skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a demonstration there of full loopback, without the 1 sec delay. The delay is purely so you can send a command using a totally normal audio API that only uses the sound card when needed.

I could probably get away with 1 stop bit... I didn't try. To be honest if the transfer speed matters so much, it might be better to use some other means of communications :)
Android sadly is not OSS

"Android" can have conflicting definitions, but AOSP is certainly OSS.
I think mysql is the only database that auto truncates varchars isn't it?
Does DNS propagate quickly enough to alleviate an outage or is it just a matter of ensuring that you recover within a few hours rather on waiting on an outage resolution that might take longer?

Alternately, can't you just have multiple A records to distribute your load across cloud platforms and just drop the one for whichever platform is having an outage?
What a surprise! I thouhgt it will be Android.
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I would recommend personal wiki such as ZIM. It comes with diary, todo lists, git integration... They also have similar guide:

http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Usage/Getting_Things_Done.html
As long as the stupid pink mustache is optional then maybe I'll give it a try.
My primary form of transportation is a bike, but my ride-sharing trends are pretty similar to David's. I've been using Lyft far more than Uber lately even though I view them as completely interchangeable services and I'm not known for having strong brand loyalty. In SF, Lyft and Uber are comparable on both price and speed, so it's an easy decision to use one service over the other, even if you only have a slight preference. For me the shift hasn't happened out of outrage at Uber, but because I like the Lyft experience so much more. Lyft drivers are overwhelmingly friendly and Lyft Line tends to attract similarly friendly people. I've had some great conversations while sharing rides on Lyft Line where I actually didn't want the ride to end so soon. I've swapped contact info with some cute girls, met a potential hire, and landed a couple new customers all while sharing rides on Lyft.

I like that Lyft has a reputation for taking care of their drivers. In the words of one driver I rode with, "there are no drivers protesting outside the Lyft office". Instead, their drivers speak highly of the company. As a company, they seem like they are starting to find their stride. Their mission from the beginning was to get people to shares rides and fill up all those single-passenger cars you see everywhere. They're making good progress on that mission today and cutting down on traffic is something I care about as well. Uber has a ride-sharing option too, but they don't seem to be nearly as motivated by that purpose. I'm not sure what Uber's mission is actually.
Do please ignore them. That's what the HN guidelines ask.
Server-side js has that already. On the clientside it would be useless.
Possibly all the Webrtc stack ?
Wouldn't this result in putting all the eggs in a single basket ?

Beside, as an European, I'm not so excited that such initiative is under control of American Law. I suspect that American interests will prevail.
Is Nokia copying Apple?
Thanks! I'd seen your post when I googled to see if it could be done. It's just nice not to have to wire up so many components, or to need a battery!
As more and more services and apps depend on 'the cloud', I'm wondering, how many of them would survive a major cloud outage: the cloud company going bankrupt, stock market crash or economic meltdown, a malware exploiting a major server-side bug (like heartbleed or shellshock, but worse) wiping or encrypting the data on the infrastructure/user machines.

How much of the user's data would be forever lost in such an event ?

The other aspect is privacy - in theory, all user's data can be stored and accessed forever, eg. 20 years from now, when the reincarnation of someone like Stalin comes to power.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that we should design our services or apps with this in mind - the cloud can and will fail from time to time, maybe forever.
So, if possible, use the cloud as a 'bonus' feature, a means to back up data and store user's data offline for when the dark day comes at least the user still has his data.
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It's not as if AWS has never gone down (http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/). It just hasn't had a major outage in the last 30 days.
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It is indeed a reasonable Show HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

A new feature normally wouldn't qualify. A new product is fine, as long as people are able to try it out.
If your app is down, it sounds very much like it's your problem.

While you're obviously going to be unhappy with downtime, this is a genuine part of calculation you should have made when you decided to outsource all your eggs into one basket.
I personally knew the method under the name "memory palace" but not "memory of Loci". You should maybe mention both terms.

Why don't you link to the Wikipedia page as well ? The Wikipedia pages refers to multiple Sherlock episodes where the method is visually shown to the audience. You could eventually add a video extract, but as far as I remember, they are rather cheesy.
A government institution does have the resources to review every single application they use, should they want to.

You're also missing that often BigCorp gets more involved in open-source than random individuals. Microsoft for example is said to be the fifth largest contributor for Linux 3.0, speaking of which Red Hat, IBM and Google are regulars and now Samsung too.

Fun fact, did you know that SELinux, one of the most advanced modules for access control, was originally developed by the NSA? Yup, a little ironic, but we can use it because it is open-source and because it has been reviewed.
From experience with multi-datacenter setups, if you set a 60second TTL on your DNS records, you'll see 95%+ of traffic get the update within 5 minutes.

Also, you can associate multiple addresses with a record. It's up to the client to retry on failure, but all browsers do (as far as I know)
I understood the point, but it doesn't make sense in the context of the article. The difference between GPL and BSD-licensed software is in how you can use the source. Neither web applications or native applications depend on the source code of the platform they are running on. There are plenty of "closed" things that run on GPL software, like the linux kernel.
This is exactly it.

When Uber is breaking the rules that protect a tiny medallion-holding, rent seeking cartel, that's a positive for society.

When Uber is just end-running around sensible public licensing of taxis in cities without medallion cartels that's not really doing anything for society.

When Uber sabotages Lyft, promotes misogyny and threatens vile character assassination of journalists for negative coverage that's just Uber being repulsive and is a negative for society.

I hope more areas go down the road Seoul is supposedly going with their aim for a universal taxi app.
If you hate yummyfajitas you should probably ignore his posts. Your answers deserve down votes and flags.

Especially calling someone a "blithering idiot" is clearly agInst guidelines.

If you think he's said something flag-worthy or downvote worty just flag it or downvote it and ignore it.
What about p2p?
Actually, the lesson is that people don't WANT a "solution".
Yes, it'd be really handy... Having said that, to be truly useful you'd need to be able to access whatever it was from some API that was common across platforms. Sadly I think it's very unlikely that any simple communications protocol will get exposed to webpages, because of potential security concerns.
> When reviewing the projects list, you will make sure that there is alway at least one action on your next actions list for each project, thus making sure that your projects aren’t forgotten.

This part could be done automatically. I don't know any app, which does it, though. Is it a good idea to automate this or do GTD-users get some benefits out of doing it manually?
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> The other aspect is privacy - in theory, all user's data can be stored and accessed forever, eg. 20 years from now, when the reincarnation of someone like Stalin comes to power.

Is havin your stuff stores locally any more secure in that situation. If someone wants your data they'll knock on your door and beat you and your family until you give it to them
If China doesn't annex North korea, then 28,000 American troops sitting on the DMZ have no reason to be there and the justification for high troop deployments to Japan is lessened
Duplicate, please just start one thread.
I re-wrote everything in C++, and picked up less than a factor of two in speed.

Don't think it has been mentioned in the other comments, but this could also be a performance problem with your C++ code - possibly in combination with doing something Perl is good at
http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.com/2014/11/seri...
Is it just me or does this resemble visual prolog quite a bit? Though the syntax of Cosmos seems nicer, it seems as if most of the ideas are implemented in visual prolog.
No fajitas, it did not occur to me that you were incapable of interpreting a basic English sentence with a clearly defined subject and modifier, and that you'd resolve your confusion by fishing around for words scattered elsewhere in the post to fill in the blanks.

But the point, again, is that you described what the Uber exec proposed as "hiring journalists to do journalism to journalists." And the point you missed is that what he was describing was manifestly not journalism, for reasons I went on to describe.

There are several other reasons why his line of thought was hugely unethical, but those are separate issues, and given your tendency to put words in the mouths of others, that's not a conversation I'm willing to have with you.
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I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to construct the universe in as general a way as possible. Every now and then I feel like I 'level up' and the picture becomes clearer. Then usually about the same time I learn something new from mathematics that shows me I am following a path already travelled. Or in this case following a path closely related to a path well travelled.
I think the truths about our own minds are intimately connected with truths about the universe. I suspect the mystery of consciousness is very similar to the mystery of the universe. Understand one and you understand the other.
For me the ultimate mystery is explaining why there is pattern rather than no pattern. Why is there self similarity, why is the universe compressible? Why is it that within everything there is a place where this exists and why does 'this' have the structure it does. Can we invoke the anthropic principle,or is there something like population dynamics within totality.
I am currently following an interesting line, starting from the thought experiment - If you recorded every moment of the universe on a physical representation, a hard drive for instance with perfect fidelity. Would there be any difference between the representation and the universe itself? I don't think there would. This is leading me to try to recast what I know of mathematics without the notion of process, to visualise it all it terms of structure only. And to to truly grok that our notion of computing is a method for finding a piece of the internal structure of a larger structure. Within a structure constructed from self similar elements.
Just ramblings, sure it's non sense, or perhaps trivially obvious, but am trying to connect with someone :)
"Companies competing for workers drops wages? That's an interesting economic theory."

That's basic monopoly/monopsony pricing theory you'll find in an introductory microeconomics class. Nothing interesting about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_profit

Your HN posts are hardly of outstanding quality at the best of times, but you're not even trying here.
No, I don't think its odd that I am familiar with examples in the tech industry but not those outside of it. I see boothbabes at conferences, I don't see ads for juice anywhere. I am not convinced that society is more OK with objectifying men than women and I don't think my exposure to advertising is evidence for your point.
You can add a non-interactive snapshot of a map.
If you have the only copy, you can destroy it.
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> implications like updates, new features

They might be understanding if you told them there would not be updates or new features aside from critical security patches. When they're desperate for new features 10 years from now, dispatch a team of on-site consultants to help them upgrade.
Here's an artist's conception of how the expedition might end up looking like: https://ahmadalikarim.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/asdfghjkl....
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Bolt-tightening (especially on a recently-purchased bike) is hardly unexpected. On a new bike, there's a lot of general stretching and breaking-in of components over the first few days/weeks of use.

A used $400 bike _should_ last you a long time, if you've selected properly. Though replacing components is fairly typical -- chain and freewheel, cables, tires, wheels. I've gone through a number of other components as well over various bikes under heavy use, though I've still got two frames that I've had for decades.
I can't see any of the charts on that page. They're just collections of dark splotches.
Why C can be faster than assembly
Agreed. Rarely argued I think this is a very valid view. Additionally, some languages which have true parallelism are converging to the same model (say non-blocking IO ala Node), built on top of their crude parallelism primitives.
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Org mode has a feature for that:

http://orgmode.org/manual/Stuck-projects.html
I won't disagree with you. I run my own business, and I probably spent the better part of a week essentially full time setting myself up, plus a decent chunk of the next couple weeks. (Not that it would have to take that long, but I wanted to make sure I considered all my use cases and set up something I would really be able to use to the fullest.) However, the potential benefits are analogous to nuclear fusion as well. I used to use a (synced) text file as well, and having been on this system for about two years now, I'm confident it was worth considerably more than the setup time I put into it.
You see more female objectification in the tech industry because it's a male dominated industry. That's just demographics. If you think there is just as much outrage over the sexual objectification of men as there is over the same for women in society at large though I really don't know what to tell you.
Tufte talk about his advice and examples of Book Design here:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
I can confirm this. I remember once when half of the Internet was down and the status reported for EC2 was yellow - experiencing some minor issues :-)

And I find out about it by yelling at Heroku - they told me that Amazon is having issues before Amazon's status turned yellow.
That's the lowest level of vote with your wallet statement.

Like "That's it facebook, you have abused my privacy one too many times, I will disconnect for a whole week-end."
What the heck? How does such a party get elected that blatantly acts against the interests of its own country?
Really great idea, too bad it freezes almost every game.

I think it just died...
No, that does not make dragnet surveillance easier. Dragnet surveillance depends on not being easily detectible. However, a SSL MITM attack is easily detected, as it changes the fingerprint of the SSL-key of the site you're talking too. By recording fingerprints and comparing them over time or for different users, or directly contacting the site's operator (using a secure communication channel, e.g. meeting him in person), the existence of a MITM is easily proven.

BTW what you call "dragnet surveillance" is better described as "Pervasive Monitoring", see also RFC7258 "Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack" [1].

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
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Agreed, functions should be continuous and no step functions.
Sans-serif typefaces were historically perceived as more modern than their serif counterparts. The simplicity and lack of letterform "decorations" (which serifs are) suggests a character of precision and rejection of legacy and "old ways". This has been the case ever since Swiss designers started using Helvetica and related typefaces set in clear, grid-based designs with modern color choices. So the modern character of sans-serifs dates far before computers and computer displays.
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Thanks.. figured it was something local but I appreciate the sanity check.
Where is the action at a distance when I use new?
Google is indeed in a (unique) good position to detect and possibly prevent a fake certificate, but we don't know if that's what they want or whether they can be coerced to cooperate. Millions of other websites are not protected in the same way.
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I believe 80% is where it switches allocation strategies by default. Ideally you don't want to cross that threshold.
That surprised me as well.

After some thinking I came up with min and max. If, for example, I want to change direction after x==4 I can do use

-1.5(max(x,4)-4)

0 4
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Maybe there are more tricks like that?
So, Apple dedicate a cohort of designers to revitalize UI and what people do in return? They ruin all this by replacing system font with one from a goddamn 40mm watch.

Disgraceful.

As much as I don't like Yosemite (they really broke Spotlight), its UI is much better than that of previous versions.
Here's one thing that's NOT the solution: throwing out all encryption entirely. Secure vs insecurse is a gradient. The information that you're now talking to the same entity as you were when you first viewed the site is valuable. For example it means that you can be sure that you're talking to the real site when you log in to it on a public wifi, provided you have visited that site before. In fact, I trust a site that's still the same entity as when I first visited it a whole lot more than a site with a new certificate signed by some random CA. In practice the security added by CAs is negligible, so it makes no sense to disable/enable encryption based on that.

Certificates don't even solve the problem they attempt to solve, because in practices there are too many weaknesses in the chain. When you first downloaded firefox/chrome, who knows that the NSA didn't tamper with the CA list? (not that they'd need to)
wohoo. i hope this will be good.
That the EU commission approved the MS / Nokia deal and usually don't do anything to protect these business practices.
> And at the rate CPUs are gaining cores, I suspect we could even pull of some really rudimentary software 3D rendering

Indeed we can; we could long ago. I think of that when I play games like Doom and Quake (which is often). They look awesome, they were software rendered. And to think that the effort on software renderers was more or less abandoned around when Unreal came out in 1998 -- that was pretty much the last FPS engine to have an advanced software mode (which looked amazing), and it worked for me back then since I didn't have a 3D accelerator. Where would we be at if that effort had continued for the next 16 years?
OCaml was used for implementation of the Opa framework some years ago https://github.com/MLstate/opalang
Right. They don't know where the lander is, what's around it and so on (beyond that one panoramic photo) so whether the light situation will improve with the seasons or not is impossible to know.
> Have you considered the possibility that I merely didn't completely understand everything you said?

You post history is anti-woman in any discussion about women. Thus your attempts to reframe a CEOs speculation about anonymously attacking a female journalist's (and her family's) privacy as "journalism" after she criticises her company is unlikely to be a misunderstanding about ethics.

When a journList talks about your company the correct responses are:

i) ignore it

ii) rebut it

iii) use the complaints process or law to correct defamation

The option

iv) secretly investigate the reporter and her family to discredit her

... is clearly, unambiguously, the action of a fucking asshole.

You should find it troubling that your hatred of women forces you into supporting possibly criminal behaviour of fucking assholes instead of just accepting that this one time this woman is right.
Do you have an example of a female dominated industry that hires half dressed men as decoration for their conferences? I don't think this happens, although I'd be fascinated to be proven wrong. I don't think there is as much outrage over the sexual objectification of men because I don't think there is as much of it to be outraged by. The use of hot women in advertising is a standard, why aren't you mentioning that? Overall, why do you keep mentioning different categories of things and saying that because one involves a man and one involves a woman they make a good comparison? Uber offering rides with women != ManServants, boothbabes != an orange juice ad. Try and find some actually similar examples to talk about.

Edit: although Uber == boothbabes seems accurate, so I guess they weren't all off!
Here's the link for their Indiegogo page: http://igg.me/at/jolla-tablet
Try going to System Settings and then the Java control panel. Locate the Java applet runtime configuration and make sure it's pointing to Java 8 and not some random Java 7 applet runtime the upgrade left behind. Java has system wide preferences for runtimes of both the full JRE and the plugin, separately.

Failing that, go to java.com and see what their check says.
Their crowdsourcing campaign is doing quite good. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-firs...

Personally though I'm a bit disappointed that they went the crowdfundign way on this. They didn't have any problems selling their mobile phone, and it's doing quite good as far as I've seen.

Also I hope they do continue to produce it afterwards, but this item in the FAQ leaves me wondering:

> Will the tablet be available also for general sale or only through Indiegogo?

>If there is demand, we'll consider all options. In any case, the Indiegogo contributors will get the tablet first and with the lowest price at the time of delivery.
> I need convincing. Facebook can't monetize end-to-end encryption,

Completely right. Facebook paid $19Bn for whatsapp. How is not being able to keyword-search messages going to help them cover some of that cost? It sounds great but doesn't add up.
Guix is a big effort at making a purely functional package manager with a large recipe database and all kinds of bells and whistles you want in a full operating system.

Emacs's minimal package manager is to install Elisp libraries (and nothing else) on every platform where Emacs runs, including MS Windows, and you can be happy it does dependency tracking.

The two can't really be compared. Maybe in 10 years Guix will run on all platforms and have its components separated in such a way that it's sensible for Emacs to ship a version of Guix with it for Elisp package management, but don't hold your breath.

So I don't think NIH applies there.
Wouldn't that kill DNS if everyone did that considering it relies on caching for performance across the world?