skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, the filter options for searching through Apple's App Store are pretty limited, so discovery is a bad experience for consumers as well. At least I get frustrated pretty quickly and often resort to Google.
Here is a very prescient comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2977425
Startups and the Role of Advisors
thanks, we will work on improving our captions!
Is it common practice to grant asylum to people wanted for rape?
It looks to me as if Postgres-XC is largely waiting for 9.2 to be released. It's basically PostgreSQL plus some patches that allow for write-scalable clusters. From the timing of their betas, it looks like they are largely following the 9.2 release schedule.
Aside from the fact that it's hosted by the Dojo Foundation, why?
Careful: as I understand it, the main point of this blog post is that they're going to update the spec to require, e.g., "color: var(myforecolor)" rather than "color: $myforecolor".

(The rationale seems sensible to me, for what it's worth.)
Javolution has been around for a LONG time. I'm not sure hoe many of its ideas have made it directly into the hotspot implementation. As far as I can tell it never took off because it was a little too different and the hotspot jit and GC have continually gotten faster.
The tutorial section looks much improved over previous visits - good job.

Two points:

1. The tutorial shows using the CDN, then there's big warnings saying "don't do this in production". Give another demonstration of the "highly recommended" approach vs leaving people to piece that together themselves.

2. "we tend to not go crazy over every small feature". What's a small feature to you may just be something that 80 people have been waiting patiently for. While you can often judge what a 'big' feature is by your standards, dismissing many other things as 'small' probably misses a lot of people.
I really wish they'd spend some time building a standard for how things are supposed to appear in the browser, lessening our need for normalize.css and reset.css.

Then, if browser makers didn't implement appearances the same way, we could point to the standard and ask why.
I believe I also have a "lifetime" account, I have not received this email. Though I did switch over to the solaris machines a few years ago.
A Go implementation is likely more complicated than a C one. You don't think that GC is free, do you?
with that equipment, wouldn't it just be more lucrative to mine? or in that case is the mere acceptance of bitcoin a cost that is too high to bear?
Google's Next Penguin Update Will Be "Jarring & Jolting"
Facebook's javascript console is using Twitter bootstrap
How many drone attacks has the US launched against white Australian journalists?
There are some important ideas in here. The truth is that a number aspects of finance are simply broken, and being heavily gamed for very short term gains (the Facebook IPO is an excellent example of some of this).

The reality right now, is that for the vast majority of people (anyone sub $500k in investable assets) getting the kind of quality advice needed to navigate the complexities of investing is virtually impossible. This type of high-touch service is almost exclusively reserved for the high net-worth marketplace.

In a bear market like this one the likelihood that the returns of most mid-level advisor's and fund managers will outperform the management fees is not exceptionally high. This is why Vanguard's funds have received so much attention recently, they are a relatively safe, and very, very low cost, which addresses a big problem in this market.

That being said, they don't perform exceptionally well either, at least not by themselves as a strategy. Investing in the value of the stock market is a volatile strategy in the best of times, and completely fruitless in the worst. Value investing has to be balanced by an income generation strategy, usually one focused on equities that pay solid dividends and other income-generating investments.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ide...

Even armed with that information, the truth is that people should ideally not be put in a position of managing their own finances. They regularly work against themselves, have emotional attachments to their losses and gains and often make out no better than a gambler. This is work for professionals in a position of trust with their clients. Unfortunately, professionalism and likewise trust seems to be in short supply in finance right now.

Furthermore, most people are not really even interested in being 100% responsible for their own finances. They may want a enough of an understanding of things to have some piece of mind, but most are no more interested in managing their investments than they are in fixing their own car or filling their own cavities.
Why Apple Bought AuthenTec: It Needed NFC Fingerprint Sensors, Quickly
Ah ok - I wasn't aware - I thought it was technically mandatory. Looks like to get Windows certified logo manufacturers will have to do secure boot. Apple couldn't care less about that which is good for Boot Campers.

Still though this whole thing is nonsensical - wonder if they were waiting for the antitrust era oversight to end (May 2011) before trying this schtick.
You don't sell, but you promote your expertise and your personal brand for consulting, and offhandedly refer to how successful you are, with a indirect touch that is less off-putting and generates a bit of subtle mystique about "how does he do it? what is he talking about?"

A famous patio11-esque statement is a comment like "If you think that's a good sales technique, you don't understand the mindset of middle-aged schoolteachers" (while not repeating the fact that you market a product to that specific demographic.)

Can't fault that much. It would be extremely sacrificial to complete avoid saying "BCC" at all or ever mentioning that you generate X-figure returns for your consulting gigs, and spammily redundant to re-explain the whole Bingo Card business in every post.

You give away far more honest value (good, detailed advice) than you take away in "promotional references", contrasted against link-litter posts like this:

Headline: How X can help your business

Poster: Yeah, at http://mycompany.example.io, we use X.

You are like a human Google, giving away good, in-depth information, with a side of context-relevant promotion for your consulting business, but the information is valuable even without "clicking to learn the secret" or "buying the book". If all advertising were like that, the Internet would be a much nicer place.
Downside is obviously the 100% loss you'd take on the $400.

Assumption you're making: That FB is overvalued currently, and has 15% to fall (it's at 20 now, and you are saying it will go down by $3 by the 18th [tomorrow!!!])

I'm not sure where that $0.48 is coming from in your comment. At expiration (when an option has no time value), a put should be worth StrikePrice - StockPrice. So if Strike is $17, and stock is... say... $15, the option will be worth $2 ($200 since each option actually controls 100 shares). That math changes with the stock price, so I'm not sure what you're talkinga bout with $0.48...

Also note that spreads at the low end of options will eat you alive. Specifically you should expect to pay upwards of $10 or even $15 to get anybody to fill you on those options. The $4 amount is highly unlikely to get filled, especially at the qty you are talking about.

Basically, this is a bad idea, and will just lose you $400.
> Some people think that the US have no intention of wanting to extradite and charge Assange, but Assange and his counsel have repeatedly (in the last month) requested that the US make a statement confirming this. The matter of the fact is, many high profile American's have said that he should be killed, and put to death.

Your argument is that the government is evil enough to extradite him on trumped up charges in order to have him killed, but also somehow incapable of telling a lie.
"The younger entrepreneurs are in the no-ties shoot-for-the-sky phase."

But of course, we know that these types of endeavors have the highest failure rates, of all the different kinds of new businesses that you can start. The shoot-for-the-sky businesses seem to appeal mostly to certain venture capitalists, who are looking for the occasional big payout. And that kind of venture firm doesn't really care about the fact that shoot-for-the-sky projects have a high failure rate, since a high failure rate is already part of the venture model. But if we are talking about the majority of successful businesses that get launched in the USA, then the average age of entrepreneurs is much older than the youthful image that gets much discussed on certain startup sites.
I switched to the Solaris hosting some time ago as well.
bah, I've had nightmares about broken hard drives for years too.
Yes, but with certain downsides. The app is going to be larger than it would otherwise be. The development process is going to be far more difficult that it would otherwise be (configuring things, getting it to work, dealing with new versions of your tools). If you're writing a real-time game, it's probably not going to fly to do this, because in a game you need complete control over all memory allocation to avoid or control garbage collection. Something like Scala spins off a whole bunch of little objects non-stop in ways you can't control, in addition to using far more memory than a normal Java app.
As bkardell said, math is in CSS now with calc() http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-values/#calc-notation

Color manipulation will be in Colors level 4, whenever I get the time to work on it (probably early next year).
> Swedish police can come to UK to question

Ecuador offered this, saying they are welcome to question him in their embassy but the Swedes refused. It's blatantly obvious the US is leaning very hard on both the UK and SE.
Manning who Wikileaks dropped like a hot potato, let's not forget.
Your parallel is not analogous. The reason is that Ecuador, like Assange, can and presumably does claim to legitimately believe that this is not really about rape but some political motivation.

Whereas the UK has to act commensurately with their official belief that it's "just" a rape charge.
Bitcoin still has some technical problems to figure out. Currently the blockchain is over 2gb and will get larger, faster as more people use it.

Also the transaction speed is really low - usually like 10 minutes to really confirm payment and at least half an hour to really confirm (around 10 mins a new block is created, and to ensure that block will stay in the chain you want some more blocks on top of that as well.)

Also.. the transaction rate isn't even 1 per second, if Bitcoin replaced visa for instance it'd be 2000/s, which means new blocks might contain 2000/s over 10 minutes of transactions, so new blocks are going to get huge.

All in all, bitcoin is going to need some big central bitcoin banks to speed transactions, and store the blockchain which isn't necessarily bad. Your bitcoins can still be stored locally under your private key, but banks will provide processing, while multiple banks provide verification of each other's stored blockchains.
I thought I'd switched over to Solaris hosting, but still got the email??
That option expiries in 2 days - very unlikely it will drop $3 in that time. Historical volatility for FB is around 6% for a 2 day move which at current level is about $1 in price terms. So you need a 3 standard deviation move for this thing to be in the money, i.e about 1 in 1,000 chance. I'd sell you that :)
Except to many Latin American countries. And Syria and Lebanon and Palestine. And Turkey...

Actually, no, Iran is NOT a pariah state that 'nobody' wants any dealings with
Assange would not be extradited to the US if there was a risk of him facing death there.

There is no legal risk of Assange facing death in the US, is there? As far as I've read, he's just a nuisance to the US government, not wanted for any crimes. Or is that mistaken?
Microsoft has billions in cash.
I received the email. Felt unpleasant. It wasn't much financially, just the feeling that it is wrong.
Water verzacht chronische pijn
It's already been done years ago in the jailbreak scene e.g ‘RoundCorners’ Blesses iPhone Owners With a Well Rounded Experience http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/01/05/roundcorners-blesses...

NB: rounded corners was itself a copy of the webOS viewport system.
If its a remixing place for memes, why not make them look like original memes? I don't like the font you chose to overlay since I'm so used to the ones currently on all the meme generators.
If it would have the support of its people in the one but not the other, that doesn't seem so unreasonable.
I appreciate that you don't discount me as a hater.

That being said, it does feel quite off your core mission. What is your indication/evidence that people care more about ownership about the stuff they create than their actual identity online?
The monetization and sustainability of online games - XConnectTO
There's one very good thing about a rising bitcoin price that in and of itself makes the rise sustainable: more hackers and bitcoin businesses with more funds to invest into the various aspects of the economy.
Consuming trehalose (a sugar) may also help.

http://metamodern.com/2010/09/15/trehalose-autophagy-and-bra...
Isn't London that city that has fucking surface-to-air missiles on top of residential buildings?
I really like what Joyent is doing with illumos, dtrace, and other similar projects. That said...

They basically have let their "legacy" customers languish for a while, and after a pretty bad migration process a year or two ago, it was obvious that they really wanted to discard these old accounts - those boxes are running a version of opensolaris that's over 4 years old (snv_67).

Most of us paid quite a bit for our "lifetime" subscriptions, just to have it ripped up into a bunch of different parts that either get EOL'ed or sold off to another company (as was done with Strongspace).
We already have this: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
I'm not competent at all on the subject but it doesn't seem to me the quote you present imply the comment you previously made

The UK Judge in his first extradition trial said he would be guilty of rape or sexual assault in the UK.

It seems to me that what he is saying here is that the allegation could be a sexual offense, thus it's one of his arguments to allow extradition to swede in order to permit further investigation on this plausible and relevant allegation.
Mixed Griller here. I don't remember what the language was, but perhaps in this case "lifetime" meant the lifetime of the product, shared hosting. Personally, I'm happy with the accelerator, I never did like shared hosting and quit using it a long time ago except for a couple of sites that are gathering dust.
Title should be "Building and app does not make you a VC BACKED startup" Also I fail to see why in that first half of the article you are saying people that have done their small little app or company aren't entitled to the same title as someone who was able to get a hundred thousand dollars from a man to trade his ownership for money. Then you go on to say how you have made a startup, and guess what, that startup is selling you bits of code.

If it's really about keeping people from reinventing the wheel, then give the wheel designs to everyone for free. If it's about selling code snippets to companies to turn a profit, best of luck to you.

PS: At the end of the reading, I didn't really get exactly why a small app team isn't a startup because they don't have the money.
I built my latest PC on a mobo with UEFI and had 0 trouble at all with Mint.

FWIW.
I think taking asylum from Ecuador compromises his integrity. Will Wikileaks publish leaks about Correa in the future?
Setting aside the flying around across borders, is that a normal way to treat rape cases? - to have some arbitrary individual privately talk with the accused in order to decide to dismiss the charges unilaterally? Does that meaningfully decide the facts of a case or have you proposed a one-man trial with no purpose other than dismissing the charge?

If so, why even fly anyone in? Just dismiss the charge if that is what you really intend to do.
Microsoft announces cross-platform Git integration with TFS
What is IAP?

Thank you for the post btw.
Well, it appears to be an individual's housing bubble in the personal cases if the FBs that did buy their houses that way.

It's a hard lesson. I have been burned on the promise of options too many times to believe that they will ever turn out like goog did.

Sucks for the employees of FB, but I am happy that we are seeing sanity in the valuation and it is not insanely over inflated via hype.
When you buy a put, it's usually for a price per share. In this case, $4 means investing $400 for 100 options.
Open source and commented Dart-HTML5 game sample
We're still developing Strongspace, and the lifetime subscribers are still being provided for by Joyent.
UK city of Bristol set to introduce its own local currency
The UK law they mention is the one about revoking the diplomatic state of land. Explicitly the idea seems to be to stop the land being diplomatic, meaning the Vienna convention not violated
In App Purchases.
Can Electronics Ever Mix With Shabbat?
Manning falls under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, so by definition Assange could not be treated the same way.
Yeah, I agree, Christianity is not the magic ticket to get whatever you want - kinda the opposite of the Bible's teaching on the subject, actually. Makes me cringe when you see stuff like that original thread: he's choosing to be a representative of God (which I believe that Christians are), but is in the process demanding that we or Mozilla or whatever bend to his will.

(Note: I am a Christian myself)
Rabbi Rules No E-Readers on Shabbat
I'm talking about a scenario when a government(s) see Bitcoin as a national security threat. So yes, shutting it down would be more lucrative for them in the long run than mining it.
According to the alleged victim she was "half-asleep". Also it was not their first or last (consensual) sexual interaction.
For me:

- calling a car to my home (faster, easier, and more trackable than phoning a taxi) if I'm in a hurry

- late-night after bars close (0200+) and street taxis are scarce (downside: surge pricing)

I'll typically prioritize my transportation: (1) walk/MBTA where possible, (2) hail a cab if they are available, and (3) Uber. Still, that leads to a handful of trips a month.
Yeah. Also while I think that premature optimization is the root of all evil, I don't think it is simply true that rigid schemas slow down development. They slow down certain phases and types o development and it is a tradeoff.

Please, now that you have a half-billion records in Mongo, I want a report on statistics of these in ways you hadn't thought of before on my desk tomorrow...
Rape is not a small matter. But it is not nearly that clear cut

> There are real victims who have made real accusations

This is misleading at best.The current prosecutor made the accusations in the forms they have been presented. The only hint we have of what may be in the police's version of the statements from the women are in illegally leaked documents and in statements made by a prosecutor who took over the case after a previous prosecutor claimed the same police investigation showed that no crime had taken place.

At least one of the women stated early on that she refuses to sign the statements the police took down because she was severely distraught at the manner in which the police was pursuing this. Said statements were further taken down in violation of Swedish police procedure, by failing to record them, so ensuring that we don't have a reliable way of ascertaining how the wording in the statements were arrived at, or whether the police documents actually match what the women actually said.

Having had to read and sign statements taken down by police, I see exactly zero reason to assume that just because police has written it down that it bears any resemblance to what was actually said. In my case, it was because I was refusing conscription in Norway, and it is a formality to be interviewed by a police officer as to the reason why; said officer was friendly and trying to accurately represent what I was saying, but despite that it took several hours of hard work to correct the statement before it represented what I had said in a remotely accurate manner. Of course this is just one anecdote, but it did make me appreciate why recordings are so important).

If it is indeed correct that one of the women is categorically refusing to sign, that is significant.

In either case, not even the prosecution have claimed that either alleged victim have made any statement claiming rape or sexual assault, nor have they filed complaints, nor as I understand have the police claimed to even have asked whether or not they considered themselves to have been victims of anything.

Any inference of the presence of a crime thus rests with the prosecutor, based on information of an unclear provenance, and where the public record is full of holes.

When another senior prosecutor came to the opposite conclusion, it does seem not seem unreasonable to ask the question whether or not there are in fact any real accusations from real victims.

One or the other of two senior Swedish prosecutors have necessarily made a substantial mistake in their assessment, or been biased or motivated by other factors. None of the alternatives surrounding that are particularly pleasant to consider.

Maybe Assange did commit these crimes. Maybe he didn't. Regardless, the Swedish prosecutors do have some serious questions to answer about why this case has been handled in this highly unusual manner. Not least for the sake of the alleged victims and the future public trust in their office.
why would MS ever want to make it optional? ... what could prevent it?

You do remember their lawsuit that spanned almost the entirety of the 90's, right? The lawsuit that cost them hundreds of millions and almost saw Microsoft split into two companies? That's what would prevent it. If they tried it again, the company would be shut down faster than you can say "But Apple does it too!"

The fact that is in front of us right now is that Microsoft is requiring that it can be turned off. Requiring. So telling people that Microsoft won't let you turn it off goes so far beyond a flat-out, bald-faced lie: it becomes flagrant and malicious disinformation designed to scare people into staying away from a product, to scare them into continuing to spread this disinformation. Even you saying "but it could happen in the future!" is complete garbage. It's not relevant. There's no way to know what Microsoft will do in the future, so spreading rumors now based on pure speculation and fantasy... no, this goes beyond spreading rumors about the future, you're applying future speculation to what they're doing now, pretending that what you're fantasizing about is actually happening as we speak. It's not.

You're not thinking critically, you're making wild accusations and presenting them as reality. In short, you're perpetuating fear, uncertainty, and doubt. This argument completely blows my mind.
For most people, investing in the whole market (a.k.a. index) is the right thing. Period.

It's not exactly rocket science either: Just buy the broadest index you can cheaply get. The MSCI World is probably a good candidate for that. The whole market is likely to be less volatile over the long run than any given segment.

Sure, if you want to do your research, maybe you'll end up thinking that a certain market segment is more attractive than another. But don't claim that all people must do this.

Having other people manager your finances is problematic, because that other person is not likely to have your best interests in mind, especially not if his income from this comes from kickbacks.

It's simple really.

Just. Buy. The. Market.
I think lifetime should mean lifetime.

They should of given you at least 15 years free I think.