skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little surprised there aren't already insurance premium discounts for installing a "black box" to record accident data.

EDIT: Apparently there already are, both in the US and elsewhere -- see below comments. Next time I'll Google this before posting, I promise! =D
Strictly speaking, C++03 can't be parsed, only interpreted (into a typed AST); it is not a context free grammar.
So pessimistic. Four months of new adventures, pushing your boundaries, learning new things, meeting new people, new stories, great memories.
I just bought a copy for $2.99, so it's not really a bait and switch.
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From memory the Swedish prosecutor first requested he came back only when he refused did it all go down the extradition route.

If Assange was so afraid Sweden would send him to the US why did he go there in the first place?
London Police Are Coming For Julian Assange, And Someone’s Live Streaming It
Sweden has done it before with the same laws that exist now. Simply put, there is no punishment if they would extradite Assange to the US.
@thedaniel has it exactly right. The really dark shadow looming in German imaginations is the Stasi's.

Keep in mind, if you were 18 when the Wall came down, you're only 41 today, so these aren't vague or abstract fears. You actually grew up with the world's most terrifying police force running microphones into your apartment. To give you some idea of how pervasive they really were, the Stasi had one informer per 6.5 people, which is practically a spy in every family. By comparison, the Gestapo employed one secret policeman per 2,000 people.

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

As the article above notes, "It was widely regarded as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies in the world." And no, you don't go from escaping that to ignorant bliss in half a generation.
Sync the changes to the source file? How would any client do that without write permissions? Or is that the point?
> Personally, I'd vastly prefer he not be subject to "extraordinary rendition"

If he was subject to extraordinary rendition, they'd have him by now. That's the whole point of extraordinary rendition.
Hey, you're right. Finally found a source that confirms their S12 application: http://allthingsd.com/20120511/diaspora-says-its-back-on-tra...

Thanks, will add that.
Let me guess: Most people you know -that have a PC- use a mouse.

On macs, many people even prefer a touchpad on their desktop iMac. And that's not because of Apple's ridiculously bad mouses, most people know that they can connect any logitech.
It's no effort, it's a simple automated refactoring, right click, extract method, choose name, done. I think your positions betrays your age and tells me you probably code in a text editor rather than a more powerful IDE. To fear extracting a method is just insane to me, a sign of past times.

Functions shouldn't have major steps, they should be one step each with a top level function calling the steps in sequence. A function should do one conceptual thing, or be a delegator to sequence other functions.

Mixing levels of abstraction where all the steps are inlined into the larger master function that also sequences them is IMHO a code smell that demands fixing. Kent Beck had quite a bit to say about this very thing in Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns.

Like I said, I bet you use the scroll bar a lot.
This is really an excellent book. I feel like this book was the pivotal thing that really let me see how the small amount of programming I knew could be so much more with the practices preached in that book.

It took me from "OK I get how to program in Java, but how the heck do I build this cool stuff I see everyday?" to "oh, if I wanted to do that I can see pretty much how I would build it (regardless of language)"

It's a must read.
I assume that the device entering an NIST evaluation process provides some preliminary assurances of the device's accuracy that MA is willing to make do with.

So is the state essentially trusting Uber's word that the device is accurate, knowing that if it turns out that it isn't, Uber opens itself up to liability?
Therein lies the problem.

I'm reminded of this "Artifact From The Future" from Wired Magazine's "Found" feature in their Feb. 2007 issue -- a speeding ticket in 2054: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/images/found.jpg

Very prescient, IMO.
I get a red box in everything but opera on linux. Seems to not be platform dependant at least.
It still works with > 256 classes. I was expecting it to overflow and go back to blue when I added a 257th class.
I´d love to see this to motorcycles too. At my country the helmet is mandatory.
There's multiple aspects of this story you can tweak such that the business becomes successful. Pick any one of them:

1) There is an extraordinarily lucrative market opportunity in iDevice contracting right now, which they allude to but mentioned that they avoided doing to keep momentum. Giving that living on a couch is presumably not momentum-enhancing, a two week consulting engagement would buy them another 6~24 months of runway at their imputed burn rates.

2) A platform/language/etc is not a death-til-us-part commitment. You can follow the money. Independent developers are not best served by the App Store, unless they get ridiculously fortunate with regard to its kingmaking economics. If you only have one chance to develop an application, you would be better served by developing for a platform where the median case pays the rent.

3) Don't develop video games. You're competing for the business of toxic people who hate paying money against the union of well-funded corporations (which have high production values and effective, ruthless monetization) and amateur hobbyist artistes (who have "that vision thing" and are willing to starve to deliver it for free). Try making something for more lucrative markets like, oh, businesses.

4) You may have deep psychological issues with comfort about charging people money. They seem to be fairly common in our community, which is unfortunate, and we seem to actively promote them, which is unfortunate++. You should first recognize that you are creating something with value for people (if not, stop) and then come to the immediate realization that, as a business, people trade value for money. (If you desire to do charity work, do it for more deserving people than gamers with iPhones and entitlement issues... and you should probably do it after having secured your ability to deliver on obligations to your family.)

5) If you've got a budget of 100 awesomeness points or focus points or whatever, spending 90 on your software and 10 on your business will have much worse results than spending 10 on your software and 90 on your business. Having people who can concentrate 100% on building software is a wonderful thing. They're called "employees" and they cost about $10k to $20k a month; you can pay for them after you've got a business. If you desire to work 100% on software, you desire to be an employee.

6) Burying the buy button three screens behind Settings: probably not ideal for conversion rate maximization.

7) Maximum customer LTV of $2.99: also not ideal. Consider anything you can do to increase this, for example, offering upsells on top of the base offering, cross-selling them to other things in your portfolio or things from others' portfolio for a percentage, or developing a permission marketing asset such as an email list. Some of these are very not viable on the App Store but I think I already gave you the advice for that.

8) If you sell X, look at the tactics used by successful sellers of X. If these tactics strike you as morally outrageous, don't sell X.
While they might not get it correct the first time, I'd expect MA to be very aggressive in adopting and promoting new technologies that have obvious/clear values to its constituents. The current governor, Deval Patrick, has put forward a clear agenda of "education, innovation and infrastructure"[1] for the state. Personally, as a tech entrepreneur, I really like the tone it sets.

[1] http://www.mass.gov/governor/utility/governor-deval-patrick....
I hope they read this (not sure if they will), but:

Ads!

I've a friend who gets approx $4/user/year from a non-game mobile app from ads through mobclix. I think it's a fair assumption that you'd get even more ad impressions on a game (as people spend more time in games), but even without that, 200k players * $4 each = a lot of money.
Criticizing people for being impolite when you're all but justifying raping women isn't exactly arguing from a moral high ground.
Pretty awesome find. I imagine it will have some outrageous use some day for someone.
That is sad news (and I somehow missed this until now). I thought it was a good little service, I have been using it for a personal project too.

Indeed, something like HN notify would seem to be the go for me now also.
+1 to devs in Iowa!! But maybe if Iowa wasn't so cheap, they would have started by charging for their app out of the gate.
This is basically how TV already works.

Do you want Web "standards and formats" to last as long as NTSC did? Imagine using IE6 for the next 50 years. That's what government involvement will get us.
I hope this trend catches on.

Between my Kindle and iPad, I'd really like to never buy a physical book ever again. But then I still have four full book cases from before Kindle existed. I want to "upgrade" to ebooks, but I don't want to spend the money. At $3 each, I'd at least upgrade some of the better ones.
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So... did you notify indigogo?
It's a Jesus complex and a mental illness. Pity them. They are sick.
Not the same - both were desktop, and running on close hardware.

Contrast this with flash - Lots of flash apps require vast amount of memory, download not fit for mobile, and most importantly clicks done with mouse. For all other cases it's fine.
I guess it depends on what people mean here by "delete". Do they mean erased as in no more data records, or no longer viewable / interfaceable from an application level. For instance, once I'm prod I almost always set a deleted flag instead of actually deleting for whatever piece of data it is in my CRUD actions. The Information is still there, and can be restored at any time, but its still "deleted" as far as my app is concerned.
I definitely see why (a) is good for time-series data, but I (personally) think that it shouldn't be a first-class part of a relational query language; I think most databases do support the ROW_NUMBER() function now though. I think (c) has been introduced as Common Table Expressions in SQL.

I'm not sure I fully understand (b) - do you have a link so I can learn more?

As you can probably guess, I'm very interested in this stuff!
>> The problem it fixes is that "fashionable" people don't like wearing bike helmets.

But then you're messing with natural selection.
For those interested in working at Antarctica, check out the Big Dead Place:

http://www.bigdeadplace.com/welcome.html

From the old Antarctica FAQ on working there:

First time is for the adventure,
Second time for the money,
And third because you can't work anywhere else

http://antarctica.kulgun.net/Jobs/
If you watch the doc that's on Vimeo about this thing they sampled a lot of data themselves by actually simulating normal riding situations and then also situations where they would crash in different ways. I'm assuming they used some accelerometers and other recording devices and then designed something that discerns a crash situation from a normal bike riding situation
Since 9/11 the USA has shown that it does not follow the civil rules of law for non-citizens. Obama's DOJ has convened a secret grand jury investigating Assange under the Espionage Act[1]. Joe Biden has called him a terrorist [2]. Others have called for his assassination [3]. Sweden was involved in the CIA's illegal rendition program and sent people to be tortured in Egypt[4]. Assange has every reason to fear for his life.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/19/assange-high-tec...

[3] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40467957/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in...

[4] http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-b...
Help raise money to buy Nikola Tesla's old laboratory
Inexplicable: Jeff Price Pushed Out Of TuneCore
They should follow an IRC or Jabber model. Anyone can host an IRC/jabber server. Maybe App.net can make an industrial twitter server to be hosted on windows, *nix, etc.

But of course, that's not what App.net is going after. That is what I think would be a lot better. Or maybe an industrial Facebook-ish server, too. Would be helpful to run in-house in giant organizations, I bet.
Its one of the big reasons I am looking at switching. I have been dumping the table and reloading it in using a new name and the renaming the tables to get around this issue but its hardly ideal.
Googling cache:<url> gave a cached version straight away.

I haven't heard of using incache:<url> before; what's the difference between that and cache:<url>?
Barring a very, very good explanation, this is a tragedy. Jeff Price has been tirelessly devoted to unleashing the potential of artists through technology, with one of the fairest deals an artist can get independent of a label. I can only imagine they felt they weren't squeezing enough money out of this opportunity, which is very unfortunate.
If you want to see it in action, it's at 2m:50s in the video.
Oatmeal response to Forbes article about Tesla (Zeus' Thunderclapping Butthole)
There's been a complaint filed against the Swedish prosecutor over this case by third parties (two journalists) alleging judicial misconduct and serious breaches of Swedish law over amongst others her insistent refusal to send anyone to the UK to interview Assange, so it remains to be seem just how valid and legitimate this whole thing is.
To receive bail, you must pledge to return to court and be bound by its decisions. Assange broke his pledge when the court ruled against him.

You can choose asylum or you can choose to let the court decide. Trying to get the best of both worlds is mere gamesmanship and lacks any pretense at integrity.

This is why, for example, Roman Polanski's lawyers have been refused a hearing on his matter in the US. You have to choose between being a fugitive or being tried in court. You don't get to say "I'd like the Court to find me innocent before I stop being a fugitive."
They aren't less worthy as human beings, they aren't "sluts" or whatever you thought i meant. In my experience women who are attracted to assholes simply aren't worthwhile in the context of being pursuing romantically - i dont have much to offer them. They are adults and can do what they please. But someone who responds positively to being treated like shit is going to be a waste of time and effort for me. In my experience, it was always because of immaturity or a lack of self esteem that they allowed themselves to be treated poorly.

Yes this is all anecdotal, you caught me, i don't have any studies on the dating habits of women and assholes. I think saying my comments are worse than sexual assault is tad bit hyperbolic.
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It depends on if it was a system that just put radar guns out and issued a ticket to any car that was speeding through its beam (I've never heard of this type) or a system that tracked your average speed between two points (I have heard of these). And automated systems do have discretion... it would depend on what +/- tolerance said system was given. I've heard anecdotal claims that a cop won't give you a speeding ticket unless you are exceeding the limit by some X amount.
Affiliate tag? Not cool.
We have PPC setup, but good call on hitting all the affiliate forums.
Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999
I'm not contributing, and I wouldn't care about the deduction if I were... You're welcome to, though :)
It's fine. I apologize for coming off so aggressively. I'm just tired of people literally defending sexual assault, and because of that, I end up making all my replies snappy.
He means HTML 5.
Mountain biking brings a whole new level of risk factors. Chollas for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindropuntia

I took one to the hand once, I can't imagine taking one to the face or a full on crash.
I don’t use Python for anything so I don’t really care about Django updates, but I found this cool anyway. It was interesting to look through the code on the page in order to figure out how the page printed out that code. It was also interesting to see just how little code (Python, HTML, and CSS) is needed to make a professional-looking page.
As a Massachusetts resident, I'm quite proud of this stance and the linked statement really hits the nail on the head. Innovation and competition are good things. Consumer protection and standard measurements are good things. A simple acknowledgement of the situation with an apology makes me think so highly of the state.
Bingo. The NSA, really the USG writ large, only 'respects' the constitution to politically cover their asses and to claim they're bound by some sort of rules (no matter how broken those rules actually are). By now, it should be sparkling clear that these organizations have no respect for the ideals that the constitution attempted to enshrine, namely personal freedom and a government subservient to the people, and they should be continually called out as the illegitimate charlatans they are. I can't claim to have a specific way of ousting these parasites, but I can assert that any such way doesn't involve constitutional fundamentalism, D/R consent voting, incremental hopechange, believing authoritarian propaganda, narrowing the blame to a few 'bad apples', flag waving, or pushing the reality of the situation to the back of your conscience.
It is cleaner, although it doesn't feel _that_ different to SQL to my eye. I guess if we're now thinking about replacing SQL then I'd want to get a lot in return. (I do know that I'm sort of moving the goalposts here - thank you for contributing the QUEL info)
It's the fundamental unfixable crappiness of C declaration syntax that makes 'typedef' necessary.
> I am not inclined to gloat about the death of the content industry until there's a viable replacement business model.

Some things simply have to die, and the earth where they stood salted thoroughly, before any kind of viable replacement is even thinkable.

> the creators cannot recoup their costs, and this content simply won't be made.

Guess what, "content" was made for thousands of years before anyone had any notion of copyright. Creative people will continue to create.

> you cannot block a river, sunlight, a view, a storm drain, etc. even though they're on your property.

The "content industry" as we know it is quite like the air merchant described in PG's essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html). DRM is quite like someone blocking off the sun and then forcing you to buy back the light. Bits are copyable at zero cost; the "air merchants" should be forced to simply suck it up, instead of being allowed to tie everyone's hands in a vain attempt to make water stop being wet.
I don't think the class limit is 255, it is still a fuzzy number as the post declares. Here, I've modified the codepen to include another 256th class, and the CSS declarations on that class are applied to the element.
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/cKuBx
Can you override an !important with 256 nested ids?
Your comment should get downvoted to oblivion for its sheer lack of originality, panache, and basic human empathy, but let me humor you with a response:

When 1 in N women can serve in the military without being raped by their fellow servicemen, then we can talk.

And then can we have the conversation wherein you attempt to defend your apparent belief that people dying in service of their country is superior to people being RAPED BY THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN in service of their country.
"the VB6 IDE is nicer than any VB.NET one"

I can think of a couple of items right off the bat..

- no mouse wheel support
- code navigation shortcut keys non-existant
- ide crashed all the time
- I can't think of anything else really because it's been so long I was forced to want to kill myself (translation: It's been a while since I had to use the VB6 toolset)

I would argue you never spent any serious time in the VB6 ide, because it was (is) complete garbage. The fact that people still use it proves to me that those people simply don't know any better.

And if you throw the argument that VB6 is great for just banging out windows apps that work, Delphi is a far better choice.
Maybe the clue is in the BBC story?

"Throughout this process have we have drawn the Ecuadorians' attention to relevant provisions of our law, whether, for example, the extensive human rights safeguards in our extradition procedures, or to the legal status of diplomatic premises in the UK," the spokesman said."

Perhaps Sweden has fewer safeguards built into its extradition laws?

What happens if the US has already secretly convicted and sentenced Assange in his absence? Maybe even the death sentence? It might be the case that the UK's extradition laws with "extensive human rights safeguards" would prevent extradition to the US, but Sweden's laws wouldn't. Extradition to Sweden is a way for the UK to step around their own human rights laws.
This is where this whole thing came from today. Somebody submitted this earlier, but it never got to the front page. I suggest a detailed readthrough of the question and all the answers for a great overview of how this works.
>you'd have to sell to a hell of a lot of people to make any decent money

No. This right here is where you're way off.

Some hypothetical math: $3.99 app, $2.79 after Apple's cut.

$2.79 X 50 sales/day = $139.5 revune/day = $50,917 per year.

Enough to live and quite conservative if you make a quality product.
Any US users want to help us foreigners out by gifting it for the $2.99 price?
I live in SF, and it's great to see the schedules on google maps, but the estimated time for arrival is off as of now.
I believe with the red light cameras, the driver needs to be clearly visible for a ticket to get issued. I would imagine that any such camera-based system would need to be like this. I've heard of a stretch of toll road in FL that you actually go through toll booths and are issued an entry ticket that you give on your way out. If the entry and exit times equate to you speeding, the driver is issued a ticket. That solves the identification problem.
I'm curious, in what way is a famous person (made famous by their own creative works) using their existing fame to raise money for a good cause an "attention getting scheme"? Seems pretty common place.
It's not exactly in the middle of nowhere. It has Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. It has half a dozen airports, more than 400K inhabitants, and it's the largest town (by area) in the entire state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookhaven,_New_York
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If the porn is copyrighted then the DMCA will allow the content owners to send a DMCA notice for each copyright infringement. That's the law and now you know it.
Let's not pretend that it's a problem only with the current administration and his political party. The previous one found the civil rules of law rather inconvenient also and waved them off just as easily.

I am not arguing with your statement (you have said nothing wrong) but I'd like to head off the potential "Obama/Democrats is/are the problem!" rants.
No bait and switch intended. I guess the $2.99 price isn't available everywhere. It worked for me in the US.
There is a lot of history related to Tesla and Wardenclyffe (the place they are trying to buy). After reading the history of Tesla, I believe that it is a historical site worth immortalizing and memorializing.

The wikipedia article on Wardenclyffe has some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower