skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the same reason that alternative implementations of Python never got the kind of traction they deserve, because 90% of the gems, libraries and everything are specifically tailored to MRI and it's always harder to play catch up.

Also, the strong anti-Java culture in the Ruby community probably didn't help (even though JRuby has nothing to do with Java, or very little).
Would you rather be an 'untouchable' in India or a 'chav' in the modern UK? They're both weak members of their respective societies, but the latter gets healthcare, shelter, and food supplied by the state if they can't provide for themselves.
Similarly I used to think that resolutions above 320 x 256 are just unnecessarily hi-fi. After that it becomes very difficult to see individual pixels, so how can you really appreciate the artwork of the game anymore?
Jesus, just google similar researches in 2011, which has been done in "safe environment" without naming manufacturers etc. etc. and in 2015, after 4 years we see that manufacturers did say "meh, thank you but no, we aint gonna do shit about it"

How about that - "Fiat Chrysler now says that 10 vehicles from its 2013, 2014 and 2015 model years are vulnerable to hacking, including five 2013-2014 Ram truck models, the 2014 Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee, the 2014 Dodge Durango and 2014 Dodge Viper, and some 2015 Chrysler 200s."

and that - "Miller and his associate, Chris Valasek, director of vehicle security research at the consultancy IOActive, estimates that hundreds of thousands of Fiat Chrysler vehicles on the road today could be vulnerable. That’s unsettling." just read people! 2013 models. And now, this a hole calling police because this guys opened your eyes. Wouldn't it be better if they made "safe" test again, manufacturers ignore it AGAIN & then some sick bastard simply crashed thousand of those?

And yes the main thing I like is - “Customers can either download and install this particular update themselves or, if preferred, their dealer can complete this one-time update at no cost to customers.” DOWNLOAD & INSTALL THEMSELVES? What? but yeah right blame the researches of course.

"In case any of you think this was cool or even remotely (no pun intended) ethical, I'd like to know if you have a problem with letting these two test this on a loved one's car. How about they remotely poke around your husband or wife's car and explore, as long as they promise not to intentionally trigger anything?"

I would certainly let this guys to check on my car and my wife's car, just to make sure that if it can be hacked then I'd better get rid of that crap and sue a holes which let me drive a car which can be controlled remotely. Cause I would rather trust ex NSA and current director of vehicle security research at the consultancy IOActive, rather than have even a 0,00001% chance that some unknown hacked crew can end my life sipping coffee in starbucks.
Thanks for your post - and welcome to HN, we appreciate your posting here. On reflection I chose to delete the comment, unfortunately I saw that you wrote a reply to it afterward. I think my comment was overly critical.

I think the key insight that a lot of people may miss in your post is about timing - the first email your post quoted from Brian said they wanted to close $100K to operate "for the next 4 months", so a closing time 6 weeks later (1.5 months into that period) is quite late in that process. Early stage companies are radically underfunded and at times running on vapors. If you hadn't closed in time and the company had died, you never would have written about "the time you killed a $25 billion company* by not investing in time when you were the only investor who they could still count on". You would have long-since forgotten them.

So the lesson to investors is to cut the check! You may not have another opportunity.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same deal that smiles today
To-morrow will be dying.
Uber push their own financing program to recruit drivers (or to get drivers to update their cars). They use subprime lenders and claim that even people with poor credit are eligible https://get.uber.com/cl/financing/

If you're recruited by Uber, enter into a loan, and then Uber drops the rates to a level where you're not profitable, that can be a problem. There are a bunch of stories of this kind, eg: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/uber-drivers-struggle... http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/27/uber-promote...
Does anyone know what happened here[0]? The input text was "This is a test. Reeeeeeeeeeeeee!", and I chose the third style.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/6B9JkjC.png
Pinker takes a strong normative position on what constitutes violence and what does not. I think if he had said, 'this is how I'm defining violence, and here's why, but if you were to define it another way, you might reach different conclusions', I'd feel less critical of his claims. To me, his argument is too unambiguous and he ultimately overreaches. (And - further - what does and does not constitute coercion or violence in the 21st century is the truly interesting question.)

If his conclusion had been, maybe we're seeing a drop in a particular form of violence and we're not entirely sure why but here are my thoughts (ahem, development of the atom bomb perhaps?), I would have agreed with him, but he wouldn't have sold all those books...
Exploit to get root on OS X 10.10 fits in a tweet
We're using JRuby in some core projects and it's great.
From my experience (moved 2 high load projects to Jruby) transition to JRuby from Ruby is not just changing Ruby version. But often you spend around 1-2 weeks to move medium size project on it, change some gems and configure Java options to not have out of memory errors.
So it works fine, I'd not say that it works much faster than latest Ruby. But I think that main reasons why you should switch are multithreading and Java libs. We switched because of we was need to use latest Java libs for Kafka.
But the main disadvantage is that sometimes when you need to deal with Java objects you need to think about object data type casting (from Ruby object to Java and vice versa). And this is
extra actions, extra memory usage.

I'm very happy to see JRuby 9000 and hope we'll upgrade soon.
My apologies for my gratuitous negativity. I guess that's the reason why I'm downvoted.
fallocate doesn't do any IO; it's much faster.

From the fallocate man page:

> For filesystems which support the fallocate system call, preallocation is done quickly by allocating blocks and marking them as uninitialized, requiring no IO to the data blocks. This is much faster than creating a file by filling it with zeros.
I built a third party app using their API, I always wondered the reasons for shutting down the site as it just went down one day with along with its API and a vague message on their homepage.

They had a web crawler indexing all publicly accessible songs or mp3 files which made up their search, the API let you query this database including a cached version of the song hosted on their servers. They weren't just a search engine, my app streamed the cached content as the direct URLs to the public files weren't always that reliable (slow, 404'd).
Summer+Sports/Outdoor+Patchwork+Sexy+Tankini+Bikini+DSW-332562+-+TinyDeal
Whoever uses "analyzation" publicly deserves to have a failed start up.
I remember I once needed to catch a cab to the airport at this time, and I was lugging a big ass suitcase. Knowing full well that standing on the side of the road with that suitcase, a cabby would never stop, I hit it behind a tree. I hailed the cab, open the passenger door, then said "one sec", ran and grabbed the bag and dragged it into the back seat with me. Oh man, was he pissed.
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Yeah, you can interpret that the way that dangero did. I think the interesting thing there is that streaming music services of that era (including Internet radio) were generally unlicensed and operating on slightly-questionable interpretations of copyright law that had them paying nothing. So, if Jobs' complaint was that there are these other companies that weren't paying a cent, and could play music anyway (including on Jobs' devices), that would "inhibit a deal" because it wouldn't be rational for Apple to pay either.

Depends, as always, what "innovative" means. Are cities against innovation in transportation? If the innovative thing is ignoring regulations that nobody else has thought to ignore, then yes, of course they are. (As with copyright, it's not obvious that the regulations are good, but they are what's on the books.)
Assembly was doing this & pivoted to an entirely new idea/model.

Here's the old version:
https://cove.assembly.com/
I don't think it's that common a pattern. All those perlisms make code unreadable anyway. I much prefer things like match with named captures, which generally make everything more obvious.
Looking forward to reading with some kiddos I know who are big fans.

Too bad they don't take the same care in developing other Seuss projects... it was just awful what they did to the Lorax in the last movie. Poor Dr. probably rolled over in his grave.
For what it's worth, I like the original title on the article better.
Kind of amusing that the article explains how to set up the development environment using VirtualBox. I doubt many Linux kernel hackers use or want to use VirtualBox. At least, many ones working with mainline.
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1. Apple was not a monopoly at that time.
2. How do you rigorously tell, which company is big and which is small?
3. This is a competitive market and ethics is not something that should be regulated. If people have a problem with a company's ethics, they should just stop using their products.
That is not correct. Quantum mechanics has both a unitary and a non-unitary evolution. The non-unitary evolution is quantum measurement/collapse:

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wave_function_collapse

How to reconcile them in a satisfactory theory is an open issue, but non-unitary measurements play a crucial role in many quantum protocols, including, for example, quantum teleportation.
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Yet, until these things are empirically verified, they're "common sense", not science.
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I thought "most" altcoins were simple Bitcoin or Litecoin clones with changed parameters. What sort of numbers are you estimating "most" from?
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It's odd that we feel this way when the opposite is closer to the truth. Citites change so much, but the forest near my house where I grew up is probably almost the same as when I left.
I think the first time I started pushing for real version control and semi-reproducible builds in embedded device development was in 1991, when I was working on medical diagnostic devices. I really can not believe that in 2015 there are still places the still don't adhere to simple practises like that...many places unfortunately.

I mean it's like wearing pants. It's fine if you do not want to wear pants at home but once you're at work and doing something in a professional context it seems like a reasonable minimum bar to expect everyone to live up to.
Of perhaps you should simply shy away from global perlisms in a Ruby app, which are really bad practice anyway.
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/h...

Can you tell the difference between uncompressed vs 320 kbps vs 128 kbps in a blind test?
Yeah, it's interesting how we pretty much hit the ceiling on digital audio quality more than a decade ago. If I'd built my computers instead of buying premade, I could still be using the audio card I bought in 2000 and not have any problems with it. That's so alien to the general hardware experience.
I didn't downvote you, but I suspect you're being downvoted because there's a growing suspicion in these comments that this startup was breaking the law.

Large companies are more regulated in that regard: Apple can't deploy a questionably-legal music streaming service as easily as a startup can. Startups can afford to do this because the risk is that they shut down, the founders walk away basically intact because of the corporate veil, and nobody else is affected. Apple doesn't have that option.

If Apple were forced to work with the startup, the startup would have to adopt the same risk profile and approach to the law as Apple. Arguably, that's exactly what happened here, through Apple calling attention to them.

(Note that I'm not expressing an opinion on whether the law is correct. It is what it is. I hear good reasons to believe that Aereo was wrongly decided, but they still took a legally risky approach and lost at the Supreme Court, and the option for an orderly shutdown via bankruptcy existed because they were a startup doing nothing else.)
I didn't downvote you...

But they way you worded it seems to suggest that the VC wasn't telling the truth. At this stage, he has the benefit of the doubt.
Walking next to a busy street is unnerving and stressful to me (to me it seems as though the noise is the biggest problem), so I can easily imagine there being no positive effect. However, walking down a quiet alley with no cars (audible or visible) has to me nearly the same meditative effect as walking in nature. Not alle urban settings are the same, so I could imagine there being a positive effect in some. (Structurally some small pedestrian-only alley from Renaissance times in the town I grew up in actually feels very similar to nature.)
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In fact, the first result (which is duplicated several times) is calling Songbird an 'iTunes killer' - quotes included - and mentions Seeqpod as one of the plugins, saying:

> it expands your library exponentially, assuming you’re down with the kind of quasi-legality involved
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This is not a very HN comment even if true.
I can see how you interpret it that way, but since this is a published "handshake deal" protocol, I'm not sure that's how it's meant.
But, you can do business and be successful whilst keeping your integrity intact.

I think that integrity is essential in building trust, which is important in any kind of business relationship.
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I think it's actually makes you look secure in your self, maybe even a bit gutsy. I'm not sure what the right word would be here, but it I like it.

Someday, I hope to join the ranks of VCs but I figure I need to figure things out first.
I'm really interested to see how the author will turn Cover Trees into a generic inference algorithm for bunch of models in HLearn library.
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That seems reasonable. I've been in situations where people simply recall events differently, without any sense of intending to deceive.
It seems like I'm one of those millennials, according to some definitions. This group of humans that are so different, alien and impossible to understand, it seems?

Well, almost everyone around me prefers to live in the countryside. I do, too. The thing is, most jobs in IT and other domains that were pushed on the young at school are not in the countryside, and telecommuting jobs aren't plentiful either. A sizable amount of people dream of having a small farm or something in the mountains, some of my friends actually have done it, but it's not easy.

Some people prefer cities, but the only reason you might think all "millennials" do, is that more of them have worked for a shorter time yet, and do not yet miss a better environment.
> Decentralised systems tend to lose to centralised ones because there's no money locus for advertising, development or curation.

Yeah, e-mail systems lost :-) Anyway, corporate monopols are problem, not systems.
So they were like a "jukebox" for playing the copyrighted content, streaming it themselves, just like Google's YouTube does. The conceptual difference is that the users themselves upload the material to YouTube, whereas SeeqPod cached the content of other sites (like Google search does, albeit not with music and videos).

I'm not surprised that they were on the list of "problematic" companies of record companies. It's fascinating though to read that Sony wanted to actually be involved with SeeqPod in a bid to compete with others.

It seems that SeeqPod's doom was "just" that they didn't have such power to confront the record companies like Google did?
Now if they only allow you to use this freely we would actually have something. Though something is better than nothing.
> Implementing SQL views is not exactly trivial if you are operating under an existing Ruby on Rails app.

From the applications side, it should be completely transparent to replace base tables with views.

From the database side, assuming you keep the views and the base tables in the same schema, for the initial transition, you just need to rename the base tables, and then create views with the names of the original tables referencing them; they'll be simple views, and so, in postgres, automatically updatable, so you won't even need to explicitly define update logic.
The proposal in the paper is at least somewhat different: it wouldn't become fully self-sufficient until the later stages of about a seven stage process. The earlier stages just involve unmanned robots controlled from Earth, beginning with around 17th century technology and moving towards autonomy with each successive generation. I definitely see your point, but this isn't quite the same as proposing a lunar colony of self-reproducing robots within the next few years (besides, robotics have come a long way since then).
You can license the clips by going to the AP Archive website; e.g., this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ6NNLCdio can be licensed from here: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c0016a30f75d456abf... (the link was in the description on YouTube).

I assume they stuck with the Standard YouTube License because that lets them keep ownership of the videos and license them out separately under their own terms.
I can't be arsed with walled garden music services, or putting that amount of effort into my own collection. So not "everyone" as you claim.
That's pretty damn innovative for Microsoft. It's a shame they didn't have the balls to stick to it. That could've been the first step to electronics in all sorts of places, maybe even would've led to Microsoft spearheading IoT.
On the output side for the demo, this is all I see

<body><script src="../framer.js"></script><script>var imageLayer;

imageLayer = new Layer({
x: 0,
y: 0,
width: 128,
height: 128,
backgroundColor: 'lightgreen'
});

imageLayer.center();

imageLayer.states.add({
second: {
scaleX: 1.4,
scaleY: 0.6
},
third: {
y: 430,
scaleX: 0.4,
scaleY: 2
},
fourth: {
y: 200,
scaleY: 1.2
}
});

imageLayer.states.animationOptions = {
curve: 'spring(500,20,0)'
};

imageLayer.on(Events.Click, function() {
imageLayer.states.next();
});</script></body>

that can't be right can it?
I'd feel smug about my choice of cell phone but Samsung sponsored the Olympics.
ext2 doesn't have journal. I'm not sure if you can remove the journal from ext4 and use the ext4 driver, but running without journal could make sense on usb drives.
The i-Loo featured an internet-enabled monitor on the cubicle wall and a special
printer that would allow users to print information
on a standard toilet paper roll.

I would have loved to see that product pitch.
Hint: when you start a service solving a very generic problem, you have a big chance of being outmaneuvered by a competitor.
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I remember trolling the linked list patent people 10+ years ago. I sent them an email saying my software made extensive uses of linked lists and it had come to my attention that they had patented them. They sent me to their legal department to arrange an agreement.

Insane.

I wonder how influxdb et al will receive this news.

Here is the list of people who should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves:

Lin; Jerry (Latham, NY), Aggour; Kareem Sherif (Niskayuna, NY), Courtney; Brian Scott (Naperville, IL), Interrante; John Alan (Scotia, NY), LaComb; Christina Ann (Schenectady, NY), Mathur; Sunil (East Walpole, MA), McConnell; Christopher Thomas (Latham, NY), Snell; Quinn (Salem, UT)
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Is it prudent though? I understand the need for expediency, but surely you need to do some due diligence?
Pretty much in no way whatsoever. RRDtool as a prior art example.
I think it is just Microsoft's way of making fun of Apple's product naming convention.
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If I understand, that would be their major advantage to Raspberry Pi? But is the graphics of CHIP comparable to the one on Raspberry Pi?
Poorest countries could wipe out polio–if the richest ones don’t bring it back
I work in pro audio, and I always find these hilarious!

There's a new one too; recently an 'audiophile' swore his 'special audio' SD card was unbelievably good.

Mind you, as long as there are stupid people buying these, why not sell them?
This article does state those points as well. Albeit in the 2nd half of the story, where many people might have stopped reading.
Well, this seems reasonable ......
Are we really still at the point in "Landscape and Urban Planning" research that we need to verify that walking in the woods chills you out and helps you focus more than walking down a busy street?
Sounds absolutely within the spirit of what the GPL was intended to achieve.

What would be unfair is if a user of a photo booth kiosk was allowed to flash the firmware...