skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> She says in 2009, a group of Nextel technicians who were repairing cell towers in Tamaulipas were abducted from their hotel.

Fascinating. You're fixing a tower in the morning and then you're forced to work for some crazy cartel boss for the rest of your life. These people are destroying honest families.
Show HN: DialASmile - tell people why you love them, even when you're not around
Hey guys, I've been working on this cool little side project and was wondering everyone's thoughts on it. Check it out at www.dialasmile.me

I came up with the idea while trying to create a romantic gift for my girlfriend. Her last boyfriend had made a webpage with all the reasons he loved her on it, and so of course I wanted to one up him! So I decided I'd set up a phone number that she could call whenever I'm not around and she's lonely, that would speak all the reasons I love her out loud. I ended up making one for my mom too for Mother's Day, and she loved it, so I thought, "Hey maybe I'll turn this into a web app so everyone can do it!"

One month later and its out! It's called DialASmile, and it allows you to create cute "dialers" for friends, family, and significant others. When they call the DialASmile phone number, they can hear all the reasons you love them, think they're awesome, etc, spoken out loud to them. Makes a cool little anniversary, holiday (or maybe even father's day!) gift. It's free to use to start, and if you use the promo code 'makedadsmile' between now and father's day you can get upgraded to an even better dialer for free.

Please check it out. I'd love to hear any improvements or pain points anyone has :)
The blimp is out of Ft Huachuca and it is equipped with cameras, and there is a drone unit stationed there also. I sold some test equipment there in 1999 to TRW, now named something else.
It's been a big week for the Streisand Effect. Between The Oatmeal and Never Seconds, nearly a quarter million dollars has been raised for charities.
"Dropbox' utility will be phased out soon"
Well it dents the accusation that the justice system doesn't punish the 'rich.' But we'll hear further rationalizations, like "Well if he was white and rich, then he would have gotten off." but those are just rationalizations of course.

I feel sorry that the guy didn't get better advice from his peers.
A Better ImageMagick Gem
You took that quote out of context. It was speaking to feasibility, not policy.
http://www.ifixit.com/Tools/MacBook-Air-5-Point-Pentalobe-Sc...

It doesn't seem to have been taken down in the year or so that they've had it in their store. FUD is FUD, and also worthless. One google search for pentalobe screw turned that up.

I'm not going to defend Apple's decisions, it likely is related to making it harder for people to open up themselves, but $13 is not cost prohibitive for anyone buying a >$1k laptop. And for anyone buying a >$2k laptop, a warranty plan is within reach as well (10% extra).
I upgrade as needed, and consider it a fine piece of work when someone produces a laptop that keeps performing for 3+ years.
FriendInMyBed.com - Adult social networking...

AnswerBeak.com - search

CherishSteveJobs.com - self explanatory

WhyDoYouLike.Me - he he
I freaking love kitty cats!
It's bigger than having no merit as a lawsuit.

The reason I like the phrase is that it encapsulates the fact that this is wrong legally, from a PR perspective, morally and that there's much to lose and little to gain.
Real Time Instant ACH Is Live Today
I'm likewise very curious. Outside of iOS development, I don't seen the need to carry overpriced apple products. I have a used thinkpad that I paid $100 for 2 years ago, and I get more development done on it than most programmers I know.
If I can get it compatible with IE9, is that a big thing for people here? I don't think it would be too hard, thoughts?
Dropbox uses S3
Will drop you an email shortly.
Perfect time for another episode of:

Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".
IIRC the original quotation didn't have "yet", and Gibson has remarked that adding it misses the point; the idea that the future will ever be evenly distributed is naive.
'Money doesn't stink', as the Roman Emperor said. Who's to say they aren't selling?

But in any case, money and planes are pretty fungible. Perhaps they use straw buyers, or perhaps they simply buy used. Plenty of 747s out there now.
If you like weird tangents and biting satire of American suburban culture, try _Infinite Jest_.

Both Stephenson and David Foster Wallace owe a debt to Thomas Pynchon, but Stephenson's relationship to Pynchon is unfortunately a lot like Dan Brown's (_The Da Vinci Code_) relationship to Umberto Eco (_Foucault's Pendulum_, another great hacker book): it's simultaneously superficial and exploitative, a kind of literary mountaintop-removal exercise.

Wallace isn't going to give you guns with with funny names or high-speed chases, but almost everything you say you like about _Snow Crash_ is abundantly scattered throughout _Jest_. Stephenson was also notorious for his thuddingly unsatisfying conclusions. Wallace solves that problem in way I think is very congenial to hackers. :)

It's a much longer book. And you're going to spend a lot more time decoding than you ever would in a Stephenson novel. But it's fun, and worth it.
Have you written a lot of operating systems yourself then?
They have no history of doing things like that no matter how old some of the hardware is.

Quite frankly, that seems a bit of a scare tactic to try to raise the concern that way.

The proper concern would be whether a replacement battery would still be available in four years.
I dragged a screenshot of their logo into Kittydar. No cats. Magritte would be pleased.
The /cc/ on the end of the URL seems to break something?
WWDC: FadingRed Finds Opportunity in Bad Backup Habits
Meanwhile, in the real world, millions of people use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, share photos, and set up events, in addition to meeting in person.

Defining yourself by not using something is no better than defining yourself by using it. Just let go and accept that it's a useful tool, nothing more, nothing less.
Father's Day Weekend in Indianapolis
That is, I suspect, a metric as useful as bugs fixed.

Good lawyers take tough cases you're more likely to lose. With that measure you're as likely to find someone's who cherry picks slam dunks as a genuinely good lawyer.
The Slow Web
There is also a really tall tethered balloon around there somewhere.

Well...at least there is on the map, :-P, I've never seen it in real life.
Even when things are serviceable, then are too expensive to get fixed in America. I didn't read full article but I read memory sticks were soldered and memory sticks can easily get faulty. More restrictions from Apple is not surprising.
Good catch! Can't fix it though, so I'll have to resubmit...
The Setup, What's in your bag and GIF's
Real Time Instant ACH Is Live Today [corrected link]
I think some earlier versions of dropbox client had the folder be in Documents by default and then they changed it.
Can Big Data defeat Big Money in politics?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4118015
yes, and yes, here's a picture of my XO-1 that went viral

http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-la...
I find it hard to believe that governments can ever do anything to stop file sharing in the long term. The more things are forced underground the harder they are to stop. The DMCA was intended to stop piracy but ultimately gave legal cover to numerous sites that would otherwise have been sued out of existence.
Artist Voltaire has own music videos flagged as pirated on youtube
From the interesting submitted article:

"An outfit in San Francisco called 'tenXer' has begun testing a service that aims to help people boost their mental accomplishments by up to tenfold—hence its name. . . . "

. . . .

"For those wishing to have a go, tenXer

http://www.tenxer.com/

in San Francisco is currently offering a beta version of its tracking software to help people analyse their own performance, set goals for themselves and improve their lot. At present, the tracking software works only for programmers. But down the road, the same techniques could just as readily be applied to other occupations. . . . "

The great thing about this is that many of us on Hacker News can put the claim to the test. Commenting on the claims of tenXer, which is what the writer for The Economist and several of the commenters here on Hacker News are doing, is interesting, and trying this out and seeing whether or not it works might be even more interesting. It's still unclear how much most individual human beings can improve themselves if they apply effort to self-improvement. It might be a good opportunity for career development for many HN participants to try this out.
> I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself.

I felt this way with Facebook, but then worked out what was going on. It's a multiple-endpoints situation. The status updates you read aren't coming from a random distribution of your friends. They come from a self-selected population that is doing something interesting at that particular time. People (mostly) don't post status updates about an average workday or lazy weekend.

If you have 52 friends, who each go on vacation one week out of the year, then every week Facebook will be showing you somebody's awesome vacation updates. That doesn't mean that your own life is worse or less interesting for not being on vacation that particular week.
> How do they come off as sustainable and cool when their are responsible for all this trash production?

How do they come off as sustainable and cool when Greenpeace was protesting in front of Infinite Loop a month ago?
I stopped reading at "set up an EC2 instance". That is in no way a requirement for a startup founder by any stretch of the imagination.
Integrate WhyDoYouLike.Me with Facebook, get rich, buy island.
Fedora Discussion: "ARM Is A Dead End"
This is a 101 on capitalism. Raw capitalism, where killing someone is cheaper than settling on a solution that works for everyone. One where power amasses. But most importantly: where all actors are innovating. You can be amazed at crudely built submarines and private cell relay stations but really its just market pressure at work.

Which brings us back to the obvious conclusion: prohibition doesn't work; the market will find its way. It doesn't need intricate portraits like this one to make that clear.
I agree short breaks are good ideas: they can give you time to mull over the things you've learned and seen, for ideas to finally sprout, etc. But to extend this to any broader theses like 'you should quit social media' is unwarranted; for a counter anecdote, I'm reminded of Hamming's You and Your Research http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

> Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind.'' I don't know. But I can say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but enough that they miss fame.
They'll never become illegal, it will just become like guns in crime, use a VPN, get an extra 5 years for whatever your thoughtcrime might be. Paid with bitcoins? Here's 10.
People torrenting over Tor make my blood boil.
Making history with FiSync – Real time bank transfers are here
I'm disappointed to see the 10x programmer meme hit a publication like the Economist. There's no scientific evidence of 10x differences in programmer productivity. To quote Laurent Bossavit [1], who's investigated the studies people like McConnell use:

"How strong is the support conferred to the 10x claim by the best-reputed list of references, for a reader persistent enough to follow the chain of citations back to primary sources?

"Based on our close reading of the “10x files”, we can now answer: quite weak.

"Not a single one of the references is to a replication, in the scientific sense of the term, of the original exploratory experiment.

"The empirical data is in general quite old, most if not all of it predating widespread use of the Internet - which we can safely expect to have wrought major changes in programming practice.

"None of the studies address the question of construct validity, that is, how meaningful it is to speak of an individual programmer’s productivity, and if it is meaningful, whether the experimental measurements line up adequately with that meaning."

Don't get me wrong--I've certainly seen 10x (and greater) variations in productivity. But they've been due to factors other than inherent individual capability. They're things like

* technical debt

* familiarity with the codebase and problem domain

* interruptions, distractions, multi-tasking and other office environment issues

* choice of language - but this is a distant fourth compared to other the other three

On top of all this, the Economist article is a thinly-veiled press release for tenXer, which is itself nothing more than an exercise in testerone-fueled egotism. tenXer measures activity, not productivity [2], and I expect the primary result of increasing your tenXer metrics will be less time thinking, more time hacking, and insufferable smugness.

[1] The Leprechauns of Software Engineering explores what science is and how we distinguish between fact and folklore in software engineering. It specifically explores the 10x claim, and determines that it's folklore. http://leanpub.com/leprechauns

[2] Productivity is defined as output over input, and the output of programming is software capability. No one's come up with a good measure of that yet. So any time someone claims they can prove increased productivity, ask them how they measure it. Chances are good you'll get a bogus value that measures activity instead, such as "lines of code." http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html
You'll probably get one use of that, then. I doubt they'll still have 2012 Macbook Pro batteries sitting around in 2018, much less a person who knows how to install them.

I took my 2006 Macbook in to an Apple retail store to get a new battery, and they don't stock them any more. They said they could special order one, but actually suggested I try Amazon.
Is "Cacti" a great programmer?
Functioning Apple 1 Sells for $375,000 at Sotheby's Auction
Considering that the cost of electronics has generally gone down over time, there's no guarantee that you'll spend that much to replace it then.
Apple has in the past charged outrageous prices for RAM upgrades, but lately has come more in line with aftermarket prices if you factor in what you might consider an installation or "convenience" fee.
Exactly. Lots of relatively undeveloped nations have their own carriers.

I can't imagine it would be than hard to buy a used 747 from a state with a dictator that was hard up for money.
Not gonna brag, but this was very easy to see coming. Here's a blog post I wrote last year:

http://coryliu.com/post/8637665056/google-plus-sucks-for-soc...
tl;dr - Quite a PR piece for http://www.tenxer.com/. Impressive that they could get the Economist to do this, even in a blog property.
I'd argue that occurred through his writing talent more then his recruiting.
My decision to abandon Dropbox in favor of Google Drive seems to have been the correct one, if they're going to go the route of removing functionality and keeping their prices static.

(Note: I'm aware that Google Drive doesn't have this function. I don't use it for that anyways.)
President Reagan also has a book of speeches. His early speeches were self-written and pretty refined from multiple tellings. The advantage today is that you can listen to how he gave them as opposed to having an actor read it.

Of the modern Presidents, he probably wrote the most words and he did learn his style from radio and Hollywood. Not bad teachers in his day.

I do wonder in a hundred years what the historians will think of the writings of the first President to grow up with social media or maybe even USENET.
Thank you. Please email me at ben@easel.io
Could you please teach your uncle how Socialcam works?
In this case though, there are few alternatives. Even if the RAM upgrade was $400, I'd still buy it because the RAM is soldered and so I wouldn't be able to upgrade it myself.
I like it!! I wonder how many people will use it though! Anyway... how do you encrypt the text? sha or some other algorithm?
The point is that if John Lennon was borne today he (or if Jean, she..) would make great music. You might never hear it because of "the industry" but John, or Jean, would be out there somewhere doing ingenious things with melodies that no one else would have.

You can't stop people like that, the same is true for programming, if it's your thing you'll do it. If not.. you won't, you'll be a session musician, and every tune you hear (or function you see) you will be able to say "I could of written that" but you didn't.
جدول پخش برنامه های شبکه من و تو از15/06/2012الی21/06/2012
Getting to work with CodeMirror
The only way to stop these large criminal enterprises is to legalize the stuff. Just like alcohol prohibition created some of the most notorious American criminals, South American drug prohibitions produce powerful criminals down there. There isn't any large crime related to South American cocoa or coffee imports. Legalize it and then spend money and make laws regulating consumption, it would greatly reduce the misery in our corner of the world.
The day after there are no legal requirements for handling health care data or financial data on the internet.
I've been following this, there is a hacker news thread about it, and The Verge have published a P.O. box for Mr Miller. I'm hacking out a letter over the weekend (typed, on onionskin paper, on my uncle's Olivetti).

I use Miller's page with teenagers (I'm a teacher); and the article here will be added to my collection. The pitch is 'control and focus your attention'.
Not just a carrot, but a carrot and a stick. If you don't comply, your family and friends can and will be harmed.

It's a large reason why Mexico military forces stays anonymous by wearing balaclavas on duty and getting rid of the short hair requirement.
Yeah, I really enjoyed being the electrical officer on a ship, deployed to nowhere, the frequency converter broke, we opened it, and the affected board was covered in charred goo.

CASREP 98032
SUBJ: REQUEST $30K BOARD TO REPLACE 30CENT CAPACITOR.

Yes, Captain, the cost of a day's fuel for a 30 cent capacitor. And we will spend $80,000 to air drop that board in a $5000 box from a $50M airplane into the ocean and recover it in a RHIB at non-zero risk to human life. For a 30 cent capacitor. Thank Raytheon.
shiffern's example uses the same coding style you use in Clojure. It doesn't feel like stretch to call it FP. Start with a basic data structure (the object in shiffern's example would translate to a map in Clojure) and then operate on it with simple functions.

(def snake {:name "Sammy"
:distance 5
:move-verb "Slither"})

(def horse {:name "Tommy"
:distance 45
:move-verb "Gallop"})

(defn move[{:keys [name distance move-verb]}]
(println (str (or move-verb "Mov") "ing..."))
(println (or name "It") "moved" (or distance 1) "meters"))

(move snake)
(move horse)
Oh man, The Diamond Age is my all time favorite and the book that drew me to Stephenson in the first place
"Forgive potential ignorance here"

"Don't get me wrong; I think Joel has a lot of good ideas in general"

The saying that comes to mind is perhaps the following. "Those who can, do, those who can't teach." I'm guessing that Joel, by his writings, is a combination of the two and as a result his output is not "rockstar" quality.

Another example might be Steve Blank. Who no doubt achieved more fame as a teacher then he ever did creating anything.

There is obviously quite a value in people who can do both in varying degrees.
Why nanometers matter (and why they often don't)
When being flown for business - who earns the air miles?
The MBP (2007 17") was in a backpack, and I was putting stuff in my car for a trip, running back and forth to the house, and in general getting very distracted. I got in the car, forgetting that the backpack was leaning against a front tire.

I felt a bump, got out of the car, looked around, and saw nothing. Got back in the car, started driving, and noticed that something was definitely wrong. Got back out of the car, looked around, and finally noticed the backpack between the tire and the wheel well.

I had run over the front left side of the laptop. There were key imprints on the screen, but otherwise everything seemed fine. The wireless connection was never really good after that, but it did work given a strong enough signal. I guess I damaged the antenna.

And then, years later, the display started flaking out, getting to the point that the system was unusable. For a while I could work around the problem by putting 2-3 of those huge black paper clips on the frame of the display, near the damage. But then that stopped working.

That was a fine computer. I can't bring myself to just discard it. Burial might be more appropriate. The replacement MBP (2011 15") is just awesome.
I'm going to guess low-tech. If I were running a dangerous, cutthroat business, I certainly wouldn't trust my profits, life, or freedom to anything I didn't understand completely. Having an IT department puts Chapo's sysadmin(s) in a position to stage a coup that he can't detect or address until it's too late.
I went through her blog from the beginning posts hoping to see the meals change from terrible to awesome. I didn't really see a dramatic change - the quality seemed consistent (which is to say, pretty good quality to my eyes) Her very first post has a somewhat sad looking cheeseburger, but that was the only bad one I saw.
Agree, but the letter is not just written to the other lawyer, but to the Internet community at large, including potential clients. That audience will react better to the more colloquial statement.
I'm short on time now and typing on my phone but I own Mozilla's Mac OS X code and would be happy to help you get involved. Email me at josh at mozilla dot com.
They launder their money through major banks like Wells Fargo. If you do a Google search there are hundreds of recent news stories about this.
uhm what? if you're looking for rationalizations, try "this means the rich get generally punished for their misdeeds". hilarious.
Immigration laws have a ton of room for the enforcement officers to look at the specifics of a case and decide what action is appropriate. As the head of the executive branch, Obama can set policy which affects those decisions.