skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're wondering how bad The Lorax feature film really was, put succinctly it felt like it was embarrassed about its source material. Few of Seuss' words remain in the dialogue; on the one rare exception, the words were spoken by a character not found in the book and then immediately dismissed as weird.

If The Lorax had Seuss rolling in his grave, The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers had Seuss spinning hard.

Horton Hears a Who on the other hand is quite good; an honorable example of how Seuss' material can be adapted to a feature film.
This is important to live your business
People prefer lots of things that make them depressed and anxious like sugar, drugs, gaming etc. It might be from brainwashing but it might also just be because these things offer short term rewards, with costs being more long term.

I prefer to be in a city because I like the things cities offer, but I am aware that it would probably be better for my health to live in the country side.
NASA Quest for Quakes
> And the worst part is, it scales linearly \cue groans\.

Actually, If they specialize their tech stack sufficiently for fast prototyping and take equity in these super early ideas, that should not be a problem as they could be in for the long game via equity.
Ethics and moral is regulated in some countries, because it's part of the law. USA are so retarded on that point, that's all.

And people who buys Apple products doesn't care what could do that company just because they are inspired by all the ads and hype around their products.
Hacking Team: Remote Access Trojan for Android
It was decentralized at one point, before this happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3915479
Good American or European companies that manage digital infrastructure
The company I work for is considering building a new content site (CMS, outward-facing API, web sites) built atop Symfony. For a number of reasons they would like the company that builds it to not be the company that manages and iterates the entire service.

Are there companies that taken on the Ops/DevOps of products built by other companies? Everyone I've looked at so far wants to build their own solution.
RCSAndroid capabilities include screen capture; clipboard monitoring; Wi-Fi password collection (including grabbing passwords sent over Wi-Fi for applications like Skype, Facebook, Twitter and so on); recording from the microphone; message collection; location collection; use the front and back cameras; and contact collection (again from a variety of services).

Wiretap wasn't forgotten. RCSAndroid, Trend Micro says, also has a hook into the mediaserver system service to get voice calls in real time.

Trend writes that the config file suggests RCSAndroid's been in the wild since 2012, with a now-defunct command and control server in the USA.
CEO approval for any code being open sourced? Eek...

With respect to previous discussions this week on HN about GPL vs BSD (or permissive) licences, I do understand the massive inertia that has to be overcome to open source anything at a large or attorney bound company. Anything that contributes to this: i.e. attorney's uncertainties about the GPL, can stop good projects being freed.

I think that in a situation like this, you should accept any licence you can to get the software out.

Thankfully in personal projects you have more freedom..
Thanks! So RPi is still more "open source" than CHIP?

And how big is that whole binary blob running on VideoCore IV?

Good thing there is:

https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv
The real question is "why do people think it's a good idea to create a superintelligence of questionable morality and have the only defense against it be a _human gatekeeper_". And yes, this notion was seriously proposed.

Eliezer does not want to put AIs in boxes. He thinks the entire idea is hopeless; _hence the game_.
> For a while, some thought that might be a filesystem called reiser4, but that story failed to work out well even before that filesystem's primary developer left the development community.

Well, not so much "left" ...
It's not weird at all. Brian talked to a ton of people over many months. He was raising many months before I met him. And then I came in. I then spent too long negotiating but then we finally worked out a deal end of Sep and then my lawyers and their lawyers negotiated the agreement Sep 26th and then we did our dinner. But then YC smartly moved in after this closing dinner and booted me out. Funny enough Justin Kan and I ended up in Vegas a few years later at a tech party at Caesars hotel and had a good laugh about it. He remembered me as the crazy Marine who was writing a huge check into Airbnb before they elbowed me out. This isn't unusual - they probably googled me at the time (back then all of the results would have been stories about iraq, Syria, afghanistan, Pakistan operations; black operations and crazy shit). They probably thought they were protecting Airbnb and keeping dumb money out of the cap table. It's quite common for good investors to strongly advise you not to take dumb money and I agree with the practice.

And that goes back to one of the lessons from my post. I realized that for founders and investors to take me seriously and not lose deals I had to prove myself, build a positive brand by helping founders and getting smarter about this new world I was operating in.
From the quickstart page:

> At Stack Exchange we do not use Docker in production. For those that do not wish to use docker, we provide binaries for bosun at bosun.org, but you will also need to install OpenTSDB and HBase yourself.
> I am so going to this! My 13yo son is going to be so excited to attend.

I suppose you mean your 13yo inner child?
LWN is totally worth subscribing to.
How about showing some demo report instead of forcing users to signup?
'Accidental' damage is the least of my worries; most of that is insured 2 or 3 times over. A fire can happen to all sorts of people. What I worry about when selecting tenants is

- will these people keep 15 cats, despite the contract saying they can't, who will piss all over the place requiring new carpeting after they move out, or a rottweiler who will chew up all my door stiles (and good luck suing for and collecting damages from someone who doesn't have a regular income or even regular place of residence);

- will this person come home drunk, loudly, at 2am three times a week, causing the neighbors (who pay in time and never give trouble) to move out, leaving me with the vacant property for some time and the work to find another tenant;

- will this person pay in time, or will I have to call 3 times every month and even then only get paid in chunks most of the time;

- will this person stay for a while or want to move out after 4 months, despite having signed a one year lease, leaving me with the trouble and time investment.

(all of these, and more that are too specific to mention publicly, actually happened to me)

Renting out property is not a high-margin business. 'Inefficiencies' like a unit being vacant for 2 months out of the year are the difference between 'better return than savings account' and 'I should have stuffed the money in a sock under my mattress'; and that's not even counting the work you have to put into it (advertising, showing people around, chasing payment, fixing things, court sessions, ...) (OK the last few years savings accounts yield 0, I'm talking about longer terms)

What I'm trying to say is - most renters think of their landlords as fat cats to whom they have to hand over 1/3rd of their monthly income for doing nothing. The reality is much more nuanced - yes it's a business, like any other, but a highly competitive one at that (in most markets); if I was 'rich' as most of them seem to assume, I sure as hell wouldn't be dealing with the hassle of being a landlord.
In big corps, patent attorneys have quotas to fill. Usually they don't fully understand the technology but try to patent it anyway.
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In all likelihood no. Personally though I feel like AAC encoded audio is just 'nicer' than MP3 for some reason.
Coyld an alternative be to simply add a single jdbc adapter to rails instead of pretending to have a lot of different interfaces in parallel?
Symbols seem to do strange things as well. The input was :

!@#$%^&*()_+

here's 3 runs of it with bias all the way down:

http://paste.click/KNIJov

http://paste.click/PPjKXC

http://paste.click/RtZCtG

As I turned up the bias, it seems to trend to the letter g:

http://paste.click/hJrVlX

Some symbols seem to just fail, I'm guessing that's a bug in the serializing.
Uuuh... I thought the gravity on the moon will deform human skeletons, as they are "made" for human gravity, so that makes living anywhere that has different g impossible. Is that not true?
Author here, feel free to contact me if you're interested in this or a scientist in a related field - lsjroberts [at] outlook {dot} com

Thanks for the feedback, I'm working on expanding the project to import data from a couple of sources, you can follow it at http://github.com/lsjroberts/pi-me-a-river
Which nagios replacement did you chose?
Silicon Valley s1 e4:

So Pied Piper, drop it on me. What is it?

Well, we started off as a music app.

Yuck.

Yeah. Gross. Ugh.
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then pattent attorneys should pay for their crimes, or should be sued by their clients
The "Viva Amiga" film project doesn't seem to be finished yet, but
according to their July 3, 2013 blog post, they interviewed Tim Jenison,
the creator of the Video Toaster [2], and the current NewTek CEO, Jim
Plant. That alone will be interesting.

Even if you aren't old enough to remember how the whole world somehow
overlooked the amazing capabilities of the Amigas, it's an interesting
and humbling historical lesson in how the best tech does not always win.

[1] http://vivaamigafilm.blogspot.com/2013/07/newtek-and-video-t...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
Would it make sense to harvest asteroids for water and bring it to the moon?

I am thinking about just one spaceship which could go back and forth between some asteroid and a moon orbit. It shoots the water down to the moon, so that it does not even have to touch-down and take-off again. How much energy would be needed for such a mission? Probably it would be a very complex mission to get right, but once it is established you might have water for free on the moon.
Far-fetched?

Not in the UK, for example.

> The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), Part III, activated by ministerial order in October 2007,[20] requires persons to supply decrypted information and/or keys to government representatives with a court order. Failure to disclose carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail. The provision was first used against animal rights activists in November 2007,[21] and at least three people have been prosecuted and convicted for refusing to surrender their encryption keys,[22] one of whom was sentenced to 13 months' imprisonment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
Was Apple ever a monopoly?
And just being a monopoly is not illegal.
I can imagine that GE has big plans for improving services like condition monitoring for jet engines where they would sell monitoring data etc. If a competing startup tries to compete they have ammunition.
The road is a limited common resource, and it's difficult to directly charge drivers per their usage of it, so the local government uses other forms of regulation.
First: What I wrote it only for the GPU, since you only asked about that part. I wrote nothing about the other parts of the SoC or Raspbian, though there are lots of things to say, for example:

No public documentation (without NDA) is available for the USB controller of the RPi (there is still an open source driver in the Linux kernel for it that is based on this non-public datasheets) made by Broadcom. I personally consider the action that the Linux developers also include drivers based on secret datasheets into the kernel as a violation of the spirit of open source, but I digress.

Also the Raspbian developers (from the Raspberry Pi foundation) include proprietary software into Raspbian, say, Mathematica. While probably useful, this surely isn't open source.

So there are more criteria on which to judge a SoC than whether it is open source, say, whether there are complete and free datasheets (no NDA) available or whether the SoC is also available in small amounts for hackers (Broadcom is said to be very compicated in this area). Or how much open-source the de-facto standard GNU/Linux distribution (since this is what you'll probably want to use) for the SoC is.

TLDR: Openness or open-sourceness is much more complicated.
The concurrency model seems to be the same as threads. Since JS doesn't have threads, thats great, but claiming that "let you write asynchronous code as if it were synchronous." is a little much. Try mutating shared state async while pretending your code is sync and see how far that gets you.
I'd argue that Apple has done more positive and socially responsible thing than many other big (and small) companies.
And generally people buy Apple products because they are great products. You can only fool once with advertising, however people keep using Apple.
> Apple can't deploy a questionably-legal music streaming service as easily as a startup can.

There is an illustration of that. Big companies using a lot of contractors normally go through intermediary contractor agencies simply to avoid the risk that the contractor become legally recognized as employee. The cost of those intermediaries can be as much as an extra 20% of the contractor rate - that's significant.

As a small startup, initially Uber could operate directly with contractor driver and save that amount. Now they are a big company and the news in California illustrate the kind of risk the intermediary agencies are shielding big business from.
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https://app.trygigster.com/gigster :

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If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.
Thanks again! Actually I asked about the size of the whole blob you mentioned to get some idea how hard would it be to disassemble it fully. What do you think?
His general approach does indicate that belief in the product is paramount, his trust in the team second. The takeaway is not to yank the chain too hard negotiating when these two criteria are met. He could have closed a week before.
Absolutely. I live in Washington state, and I feel like there's more nature in just this statethan I could take in over a lifetime. Driving across the state means going from a desert following the Columbia, through a shrub-steppe, into the Cascade foothills, up to the evergreen covered Cascade range, then down into the rainforests of the PNW, then on to the Pacific.

I think I could spend a lifetime experiencing it.
Or a great DVD about it's end - The Deathbed Vigil:
http://www.frogpondmedia.com/dbv/video.html
Hostkeeper – DNS server and web UI to manage LAN-wide /etc/hosts modifications
It is interesting and a bit ironic that AirBnb accepted funding from YC - who did not believe in their idea [1], and rejected the only investor that not only believed in their crazy idea, but actively sought them out and tried to woo them. Did they go with YC because of its brand, name recognition, or because it offered them better terms?

Of course, it is all counterfactual, but could Airbnb have been as successful had they not joined YC? Recall that PG told them to do things that do not scale - by taking professional photos of rentals in NY - which may have been critical to their early success.

And although PG was initially skeptical of their idea, he quickly changed his thinking about how big Airbnb could become. Revealed in another interesting trail of emails exchanged between PG and Fred Wilson (who also passed on Airbnb). [2]

[1] "In fact, when we funded Airbnb, we thought it was too crazy. We couldn't believe large numbers of people would want to stay in other people's places"

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html

http://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/

Edit: spelling
I've been doing some progresses but there are a few (almost) show stoppers.

One is that startup is really slow.

rails c takes 25 second to give a prompt vs 10 on with Ruby 2.2.2 and almost 0 after spring has started. It's not something that a developer likes to work with.

Second one: still immature. The PostgreSQL adapter warns

NOTE: ActiveRecord 4.2 is not (yet) fully supported by AR-JDBC, please help us finish 4.2 support - check http://bit.ly/jruby-42 for starters

Not something I want in production.

Third one, now I'm stuck with the JDBC adapter not connecting to my developement PostgreSQL over a unix domain socket. Maybe it can't (perhaps JDBC does only TCP/IP) and I have to reconfigure PostgreSQL to accept connection to 127.0.0.1:5432. That means any other application I'm working with won't work anymore and I should reconfigure them.

Summing up all together I'm not particularly eager to keep testing JRuby. Maybe somebody will solve those problems. I'll give another try to it next July.
My personal suspicion:

The central nervous system contains emulators (already suspected by some researchers). Sensory feedback after completion of a goal-driven task is compared against output from an emulator that has been asked to complete the same task, in parallel The emulator runs faster, partly because the circuitry will simply be shorter.

This is suspected in musculoskeletal control, and I believe it may happen outside the musculoskeletal domain too.

Consciousness may only lag behind the emulator, not the "real world" sensory feedback.

This may offer a counter, or adjunct, to the proposal that consciousness is simply the brain experiencing itself.

The lag may be back propagation. It certainly seems to be some sort of computational overhead.
> Just yesterday i had btrfs telling me that my disk is full (when in fact it is half full with nearly 400GB free!).

This is a major ongoing issue with Docker on Btrfs in particular. E.g. CoreOS switched to Overlayfs + Ext4 by default to reduce that problem.
And coal power plants spread more radioactive material than nuclear ones.
Memories with lion air, Prayer before Journey
I think the watery icy asteroids are a long way away. They also have a huge amount of kinetic energy, so they are hard to catch and move.
kdb as well, I would imagine them having some kind of patent.
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
I think you need to reexamine the meaning of the word "monopolized".

Having a single state-sanctioned business (and therefore backed by the threat of violence) is somehow less monopolistic than having a free market where the best service provider is rewarded by becoming the most popular and profitable one?
The goal is to build an IT team slowly..
It looks like since you define both the queries and the inputs, you can set it up to support SNMP. You can use Logstash to listen for SNMP traps, and push it to your OpenTSDB or Elasticsearch instance, from where Bosun will pull it.
No, uber offers commercial insurance for all rides. The driver has insurance...
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Same age, same experience. I also remember when years later I first started really using Windows and an IBM PC at university - they were already 486DX2 at a whopping 66MHz, but the UI still felt more sluggish than my 7MHz at home.

Computations, on the other hand, were incomparably faster.
>A SpaceX Falcon-heavy has a maximum capacity of 21,200kg to transfer orbit - that's not going to go very far in a colony even if it's all water

Well, can't you recycle ~100% of it? So you really only need to ship the maximum amount of water that will be in use at any one point.
Show HN: Clusterpoint Cloud – NoSQL database-as-a-service
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The Hidden Reason for Exploding Startup Costs
In most areas of Europe (which is what I know), a park is never far away, and the cities are kind of narrow and not built for cars. A short bike ride will carry you to the fields with a lot of paths, or a forrest also full of streets (well, utility roads, but you're free to use them). There could be a lake for swimming in biking distance (or use local transport). Some of the bigger cities have been created from several towns, and at the seams there can be a lot of greenery (Frankfurt, for example).
Thus, you do not need a car to get around and can reach a good number of places, and you still have access to city culture. Not all cities are made equal.
Another step forward in the creation of an advanced online discussion forum
Novel, yes, but I wouldn't call it innovative. It seems overkill and I can't think of many practical uses. Hotmail station is icky (dirty kryvoard). Keyboardless applications.. Hmm, video chat with other iLoo users??

If you want to commercialise the public toilet in 2003, just add a stack of mildly interesting sponsored magazines, and build an internet station with Hotmail like a public telephone.
Show HN: Full stack Yeoman generator for AngularJS with an Arduino web server
Or you could google to see if anyone else has had and solved this problem
Great post, articulates much better than I did the 'emotion' required to sell premium products.
Visual studio for Linux
I would be glad for feedback on how Clusterpoint database seems in comparison to MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.
Then maybe in the long run they would need to build a base that rotates rapidly and simulates a gravity of g at the perimeter by centrifugal force.
Shipping water to space or the Moon goes against the very core of this idea. There is water on the Moon, check out the Lunar Prospector mission for more information. That water is extremely useful, even for an entirely robotic solution because it is rocket fuel. The low gravity makes it an incredible asset. If we can get to it, the cheapest access to water and fuel in low earth orbit will come from the Moon.

Sending water & fuel to the ISS from the Moon is cheaper than sending it from Earth if you take a long enough view.
Zerg Rush
I'd really like to try this, but the price is wayyy too steep. Especially for a beta. For that price I almost get ReSharper, which does a ton more. I would probably pay $20~$30 for this.
And that's not counting the coal miners that die in accidents or get silicosis aka black lung
No!

Colonizing the Moon only makes sense if the water is there. If we're going to harvest water from asteroids, we should colonize them instead.
This field has been getting some traction again here in Slovenia. Let me link you this incredible guy from Slovenia: http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/ and his replacement for the old AX.25 protocol http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/nbp/nbp.html which among other things allows for quite extraordinary data speeds (up to 10Mbps)

And it is live in Slovenia and doing great so far. http://nbp.rservis.net/ (click "place NBP markers")
Isn't there a rule against submitting paywalled articles?
Take a photo of your boss, and get great satisfaction in going to the toilet.
Both buyers and sellers of second-hand goods can use multiple auction websites without much hassle, yet eBay still has a natural monopoly due to network effects. I doubt the network effect for uber is as strong as ebay, but I wouldnt completely dismiss it either.
As with competition the less mind space you are using on him the better.

I am pretty sure a future investor has seen this before and will understand that he is a fake.
This has at least one basic error. It recommends chained indexing to index pandas DataFrames by row and column this does not have clearly defined behaviour and is specifically warned against in the pandas docs.
All software licenses rely on them. Copyright and patents are the only provisions under the law for licensing software, and both are used.
I never thought I'd see the day. Good stuff Microsoft.