skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a FreedomPop 4G device when I was having Internet problems with Time Warner in my apartment. I needed more than the free 500MB and it gets pricey pretty quickly. They hope to subsidize the free data users with monetizing other offers. In actuality, there are a lot of scenarios using FreedomPop where you have to pay for something (whether it be a device, overage charges, speed boosts, etc.). It's a good product, but it's a little "too good to be true" when it comes to their wording, in my opinion. I've had some glitches trying to downgrade my account but their customer service has been helpful each time and fixed the issue.
Maybe I'm just an old fart, but I much prefer the {g,Mac}vim icon.

Most of it is tolerable, but the sparkles just went too far imo.
Very nice, StavrosK. As someone who has spent a lot of time in Turkey, I've been impressed at the generosity and goodwill from the Greek people toward the Turks in times of great need recently, like during the last two earthquakes. And vice versa, from the Turks to the Greeks. It's actions like this, and messages like StavrosK, that give me hope about the future of these two neighbors.
"IT departments won't look quite the same in five years as they do now".
The list confuses full feed reader services (like Feedly, Newsblur) with Google Reader clients (Reeder). Would have been nice to separate those as Reeder is certainly not a replacement for Google Reader.
New Exchange Is Formed for Trading Patent Rights
>This doesn't jive with history. The world had the same disgust for the robber barons of the late 19th century

Actually it didn't but I really don't feel like starting a long historic discussion here..

>This article is about how someone rich shit all over public property, illegally, and in a flamboyant manner.

See my other comment. If Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had done the same nobody would give a damn. Bill Gates could probably easily get away with stuff like this too.

>This sort of behavior is unacceptable no matter which way you slice it

You misunderstood me. I wasn't trying to defend Parker. I have no sympathy for such decadence in general. My point was that his decadence wasn't his actual "crime" and neither was any violation of the environment.
DISRUPTION: FreedomPop Announces Free Mobile Service
Federally listed steelhead use the lower parts of Post Creek to spawn. This is something the wedding planners would have learned if they had sought the necessary permits. Increasing sedimentation in the creek reduces steelhead reproductive success, and is considered a take without a permit under the Endangered Species Act. The ESA has both civil and criminal penalties for taking without a permit, but NOAA's ability to enforce these kinds of violations is pretty limited, they don't have the money or the manpower. Thankfully, the California Coastal Commission has both.
If I'm entirely honest, I cheated two words. After seeing "This visage" I remembered the rest again. But yes, mostly by heart. Loved that part of the movie (and audiobook) :P
I haven't read the article or much of the discussion here, I would just like to point out that you are applying (maybe unintentionally) a fallacy called "excluded middle", frequently used in propaganda of all sorts.
Between being an absolute expert of a topic and knowing nothing about it there is a whole continuum of possibilities.
No, but Fisker got $529 million, Ford got $5.9 BILLION, and Nissan got $1.4 BILLION.

https://lpo.energy.gov/our-projects/
I think this is where AI comes in -- it should be possible for AI to discern meaningful/non-meaningful movements (based on size, speed, previous state, etc.)
I've never heard of a situation where possessing such material within the US would be legal. In fact, I would guess the guy and his boss would get sucked into it for not reporting it immediately.
Depending on the country they do have the right to ask you to show them first aid kit, fire extinguisher and spare tire. Since they are usually hold in the trunk of the car, and the tire on the bottom this is as a good as a search.
BS. This article seriously misjudges the amount of tech troglodytes in the average corporate office.
I've been playing Clash of Clans for a few weeks now. I have to say, it's a pretty fun game. Most games that follow a similar layout and design are no where near as polished. The developer behind this game did a really good job making it fun to play.

While I agree that the general formula laid out in the blog post, there are a lot of more subtle game mechanics that I feel help to balance the game (though I am no where near the top-tier of the gameplay yet). I can see at the high levels where the money generation vs cost of things would become a problem, but at least where I'm at, it's fun to play. If I get to the point where I hit a wall where Gems are required to really make progress, I'll just quit.
How disappointing to see anti-Islam polemic as the top comment. The comment then ties a marriage from 1,300 years ago to his justification for possession of child pornography. Real quality content the community is endorsing.
The existing upper classes were always uncomfortable with the newly rich. Royalty/aristocracy to merchants, the landed classes to the city-dwelling commercial professionals - and now, the intellectual elite to high-growth Internet startups.

It's a travesty what Parker did in that park, but that's not what the article is about. The article is about how all the the Internet startup world are douchebags who don't know their place because they have gotten their hands on a lot of money but none of the cool reflective sense and taste that (presumably) The Atlantic and its intellectual readers possess.
This a great idea! I just wonder how users will react.
I think he meant destroyed a national park vs destroyed a small section of a national park.
You can do pretty well without playing but it's just much slower.
> In five years, McBride said, companies will have to ensure they're matching their enabling technology to the demographic of that time.

The idea that you have to match your tech to the user in a company (at least that closely) is a little bit silly. If they're not smart enough to learn to use your new tech, they're not smart enough to work there at all. Fire them.

Unless it's like a burger bar or something I suppose. But really, they're adults. This sort of 'All our works are mentally retarded' shtick is getting a bit old.
I don't know if there's really a trick, just a business model counting on the fact that people will go over their free allotment.

I have a FreedomPop Rocket Sleeve that I use with an iTouch, had it for about a year now. I've never paid for more than the free 500MB bandwidth since I only use it in the rare times I'm out of a Wifi zone. And I'm pretty conservative with my data usage.

But FreedomPop is claiming 50% margin on their bandwidth, so I guess there are a lot of people buying more data. They must feel confident that this will carry on with the phones.
Scaling Out SQL Server
I found it absolutely incredible that Erdogan would leave for a trip to Algeria (of all places) rather than to address these obviously very urgent domestic issues. Whatever he's doing in Algeria I can't imagine that it is more important than to solve the domestic crisis first.

It's almost insulting.
I just tested it. You're right. Dictating punctuation works in English, but not in Spanish. I dictated this message including punctuation.
Unite.vim, the Plugin You Didn't Know You Need
is to be expected: you have a data structure where half of the inserts can be done in O(1).
MakerBot Celebrates Dads and Grads with 3D Printing Deals
The fine has both to be punitive and to serve as a deterrent to others — so to be punitive, it has to be relative to the income of the person/company being fined, and to be a deterrent it also needs to be severe. I don't see any reason it has to be similar to the direct cost of the damage caused.
Interesting. You're the first I hear from that uses it. Only knew some impaired people that were using Dragon NaturallySpeaking or something like that.
Two can play at the genetic fallacy game Achmed...

How about this abomination of a twitter feed? http://twitter.com/jmattheij
NASA teams with Lego to offer coolest, most realistic model competition
Cool insights Sieuwert
Twitter has an API that allows you to more or less scrape tweets.
The name is a marketing term, you're right. The structure is somewhere in the realm of buffer trees, LSM-trees, $B^\epsilon$ trees, and COLAs. It's hard to give it an academic name precisely because the implementation takes hints from many places, but we hope to publish more soon. B-trees are on the optimal tradeoff curve but there are many other points on that curve, and B-trees heavily favor reads so there's plenty of room to win on the write side. I have a couple of blogs about this actually: http://www.tokutek.com/2011/09/write-optimization-myths-comp... http://www.tokutek.com/2011/10/write-optimization-myths-comp...
You'll get a lot of comments regarding the grid's immaturity to handle a variable load of renewable sources, but the the path of building new nuclear power plant designs as well as forecasts of the ability to store waste for their planned cost has even less maturity.

Living in Southern California, I've been watching the botched upgrade of the San Onofre plant power generation system. There was a well understood, existing design being upgraded with modern engineering under a regulatory watch of the NRC. Nobody in any quarter of that case wanted the upgrade to fail, but despite best efforts and intentions, there was a critical failure in the equipment.

The cost of storing nuclear waste falls under similar uncertainty, efforts to build long term storage facilities in the US and UK have huge cost growth, pointing at the immaturity of the ability to plan, cost-estimate, and technically achieve the goal.
A sister story to this one is far darker:

http://abarristerswife.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/exhibit-c-th...
It's called addiction. They get people addicted to the power that gems confer them. People don't care that they need no skills. They just want that high that the gems give them.
> The alternative is fossil fuel waste

You make it sounds as if there were no other alternative.
Learn the Laws of the Jungle for Business Startups
Ah yes, the annual IT won't exist article from Computerworld.

Two big problems. The first is legal. Records and the handling of records are an amazingly complicated problem. Not so much from the storage[1], but access and preservation in the face of lawsuits.

The other is political. It is amazing all of the political processes that apply to machines. From access to locking down certain parts (e.g. cameras in research organizations). Maybe external companies will take over the entire function, but I doubt it lasts past the first three day failure to access documents in the cloud.

1) although from a technical point of view, enterprise document stores are super unfriendly. think giving code control with a crappier interface to Admin Assistants.
Not all technologies are equivalent though. Different tech can have different learning curves, and the shape/length of the learning curve for the same technology can vary for different populations or types of work. I agree that competent employees should be able to learn any technology you choose, given sufficient time and training. But if you can do so without sacrificing other important goals, typically a company will want to choose stuff that their particular set of employees can learn more quickly, in a less error-prone way, and with less training needed. To take an extreme case, if a particular interface requires strong working knowledge of Python scripting to use effectively, and your employees include a number of people who've never programmed before, then the time and resources needed to train them up may be large. On the other hand, if most of your employees are already Python programmers, it may not be an issue at all.
Sad to see reddit's pedo-apologia leaking onto news.yc.

It's not a "minority" crime (an example of that would be prison sentences for crack being 20x that for possessing an equivalent amount of cocain).

Child pornography is a sex crime that targets and direclty injures children.
I haven't played this particular games, but I played a few that sounded similar.

Sometimes people seem to get motivated not so much by winning but by extracting vengeance on people who pissed them off.

Even games without an explicit pay2win mechanic often end up that way due to black markets that pop up outside of the game for trading accounts etc.
This was the author's source for the 500k number (linked in the article text):

http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2013/01/10/supercell-generat...
I disagree, sure there was some bias in the article. The fact that Parker made his money in Silicon Valley is completely besides the point. My take away is that a rich asshole* thinks the rules and laws don't apply to him. He developed an sensitive ecological area without little to no regard as to it's effects. People should be called out for these type of things. I could have done without the bias also but this was and is something worth calling people out on.

*I don't personally know Parker of course so asshole may be a bit of an unfair judgement but stories like this aren't likely to make me think favorably of him.
>I fail to see how saying that one likes replacing callbacks with channels translates to saying Go is "perfection incarnate".

It isn't. It is saying "I don't realize that this is actually worse than what lots of languages provided before go even existed, so I think it is awesome". Which is the point of the blub response. Go isn't interesting, it is blub.
I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sounds of Muslims threatening their government (Norway) with 9/11 events to get their own country-within-a-country.

You mentioned I wasn't responding to your argument, I was, you said Muslims always Integrate, and I responded with an example right now of Muslims threatening countries with 9/11 events to get an Islamic State within Norway. This game you are playing. Two can play it.

Why are you defending the terrorists? Instead of acknowledging the truth and letting it be, you do genetic fallacies and attacking the person instead of adressing the facts of the matter.
IBM throws its weight behind MongoDB for mobile apps
Congrats Thalmic on raising the largest Series A in YC History
yea, you're right, I wonder how common this is (on a land cable) if you're on 3g it can be detected and prevented or request opt in from the user.
He didn't own the land he was modifying.

If he was illegally bulldozing redwoods on land he paid cash money for, you might be able to make an argument about environmentalism. But he didn't own it. That's straight up property rights.
Nuclear waste is stored very, very deep and secure. I cannot imagine future humans having the technology to open these up, without knowing what is in there. Either we lose all of our knowledge and no soul will ever see that site, or we stay an advanced civilization and we are warned of the dangers before opening the nuclear waste facilities.

Don't forget that uranium is found naturally in the ground, in geologically vastly more unstable regions, with water flowing through it. What we're doing is concentrating the radioactivity, and putting it deeper and safer. If you're afraid of mankind finding these waste sites in the future, are you not afraid of them finding uranium in their drinking water?
I combined the bootstrap method with some Font-Awesome, and accomplished getting some animation in my buttons in a simple manner.

See "Buttons" section at http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/examples/
OT: Any idea of the software used for diagram? (seems embedded with javascript)
To continue the metaphor, you don't need as big a net when you reduce the surface area of the lake.

Meaning, write so many laws that everyone eventually breaks a law or two on a regular basis.
"Cars won't exist in five years." - Also valid. They will have morphed into a new form with new technologies.
Apologies for not observing HN protocol, but you're a complete idiot.

The only real terrorist attack ever in Norway came from a lone-wolf white guy who you seem to have ideologically a whole lot in common with.
That's like asking how is that poor, first generation Harvard student playing fair? Did all Harvard students get a scholarship? No, but a lot of the other kids had parents that went there so they got a leg up in the admission process and their parents are rich enough to pay for it.

I find it difficult blaming Tesla for doing what it can to catch up in an industry where the established players have a huge advantage.
Good point. I added a note for Reeder.
Pretty big difference between 9 and 16, though. Like, say, 16 being the age of consent in most countries.

And I've come to the conclusion that if you don't know about someone's religion, it's best not to criticise it, because you might just end up looking like an ignorant idiot.
Interview with Stephen Lake, Co-Founder of Thalmic Labs (YC W13)
IT departments will always exist in the Enterprise.

I work for a major ISP in the UK and they will never move to cloud for their core systems (Network, CMR, Billing, Provisioning). If you are trying to sell any software to them, they will ask you if you can provide a build that they can then deploy on their servers. Forget cloud computing. That may work for some teams and some functions within the business (e.g. marketing, online dev, UX) but the core functions, where you'll find customers' data, will never be moved to the cloud.
Imagine this clash in the Unitd States. Would the result be more violent or less?
DO NOT PLEDGE!

As a developer myself I'd highly recommend running away from this kickstarter as the video doesn't show any models, no in game scenes, no UI designs and basically I couldn't find anything started aside from the video & a quick map graphic.
I'd suggest a third problem, networking effects.

Consider the example of a team using LucidChart rather than Visio. That's fine for internal use, but if you work for a firm that contracts with others, then you need to be able to read the Visio files they send you (and vice-versa).
Show HN: gif.gg, instantly create GIFs from your camera
They just don't have the time or the tools. But if you can make it easy for them, then wow! This is a big win for everyone.

Resumes, recruiters, job ads -- yuck! Hacker communities -- yay!
Well let's look at the oil and food subsidies, and compare them with the electric cars ones. I can take a wild guess and say they are on different order of magnitudes. I wonder if I'm wrong.
In the future, computers will be easier to run (like ipads) and software like email will be solved to the point that you don't need an IT department running around keeping the computers working.

That would be true if our needs were static. Realistically, as soon as email gets solved properly and we don't need an IT department to run it we will need them to run something else. Some saleforce script that downloads all the leads marked "up" and changes them to "charm" unless the salesperson's name begins with a q.

IMO, the general space occupied by what we now call IT will grow. Using the right collaboration software and building the right culture around it can have a huge impact on a company. The person in charge of that stuff could be a pretty important person for a lot of companies in the future.
Annoying Emails Work Better Than You Think: A Lesson From the Obama Campaign
Exactly - robber barons are the analogy here. The Big Sur area already have has one gigantic monument to the bad taste of the newly rich: Hearst castle. Just continuing a tradition...
I've been using VOIP for most of my calls for over a year (using Google Voice through the iOS app Talkatone). It is flat out unusable over 3G, the latency is just too high.
You don't even need to do that. Just send spam their way that have links that say one thing but point to another.

It works for the FBI after all.
What's anti-Islam about that comment?
Technicians don't have any context.

They have no idea if these are his grandchildren and they're happy, or if these are his grandchildren and he's abusing them, or if these are his grandchildren and he's on the sex offender's register and prohibited from being anywhere near them.

So, when they call police they're not saying "This guy is a paedophile, lock him up" they are saying "There might be a problem here, but we're not child protection experts and we don't have access to all the information, so please could you take a look?"

It's very annoying that police totally overplayed this case, and that CPS didn't look at the images before taking it to court.

But still, in general, you want people to report early and report often. The fight isn't against them, it's against overworked underfunded poorly trained social workers (many of whom are fucking idiots) and overly aggressive police forces.

What is totally baffling to me is to contrast this case (naked children on a drive; arrest and prosecution) and the child grooming gang cases (14 year old girls telling police that they were being gang raped, drugged, forced into prostitution, and police not doing anything and child protection social services telling the family that a child working as a prostitute was a "lifestyle choice". We must do something to stop abuses of the system like that, but we must also make sure innocent people don't end up in court needlessly. Especially because, as the blog says, access to legal aid is getting tricky and barristers are expensive.
Hiring Academic Candidates
It is not anti-Islam polemic...

The person is very dear to me, and I was only pointing how there is a clear dissonance between values, even in the same person...

The Bible is also full of things that most people dislike, and I am fine with them. Most people think I am evil because of THAT.

I got kinda tired of avoiding commenting about Islam, or Jews, because every time someone talk about Islam people think it is a anti-Islam thing (mostly, because many times it is, unfortunately... I still remember when I told a person that rode the commuting bus every day with me how sad I was about Libya civil war, and he replied that muslims were all stupid evil dirty people and deserved to die, I never talked with that guy again, who knows what other shocking shit he might say), and every time someone say something bad about Jews it turns into anti-semitism (even if the object of the criticism is true).

I guess maybe I should have invented some fictional names for the historical figures mentioned, to still give a example of my point of someone that favours throwing the baby with the bathwater but at the same time respects a historical figure that clashes with their own values.
" If a person wants to use the WiSee, she would perform a specific repetition gesture sequence to get access to the receiver. This password concept would also keep the system secure and prevent a neighbor – or hacker – from controlling a device in your home. "
OneMusicAPI adds extra metadata, "disc" and FreeDB searches
I think that for almost all Internet Explorer and Safari users the UI is as busy as their developers make it.

I expect the average user of Chrome and Firefox to be able and willing to at least get to the "View" menu (or similar) and configure the interface as he/she sees fit.