skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ICO's interpretation of the privacy law requires the user to understand that continued usage of a website will result in tracking (i.e. alert them until they agree), so the BBC's version complies better with the recommendations.

That's what they mean by implied consent – the user can use the website so long as they understand the situation, they don't have to physically agree. A lot of websites then decided to take their own meaning from the term "implied consent" without reading the document.
I think it could totally fly with a language with good declarative support. Why learn separate syntax (html, css) when all you need is some declarative semantics?

Clojure has this sort of thing and any other homoiconic language gets it for free.
Technology is covered by the European Commissioner for research, innovation and science, currently Máire Geoghegan-Quinn of European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

However, the commissioners, as members of the European Commission do not take part in EU legislature, the EU Parliament does.
Less ethical doesn't mean least ethical. One of the most unethical doesn't mean the most unethical.
As somebody that opens a dozen HN tabs at once, I do not appreciate the automatic playing music.
This is more about the social experiment than reaching new levels in graphic design.
After some more digging, I suspect we'll be giving filepicker a try at $work. The value add looks very compelling, especially being able to do things like crop & resize. Our users have been asking for image resize functionality for years, but we've never had the time or priority to do it ourselves.

$600/yr for the pro plan is about one day's developer salary. Rather a no-brainer in my opinion.
Could you provide links to services that are you talking about?
The only reason I'm using an android device now is because I don't want to fund Apples patent crusade. I think the iPhone is light years better and more usable and more polished than Android, but I don't support their policies, so I vote with my wallet. I realize I'm an outlier in this, but that's just the way it is.
Thanks for your honest feedback.

Would you mind explaining what you mean by "the lack of opinionated language design infers on code"? Are you referring to the fact that it's not specialised for either layout or presentation?
Yes, but you could have expected it when opening a music artist's page.

The parameter in the URL is a little bit strange though.
Welcome to the world of EU bashing. People usually never read anything that comes from Brussels, but love to complain about it. Unfortunately, that is especially true for British media.
Nokia C3 Mobile
The Nokia C3 is the stylish and elegant mobile that comes with full QWERTY keyboard and smart features. The Nokia C3 Graphite also boasts conversational SMS chat, so you can keep on top of your text dialogue and youll find your favourite contacts right there on the home screen, where youll also see news and alerts.
I too would welcome if iTunes could return to be a music player. It must be a huge pain even for Apple to work on such beastly monolithic app that does almost everything except the laundry.
"In many cases you might want part (or all) of your app to be served as static markup. Reasons can include rendering speed, supporting environments where JavaScript is missing (or disabled), or search engine optimization."

?!? Why would anyone, ever, serve APP as static pages to those having JS disabled. Web site, thousand times yes, but APP?
If it branches out to things other than sleep, then don't you think you will need a new name?
So that you provide as little friction as possible to getting people to sign up. For example, with your current button I was reluctant to press it because I would assume there would be a big form on the other side. However, I'm more likely to sign up for more info if it's only an email required.
The cookie thing is a British law.
If it's possible to change the title, please prepend with Show HN. Some people (including me) like to vote just for the sake of it. There was a discussion here to vote up Show HNs to support those who ship (can't remember the link though).
Just keep your MacBook closed when plugging in the external display (or wake it up with an external mouse or keyboard), and the internal display will stay off when you open it later (if you need to use the internal keyboard).
Aren't The XX from London? What does the starting point represent? The hosting server at Microsoft?

Edit: Duh :(
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Thanks, that is my thinking: learning three separate languages is a big burden, especially on beginners.
Cosmo, the God who fell to Earth
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/will-baltic-dry-bounce-satans-...
doesn't work for me (FF15) - stuck at 100% loading :(
Not really strange, the entire point of the page is tracking how this link spreads and therefore being able to track who gave the link to whoever clicks it is clearly useful information.
And how is that an example of terrorism? By your own admission you were in Kabul, Afghanistan, a country that neither called for nor welcomes the U.S., it was an invasion. I would expect hostile action in an invaded territory (unless you were a muslim NGO, in which case I'd retract).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasions_of_Afghanistan#Invasi...

"Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
Of course - what you actually want is the best of both Gabriella and Rodrigo. And there are a bunch of those folk out there. If you're a Rodrigo go learn more from a Gabriella. If you're a Gabriella go learn more from a Rodrigo.

But - y'know - if I was forced to pick between a Gabriella and a Rodrigo I'd pick Gabriella every time.

Because she can "explain complex technical issues quite clearly to clients, she has never missed a deadline, she is constantly looking for feedback to improve her work".

I've worked and mentored people like that before. People who are actively looking for feedback are easy to coach into being better developers. A team lead can polish up Gabriella's coding skills. She's open to feedback. She'll get better fast.

Conversely I've found it really hard to coach Rodrigo types into being better team players. They think that the stuff Gabriella is good at is just about the "need to impress to get jobs and promotions and raises and pats on the back". They don't understand that the stuff Gabriella is good at is vital to building products with a team that meet the client's needs and make them and the end-users happy.

And these days - most of the time in most places - software development is a team sport. I've seen more teams of Rodrigo's kill projects through inattention to deadlines and client needs than I have seen Gabriella's kill projects through bad code.
Presumably the one fan mentioned in the submission headline.
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I voted you back up because I don't think it deserves the downvote, but here's the thing: mediocrity exists and it gets things done. For you and I who do not wish to tolerate mediocrity our only option is to find work environments that suit our tastes, but we're not going to stop the machine through our indignation.

Plus, even if a company rejects mediocrity in its DNA, a non-technical organization is most likely going to have structural issues that will drive out good programmers anyway. It's possible for a non-technical organization to learn to value and retain good programmers, but there are many factors that need to come together, and statistically I think the majority will never figure it out.

Finally, there's an amazing thing about code is that once it works, it can continue to work in the exact same fashion indefinitely as long as nothing changes. From experience we both know that it's much better to do things right so that you have a maintainable and flexible system that can grow with an organization, but that is not a strict requirement for code to generate value in the short to medium time frames that most companies operate. Just because code is completely unmaintainable, and the cost of comparably trivial maintenance becomes exorbitant, doesn't mean that it doesn't have real business value. We privileged alpha programmers have the luxury of avoiding jobs that have to deal with this, but it's out there and it's a huge proportion of production code (I'd wager it's the majority). In the grand scheme of things it's all good though, nothing lasts forever anyway. Bad code could be one more thing that hastens the demise of an atrophying company, or it could be quietly deleted and replaced by newer systems once it's outlived its usefulness.
Indeed, Imperial College London is similar in this respect.
Nice! I was being somewhat facetious so hopefully people came to the conclusion themselves that the situation is nothing like what the title of this thread is describing. Pretty sad that the copyright lobby has poisoned the water so badly that "get out your pitchforks!" will be a standard reaction to any cybersecurity legislation for years to come :-(.

From the Federal News Talk Radio article, I don't see why any of the following are unnecessary or wasteful. Sounds pretty straightforward and at least somewhat useful to me:

One subsection would ask industry to voluntarily submit cyber threat information to the government. The draft order says this data wouldn't be used for regulatory purposes or used against companies. Sources say there aren't any liability protections in the EO because that could only come from Congress.

A second subsection would require DHS to undertake privacy assessments of the data they collect around critical infrastructure.

A third subsection limits what critical infrastructure is included under the draft EO, and makes clear that First Amendment protections will apply to how the government identifies critical infrastructure.

A fourth subsection would address acquisition and the preferences for products and services that meet the cyber standards developed by the DHS-led council.

The final subsection would call for a report within 120 days discussing possible incentives such as liability protection, expedited security clearances and recognition by the government that the critical-infrastructure owner and operator meet the voluntary standards.
I actually really like the graphic design. And the music too, for that matter.
The RFC says that if there isn't an explicit MX record then it implicitly falls back onto the A record. But I'm sure many implementations screw it up.
You're right, it's a rare case. I will change that bit.
Interesting approach, but I far prefer the tack that Angular.js is taking, where they are embracing HTML and extending it's utility, not abstracting it away.
Worked in Chromium (Arch Linux), but it does say it's in collaboration with Internet Explorer.
How exactly was the USSR "imaginary"? And how was it invented by "govt"? Do you mean the US government? Please try to formulate your thoughts more clearly, and please study history more carefully before proposing sweeping theories.
That I can cope with, what's really annoying is that it stops playing if I minimize the window.
My son is 3.5 years old. I've never been able to work longer than 3 minutes when I was home (and he was awake). My solution is office+baby sitter(now kindergarden) as I can't actually focus at home (unless the family is sleeping). What I like about your solution is the work-life balance and healthy breaks.
Return on Assets and When Less is More
1980 "You use C? You suck. Real programmers use Assembler."
1990 "You use C++? You suck. Real programmers use C."
2000 "You use Java? You suck. Real programmers use C++."
20xx "You use ...? You suck. Real programmers use ..."

Same story, different times.
At least try to provide an argument for your position, instead of "(...) will be still be dumb". Thanks.
Start with "do you go to bed at roughly the same time (within 1-2 hours) most nights?" and only ask the "what time" question if people say yes to the first one.
Good news but EE coverage is terrible. Before I signed up (it was T-mobile then) everything looked good on the coverage map, yet the coverage in my area is really spotty. This would have kept me a customer but then I checked their coverage on a place I'm moving to soon (a medium sized town) and neither t-mobile or orange has any coverage at all. O2 and the other major UK carriers to need to start moving on 4G. New phones are all starting to ship with it and none of the carriers are supporting it. It'll be another 2 years before it's rolled out widely.
It bites when you're first but nobody notices.
Agreed, that is the reason for my parenthetical. Hackers can love anything useful, and they can find use in anything, and Java with its current ecosystem is incredibly useful.

That said, the nature of Java is not as exciting to hackers in general as more powerful languages like Lisp or Haskell or SmallTalk.
This is very cool, awesome visualization from an awesome band. Weird that IE sponsored it but beautiful nonetheless.

If you want to listen to the album with the ability to skip tracks I recommend NPR's first listen: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/03/160323435/first-listen-the-xx-... (interestingly the first listen was published Sept 2nd, and Sept 3rd is the first day for the linked data viz)
Interesting how the UK manages to take 4 out of the top 6 places (yes, choosing 6 places does put the UK in the best light).
Maybe this depends on where you live in the country, but in my area, it's much more about remembering the victims than it is about remembering how we need to bring Al Qaeda to justice.

I don't see what the problem is with remembrance of the dead.
Good on Joel for pointing out what many have been thinking and saying. Doing it as one of the few relevant startup bloggers in Germany makes it even more important. Overall, I think there are a few rough patches in the post, but I agree with the sentiment.

I do think that e.g. 6WK are doing the right thing, so it's kind of counter intuitive to point them out. They have scaled back the hype, focused on their well growing product WL again, and have made some tough decisions.
Yes, we'll need an umbrella name. But right now it's more important for it to be immediately obvious what the problem is that we can help with, since we rely on self-diagnosis, (the user is actively looking for a sleep solution either online or in Boots store).
Scala is statically typed, runs on the JVM, and yet feels very much like writing Ruby or Python to me. The only time you have to add typing in the codes is where I would usually add it anyway in a dynamic language, via comments or stereotypically-named function arguments.
iTunes has become Apple's MS Office: it does too much and it's established it's roots so deep a rewrite would be close to impossible without breaking things.
But what's the point of passing a law if you're not going to enforce it?
Bring back the Snow Leopard mouse acceleration curve

Bring back the Lion touch scroll acceleration curve

> requiring it to be enabled in WebViews and then only working in Apple’s core apps.

Not true, works in any cocoa app
In my experience, people come with various talents and skill levels.

Seeing any correlation of ability, skill level, or talent with some shared physical feature is more often than not confirmation bias.
Taking Soundcloud aside, the German scene simply lacks technology-driven innovation and technology insights. As an insight example - how does one expect to produce a productivity platform called Wunderkit that is intended to be stable enough to be used and paid for by companies on the base of Titanium Appcelerator?
Germany has a great tradition of a hardcore hacking culture and engineering culture, yet the startups of Berlin seem to be driven purely by generic management graduates and it shows. Not sure why this is - maybe saying 'I work on my startup' is the same as saying 'I work in Media' five years ago - it's a lot more about the lifestyle, than the substance and results.
Since I was downvoted please allow me to explain by expanding on that question with more questions:

What sort of license did you have on Nodester's code prior to acquisition?

You said "We also used the following open source libraries / NPM modules written by talented Node.JS / Javascript developers:"

For any open-source work you used, did you leave the original author's copyright or credit in the code?

Did you pay the original authors anything for their work?

What types of licenses were used in the code you forked?

At what point did you let everyone know you were closing the public repository and making it private so you could sell it?

I apologize if this sounds abrasive, but this smacks of getting people to work for free under the notion of a truly open-source project.
It looks like they track our geo-location and the referring website.

I like watching the animation, and it's a cool site. What would be more awesome (IMO) is if they took this information and created a visualization of the path their band took to finally reach me.

So, it showed them on the map, in their garage playing, to the studio, to distributing the track to that one guy, to him posting it to a website, to another guy re-tweeting, to some kids posting to Facebook, and finally reaching me on Hacker News - and do this with a map with photos on it as well.

Over time it would just get longer and more interesting. Especially if they let me link myself to the site somehow with a photo so when others watch their path, they see the people that got them there.

Just a thought. Kind-of like the beginning of that Movie "Lord of War" where they follow the bullet from manufacturing to the hands of the warlords to it being fired.
Exact same issue here. I get up about an hour and a half later every day. I wish I could use services like this.
You've inadvertantly highlighted a UX failing of ours - that's not actually a sign up form!

We ask for your first name so you can meet The Prof; another thing we're wrestling with, how to introduce that (non-standard) experience in a clear way...
Back in school days I learned about programming paradigms, programming language technologies and cutting edge research on programming languages. I learned Java and also Haskell. Most of my class mates including all the teachers knew this that any industry grade language needs to provide multi-paradigm support out of box or it'll die.
If a species is not adaptable to its environment, it'll die. And Java is one of those species.
Worked fine for my FF 15.0.1
The general message there is "I'm always up in the skies working on my proofs. No office hours this week"
One year on after I left my cushy job to be an entrepreneur
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Don't forget to include the request that OS X 10.9 supports your current computer.
11 years ago pg's audience was much smaller, internet culture was blunter, a good flame war was appreciated, and the term troll wasn't bandied about quite as freely.
JQuery in 2013 – or How to Properly Drop IE
My thinking is that HTML has limitations, and can cause a lot of repetition. That's one of the reasons for the abstraction (along with avoiding the need for three separate languages), but I can understand that some people might prefer it as is.
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I wonder which is easier: training Rodrigo to communicate well, or training Gabriella to program?

In my experience, on multiple occasions, it's the latter.

Possibly this just means I'm a superstar development coach, and a lousy team building coach, but I suspect not.

In my experience Gabriellas already value getting better at development. Rodrigos, on the other hand, often actively deprecate the "soft skills" that they need to improve.

With Gabriellas you just have to educate them. With Rodrigos you have to change their value system first.
There's a list of over 80 languages for the JVM at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages). I don't think you can really recommend any. The article says:

Apart from the Java language itself, the most common or well-known JVM languages are:

Clojure, a functional Lisp dialect

Groovy, a scripting language

Scala, an object-oriented and functional programming language[1]

Kotlin, statically typed programming language compiled to JVM byte code and JavaScript by Jetbrains

Ceylon, an upcoming programming language and SDK, created by Red Hat

JavaFX Script, a scripting language targeting the Rich Internet Application domain (discontinued 2010)

JRuby, an implementation of Ruby

Jython, an implementation of Python

Rhino, an implementation of JavaScript

AspectJ, an aspect-oriented extension of Java

I would add Gosu, Fortress/JVM, and Beanshell as important. Others were talked about at the recent JVM Language Summit (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/agenda.h...).
Yep peer referral is the most powerful driver - you've echoed the view of pretty much every sleep sufferer I've interviewed!

The Boots partnership was in part to try to build that trust (and therefore value).
That's the point! Is this a win-win situation for consumers or no?
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Another point of trivia: the color "orange" is actually named after the (non-green variety of the) fruit, not the other way around :)
I built a new programming language in scheme, wrote a compiler in C, map reduces in C++. I hate struts, hibernate and all shitty enterprise frameworks but I can proudly say that I love Java. I have used it for Speech synthesis, Image processing, Machine Learning, NLP and of-course Search. It's awesome.
It is very interesting and worth pointing out that in the beginning of the essay says

So, just in case it does any good, let me clarify that I'm not writing here about Java (which I have never used) but about hacker's radar (which I have thought about a lot).

Most of the comments here on HN have been about Java and not about hackers' radars. This is not necessarily bad but it is interesting. I've seen lots of examples of this politics but not on a topic about technology. Does the topic of programming languages have the same sort of emotional sensitivity that politics does?
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It's not the a la yahoo, it's what happened to .Net Reflector. It left a bitter taste in many mouths. They address it directly on their blog though and repeatedly say they're not going to pull a redgate:

http://www.telerik.com/automated-testing-tools/blog/christop...
Looking at the page's source, they have created a browser update path for users of older versions of IE. Looks like this is another way of getting rid of old browsers.
But Apple users have shown time and time again that they're perfectly willing to live with things breaking for the sake of what they consider progress.
Why not flip this upside down and have the user start at the bottom of the page and scroll up?
I am not sure how they could enforce it against an INTRANET at all.
I loved Cambridge but honestly the Computer Science course was pretty poor. It won't have helped that the best first-year lecturer, Arthur Norman, retired recently.
Spot on comment.

There are even comments regarding Java in which is obvious that the commenter doesn't have good knowledge of either Java or the JVM.
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Just a couple of points.

1) .DS_Store is necessary for compatibility with UNIX/Windows who do not support the HFS+ resource fork/Finder metadata. There is no way around it and they are optional. Perhaps just add it to your .gitignore like everyone else does.

2) ZFS is unnecessary. Most of the use cases that haven't already been solved elsewhere e.g. Time Machine/Versions are only for super-advanced users. In which case they can download ZFS from a third party. Not to mention that the trend is overwhelmingly towards cloud storage.

3) Splitting iTunes into its parts is not necessarily the best answer. How do you handle syncing ? System wide syncing e.g. iSync was a colossal mess and confused the daylights out of people. Also how do you handle the store ? Separate stores in each app doesn't sound fun.