skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing you should read when evaluating the scope of a patent or patent application is the claims. In this case, the first claim is:

1. A method comprising:

receiving an input value and an iteration value;

based on the iteration value, iteratively performing steps comprising:

if a least significant bit of the input value is 0,

(1) dividing the input value by a first value,

if a least significant bit of the input value is 1,

(1) multiplying the input value by a second value,

(2) adding one to the input value, and

(3) applying a modulo operation of a prime value to the input value, to yield a first iteration value,

to yield an updated input value;

returning the updated input value as a hash value.

Note that the "first value" and "second value" can be numbers other than 2 or 3. Not even sure how that works.

Also, as the claim is currently written, it seems indefinite, or at least incorrect, because it is unclear if the modulo In step (3) is applied to the input value, or input value + 1, or the input value * second value, or (input value * second value) + 1. An exact reading of the claim implies the former, whereas what they probably want is the latter.

I'm not an expert in either of these areas - but how is cryptographic hashing an obvious application of the Collatz function? Is there some well-known property of Collatz sequences that make them suitable for crypto hashes?
Maybe. For stuff like the personal notes you're keeping on a criminal conspiracy, a flash drive might be fine. But I'd be very skeptical of storing, say, the PHP source code to the Silk Road on a flash drive or SSD, because the internal data structures of the SSD could leak information about the sizes of individual files. If the feds can recover the sizes of individual files, rounded up to the next multiple of 4K, and you've got the PHP source code for the Silk Road stored there, it's game over. The same goes for filesystem encryption, like the kind ZFS (I think) has.

(I'm not personally familiar with ZFS, but the ZFS docs, especially https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29007/gkkih.html#... really creep me with regard to this. The last thing you'd want is blocks in your local encrypted copy of PHP source code to be compressed first. And so then you'd think you'd want encryption enabled on a pool, but from reading the docs it seems that feature merely makes the filesystems on that pool inherit that encryption option, instead of doing some sort of filesystem-blind block-level encryption, where there's any variance in the encryption of blocks, or any information that could be derived from locations of blocks. So I think the suggestion to encrypt on a directory-by-directory basis to limit your exposure is not a very good one. I'd recommend that you use a spinning hard drive, whole disk encryption of the sort we have today, take out the battery, and keep your foot by the power outlet.)
So we're not fixing the transport layer due to limitations in the network layer that have been fixed, we're just not using them.
The GPS altitude limit is 18km which is 60,000ft. Normal cruising altitude is 35,000ft.

It's also trivial to obtain unrestricted GPS devices.
Kisko Suits – an app to create complex presentations with Deckset
Is this going to be a real product, or is it a joke? 20% of me thinks it's a joke that I'm not fully getting (I'm not native English speaking, so that might be the problem)

If it'll be a product: why not focus more on what sets it apart from the competition?
MirrorFugue – Conjuring the Recorded Pianist
looks good. let me try it. Request fossbytes/techcrunch/TNW/The Verge to feature it.

If they do so that simply means your product is worth trying.
Love this one from that link you posted:
"I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow"
I suspect the problem is more one of cart design than anything related to the type of engine when it comes to hill climbing.

It would not surprise me if the electric carts have a minimal at best gearbox between the engine and the wheels. This makes for a simpler cart, but also limits the size of engine you can put in to allow for rider comfort and safety.

In contrast a gas engine pretty much need a gearbox to get moving at all, as it needs to get up to revs before it really delivers.

So in essence a electric engine could benefit from a gearbox for the inverse of a gas engine.
Earlier this year at FOSDEM there was a blind guy at Debian stand presenting his solution:

http://accelibreinfo.eu/?en/used-materials-and-products

It's mainly based on Debian along with a Braille display if I recall well. I suggest anyone interested to check his website.
It could work in a sealed system, such as a hard-drive bearing or a flywheel similar to what is used in some hybrid vehicles.

Flywheels are a pretty exciting application actually. They're basically mechanical capacitors. The upper limit on the energy they can store is determined by the tensile strength of the material used for the rotor, but the bearings the rotor spins on are responsible for how long energy can be stored before being transformed into heat. Magnetic bearings are far more efficient than mechanical bearings, but are costly to implement. A mechanical bearing system with a graphene and nano-diamond coating could allow us to produce flywheels that are simple, cheap, and able to store energy for a long period of time. This might even make flywheels a viable alternative to chemical batteries in some applications.
Because I can test and debug without requiring an enourmous environment set up.
Extending Slack with your own slash commands
Funny how the curve fits historical incidents. Searching for "Adolf" and the name gains in popularity in the 1910s and 1920s; dips in the 1930s as Nazism rises; and nosedives in the early 1940s as WWII kicks off. Interesting.

Contrarily, the name "Winston" jumps in the 1940s.
That was Apple. Microsoft mostly copied things after they got proven elsewhere first.

...and made it mainstream enough that every home could afford one. No, Apple did not do that.

how many millions of hours...

...that would never existed anyway because no other company had the vision and desire to penetrate the mass market like MS did. Pretty sure a hell of a lot of money was made maintaining MS software. It was hardly 'lost'.

I'm not sure if Gates slapped your mom or something, but you seem to be blaming MS for not being the best thing possible when the whole idea of mass market computing was nothing more than theory. Were you using the Internet when IE 5 came out? Because if you were you surely remember it was miles and miles ahead of Netscape. It was the best thing in the market. I can't fault them for the millions of dollars of development they invested simply because it hurt Netscape's non existent business case.

Do you reap the same scorn on google and Apple for their actions? Because they are doing exactly the same things as MS did, even worse, Google is just pumping what are often best in class products out to the masses for free!

Don't get me wrong, MS did a lot of shady stuff that hurt competition and served no other interest but their own, but they aren't unique in this regard at all; they just happened to be in a better position than most companies are.
I haven't tried it yet. How is this a game, exactly?
To elaborate on this. There's a whole group of quantum-safe algorithms, like SHA-2 (used in Bitcoin among other things).

The best quantum computers can achieve is 2x increase in speed.
Starring songs was also removed and individual songs you "Save to Your Music" get bundled in with every song from every album and artist you've saved or followed and the songs from some playlists it seems. It's a complete mess.
There are multiple factors that come into play here:

1. Apple vs Google: are you biased in favor/against of one over the other? Which brand do you like more/less?

2. iOS vs Android: are you biased in favor/against of one over the other? Do you prefer one over the other as far as usage is concerned?

3. The ecosystem: I think this is what should be the decisive factor, as the first two are mostly biases, more or less.

For 1 and 2, my biases are highly in favor of Apple and iOS, respectively.
For 3, I can't compare because I have never used Android. But, as an iOS and Mac user, I just love how everything works together! The apps are going beyond my phone and making my data available on other devices too. It's a highly connected platform.
I say Live at the Regal, hands down.. Then Live in Cook Cook County Jail. It's difficult to find a better live album than that.
One year of DANE – tales and lessons learned [pdf]
>famous
I can't believe you're serious.
No, I wasn't suggesting that the purpose is to illegally avoid taxes.

The two reasons advertised for running a business in Estonia are:

* The paperwork is digital, and pretty quick and simple. But of course, even if it is quick and simple compared to plenty of other countries, it is still a new foreign environment. Handling a bit more paperwork locally might be easier than handling less paperwork in a foreign country over the internet. I would expect this to be an attractive choice for example for entrepreneurs in Italy or Greece, but perhaps not in the US.

* Legally paying less corporate taxes. As long as you keep the money in the company for future expenses and investments, there is no tax on profit. This has been attractive to companies in Finland and Sweden who are moving some of their operations here.

I was just trying to say that if someone's main reason for getting Estonian e-residency and starting a company in Estonia is to legally pay less tax in total, then they will need to investigate their local tax laws for "income earned from dividends abroad" before making that decision as well.

Let me know if you have any other questions!
In Ubuntu Unity, you can just click on the sound icon in the top right corner of the screen and click pause. Or you can use the pause button on your keyboard, if you have one.
http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

I find this funny.
As a male.. all that "good natured ribbing" really made my life a lot more terrible. Once i finally got new friends who didn't do that, then things went a lot better. I was finally able to be myself.
Likewise. Gary Moore was my introduction to the blues and I never got to see him live.
'Sorry, "Bort" is not in the boys name database.'
For me, the no-BS standard looking UI was the reason to choose Foobar, as compared to Win Media Player or Winamp and other weird looking ones. (Remember Sonique? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_%28media_player%29)

As for aero tiles... That's a Win8 thing? I guess it's a valid complaint. I think you can set global keyboard shortcuts for those actions, if that helps.
I'm @Jackson :)
This is happening already: Kindles come with 3G (though still optional) and many new cars are now sold with a 3G connection.
And in the lower left part you have two pieces of fish, which are actually the same piece, rotated.
Pretty much all patents are written in a way that can cover an infinite number of variations of the core idea. The novelty here may actually be the use of this as a cryptographic hash function. They give no supporting property, but as my other comment asks, if such a property cannot be easily divined, it may in fact be non-obvious.
Replacing jQuery with D3
The Microsoft Security Essentials bit would be very true if they didn't end up installing other crapware AV's on top of it, which happens more often than not, at least on the Windows computers I get my hands on. And even using more than one AV they still manage to get their browsers hijacked, etc.
UI design – 10 steps for great user interfaces Pt4
Most of the models I've seen have been gate-based; there are certainly a wide variety of physical implementations for the same logical gates. You're right that the D-Wave system (if it's real) is different, but are there really that many other non-gate models?
There is no anti-virus against human stupidity.
> You don't think its as simple as people choosing one of the ten most popular names for a given year do you?

Maybe, but why do those names become popular? William, Harry, George and Charlotte are obvious (British royal babies) and other names have interesting rises and falls.
I'm not a super-fan of the jingoistically named waypoints.
The increase of "Alexander" starting from the mid-80s looks really weird: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

It's easy to see why names such as "Buzz" have the curves that they have (space race), but it's hard to trace any event that influenced more common names. For example, check "Jacob", "Justin". Does anybody have an idea as to why these curves have this shape?
You were dead before you were born, dying is merely reverting back to that state ...

I believe that death is exactly what makes life worthwile. Everything is temporal, literally everything. In the grand scheme of things nothing really matters as we will all die anyway.

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” - Mark Twain
Could you describe your research? If you've been researching this and have put out or know of any relevant publications, it can act as prior art for this application. You could also post those on askpatents.com, which patent examiners are known to look at occasionally.
Sooo... Are there many American girls named after a typical old-style italian macho name?

http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Netflix is in talks to enter China's booming online video market
To be fair, I still have my 'Starred' playlist and I can still add items to it. But granted, it's a bit more cumbersome to add new songs to it.

For me "Your Music" only contains songs I explicitly add to it, so not songs from playlists or artist that I follow.
Wow, 'Ace' is really taking off- http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

'Adolf' seems uniformly credited to just a few poor souls- http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Evolution of Databases
Here is another article by the same guy.

https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-tesla-wont-be-able-to-scale

He argues that Tesla will not be able to scale for two reasons.

The first and most credible reason is that Tesla has already established an overhead structure for low volume, high margin cars and that it will not be able to change this structure for Model 3. This is a legitimate point, but it cannot be said that this is a reason why it would be impossible for Tesla to scale. The title suggests that it is.

The second point he made was that because Tesla "dealers" are in the business of making money, they will always give higher priority to selling the more expensive, higher margin cars than cheaper ones. He is saying that this is going to be a major impediment to the success of Tesla in their high volume aspirations. I think it is obvious that this is a laughable argument. Even if we pretend for a moment that customers have absolutely no control over what they buy, this argument falls flat. Tesla has exercised more control over their retail experience than any other car company that I know of. And they do this in spite of huge resistance from the automotive establishment. It is bizarre to propose that the Model 3 will fail because Tesla won't be able to get their own sales people in line. And the arguments in the "golf cart" article are just as vapid.
Weather derivative
Unfortunately, most people just read the highly inaccurate 10-word summaries that tech media outlets bandy about.
Using a SIFT pipeline for photogrammettry, I have successfully recreated small objects, Comet 67P and some buildings from quadcopter pics.

First I search for features with DoG and match them with SIFT , do a bit extra crawling along matched edges and the result is a dense coloured point cloud.

The point clouds are converted to a mesh with poisson surface reconstruction and retextured with fragments of the
original images.

The Poisson surfaces are never quite as nice as the point clouds - I am using Meshlab for this part.

Processing a few hundred big images takes ages so I send the jobs up to EC2 for a few hours so each job is usually a couple dollars.

It is pretty useful as a 3D scanner.
Ah, I know what you are talking about. It's just that I use the appstore to search for apps I need/want. I never browse the homepage or the categories and recommendations, etc. Different uses, different experiences, I guess.
He was a great artist and he had a great stage presence. I am sorry I only got to see him play live one time.

Another great blues musician died last year: Johnny Winter.
The first step of the petition involved finding the "Confirmation Number" in the USPTO's PAIR system. From here I was able to find out that the filing status is "Abandoned -- Failure to Pay Issue Fee". Also of note is the fact that the status was set to "Abandoned" only after the "Notice of Allowance and Fees Due" was allowed to expire. The fact that the USPTO granted preliminary approval to this patent application is troubling.
I tried to rate an App once and got something similar to this (the current language):

"Ratings and reviews on Google Play are a great way to tell your friends about the apps and other content you love! These are linked to your Google+ profile and are public."

I'm not interested in that type of public activity. I could somewhat understand this for a full review, but certainly not for a simple 1 - 5 star rating.
Mark Cuban's low ratings for SnapChat and other messaging apps likely stems from or lead to his investment in Cyber Dust [0].

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/maseenaziegler/2014/04/08/mark-c...
You are indeed very lucky to have witnessed the king. He will surely be missed.
It's amazing how much emotion he was able to convey with his guitar. I'm so lucky to have seen him a few years ago at a blues festival. He got me into the blues and I've fallen in love with the genre. He will be missed.
If by many you mean about 100: Apparently yes.
I see no evidence at all that you've made any kind of breakthrough. Current belief in the factoring world is that the GNFS is the fastest way to factor integers - are you claiming you can do better?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-2048 :

RSA-2048 has 617 decimal digits (2,048 bits).
It is the largest of the RSA numbers and carried
the largest cash prize for its factorization,
US$200,000. The largest factored RSA number is
768 bits long (232 decimal digits), and the
RSA-2048 may not be factorizable for many years
to come, unless considerable advances are made
in integer factorization or computational power
in the near future.

And here from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization_records :

On December 12, 2009, a team including researchers
from the CWI, the EPFL, INRIA and NTT in addition
to the authors of the previous record factored
RSA-768, a 232-digit semiprime. They used the
equivalent of almost 2000 years of computing on
a single core 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron.

You're saying that a 4000 digit number may take 24 hours?

I'd be interested to see at least some evidence that you're doing something better before dedicating any time to your project.
You're already posting a public review, does it really matter if it also gets posted to Google+? I guess I don't have any objections to it because I'm not aware of anyone from my group of friends that actually uses Google+.
Pretty much. I find myself suspecting that we will see more and more sofware "fixes" piled on top to avoid doing mass hardware replacements...
go for a flagship windows phone because its the most professional phone available and apps are now starting to pop up and catch on fast.
Or vice-versa: maybe the fact that he dislikes the existing messaging apps led him to invest in one he does like.
Show HN: An in-browser, multi-track audio editor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0

The first part should be fitting...
You're not curious about your own tech stack?
Powered by JavaScript + the web audio API. Evaluating is free and unlimited (feature-wise + time-wise). Feedback very welcome.
"stems from or lead to"
That's exactly what I need. I would probably pay for something crafted well that does this.
Hi, it IS a real product :) You can try the beta version, you just need to sign up on the website.
About what sets it apart from the competition - maybe we should add something like this: for example itemz have the feature of showing all task from different projects at once, on the main board. That's pretty unusual and we probably should write more about things like that.
Thanks a lot for your comment :)
The analogy is flawed. A PC is to a tablet what a tractor is to a car. Expensive cars are primarily status symbols; a type of jewelry.
I've been wondering how easy it would be to do this with phones.

I've seen documents for setting up wifi networking for a stadium to serve 20000 people. After that you need to know where each phone is. You'd have everyone go to a webpage, with some cameras maybe you could flash the phones in different colors, patterns and figure out where they all are? Or you could just ask users to enter their seat number.

Then download a JS demo to the phone, tell the phone which pixel of the demo to show, make sure the clocks are synced. Instant giant screen!

Anyone want to work on this with me? Getting someone to wire the stadium for 20k people though, and testing it is the hard part?
I believe that the main reason for not being able to disable 'Spotify Connect' is that the functionality is being used to prevent people from sharing Spotify accounts. This became particularly clear in the last version of Spotify when they made it impossible to set the Spotify client in 'Offline' mode if the phone was already connected using 'Spotify Connect' (the 'Offline' setting is being grey out). Now you have to set the phone in 'Flight mode' and then start up the Spotify client and set the Spotify client to 'Offline' mode (and then disable 'Flight mode' if you want to use Internet while listening in 'Offline' mode). So my guess is that they will never make it possible to disable 'Spotify connect'.
> I even said some dumb things like, 'Why should they have granite countertops when I don't.' However, I've come around.

This sort of "crab mentality" makes even discussing things like basic income, minimum wage, or projects like this so difficult, let alone implementing them. People come to believe they deserve their position in life when so much of it is due to advantages/disadvantages outside their control: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-jan-june13-makingsen...

> The rich players are determined randomly by coin toss, the game rigged so they cannot lose. And yet, says Piff, despite their presumably liberal bent going in, [w]hen we asked them afterwards, how much do you feel like you deserved to win the game? The rich people felt entitled. They felt like they deserved to win the game. And that’s a really incredible insight into what the mind does to make sense of advantage or disadvantage.

Successful people believe they deserve to be successful and they believe that unsuccessful people must have acted in a way to deserve it, because attributing your success and their destitution to factors outside anyone's control is scary and difficult.
> I saw a company pay $30K for 5 days access to a similar service.

Do you know what features this service had that made it worth $30k for 5 days access? Did they have some unique and useful features, or was it more about the available bandwidth/RPS that could be generated?