skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless, it's interesting how China is accelerating past the US on the world stage. Clean energy, high speed rail, etc. So, much is accomplished in so little time. One example, that always sticks in my mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro

I wonder how that couple miles of the Second Avenue Subway is coming along?
Good specs do. You might write a spec that describes the functional requirements of a claims processing system, because your current system is 20 years old and can't cheaply be modified to comply with legislative changes.

An obvious "business concern" is that any replacement system will accommodate future legislative changes. This has nothing to do with the functional (user) requirements (form design and submission process), and yet might dramatically change how you design and write such a system.

DRM, or rather the encryption scheme that makes it DRM, is much the same in that a design that supports it could similarly support related but more benign capabilities, such as compression or translation.

That too will influence an implementation, and makes such a non-functional requirement as important as a functional requirement.
That's why I said "entire browser". Page rendering, font rendering, <canvas>, et al, are the interesting bits.

The use of XUL and the resulting UI clunkiness (speed, responsiveness, nativeness) are pretty well known.

A world in which only the vendor gets to write low-level code sounds is a terrible division of labor.
>Cobol on Cogs in DOS

/whoosh, right over someone's head.
you need to replay the solutions slower...
Curious why my last post was removed (by mods?)
I submitted a blog post http://throwww.com/a/6n1 that made the front page about an hour ago, and it suddenly disappeared. Not sure if I broke some kind of rule. I couldn't find any "guidelines" to reference. Any help? I frankly don't care that much that post, but I am curious for future reference.
Better? If its using object properties then beware there is a very significant performance hit looping over object properties vs looping through a native array.
Array looping is 5x faster in V8 trunk with a simple 10 element benchmark.
Maybe TodoMVC would help?

https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/architec...
Why don't you give an example in your blog post on how you would use "nc" to transfer a file between two machines without knowing their addresses, then?

(And.. are you sure TCP works on broadcast? Because on my OS X machine it doesn't seem to take:

% sudo nc -v 255.255.255.255 9696
nc: connect to 255.255.255.255 port 9696 (tcp) failed: Permission denied

)
Bitcasa does it as well.
It wasn't removed. It's located here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5232643

And it has 26 comments at the moment.
Since the author mentions that it's not ready for submission and use yet, I won't complain that I didn't know what to do with this demo at first.

After reading these comments, it became obvious how great the thing is and going back with that in mind made the app more enjoyable
> We never had access to the use of SIMD intrinsics in browsers in the first place, anyway. For that, use native.

Yes, exactly. I want it all: native performance, security, open platform.

Google is making attempts to tackle this, Mozilla keeps trying to shove app authors back into the JavaScript box.
So good I filled it out. :)
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Every single function in that Haskell file returns a monad except for the version which just returns a constant string.
We should stop talking about this immediately and focus on the real issues like arresting Julian Assange for aiding the enemy, several of the things he leaked could potentially be used by the enemy in some way, somehow.
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It gave me the same message on my netbook (1024x600) at 100% zoom. I had to zoom out a few levels to make it happy, but then I couldn’t read the text. :(
I typed help first.
Maybe you could convince kids (read: 20-somethings) that your invention is the perfect gift to buy for their parents.
From what I can tell, it went from above the fold on the first page to nowhere to be found on the first five pages (haven't checked beyond that) almost instantaneously. How does that happen?
I'm amazed at how many people romanticize ghettoes, dirt, and bums. Breaking and entering, rape, murder, homelessness, and human feces on the street are pretty common in areas of San Francisco. They aren't common in Singapore. I consider that a win for Singapore. I would love for a young Lee Kwan Yew to run San Francisco for a year or ten.

People change their minds when it happens to them. It feels fine to romanticize some abstract ghetto. But when your female friend posts on Facebook how someone tried to rape her in the Mission district when she went out for a night, or when your car is the one with its window smashed in so someone can steal the earbuds you left laying out, then you yearn for a more civilized society.

You say that Singapore is an "upscale version of North Korea", but in what ways? First of all, there is no upscale version of North Korea by definition since communism can never produce a high standard of living. Singapore's economy went from the third world to the first world in a single generation while North Korea has languished in squalor.

In Singapore, we see a country that is very well run. It has a low burden of regulation and taxation with a great social safety net. And it is very safe and open to the world. In what ways is it similar to North Korea again?
By the way, just noticed a similar "hanging indent" method on the author picture on the 37Signals blog: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3442-the-design-roulette
> I know I would dread having to use any current kind of dating site if (God forbid) my wife predeceased me.

Huh, I know some wonderful success stories for this use case.
Great project! I wish we could include functionality like this with Codea (publish to Gist would be allowed, but not the other direction).

Thanks for sharing it. Did you post it on the forums? I could see people getting a lot of use out of Gister there.
Do you really? I like the fact that git doesn't try anything clever when it hits a conflict and asks you to fix by hand. Have you found an automatic conflict resolution tool that you liked before?
This book changed my life. Read it! It is the most important thing you can do today.
Please re-read 'Crossing the Chasm'. If you want to create a truly innovative business, its better to target early adopters/innovators than people traditionally known to be conservative with new products.

If you want to rehash existing ideas (e.g. an affiliate network thats easy to use) then this idea/model works fine.
I think there's a positive way of looking at the same situation.

There's no doubt that cheaper mass produced goods will replace more expensive manually produced ones. But as techies, we often overestimate the speed at which this change actually happens in the world.

I bet there are thousands of people who really value high quality handmade wooden goods. The internet and mobile tech now makes it easier than ever before to find these people. So, there's probably enough money to be made in selling to these people. There'll also be less competition.
Someone probably flagged it, then.
This doesn't exactly seem useful. I was expecting a guide to repairing/identifying issues. The one problem I had on my old iPhone 4 - the Home button not responding (a problem a lot of people seem to have), the end of the flow was "Determine if the issue is caused by accidental damage.", and mostly consisted of instructions on wiping the phone.

I'm assuming this is a store "Genius" guide, and not for actual technicians.
I checked the dates. I tripped over the docs not matching the download version on January 7th. I found non-matching versions yesterday. It's possible that both times I decided to look at it I got unlucky, I guess.

I'm glad the APIs are frozen, I was worried there'd still be creep through the RCs.
AFAIK restauration works are well paid and in demand. A friend of mine does this... And I once saw a documentary about some folks restaurating homes from the early 20th century or even 19th. They basically turned sh*t into luxury homes.
It's not at all clear from the story why or if having multiple recipes "mate" works better than just using one recipe and fiddling with it.
> For each Tweet or Facebook share about this threat, using the buttons below, you will increase the amount donated to the EFF foundation by $0.10.

My god they are working this thing to their benefit. That is just really really good marketing.
MegaMail would be a great name for an email service. It looks like they'd have to acquire the trademark first though[0].

0: https://www.google.com/search?q=megamail
This related hearing [1] led by freshman senator Elizabeth Warren is eye-opening. She can't get a straight answer on the last time a major bank was taken to trial over its offenses.

[1] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/15/1187417/-Elizabeth-...
The "mv * .." command is suspect, I think it would miss moving for example ".htaccess" which is kind of important in wordpress.
Meritocracy is like traditional view of objectivity that knowledge exists without the knower. Truth of the matter is, knowledge exists without the knower but it is not independent of the knower.

This is why 14 year olds writing app is a reason for celebration and why encouraging more females is a good thing. By doing so, we allow our work to expand to incorporate the values that those group represent, which is important because our work is user-centric, it doesn't stand by itself. If the work doesn't stand by itself, how can its creators?
This is the problem with the ad-supported walled-garden closed-system model.

My grandma can't see my stuff on G+, due to its awful usability, but if they opened up a nice API, someone could build a client app suited to audiences like the 80+ set.
It would have been nice to provide a link.
I really really really really want this to work out so I can justify trying to port it to ruby...
Obama "Cyber Threats" Include Web Defacement, IP Theft
Not sure if you meant clientsfromhell.net?
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I just pushed the site live, so it starts off with a help dialog and links to the demo. Future visitors should hopefully get a better experience!

My apologies again -- I only noticed it was on HN when I got an email about it...
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And yet, the original author doesn't have any data to say how the various headlines are doing. A nice writeup would be if someone at HN posted the CTRs and applications (i.e. conversions) for the various job descriptions w/ headlines. Not sure if there would be enough data to make it statistically meaningful, however.

In my limited analysis of a situation (which is just a summary of the above comments?), you may get a higher CTR rate on the more general headlines but a lower conversion rate. You may get a lower CTR on the more detailed headlines, but a higher application conversion rate.

Deciding which headline is better most likely really depends on the underlying content, and an author using their opinion on what constitues a good job description may not always be correct.
(you should join matchist) (full disclosure, i am a cofounder and we are looking for more wordpress devs) :)
It's easy enough to copy a stream with DRM. Point your camcorder at your laptop stream, press record on your camcorder, press play on your laptop.
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Please improve the error message to at least tell me what window sizes and zoom levels are supported.
Ali Oli Potatoes, (patatas Alioli).
but then 'duplication" only happens if the source file is shared post-encryption, which is far less common than sharing pre-encryption, sync post-encryption sharing requires sharing the key as well.
I had to code it all from scratch unfortunately :-/ I looked at d3.js, arbor.js, and a ton of other libraries but none of them supported the tree layout I had in mind. Apparently visual tree layouts are PhD dissertation topics so there's a wide variety out there

I think a lot of educational value is in the animations as well, so it made sense to roll my own. The majority of the code involves all the visual and GUI elements -- re-implementing git (ironically) wasn't too bad!
I find it hard to believe that a highly capitalistic culture would not have a large variety of choice in food. I think you are confusing the results of economic freedom with its opposite.
1. Why is the C corp better for companies with a lot of proprietary IP?

2. Which way would you classify the typical software/web startup?

One of a typical web or software startup's most important assets is its product (which argues that they "have a lot of proprietary IP").

But they are also "asset-light cash business" in the sense that they don't have to have a ton of buildings or physical inventory like e.g. a manufacturing startup would, their physical footprint might consist entirely of one small leased office with a few computers.
matchist has clients prepay so no chasing for money
>You're making incredible stuff that will likely last forever, but fundamentally performs the same tasks as something that costs 1/10 as much.

Yes, fundamentally for the first one year. Maybe I am the only one who gets weird feelings when furniture starts to degenerate each time it is in use. Ikea is cheap and good looking, at least for a short amount of time.

If you don't like that, you can buy luxury furniture - or buy the high-priced Ikea stuff that somehow has reasonable prices.

I think hand made stuff is in high demand, as long as it is affordable. AFAIK it's not... for me. :)
Thanks :) That makes my week
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I like the big metal jig with a pressure roller for pressing the battery into place (page 141). It's also interesting that they suggest using the calculator app for testing the screen, since it's wall-to-wall buttons.
because it wasn't making enough money to merit a buyout, and the current operators got a better offer to work on Palantir projects.

Same reason my babysitting service was doing well before I got a job working on a web site, and then I shut down my babysitting service.
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> Does this mean, that the 'decryption module' is necessary closed source?

Is there any precedent of anything being closed source behind standards implementations from the W3C? That seems unlikely, this seems terrible.
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I think they also addressed the performance issue in addition to saying it is not documented: "...evolving away from the global backlog concept in order to provide better support for different concurrency models"
Looks like raphael

https://github.com/pcottle/learnGitBranching/tree/master/lib
Not to my knowledge; that's why I suggested creating one. That might be a good idea, but I honestly don't know how feasible it is. I did once know a guy who made conference tables and he seemed to be doing fairly well.
You should read about convergent encryption. You can deduplicate plaintext files without knowing what they are.
>I don't see YouTube piracy as a big world problem.

That's because YouTube content can be trivially shared with other people.

Stop the sharing and pretty sure you would start to see piracy.
[Rumor] Nokia to drop Samsung-made components?
This tutorial is great, but it propagates a misconception about git.

"A commit in git is a recorded set of changes that you have made"

Git commits are _not_ deltas. They are entire snapshots of the repository and a single (optional) pointer to an ancestor commit[1]. Git may handle _compression_ in terms of deltas (see 'Packfiles' in [2]), but logically, a commit should be thought of as equivalent to the state of all files that are being tracked. That difference is that if you were only looking at diffs, commits would be the _edges_ of a graph, rather than a node plus a single edge. This is why rebases change the commit SHAs but not merges (and why merges create a new commit). This is why if you are on a merge branch, 'git checkout HEAD~3' may not bring you to where 'git log' would naively suggest.

Version control systems that actually do think of 'commits' as pure 'deltas' are ones such as darcs.

A really good, low level explanation, of git is here

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

(BUG REPORT) The commit created with 'git merge b2' from branch b1 should have HEAD~1 point to the previous head of b1, not b2.

(that said, this is a really cool thing. :) I look forward to the author adding support for conflict resolution. )

[1] http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Internals-Git-Objects#Commit-...

[2] http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Internals-Packfiles
"One of the hottest sellers is a model that is powered by batteries so it will keep working during power failures caused by natural disasters."

I find it interesting that the Japanese feel there is a need to fax during a natural disaster. However, after reading the article and seeing how useful the they still find the fax machine, maybe it is important to be able to fax during a natural disaster.
type 'level' to select level
'Atomic bomb' for any kind of nuclear weapon is historically inaccurate but it's a (relatively harmless) generalization - after all, in a more technical context one can still avail oneself of 'fission' and 'thermonuclear' and 'implosion device' and 'Teller-Ulam design' and so forth, to the desired level of detail.

I understand your point about dictionaries but they do also describe what passes for acceptable usage. In other words, a dictionary can also be viewed as a record of a definition and usage battles lost. 'Atomic bomb' seems to belong on the same pile as 'literally' and 'begs the question'.

I'm completely with you on holding the line at 'less' and 'fewer', though, futile as that likely is, over the long term!
A web rendering monoculture may be a bad thing, but what would you do in Opera Software's position? Opera has less than 4% market share so companies very rarely go through the trouble of supporting its quirks, resulting in a subpar web browsing experience that drives people to other web browsers. It's a vicious cycle, and switching to WebKit is Opera's best bet to break out of it and gain market share and influence.
I would like to, but sadly I'm from the UK. Any plans to opening up to us over here?
Not really. REAL furniture is still being purchased for reasonable prices. Even pieces which take 6 months to make are financially viable.

You just have to know where to sell it and how to get work commissioned.

You need to understand that volume is not important but demand is.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it the exact opposite of a meritocracy? If someone makes something awesome, it doesn't really matter if they're 14 year olds, women, men or aliens.

I know at least I'd high five someone who made something cool, regardless of gender/age/other factors.
This is exactly the sort of the thing the grandparent talks about. Your post has rhetoric but no substance. If you want to be persuasive, show your evidence and make an argument. A bunch of unsupported assertions just reads like a temper tantrum.
Still works, though development has moved on from the original guy.

Relevant bit from the new projet's website:

"DRM

get_iplayer does not circumvent any digital rights management security (see the BBC’s website on how to do that with the Windows-only DRM content they provide). get_iplayer does not circumvent any effective technological measures. The BBC does not implement any such measures. They use RTMP which is a streaming protocol now publicly published by Adobe. Sometimes they use RTMP ‘SWF verification’ which has proven to be ineffective in its current BBC implementation (flvstreamer cannot handle such verification requests so the stream is dropped and is then automatically resumed). The iPhone streams are also unprotected and use plain progressive download HTTP protocol. The WMA and realaudio streams and likewise unprotected. The BBC may at some point choose to effectively protect their streams with DRM or some ‘effective technological measure’ in which case get_iplayer will no longer be a useful tool for those streams. The BBC do implement DRM on their Adobe Air downloadable files and therefore get_iplayer is not useful with those. The BBC iPlayer TV only works in the UK so that they can limit the reach of their output to UK TV Licence fee payers who fund iPlayer (although legally you do not require a licence to watch non-live iPlayer output)."

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html

So all the many comment in this thread about what the BBC could not do without DRM seem to be contradicted by the facts. All the BBC need is something that claims to be DRM but really isn't.
>There's no doubt that cheaper mass produced goods will replace more expensive manually produced ones. But as techies, we often overestimate the speed at which this change actually happens in the world.

If your furniture is not older than 20 years, I doubt that you have manually produced furniture. Ikea was the pioneer and the rest somehow followed.

Probably almost nothing that you own is hand-made.
They really are correct. I've had this confirmed by the TV Licensing folks directly.
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Literally reinventing the wheel
I can't believe Apple still hasnt responded to this issue on the iPhone4S: https://discussions.apple.com/message/19619592#19619592

It's approaching 470,000 views and not one real response from them.
When you say health, all I can think of is a fitbit for older folks. I wonder if a small device like that could collect enough different kinds of data to be useful to doctors.
>"Had the U.S. authorities decided to press criminal charges," said Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer at a press conference to announce the settlement, "HSBC would almost certainly have lost its banking license in the U.S., the future of the institution would have been under threat and the entire banking system would have been destabilized."

Why governments can not confiscate or nationalise HSBC and continue legal operations?
My mom was one of those part-time people for 22 years (younger brother), and I'm very proud of her. She got out of college with some basic understanding of computers, but didn't really get much opportunity to become a technie at work. Now, at 53, she is teaching herself Python so that she has a better understanding of the kinds of issues tech people she is interfacing with from the management side encounter so that she can better understand what they're saying and also better prevent poor decisions from higher up from getting to them (like "hey, let's just add <foo> to the site, that should be easy right?"). I don't know how successful she'll be, but she's smart, focused, and organized enough that while it may take a while I'm sure it will make some impact.

Point is, 50s and 60s is not too young to learn new skills, including tech skills. Arguably you have better perspective on which tech skills actually matter because of better life skills.
On Mac OS X on Chrome it does not work, on Firefox it works but blinks...
I was tempted to add to the sarcasm thread but I'll save that for reddit.

A key problem here is getting and maintaining attention by a significant majority of the population. Depressing information like this, coupled with the sense of powerlessness turns people off and relegates stories like this to the politically aware fringe of society.

The Daily Show and Colbert Report seem to have the right approach, but they are not enough.

I have an idea for a start-up that could do interesting things with this notion, but between time contraints and not having a partner in crime I fear it will never happen.
Just create a custom binding (or whatever it is called, using knockout terminology here) which fades it via a jQuery fadeOut?