skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you made use of their property without their permission and without compensation

Actually, they gave me a key and they automatically charge me $46/mo. Did you miss that part?

> repeated trespassing

Except that I have a key that they gave me and they haven't attempted to stop me from entering the premises.

Geez, at least read what I wrote before criticizing me.
Very nice article. This is easily the biggest problem I have with CoffeeScript.
That's just not the case though.

They were intended for pain - the "experiment" was an afterthought "hey! we are already torturing them, lets get some data out of it too".
Not updating an extremely simple app with Retina support (which they've had at least three years to implement since the iPhone 4's release) would seem to indicate that it's not under any active development.
This is the best I could find: https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/355358776280363008
I'm glad to see that gnuplot has come a long way since the last time I tried to create publication quality plots with it and ran away in horror to fall in the arms of the usual commercial suspects. But these days, python based solutions have more appeal, I like matplotlib a lot.
It seems some of the higher quality scans can be found here on archive.org: http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-rescans
Do you just let everyone walk all over you? How's that working out?

To hell with that -- they'd happily screw me out of three months of rent, why should I feel bad for managing to not let them do that?
Thank you for posting this. I'm not using it for anything critical but this would have been very annoying.
I hate to break it to you Brandon, but you're wrong. He never signed the contract requiring 90 days notice. In fact, he didn't sign any contract, so only the most minimal terms are part of the de facto contract that exists between the OP and the storage facility. Generally, that means the right to store stuff for a month, renewed each month at the option of the renter. This is basic contract law in America, especially as it applies between businesses and consumers.

Also--what you've suggested regarding collections is illegal. Ultimately, the storage facility would end up paying the OP significant damages and legal fees--after paying to clean up any economic harm they cause to his credit, and any economic harm he suffered as a result of such credit score damage.
Quick aside, "Passive Income Hacker" is a great turn of phrase, something that could maybe have a brand built around it. Apparently someone else agreed, the .com was snatched up sometime in the last two hours.
I'm not sure what you mean by the compiler fully having your back, but it is fairly helpful. It does type inference, which means you don't have to explicitly type everything to get type checking help. You can do as little or as much type checking as you would like. Regular unadorned JavaScript code is TypeScript code and will compile. The compiler will tell you when not all code paths return a value, when the wrong type is passed to a function, when a return value is the wrong type, etc... It keeps track of the symbols in the source making refactoring work as you would expect. I really can't think of any downside since it's just JavaScript.
It's also worth mentioning that surveillance is not news for poor and minority communities. Incursions on privacy justified by the "war on drugs" have been going on for decades in neighborhoods on the other side of the digital divide.
CoffeeScript and Javascript aren't your only options. I quite like CoffeeScript on the whole, but I'm still planning to look into using LiveScript or GorillaScript for the next substantial JS-based project I work on, since they both capture what I like about CS while appearing to fix some of the issues.
Do you think these practices are that effective? One of scythe's points is that the ESKAPE bacteria are ubiquitous, in people and the environment.

Sure, taking an antibiotic deranges your microbiome, but doesn't it seem to most of the time readjust?

My specific point is exactly what observed phenomena are you claiming this explains? Until you have that, or a solid, specific hypothesis leading to bad specific things, I suspect the rest of us will continue to use antibiotics when we get otherwise likely lethal infections. I brought up "microorganism-involved disease" because I'm not aware of any significant changes in how they work, play out in the human population, etc., besides the obvious.
Uh...no. He agreed to pay $X a month to storage goods at the facility. He never agreed to the rest of the terms, which he would have indicated by signing the contract. The business indicated assent by not requiring him to sign the contract to receive his storage unit. Thus, under the basic principles of U.S. contract law...a very basic contract exists, and none of the extra stuff in the written document is part of it.
> you made use of their property without their permission and without compensation

He did pay them for he service, he just didn't agree to the terms and conditions pertaining to 90 days notice.

It probably wouldn't hold in court under grounds that once he became aware of the 90 day notice requirement and yet continued to pay for service he had implicitly agreed.
So I checked a dozen or so local charities I know of, some with reputations I don't know and some with, not a single one I checked was on the site. It appears to be absolutely useless and totally doesn't help at all with what I was talking about.
Note: someone claiming to be the developer of this project left a comment on this thread, but has a new account apparently spam: his comment is dead. (Always browse with showdead turned on.)
>Thats the thing about democracies. Sometime they sacrifice efficiency in their operations for their values.

But not to the point of stupidity. As justice Jackson said, the constitution isn't a suicide pact.
Nothing is going to change. It's only going to get worse. The best thing you can do in the meantime is assert your second amendment rights and buy a firearm. If it's your first, I recommend a rifle. Learn to shoot it and make sure it's kept away from at-risk people. Please realize that there's a reason why Dianne Feinstein, chairman U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who's known about these programs for years, doesn't want you to have any guns.

People don't care about being spied on because they still have their bread and circuses. Take those away and I bet you'd see people in the streets in no time. Government is subsidizing corporations who pay their employees nothing via things like food stamps. Take away the food stamps and a lot of people won't be able to buy food. Do you think that they're going to go hungry? Hell no. They will start rioting in the streets. Looting from stores. This is what we need. Sure it will suck in the short term, but if you want actual change then people are going to have to suffer to some degree.
Ask HN: Is there a US based provider with prices like OVH?
I've fallen in love with OVH's 32GB RAM 2x120GN SSD dedicated server for $90/mo. However, I'd prefer a US based host that doesn't have a managerv3 and v5 with different functions everywhere.

I'm talking about the SP3, for those that are interested.
> Comparatively speaking Samsung is kind of a joke and when a new paradigm comes along

I don't think you can really say this. They throw a lot of stuff against the wall that is original, and some of it does stick. The Galaxy Note was ridiculed by everybody but turned out to be a hit. The large size and stylus turn out to be a big selling features to people you wouldn't expect (eg: small women seem to love galaxy notes - because they were never able to fit a phone in their pocket in the first place, and many are used to carrying around a paper diary that is almost the same size anyway). They certainly copy a lot of stuff from Apple (and others) where they think that's the right path, but it's unfair to say they add nothing new.

> I'm an Apple shareholder, and I am not worried about Samsung

I'd go so far as to say that your kind of viewpoint might well be dominant inside Apple itself, and the "blind spot" it creates might be a major reason why Apple has struggled to compete against Samsung.
I don't personally object to individual surveillance; there's nothing fundamentally wrong with getting a warrant and watching an individual with the reasonable suspicion of them committing a crime. Sometimes that process is abused, and that does concern me, but as you suggested there's little to do about that other than push for oversight.

I do, however, object to mass surveillance of all traffic, with the goal of either retroactively looking at the records or putting together patterns.

And I'd like to see both legal and technical solutions to that problem. Legal, in that I'd like to see enough pushback to demonstrate widespread belief in the fundamental wrongness of mass surveillance, and technical, in the form of systems to enforce the inability to tap communications at any point other than the two endpoints. I'd like to see our networks and communication protocols designed to make it impossible to spy on traffic between two parties without either the consent and cooperation of one party or an ongoing security breach of the physical systems of one party. That would result in a world in which you can't cast a broad net, but instead can only do targeted surveillance of specific individuals.
Thanks very much! Now I feel I have even more questions…

If the story happens in the far future of year 13291, as mentioned by the link above, I'd assume the people would understand the geography of their surroundings pretty well, no? Well, unless this is a post-apocalyptic fiction…

Also, at the beginning of the comic there is a quite lengthy depiction of the two main characters building sand castles, which appear at the end of comic. What does it imply?
Who Are We at War With? That’s Classified
For all the cases I have checked the type checker is extremely impressive. I have even checked whether types flow through promises! and with underscore.js and it has not failed me yet, it is extremely robust.

But aside from that, the most useful feature of typescript to me has been the productivity gains, just checkout:
http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/
You can now have an IDE that provides useful information about clases/objects/etc. (imagine if javascript actually had proper codecompletion and intellisense)
That sounds about right. There is no mention of the word Android on the page that I could find.
Likewise. My Nexus 4 and iPhone 5 are pretty much indistinguishable in terms of UI responsiveness. Samsung devices are notorious for lag, even with the ridiculously powerful hardware in the S4.

As happy as I am to see Android thriving I'd prefer to see somebody other than Samsung on top.
lol - no kidding
Same here. Even the tiniest of hits puts me in panic attack mode, but other things sit wonderfully with me. The last time I smoked, years ago, I was that guy and totally had to be knocked out with tranquilizers. Very bad experience, but so it goes.
Would marching in peace marches in the 60s count as being politically active? I consider myself to be politically engaged, thank you very much.

I'm well aware of the limitations and powers of government and recognize that in many ways it doesn't matter who is in office, but in many ways it does. As much as Mr. Obama has been a disappointment (and that's without buying into the "hope" b.s.), I know that President Palin's administration would be significantly worse.

By the way, GWB does deserve special attention due to the fact that he was one of the worst presidents the U.S. has ever had.
The system is designed correctly. It's just not designed for you or me. It's designed for the people at the top. Education will always suck in this country because it's supposed to suck. Mandatory schooling is a relatively new idea that was funded by wealthy industrialist who wanted obedient workers. They don't want people smart enough to realize how badly they're getting fucked over.
Because you're better than that.
Guidestar is best for that but sadly the reports are very expensive these days.
I'd go so far as to say that your kind of viewpoint might well be dominant inside Apple itself, and the "blind spot" it creates might be a major reason why Apple has struggled to compete against Samsung.

Bingo. Samsung doesn't have the same kind of refined, surgical design discipline that Apple does but that doesn't mean that they're incapable of coming up with interesting new features. They just arrive at them in a different way.

Honestly after using iOS 7 for a while I'm worried that Apple has seriously lost its way. There are so many instances of simplistic design ideology trumping usability in iOS 7 I'm not even sure where to start listing them. iOS < 7 was visually cheesy in some respects but it was extremely polished and usable.
The things that you mentioned, though perhaps relevant to the goal of the service, are outrageous from a usability standpoint. I really abhor the tendency for sites to gamify their services or erect gimmicks that impede my ability to interact with their content. I would immediately leave any site that employs the tactics you mentioned.

My time is too valuable for that kind of absurd bullshit.
I've found pharmacists to be perfectly knowledgeable at large chain stores.

Like Berlin, they also seem to be a pretty underutilized resource.
Just follow the money. There are plenty of research dollars for cures for diseases that afflict rich people. Just claim that you're targeting cancer in some way and cash the checks.

(At least that's the way it was when I was still in the field.)
I would gladly get rid of my wallet entirely just for the sake of not having to carry it around but there are other barriers besides an added benefits argument. For me, not having to lug a wallet around is benefit enough IF digital versions of my cards were available in my phone and it was accepted everywhere but this is not the case.

In addition, to fully replace my wallet, things like my debit, Driver License, and anything else I deem necessary needs to be digitized too (to truly replace my physical wallet). Arguably the Driver License might be the hardest piece.
What's less usable? I was suspicious initially but after using it for weeks usability seems about the same, if not a bit improved. It does need a lot of polish, and some of the built in apps are uglier, like clock and notes.
They've painted themselves a bit into a corner on this one because there are a lot of apps in the app store now that make very specific assumptions about the behavior of the stock keyboard that would break if they started allowing third party keyboards.

It's a pity too because the primitive stock keyboard is easily my #1 frustration as an iOS device user. Once you've gotten used to something like SwiftKey or Swype on Android it's hard not to get angry at Apple when you're forced to go back to their 2007 keyboard. How is this putting the user first?
Standard commission for residential real-estate is in the 6 percent ballpark, but it's negotiable. It's also split between buyer's agent and listing agent, unless the listing agent brings the buyer (which may be considered a conflict of interest in some areas, but I'm not sure how it gets worked out).

Sometimes a FSBO seller will offer to pay a buyer's agent 2.5% or so, unless they don't want to work with agents at all.

It's a waste of money IMHO, but some people like to have an agent involved. I've had far better luck selling property on my own than using agents though.
When some NFC technology as in the latest Visa cards [1] will be integrated in phones, then it would be widely use.
Especially if the NFC payment works even when the phone battery is empty.

[1] http://nfctimes.com/news/visa-europe-contactless-transaction...
I had stopped in to catch up on Time occasionally, and it always seemed neat but pretty low-key. But wow, near the end it got progressively more interesting and fast-paced, and I was really caught up in the finale. Well done and my thanks, Randall Munroe!
Is there a particular use case that an existing license does not cover? Why yet another license?
The last few frames just show the water level rising slightly. I think it's just a cheeky way of ending the story.. "but the water is still rising.. so this isn't the end for them".
3/3 coworkers, all but one of my gamer friends that have tried Windows 8 (~10). I gave Windows 8 a shot for about 2 months before going back myself.

The stats speak for themselves from MSFT's Windows 8 numbers, for the most part people aren't buying Windows 8 except for new PCs which is a forced purchase.
I don't want to subsidize other people's consumption of content.

I want to pay for what I use; everyone else can do the same.
FEZ II Cancelled
This should win every level (given enough tries):

def play_turn(warrior)
m = warrior.methods.grep(/.!$/).sample
warrior.send(m, *([nil, :backward].sample if m != :rest!))
end

(that sucker of :rest! that doesn't accept a direction argument!)

It's kind of amusing to see the warrior do random stuff like shooting arrows backwards and pivoting back in the worst possible moments. Too bad that Run button repeats the same movements if you didn't edit the source code somehow.

Great game and concept BTW!
snowden is not the story. it has remained obvious to me that the NSA or whatever organization (rusian, chinese, or whatever) does not need some sort of dinosaur spygame facility to access this data.

all they need is just one underpaid programmer without a soul working at facebook to compromise the whole database.

wouldn't it be much easier in a case such as this one, for verizon to just have some retard patsy create that backdoor? I would imagine this to be a get out of jail free card for those guys really pulling the strings. all you gatta do is drop all the blame on some naive techie and let him go down in flames.

IMO, the next up in this chess game, is a traitor techie willing to compromise a whole nation to pay his bills.
When I wrote HFT bots for trading futures contracts a while back, I used Trading Technologies.

Their systems power something like 80% of all electronic futures orders and they have by far the best overall system I've ever tested. This includes the entire stack from networking to low level code.

It's windows only (.net) but incredibly powerful. Starting prices when I was using it was about 1500-2000 per month so it's not really designed for people wanting to dabble, but they have the lowest latency I've ever seen in both pricing data and order routing so if you're serious about trading futures there really isn't any alternative.
why tell them you play in the interview?
"So when your chief information officer proposes to use the Amazon or Google cloud as a data-store for your company's confidential documents, tell him where to file the proposal. In the shredder."

This advertisement paid for by your friendly, co-located, on-premise, enterprise hardware vendors.
Remember that the government has PR people too. Everything is going to be presented in the best possible light. The "think of the children" case is the one they're willing to release details on - why do you think that is?

Perhaps they chose "late 2006" because earlier in 2006 there were many more, or more egregious cases.

"National security cases" is also a nice vague catchall that could encompass everything from Occupy to a single person crossing the border illegally.
Don't Blame Yourself, It's Not You, It's the Summer
Obama Says Income Gap Is Fraying U.S. Social Fabric
The general form of this is such an urban legend that there's even a Snopes page:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/charities.asp
Since when have we ever had no copyright? I don't believe that a system whose primary purpose is to give certain people the "right" to attack others with litigation will ever succeed in fueling innovation. The only thing copyright does is pit people against each other.

It seems to me that the entire system needs to be removed and replaced with another system with the primary goal of giving authors more control over how they get credit for their works.
>I thought my writing was on the 'ok' end of decent, but they gave me some really valuable insights.

Do you think there was any other way to get this information?

At all?
The sandbox probably always initializes with the same random seed.
It means that it's, well, starred. I assume it's like a favorite. The button to star / unstar a repo is in the the top right hand corner of a repo's page. https://github.com/georgebonnr/learn_the_ruby
Anyone read the barcode yet?
A good way to test that would be to insert NOP's of the right length in place of the MOV to see if its an alignment or predictor line sharing issue.
If anything, I think this should be a wakeup call for those of us who have the capability to change things. I'm not talking about lobbying or raising attention to the issue, but the technical challenges of designing a network that is immune to all forms of surveillance. Let's treat this as an issue of computer science, not politics.

Now I'm not claiming that this will be easy (and it may not even be possible), but this whole episode has made me seriously reconsider my long-term career direction in terms of the type of research I want to be doing. Pioneers like Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn created the "Internet 1" so to speak, and everything since then has been building on that. There's been plenty of projects that have worked towards getting around these surveillance measures (Tor for example), and I think we need more things like this.

We need to fundamentally rethink the design of the Internet, because the current design is broken. Just like TCP/IP provides the infrastructure to abstract over different networking technologies and physical links (and the failure/slowness of individual links), we need something that abstracts over the basic, unencrypted (or encrypted but subject to centralised sabotage, like SSL) communication layer. Something that third parties can't intercept, at least not with anything like the ease with which they do today. It never ceases to amaze me, for example, that email is still unencrypted by default, and we don't have public-key cryptography built in to every mail client and turned on by default.

Most importantly, we need more distribution, and to stop relying on centralised service providers, who are necessarily subject to the laws of the country in which they operate (see: recent articles discussing impacts of the issue on US cloud firms operating in foreign markets). Facebook should be a protocol, not a service. Twitter should be a protocol, not a service. And so forth. This of course completely upends the business model these technologies are based on, and would need to be approached by people with a completely different perspective.

I certainly don't have the answers to these questions. But it's made me curious and it's something I'll be giving a great deal of thought to in the coming years.

As Albert Einstein once said: "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them".
Agreement to hire, yes. But agreement to anything which might be in the contract not necessarily. This is beyond my legal knowledge.
For his sake I hope not. If he did he could end up in prison if this was brought to trial (if a first tim eoffender he would probably just get a fine). Forging signatures is really bad, never do it.
Now, where's the UnixWorld archive?
By type inference I mean the compiler has your back ;-)

If IDE support is getting to the point where you can hover-view/click-through to type, then that is really quite impressive.

Will be awhile before that gets to MonoDevelop, however (Linux workstation here).

For me the ideal would be a terse syntax a la coffeescript, but with static type checking.

I wonder what compile times are like for large-ish TypeScript projects? Imagine it's fairly quick, but even simple static type checking will bring some overhead.
And google's traceur compiler allows you to use all of ES6 now without coffeescript too.

https://code.google.com/p/traceur-compiler/