skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the PS1's 2MB of RAM are pretty generous compared to some embedded platforms.

A typical engine controller ECU in a car might have 256KB of RAM (and maybe 2-4MB of flash).
Unfortunately, this seems to be about hypothetical product design for a fictional technology, not about the technology itself.
Yeah, I've also wonder about that. I know in my high school a few kids in my physics class did a project with a local bakery to try and cut our machine noise by inverting the sound waves and playing them back to cancel it out... I never found out if they got it to work properly. Cool idea though.
MY friend says that he became a better father when he realised that his daughter wasn't his friend. It's a different kind of relationship. He also said his daughter was nearly 3 before he enjoyed being a dad. They have a great relationship and he has 2 kids now.

I'm a father of a one year old with another on the way, and I'm still getting my head around it.
“What is Code?” is a 38,000 word primer on programming that everyone should read
'Pyramid of Doom'?

Sounds more like something from a certain python web framework to me. ie:

http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest/_downloads/pyramid-a...
What Is 'What Is Code?'
I don't know if Dave Baggett's heroic essay (well, as heroic as a game debugging essay can be), "My Hardest Bug Ever" is part of those blogposts, but it's one of the things I now mentally associate with the legacy of Crash Bandicoot (which apparently involved all manners of engineering feats):

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/M...

HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654905 (with participation from the author, dmbaggett https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dmbaggett)
This looks like a concept piece, not an actual product. An alternative is to simply have soundproof windows. For fresh air without opening the window, you can install a mechanical ventilation and heat recovery (MVHR) unit. These units extract stale air from a room and replace it with fresh (filtered) air. They run continuously 24 hrs. They are installed in homes with air-tight insulation (e.g. homes that meet the Passive Haus standard). You don't get a breeze though when the windows are all closed. To actually move the air around the room, (create a breeze similar to opening a window) you'd need to install a ceiling fan.
I think first you need to separate doing an Assessment from doing Due Diligence.

The Assessment looks at things like

- The domain (does the seller actually own it, can you legally own it - for example .au domains require an Australian business licence)

- The site itself (is the copy unique, are there any violations of Google's Webmaster guidelines, does it rely on any third party apis etc)

- The traffic (where does it come from and in what proportions, how dependent is the site on search, which sources convert, how sustainable are they etc)

- The revenue (can the revenue sources be transferred - e.g. Paypal recurring subscriptions can't, does the seller have a special arrangement with the merchant / affiliate network that you won't have access to etc)

- Operational Requirements (what are the costs / responsibilities / resources that HAVEN'T been disclosed, how much non-accounted for time (seller's time usually) does it take to run the business)

- The Seller (what else do they own, do any of these properties potentially compete, do any of these properties contain useful backlinks to what you're purchasing etc)

Due Diligence then covers verifying the information you have been given

- Does the actual monthly revenue for the last 12 / 24 months accurately match what has been claimed in the P&L
- Can you prove the transactions ONLY originated from the site being sold
- Do the customers seem unique and genuine
- Is the traffic genuine and spoofed
- Are the mailing lists genuine and in good health
- Are any supplier / contractor agreements in place
- Has the business submitted tax returns? In the likely event they don't match the P&L, why?

I've massively oversimplified both processes and doing them properly is more than a Hackner News post could cover. You can have someone do it for you professionally (https://centurica.com) or you can go down the DIY route (https://exitplan.co).
Maybe Hackpad is a very unimportant and low-priority part of Dropbox, and marketing/PR efforts and expenses over it are so out of the question that they don't care about their open source promise.
Not even replying here is a sign of total neglect; I'd attribute this neglect to persistent emergencies diverting resources and management attention, or to incompetence, but not to a deliberate "evil" intent because the only thing to "steal" is a little amount of vague goodwill.
does already a plugin exist that blocks this crap?
While I agree this is probably fictional, the technology of canceling out sound waves (Well any wave) is pretty simple. Obviously filtering and replacing the sounds is more complex, but you could probably filter out external sounds in this way.
I feel a little sad every time someone says "We have much higher CPU power/memory now, those things are unnecessary". Maybe they are right but I feel like this is not the path we should take
They broker transactions. The "good" they produce is the marketplace. eBay is just a website, they also broker transactions to create a marketplace.
Let's ditch HTML/CSS for XAML! No more googling how to vertically align a block in another block. I'm in 100%.
I know.

Queue the "embrace, extend and estinguish" comment...

There is an unreasonable fringe that will never be happy.
From the Designers-making-shit-up-again department as Slashdot would've put it.
This was recently posted to HN, http://tjake.github.io/blog/2013/02/18/resurgence-in-artific...

Which mentions running the NN in reverse, quote

By far the most interesting thing I’ve learned about Deep Belief
Networks is their generative properties. Meaning you can look
inside the ‘mind’ of a DBN and see what it’s imagining. Since a
deep belief networks are two-way like restricted boltzmann
machines you can make hidden inputs generate valid visual
inputs. Continuing with our handwritten digit example you can
start with the label input say a ‘3’ label and activate it then
go reverse through the DBN and out the other end will pop out a
picture of a ‘3’ based on the features of the inner layers. This
is equivalent to our ability to visualize things using words, go
ahead imagine a ‘3’, now rotate it.
Virtual Reality That Moves You
I am curious what do they see if feed with a screenshot of their own code.
Amazon to pay KDP authors 'per page'
>>Greyhounds are optimized exclusively for speed. So are thoroughbred horses. These breeds are fast, but often have issues with every other trait. Health, longevity, personality.

I don't think you have come across many greyhounds. They are by and large lovely dogs with a great personality.
SQL Server has a feature called file tables. Basically it's the ability to dump a bunch of files into a folder, you can then query the contents using semantic search.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff929144%28v=sql.11...
There's four papers linked in the article. The last three (see below) were pretty good, haven't read the first.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.0035v1.pdf

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02753.pdf

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6034v2.pdf
These very same plants used to be very common in Indian cuisine too...

Solanum nigrum - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Black%20Nightsh...
Was a common home cooked item in Tamil Nadu (South India) called Manathakali Keerai in Tamil

Vigna unguiculata - called Karamani in Tamil, is also a very common vegetable in home cuisine of Tamil Nadu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oifwbfSrKWA

Corchorus olitorius - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Nalta%20Jute.ht...
called Punakku, however is used only as traditional cattle feed and considered lowly for human consumption for unknown reasons and is a slang used to insult a person for foolishness or low IQ

Amaranthus - Mollai Keerai
Moringa oleifera - Murungai, very popular and can be seen grown in most homes in rural/semi-urban Tamilnadu, and very popular in Sambhar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKT--cbBmhk
Unless you know completely what you are doing on the gene level, if a species can have more than one desirable trait(phenotype) then it is a gamble to expect that optimizing for one will not diminish any of the rest.

Somehow as a society we understand this, the team sports we create require a blend of abilities that are nearly impossible to find in a single individual -- we find this out after the fact when we get good at optimizing the teams for winning. In folklore/fiction the superheroes are only optimized on a limited set of abilities or if they are too super we throw in "an Achilles heel"/"a Kryptonite".
Nice article!

I think the biggest UX issues in current mobile OS is gratuitous animations and lack of cohesiveness.

Many have transitions that are too long and too much. It's like drinking overly sweet soda, the first sips are nice but you don't want to drink a whole bottle. Animations should be inverse in scope to how often they are displayed.

There's also a tendency of "teleporting" you between pages without a clear spatial navigation structure. Material tries to be fancy by morphing pages to tie pages together but I still think a more linear and clear page navigation would be easier to grasp.
I object.

I object because turning it on and off by hand would be a real drag, so pretty soon it would be on all the time. I object because I have cats, so motion-based recording will get a lot of cat videos.

I don't want to leave a statistical record of when I am likely to be out of my home. I don't want to have video and sound recordings of my home in a subpoenable format. I don't want Google to record my kids running around the living room naked -- instant child pornography charges. I don't want recordings of consenting adults having sex in the living room late at night. I don't want recordings of people having conversations that they didn't think were being recorded. I don't want my friends to stop visiting.

I don't want my home invaded by Google.
Wait, what? Mach, Apache, OpenSSH, OpenSSL are all under Apache/BSD style licenses, not "copyleft" GPL licenses. You clearly don't understand the issues being discussed here; for at least those projects things are working exactly as intended.
"With its concentric broadband antenna rings, it harvests the energy of electromagnetic noise from Wi-Fi, and similar signals and this way also reduces the level of e-smog pollution in your environment."

This is nonsense.
The effect has been known for some time, and the concept isn't exactly new. I'm sorry to say that the presentation looks very amateurish, which makes it rather unconvincing.
Pretty interesting and beautiful. If I was still at my old job I'd love to try and see how helpful this is in teaching NN. My first instinct is that it would be really valuable because they tend to be blackboxy/hard to conceptualize.
Except unlike smartphones, the PS1/N64 did not support VM or even had any storage to page to. So no, it's not the same.
Well, a good part of Foundation (Core Foundation) is already open source:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-855.17/
We need a startup to build alternatives to nest products in the spirit of what lima [1] is as an alternative to dropbox & google drive.

[1] https://meetlima.com/
If you cannot prevent something, you might as well be a part of it. Unofficially.
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>They aren't Facebook or Instagram,

Facebook is different. Facebook actually had/has a ton of revenue.

>they are a monopoly and will make stacks of cash

Airbnb is not a monopoly, there is a lot of competition for space.
You haven't used Django Rest Framework yet! I am 90% confident you will love it ;).
That pops up about once a year. See https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20SQLite%20Is%20Tested&sor... for previous submissions.

An amazing thing about the fuzz tester American Fuzzy Lop is that even with all of the SQLite tests, it managed to find bugs. See http://lcamtuf.blogspot.se/2015/04/finding-bugs-in-sqlite-ea... , and HN comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9376391 .
> the Chinese figured out that by pegging their money to the USD they could simply print more money, pay people more, and their citizens would flourish

This isn't correct. By maintaining a low exchange rate, people were paid less (the government acquired debt in lieu of a higher exchange rate) resulting in China (the people in China) having a lower international purchasing power.

Wealth would have no doubt similarly been accumulated by those that owned the factors of production, but a lower exchange rate deflated China's, and it's citizens', purchasing power, from foreign holidays to domestic essentials, such as oil, and even the price of corn, beans and rice (produced domestically, but prices set largely by international demand).

Why? The government was petrified by unemployment. Closing down government enterprises meant people had to be employed somewhere. Better to have someone working hard all day providing for their family and seeing economic progress (obstensively the East of the country) than back on the farm with too much spare time.

Something different is happening now - from my perspective the East is 'developed enough' and bitterly complaining about pollution. The inner regions, comparatively much poorer, complain about lack of wealth more than pollution - so move some production there (despite significantly increased logistics costs), mainly for the now much larger domestic market, and let development in the East slow (or, slightly, contract - cool the bubble that does exist).

For housing costs - surely things like the EB-5, which for a modest investment can grant a green card for you and your family are a major driving factor.
Minds.com a new privacy-focused & NOT SECURE social network supported by Anonymous.
Hopefully we will not need Unity3d to have high-performance C# engines in browser.
Exactly my point. Now, the interesting question is whether you have a smaller total number of bugs, and amount of impact, with this architecture or that architecture. I don't know about that, but if you are measuring the reliability of microkernels "exactly the same way as any other complex piece of technology", you must keep in mind that you are probably measuring the behaviour of a smaller and simpler thing, and the risk for bugs has been offloaded somewhere else, it has not disappeared.
Crash on OP is a real treat - its also one of my favourite wastes of time from the Pandora repo .. truly wonderful to have it so easily portable!
It seems to me that you have not read my answer at all...You don't address any of my points/questions either.

Also, I do not estimate any trend, so technically I can't overestimate...
Wi-Fi energy harvesting, at least at the level required for active noise-canceling, is very much fictional technology.
How about implementing some sort of paging on top of it, Intel-style?
Hammerhead review
Yep, actually, we are going to develop a kind of hybrid between fully automated plant id service and classical botanist key. I made a this task a topic for student's thesis.
An Alfred workflow to generate fake data
That would be a dream.
Some comments seem to be appreciating (or getting disgusted by) the aesthetics but I think the "inceptionism" part should not be ignored:

We're essentially peeking inside a very rudimentary form of consciousness: a consciousness that is very fragile, very dependent, very underdeveloped, and full of "genetic errors". Once you have a functioning deep learning neural network, you have the assembly language of consciousness. Then you start playing with it (as this paper did), you create a hello world program, you solve the factorial function recursively, and so on. Somewhere in that universe of possible programs, is hidden a program (or a set of programs) that will be able to perform the thinking process a lot more accurately.
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That is probably the basis of the idea. I know it is a long, long way from an idea to the product. I presume that knowledge of acoustics, electronics, digital signal processing, software dev and probably more is needed to transform this idea into a "killer" product.
A few things:

- you don't drop the disk cache; so you're loading from RAM (echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches)
- you don't have very complex code
- you timing includes starting/loading the intepreter itself.
Dart and TypeScript will be as irrelevant as JS. Why Dart if you can have Go/Scala/F#/Haskell/Ruby/etc. compiled to WebAssembly?
It's in Apple's advantage for server-side Swift to take off, and do so quickly and robustly.

It also makes little sense (nor is in character) for Apple to agree to open source Swift and not take a leadership role in the effort.

One step at a time...
I understand what you're saying, but there's some confusion there – of the projects you've listed, none of Mach, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and Apache are copylefted – they all use permissive licensed. And regarding CUPS and Webkit/kHTML, I think it's difficult to argue that Apple 'only released patches because of their legal obligation' – they were the primary developers of those projects.

But more importantly, I don't think it is a disingenuous complaint, and it's the basis of most commercial software. I build software – we release some component parts as open-source, which the proprietary bits on top are how we can make value. And it seems like that benefits everybody!
There is one already :-P

Agree this is unreasonable and makes no sense. "Embrace" is Microsoft releasing IE and "Extend" is adding IE only features and "Extinguish" is killing Netscape. How is Microsoft open sourcing C# or, in this case, Apple open sourcing Swift in any way an "Embrace" of an existing technology or standard in an attempt to destroy it?

We have Apple open sourcing Swift, Google open sourcing Go and MS open sourcing C#. Things have never been safer from the EEE strategy, indeed nobody seems to be even using it anymore.
Seen some of these around... what I've been craving for is a little pdf of web api design.
> Don't like it? Don't get a license.

Or, if you don't like it, you can complain like the FSF does, in addition to not getting a license.

(To be clear, by legally acquired, I meant paying a developer for a copy of software. The fact that the developer can dictate what the customer does with the software is the status quo that the FSF is complaining about.)
Open-source apps deployed and hosted for free
FTA: Control flow can be manipulated as data.

That's an interesting perspective, I've never seen it that way before. I would love to learn more about this, as a non-Haskeller.
Dispatch the small rouge one!
Uses or wastes? I.e. is 10k-balloon-equivalent helium released or reused?
I don't want my home invaded by Google.

But think of the benefits!

They can see what you watch on TV and use that to tailer offerings and discounts. They can see what brands you wear. They can see what you read. They can transcribe what you talk about.

All of this is about to immensely improve their ability to offer you relevant brands and services. Yay!
How our app got covered by Business Insider, Washington Post and many others
Yes and Facebook is probably one of the only of those who started with growth rather than looking for profit that has in fact become profitable. But they still haven't managed to make the amount of money back that was invested in them.
Apple+mines+big+profits+from+Watch+band+|+Abomus+News
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Zed points to a very real problem - it's easy for us to forget what we know. But there's another problem with targeting beginners. They are all over the place in terms of experience.

Computing is so tightly woven into our world not that it's hard to find people who have more than a passing interest in it who have not find some way to try to code as kids. Even with those who haven't, there's a gulf between people who have tried to do a little HTML editing (and know what a file is) and people who haven't. There's no one place to start. From Zed's description it looks like he's starting from the lowest possible point, but what are the demographics like there? How many people are in that space and are they mostly adults or children?

I think this is one of the main reasons why you don't see much beginner's material.
I'm not sure that is the credo. At least, it's not the credo behind the GPL. Every day I use software that is at least partly GPL code, but I can't access the source code. Why? Because I used a webapp. If the software you use is running on a server rather than your local machine then the GPL says you don't get to have 'freedom'.

So "users" isn't a useful distinction when it comes to Free Software, because the GPL doesn't guarantee freedom for users. It only guarantees freedom for the person who owns and controls the hardware.
It is very much a VM, in that it executes generic bytecode. Furthermore the Javascript engines of modern browsers (on which this proposal is based) do JIT JS. Not having GC doesn't mean it's not a VM.

Quoting the wikipedia article of p-code:

> In computer programming, a p-code machine ... is a virtual machine designed to execute p-code
You can get two Ubiquiti UniFi micro cameras for that price:
https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-video/unifi-video-camera-micro/
Sure but that doesn't change the fact that they don't need the money, they could do it with their own current revenue and still be in the lead.

This to me looks more like a for investors to milk the value of an AirBnB that is doing quite well already and doesn't need those money.
> The point is that the current trend of companies releasing stuff under non-copyleft licenses and keeping the 'good stuff' in proprietary forks is bad for free (FSF-style) software.

Copyleft is meaningless without Copyright.
Apple created Swift, and thus owns the Copyright.
As the Copyright owner, Apple can licence/release Swift or parts-thereof, as it chooses.
Even if they did release Swift under the GPL, nothing would prevent them from also using a non-released version of Swift or from keeping certain parts/libraries in-house.

> You might still think that free software is unimportant or that having pseudo-freemium open source release is still better than nothing.

I think its both insulting and an incredibly narrow-view to call permissively licensed software "pseudo freemium".
I wouldn't call C# a super dominant language. it is extremely popular in the corporate world, where paying for something is seen as a good thing, because it means you've got support from a vendor.

In the start up culture, where technological innovation and taking risks are core values, people tend to favor maximum freedom and maximum technological possibilities, which are often in contradiction with what a corporation would like you to do.

Now that corporations want to have the same level of innovation you usually find in start ups, they start to want to use the same tools and embrace a bit of its culture. Note that Microsoft saw that and have announced massive open sourcing of every part of the .Net ecosystem just this year (which made a big impression here on HN, judging by the comments).

And now we've got Apple and swift, and people start to wonder if it's going to be "Ballmer" open sourcing, "Nadella" open sourcing, or "Stallman" open sourcing.

It's not just a matter of ideology. It will have practical consequences on the possibilities of using the language on every server configuration, of building innovative software with it, things even people at Apple wouldn't anticipate. Or if you're going to remain constrained to where Apple wants to allow this technology to grow.
No but that doesn't change the fact that its the same people involved in that small ecosystem.