skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ended up coming down with a cold/flu bug so I was a bit useless and missed the opportunity. My quick notes on it basically go along the lines of:

- 12 Days App remains constant, no outward transition to other app, 12DA is last in tray, normal application switch over/switch back as seen with Facebook auth etc leaves app as 'used' in tray.
- Remote views seem to be getting called as downloads are instantly in store apps on that device, not globally on all devices that can pull them, writing off a trick with the 'download content' settings.
- Not web views as capable of accessing local stored credential for itunes account, unless apple has begun exposing that in some specific and bizarre way.

Wish I hadn't been sick, my plan was to watch the processes to see if they were running something like the mail composition one, or whether it was getting done like the Facebook one.
I think it's surely illegal in EU, but it also must be illegal in US, at least in theory, based on the Clayton Act: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/14

However I'm interested if anyone actually succeeded in proving it in some small claims court. There are legal precedents of victories against tying policies of Lenovo and the like in Europe, but I didn't find any similar examples in US.
This Hash Table Is Faster Than a Judy Array
How much for resu.me?
Have you found some programming languages to be easier to work with due to their syntax?

For example, I was thinking I would have an easier time hearing Python vs hearing Clojure. I think that even if it were brail, something like Clojure would be more difficult to track.

Although giving it some more thought, I suppose the indentation of python might be the more difficult thing to deal with.
Talked to him, and he pretty much laughed at this, but he cba commenting. However he is one of my best friends, and he has told me this story a few times.

He, lets call him Mr X. Created a software product which got quite popular and started making money, so he decided to start a company with this guy (Tor). Tor isn't a computer engineer, he is just an entrepeneur who like making companies or something. Anyway, they recieve some money from the norwegian governement through something called Innovation Norway. They both keep working in the company, but in separate offices, so none of them knew what the other was doing. Mr X keeps coding on the product, and Tor does something else (Mr X isn't really sure what). After some time, Mr X checks the bank account and notices that almost all the money they recieved from the Innovation Norway is gone. Thats when he makes the statement "give me 30 per cent of the companies cash", because he wanted out. Mr X had done all the work, Tor handled finances, Mr X realizes he can't trust Tor, so he wants his share and leave.

Long time since I've heard the story (happened like 4-5 years ago), so probably don't got all the details.

Just had to post this since Mr X wouldn't.

TL;DR

- Co-founder (Mr X) created a product

- Starts company with this guy

- Mr X does the product dev. This guy does the business part (I assume this also include finances)

- This guy takes money

- Mr X found out, and wants to bail with half the money left
>the time of publication is the only value that makes sense.

Which time of publication? The time on the database server? the web server? The client's computer? What time zone? There is probably only one choice that makes sense to you, but I have spent too many hours dealing with bugs resulting from different people having different ideas on which one is the best one.
Well it was basically because it looked 'ugly' with fonts like an old calculator.

The phone had 3 mayor design issues. At least from my POV. First, I couldn't write . in in text messages. I had , @ even £ but alas, no .! Then there was the issue that all sound went increscendo, thing is the message notification was to short for the sound to reach an audible level. And last, as the e-ink only consumes power to paint the screen if you manage to run out of battery You wouldn't realize immediately as the screen was still showing what it showed before running out of power.

I think what would catch is something cheap that seems pretty/expensive.
Also for what its worth, variable declarations are not nil by default, this bug tied me up for quite some time.

NSString *val;
if(something){
val = @"hello";
}else if(somthingelse){
val = @"goodbye";
}
if(val){
[self display:val];
}

this can send you on a wild goose chase for not declaring val = nil initially.
Could it just be that they possibly have a limit on the number of connections "leeching" their goods?
That's ridiculous. There is a "benchmark" without discussion and analysis, where both XML and JSON take, due to the vagaries of HTTP connections, a variable amount of time. What is this supposed to prove?
I'm not sure pepper spray gets to the heart of the issue. We're talking about something much more ingrained in the culture than simple predators lurking in some alley, no? Do you have any idea what could happen to a woman that pepper sprays the wrong man in some parts of the world? We're talking about a place that still has thousands of cases of bride burning each year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_burning#In_India). Not sure how pepper spray is the first step here.
Boosted Boards - Electric Longboard Skateboard
I rode on one for 5 minutes and instantly wanted to pay for it on the spot.
I've never found any real use for linkedin. Never gotten any references to hires that were worth it. Never gotten any work through it.

About all it's useful for is knowing when some people are dissatisfied with their current job and looking for new employment... their linkedin activity goes way up and you hear from them through the service.
Wow, I'm actually in the middle of exactly the same situation right now (significant untracked and unauthorized personal spending by a co-founder), except I don't have a board, it's just me and the other co-founder.. We tried to work things out together to balance everything, but I finally gave up out of frustration and hired a lawyer.. Something I should have done from the start..

I'm going the opposite route though, and forcing him to buy me out of the company instead (with the alternative resolution being litigation against him), so he can keep the mess he created, and I'll get out of the liability and get a lump sum payment on the way out..
Sorry, I was wrong, I stand corrected.
Illegal where? In Belize where he is wanted for murder anyway? I think it's fair to say he is simply burning his bridges to a country he has no intention of returning to and this could be part of the reason he is not going back:
" McAfee has refused to turn himself in for questioning saying he fears Belizean police would kill him."

I think he is confident the US is not going to allow his extradition although the US does have an extradition treaty with Belize.
OK, going from analogy back to reality, how do you return a copy of software?
Updated to hopefully make it a bit clearer.

Also there is an alternate challenge at izhack.com port 12346 but you can't read it in a browser. :)
3 hours in and the link doesn't work.
A good sales pitch will clearly explain what I will get in exchange for my time and resources. I don't see value described anywhere on his page. I can only speculate that maybe I will learn something about Slovakia.
Great post! Really points out the misconceptions one might have about developers.
This is a nice looking redesign but I think I'll probably stick to jqapi.com for quick reference. It's fast, I can find methods by URL (eg. jqapi.com/#p=get), and search auto-completes.
Ask HN: HTML Files to Wordpress Pages/Posts Dynamically? Automatic?
I have a few hundred HTML files that need to be posted onto a WordPress site, each as separate pages. The website might have a tree category such as: www.mydomain.com/title/category/page-name/sub-page. Creating each page manually will be very time consuming.

It's important I can utilize a SEO tool to optimize the website for search engines.

Is there a solution to convert these files into WordPress posts automatically?

Thanks in advance guys!

Note: I'm relatively new to PHP and programming. If you respond and it sounds a bit technical, please explain it (with links if possible) so we can limit the question-response back and forth.

Other CMS solutions can be considered so long as they meet the requirements above.
Reminds me of the channel stuffing that Samsung, Motorola, and others did to tout their tablets sales.

Also reminds me of articles that identify the dominance of Android 9 or 10 months after an iPhone has shipped (and when a flagship Android device has recently shipped).
Does IBM know that HAL is psychotic?
Until you Brits do away with the requirement for me to go through the porno scanners I refuse to visit the country. Sorry, but just because I am traveling from your country doesn't mean I want to go through a machine that to date still hasn't been verifiable been tested by a 3rd party to not have negative health risks associated with it.
This is no longer true when using ARC.
As a U.S. expat, I can only agree with you. I emigrated to Canada fourteen years ago…and I don't ever see moving back for any reason whatsoever. I visit, because I have family there, but I don't enjoy it.

I'm happy here—happier than I ever was in the U.S., and much happier than I think I could be under the current U.S. political system and polarization. There are only a few places that I could see living in the U.S., in any case, and I don't like any of them enough to move from Toronto.
Vitamin D.
Smartphone platform sales: iOS tops 50% for first time; Android loses 10+%
Infinite Jest: The Year of the Depends Adult Undergrament
The cost of hosting someone for a year is pretty high.

If you become a yacht salesman, are you expected to sell one on the first day? Are you a failure because someone else sold a hundred hot dogs?
Aside from the bit about loneliness, which I regard as his personal problem, this is the lifestyle I aim for. I don't want to be on the road constantly, but my life and I love travel. I'm early on the path (see: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/a-solo-bootstrapp...), but it's totally doable. With a laptop and an Internet connection, I've run my business from an Alaskan Cruise Ship Cabin, a Cozumel Mexico dive trip, and a recent trip to Waikiki. Met one of my co-conspirators in Waikiki for dinner.

It's good stuff.

The flip side is I work 24x7. When I'm on a push to get a product out, I've been known to forget what day it is. And I have had to limit myself to doing all my marketing work after 7pm. I do customer service from about 8am-9:30am. So that's a lot of hours in a week.

Wait. How's that different from a startup where I own only a small equity stake instead of 100%?

Hmmmm....
A few years ago, I was emailed by a firm that billed itself as being located in London but the IP address was in the Philippines. The correspondence indicated that it was a native English speaker on the other end of the conversation. They had some interest in one of my blogs. Through discussion (always email, the London phone number went to voicemail) I determined that they wanted to add link-filled pages to my blog in return for $125.

I suspect many nomads are following similar SEO consultant/"passive income" schemes, but I also know from previous HN threads that there are a fair number of members (many of whom I assume are programmers) living an expat life overseas:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752868
Show HN: Spacebook for iOS (mornings and weekends project)
Any of the vast number of things that (1) WebKit implements but aren't in any standard or (2) Are in a standard but WebKit implements with a different name (sometimes in addition to the standard name).
This is great for all the people at work who insist they need photoshop to crop and resize a few pictures.
Thank you for taking the time to write that. I find that personally helpful.
> Road-warrior consultants generally aren't the happiest people.

So true, I did similar kind of "on-the-road" consultancy for a 9 month period in a previous role and that was enough. Saved a load of money though as I had no accommodation expenses of my own in those 9 months.
> We covered them

Buy an iPad case.

> scribbled on them, wrote errata in

Most reading apps have annotations.

> copied pages for people

Not necessary with digital copies.

> ripped out pages, occasionally watched nitric acid dissolve them, accidentally set them on fire

Fundamental to your learning experience, I take it?

> sold them and swapped them

I don't believe these are student-owned textbooks.

> occasionally clunted someone round the head with them

Hardly a necessary feature.
That seems like a naming decision, I think it'd make more sense to have an equals selector than a not equals selector in objective c. Plus isEqualToString: is already part of NSString
What tools do you use to collect this data? Looks great, by the way.
This is no longer true when using ARC. See the "Stack Variables Are Initialized with nil" section of http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Objecti...

"Using ARC, strong, weak, and autoreleasing stack variables are now implicitly initialized with nil."

This doesn't affect plain C variables, but it would solve the issue you had above.
I love entering my home country, NL. I hand my passport over, the agent looks at it for 5 seconds, hands it back to me with a smile and welcomes me home.

No fingerprinting, no taking pictures, no questions as to what I am doing or where I am going or how long I plan on staying, or what work I do. Nothing. A smile and a welcome home.
Another feature of php.net I wish this had: a "Related functions" or "See also" section.
TOS for Sina Weibo (Chinese Twitter)
I agree with you and it reminds me of this thread on "State and Modularity":

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message9361.html

In which Peter Van-Roy states that: "In our experience, true state (destructively assignable entities) is essential for reasons of program modularity (which for this discussion I take as meaning: the ability to change one part of a program in a significant way without changing the rest of the program). Threaded state, e.g., monads as used by Haskell or DCGs as used by Prolog, cannot substitute for it."

He goes on to give an example that is also published in CTM. The evidence in the example is conclusive in support of his statement (I think). By using a mutable variable he is able to have communication of information between two indirectly related modules in a system without modifying any existing interfaces.

In a functional program you would be required to redefine all the method signatures in the call stack between the two modules (or make everything monadic or pass around the state of the world which are both edging twoard defining a stateful language on top of your functional one). Anyway, the pure functional solution is not modular. But some functional programmers would argue that this is a good thing because in fact what Van-Roy is does in his example is to introduce a side-effect with all the downsides of that. The functional programmer would say that this mutation of a variable behind everyone's back is a kind of sneaky behaviour. It's action at a distance. The functional approach is more explicit and transparent. I don't think anyone who has spent a significant amount of time chasing down bugs would disagree with more transparency.

However I think that its a tradeoff myself. Its fine to think that we should make everything explicit but often it just isn't practical in large systems to have to change the whole call stack for a minor update. We often do want genuine modularity. In Van-Roys example (a call counter) its easy to verify that the change is harmless. That's the point I think. Some side effects are harmless - maybe we need to relax a bit. Or as another comment on the thread said, the main thing to remember is that "local state is nice; global state isn't." (which is what the author is arguing in "Dependency Injection is a Virtue")
HN readers are so polite!
a lot of it is just simple python scripts to download/convert data to csv files, and do some simple post processing.

for the computer activity i took a snapshot every 30seconds of what program was active, and how long my laptop was active.
David Kelley talks about 'design thinking'
they are usually slightly cheaper and till very recently in California, significantly cheaper because of the no sales tax advantage they had. The final price was >10% lower just because of that but Amazon doesn't have that advantage anymore.
I have a CR-48 and I don't recall ever seeing it crash. Are you referring to a kernel panic or something that crashes the whole machine or just a browser tab crashing?

My CR-48 is my 7 year old daughter's machine to play flash games and such. Unfortunately, the CPU/GPU is a but underpowered for full screen Adobe Flash content.
> even "professional" journalists have become so sloppy these days

This is not a new thing - journalists have been sloppy with facts for a long time.

It is simply more noticeable now, with multiple sources of information.
DI is not about glorified globals at all. Nothing forces you to pass in the same object to all things dependend on it.

It just allows you to pass in anything the situation requires.

It allows your code to depend on an interface, instead of an implementation, even if the language doesn't have explicit interfaces.
Yahoo Mail users hit by widespread XSS exploit
The logo does not waste enough screen estate.
To clarify: I mean to say that 0 represents "nothing" in C in the same way that it does in math. This is one of the things I love about C--the ability to exploit the properties of numbers directly, rather than needing to build abstractions around them. Bitmasks, for example, are one of my favorite things ever.

But yeah, point well-taken. Perhaps I'll take the opportunity to wax on the other special values used in Foundation & CoreFoundation sometime.
As someone who goes in and out of the UK on a regular basis, this is news to me as I've yet to be subjected to full body scanners.
That's not bad code, you must be sarcastic. I've never heard of the method isDifferentFromString: and besides, the method name suggests it's the same thing as isEqualToString: approached from the other side. Are you referring to the capitalization mistake in @"steve"? When using sarcasm keep in mind there's no tone in text ;)
Well, that's also a part of communication. Snapping into the back and forth mindset isn't constructive, but there are plenty of times when someone replies to me and I can't quite parse whether they're explicitly agreeing with me and/or adding context or arguing with me without spelling that out. I tend to take those as learning examples of how to improve my clarity of speech.
I think we cannot over-estimate the importance of this.

Lego got many of us into the mindset putting stuff together until it matched our imagination. It's great the bring this onto a new level for the future generations. (And myself… as soon as I have ordered it ;) )
I agree with you, but now that I'm searching for a job, I'm seeing a lot of integration with linkedin where you can apply by clicking just one button, what is better than complete a huge form for every job offer.
The question is whether it would be pursued under criminal law or civil. If under criminal law, you would expect the state to bring a prosecution if there was sufficient evidence and be responsible for all costs.

However, in the UK for example, cases of breach of fiduciary duty are not often of interest to the police unless there is a public interest angle.

Consequently, I presume that the OP is talking about a civil case where costs would be incurred to bring the case.

Although there is likely to be an ability to claim some element of costs from the losing side, there is still obviously the risk that the case may not be successful regardless of how solid the case is due to the inherently risky nature of litigation.
Gamers hired by father to 'kill' son in online games
Did anyone even get this? It throws an error for me.
Excellent! The NXT 2 set is wonderful for introducing robotics and programming concepts to students. I hope the programming interface and software in general is improved; the current version is very difficult to install on Macs. I switched my kids over to the Enchanting software[http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Enchanting_(Scratch_Modific...] which allows you to program NXT robots in a Scratch-based environment.
Chrome 23 on Mac - no issues with scrolling.
LinkedIn is my least favorite social network. Unless you're looking for a job or are recruiting it's pretty worthless. Their spam controls are terrible. Recruiter spam is rampant. Groups are full of spam and self promotors with no easy way for non-admin users to stop it.
Wedge.js - audio playback in HTML5 apps that uses acceleration where possible
In the sample programs there is even a brainfuck interpreter! http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
How can the growing challenges of security compliance be met at affordable cost?
Well I don't think CS2 became obsolete. I mean 7 years gone but that doesn't mean that the features are now basic...
If you have a healthy habit of drinking fresh water, drinking moderate amounts of coffee is mostly beneficial, since coffee is a diuretic.

Otherwise you may fuzz up your concentration along with your gastrointestinal system.
Programming is awesome. If you can learn how to code, do it. If you can get better, do it. Learn skills, get better, build an independent credibility. It's a lot of fun, and you can do important technical work.

That said, your original insight-- that most software engineers do boring shit and work in environments where engineers have low status-- is accurate. It's even true of the VC darlings that still call themselves "startups". This is a great industry if you can stay on top in terms of getting the best projects and continuing to learn. It sucks if you end up as a grunt. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell how it will play out when you join a company. A nice title and high salary do not guarantee interesting work.

I recommend software if (a) you're willing to spend a lot of time and energy "self-mentoring" (which gets easier every year, thanks to online resources) and (b) you can tolerate frequent job changes-- once every 2 years not being unusual.
Big Data Booms in 2012, Spurring Big Opportunities for 2013
Apple App Store: 40B Downloads And Counting; 2B+ In December, ~20B In 2012
Prioritizing accessibility: It's about analytics
If there's "science" in the title, I can guarantee that there are going to be sincere pseudoscientists drawn in to state "WHAT DOES SCIENCE KNOW ANYWAY" no matter what the topic is.
Seems more interesting to me to do this via web vs. retail. We're driving for the web at Instacanvas (http://instacanv.as).

Thoughts on web vs. retail for physical photo products?
I wouldn't be a failure, but I certainly wouldn't be claiming (as the original submission title did, now thankfully fixed by the mods) that I was a better yacht salesman than you if I had never even sold a yacht.
One of his blog posts was actually posted on HN ~6 months back and attracted a lot of discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4214480
So, has anyone actually tried Paymill? Is it any good? It's being compared to Stripe here, but how comparable is it?
I really like the idea of fetching artist info and database from last.fm. Neat !!!

Couple of months back I worked on http://youtube-related-music.appspot.com . On viewing Demiba i'd also like to rework on my app. Thanks for the inspiration...
Form factor is still important, though. The handgrips can catch on stuff in a bag, which is an annoyance.

Compared to a tablet, phone, or any of the current portable systems, it's a lot thicker, too. That can make it a bit unwieldy to keep in a bag.