skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Kevin Rose reboot: First look at Google’s newest VC
There is at least one person who filed a DMCA takedown, but I don't believe the author understood how ebook lending or LendInk worked:

“My name is O. G. Tomes and I am the Author of The Sanctuary Saga: No Harm to Charm, book one; Test of Faith, book two and Charms of the Sisterhood,vol. I, II and III. A website that your company hosts (according to WHOIS information) is infringing on at least five copyrights owned by my company.
Articles were copied onto your servers without permission. The original BOOKS, and their covers to which I own the exclusive copyrights, can be found at:

Amazon.com and Smashwords.com

The unauthorized and infringing copy can be found at:

http://www.lendink.com/feed.php

This letter is official notification under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (”DMCA”), and I seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your servers. I request that you immediately notify the infringer of this notice and inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, and notify them to cease any further posting of infringing material to your server in the future."

Source: http://www.2abd.com/politics/copyright/lendink-taken-down-by...
" the breathless cry of "zOMG PRIVACY!" and the sanctimonious hand wringing about "Well what about people who don't want (some dangerous person) to know what they're doing" is starting to get irritatingly old."

Who are you to tell any person that they're misprioritizing their personal information and the value of privacy?

YOU can do whatever you want, publish it to the ends of the earth, however we want this to be a choice. Not decided for us.

You can't wrap your head around why someone would not wish to share these things and offer an argument from ignorance, you do not understand why, nor are you sincerely interested in knowing why.
Leaked: RadioShack Getting Into the Wireless Carrier Game
There's also mobile org for that though. :)

iPhone: http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/

Android: https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/wiki/

Android Fork: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matburt.mo...
The reason I go with the simple analysis is because most people aren't aware that their newspaper costs quite a bit more than the subscription cost.

I'd be really interested in hearing what's working for you and what isn't. Shoot me an e-mail and we can chat: j@ownlocal.com
I think Piskvorr is saying that you could trick Alice into entering the code for the settings page from her email inbox. Once Bob visits the settings page and gets to the two-factor prompt, he pops up a javascript box in Alice's gmail inbox like "Oops, something went wrong with your authentication. You have been sent a new code to enter here: [ ]" Alice says "WTF Google?" and enters the second code, and Bob grabs the code and uses it to access settings.

But even if we assume that Alice is totally hosed once Bob completes a MITM attack, I think you're right that there needs to be two-factor auth to create an app-specific password. It wouldn't protect from MITM, but it would protect from watching over Alice's shoulder, keyloggers, and all sorts of other ways that Bob might get Alice's password without being MITM.

(Edit: Google does require two-factor auth to access www.google.com/account and generate new app-specific passwords, doesn't it? I thought it didn't when I first tried, but that's just because I've already authorized this computer. If that's the case, then I'm inclined to believe that Google has done all it can do. If an attacker controls your secure communications with Google's server, you are out of luck period. If an attacker only has your password, then two-factor auth will keep them out of your email like it's supposed to.)
LendInk wasn't about the Kindle Lending Library though: those are books that can be borrowed without ever being purchased first. These LendInk borrows were between a book buyer and a third party, fascilitated by, say, Amazon, but without additional financial compensation for authors. As an author I still think they're a good idea to allow, but then I understand technology unlike too many other authors.
The only thing worse than using backslash is using postfix backslash...
This is a fable bad programmers tell to themselves to justify their intellectual laziness.

No real world code is simple and elegant enough that you don't need to think through the complex invariants of the code, consider would be relevant to future maintainers, and then write it down.
I considered that, and I normally ignore ExtremeTech articles because I think they're usually blogspam. This article actualy seemed to backup its own point. Sure, sensation makes for a good read and no one (most especially myself) is immune to it, but it's hard to ignore the quotations and Twitter screenshots that backup the author's point.
It's been around for some time now. I think 1.7 added it.

I don't know if it was buggy or if we were doing something wrong, but it still caused merging disasters even though in theory it should have been able to avoid them.
If I were any more discriminatory about my work, I'd not be able to find any.
They definitely authorize credit cards when you pledge. It's happened to me when I pledged.
We are on the way to start good development on an Android tablet! FTW
The open source technology behind Twitter
IIRC, incognito mode still picks up stuff that was done in the wide open - ie, the scenario from the comment above would still happen if the author went into incognito.
With the XBox, Microsoft had the biggest war chest in the space. That gave them the advantage of being more free to sell at a loss than their competitors.

This time around, Apple has both market dominance and the bigger war chest. That's going to make it harder to pull off the same game.
Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home robbed by clueless thief
Well, only if it really is normal - and we already know any normal distribution can be described by two parameters, mean and variance, so it shouldn't be too surprising.
Vector Graphics finally made to GPU
Mobile Sharing App Quilt Launches With Backing From FB Co-Founder
That's right if you use "should" instead of "shall".
If my understanding is correct, the KDP Select Fund is for the 'Kindle Owners’ Lending Library' program, where Amazon will loan one book per month to Amazon Prime members.

LendInk facilitated lends under the 'Lending for Kindle' program, allowing a one-time lend between Kindle owners.

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2JGI9S4...
That's really interesting. The industry is in a different place compared to when I was familiar with it.
TrapWire Leaks Shine Light on New Video Tracking Technologies
Claiming 101 bytes feels a bit like cheating, since you need a bunch of setup and painting code to drive the algorithm, don't you think? :)
Steve was very mercurial: at one point, he would think someone a saint and at another a devil, and visa versa. I could see that pattern be very explosive in dealing with someone like himself.
So contribute to it!
This is the only solution atm and it sucks. It might work with a few trustworthy friends but leave your device open at a party as music station and it's way to convenient for someone to "accidentally" open the email-app and instantly see all your private emails.

All that's needed is an app-lock and you could use this workaround. You make all your private apps password protected and guests can only use the browser.
I think an augmented reality app would be awesome for envisioning how furniture, curtains, etc would look in a room.
Did I say you can cure autism with B12 shots? I don't think so. I said my son was diagnosed as autistic, showed marked improvement within 24 hours of MB12/L5MTHF injections, and after the fact we came to discover homozygous 677T mutation, for which MB12/L5MTHF would have been the primary course of treatment had we not already embarked upon that path.

My post is more about how something with a very specific root cause, e.g. methylation problems, was diagnosing as autism (across multiple doctors, naturopaths, pediatricians, etc), and how it may be the case that some subset of autistic kids could be in a similar boat. From that study itself "However, detailed data analysis suggests that methyl B12 may alleviate symptoms of autism in a subgroup of children, possibly by reducing oxidative stress."

What I'm a proponent of is genetic screening (a simple blood draw + lab work) for an autistic child to look for 677T/1298C mutation. That's a known problem with a known treatment and I don't think there's anything irresponsible in advocating for that.

Autism is such a wide-net term that I would have a hard time inferring any meaning from a study that simply categorizes the subject(s) in a binary autistic/not autistic manner. e.g. which ones were vax injured, which ones have gut issues, heavy metals, yeast overgrowth, genetic conditions, etc. Many children imaginably require a multi-pronged approach so to try just one particular approach against an unqualified set of subjects seems bound to disappoint.
It's worth noting that Git is often used as a centralized VCS. A central server is picked as the authoritative one (e.g. GitHub, or a server at your company) and the team pushes/pulls almost entirely to/from that server. In that common scenario, the difference between Git and whatever VCS it's replacing are really entirely in the UI.
Git was not originally meant as a VCS - it was meant to be a platform for other VCSs.

For that reason, you can essentially write a wrapper on top of git to turn it into a centralized VCS that acts similarly to Perforce/SVN/etc., by enforcing a certain workflow that essentially eliminates merge conflicts.

Of course, you lose a lot of the power of git when you do this (the same power that's responsible for many posts like these), but to cut a long story short: it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
> "This seems a little like the worst of both worlds."

We (staff of the Museum of Flight) said the same thing about Moulton Taylor's Aerocar [0]. It doesn't do either thing very well, and that's a big reason there hasn't been a hugely successful product in the space yet.

That said, it does solve a specific problem: it cuts significant time off for those who regularly make trips in the hundreds of miles, particularly between semi-remote locations.

Imagine you lived in central Kansas, and had radio transmitters, oil fields, or clients spread all across the state. You could fly from small airport to small airport [1] in considerably less time than it would take to drive, and then have a car available to drive out to your destination.

One of the advantages this variant has over other past attempts is that it's classified under the (new) "Light Sport Aircraft" category [2]. It's much easier to get a LSA license than a normal pilots license, among other things.

[0] http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/taylor-aerocar-iii

[1] http://www.filmkansas.com/pages/airports - map of KS airports

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-sport_aircraft
Commits to ANI stopped nearly two years ago. Maybe you should still try?

You would learn a lot and that would make you a better programmer.
From looking at the abstracts and your quote, I don't see anything particularly unreasonable. What exactly do you want to tell us? Capitalism is evil and public relations morally wrong?
Keep it simple, I build software for phones.
Agreed: http://code.google.com/p/anic/source/list there has been no updates since 2010. I was honestly surprised to see this on HN and actually had to double check that I wasn't seeing an old HN submission for some reason.

I was briefly involved in this project, I wrote some code for instruction selection, was active on the mailing list and had a few lengthy discussions about dataflow programming with Adrian/Ulitmus. Last I heard, in early 2011, he was still working on it, but in private, and he had changed focus somewhat to something even more ambitious. I voiced my concern over raising the bar before the first simpler version was released and feature creep, but I guess his mind was made up. I haven't heard anything since, despite trying to reach him a couple of times :-(

So, from this, I would say that ANI can safely be assumed dead unless a working compiler is surprise-released.
> Any sane programmer would highly doubt existence of a (faster_than_C && safer_than_java) claim.

I dunno, mlton was of that order and that was ages ago.
BackTrack 5 R3 Released
You want to tell google each time you visit a porn site?

(not that they don't know already since the site probably uses google analytics)
WSJ and FT caster to a more exclusive and professional audience who generally have to read their articles in order to stay current, therefore they can easily have a subscription only business model.
If you need to skim the comments to see how a function is doing what it's doing, the function is too long.
I've been greatly interested in ANI-like dataflow programming languages for a long time now (though maybe not with ANI's crazy syntax). I would encourage you to give it a try! Don't let the existence of other languages hold you off (and in any case, ANI can be considered dead).
Ask a computational climate scientist about weather and climate change
Merge metadata was recorded since the 1.5 releases of Subversion in 2006. As you mentioned, it's still not as nice as the way Git or Mercurial works. One nice thing about Subversion's branching model is that it is relatively easy to merge single revisions from one branch to another and have that information be recorded in merge metadata. In Git or Mercurial, you can cherry pick revisions by essentially duplicating them in a new location in the graph of revisions. This is annoying in scenarios like this:

c--d--e
/
a--b
\
f

Now we want the change from commit d applied on the branch with head f so we cherry-pick the revision into place. This essentially applies the delta of revision d as a patch over revision f.

c--d--e
/
a--b
\
f--d'

Now we make another change (rev g)and then decide that what was done in revision d was incorrect, so we undo those changes (rev h).

c--d--e
/
a--b
\
f--d'--g--h

Now we decide that we want to merge branch with head e into branch with head h.

c--d--e----
/ \
a--b i
\ /
f--d'--g--h

In Git or Mercurial, the change originally made in revision d (and later undone in revision h) will appear in revision i. Subversion won't make this mistake because when revision d will already be marked as merged into that branch.

I'm much happier with the DAG model of Git and Mercurial than I was with the Subversion branching model, but the DAG model is not universally superior.
I don't agree that the iPad was "an entirely new catagory" of computing. Tablet based computers had existed for some time (Windows For Pen Computing and PenPoint OS comes to mind).
Vector graphics, whether it's used by SVG, User interface, or webpage rendering, is currently done by the CPU.

At siggraph 2012, there was a talk by Mark Kilgard (the inventor of GLUT), who demoed GPU accelerated vector graphics. I think this is big, because most of the graphics we deal today are in the form of Vectors.

I think this deserves some attention.
"HNers belly-ache about Quora all day, but there is an incredible amount of information on there"

That's an exceptionally strange dichotomy, people are annoyed BECAUSE there is useful information there, and the company is enforcing mostly unnecessary "social" aspects to access the data. If the data was useless, why would anyone care when they change their policy to something aggressively anti-privacy?
20 life-changing realizations from the world’s youngest VC
Happened to me last night -- I wish I read this yesterday. Who am I kidding... I prefer to learn these lessons the hard way :)
I am working on social recruiting solution here is the link
http://yayaid.phpfogapp.com
Klout algorithm gets a big update
How do you do escape sequences in C (or pretty much every other language)?
I guess that is akin to needing 125 rep on the SE sites to downvote (though voting buttons are visible prior to having the ability to do so)
Also, planes need to continually lift your weight against gravity. There is vertical force that needs to be produced in addition to the normal horizontal travel.
The obvious difference is that advertising is a whole profit-driven industry consciously designed to manipulate people's thoughts and behavior, whereas pretty girls are just going about their business.

You talk about one's psychology as if it's something separate that you can choose to act upon or not. That's a false split; one's psychology is the mechanism that does the choosing. That is what is getting manipulated for profit.
Dependently typed programming languages can do the "express all the invariants" bit. Readability is an open question, though.
Get a fucking mirror.
Don't you use version control?
Pretty good for a first program! :)
depends on who I'm talking to. for technical people I can tell the exact web product I'm working on.

for grandparents and others, I "solve technical problems using a variety of tools. kind of like an engineer would by first drawing schematics, and then following them to construct a bridge"
Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch
There's also Udacity
South West management hedged fuel in a risky financial bet which paid off when fuel prices unexpected skyrocketed in the mid 2000s. This risky bet led to industry leading profitability. Once South West's hedges came off their profitability has declined. They are not burdened with the same debt because they had profitability for so long. They also do not maintain a hub and spoke system which keeps their costs down.

Because management got lucky with a fuel hedge, their employees did not have to take pay cuts like the rest of the industry and have not lost their pensions.

For additional information read this (ignoring the stock price stuff, just for a little history)

”Mr. Alukos says the AirTran acquisition makes sense in the context of rising fuel prices. For many years, Southwest hedged rising fuel costs better than any other large U.S. airline, saving $2-billion from 2004 to 2008 by his estimate, something that “overshadow[ed]any of its other cost-containment measures.” Those contracts have gradually expired, and the current hedges are no longer a significant cost advantage, he believes.”
Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ide...

[added] I didn't really answer your question, but I believe that number 2 combined with number 3 to create the problems we are seeing at most airlines. People can handle a lot until they realize when they get home they have no savings, no retirement and no future.
I refuse to give CC info until I am actually paying for something. I definitely won't give it for just a trial period. Such a requirement stinks of scam to me -- or the very least shady business practices.
> The author did all that work as a joke? I hardly think so.

Possibly not a joke per se. But have you never written something substantial just for fun?
Authors subsist increasingly on goodwill as pirating their products becomes easier and easier. I buy every book I read entirely because I want to support the author, not because there's any sort of barrier between me and pirating the book.

Of course, I'm likely more technologically capable than the average reader, but for how long? It's not hard to imagine a future where piracy is an easy and attainable option for the vast majority of readers. A future where authors subsist almost entirely on the goodwill of their readers.

And as a reader, this move seems like a straight up fuck you.

When I buy a physical book (often at a price near that of an ebook) I can lend it to friends and family an infinite number of times, resell it for a good portion of the original price, or give it away to whomever I please. I have no such "rights" with a DRM protected ebook. But I do have the right with some DRM protected ebooks to temporarily lend it to someone else. And these authors just tried to make that more difficult.

And really, what have they accomplished? They've shut down a single tool that let some readers use a publisher-sanctioned tool to lend DRM-protected ebooks.

They haven't stopped anyone with the power of Google from learning how to remove the DRM from their ebooks or audiobooks and sharing them with however many friends, family members and strangers they want. They haven't stopped anyone with the power of Google from finding torrents of their ebooks or audiobooks.

They did however manage to piss off a chunk of their customers. The ones who actually pay $12 for an ebook.

If you subsist in part or in whole on the goodwill of your customers, it seems like a good idea to try and maintain that goodwill.
There were some projects (also, if I recall correctly some ubuntu-new-ui projects for tablets/gestures). btw

https://github.com/greboide/emacs-gestures
Art.sy has a Syrian domain name. Could it be violating U.S. sanctions?
Heart-Monitor iPhone App Works By Scanning The Blood In Your Face
Next Century Corporation is seeking Software Engineers
^ This. It depends on the kind of software you're interested in writing. Algorithms, datastructures & complexity analysis is imo arguably among the most valuable of the bunch due to its broad applicability. This is for instance particularly useful when writing software that needs to scale and perform well, e.g. server/system software.

In short, I feel there is merit to each CS course but want to underline that it's information you can self educate yourself on should you be so inclined to do so. Attending a CS major however helps with keeping one motivated. That brings me to imo the most important point of attending a traditional CS major: meeting fellow CS'ers to do a startup with :) I think that has been the most valuable CS experience for me. That's something I kinda miss with this "new era" of online courses.
You call out Engadget for blogspam, then link to an article that says this

"Acer chairman JT Wang commented publicly on Thursday that Microsoft is seeking ways to create a price chasm between its Surface tablet and competing products from PC makers, according to a Friday report in Taipei-based Digitimes."

and links to this

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120809PD216.html

which seems to be the original source of the information?
Setting up Nginx + uWSGI Emperor to host Python applications on Ubuntu 12.04
"I used to explain to people at work that I shouldn't have to carry a Palm and a phone, for example."

You didn't - instead, you could have carried a Blackberry, for one.
Tell HN: My friend's Kickstart project needs help
Fellow HN-ers, this is my good friend's personal project that he is trying to get funded with his sister. This is their first time trying to do anything of this sort, invent anything, or get funding, and we would really appreciate your help.

Thank you for listening!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mobi-lens/mobi-lens
"Legislating this sort of thing is killing a cockroach with a shotgun. I'm of the opinion that they should be free to be sleazy with their users"

Sounds like you have a high tolerance for living with cockroaches if you can just move from one apartment to another instead of rooting out the infestation.
Ah yes, thanks for the correction.

I agree with you about not liking Facebook's capture of the medium. But I think the main way people are fighting that now is by pretending that they can go back to the age of privacy. I wish we could get past that.
Check out the free open source tool called "Sweet Home 3D" to actually mock up your ideas. Don't be put off by the name, this piece of software is actually great.
Let's Admire Rebecca Black
The article mentions "~" as a possible starting point, but "{" is also greater than 7A, which would match all the "InstallShield Installation Information" subfolders.
Hack a Standing Desk from IKEA
Did they shut it down? I have yet to find a source that explains the mechanism of the shutdown. Everybody keeps repeating the fact that it's been killed, but how?
Hey everyone (& jess). Thanks from me too for all your feedback. It's been great to read.