skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>What I have not learned: * What Cheddar is * Why I should care

Anyone want to summarize those two points?
You know you actually did have a very good point and I even agree entirely with it. But the anger and aggression in your writing is such a huge turn-off that it was difficult to fairly consider what you said, and that was the gist of my facetious post.

Evidently some people agree with me. You can continue to be angry that your style of discourse isn't accepted, or you can do something about it and have people give your insight the time it deserves. I believe you're selling yourself short.
Ditto. Found it easy to use and integrate. I needed something lightweight for a highly nested numerical model containing numbers and descriptive strings. I didn't want the Json bit to have a big footprint because the numerical computations make the software complex enough as it is.
Fistful of Rupees: Zelda done as a live-action Western
It competes with the Icon A5. Here are some additional links :

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

http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/aircraft/feature-1645924.p...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RqovFiz-Xw
Why would C++ encourage it? i think its just as easy to make a c of convoluted madness as a c++ one :)
O'Reilly Media, ClearBits, Momentum Books, ccMixter adopt new DRM-free label
It is the epiotome of arrogance to serve your own interests by trampling those of others, regardless of how annoying you find their demographic to be. By this attitude, 17 year olds are perfectly within their rights to say "their privacy is of little concern to me" about your age group, and act accordingly.
As I understand it there are no requirements to becoming a publisher. Unless you are faking traffic or have questionable content (i.e. porn), as long as you hook into the API you are ready to go. Some of the publishers we talked to are making more money through Virool than any other ad product they have tried.
Not quite. Righthaven did not receive an assignment of the copyrights themselves, they tried to get only a bare "right to sue" that is not recognized by law. The copyright holders were none to eager to give up the entire copyright, after all, but this reluctance doomed their lawsuits.

If he were to fully assign the copyrights to the EFF, they would not run into the same trouble Righthaven did.
Ugh... shit like this makes me want to wear a tin foil hat, but then I realize how much work that would be so I remain a lazy tracked american.
Great phones, on my second pair, but not open-workspace friendly.

My last Samsung in ears sounded good but the cords kicked it in no time. Picked up two pairs of Sennheiser CX 495s as replacements. Good phones, seem more rugged, only wish I'd gotten phones with a mic too.
At least here in the UK (I know slightly less so in the US, so your mileage may vary) it's extremely common for students who are either between high school / university or just graduated to take a 'gap year', or some other period of time to travel. For them price is clearly a very important factor, and the four months isn't a huge problem!
I think the street view thing was a deliberate campaign. Many german publishers hate Google with a passion because it eats their advertisement revenue - so much that they are even lobbying for a law passed that would force Google to pay them for indexing their content.

Microsoft started photographing a few months later and no one cared.
This is the kind of person that help desk and tech support neckbeards hate - someone who thinks he's technical and sounds smart, but just doesn't have the mojo (confidence, ability, something) to do it himself. He brings it into the shop but doesn't buy the warranty (or apple care?). He weeps bitterly about his photos, but doesn't back them up. He thinks his banter is funny, but it's exactly the kind of joke that makes a tech support agent fear for his job.

The upgrade kit linked to is a set of tools for disassembling an iMac and the glue to reassemble it, along with what looks like a SATA-to-iMac adapter cable. I haven't disassembled an iMac before, but I can't believe it's a lot more difficult to completely strip and rebuild than an HP tablet-laptop-convertible or a Chrysler rear brake assembly.
Several problems with your views here.

One is conflating "I have a right to do this thing" with "It is right for me to do this thing". There is no such equivalence, and much of the argument seems to come from people who believe there is. There are many things we all have a right to do which are not right to do.

Second, and much more frightening, is the assumption that abuse of a person is acceptable or excusable on the grounds that a person using a free service somehow deserves such abuse for not being a paying customer, or that not being abused is some sort of special privilege of which not all people are deserving. Perhaps you'd like to step back and think a bit about your own ethical framework before continuing this discussion?
She thinks she's entitled to be treated like a human being. Seems reasonable to me.

The people I know at YouTube are very nice people. They presumably didn't say, "Hey, we'd like to host video for the entire world. And also do our best to fuck them over if they're being harassed." This is a weird corner case, and I hope they'll find a way to rejig their system to prevent this sort of takedown abuse.
Japan was able to track their last two AUM fugitives via CC-TVs in Train stations and thos on public utility poles (yes, it seems Japan still has a significant amount of local transmission wires above ground). The difference being facial rather than number plate recognition. In addition to big-crime solving such as AUM, they are also able to solve weird crimes like a couple who was disposing of their trash in highway rest-stops[1].

So it's two faceted, at least. On the one hand it facilitates crime-solving with fewer resources, on the other hand one loses one's anonymity in the big city (in smaller cities where everyone knows of everyone, this may be a lesser point).

Exchange/forfeit privacy for money/fees/taxes. Google, Facebook would seem to point to people preferring convenience/paying fewer (taxes) than having anonymity. On the other hand, with Google and FB, you have a choice. Here it's either everyone opts in or opts out.

[1] http://www.asahi.com/national/update/1209/OSK201112090099.ht...
Wow, this makes me want to book a flight in the near future just to get flightfox to find me an awesome routing.

What I'd really like is if they could take into account FF status, and also hotel pricing (at the particular chain I like, Starwood).

Book me a 3-8 week trip visiting as many places as possible from a set of N cities (plus transits anywhere) staying at Starwood properties (as nice as possible), using CX preferentially, with at least 20k miles on Star Alliance carriers, and avoiding UAE transit or stops, and willing to pay certain multiples for business class flights or upgraded hotels (St. Regis vs. Aloft).

Combining hotel and airfare bookings would make the whole thing a lot more valuable for multi-stop itineraries. E.g. spending $500 more for a BKK transit (and 3-5 day stop) vs. a SIN transit, since BKK has 5 star hotels for $120/night vs. $300/night.
A pure hack if there ever was one.
What's wrong with the article, again?

You seem to have learned the facts, and you seem to have gotten the point, and it seems to be the same point that I got, which suggests that the message is getting through clearly enough. So what's wrong?

Are you unhappy because the article doesn't have a strong editorial slant, as your comment does? Do you wish the journalist had come right out and said, in paragraph one, "These developers are homeless because they have lousy sales skills"? I'll say three things about that.

One: Some articles do have that style (ahem Zero Punctuation ahem), but others simply try to state facts and let the readers draw the conclusions.

Two: The two styles work well together. The interviewer lets the principals tell their story, states some numbers for perspective, and politely adds a few important factual observations ("It took me a few minutes to figure out how to pay for the game, and I was specifically looking for the menu. There’s nothing shocking about the low amount of paid sales; the value proposition is never made explicit.") and then someone else - like you - draws a conclusion and drives the point home. It's a team effort.

Three: If one makes a habit of using the stories one hears to overtly and publicly ridicule the storytellers, one's career as an interviewer won't last. People will clam up. This is a fact of human nature. Don't expect more from journalists than is possible.

(There are journalists who are so talented that people happily visit with them in order to be ridiculed. This is a miraculous skill and I suspect it's particularly hard to pull off in games journalism: The people building the games have no need to appear in public at all, let alone risk ridicule. They're not politicians or celebrities.)
That's like selling aftermarket airbags for your car.
I was looking at the winterover Raytheon satellite engineer job for a while, too, at McMurdo. Unfortunately I can't justify taking a year off of my life now, but it would be really fun to do someday. (winterover would be more attractive than being part of a huge manned outpost in the austral summer, to me).
Not sure there is a bad connection.

The fact that we're outsourcing our invasion of privacy to a foreign corporation is already hard to digest for many people.
And Neal Stephenson is proven right again.
I'd rather just wear a helmet. Visca el Barça btw.
The slapped puncher is not going to say that. He’s going to say something like “I was in a crowded bar and some crazy bitch hauled off and slapped me, and I don’t know about you, but when someone up and hits me, my first impulse is to hit them back. Now she says I ’touched her inappropriately’ before she slapped me. I don’t know what she’s talking about. Maybe my hand brushed against her accidentally or something, but really, if she’s so hypersensitive she should keep the hell out of crowded bars.”
"Defending myself" implies the need to be defended. If she slaps you across the cheek due to you groping her, hitting her would not be justified. She wasn't continuously attacking you; she was responding to your assault.
Out of sheer curiousity, does anyone know the options available to Canadians? I know that we have a Privacy Act that is designed to get information out of governmental institutions, but how would a Canadian citizen go about finding what FaceBook has on them?
Generally I find myself in the "pro-harrasee" camp. But honestly not this time. Obviously she does have the right to expect Google not to reveal her private information. And they don't. And any harrassment being done (as I read it, there is none actually alleged) must stop.

But at the same time: she doesn't have an inherent right to have youtube host her videos either. Using the free service means she has to abide by their rules, one of which is the (in this case, abusable) copyright counterclaim process. She doesn't have to give the claimants her info just like Google doesn't have to host her data. Stick it on Vimeo, or put it up in an S3 bucket.

And as an aside: I have to admit I had no clue what "doxxing" was either and had to look it up. I'll straight up admit that kind of jargon turned me off. Trying to communicate to the broader community using language specifci to your little enclave is just poor persuasion tactics.
The whole point is that you shouldn't have to go looking.

If you want me to use your product, you damn well better tell me what it is first.
I was responding to the flippant statement: "When 1 in 4 men get sexually assaulted during their lives, I will start giving one iota of care about poor poor dis-empowered men," as if somehow men who are sexually assaulted are less important.
Samuel_Michon was right. I fixed the title after he pointed it out.
Note that Google's transit directions were a true 20% project when it launched in 2005: https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/bwFAz9KZ... When it launched, it was all 20%-ers working on it.
> If you use shared_ptr everywhere, it's far too easy for your design to degenerate into object soup.

You mean that it's usually better design to have only one "owner" of an object? That's true.

It's worth noting that shared_ptr is also necessary for containers, so you might get into a habit of using it even if you're not creating multiple references.
Ask HN: Good UI designer?
Does anyone here know where to find a good and reliable UI designer (and S/he should be available to work now)?
I need someone to re-design homepage of a startup I have founded. Any help, or suggestion is much appreciated.

P.S.: Please don't refer me to dribbble, or other sites since I tried them already. Good ones must be very busy since they don't even reply.

Email: ucar@stanford.edu
The plastic iMacs (before they went aluminum) were a pain to self-service. I called a local Mac servicing company to upgrade the HD and they refused to do it, because the logic boards were so fragile that they would frequently break in servicing.

I eventually did it myself, and it worked for the first upgrade. Last year, when I tried to upgrade again to an SSD, my logic board went kaput. Good thing I didn't consider it a huge loss. Being a Core Duo, it was getting pretty long in the tooth anyways.
I wonder why they chose to use compressed helium to fill the bag. I don't know much about these things, but helium is not cheap, and surely you don't need its lighter-than-air properties in this application. Couldn't you use compressed carbon dioxide, or even just compressed air? For comparison, apparently automotive airbags are inflated with nitrogen gas.
I'd like you to consider just how dubious the utility of the "that's just how things are" argument is when it comes to women's issues.
How many quality transit applications are out there and maintained enough by their public agencies?

I predict that Apple's API cop-out goes precisely nowhere.
how much it is the average salary currently?. I mean for somebody doing 40 hours/week.
I fully agree with you there. It just makes the decision to sell their new game as free with IAP even more questionable. They should have just sold the new game for $4.99 up front. Even if only a fraction of the people who installed the free game would have bought it, they'd still have most likely made tens of thousands of dollars in a week. If it hadn't sold at all, THEN I would have started thinking about a freemium model.
The deal with official RTW fares, at least in 2000-2008 when I was checking them, was to buy them ex-interesting country vs. ex-USA. They have a price set in local currency, so when a currency drops vs. the USD, it takes them 6-12 months to adjust prices. ex-CAI, ex-BKK, ex-KUL were all excellent places to buy for a long time.

A guy on flyertalk would maintain a list of ex-various *A RTW prices. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuTBktAWbGhwdHd...
PostgreSQL may not be better on all possible points of comparison.

PostgreSQL replcation alone isn't comparable to MySQL with Galera. I don't know enough about the various extensions to PostgreSQL to know which ones could give you

* Synchronous replication
* Active-active multi-master topology
* Read and write to any cluster node
* Automatic membership control, failed nodes drop from the cluster
* Automatic node joining
* True parallel replication, on row level
* Direct client connections

in a reliable and perfomant manner. Keep in mind I'm just atarting to play with Galera, I haven't used it in production yet, but it's making my planned architecure much simpler to manage than the traditional MySQL or PostgreSQL replication approaches.
So does the travel agent book the flight for you when you award him the finder's fee?

I mean I know it says in your FAQ: "Our experts provide detailed booking instructions for you to buy those flights."

But I am just not totally clear on how this works and how the prices listed are provided. Could you elaborate? Also, is there potential for price differences when an agent finds prices for someone in another country?
No it isn't. unique_ptr works very well in containers.
What is "significant"? $100? $500?
Fair enough.

To prevent problems, only Cronin and Hutton can add plates to the hot list. Each time a plate is run for historical data by either an officer or requested by an outside agency, the requester has to inform the chief by e-mail. Requests are tallied in an annual report for the town council.

The system parses license plates and matches them against a hot list. If a match is made, then a human gets notified. Some database somewhere knows the cars that have come and gone. But there is nothing to indicate that each license plate that gets captured is matched up to a person. The screen shot they have only shows the basic info captured from the camera. So unless your plate is on the hot list or someone with the authority requests to pull historical data about your plate number this does seem like a reasonable degree of anonymity.

It would be nice if this was regulated a bit. Data should get purged in a reasonable time frame. Solid auditing for data retrieval requests.
thought I'd just pitch in here :)

My take on it is that a web designer is your Photoshop/Illustrator "Graphic Designer" guy, who loves the ins and outs of CSS and HTML, Layouts, and knows the newest CSS3 features, etc. Sometimes they might go a little into Javascript but usually not to any really deep levels.

The Frontend Developer, in my mind, usually kind of takes off where the "Web Designer" fades out, handling complex Javascript Apps / UI, and AJAX. Besides deep AJAX/JS skills though usually the frontend devs skills start dwindling when it comes to enterprise level PHP / m2m in the DB, etc and thats where your Backend guys come in.

Of course, that's all how I 'imagine' it conceptually, the fact is, unless your working for a large company, I think most web developers do all the above, and call themselves according to whatever area they like the most :)
Agreed, I would absolutely love to read this and share it with my mother. She's a huge nerd for expeditionary travel and research.
> People in the EU (and Germany in particular) ... have had enough bad experiences with secret police forces,

How many of these secret police forces were private? How many were govt police forces?

Politicians grandstand about the evils of companies, but the actual killing and torturing people is done by semi-popular govts.
I have recently acquired weak glasses (0.25). I wear them when I'm watching good HD sources and take them off if there were significant artefacts or low res source as they are better slightly blurred and there is the comfort benefit.

I do care about video quality although I know that I'm in the minority (many people say that picture quality is the most important thing in a TV but very few of them can actually identify it). Given that my very weak prescription makes such a difference (720P and 1080P content is probably the same without my glasses) it wouldn't surprise me if many people really couldn't see it.
UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange
If the ownership semantics are clear, scoped_ptr works too.
>> They should have just sold the new game for $4.99 up front.

Yes. I think the tough part when you have a higher priced game is getting the word out there and getting written up in some major blogs.

Personally I consider $1 or $2 games to be disposable. It's not much of a loss if they suck. Once you go into higher price points, I base my purchase decision on name recognition/reputation or word-of-mouth.
Yeap, judging from the downvotes in all sibling posts, the "think of the women" PC brigade is on witchhunt tonight. God forbid someone brings up an area where men are less pampered. Oh well.
The "reason" field is the reply link. If the downvote deserves an explanation, then it should be public for the benefit of the reader.
Mrrrrrrr
Holy moly. I think you need to take a good look at this blog post, and all the blog posts it links:

http://captainawkward.com/2012/08/11/the-c-word/

Hopefully this read will clear some stuff up. You need to lose the victim complex.
Every color.
My friend Phil Jacobsen has worked for several years in Antarctica at McMurdo, starting as a dishwasher, and moving up to better jobs in subsequent years. He wrote a very interesting account of a side-trip to the South Pole here: http://www.salon.com/2003/01/23/bigchill/
Some of the detail may have been lost in the compression and some in the upconversion so better source compression and better upconversion may help a lot although more resolution is always nicer.
My post was confusing. It was meant to say that my female friends' reaction was that if somebody assaulted them, they're not going to give them a red card, they're going to physically defend themselves.
Users hate in-app purchases

Yup. For what little it's worth, "IAP" is a big red flag to me, a warning that the "free" app will prove annoying and/or expensive. I'll usually not download any with it, having learned the hard way (right or wrong) that at these prices it's better to pay the couple bucks up front and get the full clean app, than get "free" and have to wrangle with brokenness and intrusive ads and still end up having to pay.
If there hadn't have been some discussion here I'd probably have not dug deeper. Looking at the info page for the desktop app I saw a mention of Cheddar Plus, and not finding a mention anywhere I else I signed up to see if there was more info.

The free sign-up appears to let you have unlimited tasks but only organised into 2 lists, and for either $1.99/month or $19.99/year you can get Cheddar Plus for unlimited lists.

I'm not saying they're wrong in this approach, but my gut reaction was that it felt 'off'. Thanking on it a bit, if it was me, I'd probably have limited the total number of tasks in the free account, but left the number of lists unlimited.

I'd want people to be able to organise lists however they wanted, but find themselves running out of task items. If users have a limited number of lists before they decide to buy a Plus account they can only create muddy generalised lists, rather than specific well organised ones.

With users able to create better organised lists the app would hopefully seem much more useful and organised and leave a more positive experience.
I wonder how well the crash-sensing technology works. In a car, it's dead simple: you notice a rapid deceleration and you can inflate the airbags while the crumple zones are crumpling.

There are no crumple zones in your head. Yes, you do often fall forward or sideways onto the ground, allowing for time to sense the new orientations... but not always. Would it inflate if I broadside a bus (like if the bus ran a red)?
They have YC backing, don't they?
Steam is a content distribution platform, not a game engine. Those are dramatically different things.
Todo list app.
Isn't that basically an act of war? Or something just short of it? I can't remember another time when one country threatened to enter another country's embassy without an invitation... Have there been other cases like this in recent history??
The Oatmeal helping to raise money for Tesla museum
Apps on App Store are not commodities, and never will be. Commodity is something that isn't innovative and the only way to compete is with price. Like lightbulbs. And Android phones. That's why software matters, that's where the innovation is. If you create an innovative app with real value, you make money. If not, you end up as a homeless developer.

As a sidenote: 'developers become homeless' is a story guaranteed to go viral. Brilliant marketing.