skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First you need a mac to go native, and my 2cents follow that native path.
Going native you have access to all functionalities, push notifications, accelerometer, gyroscope, and build nice apps using those tools.
So for that you will need to lear Obj.C:
http://www.codeschool.com/courses
http://teamtreehouse.com/

Those are a good starting point.
Hey I recognize that tune.

http://www.rdio.com/artist/Dead_Can_Dance/album/A_Passage_In...
However, the problem is not that elected officials are not listening to the people, it is that there is little concern from the electorate about privacy rights.

Ultimately, the country does belong to you more for understanding the problems of eroding privacy rights more than someone who doesn't. One could argue that rioting would change the conversation in a productive way, but I expect it would further the cause of authoritarians if a group of people behind a minority viewpoint tried to advance their cause through the violence of rioting.

I firmly believe that democracy can only function with transparency and a free press, but those are means to democracy, not a goal in themselves. It makes no sense to wish for riots, which are intrinsically anti-democratic when not expressing the will of the majority, for the sake of making a country safer for democracy.

Much as when our country was torturing people, the problem is less that of a disobedient set of elected officials, and more that of some really bad ideas that are held by a large portion of the population. Unfortunately, right now the problem is not politicians who can be easily demonized, but a population that for now is largely ignorant about the power of data.
Full inductees also include Aaron Swartz and Jimmy Wales

http://www.internethalloffame.org/blog/2013/06/26/internet-h...
> What do you need?

> ...

> 2 A configured static IP adres

So, I know what a static IP address is, but I'm wondering how one 'gets' one. I'm wondering what they mean here.
In the German case I believe the business model was that they could offer this for 'free' and then later when you wanted a beefier VPS you would talk to them as you already had a commercial relationship with their team.

That said, I think it's a lot of fun to do these sorts of projects but remind people that you have to be careful your Raspberry Pi does not eat your SD card for lunch. (which it will do if you do a lot of writing and updating to it). One of the big ones is log files because each time a line is updated in the log file the inode is updated with the length of the file, re-writing the inode means re-writing a 'page' (128K on many SD cards) and eventually you have wear leveled the thing to the nub. The buffer cache helps a bit but since you can be memory constrained on the Pi Linux flushes dirty pages more often than you might expect and again, dead SD card.

My current solution is to make the SD card read only, provide symlinks out (or mounting) to various directories where writes are happening on a USB attached laptop hard drive, and for development files mounting them with NFS.

Does it slow things down? Of course it does but this is a phone pretending it's a server so you have to set your expectations accordingly :-)
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Why First Round Capital invested in a satellite company
Nitrous.IO is now in public beta
I think he means admin'ing your servers from CLI. Using the metro UI in Windows Server 2012 will make you want to hurl yourself out a window to avoid having to do it again.
The theory of 'addictive personality' is no longer a valid scientific explanation of addiction.
I notice that the 4th Amendment doesn't factor into it.

The 4th doesn't really apply if you're talking about the war on [drugs, terrorism, child molesters, tax cheaters, file sharers] etc. etc. etc. We are always at war
It doesn't really help to comfort a broken hearted teenager by saying, "don't worry, you'll find love again! Just look at me and my beautiful wife!"
That, someday humanity will have to adapt NUI.
Boomerang - New Alternative to Gmail App on Android
Internet Radio Isn’t Ripping Off Artists
Swedish localised music service Tunaspot gets 200k Euro investment
You're welcome. We're launching (publicly) soon and are in the process of releasing a half a dozen such projects, from AngularJS dashboarding tools to full-fledged node.js frameworks. Stay tuned :)
Firefox never supported the old flexbox. It has XUL boxes (dating back to 1998 or so), which the old flexbox was syntactically, and somewhat behaviorally based on. But they predate those drafts by 10 years.
I'm not stating they did it well, just saying that for those 4 different platforms (excluding xbox one until release) they already have stuff "in production". The ship has sailed, and they put the farm on it.
Styles, like fashion, follow trends. But the similarities on these sites go well beyond just similar trends, especially once you're beyond the main page. The copy on the "Services" page is probably the most damning:

We provide a wide array of software design and development
services -- from Mobile applications and Web applications
to User interface design, Quality assurance and Digital
Strategy -- we're a trusted partner helping you develop
your business.

vs

We provide a wide array of Award Winning design and
development services -- from Digital Strategy, QA and UX
Design to iOS, Android, and Facebook Apps, Responsive
Mobile Enhanced Websites, Ecommerce and Business
Automation Tools -- we're your trusted partner in Digital.

I don't think anyone honestly believes those sentences were written independently of each other. Look at them in their context on the page, and the plausibility of coincidental design similarity goes even further out the window. This was clearly a copy/paste/edit job.
You're a bit filter bubbled. Of course Obama is an amazing celebrity. He's the president of the USA. That sort of makes him an amazing celebrity by definition.

Stallman, however, is not the president and not Brad Pitt, so he has a harder time achieving celebrity status.
What 'Sent From My iPhone' Really Means
One solution would be to stop anonymously defining modules... or...

Instead of having >200 files that need to be compiled with r.js every time, what about compiling them to intermediary builds? Abstract your code in to some bigger modules and wrap them up in a little bow with a nice interface, and basically consider that part of the code "solved" and focus only on what is currently changing or being built. Your build process should reflect this!

I've been doing this on larger projects with RequireJS and r.js and my build times are very short... it just builds from maybe 15-20 files, where a few of those files are the result of some other r.js build.

Now, should r.js possibly do things to better manage this sort of approach? You bet! There are many mature build environments that have a similar approach. Maybe r.js needs some sort of concept of "linking"?

Personally, I don't mind having to manage intermediary builds, because... that intermediary build is making something that I can use in OTHER projects... I haven't really come across a situation where pure business logic is dominating an application. Almost everything that a program does can be abstracted out and reused! I'm sure people out there can provide plenty of examples to the contrary, and I'd love to hear those!
Additionally, if you're anti-slavery you're by definition a Republican. If you don't identify as republican you're automatically pro-slavery. It's 2013, if you're not a republican by now what are you?
A workaround using Guided Access can be found at[1]. This is not ideal, but it appears sufficient to prevent alerts etc during a presentation.

[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/2025400/how-to-temporarily-m...
This is awesome !!!
I don't know that there's any evidence that says directly it will be. What I believe is that the country is becoming less free as time goes on and I think that means at some point they will use the data for dissent stifling. I don't think they need to now because the bread and circuses are good enough.
You can turn all of the integration off, if you choose. Europe may still go after them.
Thank you, when I put this up this morning I wasn't really sure to whom I was petitioning to be honest. It looks like the medical examiner office is overseen by the governor of Oklahoma.
yes they are similar - but for me theres a much bigger difference between similar / inspired design and flat out plagiarism - which this isnt.
You should be happy they'll ship another one within 12 months! /sarcasm
I recommend a smaller mutation rate. You see the inheritance of the previous winner a lot better.
It seems to me that there will be yearly releases to coincide with the yearly release of Windows so there will likely be a separate VS2014.
Wow, the headline has been fixed. Gotta love HN. It used to be: "Adblock Plus is changing Amazon refs", now it's "Adblock Plus “typo correction” feature adds affiliate IDs to links". (I'll have to point out though that this is not a major point in TFA, I didn't even see that mentioned in there.)

Yup, that's right. This is the URL fixing functionality only implemented in ABP for Firefox. If you type amazorn.com, Adblock Plus will correct it for you (if you activated this feature, it's opt-in), sending you to amazon.com.

ABP does indeed add an affiliate ID to those links, it was a monetisation idea. We've been open about this [1] (See "Monetization"), nobody's being tracked and nobody's seeing any extra ads.

I had and have some doubts about this making sense as a part of ABP, but I wouldn't consider it shady.

[1] http://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adblo...
in case anyone wants to use referrals, heres mine: https://www.nitrous.io/join/OpJoQ5iC2Wk
Golden Rule of the Internet: Someone will always be pedantic unless you write your post to be airtight and have copious amounts of text covering all edge-cases. People always have a compulsion to evaluate what you wrote while ignoring the current context.

Did I say somewhere here that all articles on the Holocaust require an equal amount of time presenting the views of Holocaust-deniers? If not, then why assume that I'm making some sort of absolute statement?
I'm saying that the question of (lack of) permission is a different topic from the specific SMTP technique described in the article. The SMTP technique doesn't change anything with respect to privacy compared to standard tracking pixels. The assumption going into the article was that tracking pixels are already being used.

> the sender never asked permission to perform the tracking, nor to store the data

Well, in this case the sender would be someone using Close.io as their CRM. So they actually almost certainly do want this tracking to be performed.
I think it's telling that the author draws a parallel with the so-called rape culture. It feels like the concept of porn addiction (which is far too loosely defined in this article to be seriously considered) is being used as a tool to retain control over the male libido. Whereas previously women held the proverbial keys to the kingdom, men now have a safe and easily accessible outlet.

But society shames that outlet, attaching emotions such as guilt and repression, and drawing a tenuous connection to an eventual loss of self-control. It does not directly address what should be considered a healthy libido, only that by refraining from any sexual activities at all the brain will somehow eventually reset to a "natural" state, which seems to be defined only by a lowered interest in sex.

The part where the author describes his experience sharing his porn with his partner I found especially disturbing. His partner expressed outright disgust, and then described what followed as mere "fucking". This does not properly address the facet of the libido that demands fulfillment without the pressure of a performance. Men are under tremendous pressure to perform with almost every sexual act, even with long-time partners, and sometimes it's easier, simpler, and more appropriate to fill those needs alone with non-judgmental and even wholly private materials.
Here's an analogy I've heard that makes some sense:

The government has been tracking postal letters and packages for decades. They don't open your letters (that we know of), but they certainly look at the to and from addresses and keep track of who is sending what.

Do you think this is a violation of your fourth amendment rights? Do you have a reasonable expectation to privacy for something you write on the outside of an envelope and drop in a public receptacle?

The government is essentially claiming that they're doing the same thing with phone and email records. They're keeping track of who is communicating with who, but not monitoring the contents of the communication for US citizens.

(And yeah, whether they are actually monitoring the contents of the communications is now up for debate, but the government's position is still that they don't monitor contents).
Current celebs may need to be powerful or beautiful, but in the future, at least from what we've seen in the present, it is the thinkers and innovators that get remembered.
Same here. The first 3 days were bad, but nothing special.
But now, after almost a year, I'm still fighting with the desire to smoke.

In combination with external factors (like stress) I can totally see why people are returning to addiction again and again.
Yes, but given that it's open-source I imagine if there was a back-door in it, someone would have found it by now. That said, they could purposefully have excluded security triggers for vulnerable kernel exploits which haven't been found yet... but as far as being some direct back-door in it by now I highly doubt that.
Clearly he hasn't.
I was born 34 years ago in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the 20 years I lived there, I never met anyone who killed a bear with their bare hands, but I've met plenty of people with the same brutish, thuggish humor, who thought that kind of stuff was hilarious.

If there's one thing I would like to say to Tomislav, it's this: I'm proud of our nations' history and cultural heritage -- some shared, some not -- but this kind of negative publicity you're generating is part of the reason why there's a word "balkanized" in English language. I understand you're pissed they copied your hard work and your anger is justified. But please, don't do this.
This is pretty cool. How far do you intend to take it? Here's a "use case"/feature request:

In addition to being a developer/entrepreneur, I moonlight as a high school marching band instructor/arranger. In other words, I'm a semi-professional composer. I work with a team of people who write different aspects of the music: One guy writes the winds, I write the percussion, and others contribute as well.

Currently, whenever one of us has an idea about something to do with whatever we're arranging, we have to either get everyone together in a room with a piano to talk through it, or someone has to sit down with a professional music notation program (we use Finale) and "sketch" it all out.

It would be really cool if there was something online like RiffUp that would let me put together that "sketch" quickly and easily, and send a link to my colleagues. Like a "pastebin" for sheet music.

To get there, it would need to do a few more things, in roughly priority order:
* Allow you to save your creation and send a link to someone else.
* Support "-let" rhythms (triplets, for example)
* Use multiple staves
* Set the tempo
* Allow other time signatures (time changes would be good too)
* Choose a different voice for each staff

The great benefit here would be simple composition without having to worry about all of the stuff associate with making a real score. So much of music notation is about making stuff that prints nicely, which is actually a separate process from just creating the music. And, of course, being able to easily share it with colleagues without requiring them to have the same software I do (or to download a file and open it in that software).

And to answer the followup question that you'll ask: Yes, I'd be willing to pay for this.
Putting aside Prism, I don't see how the cell phone metadata is compatible with the fourth amendment at all. The 4A exists specifically to ban general warrants that allow the government to seize whatever they want without any specificity. That's exactly what the FISC order authorizing metadata collection is. There really isn't any strict vs. liberal interpretation here that I can see.
the video doesn't show a single desktop improvement. as a purely desktop user (never once having used a metro app), is there anything for me in 8.1?
People denouncing Stallman's views just because he's not charismatic and conventional has always bothered me. I hope people will start realizing that using free and open software/hardware/web services exclusively isn't something that only free software extremists should be doing.
I don't really see what the downvotes are about, it seems like anti-intellectualism. My thesis is that if you are wholly ignorant of C and C++, you have a large gap in your knowledge of programming. To wit, you will be unable to understand any systems programming out there; for better or worse that's how it is. This is not to say you are an idiot or something if you don't know C, that is not what is being argued. But this attitude of "don't learn C" is just kind of ignorant to me.

I find the backlash against my view sort of ridiculous to see on "Hacker News." This is really not that controversial.
Is its function the exact same as pressing the Windows key (bringing up all the app tiles/metro UI thing)? I already do that whenever I want to start something. I tend to navigate using only my keyboard when possible, so when I open stuff up I just hit Windows key and start typing what I want ("chr" and then Enter would start Chrome, for example).

The only downside to the technique I use is that they separate Apps from Settings/Utilities (whatever word they use), so if I want control panel type stuff, I have to arrow down to that filter to see the search results that I want. I hope 8.1 consolidates that (or that there's an option to make it work that way)

Before today I was under the impression that the start button they were bringing back would be like the Windows 7 start button.
I feel like this entire episode is like a teacher rejecting homework from a student and saying, this is crap, do it again.
It's kind of mindblowing how trafficked the front page of HN is.

HN is, basically, its front page. HN gets 100k uniques a day.

I was once at an outdoor concert along with 50k others. I remember looking around and being amazed at the sheer size of the crowd. If you've never been at an event that large, it's hard to get a feeling for just how many people 50,000 people really is. You have to imagine all of the people you've ever directly interacted with in your entire life, then somehow mentally multiply them by about 30x, then gather them all into the same field, watching the same concert stage.

HN is exactly that, except twice as big, and everyone can jump on stage at any time and speak to the entire crowd of 100k other people. Seriously, a tenth of a million!

It seems inevitable, then, that since writing a quality comment involves a lot of effort, most people who want to say something will default to the relatively effortless game of intellectual whack-a-mole against perceived flaws in other people's work. I'm sure it gives some people comfort that other people agree with them, and nothing unites people like a common enemy. So the karma counter may have inadvertently become the fuel for the middlebrow dismissals plaguing HN.
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If you right click on a breadcrumb, you'll get the vertical stack. But there's certainly room for some polishing.
Supreme Court strikes down DOMA.
Typestate in Mezzo? Starting with list iterators.
That's nice but I don't see how this is a serious attack on what I claimed. My claim is simple: promoting ignorance is bad.
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The definition I found of 'journamalism' is:

An attempt to report the news marred with shoddy
research, fact suppression, or a mere retyping of
the press release/talking points

Giving fringe views and wild theories equal space doesn't seem to apply to this definition. I'm not saying that it's good journalism, but I'm not seeing it at 'journamalism.'

On the same token, not reporting facts like, "some people are Holocaust-deniers," just because their views might be wrong seems to fit with the 'fact suppression' definition of 'journamalism.'
I thought it was linked from HN somewhere but I can't find it. There are several videos from this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym7x7twSoqc

Some of them he is clearly in a school or something, which may not be public. In others he is outside.

I believe this is how you expected people to react?

Edit: found it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4739152
I don't get it. What is this? Could you explain this a bit better so I know why it is so special?
I doubt it. He still travels an awful lot, and while people often make fun of his "I browse via email" set-up, it's difficult to think of an alternative off-line cache setup that would handle long latency that well.

I honestly believe if that "read everything offline" system was proposed on some popular productivity blog as a new life hack, hipsters would be all over it.
Obviously it is a problem for some people, but the distinction that it's not a problem for everyone is an important one.
There's also Fay <https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki> which provides a lighter-weight compilation of Haskell to JS, omitting stuff like threading and type classes.

Nice thing about Fay is you can read the generated javascript and see the 1:1 correspondance to the haskell code. This can be a nice way to get an intuition abvout how thunks are used to implement eg, infinite length lazy lists in haskell. There is also a live IDE <http://ide.fay-lang.org/>. I think this makes Fay an excellent teaching tool.

The way it seems to be shaping up is that ghcjs will be used for big serious projects where a javascript runtime that is measured in (IIRC) megabytes is acceptable and the full power of haskell is needed. While fay will be used as glue code for projects that are mostly written in server side Haskell and want to run some code in the browser, with access to the same types used on sever-side to eg, make AJAX nicer. Fay's entire runtime is 16 kb (unminified; with minification and other size optimisations a complete program can be as small as 3 kb) <https://github.com/faylang/fay/blob/master/js/runtime.js> which makes it work well in these niches.
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I guess I'm a little shocked at how willingly everyone just thinks this is ok. Bundling like this is not in the best interest of the consumer. Why would interested in artificially inflating a company's market share in an unrelated space because you forget to disable it?

Are you going to be ok if Microsoft introduces ad tiles in Metro?
Oh dear.

I have used Windows 8 (work on IT, I am forced to). Windows 8.1 seems to look, and behave just the same as Windows 8. Adoption not happening here.
Finally! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5875825

:)
It would be nice if they put a link to the main site from the blog for those who don't know what this is.
> "Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't PRISM conducted within the bounds of the law?"

If Americans had looked at the programs that preceded PRISM and the motivation behind them and instead asked "is this ethical?" we wouldn't now be asking "is this legal?". All sorts of crimes (in the ethical sense) have been legal throughout American history, and it's a sad waste of one's rights under a democratic republic to skip the ethical question and jump straight to the legal question.