skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know why it's using it. My point was firstly that it's odd (though not unforgivable) that the compiler links to those procedures even though my source .bas wasn't calling any networking APIs; and secondly that the sub-domain doesn't even exist for the DNS lookup to work:

$ whois automation.whatismyip.com | head

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

No match for "AUTOMATION.WHATISMYIP.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:58:41 UTC <<<

I even disassembled the binary so I could see the full HTTP header just in case the domain name was a red-herring.
Interestingly, you did exactly what the author warned against, but replaced "right" with "wrong".

Some things are obvious (designs made by incompetent designers), but then giving the example of "No code without a Jira ticket" is almost certainly your personal pet peeve.
If you guys are ok, I don't mind sponsoring pizza for the meet. Let me know.
This makes me think that for UX, it may be a good idea to take flat design to the nth degree in usability testing and use only text in the layout and see how users respond.

Thoughts?
Same here. I think in that context it's fine. I didn't even notice it until I saw this comment here and went back to look.
My views can be summed up thusly:

Bitcoin is badly suited to be a currency because deflation is BAD
Bitcoin is badly suited to be a payment system because chargeback is GOOD

Basically. I can go into detail if you like but I'm sure everyone's heard it before. I expect many bitcoin enthusiasts disagree.
YARRR Plunderin' Programming' Paradigms Fer Profit [video]
I saw this yesterday and forwarded it to some women in my life, weapons-grade advertising.
Bill Stickers is innocent.
Guy Kawasaki - How I built a Company for $12k
Tell Congress to eliminate the incentives for Examiners to issue quotas of patents.
You do understand about oblique aerial photography. The only reason you think drones can't see people's faces is because you're used to seeing aerial photography from Google Maps. A drone can certainly see at an angle.
I made a toxic comment about my country here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4590672

Perhaps this is something on a positive note. Even the website is done well and looks modern. Somebody out there is thinking. Thumbs up to everyone who gets in (and I hope I do too).
yes, yes, yes!

How odd that such a huge portion of the US worships a ton of bulked up dudes tossing a brown ball back and forth. My favorite oddities:

1. One that smacked me in the face from Paul Graham's essay was that when a CEO makes 100x the normal pay...it is an outrage. But those same people complaining are okay with all of these athletes making 128x pay.

2. They're just throwing a ball back and forth. "Oh but they're generating economic surplus!" Napoleon Bonaparte once thought that by having people dig holes in the ground he was doing the same. . . think about how better the world would be if the people in the NFL industry (athletes + overhead) spent their talents in another field??

Bastiat's "What is Not Seen" beckons this:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html

3. All of the fans say 'We won!' No asshole, "They won." Good for them, they worked hard (at game..) and did well. You, on the other hand, sat on your ass and drank a lot of beer.

4. Some cities base the majority of their culture around these ridiculous customs. Take Louisville Kentucky (and Lexington Kentucky) for example........ IT is a RELIGION here. Speaking out against these teams is borderline heresy.

5. Die hard fans quote game/player stats like their number-crunching statisticians. Amongst the groups where sports is religion, these "statisticians" are revered.
The little "about" text on the landing page has the word "fucking" in it.
Could Margaret Thatcher have stopped Microsoft?
I see my face everyday and know all the details that make it ugly. I barely pay attention to such details on the average strangers face. The times I've been asked to describe someone for the police I was always surprised at how little I remembered about their looks. So I think this little "experiment" more shows the fallibity of eye witnesses.
Following are fees collected by the USPTO for utility patents. The first three (280+600+720=$1,600) are collected before a patent is granted, to check if the a patent is grantable. If patent is granted, the USPTO has basically done all the work, but it stands to collect another $2,080 in issue and publication fees and $12,600 in maintenance fees to keep the patent in force for it's full 20 year term.

So for a rejected application, the USPTO gets $1,600.
For an accepted application that results in a 20-year patent, the USPTO gets $16,280.

Plus, it's more work to reject a patent than it is to issue it. To reject a patent, the Office has to explain why the invention should not get a patent. To issue a patent, the Office merely has to accept the Applicant's claim that a patent should issue. Issuing a patent gives ten times more money for less work.

Fee schedule from http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee031913.htm:

Basic filing fee - Utility 280.00;
Utility Search Fee	600.00;
Utility Examination Fee	720.00;
Utility issue fee	1,780.00;
Publication fee for early, voluntary, or normal publication	300.00;
Patent Maintenance Fees
Due at 3.5 years	1,600.00,
Due at 7.5 years	3,600.00,
Due at 11.5 years	7,400.00.
I've been a user of their product https://transloadit.com/ for about a year now for video encoding and am very happy with it. The API is elegant, the whole service is reliable and fast.

These guys know what they're doing.
Ah, I see. I agree with the deflation part, but the chargeback part is just one downside. There are also many upsides, it's exactly like cash. There's nothing preventing escrow services from popping up, like credit card companies do now for cash.
Two bombs exploded, and some reports of other devices being found.

In the crowdsource images, there are so far three possible 'guy nearby with backpack, then spotted walking away apparently without backpack'.

Keep in mind that there may be multiple people involved.

Dammit I hate 'slideshow' pages like http://www.reuters.com/article/slideshow/idUSBRE93F06T201304...
Such a pain saving the images.
Reuters, please just post a zipfile somewhere of the original full resolution images, please, please.

Some more good images at
http://cryptome.org/2013-info/04/boston-bombs/boston-bombs.h...
http://cryptome.org/2013-info/04/boston-bombs-02/boston-bomb...
I also wrote little games in QBasic long ago. The biggest limitation was the memory limit. That would prevent making a game like this. So if this is QB64 (which I never heard of before) then I guess that explains it.
They're definitely moving.

In the first picture, they're standing next to the lamp post near the tree (you can see the branches on the left). Also note the no stopping sign facing inwards.

In the last picture, they've moved further away from the finish line to the next lamp post - you can see the first lamp post and tree in the background. Also note the no stopping sign on the second lamp post is facing the road.

Less obviously, you can see the Slovakia flag, third to the left of the lamp post in the first picture. Harder to make out in the second picture, but it's clearly a white/blue/red tricolor.
Really interesting article on using information theory to narrow down suspects of crime: http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity
Webmatrix 3 will have Integrated Git and Deployment to Azure
Your imagination has it wrong.
Great idea. I hope I can make it :)
I ll try to make it :)
I hope to be there.
Thanks for the kind words! Tus.io the beginning of a larger commitment to open source here at Transloadit, which will also translate into many new features (resumable uploads being the next one).
+1 for barleyz - great place for something like this!
That is common belief. On the other hand they see themselves in the mirror everyday and, I would think, they would likely have a far more realistic image of themselves, than a random stranger who just saw them for a short time. It would be really interesting to see this done under proper conditions rather than just a marketing gimmick.
If he is doing automatic hedges, then it's relatively easy to uncover his identity with access to main BTC exchanges?
The urls don't have to be fixed. I'll clarify this in the docs: https://github.com/tus/tus-resumable-upload-protocol/issues/...

Also: The protocol is still under heavy development, so please post any additional ideas, issues, patches or feedback you may have!
Samsung probed in Taiwan over 'fake web reviews'
This is the part I don't understand is that in almost any way you look at it CCTV are a benefit to the masses.

An example of one benefit to having CCTV spread out over downtown is that you can relieve some police presence and spread them out to places that aren't. Another benefit would be that crimes committed in downtown would be recorded forcing criminals to wear masks rather than relying on the shock of the incident to make the victim forget details about the perpetrators features. If you have criminals walking around wearing masks then they can be quite easy to spot.

Another benefit would be in the case of this bombing. When I first heard of the bombing I was pretty interested, I wanted to know who put the bombs there, when and then who they were and what their problem was. I figured well they'll pull up CCTV and we'll all know what happened.

Instead police are being relied on to manage all of it in the moment.

It isn't a violation of freedom to be filmed in public, that's completely legal. People just start getting up in arms about it when it's a service offered by the american government for some reason. Any private individual is allowed to film for who knows what reason.
The shot of face, also shows that he still has a bag, correcting the claim in OP's post.

Also note, the blown apart backpack image has been desaturated because the color is way off (again OP post).
DTrace is a great tool that doesn't get enough attention. I'm glad to see articles like this that show off the basics of how to use it.

DTrace support is also one reason I'd really like to see FreeBSD supported as a first-class platform on AWS and/or Azure. Maybe this'll be the year...
I agree that the IB implementation is crap.

The API, on the other hand, is very nice. Although constraints can be slightly verbose, they are ages better than having to manually re-layout views after every single change of the superview's bounds. Spring and struts are nice, but cannot replace all of the CGGeometry math which is equally as, if not more, verbose than adding constraints. Autolayout is add-and-forget. The only downside is that it is iOS6+ only.
Point taken. We'll try to hit a better balance between emotionalizing the subject without being too exclusive when iterating the text for this again.

https://github.com/tus/tus.io/issues/14
There IS a Single Best Way to Write Software
Is it just as foul-smelling when it's called Axe?
Wanted: Astronauts for one-way trip to Mars
Because it works better. Less crash, freeze... And VMWare Fusion is product of VMWare so there is no other way to have it for free. But anyway it is not that much.
You mean "fork"?
I would love to turnup!
Isn't this just proving P = NP on a larger scale?
Hat tip to the designer who put the facebook and youtube icons next to each other. f You?
Show HN: BandFu
Cool illustration of RGB color mixing in LaTeX
INVEST IN YOURSELF-WHERE APPRECIATION IS 100%~Welcome to H connect.
It is marketing, because Couchbase is a featured customer of Altoros, the company that did the benchmark. And the rule of thumb is: never trust a benchmark done by someone who is related to one of the benchmarked systems. Obviously they'd not publish it if Couchbase lost the benchmark. They must have had been insane to do it.

Another reason it is marketing is because it lacks essential information on the setup of each benchmarked system. E.g for Cassandra I don't even know which version they used, what was the replication factor, what consistency level did they read data at, did they enable row cache (which decreases latency a lot), etc.? Cassandra improved read throughput and latency by a huge factor since version 0.6 and is constantly improving so the version really matters.
Novices generally don't have enough experience to distinguish between situations that require a "best" practice and those that don't, hence advice given to novices is generally phrased in absolute terms: "Never...", "always...", etc. Experienced programmers have used the "best" practices enough that they know their limitations, and so they pick and choose accordingly.

pragdave gave a great talk on this very subject a few years ago: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Developing-Expertise-Dave...
sure I will make it.
>>It will just make you look stupider and more of a liar.

My claim was:

The idea with terrorism against democracies is to scare the living daylight out of voters in a country. The politicians in those democracies want to win the next election do everything to stop the terror.

Afaik, most every democracy that had a serious terrorist problem over years threw out the law book [...]

You argue that the Brits of the 1980s weren't that scared, Blitz-style. That might be true (your personal experience isn't that big support) -- but it is not relevant for my point, which is about politicians' reactions to scared civilians.

But you know that, troll.

For British response: I posted a link to the law above. Google site:hrw.org yourself, for more -- it was definitely harsher than pure criminality would need.

Congrats troll, you got another answer. Now you can lie more about what I wrote, to see if you get another...
I'll be there on 24 & 25th.
danil[at]danil.cc
Sure, sure, it is like cash, which is why I don't think it's a great online payment system.

By the time you add in escrow services (which you have to trust and will likely want fees) and other layers... well we already have credit cards and I like the legal and conventional consumer protections provided by them.

I can see the use-case for stuff like wire-transfers, though TBH there are already good, low-fee services for that too.

--EDIT-- obviously there is a silk-road use case too! Though I still think there must be a better scheme waiting in the wings or even just lurking in someone's brain, that expresses crypto-currency differently and manages to balance scarcity without deflation, or even just weights the allocation curve such that early adopters don't stand to become a new aristocracy if it takes off.
Just a heads up: Firefox doesn't load the whole article - just up to the first map image. Works in Chrome.
Unfortunately,with pen and paper, it gets clumsy when you have to erase (even if you use a pencil/eraser)..
Great, very nice to hear. I all try to join. Created account for the first time in HN for posting comments.
This is a pretty cool idea. I absolutely detest how much apps don't properly handle network degradation correctly, so anything resumable is great in my opinion.

I have a question though... regarding the resuming you do the HEAD request to see what has been uploaded:

> HTTP/1.1 200 Ok

> Content-Length: 100

> Content-Type: image/jpg

> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cat.jpg"'

> Range: bytes=0-69

Is it possible that the data that is already there could be corrupt?

I'm also wondering how things like proxies deal with this. A lot of mobile networks have nasty transparent caching proxies in their network. Also when uploading a file through Nginx (when the upload works correctly) it won't send anything to the backend until it has the complete data, is this the same if the connection cut half way through?
Source: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/inc-staff/survey-of-inc-5...
When something like this gets popular, its a matter of time before a major newspaper will publish this on the front page. And that's the beginning of the end for this person, in case he is innocent (which he is, until proven otherwise).
I am coming :D
orite am up!
Felix, given that the rest of your stack is on Node, what made you choose Go?
this is a plug for can.js right?
The number of possible candidates is not the total population of the planet, but rather the number of people on the planet who have the knowledge and skills required to operate such a site.
The objection is totally relevant because you cannot calculate probabilities if you don't know the number of real universes, the probability of life arising from non-life, etc. I would argue, using that line of reasoning that it is more likely that we would be a dream of a sentient entity rather than a simulation of one if his probabilistic assumptions are taken as probable.
I also used QBasic as a child, I had some GWBasic book as references which rooouuughly matched the Syntax and provided functions. But I also remember not really understanding sub routines... Anyway, this was my experience with goto and good old fashioned spaghetti code ;)
Things change. The US constitution can (theoretically) too.
It's worse to have a nation with no authority at all killing via drone. The alternative technique, kidnap, torture and detain doesn't work either as the US doesn't seem able to find a way to try these people. An overreaching body that can do something is needed, as the US way doesn't work. I'd sooner have an imperfectly drawn up consensus than a misguided Lone Ranger.
And more importantly, who polices the police - the US has plenty of individuals who should be answerable for their crimes - which will never happen in the US. I'd suggest that a fear of being answerable is perhaps a greater motivation than any other where the US blocking of the ICC is concerned.
Oh, please. It's on the front page of Hacker News because Hacker News is full of credulous idiots, not because talking about pictures is bad or wrong.
A lot of people will mistakenly think that site is endorsed by the FBI. Which to be I kind of think is the intent of the "Help [the] FBI" line.
Why do you assume computational resources are a cost/constraint in the 'real' universe?
Is ignorance an excuse for poor security in financial services today?
thanks for your input. indeed, we are going to follow it up with some live examples.
The things is, I've just never had those problems you mention in the 7 apps I've shipped, and I always use .xibs. Some apps of mine are simple, and some are fairly complex.

As a side note, I also hate, hate, hate using things like Balsamiq and other wireframing/mockup tools that you use a computer for. I'm a designer first and foremost (Art degree), and if I have to see something before beginning any coding/visual design work I'll draw it out on paper first. Most of the time though, I can keep the whole visual design process of which screens go to where and how they should look in my head. I think you're also underestimating how much visual design work has to happen, including after iterating a few times on the design, after doing your mockups. A few pixel shift here and there or bumping up/down a font-size, or even changing a gray from 65% black to 63% is fairly common. So, I just skip that mockup phase and start making the thing - iterating the design all the way through.
A lot of them pay easier just because it's Microsoft and they want to be on their good side given their position with Windows and Server products.

I am also sure Microsoft has many valid ones (under the current patent system) . They have been working on OS-es for decades.
The story of Devinder Singh Bhullar, awaiting death penalty in India.
I see where you are going with that, fair enough. I've seen orthogonal used often to denote mutual exclusion instead of independence. My bad. :)
> Honestly, I'm impressed they bothered given the niche appeal of the IDE

It reminds me a bit of the freepascal project. Beautiful compiler, tons of extensions (including generics: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Generics), graphical RAD IDE (Lazarus) ... yet relatively few people use it because C++ does all of that and more. Ultimately, I guess syntactic preference isn't really enough of a justification for yet another compiled imperative OOP language...
And what is the creator of the site doing with the photos?
Interesting idea, but it would be harder for me to remember 30 characters of emoji on a keyboard I don't routinely use than 30 characters of text and symbols which have, to me, some internal order, on keyboards I have used for the past...18 years?

I don't know how you get to the emoji keyboard on iOS. It would also be a little annoying having to do this on multiple platforms (I have considered using 1p on Windows at some point; no real argument that a well configured win 7 or 8 is worse than OSX, now).
What's agenda for this meetup?
Fair points. I already started mitigating this by disabling friendly fire for players with -1 score (that is, as soon as a player has team killed once and made no valid kills, they won't be able to teamkill again until they make one legit first).

Instead of hurting players (-20 health) with friendly fire, I thought it would be fun for teamkillers with -1 score to actually give their teammates +1 health by shooting them. I think some players have started using it as a way to have a "healer class", which is kind of a fun emergent behavior.
They claim that 'moot' means 'up for discussion', even though that's an archaic use of the word and no-one uses it like that any more. The only modern use is 'closed to discussion', or 'discussion has no point'.

This isn't even slightly true. I use it as a verb a lot to indicate the introduction of a point, and when I use it as a noun I intend that the matter, while of interest (and therefore debatable and open to discussion), is of academic—or at least orthogonal and relatively insoluble—interest at that time. As an adjective, for example "a moot point", it means that the point is open to discussion, perhaps too much so, and in the context of saying it's "moot" you're saying that it's not appropriate to discuss.

Several different meanings, depending on verb/noun/adjective, but all of them suggest that the topic is eminently (perhaps too) debatable.
> EDIT: Lowered the limit to 16, improved some inefficiencies in the network code. Looks like it's running fairly well now.

Might be a fun excuse to play around with an Erlang port:-)
The server could send a Content-MD5 header, which the client could compare to the md5sum of its own bytes 0 to 69.