skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess 100+ plus drone strikes y/y with civillian casualties isn't en masse?

Wasn't there a drone strike that killed over a hundred women and children at a school in pakistan?

And lets not forget Falujah. It was pretty much turned into Depleted Urainium wasteland... and theres a WHO report on that.

Sounds like those evils are brothers...
This is a 39" 4k2 display for $699:

http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/d...

The main downside seems to be that it only has HDMI 1.4, so you only get 30Hz at 3840x2160.

They also have a 50" version for $1,114.
Minimal and very Elegant. Seen links are hardly visible, would be more awesome if you bring in more contrast! Good job !
In Poland it's already taxed. If you burn oil in your engine that was not intended for that purpose (and not taxed for that purpose) you should go to your tax office and pay the missing tax. Of course this is met with silent "piss off" from all the people who are doing it.
But the difference is that you don't drive your car for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, years on end.
I like the overall design but the links are too light orange which make it hard to read. Design's number one goal is to 'get out the way of the user'. Change the link color to something with more contrast against the white background. Then I'll really like it.
Malloc, push, shebang, go slow
Is This The Future of The Airline Website?
And then, even if all of the servers involved in delivering your mail communicate securely, the reciepent is going to reply in plain text, quoting your entire message...
Good Luck With That: YC Founder's Advice To Startups: Go Out And Sell -SVW
> 7) Immediate updates & distribution control (HTML wins)

Aha, doesn't even consider wrappers like phonegap.

Another of those lame articles that doesn't look at the whole picture instead only extremes.

The security paragraph is a bad joke in itself. I'd say this is a really bad advertisement for appcelerator when they have to resort to such bad claims.
Metaphor is a common part of every language. Please don't ask people not to use it without clear information on why they shouldn't.
Great work, though it's a shame it's a browser extension. You can't use it on Firefox or mobile.

There's a site, tomodo.com, that allows you to modify webpages much like a greasemonkey script or a browser extension and then publish it as a native website. I'd suggest you'll look into that.
List View in Grid With Remote Data - Introduction to Kendo UI Course
Agreed. The people you call know exactly what to expect and make it as quick and painless as possible. They're also very pleasant. I'm young and shy but this was probably the easiest social interaction I've ever done. Worth a shot, worth 30 seconds.
Thank God for the new interface. Despite the bright orange, I will never go back to original Hacker News. Please implement it for HN India too :)
Also important: money is fungible. To block funding for a particular activity is to say that Congress appropriates money per activity. I don’t think that’s the case, but would happily be corrected.

So a law that states ‘here’s your money, but you’re not allowed to use it for x’ seems toothless in the extreme. It’s words on a page.

Keep in mind also that the NSA is close to lawless, so any room for interpretation will gut the intent. If it’s words on a page, it’s room for interpretation.

The only actual solution is to actually reduce the NSA’s budget, substantially. Is that in this bill?
There's no way to stand still per se, but we can tell the difference between someone who accelerates and someone who doesn't - that's the resolution of the "twin paradox". So if one person travels around in a circle and their twin stays still (by magically floating above the earth without following its rotation, or by staying suspended at a particular point in the earth's orbit for a year while the earth goes around), then they have accelerated less than their twin and should therefore have aged slightly more.

What I don't understand is: does this still apply under General Relativity, or does proximity to the massive earth redefine acceleration?
Skype works well on a computer while compiling. A phone would fare even better because it has a DSP that does most of the work.

If you don't have a headset connected, just disconnect the phone from the monitor and put it to your ear. It shouldn't affect your compilation.
I can only hope that the new Mac Pro is unleashed along with a similarly pixel-rich screen.
Why do people blame the MSM? Because they fail to do their job correctly, it's pretty simple. They get caught up in eyeballs instead of exposing the truth. Why break a big story about drones when you can rehash your thinly veiled opinion on some more popular topic?
Mark Shuttleworth planning an AMA this Thursday
I didn't take an English test when I applied as a skill worker for permanent residency (it's not my first language). It was heavily recommended to do so but I wrote a page outlining my work experience in the US, other test results etc and I didn't have any problem.

It was a bit risky because it was up to the official reviewing the application to accept it or not but I didn't feel like spending a grand and flying to another city for a day to take a test.

I don't know if things have changed and now a test is required without exception; all data indicate that not knowing well the country's language(s) is the main factor for not succeeding in it as an immigrant.
Accumulation without differentiation is what we call cancer

I have reason to understand that word is a scary word. But I liked the statement a lot. It's factually accurate, and yet poetic as well. I intend to remember it.
This is not about the GPL'd code people take from you, it's about what they add/change to this code.

Whether you can directly slap the GPL back on these modifications is very discutable. You can most certainly sue them for breaching the license, though.

(and, like sister comment says, this is not what's happening here anyway)
Could be. But, again, they can use iPads and other random tablets, cheap PCs bought from anywhere on the internet, flea market computer mice and keyboards, cheap flatscreen tv's for the wall, etc. and that doesn't seem to be a problem. :-)
Great point. I've had more than one conversation with friends in the Android community where we try to understand exactly why the Android development community is as toxic as it is at times.

Part of it definitely has to do with the end users getting too close to those doing the development and the result is chaos. It ends with users totally disrespecting real developers--stirring up unnecessary drama and fanboyism. Then there's users that compiled Android (or worse, added a few apps into a ROM by opening it in 7zip) and are suddenly an Android development expert (and users that believe it by defending them and donating money).

I'm just glad that most other development communities on the web are much more civil (though I'm sure there's outliers). Even with Ubuntu's rise in popularity, it comes nowhere close to matching the appalling behavior I've witnessed with Android. I've seen people belittled by users for simply trying to post an honest bug report to a developer in their forum thread. Though with the way users spam up those threads with offtopic discussion, one is just as likely to have their bug report missed/ignored.
Yahoo in Bid To Reacquire China Name
So it seems like it's Chinese equivalent of code monkey.
People here who know of raganwald < 100, is a pretty poor guess. He's active here, he's written a number of books, he's active on r/programming and r/javascript. He has a number of things on github and on npm, his code is out there in the wild.

I know who he is and I'm hardly a member of any exclusive in-group.
The need for procedures like that is ridiculous. Why should you have to expensively prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that your code doesn't infringe?
I'm glad to see that things have improved to some degree. I just breifly visited one of those though (androtransfer.com) and it does have the shit I am talking about... "Please wait while we prepare your download! 10 second(s) left"... how about "No." Proper mirroring does not give you this sort of cruft and hassle.

I'll admit, the situation is improved because nobody tried to sell me a penis pump when I visited the site. No wake me when the solution to every other minor problem is not "Sort through this 500+ page forum thread, and find the guy who posted a 'fix' without sourcecode that comes in the form of a several rar files from Mega, adding up to 2GB. Oh and by the way, he even included a bunch of pirated gameboy roms for you too!"
That's the law. The reason is, you can be a passive investor in a company, similar to buying stock in a company. This is allowed on any type of visa including H1B. But, if you are taking an active role, you are working for your own company and you cannot work for a company without work authorization. The work authorization could be CPT, OPT, EAD or H1B ( there might be other forms of work authorization I am only aware of these few).
I think that Lego Mindstorms are a great intro, and that's something parents can wrap their heads around and "sell" to their children. We have a franchise company down the street from me that does summer camps built around Mindstorms - http://www.bricks4kidz.com/. It seems to be a fairly large franchise also. My 9yo son is taking their "Introduction to Game Programming" weekly camp/class in a few weeks. Might be worth looking at their curriculum/marketing for ideas.
If it's not .doc[x], it's not a Word file. I suspect parent was griping about people who would use "Word file" for anything they can open in Word.
I worked with a guy like this who didn't realize he was doing nothing useful. He thought that printing updated spreadsheets and reading random documentation was worth his likely 6 figure salary. It was no secret though, all of the younger employees knew about him. I think the managers avoided dealing with him because they were afraid that he would wind up assigned to their team and bringing their productivity down. He would get really upset whenever we got an email about a new VP or Director being promoted, because he though he was in line for that sort of thing. Eventually he convinced his manager, a remote guy who didn't really know who he was, to promote him to a senior engineering position. I left soon after that.
If you really want to use that resolution fully, then you need a much bigger screen to take advantage of it, otherwise everything will be too small.

If you want to benefit from the "retina" type of sharpness, then Windows should really show it at an effective 1080p resolution, and Windows sucks at doing that. It only enlarges some icons, and that's about it.
What about Dart language? Learn Dart has been on my todo list, jsFiddle++ would be a fun playground to do so
Don't confuse the end result with the intended result.

I think it is much more likely that the people making the decisions just don't give a damn. They see the situation from another perspective, one in which they have this really cool toy and they intend to use it as much as possible because as far as they know it doesn't have any downsides.

The reason they don't realize the downsides is because it is such a new toy that side-effects aren't well documented. It is kind of like the way we used to use x-ray machines for shoe-fittings - it's kind of obvious it would give people foot cancer but it took people actually getting foot cancer before they stopped doing it. People have a tendency to only see what is right in front of them - right now the blowback from indiscriminate drone usage isn't in their face so they can't see it.
PIN-Punching Robot Can Crack Your Phone's Security Code In Less Than 24 Hours
An Approach To Web Design (Manifesto)
Yes, I've experienced this first hand. Also, during the latest re-organization, they decided to lay us off and replace us with outsourced workers since upper management thought this was cheaper. My entire department got hired by the exact outsourcing company, and a couple of weeks later it was business as usual. Only 3 times more expensive for the company...
It should be banning surveillance of anyone not under active investigation, not simply domestically.
Alcohol advertisement is banned for decades =)
direct link to youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_D-zX3yP8
Oh snap - my rep proposed this bill. Cool!
I work in a distribution center (not one of Amazon's and not on the floor). What they're describing in the article is pretty much industry standard for non-robotic picking. It's a very difficult and demanding job and we're very up front about that. People take the job figuring they can sling a few boxes and a large percent leave within their probationary period because they underestimate the work no matter how much you try to set their expectations.

I'm not saying Amazon is a benevolent employer (we pay well over minimum wage because of the nature of the work), just that nothing in the article was shocking.
Where is the irony?
Ubuntu Forums Breach and the Cost of Password Laziness
Fantastic! I've only one suggestion. I'm using a Macbook Pro (Retina), and the up-arrow icons are extremely blurry. Other than that, everything looks amazing. :)
Well, radio pollution is still under debate. In Italy they've supposedly found significant discrepancies in cancer distribution near large radio transmitters (i.e. higher rates of cancer). We're talking humongous power and extreme proximity though, nothing like wifi.
US football and football/soccer fields/pitches are about the same length (~100m)
Maybe you've been missing the Windows 8.1 coverage? Granted, there are still problems, but it's a huge step forward.
What Declarative Languages Are
It seems like it should be easy though, right? Just turn every 1080p pixel into four pixels and you get 3840x2160.
Full MongoDB database dump of the Blippex search engine
It's not an end to end perfect solution, but you may be interested in CeroWRT: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt

I've got a WNDR3800 which I've sadly not had time to flash and play with yet. I was also fortunate enough to go to Jim Getty's talk at the Linux Plumbers Conference in 2012, and you can find a similar video on Youtube fairly easily (I think it's also linked off the previous website).

This is one of those projects where they could also use the help, just in case anyone out there was looking for a project ;)
Iran Removed From All Major Travel Sites
Fair enough. I guess I'm just wary of articles like these because I think that nerds like me(and I'm assuming the author) have the tendency to put computers on this pedestal because we use them a lot and really really like them.

It's not the end of the world when someone confuses memory with storage or thinks that www should go in front of everything. In fact, these days I'd argue that it's not hugely important for "normal" people to know either of those things. I'd say that the most important part of this article is about learning to use Google, which is a hugely important skill at this point. Misconceptions about viruses are annoying and sometimes very problematic. And backups are important.

But I'd argue that just about everything else listed isn't hugely important. They're annoying misconceptions, sure. But that's about it. It's ok to be an unsophisticated user. Understanding that is what allows us to write good, usable software for "normal" people.
> Are all of these bootstrapped, or are some of them self-funded?

HN doesn't seem to make the distinction, for self-funding of less than $100K.

The thing I find particularly fatuous: "We were bootstrapped until we took VC money", as if everyone who takes VC money isn't in the same camp. I guess the company I founded was bootstrapped until our A round valued at $40M. Hey I created a $40M company by bootstrapping!
Sorry, it's a personal irk. Cancer is a horrible, concrete, real thing that I have experienced far too much of in the past year, and to see it compared to something relatively trivial and abstract makes me immediately dismiss the author's argument.

Edit: Upon further reflection, I guess my point is that "x is cancer" is far too powerful of a metaphor to just throw around. In my opinion it should be reserved for things that have all of the personal heart wrenching connotations that the word implies for people who have experienced it.
Well there are more than 1000 apps added in the phonegap.com library built with html for ios. While that's negligible it's certainly not to be frowned upon. There are some big names too.. check the featured apps.

http://phonegap.com/app/ios/

This always comes back to the same arguments, we had this conversation multiple times now. Yes native is better, but you can still build a good quality app with html compatible of multiple platforms, specially if your app is only a text crud.

But in the case of Appcelerator they seems to certainly do not want open technology like html5 to win & prefer selling their tech.
Yes.

The US government is not in charge of keeping Pakistanis safe, it is in charge of keeping US citizens safe. If the Pakistanis don't like this arrangement, they should deal with the terrorists themselves.
I hear this a lot, but I've never seen actual evidence of it. Everyone who started early that I've seen in computer science classes has been better than people who started later.
Yeah, that seems like a good approach. Thanks for the link!
It's nothing to do with the metric system. Can you visualise 330m, or would it be easier to visualise three football pitches (or insert any other familiar large area)?
You can mostly make HTML5 "fast enough", if you know where all the sweet spots are. A comparison of a finely tuned native app, to a a naively built html5 coded up with much the same methodologies as a 1999 dhtml site, ignorant of the the constraints and allowances of the mobile platform, seems hardly fair, but that's what most people are going to see.

failure to use even easy performance wins like html5 app cache, css3 3d transforms (hardware accelerated), local storage, etc. etc.

But it's all tech, which is putting the cart before the horse. I'm a local mom and pop grocery store. Do I need an app?
Torrentbytes is shutting down
2013-07-21 04:43:00
Hello everyone.

At the moment it seems like the site will cease to exist sometime in early August due to no practical way of funding this fun. The past 7 months the site has been kept up by a few very generous people combined with some good old-fashioned stubbornes. The site is unlikely to come back as is.

Bubue.
Looks very interesting.

So we if we imagine this gains traction, could a mobile device use a different transport protocol for different network situations? Such as a phone going from 3G to 4G to wifi?

I guess the problem is the other end would have to adapt too?

Also if you are going to add new protocols, then would be not be better to add more message oriented protocols, rather than stream oriented? As many applications (twitter, payment instruction, email send) are message oriented.
I'll look into that, thanks for the feedback
My railcard is magnetic only, as well as my student discount card and several store cards.

My university ID uses a magnetic strip and RFID. However the university disabled RFID usage on all of the printers, doors, etc. on day zero after people found out you could easily spoof them.

Granted, at least my important cards use chips/NFC now.
How to transition app designs to iOS 7
AFAIK Dart isn't very widely used, but I'll check if there's a JS compiler for that.
It's also most likely one of the reasons exfat even exists: so Microsoft can exercise some control and have licensing income from a filesystem format being in common use, which they don't have/lost with FAT.
Dan Lyons didn't get less funny after the reveal. He (purposely) toned it down while Steve Jobs was sick. When Steve was doing better for a bit there FSJ was as great as ever.
Leap motion: prototyping the future
Sometimes a paragraph can paint a better picture than an illustration.
Ben Golub joins dotCloud as CEO
This argument comes up in every conversation about non-computer people, and I don't buy it. I don't know anything about how my car works, and I wouldn't be able to get a Formula 1 car out of the driveway, but I do know how to use it for ordinary tasks. Moreover, if my lack of knowledge got in the way of my everyday life, I would learn something and use that knowledge.

The car equivalent of the sort of people the author is complaining about isn't you and me, it's someone who doesn't know where the steering wheel is and refuses to learn because all they need to know is gas pedal -> go forward, and the car should figure it out from there and/or is a Magical Voodoo Machine that they can't touch.

In short: complete and willful ineptitude vs. mastery is a false dichotomy.
National Geographic’s Cartographic Typefaces
It may have been just the time or the community but I felt like IRC was way more involved in open source development. It probably still is - but I can remember learning and asking questions and helping answer some on #gtk and #mozilla IRC was where it all happened... I'm sure this is still the case and it's mostly my lack of involvement now as compared to then, but it was pretty fun...
If you're growing at that pace, you can't do just one thing; you've got to attack it on multiple fronts. I approach things like this doing something like this:

1) Optimize data type usage

2) Optimize indexing - removing redundant indexes, adding new indexes, changing existing indexes

3) Optimize storage - get your SAN/disks in order

4) Partition the data in such a way that you serve queries and users quickly

If you do the above, you should easily be able to scale any decent hardware into 10x where you are now. That will buy you some time to then build a data warehouse and backend support/reporting systems. At some point you're going to be in a spot where you either have to invest $5m+ in hardware to keep serving your current data, or you're going to have to start archiving some of this data to a data warehouse.
San Jose State suspending its online offerings indicates that online only classes may not be all they're cracked up to be.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/San-Jose-State-suspends-o...
Even if it ultimately doesn't work, don't you think it's worth trying rather than just going around saying it won't work? It's likely going to be a long, slow process to change this, and we need all the wins we can get, if only to prevent apathy and show others who are on the fence that there's enough public outrage over this that they should get involved too. If we do manage to get it passed and then there are new leaks a few years down the road that they did what you describe—move the programs around and keep running them—I think that would cause far greater outrage, because Congress explicitly banned them from continuing the programs and they ignored it.
Are you saying that the place is too big and so it employs too many of the hard working people over there? Some maybe should be unemployed so they can trade perspectives on having vs not having a job?
Terminally Incoherent is a great name for a website.
Eye Tracking Device for Usability Improvement
I didn't miss it, and I've criticized it then, too. Apple handles new higher resolutions in a much "cleaner" and more elegant way than Windows, by doing exactly what I said about 4k/UHD being "retina" for 1080p. Windows is basically being patched up with every new higher resolution. It has nothing to do with using higher resolutions as "retina" versions of lower resolutions, or rather they sort of achieve that in a really ass backwards way.
When did we stop torturing people?
I really hope they leave clam alone, I don't know any good alternatives that are open source.
We used to send patch files over email to the inner sanctum of approved project maintainers.

Or, at the very least, I did.
M&A over the past 5 years hasn't been as successful.
Facebook data center power usage