skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's complaint isn't that "nobody" is using WP, so stop bringing out that strawman to make yourself sound smart.

Google's argument is simply that Microsoft, a company that should know better, is intentionally breaking the Youtube ToS. The lack of native app is because Google has determined that WP users can "live with" watching videos in the browser for the time being.
There are many ways Bitcoin is easier to track than cash.
I suspect you are suffering from stockholm syndrome. I program Java daily, understand what Eclipse is doing, and I cannot use it for more than a week without shouting at it as it crashes and burns. Perhaps this is a Mac OS X quirk, but I don't really care.

And UX wise it isn't just "crappy." It take some serious doing to be less intuitive and newbie-friendly than emacs.
Are you sure? From my reading, it's saying the exact opposite - XMPP clients still connect to a seperate XMPP chat service that's compatible with the App Engine XMPP support and completely seperate from Hangouts. The Verge also had a chat with the head of that department and he said that Hangouts drops XMPP support, apparently with no caveats about it still partially supporting XMPP: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4318830/inside-hangouts-go...
"expats that make no income from their home country and no longer live there."

And from American citizens by birthright, born outside of the US, and who have never set toe inside the country nor made a penny of US income.
A friend of mine sells Notebooks of all kind in large electronic discounter. He said that the most reliable Notebooks were Asus followed by Apple, when it comes to repairs, problems etc. But I certainly do understand why you want a Mac. Quality.
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If someone has this featured enabled by default, I can't send them a message when they're offline, which is occasionally annoying.
It makes sense to me. What Manning did was fairly awful from a dispassionate standpoint. Of course, few people are dispassionate about it, especially around here. :)

If Manning had war crimes on file he could have revealed those and only those. What he did instead is at best reckless, and at worst could be said to be the instigator for the onset of the Arab Spring, and the follow-on violence that continues to this day, not to mention the Afghani and Pakistani families affected by the data leaks.

On the other hand Swartz can be said pretty universally to be pursuing a noble goal (even those who disagree with some of his specific actions would tend to agree with that), and at worst gained unauthorized network access and downloaded a bunch of files...
Exactly: WCF == bloat.

Bloat in XML, bloat in configuration, bloat in object model...
To be fair to Google, Apple did break rotation in lots of apps in iOS 6. Though the fix isn't that difficult and I'm surprised that new releases are running into this.
Use Embark NYC religiously. Now i've got this one for SF visits where, lets be fair, public transit is a gotdamn mess.
I just wouldn't have guessed the people who requested PHP would use much resources—if you're scaling, you probably know better than to use PHP in the first place.
what part of the server?

app stack, os, config, or code?
Didn't offhand - I just saw him in the hallway for 5 minutes or so while he was in town for I/O.
> There is a reason why we had strict regulations (a dirty word on HN, I know) for "old fashioned" mail and telephone.

I would argue that the reason had to do with the fact that you couldn't encrypt, and you couldn't choose your provider. In a time when people could encrypt everything if they just cared, and when there are a ton of mostly independent ways to contact people and it's even easy to host your own, I wouldn't say that such regulations would be a good idea.
Interesting timing. Amazon coin also popping up as well, and Mt. Gox going down.
I've paid for Routesy Pro; are there reasons to switch to Embark SF?
I donated to her defense fund - assuming there's money left over, I hope they just give her the cash. I've sent a message to that effect to the person organising the fundraising.
Heaven is real but so is Hell by Vassula Ryden
FlatUIKit reminds me of following the projects on Github:
https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCControls
& https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware

I personally had to fork the DCRoundSwitch project to make it more FlatUI like. I am glad there are other efforts out there to help grow this component set.
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Hangouts supports xmpp clients (but not federation), so it's similar to facebook afaik.
My name is Nick and I work at ZenPayroll. Sorry for the delay - we'll be starting our multi-state rollout next month for a few states with many more to follow afterwards.
To my knowledge the YouTube API doesn't ban users for excessive use of the API, it just throttles them temporarily.

The exact throttling values are not posted publicly, but there are multiple third-party apps using the YouTube APIs successfully, so I expect the limits are high enough for a standard client to work without problems.
I guess I have to keep pointing out the obvious, but for airline safety a miniscule probability is often too high. I do not want a minuscule probability of death just so some moron cannot handle 5 min with a turned off cell-phone.
It seems like most of the feedback here is about how they will monetize, not necessarily how the app actually functions, no?

Can't speak for daily SF users, but as an NYC commuter who goes places other than just work and home on a regular basis, Embark has been far and away the best thing on my iPhone.

Also, my schedule isn't always fixed, so Embark is great at telling me when trains are coming, etc. etc.

I agree that there's lots of transit apps, I've downloaded a lot of them, but I end up keeping the Embark ones.
Retainers are a great way to add security to what is ( or can be ) a pretty uncertain financial path, however they don’t come without risks. You have to make sure any retainer you agree to works for both you and the client. If the client is asking for 24/7 on call support you either need to refuse, or charge enough for this support that you could then afford another two of you to look after the customer.

The best solution I've found is to require a Good Faith Deposit. ( http://www.hackeress.com/goodfaith ) For this, charge ~ what you'd charge for 1 day of work, even if the client just wants to meet "for coffee". It's really hard to draw the line where the chitchat ends and the actual work / scope-framing / brainstorming begins. How many times have interviewers brought in or set up phone interviews with people they have zero intention of hiring, just to "pick their brains"? I ended up learning the hard way that this happens way too often. By the time I figured it out, I was out a lot of wasted time. (WePay and a couple other companies did this to me after my post here on HN awhile ago).

I call it a Good Faith deposit because even though non-contractual meetings of Good Faith should be the norm, they're _not_. Getting viciously screwed over as an employee and a contractor (and even as an interviewee) more than a couple times brings this harsh reality into focus. So I made a decision going forward: the ONLY kind of clients I want to team with are those willing to respect my time and experience enough to work with me in Good Faith.
Is XMPP asynchronous?
Hmm... other than some issues with disappearing completion windows (probably related to me running XMonad), I haven't really found it to be that ugly on linux... Maybe not very slick, but frankly speaking, for the benefits it's small price :D
> America is on that list so long as it is the dominant military/economic power on the planet

Disgusting and completely unacceptable.

You're saying that big strong kids bullying smaller kids is perfectly acceptable and a way of life.

I pity you for thinking that way. What a horrible outlook.
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I don't know about the OP, but I took the term from the first image in the post that says "hold their hand." I agree that helping the client put together a decent spec does not mean I need hand-holding. If anything, it puts me more on the right side of that image. :-)
As software eats the world, JavaScript is eating software.
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Yep, they keep a history of chats even when you're using Pidgin. This is pretty easy to confirm...
Pedestrians do have the right of way actually in the UK.
The Phony Wireless Bandwidth Crisis: Two-Faced Data Flood Warnings
I want to teach people to be Growth Hackers / Online Marketers
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I've got family members who work in the Justice system, my grandfather was a the US Attorney. It costs a lot of money to try and prosecute a case, the various enforcement agencies have budgets and there is incentive to not waste money on prosecutions that can be dealt with inexpensively.

So when something comes up, you see if you can "resolve" it simply. So in this case the forms get updated, the Mt. Gox guys become registered as an MSB and go through the paperwork to meet the necessary standards, and if they can't they shut down. The enforcement interests of the state are served. Similarly if you are accused of violating a law the prosecutor will often offer you a plea deal of some form. This is effectively saying "Ok, let's assume I can prove all of this and your guilty and you will be fined and possibly go to prison. I'm willing to forego that lengthy process if you simply admit wrongdoing to this set of charges and accept this sentence for it." Of course sometimes the prosecutor has a different agenda and they want to "send a message" to people who might consider a similar path. This ranges from the small, police officers citing seatbelt violations, to the absurd like telling Aaron Schwartz he would spend 30 years in prison.

A friend of mine who was registering his business as a consultant in Santa Clara county screwed up and put down his business as "consulate." He signed the document that said that was what he was trying to do, and not surprisingly it is illegal to represent yourself as a diplomat when you aren't one. But he didn't get a DHS agent throwing him down in the street, he got a call from the County clerk when the State Department returned the application saying essentially "wtf?" They had a laugh, he updated and amended the form and didn't serve any prison time. :-)

Generally, its been my experience that "the man" isn't really out to get you. And maximizing compliance with the existing laws of the land trumps prosecuting every single violation. So skipping the first step [1] of just calling up and getting clarification seems unusual to me, given my experience with folks who prosecute people for a living.

[1] This is an assumption on my part, for all I know they may have called and said "Did you really mean to say 'no' here? Looks like you should have said 'yes'." And he may said "I said 'no' and I meant it."
You do realize that this is a civil case right?

Yes. They committed an illegal act; now they are being sued over it.

[Hipaa was't designed for this]

HIPAA was designed to protect medical records from falling into unauthorized hands and/or being misused or mishandled. So yes, this is a HIPAA violation, probably of unprecedented size and scope.

[If the government used this information for other cases] The cases would be thrown out almost immediately

The government routinely intercepts information that it can't use in court because of the way it was obtained. They use it as a starting point. If someone has told their psychiatrist that they were embezzling funds, for example, and this was in their records, they could use that information to know where to begin looking and prosecute a crime that they would not have otherwise known about.
She is already at a new high school.

The Orlando Sentinel story linked in the OP says she "is now attending classes at an alternative school." Is that "alternative" as in "another" or "alternative school" as in "remedial school geared toward at-risk youth"?
From the article, this is the second reaction wheel to fail in 8 months. They had redundancy, but I wonder what the cost/benefit would have been to have more backup wheels.

Obviously, I'm an armchair/hindsight 20/20 observer here. I have no clue whether it would have been an been an infeasible engineering feat to have more than 4 wheels. Also, I don't really have a clue what a reaction wheel is.

EDIT: Wikipedia to the rescue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel
Could you describe your workflow/emacs.d ?

I've been thinking of going with Emacs for Java coding for some time, but JDEE always seemed to be missing something (and some of the newer options tended to eat hilarious amounts of resources or required maven)
One of the interesting pull requests that came out of https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCRoundSwitch was to support accessibilityValue . I for one would like to make a request for it. DCRoundSwitch was my first introduction to the power of the Core Graphics layer. I now believe that you can draw almost anything instead of heavy reliance on design images. Best.
Routing and a comprehensive Bay Area transit map are some reasons. It's also a free app so there's no harm in trying it out.
I think there’s a continuum here. I’m sure we’ve all been stuck (or heard of the project) with some guy who thinks he’s an architect (but has been hired as a coder) and can sit at his desk for weeks produce lots of docs, but 0 lines of code. Sometimes that’s good for the project - and sometimes it sinks it.

Sometimes we’re paid to think, and sometimes we’re paid to code. Deciding which activity is more economically viable to the company should probably not be left up to us. That’s what they hire managers for after all...
Searching for Embark SF works now
If you're a student you get rebates! = more SDD/RAM
Am I the only one that's thinking that "backend" for this is actually whats left of google wave?
That's not an IDE. What's the value of static typing if you have you don't have any tools which make use of it to provide code analysis, completion and refactoring options?
thanks. How do I compare? hmmm, good question. Aside from being completely irrelevant compared to them in size, I guess with craigslist you are anonymous and dealing with the other side which is also anonymous, but here that would not be allowed. Both parties are required to have some form of verification.

There is a trust system which encourages users to get more verified and to participate more in the community, which further builds trust. I'd like to continue to add trust cues, such as integration with trustcloud and other services eventually.

tl;dr: trust is important on Rentything and not so much on craigslist.
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I took it as the latter. "Alternative school", in my experience, is a very specific term and not just a synonym for "another, different school".
Aaron (aka thinkcomp) certainly has a issue with this stuff given his FaceCash experience. As to whether he was involved or not is sort of irrelevant though isn't it?
As others have noted, the pieces are already (mostly) there, they just need to be put together properly. FreedomBox is one effort in this direction, and they've already got an eye on XMPP, at least for chat. I don't know about extending it, but that is where I would start. IIRC, XMPP was created in response to the last time chat was balkanized; remember ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc, etc, etc?
You see each service in Internet has something called Terms Of Service.
In case of YouTube one of terms says that apps cannot skip ads. In other words it says that apps cannot steal from poor creators of materials.
MS created app which is doing it. They ordinary steal money from ads from creators. People spent theirs time on creating content, uploaded it to YouTube, and now WP users thanks to MS will watch theirs work in way which will cause that creators will not get money from it.
Does behavior of MS means that now anybody can download all MS products and start to use those products without paying?
If you ever want to be able to alphabetize by last name, having them captured distinctly is necessary. Otherwise, it's impossible to know where one part of the name ends and another begins.
When I was a kid, my dad explained it to me by drivers playing dominoes in the bus depot.
Reasons to be skeptical of Google Music All Access
As others have said in previous threads, this girl wasn't conducting a science experiment, she was blowing something up.

Those two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
They where authorized to have access to that machine and the data on it. HIPAA is just one law amoung many and you can't assume it automatically overrides everything else just because you are emotionally atached to the idea.
"Lots of kids playing around with PHP"
"People who want to play around with "hello worlds" with PHP"

Your attitude is ridiculously arrogant.

PHP powers most non-corporate website on the web. The wast majority of wikis, blogs and forums. You know, things that are used for actual communication and knowledge sharing by millions of people.
And I would assume getting banned from the API is also a completely automated process.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started#quo...
Rangel's tax problems are probably less 'bad' than Geithner's. He owned a condo in the D.R. for 20 years, and over that time earned a total of $75k by renting it out. Less than $4k per year...

His excuse for not claiming the income is plausible too since the payments went straight against the mortgage through the resort it was attached to, so the money never hit his savings account. If you owned a home, rented a room on AirBnB, and then AirBnB paid off a small part of your mortgage, would most people know to claim that money as income?

That being said, the Nabors tax shelter mess, the unreported checking accounts, the multiple rent-controlled apartments, etc. all add up to show Rangel as a typical corrupt politician.

But really, all of the examples just underscore how insane the tax code has become.

I couldn't agree more. It's a problem when something like 50% of tax returns are wrong upon close examination.
There's awful, and then there's PHP.

JavaScript isn't a great language, but it's OK. Maybe "awful", but lots of languages are.

PHP, on the other hand, is in a class of its own, far worse than JavaScript or any other mainstream language I've experienced.
I wonder why it took weeks.
Yeah sorry about that. All changes to maps have now been cancelled until zip code issues in the region of coverband have been resolved.
The amount they pay for bug bounties has just become worthless. The value of an XSS or even CSRF bug in Google products has just shot through the roof.

I hope it works. If it does it'll have a massive impact on the world and hopefully utterly screw paypal, but the potential for fraud is huge. It's one thing to secure a payment portal, but a complex mail app with a combined payment portal is a massive challenge. I hope they can live up to it.
does discipline matter at all when it comes to this doubling/tripling of day job rate formula?

Yes, but you may find it is more favourable (sometimes much more favourable) not to let yourself be pigeonholed as a certain kind of worker at all. Where possible, I'd recommend presenting your offer in terms of value it generates for your client, the way another business would rather than the way an employee would. Angle for them to be interested in results and not in any particular skills or technologies you use to achieve those results, and you change the way the discussion is framed.

However, this advice comes with the caveat that presenting things that way isn't always possible. Many clients really are looking for a certain skill set to fit in with an existing team, and you can make decent, if usually unspectacular, money with that kind of gig too. In that case, ideally you want to offer a credible rate but one toward the high end of the spectrum for your market, which brings us back to "yes".
A powerful yet simplistic alternative to TypeScript...
>guess we have to wait for google to update their SDK page.

It does if you use the preview:

http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/05/intellij-idea-13-ear...
> History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

- Mark Twain

If your currency isn't a liquid consumable good (like say tide detergent - look it up) or isn't backed by a nation state, it will get crushed as soon as it becomes popular enough.

Do you honestly think governments around the world are just going to stand around while people start ditching their currency systems?

No, they'll shut you down through violent, economic or legal means, and one way or another every alternative fiat currency goes down. Yes, I went there. Bitcoin is a fiat currency, it is something without any intrinsic value (unlike say copper), and is only valuable so long as the people controlling the computation (computational fiat) say it is, and others demand it.

Some will claim that Bitcoin is decentralized. I'll counter claim that it appears to be in theory, but in reality it really isn't.

If I were to shut down every bitcoin exchange (either through extreme legal, violent or economic means), I'd easily kill bitcoin overnight, mostly through destroying trust and inciting fear in adopters than from actually stopping exchange.

And if you don't believe governments are capable of this, you seriously have to read some more history. Governments are extremely dangerous, especially when it comes to economic control of scarce resources.

Do not underestimate them.

That's not to say that governments are inherently bad, but merely that they act in their own interests, and that if you are on the wrong side of their interests, the magnitude of their power, and the size of the prizes that are at stake, will probably end up with you being dead (most revolutions fail).

At the end of the day the guy with the nuke makes the rules.

Let's just hope he isn't too psychopathic.
Yes, what if someone MiTM's your offline communication... /s

If the Feds (or whoever) were swapping out this address at a large scale, then the NYTs would notice and communicate to the public that this was happening. If the NYT was muzzled and every computer that you or anyone you know has it's connection being tampered with, then you are basically fucked anyway and this is the least of your concerns. At this level of paranoia you shouldn't be trusting the NYT anyway...

If they are not MiTM'ing this at a large scale, then quick verifications on other networks with other peoples' computers will work just fine.