skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watch this video to better understand the pricing..
http://vimeo.com/15232514
Why Some Dreams Should Not Be Pursued
How Google Uses Machine Learning to Detect Spam Blogs (Maybe)
a wiki lots of devs bought into (but which they later entirely blew away and replaced with Bing searches of their site)

They seemed to have fixed it now, but for a while the search box would return results from the wiki, which had been removed, leading you on an endless tempting "the answer you want is just around the corner" unhelpful drugery.
Immature. Pointless. Counter-productive. But Goatse'd! hahahahaa! How wonderfully appropriate :)
Listen guys, if you're shipping for free within the UK, I'm not paying 20 GBP to ship to Germany.
How good is Siri-like programs when dealing with young children. Can it handle sentences with broken grammatical structure, or badly pronounced words?
Automação e Robótica na Construção - ISARC 2013
I've done lots of C++, and memory management has become much easier since shared and scoped ptrs have entered the std lib.

But still, going back to it now for a new project seems highly unlikely to me, it's like moving from a feature phone to a smartphone and then back. I just can't go back now. I'm a server guy so Go really hit the spot for me, despite having its shortcomings.
There's several issues that are worth raising here, but I struggle to understand why the Parliamentary Private Secretary for the Secretary of State for Defence needs to attend a meeting with ISPs about unrelated civilian matters.
I noticed the mention of Voyager 1 and 2 probes. Are you telling me that dish can receive ( useful data ) signals from the probes themselves ?!
Cyber dangers and glass houses
I do honestly believe that he wanted to do the right thing. But once he got more info he had to change his mind. For all I know they prevent 1 attack per week. I have no clue. So I think we need to have the security verses privacy debate. If the country is like my sister she thinks she doesn't do anything and will pick security every time. She has three kids that love soccer.
Cisco acquires Snort - the open source intrusion prevention system
http://www.deadman.org/sshscreen.php
I suspect that this has nothing do to with filtering content, protecting the vulnerable or anything else in the "real world" - it's all about politicians who have no fundamental convictions or principles desperately casting about for any subject that might increase their visibility to earn them a promotion up the slippery pole.
And that's a HUGE pitty! I'm not alone when I say that this entire situation is depressing. It harms not only crossplatform success (=xTimes less money than possible, yes think about it dear Publishers).

So, do you have an idea on howto game it, to get more Hardware vendor support on Linux/Unix to become actually a "real alternative" to the DirectX competitor Microsoft? I don't believe that it's just the license, because amd/nvidia/intel give out their proprietary drivers, but we all know that they still so big time that using them is difficult.
sneak said: "Breaking in" suggests that there is access control (locks, doors, walls, etc) in place.

ceol said: No, it doesn't.

I say: Yes it does. Your house has walls and probably a picket fence too. Either one is a boundary. The keyword here is "boundary" and not "locks". Having people's info waiting behind a serial number is not a "boundary" but rather a key-value pair accessible from the public domain. Your house is not accessible from the public domain because you have boundaries. Your servers are accessible from the public domain because you specifically have to put them online and make them accessible. Once you make servers accessible from the public domain then it is your responsibility to safeguard the privacy of what you put there. Weev did not DDoS the servers or inject SQL into their code. He accessed public info. Similarly if you put public info about you on facebook then it is not a security breach if I go there and check it out.
I believe the point is that while the current generation whines about any sort of adversity, earlier generations sucked it up and enjoyed the challenge.

"Back in my day we built our heat equation solvers on punched cards, and had to manually draw the resulting graph based on the output. Nowadays you whippersnappers complain when scipy doesn't have a built in heat equation solver, and you are forced to manually write conjugate gradient."
If it was a committee or some other 'public' meeting, then pretty much any MP or Lord can attend if they so wish. Her role as PPS is separate to her constituency role. From the sounds of the meeting, it wasn't a meeting with Government but with Parliamentarians.
Augmented reality is starting to become actually useful
Hmm.. I wish people would stop thinking that what children need from a teddy bear (or any other doll-like toy) is more realism. Dolls are supposed to be for the child to project their own fantasy onto, not a portal into the internet. I'd rather have my child (if I had kids) speak to the PCB or phone or TV or whatever directly and leave the teddy bear to say whatever they dream it does.

Maybe I read too much Calvin and Hobbes growing up.

That being said, I do think that in the future we're going to have to start learning to be comfortable talking with computers.. so maybe this is a good thing. Not sure how I feel about this stuff now that I think about it.
> Edit 2: Another thing, regarding the 1.25 to 1.45 line-height he recommends. I feel like it's a lawyer's thing. Anything smaller than 1.5 looks very clamped, and most times people use 1.5 to 1.75.

It depends of the font and the font size: sometimes, 1.3 is too much.
It's not only your leaders. Things are same everywhere. In India, one can say anything about government openly but say something on social media site and fool leaders will try to censor you.

There have been multiple instances displaying how bad situation is. A movie company was able to get court orders to stop piracy of their movie and this ended in ban over 70+ sites. Not specific pages, blanket ban on whole sites. [1]

Then we have had a girl arrested over liking a Facebook post criticizing a leader[2]

I had high hopes with our generation but looks like most of the people in early twenties are not much better.

[1]: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/singham-effect-file-sharin...
[2]: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/19/indian-woman-arrested-ov...
Is Hidden Link is allowed by Google? and Google award website for using it?
If you want to get an idea of what the voice capabilities of the toy might be like, the developers made an Android-based chatbot called Jeannie[1] that you can play with.

[1] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pannous.vo...
Growth is a Bitch
1. Location (country)
2. Sales and Marketing Plan
3. Hiring good people
dockPHP – Let's Code Websites Visually
FullSpectrumLaser aka: why you should think twice on buying from them
In Russia Federation, most employers don't require a letter of reference and they don't contact previous employer.
Snowden is not stupid - he knows what he's getting into. If the Russian government is offering to shelter him, it's in exchange for more information. They have no use for a mid-level sysadmin that they can't trust.
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I'm doing all three types of dev work, so there isn't an 'other side'.
Just because you're used to it, and because you find it easy and natural doesn't mean it is or should be legal.

There are people who, upon seeing the good laid out in a shop, will find it easy and natural to just pick it up and walk out. They find it easy and natural. It's right there.
Might be legit, but is that tuition justified?

As an "external", not having a job in coding but with coding skills, the only way I see worth paying that kind of money is if "graduating" gives very high chances to land a position (high= >80%).
Emacs, imho, will get a whole lot better when it runs on Guile[1]. This was a great presentation. I've been using emacs since the mid-eighties, it's so easily programmable that hackers are always hacking new things for it, so it keeps up with the latest fashion.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-07/msg0006...
A question: Why are this and the standard WebGL both based on OpenGL ES, and not OpenGL?
I would recommend Barcelona, Spain. Not needed on the Barna main beaches, but I would go to the outer small towns with beach access like Caldes d'Estrac or Ocata, etc. Really relaxed towns, with clean water and sand.

I go there all weekends to relax.
If you can find it, this will also apparently run versions of Z/OS, although the licensing model for Z/OS doesn't permit it.
"What else will be banned?"
This is what worries me the most. If there is going to be a government approved 'blacklist' it suddenly becomes very easy to block content that the politicians decide is unsuitable. It's a very slippery slope, and Cameron is standing at the top and lacing up his ice-skates.
A concrete action list to get your first paying customer.
Ok, I'll be that guy:

"In a teddy bear"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_%28garment%29
Although in this case they've pegged the problem as too much access to other kinds of slippery poles :-)
That's not what I had pictured at all ;-)
The voice (and the attitude) doesn't seem to be child-friendly. It's almost as if the makers were trying to re-create "Ted".
For our London course, we have a variety of hiring partners and graduates are getting full-time jr developer positions. The reason we aren't promising to actively do this for the Global course is that it would be impossible for us to have relationships with hiring partners across the globe. That being said, we do have relationships with a variety of global recruiters and we'll do everything we can.

From a technical perspective - our graduates are well prepared for these types of positions.
Lots of good advice here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635236

If you have a spouse of any description, it's definitely worth looking in to a separate office. Nearly all the issues I've run into over the years of working remotely have stemmed from being physically present in the house/apartment during daylight hours and thus physically capable of answering "quick questions", having things "just put away" in my office, or "letting the electrician in" (and spending 45 minutes explaining to him the various things we needed him let in to do.)

If you're in a separate office across town, or even a shed at the end of the garden, that sort of thing stops happening and you get back to potentially being able to work a full day uninterupted.
I still find it difficult to believe that the Russian government didn't have information about the US' spy programs already.
Sorry for your distorted reality. You're saying that everyone who accesses unsecured information on a badly secured server gets reprimanded. You're placing the onus of security on the user which makes your point pure BS.
He is (apparently) considering sueing her:
http://order-order.com/2013/07/24/should-guido-sue-claire-pe...

I am conflicted. I never really liked Paul Staines' style but I am somewhat afraid of the impact of Claire Perry on the UK Internet regulations. I have to admit I would love to see him publicise the lack of understanding she has in the Internet that she is working so hard to regulate..
[Unnatural] Links are DEAD (case study)
Crete. Very good Internet, perfect beaches. Don't get stuck there forever like this guy...

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/heinzkabutz-...
ES is much more rigorously specified AFAIK, and has good mobile support.. OpenGL proper is a random extension soup.
It might constitute the breaking of Vienna Convention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic.... Usually diplomatic cars, airplanes, etc. are not to be stopped and particularly not to be searched by local police, so this was a HUGE diplomatic screw up, especially since Snowden wasn't on the plane.
Do these guys even know their own name? From Powerful data models and queries:

> With backeam you can model

Emphasis mine.

It's not even a quickly-typed email from a company rep, it's the front page of their website.
It worries me that people that have absolutely no understanding of even the basics of how a system works have any ability to regulate it. The worst part is, there are MPs who do have a good technical understanding, but for the most part they're drown out by the shrill cries of 'save us from ourselves!'.

I cannot imagine how much torture it must have been to try and explain the concepts to someone who just does not care. It's wilful stupidity.
Surveillance Contract between Telekom USA/VoiceStream and the FBI
The recent NSA scandals seems to have put me in full tin foil hat mode. All I read here is: "We record everything you and/or your child say and send it to our servers."
But its weird that Russia suddenly decided to grant him this safe pass after denying him asylum in order to maintain the relations with the USA. Could there be a hidden agenda somewhere?
A mechanical one, for sure. Then, what it would matter it's the type of the switches. I use black ones, because I like gaming and it's what its for but i code a lot with it. It depends on your taste.

Probably the most comfortable but expensive ones are the Topre's capacitive switches, used on Happy Hacking keyboards, they're a mix of best quality, comfort and healthy keyboards you can acquire.

For coding, writing, experts recommend blue or brown switches, but in the end, it is our own taste what it will matter.
To kickstart a discussion:

Does anyone use the MEAN stack: mongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and NodeJS?

http://blog.mongodb.org/post/49262866911/the-mean-stack-mong...

I am starting a project and currently I am leaning towards NodeJS with Express and MongoDB on the server-side and RequireJS(or WireJS) and Knockout on the client side.
I intend to use QUnit for the client app's testing, but have no idea what should I use for Node testing (unit and load/stress).
Since it will be just me, I will probably setup Jenkins on my own machine for a build server.
I am currently using appfog for staging/testing.

That's pretty much it. (My project includes a mobile part as well, but I guess this is outside of the scope of this discussion, so I wont get into that.)
Try Font Squirrel for free fonts: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

They have a great collection.
Simplistic or not, I think the analogy serves its purpose very well (thank you for sharing it). As I was reading the GP post the analogy I was thinking of was spraying weed-killer indiscriminately everywhere and naively thinking it would only take out the 'bad-guys'.

Doing it properly does involve understanding both what 'weed' means to you and 'desirable plant' then being careful not to poison the latter (and actually encourage it) while you try to deal with the former.
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this looked so amazing that I tried to switch from virgin to aa... turns out it's £20/month + £12 line rental / month = £32/month. For Home::1, it's £25/month + £10 line rental / month = £35/month. So I don't agree it's cheap.
Yeah, art, IMHO, is all about context. In some cases, the actual piece of art, or perceived quality, is irrelevant.

Cave paintings can be said to be rubbish art. Any one going to claim they have no relevance or value?

With out context, to me, art is just a picture.
Does anyone know of a place where a person could get brief advice about suitability of various fonts? Something like, "A humanist font is characterized by .. and is most natural in a less-staid document, such as a work of fiction" (Please don't write me that it is wrong; I made that up as an example of the kind of thing a type-ignorant person like me might find useful.)

I don't expect to become a brilliant designer, I am only hoping to avoid what an expert would regard as ghastly errors, or perhaps better said, to help me make some reasonable choices.
These guys are just launching - please be kind; they will definitely appreciate your feedback though.
I uh... think I may have supplied one of those operators with software to automate payments. It was all rather arms-length and I didn't enquire, but it involved paying out interest to hundreds of e-gold accounts. And I got paid well.
There's only one actual scientist in the house of commons (Julian Huppert, LibDem, Cambridge) and he is regularly heckled whenever he gets up to speak about anything. Shameful..
They are adding Success Services / access to their customer success team.
Any idea what this looks like ? A consultancy service or general support ?
TIL: Converting between USD and EUR is simple stuff. Just place the currency symbol at the end. No?
ES is a subset of OpenGL for embedded systems since it requires less die space on the hardware and is lighter on the software side as well. Anything that runs on ES should also run on standard OpenGL implementations but the reverse is not true.

ES is supported on mobile phones and tablets, like Android and IOS, where people would obviously like browser support. If they used full OpenGL, they would lose out on those markets.
She deserves to have some sense sued into her. It is frightening how such thoroughly ignorant people seem utterly powercrazed, trying to control that which they don't understand, effectively becoming for more evil than the thing they want to fight. Her stupidity is staggering. Bring on the Streisand effect indeed...
> "And, further, it creates systemic inertia"

This is an assumption (and a dangerous one, imho). From what I've read they've already optimised the hell out of getting 'court-orders' so I don't see it as a stretch to imagine that they would do the same with data stored at remote locations.

There have been stories that said companies would help with NSA access since the alternative was to have NSA machines on site. Pushing data back to the companies doesn't mean NSA would walk in and demand to install some of their own hardware.
Apple does it, and it seems to work fine for them.
Based on the beta version of the Chrome Extension, they use https://github.com/wwwtyro/cryptico to create a RSA keypair based on a user-provided keyphrase. The private part is stored in the LocalStorage of the extension and the public part seems to be submitted to the server. Actual message encryption then happens using AES, but I'm not sure about the details. They delegate all actual crypto to the cryptico lib, so the description on GitHub is probably accurate for BlockPRISM's encryption too.
If you what to gouge money from people who pay in Euros, sure - $1 = 0.76 Euros - see https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1+dollar+in+euros
I'm buying my Apple devices from the US. I live in Europe.
It's that irritating :)
Bitcoin offers a neat solution for public key verification. I'm about to use that in a Bitcoin-related service that I'm about to launch. Here's an explanation from the security page:

#### Public key verification
To prevent an attacker from modifying our published Bitcoin public key,
its permanently embedded into Bitcoin blockchain in a way that is
[nearly impossible](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_computing_power)
to modify (and becomes exponentially more difficult as time goes by).

The public key can be verified by taking the following procedure:

1. Take the SHA256 of the domain name ("****.com")
2. Create a Bitcoin address using that hash as the private key
3. Find the first transaction with that address as its *output address*
4. The *input address* of that transaction is our public key

If its ever required to change the public key, the announcement
will be signed with the old public key.

Software packages could use the package name instead of a domain name, or the authors can attach the public key to their usernames and use it to sign all their software.
Looks interesting - nice landing page. What are the differences between Backbeam and Parse?
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Very nice and transparent guys and top notch devs. Made contributions to open source and now they are launching this. Definitely worths a try.
:'(

Mine is dead. I miss it.
AI scores same as a 4-year-old in verbal IQ test
Typography is about more than just the choice of font, and in some ways the choice of fonts is less important than how you employ the fonts you do choose, how you combine them and which weights you choose to use where. I think reading books like this one would be a great first step. Some of the advice is a little opinionated, but most of it is sound, it reminds me of Strunk & White in that way.

An example of misuse of typography; he advises you not to use various forms of emphasis at the same time (bold, italic and underline all at once), and to use a regular and limited progression of headings to indicate importance and hierarchy. I have seen clients attempting to design making all these mistakes without considering the result of those choices and ending up with an unsatisfactory result which fails in difficult to quantify ways. They sense it isn't quite right, but don't pin the blame in the right place (on the lack of coherence).

The good news is you can learn by trying, none of this is particularly hard, it's like learning to write well - it comes with practice, really looking at what others do, and listening to criticism when it appears justified. Some of this is subjective of course, and dependent on the culture and sensibilities of the reader, so it's something you're going to acquire by osmosis rather than by reading a brief guide I'm afraid. For some subjects, there is no TL;DR.
While I'm not a professional typographer, I currently work in user experience, so I might have an answer.

From a cursory glance at the CSS, it's solid black text on a solid white background. This can have slightly too much contrast, which can become tiring to read. Off-black text on an off-white background tends to help I find. Apparently this effect is even worse for dyslexics, and "not-white" is specifically mentioned in: http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-dyslexia/further-informa...
> I had high hopes with our generation but looks like most of the people in early twenties are not much better.

I know a 12 years old who can't watch photos on a usb stick or a cd-rom if the windows dialog "what do you want to do ?" doesn't show up when inserting the disc or the stick on the computer. But he has mean fingers to send a gazillion sms per minute.

I know adults who seem unable to grasp the concept of resolution as they keep adding 4000x4000 pixels images in their powerpoint. And they seem to forget as soon as I tell them where the "shrink images" function is.

My outlook on this is that things haven't changed since the 90's (when I was a teen): some people want to know how computers work or make them work "better" and some just want stuff done. The first are more technologically literate (more like jack-of-all-trades) than the second but I am not convinced they are automatically better set for life as a result or that what they do with the computer is more appreciated.
Probably many on HN are still young enough that owning a house and having children isn't a high priority for them. So the Bay Area makes sense. But it's very expensive to live there. I've known many DINKs there. Not by choice, but by necessity. Two engineering incomes and yet they couldn't afford children.
Due to many requests, they have added more funding levels.
Yes I saw in the foreword/afterword in one of his recent books a credit for somebody helping him with Emacs Macros.

I was disappointed we didn't know what kind of macros they were.
Sounds like gopher http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436