skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted a quote from Apple's (Canadian) website up the page. The programs vary by country so they post different info on different country pages.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212398
http://www.apple.com/ca/recycling/
>The spam filtering algorithms are not open source //

The moderation of this social network is completely opaque and often, it seems, whatever algorithms or feelings the mods use to guide them are wrong. That's probably survivor/selection bias but who's to know ...
For those of us who code in web-land, a delay of one hour would be appalling, let alone an entire week. (And of course even then, it relies on user action, and so will never be 100%.)
Signal is signal and noise is noise. A bias towards passive face time is embracing noise and will reduce the ability to execute.
Thanks for the discussion! These are all great points to consider.
>exchange calendars/address books

That would seem to be the catch, I was originally talking about just an email client. This would now be an email client, exchange client, calendar, address book...
What you need to do is use a 'touchUpInside' event, there are a couple wwdc preso's that cover it. Basically you compare coords of a touchend event to the coords of the target. Touchend events fire instantly so you dont have to worry about the 300ms click delay. Dug this out of some old code, wont work out of the box but you get the gist. https://gist.github.com/3067704
"I don't get it... "

Sorry, I don't have time to put in the requisite political theory, but in short, what gives the "public" the right to claim the entire continent, or indeed if you look at the issue correctly, THE ENTIRE PLANET unto their driving rules?

Follow the rabbit hole Alice.
I had severe memory problems. Then on upgrade to, I think it was, FF11 firefox became so crash-prone that it was crashing on about every fifth page. Even "safe mode" wouldn't help.

Then I created a new profile and it was amazing. FF has been running without crashes since (not one) and memory usage seems well balanced.

Just FWIW.
Each one of these could be a potential missile used against us.

This seems to be exaggerated. Wouldn't you need a drone on American soil, already right next to the target, in order to crash it by sending falsified GPS coordinates?
The title sounds a bit ominous for an article that really only attempts to show how Hadoop was a stepping stone to a more refined set of tools at Google.
If you think your content is amazing and helping to change lives, then turn it into a product. Don't give it away in a blog and hope for some AdSense pennies. Self-publish a book, list it on Amazon, and use your blogs and contacts as marketing channels for the book, not the thing to be marketed.
Seriously. This fucking sunshine is like being in an oven.
Facebook API Euthanasia Continues: Keeping Face.com to Itself
Ask HN: Which desk do you use? Which desk Y Combinator use?
Just wonder which desks do people use? And which desk Y Combinator use?
Or against US soldiers.
Revert vs. Reply
The problem is not add-ons. Let me repeat that -- THE PROBLEM IS NOT ADD-ONS. I left Firefox about a year ago, once Chrome was good enough, because my plain-vanilla Firefox, with all the tweaks to limit memory usage enabled, would still leak memory until it crashed (my laptop has 1.5GB RAM and Ubuntu; it also had a few GB of swap). Closing tabs did not help either. The only response from Mozilla was 'add-ons.' Chrome does just fine with 30+ tabs open on the same machine.

Any organization that can live in denial for years and years about the core issue with their product is going to die. Mozilla is tightly connected to the web developer community, but has a complete disconnect from the problems facing its actual users. When Firefox shipped, it was a great, light-weight alternative to Mozilla. From my point of view as a user, I haven't seen any substantial improvements since 1.0 shipped in 2004 -- spell check is nice, and given how often it crashes, restoring tabs when the browser is opened is nice -- but that's all. Otherwise, if not for security issues and web site compatibility issues, I'd be on Firefox 1.0 (which worked fine on sub-GHz machines).

Aside from that, virtually all development effort has been aimed at making a better IDE for web developers. I guess that benefits me since, ultimately, I can visit nicer web sites in Chrome.
Hotlinking isn't actually a big problem these days, or at least I don't hear anyone complaining about it. A bigger issue is people who take the comic, remove any watermarks, and then upload it somewhere else.

I don't know why they remove the watermarks, but that step alone invalidates your suggestion.
Totally serious question: isn't the GPL GPL'ed in some way?
Revitalizing a Detroit Neighborhood (with Zombies)
There are a few good comments[1] on the article page that point out that Military drones use an encrypted GPS channel that isn't susceptible to this specific attack. A much more sophisticated attack would have to be used to take over a military drone.

[1]: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/02/drone-hackedwith-...
Unless one gets downed abroad and reprogrammed.
I believe tribalism is inadequate as it implies a strong awareness or belief of the separate existence of "my group" vs "that group". The author is focused more on those clusters which logically exist but are unknown to those inside. What he brings up is related to the subject of privilege which feminists often talk about.
I personally use a desk called 'Bivi' http://myturnstone.com/settings/private-office-2/ As far as YC, perhaps someone else will know.
Will Thunderbird Get Forked Proper?
"It's compiled, not interpreted."

The Objective-C calls are not really compiled. They are dynamically dispatched at runtime in a very equivalent manner to an interpreter or via reflection in Java. You can read about it here:

http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/artikel/Optimization/opti-3....

Quite far from the compiled C calls also covered in the linked article.
Nice, This is cool, pretty much what I had in mind with some cool additional features. It seems like you could just pass the template to bindModel, fire a change, and have it do the initial render and cut out _.template altogether.
There is only one school in texas worth knowing about.
Lying is, at least where I live, not illegal.
Have you tried any other forms of traffic building than asking for someone to spread your name? If you're as good as you say you are (I've never read your writing) then I would try getting a guest spot to blog on large parenting and family blogs, the type that gets thousands or tens of thousands of hits per day. Try getting in touch with bloggers for these types of sites, or the people that run the site, and point them back to your blogs. Tell them that you're interested in guest writing blog posts for them.

That should get you some good traffic if you could pull that off with a few big blogs.

Don't rely on word of mouth advertising, go out there and research alternatives that may be more attainable to you.

I hope you find something that works.
This implies that a specific target is necessary. Anywhere with people is usable.
Of course. I'm just a little concerned about how easy it is to inflate a program's size in Dart by including another core library.
Just switched to a hacked walking desk made from a board put on a treadmill. I lucked out with the height being about right for typing.
There are piles of evidence that Apple's computers have a longer useful life than a typical PC if you look for it. For instance, comparing measures of installed base vs market share. Here are a couple of links. If you put some time into it, you can find more going back to the 80s and 90s:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/03/mac-os-x-north-american...

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/9E601E8E-2AC... (cmd-f for "Mac vs PC Life Span")
I have reason to believe some of it is embarrassment or shame or not wanting to admit publically why they think I am fantastic. If you had a kid who was headed for jail or a mental institution or something and I helped turn it around so that was not the outcome, first, you can't prove that jailtime was averted by better parenting and, second, you probably don't want to admit it even if you feel people would believe it.
I don't think my exact model is made anymore, but it's extremely similar to this: http://www.amazon.com/White-Frosted-Glass-Steel-Fighter/dp/B...

I've had it for about 5 years now. I like the size of it and it's surprisingly sturdy, but I'm not overly fond of the glass top, because it's so hard to keep clean.
For me, it's the other way 'round. I'm an American (barely; I'm from Maine and talk like a Canadian) who'd love to move to Ottawa or Toronto, but there's not a hell of a lot up there.
Isn't that really because Mozilla don't make the extension vs addon vs plugin distinction clear themselves?

If you go to the Firefox add-ons in about:addons and do a search for an addon called "flash" then a link to the [Adobe] flash plugin isn't presented (as either best match nor name match). It's got to be amongst the top 10 addons used surely?? Certainly one of the top 10 for the keyword "flash". So?

Equally the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ page doesn't mention plugins at all, not even under the "more" top menu. If you search at the addons page you only get extensions and no plugins offered to you (eg https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=flash).

Extensions are found at addresses like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/$extensionNam...; shouldn't that be /en-US/firefox/extension/... ?

In short Mozilla don't make it clear to users so how should a user be expected to see the difference? Is there a real difference or is it just an arbitrary Firefox UI distinction?
R is a great language, with lots of features and applications without the incremental stuff added by Revo. Their 'Big Data' stuff isn't for everyone.
Well to be fair to Google - UIWebView wraps WebKit and Google is a contributor. So - technically speaking - Google has written a lot of the guts of Chrome for iOS.
Wow. Okay, well, uh... don't let me take up any more of your valuable time, then. Good talking to you.
Of course they did. Every Nazi knows that to overthrow the US you have to get rid of guns.

It's only a matter of time.
This is part of the clever and gradual propaganda campaign to increase drone funding/sophistication significantly. A new article intended to nudge the reader toward that conclusion is released about every 6 months.
I don't think that. Other people tell me that. Then I get called an egomaniac for wanting to find a way to monetize it etc. Given my current situation, it's pretty crazymaking. Thanks for the feedback.
Amen! I had exactly the same reaction. (Disclosure: I'm an alumnus, twice.)
The making of OneClick - javascript bittorrent downloads
The HANA integration is more marketing blurb than a true integration at this point. It's meant to draw in the stats guys so other SAP products can be sold to them.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2048nZ7pI1r3jsrko1_500.jp...
This scenario would also assumes that no human is in the loop and the drone is running on auto pilot. The "hack" was averted by the drone pilot switching the drone to manual in the exercise in question. I am not sure what military drones even have to do with this test.
Egads, the news coverage of this is horrible fear mongering.

The researchers from UT built a system to protect against GPS spoofing. In order to prove that their protection system works, they had to demonstrate that GPS spoofing is feasible. Without exception, every news item on this only mentions the spoofing part, and not the protection part.

Military unmanned systems use encrypted GPS that is not vulnerable to the attack demonstrated.

Its possible to make a vehicle fly erratically, or even cause it to crash by spoofing GPS. But to take control requires a lot more than what was demonstrated. An error of 1us in the spoofed signal corresponds to 1000ft -- that's why the actual descriptions of the vehicle say 'banked hard' or 'veered' off course.

GPS jamming is so much easier than spoofing and results in the same thing.
I can't understand this sentimental attachment to the past.
I'm the owner of both comments and wrote it for two times because I can't see the other one and have very strong opinions about this topic.
Cannot really agree with your first point, as I came to Objective-C through Brad Cox's excellent book[1]. Apple has added quite a lot to the language and Cocoa is pretty nice.

F-Script is a nice language in the Smalltalk tradition built on the Objective-C runtime. If I was going to pursue something like this, I would probably work at making a clang-like front end for it.

1) Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programming-An-Evoluti...
Maria: An MVC framework for JS
It is not about net neutrality, it is about them buying bandwidth as cheaply as possible. 54.8Tbps now split in some proportion amongst the investors, 2.5x that once they upgrade to 100Gbit optics.
Uh,

" It is possible that..", "I see don't"... "may be a better ... decision"..."The guidelines I see"... "I doubt it"

Your claims are a long stream of unsupported speculation.

Rather than speculate, we can consult the article. The article mentions that the guidelines were developed with Apple's input. The article sources a couple people who noted that the recent MacBook Pro was mostly unrecycleable.

And the "something" which the screen was glued to is the battery and given that batteries are major source of toxic waste, it is hard to imagine how a smaller battery or screen might be a desirable trade-off for the battery's toxic ingredients entering the environment.

Edit: re-reading the article, the situation is that the screen is glued to the case and the battery is glued to the case. Effectively the same result: '“If the battery is glued to the case it means you can’t recycle the case and you can’t recycle the battery,” Frisbee said.'
> What about the difficulty of finding out what users want (when your customers are all in the US)

This seems like a false premise. I would guess people who live in the valley are just as disconnected from the rest of the states as people who live in Canada. Perhaps more so.
In Spain, lemonade made cheaper when temperature rises
it would be easier for people to give advice if you linked your actual websites. in case anybody is interested, here are the links http://www.metafilter.com/user/153873 (grabbed from your another comment).
YC doesn't have desks as such. We have long dinner tables custom designed by our architect Kate Courteau that some amount of work also gets done at (http://www.vinodnarayan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/y-com...), and a few conference tables that are all different.
Well there is Samsung, a few companies in China. The Indian companies are mostly services, not tech. So similar.
Did you read the part of the article that said "The demonstration of the near-disaster, led by Professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the UTA's Radionavigation Laboratory, points to a "gaping hole" in the US's plan to open US airspace to thousands of drones," so presumably there's an existing plan to use drones in US airspace. One would imagine they would be most useful over densely populated areas.
I believe its too late. Too much money has been already spent by lobbyst and all third parties dying to make trillions off of this scam (vide Chertoff and his radiation scanners: first it was just airports (and I somehow agree) with a reasoning that 300 people aboard a plane can be killed by one idiot with a bomb and when you fly a plane you are in one guy's hands (pilot), but now they are fully rolling it into stadiums, train stations, buses, soon schools universities and all public entities to join, including libraries (no explanation why -- just simple so that bearded guy hiding in Afghanistan mountains won't get you). Chertoff will make ten thousands-fold on his initial investment; brilliant business anywhere outside US would be called illegal and conflict of interest).

I bet you DHS will turn this horrible news into a good PR, something like "we noticed they could take over our drone, but you see if we get additional 10 billion in funding, we could use encryption over GPS and then all our drones will be safe again".
Actually that's pretty much what they are. There us a whole battery of stimulus stimulus-response tests that are essentially used as a regression test suite to figure out what deleterious (or even beneficial) effect a given mutation has. Of course these "tests" must be manually carried out by researchers on live worms.
We had hand draw pictures and woodworking. Still fun though.
Pinterest Is Leaving Palo Alto And Moving To San Francisco
Again, a misunderstanding of the philosophy. Libertarians tend to believe the States should be free to legislate what they want. Forcing Abortion legal at the federal level is controlling what States were once free to decide.

You're confusing a states' rights fetish for libertarianism. Libertarians are generally alarmed by forcing things to be illegal, not making them legal.

I have never heard them suggesting Abortion or Gay Marriage be illegal at the federal level.

Then you haven't been paying close enough attention.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/rand-paul-fetal-per...

http://theiowarepublican.com/2011/ron-paul-condemns-obama%E2...
You would still need a strong signal near the target, which is more difficult than setting up a drone-trap like Iran seems to have done.

Is it possible to somehow sign GPS coordinates? (Perhaps sync an internal clock at each mission's start, and check a time-based signature?)

If not, are there practical challenges to integrating the output of a drone's engine and calculating the path travelled, instead of naively believing satellite coordinates?

Actually, wind must make that difficult. For a car, you can attach a magnet to each wheel and count the surges as it passes a sensor on each rotation, to give you an idea of where you are. Due to the external forces on a drone, you would probably want to measure forces with an accelerometer/gyroscope, not engine output.)

What are the challenges involved in such? Is internal-location tracking even feasible?
There are certain kinds of data -- (financial, etc) -- that you are going to always want to run on your own locked down cluster, not uploading to google.
Texas College is actually a low-quality college in my town. I was very, very confused for a few seconds.
Judging by the tons of startups I have seen get funded in SillyCon Valley in the last few years your best is to have a weak 'me too' idea and no monetization strategy.
Facebook shuts down Face.com APIs, kills Klik app, enrages developers
I am trying to figure it out and work on it. I am getting some increase in traffic but a lot of the things people suggest do not really work. Someone suggested I do an AMA on Reddit. I did. It was largely ignored. Promoting myself in the ways people suggest seems to never work out. I mostly have not asked these people to promote me but when I have I get told that even if they found my writing personally life changing, they say "but it has no commercial value" and then refuse to help me turn it into something with commercial value..and so on. So amazing people with connections etc. tell me I am amazing and made their life better but bite me bitch if you want anything in return. Um, what? WTF???? It makes me crazy. Then if I try to talk about my frustration, other people say I am delusional and egomaniacal. Can I gnaw my left arm off and escape this trap already?
411 days ago, "The Failure Of Second Life": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2574795
Problems (IMHO) with folding tables:

1. The metal reinforcement underneath the tabletop, around the perimeter, would interfere if you wanted to install a keyboard tray.

2. The collapsible diagonal metal struts that reinforce the legs reduce the usable space underneath the table somewhat. You may not be able to fit a filing cabinet (or small rack, or tower PC with hard drives on top, etc) under a folding desk near either end, because of the struts.
Revision Control Systems, Part 3: Distributed Version Control with Git
The third part of this series focuses on a very trendy distributed version control system -- Git. A definite hit among the open-source community, Git makes it very easy to manage large projects by geographically separate teams. It also sits great on resumes. If you haven't yet learned how to use it, this is your chance.
But if the instances also live on ec2 (which they do in the heroku case), you would still run into the issue of needing separate instances to terminate SSL on for each SSL enabled site (with the 1 IP limit). It would seem much more economical for them to terminate at the ELB level and only pay for an ELB per customer.
Is your criticism the same for the newer 64-bit runtime? https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Cocoa/...
Not to dispute your (very credible) assertion that it's more suitable for common use than hiragana, can katakana express more tonal subtlety than hiragana? Are there words for which it would be preferable to use hiragana for legibility reasons? Are both used together in compliment to express an even wider range of verbal tones?
> GPS jamming is so much easier than spoofing and results in the same thing.

Does it? Can't the drone tell that the GPS input that it's getting is inconsistent and fall back to flying home using dead reckoning?
This was true for the competition I participated in, but it is a considerably weaker statement than grandparent.
Stop building apps and start building behaviors
The Amazon desks appear to be a particularly expensive implementation of a potentially cheap desk.
*prohibitively

ouch.
Whenever hybrid apps comes up, I never hear mention of Instagram. I can't find any specific details on their app stack, but as this screenshot (http://i.imgur.com/p00E2.png) shows, they are definitely using web views for parts of their UI (timeline view).
A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley
The main reason I can think of is the single point of failure in regards to a NAT instance. With the only other alternative being giving EIPs to every host that needs internet access. I would like to see a more robust solution and HA for the NAT instance. Especially if you're doing any kind of heavy proxying, couldnt you max out the NAT instance's uplink at some point? Anyone have ideas?
I don't see it as desperation so much as "why not?" It's like a business version of infill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infill

It's cheap for them to start taking money for job ads and creating a place where they can be accessed, and maybe even recommending jobs based on likes or previous company associations or whatever.
Well, AFAIK, you can't develop third party apps for the ipod shuffle/nano. An iPhone shuffle/nano would not be a smartphone.
Last chance to remove DNSChanger virus before web outage
Electricity Transmitted to Auto Tire Through 10cm-thick Concrete
Template markup is generally more complex than that and certainly more complex than your bindings. The ability for designers to edit and change the markup without having to look at code is a plus for using templates. Not to mention as a backbone convention it is expected so it makes things more portable.
Yahoo, Facebook Settle Patent Dispute
time for an iconaircraft -- it's half the price and twice as cool.
Exactly. It's a top-down "gonna be the next Google," but in this case, "let's absorb some LinkedIn functionality."
I guess alternatively you could leverage the funky port forwarding hack on elb and put each ssl site on a different backend port. but that just seems like a mess.
Why does Martin Fowler not understand feature branches
Seeing this, I rather have the reaction Thomas Huxley had when reading the theory of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - "How utterly stupid of me not to have thought of that myself!" :-) Brilliant, brilliant idea. Seriously. I totally would go to such a theme park. Zombies in Detroit. Awesome!