skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Milemma-take the stress out of decision making
If you’re just like us then you’ll know how difficult at times it can be to make a decision!! Now there’s a fun and easy way to get help with your dilemma with the newly launched site Milemma

Life is full of dilemmas, have you ever been stuck picking what the destination of your next holiday is? Or maybe couldn’t decide what outfit to wear for a night out? Well we have and it’s caused us so many headaches!!

These are the type of predicaments which have inspired the creation of Milemma. We've often been in a situation where we've needed help choosing but there was no one around to ask.

So we thought what better way to get help than to ask people from all over the world for their opinion?

Just go to www.milemma.com, post up your dilemma and leave it to our users to help you decide, so simple!

We are looking to build a social community which we hope you’ll be able to turn to whenever you are in a ‘What to choose?’ situation. So post up now and ease your troubled mind.

Milemma
E-mail enquiries to promo@milemma.com
Apple hires fashion house CEO to work on 'special projects'
likely because linux has inotify
Currently Polish government is so pro-USA that our Minister of Foreign Affairs preemptively declined asylum for Snowden using his Twitter [1][2]. It's funny, because instead of building better relations with our neighbors "we" are constantly trying to please the US. This trend continues despite being given nothing but empty promises for years. So yeah, our gov likes to think and say (loudly) that those relations are pretty good -- hard to say if it's because they want to keep their face or for whatever reason. I think that US also likes this arrangement a lot, because free service can't be bad [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/sikorskiradek/status/351959186072027139 [polish]

[2] https://twitter.com/sikorskiradek/status/352062021082165249

[3] http://rt.com/news/poland-drops-charges-investigation-136/
StartSSL's roots are in a lot of things, they just don't have the class1 intermediate cert in places like Apple, and as a result it doesn't work by default. Which is pretty annoying, but easily fixed (provide the intermediate cert along with the end-user cert; since the root is already trusted, it does not bring up a warning.)
> And to everyone that says you should not store code in dropbox: a) there are good and legitimate reasons for doing so

I'm genuinely curious: why do this, as opposed to using a DVCS like git?
According to AP, it turns out Bolivia's president was not denied entry into France and Spain, officials say.[0] As to why Bolivia would make such a claim, they did not comment.

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...
Their creation has a bad UI. The barrier is a part of the work. You could take the swearing out of The Godfather in order to make it more accessible, but what people would be accessing would not really be The Godfather anymore.
IWatch is the pre-cursor to a next-gen iPhone
Here's a google spreadsheet quickly thrown together: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsoY_yr0BJCVdHF...

Pivot table is grouped by Subtitle/Job title

Chart is ordered by base salary descending, but doesn't show the lower base salaries, so don't freak on those.
Can they do H1Bs?
Kim Dotcom has fiery exchange with New Zealand PM at surveillance inquiry
Show HN: SnowplowTracker for Lua event analytics
Tethering costs extra on US carriers other than Verizon. Verizon's contract plan for 1 smartphone with the minimum amount of everything is $100/mo, though, which is about the same as AT&T's minimum everything + tethering pricing. At $100/mo, it is actually cheaper to pay $50-60/mo for a prepaid plan with all of the same stuff and no tethering and get a separate device only for tethering (~$35/mo).
Wasn't complaining at all... Just pointing out the mistake I made.
WhatsApp and Snapchat are examples of growing by doing the exact opposite thing of twitter: make a useful service for all of us who doesn't want the world to know about our every move but still have group chats with 10-20 people at a time. They also tell us up front how they are going to make money. They have earned my trust despite of their authentication issues a while back,

- and, unlike twitter they have a lot of space to move in (pay for api access anyone? Voluntarily subscriptions to feeds? )
Wouldn't it be possible and not that hard to outfit a private plane with supersize fuel tanks, occupying the entire cargo area?
But why do you think you'd do any better than Americans right now? From what I can tell, it's even worse in UK with GCHQ and with all the cameras and whatnot, and people have "gotten used to it".
Yeah, was just oversight on my part at the time... Luckily figured out what was wrong and went another route instead of keeping things in dropbox.
FEEDBACK is always there it is not always positive. I have had two jobs where I stared out working Stupid hard, never did not get a reasonable pay raise and quickly became unmotivated.
Thanks for pointing this out. It's a typo, I meant mA, not mAh. Fixed.
Google is a massive global corporation, it is accountable to its shareholders, no-one else. 37Signal/stripe/github are all small "boutique" companies (Try asking your Mom/some guy from High school what github is) who are privately held. If Google doesn't have checks and balances (management oversight and responsibility), it would fail an audit and the financial regulators would start knocking at the door.

I'd like to know how you would explain to shareholders that you are spending thousands upon thousands of pounds running a service which generates no revenue and doesn't encourage use of its other products ("anecdotally, I don't even know anyone who uses Google Reader directly, they all have dedicated apps." hence no ad revenue or cross selling). It's nice if companies can do this but they aren't charities, this was a piece of charity google had to let go... and now we have a beautiful ecosystem of RSS clients with innovation and variety, I can't remember the last time I saw a monopoly was crushed of the companies choice and a tonne of little grass roots were seeded.
Do you know of any recent non-video tutorials. Personally I really don't find them very easy to follow. Pausing and trying to jump back and forward is thoroughly annoying. Besides laziness I'm not sure why people make video tutorials at all for anything technical but that might be just me. Text with screenshots is miles ahead. Again, IMHO. Making video tutorials, especially unrehearsed and unedited with tons of Uhhmm eh, and now then... <lost train of thought> are just lazy versus text + screenshots.

These ones were ok, but they were too slow in places and too fast in other places; I had a hard time learning much from them without continuously reverting back to the wiki to figure out what I really can or should do.
A tag could be closed without repeating it's name. It's obvious from the DOM which tag is being closed. It's the job of code editors to help you out by matching start/close tags - not the job of the language.

By the way - no semi-colons in javascript was a good idea aside from a few major factor - it broke things and it was a hack based on loose syntax handling. If it was built into the language design then it would have been a good thing.
do you also mean Google Search?
I stopped reading just after seeing LoC is used as metric.
The main thing for me wasn't the simple feed-reader aspect of it; it was the syncing.

I could use my choice of clients on different platforms and as Reader was effectively a monopoly, all the clients would sync with it, allowing me to view the same list of feeds whereever I was - and more importantly, keep those lists up to date with new feeds, and which articles I had read.
It's sad to see that France and Portugal go this way. No one should support the government of the United Shit of America, especially when you know they are spying on you.
Second the "mass" problem. I didn't experience either misses or false alarms with the stupid phones I had before, but as my phone has been growing smarter and bigger, the vibration engine has turned into something that primarily makes noise :/ In fact, I hardly get "hits" any more :(
Create it REAL Stops 3DP Guns from Becoming Real
So Google+ is not nearly as big as Facebook. That much is obvious. But Marco interprets that as "failure." Any service with 400 million active users is not one I'd label that way.
Fuel is a lot denser than cargo tends to be; I suspect this would be harder to do safely than you might expect. You'd need to make sure the balance is okay and stays okay throughout the flight (can't have it slosh around).

You could surely get Boeing to retrofit one of their planes like that, but I don't think it is something a 3rd party could slap together on short notice.
The surprising effects of big data in global health (TED Talk)
15  TED Talks You Need to Watch Today
same question here. If you can get free private git repositories on services like bitbucket, it's sort of a mystery to me why one would want to lose true versioning and go with plain backup instead.
What Dan Ariely can teach us about Software Development
BBC blocking articles from UK residents
25 Secrets for Faster ASP.NET: free ebook from RedGate
You are right. That is strange. I never tried turning synching off; I just turn Dropbox off entirely. But is that load not a result of the FS monitoring? Or does that take far less in itself?
Hacker Holes in Server Management System Allow ‘Almost-Physical’ Access
Sadly, no. While there are numerous different attempts at LPs and stories within DF, nothing manages to both capture the game itself while being laugh out loud funny. It really is one of those rarely replicated gems.

Edit: Although I will say that Tim Denee's attempts come closest (see jayrobin's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983250).
Physical Facebook Like Counters to go on sale
US Patent on 'Merge Cells'
Maybe they should have tried pay for access? I would have paid. Would have been a bit like taking its usership hostage, but it remains the only rss reader that fit my needs perfectly.
AP is now reporting that France didn't block the plane: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_NSA_SURVEILLANCE?S...
As someone who played far too much emulator Harvest Moon, I think you are selling short the prospect of such a game + occasional killer fish.
This is really, _really_ serious. Even more so that Snowden wasn't even on board, so effectively France, Spain, Portugal and Italy refused airspace to a _presidential jet_ over _claims_ by the US govt (which by the way turned out to be false).

This is crazy.
As opposed to there probably aren't really good reasons.
Doing it in addition to source control seems like something everyone should do though.

The way people generally use source control isn't to push every single line added or changed to a remote copy of the repo as soon as it is done. A commit is more tied to completing a task, you need something else to cover you for loss for smaller amounts of code than that if your computer dies.
Spreading a rumour like this is a good way to assess yourself about friends and enemies waiting for the real "implementation".
Sony: New Video Players Should Be Internet Connected to Beat Pirates
How to protect my laptop agains thefts while staying in a hotel?
Could it be that the US is trying to spin this by pressuring France and Spain to delete the radio record and say that Bolivia made it up? Do we know of any third-party pilots or ground stations who would have heard and recorded the radio comms?
There's so much talk of marketing techniques, people often forget the easy wins - thanks for the reminder.

When it comes to buying and using, people much prefer their own language, and it's quite a trivial thing to cater for on the whole.
> Another problem with Dropbox is that upon login it indexes the entire Dropbox

I haven't used Dropbox in a while as a local client for other reasons but I think people need to appreciate this is the payoff for having the convenience? How can one expect it to sync changes if it never scans or detects changes? People seem to want a magical product where it never uses any HD throughput or CPU to index/scan/upload megabytes of data, sure it can look for changes less often but that decreases the usefulness of the product.

As a sidenote, surely all the dropboxers use dropbox for everything (they have unlimited accounts) so they must be 100% aware of this? in which case there must be concrete reasons for this!?
"Time how long the round-trip takes and you can pinpoint where the break is"

Make breaks A and B near the endpoints. Make a third break X, between A and B, and install splitter at X.
miltary escort
At the risk of making an ad hominem attack, I seriously wouldn't take an op-ed in WND as a credible analysis of US Constitutional law.
>It seems that you and the Googlers have different ideas of what Google's main area of expertise is.

The "Googlers"? Marketing and business persons did this. If you have followed the story, there were posts describing how actual developer googlers used and loved Reader, and even tried to save it.

>It seems like you think it's "the web" — thus search, RSS, and I don't know what else you'd include — and they think it's "hacking", i.e. making things that were not previously known to be possible, e.g. a web search engine that automatically finds the useful sites, an email system with a hundred times as much storage as any other webmail system, a draggable and zoomable world map in a browser, gigabit fiber to the home, robot cars, a free-software smartphone, groupware that replaces chat and email, JavaScript that runs fast, balloon internet, scanning the books of the libraries of the world, an easy-to-use system for writing fault-tolerant massively-parallel programs, mass-market lifelogging, stuff like that

Seems like you bought hook line and sinker the BS PR copy they give.

For one, their core business is ads. Not search itself, not Android (a loss leader) and surely not flying robot cars.

Second, nothing "hackish" or "impossible" about most of which you describe.

Only the "web search engine that automatically finds the useful sites" fits the profile --and that's based on that Stanford research the founders did, not Google work. If anything, it deteriorated over time, with BS non results and meddling with it to promote ads and/or G+.

And even that was hardly impossible. The Chinese search engine Baidu is based on similar tech, which was also created in the US, independently of Google, around the same time (even actually predating PageRank (it's even mentioned in Google's US patents).

An "an email system with a hundred times as much storage as any other webmail system" was just a matter of resources and monetizing, not some special technology.

A "a draggable and zoomable world map in a browser" was bought from another company.

"gigabit fiber to the home" is offered in many parts of the world. That the US lacks in this area, is not something

"a free-software smartphone" -- what's innovative about it? They make money from ads. They give the software for free (especially since it was based on Linux and a modified Java SDK). And it's not like they made a killing off of it -- Samsung did.

"JavaScript that runs fast" -- Safari did that first (they released it to the public at the same time --Sep 2008--, but Safari as a stable version, Google as a beta of Chrome).

"an easy-to-use system for writing fault-tolerant massively-parallel programs" What's that? Go? Because you make it sound like the created Erlang.

Etc. The rest are "robot cars" and "google glass" -- mainly half-baked prototypes, that tons of other companies would have put out if they a) have the money, b) liked to show half-baked stuff years ahead of any release date.

And "baloon internet". A PR stunt if I ever saw one.
The article mentions that Visual Studio is not required to use this, but all of the downloads I tried from that page tell me to install Visual Studio..

Can somebody point me in the right direction?
Every modern operating system has inotify-like capabilities. Mac OS has an integrated desktop search since 2005, which wouldn't be feasible without filesystem events.
I'd never heard of it but tt was obvious that "Pebble" was a watch so I did a quick search... wow! That things looks amazing and I can already think of so many different things I could do with it (development-wise). Too bad I'd have to pre-order one instead of just ordering one right now. :(

I'm assuming you're happy with yours and would recommend it?
Snowden case: Spain allows Evo Morales jet to fly over
Patriotic Red White And Blue Cupcake Tribute Recipe
This is getting really weird: this morning French and Spanish officials have denied refusing to let that plane in.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...
> Yes, but it wasn't in Google's commercial interest. Running Reader as a "side project" is not just distracting to senior management, but also creates legal, technical, and reputation risks which can bite back on their much larger businesses.

If that was the case, couldn't Google have sold the site to someone else, instead of scrapping it?
Yes, it's true his fanboism shows through when you see him call Google+, a service with 400 million active users, a "failure." If that's failure, then please let me fail.
One advantage is near-instant sync between many computers. With a VCS you have to push and pull manually or set up some complicated cron jobs to automate it.
usb stick + truecrypt volume for me.Fast and secure. Also my private code is not on somebody else server.
I don't know how serious it is - Bolivia is ranked #93 in the world in terms of GDP, and isn't particularly strategic. They can complain, but, at the end of the day, this won't amount to much.
You can't use it with VS Express, but you can use it with VS Shell (also free) - and we have a single-file installer that will install both Shell and PTVS for you.
1. More safety from bugs in general, not just crashes. Haskell programs will generally be more reliable than Go programs.

2. If you look at the Benchmarks game, you will actually see that Haskell beats go there.

I think this benchmark is far narrower than the Benchmarks game and is thus less representative.

3. shouldn't really be a serious consideration for a career programmer (weeks to a couple months of learning to be more effective for years to come is a no-brainer).

4. is untrue, Haskell has already gained more popularity than the ML languages had in the past. And so is F#.
Good for Bolivia. This has started becoming a farce now, on hand you've had Obama stating that the U.S. wasn't going to spend political currency wheeling and dealing to get Snowden back, and handwaving over the core issue of overreach. Then on the other you've got the U.S. making veiled threats about repercussions to anyone willing to offer him asylum.
What's funny is that all of those countries are now denying that they did this to him. Do they really think they can get away with that, and it won't be proven that they did it, or that the public will even believe them?

US and its immediate allies are making their situation worse and worse for themselves.
I was weirdly annoyed by this actually, not sure why but as a British citizen I feel like I should/ am entitled to be able to view this content - especially seeing as when abroad I can still view the BBC new home page (albeit with ads)
Indeed, but all the South American countries are outraged by this, so it's getting bigger.
overreaching incompetent bullying.
This is a great read, thank you for posting it!
I have noticed this as well. And it's not just Dropbox. I have turned off Dropbox, Google Drive and Little Snitch.
WeChat owns 70 million users now out of China
Because I am nice, dont assume I am dumb
Does maintaining an RSS feed require a lot of resources? I suppose it depends on what you're talking about specifically. Once you set up RSS it doesn't require much at all to maintain.
who are they? who is he? what is it? who are they? what is it? who are they?

Apologies for all the questions, just not sure what your comment means :)
It seems like the USA own Europe.

What happened yesterday is very serious.
You don't have to ponder this much to see what kind of abuse of power this is. As a brief thought experiment, imagine a country trying to ground Air Force One (the US presidential plane), and then asking to search it. I'm thinking you'd see calls for war, from political pundits in the US.
You can have both. If you put your working directory in Dropbox you will have a copy of your uncommitted work as well.

Also, in many cases it is easier for a graphic designer or just a customer to put stuff in a Dropbox folder that will sync to their website, than uploading stuff using a web form or learning to use git and X amount of deployment tools.
I guess the Python interpreter is preventing the CPU from entering lower sleep states.
Hmm. If you really wanted to "stop feeding the troll", you could make it more expensive for people to give companies like Lodsys money.

That is, you could apply those "refuse to ship or sell there" tactics to deny business to companies who are Lodsys licensees. According to http://www.lodsys.com/-licensees.html those licensees include Ooma, Roku, Box, Photobucket, Surveymonkey, Oracle, Qualcomm, Delta Airlines, the Cleveland Clinic, and Office Depot, among plenty of other familiar names.

If your choice is between "settle for $1" or "expensive litigation", the choice that maximizes shareholder value is fairly clear. If your choice is between "settle for $1 and now you're blacklisted from using the following X products" and "expensive litigation", maybe the calculus changes a little and you are more free to make a decision that you really wanted to (but couldn't justify to your board).
I wonder how long until this comes to the "HTML5 DRM" content.
Is it usual to ask planes carrying criminal suspects to be forced to land?
From your second linked article: "In East Texas, juries are often older people who have less experience with technology and tend to view large corporate defendants with suspicion..."

First, most of these cases are deliberately filed in Marshall, TX, an out-of-the-way rural town that's not exactly renowned for its experience in IT.

Second, all this proves is that patent troll lawyers can simply "baffle them with bullshit" and I don't think that this specific location matters. The Eastern District of Texas has a secondary court in Plano, and Plano has been home to a variety of technology companies. You'll notice they're not filing in Plano where they'd be far more likely to encounter potential jury members who are familiar with terms like "hyperlink" and "web sockets."
Tom Dale: Building URL-Driven Apps with Ember.js
OS X 10.9 does show battery use per app in the Activity Monitor. It also shows a short list of battery-draining apps right in the battery menu at the top of the screen.
For a long time I was actually convinced that the Pentagon was run by the WOPR in those days. Would be cool to own it, even if it's not the original from the first movie.
Billionpixel image from Mars
FSEvent/NSFilePresenter APIs do the same on OS X. Nobody should be polling for changes to files.
You mean like everything Snowden has uncovered so far, which has as a theme that whoever is ordered to do something is forbidden from telling anyone about it afterwards?

Seems to fit the picture perfectly well IMO.
Not necessarily. I'd say that the IPO is some form of not delaying the gratification in opposition to slow, organic growth.
Nothing is "usual" about the Snowden situation, anyway.