skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile in Japan NFC is everywhere and has been since 2005-2006. People pay for items at the convenience store with their cell phones.

You can even get a credit card-like NFC card to perform the same. I use one (I live in Japan) and it's the fastest way to get in and get out of a store.

I think NFC would take off more if the infrastructure for making payments were in place.

It is in Japan and everybody loves it.
> Of course there will always be trolls and negative
> comments on the Internet. Instead of just preparing
> ourselves to deal with them, we need to be proactive
> about creating a community where everyone feels welcome
> to share what they're working on

"Instead of"?

Attempts to reduce the number of undesirable comments or people in a community are commendable, but do not let yourself become confused about how well they work. Washing hands is no substitute for vaccination; if you want to grow a better community, then its members need to be trained both in how to avoid giving offense and how to avoid taking it.
Vigil is the part of this that most interests me, and saddens in me in that the current word last I knew was no one had shown much interest in picking the studio up.
Hah, yep, good catch. Damn you [manual] spelling correct ;)
Target specific languages with Prestashop Attachments
> Oh come on now. Potential employers are not going to
> be crawling through your github on the off chance they
> can find a hastily-written script to laugh at

No, they won't, but they do sometimes hire something new and worse than Checklist HR folks, Social Media for HR Researchers. At some point someone is going to hit an automated connection between "Heroes" and negative comments on other's work. It actually sounds like a "good" startup idea. Klout for hiring.
No:

http://nodejs.org/download/
I feel left out. My app KEYBOX also generates strong random passwords and stores them locally on your iPhone to boot.

http://www.jayfuerstenberg.com/keybox/
I see your point, but I slightly disagree. It could be worthy to kindly say that there is a 'standard' way to do it, since the author may not be aware of find or sed. And if they are, some readers may not.
You can't save them all! :|
"Most of being nice, in a software context, is about being considerate. Not unnecessarily trash talking other people's stuff. Not going out of your way to be a jerk. Try to be helpful. Treat others how you want to be treated" - http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-08-19-matz-is-nice-s...

What can I say?
Careful with that ignorant word. "Assault rifles" != machine guns.
I know enough about firearms and mechanical reliability that I don't put much faith in anything which modifies the critical firing path of a weapon. I don't even like S&W revolvers with an integrated trigger lock. However, there are lots of other areas for improvement.

1. Figure out a way to make firearms registration easy to compute owner from a given recovered weapon, but not to enumerate a list of all guns owned by a specific person based on his identity only. There are a variety of cryptographic ways to do this -- if we had a way to do write-only storage on guns (say, with a 2d barcode or something which couldn't be removed, and which included a cryptographic signature and timestamp), it would make tracing guns recovered in crime easier (and thus catch/prosecute straw man purchasers for gangs and such), but would prevent the "nazis seize all guns before implementing the ovens" irrational fear.

2. A way to do NCIC NICS checks without a huge amount of trust. A private party should be able to run one (with consent of a purchaser), using a smartphone and ID provided by the buyer. Something like a Square reader. Maybe something which uses both the buyer's phone and the seller's phone and an online server. It's unreasonable to require all buyers/sellers have smartphones (a lot of gun owners are old, and there's a constitutional argument to allow poor people to buy guns, too), but at a gun show, you could loan iPod Touch to various sellers for the day. This would be supplemental to normal at-dealer-premises FFL checks. You could possibly also just require all FFLs to purchase a reasonable terminal, too.

3. Safes suck. We can do so much on locking mechanisms to rapidly open safes. For non-self-defense weapons, having safes which do periodic "I haven't been broken into yet!" liveness reporting to the owner (and maybe law enforcement, insurance) remotely, and then which alarm on tamper events, would be great. I'd love these since my safes each contain >$50k.

4. Third-party custody. I'm more than willing to lower the bar for temporarily prohibiting someone from possessing firearms. Yet, turning them over to the police isn't really fair. There should be some kind of self-storage facility optimized for storing firearms where control can be temporarily ceded to a trustworthy third party, on a bailment basis. If you are suspected of mental illness/etc., they'd be safe, and you'd be prohibited from access for a period of time; access would be restored at some point. This would make it easier to lower the bar for removal of access to weapons. Someone like Mrs. Lanza may have considered placing her weapons in such a facility while trying to get rid of her son.
Good article. I like the idea of what Maven tries to achieve but I prefer monkeying with ant because I can get things done. If Maven or its successor ever gets to where things can't get into a mucked up state; I'm in.
John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing
> What he did was idiotic but still shouldn't have been criminal.

The idiot kids who sneak into a factory to see what there is to see are criminals. Should they be felons? No, but under the CFAA, simply breaching a digital boundary is a misdemeanor. It's only when it is in the furtherance of another criminal act that it is potentially punishable as a felony.[1]

In this case, that last bit is predicated on a NJ statute which requires: "defendant `knowingly or recklessly discloses or causes to be disclosed any data . . . or personal identifying information.’"

If the jury finds he didn't disclose or cause to be disclosed any personal information, the NJ statute won't have been violated, and the CFAA charge will reduce to a misdemeanor.

See: http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2012/11/unauthorized-access-i....

[1] I should point out that I'm not a fan of such "escalation" provisions.
It is possible to run a version of SED on Windows without Cygwin:

http://www.zeusedit.com/zforum/viewtopic.php?p=2683
Luxury brands don't drive the mainstream in any mature hardware market I can think of. Volume == power and we're already at the point where making phones more powerful adds essentially no user value. The components that cost $500 to ship today are good enough already and the price is only going to go down. There's no way Apple can preserve it's unprecedented profit margins and that's why the stock is down.

I didn't downvote you, by the way.
You're glossing over a subtle tautology, I think: "Deserving" is a weak form of property, socially but not legally compelling. When we say, "They deserve to have it because it's theirs," we are saying that we somewhat feel they should have it because we strongly feel they should have it; we are saying nothing.

The crucial question is, why do we feel they should have it? "It's theirs", "they earned it", "right to property"— these things are synonyms for the question. What are the real, underlying values that make us feel better when these "rights" are upheld, worse when they are ignored?

Now, personally I don't believe that the utilitarian explanation is anything more than a rationalization; the real-world history of the global economy is a writhing mass of motives, incentives, morals and power relationships which we have no hope of unpacking, and which we have no reason to think have arrived at any optimal result. However, I do think analyzing the former gets you quite a bit closer to something describably true than any amount of arguing over the latter.
> Many of us laowai in Beijing get depressed in the winter because of the poor air quality.

I'm confused about the implication here. Are westerners (laowai) more prone to getting depressed from poor air quality? Chinese (native/migrant) aren't affected?
> Certainly this 'boring old fart' would rather get home to his family at the end of a long day than spend even more time comparing haircuts with a bunch of yippy twenty-somethings.

I'm 25 and fully agree. While in my case it's not getting home to my family, it's having time to have a decent work-life balance. I spent years doing nothing but startup work, and I'll never go back to that, no matter how much equity is thrown at me. At the end of the day, I like being able to sit back, relax, and hack some stuff, write some music, and spend time with my friends; I don't need work to provide those things for me.
Probably the most convincing argument to you will be some variation of the notion that no, they don't deserve it per se, but it's an unavoidable side effect of some otherwise desirable freedoms that exist in our society, or that the opportunity to gain that much wealth is an incentive for people to create genuinely useful businesses (see Page, Brin, Bezos...).

Put another way, for at least some billionaires, you can trace their entire fortune back to voluntary decisions by ordinary people to exchange their money for something else to the reasonable mutual benefit of both parties. If I can somehow voluntarily convince 1 billion ordinary people to give me $10 each, and every single one of those people can be reasonably said to have benefitted from the transaction, who exactly are you to come in and say "hang on a minute, you have ten billion dollars, how can this be legit?" Sure, you can't say this of every billionaire, maybe you can't even say it of most billionaires, but it's hard to imagine a free world where this kind of thing is utterly impossible.

Also, if it makes you feel any better, a lot of these billion dollar fortunes are a little more illusory than you think--if you own 51% of a company that's worth 20 billion dollars on the stock market, on paper you might have 10 billion dollars but there's no way you're going to get 10 billion dollars worth of $100 bills in briefcases anytime soon.
Even stranger is the fact that harther isn't exactly a novice programmer: apparently, she's part of Mozilla [1], and wrote brain.js [2], a neural network library in JavaScript with almost 1,400 stars on GitHub.

[1] https://twitter.com/harthvader

[2] https://github.com/harthur/brain
Let's hope people woke up and decided to move their money to credit unions.

I know... it's a long shot.
Well, I think it also depends on what your company does, too. There's at least a few companies where the internal tools probably aren't nearly as cool as the external product.

For Google or Facebook, I imagine you're right in that the ops teams and the internal tools teams are the most exciting, but the products those companies sell aren't exactly super exciting to me, or at least the features they say they are currently working on don't seem very interesting. Perhaps, that's partially because they are both selling a product that is fairly mature. Ad words, search, gmail, and maps have been around or a long time. Perhaps Google drive or google apps still have a few things up their sleeves, but they are also fairly mature products. Similraly, the main facebook features (not ui) have been relatively stable (exceptions that i can think of: likes, timeline, graph).

OTOH, Apple has products at almost the other end of the spectrum (exceptions: the mac pro and ipod classic). On the hardware side, it seems like they are constantly iterating and updating macbook, imac, iphone, and ipad designs. And while I don't like what they've been doing by merging OSX and IOS over the last few iterations, I can hardly say that what they've been doing hasn't at least been innovative. I'd be very surprised if apple had any sort of internal tool that was as interesting to work on as some of the things I just mentioned.

For technology startups like nicera or meraki or arista, I bet most of the interesting work isn't related to internal tools as well, just because I doubt a startup has resources to build very interesting internal tools when they could just deal with what already exists and spend the resources they would have spent rolling their own version on improving the product.

Ultimately, I think the type of product the company sells and how mature their product is (the number of major features left to implement seems like it might be a good rough heuristic) matters quite a bit in determining in whether the internal tools are better than the product in terms of being interesting.
Steve Klabnik runs Hackety Hack (http://hackety.com/) which is supposed to encourage and teach new programmers, but this is the shit he says to other developers in the wild?

Nice.
Yeah, Ron Conway is one of our investors, and I'm planning to participate in the gun policy review technical stuff. (I hate the term "gun safety" since that refers to protection from accidents; which is a subset. We do have a problem with gun violence, primarily handguns. We have a much more minor problem with gun safety -- the number of accidental shootings is quite low. Resources should be devoted to reducing violence, and a lot of that is gun violence, and should be addressed by reducing availability of guns to those who are violent, and reducing the harm done when they do violence with guns. Reducing accidental shootings is great and all, but I pretty much trust industry/owner self-regulation on that front.)
harthur, your work is awesome.
Perhaps, but comments like "I cannot even make this stuff up" and "eyes bleeding!" are not constructive criticism, just pointless mockery.
What free market in housing? There are zoning laws, public roads, signage ordinances, building codes, loans and outright subsidies to manipulate businesses into locating one town or another. On the financial side, banks have been (and continue to be) one of the most heavily regulated industries in the nation, next to health care. Government-run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now originate a majority of the mortgages in America.

If all that were cleared out of the way, it would be possible for the right kind of person to get the capital necessary to build an entire town. Disney's ideas are probably quite workable, given a truly free market.
You can add pretty much anything to do with CORBA to your list.
Yes there are plugins for it, but they only work in the most trivial of cases.

The original article was helpful to clarifying for me why I have such a low opinion of maven - the project I was working on when Maven came out was a large complex codebase and we'd built lots of interesting things into our Ant build files. I could not work out how to ever do those sorts of things in Maven.
I want this anecdote about weev to be the first thing that people talk about when someone brings up any comparison to Weev.

http://bedizen.livejournal.com/258763.html

Comparing Weev to Aaron is like comparing the dali lama to hitler. Weev is actively cultivating this comparison. DO NOT FEED THE FUCKING TROLL.
I kind of expect more from Corey Haines, he's supposed to have a reasonable reputation according to people I know and trust. I'm supposed to be going to one of his 'Code Retreats' in Melbourne this year. I hope I don't get made fun of!

Good code seems to be whatever the majority of nodding heads agree upon, and rarely that is merit based. It seems to me that unfortunately most of the nodding heads are people who act like this.

I've been ridiculed for my code by people like this, even in situations whereby I've been trying to help solve their annoying problem (and in fact, did help solve their problem). What did I get back? Mostly condescension & ridicule, and no credit.

Anyway, if anyone wonders why valuable people run screaming from the software industry, it's people acting like this.
Every time a company misses expectations, I always wonder if the analysts were just simply wrong.
Why Prosecutors Can Bully Defendants into Giving Up their Right to Trial
50 cent s headphones
Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses
Was Beacon intentional? What about sponsored stories? How about frictionless sharing?

It is painfully obvious this company is desperate and undaunted it its efforts to "package peer pressure as a service" they can sell to bring more exposure to brands, with or without users' consent, knowledge or approval. It's not merely confusing UI to pull in some random post from a site you "liked" once and post that as part of an endorsement. It is part of an established pattern of ethical melt-downs and trust. Moreover, it's been established that Likes can be derived from simply sending a link in a PM or posting one to your timeline, even in a negative context.

Putting "full blame" on the user fits nicely with the CEO's view during college that we're all just "dumb fucks" for using the thing.

I hate to be so negative, but I find this outrageous and indefensible. Because of it's scale and the many talented people working there, I think Facebook holds promise in lots of areas, but it is profoundly creepy the way they are always trying to lull us all into gradual acceptance of using our information however they damn well please for a mythical valuation sustaining cash cow that has as of yet to materialize.

*credit to Jaron Lanier & his book You Are Not A Gadget book for some of my phrasing and ideas here. He articulated this when Beacon was their only offense, and his predictions about their direction have proven completely and totally accurate.
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Ive is a brilliant hardware designer but software UX is a whole different ballgame and his ability there is currently a big question mark. Cue and Federighi were both on board when a number of architecturally questionable APIs were added (Storyboards, AutoLayout), so they're a bit of an unknown too. That's why there's so much riding on iOS 7.

Contrast this to Google which has a strong, stable team in place that's been doing superb work for the last few Android releases and you can see why people are a little gun shy about APPL right now.
That's fantastic, I discovered earlier that I had some plugs like those and now I'm trying to make them work. I've managed to make them turn off easily enough, but I can't for the life of me get them to turn on.

Would anyone happen to know how I can tune in to my remote's frequency (144.63 MHz, it says, even though the remote operates at 433.49 or something) and listen to the tones it generates?
the worst bit is that a lot of the ridicule seems motivated by the fact that it's fashionable to hate on node.js. this tweet as much as admitted it: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/293831920872194050
The fact that these are "big deal" developers on some pretty important projects is the problem.

Also the fact that Mr. Haines is always promoting improving ones craft by writing code makes his comments even worse.

I feel that this comment on being a dick by jbrennan to be pretty decent:

"Next time you feel like mocking another developer for his or her lack of skills in a certain area, stop yourself. Talk to the person and explain to them why you think something they are doing is incorrect or how it could be done better. This way, you don’t come off as a jerk, and the other developer learns something new and improves. And I’d be surprised if you didn’t learn something from the experience, too."
brain looks pretty cool and I also noticed she not only works at mozilla but also regularly speaks at conferences. Weird how judging a person's competence based on looking at a single for fun open source project may not be a great idea.
This is pretty awful. Steve and Corey are both well-known in the Ruby community.

Steve is an instructor at gSchool in Denver, for example, which trains software engineers. It's bad enough that they're both respected in the community, but being a student is a vulnerable position. If Steve were my teacher and he reacted that way to a project I released, I'd be absolutely humiliated.

http://www.gschool.it/#instructors

I don't think encouraging participation in open source and being a good teacher are that different. A more productive response would've been to submit some issues or pull requests to Heather's project.
I know this is not the kind of stuff we are supposed to post on HN, but: you are a good man. Kudos.
The trouble with social news
> Regarding the actual program, I don't write shell
> utilities in JavaScript so I can't say whether it's a
> good or a bad implementation. It's just not my space.

According to some other posts here, the quoted mockers are Ruby programmers. I believe the Twitter posts are about the concept of writing sed in Node-Javascript, not necessarily the implementation. As I understand it there's something of a rivalry between the Ruby and Node communities, and the Ruby community is known to be tolerant of boorish behavior.
I guess you're right. Civility also sounds less cheesy than positivity! I find that teams can be balanced with people positive and negative, and it's how you handle negativity that's important, which is what you point out.
https://fundrise.com/ is a washington d.c. based startup that has been crushing it recently
> #5 ...

The article did link this http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Br...
> If you put a quick explanation in the README, like "I wanted a 'sed' that used Javascript regex syntax", then I doubt anyone would make any such fuss.

The second sentence of the readme is "It's similar to sed but there are a few differences"
For years I have been terrified about putting my code on Github for fear of rage and retribution from the programmer community. This is a real problem for us amateur coders who enjoy hacking but don't necessarily have the chops to go head-to-head with the serious guys.
That's pretty clever! I like that one...
Definitely AMZN. They have two really strong, complementary markets, retail & cloud computing. This gives them longevity and the ability to weather some pretty tough storms. They have shown themselves to be agile and flexible and responsive. Look how much innovation and development happen at AWS; they release something new and improved almost every week. Plus, Jeff B. is still holding the reigns.

I think AAPL have done amazing things the past 10 years, including outstanding hardware & software, perfect marketing, and a great user experience overall. I also think that they have peaked and there is nowhere to go but down. Granted, it will take a long time to hit the bottom, but they will join the ranks of IBM & Microsoft; irrelevant and ignored.
I just did:

setInterval( function() {$('img').trigger('mouseenter'); }, 100 );

(probably burning up my cpu)
Not all machine guns are assault rifles, but assault rifles are by definition select-fire machine guns (burst or full auto), firing an intermediate cartridge, and of rifle-like design.

True machine guns like the M2, M240, M249 aren't assault rifles, nor are machine pistols.

We do need a new term for "military-style semi-automatic intermediate caliber rifles", but assault rifle is already used.

I'd suggest "black rifle" or "military-style rifle".
One of the approaches has been used by tens of thousands of users over decades and the other by a handful over a few months.

I know which approach I would choose.
Parkinson's Law may be the greatest business book of all time. If you like business books and you haven't read it you're missing out on one of the true classics of the genre.

http://www.amazon.com/Parkinsons-Law-C-Northcote-Parkinson/d...
Then what distinguishes a fuel cell from a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery ?
If you wanted to wave your hands and suppose that, as the hereditary dictators of Cuba, the Castro family owns the whole country, then they are the biggest billionaires of all. The GDP of Cuba is about 60 billion, but owning an asset that produces 60 billion a year is worth some multiple of 60 billion. And you thought Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, Google, or IKEA were big fortunes!