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Github are indeed the heroes of the day and have an enterprise revenue model. So far, so good. But Sourceforge is sixteen years old. Will Github still be the good guys in 2030? It's impossible to know.
>> When I pay for a seat on a plane, I'm paying for everything that goes along with it

And how about the person behind who can no longer make use of the entertainment system or tray table?
I may be showing my age here, but I remember when flying wasn't something to be dreaded. The few inches we've lost have really made a difference. Twenty years ago, you could read or use a laptop in coach and first-class was a frill for rich people.

In 2015, aside from the people with upgrades, most people in first-class don't want to be there (i.e. they're not there because they're wealthy, but because their disabilities or age make coach literally impossible) and most actual rich people fly private because even first class isn't great.

I find that the only thing that I can do on planes, these days, is take a pill, make sure I get 2 armrests (I'm 6' and 195 pounds) and nod off-- and I don't sleep very well. If we had 300 mph trains at competitive prices like Europe and Japan have, I'd rather take those.
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By reclining your seat all the way back you're forcing the person behind you to recline his seat all the way back, which in turn forces the person behind the person behind you to recline his seat an so on, it's just not a very mindful thing to do because you're actively forcing your preferences on everyone else. I feel like reclining more than halfway through is only fair if there's nobody sitting behind you or if that person had already reclined his seat.

I don't think these are strict rules or anything, you are certainly entitled to do whatever you wish, it's really just a question of politeness.
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The reason I ask is because I am a citizen of just such a country (high income inequality and high incidence of poverty). I'm not wealthy, but I'm better off than the vast majority and feel I can and should help somehow.

It's always interesting to hear other perspectives.
Ironically...

Not really. It's just a quick guide to using gpg to verify a software distribution. Many people already know how to do this, or you could look at the manpage if you prefer.
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definitely you can use your local OS to run it. if you have a full LAMMP stack ready, just setup a new vhost (or whatever your typical process is.. .and off you go).

(as a matter of fact, that's how it would be deployed in production).

however vagrant is perfect for local, since you need mongo and mysql and various php extensions, etc. etc. all of that comes pre-packaged w/ vagrant... so if you don't feel like littering your local with a bunch of libs that you or many not use in the future, use vagrant.

up to you completely.
What is it that impresses people here?

The voice understanding is impressive, but obviously a video can show the best-case.

The factual questions themselves aren't hard. I've written a toy QA system, and it could handle the base case of those - they are just straight querying on Freebase/DBpedia.

The longer question ("the population, land area and capitals of Japan, India and China") was good.

If anyone has a working copy, I'd like to know which of these it can handle:

"Who is Bill Clinton?"

"Who is Bill Clinton's daughter?"

"Who did Bill Clinton's daughter marry?"

If it can get the third level then it's pretty good. From memory something like OpenEphyra can sometimes get that 3rd level, but usually fails.

I thought the contextual querying (where one query led to another and it had to remember the previous details) was pretty good.
Isn't marketing/advertising a huge cost center as well?
NLP Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg
Sure, but why wouldn't the TB3 transceivers be designed to support USB 3.1 as well? Those transceivers have a wide range of dynamic adaptation to support high speed transmission, so it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to adapt to USB 3.1 signalling levels & protocol.
It seems to me that every time anyone tries to do everything at once, they almost always fail. On the other hand I can see how progress is incremental, and we have amazing things after competition and many incremental improvements. Apple is a partial, notable exception, and thus benefited immensely. So, I do hope they succeed, AR would be amazing, but your description of their ambition makes me doubt it.
And also complains dynamic transparency. That would be a way to do real objects occluded by virtual ones, depending on what it means.
Thanks for noting this. A lot of discussion about email encryption and security is clearly from the consumer POV, and most people seem to be unaware of things enterprises already do (using commonly available tools & settings) to secure email. Not that it replaces message encryption via S/MIME or PGP, but companies like https://www.mailvelope.com/ and https://www.virtru.com are trying to help with that.
But I'm saying that they probably will work together. Downgraded, sure, just like when you plug a USB3 hard drive into a USB2 port. It's not fast, but you can get your files off.
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Doctors go to medical conferences to learn about new developments. Pharma companies were/are giving away all kinds of free stuff to doctors (e.g. coffee machines). Moreover they were/are paying for the cost of going to those conferences, sometimes abroad (essentially a sponsored "holiday"). The pharma companies are also giving drugs for free to doctors for a while, ostensibly to test for side effects after the drug has already been approved. The doctor gets compensation for participation in this "research" (no doubt this money is in the R&D budget rather than the marketing budget). The net effect is that a doctor gets paid to use a particular brand. Doctors in hospitals get some drugs for free. When the patient leaves the hospital, he/she will of course continue with the same drug rather than switch to a different brand. The total cost for the patient can be far higher than with some generic brand. These are just some of the marketing strategies pharma companies use.
You should do economy plus. That extra 6 inches is huge.
So this device is basically a rude substitute for "hey would you mind not reclining so far? The seat is hitting my knees."?
For company formation, do it yourself.

It's a trivially small fee and can be done online with Companies House in a very short amount of time and they will auto-notify HMRC in the same go.

For mail forwarding and registered office address... I honestly now think you should only consider one of three options:

1) Your work address if it is a sole-use mailbox and you know you will be there for more than a year.

2) Your accountants address (with their consent).

3) Your home address.

I would not now use a third party for the registered address, the risks are too high. There is no junk or spam mail sent to this address, it really is just actionable and important government communication from Companies House, HMRC, etc.
hehe -- history repeats itself! :)
The marketing budget is really high but the two biggest contributors to that are teaching doctors how to use drugs and handing out free samples of otherwise very expensive drugs. The first is necessary and the second isn't what most people outside of accounting would think of as a cost. Advertising is only a fraction of drug marketing costs.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
This Reddit thread suggests that the video is a concept video, not taken from their PoC: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2zvuoz/occlusion_mas...
Still only have his word to go on. Still no hardware actually demonstrated. Won't believe it till I see it.
Now if you don't recline, you force the person in front of you not to recline, and the person in front on him, and so on. It's just not a very mindful thing to do because you're actively forcing your preferences on everyone else. I feel like not reclining is only fair is there's nobody sitting in front of you or if that person has already not reclined their seat.
SpiderOak and Mega.
I think you're exaggerating on both counts. While rental Wi-Fi in Seoul was cheaper and more reliable (at least last time I was there), broadband in Tokyo is definitely better than America. I may be wrong, but FLETS (NTT's FTTH/FTTB service with 1Gbps speeds) seems to be available everywhere in the 23 wards, and probably most of the urban areas around them.

The real problem is that the prices are high for both broadband and mobile, so many people forego broadband for a Pocket WiFi.

Seoul is probably cheaper than Tokyo (in mobile, broadband and many other things), but that doesn't make it significantly more advanced.

I think the same could be said about software and hardware. I'd like to hear better examples of where Japanese hardware lags behind Korean (in technology level, not sales).
When it comes to software, I'd say both countries are actually ages behind the US, especially Silicon Valley - but almost everyone does.
I'm not very much familiar with the Korean Software market (except for their SEED and ActiveX fiasco), but being a Samsung owner (on my third Samsung phone) who is not an iPhone fan to say the least, I can't say any good word whatsoever about the Samsung Software. Android is a good OS, but once Samsung add their touch(wiz), it becomes a bloated bugfest. The hardware is definitely amazing though.
Indeed, such framing is happening right now in a sibling comment thread about "net neutrality"
Hypothetical response:

"Of course, brudgers, and with your experience I'd hope that you would understand that we don't expect you to replace the $LANGUAGE standard library on this job. However, it's still important to us to know that you have some idea how to do that, even if only as a proxy for the sort of work we do expect you to do on this job. So, mind humoring us and taking a stab at it?"
I liked the style and flow of this piece a lot. I sort of felt like I was left hanging at the end, though. There was no huge reveal or dramatic conclusion, just a bunch of arm waving and strong language.

I wonder if rewriting this so that the ending leaves more of a mystery might help the piece. As it is, I got the feeling the author was trying to tell a story that just wasn't there. Great tone and style, though, and worth the read. This new brand of "Nerd Detective Novel" is really cool. Would love to see more of it.
You need to have a chain of trust somehow... that's the best they could do.
It's more complicated. Apple's position as a hardware company that sells them with very good software is certainly the better position in comparison to Google, Microsoft & co.

Siri (as well as several other similar products) is based on Nuance technologies (speech recognition, text-to-speech, etc). It was recently in the news that Nuance outsourced their voice technology quality control (US based human workers listen to your voice data and checks the speech recognition quality, some workers mentioned they recognized single persons from reoccurring voice data). So your voice data is being processed by several parties.

The two big mobile OS vendors Apple and Google and also smaller players like Microsoft make it incredible hard to not-use their cloud storage&sync offering. Storage space is synthetically limited to low GB, with an high up price for additional storage. An SD-Card slot (= cheap extra storage, as a card is very cheap) is only available in Android devices (third party vendors hardware manufacturers like Samsung, Sony, etc.) but not from Google itself. All the inbuilt sync functionality only works with their own cloud storage, no third party cloud nor a simple sync over Bluetooth, Wifi or USB-cable. They could do better.
Everyone will be wondering what the 8 characters are and the BBC fail to mention it, so here we go:

“http://:” (without the quotes) [1]

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/these-8-characters-crash-s...
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My Amstrad CPC 464:

https://vimeo.com/63990420
Already referenced in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9646971
Realistically, we need to move to decentralization for this. Same way that the distributed github project was like a, "Oh yeah, this is our insurance policy in case GitHub ever becomes garbage."
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I think his point about over and under engineering stuff is spot on. I did both earlier in my career, and I would say that my skill after 12 years is in knowing the correct level of abstraction, and understanding the tradeoffs between various solutions.

(Yet all the interviews I turn up to these days want an hour and a half timed coding challenge to be completed).
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Also US medical data exchange is built on S/MIME: http://www.directtrust.org/
Ooops, my wrong.
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Actively is the keyword here. Not reclining is the passive, default thing to do, because during takeoff you can't recline your seat anyway. If you had to recline your seat all the way back during takeoff, your argument would be valid.
Or researching fast fully homomorphic encryption so they can one day be able to mine data while preserving strong user privacy.
This routinely happens everywhere on the planet. We could protect our citizens from being in car accidents, getting murdered, etc. But those all cost money, and we have made a decision to not spend more money(to hire lots of police, to build lots of public transport) to prevent those deaths.
The original nmap page in the article is back live now.

As much as I hate malware, can we confirm it was sourceforge that got rid of the old page? Maybe someone set up the mirror after a data problem or error rendered the old page blank and just wanted to get it up, or that person was nefarious? (Occasionally people can be "too helpful" on community sites by registering other people's projects).

I guess the question is really who owns sf-editor1/2/3/4.

The reason being I can't see a lot of bonus for someone doing it this way. I'd just put adware in the margins. The site looks sketchy anyway these days so it's not doing them a lot of good...
Agreed. Makes me think of this Louis CK bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4
You mean processes we don't know about? Probably they're out there. In general since a few animals including man lack the enzymes needed to make vitamin C themselves one might imagine that all the rest are indeed benefitting in various ways from that inbuilt metabolic advantage.
I'm all for a real solution, but in the meantime, I would rather not be considered an ideal target due to my school's policies. If I had the option to carry a gun as a college student, at least that would put me on par with other people in the city. I wouldn't even really need to carry a gun; the mere fact that criminals no longer consider me a guaranteed soft target would be an improvement.
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Show HN: Tarantula Env – an improved version of the Fault-localization technique
Hello, a friend of mine, Ramin Armanfar (http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/raminarmanfar/), developed this wonderful tool to execute the Tarantula technique for fault-localization (paper: http://spideruci.org/papers/jones05.pdf) over a dataset. He also implemented his own, improved version of the algorithm also available as a feature in the tool.

I convinced him to put it on GitHub and share it here on HN. I know it's a very specialized topic but the ease of use of this tool will blow you away.

He is currently looking for PhD positions in Europe and the US.

GitHub: https://github.com/raminarmanfar/tarantula-env
My thoughts are basically:

+ "Run your own infrastructure" is currently a pipe dream for what is 99.9% of people.

+ Companies selling data when they go bankrupt or M&As changing the nature of what they do with the collection happens regularly.

+ Discussing ownership is fairly simple as well, "Does the company already have your data?"

+ Any business not based around profiling has a additional options to make more money by selling their (your) data.

Why isnt excess data collection a problem? Is it because its very very hard to solve and if we pass laws bad actors will continue to flaunt them? Is it because we are past the point of no return?
What I don't understand about any of this is why anyone wouldn't just either move their project to Github or self host. Why would you even still have your project hosted on SourceForge?

I understand the author's grief and anger. I feel bad for them really as this will hurt the NMap brand, but come on, avoid the whole situation and just remove the project from SourceForge completely.
The key you linked to seems to have invalid CRC bytes at the end of its ASCII armor - this is why we can't accept it, as it's malformed. http://imgur.com/J1bp73V
Hijacking: tweet at me if you can't seem to get the invite from any of the other kind people.

https://keybase.io/justinas
A site like Github that hosts open source projects brings a lot of value to the community. Great search, and the same UI when going from project to project. This would be much more cumbersome and time consuming if every project was on a different site with a different interface.

Also, many open source projects don't have the money to afford bandwidth costs of providing large software downloads.
The first question returns Wikipedia info, the second two just say "Showing search results for: ...".
I disagree. Your mood is possibly the most subjective experience you can have and it is heavily affected by your own perceptions of what it should be. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for people suffering from all sorts of psychological maladies is significantly effective because we are so able to affect our own perception of reality.

Therefore, they really, really need to do a rigorous experiment before we can derive anything meaningful.
This article is based on the Ericsson Mobility Report. The report discusses smartphone subscriptions, not users, reaching 6.1B.

An interesting statistic from the report is that 90% of the world's population over the age of 6 will own mobile phone (note, not smartphone) by 2020.
lots of people are using robo-advisors and RIA services... so i think that part is already proven.

now as far as webo specifically, if the community gets behind it.. this platform can be as secure, robust and feature-full as any fintech platform out there. btw, we are already pretty sophisticated. we spent quite a bit of time building a full fledged solution that has a plethora of popular features (from tax loss harvesting, to muni substitution, to various rebalancing methods and portfolio accounting)... so a lot is done, but a lot of help is also needed from community.

(magento anyone?)

not to mention our goal is to enable not only RIA's but also developers, by allowing them to create plugins (and possibly profit form it)...(again examples are magento/wordpress)

Need a connector to your favorite custodian? there's an app for that.
Need a more clever rebalancer? there's an app for that.
Need a new theme or improved workflow?
How bout additional ACH features?

our product is highly modularized so having developers hook into the system to expand on the core features is something that's more important to me personally than seeing if s&p 500 will outperform my personal EFT portfolio (which it hasn't ;)
Thank you! You pay for the seat, the space under the seat ahead of you, and the ability to recline. All of that space is rightfully yours. Everyone else on the flight pays for the same and is rightfully theirs. People who don't understand that need to re-evaluate why they are flying. Blocking someone from reclining, in my book at least is a sociopathic move.

There is worse behavior on planes of course. I was once on a flight where I put my backpack under the seat ahead of me and the woman sitting in that seat started kicking it. I firmly pointed out to her that there was a laptop and camera in the bag and that she needed to stop. She informed me that the space under her seat was hers and that I needed to move my bag. The dispute finally ended when she hit the call button and the attending flight attendant eventually had to have her removed from the plane.
Whoa what. Are you suggesting that suspicion of possibly maybe having put a trojan in someone else's files somewhere is grounds to make all one's efforts useless and poisons everything else you do?

Geeze, I guess we should stop using Google. They've been accused and suspected of much worse by a lot of people. I hope that's not what you meant.
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This thread is incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4
Happy Birthday, Swift
Parsing URLs is hard. Writing tests to find potential segfaults is easier.
Yeah, same with the find -printf (at least macports can install coreutils and give you "gstat"). Portability is hard :-/ http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
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None of this is surprising behaviour (insert obligatory Tu quoque argument about other countries).

What seems funny that the behaviour of various workers is eerily reminiscent of various characters in Pelevin's "Generation P" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_%22%D0%9F%22
My interpretation is that deciding not to recline is a conscious, active move on your part.
It worked for me with "what's the capital of the country where the Brandenburg Gate is", and "what's the population of the country with the Eiffel Tower", then "what's the current time there?"

Similarly, the restaurant and hotel demos from the other promo video worked fine. Also with follow-up questions like "and what about ones with free wifi?"
I was wondering the same thing.

Clean up your mess when you're done and you won't have rats.
Android, iOS and Windows apparently fall victim, OSX does not.

Clearing local logs does not resolve the issue, you'll redownload the logs from the server on launch, the culprit message needs to be deleted.
I'm surprised he didn't get worked up to the point where he challenged any particular HN poster to a fight, or just any hater HN regular in general. He got close on some occasions, but never all the way.
20 years ago very few people had laptops. In fact, say 20-25 years ago, flying at all was a luxury (at least for most of us in Europe). I don't dispute that legroom has become stingy as air traffic has increased, but I think it's unfortunate to use ye olden days to set expectations for today. 'Economy' implies getting people from A to B as economically as possible.

An inch of extra legroom means fewer seats on the plane, and even if I had to pay 5% ($40-50) more, then it's too much. Some of the 'premium economy' options aren't that expensive anyhow. I flew Virgin Atlantic in April and only paid something like $60 for a bit of extra room (and as a bonus, because few people do, had an empty seat next to me).

Another thing with regard to your age, and I mean no disrespect, is that I believe ones tolerance for certain kinds of discomfort tend to decrease with age.
Doesn't the bulk of Google's money come from advertising, rather than search?
Can you delete all the code from it? Or do they prevent that as well?
Depends on the project

Small websites (local businesses) - digital ocean
Little larger - rackspace cloud

My most recent project that went live last week uses divshot for hosting (because firebase hosting doesn't do SEO and divshot uses prerender.io), firebase for the backend, cloudinary for image / video manipulation, mailgun for system email, stripe for CC processing, google business apps for office email, raygun for bug tracking, rackspace cloud for admin systems
I'm totally OK with companies "me too"ing this particular feature.
and you've just conflated anti-semitism and calls to boycott Israel, which I would certainly class as intellectually dishonest.
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