skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd use something like this if it was built by apple but I can style apps quickly enough as is without going out of my way to implement this.

As others have mentioned it's not really a "drop-in solution" and it doesn't look to be much faster than just creating categories that return styled objects you need eg: [UIButton greenButtonWithText:@"Sign up"]; [UILabel headerLabelWithText:@"etc, etc"];
I am not the parent poster, but I would assume he's talking about using Indigo (3.8.x) and not Juno (4.2.x). Eclipse took a speed hit with Juno. A hit which seems to vary depending upon your system from "a bit slower" to "OMG, how can anyone use this"?

On the Core i7 Windows laptop box I use for work, it fell into that "OMG, how can anyone use this?" category and I'm still using Indigo.

Google "eclipse juno slow" and you'll see a ton of hits. I know they've been taking steps to address this partly by using funds Google donated to Eclipse for the purpose of having more test machines to deal with this specific issue, but I haven't had a compelling reason to see if newer releases of Juno really fix the problems for me.
Regexp.MustCompile is for initialisation of global variables that is done before main starts. You need a different function than regexp.Compile because you can't process the error at this stage or level. The panic is for exiting the program, since you can't do anything else. It isn't destined to be recovered from.
Marketplaces are higher risk and don't fit the agreements that Stripe has with their bank partners. Deets:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/67
Gestures as a New Dimension in Mobile Design
Assuming this poll got flagged down into oblivion. Pity as there was interesting debate here.
I use ghostery because all I really care about is tracking. 99% of the time ads themselves are not an issue.
This looks amazing. I've held off using bitcoins until now because of usability issues. This product looks like it can change that. I'm signing up today.
The article describes the "sophisticated" attack

* Phish the users. The user must fall for this attack.

* Prompt the user to MANUALLY download AND install an application on their pc.

* Then (if that's not enough) download and MANUALLY install an app on your phone.

That's a whole lot of poor decisions on the end user's part. I wouldn't be surprised if these user's wouldn't have just replied to an email with their account number and PIN. Better yet just ask them to mail you cash, seems like something they would do too.

Think people. C'mon.
Well, paying someone a few thousand quid to look the other way when your kid does a hit and run, and dining ministers and taking them on holiday to get time to lobby them for your arms company?
Let's face it, "teach big business a lesson" is a convenient press tactic. First Round is a bunch of capitalists like the rest of us.
I guess the concept is ultimately a 2-sided market of 'proposers' and 'builders', so the challenge would be balancing them effectively.

I think its unlikely you'd ever have a problem with too many builders and not enough ideas. I think the challenge will be attracting builders (i.e. developers) who are willing to build these prototypes.

As you've probably heard, developers are in high demand right now. A hacker worth his salt is probably charging at least $100/hr, so $500 for a prototype doesn't sound that attractive.
I don't fully agree :). Openflow would make use of the same hardware table, and for a full Openflow implementation would presumably have to rely on hardware based MAC learning to scale. The switch software would still use some API to program the chip. Sounds like in this case, there was an interaction between the hardware and chip API, which would have been exactly the same case with Openflow. I think this problem would have probably occurred even with a centralized controller
Why not add way more schools to choose from? It is difficult to get 99% of schools, but scraping the first 80% is pretty easy.

Great idea. Great start. Keep going with it.
Bike theft is a huge problem precisely because there's no good way to track stolen gear. I'll buy one of these in an instant if it works well.
Can anyone shed any light on how Japan seems to be doing so well in this metric when all of the other countries that they are close to geographically and culturally are doing very poorly?
I was lucky to see him perform live a few years ago in redwood city. He seemed to be having a lot of fun at the age of 87! I wish I would be able to say the same if I make it that far.
Ops has been at the core of what GitHub does pretty much since day one. I'm not sure there's a team more celebrated within GitHub as our ops guys, to be honest.
All I need to see in your Facebook auth request
Eclipse's Maven support is not great. IntelliJ's is better but Netbean's is the best in my opinion. The problem with IntelliJ's Maven support is it doesn't handle multiple non-nested projects well.

If I were able to set up global Maven build configurations without having to jin up a dummy parent project, I'd make the switch. IntelliJ has superior support for running and debugging individual JUnit tests and application debugging in general.

I also like the ability to set up a variety of "runners" in IntelliJ and then execute them with a fuzzy find as if I were on the command line.
Interesting. I never thought of it as an advertisement arms-race, but that's what it is.
Cool idea, but one question. Are you talking about developers ripping off non-techies buy building the idea from scratch, or the non-techies themselves trying to build it from scratch because they don't know better alternatives?
A neat idea. It's a nice fit with something like Bountify (you'd use bountify for the smaller things, and your site for the larger projects).

Here are a couple of questions. These aren't meant to be bashing or knocking! Sorry if they sound that way.

* How will you cope if an idiot claims to be able to do something, and wins, and then makes an awful mess of things?

* How does licensing work? If Ann writes some code for Bob who owns the code? (And if Ann is working at some place that claims ownership of all her code, do they own this?)
I'm from South Asia (India) and I can attest that corruption in that part of the world (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri-lanka etc.) is all-pervasive. It affects people from all strata and is pretty much an accepted way of life and is not something that can be solved easily.
This renewed focus on market capitalization (and "valuation") has gotten a bit absurd. Market capitalization is an _approximate_ measure of _implied_ whole-company value. Approximate because we don't really know the number of shares outstanding, and whether you should use shares outstanding or fully-diluted equity, or heck, fully-diluted equity net of cash, depends on the application. It's also approximate because the share price only reflects the last trade or the inside quote. But that is only the price that _somebody_ (the most aggressive buyer or seller) was willing to pay/accept; if you wanted to buy or sell lots of shares (e.g. a whole company) obviously you wouldn't get the inside quote for all of it.

Most fundamentally, from a corporate perspective it's not like the company "loses" anything on its balance sheet when its shares change hands at a particular price. The share price does affect the company's cost of capital, but not so simply and not directly. Apple in particular is not going to need cash any time soon.

The more relevant measures of corporate health are the traditional revenue, net income, free cash flow, etc. It's true we don't get updates to those quantities every microsecond but they are still more important.

To the extent a 6% drop might reflect somebody somewhere with groundbreaking secret information that casts Apple's future income in doubt who has decided to place a big bet, yeah, it's possible, but it's too soon to tell and we don't really know what it means. (As Steve Jobs said, "Stocks go up and down.")
Completely agree with this usage. If I didn't install an adblocker on my mothers computer she'd have 14 extra toolbars installed in her browser, 3 different virus scanners running and be out of pocket every month for some service she's been convinced she needs.

It would be good if there was an option to allow for "Parent friendly Ads".
It's an awesome achievement, worthy of geek praise. But even if I'm being very generous I wouldn't call this a physics engine.
What/Who are you referring to ?
How many people are in your district, why don't they think you're electable, and why can't they donate a dollar if they do?
Great point. Once you buy the magazine, the money is spent, whether you like it or not. Although, it should encourage you to not buy anymore.

On the flip side, printed magazines would be so prohibitively expensive without adverts that nobody would buy them, so I guess in print it's a balancing act between alienating users via too many ads or cost of the magazine.
Oh god…the rewind on Paper.

Makes me want to punch myself cause it makes me feel so damn stupid when I can't get it to work. Then I'm stuck with more random scribble marks when the rewind fails.

Please, no rewind gesture unless a failed rewind doesn't activate other stuff. It's horrible to have a rewind feature where you can accidentally draw on your pad, causing more issues.

Other than that, decent article. (And the Paper app is awesome, just I hate the damn rewind function. It'd be so much better if it was like a slider like a video)
I quite like this idea and could maybe see myself posting on a site like this.

What I don't like is the "500 or less" part, at that point it becomes a bidding war and will inevitably be taken over by India-based devs just like every other coder for hire site.
The memory limitations are a bitch. It isn't that difficult to build your engine in that amount of space, but storing any decent graphics or level maps are nigh impossible. I had to quit working on a Zelda clone and JRPG because of memory issues. To this day, I've only seen one long game actually worth a crap and that's Joltima - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/34/3456.html Karneges had to use every trick in the book (huffman compression on 4 bit tilemaps) to fit it into 32K of RAM.

Still, it's impressive to do anything like Portal on the calculator. Glad that someone picked it up, even if the headlines are sensational.
Investors are selling Apple stock in anticipation of changes in U.S. capital gains and other taxes.

Pretty much everyone who made it to the $700 valuation did so on an early, lucrative buy. It's all taxes.
Without addressing the broader question of corporate decision-making, it seems to me that Best Buy broke a contract, not the law--which is why it was civil trial, not criminal.
>"Were there any rumors/news/anything today that triggered the movement?"

There was an obscure clearing house that upped its margin requirement for APPL holdings that made the news this afternoon. Now why that triggered a sell off, I couldn't tell you. I'm no Apple bull, but this was sort of odd. Can't really trust anything happening in the markets the past few months.
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Apple's share price has not had any correlation to its fundamentals for the last few years. If you were to compare its P/E ratio to that of other tech companies out there (Amazon's is 3628) it would technically be undervalued even at its current price.

That said, most of the volatility comes from all the prop trading firms trying to turn a profit. AAPL is considered a bullish stock amongst fund managers and is often used to hedge against other riskier positions in the market. Often times big dips in Apples stock can be attributed to profit taking (especially around this time as we finish up for the year and get nearer to the end of an American financial quarter – gotta look good on the books to the get Christmas bonus) and margin calls on bad trading days. You’ll notice a dip in the afternoon of any bad trading day as prop firms start getting margin calls on their failing positions and have to sell to cover their losses.
I thought of this during the last Presidential Election. To create jobs, the USA should offer some kind of non-job-related health insurance. That would free people from having to keep a corporate drone job just because those are the only jobs that have good health insurance these days. Small businesses wouldn't have to worry about health care issues when hiring. I'm sure a number of other follow-effects, not all good, would follow.

Remind me again why the USA doesn't have some kind of nationalized health care? Is this so that MDs can mint money or something?
I was thinking the same thing. Why was this comment down-voted? Nothing wrong with honesty.
The Mission Impossible theme was done by Argentinian jazz/bossa nova composer Lalo Schifrin.
> While programming for graphing calculators admittedly doesn’t give Marcolina’s work a wide reach

Are they joking? Those TI 83's will be used by high school students in the US/Canada as long as TI has this chokehold on schools. They've outlasted god-knows how many versions of Mac's, PC's, Nintendos, Xboxes, PS's.
Steve Jobs was an exceptional marketing guy, but even manipulating stock prices would have been out of his reach. I seriously doubt that Steve being alive or dead would have changed much.
designed by HN's own kyro (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kyro)
You're forgetting the legal cost AND the risk of not getting paid the VC took.
The software career and the Second Design Paradox
What happens when everyone is checking for them? Security by obscurity doesn't really scale.
Not too be too difficult, because I'm actually interested in whatever rationale behind extended surveillance exists, but can you cite something official for me to read about this "reasoning"? Because it seems to me that much of the rationale for ridiculous amounts of surveillance is "Hey! Terrorists!" That's certainly what's behind the War on The Unexpected, as manifested by the TSA and DHS.
No, it was shocked.

Here's a little diddy. Best Buy brought in a bunch of people after Target got sued for $6 million for not having an accessible website for blind people. Since Best Buy's site was very poor shape in this regard, they were hiring developers, managers, practically an entire team just to work on this issue.

First project I'm assigned, I notice a bunch of these errors and start outlining them and attaching how much time it will take to fix. Once the project launched, guess which ones got axed from the list of requirements in the first meeting?

After two more projects like this, I just gave up trying. I was told it cost too much and it wasn't an important issue. To say it was a confusing place to work is an understatement.
Does that really happen that often? I consistently use Paper and maybe a few times in months of using it do I mark a bit when trying to use it, but it's usually because I didn't have two fingers on the screen. And even if you do make a mark or two, you can go ahead and rewind those as well.
Learning to be Choosy
Here you go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_works_in_unusua...
One thing I'm a bit confused about is the assertion that Stripe doesn't support marketplaces. However, it would seem like it's more accurate to say that Stripe does support "Collecting Fees" via Stripe Connect:

https://stripe.com/docs/connect/collecting-fees

This might not be the full backend integration that some services require, but it does cover a lot of use cases and works in a growing list of countries outside of the US.

It also seems likely that Stripe could launch an ACH payout service of their own.
Sigh, the idea has merit, this seems like its just a landing page to collect a mailing list of people who might buy one if you happen to make it.

Here is an "easy" answer, make a reflector with a simple RFID tag embedded in it. Make them look like all the reflectors you normally have on your bike. Create a repository for registering reflectors and give a free reader to every bike shop that wants to combat bike theft.

Will determined thieves swap all the reflectors? Sure. Does it raise the 'cost' of stealing a bike? Yes.

Alternative idea, put the tag in the bike seat. You can re-use pet tags, you can then re-use pet tag injectors and pet tag readers.
Nowhere does he say that it's justified. Cut the man some slack.

My interpretation from reading this whole thread, the associated article, and some comments is that there's an option for users to invite their Twitter followers/share activity, but the messaging around it is unclear or something (maybe a bug?) so people didn't realize they were doing it. And now it's being fixed.

That's hardly intentional unethical behavior. Saying someone is "in a state of delusion, blinded to ethics and respect" is WAY out of line for someone whose product had either a UX or technical bug, who apologized for it, and who is now trying to fix it.
EBIT is Earnings before Interest & Taxes, not Earnings before Income Taxes.
HN: No discussion after search?
hi hn-community

am i wrong or is it impossible to discuss on a searched topic?
seems that there is no way to discuss on topics, i had in the searchresults

thanks for help
It's probably because we think "socialized" anything is a dirty word. And because we are a young country with a lot of stupid ideas.

It's complicated, I am sure.
While it is predominantly a statistics language there is also a huge wealth of data manipulation capabilities in functions like plyr, aggregate, *apply, ave, subset, etc.

Just in terms of organizing data sets, ignoring any statistical analysis, R is fantastic.
There's two posts on status pages on the HN homepage right now. This and Balanced:

- http://blog.balancedpayments.com/status-page/

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4877643

The hardest problems to me are properly monitoring and computing downtime. Heroku's uptime calculation uses time[1], which breaks down for an API where it should be more about the number of requests.

Any idea how Github is measuring downtime? Is there a difference in Github's measurement for when there's low usage vs. going down during peak hours? How are sporadic errors computed vs. a complete outage?

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-status#uptime-c...
I don't. Just use urandom.
Taxes on the wealthy and their capital gains are going up! Between now and the end of the year I believe you will see a LOT of selling from people and institutions holding large positions. Regardless of whether or not we go over the 'Cliff', capital gains tax rates will be going up and lots of selling will occur that drives down stock prices.
The attacker bootstraps a small exploit (clicking phishing link) into a much larger one (bank access) by using a multi-step escalation of privileges, that in several cases subverts or co-opts standard chains of trust. Sounds pretty slick to me.

Technical sophistication isn't the only form of sophistication. The attack is sophisticated in the trickery it employs to gains the user's trust and give the appearance of being legitimate. A security hole doesn't have to be an OS zero-day to be impressive.
SEEKING WORK - in particular, remote work. I'm in Windsor, Ontario.

Currently working primarily with iOS, but I've got significant professional experience with:

- Microsoft SQL

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- Perl

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- C#

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I've worked as a team lead, consultant and developer for organizations large and small.

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you could I guess have a process - for custom apps the winner needs to post their code on github, and others can review the deployed app on heroku? There are plenty of holes with that as a technical person could pose as a non techie then grab the code and make off with it. But the proposer's money would be in escrow, and if the finished product works and, oh i dunno if the other hackers give it the stamp of approval....

Which that is a whole other bag of worms, if enough hackers are vindictive enough to vote a working idea down. I'm making this up as I go along. I'm willing to be swayed in a different direction.
> the UK government has consistently refused to investigate British Aerospace's winning a 42Bn pound contract in Saudi

That's corruption in Saudi Arabia.
I understand why that's useful. Now, is it safe to say that nothing else in the standard library intentionally surfaces a panic? I'm not trying to troll: I genuinely want to establish this!
For those who want to go deep :

http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
I'm pretty sure assharif was being funny and/or a deliberate troll. But I'm not completely sure.
GH pricing is on-par with other enterprise VCS offerings.

Kind of disappointing really, having "cheaper than XYZ" is a nice feature to sell to management.
Twinkies - The Power of Brand Heritage
I'd love to try this out with RubyMotion.
Is this your own plugin, or your own service?
HTML, CSS, basic javascript (jquery and such), basic versioning.
The Three20 guys tried something similar a few years back: http://three20.info/extension/extCSSStyle.

It's a pretty neat concept, particularly if you have web content that needs to be styled in coordination with your app's chrome.
> The past couple of years have seen findings, that, taken together, suggest that we should embrace coffee for reasons beyond the benefits of caffeine, and that we might go so far as to consider it a nutrient.

That's the gist of the article.
The word "Loser" might be a bit off putting, but if you can get past that, the approach the author of the article describes is a good way of getting to the core of the person you're interviewing.
If you're competing on "awesome", being cheaper isn't an advantage, and also damages the brand.
I think this type of A/B testing (assuming these kind folks are doing that) is valuable for early stage product design.

If not posting to HN, where would you advise to post?
But it's also not reasonable to compare Apple's P/E with Amazon's. There's more to valuation that industry; Apple and Amazon are both "tech companies", but they have wildly differing business models. In particular, Amazon is aggressively buying market share and the market is financing that. The market says Amazon could radically more lucrative in the future, in a way Apple won't (it's already absurdly profitable).
Treat your local bitcoin wallet like your bank account, and treat your hosted bitcoin wallet like your leather wallet in your pocket. Only keep what you need in the leather wallet / hosted wallet.

Local wallets are easy to keep secure. Just keep it on a flashdrive, don't let it touch your harddrive, and don't use it on a pwnd computer. If you want, you can even keep that flashdrive in a real bank.
You're right! The stock never crested above 400 while Jobs was alive, so the fact that it's fallen to 540 (and mostly recovered in after-hour sales) WOULD never have happened while he was alive.
Colorblindness Aid: A D3D Shader Experiment
I must admit, that sounds plausible and I'm not an expert with Matlab or Octave, but I understand the compatibility is reasonable but nowhere near complete. There seem to be a pretty good number of problems discussed here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3534867/why-when-should-i...

But really I just feel like (certainly in my field) the open source community around R is huge and thriving and it's a better bet than Octave in terms of that.
The market is still irrational. Today, it's downward. I'm still solvent. (thankfully).
good point. There are some crazy narrow streets. The bus drivers are insane. Like half of a foot of clearance between the wheels and the curb on each side.
"It's like LoJack for your bike, but better."

IANAL (and as far as I can see this isn't a real product), but..

While this phrase gets the message across very nicely, it is likely legally problematic.

Not only is it coat-tailing a trademark, but it is making a claim of superiority which is not a wise thing to do unless you have some strong objective proof.