skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't fiddle with an URL just to submit a story - very bad

Particularly in this case where pointing to dropbox.com only gets you an error message.

DropBox Twitter Status update: https://twitter.com/DropboxOps

As shown above with Dropbox you might want to use a service that checks for uptime / status (http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/dropbox.com.html)

BTW - landing page is back up again but you can't log in
Interesting...you think of all the A/B metrics that Google tests, this would be among one of the most obvious standouts. The percentage of users who click on lower-ranked results is reportedly a big factor in the decision of how results are laid out and paginated (e.g. if the 12th result in Google SERP had a relatively similar amount of "usefulness" as the 10th, it's likely that Google would have the search pages show 12 results)...you'd think a statistical drop in first-result clicks would trigger an analytics alarm.
I guess you could communicate with me by pushing my bellybutton, but I wouldn't be 100% sure what you were trying to say.
I have used Mosh as my primary remote access client for a few months on my "on-the-go" laptop, and I must say that the user experience is very good.

In a lot of scenarios, the latency is not much of an issue, but on wlan/3g, this very fast become very noticeable. In the few cases since, I've used ssh on wireless, I suddenly find myself noticing how much of an issue the sudden feedback delay might be at some times.
The first thing any technical person I know that uses Windows 8 on a desktop does is install Classic Shell: http://www.classicshell.net/

I still can't get used to that metro interface and switching between the modes in desktop mode.
I seriously thought this as well, and would be interested to see results of this type of experiment. Kind of like an OBEY GIANT kind of campaign.
I believe that "magical incantation of mouse movements" is a right click. (Not claiming it's discoverable, just that it's not complicated.)
I like that it's not on Android right now. It's one of the things that makes me think Golang is a real language and not a corporate initiative.
Full disclosure: I'm one of the devs.

This was a whirlwind project we worked on to improve the experience of waking up. Jarring, buzzing sounds are great for real alarms in crisis situation, but getting out of bed shouldn't be alarming.

By quietly playing weather sounds and slowly increasing the volume over a few minutes it's actually pleasant to hear the "alarm" go off in the morning.

The Google Play store is flooded with alarm clock apps, so realistically it'll be hard to get visibility (even though we're super excited about it). Anyone have thoughts about how to get this in front of more people?
Sounds like a homeowners association to me.
On number 2 - you also cannot do it legally not only easily. The legality of jailbraiking is quite grey territory.
OK, it looks like you simply copied the import block from the first StackOverflow result for "golang read file" (the giveaway is that the order of imports is in the same non-formatted order as the top answer). That question, and its answer are covering more than simply reading in a file into a buffer.

The minimum is "os" and "io/ioutil"

f, _ := os.Open("/etc/ttys")
buff, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(f)

Edit: and as @exch pointed out, I forgot there's an ioutil.ReadFile helper too of you don't actually need access to the file object again.
The latest Mac Mini uses the HD4000. It doesn't come with a dedicated graphics card.

Its rated around 100 megahashes. A 6990 gets you 800MH.
You didn't seem harsh. In retrospect, I should have made that as a top-level comment instead of a reply.
web apps === web pages , no matter how people try to spin it , and it will always be that way , not matter how much layers we can pile on html and javascript.

It was never intended for anything else and the fact that one has to navigate between html documents proves it.

Try to create a "webapp" without an html page -> doesnt work.

the whole web model is about documents and links.

THAT SAID

it doesnt mean one cant do awesome stuffs with it.
But sometimes developpers forget the basic of HTML when developping javascript heavy products. I myself am working on a big modeling app for CS students with angularJS ( MV* ) and jquery (+ a ton of plugin). AngularJS makes it very easy and clean.
Any project like that is going to be a lot of work. It would probably turn into many man years. Sure, do it if you want. Time is your most valuable asset. Choose wisely.

Since Antigua isn't too far off the beaten path, let me throw out Colombia.

Spend the night in a hammock near the ocean.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Tayrona_National_Park

Party into the night:

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/colombia/northwest-colombia/mede...
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You could back when I had an iPod Touch 2G, unless the limitation only applies to iTunes DRMed videos and not your own videos you put on there.
It doesn't matter what type of DVD is playing. It could be one you made yourself and this limitation would still be in place.
A few years ago, Paul McCartney performed at the White House. Toward the end of "Hey Jude", where there were a lot of people up on stage singing the "Na na na na..." part, McCartney accidentally knocked over a mic stand while crossing the stage back to his piano. Stevie Wonder, who was standing nearby, shot his hand out and caught the falling mic stand.

Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3OC_mKo2Fk#t=341s
forrst.com is essentially that, except they had to get more specific. As a small operation, you almost have to appeal to a niche or you will have a hard time finding a clear market.
Blog entry describing my 100-line x86-64 Brainfuck JIT (built on DynASM): http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-s...

(Direct link to the code: https://github.com/haberman/jitdemo/blob/master/jit3.dasc)
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The title of the article is Pixter, the title here is between free vs paid and our motivation. In my opinion this was more descriptive, since that's what the article talk about
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There are plenty of activities that you are not allowed to perform inside your house. In short, anything that's not legal.

I wonder if this "feature" is smart enough to only blank out the player if a licensed movie is being shown (i.e. would it allow the screenshot if you were playing your own home video DVD? Or a ripped copy of a movie with the DRM removed?
How Psychological Traits Impact How Successful You'll Be
It seems like there are two strains of thought in this little drama:

1) This is just stupid because JS Encryption is only as strong as the weakest link in the whole website (SSL, Third-Party Scripts, etc.)

2) Actually completing the challenge, which I assume means hijacking Adam's session and retrieving and decrypting the reward instruction note.

It's okay for people to focus on point one, I suppose, because otherwise innocent people may get hurt if developers actually come away with the conclusions that JS Encryption is safe.

As for point two, I think it's okay to provide an intellectual proof of success in lieu of actually doing it, but what does that mean? Doesn't it hinge, in Moxie's case, on the condition Adam states, If you want to try injecting code, I'm happy to use a network you control if we can arrange the logistics though I won't promise to log in if you can't provide a valid SSL certificate :)?

Moxie would have to MITM notecrypt.appspot.com which I assume is allowed because of, I'm happy to use a network you control. However, what about the further condition, though I won't promise to log in if you can't provide a valid SSL certificate? This is unclear to me. A valid certificate to what? notecrypt.appspot.com? Moxie's tool is called sslstrip, not sslreplace, so I don't think it can provide a valid SSL Cert, in which case he would not succeed. Perhaps he would strip the SSL from the JS file only, but that might yield a mixed content warning.

What am I missing?
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For a lot of people the face gives credibility. It makes you think it's a more legit article because somehow google took the time to associate an image with the article which it would never with spam content.

And it's too bad they don't accept company logos, I think that would really help. It downplays company we pages versus articles.
A tale of a physicist and a craftsman
7 million+ units [1].. Grant not big as Android or Apple but if everyone was to follow your ideology, Firefox OS or Ubuntu OS will never make a dent in the market. This will not only lead to duopoly but eventually end up hurting the consumer choices.

[1]http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/16/windows-phone-jumps-to-thi...
venomsnake was criticizing things (closed products), you were criticizing people. Yes, I find your position the intolerant one.
A couple of days ago I saw some posters criticizing Stallman and calling him "crazy". I hope those same posters see your writing, because I'm pretty sure problems like these are exactly what Stallman has been predicting (and fighting) for quite some time now.
On moving on (Part 1)
It's insecure against a motivated, targeted attack. It is on the other hand a bitch to automate, given a file of 10,000 stolen identities, which is probably the primary concern animating most uses of these services.
For what its worth....

Its my No3 son's 14th birthday and he has gathered enough money for a new PC. He wants a new one for school and games. He is not some geek programming whiz kid. He "uses" a computer, he "consumes" the internet. He is, in short, a mere kid user. He already owns a laptop with Windows 8.

The discussion on spec and costs comes round to the operating system. Exact quote: "I don't want windows 8, its a load of complete sh... crap. I'd rather have Windows 7".

Kinda took me by surprise. I assumed being a kid he'd like and want the newest, latest, whizzy thing. But no. Even a 14yo lad who is not a geek doesn't want Windows 8, even after using for many months.

I reckon that is pretty damning.
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>Oh my god I am so tired of seeing comments like this one on the internet.

Me too, please stop making them. The fact that you don't care about owning things you purchase does not imply that the entire concept of owning things you purchase is stupid and nobody should talk about it.
I haven't seen any yet (though I would probably not be one to use them), but the language lends itself to the creation of such tools very well. Between the basics like fmt, and easy assess to the AST, I don't think it will be too long before more advanced tooling comes out from some of the larger organizations using go.
I've found Cleveland falls in that sweet spot where cost of living, culture, established industry and an emerging startup scene all come together.
I've been using Windows 8 on my (multi-monitor) desktop for a few months now, and the feature I'm most excited about is the ability to launch Metro apps on both screens. There still aren't many good ones, but it's annoying when I want to play backgammon while watching Netflix. Hopefully they also make the Start screen dragable from screen to screen like all the Metro apps - it's an odd incongruity in their design.
> But is it a big deal?

It's a deal breaker for me. My present computer doesn't have a DVD drive, but even if it did, I wouldn't buy or use a DVD unless I'm in control. I would rather download from BitTorrent -- not only is it free as in beer it is also free as in freedom, which is more important.

Computers are already ubiquitous and this will only get more true. If they do what governments and corporations want instead of what their users want, then they will become a massive tool for oppression, an oppression more fine-grained than anything Hitler or Stalin dreamed of.

Treacherous computing is an evil, and all good people should have nothing to do with it.
The Start Button is just a symbol for the larger issue, which is the shafting of Desktop users. There were only a small handful of things in Windows 8.0 that I felt offered an improved Desktop experience, whereas there were tons of things that I felt required more buttons clicks, more steps, etc

I hope 8.1 addresses the Desktop users in more ways than just the Start Button.
Well, now that I know the context I wouldn't necessarily disagree with your usage of manipulation. It seems to fit to me.

First, I would say I agree with your thought on how people should treat our children. I guess I would explain the reason the constitutional discussion is very relevant in this case because the laws define how the government may treat the citizens. In this case the students are citizens and the school is the government entity. The school asking the students to fill out a survey that could possibly be used to incriminate them in some form of crime is a potential violation of the students' fifth amendment protections.

If the school in question were a non-government entity, such as a private school, then there is no worries over fifth amendment protections. At that point it's more like what you say, a privacy and courtesy issue. The student in that private school could refuse to answer the survey but there might be consequences of that choice, such as being expelled from the school.

Either way, a person has the total right to not say anything at all for any reason regardless of who asks, unless compelled to do so by a court of law. Even then, in the US and I'm sure many countries, there are restrictions on what the court can compel you to say which leads us back to the fifth amendment.
Sales of Android games is not better than sales of biz apps
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I've got to admit, I didn't check whether Penguin 2.0 was substantially different from 1.0 before I made that idle speculation. I thought it might be looking at some different, but related, over-optimisation style stuff.
Me build my own GRAMMERS! chomsky rulez.
The Significance of Marketing Channels
Addresses, like phone numbers, are difficult to normalize.

The best you can do is hit the 80/20 rule: provide a solution for most addresses/phone numbers out there and minimize the edge cases.
Funny, I made the same misreading
The case for banning advertisements aimed at children is overwhelming
Go, Racket and other languages: A comparison
Here in Ireland there are no postal/zip codes. I always have to enter 00000 on websites.
Well censorship is evil. Apple have the ability to censor what they put on their stores. (The drones tracking program) So we got the evil part.

The 30% apple cut increases the software prices for the end user or prevents a software for even coming to the platform (thinking of skydrive here). That is bad for the end user.
I guess the HN reality is he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and never had any impact on the IT world.
Firstly, google became a verb and now replacing Dear God... ;)
I think the thing that amuses me most about the current Go hype is when people defend the language with statements along the lines of "it is supposed to be boring"[1]. Go is the new (old) Java and the arguments echo those of 15 years ago.

1) created for people less smart than the designers (even if not intentionally: maybe Gosling and Pike really do believe that generics and HOF are too difficult for the average programmer)

2) designed to be easy to use in a corporate environment with large teams of varying abilities (the 'simplicity', which is really more familiarity: most people can write boilerplate filled imperative C-family language style code already).

3) attempts to make certain types of errors harder than the languages it replaces (in Java thats memory errors, in Go it's concurrency errors), but by ignoring established PL research still gives you a big gun that is loaded and aimed at your foot (doing concurrency in Java with threads and locks, NULL and deadlocks in Go, etc). i.e. very conservative when it comes to adopting PL ideas, but perhaps bringing one old idea to the mainstream, and being prepared to make a lot of sacrifices (to ensure an 'easy' language) to get people on board with that one idea.

The amusing thing is that the creators of Go are some of the fiercest critics of Java, but they have created something that seems to follow a very similar philosophy to the original Java. I guess it remains to be seen if Go will have added as many features in 15 years time as Java has in the last 15.

I don't mean this as a slight against Go (or Java!). I just find the comparison illuminating.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5750256
There are some blind people who use echolocation to remarkable degrees. Take for example this boy who's able to rollerblade in the streets, bypassing moving vehicles using echolocation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QaCeosUmw.
>Anyone prefer Scala to Go?

Yes, very much so. I love being able to keep so much of the state in the type system, freeing my attention for more important things; it also (ironically?) lets me write much more dynamic-feeling code by using "typeclasses" to supply varying implementations for an operation. I don't realise how much I depend on it until I try to go back to other languages. Go has some useful standard types and a good story in place for some other generic type use cases, but if you need a (generic) type that the language designers didn't think of (and e.g. even Option is missing), you're stuffed.
I prefer http://startisback.com/
Apple taking over is a hypothetical state in which you could argue the bug is fixed. I don't see anything in the actual state of things which allows that argument.

Vagueness is a continuum, not an absolute. The bug could be less vague, sure. I don't think it needs to be less vague in order to evaluate it right now, though.
I think AirBnB has every right to ask its users to verify their identity in some way. It just so happens, the methods they chose were maybe not the best options for their UX.

I mean, I don't see how you can go half way on this. Leaving the choice up to the host doesn't protect anyone. It's easy to say "hey, I don't want to bother with this.", but the minute something DOES go wrong, who are they going to blame? AirBnB.

They have to cover their ass, simple as that. It sucks, but we live in a litigious society that loves to transfer blame.

If you were in a position where you had to make a tough choice and disappoint some people to protect your family(or company), you'd do it too.

As far as data mining goes... what's new? Are there any massive scale online businesses that aren't looking for new ways to mine their users for marketing and business data? I don't like it either, but I can't say I didn't expect it.
How common is this in Europe? For example, is relocating to another country something that might be a good reason for asking a signing bonus? How do companies see this?

Note I'm interested in experiences from Europe, I think that there's lots of hiring "cultural" differences between the continents...
Looks like its up. I was extremely tensed as I have some imp files. Anyway, no more Dropbox!
So there's an additional widget that's required for you to use it in direct sunlight, so you need to have the sunglasses extension for it to work correctly. I understand there's a technical reason for this, but that's not a solution that's going to work for the majority consumer.
They do a fair enough job for what we needed. Really, it was more about what we could get quickly, with a certain expectation of consistency, just to get us moving forward.
+1. You have to think many sites besides the OP's experience a similar effect. This, combined with Google's collective UX wisdom and the not-at-all unintuitive nature of the result, makes it pretty shocking that they have not put a stop to this. Maybe they are getting some value from the uptick in people maintaining G+ accounts, so it's being swept under the rug?
I objected when a roommate wanted to rent out our living room on Airbnb. I realize that the probability is extremely low that we'd end up with a deranged lunatic in our house. But for me, that tiny possibility (and more so the irrational stress that accompanies it) far outweighs the benefit making a few extra bucks on the side.

So would I reconsider using Airbnb now that they have Verified IDs? Probably not. The root of the issue is that I don't want strangers in my house while I'm asleep. Even if Airbnb has their info on file, they're still strangers to me.

This move likely alienates many of their core users, while offering no appeal to non-users like me. Perhaps there is another segment this appeals to -- users who are concerned about the possibility of petty crime, and who feel this would be a deterrent or would aid with legal recourse?
Speaking of DIY and feces, ubiome.com is essentially 23andme for your intestinal flora. It's kind of interesting, although I haven't done it yet (they had a kickstarter that I missed out on).
Seriously. One of my first lessons from Microsoft was don't adopt within the first year.
In my, and many cases, yes.

When an alternate OS runs all my tools and games, with 100% compatibility with my hardware, I'll give it a go.
Actually, that technology (camera detectors) are used today in cinemas, especially during premieres and early screenings.
I was like "Recorder is his last name? I bet he has a lot of fun with that!"

100% the same with me!
"The user will know their postal code/zip code. Most users will, of course." Not in Indonesia.

Also, house numbers are sometimes not sequential. Some people have "favorite" number and when they see it's not taken, they will use it ("Nobody in the neighborhood has 123, so it's mine.")
It's confusing why anyone would seek to blame a project's failure on the choice of programming language.

The presence of this anecdote in the article seems to fulfill some sort of journalistic requirement to balance any positive stories with criticism as well, to be in the center. It doesn't make a lot of sense when writing about programming languages.
Google revises Gmail inbox
How much of that is him actually having tried it out and deciding that he does not like it, and how much is him having heard about windows 8, and deciding through that?
Design Principles for News Apps & Graphics
Sorry was an issue in mucking with my SSL cert, should be all back now.
Oh look, MS is again proselytizing what a huge success Win8 has been.
> Neither would I. It wouldn't be true ownership. Yet that's exactly what's happening here. The OP bought a Mac, but he can't perform certain activities, because the company that built it disapproves, and they control his machine.

You buy the machine, yes, but iirc, you enter a license agreement for the OS; as in, you do not buy the OS, but you buy a license to use it. There's a technical difference there.

Second, as the owner of the machine, you are allowed to install a non-Mac OS on there that does allow you to take screenshots of movies, or install non-Mac-supplied video software that does not have this protection installed.
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It's kind of a silly bug report (IMO).. so I don't oppose it being closed.. but the first line of the report is "Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace."

That's still true.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
I'm not sure why, but I always find it irrationally annoying when I see someone using their desktop as a filesystem.
Wait but isn't this the purpose of the chirping sound when the crossing signal comes on? Far more effective and serves more than one person. However I realize it may not work on people who are both blind and deaf.
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After first glance it seems that React started way before modern frameworks emerged or am I wrong?