skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how type inference in Haxe is worst than AS3 type inference. Think it stands on its own on that particular point.

I also never had a crash with something out of the running service compiler, even earlier since I started using it at 2.x, you probably evaluated it in a 1.x version ? You talk of enums but that was at the top of the "pros" around 4/5 years ago.

Leaving AS3 and being able to target all the systems I want to target, was the reason Haxe became valuable to me. So that "reasons we chose AS when developing Spaceport" is sort of telling about Spaceport and nothing else. It isn't an option for everybody, really. You can build all sorts of projects on it, from a server daemon, to a casual game on mobile through the usage of Haxe NME / openFL. Things have moved on, so to say.
> the joy of contractors, I don't have to care.

Not really. If the contractor gets sick, it's still your problem.

I care for my contractors and always make sure they are paid enough to afford good medical care and a stable financial situation. It makes sense, even from a deeply selfish point of view - the less time they spend worrying about such things, the more they spend working.
For a while, my home desk has been a $100 bar table bought from Ikea; if I want to sit, I have a stool handy.
> In short, Haxe can produce swf and neko binaries and C++, C#, JS, Java and PHP source. [..] Of other interesting things, 2d physics engine named nape

If Haxe can compile into JS, it would be cool to have online demos of things like nape (their site requires flash when you click play, not sure if that is to run flash or show a video).

Are there are online demos showing an interesting Haxe project compiled into JS?
Sheesh.

Foxconn wasn't build as a subsidiary of Apple. Not sure what you're getting at with that. Yes, I understand the technicalities, but if it didn't happen that way and the intent of how it happens is the way it is, arguing the permutations is a strawman.

> You keep talking about use of government services or where employees are. Those things are not corporate profit.

Yes and no. Those government services are not corporate profit, sure. But they are what makes the Apple corporation possible in the first place. Apple wasn't founded in Ireland, the Netherlands and certainly not on the Cayman Islands. The "thank you" payment for that is called taxes.

> they're just going to shrug and look at you like you're a crazy person for expecting anything different to have happened

Yup, that's what I would call destructive attitude. A society works because a sufficient number of people think it's a good idea to make it work. Large corporations are simply lucky to get away with behaving differently, for profit. If a majority of people were behaving like that - cutting around the system at every chance they get while obscuring their tracks with money, for their own benefit - you end up with no society at all very quickly.

Put differently: large corporations should count themselves lucky that there are enough reasonable people (the lower and middle class suckers who are constantly being degraded to a purer form of worker drone consumers) to offset the damage that they do.

All laws have to assume to a varying extent that people are interested in the society they live in. Because if they aren't, no law whatsoever is going to make them a good member of society. Kind of like how the DSM-IV has no definition of psychopathy because it describes the absence of a mind capable of having a disorder in the first place. The way those large corporations behave is truly antisocial behavior, lacking regard for the deeper and finer points of how society works.

> because you're trying to tax the wrong thing

Funny, because to me it seems that no matter what you tax, people who don't want to pay taxes will either seek and find or invest and create a way around that.

This isn't a law problem, it's a culture problem. But I suppose you're right, no sense in arguing culture and civil responsibility with people who lack both.
Turning-point years in history
How Running A Business Is Like Being In Love
Professional botnet hosting? Didn't even know there was such a thing.

How come these guys are even operational?
Obama can't run for a second term. That violates the constitution.
Made it really hard for me to focus on the content. I know exactly what was changing, and it wasn't that much, but it took a really long time (in comparison) to read the examples.
I have to admit, this sounds a lot like that 8 glasses of water a day hocum that was floating around a few years back. Somebody finds some vague correlation in an abstract and blows it way out of proportion, leading to headlines that frankly don't make much sense.

I'd also like to see some real evidence.
You could argue that trusting two different entities for encryption and storage is safer than trusting a single entity for both. Two unrelated parties are "unlikely to collude" against you.

Of course I'd rather not have to trust either, especially with encryption. Is there an open source equivalent to BoxCryptor?
I've had nothing but frustrations with Bitcasa. They have good ideas, but I found their execution to be exceedingly buggy and unreliable.
"The Q framework is not released under an open source license. It is only for Qbix developers."
Fascinating - can you provide details on how the graph is constructed?

I should also add that those visualizations are pretty sweet.
Soylent: Gruel today, gruel tomorrow
There is a little too much changing text going on in my opinion. It was difficult to read the sample code because my eyes kept jumping to the changing text all over the screen.

Edit: It looks like you changed the intervals. Much better now.
I've been watching people probing my servers.

If you're using Rails externally and you haven't upgraded it, it's only a matter of time till it gets hacked.

Could be the most obvious statement ever, but there you have it.
thanks for commenting!

I must admit I am rather excited for Google Wallet in GMail as well. Paypal frustrates me at times.

And yes - progress is progress and all we can do is be aware of what the changes are around us. That way, we'll have a better chance at avoiding wasted movement.
What's with all the medium.com blogspam of late?
Hmm, unfortunately I think Symfony2 runs passwords through 1 round of SHA1 unless a custom password "encoder" is used [1].

[1] = http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/book/security.html#encoding-the-u...
Stunning Japanese Paintings Created on MS Excel
Why Oauth2? I've read about it being less secure http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell... but would like to hear the case for it.
Yeah, I've been at level 1 for quite a while, but that's because I haven't had much time available to spend working on it. When I get some time I try to work through one of the problems. Of course, I'm also doing it in Rust, so add in the extra time of learning a new language (especially one still in flux).
I'd say it was a mistake to be thinking that people who use Java or .Net aren't hackers. :)
Currently that is true, contact us if you want to try it out
Anyone have experience with the Humanscale Float standing desk? http://www.humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=...

I've been thinking about getting a sit/stand desk for a while, but don't like the electric ones as they seem really slow. This seems the nicest of the manually operated ones (better looking than the steelcase one IMO).
I would guess that a lot of those seemingly great developers on elance are composed of a bit of smoke and mirrors. Don't get discouraged :)
I just had to Google "vertiginous," but that's an interesting word I'd like to use in the future.
I'm not using RSA - As I mentioned, I migrated to GPG specifically because I can't promise I know what I'm doing. I encourage others to do similarly (calling out Keyczar), rather than using primitives.

Re-reading, I can see how I could have been more clear and to the point, I did meander a bit in my original post.
What's the difference between what you want to provide and Singly (singly.com)?
I'm sorry....but I'm going to call B.S. on this one.

Whole Foods doesn't have fresh food selection? Really? They don't have fresh chicken? They don't have any vegetables?

Please kindly supply me with the address of such a place.

When you make blanket statements like "Most upper and middle class families have largely abandoned the concept of fresh produce" I have to question your information. I live in CT, in Fairfield county, which could claim as residents some of the wealthiest people in the world. Yes, the world. Think Steven Cohen kind of money. The Winklevoss Twins have a rowing club not far from my home. Do you think they're eating Chef Boyardee from a can? KFC?

I'm willing to believe that the fresh produce section will not be as varied in the smaller towns in the poorer areas of the country, but absent isn't something I'm willing to believe.
Sorry should have been bigger anagramS, autocorrect. He wrote /usr/bin/an the anagram maker
The two I've seen recently are optar [1] and paperkey [2]. Paperkey is just for pgp keys, however. Optar claims to get about 200kB per A4 page, which seems fairly dense.

[1] http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5746625
He can. He did. He won. He cannot run for a third term.
I worked a split desk for a year during the tech bust and made ~50K in 8 months, and I wasn't particularly motivated at that job... several co-workers who started the same time that I did outperformed me by as much as 40K. For most of those guys today, a bad year is below the $150K range. Mind you, this is in Dallas, not San Francisco. Some of them migrated to another company which does permanent and contract placement and most of the ones who made the switch are pulling in 200K+.

From what I gather, the UK and EU don't value software developers as much, so the bill rates are probably lower.
I guess I'm looking at it from a hiring perspective. I don't care how old someone is honestly. I just care what they can do and what they contribute to the team. Having a bit of grey hair is probably an asset, since hopefully they've been to this rodeo once or twice and have some good experiences that we don't.
I would've been tempted to modify the lift such that the entire desk could retract into the floor, leaving an open area when it's needed.
How about the licensing? Is it OK to host these games on your server and publish?
Apparently not, given that I did not make a point.
He thinks Rayiner is trying to control him?
Cargo-Culting in JavaScript
Unfortunately, this seems to hold for any number of languages. To make matters worse, the code is rarely documented as a grab from SO
I don't entirely know what to do with this story.

"Sitting" (or more specifically, the way I "sit" all day) resulted in me having pretty awful back pain that required treatment earlier this year. I had bad posture spent 4-5 hours stationary writing code. Having a standing desk would have probably helped me to take more breaks and move around. A little app called Kitchen Timer, combined with a very mild set of stretching/exercises works for me now. I don't have heart problems. My "inputs" match my "outputs". I've maintained my weight within 5 pounds for 10 years.

The thing that bothers me about this article is the way it's presented. It's designed to scare ... and I know first hand that it works. Growing up, my mom wouldn't let me stand anywhere near the microwave because of something she saw on 20/20. We heated up food the same way we lit fireworks ("strike" and "run!") When I purchased my first cell phone she panicked about the RADIATION and warned me against using it regularly (Chernobyl === Magnetron to her). My mom watched 20/20 all the time!

I have no interest in a standing desk. I work well sitting down, and the timer gives me a nice reminder to stretch out which I can choose to ignore if I'm focused on something I can't pull away from. I smoked as a teenager ... maybe I'm being naive and using anec-data, but my chair is no Marlboro.
3-D printer helps save dying baby
Source on that? Just looks like a regular VPS host to me.
Ask HN: Will this negatively impact my future career?
I've just graduated with my BSc in Computer Science.
So I am looking for a job.

In my spare time I enjoy working on Android and iOS applications. But most of the jobs I see available are for graduate web development roles (HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript). While I don't have any issues with web development (I also do some of this in my spare time), I'm not sure it is in the direction I want my career to be moving.

If I take a web development role now is that going to cause issues for my career in the future?
Any suggestions on what I should do?
Javascript tutoring along with a book purchase
Dissecting the Entrepreneur’s Brain [Infographic]
Alright, listening to your feedback it seems the animation was too much of a distraction, so we removed it. Thank you for your feedback!
Living in a Post-Functional World
There aren't enough high paying jobs here. Which is why everyone leaves (or works remotely). I know nearly a dozen people who have moved away because of the culture and cost of living.

Victoria has a few main industries all extremely hostile to innovation, but do overpay unskilled workers - retirement (and trust fund kids), government, tourism, military(navy) and shipbuilding.

Edit: Victoria might be a great place to patio11 those industries with tools to service those businesses. But it wouldn't be the sort of place you'll grow the next Google,
Xerox Parc, Microsoft* or Facebook.

* Yes, I know Microsoft is setting up a games studio. They won't be doing engine development here though. Which is the point - we're a satellite office town at best.
The problem I have seen with Open Source games is not usually with the game itself, but the art work. I wish someday these games would compete with proprietary games on "beauty" as well as functionality.
Lets see how their values align with accepting bitcoin donations.
Visualizing Twitter geo data using heatmap.js & Play
Some more information about the arrow of time as used in physics... http://asankhaya.blogspot.sg/2012/05/time-travel-arrow-of-ti...
You need about two quarts of water a day, but you can get this by consuming fruits and vegetables that range from 84% (apple) to 96% (iceberg lettuce) water by weight [see link below]. Drinking eight glasses of pure water a day is ridiculous unless you consume no food at all.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/enri/pubs/enri129.pdf
These are the average developer.

Every time I touch a new project it's in need of security updates. Any time a site gets owned, there's no accountability or logging or anything. Any time a security issue does manage to get found it's as if it's a rare new thing. "Wow, who would have thought that could happen." Well, let's see, the developers of the software you're using, and anyone that pays attention to them.
Running a bit late with my comment but I just wanted to let you know i love the redesign. I am a paying customer since the google reader redesign. Newsblur rocks !
I can't decide how I feel about this. Generally, anything that provides an abstraction over HTML makes me feel incredibly uneasy.

Oh, that's how I feel about it.
I'd argue that music and other forms of entertainment clearly improve the human condition. And if computers have surpassed humans in the production of music, can you point me to some of the great computer-generated compositions? I'm not aware of any, but I confess that it may just be ignorance on my part.
Well, this article is rubbish and is pretty typical of crappy scientific reporting.

However, I like thinking about ergonomics. Do many people here recline while working? I've been working for a year now, laying back on a couch, feet up and head on a pillow. It works well, but even before this I had carpal tunnel which this doesn't help (it did for a while though). I've resorted to padded gloves that ease my pain:

http://www.activeforever.com/smart-glove-wrist-support?produ...
The Age of Reusable Rockets Could Begin in the middle of 2014
You spend a lot of time -- "a lot" is a pretty big understatement based on your online activity, blog etc. -- thinking and writing about how miserable being employed at companies X and Y made you. I'm really curious why. I've been miserable in a series of jobs before and the last thing I want to do is go back and wallow in it.
Forget Ads Here are the Money Making techniques every startup should know.
I Have No Self Belief. I Am Afraid.
Microsoft tried to compete with Novell Netware, which was strictly focused on internal corporate network services. it was only much later that Bill Gates noticed the internet and WWW. But if the WWW hadn't existed, most likely MS would have followed the path of AOL and CompuServe, creating a walled garden for subscribers-only. It's unlikely that any corporation would have created the open web like TBL did.
Along similar lines...I think being an Internet Activist in India is a losing battle. I attended Aaron Swortz memorial in The Internet Archives(SF) and I could feel that the whole community was with him.

If the same were to happen in India, and someone dies a lone death, no one would know about it and least of it all, no policies would be made nor would any precedents be set.
Standing desks can hurt you if you don't wear proper shoes and/or use some kind of standing mat; regular desks can hurt you if your chair is unergonomic (there was an article on HN about this two weeks ago.) In a similar vein, you can develop RSI if you use an poorly designed keyboard, but that doesn't mean typing will eventually give you RSI.

Hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5719891
Here are the commands for the bot:

NICK <nick> = Changes the nick of the client

SERVER <server> = Changes servers

KILL = Kills the client

GET <http address> <save as> = Downloads a file off the web and saves it onto the hd

HELP = Displays this

IRC <command> = send_msgs this command to the server

SH <command> = Executes a command

I'm a little light on IRC proxies right now - anyone care to test if you can kill all 2,164 bots in one easy peasy MIRC script?
More startup needs to move to low cost areas.
Thanks, that's similar to what I had in mind.
I've been reclining a lot and now my right arm is painful. I'm not typing with it at all for the next two weeks. I need to work out some system of props to rest my elbows on.
Thanks. I haven't tried suggesting freelance projects to people not actively looking. My feeling is that they would probably say that they are too busy, or worse, say "yes" and not find time to get it done.
Can open source do sports games? Where is a Madden or FIFA or NBA Live clone?
I used to be, but not so much any more. What specifically gave you that impression?
> If you think that abilities in music [...] make one great, then your worldview is extremely deficient.

Do you mean playing music? Or composing? Because it's hard to argue that Mozart was not great.
I agree. The other option is to lower the costs of areas where startups operate by increasing construction.
PGP (and all encryption schemes that offered key lengths greater than 40-bits) were banned under the State Department ITAR regulations.

These are the same regulations that prohibit the export of 3D model files over the internet if the model is a weapon or a part of a weapon.

The 3D models are banned because they are "technical documentation" (blueprints, manufacturing information). I would argue that the source code to encryption (a "weapon" according to the regulations) also counts are technical documentation. Therefor I think that printing the source code was just as illegal as sending the source code (or compiled software) over the internet.

Try exporting the blueprints or software source for a Gen III+ night vision and see how quickly you are picked up by the FBI.

I can't help but think this whole book thing was more designed to shame the government into letting it be exported, or for a judge to declare that the regulations were unconstitutional, or the guys who did it were misinformed about the law.
1.4.2 is safe, 1.4.1 contained the fix for CVE-2013-2028
Ask HN: How do I get in touch with technologically savvy blind people?
I have an idea for making digital devices more accessible for blind and poorly sighted people, at a fraction of the cost of current devices. However, not being either, and not knowing anyone that fits the criteria, I'd love to chat with a technically minded person (or a few) on the viability of the idea. Any suggestions or contacts, HN?
Especially with remote jobs becoming more popular.
Well if you implement OAuth 2 properly, you'll prevent session fixation and hijacking attacks, and with https you will also prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

The hueniverse guy was one of the people drafting the standard and as far as I can tell he laments that the providers can return a "bearer token" instead of a "mac token". That means the token is sent on every request to the provider, and without https it can be intercepted. But with https everything is fine!

OAuth 1.0 didn't rely on https to prevent MITM attacks an instead used the "mac token" to sign each request to the provider, along with an increasing timestamp/nonce to prevent replay attacks.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/should-all-web-traf...
Although this may be a little blunt, I don't see how a company that caters to media theft is going to compete with Dropbox. Although Dropbox intentionally lets people register many accounts to they can do more or less the same thing. (Ever know someone with 20 dropbox accounts?)

This is the 800 lb gorilla in the cloud storage room. Providers like Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, GDrive dont want to be cast in the light of Megaupload or BitTorrent, lest their business come under scrutiny. Hence they keep their data caps fairly low so you can't store a DVD on their service.

I dont use torrent software because Im not interesting in illegal content. I dont think regardless of their traffic stats BTSync is going to matter much to mainstream users.
You have the power of the universe right between your ears, no computer necessary. It works in the dark, on the road, while drunk, without power, without money, but it's a blunt sword at first. It takes years of honing and sharpening and exploring before it starts truly being useful.

It's often easier to leverage other machines that only tell truths. It allows for laziness. No thought necessary when something else could do it so much faster. But stepping back and thinking for a moment can save a lot of cycles. Maybe not right away, but if you're investing your time, a small amount today can be an awful lot tomorrow. (I wish I was a better writer, as I would write a cool story about computers vs. human brains - where either interpretation would be 'right', as to computers, a human tells its own truths (the preconceptions of a life), where to a human a computer only tells truths.

It's easy to take incremental steps. Every single moment you spend on this website is an incremental step. You can see where you were before, you can see where you are now. You can't notice changes when everything is incremental. There is a lot of power in being able to step away, to back off, to explore other parts of your mind than just the one that's connected to the internet. There's a lot of life to live that doesn't involve a computer. And when you (inevitably) come back, you'll notice all the things you could never have noticed if you were on the computer the whole time.

Edit: To use a workout analogy - you don't want to only work out your right forearm. You have an entire brain to exercise.
Find Your Color Scheme
You should check out the games available for the Open Pandora, you get many Open Source Game Clones/Engines there : http://repo.openpandora.org - like the recent Dune Dynasty and many others.