skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, at least with Go, Dog, Go it teaches a lot of concepts and I always pause to ask her questions like, "Where's the boat?" "Can you point to the banjo?" "Can you count the dogs that have hats on?" etc.
I just forwarded this thread to some people I know at Stripe so hopefully they'll get back to you soon.

I know Stripe is normally quite comfortable transferring card data on the basis that the other side has the proper PCI compliance and that Stripe and the receiving party can agree upon a secure way to transfer the card holder data like through some sort of pgp encrypted file
Watson to Learn Japanese
Most likely a webview app that compiles a lot of boilerplate code.
Clear Proof Obama's Surveillance Oversight Board Is a Pathetic Sideshow
For you and others with similar issues, add this to your .bashrc:

function restart-discoveryd() {
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
}

Then simply run `restart-discoveryd` when you can't seem to ping google.com. I always struggle to remember how to start/stop things with launchd, so this is my little shortcut.
FBI really doesn’t want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops
I'm just baffled because we have (among tens of other devices) two iPhones with the same model number and one works and one doesn't. I have some students very happy and some very unhappy. Its not like I can get logs from these folks to figure out what the difference is.
When you say Reapp seems more mature, what do you mean? It seems like Touchstone has been around longer. (Touchstone's Github repo has 1,469 followers and first commit was October 14th, 2014 vs. 200 followers and December 19th, 2014 for Reapp.)
Pride & Prejudice.
Bloated assets? JS runtime?
But RMS has never really been pragmatic in the sense I think you mean here. RMS is the spiritual leader, other people have always done a lot of the implementation. When the principles collide with the ability to do some specific thing, RMS has pretty much always come down on the side of the principles. This is nothing new.

Just because you disagree with some of the results of his principles, probably because you're focused on getting shit done in your little corner of the world (I'm typing this on a Mac, I'm just like you), doesn't mean that RMS is somehow fundamentally flawed or incapable of being the philosophical leader of a movement.
the buttons on the top right overlap each other on my 4k monitor.
Id think if the US was to look into nuclear based engines we should restart the NERVA program. But of course with anything nuclear politics and environmental activists would be all over it.

My propulsion professor (former deputy director, AFRL Propulsion Directorate) said the way they get around the buzzwords "nucler" and "atomic" was to call it "general purpose"
Interesting, I wasn't familiar with them. I'll definitely check them out as an option. Thanks for the info!
> "Break in and take it."

But please tell us if you do. We'd like to learn from this exercise and improve the stack.
Ben, I'm very sorry that I missed our call today. I've just sent my cell number through to you via email. You can call me any time.

We're always happy to export card data if people want us to. In Chase's case, there's a bunch of Chase-specific work that they mandate. This is not part of our normal procedure, but we'll figure out something that's workable.

Happy to chat next steps on the phone or via email.
Maybe, type 'bookmarks' in your omnibox then tab...start typing a search term and results will pop up. Click on one of those results and see if it works.
Obligatory XKCD [1]

With quite a bit of work, a research team, a development team, and quite a few servers I was able to finish a project which did face recognition at just about the accuracy you are talking about [2]. With that we increased the accuracy of the hair and scalp recognition within the OpenCV project. However, this required quite a bit of algorithmic training [3]. Also, this did not include a set of vector points drawn around the subject, just a bounding box. This is a rather difficult problem set.

Now, if you have seen these fun little apps which show you what your hair would look like with a new style (or what you would look like with a set of glasses, or a new dress), this uses very little actual recognition. Basically they take a picture of you within a general "person shaped bounding box" or for hair a "head shaped bounding box" and then overlay the new style on top of the area where your hair, glasses, or clothes should be. This is relatively simple (especially in comparison to actual recognition). Might it solve some of your problem?

[1] http://xkcd.com/1425/

[2] This accuracy was for the entire algorithmic set. It did not include a single datapoint set like "hair". It was also highly dependent on the image quality and how the subject was positioned within the image.

[3] Our test image set was 50,000. Our production training image set was 1,500,000 images.
>I don't think Go has taken off inside Google

That's consistent w/ what I've heard (whatever thats worth)
Update HN: Using Swift to Turn How a Car Works into an App in 6 Weeks
Yosemite's Finder is a continuous source of errors (move a lot of files and watch it crash, never mind the reversion in Applescript). It also has some problems with connecting to drives on a server.
It baffles me how little they acknowledge io.js in their public communication. Node is a weirdly paradoxical community composed of a small, really smart core surrounded by a vast but shallow sea of lip service and hype. With this fork io.js has won pretty much all the mindshare of the small core, whereas Joyent is left with the hype, which is a house of cards waiting to fall. They ought to be chumming up to the really smart core if they don't want to fade into complete irrelevance soon.
NSA Claims Iran Learned from Western Cyberattacks
U.S. Government Questionnaire Rates Families at Risk for Extremism
Can someone tell me why someone would want to write a database in Go/Python/...? Or is Go just a wrapper in this case?

I am looking to store small time series data (only 100 points), but millions of them. I currently use sqlite. Any other suggestions that I could use?
Live a life you will remember
Odd, that's what I use:

# cat /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
address=/dev/127.0.0.1

# cat /etc/resolver/dev
nameserver 127.0.0.1

Instead of your choice of foobar.

Doesn't work offline. Your conf looks like the standard dnsmasq conf anyway, so maybe there's one other flag or configuration that you figured out?
I think the key it to gain appreciation for something more than just the plot.
If you want an example, look at 671 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60093. It's a pretty famous house.
"Users" are a subset of "people", as are the people who viewed your site/app/whatever and didn't become or didn't stay users.
Founders Only Need This Simple Math Equation
The problem is that the number of users is directly proportional to technological quality.

People use gcc over non-copyleft compilers because they perceive it as technically superior. People use emacs over non-copyleft editors because they perceive it as technically superior.

Sacrificing technological quality to fulfill an agenda will actually have the opposite effect, because it'll drive users to non-copyleft solutions in order to get the better piece of software.

It's not just the number of users, either. When your software is dominant, you're in control. You get to have a say in the direction of the technology, and you get to prevent the lesser players from having their say.

By sacrificing technological quality for ideological purity, RMS is giving up both his userbase and his dominant position he can use to prevent non-free software from taking over.
I don't count my rereading, but for good books, once is never enough. When I got the the end of "Satanic Verses" for the first time, I was so taken, I started it again the very next day. Similar with "Against the Day". If I had to guess, the most rereads I've done is ~20-30 rereads of "Cats Cradle". Part of the reason for that is it is such an easy read, and I can usually finish it in a day or two. Its also a great novel. I'd like to say I've read "Gravity's Rainbow" that many times, but for its density, having read it four or five times is a feat unto itself.
Weren't we all applauding some startup that had a douche-bagy "We dont support IE" message on their site and everyone here was so excited about it. Now that the bell is tolling for Firefox, its a different story, eh?

You're not really giving the whole story here.

A lot of people slapped a 'Don't use IE, it's old and broken message" on their sites because it was old and broken. Generally this didn't show for newer versions – though you're right in that a minor number of 'douch-baggy' sites did.

It was a significant and in some cases crippling workload to support end-of-life browsers that were lacking features such as e.g. transparent image support. Telling users to upgrade was a perfectly sensible thing to do in these cases – if it was suitable message for your customer base.

These days the situation is very different. There's almost definitely no way that the Play store doesn't work on Firefox. It's almost certainly being deliberately excluded from accessing the Play store for what can only be described as malicious reasons.
DAMO attaches to a projector and turns any surface into a touchscreen
Salt – Sustainable Alternative Lighting
Aren't you at least a bit impressed now? Some proprietary software giant releases a bunch of source for a pretty nice piece of software and it builds and works on another proprietary giant's system. Not only the fact it works, but also the amounts of work gotten into making it work i.e. getting all platform specifics out of the way, and also the premises for the future it seems to hold (especially since it also works on yet another but non-proprietary giant's system) did impress me.
ClojureScript Stacktraces for JavaScriptCore
WRT "The Princess Bride", I've read it a few times as well. My perspective is slightly different, reading it after watching the movie many times. I agree that it "has its own sort of whimsy", especially in the context or meta-story, but when I first read it, I was struck by how similar the humor is to the movie.

If memory serves me, almost all of the memorable lines and jokes from the movie come word-for-word from the book. I'd assumed some of the jokes, e.g., those by Miracle Max (Billy Crystal) or Fezzik (Andre the Giant), were adapted to suit the actors. But they weren't. I don't know if that speaks to the quality of the writing or the casting or what.
I hate to repeat this, but it's just not true. I see far, far less "use this browser" enforcement that used to be prevalent on the web. Yes – some advanced demos are Chrome- or FireFox– only in particular, but using these as a yardstick to measure the web in general is broken.
This has the potential to be the Uber of dickbutts.
This Is What It Looks Like When the World's Smallest Nuke Explodes
Since Tinder imports images from Facebook, this could be used to suggest the 'best' photos from their Facebook. In my brief looking over Tinder, it seems that images of people in groups, their dogs or their cars are probably ineffective and would score poorly here.

One of the biggest easy questions is, "is this a face?"
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He does not need to beat LLVM for GCC to remain available.

It would be detrimental to GCC to lose developers, sure, but I think one of the reasons for the disconnect between RMS and others is that RMS' goals does not require a large user base, and so he is willing to make decisions that seems counterproductive to anyone who cares about usability and user acceptance first.

The mere continued existence of GCC (and the other GNU tools) in many ways safeguards the freedoms he cares about: It allows users to jump ship if they in the future are prevented from doing what they want with the alternatives. It's not the ideal scenario, but it better serves his goals than giving in, and potentially see these freedoms slipping away at some future point.

Of course he'd be better served by GCC outcompeting LLVM. But if that isn't happening, his goals are better served by slowing developer migration than "capitulating" in a way that might affect developer mindshare by putting LLVM tools in front of more people.

As you say, of course the problem with this is that a lot of us care more about the technical superiority. Especially when the competition is a project that is as open as LLVM.
Anthem Breach May Have Started in April 2014
I haven't reached 100 but If ever will it will probably be one of these two:

One hundred years of solitude
Blood Meridian
I agree. Pushing too frequently means you can't rebase and reorganize your commits - unless you each use separate repos.
Synthetic vs. Felt Underlayment Pros Cons – LGC Roofing Blog
This really has nothing to do with me or anything subjective to me. In objective terms, the theory of anthropogenic global warming is significantly less well established than the theory of natural selection. This is not to say that climate change theories are not strong, but natural selection is almost as firmly established as Newton's law of gravitation. Anyone with a microscope and a petri dish can demonstrate it.

Crazy ideas do not make me uncomfortable. Crazy people make me uncomfortable because you never know when god/the prophet/the voices/etc are going to say "kill all the green eyed ones".
A Report on WeChat Platform Data
Alright. We mostly agree.

The only reason I spoke up is because it irks me that some people are quick to stifle debates on certain topics just because they might involve the Jews. You're a classic case, playing the "anti-Semite" card and banging on that "bring onto themselves" key that no one else mentioned but you. To me that says something about your agenda, as most pro-Israel people react that way.

For all your hatred of revisionists, you and I should be thankful that we know more accurate death tolls for Majdanek, Auschwitz and the Reinhardt Action camps because of them. Otherwise we'd still have those inflated, unbelievable numbers that were sacred a couple decades ago. Revisionists are intellectuals first of all (this much even Michael Shermer admitted on C-SPAN) and they have a good track record of smelling bullshit (see David Cole and the Auschwitz museum lying about a reconstructed gas chamber). I think it's a shame we thank them by throwing them in jail and you should be ashamed to participate in that censoring behavior.

The way to curb intolerance is not to suppress discussion, nor to call people names. The "Hitler vs bankers" story is wrong not because whoever talked about it might be an anti-Semite according to you; it's wrong because the facts don't check. If revisionists are intellectuals, we must argue with them and show them wrong. Calling them names won't do any good because it doesn't change what they think.

Bottom line is, if Palestine did not aid the Nazis in killing Jews, why must they suffer a holocaust? This motivates more WWII research by independent thinkers than this silly banker/Jews association you have in your head. Bankers are bad because of money printing machines, libor conspiracies, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan folks working at the Fed, and so on. Zero to do with ethnicity. Get this through your head. This association you make is a red herring to avoid discussing the real issue which is the present day holocaust and genocide of the Palestinian people who are also Semites just like their oppressors. I side with the Hasidim Jews and informed secular Jews all over for bravely opposing this disgusting Zionist obsession.

If this were really about relocating the Jews, they should just live here in the US, where they are welcome by all rational people including me. Of course, Zionism has zero to do with Jews, and everything to do with power hungry bankers that want control of a place where real money comes out of the ground and from where they can run pipelines to 90% of the world. But please, go on distracting everyone about how everything is about the Jews.
for some reason it also requests permission to send text messages and take photos and videos.

besides that, great presentation for a original small app. (not that many obvious new ideas for those left)
SlamData (http://slamdata.com) is open source and lets you perform analytics on data in MongoDB.

The 2.0 version will have data visualization baked in, but the current one doesn't have that just yet. :(
That's not completely true though, a large part of police work is also preventing violence against citizens. What would the robot do if it arrived at a domestic violence call and needed to save a women/child from abuse? I could see a massive public outcry if the robot simply watched the crime take place.
Making Sense of Data Stored in Our Machines and in Our Heads
I've so far prevented that with a system. So read books go in the corner, and we only pick up books from the shelf. When the shelf is empty, or near empy, the read-books stash moves into the shelf again. Never had to argue about it, that's just the way we do.
Actually they've said different things about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local#Microsoft_recommendation...
Some interesting things.

Note that nowhere do they mention io.js--that's just kind of classy, right?

Second, their tone seems aimed at reassuring senior-level folks that might have heard murmurs of dissent from underlings about node--this release doesn't feel like it's targeted to developers at all.

Lastly, notice Microsoft being on board. I do wonder if they'll push for movement off of V8 and onto a better-documented, better-maintained platform.
Then we can read some Heinlein to learn why libertarianism is the obvious correct answer to every problem, as well as the valuable insight that the only thing on the minds of attractive young women is sex with old men.

I learn so much from fiction.
Is it time to fire your boss?
Thanks, we will look into that. For some reason your profile was not set up all the way.
> Web Components don't solve the problems React is solving. They are completely different (and sometimes complementary tools).

No, they don't solve the same problem, but that's not what I was suggesting. What Web Components are trying to solve is the problem of sharing code, and if React doesn't play nicely with Web Components it's going to make it very difficult for React developers to partake in that sharing. Contrast that with the Angular team who are drastically overhauling their entire framework in order to be compatible with Web Components. I prefer that strategy over the long term (Ember is also actively preparing for Web Components).

> I can't speak for Facebook but I think you're missing the point of React Native. It's not a solution to run webapps on native platforms.

I am not missing the point. I get that it's goal isn't to allow web apps to run inside native wrappers.

> React Native is a solution to write native UI code with declarative paradigm. That it runs in JS is an implementation detail. If you look at it from that point of view, hybrid vs native doesn't even come into equation. "Native" is the original requirement here, as far as I understand it. Unless you propose to not write native apps at all.

I'm proposing it's better to either choose to write native apps using native languages and SDKs, or write them as web apps and embed them inside native wrappers like Reapp is doing. Hybrid vs. native does come into the equation because it's worth pointing out the pros and cons of every approach to mobile app development.

People are frothing at the mouth in response to React Native without fully understanding the tradeoffs inherit with that approach, so it's worth properly setting expectations in response to overwhelming hype. Appcelerator has been around for years and solves the same problem in the same way (minus React's declarative pattern) and it hasn't been a panacea.
If you're not already, it'd be a good idea to log all traffic to/from the box so that you'll at least have something if no one owns up.
Suggestion: add an endpoint on the piñata that proves it has the private key. You can do this using Bitcoin's sign message method.
"101 Basic Computer Games" was the first edition, published by DEC. See the cover image at http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=co.... Later versions were published by David Ahl as part of Creative Computing Press.
At least in the US, every Amateur Radio operator's address is available on the FCC website[1]. The other operator would have given his call sign, which he could look up there.

[1]: http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAmateur.jsp
Just-in-time packager for GitHub repositories
While we're looking at OSDI proceedings, check out the IX paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/... It shows how the kernel can provide high throughput and low latency without giving up sharing and protection.
Any attempt to construct a flat tax would probably be interpreted as such.
I loved this book. Don't forget the "More" sequel (http://www.atariarchives.org/morebasicgames/) and the Big Computer Games (http://www.atariarchives.org/bigcomputergames/) books as well. All are fun nostalgia. BTW, yes, Ahl's first book was also published as 101 Games (http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/).
Show HN: Hey hackers, get an extra free month of SuperTCP
I see no mention of calibration.. Calibration is important. Even if you don't do it you should be aware of what the error might be.
This is a common FSF tactic. It doesn't always end well (both GNU TLS, and GNU Mach come to mind). Not necessarily because they do bad things, but because they aren't able to get enough people using the software to make a significant improvement.
Gamified activity tracking app to support your personal development
> [Samsung added] that it took consumer privacy "very seriously".

No taking it very seriously would mean refusing to implement this feature unless you can do it without sending audio recorded in the room over the Net.

I don't think it would be hard at all for NSA/GHCQ to tap into a feed like this, Samsung/3rd party willing or not.
Wrong. Jef Raskin wrote the book on interface design. And he was on the original Mac team.
"I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King."
Yelp Acquires Eat24 ($134M)
Agreed. The real problem is not on the existence of this technology (that was inevitable) but the misuse of it as other's pointed out. In a lot of countries (esp USA), civilians are effectively not allowed to put any limitations or guidelines on how the military or intelligence organizations use new technology. This is the actually alarming story.

If a piece of technology allows the military to capture instead of kill a supposed terrorist, will they do so? What is legally binding them to?
How much weight these machines can carry? If they can carry human weight, then we have "robotic horses" if height is more just like horse.

I read Google has self-driving cars project. Now it seems we can have self-driving bikes/two-wheelers in future.

Also, we see/hear about vehicular/car accidents and in future I won't be surprised to hear/see "robot accidents".
A Token's Tale
Betamax is technically better than VHS.
This move surprises me, because Bryan Cantrill doesn't seem to like governance and foundations for open-source projects. I wonder if he was overruled on this.
Probably I've written it not clearly enough: "Reason for GPL not allowing you to use code in your own programs, but allowing use through exec: you either release your code and contribute to open source or suffer from slower access methods."
Cynthia Dwork and the Brilliant Idea of Differential Privacy