skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression was that the iPhone was fully thought out in advance so that everything would work together. Take away a major piece, and the whole thing stops making sense. It needed a touch screen so that it didn't need a keyboard. There couldn't be a keyboard, because it took space away from the display. Replacing a keyboard with a touch screen was radical at that time, and it had to work really well. People would need visual feedback to be able to interact with it effectively. The visual feedback couldn't lag, so that required fast graphics. And so on...
Instant usefulness!

You might want to consider hosting the apps on a separate domain than your own to avoid some security gotchas. github did so recently and explains the rationale at: https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-...
Ah, you forget the main Advantage (to Apple)

- native means control.
See @charonn0's response.
Judging by the state of the electrical wiring and plumbing in the houses I have lived in, this is absolutely the case...

Sadly when their 'code' has had 'buffer overflows,' I have needed to fix water damage or put out a small fire!
A rainbow is curved. The Pride flag is not.
That's why we have an appeals process.
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak. Talking about "if" something that is true weren't doesn't seem very useful to me here. Illegal music sharing is reality and shows no signs of stopping, or being stopped.
He won't get 13 years.

People need to stop this practice of listing the maximum possible under best (worst) possible conditions sentence.

If he doesn't have a criminal history he'll get a month of probation and that's all.
I'm not sure what dependencies Diaspora has, but the dependencies for vole seem minimal
Right, our text editor is pretty basic at the moment, but hey if you are a vim user, it works perfectly!
It's a bit odd that arewefastyet.com stops showing results for JavaScriptCore when switching to the asm.js view.
and "queer"
It's not a catalog, but you can use the 'extension:' search option in the command bar.

https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Ageojson&type=Code&re...

Will give you all of the results, it definitely needs a slightly better way of searching.
Well, Purdue does take a big chunk of the Big 10 Network proceeds for the University, when that money is almost entirely the result of the athletic program. However, I wouldn't say the athletic programs are willingly sharing it.
But is he still doing that? (Honest question, I don't know) Just because you were on the bleeding edge twenty years ago, does not mean you haven't been outpaced today.
254,158 Android apps are ‘malicious’ as mobile malware skyrockets 614%
You enjoy seeing suffering and injustice in order to score meaningless political points in your head? Doesn't seem healthy.
Why don't they support TLS 1.2?
Oh man...some hilarious iterations there. Especially funny after playing with the normal version for a while. All of a sudden: "PARDON ME HUGE WHEELS HAULIN' ASS COMIN' THROUGH"
Or, you know, use one of the half dozen RT variants of Linux.
I so badly want to live in a country where we can count on people to hear this, acknowledge it's absurdity, and act accordingly. Do we?

I appreciate your optimism. I really hope it works out well for this guy. I am seriously glad I'm not the one facing these charges though.
Pandora didn't advertise the product. They delivered the product. The product is the MUSIC YOU ARE LISTENING TO. The experience of listening to music. If you don't understand that, you shouldn't even participate in the conversation.
The audiobook version of this is excellent, read by Wil Wheaton. One of the best books I've read in the last few years, and also one of the most entertaining audiobook narrations.
I'm fairly sure that the vast majority of musicians throughout history have not been able to sustain themselves with nothing but music.
I wish I could get paid for something I did 20 years ago. Maybe you should consider that the purpose of copyright law was not to provide you and your kids a revenue stream for life but rather to encourage free thought and exchange of ideas by providing a limited period of protection before a work became public domain. The original copyright term when congress passed the first copyright law was 14 years. But greedy entertainment industry attorneys have been able to pay off congress over the years and have the terms extended, until now, thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, the expiration of copyright is effectively gone. In fact nothing will enter the public domain for decades now.

So maybe instead of complaining that the average Joe's of the world need to listen to more commercials or pay you more for something you did 20 years ago you could put that energy into something new. It amazes me that we can pay teachers and law enforcement people $40,000 a year and hear about how high taxes are, but then society sees no problem with someone making millions of dollars off of an album...or throwing a football around for a dozen games a year.
Thanks, this sounds interesting. At least, the work in these shops might be a bit more interesting than pure corporate places. Worth giving it a shot.
St. Obama of the digital inquisition: God contacts Rome, Christ holds presser
branch here: http://branch.com/b/how-do-we-respond-to-ios-7
Yeah, it would be wonderful if all businesses operated with enough profits they could absorb doubled costs, but that isn't generally how it goes.

Wait, no, it wouldn't be wonderful, because then you'd be angry that every company was making 50% net profit off you left and right.
"so simple X can do it" always comes off as condescending to me
Why thank you! How'd you like a signed copy of Without Their Permission? (http://ohanian.co/WTPbook) Email contact AT alexisohanian.com your address and I'll get ya.

I promise that book is going to be nothing less than 42x better. It also has doodles! e.g., http://instagram.com/p/Zn32KlmEq7/
Interesting way to look at it. No doubt it is an advertisement, but it's also the product itself.
swell!
College-style education is both expensive and risky. Expensive not only from tuition but also four years of lost earnings and missed actual experience. Risky because academia is only loosly connected to the working world - so much of what is taught will turn out to be irrelevant.

While still unproven alternative education techniques such as online or internships/apprenticeships may turn out to be more effective and much less expensive. If employers become convinced traditional diplomas and degrees are unreliable indicators of quality and better alternatives exist, we could see a sudden shift away from traditional education.

Would you rather hire someone with a middle ranking college degree or two years experience and a letter of recommendation from their boss? Or a certificate from a reputable online program in the exact skill you need?
Well, in 1992 when I learned it, it seemed like a long established and widespread practice. And I could hardly be blamed for not having a personal data point of the pronunciation when I was one years old. :)

If you look up "etc unix pronounciation", while there is a lot of bickering, I still think "etsy" is the slight majority among old timers. I will admit that this usage seems to have faded.

I spent some time trying to find video of any of the original Bell Labs Unix team actually saying the directory out loud--I couldn't find any. I'm going to keep searching, but they honestly seem to go out of their way to avoid it. I did find some fascinating videos along the way [1].

To my chagrin, there are a few oblique text references on the web that say indicate that within Bell Labs, it was pronounced "etcetera". But I'd still like a canonical reference.

[1] Like this video from 1982, including Kernighan, Thompson, Ritchie, and Aho. http://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0
I am still waiting for more trade schools / bootcamps and apprenticeships to start opening up in the states.

We should be training people for the job that they will eventually hold instead of teaching theoretical scenarios and looking over case studies.

Its already started to gain a foothold in the tech industry and I believe it will be even more in demand as college degrees become less valuable.
I'd say those startups already exist: they're the producing companies of feminist porn. There's even an annual Feminist Porn Award, where one of the evaluation criteria is whether the film "expands the boundaries of sexual representation on film and challenges stereotypes that are often found in mainstream porn."
Ho yes sure it's not too bad...
Are these the natural language queries the PandoDaily article talks about, or is that a new thing launching today?
What is the methodology for the 'Line length is over 80 characters' ?
A lot of lines of code have less than 80 characters, no matter what the conventions are.
What would be interesting is the percentage of files that have not a single line with more than 80 characters and the other files.
It would be more obvious to see who doesn't care about 80 characters.
Explain how you are going to animate blurred glass at 60 FPS if Safari doesn't give you a fast path to the GPU?

I don't understand your comment. Are you just saying that both Javascript and Objective-C are Turing complete? If that is the point your are making, well that isn't really debatable.
This is correct. Masters of Doom made me want to be an entrepreneur.
Wait, so the judge can order the lawyer not to talk about free speech. That's like, a meta-violation of the first amendment. Not only can you not exercise your 1st amendment rights, you can't even exercise your 1st amendment rights to complain about not being able to exercise your 1st amendment rights.
> web programming is dead easy even for a beginner who has never touched programming

That one hurt. Some say it's easy as pie even for a kid, some say it's so complex with all the layers going on. Why can't we never see it as it is?

I also firmly believe that anyone who thinks web development is easier than any other kind of application development should stop writing crappy PHP and improve the quality of her/his own work.
The Stafford loan program is capped at just over $30,000. Direct PLUS loans have larger amounts, but can only be made to employed parents with good credit scores, not to students.

If you see a student with $60,000 in debt, thank the glorious free market. A good chunk of that was lent by a private financial institution.
Google will suck up shamelessly to the HN crowd to distract from the fact they sold us out instead of using their clout to fight the NSA.

Interesting how it was a single brave person who put his life on the line and changed the world.

And the weak things of the world will confound the mighty (1 Cor. 1:27)
Why should criminal history matter? He wrote something in fucking CHALK. That he is being barred from mentioning anything related to free speech when his method of conveying speech was a temporary (comparable to holding a sign) and fleeting (from the rain, a hose, or a drunk on saturday night) is a travesty.
There was a mother and a father - I'll let you decide which role was fulfilled by me and Steve.
Branch prediction across memory barriers is also something I don’t think is doable.

My understanding is weak, but this doesn't sound right. Presuming he means that "speculative execution across a write memory barrier is prohibited", is he correct?
That is how plotters work. Lookup HP-GL or DPML
Tell it to Aaron Swartz.
Gauging iOS's progress on aesthetics alone is like a Formula 1 driver on the highway saying "I have no idea where I'm going, but I'm making great time!".

They only recently implemented a sane notifications system and quick-access settings, and they STILL don't have anything comparable to Intents on Android, which I believe is a revolutionary feature that should be core to any mobile OS.
I'm sorry, is this a competition?
"Awards" in many industries are marketing grey areas. In this case, though, it's just yet another free css design gallery: the only notable thing being that kintek probably nominated themselves, knowing exactly where their original design came from...
Do you honestly think that this going to be a case involving Jury Nullification? Jury Nullification is rarely used. Also a huge problem with this article is that it mentioning the maximum sentence that someone can receive for this. There is no evidence that he will be sentenced for that amount of time.
Once I read the first line I immediatelly remembered that sign on Valley Mills and thought: "could this be a fellow sufferer from Waco?" :-D This reminds me how much I look forward to moving out of Waco this summer.
Oh, no, it's quite awful--don't get me wrong.

However, it serves as a funny sort of schadenfreude whenever there is plain evidence that that state is not some mythical civil liberty land of milk and honey, especially when one of the most common things I see talking about Texas is how evil and republican it is and how there are no sex shops and all kinds of damn fool other things.

At least headlines like this help people maybe reconsider where they want to end up. :)

(If this were a federal decision, I'd be raging. Since it's just a state or city being dumb, it's darkly funny.)
"In short, we’d replace 2007′s sliding textures with motion, dimension, and physics."

I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs would be rolling in his grave if the UI was that busy. He was into sleek.
I use http://mandrill.com/ . No problem with it yet and it's quite generous in terms of free allowance.
Swastikas are a little different though. It's been decoratively used for apolitical reasons for thousands of years on all sorts of things, but was only really flown as a flag starting with the NAZIs in the 1920s. There's a lot of architecture, even in Europe involving pre-NAZI swastikas. And before and even shortly after the NAZI party adopted it, it was used a a good luck symbol in the west (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in_...).
Or you could say that playing one song is an advertisement for the album or for the artist. There are many artists I wouldn't have otherwise known about if it wasn't for pandora.

"If you don't understand that, you shouldn't even participate in the conversation."

This is childish. "If I can't conceive of any other perspective, then you shouldn't open your mouth!!!!"
Football player convicted of murder based on text messages and surveillance
This story made me cry and actually made me feel better for living in the UK, which in turn has made me cry more.
The one on Valley Mills is much easier on the pornographic indulging soul.

The one I mentioned was near 18th and I35 on the way towards the Planned Parenthood clinic. Haha.
It is disproportionate given Pandora, after all is said and done, is yet to turn a profit. If Pandora was making millions or billions in income, its easier to argue they ought to pay a larger share to the musicians.
Afraid of ending on the wrong side of this debate, but:

- I'm sure, if convicted, it's unlikely that he will get maximum penalty (13 years), sensationalist headers and all.

- If someone was writing whatever (political speech, gang signs, etc) on my property I sure would like them to be arrested and given a good punishment so they won't do it again.
Yep. Race to the bottom.
I'd love to import my zone files into either (or both) DNSimple and Route53 so I can try switching over.

Now, if I could only get into my Zerigo account to get my zone files. Alas!

UPDATE: Zerigo's dashboard is working for me again as of 6:30 EDT. I'm trying to export my zone files, but I get "Error exporting domain for download. Please wait a few minutes and try again." I'll keep trying.
Very cool idea, always interesting to see this kind of data.

My only feedback would be to put the language names as well as logos. I had no idea what those last two languages were, and waiting for the hover title text is a bit tedious (not to mention some people may not realise you can do that)
Virtually no one is earning a living from Pandora or Spotify, so, it isn't working.

Citation?
Can't you just tell me what you suppose [1] I was "really trying to say"? As it is, your point is over my head.

[1] Ha!
I checked out the usual suggestions, Route 53 and dnsimple don't seem to have domain templates like Zerigo -- that's the killer feature to me

edit: dnsimple has templates, so does https://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/powerdns.html
NSA taping all your phone calls and logging your emails, and now you get 13 years for chalk writing. But you still believe in the land of the free and the home of the brave

You're Free.

Really Free.

As long as you're not Brave enough to criticize the rich in chalk.

Good night, and good luck.
SQL Server 2014
> Macs have never been marketed as an X (M|G)hz machine with Y (M|G)B RAM.

Not quite true, I don't think. Around the late 90s, early 00s there was a lot of marketing around the high Mhz of the Mac CPU compared with PCs - and arguments about the merits of RISC vs CISC. That was back in the Mhz wars when Mhz was all most people cared about and paid attention to.
Really, almost every programmer is a self-taught programmer. The programming that you get in a formal education barely scratches the surface.
Sure. My point was not that there were zero.
And yeah, if you have even tried writing with chalk on a rugged wall you'll find soon enough that it's not that washable, at least not with some effort.
U.S government makes its first-ever Bitcoin seizure
It's the fact that he's being threatened with 13 years that's significant.

Oh, and the fact some stuffed shirt from a major bank can basically order the local police department to go and arrest this guy. Like you or I might order a pizza.
If you suffer from stress as I do, you'll breathe too much from your lungs, and it can be very good to lie down, do the one hand on each thing and consciously change your pattern into a better one (at least for the duration of the lie down).
There are Congressmen that are really, really far left and far right. They're widely seen as kooks, but they serve a valuable purpose - they go against the groupthink of everyone else and get them to think about things differently. Sure, they're crazy. Often their ideas are completely at odds with reality. But the more rational parts of their beliefs also get communicated with their kookiness, and it helps everyone.

For example, Dennis Kucinich made a great Congressman. That being said, he would most definitely not make a good President.

Richard Stallman is the same way. Is it a terrible idea to take all of his ideas and mold the programming community in his image? Yes. It would be impractical and completely insane to expect everyone to work for free. But that doesn't mean that we should completely discount everything that he says. There are great ideas in there right alongside the craziness.
Not allowed. Any related parties have to be disclosed and will be removed on consolidation of financial statements. Unless both parties are totally separate entities with no relation, we are moving into fraud territory.
"If anything, GPS technology may have had the opposite effect."

They're clearly drawing the wrong conclusion. GPS makes being a cabbie easier, which makes it less valuable for people to put the time into becoming a skilled professional cabbie, which makes driving a cab a more feasible option for someone who looks at it as a temporary job.
Our search is not yet "natural language" in the technical sense. We've got an extensive number of search "keywords" as described in these tech posts that align fairly well with how you might speak/write a query in natural language, but still rely on a specific syntax rather than pure English phrases. Looking forward to seeing what delver.io is up to :)

The full-sentence example questions in the pando article are very straightforward to get an answer to in Close.io, but they can't be written as-is.
Is there a difference between graffiti art using permanent paints / inks / dyes, and temporary political sloganeering using water washable chalk?

I'm not sure how a judge can exclude the constitution from a court case?
being a big c9.io user nitrous.io does have that same look and feel...however I really dislike the credit system in my expereince anytime a company has tried to use some kind of credit system its usually never good for those devs who simply cant pay or simply dont want to...but overall love the look and feel "cant wait to start slinging some mad js"
> (And, no, rereading 1984 doesn't count.)

I'm on the last chapter of Atlas Shrugged. Does that count?
> We've reached such feature parity - I honestly believe a choice between iOS/Android/WP8/RIM is going to give you a good, fairly polished experience.

This is exactly right. Just like arguing over the pronunciation of "pecan", or which text editor is the "best", you're probably not going to convince anyone with an existing opinion on the "best" mobile OS. Who cares?
Python's PEP8 recommends underscores for functions, method names and instance vars, but the stats are showing a break down of camelCase with and without first capital letter (which shouldn't really be relevant).
Wait, so you think maybe 1/13th of the max punishment (1 year in prison) is a reasonable punishment for writing things in chalk on private property?

If we're talking community service, repaying the cost of cleanup, or that sort of thing I agree with you... if we're talking about taking away years of someone's life I'm really confused.
Zerigo DNS completely down from DDoS
Mentioning jury nullification is a surefire way to get out of jury duty though I'd happily keep my mouth shut and serve for this case.
You should read the book the movie was based on:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307740986
Haskell doesn't have auto-parallelism. There are some excellent libraries for parallelism (strategies, DPH, repa) but they take some work. True auto-parallelism (a la Parasail) is far more difficult to get right (often due to granularity of work units).
^ this is exactly where the state of the internet should be...lets fix the infrastructure before expanding it.
The judge's decision is a point of law which can be appealed. Appeals courts, at least in the US, are normally supposed to deal with issues of law and accept the findings of fact in the court of first instance.
I'm in the same boat as you :(
> I'd love to get rid of the BEAST penalty

Please don't. The more attention is paid to it, the more ammo I have in pressuring the manufacturers of certain embedded systems I'm stuck dealing with to upgrade their ancient browser codebases.
I really don't see how first amendment rights apply to his situation. You can't spray paint over a billboard and then claim you're protected under the first amendment, for example.

That being said, I don't even know that I'd consider writing with washable chalk to be vandalism. Maybe "littering" or something, considering how easy it is to wash off. Certainly nothing that should warrant any jail time (unless you're talking about a habitual repeat offender or something).
I'm happy to link into this if you point me to a testcase that shows the slowness. If it takes a few tens of seconds so much the better: easier to profile.
Eclipse.org Kepler Released
I'll go ahead and write this - Perhaps completely ignoring your wife isn't the way to go.

Did that help. I don't really have time for a whole book.

/the wife would get mad at me.
Licencing is hardly there only cost.
Well, at least this design is a lot closer to current Android and WP8. When developers designed specifically for iOS and then ported to Android as an afterthought, the results often looked completely out of place.

I'm hopeful that it will be easier for clever designers to make apps that look very similar on all three platforms, and also look at home on all three platforms.
So, can we say Apple is lying by saying "Apple cannot decrypt that data (iMessages)"? Is there a creative way of reading their press release that doesn't entail their dishonesty?
How big news took over Twitter recently