skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they provide any other forms of contact? If not, see if you can find people who work there on the internet, and message them.

You're absolutely right, it's a major security risk, and anyone else who discovers it may not be so discreet, and make the company a major target for anyone interested interested in stealing databases with unencrypted databases.

We had the same thing happen 2 weeks ago, worse thing is that the company in our case does things with money. Yep.
> If you read the article, what the school is trying to accomplish is to locate students that are on campus but not in class for first period to force them to show up in first period.

The article reads:

But with the RFID tracking, students not at their desk but tracked on campus are counted as being in school that day, and the district receives its daily allotment for that student.

They are counted as being in school; they don't have to be at their seats per the article. Won't swiping in serve the same purpose? If somebody is swiped in, he is counted in.
Woz:

"I don't believe Steve [Jobs] had to be as much of a real rugged bastard, put people down and make them feel demeaned."

"I don't think that was necessary for Apple to have great products"
C is far simpler and smaller than Go.
Languages are optimized for different things, depending on their context. They all have a place.
Is it? I thought it was basically standard/expected for serving to a browser from node.
Because as we all know, the academy awards are the ultimate arbiter of good filmaking... ><
DuckDuckGo -> ddgo ->gdgo ->golgo ->goglo ->googl -> googl(e)

Isn't it more than a name?
I completely agree.

I've said this every time the issue has come up: I think the name is hurting, a lot. More than once, I've wanted to just try a quick search on DDG to see it's comparison to Google, and at least some of those times, I've given up because writing duckduckgo is annoying. Is this logical/rational? NO. Is this how I, at least, behave? YES.

And for anyone saying that you can set up your browser to search DDG automatically, that's great if you've already bought into DDG, but it's not something I would do right off the bat.
If it's your taste the WP8 interface might be more pretty; I find it annoying to work with and the jury is out on 'normal people' (non tech crowd); I still know zero non-tech people in my vicinity who actually like metro (or whatever it's called now). And as far as the phones go; non-tech people downright hate them. Not sure if it's the interface, but in the local pub it's clear; people get passionate about their hate for the devices. And these are people who never heard of HN, so they are not just trolling. I'm talking about lawyers, builders etc; most brought them back and have S2/S3s now.

MS has the one of the best (or the best when it comes to language research) R&D department; there are too many brilliant people doing brilliant stuff there. And they are only just starting to use that power. That should give them their edge (besides a monopoly on the desktop and billions in the bank ofcourse), about their design skills i'm not so sure.
concurrent, or trivial ?
Does anybody know if Elon has a minor speech impediment; stammer or stutter? I myself stutter and was just curious, as I noticed it watching this video.
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Implicit conversions are not considered experimental in 2.10. Also they are not disabled by default in 2.10. They may disabled in future versions. Scala 2.10 will just give you a warning if you use implicit conversions without explicitly enabling them.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nlkvpoIRkx7at1qJEZafJwth...
I had no idea that delivering a great product and not being a shithead to your employees was mutually exclusive.
Introducing the Portabee 3D Printer
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Enhancing some key aspects such as machine balance and axis stability gives us an edge of other existing kits. Most importantly, we have made our machine portable.

Our aim is to distribute a portable, efficient and robust 3D printer, capable of performing at the level of the industry standard for fused depositation (on par with ultimaker.com) for under 500 bucks.

You can view our machine at: portabee3dprinter.com

People instantly fall in love with the idea of 3d printing, and come up with a bunch of original things to do with the machines. We want to lower the barrier for entry and get more people involved.

We believe in our machine and our engineering and greatly desire that 3D printing be present in more homes. So we are taking our shot at moulding the future.
A quote: "They point out that nobody else on the planet seems to have seen this comet passing in front of the Sun, even though the nearest observatories in those days were just a few hundred kilometers away. That can be explained using parallax."

It can also be explained by the simple fact that (a) not many observatories specialize in observing the sun even now, and (b) the observation may only have lasted a few hours (as with this year's Venus transit). Remember Occam's razor -- the simplest explanation is to be preferred.
If I was getting paid like Lasseter and basically running the show I could tolerate periodic 3wk crunches for creative spurts or whatever.
Major release: CD Label Designer 5.0
Google is a weapon used by the US government to establish the domination and seize control over citizens access to information. Would Google really care about the open Internet, it'd license itself with GNU Public license long time ago.
This call is hypocrisy. It is like a bank which collected all the gold is calling to the mob to rob some other bank where some other gold is. Once the other bank is robbed and cease to exist, the mob will inevitably bring the gold back to the initiator of the robbery.
True freedom in the Internet is in hands of its users already. They just don't want it and give their own power to things like Google, allowing a costly layer between their needs and fulfilment. What can you do about it is another question.
Would it bring value to the community to have a new UI for www.perlmonks.org?
I say yes and I exposed my arguments in the article - I wonder what are others opinions.
Serious question: I know he's the Woz, but is there any other reason that we care about his opinion?

He hasn't been involved with Apple since 1987.

Has Woz ever demonstrated any expertise in design or UX?

[edit: For anyone that has accused me of bias or fanboi-ism, let me disclose where I stand. I have run Linux on PC hardware almost exclusively from roughly 1996 through October 2012. I bought my first Mac computer a few weeks ago, being frustrated by occasional hardware compatibility issues running Linux on laptops. I think Apple has good design, but would be happy with a slim Linux laptop that works without issues.]
they're also vahabi which is very extremist part of islamic nation so it's not quite suprising actually.
As you see if an islamic country which has a solid relationship with western countries(money, petrol, strategic position in middle east), event they have monarchy, even they're degenerated, they don't need to be forced by USA, EU to have a democracy which others, Iraq, Syria already are having. God bless America
People who have read the Reglamento de Transporte del Distrito Federal would be astonished to learn that a taxi passenger bill of rights makes the difference between Mexico City and Canada.

Especially astonished would be those who've read Chapter 5 Articles 33 and 34.
> The do say in the article about no-one seeing it;
"That can be explained using parallax ..."

> Is this realistic?

No. Even today not many observatories specialize in sun observations. It's not at all surprising that only one astronomer witnessed this, and it's a stretch to suggest the explanation that the observed object was therefore very close -- there are many more plausible explanations.

> Also would the time of day matter?

No, not for an object silhouetted against the sun. Consider this year's Venus transit -- everyone who could see the sun at the appointed time, also could see the transit.
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is pretty easy to remember.
Facebook is about equally PHP and C++ these days.
> ... how do they now know that it was actually a comet and not simply a mistake on the astronomers part as they previously thought it was?

They don't. The linked article assumes the veracity of the original account, it doesn't introduce anything new.
You just gave a little more power to Google.
This guy knows how to seed his interviews with one liners that will rate in the press.

"Even hardware from Apple is a subscription, in a couple of years it isn't going to work with the newer stuff".

Well... duh, but goodluck finding a company with a much better record on this front.

And how is Apple non-innovative for "pumping out the iPhone" compared the Android world with hundreds of failed models, or Windows with its reluctant shape shifting on what constitutes a good smart phone.

I like Woz, and he did a good job fielding some very biased wording in the questions - but really, it's been a long time since he was at Apple.
People like FINITE things, "BOUND" things and things that seem UNDERSTANDABLE and that have a PURPOSE that doesn't lie in the thing itself and most people HATE open ended things (I know, for future oriented technologists like us it's hard to understand this, but ask you... mom). The "fear of immortality" (even if it's more professed than truly believed actually) is FEAR OF INFINITY and fear of being part of something whose purpose is itself.

An infinite life would be:

1. infinite (obviously)

2. not "understandable" - your mind will evolve infinitely and your future personality/self might end up so different of you present self that you might disagree even on the most basic questions of morality and what's "good" and "bad" (you have to accept that you're actually different persons and the same thing will apply if you "cloned" your mind now and the two minds will meet each other in 1000 years time), and your present self can't even imagine what the future self might become, the actual "self" becomes "not understandable" potentially

3. open ended

4. there's no "final", imaginable "purpose" - because you're future life is beyond the edges of you present imagination, you can't imagine a purpose for life itself (like "be good and go to heaven")), so the purpose of life has to be life itself

...and most people (I call them "un-open minds", to not be superior or mean and to state that I think they have the potential to be "opened") are AFRAID of (1) to (4)... it's against the way they've been brought up and it takes away their "shield" for other fears... imagine convincing a frightened little girl to so skydiving or maybe closer to getting her join the army and become a paratrooper.
Unfortunately, some people believe so...
Sinofsky doesn't run Office anymore. His charge was to deliver Windows.

The basic problem is that both Windows and .NET are platforms, .NET has been the developer-face of Microsoft. When Windows projected its API to C++, Javascript and .NET, developers naturally feel wronged. However, making DevDiv look good has not been Steve's task (or that's what Steve believed so). Steve's job is to deliver a platform with the broadest reach.
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This is definitely a good point; by far most people have no clue what search is and they just type their queries in whatever is given by default. Unless Duck gets installed on computers by default, no one will use it relatively, whatever name it has. The problem is that we are not begin 2000 (or before); everyone has devices with internet and most of these people don't have any technical knowledge; not even enough to know the concept of an URL. A thing like Google, if there would be a new 'revolution' now, would not work as it did then; you need hardware companies to deliver at least the choice. And given the choice maybe 'the people' like Duckduckgo better than 'Bing' (I think they heard Google too much in the news to not pick that)?
Wasn't this Toy Story 1? Well, I'll watch this Catmull's talk.

Still, Pixar Story is a great documentary really, and if you have the chance read the book as well.
Ask HN: HTML to PDF API
Hi HN,

I plan to develop an online tool which shall provide REST API access for converting HTML to PDF. I have been using the same for an internal project and have been extremely happy with the results.

I need your thoughts on the feature set you want to be included. What features as a developer do you think will make this API easy and useful for developers.

Thanks for reading and do let me know your thoughts on the. I do not mind any honest criticism of the idea :)

Thanks
The problem is that history is literally full of such individuals having great success. They have the idea, they don't have the skills - so they get others to do the work necessary, and profit.

This is a reality in the world today, all there is to it.
Are you fucking kidding?

Woz CREATED Apple... Job's single defining contribution to the Apple I was "hey we should sell this!", he did literally NOTHING else.
In Australia, we've decreased to about 0.1 gun homicides per 100k: http://guncontrol.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1995-200... (Note: somewhat biased site)

That's compared to 0.22 for DC, or 0.04 for Switzerland, so it's still higher than Switzerland with vastly higher gun control. However, I think that it's more about the surrounding gun culture than it is the laws: most Australians are against gun usage (see the response to the Port Arthur massacre or the Monash Uni shootings), whereas for Americans, it's their right to hold arms, and they seem to defend that adamantly.

See also, this opinion piece by our former Prime Minister: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/brothers-in-arms-yes-...

Edit: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/australia notes 30 gun-related homicides in 2008 for a population of ~21 million.
> Would Google really care about the open Internet, it'd license itself with GNU Public license long time ago

I do not have a strong idea of why you think Google using the gnu licence would be strong stride in making the internet more open. What is the top technology they should GNU licence and what is the top impact it would have in opening up the internet?
Their off-time work is contractually owned by the company? Is this true for most game development companies? I have never heard of that happening before. Is that even legal? In the two positions/companies that I've worked with/for, I've been able to moonlight, as long as it didn't compete directly with the company (in laymens, non-lawyer terms).

Is this a common detail with game devs? With most jobs? It sounds awful.
> Has Woz ever demonstrated any expertise in design or UX?

Yes. He's the reason the Apple II had support for the Dvorak keyboard layout, hidden as it may have been. That's a big UX thing for me. Huge, in fact. His design skills in terms of putting motherboards together are beyond mere mortals.

May I pose a counter-question, which is if you're bitter that Woz has dissed your cult?
I'm quite happy to play this game with you if you set the rules. If we include the 19th and 20th Century and I'm allowed to include Russia as 'The West' then game on...

But I think you're getting irate about a sub-text rather than the game at hand so let's discuss what's really bothering you.
In my own experience, it is not only about starting simple, but also finishing it simple. I know you're not saying it isn't, but what I want to emphasize is that it is too easy to say that you're done with something simple and then move on to the next/bigger thing. For example, what eru suggested, if you build a Tetris-like game. You probably can have the gameplay finished in a few hours. And then, move on? Or spend another week on polishing, menu's, sound, graphics, copy, etc. I think the most valuable part of the lesson of starting simple is in finishing it. (And they don't tell you that.)
Woz may find cure for cancer but it wouldn't matter because he hasn't done UX work?
I got an email directly from google since I signed up from them to receive such information. I believe they collected email addresses when it was unsure weather SOPA would pass.
Let's turn down the hyperbole. Jobs still marketed the company, even if Woz was the technical genius. Selling your product is just as essential as having a product.
Are you aware that such things already exist, and are pretty advanced?

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

I offer this only so you will know you may be reinventing the wheel, not to discourage you -- your project might be better.
Open discussion about security/passwords. What do you think about this strategy?
Not until just before they enjoyed the traffic lights, where I thought his friend might just die of a heart attack any minute. I guess this tells us the message has been passed, that life is fragile and worthy of enjoyment.
I don't use it because it's Bing under the hood.

Otherwise I would, name and all.
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You can set up a keyword search for DDG (for example ddg or just d) and use that when you want to compare. In Chrome, Firefox or Opera just right click in search form and select something along the lines of creating new search, and fill out the keyword.

I have a search keyword even for Google (g), my default search engine is "Feeling Lucky". Other keywords I use are (y)outube, wolfram(a)lpha, google (i)mages, t(orrentz), (m)aps (not google), (r)eddit (not a search per-se, just for opening subreddits), and a few others. For wikipedia, imdb, documentations, .. the feeling lucky is enough.
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> C is far simpler and smaller than Go.

Mentioning Go is simpler than Scala is to point out the difference to OP, and to emphasize that trying out Go doesn't take much effort.

> Languages are optimized for different things, depending on their context. They all have a place.

I am not denying that. That's why I said - Read and write some programs, and make up your mind.
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I have met such people on two separate occasions. Both of them stated that they were using such tactics. Both of them cited Steve Jobs as their inspiration for such behavior.
Look dude, Woz may be a very smart man, but without Jobs, there would not be an Apple today. Not only did he found the company, he also brought it from the dead.
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If we're talking indie game development here, I'd recommend getting into it in exactly the way as Patrick got into BCC. It should be approached as a hobby, until you're making enough money reliably enough that it becomes feasible to quit and do it full time.

That way you don't burn through your life savings, and you're very much aware of the day to day. Bonus points if you've had failures in between your successes. Patrick is dead on here - it's not all roses.

If you can't succeed doing it for 10-20 hours a week as a hobby, it's doubtful working even 80 hours will work. Game development is sort of like being a musician. If nobody likes your songs, you can't make up for it in volume.

Game development is an irrational choice in terms of return on investment. Patrick is also dead on here. Even the successful developers would have made an order of magnitude more money if they had applied themselves equally and had the same luck in other industries.

You have to genuinely find the prospect of working on your craft full time more important than financial returns. And having the perseverance to hone your skills and produce successful games in your spare time, even if it takes years, is a good litmus test for that.

(I'm awkwardly referring to patio11 by his name even though I was replying to him to differentiate the you [him] from the you [in general]).
I thought the guy wrote his own crawler?
According to this, "URLs requested to be removed from Search per week" has increased 10-fold over the past six months.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/
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I'm convinced that Microsoft is an amazing technology company that's utterly and truly terrible at product. They have a tremendous amount of impressive R&D and capability that seem to fall flat every time they try to ship it for, well, actual users.

I'll believe Woz when he says MS is more innovative than Apple, but I think Woz makes the classical geek fallacy that more innovation is the end goal. The end goal is innovation that people actually benefit from, and that involves more than paying a lot of people a lot of money to conjure up new amazing technology and then ship them in boring, poorly implemented products.

I believe that at some level MS realizes what it needs to do, but corporately it has trouble getting there. The core problem here is that the company simply doesn't sweat the details, and continually, severely underestimates how critical details are in today's market. They developed a no-frills, cheap-plan device that taps directly into our social network addictions, and then failed to actually ship the "cheap plan" part.

They released a new, innovative smartphone OS where performance was a critical differentiator from the competition (Android 2.x), and then failed to ensure that 3rd party apps had access to the same performance abilities.

And now they've released an innovative new desktop OS that bets the farm on touch interactions being the wave of the future - and their own first-party apps are in many places poorly designed for touch interaction. Major parts of the core OS are also not touch-ready.

The details matter, and MS never, ever gets the details right.
It wouldn't surprise me if they funded 5,000 at least. Why wouldn't you if you were in their shoes? I think not doing that was one of Google's greatest mistakes with Android.
Can we have a list? Delivering something 'great' should be subjective here; it means that someone sustained a profitable multi-billion company with products for many (>10) years. Not if YOU like the product. I see a lot of bastards (Gates, Ellison, Jobs); where are the nice guys?

Edit: Google? I don't know if he is?
> Even hardware from Apple is a subscription, in a couple of years it isn't going to work with the newer stuff

Historically, Apple hardware has kept its value very well. I could just as well still be using my 2008 Unibody Macbook. Equipped with an SSD, it's still plenty fast enough for my work.
Actually, he hasn't had a major role at Apple since the plane crash in 1981.

His claim to fame are some pretty innovative chip designs for the pre-Macintosh era Apple computers.
As someone who was there and who met all the principals, I have to say I agree. Chance obviously plays a part in these stories, but granted the role of that factor, Jobs certainly appeared to make Apple what it is/was.

Jobs also benefited from being favorably contrasted with a series of truly unimaginative replacements. :)
That doesn't even mean anything. The only reason DDG is an acronym is because it's easier to type. It sure isn't due to any marketing/branding effort on DDG's part, because ddg.com is an iOS app studio. Frankly I think DDG would be a better brand, not unlike other acronym bnrands like IBM or HP, but brands need to be built, not wished for.
Seems unnecessary if it can simply be DDG, a true acronym for the same or less characters than your suggestion.