skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as there isn't such a thing as PrinterSockets for the browser, Java Applets are the only way we can provide printing services for our clients, because a browser can only send documents for printing and not byte streams, which is what we need in order to use termic printers for adhesive labels.
They can officially recognize him as subject of political persecution and therefore would be unable to extradite him to the US under the principle of non-refoulement.

http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html#SWEDENVE...
Starting a business is easy
Elon Musk to NYT: "Let's bury the hatchet in the fight I started"
We have been hard at work on building out our newest feature, giving users the ability to embed our graphs anywhere.

Many of your have your own dashboards, your own way to view your data and maybe you are SUPER proud of the performance you have achieved and just want to share it with the world.

Give it a shot. See your stats. Its free.
It's not just a matter of open/closed source. Bundling in yet another C binary is only going to widen the surface area for security vulnerabilities for millions of people, and there's really not a great reason to do so anymore. PDF.js proves that it's possible to write high-performance javascript to do this stuff, without introducing any security risks and it's completely cross-platform. Computers are only going to get faster, and js compilers are only going to get better too.
Purdue, Duke, Vanderbilt and so on I would consider B-tier.

I went to a B-tier school. Interestingly, I recently learned that one of my smartest friends only applied to one school (Stanford) and got rejected, and afterward applied to the school I went to because it was only 10 miles away from where he lived.

While we're on the subject, one other thing --

There's a lot of Russians, Indians etc. who recently came here and have poor English, and so a lot of people just look past them. But a lot of them are the most persevering and focused folks you'll ever meet, and in my experiences they learn English quickly enough anyway (considering they got to America before they were 15 years old or so).
I wouldn't say this in most places, but always, always email us about your data sizes and needs. There's usually a way to make the pricing work if you are both:

- technically competent
- have smaller space needs
GDP per capita doesn't track unemployment either. France isn't 'significantly' lower than the US either it is about where Germany is and Britain is far behind them both.
"My name would be Kenneth Luke Erickson. I'd be male. I'd like blue. I would be a Gemini. I would be Christian. They'd chop off some of my penis so I'd never forget that last one."

There's a common misconception that circumcision, for Christians, is a religious ritual or a religious requirement.

In fact, it's just the opposite. Many Christian denominations (e.g. Catholicism) specifically DISALLOW circumcision, if it's done for religious reasons.
I think for most people, when they say "available," they mean "without copyright infringement."
Reading through.. And no mention of client-side encryption.
I'm not sure I see the point - We have lots of competition in this space.
Microsoft trolling with the "Open Specifications Promise"
But do you have to be rude not to deal with the French? What is the upside?
Updated releases issued
It is very likely that if their service uses a data connection, their MVNO requires a fixed-year subscription fee upfront - $2376/$99per month = 24 months. Yes, it's steep, but that's probably why. (Note: I don't work for GoPago)
Honestly, it's hard to look at this website and have some information stick in my mind.

It's gorgeous, but I think the design is overpowering the information flow (or lack there of).

That drop section for files is absolutely useless. Why would I drop my file in there as my VERY first step? I haven't even begun to learn about the features before I'm asked to drop my files.

Too much design, it looks perfect, but unfortunately, that's a bad thing this early in the launch.

Only recently did Dropbox start to ramp up design. You can't compete with simplicity. In design, in language, in the story etc..

Sorry to go on like this.. maybe I don't have a storage problem now that i'm a dropbox pro user.
So you imagine that the more text there is in a law, the less likely there is to be a loophole? Do you also think that longer programs have fewer bugs?
I heard the reverse of this question a week ago at a lunch. Starting to think that in a lot of cases, this might be a symptom of other issues (communication etc), because it sounds like each side is reaching outside of their "killer app skills", which may not be the best use of each person's time. Not always, but mostly, the goalie should goal-tend and the striker should strike.
There's not a lot of content in this article frankly. I also suspect the author has either never been exposed to an 'enterprise' J2EE or Spring app, or has simply forgotten what a labyrinthine nightmare those could become. Rails is more complex today, but it is still significantly easier than traditional Java frameworks.
We're working on that https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/2719
The "I and Titan have a 40-year history" sentence is pretty poorly written. I had to to stop, rewind, and reparse to understand it after hitting the comma after "companies".
That was 'libertarian' with a small 'l'.

I'm not dogmatic: if anarchy can work, I'm all for it.
That's going to take at least 20 to 30 years at the most optimistic, I don't think we should wait till then to optimize things.
You can share files between different users on the same LAN who have the application installed.

You can right click on a file from Explorer/Finder and get a share link.

The about page update is coming soon, in the meantime go to humans.txt :p
I guess the significant difference is that with git, all copies of a repository are full working repositories in and of themselves. So there is no difference between the repository on your git server and the copy you cloned onto your workstation (that's why it's 'clone' and not 'checkout').

This makes some things easier. If the 'server' dies, you can substitute any other copy of the repository for the original. So if github disappears I can still continue to hack away on my code like usual (commit, branch, merge, etc), and if I decide to publish on gitorious or something later, then I just push my local repository up and everything is there (full history, etc). This sort of obviates the need for 'backups', since your copy is already a backup, but making extra backups of any repository is as trivial as copying it (rsync) or cloning it to somewhere else (cd /backup; git clone /myrepo) - so I don't need to run a server or anything to make backups.

As a thought experiment to illustrate the practical difference, consider why pull requests are so trivial to implement on github, and how would they work on the hypothetical svnhub?
You can't do the design until you know exactly how large each needed component will be and what hardware UI will work for a wearable computer that hasn't been people-tested for long yet.

They're not mass-producing them yet - the visuals can be defined much later than the actual tech.
For small, single apps sure.

But if you have large apps with multiple Ruby versions then dealing with rvmrc, bundler and gem incompatibilities is a nightmare.

Java's forward compatibility is a lot more robust.
I agree with your first paragraph. We're really not very different from one another, but a craving for identity causes us to seek or invent distinguishing features, which have a way of turning into traps. The pattern seems to be that one spends adolescence and early adulthood acquiring this "wardrobe", then later the task becomes to shed it. That is not easy, because by when you get to shedding-time you've lost the ability to distinguish between your wardrobe and yourself.

It's counterintuitive and devilish, but the most enticing material for identity-building seems to be one's suffering. It took me many years to learn about that, and boy was that process slow.
Several local restaurants, farmers market vendors, and food trucks use the Square register, but most others use a local competitor PayDragon or another competitor (probably GoPago).

The vendors using Square tend to be low-volume, and the use is limited to paying and tipping. Paper receipts are not included with the order, in violation of California law (email is not enough! if you don't get a paper receipt you can technically demand a free meal [EDIT: not actually California law, it's part of the payment processor contract with the vendor]). The vendors don't use Square for any sort of order management because it can't handle that. Square is a good fit because these vendors don't need the advanced features and the simplicity of the interface is a plus.

The food trucks using PayDragon or other competitors are much higher volume. You also get printed receipts with your order. At least some of these Square competitors include order management features. Most of them (my primary experience is with PayDragon vendors) are not much more complicated than Square. A lot of these vendors started off on Square and graduated to various competitors when Square stopped being able to handle their needs.
hope that means I have job options for another decade
The pushback against Ruby/Rails has been building for a long time. There's always been jokes about Ruby being slow:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/

But there was a stretch from around 2005 to maybe 2008 where Rails seemed to defy criticism. It grew and grew, despite the criticism. I tried it for a project in 2006 and I became a fan. The easy use of 3rd party code, via gems, was much easier than anything I had known in Java or PHP.

I do not know a way to say when some of the criticism began to stick, but clearly things have changed. I have my own personal experience: once a fan of Ruby and now a fan of Clojure. And others have moved on -- there was recently the conversation about multi-threaded Ruby apps, and it seemed to me all the smart people agreed that jRuby is the future of Ruby: http://tonyarcieri.com/2012-the-year-rubyists-learned-to-sto...

If I had to pick one moment when some of the criticism against Rails began to take hold, even among those who had once favored Rails, it was Zed Shaw's insane rant:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto

Even though the tone is insane, he made some points that stuck in people's heads, including mine. This was important to note:

"I believe, if I could point at one thing it’s the following statement on 2007-01-20 to me by David H. creator of Rails:

(15:11:12) DHH: before fastthread we had ~400 restarts/day

(15:11:22) DHH: now we have perhaps 10

(15:11:29) Zed S.: oh nice

(15:11:33) Zed S.: and that's still fastcgi right?

Notice how it took me a few seconds to reply. This one single statement basically means that we all got duped. The main Rails application that DHH created required restarting ~400 times/day. That’s a production application that can’t stay up for more than 4 minutes on average."

And even now, in 2013, when I have to set up a new server with Rails, even with Nginx and Unicorn and all the other systems to help me, I find Rails annoying to set up, especially compared to the simplicity of PHP running on Apache or a Clojure app bundled up with something like "lein uberjar".
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> Others, like a multiplayer synchronization bug, would pop up and require dedicated attention from several members of the programming team — sometimes weeks of effort for a single problem. Other game developers have reported similar experiences with their sync bugs: Ages of Empires and Supreme Commander.

This seems like a pain point that's an opportunity in disguise. A technology that made it much easier to get multiplayer sync correct would be an enormous advantage.

> While programmers can become obsessed with finding the most pure, abstract, clean, even sublime solution to a problem, there are times in a project when a few sacrifices have to be made. If they’re done well no one notices the evil compromises that had to be made, as is true for the hacks written up by Brandon Sheffield in his article Dirty Coding Tricks.

Human beans [sic] are probably full of Dirty Coding Tricks -- as organisms, I mean. It's just that we work well enough.
Traffic from the desktop clients to the server is all done over HTTPS
Changed so much that version 7 does not support 32-bit applications anymore.

I was impressed, for real.
Ask HN: Will Twitter Resumes Work?
A social media event today is promoting the idea of twitter resumes with the hashtag #smw140resume. So far, it looks like dozens of applicants have shared their skills (and in some cases personality). But do you think hiring managers will bite?
My daughter turned 1 a few weeks ago, there are a very short list of startups that I think might still exist looking a bit like they do today when she is an adult...

I cannot imagine making a 17 year bet on a startup. I like that you're all parents (+ an uncle, close enough) and actually adults rather than a crop of 20 year olds about to be acquihired, but what happens if you just stop for any reason?
Having had 2 PS3s flat out die on me right after the warranty expired - this after experiencing having a PS2 die on me a few years after I bought it as well - I will be disgusted beyond belief if there are any DRM schemes that will lock a game into only being playable on one machine as has been rumored.

Anything that leans in this direction will get me out of console gaming altogether.
Hah, well I'll leave you guys to it ;-)
Are SBIR-funded Companies the Secret Behind Google Glass?
Ahem,

>Wow, what a total jerk. [...]
>When you don't have to insult someone it is probably better not to. //

Also is there any basis for this:

>I'd better move my money out before his loud mouth causes him to lose business. //

He sounds like a no nonsense kinda guy that is getting annoyed that people keep asking him to intervene and save tire plants without letting him address the issues that would allow the plants to be saved?
One thing that this underscores is one of the subtleties of doing business in France. If this had been a German or a Dutch minister the reply would have been in English, in France the reply is of course in French.
I don't appreciate some self-loathing bitch drafting on my thoughts for misanthropy points.

You know what sucks worse than trying to find competent professional medical attention in America? Blowing your head off with a gun and leaving your decomposing meat for someone to find and clean up. Those are the stakes here.

This author wrote a novella about watching his life reduce to nothing, then wrapped it in a wordpress, threw a vanity domain up, and submitted it to a hivemind. If it was about the quaint, quirky charms of a minimalist lifestyle then you special electronic snowflakes could give each other all the handjobs you want and nobody would mind.

But as this piece documents severe emotional trauma from a childhood marked by abandonment, drug abuse, emotional abuse, (and probably sexual/physical violence) it seems to -me- that he needs help, is looking for social oxygen, and is trying to figure his situation out.

It's not a pretty picture, and the more he rambles about how his sister won't let him eat ice cream the more confused he's going to be about the issues in his life and the fundamental plumbing in his head. Don't confuse depression with a lifestyle choice.
Job posters, please say where the job is located
The location is probably the single most important datum that a job hunter cares about on a board with a country-wide (world-wide?) audience.

If location doesn't matter because you accept remote work, you should say that instead.

I don't want to pick on the current top job posting, but it requires javascript to load a PDF from a different domain, and then the PDF doesn't even say the location.
The officially suggested way is to put prescription lenses in a GGlass "frame" and some of the publicly seen GGlass usages have been with such frames/lenses.
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It has a lot more configurable business options, that's the biggest differentiator.

The cost/GB is a bit less than Dropbox, too.
I remember thinking to myself, at a talk given by an Activision employee on some Mechwarrior pathing issues, that these guys were re-inventing printed circuit board layout.

They had the same sorts of constraints, go from here to there, don't cross certain types of 'terrain' (traces in the layout case). Game units don't get to make vias though :-)
> Microsoft already provides a complete and capable product for that space.

Not on OS X.
I know it is not the mode to comment to mention your own up vote.

Rails might have deteriorated in ease of use, but I cannot imagine it being worse than Java EE was in 2004. Modern Java EE is a world of pain, even simple apps are difficult to build. The entire front end stack is antisocial, difficult to extend and anachronistic.

I don't think anyone working with a modern java web stack could read this post about rails 'being like java' without a dark chuckle.
I like the humorous tone of this essay. It made it resonate all the more powerfully for me -- who also use humor to deal with painful situations -- but you're the sort of person about which one of my more gregarious friends might say "u r soooo fukin funny!" all the while without understanding.
> If you don't like who I am then you can go fuck yourself.

I think this is something that comes with age for almost everyone that perceives themselves as different. People in their younger years attempt to change how they are in order to make everyone like them. Later on in life, they realize that this is pointless and they're better off just being themselves and shedding the people who can't deal with that.
Helping or hurting? (keynote talk at jQuery Europe)
depends on the position.
Here's the Thing About NDAs
Oh, and we're a project of Barracuda Networks.
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What was the cause of abuse? (the story is too boring and egocentric to read fully, thanks for the tldr btw.)

He/she doesn't sound depressed - depressed people don't walk 5 miles a day and still want more

It's normal to be a hermit/anachorite/anything, countless people have done it over the centuries (under the pretense/justification of religion)

He/she doesn't really have a writing talent - in fact he/she doesn't seem well read.

Perhaps it would be best to enjoy their alone time, read tons of books. The will to start giving to this cruel world will develop after their teenage angst years when their weltschmerz starts to subside.
It certainly doesn't hurt. Any new venues to be noticed is one step forward. Only thing is not many people might know that this is happening so its hard to know how many people are going to be noticed. I believe that people should be building relationships on twitter anyways and then leveraging them for jobs.
Google? Granted, they've done some really cool stuff after they copied other search engines and hit upon paid search as a profit model.

And not Bell Labs? The organization that built everything from scratch that Google uses to push bits around every day?
>Their programmers are productive and svelte?

http://precog.com/about/team

some of them are definitely svelte :) but then, when you incorporate in boulder,co, the fitness capital of usa, svelte is a given. So also switzerland, where typesafe originates from.
"“TrustEgg” is a product offered by the SUMMIT TRUST COMPANY, a Nevada trust company."
How Ryan Singer from 37signals builds products
Germans can’t see meteorite YouTube videos due to copyright dispute
Just scan the books, OCR the scans, and remove the copyrighted information that the publisher added to the codes. You then have a perfectly legal, digital copy. Nobody does this because the codes change over time and there's no way to protect your work. It would be freely available to everyone as soon as the first copy hits an open server. It would also be nearly worthless as soon as the new version comes out (do you want to be the attorney that shows up to court without knowing the new changes?).
Very well put. Here's to hoping this happens sooner rather than later.
Checking the TOS I found a reference to Barracuda Networks.. Leading me to believe it's a startup within a larger company (I had been wondering how a startup could afford to buy the copy.com domain).

Given the above assumption it may have the funding to sustain the service even if it experiences slow growth. And also suggests that the company has the networking know how to scale their service (unlike my experience with bitcasa.com so far).
> one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams

Any proof for this bold statement?
I would say the UX problems of Git have everything to do Linus writing it for himself.
I am not a traffic flow engineer, but I have experienced what you describe in regard to the walk button behavior in many places in western Washington, US. I always reckoned that they were using a simple model in which a button press would cause the "WALK" signal to always be fired at the corresponding light configuration at the _next_ cycle start. This is most likely a safety consideration because, as you noted, there may not be enough time to safely cross.

In some complex intersections I've noticed that the 'cycle start' doesn't necessarily line up with the corresponding configuration for the walk button which was pressed. This may result in having to wait nearly two complete cycles for the walk signal in the worst case (pressing the last configuration's walk button immediately after the cycle start). The resulting behavior could be considered a bug, or perhaps just more consideration payed to vehicle traffic. But it is certainly frustrating as the pedestrian.

At many intersections I cross now the signals are automatic with the traffic flow. Most of them also contain a countdown timer indicating the number of seconds until the light changes. It seems that this behavior would be a good tradeoff for pedestrian efficiency and safety. However it comes with a bit of trust from the gov, that you know you can't walk across 5 lanes in 2 seconds.
Spread of Academic Success in a High School Social Network
Yeah, it's hard to get sympathy from me for upping micro requirements. That could be because I'm bad at it, and find it uninteresting. Those might also be related. :P

For example, take that trick with keeping a couple of void rays charged up on each other. I don't think that's something amazing everyone should aspire to. I think it's obnoxious.

That sort of thing is all right if it gives you interesting decisions to make -- and the video about the carriers argued well enough that it does. It ought to be overt, though: A pre-launch interceptors button, not hidden knowledge that invisible, unselectable interceptors stay out if you keep carriers moving.
A faar too common problem
I can sit at home and sculpt a block of wax into Yoda. Then I can make that wax into a resin model, all perfectly legally.

Or, I can get a machine to make me a resin model. Why should there be a difference?
The frightening part of this is unlikely. When was the last time you looked at something and lost control? I mean, besides in the Apple store.
Here's a more complete set of various online revenue models: https://hackpad.com/Web-And-Mobile-Revenue-Models-(final)-Eg...
As I am sure you are aware, Ed is the standard text editor.
He might mean the Cornhusker Kickback for Nebraska.
Absolutely. Folks, read this one.

It starts off with an anecdote about how greed torpedoed the meeting of industry leaders to deal with the health issues presented by their products. From the article, an extraordinary admission by one of the would-be reformers:

> Mudd then did the unthinkable. He drew a connection to the last thing in the world the C.E.O.’s wanted linked to their products: cigarettes.