skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How secure are these toolbars? It seems like end users are getting reamed twice. Once by just using java and again by increasing their vulnerability profile with toolbars.
This is a decent enough youtube front end, but I'm not seeing what the framework does for you? The whole app is very trivial, using he gdata api is simple javascript and the layout is again very simple. bootstrap and a few hours of javascript would accomplish the same thing? If it had used isotope js maybe to sort/filter the videos, or mayve vegas js for some interesting eye candy, but what's the big deal here?
Does anyone know what font face Steve Job's card is in? http://assets.flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/jobs...
I think that's a good idea. Most of the interim releases are usually filled with bugs and more unstable anyway.
It's not about bacteria entering your bloodstream (if that happened you'd have bigger problems), its the inflammation caused by your body fighting the bacteria influencing other organs. Inflammation isn't an acute action, the signalling molecules involved travel around the entire body. This can cause inflammation in completely unrelated areas. The heart is highly susceptible to this since all your blood travels through it.
Damage control is often about redirecting the damage.
You should mention that you work for teambox...
Agree, probably your "american style medium density" is what I would consider "low-ish density", healthy and pleasant too...

...but using the "depleting oil reserves" and other eco arguments to make people leave in what I see as much lower quality conditions is inhumane and cruel in my pov - just build good quality public transportation, make it electrical (even trains are efficient) and go all nuclear to power it all, putting up with all the eco-consequences of it ...or maybe Elon Musk's Hyperloop will redeem everything :)
You need to have a pathological lack of empathy to view these matters as "emotional manipulation."
I think he is suggesting that the number of java related questions on those sites indicates the language is widely used. Neither SO or quora run on java.
Yep, I think so. Interesting enough, there's almost no mention of it by anyone else. Instead, the top article is something about a hacker news radio. Hmmm.
"They don't need this guy on stage with this fierce, aggressive look" ...yeah i bet Paul Allen would second that.
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>Polls suggest there is a real yearning in some areas to go back to the days where the secret police and rationing of basic goods were real things. It's bizarre.

Not very bizarre. Other things were also "real things", like job security, food for everyone (even if little), a sense of belonging, etc. And a far better culture (including a vibrant counter-culture against the regime) than the BS that the media serve today.

If you visit some places full of dirt poor families, abandoned buildings and meth addicts, you'll get a nice glimpse why some might want it another way.
clearly, you haven't been paying attention.
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Maybe you should actually learn something about FP rather than trying to learn a bunch of languages?
Is this call forwarding, or is there a SIP client on the smartphone handset (or, presumably, other real SIP phones)?

The SMS features look great. The biggest problem with Google Voice is that Google essentially seems to not care about the product, and really hasn't since they bought it.
The issue with minimum labour standards is that you have the question of what happens to people whose value is less than the standard. If you have a minimum wage of five dollars, what happens to the person who, for whatever reason, only produces two dollars of value? They are unemployable and hence never enter the labour market. It would be preferable to let them work at two dollars because, over time, we know that their value increases. One can see this on a global scale in how traditional sources of cheap labour have become more expensive and more skilled over time.
Thanks! I appreciate the breakdown.
Interesting that Steve Jobs's lists him as VP instead of President, CEO, Founder, Chairman, etc. I'm guessing that card was circa John Sculley?
It would seem to me that there's little reason that there can't be a high impact factor, well respected journal, that is also open in its publication.

Yes, there need to be people working to format articles, review papers, etc... but as we've seen in the FOSS community, there are alternative ways of making money, using modern technology to assist in reducing costs (printing paper? seems wasteful, expensive and silly).

Also, most of these higher impact journals charge significant fees to the authors to publish openly with them. $5000 for Nature. Sure, that's a lot of money- but I'd to imagine people would still send papers to Nature even if they made that the requirement for all their papers. Also- is high of a fee really needed? I mean there are costs, sure.. but it seems to push people away from open publication, not toward it.
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You'll find that people will justify even that, as long as the target of vandalism is hateful enough.
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Perhaps the mods didn't want readers clicking through to a page that is still possibly compromised? Or maybe enough people flagged it for said reason...
Oracle explicitly supports automated corporate deployment, albeit in a roundabout way.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/deploy...
In the UK I used http://www.seedrs.com/ to raise GBP 50,000 (in about 15 hours) for my startup http://microco.sm/

One of the big reasons that I chose to use Seedrs, beyond being FSA approved, was that they become a single shareholder that I deal with. That is how they are in the terms and how I issued the shares.

They hold all of the investor details (some 60 individuals who are already users of another site I run - my users are my investors) and have structured it so that the investors are buying the equity through Seedrs and Seedrs hold a record of that amount in their name. Effectively, Seedrs are a single proxy, but I never have to care about having more than 1 shareholder from a legal perspective (I do care, I speak to my investors, but that's a human angle rather than legal/accounting).

I spoke to a few VCs first who voiced concern about the number of investors being an issue. But it really depends on scale... it is an issue if you are seeking a small round in the future and have hundreds of investors. Because to resolve everything legally costs a lot of time and money. But if the round is large, then it's less of an issue anyway as mountains can be moved for large rounds (it's not ideal, but it can be done). Seedrs is appealing because this approach doesn't preclude choices in the future.

I don't know if there is a North American equivalent to what Seedrs have done, to have a single shareholder structure in a friendly format, but it's the way to go if you choose to issue equity for funding.
Re: Image: I agree with you about the image. What I really should have said is a one-man team who is trying to launch something can't always optimize every little thing. There is always one person like ericabiz above who goes through every hn post and criticizes the author over some petty image optimization issue on their landing page.
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It's an accessibility feature. If you don't have the dexterity to hold keys down yourself, you can enable sticky keys and (if I remember correctly) it will make certain keys act as toggles so you don't have to do finger-yoga to hit certain key combinations.
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adding (possibly) a couple datapoints, it's the same for my home country (italy) and where I live (hungary). Sometimes they suggest you floss, mostly they don't.
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If you're on the internal network, you're most likely using an internal DNS server which would not care that the registrar claims some other DNS server is now authoritative.

I suppose it could be a problem if you're not on campus; or if any third-party services are not using their own domains (e.g. mit.blackboard.com)
yes and not hellbanned AFAICT.
I'd love to hear more about the 'Dropbox clone' you're using here. The idea of keeping a VPS around as my own private cloud is something I've been thinking about for a while; I'm very interested to learn from someone who's already done it.
As a freelancer, I currently use both, as a user on accounts owned by different clients, and I prefer BaseCamp. I find BaseCamp's messages very useful and Asana's emails when you assign ToDos (also supported by BaseCamp) don't even come close. I also find Asana's interface visually distracting compared to BaseCamp.
I think you'll discover that languages are actually much smaller than they appear in your mirror.
"Enrollment is Closed
We are sorry"

Yeah me too. Coursera = MCOC = Massively Closed Offline Course.

Imagine wikipedia only allowing people to view the "Scala" page between the hours of 7:30 and 8:30 on alternate tuesdays, otherwise you're outta luck, for completely arbitrary reason.

Very unimpressed with the MOOC trend. Bring back MIT OCW where I can download and watch video lectures whenever I want, forever.
I certainly agree with Singer that animals are non-human persons, with some animals even having a higher moral standard than some humans.

Intelligent non-human persons like pigs are capable of suffering, and the factory farming, experimenting on and killing of animals is one of mankind's greatest crimes.

I'm not open to debate about this (sorry) but I have work to do anyway.
I'm not sure that matters here. This is more a guide to knowing the types - and they exist in all markets large and small - so you can avoid or best case prepare. Many on this list won't invest so it's good to weed them out and save you time and heartbreak.
Does Google Voice provide Group texting?
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This is really cool. I've been waiting for a way to give all of my employees their own virtual phone number, and since almost all of them have iPhones anyways, this looks great!

Would love to see an Android App for this (I have a Nexus). Anyone know what their current plans are for the droid ecosystem?
That's something I've been interested in (though not a project) for a decade or so. Links?
What I'm surprised about is the alleged suspension of Ahmed's account. Also, if Ahmed "admitted" something in writing, I'd like to have a copy.
I live in a similar project (old WWII airfield), that has the same approach to walkability - but it is only viable because one development agency owns rights to development and ensures there is a strong mix of housing types and utilities - its not perfect, but it is a lot better than say old tenement blocks in industrial towns - my local fish and chip shop in Lancaster was the same faceless tenement house, just that someone had converted their living room into a chip shop. It was the only amenity for 20 minutes. Horrible place.

Anyway, wandered off track a bit - it is possible to build a whole town (2000 homes) with one commercial super-contractor. However it is bumping into local democracy issues already so anything bigger is always going to need a proper mayor. Like a real city.
> My $20/m VPS gives me self-hosted Github, Dropbox, and Gmail/Gcal/Contacts "clones". Not bad!

GitLab replaces GitHub, but ...

what gives you the dropbox functionality? (alternatives I'm familiar with are sparkeleshare and seafile, but neither works as well as dropbox)

what gives you the gmail/gcal/contacts functionality? specifically, do you have good iphone sync?
Another HN user kindly pointed out to me in a related thread that the Gov't has modified their terms to specifically prohibit the use of RECAP. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059847
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Hang on there - $0.13 a month is a little steep.
The only reason why anyone would defend these practices is that presumably, if the company did not monetize their software in this way, the software couldn't continue to be developed.

In Oracle's case, this seems absurd. The money they make from toolbar installations couldn't possibly be very high, could it?
SQL standards were and are a joke. Real app developers can't wait for the standards boards to ratify a syntax, they have to actually get on and build things. Oracle SQL is what it is, and if you don't like it use something else. The old dream of making the database a commodity and easily switching thanks to the SQL standards was always unrealistic.

I doubt that Oracle "didn't want to comply with standards" but what is much more likely was that they had better things to do than pander the syntax nerds. Like making the database faster, more reliable, more secure etc.

Like TPC benchmarks, SQL standards have never mattered to real developers.
Can you provide facts to back up your statements ?
Nope. Just your standard flossing tips on HN. Nothing out of the ordinary here...
"Can be" does not mean "is". Unless it is built to do so, why expect it to? You have no idea what they're running, nor on what kind of machine or bandwidth allotment, why are you making these huge assumptions and insulting people who don't meet them?
I find it more significant that the Steam homepage now has a fairly prominent Linux tab: http://store.steampowered.com/
Pretty quick, eh?
Yeah, those tricky monoids. So hard to learn, and even harder to use a library based on them. You have a whole whopping one function to learn, that does some incredibly convoluted and arcane nonsense called "appending"? What a horrible language. You should definitely devote more time to complaining about ridiculous strawmen like this, it seems like a very good use of time.
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The city of Woodbury, Minnesota (the city profiled in the blog post kindly submitted here) is a city I specifically rejected living in when my family moved back to Minnesota from Taiwan in 2001. Woodbury offered some interesting work possibilities for my wife, but when we drove through the city to look around, we were appalled to discover that it was nearly impossible to find a place to live that was within walking distance to any kind of shopping, much less to both shopping and services. In Minnetonka, Minnesota, about fifty minutes away by car across the Twin Cities metropolitan area, the lifestyle is still very car-centered, being far from the urban core. But city planning here in Minnetonka has been very intentional about building a city walking and biking trail system, with links to a regional rails-to-trails biking trail network, such that we can walk to the public library (as we are about to do just now), a mile out and a mile back, and walk to much of our shopping (the same distance in a different direction) by the city trails. My wife can bike-commute year-round, and we are able to substitute a LOT of biking or walking for what would be driving trips in most of the United States. My children are fit, healthy, and fearless. They walk all over the place in our crime-free, friendly, diverse neighborhood. I still like the higher density of Taipei or Panchiao, Taiwan even better, and my oldest son likes living in car-free Manhattan now that he works as a programmer for a start-up, but the lifestyle here is not too bad. We know lots and lots of neighbors by sight, having met them repeatedly while walking, and we see deer, coyote, wild turkeys, and much other wildlife while we are on our walks. The United States has a long way to go to be weaned off of car-dependence, but it can happen, and each municipality's government can help make it happen.

http://www.eminnetonka.com/public_works/parks_trails/trails....

http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/1-bike-city-m...

http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/Trav...
It's pretty obvious Sabu isn't responsible for this, considering the FBI is pretty much breathing down his neck these days. From his Wikipedia article: "Employer: U.S. government"

Screenshots for posterity: http://imgur.com/a/DMAE2/
What is the license currently? It says Affero in the presentation, but github shows MIT license?
Not entirely market forces. City zoning often requires housing over there, shopping way the hell over that way, and your work miles away in a different direction. Which means that you have to drive to go anywhere. So everything is built to move cars around as quickly as possible, at the expense of making walking so unpleasant that nobody wants to go out there. There are a lot of intertwining forces here that have nothing to do with the market.
Not AFAIK, and SendHub makes sending txts to a group a painless process.
Maybe I just think about things backwards, but why do none of these packages support task dependencies (not subtasks). It seems that the logical precursor to "what is important" is "what is available". Instead we have daily scrums and bi-weekly planning sessions and people doing all sorts of query-fu just to figure this out. I'd like a system where I can:

a) Dump my tasks
b) Have it give me a good guess at the most important task, at which point I can:
- Do it
- Say it's not important
- Say it's blocked by another task (and which task that is)
- Punt it to someone else.
- Snooze it until date X.
c) Repeat.

I could always go in an do normal task/project management stuff but most of the time I just want to filter the right 8 hours of tasks out of the 800 hours of candidates.
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Out of sheer curiosity: do you never get food stuck between your teeth? I don't floss too often, but whenever there's something stuck between my teeth that I can't get out with my tongue, it drives me nuts and really distracts me. Do you never eat popcorn and chicken and pork?
I'm reminded of the Soviet film "The Irony of Fate" in which the protagonist finds himself in the wrong city by mistake, and fails to realize this due to the uniformity of Soviet architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate
Client side routing, infinite pager, auto-updating search results as filters/sorts are changed, good client side templating with on the fly updates, etc., are all made a lot easier by Angular.

If you're worried about page size then note that I'm not using jQuery or anything besides Angular and Angular is only like 76KB. If I removed Angular and put in jQuery and a few plugins then I'd be at roughly that same number, and I'd need more custom code to go with it. So why not use Angular?

Or, if you're just wondering why this is worthy of the HN frontpage, then I can't answer that. :)
>I've used Yesod to write a small app

Well, hopefully now you know better.
Microsoft is losing the new operating system war in a big, BIG way. Just because the boat is still afloat doesn't mean it's not rotting below the water line.
Huh? You ought not be depending on the default isolation settings. If your workload needs serializability, set it. Most don't. CAP teaches us that ACID is a spectrum in a distributed system.
You see, that breaks down whenever there is any sort of significant traffic and you get stuck in frustrating bumper to bumper traffic, such as in LA.
I disagree that users stopped praising 37signals. It wouldn't necessarily take data to convince me otherwise, but I find your arguments unconvincing.
I know the feeling - and I put it down to distrust of government or regulation.

London has fantastic park / green spaces. In the Victorian and Edwardian eras paternalistic legislation required access to parkland throughout London, and it is virulently defended even today.

In New Jersey/Newark, it feels that such legislation should be fought tooth and nail by every right thinking patriot. In New York, they agree except for the nice bits.

edit: not sure I hit the right note - the US approach to such govenrment "interference" can be beneficial, but its really just part of the DNA, not a easy to change choice. I cannot imagine it changing much.
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I was just looking at Line2 which looks like it has more features and better pricing. Anybody tried any of these services? Can they reliably replace a phone?

https://www.line2.com/

Edit: Line2 also has an Android app
Wordnik Creators Launch New Content Engagement Company
New company is Reverb. Developing content discovery products for developers, publishers and consumers. No changes in availability for Wordnik API.
Much of this is quite uninformed, which makes me question the value of Mr. Foster's other points.

> What other options are out there for accessing federal case law?

Mr. Foster seems confused. PACER is a system for accessing court dockets, not a repository of case law. You can think of court docket's as a court's "inbox." When the parties file a complaint, motion, or brief, or when the judge issues an interlocutory order or other memorandum, it goes in the docket. Court dockets are mostly concerned with the mechanics of a single case--they are not intended to be a source of law.

> Open government pioneer Carl Malamud says commercial ventures such as Lexis-Nexis, West Law, and Bloomberg Law compete for a $6.5 billion market built around extracting rents from this public commons:

Mr. Foster completely mischaracterizes what Lexis and West do. These services do not charge you for access to the case law, which are in the public domain. What they do is provide a value-added service on top of the publicly available case law. They have armies of legally-trained professionals who read cases as they come out and annotate them with "head notes" which give summaries of the case and index the case into Lexis's or West's legal ontology. E.g. if I'm thinking of using a case to support a proposition, I can log on to West Law and have it give me a report of all the cases that cite that one. The report not only gives me a simple "citation list" like you can get with Google scholar, but a summary of the contexts in which each case was cited, whether it was referenced in a positive or negative light, and how extensively it was discussed. They can do this because they have (expensive) human readers who go through the cases to generate this meta-data.[1]

This is not "extracting rents from the public commons." This is charging for the valuable service of organizing and summarizing publicly available information.

There are legitimate complaints about access to case law. While all federal courts that I'm aware of freely post their opinions on their websites (e.g. http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/recentop/week/recprec.htm), the same isn't true for all state courts. But as a practical matter that's a state-by-state issue--the federal government doesn't have much say in the internal administration of the state courts. Going after PACAR while completely ignoring that much more pressing problem smacks of not understanding the underlying issue (to be charitable), or going after the federal system because it's guaranteed to generate more outrage on the internet (to be less charitable).

[1] Note that there is a ton of money to be made "disrupting" this industry through automation. To date, nobody has succeeded in building anything close to being as sophisticated as Lexis and Westlaw. Google Scholar is a pale imitation (to the point of not even being the same kind of product) that's only good for doing a bit of quick background research to save time and fees before you log onto Lexis or Westlaw.