Why can't privacy be enough reason by itself? There are plenty of legal things I want to keep private. The government does not need to have record of every little thing about me. Some things are personal.
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Awesome, I want to try this on a Spartan 6.
I think I might be grumpy, but it's hard for me to share the hyperbolism of this PR piece on the importance of the experiment. To put it differently, this PR story should be written when this experiment expends to London as a whole and is ready to actually take the world.

In a way, this is another instance of the "ideas don't matter, implementation does" mantra. It's not their ideas that will change millions of people's life, it's the implementation, and what is presented doesn't seen revolutionary nor reliable nor scalable to me. I'd want to be proven wrong, of course.
> Do you know about anything a past people have done better than we know how today?

This is a cheap shot, but preparing laserwort or dodo.

More practically, anything that is done by hand and needs a lifetime of training. But you need to be sufficiently specific. No one can use a longbow the way medieval british could, but anyone with a bit of training and a modern compound bow could probably match them. So you'd need to be specific to longbows.
Yes, and you can use sales to reiterate based on feedback to built what people want to some extend too: http://blog.close.io/lean-sales-how-to-validate-your-saas-id... :)
You need to check out the Fire Tablet series again, they've made a big push in multiple profiles support. Household sharing allows you to share your digital purchases across your family. There is also FreeTime which is a special sandboxed kids profile.
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I didn't know people still used that. What would you want out of the RSS feed from this site? (Actually curious :3..)

Edit: Ah, didn't see the trending updates before now. Altering my question a bit: is there a lot of ppl on HN using RSS?
You’ve pointed out several of the biggest challenges Assembly has had to overcome to get where we are today. But yes, they are big challenges.

Here’s how it works:

(I think I’ve addressed all your points here, let me know if I missed anything)

Every product is structured as a partnership (similar to the way a law firm can be a partnership). Everyone who earns App Coins in that product is a partner – which entitles them to a portion of all profits in accordance with their ownership percentage, along with access to business information and direct involvement in decision-making. Those profits are paid out as royalties, not dividends. There are other differences from securities, for example, you can't transfer ownership of Assembly products on a secondary market.

This solution is the best balance we’ve found so far.

Products built on Assembly live on Assembly (so that we can protect the interests of anyone in the community who helped build them). So, revenue is collected by Assembly, the bills are paid, and profits are distributed to all partners (all of this is fully transparent). So, Assembly takes care of financial reporting and products don't need to worry about things like LLCs and DBAs.

Dilution occurs anytime that work is awarded, and a rogue Core Team might be able to game the system to their advantage, but we have reasonable protections in place to prevent this happening to an extreme.

I’d love to chat about this more if I haven’t covered all your questions. You clearly have a good grasp of what we’re trying to do, and you asked all the right questions. I’m at austin@assembly.com if you want to chat.

[edit: added the sentence about secondary markets]
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Because beginners have no clue what pkg-config is?
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Just as an Example, Raytheon invented the microwave oven.
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I like it and will probably sign up for it. I wonder how are you going to avoid herding behavior? If we imagine debates on a polarizing subject like politics, a slight bias among the early users might end up leading to an echo chamber phenomenon where a large prevailing majority votes down opposing points of view consistently.
This is something that can be readily solved. Dylan has no issues in this area when using the MPS (http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/) GC.

There are a few things that are worth taking note of though ...

One is that things that use addresses in memory need to be able to deal with those addresses changing. An example of this are common implementations of hash tables (due to hashing using the address). MPS provides location dependencies (http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/master/manual/html/top...) to deal with this.

Another is that when you call into C / foreign code, you want to be able to pin your object down so that it won't move. This is commonly an issue with byte vectors / strings. For that, the language / libraries / compiler should support pinning and unpinning objects. The way that Dylan does this in the native code generator is that it makes sure there's a stack reference to the object which is enough for the GC to not move it. This is only good for short-lived things though as you don't want to disrupt GC for too long.

Another thing to take note of is that you sometimes want to store an object reference in native code and out of reach of the GC. A common situation where this happens is storing user data or callbacks. In this situation, we can register a Dylan object to have a handle which we can pass to native code. With this, we register the object, then export it to get a handle, we pass the handle to native code. When we get a handle from native code, we import it to get back to the original Dylan object (which may have moved). We can unregister it when we're all done.

register-c-dylan-object(handle);
%uv-handle-data(handle.raw-handle) := export-c-dylan-object(handle);

...

let handle = import-c-dylan-object(%uv-handle-data(raw-handle));
apply(handle.callback, args)

These are all solved problems. They can be a bit tedious and sometimes error prone, but nothing that can't be solved. It might be adventurous to migrate an existing community that wasn't prepared though.
As someone who has gone through this process, I'm sad to say the petition can have a 'projected' salary. So it's just as fudged a number as any. It holds no bearing on what the worker would truly get.
I am also working in ad yield analytics, so while I wait for a DFP report to run, I'll also say, it's also in the network's interest to address this issue. In the meantime we'll just see more CPA line items and a drop in price for CPD and CPM. Being an auction, I'm sure Appnexus already sees this. When the issue is addressed we'll see a rise in CPM that reflects the increase in value with less bots. There is money in fixing it so I'm not calling the end of the on-line advertising world like the article, which is written by a general reporter not someone in the field (Cost Per Mile? oh really?)
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I love the ideal, but the reality is that a lot of people are getting a half-assed effort from one company that has no economic incentive to improve. Even the threat of governments coming in can provide some of that incentive to make service better. Add to this that the cities that have created their own broadband networks have done it extremely well, and it's hard to make abstract private/public arguments.

In Chattanooga, TN:
Public: 1 gigabit, $70 a month;
Comcast: 25 mbps, $45 a month (I just looked it up for a zip code in the city)

25 mbps / 1 gbps = 0.025

Assuming linear scaling: 1gbps at Comcast would cost $1800/mo. Holy shit.

This is exactly what economic theory predicts will happen in the absence of competition. What's often ignored is the efficacy of the government getting stuff done is largely dependent on the competency of the officials. But if you have good officials, the government solution to the high speed problem is a fantastic one.
Sorry, the "wake word" makes the Echo a little less suspicious in my opinion, but it's still something I'd avoid.
He claims that Flickr changes the original uploaded photo; just to be clear, they do not do that. They do create several resized versions, but the version you uploaded is absolutely never altered. It stays bit for bit identical and can be redownloaded and the hash will be the same.
This is one step towards Altman's YC, which has only been pushing the envelope further and further on what an incubator is. Interested too see how this pans out :)
Deceptive Practice is cool and recommended.

The eye-opening and amazing part is the unrelenting practice, preparation, and study time Ricky Jay (and others in the documentary) have committed to the art.

Beautiful and inspiring to see that effort from people.