skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstand. He's saying this could have possibly been avoided by manually crossing out amount and correcting it, initialing it and then signing the page. Now you haven't lied and the it's up to someone else to fix it officially.
Exactly which branch of DHS did this? I don't think the department itself has agents, it's just an umbrella for other agencies.
Google engineers are not actually allowed to write code locally on those laptops. The macbooks are only used when hanging out around campus to view email and ssh into workstations (linux desktops) where actual work is done. That same thing can be done from chromebooks.
As mentioned upthread, most multiplayer games are still UDP. And indeed, they generally don't work through proxies.
If the employer wants that information, they can stump for a police background check. My private life is my private life, and there's no way that a checkbox on a form photocopied by the hundreds is going to give a balanced view of any arrest of mine.

I have never been arrested, but if the employer actually needs that level of employee security - perhaps handling client money? - then it's the employer's duty to protect themselves with more than a volunteered checkbox.
>you shouldn't have to kiss somebody's ass just so that they do their jobs.

You don't. The person in this story did her job. He wouldn't sign the papers so she seized the boat. She also doesn't have the authority to change the papers. Her job is, if something goes sideways, impound everything and let the other parties sort it out.

The author of the article wanted a small and very reasonable exception made for his case. Everyone would agree that the change from CAD to USD is small and inconsequential and in this case more accurate. But that's not how "the system" works, and so he's not asking them to do their job.

If you just want the public official you're dealing with to do their job, then all you have to do is refrain from being difficult. If you want small special favors, then be nice. It's that easy.
Ask HN: Anyone up for drinks tomorrow (Friday) night in SF?
It's Friday night and you have done enough work for the week. Let's meetup and talk about non-tech stuff..like if Hillary will run for POTUS? :)

I'm happy to do the organizing if there's enough interest.

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Attending:

SilasX

whysocurious
Try not to let the thought of letting down investors bring you down. They're investors, they put money in knowing they might not get it back. Obviously, they've moved on...probably without much trouble. You're going to have a much harder time of it.
So how am I going to find Quake servers to connect to now?
I've gone from Java frameworks to ASP.NET MVC and back to Java. I really miss ASP.NET. I love the convention-over-configuration in Microsoft's stack. Is your class a controller? Call it SomeClassController and put it in the Controllers folder. That's it. Setting custom routes and doing URL rewriting was a piece of cake too.

I feel that when I try to do anything in Java I always have to consult the documentation which slows me down. The good thing is that there's plenty of it on the Internet but it's still a productivity drag.
I think the problem is that hardcore parallel programmers can't understand the needs of adhd web browsers.

Some fractions of web pages are all sort of ridiculous Javascript and seriously slow down my machine.

And I, personally, do flip pages at a significant rate.
All valid points and kudos for taking the time for pointing out idiotic assertions in the techcrunch article.
On the other hand, pointing out factual errors in techcrunch posts is a bit like pointing out that WWE wrestling is fake.

(For some of the younger people reading this: Yes, it is fake. And techcrunch is the national enquirer of tech media.)
You think you understand the score, but to me it seems more like a persecution complex.

The irony is that in Arrington's situation the border agent tried to educate Mike that this was a rule that could be safely bent in the interest of expedience, but it was Mike himself who insisted on perfect procedure.
especially in this case involving a young rich kid with an expensive toy

I realize it was an aside and doesn't take away from the point you were making, but the person who wrote this is Michael Arrington, who, according to wikipedia, is 42. Not really old, but not exactly a 'young rich kid', either.
I'm not sure why he didn't just amend the form himself and initial the change. If the customs official didn't like that, well, he ends up in the same place as 'not signing'. If the customs official didn't care, he gets what he wants.
Perhaps the Latin was counterproductive in this context.
http://www.gameranger.com/
Gabriel Weinburg already tried to set this up (although more voluntarily) and you can read about it here http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-... and http://fosstithe.org/

The general idea was to tithe a certain portion of profits/revenue towards open source projects. Only a few accepted it though (myself included). Only two really seem to have made any contributions though (I would love to but not making any money yet).
He should have just amended it himself - "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission"
has Sony considered the actual value this feature adds to the console? It's superfluous, at best.

The features that excite technical people aren't always the same things that excite the average person.

Remember this description of the iPod when it was first announced? No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

While most technical people look at something like another sharing button as another bit of stupidity, I guarantee you that there's some young person out there that saw the sharing button and thought to themselves "You mean I can chat with my friends and spend time with them while playing games and show them what I'm doing and stuff. That's awesome!".

The stupidest things like this sometimes really take off. It's just hard to predict.

I share much of your skepticism and am very underwhelmed by what little I've seen of the PS4 so far, but without seeing how it all fits together and seeing how normal people will react to it and what games are ultimately released it's probably unfair to label it a failure just yet.
I just spent the past two months building an advanced dashboard revolving around complicated charts. After looking at both high charts and d3, it became clear that d3 was the better solution, as it allowed an order of magnitude of increased flexibility.
Show HN: Test interview candidates in the browser in any programming language
I don't think his lawful possession of the boat starts until that form was properly signed. Moral possession, sure.
Another way to think about this is- Who is the real you? Because you are changing! When you are 21 years old, you might be one person, when you are 30 years old you might have evolved for better or for worse!

Is the real you when you are 1 year old, or 1 day old?

If somebody were to love you for exactly who you were say when you were 10 years old, the moment you change, you become unlovable is it?

I think this quote shouldn't be a guiding principle or be given as much importance!
will the intel hd 4000 graphics do webgl?
Think of it this way. What would happen if Google, facebook, or twitter hotlinked to a large file on your site and you received no revenue from it? If that didn't make sense, the cliffs notes version is that you'll end up with a gigantic bill from your hosting provider and a DOS'ed site. That's why it's bad form to hot link without permission. It's a rule that's developed over time in response to stuff like this. Also, it's a two way street. Many sites will black list referrers from sites that do a lot of hotlinking as its a really common spam tactic.
But it's such a handy shorthand :(
Something vaguely similar happened to me once while registering a new scooter. Because it was shipped to me directly, it had less than a mile on the odometer. (Less than half a km even, if memory serves.)

Under penalty of perjury, I had to declare the odometer to the nearest mile, but the system wouldn't accept zero for the mileage.

After 40 minutes of trying to sort it out with a supervisor, I muttered something about forgetting the km-to-miles conversion, amended the mileage to one, and was on my way.
i would if i were in SF. soon...
You make some valid points regarding the inverse relationship between convenience and security with bitcoin. However, the latest version (0.8.0) of the bitcoin reference client is a significant improvement in terms of initial syncing speed and overall optimization. Being experimental software, there is still room for improvement.
>How many outstanding shares of stock do you have on a fully-diluted basis? X00,000s of stock options is meaningless, only percentages matter. You should always ask this question.

Bingo. I have no idea why they routinely fail to give enough information to make the option grant even remotely meaningful.

Fortunately, where I work, the head of finance told me how many shares were outstanding, fully diluted, and in writing, when I asked.
I remember the old days, when employee missteps would cause calls for a repremand or retraining. These days it seems that everyone thinks that the slightest misstep should have you fired.
The Techcrunch article was beautifully written, IMO. I think it is hard to say what we really are. If you talk about parallels to existing products, some people see a blog, some a wiki, and some a website builder.

And I agree we can use more structural elements. Freedom is often limiting.
They're definitely not shy and they talk about it openly (starting 1:30):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e...

They consider their weapons and their other privileges a means to "intimidate and show power". And with this approach, no wonder when they get a chance, they do show power.
"So now I have to hire a lawyer to try to figure all this out."

forgive my ignorance, but isn't Arrington a lawyer?. Question - Why does a lawyer need to hire another lawyer to represent him? Although, there are several branches of law specialization, Arrington could take it on himself to file the case against DHS? no?

"I live a fairly simple life and that didn’t change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010" - yeah we all know.
I am more than happy to pay but unless otherwise specified, I expect support for the product. I expect emails to be replied to and my problems addressed. Most of the open source projects I donate to, I have had a conversation with the developers beforehand and I know that if I ever had a problem, they would be more than happy to help. This ensures that I am paying for a piece of software that is going to be developed into the future and won't die one week out.
I'd argue that gaming is the key benefit of Wine, since for quite a number of users, games are the only reason they keep Windows around. Wine often helps them to drop Windows for good.
Sure. But a lot of employers have no such security requirements, yet ask anyway.
You might want to at least fix the font thing. Sounds like you could get in a lot of trouble.
I've known several people who have transitioned into the tech industry without a CS degree. Particularly good examples that I can think of got their degrees in physics or some type of engineering; I even knew a guy who got his degree in political science. Really, anyone who is interested and motivated enough can learn programming, analysis, and good Unix practices.
Why Keyword Anchor Text Links Got Smashed By Google
I keep clicking the orange text below the share buttons, trying to get more info. I think it should be a link, to the same place as the title of the template links to.

I love it and I'm going to use the code template for my next assignment.

You have anything to draw DFAs?
I think it holds beyond that too. Still have the ugly neighbourhoods, properties designed in a way that give away their age, dangerous parts of town, etc.
I'm not sure exactly what the correction that you're supposed to be issuing is. He cited the buddhists, not Buddha, and you say right away that "there's a huge gap between what Buddha saw and taught and what is said by the teachings in modern Buddhism." What is your objection, exactly?
99.99% of all paperwork is done to cover somebody's ass in case something goes wrong. So if the guy is fine, nobody cares. If the guy makes trouble in Australia, border control's ass is covered - they asked about if he's a criminal, and he lied, so they could do nothing, so no blame on them. If there were no such question, eventually somebody would say "oh, if only border control would ask the right questions, we could avoid that - so let's assign blame to them". To prevent that, they have a cover. If you tell the truth, and the truth requires them taking additional risk, they will dispose of this risk as quickly and efficiently as they can - i.e. in that case, by denying entry. This way, their ass stays covered.
At my current startup[1], this is exactly what we're trying to address. We built a marketplace for open-source projects, trying to add a business layer around open-source development, so that developers could work on it full time, and provide the level of support that people require.

Proprietary software companies like to point out that while FOSS might be free in distribution, the lack of support means that you pay for it in other ways - and to some extent that's very true. Very few open-source projects get to the point where they can sustain themselves while still giving out their main product for free.

I think developers should be able to sustain themselves working on open-source projects, even with relatively small adoption and scope, by treating it like a business. If you don't want to support it - give it for free, if you want to take it to the next level, start charging for distribution. The important thing in my opinion is getting as much quality and useful code out in the open.

[1] http://www.binpress.com
The first round of 'scroogled' criticized google for promoting paid results in their google shopping portal - the exact same thing bing does in their shopping portal.

The second round criticizes the use scanning of gmail messages to display context-sensitive ads. A slightly more fair criticism, but not exactly something google makes a secret of.
There's no place except on HN where Meteor gets regular attention, upvotes and always the same fan posts (i.e., "Meteor is going to be my goto technology", "The Meteor guys are moving fast").

Guys, this is all so obvious.

EDIT: downvoting won't help, people aren't that stupid, $11M funding and sponsored posts are no reason to use any framework
He didn't write "I coined the word "cyberspace" in 1981 and I'm really proud of that."
Makes me think of Snow Crash a bit... plugged in constantly to virtual reality.
Cross-browser mouse positioning
Well, I would say that something of a corporate patronage or making it big is a side effect of having a big idea that sells. If you want a business to give you lots of money you need to create something that will meet business needs. Not only that but you can't assume that businesses will find you're great idea and throw money at it, there's personal marketing involved as well.

Yes it's quite a shame that we may have lost a few projects that might have gone somewhere with investment, but I believe that to be the nature of the beast. Also my thought was that the open source movement was about contributing out of good will, and if you made some money off of it great.
Cool; will edit the post with a list attendees
Here's an upvote :)
In Dubai the rents are very high due to the agents, for a single property there will be at least 4 agents acting like tenants to the landlord, the 5th one will be actually staying in the property, landlords also knows this but still they follow this method for many years.
TinyCC 0.9.26 released
OK, devil's advocacy time here: why?

Is there some deep lack of new and exciting open source projects? I don't see it. Things are vibrant and exciting. New free stuff is appearing every week that is worth looking at. All the "big" projects, of course, are very well funded already, and projects continue to get funding (via diverse mechanisms) as they become "big".

We didn't need this for jquery or rails or pick-your-favorite-web-technology. We don't need it for the lower level stacks either.

I'm sure everyone would be happy to be paid for open source work. And some people want to work on open source but can't for financial reasons. But the only question here that matters is if enough people are willing to release their code without compensation. And clearly the answer is yes.
There's also Detectify : http://detectify.com

They are in beta.
> i can think of being immersed in a virtual world and seeing information in three dimensions that would be cool for sure walking around pictures and videos and chunks of text

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT1UR6qEgdg
I think that "whatever others want it to be" is the reason for android's existence. Google's vision for the future is chrome and chromeOS, and that's why they guard it's purity so closely. I see android as google's stopgap to prevent apple from taking the whole mobile market. It just has to keep people happy and make the transition to a fully web-based future happen smoothly. If the handset manufacturers and the carriers and whoever else want to wedge their shit in there, that's okay. Just give the masses what they want. They want to keep the mobile market healthy, active, diverse and heading in the right direction.

One day, web apps will be all we need. That day is definitely not today, but when that day comes google doesn't want Microsoft, apple, or blackberry owning the mobile market.
What? It's his word against hers and she's probably going to lie. Even if she doesn't lie this is not a firing offence because it's unliklely to piss off her boss in any way that makes them angry at her, rather than at some rich guy with a lawyer.
I have been dogfooding the pixel for a few weeks and I have to say it's an amazing device. I have also had other chromebooks and the pixel really makes them feel like cheap toys. I use it for writing code only via ssh, but it works really well for that and the screen is just breathtaking. I haven't really experimented too much with any web IDEs out there, but hopefully that is an area where we'll see growth very soon. I definitely agree that the price tag is pretty tough for a chrome device, and I'm not sure whether I'd buy one myself, but using this thing is absolute pleasure and I find myself reaching for it much more often than my retina mac book pro.
What paying $1 gives you is 'Attribution Assurance'. Nothing worse than a github fork in a way that removes attribution!
I've used plain TeX for my christmas letters for years because it looks so much better than word. LaTeX feels like overkill if I don't need to number equations and floats.
Detecting PDF JS Obfuscation using Elementary Statistics
New, no. Used, yes =)
Actually, I've had really bad experiences with Detectify. Their results didn't provide anything useful that I couldn't have gotten from something like Nessus. They have a pretty nice design, but not much in the way of actual useful security.
As much as you wish it were so, I doubt it. The sun does not revolve around you.

It was probably karma for something else </half joking>
They say a boat will make you happy just twice: The day you get it and the day you get rid of it. This boat truly seems a complete failure.
Chromebook Pixel is Microsoft's worst nightmare come true – and Apple's, too
Drop me an email, maybe we can trade notes. I have been dealing with this for almost a year at http://nextproof.com

We had really bad chargebacks and our underwriting merchant almost pulled our account. It took going back to some manual verification and other tricks to finally get it down. We've only had a dozen or so chargebacks in the last 6 months.
>Almost all of the toxic assets, or more properly, speculative loss that will never be paid, was on the derivatives market which could be as much as $1.2 quadrillion dollars, 20 times the size of the entire world economy, of which even the $16 trillion in bailouts was a small amount.

This is quite literally unbelievable. Do you have anything to back it up?
Holy crap, that's amazing. I'm excited when I can get MySQL started on my development machine.

Those are some smart dudes ( and / or ladies).
Then whose boat was it, lawfully?

You raise an interesting point, by the way. America is partly founded on the idea that laws do not create rights, but instead recognize natural rights. If this story is accurate and the DHS agent did not recognize his natural rights, that is an offense. But if the law did not recognize his natural rights, that is an even greater offense.
My CS department (undergrad) pushed LaTeX heavily. It was required for all senior thesis projects and we had this one Unix guru of a professor who seemed to know every there is to know about LaTeX.

Some of us even became proficient enough to take notes real-time during discrete math and numerical calculus lectures.

> Even with papers for the english department it was great, if only because it just looked that much better than all the Word formatted papers from my peers.

Back in college I used to get compliments on how good my papers looked from humanities professors just because it was typeset in LaTeX. Fun times.
tax more?This is making the state bigger.

Big private corporations are as bad as big public corporations.

Break them into pieces. Separate investment banking from banking. Not that difficult to do. It was done in the past, and worked.
haha, I actually exclaimed "Thank God" when I read the title.

Though reading the article it just sounds like their news site/blog is shutting down?
They didn't stole the boat, they seized it. Not wanting to sign an erroneous legal document is respectable, calling the DHS stealers is clearly not. Don't be surprize if they won't cooperate to solve the matter ASAP.
I wouldn't even ask in that situation.

Always prefer asking for forgiveness over permission unless you're doing something irreversible.
All kinds of sites, some supposedly super-secure, have been hacked.

Now a serious question: What does this say for storing everything, including tax filings, in the Cloud?
I work with ASP.Net MVC primarily (since v1), but I think Play framework have a lot to offer in the JVM web development space.

The biggest key selling point for me is the 'hot' reloading: make changes in your code, refresh your browser, and see the changes immediately. You don't need the whole project to be rebuilt. As far as I am aware, this is what makes Play unique. The 'hot' reloading is probably the reason why it's useful to show nicely formatted errors in the browser (during dev / debug mode), you can see immediately where you stuffed up soon after browser refresh. Errors are also pushed to the console.

However, I realise that ASP.Net MVC View templates can be updated during debugging session, I only wish to be able to do the same with the .Net classes without having to rebuild it.

Plus, being on the JVM you'll have plenty of PaaS deployment options for cloud hosting provider (e.g. Google App Engine, Heroku, OpenShift).
I disagree with this. It's not that someone has to pay the developers of what you refer to as Type 0 open source projects for the incentive to exist for them to maintain it; it's just that the developers have to have a reasonable expectation that some value will come to them as a result of of maintaining the project. Everyone values different things, but if money is the goal, I think developing popular software in the open is as good a way as any to attract a healthy financial offer from potential employers.
wouldn't this be a better win 8 device than surface? it works on a lap... or maybe running hackintosh?
Reminds me that Warren Buffett doesn't own a yacht. When asked why, he responded "Why would I want to own a yacht? All my friends have yachts."