skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! Didn't know about it before.
Hey thanks,
It's lately enabled thanks to WebRTC data channel
http://www.wertc.org
Now try to out-meta that
> They even included things like grammar errors in the review.

The review had grammar errors? Or they pointed out your application has grammar errors?
Sort of like prison. Or Washington DC, for that matter....
Awesome, this is one of the last flash websites that I still use and the flash implementation is so annoying because it doesn't respect the browsers state. Thanks Adobe!
Get a region-free (or unlockable) DVD player.
Some1 has shared this firefox swarm: http://www.sharefest.me/97dc9020
Ask HN: What's the difference between an engineer and a developer?
e.g: iOS engineer vs iOS developer, Django engineer vs Django developer?
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To be more precise: AGPL was invented by commercial software vendors to combine the aura of free and open software with a (largely unsuccessful) Shareware/Freemium business model.
Where does this information come from ? Wikipedia has much lower toxicity figures :

> Several populations of people who have been exposed to plutonium dust (e.g. people living down-wind of Nevada test sites, Nagasaki survivors, nuclear facility workers, and "terminally ill" patients injected with Pu in 1945–46 to study Pu metabolism) have been carefully followed and analyzed. These studies generally do not show especially high plutonium toxicity or plutonium-induced cancer results, such as Albert Stevens who survived into old age after being injected with plutonium.[91] "There were about 25 workers from Los Alamos National Laboratory who inhaled a considerable amount of plutonium dust during 1940s; according to the hot-particle theory, each of them has a 99.5% chance of being dead from lung cancer by now, but there has not been a single lung cancer among them."[96][97]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Toxicity

Not that I expect wikipedia to be very trustworthy on contentious issues, but still, the references do seem to lead to relatively non-political websites.
The first version of anything worthwhile is typically an experiment. I'm excited about the prospect of a great way to write Go apps in the future that is better than what we have now. One of the best ways to kill a project is by trying to be something else.
They reviewed my app and wouldn't accept it until I fixed a grammar error.
I'm sure it would. Salesmen always see money first, art seconds, and they can't have intuition or give general direction regarding technical aspects. An example of that is windows 8 fiasco with its mix of tablet and desktop UI and surface fiasco. It is clear that they are following trends, but don't know where they're going. I can easily imagine ballmer looking at market shares and numbers to make choices issues by issues. That kind of thinking leads to products that are in the middle of nowhere.
ReSRC is out of beta.
ReSRC is out of beta.
Seems like they've tried this before with City Center--though it might not be a gigantic construction job--but it seems to want to ignore the fundamental culture of Las Vegas. Vegas is a unique city and even the people who live there aren't there because they want a regular city (think about the type of person to become a doctor or teacher in a town like that). Freemont is already Vegas' "downtown"; that it doesn't look like other cities' downtowns is not a problem.
Interesting follow up. As a side note, Scala only has Functor and Monad implemented for collections and Option - namely the map function (Functor) and flatmap function (Monad)
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They're dealing with it in the same way the Baby Boomers dealt with unsustainable economic growth: go into debt and pass a law to make it future generations' problem!
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I am going to check wunderlist and any.do
(A TL;DR of pjmlp's comment.)

Also keep this in mind:

Resources there is a lot of, are not expensive...
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But you do know that this inflation rate is kept intentionally high so the national debt rates are lower so the share of debt on GDP doesn't raise that fast?
This. Is. Amazing.
So suggestions are great, but maybe you could say why you like your suggestion.
I don't buy into the shill argument, I actually think it is dangerous to write off an opinion that seems to be shared with around half the US population. Instead of dismissing the argument I think supporters of his actions need to argue and reason the case clearly.

That said the problem with the comments are:

* Violation of an employment agreement are not federal crimes
* Theft of classified documents is not a violation of the Espionage Act. The reason why the espionage act is from 1917 is because government lawyers love the broad language in it. They haven't needed to update it because it can be applied so broadly, but the language of the law states that there needs to be an intent to aid the enemy or to prevent the US Military from carrying out operations.

The other red flag that indicated that Snowden hasn't violated 'basic laws' is that the USA is resorting to diplomatic pressure rather than an INTERPOL notice. You can't use INTERPOL for political charges but you can use it for more classic charges like theft.

There is a good reason why the 4th amendment was written, it was a lesson learned form British colonialism where independence oriented towns and villages were surrounded and houses were searched indiscriminately to shake out sympathizers opposed to the crown.
An excerpt from David Mosher's Presentation "So You Want to be a Front-End Engineer":

A hacker can come up with solutions, but maybe they can’t look back after they’ve finished and realize how they came up with the solution. They just kinda poke at things until they get something that works.
…
At some point, you level up and become a developer and a developer understands best practices. They’ve heard other developers say things like “you should put your scripts at the bottom of the webpage” … and you use those best practices to craft solutions but you don’t really understand beneath the best practices, beneath the abstractions.
…
An engineer is someone who can get things done, craft a solution — they understand the best practices, but they also understand why they’re using the best practices that they are … [they] move into an understanding of the platform as a whole.

This was pulled from a nifty little blog:

http://blog.hartleybrody.com/hacker-developer-engineer/
The code was trivial, using common libraries for the language. I wanted to show a situation where a c++ web framework was useful.
Is it really fair to complain about ads not being relevant enough when we're all doing so much to not allow them to track us?

Relevant ads or privacy, choose one.
Am I the only one that thinks this is silly? A computer is still just a Turing machine. It's a gigantic abacus, or a huge clock of gears. Heck, I can write a program today to output text begging the power not to be shut off. That certainly doesn't mean it's self-aware.
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Why does that make the statement "non-senscial"? Is it not factually accurate that the FISC doesn't hear opposing arguments?

>Granting warrants isn't an adversarial process in any U.S. court, neither are similar things like grand jury subpoenas.

The distinguishing factor is that normal court decisions and the outcome of grand jury proceedings are generally published for review by the public. If the court is too consistently siding with the government as a result of inherent bias in the process then people can get upset about it and try to change the law to modify the circumstances under which that can happen. A secret one-sided proceeding is legitimately different in character because it has yet one fewer safeguard against abuses of power, which makes the lack of opposing arguments more significant than it is when the outcomes are public.
Despite many proposers, there seems to be no real-world implementation of basic income in existence. Apart from fiscal and tax issues to fund the policy, I think there is a strong moral conflict deep within human psyche that people (esp 'lazy' people) should not get something for nothing.

What do you guys think? Is there any research on this?
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Nice. Here's one for Chrome
http://www.sharefest.me/53e62808
$21 per day is around $600 a month.

Is that really the only/cheapest option for that much rent?
Intercepting signals is only half of the NSA mandate, the other half is securing national communications against interception by foreign governments and organizations.

It is possible that the NSA want other nations to have the impression that NSA audited communications protocols are insecure or may contain backdoors. They have never expressly come out to deny any of these accusations.

The involvement of the NSA thus doesn't imply that they wish to weaken standards. Perhaps they want people like Schneier to question the security of these protocols and create a false aura of potential vulnerability so that their opponents don't make use of them.
Doesn't seem to work to prevent evercookie? Anyone know a way to do that?

http://samy.pl/evercookie/
"if the Japanese government simply starts giving out a minimum amount of money each month"

Don't you see? These type of thinking is what has gotten western countries (including Japan) into this crisis in the first place.

You can't print your way out of a crisis without harming savers (retired) and young people (lower skilled, less experienced).
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A stopgap solution is currently in progress: since Lake Mead levels are dropping to the point where they threaten to fall below the level of Las Vegas's current intake pipes, a third pipe originating at a much lower level is being constructed (cost: about $800m).

There are of course obvious reasons that moving your intake further down on a shrinking lake is not precisely a solution to the problem...
http://www.webrtc.org
Conservative and liberal agree: Obamacare employer mandate should be repealed
There are other issues involved - key money, cleaning deposits, guarantors and laws which lay heavily upon the side of renters - such that landlords can be very difficult to work with. It's not uncommon to have them say "sorry, no foreigners". I'd imagine the same stigma holds for other groups of people.
Wow. Quality journalistic piece right here only it's lacking the quality part. It would appear that Jon Pareles is attempting to make an issue out of nothing here even complaining that he was unable to get his free copy of the album until an hour after he was supposed too (as he laments in the last paragraph).

My favourite part of the article was this line in the second paragraph: "It’s an ugly piece of software." — I actually thought the app was pretty well-made. The animations and use of typography and media were balanced well.

Jay-Z isn't an Android developer, he didn't make the app, Samsung did. As the article points out he sold one million copies of the album to Samsung for promotional use at $5 a piece. It was Samsung that built the app and chose what permissions it required. To Jay-Z it was a simple transaction, all he had to do was supply the goods for a price and allow Samsung to do the lifting.

Oh and there is a difference between a Government secretly collecting and recording your information without your permission and an app giving you the option of sharing your data. You don't just install the app and it automatically allows and helps itself to the contents of your phone. Jon is going to have a heart-attack when he realises a lot of other apps in the Play Store demand similar permissions as well.

Sensationalism at its finest here.
Any developer with a memory would be quite mistrustful of this "crusade", if any. Microsoft's pump and dump of technology stacks just plain hurts; the way they just made COM/DCOM nearly invisible by deleting the MSDN support pages and replacing them with .NET to force developers onto .NET was not pleasant. Granted, .NET was / is awesome (and if you were serious, your firm would have the relevant version of MSDN installed locally).
(I recently heard about something similar happening with Silverlight, but I am not sure. It was genuinely exciting when Silverlight was launched and it's features in comparison to Flash were trumpeted quite a bit at that time. Now : it's just silently gone). You never know when the rug gets pulled from underneath your feet with any Microsoft technology.

Let's say they get convinced that the next big thing is some form of Intentional Programming. They are not going to do a graceful transition from .NET to IP. They'll suddenly remove all references to the Old Thing on site:microsoft.com and all you'll see is the New Thing, trumpets blaring. This is psychologically difficult for a developer who has invested years, not just months, learning the Old Thing.

The same attitude is visible with how the Metro UI is being shoved down my visual pathways with Win 8.

A related but often tacit issue is that the pace of change in technology is actually a vehicle for age discrimination. All of us do it at some level ("Good God, COBOL on the resume?! What is this, 1979?"), but I think that the lack of graceful transition from older technologies to newer ones by large firms makes it institutionalized. You have to choose your skillset carefully; the human mind cannot simply absorb ALL of COBOL, C++, Java, Ruby, SQL and NoSQL! Or it can, but you're sacrificing something, maybe even personal memories, in order to hold technical knowledge.
Of course we're looking for any feedback that you guys can give for us to improve.
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Disclaimer: former softeee, speaking for self.

I think .net still has a very specific place in the world on internal intranet applications and tools. It's very easy to go in and make something good enough to provide the backbone web service layer between two departments, or to provide data entry and search services.

I don't think this advantage will go away overnight but at the same time the ease of entry and user friendliness of the open source tools is something that I've found Microsoft to be completely incapable of understanding. They/we would constantly talk about our superior tooling. But the fact that we required tooling at all when you could jump into roo or ror or cake or zf and issue a few commandline calls to produce 80 of the your site blows any of microsoft's tooling away.

Microsoft is fighting back and working to improve it's tooling. They have nice concept floating around to database versioning and javascript ide experiences, but in many ways they still seem to not get what the appeal of the open source competition is and i'm not completly sure if in the long run its an area they'll manage win back any mind share in.
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I just had an interview with bunnie about open hardware, hardware hacker and what projects he is doing recently, he share a lot of deep thoughts. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3234
Trick your friends into thinking you have the new (10 month old) iPhone 5.
Complaints? They lost a lawsuit and had to pay out because of in-app purchases.

Incidentally, in-app purchases have practically spoiled their nascent status as the handheld gaming platform. In-app purchases make sense for certain things, but they've ruined the app store for gaming.
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I've been a Microsoft developer since QuickBasic. I program mostly in C# now. I love ASP.NET MVC. I love the new features in Visual Studio 2012. I love the extensions to C#. I work full time at an investment bank and do side consulting for creating highly functional websites. I see pros and cons of every framework and language but .NET and C# are the best for me right now.

There's a lot of negativity here and frankly I was a little afraid to post anything positive.
Excellent, I was making a list of this kind of service but having the source code available is a must. And this is exactly what we need against NSA...

If someone is interested I share a list of similar approaches:

https://www.getshareapp.com/v2 (from BitTorrent, requires a plugin):

http://www.jetbytes.com/

http://www.filesovermiles.com/

http://host03.pipebytes.com/
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Residential hotels with small rooms used to be sort-of an approach to this, though they weren't all the way to capsule-like. Some of them were fairly nice and had developed communities as well (usually of writers or artists).

Due to a mixture of social shifts and demolitions/conversions, though, the remaining ones are generally extremely run down and verging on squalid, so it's not as much an option anymore. SF still has some SROs in the Tenderloin, but they are not particularly well-maintained or clean; the upper end of the residential-hotel category has been demolished or converted into condos or regular hotels.
This is from the link below, and I think it sums it up:

>> The beautiful sweep and pulse shape of the radiation obeys the theoretically-predicted relation for a burst of radio waves that has propagated across the universe.

My understanding is that it matches what a sharp burst should look like after passing through 11 billion light-years' worth of electrons.

http://theconversation.com/fast-radio-bursts-new-intergalact...
Microsoft development tools are substantially used for web development now. I'm not sure why you're aiming your criticism at Windows executables.

ASP.NET MVC is a great web framework.
That's kind of the point. You can't argue that a specific right is not inalienable just because a process exists by which it could be denied, unless your point is to argue that no rights can ever be inalienable, or that no power can ever be unaccountable, etc.

We say that someone is unaccountable when the process required to lead to their accountability subsequent to misbehavior is in practice not likely to occur, not when the absolute lack of accountability can be proven with mathematical rigor.

This is the same pedantry that leads engineers to come up with crazy legal arguments. The fact that velocity is relativistic and relative to an external observer not subject to the rotation of the Earth your vehicle was not exceeding the speed limit is not going to get you out of a speeding ticket, no matter how many times you argue that it's technically correct. Because when people say things they do so within an accepted context that doesn't include the sort of pedantic absolutism that would cause arbitrary good faith statements made in the course of normal conversation to become technically inaccurate when weighed against impossible standards.
Show HN: Gifanator - send and receive animated GIFs by phone
You don't think that suspending his passport and strong-arming various countries in refusing him political asylum or even air transit amounts to persecution?
Nice, well jetbytes and pipebytes do transfer the file via a server.
I'm in a similar situation - I don't claim to be an expert, but I have a plan to gain expertise.

Software-wise, Altium is one popular choice (I've used this and I like it; bunnie uses it [1] as does Dave of eevblog) and another is Cadence Orcad (I haven't used this myself, but the SABRE schematics come in this format). These are both expensive; Cadence has a range of options, from a standard version 1 year license costing $1,300 to an advanced version perpetual license costing $9,995 [2] - for Altium 1 year is $1,750 and a perpetual license is $5,495 [3].

Piracy protection used to be weak, and I'm not up-to-date on how easy it is to bypass. Like Photoshop, people used to say the companies turned a blind eye to non-professional users who were learning. This may have changed recently, I don't know.

Anyway, on to my plan to learn this stuff. Bunnie's planned laptop uses a Freescale i.MX 6 processor. It seems pretty feature-packed as a processor. Among other things, Freescale seem to offer some good design documentation; they have evaluation boards [4] where they give out not just pdf schematics and gerbers but also the CAD software files.

They also have extensive design documentation. Public datasheets, Hardware Development Guide, Processor Reference Manual and so on [5]. I've also discovered getting prototypes assembled in china is cheaper than I expected [6] - a few hundred rather than a few thousand dollars.

My provisional plan is to read all that freescale documentation, take one of the freescale board reference designs, then to basically produce a cut down version mostly by deleting components I'm not fussed about, then to get that made and see if it works.

That's my plan - whether it will work or be possible for the amount of money I have not remains to be seen :) and needless to say if an expert comes along to reply to you, maybe they'd have feedback for me too :)

[1] http://andrew.huang.usesthis.com/
[2] http://www.ema-eda.com/Products/CadenceOrCAD/OrCADPCBDesigne...
[3] http://www.altium.com/files/pdfs/altium%20designer%202013%20...
Altium is one popular choice; another is Cadence Orcad.
[4] http://www.freescale.com/SABRESDB
[5] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?co...
[6] http://www.7pcbassembly.com/PCB-assembly-price.php
I will never understand how they lost that lawsuit. If a parent gives a child access to their credit card they deserve what happens.

I totally agree with your second point, IAP has spoiled gaming on iOS and that's the fault of the game devs for taking advantage of it. However if it didn't work they wouldn't do it and obviously plenty of people spend money via IAP. It's also their only choice. People are willing to spend more small amounts of money over time than paying a fair price up front for the game.
Won't work for me. I want to send a file, know when it's done and close my computer. With Dropbox and others I know when it's sent from my perspective. With P2P the whole system becomes unstable. And for all of my file sharing, it is unacceptable. Too much uncertainty.
> How do other languages solve this problem?

Reading or writing past the allocated parts of a buffer is treated as a runtime error, wheras in C/C++ you just end up with corrupted memory.

> Have you ever heard about smart pointers?

Ahh, completely forgot about these. You're right, they're great.
> there was even a TV program, sponsored by the government

> then aired private conversations by opposition leaders

The government owns the TV in Venezuela. This is a very different premise (one is about political propaganda and another is about general population privacy).