skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a french standard. Every french/belgian keyboard is AZERTY-based.

You don't HAVE to support it, but accessibility is nice, especially when it comes at virtually no cost except awareness (it is not supported because people don't know it exists).
I'm not sure what they're getting at with the "Microsoft is building its own hardware, just like Apple." jab. Microsoft has had a hardware division since 1982!
Equidam’s technology allows startups to see their valuation in real-time
11 years ago today,someone named Mark Zuckerberg appeared on CNBC
Airware (YC W13) Is Hiring: Code and Fly
Airware's commercial (non-military) drone platform extends beyond flight-related hardware and software. Giving drone operators online, realtime, access to data analysis, video, and images is a critical element of transforming drones from flying robots into viable business tools. We have a variety of positions touching every aspect of our system from interacting with hardware to analyzing large datasets.

=== Some relevant engineering positions to HN ===

Software Engineer, JavaScript - https://boards.greenhouse.io/airware/jobs/49240

Sr Software Engineer, Python/Go - https://boards.greenhouse.io/airware/jobs/49210

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=== See all engineering positions (and others) ===

http://boards.greenhouse.io/airware
This is the best summary of what it is, and indeed an entertaining read.
Google launches portal to buy patents
finally, something cool on hackernews.
In Reddit, you are pseudonymous - users do convert pseudonymity to anonymity by the usage of throwaway accounts. In case of anonymous media apps, the concept of anonymity is embedded. For example, on reddit - there can be ONLY one "Barack_Obama" on Whisper there could be thousands of them because there is no unique username. In addition, you could view profile of a pseudo-identity on Reddit. On anonymous social media, there is no profile information.

The key difference between anonymous vs non-anonymous (or pseudonymous) media is lack of unique identities and/or profile information.
The demo they show is how to write a LED blinker program. I don't need an operating system (especially Windows) to do that. I could do that with a 555 timer and save $40.

I thought this partnership was going to enable running Windows software on a Pi.
Actually what Google does is fairly trivial and not based on "artificial intelligence" ...
This man is right
The new USB Type C standard can provide up to 100W of power, while at the same time letting you use it to send DisplayPort (and you can connect to HDMI or DVI devices with a simple adapter) signalling. And your network connection.

But with wireless charging + wireless data/display casting chances are it won't be that long before you won't need a wire for any of this most of the time.
Not sure who "they" is here, ut in windows: pretty much, yes. You can't have it both ways. So you either have a centralized/shared lib environment where you may run into conflicts but you get centralized patching, or you have self contained applications where you need to patch each one but you never have lib dependency/upgrade issues. Simple as that.
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This article might help: https://unicornfree.com/2013/help-my-saas-isnt-growing (and the follow-up https://unicornfree.com/2013/how-i-increased-conversion-2-4x... )

In short, here priorities are:
- Raise prices

- Convert more trials to paid

- Retain more already-paying customers (already mentioned)

- Convert more visitors to trials (already mentioned)

- Get more visitors
Why do you say X has tearing and pixel errors?

I know some hardware (eg. nvidia optimus) have tearing but these are driver bugs and not a property of X (or freedesktop's implementation thereof).
Actually the 4.0 release has added support for no-reboot kernel patching, IIRC.
Page is back up. Sorry for the fuzz. Happy Coding!
I don't quite get what the article is talking about. It starts with saying that updates are a problem. Then it talks about things I can't really distinguish from 'quality issues, reliability, complexity issues.."

What does this "BRASS: even mean, anyone got a clue? "Resource Adaptive" seems to be the important part. What are they talking about?
I absolutely agree with the author, in that I find SML the most pleasant to read (and write).

And I've said this before: If only SML actually had proper unicode support, I might use it for something real.
All of the people that disagree with this article forget to disagree with its author's prediction that once fossil fuels and other still plentyful but possibly not forever plentyful resources (water and fertile soil, for instance) are over, the internet is going to become a burden too heavy to continue to be lifted in face of more pressing issues, like eating. But I do agree that before that happens, thought I think it'll happen in our lifespans, the internet has no reason to go away, except for all of those free subsidized services. (Paid) email will probably still be around for a while.
For those interested in integrating Arduino with sensors from Android devices, check out 1Sheeld:

http://1sheeld.com/
What's the UI? I can't seem to find the package here https://github.com/moose-team/friends/blob/master/package.js...

Is it http://nwjs.io/ ?
How is it bad?
Official Circle announcement:

http://blog.circle.com/2015/04/29/new-circle-investors-new-u...
Latency and bandwidth means we're far from a situation where this is viable. Even locally in my house, wifi speeds are a painful limiting factor for some things.

It's also increasingly irrelevant if I carry a powerful computer with me anywhere to have it instantly available anyway. The only thing stopping your phone from having terabytes of storage today is that it's currently expensive, and not much demand for it vs. the slight extra space it would take (512GB SD cards are a thing, but apart from size - though micro-SD versions are bound to follow soon - the cost makes them prohibitive for the next year or two).

We're very rapidly approaching the point where - while there may be value in having everything synced to the cloud for backup and universal accessibility - you'll be able to store all your data on media smaller than your thumbnail. Storage density appears to grow far faster than peoples storage needs at the moment.
How does one use it? Apart from reading view?
Freight operators are extremely good at selling space and solving the problems described in the article and operate a dispersed global network in a difficult space on extremely thin margins. It barely makes sense for Apple to charter, except perhaps to max out loads to the US and Europe in the run up to new product launch. Apple's iPhone sales vary between 12 and 40m units per quarter, so it makes far more sense for third parties to balance that variable demand for them.

Now I'm off to pick up a MBA with a new SSD that apparently took four days to get to London!
In honor of "Where's the Beef", there is no info about this and you can't try it. Buried on an MSDN page is a signup form for a "limited number" or beta slots.

I classify this announcement as: currently vaporware.
Exactly. IMO all css/html features that conflict with this should be deprecated and REMOVED from the standard.
The Internet of stupid things
Thanks for adjusting your comment. I want to expand on the point a bit further because I think it's important for Hacker News. But I don't mean to pick on you personally, so I hope you don't feel that way.

How many people have any real basis for knowing what Zuckerberg meant by those words? A line like that could mean almost anything. You'd have to have known him at the time. Also, how many people can truly claim never to have said anything just as bad or foolish? Those two groups must be minuscule, yet to be justified in making such an accusation, you'd have to belong to both of them.

Far more likely, what's going on here is wishful thinking, where the wish is e.g. to see someone else as a monster. The quote is just a convenient prop.

People bring it out at the slightest provocation. It has become an internet reflex, so it no longer adds any information. More importantly, it's the opposite of the principle of charity—i.e. giving the other person the benefit of the doubt—which we try to practice here.
Bonus bonus easy to read one-liner (using numpy):

numpy.loadtxt("big-data.csv",delimiter=',').sum(axis=0)
Thanks, I keep getting confused...
Android Development Update Hell
Indian Wedding Cards and Modernization
Indeed, and yet we somehow ended up with a whole bunch of Line-of-Business desktop apps written in Silverlight. I did a brief stint at a windows-shop that made and maintained a variety of such apps.
I don't see demos. I only see samples. And I think it does exactly what you're asking for. It lets you run Windows software on a Pi. If you were thinking full scale Windows application, then Windows IoT Core is not what you're looking for.
Visibility graphs seem to be a lot more efficient (and straightforward!) than A* or more basic algorithms.
>every hipster made their own decision about how to handle congestion control

Unless they had access to a tier 1/2 network provider it'd be mostly harmless I suspect. They'd spam their local gateway. "Look I can send 300k packets a second over standard DSL"

But yes, TCP is generally a good thing.
I wonder if modeling this as a complex system with self interested agents and randomly appearing nodes could show some interesting emergent properties. At least it would be a worthwhile simulation. Does anyone know who is the creator of this game and whether the code is open source?
> .net which is just a renamed MFC

erm..... no. Sorry, but if you really think that, then you need to go and read something about what really is .net
a freeform mmo with an economy like EVE might be able to swing user-created viruses with user-manufactured cures...
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I have had issues running a wifi dongle when connecting using the tv's usb port - admittedly this is with the old version and not the new one with the updated power circuitry.

However, I have had no issues using usb power from the tv with a LAN connection - this is using Kodi which I suspect will increase the power pull. YMMV
Practical Ways to Stay Close to Your Early Users
How this can be true with unemployement at 6%? And free food if you are poor?
Microsoft is reacting brilliantly to the new open source world. I will not regret this, however; open source community have to be more careful about being controlled by an proprietary company. It does not matter if it's microsoft or any other proprietary company.

We have to stop it.
With a non-commercial license.
It seems like this is just Microsoft saying that you'll be able to plug an Arduino into a computer with Windows, and it will not outright reject the hardware driver. Later in the post, it's a "this car comes with four -- that's right, FOUR! -- wheels" selling the built-in hardware capabilities of devices that run Microsoft software. Call me shortsighted, but I don't see the amazing thing here.
As much as "moving forward" is well-intentioned, it's probably too vague for anyone going through significant mental shit.

It's advice your Grandma would give, a form of "soldier on". Likewise the advice from friends will often be too broad and frankly unqualified to be useful. Not that love and support isn't important, but your own friends have their own problems, and mental health is often deeply personal, that not even your own family has any hope of understanding the scope of the problem.

Nothing beats direct action against mental health struggles in the form of information you seek yourself. Your brain, set to task on fixing your brain.

Read, watch, listen and learn from experts and non-experts. Learn a few things about how the brain (including emotions) work and what others have done to fix themselves. Then get the ball rolling at your own pace the potential beneficial actions you've learned. If no progress is made then maybe seek professional help, but really, so much is possible on your own, and it's far cheaper and more rewarding to self-repair via your own research.

One quick example here about "emotional first aid". There's a lot of talks on TED and they don't go for long so can be good starting points for further research. Mental healing is a journey of learning as much as possible and applying new methods and perspectives to eventually form a picture of recovery.

http://www.ted.com/talks/guy_winch_the_case_for_emotional_hy...
Yes it's a good thing (for the tinkerers of this world) and I suspect its a long term view for MS. If young tinkerers can tinker away on some of the cool hardware out there leveraging MS products/tools for free (in the same way they can using linux tools) then in the future maybe some of those young folk will bring to this world some awesome startups also using the MS tool chains, a chain they may well be prepared to exchange cash for - but certinally a chain they will be familiar with.

Of course those not happy with that can fork the Arduino and its tool's - as far as I know they are all open.

Of course it may lead nowhere MS and they may well drop it when the return does not pan out.

My 2 cents...
I think there is a lot of demand for this kind of thing, although there are also other start-ups in this space so it could be hard to differentiate.

There is another startup I saw on here that is semi-automating the translations. I think the cost saving that you could get by doing that well, by reducing the human input would be a place to get a distinct advantage.

The devil is in the detail, and if I were to choose a tool like this vs. a competitor, it would be in how easy it is to integrate with existing code, how good it is at finding all the possible captions in advance even if they are rarely shown, and if it can work on other platforms like native mobile, C#, ruby, java etc.
I quit using facebook after I watched him exposing people on the site to everyone who happened to be hanging out in the computer lab (basement Harvard science center). He came off as incredibly inhumane. I got the impression that he feels other people are beneath him, to be used by him for his ends. I see this pattern in every aspect of his company, and it saddens me to see how much it is idolized by people.
Ah, it is weight limited? When reading about this in earlier years, I wondered if they sent just the phones and did packaging locally.
Microsoft Toolkit 2.5.6 Free Office and Windows EZ Activator
Macros based malware on the rise (Once Again)
"T_D_S P_T_S" ("all bitches" in spanish) ate "8====D" with "aids" watching it all...

http://i59.tinypic.com/4sdxtl.png
FF37 OSX10.10:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgxew7u00x2opp7/Screenshot%202015-...
This sounds great.
Sure; done.
It completely depends on the application. I have yet to see a use case that benefits from PyPy. Here's an example I tried with CPython2, 3 and PyPy yesterday: It loads the most probable translations for all unigrams from a Moses phrase translation table (11GB) into a dict, and using that dict translates 73 MB of text word by word. Most of the time is spent filling the dict/reading the large file.

$ time python literal_translation.py phrase-table en test4
translation table contains 76885 elements
...................................................................... 070
.......................................................
125 files translated

real	1m14.345s
user	1m9.836s
sys	0m4.157s

$ time python3 literal_translation.py phrase-table en test5
translation table contains 76885 elements
...................................................................... 070
.......................................................
125 files translated

real	2m17.680s
user	2m2.605s
sys	0m4.987s

$ time pypy literal_translation.py phrase-table en test6
translation table contains 76885 elements
...................................................................... 070
.......................................................
125 files translated

real	1m13.347s
user	1m0.033s
sys	0m4.734s

https://gist.github.com/andreasf/af6bdc00cf5a928712b5
That is not a good counter-argument. Anyone can do something that is not worthwhile.
https://loadimpact.com/ seems to have pay-per-test as an alternative to subscriptions.
>Since the last snapshot release coinciding with "wheezy", the
init system has been switched to sysvinit for a more Debian-like
experience.

Hehehe, didn't Debian just switch to systemd with Jessie?
After the MMO Asteroids incident [1], I had to switch off my network connection to reassure myself that it isn't fake.

If you're looking for a more in-depth experience, check out Osmos [2], the single-player game that probably inspired this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378475

[2] http://www.osmos-game.com/
How can it be easier than "apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk" ?
JRuby 9.0.0.0-pre2 released
> In the seed round investors are betting on the vision, but in the A round, they need to see results. They want to see rapid growth and they want you to be profitable or able to make it to profitability on the money you have in the bank. We’ve seen many companies get burned by this.

This is probably true in many cases but it doesn't seem to be a rule that's set in stone, especially for hardware startups. For example Lytro [1] has raised $50M in a Series A before they sold product. Same for Anki [2].

As a pure software company, Vicarious [3] have raised $55M in Series A and B rounds and I don't see a product on their site either.

[1] https://lytro.com/
[2] https://anki.com/en
[3] http://vicarious.com/
International Day Against DRM: May, 6th 2015
Those are great! Thanks.
It's more than that... even if you want to use it, you may not be able to do it.

See: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Windows IoT requires Visual Studio and Windows (eg, Windows Remote Arduino is a WinRT component).

If this was about interacting with a Windows phone from any of the development platforms Arduino supports, that would be different I guess. The way this is designed looks divisive and it doesn't follow Arduino open philosophy.

This helps Microsoft to attract Arduino users, but I'm not sure if it will help Arduino as community. When you find a sketch or a library I have never seen a "Windows only" or software requirements besides the Arduino IDE or other libraries.

It doesn't look too different from the "Arduino Certified" program, as in "open source" is not a requirement; but I can understand all the negative comments.
There are still some security advantages to dedicated KVM ports, compared to shared transports like wireless and USB.
> "I won't work with this version of Eclipse."

There's your problem. Modern Android development _is_ hell.
Did it always have the FB login? Could that have been what killed it?
Yes, Google removed that feature in Android 4.4, breaking the user experience and not going to fix it again:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378#c11...
One thing the article touches on: most start in childhood and you carry them through into adulthood. But they didn't explain why that means most "start in adulthood".

This is because you tend not to diagnose children (people under 18) with a definite fixed label. This is because children and young people are going through so much anyway.

Also, services for children are worse than services for adults - less funded, busier, less capacity.
EU project launches survey on startup support for students. Join and get rewarded
You need a talk with your immediate manager.
Windows for Raspberry pi
You just need to feed one of the parts to be big enough to swallow the smaller parts, and then you can remerge after you pass the threshold
I'm sorry, but no. The resource sharing model of Plan9/Inferno is great, but what they demoed was essentially a modal UI - plug in your phone and you get an external display and a different UI, but the computing resources are still handled in exactly the same way.
After reading your comment I expected that the game will be some kind of countryball/landball meme spin-off :)
I wonder if this was possible in Second Life, and so a disease could actually be engineered by a player.

That would be pretty interesting.

I don't know much about Second Life, though--I'm not even sure if you could die.
Actually, a recruiter recently quoted the interviewer telling her precisely this as the reason for declining me.
Circle transactions are free... What is their revenue model?
“I’ve decided to shut down Secret.”
> Does Airbnb pay you well?

Accusing a fellow user of being a shill or astroturfer is not ok here. Please don't do that.
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Uber Is Testing a Massive Merchant Delivery Program
Google Password Alert stops you entering your Google password on other sites
Create interactive “how-to-do” manuals in a few minutes
Give it some time. Visual studio isn't exactly a cross platform app, and Microsoft doesn't have another tool platform to build off of. The release of Code today is interesting in that regard.
What did you think about Helppier?
I care when i am going to see this in JRuby. And hopefully in MRI as well.
I am genuinely curious about why several people downvoted my original post as well.
Facebook warns Europe that users will miss out if privacy regulations get worse
It feels like another round of Windows for Smart Cards. Who knows, this one might stick. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277375.aspx
This is interesting, but I'd not focus on Bitcoin too much. This could be a test-bed for Goldman for something much bigger, because central banks are seriously thinking about digital, potentially Bitcoin style, currencies.

From the Circle announcement oska linked, emphasis mine:

"As the financial services industry continues to become more digital and open, we see significant opportunities in companies and solutions that have the promise to transform global markets through technical innovation. We think that Circle’s product vision and exceptional management team present <b>a compelling opportunity in the digital payments space</b>.”

What is the Connection to China?

IDG Capital Partners likewise brings a strategic capability to Circle as we bring our products and services to China. We believe in a hybrid digital economy in which <b>value moves freely around the world and converts into other currencies -- including both crypto and fiat currencies -- seamlessly, safely, and instantly</b>."

I'd like to link this to the Bank of England's recent report, the One Bank Research Agenda http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/Documents/onebank/di... [PDF, 50 pages] posed topics related to digital currencies, including the question "Why might central banks issue digital currencies?" [on page 31] Again, emphasis mine.

"The emergence of private digital currencies (such as Bitcoin) has shown that it is possible to transfer value securely without a trusted third party. While existing private digital currencies have economic flaws which make them volatile, the distributed ledger technology that their payment systems rely on may have considerable promise. This raises the question of whether central banks should themselves make use of such technology to issue digital currencies.

<b>There are two parts to this question.</b> The first is whether there is any rationale for a central bank to issue a digital currency supported by some form of distributed ledger payment system. <b>The second addresses the economic, technological and regulatory challenges of doing so</b>."

Goldman are getting experience at the second question with this largely before anyone else, and waiting (for now) for the first question to answer itself.
They changed the default to systemd. Sysvinit is still available.
Unfortunately the most successful people in capitalism tend to have an analogous psychopathy which characterizes an optimal corporation.

What a system! Where being a terrible manipulative monster is encouraged.