skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do that for long rifles in MN as well (although I think you forgot the NICS check required for all gun purchases regardless of state). It's just hand guns and "black" rifles that require the permit. VA obviously has a more enlightened view than MN (IMO).
I'm with everyone else here. No way I'd pay $23 per month for 1 t-shirt of a company I don't know and probably who's services I don't even use.

However, I may not be in your demographic at all. I haven't bought a shirt in years. I get shirts with fish on them for my birthday from my kids, and Mariners shirts from my family at Christmas - then I collect free shirts here and there. I have zero fashion sense, I wear what people give me, and I hate shopping :)
Twitter Acquires Julpan, The Startup By The Guy Who Helped Perfect Google Search
We're currently working on remote capture, more details are forthcoming.
The core team became GetSatisfaction
I never said that iOS apps not on the app store were "illegal hacker shit." Not my words.

That said, yes there are alternative app stores available for iOS devices but I would hardly call them "legitimate" since Apple defines that term with respect to their devices. The sad truth is that you have to bypass Apple's restrictions, and continue to do so for each new iOS release, to benefit from an alternate app store like Cydia.
Configuration mistake takes down Microsoft Cloud
I am getting the feeling that Netflix's customer base doesn't understand why some titles are available on streaming vs DVD only (this is based on random comment reading). It is a very subtle difference, but it comes down to 'Netflix doesn't have the title' vs 'Netflix has the title but they won't let me stream it'.

Admittedly, the much bigger motive is that they want to get rid of their dvd-by-mail business.
Hair styling is another big area where this would be really useful.
Sure the company as a whole is profitable. But if their internet businesses were it's own company, and run in this manner, they wouldn't survive. They're sure good at keeping up an appearance of extreme arrogance.
We've come a long way from "warning: 800x600 pixel gif here", this image is so big however that I think that a warning is suitable, if you are not on a machine with a lot of memory you should probably not click on the large version of that image unless you'd like to listen to your hard drive for the next half hour or so.
Perfectly appropriate. You're one of a small handful who make Hacker News what it is, at its best. I'm sorry for your loss.
And Mint lets you pick a bank like USAA, that has great service as a core competency, rather than trusting a web company like BankSimple that is good at sleek-looking tech.
It's important to be clear that this is a man-in-the-middle attack — it only works when the attacker is on your network and can see the traffic going between your computer and the website.
Baroque Cycle was probably helped a bit by the fact that I read it while on an interrail train trip through the Europe. Lots of time to read when in train or waiting for one :-)
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Yes, we're using it for Whybase, and open sourced Bulbs, a Python persistence framework for it (http://bulbflow.com).
I obviously don't know you or your mother, but I enjoy your writings and it's now obvious she played a big part in building you, so my condolences.
Which JSGI gzip middleware are you referring to? It should use portable CommonJS Binary objects, which in Common Node's case wraps Buffers and in RingoJS (Java) byte arrays.
AT&T Gave $963,275 to Lawmakers Urging Approval of T-Mobile Bid
Sounds like you've never experienced the joys of depositing checks by taking pictures of them on your phone. I do this now with my current bank and it's awesome. (And I don't think anyone is suggesting that the website is replaced with an app, but rather that the app would supplement the website).
What useful command line tricks do you all the time?
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Use the search. This question gets asked ALL the time and there's no use rehashing what's been hashed over and over.

You'll probably find a lot of references to LPTHW.
Connect middleware has never been especially clean for me. Every app I end up working on, we slowly grow this hideous mess of middleware that starts off like:

https://github.com/LockerProject/Locker/blob/master/Ops/webs...

And tends to end with around 40 lines of checking URLs and other various bits of information to know which middleware can be chained in, and in which order that doesn't cause them to conflict with one another.

If Strata can solve this mess, then it's definitely a step up in my opinion.
I find it helpful to ask not "can this fool people" but something more like "can this fool people at 320x200 with an X kbps stream?" Same for "realistic" computer graphics. I haven't seen anyone push computer graphics that can fool me at "HD resolution", but pushing something "photorealistic" at low-grade web cam resolutions is perfectly doable. I bet the same is true here.
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USAA meets your needs today.
Ed... I don't know you, but as another hard working person, I can honestly say that your post has reminded me of what is important in life. It's those that love me who support my hard work and sometimes reclusiveness/introverted-ness.

Thank you for posting this. Your mother's story has had a compounded effect with your post. Her legacy lives on, and this is just one way: inspiring others on HN to cherish those who love them, which she obviously did with you.

Thanks, and I am sorry for your loss.
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tldr;

I read through probably half of the comments and then skimmed the rest, so sorry if this was already mentioned:

What if Netflix streaming service improves A LOT, and their movie collection grows to encompass pretty much every movie out there? A lot of the discussion has assumed that Netflix would remain the same, but with their focusing exclusively on streaming, I could see how they would have more leverage to negotiate with content owners to license movies--for one, they could charge a higher subscription fee and offer more revenue share for streaming and a more comprehensive catalog, something that I'd be very happy to pay an extra $5 for (I currently only have the streaming plan)
JSGI is an API, not an implementation. Nothing in the API is dependent on Java.
We need more technically savvy congresspeople.
I like the idea. I mean, I REALLY like it. However, I'm with the crowd on this one, $23 is a lil steep for me. There's gotta be a way you can bring this price-point within the range of the work'n stiff.
A startling number of people believe that the internet IS Internet Explorer.
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Street Fighter IV Makes Its Way to Android
I use USAA which has a web interface, a mobile web interface, an iPhone app and an Android app.

It's fantastic to be able to deposit checks by taking a picture of both sides instead of driving someplace, or throwing something in the mail.
Opening the door to American universities with lies
StreetSpace Sues Apple, Others Over In-app Ad Patent
Enchant closures for better debugging output in Perl
I agree with the author. If they didn't have an online portfolio, personal site, or blog, then I probably wouldn't want to see a resume. To me it shows that they're driven and they trust their work enough to have it public for anyone to judge. You also get a sense of what the person is like, rather than what their experience is like.
Indeed, but one is comparing the consumer tech market as a whole and the other is just in the search market, so this isn't apples to apples (so to speak), no?
The lack of eloquence and understanding by those congresspeople is very, very disappointing.

Mr. Schmidt answered those questions in an excellent manner.

The racetrack analogy was particularly unnerving.
Holy shit, they're are hammering down on Eric Schmidt accusing Google of tampering with search results and what not for pretty dumb reasons imho. Seems really unfair to me.
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Sure, you can do it but it's just CYA for a mistake of the board's.

I mean presumably they discussed this strategy with Apotheker before bringing him on, right? He didn't just go rogue on them? So they approve the plan, bring him on, and then when people don't like it, jettison him as a scapegoat. Which is fine, don't play in the big leagues if you think life's going to be fair. But the board are at fault here.
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Senator: "Ok Mr. Schmidth, tell me what I`m thinking."
Is there a recording available?
Can be helpful if you are in france
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You know, the only times in my life I've even seen a check have been when dealing with some US company (which is rarely). I have to admit being greatly amused with the combination of really old and really new that you have in using mobile apps to handle checks.
Then why do I need to restart the computer after I install anything?
Thank you for your helpful response!

C has an unfair advantage in this regard, but it's just not that hard to integrate C++ and C.

This is very true... as you pointed out C is very primitive in a lot of respects, and this doubtless simplifies working with it from other languages. The question is, how do I easily call the new C++11 code from something like Lua, Java, Python, Ruby, etc.? How weird will my wrapping code end up looking?

I'm sorry to harp on this, but I'm in the middle of a medium-size engine codebase written in C++, and even with our restraint so far on the use of some of the more advanced language features, things like smart pointers and whatnot are so useful that they become a concern (multithreaded code without smart pointers is a recipe for madness).

I've been writing some C++11 with C++4.6.0 and a bunch of old libraries and haven't run into that. I don't use pointers in my code very much, so I don't think I've even had to use nullptr yet.

Out of curiosity, how much have you done with OpenGL/OpenAL/OpenCL, etc.? Have you had any issues there yet? I'd like to know if that stuff fits okay with C++11.
It depends on the payee. Many payees do support electronic payment; banks will print a check for those that don't. Encouraging people to use bill pay for everything allows them to collect fees from the payee for those who collect electronically, and/or save their own processing costs. If they didn't support _all_ payees, however, people would be more reluctant to use the bill pay system. So it's a marketing decision, to support payees that aren't capable of receiving electronic payments yet.
It's actually called "Messenger" now, and on Android resides right next to the (relatively) new Facebook messaging app, also aptly named "Messenger".
I disagree that he did a good job answering questions. For instance, I have no idea what it means to "game the system" from his description, nor do I understand the consequences if someone were to game it.

How about instead, "If we told everyone our algorithm, when someone searches for this event, it wouldn't be an issue of whether or not your questions or my answers hold the first position, but whether or not the first 100 results are for Viagra or Cialis."
>>For that to work people would have to change the way they think about microsoft as well

This thread is a great example of the problems Microsoft faces among HNers, but I don't think the general public has such a blatant bias against Microsoft.

For instance, this topic was submitted 9 hours ago, has 128 points and is on the front page. It also has a false title.The title asserts that "Microsoft has lost $9 billion on Bing". However, the CNN article doesn't have this title. The article says that Microsoft "has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since the search service launched in June 2009".

Now, HN moderators often heavy-handedly change submission titles on the grounds that the title violates some obscure HN rule (like for example, the rule that "X ways to optimize your app" is inappropriate)

In this case, we have a much more blatant rule violation - changing the original title of the story and substituting it with a false assertion.
Yet, none of the moderators have changed the title of this story.
What a Developer Job Posting Should Look Like
"When playing Russian roulette the fact that the first shot got off safely is little comfort for the next."

Love the quote, and something to bear in mind when evaluating less drastic forms of hazard. Anyone care to comment on Tufte's take on the graphics used by the Thiokol engineers? See

http://www.asktog.com/books/challengerExerpt.html
I had two reactions to this, quick, and back-to-back:

1) Finally some non-MS apps that'll support multitasking, yay!

2) I'll believe it when I see it

Hopefully, my dev drop of Mango will allow me access to RTM Mango apps on the app store, so #2 really won't matter.
There are many more people who are employed and thinking about starting their own business than have actually started their own business.

Creating your own business: +1 job.
Freeing up a position at your previous employment: +1 job.

1 + 1 = 2 :P
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you're certainly welcome to think what you like, I dont have time to argue
ha! you can see the main routes from santiago (chile) to the coast (valparaiso and vina del mar). when were the data taken? those roads would have been very busy this last weekend (independence day here).
Pay Cash or Finance a Car? That is the Question
Armie Hammer's face was digitally transplanted on top of Josh Pence's body in shots where both brothers appeared in the same shot during post. Otherwise, they would change angles and re-film a scene with Hammer as both.

For a video that shows how they did this, see http://videos.nymag.com/video/Vulture-Exclusive-The-Winklevi...
That doesn't sound like anything I've ever seen on Facebook (and, since I work there, I use it a lot). Were you doing anything specific when this happened? Do you have any other information so I can pass it on to the right people?
Instead we do the opposite today, we mark the data pages with the "No Execute" bit, which is a far better way to ensure malicious code doesn't execute.
> I mean presumably they discussed this strategy with Apotheker before bringing him on, right? He didn't just go rogue on them?

Yes this is a certainty. No CEO could make a 10 billion dollar acquisition without board approval.
That is what I remember people caring about too. And the result page bragged about fast it was. They did well on a metric, and then drew your attention to just how darn well right as you were primed to be impressed.
+1

Did anyone else notice that Al Franken was almost entirely incomprehensible? I'm happy that Schmidt has the presence and patience to pleasantly attempt to correct these scary misinterpretations.
Jeff Katz (NexTag) is slamming Google right now for copying his business.
I haven't used Windows more than occasionally for a decade, and I still read Chen religiously; he's very entertaining.

> It's really too bad Microsoft doesn't seem to value backwards compatibility as much as they did during the times Chen often writes about.

This, I'd disagree on. At a certain point, one either has to move on, or to spend 90% of the time working on backward compatibility.

> on the other that their driver from 2001 doesn't work right in Windows 7

Drivers were never really part of the backward compatibility obsession. They changed utterly between 9x and NT, of course, and also fairly dramatically DOS/Win3.x and 9x, between NT4 and 2000, and between XP and Vista.
Yelp is up now.
> The shuttle program was ended because there's no way to make the ceramic tiles safe.

Well... You could go the Buran route and put the engines on the booster. Then you could put the shuttle on the top of the booster and keep it safe from falling foam, with the added benefit of having some extra cargo space.

The VAB would have to go through some refurbishing.
Wow, how uncannily timely. Just yesterday, I read the part of a speculative fiction near-future novel, "Halting States" by Charles Stross, which includes this as an interesting detail with an eye towards technical imperfection; one of the protagonists is bemused by someone's neck glitching up into their face during a video call while they use this sort of software.
I can't wait until he starts talking about why Google is bad, I wonder if any one knows about Yelp's "pay us for advertising or you'll have your good reviews deleted" policy.
It's more like a quick resume than real multitasking, except for audio playing apps.
The article is thin on the use cases of semantic search, which is the market Bing says it's trying to serve ("a decision support tool").

The article raises the question of "how will Bing make money" and then drops the question, and goes on to talk about competing with Google. Lazy thinking by the writer.
They can always hire back those who didn't find better employment.
Kyle just posted a new demo video - he's playing around with the idea of the "Scrambler Suite" from A Scanner Darkly - http://vimeo.com/29391633
Kris Zyp's "jsgi-node" absolutely does support streaming. As does Kris Kowal's "q-http" and "jaque" framework.

There have been lots of discussion on asynchronous/streaming in JSGI, but perhaps it hasn't made it's way into the specs you've looked at. Promises are one way, fibers are another.

Foreach-able "streams" w/ promises and Node streams are pretty much equivalent (and yes, JSGI w/ promises can handle back pressure, though I'm not sure if there are any public implementations yet)
Don't Forget to Update Your Flash Player.
Java web app containers support distributed session stores.
> I haven't seen anyone push computer graphics that can fool me at "HD resolution", but pushing something "photorealistic" at low-grade web cam resolutions is perfectly doable. I bet the same is true here.

Sure. Today.
Absolutely. And I'm all for investors pushing for the board to resign. They've screwed up massively, and certainly had a hand in it all.

Apotheker going is a good first step, though.
Ok so you listed your competition. So how do you differentiate yourselves?
nice! this is an aggregate view from the full month of august, so we wouldn't have picked up el dia de independencia, sadly.
It is definitely an interesting article I disagree with a couple of bullets, but it is mainly because of "the programmer circle I hang out in".

I am also worried, just like the author, about the future of the development platform. I am all "pro-cloud" now, but most of my day is spent working in my desktop. So my full experience is really based around my current desktop platform.

I am very disappointed on what Apple is building and the direction they are going. Linux seems to keep following somebody. They stopped following Windows and now they are following Apple (Specially Gnome). (This is exactly why Linux never gets a leading role.) Windows is the best platform right now for me, but that is really not a lasting option since it seems Microsoft also decided to go the Apple way.

I actually love Touch interfaces and tablets, but the problem I have with the direction everybody is taking, is not about touch interfaces is about limiting the user's options, is about killing the power user. It seems now that in Lion to do simple tasks, you are required to swim among a sea of hidden menus. The same goes for Gnome3, which is really a big disappointment.

It seems the industry is focused on forgetting about the power user. I guess we are definitely becoming extinct.
Unfortunately, it took them quite a while to have an actually vaguely conforming C++ implementation, and there are still issues (there was a nice example on Hacker News a while back involving some stl method being dramatically slower than both its equivalent in other major implementations, and a near-equivalent MS-specific method), which may explain some of that.
How is BankSimple different from mint.com searching through my Bank of America account statements? Alerts? Goals? I can do all that in mint.
Came here to say exactly that but you beat me to it, strikes me as an attempt to crowbar in some semi-related patent stuff to pad out the article.

The writer has published two articles today, this one and a 4 page one about Diablo. Four articles yesterday, 3 the day before, 4 the day before that.

I picked a few out covering topics I know something about and they seem to be just press release + wikipedia + a few of the top google results mashed into a blog post.

For example: 2 days ago there was an article about Netflix's new game rentals having a "short shelf life" because of "cloud gaming" being just around the corner which was pretty laughably ignorant. It strikes me as a way to use the netflix news to push cloud gaming because someone involved is an investor in some cloud gaming platform. The only alternative is stupidity which is an improvement over a complete lack of ethics, but I can't imagine a realistic type of ignorance or fanboyism that would lead to someone writing this article honestly.
This is so true. Having been on both the hiring and hired side, I take any requests from recruiters that are sourcing candidates for small companies with a gigantic grain of salt. It's unfortunate, but I know so many recruiters that, while well-intentioned, are just clueless about great candidates.

It's a litmus test I use for early-stage companies: who is doing the recruiting? At early-stage companies, having the right people is ultra-critical. It's not work to be outsourced at that stage.
Based on the real world most people will tell you that having two co-founders who are both wearing the business hat is a bad idea. Trying to learn how to code in a weekend isn't really a winning strategy. Maybe you need to think about ditching that partner? I realize that sounds harsh -- but sinking your savings and time into a venture that doesn't go anywhere may disappoint the both of you in a much bigger way.
Sorry for your loss Ed.

I opened the link expecting no surprise. And closed the tab realizing how much I love to see my parents happy, no matter what. Thanks for the lovely and inspiring post.
These senators seemed ignorant about pretty much everything involved.

And as for Mr. Schmidt he should have started by saying that Google is free, it's free for users and for those wanting to be indexed by them so they don't owe any self proclaim competitors anything.
This was my first thought as well. I completely disagree with him that Yelp would not have been able to start up right now. Google would have helped drive traffic to yelp now just as it did then.
Edit: I think I remember it being "join Yelp so you can delete the bad reviews".
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Would be nice if they could finally deliver something! MS is talking about this update since February, yet people are still waiting...
I'm ambivalent about this. Requiring an online portfolio for a designer does make sense, but a blog? The only "drive" that attention whoring on a blog shows is the drive to get attention.
You'd prefer to hire someone who is going to put your presentation front and center on the interwebz when they themselves don't have anything public to show?

Designers design, and like to show off their designs. If a designer doesn't have anything to show off, it doesn't pass the smell test for me.
Eric Schmidt: We’re Not Microsoft
Yelp's own actions notwithstanding, it is quite true that Google has pulled some questionable moves and is clearly attempting to drive traffic to their own products.

Not that I like Yelp however ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
So it might be open-source, but depends on the non-open-source (and not even publicly available) project FaceTracker?
Honestly I'd pay like $10/month max for this. Startup tshirts to me are promotional things, I don't care to show everyone I have a Digg shirt or Reddit or other startup shirt. If I'm involved in that product or a friend works there, diff story, but then they'd give me a tee for free. Good luck with this.