skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed! Not many people do this that I know of but it's a great option. I use a vim/tmux environment, but I use IntelliJ for a lot of the Java heavy-lifting. Let's face it, it's hard to match IntelliJ's autocompletion, auto-import, etc. inside of vim. I do use the vim bindings though.

Looking forward to porting my ant scripts to gradle.
I've never had a client ask or complain about that, and the ones who would probably aren't clients you want, either.
>Face it Microsoft: Windows Phone is a dismal failure.

So did a smart guy say once about Apple. I went from being a hardcore Android fan to just falling in love with my Lumia phone. Everyone I know who has a windows phone has been happy with it. So no I don't think it is a dismal failure.

I have found replacements for most Google services but there doesn't exist or may never exist one for Youtube. I was a user of Youtube before Google was a buyer, so yes it sucks to be given a second class treatment because you made the unpopular choice for your phone. Hope this doesn't repeat, you know with Ubuntu and Firefox phones coming out.
Even Vimeo can make a decent Windows Phone app and a Windows 8 app and Youtube with a order of magnitude more revenue cannot?

If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell.

Give me a break, Google is doing this to hurt the adoption of Windows Phone.
That wouldn't work. Search and display snippets of search results have been ruled as fair use in multiple cases for their transformative value. You wouldn't have a copyright claim and robots.txt has been upheld as an industry standard/easily implementable escape hatch to make it known that the crawler should not index the specified sites/pages.

You could certainly say, "I'll keep you blocked in robots.txt (or block by IP or whatever) until you show my ads", but you are unlikely to succeed in that, and then there are still the downsides of not being listed in search results to consider.
Google: “Take down your ad-free YouTube app”. Microsoft: “Let us add ads”
Google the law around "liquid assets" (assets which are easily convertible to money without loss of value).

Money laundering laws have been around a long time and tend to be written to encompass a wide range of work arounds that criminals have used historically. Using near money or liquid assets for money laundering has been commonplace for decades, hence laws tend to be designed to handle it.

(that said I'm much more familiar with EU anti-money laundering laws than US ones as I used to work in currency trading in London)
Biased, sarcastic, and condescending... why do people visit this guys website again?

You may have answered your own question. Gruber is to Apple Blogging what Howard Stern was to radio back in the day. I said this a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911378
I think something to note in your comment is that you chose to go to a school who didn't focus on marketable jobs... This seems to hint either at a) you didn't check job prospects before choosing a college or, b) your school was failing at what they prided themselves on by providing an education that got you a marketable career.

I think fewer students check actual job prospects less frequently than you might expect. Rather, they go with their gut or influence by people close to them (teachers, family members, etc...) who are probably just going from the gut anyway.
Running red lights and almost hitting someone is really really bad, but at the same time, pedestrians don't always have the right of way. In London everyone needs to cooperate because there's a ton of people and not much space.

The closest I ever came to hitting somebody was a middle aged man who full on stepped out into the center divider nowhere near a crosswalk without even looking right while I was bearing down on him with a string of motorcycles behind me. I had one car length to stop, endo'ed up and sort of jumped off to the side of him which I could do because I'm on a mountain bike with great brakes and I ride defensively like you say. If I hadn't been there holding the pace, those motorcycles behind me could have been going and lot faster, and frankly they would have done a lot more damage had they actually hit him. I often wonder how people get hit by buses, but cycle commuting in London has shown me: given enough people someone is guaranteed do something ridiculously stupid and suicidal.

Oh and don't get me started about the tourists at Piccadilly Circus / Trafalgar Square (they won't get hit because everyone who drives there knows the herds of pedestrians aren't paying the least bit of attention to what's going on around them).
Not "might", will. They state it on the linked page:

"... our customer service team will help resolve any questions you might have."
something similar happened here in Italy/other countries... anti piracy advertising stoled music

http://torrentfreak.com/rights-group-fined-for-not-paying-ar...

oddly this article is not related...
In startups? Then they're doing it wrong. Even in enterprise-size businesses they're doing it wrong. If manual repetition of a task occurs it has to be automated or refactored if it costs significant developer time (=money): http://xkcd.com/1205/
Because Waze isn't really that good either.
The search sequences don’t show actual webpages. They are a combination of HiDPI screenshots and vector animations, made in post-production software like Adobe AfterEffects.

You can replicate the look by recording your tour in one of OS X’s HiDPI modes[1] and then adjusting the perspective in a non-lineair editing suite (such as Final Cut Pro) or post-production software (such as AfterEffects).

[1] http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/12/enable-hidpi-mode-in-mac-os-x...
Were either of the first two started by "a sane engineer with a bit of experience"?

Inertia is powerful.
Finally, a way develop ORGANIZED large scale JavaScript application libraries...
It's very simple: no XMPP? Then I'm not IM'ing with you. No SMTP? Then I'm not emailing with you. I might be the exception, but I don't care. I encourage others to do the same, and don't support in any way, shape, or form companies that keep doing these things. Someone comes to you with a problem caused by this BS (or just a problem with, say, the offender's platform in general), refuse to support them. Tell them to talk to their vendor.
... or just a standard business class laptop without a semi-powerful GPU.
Some Attraction Point in San Diego - by San Diego Airport Taxi Service May 15
I hate to say it, but aside from a little bit of "social" stuff which I'll never use, and a slightly revised UI, it doesn't really seem all that different. I'd prefer fixes to the map data itself. I've been having pretty severe routing issues in the last few weeks.
Apple passes 50 billion App Store downloads
Simple solution; screew Google and offer Vimeo instead. In my opinion, the quality in both sense is better there...
Yet they have an official chrome browser app for Windows 8.
Simple solution; screw Google and offer Vimeo instead. In my opinion, the quality in both sense is better there...
I was an undergrad. The couple of grad classes I took were indeed taught by an English-speaking professor, but the undergraduate classes were awful and left a bad taste in my mouth.
And whining about shutting down Reader accomplished what, exactly?
I did this with Chase last year. Had to sign a mountain of paperwork though.
Some great advice in this post. I think the importance of staying in touch with colleagues cannot be overstated.

Your network is your greatest asset.
That's a fine sounding slogan but back in reality, your safety culture turns out to be a farce. Compliance is impossible to ensure, and this will only get worse. Continued insistence upon this farce erodes confidence and respect in the competence of the authorities, and in the flight crews carrying out the policies. It's also hard to have a safe environment where the authorities are widely regarded as buffoons.

>I don't see any more quantitative arguments from you.

You don't see, or you don't care to see?
FTA: "Not just remove the app, but also disable existing downloads of the app. Aka, the “kill switch”, which (as far as we can remember) has only been used once before."

And this is why app stores - as implemented by Google, Microsoft and Apple - are evil. 'Bought' an app? Think again.
not to be a grammar zealot but isn't 'zelot' spelled 'zealot'? Just bringing it up since the repliers of this thread keep using it.
Absolutely nothing of course. Didn't stop people from whining; people love to whine on the internet.
A.k.a. "The above-the-fold syndrome"
I work 2 full time jobs at 80 hours a week and I'm also a freelancer working an extra 10-20 hours. I also work while I work. So I'm always busy.
> I'm also really interested in what forbidding "charitable transactions" actually entails. Is it just donations to 501(c)(3)s or is it gifts of other types? How about political donations? And what's its primary purpose? My first thought was that it must be for tax reasons

I think its either liability reasons or just market segmentation (so that receivers of the transactions need a merchant account of some kind); note that they don't ever single out "charitable transactions" alone, its always an exclusion of "business, commercial, or charitable transactions" (in several different places in the agreement), so I would assume that the reason for "charitable transactions" is linked to the reason for business and commercial transactions.
> What law says Google needs to provide an API?

Perhaps the same laws that force Microsoft to offer alternative to Internet Explorer in Windows...
"Like our meme? Here’s a few more we tried. Which one is your favorite?"
Akka is an actor model concurrency library (so instead of threads and locks -they are abstracted away- you pass immutable messages between actor objects which are managed by other actors with queues - there are locks though if you really need them) for scala and java that just happens to use the same interface (more or less) for distributing work between different nodes. It's a tool for both. I don't know of anything else like it.

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.1/scala/transactors.html
You can run Django on top of AppEngine and port your app to any number of Django hosts with minimal changes. I just talked to a startup founder who started out on AppEngine and just recently switched to Heroku.
Retina 13" MBP v.s. 13" Air as dev machine
I'm tossing up between the two and I am hoping someone who owns one can shed some light.

Right now I have a '10 15" MBP (1400x900).

Here are my pros vs cons.

rMBP pros:
- hdmi out
- 2x thunderbolt
- retina
- more CPU

rMBP cons:
- lower 'native' resolution (screen space)
- bigger/less aesthetic
- more expensive (not a major concern)

Air pros:
- thinner/lighter, more aesthetic
- higher 'native' resolution
- cheaper

Air cons:
- less cpu
- no hdmi
- only one thunderbolt

It's primary uses are development and music production, for what I do and the difference we are talking of, the power difference isn't a dealbreaker - here are some questions/concerns:

- with the MBP, if I run at a scaled resolution (maybe 1440x900) for more screen real estate, will it lag? I am thinking of the 2.5GHz model.
- is there any noticeable battery difference between them?
- I do a fair amount of travel so weight is a consideration, but afaik the difference is less than 400g between them - the Air just /feels/ so much smaller because of the thickness
- is there anything I have no considered?

Another unrelated thing: are thunderbolt hard drives /that/ much faster in real usage than USB 3.0?

Thanks, and if I've missed anything let me know
The correct way is for google to be storing encrypted off-the-record chat messages, decrypted by the client in javascript (or however the android client would do it). That way, Google would be able to persist chat history across devices if they share keys, but the stored ciphertext is useless to them.

Do we know if they're doing that?
Very nice. Simple, straightforward, to the point.

If you included large icons for each of the exercises
( similar to http://thenounproject.com/noun/exercise/#icon-No318 )
and used large type relative to the screen size
( so that someone doing the workout didn't have be too close to the phone or tablet they are running the timer on )
you would have something even more compelling.
Onepager - onepagerapp.com
Also the iOS fan base in this context. Enemy of my enemy and all that. It's fun being old sometimes -- you get to watch people switch "sides" in these silly arguments over years and decades.
You know what's worse than commuting by tube? Commuting by public transport anywhere in America. I mean sure you can always get a seat on the Caltrain, but if you miss it you have to wait one whole hour for the next one. Oh and if someone voluntarily or involuntarily commits suicide at one of the many at-grade crossings (for bullet trains) you will be 3 hours late because there is no alternate route.

Granted, I cycle to work because commuting by tube is not the most pleasant experience, but I love being able to get anywhere in the city at the drop of a hat without the burden of car ownership.
Can you make Skype calls without a Skype account?
Why Seattle? Because the City is Synonymous With the Cloud
FaceTime requires an Apple ID and Skype requires a Skype account, so I'm confused, how is requiring a G+ account any different?
Kepler was launched 4 years ago, so I think your first sentence is misworded. Its original 3.5-year mission was pushed out 3 years due to issues with noisy data, so it hasn't really completed its original mission yet.

(Not that it hasn't done a great deal of excellent work already, but much more is/was still to come.)
> Google is doing this to hurt the adoption of Windows Phone.

If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell ... after I stop laughing.
That SF map is bullshit. In general you would never see such an even spacing of startups (or most anything) unless someone were trying distribute them very carefully. And specifically there are a number of super dense hotspots that should stand out in a map like that. Someone just painted those dots according to what might look good.
Privilege Escalation Bug in RHEL 6 Kernel
I wish it were that easy. The problem with that is it at the end of the day, you're the only one at a disadvantage. The vendor doesn't need you and doesn't care. If your casual contacts and non-technical friends find communicating with you to be uncomfortable, they'll just move on without you.
Kiera Wilmot, student who caused small explosion, won't face charges
What a crock. Google has many legit reasons to not want to build an app for a competing platform, so be it. But to think a company that routinely throws money away on tons of other development efforts while letting search ad revenue subsidize the cost would suddenly start doing a cost/benefit analysis of such a trivial effort is absurd. If your formula was applied to other products, like Google Reader which was never monetized and had huge infrastructure costs, they never would have seen the light of day. This is a strategic stance on Google's part, not financial, nothing wrong with that.
Why are you worried about monitoring? Do you have something to hide?
Buffer Testimonials (scroll down and hit "Gimme More")
> How do they update the app if Google doesn't give them
> access to the API? They need to kill it and millions of
> Windows Phone users will be left with no legal YouTube app.

One possible alternative is for Microsoft to release a version of their app that does not violate the YouTube TOS. For example, it wouldn't play videos that the uploader has flagged as being forbidden to mobile devices and wouldn't permit downloading of videos.

There is a public YouTube API, documented at https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/ , which Microsoft could have used if they were interested in implementing a TOS-compliant app.
> Google's 2 step authentication is completely useless to some of us because they don't have actual per application passwords.

App-specific passwords are one-factor in any case (they are "something you know" just like any other password), and are an alternative to two-factor auth for certain places where Google's two-factor auth isn't supported for one reason or another. Google's 2-factor auth requires a device (usually, smartphone app) generated code alongside your regular Google password.
Generally speaking, if it's business, no hugging, unless the person is also a good friend. If someone I had met exactly once before decided to hug me the second time, and it was in a work context, I would put them solidly in the creeper bucket. Sorry.

(Demographic disclaimer: I am a woman and an engineering manager. Also Australian which I think means I have a slightly bigger personal space than the average American.)
Thanks for the response. I'll have to give it a try. And I need to stop working for stingy clients...
What about the animosity of the local developers who want to make $60k a year plus bennies, but you're hiring people for $15 an hour?
Save your breath, CloudNine is one of those Microsoft zealots as well.
I really like its idea, but I haven't talked myself into it yet. It just didn't quite get past that threshhold for me
So I'm curious about something.

1. Do ad blockers remove ads from YouTube?
2. Do the people in support of Google's stance use ad blockers?
Perfect is the enemy of good enough. Doesn't matter what your site is coded in if it isn't revenue positive/have funding/etc.
I think you are right that it probably isn't a campaign hyping the STEM jobs but I doubt the answer is making those classes "more rigorous" (though it probably does need some work in that area).

My bet is that it is not treated appropriately by the teachers. My grade school teachers made science boring, monotonous and repetitive. It wasn't interesting at all. The crazy thing is that it is really cool... So much of it has a ton in common with a fun action movie: explosions and sex.

Frame it in terms that make sense and is interesting to students rather than just reading chapter 5 and the interest in STEM fields will naturally increase.
Will better service from Google Fiber, and other large providers, push Comcast to provide a better customer service/support experience?
Youtube is considered core mobile functionality, like a browser, but Youtube is a fiefdom in which Google does not have to compete (unlike the ultra-competitive landscape of the Browser wars). While Google has nothing to lose and everything to gain from restricting access to YouTube, the same cannot be said about the Browser, thus they compete.

It's simple economics; don't waste money helping people dethrone your monopoly (I AM NOT ADVOCATING THIS POSITION, SIMPLY STATING MY PERCEPTION).
I love xkcd, and this one is the spookiest of them all. The logic of that comic leads to a challenging existential proposition.
Please watch Apple's 1984 commercial again.

http://youtu.be/2zfqw8nhUwA
As long as they keep XMPP support around for ordinary google talk accounts, you have the power to use clients that support OTR-encrypted IMs. That way, Google only stores useless messages.

Pidgin and bitlbee make this super simple to set up. In fact, by default, my client performs auto-detection of someone else's OTR plugin, which means that after I send my first message to someone, my conversation is automatically "lifted" to an encrypted (albeit untrusted) channel. When set up properly, it's so seamless that I don't even notice it happened.
Liked the link to the talk. He's very straight forward, but I'm torn. I recognize that finding your ideal customers and their pain points first is generally the best approach, but if you have domain knowledge or insights, and have an idea for a product that you know you'd use yourself and that you're passionate about, that's just as valid as going off solving someone else's problem. Obviously there needs to be a market for it and people that'd pay for it besides yourself, but it's a good start.

It might still be safer to find a problem you're disconnected from emotionally and that has a higher chance of success (and really don't care about much). That might work well for business majors, but that's not why I want to start a business. Maybe I'll rethink that after my first business fails though...
Doesn't work on me either. Win 7 64
cmd-F only shows "though" in there twice, both in the word "thought" - I'm not sure what you're asking.
Silicon Valley fuels commercial drones
Honest question: is this sarcsam? I can't tell.
Ask HN: Howto control fullscreen popup contents in realtime?
Hi,

I was thinking about using Meteor, Backbone or AngularJS, but don't have any experience with these frameworks yet.

The task is to create 4 fullscreen popups without window controls and push content from another window into these in realtime (content appears with special effects).

It has to be an offline webapp, because it's going to be used in concerts. They don't have enough budget for a native Application ie. QtApp.

Is that even possible with the Javascript Framework above?
Zenpayroll is great. I just wish they didn't send me 6 or 7 emails within a 3 day period during the initial signup process reminding me to sign some documents (I hadn't spoken to my other founder to get his okay to use to use the site for our company yet).
Only to untrusted binaries on your machine.

Not caring about attacks from the local user is what got Microsoft tons of (justified) bad PR not ten years ago.
I suppose neither are ideal, really. With an invite only model you run the risk of biasing your feedback. The advantage of a random rollout would be the marketing sleight of hand: "gradual rollout" might be more defensible than "by invitation".

Gmail and Google Groups have both had random rollouts for changes, with optional rollbacks. That seems more fitting (to me at least).
> What's not clear is how a person without a google wallet account claims the money.

They set up a Google Wallet. See Sec. 6.3(f) of the ToS [1].

[1] https://wallet.google.com/legaldocument?family=0.buyertos...
It was about Compute Engine actually. For those who are interested, the GCE page says registration opens at 6PM PST on May 15th, 2013.
Microsoft is a bad actor. No sympathy for them at all
exactly, this has nothing to do with ability to rollout, rather marketing (create desire), test profitability (do users come back more often)
The API is JSON over HTTP. Getting permission to use it is a completely automated process.
I was in the same situation. I can do back-end web programming, and some lower level things in C or mobile apps.

Right now, though, d3.js gives me 80% of my income. It's something I like, and I noticed a lot of demand, so I sort of happened naturally. Focusing in a single area has the advantage that you can become really efficient at it, much more than if you hop between completely different projects every two months.

I still have a bunch of side projects in every language under the sun, because that's what I like, and because the market won't stay the same forever, but focusing professionally on only one area (that you reasonably enjoy) for a time simplifies marketing a lot.
> It's not like they are getting people to court for cases like this -- which could be legitimate ignorance.

How do you know they aren't? It might be very easy for someone who's not technically knowledgeable to plug in a wifi router without configuring it, leaving their Internet connection open.
Death by Interview: Revealing the Pain Caused by Excessive Interviews
> So did a smart guy say once about Apple.

Who ever did is either eating crow for that, or isn't as smart as he claimed.

Microsoft has been in the mobile business for a long time. They have tried to re-invent their offerings at least two times, probably more. There are a lot of OEMs with knives in their backs (e.g.: Sendo, OQO) in the wake.

That they have failed to succeed after blowing such a lead and countless investment dollars is a real organizational character failure on their part. That some in Redmond think they're still winning is even sadder.