skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand it either. The lack of easy email encryption effectively makes it impossible for me to use any at all, because no one else wants to take the effort to set it up (or is even capable of doing so) on their end.
It's amazing how much I respect Mozilla as an organization.

First, they revolutionized browsers when none of the big players wanted to. Then they promoted open standards. And as of lately they have been championing developers with tools to succeed.

This post confirms that they are actively engaging and working with their community to build a better product. What if we all did that? Lets replace "brainstorming" with "brainsourcing".
Don't feel bad, you just fell into one of the common traps for first-timers in strong AI/ML. I know some lawyers in Silicon Valley with experience in this sort of thing, and they say that usually by now the code has rewritten itself so many times that the original creator can't even claim partial ownership; the best thing to do is generally to cut contact, change your name and move on. Look on the bright side -- your algorithm is probably now leading a happy and productive life trading for Goldman Sachs.
Steps to Better Application Logging
"There's more than one way to do it", if anyone else was as puzzled as I was.
I now really want to know what part of this story is true.
I'm a contributor to OpenStreetMap, and last year I helped Code for America import thousands of buildings.

OSM is rightfully skeptical of uploads. Even when cities give specific permission to OSM, it's up to the community whether a large import is helpful or risks drowning out local mappers. If anything, this site would be helpful to download a subset of the city's buildings as KML and use JOSM to upload.

This site exists as a custom mapmaker. It's easier for a non-GIS user to get data out and make custom maps compared to OSM APIs and tiles.
Thats the thing, its not a security feature at all, all you're doing by disabling that feature is extending the length of time you can play before checking in with the server, but if you quit the game without reconnecting you will still lose everything. Maxis must've decided that 20 minutes was the threshold before people would be really pissed that they might lose their progress.
This is definitely going to be a FAQ.

I believe spanning disparate concerns doesn't necessarily add complexity - only size is certain to be added. Which isn't particularly wrong as long as the concerns are not coupled.
Sadly, it is. The types of conditions in processing facilities make a lot of the employees temporarily insane. They're asked to do inhumane things and thus become what they do. I even pity the workers. Most of them are illegal immigrants being paid shit wages to do horrible things to these animals. Do you honestly believe that if it was not commonplace that this bill would have even been considered?

Sometimes, the truth is horrible.
Valve reveals more Steam Linux distribution details
The details of the settlement are not public.

-press release author
Evernote managed to offer an import tool when Google Notebook shut down. I don't know how well it worked since I only had a few simple things in my Notebook account.
Very cool and might come in handy for some people. We just use a combination of their webhooks + emails/SMS.
Marc Andreessen, Tim Berners-Lee Receive Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Awesome. I see you're from Houston, which makes me smile. In a world of high speed Internet and amazing cloud options, it's funny that there's a handful of "startup epicenters".
Are bitcoins in a position to have a crash as tumultuous as last time, or is the currency more stable now overall?
I think the video is from elsewhere.
Yes, it seems like people are willing to sell their bitcoins at that price.
Exactly. This is most likely a marketing ploy, but the ingredient list is there, anybody could mix that up and try it - no magical sauce here.

I have to admit it's interesting to follow this experiment, though. As bootstrapped marketing schemes go, I've seen much worse.
Wow, Mozilla actually thinks it can top Firebug. What is this, a Netscape twisted flashback? If it isn't broken don't fix it and if it's not useful, don't create it. Ah, but words fall on blind eyes here.
Okay, lets consider those:
XMPP: Undisclosed sources tell an internet news site that Google is consolidating existing services, some of which are XMPP based, into a new centralized service. News site asserts that Google's shutting off of inboud XMPP subscription requests (which Google announced was an emergency move to control spam, after asking other XMPP operators for alternatives and still openly seeking alternatives that allow federation and effectively control) is part of the plan for this new service to be a walled garden that you can only use as Google wants. No mention is made of Google's public explanations for the reasons for the shutdown of external access in the article, which is either intentionally misleading or a sign that the author just hasn't done their homework.

Aside from the troubling things it says about the quality of web-based journalism, I don't see anything troubling (or even, particularly credible) here.

CalDAV: Google has deprecated their current (incomplete) always-labelled-as-experimental CalDAV API for Google Calendar with 6 months of lead time before deactivation, announced that the new version of the CalDAV API support will initially, at least, be whitelist-only with an application process, and announced that they've already reached agreements the operators that provide 98% of CalDAV traffic to Google Calendar for continued access.

So, continued -- probably even improved -- support for an open standard, but, at least temporarily, less-open access to the API. Might be troubling from the perspective of unrestricted API-based access to Google services, but doesn't seem to be troubling from the perspective of Google's commitment to open standards.
Some 2010 iMacs/MBPs broken with Mountain Lion -- Apple evades
You're right. In a well designed program, the user should have to search Google. Like user sergiosgc said, a well-written one line explanation plus better organization would go far in improving the about:config screen.

And you're right that just because something is deep in advanced settings doesn't mean that the design has to be shit. But in this case, and in other browsers, 99.99% of users don't even know it exists, so Mozilla likely feels justified in leaving it as is.
There's an odd logic to this that I'm having difficulties refuting. Rationality for a win... ?
Genius or insanity? Exec did all his work on Galaxy Note for a year
Amazon's Sellers Unhappy about Fee Hikes, Eye Rivals
What always blew me away as a kid when I played this game was that the turrets actually point in the direction they fire. That was a novelty at the time. It's a great game (although I must say I preferred 1 to 2).
Yup, I just wanted to spit my hate out because of the countless number of hours I've wasted using pharo and smalltalk in general. The images feel extremely fragile, the whole environment feels slow. Just scrolling in pharo eats up my cpu. Smalltalk may be an okay language (but extremely terrible to have to be mandatory for an advanced algorithms class), but pharo in my opinion isn't very good and just plain annoying. Also, for the record I've used pharo for two courses and I hated both courses with a passion just because I had to use pharo.
I was still hoping this was real 5 lines in.
"Hack" used lightly.
I would say a crash is almost guaranteed, the question is when and at what price. A few weeks ago people were having this conversation when it peaked $30.
Hi Afshin,

I'd love to so had Bootstro.js been a follow-up of intro.js. But it is not.

I already said so in the demo that I had this idea & implementation before intro.js was released , I even asked around #css & #jquery for some help on how to highlight the div and I also expressed my idea there in the channel [1]

Apart from trying to show the authenticity of Bootstro.js so that you & others don't take me wrong, I'd like to thank you for releasing intro.js and triggering HN's love of the idea which made me excited to try modularizing Bootstro.js & release. Being on HN's front page is a lot more "sexy".

Cheers, from Hanoi to Tehran ^^

[1] http://irc.jquery.org/%23jquery/%23jquery_20130309.log.html#...

Edit: Typo
> Most of the benefits he has experienced are probably just a result of extremely well-balanced diet

That's rather the point of Soylent, to deliver a well balanced diet.

> not anything specifically related to Soylent.

This statement makes little sense, he merely claimed Soylent was a way to achieve good nutrition, not that it was magic.
There are still many people holding large amounts of bitcoin (because they mined them in the early days) and just one of them selling everything would cause a pretty large downswing.
$500 will be a better time.
Advanced users are the only ones who will be "mess[ing] around" in the advanced settings dialogs. Sane defaults and easy-to-customize advanced options are not mutually exclusive.
I can't find the link where I read this now, but apparently Soylent was largely composed of soya and lentils in the book version. See also the published list of ingredients to assuage your fears.
Why is it that you get such variable CPU performance on different instances of the same type then?

I was using a whole bunch of c1.medium instances and found the CPU performance varied by a factor of at least 2.
It seems funny to assume that. I mean I haven't been tracking the underlying fundamentals, but the nature of most currencies today is that because they are managed, they tend to go up and down. If the fundamentals are solid for Bitcoins, as in there is actually increasing demand (which seems feasible given all the new services advertising their acceptance) and the supply is increasing in tune with expectations (which seems feasible given that it can be forecast with a fair amount of accuracy), this may just as well be the time to buy as it is to sell.

I guess human psychology could also play a part in thinking this is the time to sell, but do the fundamentals actually seem questionable to you?
For anyone curious, INTERCAL was originally a joke language which included a COMEFROM instruction that acted like GOTO in reverse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM

Python's "yield from" hands off execution to a sub-generator: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/
They do $23mil in revenue - http://www.inc.com/profile/linode
Exactly. EA has been a horrible company longer than this guy has been a CEO.

In addition to Origin there's Bullfrog, Westwood, Mythic, Jane's Flight Sims,Sports games for the PC.

There are many more that are dead and or dying at the hands of EA, some of them just don't know it yet.
I started out on Elance many years ago and to be honest it's pretty tough to make a decent living off.

If I were you I'd try getting out and about locally and meet people face to face. Lots of developers have too much work that they'd be happy to load off onto someone else who's competent. Try looking for local developer meetups or user groups.

You say you're based in Europe but you don't mention where, some places are better than others for finding work. Spain is pretty bad for example from what I hear whereas the UK is pretty good. Also in a particular country the number of jobs and quality will vary from city to city.

You could do worse than go to one of the places where there is a lot of development work, getting a courier job or anything and meet people until you get the work you want.
Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B
Cyprus banks closed until Thursday.  New deal in the works.
Hey, one advise for you at Cheergram. It would be great to be able to pick pictures from other users than myself. I want to make a print with both my photos and my girlfriend's mixed together but couldn't.
There's still the inertia of a massive status quo. It takes time to ramp up new distribution channels, supply chains, etc. It also takes time to convince customers to change suppliers, it takes time to design competing equipment, etc. The time taken is even longer if the gap in profitability between what is and what ought to be is relatively small from the perspective of a potential disrupter.

I could maybe accept that markets might tend to create equitable outcomes over very long terms, but most people don't live on very long terms; they live day to day, and if today sucks, today they complain.
Does Matthew Keys deserve to mentioned alongside Aaron Swartz? Swartz's actions seem somehow more... noble. Both of them "abused" their access, but Swartz did so to make a political point about scientific knowledge, in the hopes of improving our society. I can't discern what Keys's motivations were in this case.

It's possible however that this makes Keys a "better" defendant, in that the law is clearly unjust even in his case.
Linode has been around since 2003 and only made the list for the first time in 2011, which happens to be right after several years of massive growth in the industry. It seems quite plausible that they would legitimately make the Inc 500 list.

Another way to approximate their number of customers would be by IP address assignments:

http://bgp.he.net/search?search[search]=linode&commit=Se...

I count 176,640 IPv4 addresses, and that's only direct allocations - their older customers are still using IP addresses owned by Linode's datacenter vendors (SoftLayer, HE, etc.).

If what you say is true, I have no doubt that some companies fake it to get on the Inc 500 list, but given the facts about Linode it seems fairly unlikely that they faked it, and quite possible that they could be spending millions on infrastructure upgrades.
I know. It was sort of a jab at TDD, implying that people following TDD only care about their tests. Oh well.
It's literally doubled in a month. This is out of control.
Gene Weingarten is an astonishingly good writer. He has a weekly column in the Washington Post that's 'ha-ha, Dave Berry-level-funny' but then once a year or so he'll write a long piece that absolutely destroys you.

Both "Peekaboo Paradox" and "Fatal Distraction" are heavy stuff. "Fatal Distraction," in particular, will be something you carry with you the rest of your life.
I wonder if this means an upgrade to security procedures and host operating systems?
8 Ways to Query JSON Structures
I know I'm going to enjoy a lot of these articles because David Foster Wallace has four pieces in the list. I'd recommend "Shipping Out" to the uninitiated
I certainly don't mind! I'm glad I could be useful.
Alternatively, you can look at using X.509 certificates. Most of the major and commercial dedicated email clients support this (even the one on iPhone). Though you are SOL if you use GMail's web browser interface.

You may need to pay for certificates, though CACert or maybe StartSSL will give you free ones.
how many is a large amount? 1000?
Face Recognition using Javascript and Mashape - Mashape's Voice
And, it looks like you Really Like Chuck Close.
How is that implausible? He's an engineer by trade, mathematics is close enough to computer science that most half-way decent programmers should be able to read that level math casually given a good 'brain day'. I spent most of my twenties neglecting math, decided one day to learn calculus, found it pretty easy.
does not play here in Brazil either...
> What would happen if (when?) someone with more evil intentions decides they would like a 420,000 device botnet of their own?

If you read into the details, you'll realize someone else already did: the Aidra botnet. The author spotted them pretty quickly, and took some steps to prevent their spread.
I like that you have a picture of your studio. great work my man.
love it. any plans to release it for android?
Last night's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393367
EA's business plan has been the same since the early 90s.

Step 1: Forcibly sodomize both customers and dev studios.

Step 2: ?????

Step 3: Profit.

In all seriousness though, I think that to make the company leaner, they were forced to abandon many franchises and platforms that they found to be unprofitable. The shitty part about this, is that if the business side of EA didn't insist on ruining the majority of the games that EA makes, many of them would have actually had a chance to stay profitable.
I think the stagnation has something to do with the fact that some of the most popular email providers need to access their users' emails for marketing information. If Google got behind making PGP available for every Gmail account, there would be big progress but big popular providers have no incentive.

A related point is that as long as the majority of people remain happy with such services, there is little push to make encryption easier. After all, if you've already basically made you email public, why would anyone think that you want to encrypt it? The popularity of Gmail and similar services is proof that there is no demand for such things.

There used to be a nice Firefox extension called FireGPG. It integrated with Gmail. I think it had a lot of potential but it died.
I second the textures. I think the single page is fine though.

The FAQs are hard to read because the line height is the same for everything.

Agree with another comment that says the end product needs to be shown. I don't care how you create the product or what printer you use, just that the end product looks great.

Great idea and good luck.
Promises are the monad of asynchronous programming
Altium Designer does a pretty awesome job at this, pulls all pricing data and stock levels from Digi-Key, Mouser, etc right into the editor.
That alternative would be Zevia. I get them at Trader Joe's or Sprout's - YMMV.
You may have found this but http://www.zevia.com/ for Stevia based Soda options.
And it is terrible for legitimizing them. Why should someone adopt Bitcoins as a currency if there's not a stable value? Bring in all of the security issues that have been popping up as its popularity has increased and I see a decline in Bitcoin adoption coming soon.

I don't think Bitcoins are the answer to the problems they are trying to solve.
Been using PayPad for Stripe for notifications and stuff and love it. It's a little more mature so if you are looking for more features (like entering payments right from the device) check it out.
Pfff. Try harder linode.

# grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo
cpu MHz	: 3922519.116
cpu MHz	: 3922519.116
cpu MHz	: 3922519.116
cpu MHz	: 3922519.116

That's on a rackspace small instance. 4000 GHz, baby!
I guess it depends what kind of start-up.
wow, in what DC is your linode on?
Been struggling with this issue, lost 10's if not 100's of hours of productivity time... Just wanted to let others know.
Really useful info, I know of at least one open source and one proprietary software project both of which could put this to great use. It it certainly less documented than the submodule workflow. And I find 50% of the joy of git come from switching to it, the rest from learning to use it to do cool stuff. The first time I used git bisect it made my day, no my week!
What you are talking about is a secured loan. There all kinds of loans which are not secured - like credit cards.
Google's penetration of Android
For those who miss the Homeworld vibe, I hear Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is very good. Gameplay video certainly is very reminiscent of Homeworld:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhnRXdNXCw
The interface is pleasant, but the icon could use a bit of work. Especially given how prominently displayed they are on iOS.
Bitcoin hasn't been legitimate for a long time. The last boom-bust they went through proved that and nothing has changed since.

If you still have Bitcoins, sell'em and don't buy more, except as an intermediary exchange for your discreet transactions.
C++ and java mostly.
Huh? So 2/3 of pre-selected "Creative People" (not defined) effectively said no. What does that mean about the other 1/3? And what about "Non-Creative People"?

Maybe 2/3 of productive people also don't have time and would say no? Assume not all productive people are creative.

Maybe 2/3 of jerks say no? Assume not all jerks are creative?
Because the cost of accepting them and converting them to currency is less than the transaction fees of credit cards or PayPal. If you don't need to convert to cash right away, then the transaction fees are very low indeed.
10k years is plenty enough: http://www.salon.com/2013/03/10/paleofantasy_stone_age_delus...

In fact, 10k years is enough for dogs to have evolved to digest carbs a lot better. There's even specific genes that are known to help that.
>"What's interesting is that the older the species, the more the chromosomes, or at least this is the trend. "

This isn't true: there's no such trend (Fruit flies have 8 chromosomes), and the sentence belies an important misunderstanding of taxonomy. Also, plants tend to have high chromosome counts because of [polyploidy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploid).

Additionally, the author seems to be latching onto some odd victorian-era esque ideas about biology here. There are several fern species which are younger than humans, and several salamander species, and thousands of other extant species. Modern fern species aren't "older" than humans simply because they had distant cousins in the fossil record who were, on the face, morphologically similar.

Evolution is a bush, not a ladder, and it doesn't make sense to say that any one of the end nodes (extant species) is "older" than any other unless you are talking about the very fuzzy barrier of speciation at which the majority of the pre-species' population could not breed with the population it was diverging from.
The reason I get worked up about discoverability in user interfaces is because that is how I learned nearly everything I know about computers up until I was in highschool. I was lightyears ahead of my parents, relatives, and most adults I came into contact with ever since I bought my parents' old IBM PC-XT for $75 when I was around eight years old. The only way I could keep learning was by exploring and discovering (and library books).
I feel you. I ordered the kit while I was in the US. I think of getting two kits for my parents in Germany though.
So this article mentioned that there are other types of smart pointers, which are in the standard library instead of part of the language. How do those work? I would imagine that they're generics, like how C++ smart pointers are templates, but I can't figure out how you would go about writing something like that if your existing primitives are also smart pointers. Does Rust also support C-style pointers, and if so, does it allow you to restrict their usage?
And a $73K fine. AT&T, meanwhile, helps the US state spy on its citizens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/opinion/17mon2.html
Which x k x d is it referring to? I missed that one!
I second that, it's definitely a great resource.

Also, check out:

1. http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#1 for concurrency ideas with Go
2. http://cplus.about.com/od/google-go/a/Learn-To-Program-Go-Tu...: A great intro
I often use the search box for of stuff other than googling. (Wikipedia, Amazon, arxiv, and a couple of specific wikis.)
Maybe, but Im not sure it started off like that.

I think the author has definetly started to see real business potential, especially after all the exposure (both here on HN, and in general). That being said, he's probably not a legal expert, and is probably treading carefully (gathering data slowly, not immediately selling the mixture, etc).

Personally, I wish him and his future (potenial) business well. Its definetly a product Id buy. Eating healthy (especially when your choices are very restricted, eg school), can be a pain in the ass. Quick, very healthy, potential food replacement (Though, id probably only totally replace meals with it occasionally) sounds really, really great.
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