skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the title was written in the spirit of "It's Uber for <X>". Agreed that it could be clearer though.
I loaded it and was greeted by a giant flash ad modal. No thanks.
Even easier if you just generate addresses into a db, or use electrum type seed wallets to safely generate on a remote server without worrying about keys getting stolen.
Avoid the Unnecessary Costs in Mobile App Testing
I would rather throw the book out if they had "dog" inheriting from "vehicle." Really, metaphors and analogies are nice, one of the most powerful parts of our capacity for human language. Just because math lacks those concepts, and so the same isn't possible in a functional mindset, doesn't mean it is bad.

Some FP textbooks are pretty bad...if fibanocci is implemented with just recursion, then you should throw the book out.
RDF Literal Data Types in Practice (2011) [pdf]
Search articles on golang
But this makes it more important that regular people ask about their details.

It sends the message that it's not just people with paranoia and terrorists that don't want a pervasive surveillance society, and that it's a normal everyday desire to not have your government spying on you.

GCHQ will always want to slurp more data; they will rarely err on the side of less data.

I used to be relaxed about central government spying, and less relaxed about local authorities using surveillance to check bins or school catchment areas, and less relaxed still about US companies ignoring the concepts of privacy. The failure of "them" to protect us from known radicals has made me a bit less relaxed about government spying.
The same holds for many things. For instance, software licenses. If your license is restrictive, then no matter how good your product, eventually your competitors will catch up with a "good enough" product that has a less restrictive license.

Therefore, open source licenses will eventually converge to permissive, like MIT or BSD style licenses.
Its my understanding that face recognition is tough to crack on a mass surveilance level. People wear hats, glasses, sunglasses, scarves, etc on top of things like different hair styles, different glasses frames, etc. CCTV quality isn't good enough to identify faces and even high quality video can be tricky if you don't get enough high quality frames of the person's face looking straight at the camera.

It looks like identifying people via their gait was a bit of a research hurdle not too long ago and there are a lot of articles from around 2012 that claimed this problem has been solved. The idea was low quality CCTV footage really can't be used to identify faces, but can be used for gait analysis. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a signature gait database somewhere in use by intelligence and law enforcement services. The same way the Stasi kept a database of people's scents in jars.

Now with everyone carrying a cell phone, I imagine immediate identification is easier than ever. IMSI-catcher devices like the Stingray are trivial to implement. Phone carriers easily give up information about their customers, including GPS history, sometimes even without a warrant. License plate tracking is common as camera deployment and plate OCR is very affordable for many municipalities. Tracking via toll system RFID transponders is common as well.

Not sure who these glasses are aimed at. It looks like anti-security theater designed to get press and lighten wallets.
Android WebView: HTML5 Video and Rotation
of note -- new yorker also transitioned to a wordpress backed system recently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/business/media/the-new-yor...
Bad News for the Class of 2008
Awesome Looking Terminal with Oh-My-Zsh
"In a world where political systems are increasingly gridlocked every day, and much of Silicon Valley is focused on peddling ads, the civic innovation and open data movements are a bright and optimistic exception to the zeitgeist."

Amen to this! I'm excited by the trend of more hackers realizing that they have the skills to fix a lot of what is broken about politics and government.
About Applebot
Marissa Mayer Has Completed Step One
Bought Electronics in Canada from ‘99 to '02? You Have $20 (Or More) Coming
Show HN: Channel surfing meets YouTube
This is really awesome. I usually have to clean up ascii art from generators by hand quite a bit, but the output of this appears much much cleaner!
As a developer who spends 90% of my time on WordPress, I'm really glad to read about this.

WordPress is a great way to organize content on the web and has a robust developer community. It's always improving. Love it!
Bluetooth Low Energy on iOS: The easy way
He is arguing, probably correctly, that the damping caused by energy extraction will cancel out the natural resonance and therefore not be repeatable.
Isis threatens Twitter employees over blocked accounts
I don't know whether OOP is falling out of favor. For that, I would have to know the rules.

I am, as things stand, still in the process of learning the rules.

Once I've mastered them, perhaps I can think of breaking them.

Which, in the meantime, might mean learning things that have gone out of favor.
sceptical about sport? too brutal and dangerous?
Well...the world outside itself is too brutal and dangerous.
Don't let your kids go out.
The IR nut is tough to crack if your camera does night vision. Those cameras with a ring of LEDs around them? They're IR transmitters. The camera is designed to detect IR, so it can't filter it. This is a popular method of seeing in the dark and is used on systems way more expensive than dollar store close-outs.
There is a lot of scepticism indeed, mainly because what they're doing is so new. (The IPO was not questionable at all IMO, that's just FUD.)

In any case, the objections and scepticism is healthy and would only serve to improve the project.

I'm not really sure what you're implying though--how can you have a cryptocurrency without communication (e.g. a network)?
I wonder if they are building their own "longform feature article builder" or if they'll be using something like the Aesop Story Engine Wordpress plugin.
Pete Hunt: Secrets of the Virtual DOM
I always have a little weird felling about local storage. I can save stuff on my computer but I don't know where it is going, so I can't back it up nor can I keep it if I format the computer.
Driver Toolkit 8.4 licence key Full Download
Good to know someone has use for this! I just thought it was cool algorithm but it seemed to lack much application.
How did they harden it? Anyone know?
I had a similar experience getting usable documentation for NXP's RF tuner ICs. In the end, I had to do a ton of guesswork on top of the partial documentation they were willing to share to end up with a working design.

Which is funny because at one point I stumbled upon a web site that was selling layer-by-layer microphotographs of the chip I was using. They weren't much use to me, but for someone wanting to reverse engineer the chip I'm sure they would be a lot more useful than a complete description of the chip's external interface.
I never realized there would be so much junk to haul through when trying to upgrade websites to these modern interfaces. It makes me wonder if this problem of really bad code is widespread in the industry or just among amateur web developers.
This is the first example I can remember of a "War on a Service". But likely not the last.
Where does the "12 databases" in the HN title come from? Neither 12 (twelve) nor database appears in the article.
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Skills: UI, UX, iOS, Android, Web, Knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: http://radesign.in/contact

I'm a no-nonsense mobile & web designer who designs to meet product and user objectives; not to fill my portfolio with pretty pics. I've been freelancing for 4 years with 6 months full-time in a startup.
On this page at the bottom there is a bug in the rendering of the boxes with other articles, the word 'newsletter' partially overlaps the box next to it (firefox).

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/ellen-paos-lawyer-says-performa...
The hotspots north of the band of water (canals) are definitely lower-income concentration areas; a couple of them highways with seedy hotels (prostitution/drugs).

The main blob is "city center". Some low income areas in there don't look very visible at this scale, but also "where everyone is out on streets" (work in daytime, nightlife at night).
> This would also rule out ncurses and such like.

Some might argue that ncurses and it's ilk is an "antipattern" in itself, and not supporting them is a feature. Command line should be line-oriented as the name implies.
Lead Analyst/Programmer - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Description:

The Analyst/Programmer III in the Translational Informatics Unit at the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) develops and implements innovative software and applications that solve challenging problems in the collection, management, analysis and interpretation of biomedical, genomic and clinical data.

The successful candidate will create and contribute to DBHi open source projects (http://github.com/chop-dbhi) as well as proprietary products such as mobile health applications and implementations of data science algorithms. Specifically, the Analyst/Programmer III will:

- Independently develop, test, and implement translational informatics software and application solutions.
Conceive, design, and disseminate (through multiple academic and non-academic channels) re-usable open source and proprietary software and application products.

- Evaluate, adopt and use multiple technologies to create innovative solutions that have a high impact on data-intensive clinical and translational research.

- Serve as a technical team lead in a highly matrixed research environment, including technical project lead on multidisciplinary teams including clinicians and biomedical researchers.

- Mentor junior staff, student workers, co-ops, and research trainees (fellows, post-docs). Interact directly with Hospital Information Solutions applications and technology staff to identify and implement optimal computing infrastructure.

- Manage large, complex projects and take responsibility for major components of larger research initiatives; assign work to junior staff, identifying, tracking, and reporting on tasks and deliverables against project timelines.

Full Posting and Requirements:

- https://www.chop.edu.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseac...
Looks like shooting IR at the audience is how some/most of these systems work:

http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2004/11/65...

but yes, it does sound like its probably like plain old IR light and not a laser.
2 ways to go from URL to image with OpenCV + Python
Making love in front of someone is different though. I think it's for the same reason someone doesn't like to be sober around drunk people, or the reverse.
What is "fact" is actually highly subjective and puts Google in the place of picking the "winners" for arguments or perhaps pushing their own political and religious agenda.

Fact: Vaccines are Dangerous
Fact: Vaccines are Safe and prevent spread of deadly diseases.
Fact: I nearly died from a vaccine.
Fact: Vaccines contained mercury[1] for decades and poisoned untold millions of people.
Fact: Google now decides which facts you get to see.

I understand Google is trying to get rid of lots of useless add pages but determining "truth" is potentially just pushing an agenda and burying those facts they disagree with.

[1]http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability...
If you were to look at all those times that PHP is cursed either for its speed or programming or something else, I am surprised these big websites are still investing in something so buggy.

Btw, I'm a PHP developer.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I'm a no-nonsense mobile and web designer with 4 years of experience. My blog should give a better idea about me: http://radesign.in/blog

Portfolio: http://radesign.in/portfolio

Contact: http://radesign.in/contact
My setup is Yakuake with the Fish shell as my default. I'm running KDE on Netrunner (Kubuntu based) and have the shortcut set to ~. It's convenient being able to open up a terminal anytime you need it by just pressing the one key.

Edit: Never tried Zsh, might give it a shot with a similar setup, but I'll likely keep yakuake for simplicity's sake.
My mother took me to the theater and watched it with me. I was 11.

No nightmares.

If anything, I was the weird kid at school, because everyone else was watching Nightmare on Elm Street when they were 8 and 9, and mom wouldn't let me.
Ecommerce Predictions and Magento Performance Q&A with Tom Robertshaw
These guys can charge your Tesla in less than 5 minutes
> Anecdotally it's been my observation that the most sheltered kids often grow up to have the most problems - they "run wild" as soon as they move off to college or otherwise get that first taste of freedom.

So, I agree that over-protecting your children is probably a bad thing.

That doesn't mean that reducing the amount of graphic violent or sexual content your children are exposed to is over-protective. I might be happy for a teen child to watch Aliens with me at home, and less happy for them to watch it with their friends with no adults around. I might be okay with full nudity but less happy with sex.

But, as soon as someone says they want to restrict the content available to their children people just leap to the assumption that that person wants some fucking weird over-protective most restrictive cocoon where the child doesn't get to experience anything but Wholesome Christian Content of good people singing their praise for The Lord.
Here's a talk from WordCamp 2014 about (at least part of) this:

https://wordpress.tv/2014/11/01/kathleen-vignos-migrating-17...
I'm having a vision of their CTO reading an article about horizontal scalability and his face starts getting red.
Java Bootstrap: Dropwizard vs. Spring Boot
mainly because what they're doing is so new

I (possibly obviously) haven't done enough research in the area, but it seems like there are potentially showstopper questions about how to stop people gaming the system.

The reddit link also questioned how much of MaidSafe is, in effect, security through obscurity.

One thing that can be said - it's definitely interesting!

How can you have a cryptocurrency without communication?

Exactly - that's kinda what I'm asking! :)

Another rephrasing: is it possible to have some bitcoin-equivalent token sat on your computer which you can exchange for goods and services without consulting anyone else?

As far as I can tell, it's the double-spending problem that's the killer.
I would seriously be worried if I were in their shoes after the attacks in Paris.
Eight Non-Technical Qualities to Look for When Hiring Developers
Some problems with the subscribe CTA in the sidebar (https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired/93911?source=Fai...)

* The Customer Service link is broken.

* It doesn't say what you'll pay after the initial $5.

* It doesn't explain the GQ promotion. Is it 5 issues, $5 for 6, something else?

Also, it would be re-assuring to see the to-be-billed amount near the Subscribe button. Because of the other issues on the page, I don't quite trust the header which is just an image made by a designer.

I was interested enough to click but too unsure to follow through, so hopefully someone from Wired/Conde will see this and fix some of these issues.
Overview of Gauche Scheme
Thousands in Moscow Chant ‘Russia Without Putin’
"If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!"
Richard Branson

[1] http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/say-yes-then-learn-how...
People who read that it was awesome online. Or the same people who buy $4000 DSLRs when the $800 one has every feature they would ever use.
I agree. If it's not a joke, they should have tested those pictures on Facebook's facial recognition system.

I strongly suspect even a simple system will easily still recognize that guy.
I don't doubt it can be seen a violation of state's rights. But the call for state's rights is generally to bring government closer to the people. In this case it is (attempted) used to pull government further away from the people.
Can recommend these two books: The Design of Everyday Things and The Non-Designer's Design Book.

TDoET will teach you about usability and designing for that. TNDDB will give you a vocabulary for design (much like design patterns give a common vocabulary for code problems, this does for design IMO).
I don't mean to be snarky, but is there something terribly interesting going on here? The only bit that seemed somewhat interesting was the "AI page curation" tool, but they hardly touched on that other than to mention that it was a Grails application, which was then ported to CakePHP, which was then ported to be a WP plugin.
When will it start to be something that I must pay attention to?

As long as you're not doing anything sufficiently interesting from a network perspective (a home LAN and hosting webapps at VM providers do not count) you've got a least a decade more. No matter how far things advance, in 10 years we'll probably still be supporting stragglers with the ever increasing ball of complexity we use to avoid going v6-only.
It is generally not a good plan to fill gaps via contractors because you "couldn't find any good candidates". The process of finding contractors is largely the same as finding FTE and they have some added overhead/moral hazards.

You can use contractors if you have timelines that require bringing them on fast, or limited scope work. Any situation that requires the long term use of contractors is suspicious (and potentially problematic from a legal/tax consequence).
Free Docker: How Far Would You Go for a Blue Ocean Strategy?
Uber publishes secret key.

Uber ignores security breach for half a year.

Uber sues third party while trying to repair damage caused by their own failings.

At this point the identity of the hacker is irrelevant. The data is in the wild, Uber is exposed as incompetent (again). But hey, anyone want to invest another billion at a 40 billion valuation? This company is going places.
The IoT of Health: Big Data Can Make Us Healthier
Ammonite REPL: A Better Scala REPL
> Your call, but consider that the best time possible to push back is in coordination with others.

Maybe they should include a volume promise? For example: "We'll only take action if at least 100,000 sign up, and only then file all contact details all together. If we don't achieve this number by x/y/2015, we will not use your details without further permission from you, and will delete your details within 90 days of that date unless you tell us we can do otherwise."
The actor model isn't a computation style itself so much as a concurrency discipline loosely resembling the style of message-passing OO (a la Smalltalk).

It appears that some people have become so zealously opposed to object orientation that they have been unable to realize that not everything is Java.
Get and Create an Apple ID for Free Without a Credit Card, iTunes, or iPhone
This is an old threat that Twitter staff are aware of. Buzzfeed and the sites that link to them are doing Isis' jobs for them by broadcasting the command.
Does Github have any obligation to share this data with Uber?
Open-Sourcing the Creative Process
The article discusses all of these subjects with a great deal more thoughtfulness and evidence than you have mustered. Give it a shot.
Some more information for the curious: http://builtwith.com/wired.com

Their theme is called "Phoenix".

Being a "small time" WordPress developer I'm always fascinated by "big media" implementations of WordPress, and their decided upon hosting/server setup.

Can't say I'm thrilled with the new Wired.com design (those category icons...ouch), but it's always been somewhat of an ugly duckling, and I'm happy to see they're still taking changes.
The same argument could be used for any photographs of far off galactic masses which are made by taking light not visible to the human eye and converting it into an image, which are usually accepted as accurate representations.
Given the surprise a lot of people have learning their were pre-columbian trade routes from the Arctic to South America, I am not sure we really teach much in the way of history.
Their institution takes Quran literalism to a whole new level, yet ISIS is very hypocritical. Any food, clothes, house, weapon, computer they use/consume is made by their enemy. They're spoiled children who play their worst instincts off as a deeper belief.
Google Material Design swipe to refresh, by using CSS3 and JavaScript.3 types
Why large companies use open source ERP
> And I was going to see that, like Rothstein, Harry Anslinger is reincarnated in ever-tougher forms, too. Before this war is over, his successors were going to be deploying gunships along the coasts of America, imprisoning more people than any other society in human history, and spraying poisons from the air across foreign countries thousands of miles away from home to kill their drug crops. The key players in the war continue to be either Anslingers or Rothsteins—the prohibitionist and the gangster, locked together in a tango unto the far horizon. The policy of prohibition summoned these characters into existence, because it needs them. So long as it lives, they live.

I wonder why this message is so hard for policy-makers to understand
At this point the identity of the hacker is irrelevant

No. Even if I leave my door unlocked, someone who comes in and steals my stereo should still be punished.
Ok, there are two types of transactions.

Ones where you want to be able to spend money that you've just received - those are slow with Bitcoin (ETA 5 minutes). This is a price you pay for your independence of banks. You can transfer money to anyone anytime and this type of transaction is impossible with VISA.

Other - when you pay with BTC at point of sale (POS) and only thing you care about is your counterparty being able to say "thank you for your money". Those are covered by BIP70, which makes transaction as fast and faster then VISA.
Too much. Far, far, too much. :)

I prefer Bourdieu, who seems to be tragically underrated in academia.
I wouldn't put too much credence on the US government to figure this out in any sort of timely manner. There's plenty of areas in our country which are years behind in terms of governance, policy and societal effects.

They're still playing the game "if it's an internet technology, the Constitution doesn't really apply".. So to see if they could wrap their heads around an internet based currency is pretty much a joke.

And then I think, how did the FCC decision pass? Bureaucracy. It's not the Legislative/Executive/Judicial.
The full year subscription price does appear to have been completely left off the new site. Hiding the actual price probably tested well?
I'd attempt to categorize it more as "How To Write Like Elmore Leonard", really. He tends to ascribe to Hemingway's terseness.

The other, real point there is that there's more than one way to do something well. Hemingway and Mark Twain don't write very much like each other, but both are worth reading.
Facebook employees can access your account, passwords not needed
I was primarily referring to presentation.
This is utterly amazing. I recommend downloading the presentation slides that explain the algorithm in more details. There are some very interesting ideas that can be reused.
Shame apple's dragged their feet on this for so long. Qi charging works tremendously well on all of our phones and tablets. No more fumbling for cables, worn out connectors or frayed wires.
I don't build any of that into the unit files because I need additional health checking anyway. That the processes are running does not really tell me much useful - a huge proportion of the system failures I deal with are failures where the processes are still running but something else has gone wrong.

For the same reason it doesn't really matter to me if Docker is treated as a first order primitive.