skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was all a marketing ploy they wouldn't have released private employee information that would open them up to lawsuits, or shut down their operations for several days. There's absolutely no way that Sony makes a profit on this adventure, and that would be the only reason to make it up. It's absolutely ridiculous to think otherwise.
I'm not sure if it still has relationships with Google, but it did form a partnership with Yahoo recently [https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-for...].
The Interview on YouTube
All the web sites on my country use Flash for streaming movies and shows.

Netflix and Hulu don't know where most European countries are, including mine.

I don't intend to ever install iTunes on my computers or own an iOS device.
It may not be a useful distinction, but it's useful to have a sense for where on the continuum the thing you're building sits, in order to make technology and architecture decisions. If you're building something more "website-y", it should probably have an architecture that optimizes for search-ability and static caching, whereas if you're building something more "webapp-y", the architecture should probably optimize interactivity and dynamic updates. Most things end up somewhere in the middle, but leaning one way or the other.
So add one word: Not everyone does what they do just to make a buck.

If money is the only reason you are in business, you probably aren't worth buying anything from. Con artists, pyramid schemes, thieves -- those people care about money or profit first, a whole lot of other things much less or not at all. Business people should be trying to first add real value to the world and second get a fair share of that value coming back to them. Otherwise, we have lots of other less nice words for them than entrepreneur, such as profiteer.

Have a happy holiday.
I don't like Macs nor Apple.

I already use Linux on a ThinkPad and I'm very happy with it.
Wait a second.. can you explain the 10x the max frequency part to accurately reconstruct the shape of the signal?

It's my understanding that you just need 2x (two points in a sine wave) to construct a unique wave. If you're getting a sawtooth, it means that you're sampling a wave that is composed of very high frequencies, and you're accurately sampling it, so a DAC can reconstruct it uniquely.
Not available in your country.

Well I guess I won't be paying to watch this crappy movie.
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Does something similar exist for iOS and Android apps? In other words, could someone opine on what's the best way to create mobile apps that are wrappers around web apps.
Is the common approach to create a native app with embedded browser or is there some other way?
What happens when a software bot goes on a darknet shopping spree?
"Not available in your country."

Which country works?
My company doesn't reimburse taxi fare, I just see it as worth the cost. I do shift my hours to make it worse, but line 10 is so crowded during peak, I'd have to anyways.
I was walking down "Christmas Tree Lane" in Alameda a couple days ago and remarking to my mates on how popular culture turns into "Christmas Tradition". Many "Christmas Standards" are merely popular music from days past.

There was a very impressive "Nightmare Before Christmas" display synced to music. (The song "What's This?") Some smart alec walking by commented "someone sure loves their arduino."

If anything should become a new Christmas tradition, I think it should be this David Sedaris essay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdpte1W0vk

It's also a nice commentary on how traditions change and can become bizarre.

EDIT: I sometimes ask people, "You know that way you feel when you do the Donald Duck voice? Do you think ducks feel like that all the time?" I'm pretty convinced that most people who can do that voice can't do it without a smile in their eyes. When I looked up the definition of "ducky," I found that one of the meanings was, "charming; delightful."
I totally agree with this. I would hate to think there are a bunch of issues with something I've made lurking out there but unreported because the people who discovered them didn't have the time or ability to fix them and felt bad about just filing an issue.
Flagged.

And in the comments here:

"By jove, go out and buy it!"
"Jolly good, and what might that cost?"
"The low price of 5.99 pounds, my good man!"
"Huzzah!"

I'm not going to say that this is all astroturfing and "organic sales hacking", but sometimes, it looks like a pretty big fucking shill.
How does this compare to Node-webkit?
I agree that this is probably good coverage for the movie, as I imagine many others like myself would never have even considered watching it, but now actually want to see it given the interesting context.

On the other hand, I still can't imagine they would be dumb enough to fake this, considering they opened an FBI investigation and there were threats of physical violence. The risk to reward just doesn't make any sense.
That's a publishable key. Its supposed to be there.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/difference-between-secr...
The source code appears to indicate $5.99 for a 48 hour rental.
Exactly. I was going to ask how else would Stripe be able to attribute these transactions to these accounts/items?
Those look like publishable keys (as opposed to the server side only keys), its okay for them to be in the js.
But... UbiSoft said some games are better and more "cinematic" at 30fps. Derp!
I disagree on both explanations:

1/ The "soap opera effect" explains the 48 fps issue.

2/ The lack of motion blur in games is the reason why higher fps are better (see https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XdXXz4 for a great visualisation).
Sony to distribute “the Interview” online through YouTube and Google play
This is just looking all the other problems of the USSR and only focusing on those that can easly be reasoned away by tweaking socialist theory. However there are many other very real problems that are pushed under the table and with clames like "they were underdevloped". While its true, the problem of the USSR was not that they could not get the technology to do things, they did not have a resource problem, nor was it a laber problem. They had a problem of ORGANISATION and INSENTIVES and for those you do not need a head start.

Most of these arguments where developed by people who were disappointed in the soviet union (because it took exactly the course critices had said it would) and made up arguments.

The USSR could have traded with others, there is nothing that says a country can not be internally socialistic and externally trade with capitalists. Thats exactly how some market anarchist schemes work.
Sure, we built the prototype with Python, Django, and a web interface. The idea being a user could run it and then just browse to localhost:<some port> and use the web UI for it.

We quickly realized the app was going to be 99% Javascript anyway so using something like atom-shell started to make a lot of sense.

We originally were targeting just OSX and Linux desktops, but using atom-shell opens up a path to Windows desktops much more easily for us.

The app needs to display a large of amount of changing data from the local machine and atom-shell + ReactJS, so far, is handling it just fine.
In the UK 'The Snowman' has become a bit of an institution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowman#Animated_film
I see the same arguments arise about HFR as I do with stereoscopy and the rhetoric follows the same as the switch from vinyl to digital music formats: it is no longer art. It feels like you lose the artistic effect when you add a multiple of information to your brain. The reality is artists need to learn how to be mindful of the new medium and the old tricks they used to overcome older medium defects need to be removed from the process. (Ex. Over use of makeup) I am excited because we have a bright future with better media technology and pioneers like James Cameron are leading the way.
Honestly no.

The crowd who uses Linux primarily currently is well versed with installing it on a Mac, or any laptop really. Linux is built on the notion of self-reliance, self-development, do it yourself, laugh in the face of danger [1]. So marketing to people who hold these principles is challenging.

On top of that MacOSX is a full Unix w/ Bash + GNU utils. So functionally from a developers perspective you don't gain much of anything. Interacting with a Mac or Linux from the CLI is pretty much the same.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/linux.dev.kernel/qeeP5...
Sounds like you wouldn't be paying anyways...
i suppose you could call a critique or analysis a system of ideas and ideals, but it wouldn't be an "ideal" definition. vernacular refers to marxist-leninism.
All examples currently failing, getting an error page instead of turf.min.js:

"This request has been blacklisted for sending too much traffic to rawgit.com. Please contact the owner of the site that sent you here and ask them to use cdn.rawgit.com instead, which has no traffic limit."
Be sure to check out shape grammars for non-organic procedural content generation; for example, the classic "Procedural Modeling of Buildings" from http://peterwonka.net/Publications/publications.html (as well as many other great publications from that author).
Thanks ! I'll have a deeper look at all that later. I was wondering if you were using r-tree indexes (I haven't looked at the code yet). Rbush certainly looks interesting.
Uber CEO Indicted in South Korea Over Public Transport Law
That's too bad Adium is in decline. I've always tried to not rely on Apples built in messsaging and hoped a lot of other users still felt the same.
I keep getting SSL connection errors and "No Data received" errors on this (Yes, after 10AM)
No. Apple provides security updates for several versions. They most recently patched NTP for Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite at the same time.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1222
Typed Objects are a huge step forwards but they still have some limitations. I frequently use things like:

solverStates = {
numVars: uint32
numConstraints: uint32
numStates: uint32
solverStates: solverState[numStates]
}

solverState = {
los: uint32[numVars]
his: uint32[numVars]
constraintStates: *void[numConstraints]
}

Even using C, dealing with types like this is kind of a pain and would benefit from some macro magic. With Typed Objects it looks like I have to choose between variable sized arrays and pointers - I can't have both because then the gc won't know where to look for the pointers. According to http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:typed_objects working with such types is an explicit non-goal:

> In particular, binary formats often need expressive and dynamic data dependencies that are decidedly out of scope for this API, such as being able to specify an array whose length is determined by a preceding integer

That's probably the right decision for js, given the constraints of sane gc implementation. It still looks like my best option is to use asm.js and have full control over layout.

Either way, I am grateful that Mozilla continues to push for a fast, open and portable language. I don't have much love for js, but it's a damn sight better than trying to deliver portable native code to non-technical users.
Gameloft Releases Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War
For the ones who don't have it available in their country (like me) are left with no other option :(
Does it just punt on miles<->longitude? I looked at the code some and don't see where it would ever deal with projections.

(jsts mentions coordinates systems in comments, but I don't where it ever does anything about them)
Looking at the FAQs after running $("*").removeClass('hidden');

- only available in the US or from a US based ip address

- only works with US based credit cards

- available for 48h

- will be streamed to the browser
>the explicit North Korean connection -- threats about the movie The Interview -- were only made by the hackers after the media picked up on the possible links between the film release and the cyberattack

I personally think this is a misinterpretation of what happened. Media began heavily speculating it was tied to The Interview about 1-2 days after the hack was initially reported, but the hackers waited until Dec. 15 before explicitly mentioning it. If they wanted to take advantage of the sensationalism, why continue releasing messages and threats that clearly acknowledge Sony and the media between Nov. 24 and Dec. 15 while not mentioning The Interview until the most likely motive essentially became obvious?

Second, I think the group name "Guardians of Peace" is a fairly obvious allusion to "guarding international peace by preventing Sony from releasing The Interview", and is in line with just about everything they've been saying. And of course they were using that group name on day 1.

I'm not saying North Korea necessarily did it, but I think the actors either intended to stop the movie from the beginning, or intentionally framed North Korea by using a pretext of trying to stop the movie. I don't think they're a group of hacktivists who only appropriated The Interview as a motive after media speculation.
Windows doesnt really have licensing issues. You call a phone number, tell them you want to activate windows, read them a number, and a machine reads you a number. It takes about 6 minutes of your life, and Microsoft always activates when you ask.

For example, if you buy Windows 8.1 you have downgrade rights to every earlier version. All you do is speak with a person, say "I would like to activate windows" and they say ok. Its not a hassle unless you do it daily.
Youtubers are also selling things the old fashioned way, in stores: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102223990
The interview now available on XBOX Video
The most interesting point made in the article (for me) is that the presence of noise/grain - which effectively reduces real detail in an individual image - can actually improve the perceived detail across time with high frame rates.

At first, I thought this extra "detail" could be explained as an illusion (since noise/grain can mask a lack of resolution), but then I read the abstract quoted near the end of the article:

"...visual cortical cell responses to moving stimuli with very small amplitudes can be enhanced by adding a small amount of noise to the motion pattern of the stimulus. This situation mimics the micro-movements of the eye during fixation and shows that these movements could enhance the performance of the cells"[1]

So if I understand right, since the biological systems are tuned to extract extra detail via supersampling across time, and a small amount of noise/grain can enhance that ability (mimicking natural movement of the eye), it actually helps our visual system extract more real detail.

It seems counterintuitive to add noise for more detail, but the explanation is fascinating.

[1] Stochastic resonance in visual cortical neurons: does the eye-tremor actually improve visual acuity? – Hennig, Kerscher, Funke, Wörgötter; Neurocomputing Vol 44-46, June 2002, p.115-120
Ask HN: This doesn't exist: GPS pet implant
I've been researching the subject, and it appears there is no such thing as an implantable GPS locator for pets. The microchip which they commonly receive does not have GPS and can only be read using a special scanner at the vet. There are a lot of GPS collars available, but if the pet is stolen or the collar falls off, those are useless. Anyway just thought that someone looking for a useful project might want to think about it
I don't know Ruby on Rails either and I stick to node/Go mostly. I'd say it isn't worth learning RoR unless you need it to solve a specific issue, or if you feel that it would benefit you in a job search. Of course, it never hurts to pick it up just to know something else, I always like learning new languages as I feel it helps me be a better all around developer.
Now that the actual source (Dyn) put up their work:

> Who caused this, and how? A long pattern of up-and-down connectivity, followed by a total outage, seems consistent with a fragile network under external attack. But it’s also consistent with more common causes, such as power problems. Point causes such as breaks in fiberoptic cables, or deliberate upstream provider disconnections, seem less likely because they don’t generate prolonged instability before a total failure. We can only guess. The data themselves don’t speak to motivations, or distinguish human factors from physical infrastructure problems. [1]

...it turns out that the DDOS part was indeed pure conjecture and over-hyped BS. Thanks, NY times.

Also, they changed the title of the article, if not more. Classy.

[1] http://research.dyn.com/2014/12/who-disconnected-north-korea...
The Perils of an All-Digital Movie Future
The "new" section is literally full of "Go check out the Interview here!" links.

Links which contain nothing more than "Here's where you can watch the Interview". A film nobody cared about, seemingly, until the alleged NK hack. And the look at how fast some of the upvotes have happened on those stories.

At the very least, we should be treating and flagging these things the same way we do any other stupid "Buy our product" submissions that creep onto the new section.

EDIT:

And so many downvotes today for questioning the obvious. Thanks folks!
The "send as SMS option is now hidden. If message you sent does not say "Delivered" under it, you can press and hold your message. There will be a "Sens as SMS" option in the context menu.
Why would you region lock a terrible movie that you are 'afraid' to release in theatres?
It seems to me that the nature of crowdfunding is changing more because of the expectations of consumers than the actions of crowdfunders themselves
If you were using your testmode keys, then we would not generate a valid bitcoin address (to avoid all kinds of confusion). It must be the case that these were your livemode keys. If you're able to reproduce an inaccurate "test mode" banner, can you send a bug report to bitcoin@stripe.com? You can cc me, christian@stripe.com. I'm happy to take a look, but I haven't been able to reproduce on my side.
There's some discussion of it at the beginning of this article: http://www.ni.com/white-paper/10669/en/
The coolest cooler guy is a web celebrity for sure. Anyone that raises $13M on Kickstarter is doing something righ
I commute more then 2h a day. Honstly I dont mind because it means I can live where I want to live.

Its not lost time, I spend 1h on day on Hacker News and Reddit anyway. I would do the exact same thing at home. Im writting this comment from the train. I also have my personal media collection, a book, a kindle and my laptop.
I am worried in the long run about automation, but it's true that labor participation right now is about the same relative to the number of retirees as it has always been. Unemployment is very low. The number of "discouraged" workers is 2x what it was before the recession, but we're only talking about a swing of 500k people -- less than half a percent of the labor force.

So, the robots/automation replacing jobs explanation doesn't really float for me right now. First, it's not clear that there's a phenomenon that needs to be explained at all. People have a feeling that there are fewer jobs, but that doesn't actually seem to be true. And, as you said, this has always been a go-to complaint. I'm sure it will be accurate someday, but it doesn't seem to be today.
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It seems like a very nice kit, but I think I'd rather just use the native WebView that comes with the OS. Once you embed the browser engine, everything else is easy and you have a lot more flexibility with what can be done natively.
So you keep claiming, but actual trials of mincome/BI/whatever haven't shown a significant dropout of labour. Do you have any evidence for this other than your gut feeling?
Think of JavaScript as the JVM, CLR or ABC of the Web runtime. Now imagine someone trying to add a sperate bytecode/intermediate language to those runtimes. There are security issues and architecture issues to consider.

The language monoculture problem exists just as much on other runtimes as it's does on the Web. It's just nobody is expected to write in JVM or CLR.

That's why projects like asm.js and Emscripten are important. These projects show vendors what things are needed to make JavaScript into a better compile target so that someday writing in other language for the Web is as natural as it is on JVM and CLR.
Which is one reason why I particularly love this Irn Bru advert (soft drink, popular in Scotland):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiqrkV_ZqI
Of logger and DB, certainly. The coupling introduced via locks is harder to detect. But most importantly, circular dependency between components might be OK in a path-dependent way - that's what I meant by fully resolving it.

Just analyzing the dependency graph of injected components is indeed just a topological sort.
So, how much are they paying Stripe to buy a spot on your blog?
See also this article from last year:

https://decorrespondent.nl/541/Why-we-should-give-free-money...
I also prefer SMS and email, for most conversations. I'm just surprised so many state that they would rather force someone else to send an SMS or email because they hate voicemail so much.
The is just more insentive to cut down that sort of thing in coporations. While all big companys are less effective because of organsiation, there are lots of people specially dedicated to finding usless work and cutting it away.

I know mulitble people who have exactly that job, and non of them work for governemnt.

IBM, that has existed for 100 years but they are the exeption not the rule. Most companys dont make it that long or grow that big.

I would suggest you read economic theory on this "The Theory of the Firm" by Ronald Coase is the usual place to start.
Looks like Stripe's Interview page won't even load. You have been banned from r/pyongyang
Actually most critics are singing its praises. Even the hardcore art house high nosed critics are.

Some of the praise is just because they use the dictators name, willingly. This is actually rather new. Political Correctness dictates you don't. Yes we all knew Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" was about Hitler, but he didn't use the name. Most studios won't do this, its rather bold and new to do that. The only people who really have are SNL, and South Park -esque shows. Not internationally screening studio movies.

As David Edelstein said, "Its a low brow comedy, a political bold, low brow comedy. Laugh and have fun."
I am not talking about Contiki running on this platform. If your read the story you will see the author wrote an ARM emulator to run on the CPU to the. Run the code. I was staying it would be more interesting if it was native and using Contiki as an example that you can run on an 8 bit Cpu without and MMU.
I haven't spent much time looking into this, and haven't used it yet, but from the Stringer example, they're providing us with a tool to generate strings for enum values. That same approach could be used to generate support for typed collections for your types. I could make the collection-generating code, and you could generate the collections for your types.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/12/24/sony-wanted-the-in...
Show HN: Text vectorization in JavaScript