skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While (map) is pure, (map print) is not. Thus map is a higher-order function that can create both pure and impure functions depending upon the purity of its arguments. How then would your syntactic scheme allow for higher-order functions?
Pirate Bay co-founder aims to launch surveillance-proof messaging app Hemlis
>* Just because I disagree with you and use my free speech to do so, does not give you the right to assume my opinions are coming from negative attributes.*

Free speech is a responsibility - not a right to say dumb things just because you can.
Carousels/sliders are fine so long as the content is mostly superficial and they aren't huge (which is an annoying trend). I wouldn't use them for anything important, I would use them for some nice pictures to make a homepage less boring.
>So yeah, I think it's fair.

I'm not asking for justification. You think it's fair, and I respect you for that. I may have a different opinion, and that's fine too! It's just that it seems dishonest to deflect a question like the politicians do.
Not yet. But nice people like you might change that. BTW: Where do I get a 3 hour train ride for 3$ ;)
I've found OsmAnd to be a great app and it being powered by OSM just makes it better.

(btw, it's OpenStreetMap, not OpenStreetMaps)
What a surprise just in time as with my friends we have just published our simple location sharing app called TeleportMe :-). It's currently available for iPhone (update upcoming this week) and this month should be also released on Android.

Please visit http://TeleportMe.to if you are are looking for a super simple on foot navigation (just follow the arrow) with ability to save places (called teleports) and share them easily with your friends through text, email, facebook or twitter. Any comments are welcome. We will be also enabling users to use nice vanilla links to places such as http://TeleportMe.to/StarbucksGdynia

We planned to show it on HN after releasing Android and few updates as not all planned features are already there, but screw that
I assume/hope that they're going to integrate it properly in a future update. They mention a few other features that aren't in this version that they're planning to put back in future updates, so hopefully this is the same.

If not, then this is a pretty terrible unintuitive way to access a very useful feature. I'm not sure how anyone would even know it exists if they hadn't read about it in one of these posts.
Show HN: Interactive “how to” guide and tutorial builder
A circuit board that lets you control your computer with household objects
> Publishing private emails is probably illegal too (it is in Germany, in France and Italy)...

It is not illegal in Denmark, if one of the participants publishes it. Similarly, it is not illegal to record a conversation in Denmark without acknowledgement from the other participants, if one of the participants is the one recording it.
Using poor grammer usually just makes you look uneducated. Misunderstanding the structure of a potentially problematic situation makes you powerless to solve it, and makes it easy for people on the other side to dismiss your concerns.
Bollywood Superstar turns cyber bully
If you have a blog please stop doing this
The real problem with drug tests though is that those in a good position can refuse them, but those in a less advantageous position don't get so much choice.
When my Amazon colleagues first introduced a carousel implementation as an optional widget about 5 years ago, I believe they were wildly successful in A/B testing for a period of time; then we went through every page having about 6 of the damned things, then they basically disappeared... With enough users, sometimes A/B tests can degrade to novelty detectors.
> Google is one well-known example that used to require a minimum GPA, even for people with years of experience:

Google made the headlines of a fairly popular article (I think it was featured recently) with dropping that after empirically convincing themselves it was useless.

Also, take the advice of someone who's seen that crap work: never work for any company where HR can have the decisive call in hiring someone or not -- or any serious call in the hiring process of anyone who won't work in HR, for that matter.
That was my first thought. DO gives SSD drives. That's a pretty enticing offer, in and of itself. The only downside is that it appears that a lot of SaaS providers are already on Amazon, meaning your network times more than likely benefit. Would love to hear about more people on both.
I'm calling BS on this. To me it looks like the council sees an illegally posted advertisement with a phone number on it, then seeks the name and address of the owner of that phone number.

It looks like the journalist is then reaching to connect this with that new "metadata" word they've been hearing so much about.
Run your own startup, right from your iPhone
Not really. Just make your types instances of Typeable and then store them in a list of Dynamics. This gives you dynamic typing for those exceptionally rare occasions when you really need it.

Frankly, from my experience with dynamically typed languages such as Clojure few people actually make heterogeneous lists and vectors beyond a handful of elements; a use case which is covered nicely by Haskell's tuples. Long hetereogeneous lists and vectors are not particularly useful because they cannot be reduced/folded -- unless your reducing function accounts for all the different types but then why not use an algebraic data type with pattern matching?
On clicking 'Run', whatfix provide instructions inline to websites.

Here's 3 mins video: http://youtu.be/xm2ly9qTXkM

"whatfix is community website, where anyone can create, share & execute interactive guides on any website or web applications."

We think whatfix can be used to create howto's, some initial traction reflected as good tutorial builder, what can be best way? Any suggestions.
Any comments/feedback on whatfix greatly appreciated!

If anyone is interested to try out private beta, you are most welcome, just add your email id to http://whatfix.com/ & you would get invite in couple of days.
> Publishing private emails is probably illegal too

I don't claim to know the law on this in those countries, though Svip says it's not illegal in Denmark (Secunia's jurisdiction).

Letter of the law aside, are court records not public in your jurisdiction? In the US, that email would have been promptly entered into evidence without redaction. In that light, posting it now makes no practical difference. You'd already dishonestly informed them you were commencing suit in 24 hours.

> I would prefer spending my free time working on VLC

Then do so. And if you really feel the VLC project needs to respond to Secunia in any way, have someone else do it. You're not very good at it.
How about the "splash page"? Clients want to shove their brand in the user's face, but users just want to get to the content/work already. 90% of the time (doing iOS apps) I have to fight over ditching this anti-feature.
What you describe sounds awfully like what Michael Young had in mind when he created the term "meritocracy" - which is actually quite different, and rather more interesting, than its common usage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

e.g. The UK Civil Service is probably very proud of being a meritocracy - where the "best" people are promoted. However, none of their definitions of "merit" actually relate to ability to perform current or promoted roles!
I have to agree. I couldn't have said it better.
Only when Apple stops doing it I'm guessing.

ducks

I'm actually quite surprised they went with this. Maybe it tested well on touch surfaces...
How to speed up OWASP ZAP scans
This article is a bit misleading. An outpatient surgery center has the luxury of "skimming" the easy uncomplicated same-day surgeries while leaving the hospitals to do the heavy lifting. It is not a hospital

Surgery centers do not have the cost of carry of a pharmacy(24/7), a fully functioning diagnostic lab(24/7), an emergency room(24/7), 200-1000 beds, ICU,CCU, radiology department(24/7) etc and an infrastructure that is impressively expensive.

Its very very very easy to offer these surgeries at a cheaper price than a hospital but when you need a complicated surgery or an emergency that surgery center will not be there for you.

I like the idea of pricing transparency but it should be hand in hand with outcome and quality statistics and comparisons should be fair.

I did not see Oklahoma surgery center compare themselves to other surgery centers which are likely very close in price.

One last thing. In healthcare - price is not everything (its an important issue) but as we drive down the price, we must not sacrifice but rather improve outcome measurement and quality.
I think they are well aware of how few hours they have to teach physics. The debate is more, which classes can be dropped and replaced with a math course, in order that the students can have a deeper understanding of the underlying math?

More specifically, which of thermodynamics, optics, particle/nuclear physics, solid state, lab courses, E&M, classical mechanics, or quantum mechanics do you think should be dropped from the physics requirement, and which math course should replace it?

Or should the liberal arts requirements be reduced? Or should physics become a 5 year program?
What the hell... are they serious?
Is this a Lift.do viral?
So, while EVE looks like space opera on the surface, it's actually cyberpunk. Hmm…
My point was that there is some matter of perspective in there. They could just as well offer a single price that reasonably covered their costs, but instead they are engaging in revenue maximization. So the menu is a rational tradeoff of revenue maximization and fraud avoidance, but it isn't the only one.

"Insurance companies won't play the game that way" is sort of an answer, but it isn't very satisfying.

I guess fraud statutes might benefit from some rules about the ratio between average negotiated prices and stated prices (I'm a little uncomfortable telling entities how they are allowed to price things, but large medical institutions clearly have some dysfunction in this area).
How to get better bug reports from users without using threats, bribes or tears
IF YOU ARE UNINTERESTED, LEAVE!

- your professor
Anyone know of a good alternative?
It's weird how people still struggle to understand that one should always price according to what a customer is willing to pay, rather than some sort of magic formula "price = cost + socially-acceptable-profit". I thought Apple and Starbucks had made it so brazenly obvious even to the layman.
Aren't dedicated instances only available in VPCs? In that case Heroku would not use them as all Heroku machines are public.
We're happy with OVH (we have some boxes in Montreal and some in their France location) - good prices, no issues after a year+ usage.
Coffee shops have traditionally also been places to read or write, why is using a laptop that different? For those who have complained about laptoppers taking up two person seats a) Most cafes I've been to have had few one person seats and b) most laptops with a coffee take up the space of a two person table.
Actually, yes, free speech includes the right to say dumb things just because you can. The responsibility is entirely optional. Otherwise it wouldn't be free speech. It would be called "responsible speech."
Use Glympse, it's awesome and is compatible with a few different devices.
It's poll feedback time: Almost EVERYBODY self-censors already
And you know what they say, self-censorship is the worst form of censorship.

See the results here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6017918

From now on, read HN comments with this in mind and draw your own conclusions.
Just FYI, I loved reading this comment.
Ask HN: Marketplace to sell remainders clothes?
Hello,

I am a fashion store owner and I am facing the problem of having a lot of remainders in my store from previous seasons.

I am looking for a marketplace where I can sell my remainders of clothes?

Do you have a good tip for me?
> If you need four meals a day to keep the hunger pangs away, you're on the road to type 2 diabetes.

That's...a bit of an extreme way of looking at it.

Four small, low-calorie, healthy meals. Snacks, more like. For example, a day could look like:

- Breakfast: x2 small boiled eggs, cup of green tea, 1 teaspoon sugar

- Mid-morning: Banana, cup of coffee

- Dinner: Chicken and pasta meal (brown pasta)

- Evening snack: toasted ham and cheese sandwich (wholemeal bread)

This will comfortably last me the day without hunger pangs. I won't necessarily strictly follow this every single day, this is a rough guide. The overall point is regularly spaced out meals, before I get ravenous and eat crap food, with as little processed food and sugar as possible.

> Study after study says that calorie counting diets work great for the first several months, up to a year.
And then by year five, only a tiny fraction of people are still doing it, and the rest have gained back all their weight and then some.
Maybe you will beat the odds. I do think that many HN readers are more likely than the general population to succeed this way -- geeks are better at living inside number-based systems of rules. Good luck.

I don't think of it as a calorie counting diet. The whole point of calorie counting is a temporary measure (perhaps for a month or two total), more as a mental trick to make me realise the shit I was shovelling absently mindedly into my body every day. After a few weeks, I'll be able to roughly gauge the calories simply by memory, and hopefully be in a good habit of small regular healthy meals by then.
Stop waiting around, get off your arse and learn to code
I use adblock to eliminate all elements on the page that animate. I can't read blocks of text with animation running in the corner of my eye - it's too distracting. I run flashblock for similar reasons.

Happens most often on newspaper and magazine websites. Some sites provide a pause button to kill the distraction, but many don't.
Glympse. It's awesome and I use it a lot and it works great.
I liked the book (which I read being young teen) exactly because it was a tale of organized child abuse (that's how I saw any armed forces btw), hero worship and genocide, with a "hero" who doesn't know what he's doing. I didn't see the redemption though. Maybe is's beaceause I read "Speaker for the dead" soon after. Although as I recall it was clearly said that Peter won't let Ender come back to earth at least not to be anything else than his puppet.

Of course as a teen I very much liked startegy, tactics, battles and kind of lord of the flies social dynamics that rang a bell with my earlier childhood memories.

I guess that this books somehow shaped my view of the world as I usually think that survival is the most impotant thing but that there's no glory or moral high ground to it and the fact you survived or saved someone doesn't absolve you in any way from what you did to achieve that.
Copyright infringement of this type is not illegal.
The parent's question was:

> Seems like the original vulnerability was in ffmpeg (vlc statically links to it). So in this case what should/can videolan do ?

I responded to the question. But to answer yours:

> Which one are you referring to?

Specifically the ffmpeg bug that Secunia reported that you claimed to fix, which wasn't quite correctly fixed, when you decided to go and stir up drama on the Internet and threaten Secunia with lawyers you don't have and can't afford.

That one.

And that it's fixed now is irrelevant. You made a dick move by threatening legal action without having anything to back it up and it's cost you a lot of goodwill no doubt by stirring it up.
At least THIS carousel doesn't break the back button.
Why a magazine about interns in the creative industries?
Competition in the market is a great thing and I welcome more competitors, but you're exactly right. The entire mobile market is completely fragmented. Whether you use iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, or any of the other competitors, you've likely experienced an app you'd love to install but it doesn't exist for your platform. Linux users are used to struggling with a developer to try to get a port when programs were made for Windows only. Now we're at the stage where many great programs are only written for half the market. At least on Linux you can use Wine for many things, or run a VM at worst.

When we made the move to mobile devices, we took a major step backwards in the maturity of technology. Some days I miss the simplicity of only having to pick between Windows Mobile and Palm OS when choosing a mobile audience.
If there was ever a time to say it, it's now:

video games.
Depending on the monad. If you are in Reader and getA == ask, a and b will have the same value. If you are in IO and getA == getLine, a and b may be different.
Debugging SQL with the django-debug-toolbar
Only one I know of is Glympse https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glympse.an...
The difference is between server-side vs client-side afaik. From the article:

Heavily inspired by websequencediagrams.com, who offer a
serverside solution. We use Jison to parse the text, and
Raphaël to draw the image.
I haven't read the essay, and its been decades since I read any of Card's books. But IIRC, the ending of the first book did not excuse him at all, it wrapped up abruptly and left the reader (me at least) reeling as to the full consequences of Ender's actions. A (the?) primary theme of the sequels was Ender trying to atone for his actions.

The lesson I took from the first book was that blind faith in leaders is terribly destructive -- that a moral person can never hand over the responsibility for their morality to anyone else. I was a teenager when I read it and I'd put that down as one of the formative lessons of my teen years.
The 80% number was for a "dedicated instance". A dedicated instance is not the same as a reserved instance.

Dedicated instances, charged on top of the regular price, are where you are guaranteed not to have anyone else on the same host server as you. Dedicated instances already cost 10% more than their regular counterparts (small/dedicated/on-demand costs 6.6/c hr vs 6c/hr.)

At any point, the most you could be "wasting", was the leftover capacity on a host that only had one small server on it (they didn't do micro). Imagine a simplified version of EC2 as per [1], which fits 12 small instances on one physical host, and you could therefore be wasting 11 slots that you could run a m1.small in. They can't sell these to any other customer. If you buy a second instance, they put that on your first host; you are now wasting 10 slots. Carry on down to when you fill up your first host and spill over onto a second, back to wasting 11 slots.

Previously they were charging $10/hour for those wasted 11 slots, which you could have filled by paying 72.6c/hr. Now, they're only charging $2.

[1] http://perfcap.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/understanding-and-usin...
I have yet to see a restroom on a New York City subway train. Trips on those can take upwards of an hour depending on where you're going. Old folks and children seem fine. I don't think a lack of bathrooms is a very significant problem; I'd say it's not even a problem worth considering.
writing down your gps coords every few hours and sending it to the nsa via snail mail?
A lot of film studios pay crew bonuses for films that succeed at the box office. So a boycott in this case might actually take money out of the pockets of the rank & file.
Counterpoint: many people will find going 4000mph unbelievably cool (just as with planes, I suppose).
Every time I'm not in the same country as my SIM card provider.

Which is fairly often, if you're not in an enormous block like the US.
By these days you mean the last 30 years? ASN.1 was defined in 1984, so actually its probably closer to 40...
India's Flipkart raises $200 million
Some fraction of your ticket price will likely fund the oppression of others.
It might be a way to make civil service more attractive to stalkers.

If I were anybody's ex-wife with a messy divorce and/or a restraining order, I'd be very opposed to all this.
One problem with rail is that there are established companies (often with highly-unionized workforces) that build them. And, at least in some juristictions, lots and lots of rules and safety standards, some of them dating back a long time.

Building something that doesn't have to fit within railway rules, and which you can build yourself using workers you've hired and trained de novo might well end up looking quite attractive on paper, even if the resulting system isn't fundamentally better than a "normal" railway.

The political feasibility of such a project is another matter.
Another one of those people who uses it to track their spouse. Handy to find out where they are. Not in a creepy way, it just makes me feel more in tune and connected.

Tried out the G+ version just now, pretty shit in comparison. The feature set it pretty non existent, I can't take advantage of Maps' directions and there doesn't seem to be a way to pop their location out onto the main Maps app. Poor form Google :( At least make the replacing solution on par.
map print doesn't have side effects. mapM_ print, certainly.
the angularjs seems to be broken, at least in FF 22.0
My first thought was "Oh, so it's the thing he said it wouldn't be, just above the ground.", too. :P
I read something a while back (unfortunately, I can't find it) in the NYTimes postulating that the 9/11 hijackers used steganographic techniques to communicate via the open 'net. If that's true, I wondered, then what could possibly be the point of storing/analyzing internet communications twelve years later? If they were using steganography in 2001, I can't imagine the techniques they're using to hide in plain view today.

It makes you wonder what the actual point to all of this surveillance is. Regardless, I whole-heartedly agree with you that steganography should be prioritized much higher than crypto.
I really liked the dashboard (https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/dashboard). I'm going to miss this.
Is Akka supposed to do what OTP is doing for Erlang?
It's a shame there hasn't been more technological progress on cargo transit. A HyperLoop equivalent for sending goods could be a big deal; trucking is ridiculously inefficient economically and ecologically, at least relative to the possibility space.
No hierarchy doesn't mean no accountability, instead you just surprise visits for the failure you didn't know you were responsible for.
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Write code, Save lives
Its much more common outside of engineering. In legal services, and I believe management consulting, its a major factor 5-7 years into your career. Heck, every legal employer still asks for my undergraduate transcripts, and I'm six years and three jobs and grad school distanced from those!