skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that grabbing an unopened one on the way out the door is in the grey area, but more than that definitely goes past the line. And frankly, if people were grabbing an unopened soda (that probably costs the company 25 - 75 cents) on the way out, nobody would notice or care. If the company is 'cracking down' on these single-soda offences, then it's probably just as good an indicator of things going downhill as the removal of the 'free soda' perk altogether.
Talk to other people - I think some people are really happy - but I can't personally recommend Sonos at all...
It's interesting that this follows the golden ratio, because as soon as I started reading the article I noticed that the line height seemed too big. It felt just a bit awkward.
Show HN: Nuesbyte v2
This article does not mention how TRIM on SSDs comes in to play.
You guys do great work! This is the third thing from your group in probably as many months that is simple, clean, and useful. Thanks!
The Generics Dilemma
Then they may want to use Sourcemaps in Sass 3.3 alpha. But production assets should be minified for better performance.
Cheers. That's a good point too. My SW team of 9 was good everyone contributed something over the weekend, but a lean team of 2-4 with the skills you really need to execute could probably do more
We do not want to have a society where an elite, educated aristocracy rules over an uneducated serf class. That means we need to educate everyone, including people who have less potential.

I agree with that goal. And that is why I support public policies that allow more learner choice in education, so that everyone can shop for a good fit, and all providers of education are on notice that they can lose revenue if they don't meet learner needs.

My basis of knowledge: I have lived in more than one country, and see that learner power to shop is an important incentive to improved education. I live in the state of the United States that had charter schools the earliest,

http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Chance-Passage-Pioneering-Charter...

and that had statewide open enrollment first,

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/StuSuc/EnrollChoice/index.h...

so I have a direct experience base with living in a state with a moderate degree of learner choice, and that is not harmful to learners.
I'm not a lawyer and my understanding of fair use seems to be about as poor as everyone's.

What Scrollkit did, though, was tacky, plain and simple. They built an impressive product but are using someone else's work to try to promote it[1]. Is that illegal? I doubt it. But it's tasteless. And the smarmy "we did this in an hour" attitude is not only off-putting, it stretches the truth to the point of breaking. Anyone who's followed a "build a blog in five minutes" demo knows there's more to building something than just scaffolding -- Andre Torrez probably [said it best](http://notes.torrez.org/2010/12/learn-to-program-in-24-hours...).

There are plenty of ways they could have demonstrated their product without resorting to this kind of shallow mimicry. "Have you been blown away by the incredible work like the New York Times' 'Snowfall' or Pitchfork's cover stories? Want to build something similar yourself? We'd like to show you scrollkit." And then do a demo video with your own photography and reporting. Tells the same story without the shiteating grin.

As it stands right now, though, they just look like they're jumping on a trend using someone else's work.

[1] Disclaimer: I have friends who work at the Times, including ones that worked on Snowfall.
I think a better way to phrase it would be "Kindles are clearly a superior device for reading [novels and similar material] than iPads."

An iPad obviously is better for things like glossy magazines, graphic heavy books/PDFs, etc. However as a replacement to my "books" then the Kindle wins over the iPad.

Also the Kindle Paperwhite (and Kobo Glo, etc) are pretty great for low light reading. I agree the old lights were a bit annoying although the Amazon leather lighted case has always been pretty decent to be fair.
Show HN: Hacker News Fantasy Betting League, 55Prophets
I would draw the line a little further away than a drink for the ride home, or even taking one or two drinks home with me for the drive the next morning. It's in their best interests if you make it to and from work happily and safely. If a drink makes the commute easier, it's worth it.

As an example, I asked my employer if I could borrow my steel toed boots meant for site visits to use during some work outside to help a friend for a weekend. I told them if I damaged them I would gladly pay to replace them. My boss told me that they would lose much more value from me missing work injured than those boots would cost to replace, so not to worry about it and then gave me a fatherly lecture about being safe using a chainsaw before digging out safety glasses to send with me.

It's hard to make a bright line for abuse, but for a general rule I won't take anything or take advantage of anything I wouldn't pay for myself without asking ahead of time.
A month or so ago 7hundredand77 posted nuesbyte here, and many of you liked it but it had some significant problems. I offered to help him with it, and today we'd like to show it to you all again.

Since then we've rewritten the entire thing in client side js with a nodejs REST API backend, added google reader imports, kb shortcuts, ssl, and a whole bunch of other features.

Let us know what you think of the updated site.

Here's the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5471928

Thanks,
Ryan
What made this even more fun to read is knowing it was Murdoch he was twisting and twisting :)
Do they have a web version? Many of us don't use iPhone..
We built 55Prophets to be a new entertainment app, somewhat similar to fantasy sports, but available for any topic. We're calling it a "fantasy betting" application where you can create and/or join leagues about any number of topics, such as sports, tv shows, politics, or technology. You start each league with 10,000 prophits (our fantasy currency) that you can use to make bets.

To help demonstrate the concept, we created a Hacker News Predictions League and added some questions. For example, you might make bets on questions like:

* Will Facebook announce any acquisition of a YC company before Aug 1?

* Which will be the next tech company to announce an IPO?

* Will San Francisco change its law to make AirBnB rentals explicitly legal by Aug 1?

You can also submit your own questions for other people to bet on.

You can download our app from the app store here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/55prophets/id622424094?ls=1&...

Once you have it installed, you can point your mobile browser to http://55prophets.com/deep_link/leagues/25/join and it will open up the HN league in the app.

We'd love for you all to check it out and give us any feedback you have. Thanks!
I once someone jokingly do (the second only always works in C, not C++)

#define else
#define struct union

Evil!
"It is easy to see from the numbers that the vast majority of Kindle book readers use Apple devices."

Out of interest, where are those numbers?
The grooveshark site prevents you from closing the page.
That should tell you everything you need to know about them.
Hehe, it happens.

Speaking of memory allocation, the stack is named that way because it's an actual stack and most function calls receive parameters through it and return their results through it. This is why it's cheaper to store things on the stack, because if you want to use a value from memory, it's going to end up on that stack anyway (e.g. boxing / unboxing), not to mention that items get allocated and deallocated in LIFO order, so you've got no issues with searching for available space or fragmentation.
This is off topic, but in the recent months there has been an influx of these informative blog posts with animated gifs that are not really relevant to the information. Is this just a side effect of being a Tumblr user/community member? The more snarky pictures, the higher your view count/loyalty?

I ask, because they are distracting and shred any seriousness laid out in the article. Some of these articles are rich in content, but reading them at work with flashing/animated nonsense feels like I am viewing Reddit to people passing by.
No, you have it all wrong.

Firstly, I'm sure the work policy you signed off has tons of rules. Most of them are never enforced. Now, you enforce them stringently.

Awwww.. People you didn't like now have cause for you to fire them.
"I'm sure if AirBnB was first posted here they'd get back 50 reasons why it can't work"

Absolutely this. It's a great site and a great idea. There are hundreds of reasons NOT to do something, but that doesn't always mean you shouldn't try.
I have seen some examples of helpful reforms where I live. Minnesota, where I now live and where I grew up, has had largely equal per-capita funding for public school pupils statewide since the 1970s. The state law change that made most school funding come from general state appropriations rather than from local property taxes was called the "Minnesota miracle."

http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/18public.htm...

Today most funding for schools is distributed by the state government on a per-pupil enrollment basis.

http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/mnschfin.pdf

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/SchSup/SchFin/index.html

The funding reform in the 1970s was followed up by two further reforms in the 1980s. First, the former compulsory instruction statute in Minnesota was ruled unconstitutional in a court case involving a homeschooling family, and a new compulsory instruction statute explicitly allows more nonpublic school alternatives for families who seek those. Second, the Legislature, pushed by the then Governor, set up statewide open enrollment

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/StuSuc/EnrollChoice/index.h...

and the opportunity for advanced learners to attend up to two years of college while still high school students on the state's dime.

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/StuSuc/CollReadi/PSEO/index...

And Minnesota also has the oldest charter school statute in the United States.

http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Chance-Passage-Pioneering-Charter...

Parents in Minnesota now have more power to shop than parents in most states. That gets closer to the ideal of detect the optimum education environment for each student (by parents observing what works for each of their differing children) and give it to them by open-enrolling in another school district (my school district has inbound open-enrollment students from forty-one other school districts of residence) or by homeschooling, or by postsecondary study at high school age, or by exercising other choices.

The educational results of Minnesota schools are well above the meager results of most United States schools, and almost competitive (but not fully competitive) with the better schools in the newly industrialized countries of east Asia and southeast Asia. It's a start. More choices would be even better.
Any plans for a college student discount?
Agent Smartwatch Latest Break Out Kickstarter Craze
Unfortunately, not yet, but we definitely hope to eventually. We just recently finished up the initial version of the iOS app, which was our first priority. Don't have the manpower yet to take it more than one step at a time :)
Interesting but I wouldn't call that 'natural language' - I'd call that mathematical jargon! I was thinking more like something that anyone could grasp, optimally visually. So, for example, given some idea about a particular, practical problem (engineering, surveying, agriculture, theoretical complexity of software, etc.) an explanation could access relatively advanced mathematical knowledge and present it clearly to the uninitiated.
This looks great. I've read through the site copy, but I'm having trouble figuring out how it ties into my workflow. I was about to sign up, and then I closed the tab. As cool as the GIF is, I'd much rather see a short video of the product. Or some pictures / screenshots elsewhere on the site.
That's a title issue. If the story gets picked up, some moderator will fix it.
Isn't this basically kitchensurfing.com?
It's not rolled out to everyone yet apparently, I just enabled it on my account.
Looks very similar to Teems: http://tee.ms
I don't think that their worst nightmare is that everyone can download pirated copies — it's if everyone does.
The packed objects proposal is pretty interesting in this regard: http://duimovich.blogspot.nl/2012/11/packed-objects-in-java....
Wow my problem was bigger than I thought it was. I actually thought this blog page _was_ the homepage of the site. Never thought to click the logo in the upper left until now. Now I get it :-)
Twitter Adds Two-Factor Authentication
| you're giving them 10 days to start a real
| legal battle by going to a court

To be clear, that's 10 days before the content goes back up to take you to court to prevent it from going back up. Nothing stops them from suing you over it after the content is restored.
This is awesome. I'm not sure my non-geek wife would like it, but I would have.

Many people wear their rings in the shower, or even just washing their hands. I wonder how it stands up to water damage.
Ask HN: Is The C++ Programming Language 4th edition worth the price?
I'm a high school student who just finished AP Computer Science this year, which is taught using Java, however I began writing small programs in C++ a few years ago. Shortly after beginning programming, I moved to Python and the suggestion of someone on IRC, and then Java for the purpose of the AP course. Programming is something I really enjoy and it has had a wonderful effect on my life, especially competitions. In fact, I am going this weekend to North Carolina for the American Computer Science League's All-Star competition.

I have always wanted to go back and learn more C++ because I am fascinated by the language, and I learned that The C++ Programming Language 4th edition just came out and that it covers C++11; however, it costs ~$55. I do have enough saved up from birthdays and Christmas to buy this, but I was wondering if there was a better book or something that would benefit me more. Unfortunately, my library does not have it, and it probably won't for a while, and I would rather not wait for the library to get it so that I may read it over the summer while I have free time.

Thanks for reading.

Side note: I'm using a throwaway because I don't want people to know my age on my main account, as I've seen people's thoughts and opinions dismissed because of their age before. While sad and probably unlikely, it's something I'd rather avoid a chance of.
Cooling, looking forward to try it on my Play 2 app running on Heroku!
I didn't even know that existed. Thanks. I still believe Loqui.Me has some advantages of tee.ms such as PM between friends and so forth.

Plus that site seems broken
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And what prevents you from cutting the price of the book in half several months later? This way you still get a big chunk at the beginning, and later you can still market it to the more price cautious population. My bet is that even if people know that the price will go down in 6 months, most of the current buyers wouldn't want to wait, and bought it at the higher price anyway. And the 'this shit is too expensive' crowd can wait and get it at a discount.
Any pointers to a technical presentation on how D-Wave's (or any other) quantum computing is physically implemented? For example, classical computers use silicon doped with impurities to form gates, and connected with metal traces. Are quantum chips created in a similar manner (using different materials), but operate at extreme cold temperatures, for example? Or is it done using a liquid or gas structure with lasers? So far I've only seen the high-level logical descriptions, but nothing about the physical side.
Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic (2010)
Keeping track of violations of rules publicly would be a minimum kind of ratings
I don't think he means big-O notation as a theoretical model... Processors are not the same as they were when they were single core machines. The entirety of computing and thinking about problem solving has become different than it was before 2005 because of multicore processor architecture. Projects like parallela make this obvious. Programmers in general don't understand how much this makes things that weren't a big deal 10 years ago a huge deal now. And stuff with threading is not even the tip of it. Threading is trivial compared to real parallelism. Our model of computation is different than it is now, and will continue to diverge until everybody starts thinking with parallel as a first priority. That's the most convincing argument the OP makes about why linked lists are bad. In parallel computing, they are definitely hard/bad.
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Youtube is down for a lot of people right now.
I use ad-blocking, tracker-blocking and cookie-blocking. Some sites won't even let you see whether their flash is worth viewing without turning those all off. (I'm looking at you, BusinessInsider.)

I have a tool for them too, called "Block Site". Once they "pass the test" ... gimickry over content ... I blacklist them (fool me once, shame on you...), and any links to those sites are removed from all pages.

Design gravitates toward what the masses respond to. Obviously, from that standpoint, Facebook is "well-designed". For the more discerning, there are bookmarks for sites worth revisiting.
It cannot be done as part of compilation. For example, the superclass you run against may not be the same as the superclass you compile against.
I imagine despite the negativity, it will be successful in some spheres. While the average gamers continue to age, there's a whole generation ready to ask "Mom, can I have one?" They aren't going to question its negatives.

Once you establish the dialogue that you have an always-on, monitoring device in your house, you're locked in to a DRM prison and its the norm, you can finally draw the line in the sand for pay-to-play further next round: timed access content, expirations, in game purchases and so forth...

... that so long the other guys aren't offering better content with much more liberal DRM. What I figure is Microsoft must be willing to bet the farm that they're brand value is high enough to still keep fans.
Then don't provoke one. I'm not telling you how to build; I'm telling you to build.
This is also a good scale to use: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/gervais-macl...
I wouldn't look so deep into it. They got one tech blog to pick up the story, not 'press'. If you e-mail the tips@(techcrunch/thenextweb/theverge) e-mail with your startup launch, it's actually pretty easy to get the blogs to syndicate your story.
I've often wished software dev interviews were as simple as passing a test I took on my own time and didn't have to share the results until I passed.
Digging for controversy? He's pretty opinionated on where he feels JavaScript fits into the stack. Should be completely expected coming from the creator of a server side framework.
Yeah! I didn't even realize there were other grocery stores other than Berkeley Bowl in Berkeley.
Where has Technology Review failed? 
Which stories or events created by MIT Technology Review do you think failed? And why?

(What constitutes "failure"? I don't want to be too prescriptive. Failure is in the eye of the beholder, after all. But I would say a thing failed if it didn't live up to our brand's promise of thought-leading technology journalism and events programing. In that sense, something would be a failure if it was ill-conceived at its heart, boring, inutile, or corrupt. We might also fail by omission - by never having covered something.)
Sony arent just making it easy to publish, according to this (http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/03/21/unity-coming-to-sony-con...) they're actively making it easy to develop for their ecosystem, meanwhile MS are killing XNA. At least those C# game devs will have somewhere to go with their skills...
Sshame - a little tool to help keep the script kiddies off my lawn.
OK, actually I've emailed D. Richard Hipp a few months ago asking for permission to use the name UnQLite in a future open source project, here is a copy of Hipp's reply:

It would be good if you can make it clear on your website, somehow, that
yours is an unaffiliated project. Otherwise, people might go complaining
to me when they find bugs in your code. (Don't laugh - that sort of thing
happens a lot.)

Other than that, you are welcomed to use the name.

You might want to have a look at the LSM storage engine that Dan Kennedy is
working on for SQLite4. It is faster than the clunky and dated B-Tree used
by SQLite3. It is also faster than LevelDB. And it supports nested
transactions, with rollback. And concurrency. And it is more NAND-flash
friendly. See http://www.sqlite.org/src4/timeline for the latest code.
Just wait. What comes next is the sale of this data to the highest bidder.

What, you don't think that companies won't be willing to pay for a list of people who regularly walk by their store and who regularly visit a competitor's store? And you don't think that there aren't private companies who would be happy to crunch data to find things like that out of the data stream?

Make it a real time feed and it is even better. If you walk into one mattress store, the competitor 2 blocks away sends you a message saying that they have a deal on a mattress for you, why not visit? If you're selling big ticket items, finding people as they are about ready to make those purchases is pure gold!
The lack of idempotent navigation pisses me off. I should be able to find what happened on my Facebook wall by date, not by "scroll until you get there".
One of the nice goodwill things I liked about Steam was that when I registered my original copy of Half-Life, they gave me all the extension packs for free. Might have been because they couldn't tell by the CD key whether I had just Half-Life or the pack that included them, but I didn't care.
No, any indie who wants to can apply to be a ps3/ps4/vita developer. There are some minimal requirements but I haven't heard of folks getting turned away.

On top of that Sony has also been actively courting indie developers with interesting games and doing things handing out 'loaner' devkits to make the development process less expensive.

I know several 1-5 man teams that are working on Sony titles and they are all very happy with their relationship with Sony.
That's the experienced offered by most hardware review sites - AnandTech, DP Review, Toms Hardware, Extreme Overclocking, etc. Certainly to pump up pageviews, and thus generate more revenue.

Having said that, it is still bad design/usability. They could easily fix by keeping the model of separate pages for each topic, but moving the content from the drop down to an index at the bottom of each page, and also use prev/next buttons.
No, github already removed access to the public... you have to file the counter-claim for github to put it back. Github will notify the original party of the counter-claim, then if they want it down permanently, they have to take you to court.
The Cleveland Captives: What Really Happened?2013
I wonder why they decided to send codes over SMS that we have to manually type into a browser instead of a one-tap push notification to the Twitter app on the phone? Or Google Authenticator?
Right; then what you describe sounds like nuclear-silo-klaxon warnings to me. If the decision-makers want to replace $x/hour janitors with $xx/hour developers, they probably understand neither the price nor value of anything.
Is it so cynical to assume that Steve Jobs & the "analysts" he mentions were right–that not many Kindles have actually been sold?

Sure, you're right, they've never given a sales figure.

I think because they haven't sold very many.

http://gizmodo.com/5963577/lets-just-assume-amazon-has-sold-...
> I actually like the fact that when Douchetember 11th happens

Is that a national holiday in VC-istan where former employees go home and grind their axes?
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