skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shorter range, proprietary setup/configuration process, cycle IDs (crashing some android bluetooth stacks). They really want you to pay for the backend - wouldn't be surprised if they're sold at cost.

The batteries don't last as long as advertised either, but that's pretty much been true for all of the devices I've tested.
I really want to start using unikernels but I'm not sure where to start. I really like MirageOS but being limited to OCaml is a barrier to entry for me. As an alternative, I'm looking at OSv because it works with the JVM. And lastly, I'm keeping an eye out on hyper.sh because I feel like it can conceptually solve some of the same problems as unikernels, except leveraging existing investment in docker.

As a dev with most of my experience being in JavaScript, Java, and Python, is there any advice you could give me?

tia
Because they're jewelry.
There's no real collaboration with external parties as far as I am aware ala the Node Foundation, the Linux Foundation etc;

And even if a device passes CTS, Google would not automagically hand you the keys to the Google Play Services kingdom.

As for Play Store / Play Services is concerned, they've been moving a lot of code to closed-sourced APKs. For instance, the default browser was open source, now the default browser that's Chrome isn't. The default keyboard was, now it isn't. The Camera app was, now it isn't. They started out being more open than where they are now. And that's my beef with AOSP.

I don't have the count of number of bugs non-Google employees fix. The percentages may be negligible, but the impact is high-- They do seem to be looking at mods elsewhere (swipe to dismiss notification? battery percentage in the status bar? open apps from lockscreen? CyanogenMod had them first), and they did just brought in Knox from Samsung recently.

Also, I am not asking for free Play Store support, no sir; I am asking for an open and standardized integration of multiple appstores and related services. But I guess that's not possible (see first line), and elaborate hacks such as MicroG need to be put in place https://github.com/microg (a loosing battle, IMO).
Nice article. And, yes, I am well aware.
Thanks for your support! We certainly hope to lower the barrier as much as we possibly can for users to get immediate turn-key access to supercompute resources without the need to be a hardware or computer science expert to get things up and running.
Or anyone in that region?
This is very interesting and a source of frustration I have with New Relic and the other alerting services we use. New Relic uses a 5-minute rolling average for error rates, and alerts when that average goes above some threshold. However, that means that it takes ~5 minutes from a spike occurring to an alert being created - even if the error rate has increased to 50%.

It would be much better for it to be doing this sort of outlier detection - a gradual increase in error rate to 3% should not trigger a critical alert, whereas a big jump in error rates should trigger an alert quickly.

Has anyone implemented a system like this?
Going mobile with React Native (a full tutorial)
Oh goodie, I love these questions.

I'm going to assume the following is true about you:

1. You can translate someone's desires for a product into a software spec.

2. You can translate a spec into a real, working piece of software by programming it using your favorite languages and tech stack.

3. You can do the above in a reasonable amount of time, reliably and consistently, and follow a project deadline with milestones without too much supervision.

4. Your friend is asking for this because he wants to market it as part of a product or service.

Great! If you want to be fair to him and give him "mate's rates" then charge him $2000 per week.

Why $2000 per week? Here is the logical progression:

1. You have the aforementioned, assumed skills (which I am deducing from you being a developer of 3 - 4 years) that make you very valuable.

2. Your floor for making an iOS app for a client would be $5000 per week. Why? Because it's mostly arbitrary and it's what the market would pay, and I assure you the market would bear someone of your skills being paid this much money.

3. $2000 per week is a vastly discounted rate from the $5000 figure quoted above, which is appropriate for friends. Note that this is appropriate for friends working together as business partners, not for something so insignificant that a friend is doing it pro bono. That you want to be paid at all indicates this situation is not the latter.

When I do technical consulting I always bill weekly. I fundamentally disagree with billing hourly for a variety of reasons, so I think you're right that you should not be billing hourly.

If you don't want to bill weekly you can set an entire project fee. In that case, I would take the above amount and multiply it by the number of weeks you anticipate working.

What I would emphasize to you is that pricing is basically arbitrary. You simply charge the highest amount the market will bear. If this project is worth doing and "serious" enough to warrant you being paid, you might as well be paid generously, even if it is very discounted for a friend.
Ya, Rex is great.
Nice!

Of course this isn't ever actually used - in practice users choose four to eight digit passcodes.

Users should, if they want to secure their information, use a randomly chosen passcode of approximately 30 digits long.
You absolutely can. The FFT is one cycle of a Discrete Fourier Transform, and since this data is both discrete and in regular intervals, it should behave identical to just sampling an audio signal.
OMG, Webpack... you love it and you hate it.... and it never gets easier!
https://twitter.com/devops_borat/status/248770195580125185
Google makes more off of iOS ads than Android ads worldwide (which goes to my suggestion that Apple users have more disposable income and thus higher ad rates.) It's not hard to look up. Google makes less than $1 Billion off of Android app sales/ads quarterly, which in Google's financials is practically nothing. Their capital expenditures in that space wipe most of that out anyhow.

I'm not sure why this is controversial, it's in their financials.
I miss Perl. It was the first programming language I learned as a kid. I read the entire Perl for dummies book when I was 14 and uploaded my first script to a "cgi-bin" shortly after. Thanks Larry for your contributions!
I really like the philosophy behind AeroFS and how I get to keep my data on my computers only, but recently the app is taking up more and more RAM. I've seen it creep up to over 1GB until I restart it, and that's only with a 10GB shared folder between 3 machines.

Aside from that, I've never really looked back since deleting Dropbox and my account there.

Hopefully this round of funding brings about some performance improvements :)
> I'm naturally suspicious of faith-based engineering.

LOL. I like that comment. However, engineering is part science and part art. The art part often has a significant component of faith.

Moore's Law is a good example of faith-based engineering--because we had faith it would happen we committed resources to make it happen. And that operated well for almost 40 years.

I view self-driving cars in the same light--there is now faith that it will happen, so people are now committing resources to make it happen. And there don't seem to be any insurmountable problems (the biggest problems are "vision" being power and CPU intensive, but a car is a very high-density power source).

I do understand your point, though, initially many people regarded self-driving cars as "AI" and that, of course, remains elusive.

However, what the engineers quickly figured out was that you don't need to approach the problem as AI. There are much simpler heuristics--which is not surprising since driving is a background task for most humans.
> The anti-innovation mindset that pervades in this industry just baffles me.

Developers in the industry are often in the business of selling their experience with particular technologies. New technologies becoming popular reduces the market value of that experience. The "anti-innovation" mindset -- and more specifically the public dismissal of new alternatives -- is often simple self-interested marketing.
And many banks too.
Except, individuals don't own accounts at DTC, so you'll have to hack and twiddle a few bits here and there of the custodial bank as well. But these are reconciled each day against Security Position Reports generated at the end of the day, so your bits need to reconcile with trades. So you need to hack and twiddle a few bits here and there for a chosen counterparty as well. Except, the exchanges keep track of trades too, so you'll have to twiddle a few bits here and there for an exchange as well.

It's not as simple as this at all, which is why the system has existed for decades. It's not the most efficient, but it's not something that will be replaced by a hackathon project either.
Just for comparison this is almost the same using a library [1]:

import numpy as np
X = np.array([ [0,0,1],[0,1,1],[1,0,1],[1,1,1]])
y = np.array([[0,0,1,1]]).T

from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers.core import Dense

model = Sequential([Dense(3, 1, init='uniform', activation='sigmoid')])
model.compile(loss='mean_absolute_error', optimizer='sgd')
model.fit(X, y, nb_epoch=10000)
model.predict(X)

[1] http://keras.io
Affording Affordances in a Fast Paced Tech World
There is no magic formula. Find clients who will write you checks. That is often more work than the work because consultants are a last resort for most businesses [and for those that seem eager, it is sometimes because they don't plan on paying]. That said, existing consultants are often a good place to start because subcontracting out work balances fluctuations in workloads without a hire/fire cycle.

God luck.
Show HN: QFC, Quick Command-Line File Completion
Just read other comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9888496
It is reproducible, it is recoverable, it is not a problem.
You raised the point. I just called attention to it.

Also, ad hominem.
What are the 2 big projects?
You're over-exaggerating :) From the wiki link, the very first definition works just fine. In fact, I don't see anything about unions, disjointedness in there. Certainly, no group theory. You don't need to know how to construct, count(cardinality) or know the properties of integers(number/group theory) to know what they are for the purposes of programming. No, there's no cabal making everything more difficult than it needs to be ;D I think wiki always gets unfairly maligned for this sort of thing.
I've mentioned before that the declining ability to extract profits from the search advertising business was going to lead to stricter cost controls. I've been in enough companies that have gone through that process to know it can be really hard on the employees. The good news is that if you survive it, you are much stronger for it.
You can choose to set a complex password which can be as long as you want and use the full keyboard
Meth, mainly.
The electronic viewfinder on some Sony Alpha cameras have RGB and white pixels.
The first time I saw "use strict"; at the top of a JavaScript file, I wiped a little tear for Larry Wall.
How difficult is it to configure this? Users should definitely choose passphrases of sufficient length and sufficient types to be secure. This is unfortunately an infamously tricky area of security to get right.
No, not even the scattered disc got in. On the other hand - since the Oort cloud is up to 100,000 AUs[1] away from the sun - it would have added a bit of scrolling at the end of the page.

[1] 100,000 AUs: ~150,000,000,000,000 kilometres (big space is big)
Someone asked him a similar question at the last YAPC in Salt Lake City in June. "What's with the [colorful] shirts?" He replied, "I like the colors."
Slightly off topic, but has there been any "State on the Onion" updates since 2007[0]? I always looked forward to reading these and was surprised to find nothing new since I last checked some years ago.

[0] http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html
CVE-2015-2733 in Firefox 38 [1].

> Publish Date : 2015-07-05

> Last Update Date : 2015-07-07

Admittedly, most CVEs tend to take longer, but there's your counterexample.

[1]: http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-2733/
I'm working on one called Full Stack Goto that's going to be downright exceptional.
Thus site requires you to use it through Facebook authentication? Um, no thanks.
Double refresh rate first, this would help a tiny amount with input lag as well.
There are more POODLEs in the forest
Commodore PET Android Phone
My favorite place on Reddit. It's a goldmine of ridiculousness.
True for pictorial photography but color accuracy is very important in other fields, art reproduction and science for example.
The technology behind Trending Now is discussed here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/02/whats-trending-on-netfli...
I'm convinced this is a joke, but http://www.wired.com/2015/07/commodore-smartphone/ says otherwise.
Don't track me :)
That's bad writing from the blog author who's trying to paraphrase this:

[...] the authors estimated that the excess risk of childhood leukaemia was 12% per millisievert of cumulative red bone marrow dose from background gamma radiation (Kendall et al, 2012).

... where (Kendall et al, 2012) refers to http://www.nature.com/leu/journal/v27/n1/full/leu2012151a.ht....
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Definitely this.

I don't have issues with Firefox integrating useful functionality into the browser, but what they did with the pocket integration was delegate their duty of protecting users' privacy to a third-party, profit-driven company that does not have users' best interests at heart.

This is an act that betrays the trust that users have placed in Mozilla.
That's exactly what I'm referring to. e.g. Q4 2014 to Q1 2015 (going back to 2011).
Yea but as long as iPhones are locked down so they can only talk to iBeacons then no other BLE beacon is going anywhere.
Deploying a React App to Cordova
You squeeze your probability mass into universes where the problem is solved, and therefore you are more likely to find yourself existing in those universes. What this means for your actual experience, is that as soon as you turn the quantum suicide machine on, you should expect to see it output a correct answer and not kill you. You can never observe the machine output an incorrect answer, nor can you observe your own death.

>Which does make it strange that quantum physics does not seem to give us any way to "get at" all this computation that must be going on behind the scenes.

Why should it?

Also if parallel worlds can interact with each other and aren't entirely separate, then we probably wouldn't exist. The first parallel world to develop a way of taking over other parallel universes would win. The optimal self replicator that can spread through all universes would take over everything.
On the other hand, those will be separate implementations on different browsers

Unless more than one browser uses, say, the same video codecs, or the same third-party DRM-related module, or the same system services for doing hardware-accelerated 3D rendering.

There may be some marginal advantage to having different implementations in different browsers, but marginal is probably all it is. Realistically, as things we used to do in the likes of Flash or Java move into browser-native implementations, there is still no reason to assume that the people writing those implementations will magically produce completely secure implementations where no-one ever has before.
I imagine the difference is what we can do vs. what is far beyond today's ability. And triggering a quake is fine even if it releases full force assuming the payoff is we get (for example sake only) a 7.1 quake today and avoid a 9.1 in 100 years.
that's funny... I kind of wrote the article exactly because all those points apply to my workflow. You're entirely welcome to your own opinion, but just because it's good enough for you, doesn't mean it's good enough for everyone =)
It seems as if policy is being set based on a strange puritanism.

Ideally there would be a kind of Darwinian sorting of authoritarian bluenoses on NSAIDS and acetominphen and everyone else having access to effective stuff that doesn't kill you in the name of preventing euphoric effects.
That was supposed to be children. My phone went weird.
I'm not following. What's the orthogonal (B) point?

(I seriously wasn't saying you were trying to bait me into giving you more ammunition for a stupid argument, but I'm pretty sure you really are implying that I introduced a bogus topic.)
Cool. The largest solar system model is in Sweden[1], with Pluto being 300 km away from the Sun[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_Globe
Sadly, that article sounds like it mig be mostly true.
UHDTV's Rec.2020 colour space actually changes the primaries, which is fantastic, but not a lot of monitors support it (yet? hopefully) and cameras seem to only support it in video mode, which hopefully is also only temporary. I'd love to shoot my photos in Rec.2020 and then view them on a 4K monitor that has the same super wide gamut!
Yeah i've seen that car, theres also this classic mustang that this texas company was working on. I think the biggest issue (like always) is battery location and storage.
The problem with "evolutionary" circuits is that 99.99% of them don't work very well (dead organisms).

And that .01% often optimizes some weird corner case that kinda, sorta works but isn't really a "solution" (sickle cell anemia).

And in the .000001% case generates something genuinely useful (vision).

Gee, sort of like actual evolution, no?
> but less common support for external APIs (which more commonly support Java/Ruby/Python/etc.)

Yesterday, there were an even 60 CPAN module releases, and that is a pretty typical day. Most of them weren't NEW modules, but some were.

It's true that you don't as often see Perl APIs released along with the various 'external API' things, but, as someone who probably spends too much time tracking the various new hot things, Perl API support is first rate. It's damn rare that I don't see a Perl API for something, even if it's relatively new.

I'be been watching CPAN for a long, long time, and I will say that it's more vibrant and active now than I have ever seen it.
This decision is covered in extensive detail in Making of the Atomic Bomb.

It was deliberated extensively, in a time before governments had lawyers at every target committee. One of the generals, LeMay, said there was no way to avoid bombing civilians because the Japanese had "deintegrated" their industry (his comment was that after bombing a civilian area, they noticed every house had a drill press still standing after everything else burnt down).

Nagasaki, by the way, was a last-minute addition due to weather at the planned target for the second bomb.
Seconded, but it appears to be down now. The great thing about that one is it treats the Moon as one pixel and doesn't change scale.
Had a similar problem with the dropbbox linux client from the early days.

I installed the script and ran "dropbox" on a new machine. Maybe It was because I created the destination folder before maybe because I had to kill the deamon at sometime to restart... no idea. It begun to delete my entire stuff in the dropbox.

Not really a problem for me because I store no important stuff in it, but i was kinda buffled. Even it could be a mistake by me, this stuff should not happen so fast.
That's one point in the pessimistic discussion. Worse that most of the tools hit NP-hard problems whose solutions leverage a combination of public knowledge, esoteric wisdom (often trade secret), and many PhD's worth of algorithms. It's going to be... really hard... to duplicate them plus their results in proprietary or FOSS.

Personally, I'd just suggest Bill Gates or another fat cat buy Mentor (cheapest) then dual-license their stuff and offer discounts for early years to startups. Or discount + royalty strategy. Results might get very interesting in terms of innovation.
If there ever was a reason to work on smart property, here it is.
I use a password manager (1Password) to generate a strong, unique, password for every site.
How did Dropbox do on your test?

I'd love to see a blog post describing your test protocol, if you have time to write one.
I believe that's missing a zero. It costs 40,000 to 50,000 RMB after subsidies.
Regarding devops alert spam, on the one hand it's possible to setup rules and filters and tweak notifications just right, but that is often an initial hassle.

Possibly a startup opportunity to offer an easier option with error logs + machine learning.
Sony's doing some fantastic things right now, and I can only hope they gain enough traction to see things through. The RX100-III is bloody impressive, although I'd still like it if I could take stills at 4K/Rec.2020

As for the eye, it's both field of view and ambience, so cameras are hit twice when it comes to overcoming a hurdle: they can only do absolute capture rather than contrast, and their apertures (which control how much light hits the sensor at all) aren't particularly dynamic so they can't microadjust.

Still, there's lot of promise out there, it'll just... take a while. A Foveon-style light field sensor without the noise of the Foveon X3 (its gamut was HUGE, much bigger than Rec.2020) can have my money as fast as I can throw it at the screen, really.
>Of course, 2450 by 1634 pixels is wider than what you're publishing to the internet, and of course that zoom range means nothing in terms of what you're used to from "interchangeable SLR lenses" since the lens has to work for light fields, not planar recording, and you've never worked with a lens that has to do that, so your knowledge of what is a "safe" zoom range for dSLR is absolutely irrelevant for a Lytro camera, but you're going to lie to yourself and pretend you know what you're talking about, and you won't be buying a Lytro camera, and that's the battle we're fighting

I had seen the Lytro camera ages ago and had forgotten it. I later rediscovered it and did some minor research and decided against it.

Now I want to do more research because they're putting up a pretty good argument...

Beyond that - this entire article was very informative and enjoyable to read. I wish I had a bit more to comment on other than I like some of the wit they throw in.
The Cavium thing is worrisome, because that's a part that might be on the BOM of a bunch of other products. Cavium makes network processors and TLS offload devices.
Starting too big
Well, not exactly, since GDrive just moves the files to the Trash, it doesn't delete them immediately. The user had to manually purge the Trash after moving the files.

That said, they're both brain-dead UIs, yes.
It certainly doesn't have to be flatmap. But the idea is that someone takes some time to think up an English name and does a bit of user testing to make sense to regular programmers.

This seems to be the approach that Elm is taking. (Although they're reluctant to add monads at all since they take ease of use seriously.)
All this stuff suggests to me (someone shoot me down) that it's an especially good idea to be incorporated in Delaware. This is the level of drama associated with something as mundane as who has physical possession of stock certificates!
I for one, find the lengths people go to seem unique incredibly hilarious, it takes a special kind of person to call himself a lover of a programming language.
You're giving a lot of people much more credit than they deserve.

http://fishcantseewater.com/