skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is another use of my new location sharing app http://head2.me

You can use any string in the url as the "room" to share your location with, so the story link here links to the "hn" room. Anyone who shares their location in that room will show up on the map. I'm interested to see where HN people are :)

Your old location will be held in memory for up to 30 minutes then discarded. I'm not logging locations (but they are visible to anyone in this room!)
Instagram deleting photos uploaded from third-party Windows Phone app
CSV as a Data Source
Reminds me of

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/10

and William Gibson's 2003 book Pattern recognition that dealt with this.

This is a pretty old and known thing. Whether it's the street, bars or online forums, this has been going on for over 10 years at least.
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There was a point where Adobe had a chance to evolve flash into a platform for creating HTML sites and applications (much like coffeescript, LESS, or any other intermediate might be). It certainly would have involved open sourcing large components of the platform, which they seemed to be against.

It's a real shame, since the closed source aspect of Flash really led to a brain drain within the community. Flash for many years was the superior platform for making complex web applications, but sadly, it did not have the community and brain trust that more open standards did, like HTML and javascript did. In the long run, this led to serious stagnation with the platform.
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Ask HN: Does your company offer unlmited vacation?
I'm wondering for those of you working at companies that offer unlimited vacation days, how many do you actually take in a year? I'm seeing more companies tout unlimited vacation as a perk of working there (e.g. Listia, Automattic), but how many days can you actually take? Are there blackout days around releases? How does this work with project management (e.g. in Agile, are you excluded from a sprint)?
Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State University, does something similar. All of their trash gets burned to generate electricity for the city. Seems to work quite well for them, been doing it for probably 30 or 40 years, now.
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If you like, but it's not simply a choice between what you do (ends) or how you do it (means), it's both how and what that matter.
Right but you are justifying the terrorist
means (killing civilians randomly) based on their ends (inducing political chance).
Astroturfing via StackOverflow has to be the most pathetic possible form of unethical marketing.
I agree, there are so many responses in this thread that make me feel like the blog post didn't adequately convey that the vodka was being given away—and not being resold by anyone at any point. It was a gift to event hosts who were throwing private events.
i think the fact that they're using it in a commercial manner, even if they're not strictly selling it, would at least raise some eyebrows at the ATF.

imagine if someone dies from the vodka. who's liable for it?
Looks like a great start. Any plans to do comments?
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> am I just falling victim to fear mongering? Do I "lack perspective?"

Yes.
A step in the right direction. I'd still like them to add separate log ins for shared accounts. I'd really like to not worry about what my kids have access to via the family account... and I don't really want to pay for a separate account for the kids.
Irrelevant tangent:

ActionScript 2 was a lot more like Javascript than ActionScript 3 is.
Can I sell cans of Redbull for $20 and give "Vineger" for free as a bonus sampler?
That's sounds like a very quick and easy fix. You would need to include a random string of random length in the responce before compression. If it wasn't random the 'padding' itself would just get compressed.

On a html page this could just be an automatically inserted comment after the /body tag. Although there may be attack against it if it is in a predictable location in the compressed output. Maybe it should be inserted somewhere random in the html?
I love Warren Buffet read his biography "the snowball effecet" and Charlie Munger as well. They win, but they also disqualify their ideas or theories as fast as possible and have arguably had the most experience as well trading stocks, Warren started at 13 and I'm sure he lost a lot of money. Warren was also mentored by the greatest at the time Ben Graham. I'm not saying you're wrong I'm saying he has a combination, also Warren arguably falls outside of this argument so do theoretical mathematicians and astrophysicists. I'm talking about building a product first then getting feedback.
What makes a movie quote memorable
Not quite. The Wikipedia article shows the difference between U+0660 .. U+0669 (Arabic-Indic digits) on the top row and U+06F0 .. U+06F9 (Eastern Arabic-Indic digits) on the bottom row.

But what I'm talking about are the different glyphs used to represent the bottom row (U+06F0 .. U+06F9) depending on whether the text is in Persian, Sindhi, or Urdu. See
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch08.pdf, table 8-2.

There is also the issue I mentioned about Chinese vs. Japanese glyphs for the same coded character, which is at least as important in practice.
Article also mentions about identifying the camera by analyzing the produced image:

From underlying imperfections in the lens, which are detectable in the image, the source camera can be identified

Is this really possible or he was just giving an example to explain how the phone tracking method works?
constant, evidence-based accusations of widespread electoral fraud

There are conflicting views on that.

Accusations of fraud are mostly aboutRussian parliament elections of 2011. Pro-Putin party was accused of fraud in many districts, which I personally think is correct. (But, strangely enough, Israeli foreign minister, has found those elections fair and democratic... http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lieberman-russ...)

On the other hand, most definetely Putin did not need any fraud to help him win presidential elections in 2012. He had an overwhelming support among common Russians. Forecasts by anti-Putin polling organisation Levada Centre promised him 63% of the vote (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_election,_...), and he indeed got 63.5%. His closest competitor (a communist) got 17%.

To win elections fraudulently, Putin had to doctor close to half of the bulletins, which seems unlikely, given worldwide scrutiny of the election, and his own efforts to dispel doubts such as installing live webcams at every polling station etc.

Tl;dr Putin won because he is popular, not because of the fraud.
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My colleagues and I often lament how gcc is just so much smarter than all of us. Usually after spending a day figuring out why our code wasn't working, only to discover that gcc was doing something "clever".
The exact path to survival is hers, but to save any company you MUST change things. Did Jobs change Apple when he came back? Of course!
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Samsung _advertise_ a lot. That doesn't mean you'd expect them to astroturf; it's an illicit practice in many countries.
Exactly! :) that was the whole point of the article...did it sound like I was telling people to shut up?...perhaps.
The system that prints our shipment labels stripped "var" from customer and street names. Sorry Halvar, you're now known as Hal. Customer names wheren't so bad, the mail service got the right people anyway, but reducing streetnames like "Vardegade" to "degade" is a bit more troublesome.

They never told me what the bug was, only that they fixed it. I have some idea though.
It wasn't being given away. It was being bartered/traded.

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Almost the speed of native.

As secure as possible.

As portable as possible.

It's definitely an interesting feature set. I personally hope ASM.JS is able to "catch up" to NaCl, but if it doesn't, then I hope PNaCl becomes widely available.
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A: I don't know and neither does Business Week
But the venues receiving the vodka are most definitely selling it, proven by the fact that it ended up included in bottle service.

If it was a donation to an individual, you could get away with ignoring the rules, but they're giving vodka away to businesses, knowing that the business likely intends on selling it.
You are a unique snowflake! Finally, an app that lets you take a photo of yourself and upload it to social networks!
The people I'm talking about sold start ups for millions before. I also make a point to Mark Cuban who reads 3 hours a day and executes 8 hours. That is perhaps the best way to balance it. Gary Vaynerchuk on the other hand hates reading, he still grew a 50 million dollar business and still pushing forward. Bottom line is Action > Theory.
What do you mean by common.js implementation? The only thing I know of that survived the common.js movement was that node.js adopted it's module file format. That format requires either sync I/O, XHR loading and wrapping or a build-step or build-server to use in the browser. There are libraries out there that try to solve the module problem in the browser, but there are certainly no clear winners and nothing that doesn't have serious limitations or drawbacks in one way or another.

Also as I mentioned and you quoted, I found a great way to load common.js modules in chrome apps that nobody had done before, but it only really works in that unique environment.

But modules are just the tip of the iceberg. I need a way to handle I/O actions, streams, TCP, fs, db, etc. All these interactions and APIs need to work cross-platform in a variety of different runtimes. I can't even start implementing git clone over a TCP socket till I have a TCP socket API to program against.

But like I said in the bountysource, most of that is all now solved more or less. I have a much better understanding of what needs to be done and I am starting out this phase knowing how git works internally down to even the huffman encoding bits inside the deflate inside the objects inside the packfile stream inside the git clone stream.

I also have more time this round and less conferences that I have committed to speak at or visit. (I think I only have two more trips the rest of the year actually)
Hey, I'm getting a HTTP 500 error if I click on "New Project" link (logged in), as you can see here : http://i.imgur.com/Nx17N7p.png
FatFractal Makes File Upload Easy
Very true. Adobe was betting hard on the idea that they could sell AS3 like syntax as the new ECMA standard.
The amount of knee-jerking on this thread is why we can't have nice things.
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This is awesome. I wonder if they will publish stats and ideally stories about "saves" they make. I guess they would need wide adoption to cause "herd immunity" for non user elderly though.
No mention of pcc[1] except note that it was orphaned in the early 90s. I see here[2] it's been removed from OpenBSDs base system. What happened to pcc? I had high hopes for it. Is there no chance it'd become a viable compiler? (fwiw, it's still included in NetBSD base system).

[1] http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/

[2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/196817
Getting approval to partner with a company for marketing purposes is completely different to legal issues that there may or may not be relating to the labeling of drink bottles.
How would you stack this against the Guardian article that was quoted further down the page?

A spokesman for the FBI told to the Guardian on Thursday that its investigators were not involved in the visit, but that "she was visited by Nassau County police department … They were working in conjunction with Suffolk County police department."
The g++ 4.7 and or libstc++ that goes with it from their pkg-add repo is b0rked at the moment. Exceptions don't work.
This is astroturfing; that is, a form of marketing where the advertisement is disguised as natural behaviour. Most countries have laws to limit or ban it. It's not normally considered legitimate marketing.

Samsung was recently fined by Taiwanese authorities for an astroturfing campaign there, though, so it's not like it's new.
I read it as them seeking approval for a sponsorship or promotion of sorts. (" . . . and two, if we used a company’s name to promote ourselves without permission, we could get sued.")

I take that to mean they're talking about the turn-around of the marketing department; not the nuances of alcohol labeling and bottling.
I love the tongue-in-cheek press release.
Better article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/europe/oslo-copes-wi...
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100% agree. When I've worked side-by-side with devs originally from India, I have not noticed a difference in skill level from others.

However, when the larger company I worked at outsourced development to India to cut cost, the code quality we saw coming back was terrible. My impression though was that this was due to a combination of factors, including project management, lack of clear requirements definitions, language barriers, and then finally software development.

You get what you pay for.
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Based on history it would be defined by corruption and the whims of who are awarded stewardship.
I think there is an unspoken opposite rule here. If you can't "be on" for one reason or another, don't position yourself in front of your primary audience. I know I personally did myself and my "brand" a great disservice by continuing to put myself directly in front of huge numbers of people while grinding my way through a slow-moving mental breakdown.

I've tried hard to make up for that time, but I know there are some people I'll never win back because their most visceral experience of me was uncomfortable and negative.
The API is here:

{path:"/"}

{path:"/news"}

{path:"/news2"}

{path:"/newest"}

{path:"/newcomments"}

{path:"/ask"}

{path:"/x", uri: (req) -> "/x?fnid=#{req.query.fnid}" }

{path:"/user", uri: (req) -> "/user?id=#{req.query.id}" }

{path:"/item", uri: (req) -> "/item?id=#{req.query.id}"}

{path:"/submitted", uri: (req) -> "/submitted?id=#
{req.query.id}"}

{path:"/threads", uri: (req) -> "/threads?id=#{req.query.id}"}

not everything is implemented. Its mostly readonly view of the resources.

Code is here:

https://github.com/blackjable/hackednews
I'm pretty sure they mean marketing approval, not regulatory approval. Parse before you preach.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukusa
The FBI confirmed the officers who paid a visit were county police, not FBI agents: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police...

Which makes me wonder, how do county police get access to a reporter's search history?
So in order to avoid losing a hypothetical future trade war, we'll bankrupt ourselves with military spending, kill a couple million people, lose our civil liberties, and create 1000x more new enemies. Sounds logical!
The Robert Sachs who commented wouldn't be the "Robert R Sachs" of Fenwick & West LLP whose job is establishing lists of patents for large companies, I suppose?

Read his comment for some entertainingly wrong-headed views on how software (and, indeed, thought itself) works.
The proposition is not to remove the framework, but to de-monopolize it. We currently have a government framework of law, but nothing (except people not realizing it's even possible) prevents us from having multiple frameworks, each operating on its own client base (even when those clients physically live on the same territory) and negotiating with each other when disputes between clients of two different agencies arise.

The major difference in this situation would be that clients of such firms would voluntarily pay money to be protected by them. If they don't want protection or don't like specific laws, they stop paying or switch. The monopoly we have now extracts money from taxpayers at gunpoint and provides a rather crappy service.
I actually have a keychain just like this, I was always surprised it never caught on as much as it could have because they're extremely useful.

http://keychainarchives.com/image/56257326138

EDIT: This keychain is also very old, 70s to early 80s
Except those sites are driven by votes and comments float to the top via lots of anonymous voting. Which is both a boon and a bane. It helps drown out the crap but also helps to promote idiotic groupthink and censor dissent.
Good point. At the end of the day the people who build piles of shit may realize to re-iterate their product and stop building shit, but the people that never build shit in the first place don't get shit. ;)
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She has a Forbes "site", which is not exactly the same thing as being a writer "for Forbes". She's really a blogger, not an editor or staff member at Forbes per se.
The type/error detection would be really cool paired with something like DataWrangler: http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/
I think it's OK.

There's already a ton of businesses who sell custom wine labels for you to use to relabel your own wine. The main customers of these companies are businesses who use them as gifts to their customers, as a form of marketing/advertising.