skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't widely used here in the USA, in my experience and outside of people who are big fans of ML and derivatives, or those who had some OCaml exposure in college courses, most programmers here seem to be largely unaware of it.

I'm aware of it primarily through my exposure to Nicolas Cannasse's Haxe language, the compiler for which is written in OCaml.
The Long Journey - Boulet
I agree with you that article is FUD and has many facts wrong. However, the last thing you wrote about Android 4.2 is not that important as Android 4.2 holds only 6% of the market:

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Wait so this captures HTTP request "metadata" - is that everything but the body of the request?

But it also sounds like more. They're talking about Facebook correspondence names, email address "to"s and "froms" - stuff you can't get out of HTTP "metadata" but have to analyze the content body and extract. So if they're analyzing content, isn't that a line they're crossing into content?

And how are "Internet search terms" metadata? I guess if it's part of the URL as query parameters it's metadata?
Bayesian statistics made (as) simple (as possible)
On my pre-paid plan they assured me that tethering is absolutely fine. They give you 5GB and you use it how you like. I had a long discussion with a well-versed rep at a store on this issue and they were very forthcoming with it. You can go through 5GB pretty quickly on tethering and you end up on 2G speeds the rest of the month either way it doesn't matter to them.
How much do you tether? And to what sort of devices?

The problem I have with T-Mobile is their customer service reps are so poorly trained.

So depending on who I speak with, I am told I either need to pay the $15 for tethering or not. I pay it as I am a bit afraid to drop it never to have it return.

So can you tell me more about how you much you tether, and how often? Or if T-Mobile has ever given you anything official about your tethering being okay?
Co-founder of Wordpress would rewrite it today in Go
Quote from 20 years in the future:
"Many people were very successful in the '10s... It was way too easy, not necessarily an indication of talent or strong leadership."
I would agree it's very hackey and probably not a good idea since the spec is liable to change. But I wouldn't be sad if the spec were changed to allow for this, or to allow for comments.
I believe those are 5 watts. That is the kind I've gotten with my eink kindles but my, kindle fire came with a different charger that I believe is 10 watts. I don't have any of them on my at the moment to check though.
just a heads up, contact details aren't in your profile ;)
Core.async will result in a crop of new and very interesting libraries for Clojure and ClojureScript, specially for non-trivial server and client-side applications. I know a few I want to rewrite already!

Although macros are considered evil (well, evil's cousin), the fact that this library can be written justifies the presence of macros in a language. If you're not into macros, this article should change your mind.

Caveat emptor: using core.async currently results in even less useful exception traces.
And that's exactly opposite of how people in Europe think.

So here we go, it's a perfect example of rationalization - how humans can find any amount of reasons why their arbitrary choice is the natural one.
In addition to being candid, it also never ceases to amaze me how normal he comes off, despite being John Carmack! I love the bit about how funding this company has always been a negotiation with his wife.
It always amazes me to see how much people don't realise that we are unlike any other society that has existed on this planet before us. Globally connected and scientifically advanced in the most important ways makes the past a terrible prediction of the future. Exciting times.
Absolutely. It's one of the hardest parts of all of this - translating physical space expectations to the Internet.

Congress should draft up some kind of "rules of engagement" for the Internet, explicitly setting expectations. We know we're going to get searched at the airport, but we have no clue what the US government is going to do to us when we're online. That would be friggin' helpful to know.
Thanks, Matthew!

I put it on hold to complete a side project, aggrenda.com - the Pinterest of calendar events.

Then I got married in May, moved, and was accepted into a local startup accelerator with a StartupWeekend project, spacefinity.com.

I do intend to continue after things slow down again =)
Perhaps not the healthiest advice if you don't have any addictions already but: One of the things I do is to blackmail myself with my addictions/vices when I want to do something that I don't really want to do. Have the reward present on my desk and just DON'T touch it until whatever I want is done.

If you break it down to pair short bursts of intense rewards, preferably something with a chemical component, for the completion of small short-term objective, (I think my shortest is about three minutes; reward for finding bugs in horrible code,) that approach seems to work reasonably well. (At least, provided your initial urge to start the action is sufficient.) You only have to deny yourself the reward for a short while.

I find I can increase the initial urge to do the activity by writing stuff down to do at the start of the day. I find it has more of an impact if I write it down at the very start of the day rather than planning stuff out weeks in advance.

It can also work with time-limited goals. Like I'm going to spend X minutes doing Y before a reward.

This approach does not seem to work well if using media and activities to reward yourself rather than some physical pay-off.
I'm curious, what behaviors (for good or bad) do you see that people of Microsoft bring to other companies?
Bear with me while I ask a dumb question. Why pay $70M to acquire a startup just for their engineering and technical talent? What's the going rate for a really good engineer nowadays, $150K? Why not just offer $180K? That difference adds up to a lot less than $70M.
LinkedIn rejects engineering ads with female images, bans account
From the text I'm pretty sure that the author does not understand how "SMS shortcodes" are assigned. Thus, he cannot explain it to others properly.

If malware is installed on your phone, you do not get to see the code (unless you have Android 4.2, which is only about 6% of the phones).

The point is not to install the apps. from unknown sources, even if they look like a well known application.
>>maybe they should release some more of their ecosystem to make it viable for more startups to use .NET. Someone small using some free compilers/libraries and MySQL may eventually be a prospect to buy VS and SQL Server

And there's the thing right there - I don't think Microsoft really cares much about startups - after all, the success rate is fairly low for startups and it probably doesn't seem worth it to them to "invest" in businesses that are, more often than not, going to fail. Putting their marketing budget behind large corporations and governments is far more lucrative for them.
Type Providers in C++
There is an even better choice. Take the job (and money) but hack the system so it no longer works (but still appears to).
Alcohol sale to consumers is 100% run by the government with strict guidelines and pricing controls and with no sign of privatization in sight. However each store has a certain amount of autonomy as to what they carry.

Alcohol distribution to the stores however is largely privatized. So anybody is free to set up a company that imports and distributes alcoholic beverages. But they can only sell to bars, restaurants or the government run alcohol stores.
I don't think Randall does xkcd out of pure altruism. I also don't think he does it just for fun (although I believe that's how he started). I think it's a mixture between the two.

If the comics were exactly the same, I'd probably still enjoy them just as much, no matter the reason Randall does them. I feel that we'd be able to tell by the quality of the work and the dedication that he puts into them if his reasons for doing it were different.
I would recommend two websites, econsultancy.com and moz.com. They both had a tonne of resources and you can get up to speed pretty quickly with marketing if you apply yourself.
You think people actually cared about Rockmelt, the "social web browser"?
At least in ECMA-262 5, Ch. 15.12.2, there is a NOTE: "In the case where there are duplicate name Strings within an object, lexically preceding values for the same key shall be overwritten."

It still does not feel right.
I sent them a proposal to change that. :-)
Who put containers in my Vagrant!?
> devices with Google Play Services installed (most of them)

not in Russia (see the other comment sub-thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6149405).
I think one of us is misunderstanding the other's position.
Also AS3 has strong static typing, a huge advantage, as we've just heard once again yesterday:

[...] the value of types is super super important. [...] Everything that is syntacticly legal, that the compiler will accept, will eventually wind up in your code base and that's why I think that static typing is so valuable because it cuts down on what can kinda make it pass down there. I'm only getting stronger in my stands on static typing, static analysis.[...] - John Carmack, qcon keynote 2013
Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer
What amazed me about that: Within 9 months, your profit drops below $1k/m. Barely three more months later and you're down to $250/m. So after a year, you're fast approaching the point at which the energy you put into the device costs more than the bitcoin money you get out of it.

Play with the knobs some more and you realize: If you purchase the 400 GH/s August device in December, you will never make back the 7.5k that the thing costs. Wait "only" until November and you barely get a 60% ROI.

That's some fast, fast market right there.
Nor will you understand it if you keep being a developer that doesn't contribute anything. The idea that you only did paid work for an employer being the reason for why you have no activity on GitHub is a false dichotomy.

Seriously, you never wrote any helpers, or maybe a library that you wanted to reuse across projects?

And in regards to IP, any sane employer would agree that open-sourcing pieces of code that aren't central to the business logic is OK, since if others find it useful, you'll get bug fixes for free.
Apple faces 5-year ban for e-book price rigging conspiracy
I think every programmer should know one of Ruby/Perl/Python very well because they're by far the most versatile type of language. It's pretty rare that you can't solve a problem in one of them, even if when it's not the best tool for the job. It truly doesn't matter which, whatever feels the best to you. It's not a technical choice.

If you want to do Lisp I think Clojure is a really exciting option. It's modern and runs on the JVM, which is a big advantage for some people.

You can learn basic Javascript in a week, which is all you really need for most web development tasks. Most web apps are a sprinkle of Javascript, though that is not the case with every app.

Javascript, Ruby/Perl/Python, and Go are a pretty killer combo. You'll have trouble finding problems you can't solve with that set.
If you liked this, then you might like Travis Goodspeed's really cool talk about "Writing a Thumbdrive from Scratch" (for antiforensics) [1] at the 29th Chaos Communication Congress [29c3].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im0_KUEf8
Military here.

There are a variety of offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice that aren't crimes in the civilian world. Courts-martial tend to be nasty because of it.

Here's an example: Article 92 of the UCMJ - Failure to obey a lawful order [1]. This is a pretty broad Article, mostly because everyone is ordered to obey the UCMJ and other laws. So you get prosecuted for it in addition to your other crimes.

So, a person who gets arrested for DUI out in town is actually guilty of Article 92 in addition to Article 111 (Drunken or Reckless Driving).

To compound this, you also have Article 134, which specifies,

>>“Though not specifically mentioned in [the UCMJ], all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special, or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.”

So, this means that anything that can be proven to have a "detrimental effect on good order and discipline" is also punishable by court-martial. And that's a distinct crime from Article 92. So that guy who got a DUI? He's actually charged with three things - Article 111, Article 92, and Article 134. All for the same offense. And yes, he's punished for all three. Even nastier, there's no double jeopardy for 92 and 134 because they have no civilian versions. So, you can be tried under civilian court for DUI and lose your license and then lose your rank and pay under the UCMJ for the exact same crime with two different legal proceedings.

Now look at Bradley Manning's case, and you can pretty easily see that his actions could be punishable under these two Articles alone. And that's what they did. His guilt in these charges isn't even close to being in question.

Just? Personally, I think so, but I'm colored by my own views and experiences. Your opinion might differ. But it's most definitely legal and will beat appeal.

[1]http://usmilitary.about.com/od/punitivearticles/a/mcm92.htm
I have to admit that sometimes I even skip the articles and read the comments because I can usually rely on HN to filter out the BS and make note of the juicy good parts (which I can then go and look at in the article/post).
Holy cow, that's crazy. I guess they're really trying to encourage you to sign up for $6/month messaging plan that includes unlimited receiving.
NoNoScript : ByPassing NoScript's XSS filters via Error Basd SQLi (2012)
Alex from CoreOS here: This only supports virtualbox at the moment, but we are actively working on adding VMware. Fill out the form on this page if you want us to spam you when we have the vmware image (or others): http://coreos.com/
> Is the text of Hamlet code?

> Was it code as soon as Shakespeare wrote it?

Yes, the text of a play is code meant to be executed by humans.
The problem for engineers is that what lawyers call metadata does not track the application/transport/Internet/link layer model we all know and love. A good rule of thumb is that unless it's in the body of a message and maybe a Subject: line, DOJ argues it's not content. URLs could go either way.

Re: Internet search terms, later in my article I try to address that:
Whether the FBI believes its port reader software should be able to capture Subject: lines, URLs that can reveal search terms, Facebook "likes" and Google+ "+1s," and so on remains ambiguous, and the bureau declined to elaborate this week. The Justice Department's 2009 manual (PDF) requires "prior consultation" with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section before prosecutors use a pen register to "collect all or part of a URL."
That is pretty funny, but not what I was going for :)
Typesafe goto in Haskell
You could've used Latitude for that...well, until recently.
By request I just posted this 2006 court opinion that says all email headers except Subject: lines are metadata. No wiretap order required to do a live intercept:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112961607570158342254/posts/9Cu7...
> There will also be an Android app to allow you to easily find and manage your devices.

???

You use an Android app to find your Android? I guess if you have multiple of them, but I hope they make it available others ways too.
The investors should have taken a loss. It was a failing business.
Not to mention, free in many ways, protected in many ways, and with a whole lot more leisure than our ancestors ever got. Though these things seem to be dwindling ...
This is a little odd, but reminds of a project at work. I work at a face recognition company and we had a worked a bit on an attractiveness estimator. I argued that one of the uses would be for times when you actually wanted somebody plain rather than attractive (assuming you were filtering stock images for an advertisement). I guess maybe this is one of them.
The reciprocal, my Internet company will spy on my users in exchange for a government contract, wouldn't be called leverage, it'd be called corruption.
Lisp programmers write code so that data is code.
Nexus 4 doesn't have an easily replaceable battery either.
Marissa's a woman. Women like shopping.
I just hope they add some of the great features that Cerberus has, such as taking photos with the front camera, and then e-mailing you the picture (in case someone steals it).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.ce...
Bootstrap your own machine shop
Is this the best PR you can get for a $70M budget?
Game changers: Five opportunities for US growth and renewal
Big fan of movie and game soundtracks for coding. Regular rotation at the moment consists of Man of Steel, Batman Trilogy, Inception, Mass Effect 3, Skylander Giants and a lot of classical music esp the planets or anything else from civ 4!

Final shout out would be music that Adam Curtis has used in his documentaries such as Power of Nightmares. He uses lots of good modern instrumental pieces. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4202789.stm is a starting point.
You can read an EPS file by interpreting it and remembering the shapes it renders on the page.

You can write an EPS file by emitting your list of shapes without using the turing-complete features of the language.

Not that hard, at least conceptually.
Thanks!

I didn't get the part about lazy load - the images are pretty big, but only get loaded when you view them, isn't that what LL is about?
iPhone, Nexus 4, and HTC One
New nokias don't.
Speaking only for Sweden, it's not simply that they raise prices, it's more that they flatten them. So a $10 bottle of Vodka will cost you $35, but a $120 bottle of whisky might cost you $80. For example I was very surprised when I was in England a few years ago and found that certain British ales I enjoy where cheaper in the Swedish government monopoly shop than in the English supermarket.
Yahoo better be planning something big after all these purchases.
> Yup, and that is the great irony of Bitcoin in my eyes. In the long term, the value of Bitcoin will probably continue to stabilize around the price of electricity, which is of course defined in US dollars.

No, you have completely misunderstood how bitcoin mining works. The bitcoin value won't ever stabilize to electricity, the rewards of mining will. The effective reward per Ghash can go up or down independently of the bitcoin price, and tends towards costs (ie, electricity). Electricity costs have no bearing on the actual bitcoin value.
You guys really should change the logo to a cookie, every time I see the url I think of oreos.
I don't know...having the existing code available seems like it would be more useful for the "strat" stuff than for the infrastructure, if you posit that it's all going to be rewritten from scratch in a different language. But I don't know shit about trading, so maybe I'm wrong.
Going the Speed Limit
That might be logical, by some chain of reasoning, but it's not reasonable. To boycott them would mean to disconnect yourself from the internet -- impractical for many. Even if you live in a privileged zone with smaller ISPs available, your data still transits through these companies. By cutting yourself off, you forego giving them some miniscule amount of money, but you also disconnect yourself from news and the ability to communicate and organize with others who feel the same.
Puts this in a whole new light: http://qz.com/87184/the-steve-jobs-emails-that-show-how-to-w...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5752212
Just bought it — decent with HTML/CSS/PHP, looking forward to checking out Rails at long last :)
What? You don't consider "growth hacking" real hacking?
Novel means new. This isn't new. This is an acqui-hire.
On my team at Bloomberg, we built a non-trivial (roughly 20k loc) DSL -> C++ "transpiler" in OCaml that is in the critical path responsible for building core parts of the infrastructure.
I'm skeptical of that claim by the article. The relevant paragraph:

There's a significant exception to both sets of laws: large quantities of metadata can be intercepted in real time through a so-called pen register and trap and trace order with minimal judicial review or oversight. That metadata includes IP addresses, e-mail addresses, identities of Facebook correspondents, Web sites visited, and possibly Internet search terms as well.

It sounds like the author is speculating about what "metadata" might mean. There is no evidence cited by the article to suspect otherwise.

I also doubt they're capturing "everything but the body of the request". HTTP-Basic authorization headers include usernames and passwords, and I doubt passwords are considered "metadata" under the law. Assuming that the FBI follows the law, these devices are probably more selective than that.
Brian Eno's Ambient albums
Yeah, I suppose. I thought it'd be a bit more challenging to get the data out. I suppose they could do drop and retrieve, or attach some air-interface, etc.
> induce epileptic seizure in some people

Yes, and then what?

> I'll leave it to your imagination what an AI could do with that.

Why think about AI? Why not imagine what I can do with that? Which is almost nothing because the range of those transmissions is measured in inches.

All of this is academic because it assumes the AI would design a new smarter AI - which of course we could not let it do since we wouldn't be able to trust the design.

So all you have is a first generation AI and if we're lucky it might just possibly approach human intelligence.
I've looked for the terms of the plan, but have never been able to find them. I read $0.10/min overage, but what are the details on that? I almost never use 100 minutes, but I'd like not to be crippled when I do.
The DMA mentioned in the article was internal to the drive, between the hardware interfaces and it's internal cache. The drive did not have DMA access to system memory.
>a developer that doesn't contribute anything

Excuse me? That is rather rude.
Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation Patent video contest
DJ sets of artists like Kaskade or Porter Robinson always work for me. I find the key is to find something that doesn't distract you from the work, but is also nice to listen to when you focus on it. I find it really hard to just work when the room is completely silent.
Anyone have links to copyright lawyers discussing this? The few I follow online haven't picked up on it. I can't imagine that selling your financial interest in some legal proceeding generally voids your actionable claim and that this must be something special to do with copyright.
Exactly, its also the biggest flaw i found in Tim Ferris' 4 Hour work week. If you dont care for your business, others will overtake you and your business is slowly going to die.
Communicate Better at Work
50 commentators fail to get the comment joke... (he is British I spose)