skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question: did you volunteer alone? Did you code/write etc, that requires mostly working by yourself?

I think it depends on the type of volunteering work. If you are going to teach, or work in a garden with others - then you have much higher chances of actually interacting with people. But if you end up doing "tech" stuff, not so much, and it ends up feeling like work (or worse)
Same for me, i7 Win7. Thankfully I rarely have a reason to close ST2 once open.
Unfortunately that just makes a bigger target of the smaller businesses who can't afford such a vigorous defense.
This looks pretty nice for designers who happen to know a little bit of code. Most designers I know do their mobile mockups in After Effects so they can really demonstrate interactions and animations.
Latest update from yesterday: Hey guys! We sent The Tomorrow Girl to the printers over a week ago and will be getting the proofs shortly. It's really happening! Everything's on schedule and going lovely. I'll share any tantalizing media as I get it. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/156287353/the-tomorrow-g...
Which smartphone do you use?
> As for volunteering, which I've done, it feels exactly like work -- except even less people wanted to talk than before.

I've volunteered in the past for a local community garden. It's physically demanding work, but it was great stepping away from all the technology in my home, not have to worry about "leading", "driving", or "innovating" like I do at work, and just take simple orders to do grunt work with the end goal of making a community better.

Sure, I enjoy my day job and going home to watch Netflix. But variety makes for a richer life.
The government has been collecting taxes on cash transactions since long before Bitcoin was conceived. How is Bitcoin harder to tax than cash, when there is a public transaction record?
It seems the only one way to battle against patent trolls is to forbid them to use their patent infringement card if they do not use it themselves.
That's exactly what it was made for.
There are tests that track genetic markers that are associated with the Anglo-European interpretation of race. If such tests were available when the Irish were considered separate from whites, the test would be able to detect the distinctly irish "race."
Reactor.js: Functional Reactive Programming in Javascript
This is a very feel good type article. A couple of things have glaring red flags for me:

"His ideas are in various stages of development and include a food delivery service, a laser company, and a hardware accelerator program."

This tells me that he has all of these "ideas" but no actual expertise in any of these areas. How often have you heard some "bro" say they have a great idea in some field which they don't know anything about.

"Whatever he does next, Roth intends to hire from within the homeless community, which he views as a hotbed of untapped talent."

I'm sure there are some very smart homeless people out there, but you need skills in relevant technologies to be a successful worker in the type of companies hes wants to start. Food delivery might be easy for the homeless to pick up, Optoelectronics on the other hand not so much.

Good on the guy for learning some valuable skills, turning his life around and helping the homeless. Lets just try and be a little bit realistic about whats going on here though.
> Volunteering and traveling both put you in a position you are not normally in.

Volunteering is work. Sometimes hard work, back breaking even. I don't do it for fun, and certainly not the pay. I did it a few times to try to see what it is people get from it, and while it was nice to help people in need, I don't see it as you listed. I'll probably do it again soon because someone has to do the work.

> It's mind-expansion. It's fun. It's rewarding. You make new friends. You find new things to love. Your perceptions change. You become a different person.

I don't see it as, "Man, you blew my mind" type expansion (what ever that means). In fact, a lot of what you just said could be applied to just plain work.

Again, either people are getting something from it that I don't 'get' without having someone enunciate exactly what it is or people who give this advice don't really volunteer, or something that needs explaining to me.
Who is the new Google then?
Google, NASA quantum computing project to bring stronger machine learning
I'm playing a cat and mouse with ideas a few layers deeper than your logic structures are outlining. (perhaps getting lost in the weeds and losing the main point as a result).

Potatolicious is right, that the system is partially responsible for his death. And if most of the responsibility ends up on the evil system, then it could be said his excessive compliance should be praised and admired. That compliance isn't an illness at all. He was just eaten by a larger critter than he, and used as fuel for ulterior motives.

But his claim does not invalidate mine because suppose this evil corporation is 100% guilty, and they used all the Jedi mind tricks to brainwash him into working himself to death for their own gain. He complied when he should have defied. They were offering him money, the lack of which may be as bad as death to the victim, but ultimately the source of the error was when an instruction which results in destruction was followed by the unit.

If the unit had said: "I would rather be unemployed than deal with this terrible situation", he may be alive now. He's removed from the gene pool anyway, so evolution agrees with me, whatever that subunit did, it is to be destroyed.

I'm suggesting we destroy the faulty subunits in his mind during school, by labeling "Cooperative compliance disorder" as a real thing that can remove you from the gene pool.
I've lost you here. My C pointers analogy was relevant only in that is surprisingly hard to get by many people, and I don't know why is that so.

The only thing in Perl that clearly imitates C pointers syntax and semantics is a hash/array reference element access '->' and I like it because it clearly distinguish from actual hash/aray access '.' and understandable for any person who knows C.
How are they "first mover"? There's been smart watches around for years. "Smart watch" gives over 1700 results on AliExpress, ranging from a ton of cheap java watches to smartphones in a watch.

Don't get me wrong, the Pebble looks great and the execution seems great in ters of creating a brand and a stylish product that makes these vastly more desirable than cheap Chinese java watches, and I'm sure there's a big opportunity there. But they're nowhere near first.
Even Lucent was one of the tech darlings of the first .com bubble. How fan they have fallen...
I didn't see it mentioned in the article, but it could be due to the type of work he was doing. Until I know what sort of work he was doing, I'm not going to judge or compare it to me working on software until 11pm every day.
Object.observe() is an upcoming feature for JavaScript, which allows you to add listeners to object's properties changing. With that, you could do the same thing as this library, but without this library. Still, I'm a fan of reactive programming, so thanks for this anyway!
They are also c) the main characters in his webcomic.
Well TBH I hate SMTP and would love to see it replaced.... however, the features I want (native user-to-user encryption preventing Google from reading my mail) Google would not want to add, and unless Google makes it an open standard it's a waste of time.
Very cool.. I'm going to try this.
Very interesting, did you bother to read your link?

“Fascism is a form of political and social behavior that arises when the middle class, finding its hopes frustrated by economic instability coupled with political polarization and deadlock, abandons traditional ideologies and turns, with the approbation of police and military forces, to a poorly-defined but emotionally appealing soteriology of national unity, immediate and direct resolution of problems, and intolerance for dissent.”

I will leave the drawing of parallels to the current paradigm as an exercise to the reader.
Google and NASA Open New Lab to Kick Tires on Quantum Computer
Can anyone give a quick explanation of what FDW offers beyond the existing dblink functionality? I haven't used either, but it seems like it'd be helpful to many to spell out the difference.
but they will have to support it now.
Good thing the sea levels are rising..
Now you're putting words into Microsoft's mouth to make your point stick. WinForms was never deprecated, WPF was never meant as a replacement for it.
Mac OS X Spyware Found Signed With Valid Developer ID
The main thing that speeds the fix is the fact that they download the satellite positions over the data network. Satellite positions are embedded in the GPS signal, but they are transmitted very slowly. That is, I believe, the 50bps NAV signal he discusses on that page. It takes about 30 seconds to download it all over the GPS signal, while it can take <1s to grab it from your local cell tower. This is also the big reason why "warm starts" of standalone GPS receivers that have only been off for an hour or two are so much faster: the position data is good for a few hours, but after that it has to be downloaded again.

So cell phone GPS receivers have everything needed for standalone GPS, and position assistance from other sources as you mention, and the ability to load satellite position data from other sources. All this on a chip that probably costs less than $10 in bulk.
You are totally right on this. The world needs more wealth.

The problems of poverty or homelessness can be solved by acess to products at lower prices. We need more makers and hackers who can do that.

As we grow older, we like to conform to the societal ideals of whatever if safe and suppress our tendency to creative seek out solutions to problems by creating.
Data Visualization using Multidimensional Scaling
>>We have weird weather but May is definitely spring

Yeah, it snowed here for a moment on Saturday, but Tuesday it hit 89F. :)

>>Once May starts we're basically a few weeks from god awful summer heat like anywhere else.

With exceptions of course, like last year where the snow was gone by mid March and I went camping on St. Patties day- in shorts and a T-shirt... :) and was bit my mosquitoes :(
Some weeks ago somebody proposed a way of indicating that he is just expecting a short reply to this email (for example yes/no). I think this is pretty close.

Also I can see uses for this on business systems. Notifications are send via email, could be useful to make it possible for users to also take action in their inbox without proceeding to web.
So all these people got jailed or disciplined, except the leader... who is now working for the FBI?
RJMetrics raises $6.25M from Trinity Ventures
It's great to hear that these guys got nabbed. Normally I don't really care about these kinds of crackdowns, but those LulzSec guys really hit a nerve with me.

They were absolute amateurs who had no idea what kinds of forces they were playing with - and then would brag about the low-hanging fruit they were able to acquire as if they were infiltration gods. While I'm ambivalent about crackers who are in it for the profit because I don't know what kind of backgrounds they come from - the kiddies at Lulzsec were in it for nothing more than e-fame and circlejerking. Absolutely disgusting.

edit: anyone know why this post got filtered? I think it's becuase of the use of the word 'cracker' but I'm not certain.
I'll be making a point to make a couple purchases at newegg that I probably would have gone to amazon for.
Essential Reading For IT Leaders - Part Two
SMS integration confirmed to be coming to Google+ Hangouts
I'm really excited to see this project take off - I played with it a few months ago and it seemed like it was getting close to prime time. The two issues I see now are:

* More packages for more distros - It's great that I can install it on my OS X machine for testing, but I can only roll it out on an Ubuntu machine, and last time I checked the packages were a bit iffy when I tested them.

* More languages - It looks like you guys are working hard on this one, which is great.

Hopefully it'll be production ready soon! Great work guys.
Ask HN: How do you fire your accountant?
My company address is set up at my accountant's office.

My accountant takes care of all the tax paper work for my company.

How do I switch to a new accountant?

This guy owns me!

Any suggestions?
It's cool to see this kind of stuff coming out. Flapjax was way ahead of it's time -- too far ahead it seems.
And, for anyone who missed it, here's Part One:

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/05/10-essential-reads-for-c...
I've tried it for Android, Java, and Scala development.
Las Fronteras del Fronterizo.
Did she (or anyone else) realise the magnitude of the danger at the time though? I'd imagine she would have taken more precautions if so. Even now, her papers require protective clothing and cautious handling due to their contamination.
Shylock might, but I don't. I actively give them money, there's no extra work on their end to monetize me. Giving them information means they need to monetize that information by selling it. I'm offering liquidity (cash). Tech support doesn't seem like too much to ask.

A pound of flesh is not liquid (actually, it's punitive on Antonio).
I've been trying to force myself to use "cleartext" instead of "plaintext" to alleviate this ambiguity. It's remarkably hard to do after so long, though.
I appreciate that this library focuses on being lightweight and easy to use, and I look forward to experimenting / refactoring some code with this. I'll be interested to see how this library works alongside other javascript packages for visualization and display since it doesn't have bindings - things like Knockout.js and its custom bindings always seemed rather complicated to execute, but that could've been because I didn't fully understand what was going on behind the scenes.
Technically, a first mover is the first company that occupies a significant niche or segment. The fact that it was not the absolute first to ever release a product doesn't take the first mover position from them (there were tons and tons of niche pens before BIC came along and defined the market, as the first mover, for instance)
Takes public data, simple heuristics, and some insights and produces great results. Very very clever. That was well worth the short read.
I'm using Google apps for my business account and i am really annoyed that they are still not able to provide a sync tool (or a direct exchange access) for Outlook 2013. I know I could use SMTP or IMAP, but I also want to sync calendar and contacts (that is, in fact, the reason I upgraded to the pro version of apps in the first place).

Don't get me wrong, it is completely ok for Google to disable free stuff as they want. I would, however, prefer that they support their paying customers better. Or, at least, offer an option to got premium and pay for the stuff we would like to use.
I'm really excited to see people working on security in Go. Security by default is supposed to be one of Go's "features" at some level. (The typical example: your first several C programs probably had many buffer overflow vulnerabilities, but it's very likely none of your Go programs ever will.) Still, Go hasn't been very thoroughly tested and security hardened, so I'm hoping to see many more exploits like this discovered and ironed out in the near future.
Google buys a D-Wave quantum optimizer
To hinder: to add difficulty. I'd say it certainly does hinder use of the protocol.
N9.
Favorite scientist?
Who is your favorite scientist?

(We are building a new tool for scientist: http://bohr.launchrock.com)
Does the Apple logo really adhere to the golden ratio?
Ask HN: unit tests vs integration tests
Did you ever thought that most unit tests are useless? I usually find few cases when unit tests are helping me. Integration tests however are a lot better. I found also this story that sounds a lot like mine: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2009/08/24/writing-great-unit-tests-best-and-worst-practises/

What's your experience?
And what with "syntax doesn't matter" people? You know, the ones that now both Perl and at least three Lisps, and then twenty other languages, the ones that say that syntax is just a minor detail, and if you're irritated enough you can always write a "transpiler"? Where did all these people go (long time ago)?

Also, I prefer maths from before 20th century. You could get knowledge out of it without relying on an additional skill, which math-reading nowadays is.

On a related note: I don't believe that "you spend more time using the language than learning it". I need to think it about it some more, but I have a feeling that almost everything we do as a programmers is learning.
Obviously, IntelliJ Ultimate edition is a superset of most JetBrain products.
Yes! especially if you sell hardware to customers and then make a mistake...

I've bought a nexus 4 with 16G and received one with 8G and google hasn't responded to any of my emails.
This seems self contradictory. One of the government's jobs is consumer protection and regulation. If support is deemed to be a required thing, why shouldn't it fall under that scope?

This just seems like the normal knee jerk reaction from the right half of the political spectrum that says all regulation is bad.
Where are cell phones stolen in SF?
Yes it is, there was a great piece in the Sunnyvale Sun (a local paper) about the months and months the Public Safety department spent investigating a local club to determine if there was any illegal activity going on. I thought the reporter perfectly walked the line between 'serious' and 'yeah right.'
NSStringMask: Simplifying masks in Obj-C
First sentence of your comment was ok, rest was no-no.

First sentence of your comment was no-no, rest was ok.
Not that I know of, and in fact real-live HTML emails often contain complete gibberish (made-up tags, etc.) that doesn't even validate; we have a bunch of fix-up rules for this stuff.

CSS is a complicating factor as well: some CSS is unsafe and must be stripped, which requires a real (error-tolerant) CSS parser to go along with your real HTML parser.

And identifying remote images: you'd think that was easy right? But do you know how many ways there are to reference a .png image in HTML and CSS?

At one point Facebook emails were even hiding web bugs in BGSOUND tags -- sneaky!
Your link to the download page is wrong. It's just a "#" now.
Google's ActivityRecognition: an Android Dev perspective
The art of naming
No, that's actually how it works.

First of all, if you have kids older than about 3, no more renting. You can't put your kids through a move just because your landlord decided to raise prices 20%. If you move 5 times in their first 15 years, their likelihoods of having psychotic mental illness in adolescence and adulthood go way up.

Extreme commuting is no longer an option either. If you commute 3 hours per day in addition to a 9+ hour job, you're going to be miserable and irritable and your kids are going to see you at your worst and end up fucked-up. Then they'll end up needing the validation of VC-istan narcissism too... the cycle repeats.

Then, housework. If you have two people working career jobs, and you have kids, you're way beyond being able to do your own cleaning. If you don't have kids, you don't need to hire maids because having a tidy place is optional and most people just do without; but that shit no longer flies when you have helpless creatures you must keep alive. If you're both working career jobs, you need the resources to hire for all that shit to keep the place clean.

Finally, tuition and health insurance.

Mostly, it's goddamn fucking housing, though. Seriously, all this NIMBY shit that keeps house prices high is one of the most twisted dysgenic programs ever devised. It creates a world in which future-oriented smart people realize how fucked-up everything is and refuse to bring more people into the world, while the present-focused dumbasses (and the rich psychopaths making money off this horrible arrangement) breed like rabbits. Compassionate people who actually observe the state of the world objectively (and realize that it's borderline torture to force some being that hasn't yet been afflicted with existence to be born into this ruined world) are being selected against.
I have a new theory for you. Rather than do a bunch of stereotypical male activities that do not interest you, take up something like ballroom dance. You'll still get exercise, and you'll find that engaging in activities that lots of women want to engage in makes you more interesting to women than doing stuff they aren't engaging in.
It's a great quote but there's a problem.

Your legal officer, your attorney or anyone at your company should realize that this isn't about them nor is it about (business wise at least) protecting anyone else but the interests of your company. His quote smacks of a challenge that he liked and as such you also have to at least question whether he operated at arms length from the problem at hand.

Newegg's business isn't fighting lawsuits.
I love RethinkDB API. It makes joins possible without going through mapreduce. Though I am using MongoDB currently, I plan on switching to RethinkDB as soon as it is more stable and provides better performance. Excited to see the team making progress on all fronts.
Wind Energy’s Shadow: Turbines Drag Down Power Potential
I would love it if they would let me trade back my InPulse watch for a Pebble.
The main issue I have with autocomplete is that the data can vary by site - which means stale data is possible.

I don't use autocomplete, I use 1password, which guarantees my information is as up to date as I want it to be for all sites.

Perhaps browser extensions like 1Password can also leverage this to keep your autocomplete data up to date with your main contact/credit details?
Common Lisp actually has a suprising amount of syntax, from the obvious ', to all of the standard dispatch reader macros starting with # (#', #., #=, ...), to block comment syntax #| ... |#. Pure lisp has no syntax, but practical lisp has quite a bit. Trying to read arbitrary symbols from external sources can lead to quite a shock without hacking the reader to disable many of it's syntactical features.
I think you're missing the point.

Broadcasting your radio signals unencrypted means there is no privacy. Making a law saying that it is private is like making a law the sun should come up at 5am. The sun will do what it wants and the communication will be overheard.

If you broadcast signals that are encrypted, but that I can intercept without any kind of physical tampering or alteration or destruction of the signal, again laws are of no help to anyone. The communication will be decrypted and overheard.

It's better to make laws that conform to reality than to make laws that tilt at windmills and are used arbitrarily against citizens.
I like it. I'm a coder / designer and I usually do the layout stuff in photoshop and then add animations when I actually build the product (i.e. Core Animation in my case) but that can cost quite a few build / test cycles until it has the right feel (speed, animation, etc) to it. I'm a huge fan of Quartz Composer but to me it just doesn't feel like the right tool for the job, especially since interactivity (i.e. touching, clicking) feels a bit like an afterthought in there. Also, I really don't like Flash; had to do Flash programming years ago, and can't stand the UI anymore. So this tool looks like the solution that perfectly solves the problem I'm having there. Thanks, I'll play around with it tomorrow!
I agree. I'm a workaholic, but I channel that restlessness into projects and hobbies with the same fervor as my day job. Sometimes those are technical in nature, but not always.

Just because you're a workaholic doesn't mean that the object of your focus should always be your job.
Agape charity finds easy way to forward email for volunteers