skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The city of London is not a nation. I think you misread the Wikipedia article; as well as being a separate city, it's a separate county, not country.

I personally like the idea of independent city-states but historically they have not fared terribly well. I think you'll see a resurgence of this idea in outer space in the coming decades.
Someone explain to me the practical reason this letter needed to exist, besides page views. I am struggling to see why this couldn't be sent directly to Snowden, considering we know exactly where he is.
Google Maps Gets New And Updated 3D Imagery For 50 U.S. Cities
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The last one has been misinterpreted.

"Zugzwang: A position in which any decision or move will result in problems."

It`s a german word that translates to:

A position in which one is under pressure (or will run into problems) if he/she does not responds/acts soon
Does Anyone know any API that I can use to search for flights? or how expensive or difficult to get an agreement to use ITA software?
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>Google's interest is tracking and targeting.

Last I checked, every bit of this can be turned off in the browser settings if they really bother you that much. (Or heck, use Chromium.)

In my experience, they offer quite a bit. Typo correction, instant and stupidly fast searches from the address bar, that kind of thing.

I'll never understand the pathological hate-on that people have for advertising, I suppose.
Thanks for the feedback, man, I think I'll take your advice and make that change. I also need to account for the movement of the sun -- at the moment energy is not actually conserved.
Some of the comments on the linked article are ridiculous. To paraphrase some, many seem to be blindly trusting Obama with all this data (I'm sure they'd be asking for his pardon under Bush), while others believe this ``meta data" are just call histories that couldn't possibly be abused.

It makes me wonder if Snowden thinks his sacrifice was worth it.

Mark Twain observed it best when he parodied the fickleness of the lynching mob in Huckleberry Finn.
Thanks for putting this in a great context.
It is meant to influence a wider audience.
high prices ftl. never found me flights as cheap as using momondo, skyscanner, etc.
Local Motors - Phoenix, AZ - Relocation & Part Time Telecommute, US Citizen only

Front End Web Engineer

Local Motors - is a next-generation, disruptive, community-based vehicle innovation company. You can get a better sense here, as well as a sense of our culture: http://youtube.com/localmotors

LM Tech is a tight team who work really well together to build game-changing web apps for Local Motors. We hire smart competent people who use current frameworks and write tight, reusable code so that we can move really quickly without compromising quality or having a coronary in the process.

Our team is growing but well-balanced with separate players for UX, UI/web graphic design, front end angular development, back-end Django/Python development and a sysadmin/magician that has done really cool things with Amazon and Vagrant to make sure we have the best of environments at all times. We are looking for the right person to multiply our angular front-end firepower so we can rock even more. This person will work closely with the entire team to build the next generation co-creation platform for vehicle development and e-commerce.

requirements:
- Exposure to angular.js
- 5+ years solid experience with javascript, AJAX and JSON
- advanced HTML, CSS
- available to work out of our Chandler, AZ location with part time telecommuting and relocation available

pluses:
- experience with Django
- configuring and working with GruntJS
- experience with Foundation 4

If you are this person (or know this person), send a resume with a cover letter telling us about you to jobs@localmotors.com
The single biggest thing for me was the framework for deploying "apps" through azure. You can create webparts or other bits of functionality that can be reused but hosted externally on Azure. There is a self-hosted option where the URL is a generated one but has a trust setup already; but there is also the option to use your own azure hosting but you need configure the trust yourself. One other thing I liked is that there is no more need for a SharePoint Designer - there is a new method of designing sites that is way more configurable than in the past. You can configure almost everything, but as it always is, you will find that you need to do quite a bit of research on your own to get things 100%.

All in all though, it is a very solid offering from MS that nobody really talks about. One of the main pain points from the past is that everyone thought it was a CMS when really it was a document management system. Now it actually can be both. There is a talk on YouTube from the unveiling of 2013 that is well worth a watch (although it is over an hour long)
What do you think the right way is to start that transition?

edit

I should say that I'm on the Ops side, and in the past, I've been in what would have been a very good candidate organization for a DevOps environment. I just always had problems convincing the developers to share information with me, and I could get them to have no interest in anything that I was doing.

I guess I didn't know how to broach the gap.
With respect, and I say this having experimented with Haskell, OCaml, any many other functional languages as well, just, no. Those languages come at a MUCH higher mental cost than go. Go is wonderful because writing it doesn't feel like I'm attempting a CompSci doctoral thesis. I can also say I have yet to see the Go runtime crash, and I am using in production.

I also challenge your "better concurrency" claim.
You realize that essentially anyone can buy a TLD these days? It's not sign of anything but excess wealth and/or vanity.
It doesn't remove any security, either. If you perform a hash on the server that sends an arbitrary input size to a fixed number of bits, the attacker needs only to try O(2^n) different inputs where n is the number of bits of that hash. By using a hash with at least n bits as a substitute password, there's no less security. It does mitigate the DoS vector, however.
802.11ac wireless equipment begins to show up
more NYC real estate that I can't afford... 0sqft
Yeah, .nyc is such a narrow area that it doesn't deserve it's own TLD.
Ripple is controlled by a corporation, unlike Bitcoin it is fragile and useless.
Gigabit Internet + phone service in Vermont
Based on most of their recent acquisitions (Tumblr, Summly, Qwiki) I'm inclined to believe that they're working on some sort of an automated(?) product for the publishing industry (New Media, perhaps).

I just wish Yahoo's acquisition spree doesn't end badly with employees leaving, because the IP really doesn't seem to be worth anything (in the case of Summly, Qwiki, etc).
I'm willing to be you spent more time writing this response than it would have for you to have watched the demo vid that auto plays on their site had you just scrolled down.

You, appear to me, to have some sort of ingrained attitude against having patience and curiosity. I presume you're a type where you expect every post made to be backed up with links to information you'd be able to google yourself in under 30 seconds.
> I'll also try to get out of PHP

That escalated quickly. :)

If you didn't know, Drupal's written in PHP, and the upcoming Drupal 8 uses the Symfony framework. I always recommend learning new languages, but there's no pressing need for you to get out of PHP to move forward!
It's an open letter, intended to be read by a wide audience, to publicly express Lon Snowden's support for his son.
For a lot of cases, you are correct that continuous testing, integration, deployment is the way to go, especially when deployed systems have many moving parts. However for small projects, mimicking a Heroku style of testing locally, commit changes, and use git hooks for deployment seems like a good solution.
could be implemented using Web sockets. Have a look at http://socket.io/
My problem is that G+ is unreadable. Every iteration they make it harder and harder to actually read the content. I completely gave up on their Android app for that reason. Most recently they switched the web site to arbitrary sized blocks in a 2d random layout using images wherever possible instead of truncated text. It is true that newspapers do this, but at least they have more readable content in each block. I had to switch G+ to single column view to at least make heads or tails of what is going on.

Reader was focussed on reading content and did a good job of that. Virtually every pixel on the screen was about reading content. Here is what G+ does with actual reading content highlighted in yellow http://i.imgur.com/ASKMSRv.png

Reader used to be the first tab in my first browser window. This meant I always had a tab open at Google and it was a single click to get into G+. Now I have to consciously choose to go to G+ which happens rarely.
Again you fail to understand what was going on at the time, falling back on pop-culture memes. France and the UK were both hastily remilitarising and were buying time. Everyone knew war was coming, but the UK and the French needed more time to prepare, and it wasn't just the US that was suffering from economic depression in the 30s. They knew for 20 years that there would be another war - Marshal Foch said of the Treaty of Versailles "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years". He was only two months out.

I mean, come on. You have just said that Iraq was a war that 'called for intervention', but you say the same is not true of the Nazis? This is despite nearly 10 years of a steady exodus of Jews from Germany to the US and other countries? It's not like no-one knew that the Nazis were oppressive, it's just the depth that they would eventually get to that was unknown.

You can call that isolationism but it's not like any of the European powers stuck their neck out when it wasn't in their interests.

I never said the US should be faulted for isolationism, though it is odd you cheer both their early isolationism and their later interventionism. I said that you were mischaracterising what was going on and engaging in double-standards.

For example, given that the French were intervening this year in Mali, as 'France' and not part of the UN, how does this stack up against your claim of "Europeans don't intervene in Africa and haven't for 200 years"? Where are the US ground troops intervening in Africa? The US navy, along with European ones, are intervening against the Somali pirates, but that's to protect shipping, it's not to help the people. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some, but I'm unaware of any.

Look, all I'm trying to do is refute the idea that it's somehow the responsibility of the US to step in and intervene whenever a war breaks out somewhere in the world.

The US bills itself as the 'world cop', which was exactly its rationale for invading Iraq. It's natural for people to expect it to live up to its own rhetoric.
I know that the contributor of those tests made several changes. We weren't able to identify why it fails dramatically on the plaintext test, but I suspect it's a combination of the two unique characteristics of that test: the use of HTTP pipelining and higher client-side concurrency. My guess is that the pipelining in particular is causing problems.
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You program "Apps" for it that work very much like Facebook Apps. It's all web standards: get an oath token with sufficient scope from the user and then use the new _api to get data in and out.

.net, Azure and javascript are supported and documented best, but you can use any language and run SharePoint apps on any platform.
What are the odds of that strategy having a positive ROI? It seems like Marissa is calling a Hail Mary.
If you already have customer feedback, I think you need to first assess whether the customers you have now make up a strong segment of the types of customers you'd like to continue converting. Hopefully you have data about how you acquired those customers, and the effort and cost involved with that acquisition and whether or not it's something you can replicate at scale. If it's what you want, then that trumps anything you'll hear on HN. :)

My thought, however, is that there's a long tail pricing strategy that's being missed. Your plans right now are $60, $175, and $500/mo, which I feel eliminates a lot of folks in the sub-$60/mo region. I'm not sure what the low number should be, but I'd rhetorically ask if you think six $10/mo customers are worth more than one $60/mo customer -- the answer in my mind is no. Building six relationships means that as those companies or groups grow, they'll grow into your bigger packages. As someone at one of those companies leaves their employment and moves to a new job, they'll insist on implementing your technology. They'll tell their friends and colleagues. If you lose one of those six customers, you still have $50/mo coming in. That becomes even more clear when you start thinking about 50 customers at $10/mo versus one $500/mo customer. (I'm not saying $10 is the right number)

I'd also argue that there's a difference between a trial and a free account. If I'm thinking of using this service for some business use case, I personally am not going to let my mind be creative about really thinking how your service can intertwine with my needs if it's just a trial account. I'm not going to invest my time into something ephemeral. But, if there's a free service that I can actually test with a customer and use for a few weeks without that ephemeral feeling, you're starting that relationship building early. Free accounts will absolutely cause you to lose money, which is why it takes testing and analysis to determine the right balance. But if you're actually charging $60/month to send 650 texts, you're already making a profit of 90% after SMS fees and card processing charges.
> Feeds are the best way to bypass all "gatekeepers"

I'm not sure that's really true. PubSubHubbub -- which started out as a way to actively push updates to Atom/RSS feeds and has been generalized to be a way to do that for any HTTP resource -- seems to provide much of the same capacity, but to do so in a more general and better structured way (it requires the recipient to have the ability to receive as well as initiate HTTP requests, but it would be strange for someone complaining about Reader's demise to see that as a problem; any web-hosted feed reader is going to have to be able to serve HTTP requests anyway.)
You should probably commit your release notes as a file in the repository before tagging the release, then just copy-paste them into the github "release" - that way anyone who gets the source tarball from anywhere also gets the release notes.
Sometimes its based on revenue, growth potential or growth itself, etc.

Although, This seems to be an acquihire to get to the technology and employees. And the product AFAIK, didn't really get the traction they were hoping for.
Those exist, but there are a few key problems:

- Most of them are pretty sketchy marketing schemes, not unlike the "Top Sites" aggregators of yore. There's no user trust, because they are just pay-to-play.

- The friction is still enormous. You're on a website, you find an app you like, you tap on a link. It switches to the App Store App (heh). You wait. You wait some more. You wait for the hybrid-webview-bullshit-thing to kick in and load the detail page. You tap Buy/Install, you authenticate. You wait some more. There's no way to bypass the App Store, sadly.

Android does better in this regard where a user sitting at their home computer can send an app to their phone. This does wonders for your ability to market your app.
After owned shut down, twitch is the only game in town.
LL Cool J much?
You'd think the review process would catch this. But then I guess I should remember who apple does the reviews for. Not for customers, not for developers, but for apple.
It's ironic that Snowden has no fear in blabbing about Top Secret information, and no fear in claiming the moral high ground, but is fearful and scared of getting apprehended at this point in time.

Sounds like his so-called fearlessness has worn off? Nah, he's just a troublemaker who is now on the run.
Correct it is a preview.

If that is the case then I am wrong in my assessment and withdraw my statement.
Interesting, I didn't realize it was debunked. Thanks!
It's like the guest list for a private party :)
In other words, solid state drives are fantastic for databases, but not a substitute for proper indexing and query optimization.
Morality is a fickle thing. Nobody (that I know of) disputes the good that is Tor. That very same network that provides anonymous hosting to drug dealers, paedophiles, and illegal gun sales.
Well, the way Norvig explains it in his IAQ[1], in the context of the "missing" ++x and x++, operators, there's a certain design philosophy in Python that seeks to separate statements and expressions.

Since the ternary op represents a near perfect conflation of statement/expression syntax, it represents a near perfect violation of this philosophy also, and hence should be considered strongly anti-Pythonic.

[1] http://norvig.com/python-iaq.html
Pretty neat. What are the alternatives to this for say android or mac?
Google Alerts Drops RSS Delivery Option
I hope you find this. I was wondering if it's ok to ask you what "easy money" means? Quantitatively, that is. Care to share ball park figures? I can never get accurate or reliable figures with salary sites online.
OrientDB: European startups do it the hard way
> Because they closed a service? I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone - company, non-profit, whoever - who will maintain a service indefinitely.

If a company isn't willing to ever close a service voluntarily, its going to have a much higher risk (because it can't adapt to market changes) of having to close all of its services involuntarily.

So, yeah, I'd agree with that.
Someone or something is claiming copyright to the content. Period.

"Don't read too much into it" is a smokescreen. They are claiming copyright, are you trying to change the facts?
I use https://kayak.com/explore to indulge that feeling.
The arrogance is quite astounding. The text of the error message:

"Google Reader is no longer available. To continue receiving Google Alerts, change to email delivery."

Apparently the only reason for Google to support RSS was that they had their own RSS aggregator.

Classy move.
Why would you ever do that instead of just download as zip or clone?
Someone loves you just as much. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Everything will be OK.
It is useful. Have you ever traded currencies on Ripple? It's awesome.

And once it is fully open, it will not be controlled by anyone.
Ubisoft should have a look at LaunchKey (https://launchkey.com) which went out of private beta yesterday. Passwords being compromised should be a thing of the past.
I'm also curious. From the digging I've done. A lot of the numbers can be seen on CrunchBase.com from the TechCrunch guys. They will rarely share the percentage equity given away though. I'm guessing this is something founders want to keep a secret!

... and for a some interesting reading, check out: http://whoownsfacebook.com
Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS
If the data can be reconstituted meaningfully - i.e. the term "decryption" refers to more than simply making up data, such as the application of a specific one-time-pad or any other method that recovers the original message - then by definition it was not destroyed.
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Readerly, an opensource ruby based minimalist RSS reader.
Well now at least you can say your calculator watch is a retro-cool thing...

http://gizmodo.com/this-so-nerdy-its-cool-calculator-watch-i...
The City is not a sovereign entity. It owes its allegiance to the Crown, but it has been granted certain inalienable privileges over the years.

Vatican City on the other hand is a sovereign entity under the Lateran Treaty, and is recognized as such by international law.

Under US law it is very difficult to see how either would be possible without a Constitutional amendment.
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Sometimes I wonder why people dread so much Apple approval process... I never got rejected.

Also, beside that, people also clone stuff NOT in the iTunes, and I mean clone by literally get someone app for other platform, reverse engineer it, and compile again for iOS and launch it as it was their own (even if controls end being shit).
The war for the free and open Internet — and how we are losing it
Yeah, it sounds a lot like my Zire 21. Thing had great readability at any light level, because it was just plain grey high-res LCD.
Agreed. This is a really neat idea with a compelling implementation.

But instead of trying to describe the service (tech), I'd choose a catchy name (textback, textpong, pongtext) and show by example. People will grok it once they see it.

Identify a handful of use cases. Hope that one hits the mark. Run like hell.

Here's some of the ways I could imagine people using it.

- My chiropractor, hairdresser, mechanic wants to confirm an appointment.

- My chiro, etc needs to cancel, resched, etc.

- I'm on a wait list for time sensitive goods like flights, concert tickets, restaurant reservations or close out of cupcakes and vendors needs to confirm transaction, first come first serve (first right of refusal) style.

- I have a periodic donation to my favorite charity (or campaign contribution) and they want to do another "ask" (for more money). I'd like to respond, something like "thanks for asking, here's $100, please ask again in 6 months".

- Real time ad hoc game shows. It's trivia night at the local pub. Send a text to the game host to join. (Hmmm. This is a great idea. Yours, for free.)

Any way. I'm sure there's zillions of use cases. And there's at least a few customers who will pay to scratch an itch.

Best of luck to the OP.
That figure is extremely convoluted. I had to read the entire article before even beginning to somewhat understand what you're trying to say.

I don't understand why you're separating by manufacturer yet the scale on that figure is still to the total sum of respondents. What is the relevance in knowing that 12% of all respondents who happen to use Cisco devices are already in use now. What is relevant is a) what fraction of total users already use ac, and potentially b) what fraction of Cisco users are using ac currently.

The problem with separating by manufacturer is your sample size is too small for everything but Cisco, additionally your article doesn't even address the effect of manufacturer on adoption rates, which could be interesting. Yet you present this data in your figure.

Sorry, this really irritated me as this could actually be useful.
Done! Thanks for the insight!
In what way is that ironic?

(I like troublemakers. Someone described as a "troublemaker" is typically someone who won't accept the status quo just because that's the expedient thing to do.)
Microbes will be only life on earth after 2.8 billion years
Ex-Air Force Lt. Colonel, 'It Was A UFO And . . . There Were Aliens Aboard It'
It's a matter of intent. Looking at a few other articles, it seems it's a stock copyright notice added to the end of every article with 'Associated Press' given as the author.