skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should really read the Forbes article:

"Quite simply, there's a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn.
Indeed, a six-month Fortune investigation reveals that the public case alleging that Voth and his colleagues walked guns is replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies. Fortune reviewed more than 2,000 pages of confidential ATF documents and interviewed 39 people, including seven law-enforcement agents with direct knowledge of the case. Several, including Voth, are speaking out for the first time."
Demo site appears down, but I get the gist of it. It's just abusing browser caching.

Rather than a bunch of ad networks and analytics companies finding workarounds, I'd rather sites just stand up to this obviously flawed rule. It's ill thought out, and I have no plans to offer one of those annoying "Hey, this site uses cookies, just like every other site on the internet!" alerts.
Thank you! And thank you for making such great libraries available.

For #1, I definitely started by not passing the full request map but I ended up finding it cumbersome. On the other hand, my code doesn't really need the full request map. I'll have another go at it and see how I can improve things - thanks for the guidance. It feels like a process of over-contraction, then over-expansion. Hopefully I'll find a happy medium.

For #2 - thank you! I was trying to work toward something like but couldn't quite get there, so this is great.
Have you also considered doing a browser extension that will display an interface for voting when you're on Youtube?
Greener grass is a hiring strategy
I think you can't buy a retail version on Windows anymore. Plus, when it was available previously, you had to pay for that.
So you have to buy Windows twice?
Your C compiler can also generate NEON instructions if you use NEON intrinsics:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/ARM-NEON-Intrinsics.html

http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/arm-advanced-simd-neon-intrinsi...
This doesn't sound good for Samsung. I assume this validates many of Apple's claims.
http://www.Allaboutcircuits.com is also a pretty good site with videos and a very active forum.
I agree that they would be bad investors if that was their only criteria. But most investors (and in fact most consumers) are heavily influenced by social proof.
Have you ever bought a certain article over another one on Amazon because it had great reviews?

What a feature by TC is saying, this startup is interesting enough that TC wrote about them. It is a sort of a filter, much like YC is one.

Being written about on TechCrunch can also help create a sense of urgency with the investors you are already talking to, because now there is potentially more people interested.
Agreed. A blog post regarding the story referenced by avree would be great.

Nevertheless, this story is refreshingly interesting and appreciated.

It's nice to hear this type of story after reading an article via TC about how some PR firm was claiming they can "Get your startup covered" by a site "like" TC for something like $750. Such behavior, I imagine, would ultimately dilute everything I like about TC and other similar sites. Thanks again for sharing your "real" experience.
It is one thing to write the price on the homepage (it seems to me that a monthly smaller price is easier on the eyes than the yearly lump) and to actually charge, where you can offer a monthly and a slightly discounted yearly option.

LR plugin or really any kind of uploader would be nice, I'll definitely look into how hard it is to do the plugin. General desktop syncing with a full-blown GUI seems much harder.
Apple and HTC settle all patent litigation with 10 year license agreement
Yeah but I think that's what they want you to believe. I think it's cleverly worded. "There is no waiting time" Stop - ok, in this space we all know what the biggest change has been recently. No waiting time to get a merchant account any more. "........to begin the integration process" Ohhhh. Still I'll wait to be corrected by someone who finds it is immediate - maybe it is true.
I think what he's trying to say is that on Mac you get a fresh OS every time. It's never preloaded with crap. If you don't like the !ac you'll find a way to tell me I'm wrong but there really isn't any third party crapware on the Mac. You don't get security alerts every 2 seconds, and uninstalls really do just uninstall apps. You know exactly what to expect when you buy a Mac and the experience stays roughly the same throughout the lifetime of the machine. You can get crapware on a Mac but its pretty rare.

So basically you get a machine in mint condition. And yeah, it is like Linux in that when you install the OS it's the OS and nothing more. You can talk about freedom and locked down platforms all day long and I'll even agree but thats neither here nor there. Point is, the Mac isn't screaming for your attention, doesn't come preloaded with shit, and generally doesn't fuck with you in the same way Linux doesnt do those things. There are exceptions to every rule and god knows you have to cover them all here on HN but generally speaking that's the way it is.
The article is not arguing that we should remove government regulations. It is arguing that we should re-instate a particular regulation that has been shown to work for very similar systems (and would already apply if not for a specific exception).
Well, just 20 minutes ago I was using my "TV" and it's nice unix shell to develop a cross-platform multiplayer game. And you could say it's usability and experience over configuration, not eye-candy (remember Aero Glass? KDE Plasma?), althought nice-looking interfaces can help with both.

No, he didn't do all this himself, but he was captaining the ship. Has Sergey Brin changed the way people use the internet?
The answer needs to be proper regulation. not "de-regulation". the corruption and collusion of the regulatory process needs to be addressed head on. there is an interim step of "de-regulating" but that is to enable proper regulations to be put into place.
Thank you.

I did not realize that, I have fixed it now.
A Simple Way to Be Grateful and Happy - Free Self Hypnosis Download
For anyone who is interested, here is a free self hypnosis download: http://summonthewarrior.com/free-hypnosis-script-mp3-download/

Limited time availability btw.
Things like racism (and other related -isms like sexism and to a lesser extent, ageism) are considered bad because they can be, and typically are, exercised against people based on largely uncontrollable aspects of their outward appearance. Everyone subconsciously creates associations between appearance, race, and social status throughout their entire lives, whether they realize it or not, and then makes judgments about new people they meet in light of those associations. Those judgments based on outward appearance are part of an initial impression then taint other subsequent judgments (and actions), such those as about a person's character or intelligence. Also, people learn that it's socially acceptable and generally expected to treat (say) a black person is with less respect than (say) a white person. And entrenched ideas about what people's social status ought to be cause a feedback loop that tends to impose these ideas on subsequent generations.

There are lots of other external properties that people are generally prejudiced for or against, such as weight/height/build, (dis)ability, posture, voice/speech properties, dress sense, and so on; but these (a) are considered to be more under an individual's control, (b) aren't inherited, and (c) historically haven't caused anywhere near as many social problems as racism in the US. No doubt people who are discriminated against based on their voice (say) don't like it, but it's not considered to be a systematic, self-reinforcing, widely-observed, entrenched social problem.

A hypothetical prejudice against "SSN % 104 == 7", where the property is not even outwardly observable (so can't genreally taint initial impressions), nor subject to this ongoing reinforcement, nor passed down through generations (neither the prejudiced property, nor the prejudice itself), is completely different from race, even moreso than the other examples.
We are still trying to figure it out, but based on the feedback we got here we will probably bring it down a bit. I'd like to avoid multi-tiered pricing if at all possible.

What would be an acceptable price from your point of view? (it would also help to know a bit more about your relation to photography ;-)).
World’s First 3D Printing Photo Booth to Open in Japan
We're talking about something that prevents form data loss. If it doesn't error on IE6/7 and simply doesn't work, then that's fairly graceful degradation that provides a benefit to users on more modern browsers.

But I suppose if your userbase is predominantly IE6/7, then it may not be worth the effort for you.
why would you think so? the details are not known, and HTC has some 4G patents that it was planning to use against Apple if Apple ever decides to use 4G (iPhone 5). for me this sounds more like a stalemate situation between HTC and Apple.
The Web Can Do That? (video)
Its not just in congress, but at the state and local level. The political ad-spend on TV and internet marketing is massive. Its a corrupt circle, not just a one-way deal. Thats why its so pernicious, unseemly, and to most unseen.
Given the incomputability of Kolmogorov complexity, this concept is not usable as an absolute mesure.
I wonder if this is related to HTC's licensing agreement with Microsoft for their Android phones?

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2010/apr10/04-27MS...

Although Samsung has some sort of agreement with Microsoft too.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2011/sep11/09-28Sa...
Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst) in the 2012 Presidential Race
Apple's press statement:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/11/11HTC-and-Apple-Sett...
The Verge is reporting that:

HTC representative Jeff Gordon tells The Verge that the company "does not expect this license agreement to have any adverse material impact on the financials of the company".

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/10/3629376/apple-and-htc-set...
My afternoon project. A roommate match site using Meyers-Briggs.
The claims don't have to be valid for this to be the right financial move for HTC to make.
Very interesting how you went on to note various speakers – specifically how their speeches seemed so different sans gesticulation. Thanks for sharing. (That must have taken a lot of time!)
Can I use PayMill to except payments from clients in the EU if I'm a US-based business?
Adobe pulls this maneuver on OS X as well. Other Mac apps will try to sneak in some global software for cool effects; I've had Growl installed three of four times without my consent. Obviously the Windows installers were worse on average, but I think OS X would have gone that direction if not for sandboxing. If sandboxing hadn't turned out to be awful I would upgrade. The idea is really good for users, but their implementation is lacking.
This is something I've encountered before.

The truth is though that most of the best engineers I know are some of the worst at marketing. They can have a great idea and great execution, but they can't effectively sell people on it, and they often simply think people will automatically buy it because it works and provides a useful service. Rationally, that makes sense.

Unfortunately, that's not really how things work most of the time. If you've started a business, you should know that sales and marketing takes work; even if you have the best product, it's not useful if nobody knows about it, or if it is associated with the wrong thing. That's why marketing is valuable.
This sounds very trollish. When pico projectors are smaller and provide more of a mass consumer experience, Apple might decide to use them. This is a rustic early adopter device in the sense that the pre-iPhone smartphones were.
"Perhaps it won’t be long before Google, not Gallup, is the most trusted name in polling."
Someone has to make products that suck to show everyone what not to do before we get good (i.e. refined) products. Resistive touchscreen phones and tablets sucked, but lead to capacitive touch screen devices which we probably all agree are much better.

I don't think there are many examples of products that were perfect on the first attempt to make them, or even the first few goes. Projector phones might seem compromised now, but if some company thinks hard enough about them, we might get something really nice. It won't be innovative, but it will be refined.
Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second.
Their is no way to tell that the example function is not a method of a Person class.

The code:
"def update(person, name=None, age=None):"

is equivelent to the code:
"def update(self, name=None, age=None):"

although if you chose to name the 'self' variable something other than 'self', you probably deserve to have problems.
Exactly. A very niche early adopter device. There will be a market for this device, but its not big enough to interest Apple. As the technology gets more advanced/cheaper/smaller that could definitely change, but right now its early.
The most likely explanation is that she accessed his smartphone or computer when he was not looking.
I think the atomicity model here works like a transaction on the whole document, where all the changes to the attributes of a document are updated all at once.

The scenario I described has to do with read-consistency, where the value read by a client should not be changed during the time of the read and the time of the update. The usual way of handling it was to take a write lock for the duration to prevent update from others but that degrades concurrency. The other way is to do optimistic lock (or conditional update) to allow the client to detect change during the time and retry with the new value.
My quest for a reddit iPhone app
I have started using Reddit a lot more than I did a year ago. I’m a new kind of browser, and I like to explore multiple subreddits. While on the go, I tend to just browse the front page to see where all the karma gloriously rained down upon. While I’m on the go, I tend to not make many posts..simply browse. However, when I find something that I like while using pulse, I tend to share it with Reddit. Only one problem : iReddit wants $1.99 for me to gain the posting ability. I felt that I shouldn’t have to pay for a Reddit app, and started looking elsewhere.

I downloaded Alien Blue, and I found it dull. I had to buy a $1.99 feature pack for posting, and discarded it immediately. I was scrolling through the apps (thanks Apple for making it take longer), when I stumbled across an app called “Karma”. As soon as Karma downloaded, I found a way to add my account. I was easily able to view my subreddits, create subreddits…and the best thing of all? The ability to post. Karma is a good basic app, especially for what you get for free. I think with some polishing and just making the app run a bit smoother (and look better), this could be a really good app. For now, ill enjoy my posting abilities.
Wang's Senate races are now incorporated; they make his performance substantially more impressive.
It reminds me of the "suggestions" given to Dwight in the Office (when has to give a public presentation in S02E07), where he's given a video of Mussolini as an example of a speaker with a great body language to emulate - so he does, and it ends up with a wild cheer from his audience.

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

If you haven't seen it, you should - if only to look at the arms movement and remember it's usually not a good idea to look like a fascist dictator when you give a public presentation in the real life!
I'm really enjoying your zen-like calm. If I had to enumerate everything I disliked about their experience for developers I would be foaming at the mouth after three or four bullet points.

Everything you posted is basically an understatement of the truth. Like you forgot to mention that if you do bother going to the trouble of posting a radar, it's probably going to get ignored.
Sure, you can workaround those problems in many ways. The point was the same as in the article - this is the default behaviour you get. This is also the behaviour a typical user will accept and have to live with.
Good questions and great answers !

About 5), (and possibly last paragraph of 2+3)), I would like to see all RAW files supported. You mentionned DNG, I guess you're a Nikon user. I'm not. And I'm right your target user : (I'm Swiss,) not a pro, not looking for an on-line portfolio, but former photographer now doing it as a hobby. When not shooting film I only shoot RAW, and mine are .cr2, not .dng.

Long-term archiving of my digital pictures (be it png, jpg, cr2, png, scanner raw format) has been a concern for quite a long time. I have been a paying flickr user for a few years now but it doesn't fit my needs as I cannot store there my RAW files. I would definately pay 8$/m to have a safe backup somewhere, and your display / scaling / serving service would be a huge +. :)
The news story there claims the first step in this scandal was that Paula Broadwell's yahoo account was compromised. That's not too hard if you can guess her password hints.

The next step, it seems, was sending some trolling emails. That requires acquiring or just guessing some email addresses. The people who got the trolling emails set the discovery of the affair in motion. Well played. But did not require a 133t hAx0r.
I am happy to rent u few devices shoot me a email .
Agreed, I think the distinction between a bound method or a function is irrelevant here.

If we want explicit kwargs (a big 'if' since many of the suggestions in this thread are to give up on that idea), then we need some value to distinguish it from None.
Cool idea.

One nitpick is: you're asking me to vote on whether a set of 30 or so jokes in a three and a half minute clip were funny. It's hard to do that, because some were funny, and some were not. Maybe with time addressing of the clips (possible with Youtube URLs I believe) you could offer up shorter segments and the idea would be more convincing, and probably work better as well.
This was created by the Samwer brothers, who have an interesting history of cloning sites and flipping them, often to the company they cloned:

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/04/features/ins...

So, proceed with caution if you decide to use them. (That being said, I wonder if Stripe will just buy them in order to get European payments working?)
The activity of a Payment Service Provider is heavily regulated in EU, a license is required - But no mention of this on the site.
18 Wheeler Shopping Trips
Hah, that's a good one! I haven't seen that one. That's exactly why I insist in being careful on how you use gestures - they need to be very subtle, otherwise you'll look, like you've just said, like a fascist dictator :)
Meyers-Briggs is hardly proven science. Nor is it sure that matching by Meyers-Briggs score will find roommates who are compatible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
It's so old it's even in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags
Specifically, the state of the art algorithm mentioned is the Predator/TLD developed by Zdenek Kalal.

There is a C++ port of the original MatLab code (more than one actually - search look at the forks of the original OpenTLD project on github), but I much prefer C code myself - thanks, liuliu!
Apple Tweaks Design Of App Store Category Pages
"This website is offline"
Can you look into this so that more people can check it out? :)
Very good work. I'm interested in the vision technology and have seen it progress rapidly in recent years. The tracking is pretty amazing.
The Return of the Capital Intensive Startup
> ... lousy for someone who has their own workflow.

"You're holding it wrong," indeed.

Your comment makes me want to try Ubuntu again on my MacBook. What I liked about it last time was that everything worked--just like on OS X. I guess the hardware premium and hardware monoculture are helpful even in the open source community.
The irony with the demo... "Passager, rails deployments that just works" with a huge Error page showing security-sensitive stack traces.
you do know Microsoft sells plain Windows, do you?
No biggie. :) I absolutely agree with you. It is a matter of disrespect. When you're promoted you'd better expect same salary as those at your level. Benefits can accumulate with seniority, but salary should be equal for everyone.
Thanks for mentioning. Should be back up now.
Sigh, yes. iOS auto-uncorrection to the rescue!
Interesting take on behavioral target marketing. Good start. Have you considered adding a stronger call to action for the sign up process (upper right).

Also I noticed a blue button. Have you considered split testing red and yellow buttons? Those colors consistently work. Check out the color of Paypal or Amazon's CTA buttons - you'll see what I mean.

Good luck.
I didn't mean claims in direct terms of patent claims, but rather this action might force Samsung's hand.
I didn't really know about the LTE patents, so yes, I see a stalemate situation.
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Do I have to be PCI compliant if I use them?
Making the Web Faster at Google and Beyond [Slides and Video]
Microsoft provides official (clean) ISO of W7 flavours -

http://www.mydigitallife.info/download-windows-7-iso-officia...

So, basically, burn respective .iso to a USB key, boot from it, install, enter the key from the sticker on the bottom of the laptop - done. Caveats are (a) limited choice of languages (b) lack of some brand-specific drivers, but if you run English version on a common laptop, it's very straight forward.
Software already comes with an expiry date. It is how long it is "supported" for. Just like with consuming food beyond its expiry, you can continue to consume software beyond its expiry, and you'll likely be just fine. But sometimes you'll get sick.
>I am an Apple user, and the Apple experience has jumped off a cliff for developers.

I was an Apple user and small OS X developer, and I agree completely. Three years ago, I made a living developing shareware. Then Apple decided they wanted total control over the app ecosystem and turned the "put out a good product and wait" business model into an impossibility. VersionTracker's sale to CNET and subsequent mediocritization didn't help, of course.

Now I use Ubuntu and do web development. And maybe some day WebGL and related technologies will get to the point that I can go back to the tightly optimized graphics programming I really crave.
Social proof matters if you don't have paying customers and are trying to scale your user base to the moon. When it comes to raising as a B2B, the social proof that matters is paying customers.
tl;dr these features were FINALLY added to the Visual C++ Compiler, currently available as a Customer Technology Preview release:

Variadic templates

Raw string literals

Explicit conversion operators

Default template arguments for function templates

Delegating constructors

Uniform initialization
It's a blog post. Do you know what a blog post is?

Hint: It's where someone tells you what they think based on their personal experience.