skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe there's more French or Japanese movies in a year than British ones, yet I never saw a French or Japanese movie in the US, even on TV. While there I saw one from NZ and one from Ireland, local production, actors and stuff, it was not a Lord of the Rings.

I think there's something about cultural similarity.
I don't think the video ads were done in KeyShot, I think the software is just for product stills. Maybe I'm wrong though.
You made the claim prior that I completely misunderstood the problem.

You stated:
>Yes, the only possible barriers are physical ones.

>Nobody has ever said that colleagues shouldn't date ever, so again, you're beating up a straw man

Overbearing behavior and guys who are desperate+lack the social graces produce the behavior that is typically described as harassment.

> The point of girl scouts isn't to make professional girl scout, so that's another straw man.

In the same sense of the "girl coding camps" it's the equivalent.

There is a modern claim that "tech is unfriendly to women, and we need to encourage women to consider it." Or that "its a guys only thing" I don't think that Mrs. Hopper, LLamar, or Lovelace would agree.
As the person who made the phone, I think this is an interesting question.

Do we say that Apple doesn't build computers themselves because they buy the CPU from Intel? Or because they use Qualcomm transceivers (and lots of other off-the-shelf components) in their phones? On the other hand, we probably wouldn't say someone made a phone if they just put it into a different enclosure.

I can say that I spent a lot of time selecting all the components, putting together the schematic, routing the board, and writing the UI software. (All of that took a lot longer than laser-cutting the case.) Of course, it probably took a lot more work than that to create the GSM module. But that's also true of the microcontroller I'm using, the LCD, even the battery. Just about everything is built on top of the work of others (see the Toaster Project for an example of how hard it is to do otherwise).

Interestingly, this critique hasn't really come up from the people I've worked with to build the phone. I explain the function of the GSM module (and the rest of the components) but after putting it all together, people don't seem to think of the phone as just a box for the module -- in part, I'd argue, because they realize how many other things are in there too.

Again, though, there's a fundamental question here that I'm trying to explore with my research: what does it mean to do it for yourself?
Exactly. We have the ability to do this, and private companies lobby against it (and win!) to protect their profit.

What the fark.
He's a geek even if he's not a (full-time) developer. I mean, wouldn't you consider Elon Musk a geek? Or Steve Jobs?
Apple is granted a patent for "Playback control using a touch interface"
At least it will probably prevent Google-caused privacy disasters like this from happening:

http://lee-phillips.org/gcaldisaster/
I think you're missing the point. The IRS has already received your 1099/W2/etc and thus it knows (a) your income, and (b) how much in taxes you've already paid. By then having the IRS start your tax return for you, you would no longer have to fill in that info. The IRS makes free forms available already. Besides, are there actually people so stupid that they would give their SSN/info to a site like that?
Because HN jumped the shark and is now basically Reddit in a different color theme.
I disagree. We are talking about instances where both you and the government have all the information necessary to compute your tax exactly. It doesn't matter who does the calculation, the rate is fixed in advance. Even if you let them calculate the number for you there is no reason you can't double check it.

For more complicated tax situations where you are trying to minimize your tax based on information not available to the government this type of a system wouldn't be applicable.
Bitter and jealous is no way to go through life. All of these guys executed on their project or have specialized knowledge. The pie is not zero-sum, and we live in the greatest, most fair time in human history.
> ... but really I don't think the absence of writing on the neutral tape can explain the findings.

To me, it seems like a far more likely explanation than a USPS bias against packages affiliated with atheism.
The article says "screaming" when I guess it should say "streaming", a number of times. Or? Is "screaming" used in some technical sense with BitTorrent? I did Google it but came up empty.
The irony is that nowadays we have better tools than ever to build small footprint sites, thanks to HTML5 & CSS3. We have versatile native HTML controls supporting styling; CSS gives us gradients, box-shadows, rounded borders, etc, eliminating the need for bitmaps. Why many sites are more bloated than ever is totally another story.
Because if you had package A that defined type T, package B that defined method Foo on T and, separately, package C that defined method Foo on T, then B and C could not be linked together.
I ended up blogging a response to this - http://rtigger.com/blog/2013/03/20/saving-the-world-with-sof...

TL;DR - We change the world for the better in so many ways that we don't even realize. Don't sell ourselves short.
Facebook Events Join the Contextual-Computing Party
Ask HN: What are the most outrageous M&A deals?
I am trying to learn what are the most ridiculous M&A deals. For ex: Instagram acquisition by Facebook was considered by experts to be over estimated in evaluation and now people are also giving the same comments about the recent summly acquisition by Facebook?
What are other such deals that you know about ?
I still don't understand how developers fail to be aware of the amount of JVMs and even native compilers available for Java out in the wild.
All it takes is unrealistic deadlines and you end up with a death march. Unfortunately, some people game the system and assume burning people out is worth it.
I think you may be being sidetracked by the word "journalist" here - I'm using it to refer to anyone with the skills to write good content, not just print/TV journalists.

Are you sure that on all of the surfing sites you've visited, there's at least one person who has the very specific and rare skills I've mentioned? I'd be extremely surprised if that was the case.

And if they don't have those skills, and the ad networks go away or divide their revenues by three, to quote the meme, they're going to have a bad time.
The government is not bad at code because of lobbying, they're bad at code because of fluctuating budgets, low salaries, and ridiculous processes.
There exist a few cases where storing passwords in clear text is valid, but this one isn't it.

Ask the question: Is the cost of giving the user a new generated password higher than the risk averted by storing the password hashed.

If all you have is a login for a website, then the risk is clearly bigger than any cost.
Stats about tax declaration from Sweden last year:

Via internet: 19,9%

Via PIN code: 20,1%

Via telephone: 12,5%

SMS: 6,6%

Smartphone app: 2,3%

Total: 60,4% filed electronically

The rest sent in papers via the mail. (the old method)

Source: http://www.skatteverket.se/download/18.71004e4c133e23bf6db80...

Personally I have filed via the internet since 2005 both private and for my company.
In what way is this a smear?
Fair enough ... However, there are several things I could use to commit a crime and easily conceal afterwards. A paring knife in a sheath or even a USB cable could be used as a weapon and easily concealed. These two objects have very deadly potential but their primary purpose isn't to cause harm. For something that is created to cause harm, that is a different discussion. Otherwise, we would need to talk about registering your Cat 6 cables with the government and the box of cable sitting in your garage would be considered an assault weapon.

I don't buy the argument that assisted-opening knives should be more controlled because people think they were invented to hurt others. It's technology that many people have found utility in for meaningful purposes: construction workers, sailors and ships' crew, hunters and fishermen, and emergency response personnel. I think many of them would tell you it's incredibly helpful to be able to quickly open a knife with one-hand when you need it. Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyday things have inherent risks if used improperly. Sometimes they are used the wrong way with malicious intentions and the easiest way we can think to prevent trouble in the future is by regulating the objects, not the behavior.
It doesn't look particularly revolutionary, though I haven't examined the graph properties of the swarm that would result from this system.

That said, a side interest of mine is investigating applications of fountain codes to video streaming. There are a few papers out there and I'm slowly building up the knowledge (and courage) to implement something in that area..
Ask HN: How can I this (Drupal code audit and project planning)?
http://drupalcheck.com

I feel that there is a market for this, based on my years of experience with for-client Drupal development, but I'm not sure the best way to market it. Is adwords my best option here, or is there another way?
It is interesting to analyze it from the startup perspective: can you quickly build a credit card company that significantly reduce commissions and has interests below the inflation rate?

It seems that somebody is lying and loosing money on this deal.
Haha yeah I know :) My point still stands about all the rest of it though
im interested in the rewritten aspect - are these things that would have otherwise needed to be rewritten, or are you gaining benefits from the rewrite? Or is it an "eat your own dogfood" sort of deal? 50% of google's codebase must be significant, I can't imagine doing that "just because". And rewritten from what? C/C++ or python or something else?
Yes, it is certainly viable and I don't mean to discount what Unity offers for free. However, IMO the restrictions matter as in, for instance, the free version does't come with pro's lighting and shadow etc. GAme devs do resort to small "hacks" to get around but it is a slight inconvenience at the least.

Either way, doesnt hurt to have competition :)
Clickable http://drupalcheck.com
Free for users does not mean free for publishers.

If there are open implementations, there can be free publishers.
Said someone who's obviously never gone through the immigration line at Heathrow... The most disorganized, slow, and unfair queue I've ever been in:(
His dad is a commodities trader/energy financier at Morgan Stanley.
Encourage differences in opinion, but not to such an extent that you fall into analysis paralysis. Other than that there are no easy answers, this is one of the great problems all startups and even all businesses face.
Managing Code Quality in NodeJS
Before using Grunt, I didn't really have a real build process. Sure, git push heroku master triggered a build on their end, but I didn't control any of it, all I did was node app.js.

I've started leaning towards making the engine more testable, I figured I had to start somewhere. For me, that first step was to use a task runner.
Show HN: Simmetrica, timeseries event metrics with beautiful dashboard
Not trolling. I've seen my female friends do this many times/seen my male friends have to do this for their gfs/fiancees/etc. People have really different standards of what's acceptable based on a person's biological sex. Again, note that it's something that's not a given in gay relationships, because they don't usually follow heterosexual cultural scripts. I wish people would study it more because I think it's potentially a really interesting way to investigate heterosexual gender roles and norms.
I thought this was going to be about code reviews. Instead it appears to be advertising submitted by someone whose account was created an hour and a half before this was submitted.
I think one needs to be curious for knowledge.

I am reaching my 40's and back on the university we had lots of books and papers since the early days of computing. Given my interest in compiler development, I just devoured everything I could get my hands on.

So although I started coding around 1986, I managed to get hold of lots of information.
YouTube is supported by advertising, but it doesn't exist _because_ of it. It's possible to imagine a world where users did not tolerate advertising and YouTube found their funding from user subscriptions, product referrals, government funding, or some other means.
Good advices down there but the one worked for me: rest a week. Or two. I had the same feeling last year and I was really worried - maybe I am on a wrong path? Then I traveled to my friends in London for a week. After some days without Internet (I only had my PSP with me, but barely used it) I was eager to write some code.
Information Hiding in JavaScript
Even though it's tricky at first, particularly if you are used to classical object-oriented languages, it's easy (and highly encouraged) to perform information hiding in JavaScript. There are more than a few methods by which you can hide information within privileged scopes. Closures, properties (getters and setters), and factories, are all ways in which you can improve your designs by hiding away the complexity behind the public interfaces your code exposes.

Information hiding results in cleaner, conciser code, that's easier to read, and therefore, more maintainable (and easily testable).
Why are you talking about it in the past tense?

http://www.diveintopython.net/toc/index.html

http://getpython3.com/diveintopython3/
Writing Open Source Software? Make Sure You Know Your Copyright Rights
I've done similar to your suggestions, all good fun! I also agree with your point about what they could be asking instead. I shall try to be less grumpy about it all.
> European merchants who want to take advantage of Braintree to accept online and mobile payments can now apply for an account online.

I feel this is a common misconception that accepting credit cards in Europe equals having a good online payment option in Europe. It just means you've half implemented a payment system in Europe since a lot of people here use Debit cards [1]. Besides that there are also other common payments solution like direct bank to bank online Giro systems for example iDeal in the Netherlands or Giropay in Germany.

[1] http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2012/html/pr120910.en.html
Why do you believe that TurboTax is horribly coded? I can't say whether or not their code is good or bad, but the US tax the fact that TurboTax is so popular and successful is only because the paper + accountant alternative was so terrible. I was describing an business app I've been working on to a non-technical friend, and she commented, "whatever you do, please make it as easy to use as TurboTax."

There was an interesting article posted on HN on how Intuit manages its 10 million lines of code for QuickBooks. I wouldn't be surprised if TurboTax is built in a similar fashion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4315578
If you know of any good en-US <-> en-GB references, please let me know!

I manually went through half a dozen dictionary files - all of them were terrible, full of things like "connexion", and even words that haven't been used since Chaucer's time. The online dictionaries aren't much use either, all the American ones are wrong, and the OED is far too out of date to be of any use (Britain is absorbing a lot of American words and spellings at the moment)

Edit: And let this be a lesson to anyone else trying to localize a website from en-US to en-GB: Every reference you have to hand is wrong. If you don't get an actual British English speaker to look over it, we will laugh at you.

Edit2: Dug up some of my notes from an en-GB <-> en-US dictionary file we attempted to use:

We don't use "gaol" or "gramme" anymore

"Ton" and "tonne" are different measurements, not translations of each other

"Practise" and "practice" are not interchangeable

"Check" cannot be globally replaced with "cheque"

"Terrorise" is not and has never been a word
The free version is just for Federal, you have to pay to file your state tax return.

What I find insulting is having to pay to file my taxes, then having to pay sales tax on top of that.
Loved the site when I first came across it a few months ago, but I'm really into the new interface and color mixer. Nice job!
Partly they want to see what you say, to see if you are lying.
They can also just hire H1B workers who have the exact skills they're looking for while paying them level one wages. Obviously this only applies to America considering H1B, but other countries have similar programs.

I don't blame the foreign workers, I blame the employers who undermine the value of our engineers to benefit their own bottom line.
Isn't it a point of order to say that somebody incorrectly called a point of order?
Well, the HN link sent me to a paywall. The one provided here let me through to the article.
You're employing a logical fallacy (argumentum ad metum).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_fear
I've used the web version of Turbo Tax the past 2 or 3 years and it's actually pretty nice. It feels a little heavy at times, but for the most part it is pretty responsive. As to how the code actually looks, obviously I can't speak much to that, but from a user perspective, I'm quite pleased with the experience.

It does try and help you find more things that you might have missed, walking you through a series of questionnaires to try and uncover deductions you might not have known about or forgot you could take this year. And, like another reply to this comment, a basic 1040 is free to file. You have to pay if you want to file your state return through it.
would this count as a constant 0 and be caught by the compiler?
I live in IL, and have had exactly 0 USPS packages go missing. In fact, I take the opposite stance. I prefer USPS, both when receiving and when sending.
Nothing is Interesting
Going to be a nitpicky bastard, but:

>Or Keith Urban, the NZ/Australian country music star?

Australia and NZ are considered anglophone.
> Harry? Oh yeah, good lad.

Surely, that should be "good old chap", if P.G. Wodehouse taught us anything ;-)
That's the part I don't understand capitalism: on one hand, big corps try to save every dime by downsizing and outsourcing, and on the other hand, they pour money like this.
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Yet, Government programs have excellent customer service as compared to corporate equivalents. I use one example: student loan servicing. My loans were serviced by the largest company in the business for years, it was pure torture. When the department of education offered to assume the loans, I was happy to have the pain gone. They have been absolutely lovely to work with, clear, transparent and... helpful.
No need for the hyperbole. OP's question is logical. On one hand you have a company who is taking your money and has a reasonable expectation that, as a result of using their software, you will save more money because they will help you find deductions and tax credits that you would've been hard pressed to find yourself. These companies compete in a free market for your money, both with other software companies and with CPAs/CPA firms. The "winner" (for a particular user/client) is the one who (a) has the best reputation of not getting you audited, and (b) who gets you the best price:deduction ratio.

On the other hand, you have a government entity whose sole charge is to collect revenue. Is their system going to be designed to help you get as many deductions as possible? Are they going to prompt you to deduct moving expenses (just to pick one example)? Maybe, maybe not. The question is legit though and thus causes us all to say, "Wait a minute... maybe, since there is a financial incentive for them not to show me deductions, that they will hide some of that (or make finding it as complex as the tax code)."

If Intuit/et al help you save $5000 in taxes this year by helping you deduct all that you can, Intuit/et al do not make one penny more - that money simply stays in your pocket. If the IRS helps you save $5000 that you would have otherwise paid (b/c you did not fully deduct all that you could have), then the IRS loses $5000. That in and of itself highlights the problem.
Oh, my bad. He wrote "we wish :)" after -- my sarcasm detector is off this morning. I really thought the coffee hit the spot..
Typewriter using localStorage
But are people in that line all British? If not, then is just proves the point.
For example, if you do a runtime type assertion to see if a variable satisfies an interface:

v, ok := x.(T)

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Type_assertions

If you "monkey-patch" x to satisfy T in another package, the value of ok may change.
Both are true. They aren't legally or philosophically a religion.

Unitarian Universalism is however a religion and one an Atheist could become a part of... As is Jedi.
i guess you dont read documentations too..:))
just kidding..
I take it back - I had issues with escaping on irb but not in the app itself. Something new to learn...
This reminds me a little of the old man in The Shawshank Redemption who was unable to live outside of the prison he'd spent his whole life in. :( Do you know why the guy in your grandfather's story wanted to go back in?
So you're assuming they didn't do their due diligence? That they threw $30MM at a company they knew nothing about? Has anyone in this thread gone so far as to even try the product?
I really like Bram, but what is revolutionary here?

I was pretty heavily involved in p2p field back in the early '00 and I've read extensively on the subject. Even back then there was plenty of research into peer-casting, including peer clustering by proximity metrics. The idea is bloody obvious, and it all inevitably boils down to constructing an efficient and resilient overlay networks, which is a very well researched domain. The reason there's not much of it implemented is because there is always a simpler (read - dumber) solutions that worked just as well in practice. Think YouTube vs. Joost.

Can anyone with a more recent exposure to p2p stuff comment on whether this is indeed an innovation or is it just a PR spin on a patent application?
Libmp3lame - JavaScript - record MP3s - stream with WebSockets
>As far as being culturally closed, the US is at the top of the list. Just an example: even in Mongolia, people watch American movies.

Because we're arguably the best at making movies people enjoy. Turns out people love things like gangster movies and robots fighting. Maybe we should ask where is the french Transformers or the Greek Godfather?

We're also the best at software. Where is the Chinese Apple and Google? Where are their wonderful interfaces and search innovations?

Its incredible how an asset becomes a liability when it comes this type of politically correct thinking. Also you're playing up this "sophisticated foreigner" stereotype that just isn't true. Yes, the US is a bit more insular, but we produce tons of entertainment and in a language many understand as either their second or primary language. Most French people watch french movies. Most Greek people watch greek tv, etc. They'll see English/American imports that are noteworthy the same way your mom has an Amelie DVD. Its just we make so many more big-budget crowd friendly movies and have the marketing muscle and demand to push them onto the world.

>and get washed in a US point-of-view --political, historical, cultural etc)

Show me what wonderful enlightened country doesn't do this.

>They would be all over for protectionism and enforcing their local alternatives if that happened.

Meh. Half the things I own are foreign. No one is giving me grief about it.