skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use a lot of zsh at work, and one thing that drove me nuts was overzealous wildcard expansion.

>scp server2:~/folder/* .

zsh: no matches found: server2:~/folder/*

nothing in current work dir matches 'server2:~/folder/ * ', so zsh helpfully yells at me. yeah I know use single quotes to avoid expansion, and backslash should work too. It makes total sense because * is a reserved character, but still, bash got it. surely Zsh could've too ?

It probably got fixed since then, but this raw frustration is my most vivid memory from zsh usage.
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Isn't it an Xbox Boycott? A Dell Boycott? An HP Boycott?

It's annoying when journalists (NY Times in this case) hang their story on the Foxconn client doing the most to keep track of working conditions, just because Apple is a name that gets readers.

More to the point, as the article recounts, it's not clear Foxconn is China's worst problem. It seems it's even safer to work there than in America.

"Read" this infographic: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lym1w8YedI1qbv2gy.png
Safebox vs. Safebox
So I tried out an application for automatically encrypting content saved to a folder that is then sync'd to Dropbox.

It was called Safebox (http://safebox.fabulasolutions.com/). I've had this for months trying it out.

Yesterday I receive an email saying that Safebox is now open to beta testing and to download the version from a DropBox public URL. ????

This version of Safebox references http://www.safeboxapp.com/welcome.html and performs the same function as the before mentioned Safebox.

It seems that we what we have here is some competing products doing the exact same thing with the exact same name THAT aren't by the same people.
Tablo is the bulgarian word for panel, board or plate, desk

http://search.dir.bg/search.php?textfield=%F2%E0%E1%EB%EE+&#...
There are several server side Lua options with coroutines.
That sucks. I don't want to support that.

With Flickr going downhill, what should I switch from SmugMug to?
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In retrospect, there were a few warning signs fairly early on

Care to elaborate to teach the communtity?
The ex-law student in me smells the sweet golden smell of defamation in the air.
Agreed. All WePay needs to do is to scour the collective horror stories of PayPal screwups, find equitable solutions, and build up street cred.

Of note: WePay mentions that monies are held in a real bank account - IMHO, this is a huge plus over PayPal who only pretends to be a bank.
Unfortunately I don't have access to an academic library since I graduated and went into industry. Even if you get the cost for libraries down to a reasonable amount, you are limiting access to scientific knowledge to <1% of the world's inhabitants. I hear that JSTOR is affordable, but they won't even sell individual subscriptions.

That's bullshit.

Also, as I mentioned elsewhere, academics in Biology and Machine Learning have revolted against pay journals and made their own authoritative, high-quality open access journals. The model has been proved. The path has been cleared. Now all you have to do is walk it.

> "but this has to be done by the scientists, and generally speaking they are busy doing science."

God forbid reshaping the scientific process to make use of the singular most important technology of the last 50 years take any time away from some scientist's work - which is mostly conservative, incremental and only useful for advancing his tenure application, anyways.
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Same here. I'm thankful for the brains that went into developing such a tool, just think about the amount of research, mathematics, and algorithms required to do even some of the simple tasks in Photoshop.
Great, another Tiny Tower clone.
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I think it's even more odd that Apple somehow has become the medias corporate prodigal son that can do nothing wrong.

People need to realize that Apple is no longer the upshot company trying to survive under the boot heel of Microsoft, but actually a vastly profitable company utilizing all the methods expected from a global industrial giant.

Stop treating Apple as if they are some form of 'do good' company!
I don't agree with his support for the RWA, but, it could be construed as consistent with his opposition to SOPA from an anti-government perspective: keep regulations low, keep the government out of the internet (SOPA) and the private publishing business.

Of course, given that the RWA is really trying to keep a system that charges the public twice for research they've already paid... but anyhow, that's a rationale.
i get it, but there are so many good ones they could have actually used.

"well... anything is possible" - when asked if something is possible
"stack overflow?! i could code that in about a day. tops!"
"HTML isn't programming"
Its an interesting article. I've pointed out to a lot of doom and gloom types that historically the number of good changes and the number of bad changes are pretty evenly distributed so one has to consider the good things that will happen too.

The article sort of missed completely the change that is coming to medicine. Recent articles in the Economist and medical journals have been pretty amazing of late. One thing I read recently was the article on stem cells (http://www.economist.com/node/21543471) which talked about cultures of a patients cells, coaxed into becoming stem cells, and then allowing drug therapies to be tested against the patients own cells. That is a pretty radical change.

There will also be some interesting emergent systems. Watching the explosion of 'smart' things and their interaction is interesting. Saw the equivalent of a 'flash mob' at the theatre as the folks who tweeted they had seats available and then a bunch of their college buddies showed up.

When you add that to a huge backlog of stupid things that were patented at the turn of the century losing patent protection and suddenly everyone is ok with building tech again. Definitely a good time to be an engineer.
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I think connor is referring to the expected value of the returns, not just the odds of winning.
Used cars are actually a huge profit center for dealers. They will wholesale older cars that they can't sell on their lots, but for a good late-model used car, they can easily make a few thousand dollars profit.
It's also loud as hell. Bad idea to post a video with out a way to adjust the volume. Nearly blew my head off.
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Ask HN:  Starting a company for an iphone app/game?
Hi, I want to start a company just for an iphone game with a friend. I'm based in NY, and I want to offer shares(?) to a fellow artist for helping out. What kind of company lets me do this, and is there a relatively inexpensive way to do this to get an MVP out?
Better Hack #5: Be your own mechanic. Cars really aren't that complicated - especially for smart hacker folk like us. I did maintenance on my parents vehicles when I was 12 years old (brakes + oil changes) and have been working on my own vehicles since I could drive. In the past 7 years, I have only spent money on alignments and tire mounting/balancing, to the tune of $300 probably. The kicker is that I'm no more mechanically inclined than anybody else. I learn every time I pick up a wrench, with a bit of help from the good ol' internet. The experience is unbelievably fun and rewarding :)
> I used to work for a company that put a late-payment clause right in the contract. If you didn't pay us you were on the hook for a fee plus interest on the outstanding balance.

This is so common in the business world -- terms -- that there's a short hand minilanguage for describing your terms on invoices, purchase orders and contracts.

Here's a decent list: http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=10...
We do more than that, but only send a few hundred emails per day outside of our internal google apps accounts (using sendgrid) and then blast a newsletter once a week via mailchimp.
If no money is changing hands; who's gonna edit, typeset and print them? Who is gonna manage mail, comments from readers and so on? Pimple-faced volunteering undergrads?

I think desire to have everything free is a fantasy of the open source community. Not everything can be run like open source software project. Sometimes people need to get paid.
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They are intended to be tamperproof, yes. Mirroring the contents of a TPM is an exercise in hardware deconstruction where you also have to worry about setting of auto-erase traps. It's not impossible by any means, but it's not standard procedure and there's no guarantee it will actually work.
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I completely missed the rewards having some 1280x800 laptop...
They are intended to be tamperproof, yes. Mirroring the contents of a TPM is an exercise in hardware deconstruction where you also have to worry about setting off auto-erase traps. It's not impossible by any means, but it's not standard procedure and there's no guarantee it will actually work.
To echo chubot: Why isn't Lua more widely used?

* It lacks an easy-to-use symbolic debugger.

* It lacks a first-rate IDE.

* It lacks a standard way for people coming from OO/Java to define objects and interfaces.

* It lacks a GUI toolkit.

* It has a great set of manuals. It lacks an O'Reilly book with a woodcut animal on the cover.

* Arrays indexes start at 1.

Except for the last item, these are all relatively small things that are simply waiting for someone to come along and do them. This is a testament to the great design of the language.

And many of these things do exist, it's just the Lua style seems to be to understate the achievements to the point that folks can't tell the big new stuff from the abandoned projects.
I completely agree - my initial impression is that it isn't up to par with something like the 3-series, but maybe I should wait until I actually try it in person.
Should I buy?
Just wanted to let you guys know, Helpjuice.com is an alternative that a good amount of (former) Assistly customers have been switching to
Facebook's board meeting today to approve the IPO move
Well, I don't know why, but I just hate it when Humble Bundle puts in a game I already purchased in previous humble bundles and all games being in the same steam key as well. However, having an android app this time lessen the pain by a little though. Although I not owning an android currently.
The writer says that the US university system is awesomer than most people believe and that the awesomeness of our university system is unmeasurable. Then in the next paragraph he says we host "more than half of the world's top 100 universities". By what measure?
Ask these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Res...
I'm a pretty big Flickr user, but out of all the online services I've used, it is one of the most un-innovative. Very little has changed since I signed up for Pro 2 years ago. Given Yahoo's other problems, this is only a sign for the worse.
Right - ZFS is awesome even as a non-boot storage pool. But one of the main drawbacks of MacZFS (the open-source competitor) is that it can't be booted off of, and this product doesn't seem to offer that feature as a competitive advantage.

Presumably this product offers support for the latest zpool version and is based on a much more recent ZFS codebase (and hence should perform better as well), but because their site is so devoid of benchmarks, it's hard to tell.
what is tiny tower?
Sounds like you're looking for their "Developer Edition":

http://tenscomplement.com/our-products/zevo-developer-editio...
Flickr is good, I agree (speaking as someone with two separate personal pro accounts) but I think Yahoo has more in the arsenal than that.

I recently returned to Yahoo Mail after a long absence, and to be honest, I like it. Honestly, for me I genuinely prefer it to GMail which just feels clunky in comparison now.

Yahoo may have a rather chequered management history with these products, but the actual products themselves (in these two cases as the ones I actually use) remain good IMHO.
CBS Sports launches online market place for fantasy sports apps
Flickr "added value" lies in its huge community of photographers, the forums, the favorites and the comments. I could move my shots from Flickr to any other service tomorrow but it will take a very long time to reboot the community. This is actually very sad and I hope this does not mean the beginning of the end for Flickr,
I'm fine with C-style strings, but once in a while there are things for which a bit of UTF-8 tagging would be good enough.
Sounds like he also needed a "Deadbeats Who Eventually Paid Up" folder as well.
2013 is the year of NoOps for the Cloud (infographic)
Prepaid phones in the U.S. (at least through T-Mobile, Verizon, and Virgin Mobile, which resells Sprint) do not roam. If you are not within range of a tower owned by your carrier, you do not get service (except 911).

Look at coverage maps for the major carriers... even Verizon's map for prepaid is swiss cheese.

Probably fine if you stay in the city but if you travel (or live in the suburbs of a city like Milwaukee) this is a dealbreaker.
In this case the "perfect" and the "good" are an order of magnitude different in the utility they will provide for society.
Do you think it has anything to do with flickr being a "mature" product, with very little new risky development going on? When a product doesn't change much from month-to-month or year-to-year, perhaps senior support staff are no longer needed? Just a thought.
I just noticed that 6 of the 10 people on the Parse team have Google backgrounds: https://www.parse.com/about/team

They're still in beta so perhaps it's premature to call it a success story, but it looks promising.
Postmark's inbound email mail parsing feature is very nice. I used it last week to set up automated order shipped confirmation emails for an e-commerce site we built. I just set up an auto forward to the Postmark inbound address, and they turn around and pass a nicely parsed JSON representation of the email to a URL on our web server.

See http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-inbound.html for details.
Reminds me of the talk "Fuck you, pay me", where they talk about how the client only gets copyright assignment upon reciept of final payment. Thus, if they stop/don't pay, then they do not have copyright on the work, and hence are guilty of copyright infringement if they use it.
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I'm working on a letter to my MP and Senator to fix the digital lock issue. This is the argument I'm fleshing out. Feedback is appreciated:

Regarding digital locks, in an earlier version of the bill called C-60, they had the completely reasonable position that circumventing digital locks would only infringe if the circumvention was done to further an infringing act. If you broke the lock to exercise your fair dealing rights, that would not be infringement.

The WIPO lawyers argued that wasn't the intention of the Internet treaties we signed, but I think that's bullshit. A marketing campaign after the fact about the possible intention of the law doesn't matter; only what's written and how it would be reasonably interpreted to achieve its stated aims.

The WIPO treaties explicitly allow for fair dealing and fair use restrictions on the rights granted to copyright holders. Further, they only demand that digital locks are protected to enforce rights of the copyright holders.

However, clearly the rights of the copyright holders are limited by the fair dealing provisions (1), and therefore the digital locks don't need to be enforced where they prevent non-infringing uses.

(1) If you don't get this, it's important to remember that rights and freedoms are never unlimited. We have freedom of expression in Canada, but that is reasonably limited when that expression causes harm to society, such as yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre or hate speech or even reporting election results early. The full right isn't the one paragraph that grants "freedom of expression" in the Charter, but that paragraph limited by the reasonable restrictions around it.

Similarly, copyrights are not the simple paragraph descriptions like "right to control copies", but the full right as limited by fair dealing.

Therefore, when WIPO only asks for enforcement of digital locks that protect the rights of copyright holders, that requirement is limited by fair dealing.
Tcl has lambdas (anonymous functions): http://wiki.tcl.tk/4884. As of 8.6 (currently in beta), it also has coroutines, and has a non-recursive engine (stackless) among other niceties.
Could you explain what you can accomplish with Lua metatables that you can't do with python __eg__ methods? I've only seen them used as a way to implement operator overloading.
I think the point here though is that if Apple's consumers don't want to continue on this moral path, they better be prepared to boycott pretty much every other electronic company in existence. It's BS to only point out Apple here.
But it's obvious, isn't it? The workers choose to work there, for that income and under those conditions. This means that all alternative options available to them are worse (like working for even lower income and in worse conditions, or even not working at all). So, clearly, Apple has improved their conditions. Plus, Apple is doing it at profit -- which means that that improvement is sustainable. Isn't it marvelous? I mean, I don't like Apple products, but I have to give it to them: they change lives of thousands of workers for the better.
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How does this compare to most IPOs?

Is it large or midsized?
Yes but it's not a fully integrated workflow, and you have to pay extra for SmugVault.
On day 1, they have 11 apps from 5 companies.

It will be interesting to see if many developers jump in.
My experience is that the intersection between fantasy sports fans and the tech crowd is very thin.

I have already build 4 (small) apps on CBS' platform. I will be happy to share my experience if anyone on HN is interested...
I don't get it. They rebranded and didn't tell partners and customers that it was coming... so you leave the partnership?

I'm sure I'm missing something. Is the product no longer as great as it used to be? Is the profits/commissions you'd earn no longer as great? Is the support no longer the same?
I was a very active participant in the GNE [1] project created by the Ludicorp team before they went on to make Flickr and followed their progress closely for a while. They sold to Yahoo for what would probably pass as a pittance these days - I seem to recall a figure of $30m being mentioned.

Things didn't go so great after that. Yahoo botched it, as they have often seemed to do. It was always obvious to me that Flickr (publicly) died the day Stewart Butterfield handed in a resignation letter written in his typically eccentric style [2].

Stewart and some of the original GNE/Flickr team have a new project called Glitch [3] now. Not my cup of tea, but I wish them the best.

[1] http://www.gnespy.com/museum/

[2] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2147-stewart-butterfields-res...

[3] http://www.glitch.com/
Looks like Silver does mirroring, but not RAIDZ. I <3 RAIDZ. RAIDZ with snapshots helped me sleep at night.
It's been said many times over: email is inherently not secure. You can secure access to it as much as you like, but it's still going over the wire in plain text unless you are encrypting all of your messages.
In most academic publications, the editing, typesetting, managing mail, etc is done by the volunteers or the papers authors. Pretty much all journals are going online only so there's no need to print anything.

In short the publishing houses do sod all, and get paid a lot of money for doing sod all.
It's possible the government wants to ratify a broken bill to satisfy their treaty rights to the WTO, with the hope and expectation it will be squashed by the courts soon after. Canada gets the law that makes sense without the associated trade sanctions. The cost is several years and several million dollars fighting it out in court.
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Apple pays fair market value for the labor (that would be China's market), ships the result across the ocean/vast distances, and then sells it at fair market value elsewhere.

Also, as per the article, 'low income' is relative. Low to you, higher than average in China.
Thanks John - we're looking for creative uses of Postmark Inbound. If you're interested in sharing, drop me a line: alex@wildbit.com
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. In what sense is Foxconn's average wage comparable to South African Apartheid? Nobody in China is forced to accept a job at Foxconn; in fact, if Apple produced goods the way its critics appear to want it to, they wouldn't even have the option of working for Foxconn wages, because Apple's manufacturing would take place in the US.
>I'm forced to reach this conclusion because none of the complaints has been accurate about the features of FCP X, or acknowledged the significant advancement that FCP X made to editing. Thus its clear to me that they've not used FCP X, yet are still highly motivated to attack it.

Go read the reviews of FCP X on the App Store (which may or may not be cleared by now.. I don't have access to a mac). You cannot leave reviews on app store apps unless you have installed it at least once. That would seem to imply that most of the bad reviews there are legitimate.

I just read through the comments that you're talking about. There's a difference between saying "You're coming across like a $pejorative" and "You are a $pejorative".

If you can't twig that simple difference, well, you are coming off like a dumbass.
I'm a huge fan of WePay. My founder and I needed a Java implementation of their api, so we wrote one: https://github.com/lookfirst/WePay-Java-SDK

They are thinking out of the box by providing services that developers need. A well documented API and near real-time feedback with their core engineers. In this regard, PayPal is a joke.
Hmmm.... unless you pay double, or more, and wait for a while longer, only supports a single disk, and no mirroring or RAIDZ features... $20 gets you one disk, $40 gets you mirrors and 2-4 disk, and the platnum offering, with no price, gets you RAIDZ1 and 2 (single and double parity) and 2-10 disks... sorry, i think building a NAS and exporting the storage to more than just OSX is the better option... AFP, they say, is not even fully working on Lion...
Good bye Internet, it was nice to know you.
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I'll note that I'm not having the issue at work. Possibly my home IP is flagged as mobile. (I don't think it's a cookie, as I had the same issue using Incognito Mode in Chromium)
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