skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The principle problem with Groupon wasn't the competition or the stock being overvalued. Groupon's main problem is that their acquisition costs were so high that they couldn't make money.

Competition only became a drag on them when users began to get fatigued with daily deals. But even if users didn't get tired of daily deals, their business model simply wasn't on the path to profitability.
The independently developed (in my mind) is not referring to the people developing it, but rather the fact that the new copy is developed independently of the old project.

As an example, you can have the same set of developers on a new project, but as long as it's a copy of an old project, most people still expect that to be called a fork since the development of that copy is independent of the original.
From PHP documentation (http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php)

5.5.0 The /e modifier is deprecated. Use preg_replace_callback() instead.
Why is being civil all of a sudden an American property?
I have nothing to add, just wanted to thank you for joining in on the Restore the Fourth protests. We all had a lot of fun that day!
I've recorded all kinds of music in Ableton. The main thing you have to cope with is Ableton expects you to work with a constant tempo on a grid, although it doesn't force you to in any way. It's very easy to just record straight into it like any other multitrack DAW and turn off all the grids and quantization.

I'm still a fan of Logic Pro and will most likely buy the upgrade. My workflow gravitates towards Ableton for grid-based compositions (I do a lot of electronic music) and Logic for anything where I'm recording "real" instruments like guitar and vocals, because of Logic's great comping workflow.
Ask HN: Which Udemy course would you recommend?
Just got an email for 75% off one course. I'm thinking about just taking the plunge on something, anything if it means I would really get something out of it.

I'd trust the reviews from HN rather than the general Udemy reviews so please let me know what courses you've taken that you believe have truly been valuable...

(btw, already taken Coding for Entrepreneurs and don't base your answer on interest or skills, just name em and were they excellent?)
Your comment is a bit like free jazz: it's all very impressive on the surface, but it doesn't really mean anything and ultimately one feels like it was just an exercise in ego massage.

Logic has long had a home in the 'pro' world at the songwriting and demo production stage. You'll be hard-pressed to find an engineer in a commercial studio doing tracking or mixing in anything other than Pro Tools (though they certainly exist), but Logic has a healthy following with artists themselves. When viewed through that lens, the changes made in this version are a pretty natural progression for the software: for the most part, they're aimed at the writing and tracking process.

With that in mind, the 'Drummer' feature is less 'Garageband-y' than it might look: it's a considerably more flexible alternative to the giant pool of pre-recorded beats (Apple Loops) that Logic has had for a long time. Such a tool is pretty useful to the songwriter putting a demo together, to the music-for-picture composer, to the ever-growing army of artists who ship off near-completed songs to musician-for-hire studios on the web. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's heard those loops in commercial recordings (often in TV music, which is composed under deadlines to tighter budgets). I'm looking forward to being able to have my temporary backing rhythm follow the sections of a song: far better than trying to find a matching loop or building a beat from scratch when all you want is to lay down a guitar part and focus on developing your idea.

Your argument about the bypass button is just silly. If you have a bunch of plugins open on screen at once, it's obviously better to be able to see, at a glance, which ones are on or off. The old way made that harder. Clearly you have never sat for half an hour tweaking a compressor, certain of the improvement it was making, only to realize the damn thing was in bypass the entire time.

I can see more Pro-oriented things in there than you: a redesigned channel strip that reorients itself according to signal flow. Meters that work. A scriptable MIDI processor. Flex pitch, or whatever they called it. I also see a crisper UI and a clever way to facilitate interaction with complex instruments and plugins (the Smart Control macro thingies).

Of course, I'm just an amateur, so I suppose my opinion doesn't count. I suspect that you are too, but perhaps I'm just more comfortable with it.

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EDIT: I guess my long-winded point is this: why does it matter whether you think the program is becoming 'easier to use' (the horror); all that should matter is whether the new features are meaningful to you, and whether it breaks anything you need at present.

I work in enterprise software by day, and our UX team is constantly looking to consumer software and devices for usability ideas. There is absolutely nothing inherently bad about making something difficult become easy to use. It cuts down on errors, makes people happier, decreases stress, and makes them more productive. All of these things are just as valuable in the studio as they are in the accounts receivable office. There is nothing 'pro' about making life difficult for yourself.
Many US military personnel go through SERE[1] training, which includes some rather unpleasant things, and other countries have similar programs (The UK RTI[2] for one example).

Obviously a group less concerned about the long-term health of their interrogatees have a lot more flexibility in methods, and training is largely understood to be a delaying tactic to spoil time-sentitive tactical data, rather than resist interrogation indefinitely.

Hypothetically, there could be a mechanism by which he has to check in with some associates periodically, who by means of some N of M secret sharing are able to destroy/release the data otherwise. Then you need to resist for only 1-2 checkin periods. Or have a duress codeword that causes the same result. Any destruction scheme requires that the data be held somewhere secure enough not to be cloned though.

(And any heartbeat type scheme requires periodic communication with some/all associates, possibly leading your adversary to them, although broadcast media is probably good enough while he's mainstream news)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival,_Evasion,_Resistance_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_to_interrogation
I don't want to gesture at my TV. Gestures in their current incarnation kinda suck, and if people haven't realized that yet, they soon will. Just let me use my phone, it's the universal remote everyone already has in their pocket.
That wins some kind of award, though I'm not sure what.
Boom! Me and a number of my colleagues here at New Relic love this - our status page via StatusPage.io at http://status.newrelic.com/ is super-awesome.
Would you be able to quickly explain LT's architecture from a mile above? node-webkit for an HTML based UI. How does clojure come into it? Or is clojurescript the workhorse?
Perhaps there are scenarios I am not thinking of then but then in order to access the documents/information, he would need to be able to freely communicate with the other party. If he was to be detained somewhere without outside contact the world, then how can the info be disseminated to fulfill his threat?
Eval in replace funtion.. But why?!
Vatican offers 'time off purgatory' to followers of Pope Francis tweets
OpenOffice is now owned by the Apache Software Foundation; don't you think the Apache Software Foundation wanted to be able to release under the Apache License?

Complaining about the license being incompatible is a bit silly; the choice of license by the Apache Software Foundation should not be a surprise.
Tmux: Stay focused
He has asked the journalists to be rigorous in weighing the decision to publish what he gives them. I don't have a citation but it's in some of greenwalds recent posts.
I clicked the ops link and wasn't prompted for any sign in as usual.
If I were going to decide whether or not I'd trust the Supreme Court, one of the first things I'd want to learn is how many justices sit on it.
Due to the specificity of his claims. Also he was probably very reasonably paranoid during the prep phase of this whole fiasco. Coercion is not an unreasonable expectation for someone in his position and he has the technical chops to implement such a failsafe. I cannot imagine that anyone in his situation with a modicum of technical savvy would simply carry around data that one could be forced to decrypt.
Yes, you're free to express what you want out of the Constitution but you're not free to break laws as interpreted by our federal courts. Unless the Constitution is amended, shouldn't we be following the rule of law and let the Court interpret the Constitution?
It doesn't then take much torture to extract the other person's name. Then a little more torture for the other party to get the missing piece of the puzzle.
Many genera of mosquitoes _can_ spread disease: anopheles, aedes, culex, culiseta. Your risk depends on where you are, how often you're bitten, the prevalence of infection among mosquitoes, etc etc.
"more vulcan less klingon" i think bones would disagree. I also don't think Neelix GNU operating system would be any good, it would just keep reaffirming sloppy development until everything fell apart because those people shouldve been dumped at the first habitable planet.
Hawaii didn't have mosquitoes until they were brought with ships. The ecosystem did just fine without them.
I am on ubuntu raring with the packaged golang and I can't compile your example code, copied directly out of Sample Use.

kbarrett@vernon-linux:~/go-work/gotk$ go version
go version go1.0.2
kbarrett@vernon-linux:~/go-work/gotk$ go build
# github.com/conformal/gotk3/glib
glib.go:380[/tmp/go-build210667265/github.com/conformal/gotk3/glib/_obj/glib.cgo1.go:370]: function ends without a return statement
glib.go:743[/tmp/go-build210667265/github.com/conformal/gotk3/glib/_obj/glib.cgo1.go:741]: function ends without a return statement

function ends without a return statement. If this is a problem with my version of go, I will try and fetch the latest head from git. I am interested!

sudo go get github.com/conformal/gotk3/gtk -- gives the same error.
I was a summer camp counselor and every week we'd have a 'staff hunt' where we'd basically play hide-and-seek with the staff all hiding out in the woods at night and then the kids coming through in flashlight-laden packs to find us. I chose a small little nook in the ground surrounded by bushes as my hiding spot.

When the horn sounded for the beginning of the game, I started to feel a slight itching sensation on my back (I was wearing a tshirt) and was unsure of what it was. I had to be still and quiet, but I managed to swat the lower half of my back (and only the lower half). The itch began to grow, but I couldn't do anything else risk being caught. After 12 minutes the horn sounded again and I was able to get up and out of the nook. I made my way to the buildings and found a mirror, and saw that 70% of my upper back was swollen with mosquito bites. There were so many that they simply globbed together in to masses of bite.

After about 20 minutes I checked again and they all had disappeared. Now, whenever I get bitten, I will notice it, but within 20 minutes the bite will be gone.

Natural immunity is neat.
> Shouldn't the interpretation of our Constitution be left to the Supreme Court?

No.

> I mean, the Constitution explicitly grants the Court those powers.

The Constitution defines the judicial power of the United States to include deciding certain classes of legal controversies, including those arising under the Constitution, and provides that the Supreme Court is the organ which executes that role in both an explicitly defined set of cases, and in certain other cases as Congress directs. But that is pretty far from explicitly granting the Supreme Court the sole and exclusive power to interpret the Constitution.

Interpreting the Constitution is no less essential to the Supreme Court's role of deciding certain legal controversies than it is to, e.g., the President's role of seeing that the laws -- including the Constitution -- are faithfully executed, or the Congress's role in carrying out the powers and responsibilities it has defined in the Constitution, or the public's role in evaluating the performance of all three branches and electing members to the two political branches.

The Supreme Court (or the judiciary, or even "government officials" more generally) isn't a special priestly caste to whom the contemplation of certain mysteries is restricted. That would be contrary to the entire concept of government of, by, and for the people.
The billion dollar instagram acquisition is becoming the insane-valuation-punchline du jour and will eventually supersede all previous punchlines from the first bubble.
Like all the bother the parent poster made to argue that Snowden is a hero?
Then better, he gives two halves to at least 4 people (2 copies of each half, to prevent "denial of opening" if one person is blocked) he keeps nothing. He personally doesn't need the data. Publicly interesting things are by journalists. The "don't try to kill me" data is at best when not by him at all.

I posit there's nothing earth shaking on his own notebooks anymore.
" I can be appalled by some of what I read about the NSA without agreeing that Snowden is taking the best approach to doing something about that"

This. Most of the people I have discussed this issue with have failed to separate the data that was revealed with the manner in which it was. Thank you for doing so.
You're free to do what you want as long as you're willing to accept the consequences. You're free to rob a bank if you think it's worth the potential jail time and harm to other people.
> if he had STRONG knowledge of another language

What difference would that make? I am a naturalized American citizen who speaks three languages (English, German and Hebrew. Four if you count broken Spanish). Would that lead you to put a lot of stock in my position?
London's Startup Investors (as seen on AngelList)
Justin.tv hiring for new lead programmer
We're rebooting development on Justin.tv, and if you're a great programmer who wants to take ownership and mold a large and complex system you're the one we want. As Twitch, our sister site, has grown and split away from Justin.tv on the technical side a gap has opened up to grow the Justin.tv product.

This is a hands-on position. We expect you to lead by example as a programmer, in addition to being comfortable acting as technical lead and helping recruit new members of the team.

You will work in collaboration with our existing developers working on the shared services that power both Justin.tv and Twitch, and help define the future of a live video empire.

Where else will you get a monthly uniques : engineer ratio of 22 million to one?

If you're interested, email the General Manager directly at colin@justin.tv or apply online through our online form https://www.jobscore.com/job_seeker/apply/load_resume?job_id=crrqq-KrCr4QCOiGakhP3Q

Responsibilities:

- Design and build scalable web services and other server-side systems

- Work with designers to build great web frontend code

- Grow an engineering team from scratch to 7 developers

- Contribute to the roadmap for new features and products

- Report directly to General Manager of the Justin.tv product

Requirements:

- Computer science degree or similar experience

- Experience as an engineering team lead

- Experience hiring engineers

- 4+ years of software development experience for the web

- Experience working on advertising integrations a plus

- Experience working on mobile app development a plus

- Experience with specific technologies currently in use a plus: Django, Rails (yes, both, it's a long story), PostgreSQL, Memcached, Javascript, jQuery, Actionscript, ObjC, Java (Android)

The Usual Perks:

- Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision and life.

- Catered daily lunch and dinners (and once a week hearty breakfasts)

- Bi-weekly in-office massages

- Corporate gym membership

- Pre-tax commuter benefits

- Whatever design and desktop or laptop you desire, including as many monitors as you can fit on your desk

The Unusual Perks:

- Attend up to 2 tech conferences per year on company's dime

- Meet gaming celebrities when they come by the office
Okay, I'll go on for a little longer.

One thing to keep in mind is your goal in writing. There are people who want to write (or at least to have-written-something), and they don't care if the manuscript languishes in a drawer. There are folks who want to be published: to see their byline on a page. And there are people who want to earn money (ideally a living) from their writing.

All of these are fine goals. None is better than another. But you will find that writers in one category look down on those in another. Those of us who earn a living from our wordcrafting sometimes can sneer at those who would write for free, for instance. Don't let this bother you.

But _do_ pay attention to what your goals are... or how they develop. (This is something you may learn about yourself as you do your "writing just for me" process.) Because your goals, naturally, shape the manner in which you guide your own writing and related skills. That is, if you'd like to earn a bit of money from writing eventually, then you have to think in terms of getting attention from editors (cough like me), and marketing, and writing about topics that someone might pay for. If you only want to be a better writer because it'll help you become a better programmer (because it never hurts to communicate better!) that's a different set of choices.
We have primary documents supporting a very small subset of what he says. Most of the claims, including the more extraordinary ones such as he can wiretap anyone in the world including Barack Obama's personal email from his desk, remain undocumented.
>Rubbish.

You're acting in self-centered, antagonistic manner that is aggravating the relationship.
The high degree of cooperation many countries appear to be giving the United States so far in efforts to have Snowden return to the United States for legal proceedings suggests that quite a few experienced national leaders with very different constituencies to represent agree that there is more harm in Snowden being on the loose than in his standing trial to weigh his claims against United States law.

You appear to assume here that politicians take decisions purely or even mostly based on what is best for their constituencies? There could be many reasons for European leaders to be so supine, mostly I imagine it's pressure from the US and not wishing to be made a pariah, but also they are engaged in their own spying which is just as pervasive as the NSA, and to a great or lesser extent are reliant on the NSA for intelligence - most of the governments of Europe are partnered with the NSA on some level since Echelon and integration is probably tighter now, many have US bases on their soil. They have absolutely no interest in seeing any more revelations about the global surveillance network they have helped to create.
Doesn't Greenwald already have a copy of everything Snowden has? If so, then what's the harm in Snowden being "on the loose"?
Buttons are actually very simple devices, I've owned a yubikey (it got stolen, together with my other regular keys >.<) but I think it is actually very simple to remove it, solder two wires to it and connect it to a switch of any size that you can attach to whatever is within your range of motion :)

I'm based in the Netherlands so I probably can't help you, but maybe you could ask an electrician near you to help you with it.
See my "The IDE as a value" post which gives a good overview of how it all works: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/

It's all ClojureScript all the time :) Clojure is only used for evaling Clojure and doing languagy things. Not much has changed since the above post except that behaviors are now added to tags outside of code in .behaviors files.
It is no longer asking me to sign in. It kept redirecting me to https://medium.com/m/signin?redirect=/better-humans/7462fe49...
FBI Ransomware Now Targeting Apple's Mac OS X Users
Cascade Framework - Putting back the C in CSS
> The target market for Ubuntu doesn't even want to be using gconf-edit.

I consider myself an advanced user (currently running i3 tiling window manager, very recommended) and even I really didn't ever want to be using gconf-edit.

Jesus christ.
RPM/yum has grown up a lot, and yes -- it works as well or better than apt-get at basically everything now (openSUSE's zypper is actually spiffier still). But for a long time Debian and its derivatives had an overwhelmingly better package management experience, and a much larger universe of packages to draw on than the RPM distros did. And this intuition persists in the community.

Though I will say this: for all the feature and usability improvements we've seen in yum, the Fedora people seem to be trying their damndest to break them all by this insane wrapping in "PackageKit" that manages to succeed in both dumbing it down to the level of unusability and "enhancing" the power user experience by spending 3-5 seconds every time you typo a command trying to figure out how to install "mkdri".
Yeah, it is pretty good. My point (pedantic as it is) is that it's classified as business, not first. AC doesn't fly any 3-class planes.
>>But I can't password lock my whole laptop because OS X requires that password before it will load up any applications, and I can't put a password in without my apps.

Why not just have the mac autologin and then immediately go into screensaver mode?

At the very least set /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app to open on start

Thinking about solving this programmatically, it wouldn't be too hard to set up a secure locking replacement for a screensaver that would offer a challenge response system to unlock the system without using a password anyone who hears could repeat.
Read Article III, Section 1.

"The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court."
True, but most value hosting platforms run anything between 5.2.x and 5.4.x. with no option to upgrade.
Yes. I think that syntax became legal in 1.1.
Because PHP.
Nice! Have this queued up to look at after work. :)
Awesome library for extending javascript functions with extra functionality
weird that it's the same number as a comment from 7 years ago (see the second to last comment on page): http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060803223509AA...
Its the same story but when you're knee deep, its easy to forget the fundamentals.
Oh that's right, not wanting people to be jerks is tantamount for wanting _Harrison Bergeron_.

This slippery slope argument is garbage and YOU are a piece of shit for advocating it! You must watch Fox news and are a devotee of "shock jock" radio that tickles your reptilian brain and amps up the right neurotransmitters in the risk reward system to crave impolite and rude behavior!

(I hope I drove home the point with that bogus rant that individuality-through-angry-shouting doesn't elevate the debate at all, it just incentivizes the other party to become even more recalcitrant and unreasonable)

Hot tempers and passionate are not the problem. Strongly worded rebuttals are not a problem. Direct ad hominem attacks are just unnecessary. You can be strong and aggressive without telling people to "SHUT THE FUCK UP"

Trust me, being a dick isn't only way to be adversarial.
On second thought, only if they're not having affairs...