skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see what my professional and personal friendship with people in the movie industry has to do with my opinions on the legalities of flying.

Too bad there's no way to have HN not show me any of your replies (without scripting).

Well, you could put a paper bag over your head when you see one coming.
considering that I already know python, if I wanted to make a good looking personal gtd type webapp, am I better off learning django or should I rather learn node.js?
I didn't question their viability as a business.
I typically don't flinch at blogs written by non-native english speakers, but after reading it twice I'm still not sure what conclusion I should be drawing.

>most programmers seem to use the same variable names over and over again.
and some variables in the satoshi code point to [stuff]

What variable names, and how do they point to a company?
Markets have many inefficiencies of varying persistence that don't depend on insider knowledge, speed advantages, or cheating, but using simple widely available public information, some on just the price itself.

I think it doesn't validate EMH if such inefficiencies disappear if exposed, if they depend on skill and systemic knowledge rather than 'cheating' - i suppose it depends on where one draws the line between cheating and skill.

Discovering and exploiting them is a matter of study and work which the public is unwilling to do, and actually actively discouraged by the status quo of this industry.

They're guided into ignorance and defering their finances to the sucky professionals who get paid for amount of assets under management rather than performance.

Warren Buffet doesn't buy and hold indiscriminately. He buys things on sale during market crashes when the panicky public gladly sell to him. For example by selling put options he gets paid just for waiting for the discounts.

And as a potentially controvertial aside, i think his size and connections within the government grant him hypocritical priviledges not available to the public (other than through owning his stock of course).
Writers need to study the writing of others, and usually they do. Computer programmers? not so much.

Ah, c'mon. WebKit, Linux kernel?
Confessions of the Professions
Bizarre article that doesn't properly explain its reasoning on a blog full of spam and poorly written articles (including a recent spate of high frequency spam). Something smells funny. Maybe the article is correct, but in its current state the article isn't trustworthy.
BlackBerry-Py is the project I'm currently using. More specifically, the Tart branch.

(Disclosure: I'm one of the lead contributors.)
So when I create a new branch, do stuff and want to merge back to master, I should rebase instead ? (assuming nothing else was done such as pushing elsewhere etc).
Currently downloading the referenced app (Contacts Journal CRM) to see if the hype is real.
No, the word "privilege" is mentioned 4 times. None of those instances are used in the same sense as you're using the word. Anyway this has officially crossed into the absurd. You win, bye.
You really feel a strong sense of age discrimination?

I feel it has to do with relevancy more than anything. I'm 35, a Rails consultant, several open source gems, speaker at the upcoming Rails Conf.

I don't say this to toot my own horn, I say this because my extensive software engineering background enhances my interactions with the latest tool sets. I've seen a ton projects go incredibly right and wrong and want to share those opinions and offer guidance. Those hiring me are generally younger (and my boss) but my feeling is that they actually look up to me.
The Story of a Man Who Faked Insanity
As mentioned in the link I've seen it mostly due to modern web-apps that have to interact with legacy systems.

Also, I just did some Googling and it wasn't until 2009 that HP/UX supported passwords >8 characters!
I see Oracle as cancer of the corporate world. An old dinosaur who happened to slog into 2013. The new generation of young and socially responsible will hopefully put an end to their kind.
A simple question: Why?

"necessity is the mother of invention " -Plato.

Why use this as appose to traditional powerpoint?
do f1 <- fsStat "file1.txt"
f2 <- fsStat "file2.txt"
f3 <- fsStat "file3.txt"
let ratio = (size f1) / (sum $ map size [f1, f2, f3])
print ratio

Or, if you prefer a list

do fs <- mapM fsStat files
let ratio = (size . head $ fs) / (sum . map size $ fs)
print ratio

And that seems to be one small example of why you may have already invented monads. I've been loving the impact of Javascript—modify and immediately see it on the browser—but every time I'm not using Haskell I miss it dearly.
That's doable with bootstrap using nested rows/columns. There is no CSS framework I know of that implements it any other way, but it might be doable using display: table/table-cell/table-row/etc.
How to make a Google Keep App/Shortcut in Chrome OS
zfs actually was on a few leopard betas.

Not that it worked well mind you, it made Finder even more useless than before. But it did "work" for varying definitions of the word.
The author "promisify"s a callback-based API in the article - which is worth a read by the way.

I'm interested in your opinion RE: his argument for why callback APIs are imperative - because I think he has a very good point and has supported it with a solid argument and you haven't offered any rebuttal.
Does Paypal still do this? It said my password was too long when I first set it. I really really hate that.
Traditional powerpoint has become bulky and outplayed (especially if you are emailing a large powerpoint attachment).

Its 2013...there is no need to be using powerpoint especially when you can put this deck on its own URL and share it much faster than an attachment.
The number of ad clicks can indeed rise even as the number of ads shown declines due to better ad targeting.

So users are finding more and more of their answers in ads? Good thing Google controls both ads and 'content.' And anecdotally the number of ads has increased immensely on transactional keywords, especially after Page. Content is buried by them. http://www.zoekmachine-marketing-blog.com/wp-content/uploads...

Your reasoning has been consistently flawed in most of the threads.

whatever you say. By the way, if you work at Google you should state so, quite a few Googlers have that habit. I suspect you are, given the stock answer you gave for the "best answer." If you work for Google, I don't blame you, It's hard to defend the same practices you and your bosses railed against just 2-3 years ago.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5466321
I'd say there are three main reasons:

1) Legacy systems not supporting special characters, 2) The desire to keep support overhead down, and use of the system up, by keeping users' passwords actually rememberable. In other words, if you let users make and use paswords they can't remember, they will, and as a result they'll either annoy you about it or stop using the site due to the hassle, and 3) Developers not wanting to have to worry about parsing special characters from untrusted users, which could potentially be dangerous.

In the past the top reason was probably the lack of ability to support the passwords (#1), and today it's probably the lack of desire to support them--mostly from #2, but partially from #3.
Get out. By the look of it you won't be building a profitable business in this country.
The concept of "brainfuck" is one that is constructive, whereas "nosql" is deconstructive: one defines something from nothing, and the other defines something only by what it isn't. When you look at the ecosystem of NoSQL solutions, you don't really find much commonality... there are patterns, but they are largely defined by prototypical examples that are insanely disparate (BigTable, Dynamo, memcached). Your past experience working with HBase (other than in the general "problem solving skills transfer" way) doesn't help one later work with fundamentally different systems like Riak.

Your sarcasm thereby definitely hits the exact statement made, but seems to entirely miss the underlying point: you are correct that even for SQL you have to use a concrete implementation, not the abstract concept, but to an important extent which database you end up using doesn't really matter... they are all pretty much the same (and yes, this is coming from someone who in different contexts will implore people to not judge "SQL" poorly due to problems inherent in "MySQL"). That is just not true of "NoSQL": if you want to be a little more honest in the comparison, you could try something like "not-Java" (which one also imagines is difficult to use inside of a big-company matrix).
Amazon "Add to cart" button redesigned
What's to stop people visiting the demo page and copying the markup, stylesheets and JS?

I guess $10 is less valuable than your time of 1hr writing the equivalent but I'm also sure you'd have to invest time to customize the deck anyhow to make it original and there is tons of open source HTML slide deck alternatives already to start from, like Bespoke http://markdalgleish.com/projects/bespoke.js/
Functional programming is not just about first class functions and I disagree with the idea that using first class functions means you are doing "functional programming".

See the second paragraph of the article for the authors take on this. Specifically, the concept of values is very important.
No, morality is the arbiter of these questions, and the government either acts in line with morality, or it does not. In this particular case, the Constitution has taken the right moral stand, and the rest of the government has ignored the Constitution.

That's literally nonsense. Morality is an abstraction of what constitutes proper behavior. An arbiter is a particular body that judges disputes. In the United States, that judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court, per article III of the Constitution. Your concept of the Constitution as a moral agent, ignored by the rest of the government (including the Supreme Court) is just irrational.

I just think that a government that does not follow the rules of the Constitution is not a _legal_ US government, because it's acting _illegally_

Would you say that a person who breaks the law is not a legal person, or that a citizen who breaks the law ceases to be citizen? Nobody subscribes to this concept of legitimacy; the Constitution explicitly contemplates the possibility of disputes between the United States and other parties, and the possibility of being a party to a dispute necessarily involves the possibility that the United States will lose such a dispute by being out of step with the Constitution. That doesn't make the entire government illegitimate.

Your presumption that I haven't read it is ridiculous.

If you have read it you have certainly not understood it. Your arguments border upon the delusional.

I'm not saying that to insult you. I'm saying that because you're making these bizarre claims out of the air, whereas I'm citing to the Constitution's own text. Unlike the concept of privilege, there's no mention of 'morality' anywhere in the constitution, and you're using the term in a way that is not consistent with normal English usage.
So far the app is great, but I'll need to give it a real test run over the next week or so to see if I run into any data issues. Right off the bat I'd like to mention both something worth of appraisal yet slightly worrisome. The iCloud sync in Contacts Journal CRM gives the user an "Identity" number associated with their account. I don't have a lot of experience with iCloud but I've never seen this done before. Is this provided by Apple in the iCloud implementation? It's awesome you guys have some redundancy to protect against Apple failing with your data, but it's also kind of an indication that theres some likeliness to there being some issues with iCloud.
And GPS was based on work funded by the DoD - an organization not known to be a worshipper of youth, at least in their R&D corners.
I'd love to know what is obnoxious and intrusive? There certainly some room for improvement when it comes to the hierarchy of rerouting, vs user chat prompts vs head ups (police in 1 mile). But what do you have an issue with ?
It's amazing how all the comments so far have entirely missed that it's the top answer that was really submitted, not the question.
> The point is promises free you from wanting or
> needing to know about the order that things happen in
> ... But the truth is once you embrace them,
> that need becomes unimportant

This smells like the classic leaky abstraction though. Like when people tried to paper over the difference between remote calls and local calls with abstract interfaces (CORBA, RMI, etc.). Everyone would say it was so awesome, remote calls look the same as local calls! But it wasn't awesome, it was horrible, because the details of the abstraction 'leaked' through and you got all kinds of problems from having delegated away what was actually one of the most critical, sensitive parts of your code to a layer you had no control over. 15 years later we're back to nearly everybody using REST because it turns out to be way better not to shove those abstractions on top of your most important code.

Now, I'm not saying that analogy is perfect here ... but it does remind me of it. Why should you care about the order of things? Just to suggest something, sometimes it's just useful to be able to reason about it. "We know the first operation definitely happened before the others, so an earlier one failing can't be a side effect of something a later one did ... oops, we don't know that any more. We actually have no idea what order they happened in."
A cursory web search shows that the mystery "Eve" component appears to be a brand of copy protection dongle.
I don't understand how being an author would work the same way. It's such a solitary pursuit. . .I don't understand how that would be dependent on fetching coffee, kissing rings, etc.
Of course I read the link, he FOIA'd, filed ADA complaints, and is threatening a lawsuit.

So, in order:

1. FOIA will get him some documents in about 3-4 years. Maybe.
It'll take a while, and he'll get the old copies.

2. The ADA filings will do nothing. the ADA specifically exempts travel by aircraft when it comes to accommodations for forms of public transportation.
It also does not say anything about US Government administrative searches.
He would actually have to try to find something under the ACA (Air Carrier Access act), and there is nothing there.

Any sane disability lawyer will tell him the above. This is all bluster for a a 1983 lawsuit, however, ....

The 1983 lawsuit is probably a non-starter on the 4th amendment side. You'd have to show the TSA's actions are contrary to clearly established federal law. At least on the facts seen so far, they aren't, and courts have generally agreed to this. If they had arrested him, maybe he'd have a 1st amendment claim like Tobey does (so far) in Tobey v. Jones. But again, even sympathetic courts so far have thrown out most 1983 actions for 4th amendment violations against the TSA.

3. I am a lawyer, actually, so I don't need to excuse myself.
I've actually even got a ADA recognized disability and have actually fought fights under the ADA.

(though, in the interest of full disclosure, my normal day job now is IP law, i have dealt with plenty of constitutional law :P)

In any case, i'm opposed for the reasons I stated in the first reply: He is, IMHO, unlikely to accomplish anything except making bad law through the above. Even his video is causing divided public opinion in this very thread. If you want to have a chance of doing something right now, you need the old disabled war vet who is being strip searched because blah blah blah.

It's certainly his right to pursue what he wants, but I personally don't see it as helpful to the cause.
Frankly I don't see the point with Vim either, or any other editor that is capable of some concept of modes. Why doesn't the author find sublime suitable for git commit messages?
Ask HN: Anyone here working at an Israeli Startup?
Hey,

I'm currently visiting Israel for a few weeks and am looking at connecting with some Israeli startups.

I'm looking at moving to Israel in 6-12 months and eventually want to work in a startup.

Currently working in startup in my home country doing Ops, marketing, customer service and whatever else i need to get my hands dirty with.
Then, a bit of docs about the JSON apis to use, and caveats/gotchas in using them with Django Models would be helpful. The popular Django extension TastyPie could be discussed, as well as URL schemes compatible with common client-side libraries.

Similarly, ways to mimic single-page-app URLs from the server side, for first-load speed or SEO benefits, could be discussed.
In today's world, password length is like zombo.com: The only limit is your imagination.
That'a true, you didn't. And I do agree that they aren't doing anything more important than marketing.
There's one reason I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Because the developer is storing passwords in plaintext, and he wants to save database space.

Now, this is not a good reason, but it is a reason nevertheless. Please note that you should never, ever, ever, ever store passwords in plaintext.
Promises seem cool but if you are not liking callbacks very much you should take a look at just using CoffeeScript indenting two spaces, specifying functions instead of inline, he async module, icedcoffeescript with await and defer, and Livescript with backcalls. All of that is more useful and straightforward than promises.
D&B is in the business of selling your corporate data to marketing companies. They claim that they never share their data base in an automated way, and to protect this information, so that it is only human readable but it is in their best interest to let companies have access. Likely this is there to allow miners, not specifically because they are incompetent, but because they are dishonest.
Yeap, the advice here is that you should use `pull --rebase` instead of `pull`. What that does is it eliminates the merge commit to the "central" branch (e.g. on github). That is it fakes the history to look as if you started to work on a branch with all the commits applied and so there were no merges necessary.
The top navigation menu is horrible, it's transparent and the grey text gets lost in the underlying graphics. It's distractive and feels broken.

http://imgur.com/hMxRewr
This is a nice take on things. I could see a very Metro-esque look evolve very easily from this for Windows, too. Steam's current theme does feel quite busy.

I do like the design of the new Big Picture mode, and I think we are probably due for a Steam redesign in the next year or so.
The FileHandle API does what you want - read/write access to an IndexedDB file at any location.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/FileHandle
Right. So why wouldn't I just pay the upfront fee and colo it myself without having to pay Amazon the upfront fee and the recurring hourly charge? Sure, you could argue I would have to pay to colo it somewhere else, but if I'm an org that requires an HSM appliance I more than likely already have my own colo space somewhere. Compliance should also be much easier when I say, "The box is right here, these are the employees with physical access" vs "The box is at Amazon, I have no idea where, and I don't know who can touch it".

The hourly charge is $1.88/hour. That's $1398.72/month. To have the box in Amazon's datacenter. You can colo the box somewhere for under $200/month. That margin is ridiculous.
any interesting experiment using it?
Being confrontational is very often a great strategy, especially in front of a dumb crowd (luckily the Eternal September is yet to happen in full force here).
Thanks for the kind words.

Publishing standalone apps is definitely very high on our priority list. We're trying to come up with a streamlined process so that users can simple tap one button and we handle everything. IMO A great way for both the user and us to make money.. If executed correctly.

Once we have our online community up and running thats the goal with the GamePress Arcade. So you can see all the games, download them to play or even edit. Also allow for collaboration so you can build games with people around the world.
The only way "fixed width database field" makes any sense is if they're storing in plaintext, which is stupid all on its own.
What is a JSON api? Anyway, your entire wish list is out of the scope of the document. If you want to know how to build a hypermedia API (which I think is what you meant by json api) what does that have to do with "effective Django"? That would be "building effective hypermedia APIs using Django".
> they bill you so you don't have to learn something that's not in their product line

Yes, convenience has a price. Thought that was business 101 or the Walmart strategy.

>their 24x7 support is laughable

Subjective, since my experience is different than yours, similarly you could say the same about Canonical, Red Hat, Percona, heck even Google.
The "rules" about liquid are silly. The TSA plays the ball rather than the man, going after 3 ounce bottles rather than people with a history of terrorist sympathy.
Not necessarily. If the judgement that APIs are not copyrightable is upheld (which is a big if), the computing world will be a better place than it would be if Google had managed to avoid the question.
Try to communicate with other contributors that have pending pull request (see https://github.com/euske/pdfminer/network). You might be able to drive a decision to keep a single repo, maybe under a 'new' organisation.
Spam filters can already detect this. :) Sorry!
Thanks for this. When I looked at the couch offerings just a few months ago, I was turned off by the need to run what looked like a lot of heavy Couch code on my devices. The mobile offerings didn't look mature. Couchbase Lite looks promising, and makes me want to look at the Couch space again.
I can relate to this. I came up with the idea for my current side project while sitting in a waiting room for 30+ minutes with no phone, just me and my thoughts.
There is more than one technically-capable person out there. It's a good proof-point for your skills as a hustler as well, convincing others on the quality of your idea.
Having a domain that includes "porn" was on my bucket list.
Does Chrome use a different rendering in Linux? It looks fine here and I don't really have issues with fonts. (Except Calibri, people need to stop using it. It looks bad as is, and it looks awful in Linux without a bunch of manual hacks)
>>my extensive software engineering background

Obviously that trumps everything. When I said I was looking to break in, I meant I have limited experience and skills.
"Outdated" is not the right term I would say. Assuming you are referring to US law here, the current, extremely long copyright is the result of relatively recent corporate lobbying efforts.

Copyright was extended further and further at the request
of powerful interests. It used to be much shorter.

Originally US copyright lasted only 14 years, with a possible extension of another 14 years if the author was still alive and requested it.

Nowadays US copyright lasts until 70 years after the original author's death.
I have a whole lot of floppies from that period with dev tools but I don't think I kept much MacApp stuff because it required Mac Programmers Workbench (MPW) to compile which was pretty cumbersome. I started using Consulair Mac C, then later LightSpeed Pascal and then LightSpeed C which were pretty awesome. Of course Metrowerk's CodeWarrior overtook these as the main alternative to MPW, including PowerPlant which was a sophisticated application framework.

Using C for Mac development was a bit of a pain in the early days because of the stack calling differences between Pascal & C (before the declarations were built into all the compiler libraries), the conversion between pascal strings & C strings, and the work arounds to handle Pascal structure unions in C.
Well, I tend to disagree. It was a big deal to the one who got the email.
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