skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try to mix it up now and then. I usually go for at least one "classic" a year, although I don't think I finished one last year. I started Crime and Punishment but set it aside and never finished it. Somewhere around here there is also a copy of Madame Bovary that's half read, that I need to revisit at some point.

That said, last year, my big thing - outside of "utility" books, were books on running and bike racing. I read things like Running Through The Wall, Born To Run, Slaying The Badger, Running on Empty, Racing Through The Dark, Eat & Run, The Belgian Hammer, Run!, It's Not Just About The Bike and The Secret Race. Fascinating stuff, for anyone who is interested in either running or bicycle racing.
where are you going?
supports your local populace

That's the operative thought. I'd rather support Rosaria The Housekeeper and Brent The High School Junior Front Desk Clerk helping at a hotel rather than have everything go to Overextended Hipster Douche who bought more apartment than he can afford and now rents it out to cover his high lifestyle (plus, as we've teased out, the Overlay Country of AirBnB fee/taxes go back to a single company for stays all over the world. Convert your thinking into scorn for exploitative capture, not praise for "omg amazeballs sky high rocket local social mobile viral growth!").

At least we agree sneaky daily room cleaning is bizarre and completely unnecessary.

(and this is hilarious: Why have one long and expensive trip in a year when you can have five short inexpensive ones? -- have you seen my profile?)
But money may = opportunity.
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> My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss.

Do we read this, you have an AAPL short order in tomorrow's market open?

I find no financial news on this.
It's quite difficult to retroactively unpick cause and effect though it could certainly be argued that the existence of Linux (and free UNIX in general) contributed greatly to the rise of the web.

I would still wager that more paid developer hours go towards stuff that ends up being executed on top of Linux than iOS though.
Hacking V8 Redux: 'await' in node.js
Hype builds before Elon Musk's Hyperloop
Nope they won't say a thing and they will get away with it. Oh the things apple devs have to pout upon with.

In another world HN would be up in arms about how to manage downtime, how this is u acceptable and how they are going to switch to somebody else immediately. But not for apple because they have no choice...
I actually quite strongly disagree here. A LOT of startups start of as: "how can we make something people want" and not "how can we sell people something." Look at history of all the big companies who didnt start with a business model: Google and Facebook for example. Only later when they grew did they start looking for ways to monetize. Dont get me wrong, I am not saying that there arent companies which do do this, but rather that not all are like this (including some of the very successful ones).
true, alternating IPs are useful, except when you already have agreements to do the scraping with the target site, which we do.

so what would interest me is something that made scraping easier or more robust. so far, it looks like the service still has some growing to do before it gets there.
I have a confession to make. I just spent three minutes trying to work out why http://mock.isssues.com/400 was returning bad request behind ApiAxle...
This reminds me, yesterday i got an obviously spoofed phishing email from "apple" telling me to reset my passwords and reenter my CC info. Anybody else get that?

http://imgur.com/hyta4bC
Oh, the irony.

> "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."
The OS and application would know the dpi and hence could convert pixels to pts I thought.
More people drive Toyota than BMW. More people eat at McDonalds than Five Guys. More people stay at a Holiday Inn than The Ritz Carlton. The statement is worthless as it conveys no meaning, other than a factoid, as do my statements.
This also helps me explain the full stack to my dev team.
SIM Cards Have Finally Been Hacked, and the Flaw Could Affect Millions of Phones
I don't think that's how it works; I don't think I have any special dead comment powers. Dead is dead.
Thanks! for all the information.
>a place for HN Apple devs to talk amongst each other

So, you're telling me that I need to go read his article, earn him pageviews and ad money and come back here to discuss about the issue? I think a Ask HN post would have done the job, much better, no?

Just saw your edit:

>(which no one has to read)

wut?
> The problem is most modern computing is driven by the single question: "How can I monetize this idea?" It's only hobbyists and academics that really try to improve the state of computing, rather than having a primary focus on revenue. It's unfortunate that groundbreaking ideas are usually not the moneymakers, else we'd see innovation at a quicker rate.

That is an absolute silly notion. Money is a token of value, so if you're creating value for someone, it shouldn't be too hard to get some money for it.

Examples: The Internet, while initially a public research project, did not take off until it was commercialized. Personal computers and mobile phones - completely transformational technologies, the innovations of which went hand-in-hand with making tons of money. Google and Apple both innovates like crazy and they're two of the most valuable companies on the planet because of it. Much of the best open source software projects are off-shoots of commercial ventures.
What version (OS X and Nuke) and how does it crash doing what as an example?
That is the nature of the uncanny valley, it is where the result is 'real enough' that one part of your brain classifies it as 'real' but it still has enough flaws that another part of your brain yells 'wrong'. That dissonance is uncomfortable.

Per my point about a tri-corder (a clearly fictional device) had he made his project "more clearly fictional" it would have avoided that uncanny valley. Basing it on the iPhone was not a good choice for me. A friend of mine was doing the computer graphics thing and initially all of his "models" were real actresses (he used stills from films to figure out the models) and it was hurting his portfolio because the 'goodness' of his modelling skills was being subverted by the 'wrongness' of the model (people recognized the actress and then saw things "wrong" in the models of them). I suspect that is the case here is well.
It's been pretty persuasive to this point, hence the shield laws that almost all states have put in place.
I've found that cheap hotels are usually cheaper than AirBNB if I want the whole place to myself.
Its the maximum physical rate of the mains interface, but in reality they won't achieve close to that rate unless they are welded to each other in an anechoic chamber with a noiseless sine wave supply.
Where are you based? (Your earlier post indicates that you are not in US or Europe)
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"[this] gave rise to a Wi-Fi "microwave oven interference robustness" mode that segments larger data frames into fragments each small enough to fit into the oven's "off" periods."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_interference_a...
Technically you mean opposite phase, not three-phase.

Three-phase power is rarely (never?) seen in residential settings. It's a commercial/industrial service.

Edit: s/opposite polarity/opposite phase/
> Logically money should have no direct affect on intellectual capacity

If intellectual capacity was purely genetic, this would make some sense. You can't buy better genes for yourself or your children. [1] However, intellectual capacity is demonstrably affected by a variety of environmental factors, including early nutrition, that themselves are strongly influenced by wealth, so we've got pretty good ideas of some of the mechanisms by which wealth influences intellectual capacity.

> In this case, I think the causation is in the other direction. Over time, people with less intellectual capacity will be less successful, and therefore poorer. That is rational. The other direction is irrational.

I think you are confusing "rationality" with fit to your preferred, non-evidence-based, model of the way the world should work.

[1] Well, except that wealth affects mate selection opportunities, so, even with purely genetic intellectual capacity, wealth could plausibly have some influence.
Perhaps HN attracts many gifted folks? Would that be so unexpected? The level of discourse is quite high.
Great point. I would love to see some study done around this. It's the combination of poverty and crime that leads to such disaster in most cases. It's not even a lack of community, in my experience both have very strong social ties to one another. Either way, it's a shame we still can't figure this out in America.
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Hey toutouastro, that was your idea? I saw another person doing this! That's a great idea! How is going your feedback?
Do you have a problem about use the same idea?
And ATI, and Matrox, Alias Systems, OpenText, and QNX... These may not be huge, but they did pretty well in their respective industries.
Design is far more than just visual, and your dismissal of design as "different looking buttons" suggests that you don't really understand design very well.
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Sorry, not sure to understand
I upgraded to 11ac from an early generation powerline adaptor because it wasn't reliable. It is much more reliable over the short distance, but as my house is brick/block construction I find the range at 5GHz drops off quickly. So when I am in the lounge I get 135Mbit/sec at 5GHz but outside barely a sniff of 5GHz, however the 2.4GHz still works.

My old powerline adaptors are now in service feeding my workshop with network, but I only get 40Mbps on my gigabit network. Currently contemplating fibre just because of the small size and low loss.
I wouldn't worry too much about this. Shrinking markets usually mean price wars. As PC growth stalls, today's equivalent of your father's $4000 PC now sells for under $400.
Hi all, author of PuPHPet here.

1. I don't know how to pronounce it. I usually try to say "puff-pet" and look like an idiot while doing so.

2. I started learning Vagrant/Puppet a few months ago. Puppet is powerful, but has "gotchas" that felt like I was continuously bashing my head against the wall. I didn't want other people to go through the same frustration, so I decided to add buttons. Developers love buttons!

3. Some of the goals of PuPHPet are to

a) make tools like (X|W|M)AMP obsolete,

b) show developers the benefits of VM development (especially PHP developers),

and c) provide quickstart setups for popular projects (https://puphpet.com/quickstart/symfony , https://puphpet.com/quickstart/puphpet).

Possibly even d) setup an API to allow people to POST their config requirements and get back a link to a generated zip file, without needing to use the GUI itself. I could use some help on that front: https://github.com/puphpet/puphpet/issues/100
I don't think it's anything quite so conscious as that. The majority of human actions are impulses, not calculated decisions. That's certainly true of drive-by discussion posts. :)

I think in cases like this, the urge is just to show off -- to show that they're not one of the "sheeple". The poster certainly knows that the POV they expressed is already very common on HN.

It's not even that I really disagree with the claims. But this was an interesting article, and there are so many more relevant things to discuss!
I would choose supporting Hipster over Rosaria The Housekeeper every time.

Rosaria The Housekeeper consistently votes for scary people every time who then do abominable things. I'll surely try to starve The Housekeeper demographics for cash every time I can.

Or she is an illegal immigrant whose job I do not want to help create.

Overextended Hipster Douche is my Class friend, of course I'll back him.

WRT taxes, it's job of the state to regulate and tax markets. Why don't they do that? Regulate != destroy if they wonder.

P. S. Your travel log is impressive but makes you not representative of general trends. That is, casual travel.
Typically something like a yubi key, a smartphone app, or even a code sent via SMS to a phone, or verbally to a voice phone.
Nice!

For completeness' sake, also 3xx redirects could be implemented, redirecting to http://mock.isssues.com/200 for example.
Can you give me an example of the "non-intuitive non-standard UI"?

This may well be true, but it's quite possible it's just the developer was lazy and didn't do all the effort to make it look native.

Edit: in fact, I'll give an example: VirtualBox - it does look crap on OS X, but that's because the developers obviously didn't make any effort to make it look native. They've got icons in tabs pane buttons and huge toolbar buttons along the top (which isn't a unified toolbar btw - which would make it look more native), which goes completely against the way OS X apps tend to look.
It's funny, the frown you get when you say "men's rights".
I own no stock in any company. I have a reasonably pessimistic view based solely on the way this is being handled, and the way in which their web applications behave.
Now now, don't be mad because what he says is true.
It's unbecoming.
If you really care, put your effort into making it false.
Hi everyone :)

I just released this component at v0.1.0

Feedback welcome!
The moment a journalist is compelled to reveal a source with the whole profession is over except tabloids, Fox News alikes and other works of fiction?

It is not about just journalist we need broad third party protections for information possession.

After all the whole idea is the government to not have the things too easy.
This paper [1] backs up your hypothesis. "First, crack can be smoked, which is an extremely effective means of delivering the drug psychopharmacologically. Second, because crack is composed primarily of air and baking soda, it is possible to sell in small units containing fractions of a gram of pure cocaine, opening up the market to consumers wishing to spend $10 at a time. Third, because the drug is extremely addictive and the high that comes from taking the drug is so short-lived, crack quickly generated a large following of users wishing to purchase at high rates of frequency."

This DEA History Book [2], however, suggests the reasons might be partially economic. "Soon there was a huge glut of cocaine powder in these islands which caused the price to drop by as much as 80 percent."

[1] http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/fhlm_crack_coca...
[2] http://archive.is/1wF5
If this multi-day outage was planned, and they didn't communicate it to devs (like they usually do) then this is a huge, huge slap to the face. It seems very unlikely.
Cole learned his lesson the night a Strip doorman turned him away. “But that’s Nat King Cole,” his white companion said.

“I don’t care if he’s Jesus Christ,” said the doorman. “He’s a n-----, and he stays out.”

Fifty years may seem like a long time. It will be 2063 in fifty years time.

Musk's Hyperloop could be everywhere or not depending on what kind of snags it hits along the way.[1]

Cancer could be cured, too, again depending on who you ask.[2]

However, what is always far more elusive to predict is the social realm of problems.

Unlike technological advancements, societal whims and mores are trickier and are beset by a very different set of challenges.

Will we have reached a veritable post-racial society by then?

We could only wish.

[1] http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4874.html

[2] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/personalized-medicine-vs...
I had high hopes for this and was immediately turned off by #3. I still can't believe that their are developers who believe that design is just the pretty layer on top of their functioning infrastructure. It's not.

That said, I wish there was a site that connected people with complementary skill sets around similar product ideas.
Great article. Sadly, I wish it wasn't focused on the gifted. I bet a lot of children suffer with existential depression and I also can imagine how hard it is to have to listen to the bullshit answers they will inevitably receive to their deep questions.
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If you're poor, and especially if you're poor and have the "wrong" skin color, people don't expect you to get a college degree, so people don't push you to succeed. It was always an unspoken assumption that I would graduate from college, and people around me set up my life that way.

Yes, the homicide rate is high, but I find the low college graduation rate more disturbing.

On a side note: shot, stabbed, or strangled doesn't make much difference to the homicide victim or their loved ones. Hopefully you'd have the same reaction if two of them were stabbed to death.
Electric Engine Generator
I'm looking forward this.
A good lightweight Qt DE is more than welcome.
Rosaria The Housekeeper consistently votes for scary people every time who then do abominable things.

Neither the Rosarias or Hipsters in this country vote much at all, and when they do it's for the same guy.
California employees pay state income and sales taxes. If you broke up a large company employing 10,000 Californians into 100 small companies employing 100 Californians each, not much would change.

I refer you to historical growth of California revenues http://www.dof.ca.gov/budgeting/budget_faqs/information/docu... It's boom-driven, so you get revenue shortfalls during bust years, but on the aggregate the revenues are growing - the $97 billion of revenues in 2013-2014 budget years is still higher than 5 or 10 or 15 years ago.

Perhaps if your revenue is consistently growing, and you still cannot run a balanced budget, the problem might be on the spending side?
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With regard to the word "locust" being used pejoratively, I think that's a bit off the mark. Fairly close to the top of the essay, the author says "I've used (and continue to use) these services and don't feel entirely terrible about having done so [...] Why? It's because, like most of the working class, I've developed a locust morality."

I'm not sure if this invalidates your conclusion, but hopefully shed a slightly different light on things.

Personally, I'm not greatly taken with this particular essay. My favourite essay on that site is from a few years back: "Strategy, Tactics, Operations and Doctrine: A decision language tutorial" (http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/09/24/strategy-tactics/) He makes a rather telling remark about his primary interest being in doctrine. This might explain some of his modus operandi: I suspect he devices theories and makes analogies more to see how they will turn out than because he believes them.
I don't agree, but why's this relevant here?
An Edgy iPhone 6 Concept
Being sunday has nothing to do with it - notice the title is "still down" - it's been down since thursday. If this was planned, any sane company would give notice to their developers, Apple's success implies they're sane.

Don't forget that developers get 30%, when Apple show off (rightfully so) a huge sum paid to developers, they've been paid significantly more than that - developers seriously matter.
I have a slight style critique of this announcement, and other consumer-oriented messages from tech companies: drop the word "user."

"User" sounds nerdy and impersonal. Consider addressing the affected person directly, using "you" or "your." It is at the same time friendlier and more attention-getting. I would have written:

We take information security and your privacy very seriously, and apologise for the breach and ensuing inconvenience.

At this time,

We have confirmed the attackers were able to access your email addresses and hashed passwords on the Forums site. While the passwords were not stored in plain text, good practice dictates that you should assume the passwords have been accessed and change them. If you used the same password on other services you should immediately change that password.

...etc.
I wasn't talking about USA specifically and I predict even in USA it's bound to change.
> Maybe such protection should be created, but that's a quite different question from the apparently common, but incorrect, belief that it existed (even as a de-facto practice) and has recently been abrogated

I think we should have some sort of common law press privilege, like the client-attorney privilege. The tricky part is figuring out who should be entitled to it, especially in this day and age of blogs and whatnot.
Well, considering that my comment said nothing specifically about journalists or their being a constitutional right to protect one's sources, we must have different understandings of what a fair interpretation is, and what obvious means.

What strikes me as obvious, from the content of my comment and a political theoretic standpoint is what I stated—this administration is running afoul of what we've taken for granted, and the branches are not properly balancing each other's powers to protect the Constitution and the governed.
While Silicon Valley is no doubt a unique place, it's odd to follow the quote:

"We don’t have billion dollar Internet companies with the likes of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon."

With a discussion only of Silicon Valley, given 2 of 4 are based in Seattle.
Every year at Comic-Con, Savage hits the convention floor in full costume, tweeting out hints to his fans. "Adam Incognito" is his version of Where's Waldo, and the first fan to find him wins a prize. Here are some photos of his previous outfits:

2013 Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars http://files.tested.com/photos/2013/07/19/64-50337-_v2c0074-...

2012 Ring Wraith from Lord of the Rings http://p.twimg.com/Axo2wwCCMAAuOHf.jpg:large

2011 No Face from Spirited Away http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/comic-con-2011-adam-pictures1.j...

2010 Storm Trooper from Star Wars http://media.corporate.discovery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads...

2009 Joker's henchmen from the Dark Knight http://twitpic.com/bn7pu

2008 Hellboy from Hellboy http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6v2jitxhm1rnwx2io1_1280.j...
750 million phones could be vulnerable in massive SIM security flaw
If you're thinking about doing this, make sure your 500 plug comes with a gigabit port. Some of them are only 10/100.
Do you have access to the CRT? If yes, does that still work? It hinges on the same login infrastructure as reseller.apple.com AFAIK.

I have nothing to do with Apple anymore so I can't check it myself :)
So, there is, but it's not a constitutional privilege, and not federal law.

About 40 states have what are called "shield laws", that give various forms of journalism protection.

The closest you get federally is Branzburg v. Hayes, where the reporter lost and was forced to testify. In it, the supreme court established a test for when you could force journalists to testify.

The DOJ also has self-imposed guidelines on journalist privilege that they try to follow.

People also think there is a doctor-patient privilege, but that doesn't exist federally either (yet exists in many states).
It seems to me that most points made here are caused by A) a lack of understanding of the benefits of such tools, and B) an unwillingness to adapt existing code to the new toolkits.

It seems an unfair criticism of a pre processor if you're unwilling to adapt to their usage.

For me, the ability to have mixins, sprite generation, smart media paths (eg image-url, font-url, etc, in SASS), automatic concatenation, CSS3 tools and much more is worth a small learning curve.

If its really painting you, try SCSS an just prefix existing files with that extension. Most if not all your styles should work out of the box.