skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps publish guidelines how to move from SaaS RailsKit to Koudoku. I feel like The SaaS RailsKit is a bit out of date
SourceForge to add Ask toolbar to installer downloads
University of Illinois teaches it in the Programming Languages course: http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs421/mps/index.html

Back in when it was CS 321, the course used bison and ocaml to build a smaller ML language, which helped in understanding ocaml itself!
But you always have a choice. Nobody can force you to be acquired... that would be slavery. The seller can require as part of the deal the buyer offer to keep a certain amount of people at a certain pay. Buyer can accept that deal or negotiate. But at the end of the day, every employee has a choice to sign the new contract or not. So anyone who got "locked up" in a 2-4 year contract did so because they felt it was a good move for them (or at least better than not having a job).
dark pools scare me a hell of a lot more than witches - possibly because the continued functioning of the financial system is more important to me than warts.
I agree, if industry leaders jumped on the band wagon like they did for SOPA we may have a chance.

Some of the big tech companies are already willing to fight back we just need to gain momentum for the cause. Some legislators are with us but I doubt the senate will be on our side.
There are quite a few startups that use MS but they are largely using it because of the bizspark programme. I think it is largely to do with cutting costs and thinking down the road.

It also possibly has something to do with the type of person that decides to branch out to working in a startup - its my opinion that vested .net developers are more oriented towards working in the enterprise than in a startup.
Because tab/space inconsistency causes problems, and because the space bar is easier to use in the flow of typing, so a style guide that mandates tabs will end up with lower compliance than one which mandates spaces.
Then you're doing it wrong.

Either you don't use proper typing style on a physical keyboard (all 10 fingers, each responsible for a specific set of keys), or you haven't put the effort into adapting that typing style for virtual keyboards.

Typing is about training your muscle memory for each finger for each keystroke it could possible be responsible for. Once your muscle memory is trained, it becomes a subconscious skill that you should not need to concentrate on.

The fact that this muscle memory is being used on a virtual keyboard vs. a physical keyboard does not matter whatsoever. The same concept applies.

Edit: email me adam@flairify.com and I'll give you a free download for my paid typing trainer app. It works.
Everything doesn't need to be private, but we expect it to be, just like we expect letters sent in the mail to be.

It's not like Wikipedia is shifting to HTTPS because people reading about the "American Revoltionary War" are going to get flagged for rendition. That HTTP session didn't need to be private.

Wikipedia is shifting because they don't want NSA snooping with any of their users' traffic. But if they didn't want NSA snooping then certainly they didn't want ISPs, hackers on the same cable modem loop, etc. snooping, so they could/should have done this switch awhile ago.

Even should we change the law to match our expectations regarding Internet privacy, https is still a better idea as the NSA is really the least of worries for the vast majority of us who have bigger threats with organized crime from Eastern Europe, spammers forming botnets, etc.
The original problem Rockmelt was supposed to solve was having to go to a bunch of different sites to manage all your online social activity. The idea being they'd take Chromium and integrate popular services directly into the browser chrome.

It turned out that nobody actually wanted a browser with social services integrated into the chrome, though. Which should have surprised nobody, since that exact same idea was behind Flock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_%28web_browser%29), another social-integrated browser startup (this one building its product on Gecko) which predated Rockmelt by five years and which nobody wanted either.

Apparently Rockmelt managed to find some VCs who either hadn't heard of Flock, or who thought using Chromium instead of Gecko would lead Rockmelt to succeed where Flock failed.

Ooops.

(Like Flock, when the "social browser" idea failed, Rockmelt began a series of pivots to try and find something else that wouldn't fail as badly. Also like Flock, they never quite found it.)
Wow! How much are you paying each month after fees, taxes, etc? I have the same service with AT&T, except I get 700 minutes a month. But I'm paying about $90/mo.

Your service includes tethering, right?
Is that all you have to say? You have made the same damn comment in three different locations on this thread!
Fundamentals of Design
arrow keys work too, IIRC.
Well, there are 366 dates of birth, and 9999 last 4 digits in SSNs, so approximately 3.7M combinations.

If you drop 380k users into 3.7M buckets, that's only ten times as many buckets as users. A lot of the buckets will be shared.
Based on some early customer development, I have found that people who want to be productive go on a spree of gathering too many productivity tools around them. As I mentioned earlier, some people feel productive just by getting a productivity tool. So even if a user has downloaded the app, they now have to migrate their existing items and start to fully incorporate this new tool into their life. It's much easier to purchase and download a tool than to actually dedicate their lives to it.

So from that perspective, I would say retention and engagement are low since not many are willing to put the time and effort to do that tool justice.
We might want to consider that Yahoo is corrupted from the inside and is using its large range of financial assets to spread its wealth via various sidesteps and investment networks. Unless they will release some massive product or actually intergrate all services into their core, what else is it for that they are spending such amounts of financial assets on these companies. To please the eye for a rehash of the Yahoo brand? One could argue that it would be more wise to _move_ the core to the Tumblr brand instead of reviving Yahoo.
Sweden's 'Hannibal Lecter' cleared of all charges
This encoding would have to be maintained by every router until it reaches an intercept point.
No, I'm serious. None of the things he listed as observing are harmful to the lakes, they are just inconvenient for people.

How exactly, and what from, do they need to be protected?

Also: why the ad hominem? There was nothing idiotic about my simple question.

Stop downvoting and answer the question.
"Better than Yahoo used to be" is not exactly a high bar to clear, though.
There are still PDP-11's out there running nuclear power plants:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_...
good to see this issue clarified
Our expectations of the physical world derive from our experience of the physical world; they're valid notions in that sense.

How would the FBI monitor me using a card catalog and getting a book off the shelf? With a camera? If it was a camera, it's still not what we expect from the physical world, because we don't physically expect that we are being watched unless there are actually eyes staring at us.

If there was an FBI agent watching me look up things from a card catalog, and another one watching me read the books, this would match my physical understanding of a lack of privacy.
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Good thing Apple kept that proprietary, keeping us safe and all.
@eshvk Viral marketing. ;-)
Carmack: Armadillo Aerospace in “hibernation mode”
Copied my comment from other Rockmelt-related acquisition post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148221

For those keeping score, this gives another win for Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, a16z, and First Round. Here's the tally for those who invested in companies that have been acquired by Y! since Mayer took over:

CrunchFund - 3 (Stamped, GoPollGo, Tumblr)

True Ventures - 3 (OnTheAir, Snip.It, Lexity)

Khosla Venture - 3 (Snip.It, Xobni, Rockmelt)

SV Angel - 3 (Snip,It, Xobni, Rockmelt)

Google Ventures - 2 (Astrid & Stamped)

Spark Capital - 2 (Tumblr & Lexity)

Jack Herrick - 2 (Qwiki & Astrid)

Greylock - 2 (Tumblr & Qwiki)

First Round Capital - 2 (Xobni & Rockmelt)

Also to note, Lexity & Jybe were founded by former Y! employees.
Unfortunately comments don't nest nicely in elinks. Otherwise it's great.
There is no such thing as a tablet or phone that is exactly the same as a desktop or laptop computer. Surface claimed to be that solution but no one wants them. Small screens don't work for productivity apps like spreadsheets and word processors no matter the platform. If Apple came out with a 15" iPad it wouldn't be an iPad anymore it would be an Air. One device can never fit all needs no matter how much you want it too. You can whine about not being able to put freight in a tiny sports car but that's what a pickup is for.
Yahoo acquires Rockmelt—2010’s hottest browser—for “$60M to $70M”
This is pretty impressive in that it uses NLP to allow you to track most (any?) verb.

Any chance in making it open source?
Oh, I agree, but the point the article seemed to be making was that the agent thought it was fishy that the name of the repo was "subversion", rather than "github" or "bobs-useless-code-dump". It was a complete misunderstanding of what was important (storing code elsewhere), and an ascribing of malicious intent ("subversive") to it.
I have the same plan. Tethering is an additional $15/month, for a total of $45. Still a far cry from $90. I use it in Portland and the service is great. (Total after taxes is $48.50)
Instead Of Whining About A Tech Talent Shortage, Do Something About It
Yahoo Paid $60M to $70M for RockMelt -- Will Dump Browser and Use Tech
Detroit’s in Shambles, and I Can’t Wait to Move There. • Rachel Hyman
I'm putting together a blog post. :)

That said, https://github.com/justinweiss/request_profiler is as simple as a Gemfile line and request parameter, and gives you far deeper introspection of your code.
Read patio11's blog: http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
> When Chicago's public school system drag's down the average of the whole of Illinois, everyone blames the schools. They blame No Child Left Behind, they blame teachers, they blame the Department of Education. But it's not the schools' fault that so many of those kids have no fathers, that the neighborhoods are dominated by gangs, that the kids come from generations of families without any education. There is no educational fix to these sociological problems. The solution isn't within the government's power, and certainly not within that of the schools.

IT probably isn't within the schools power, but not the governments? Who alloctes law enforcement resources -- resulting in safe areas and gang-dominated ones? Who sets tax policies and, through them, drives the distribution of the rewards of the economic system? Who pumps as much as the rest of the world combined into military spending, over other priorities like, say, adult education, urban law enforcement, etc.

The problems you point to are, in many cases, not within the power of the schools to correct, but they seem to be direct products of government decisions about priorities, so I am suspicious of the claim that they are outside the power of the government to correct (outside the interest of the government to correct, perhaps.)
Work for Pie is Shutting Down :(
Literally the only thing Yahoo should buy is Twitter. That's fucking it.

Yahoo done fucked up good. They can't make a walled garden, but they could own the public ecosystem. And they could push it beyond Google+ if they did it right.

People use Google for finding things and email. People use Facebook for friends. People use Yahoo out of habit.
Maybe I'm unsure of how courts work, but couldn't the defense have an expert witness to call the prosecutors out?
They could offer good work conditions and autonomy and get best of breed developers for $200,000, but they say that sort of salary is outlandish and they prefer to pay VCs several million per talent acquisition instead, claiming that makes more sense. But does it really.
I'm finding myself using my iPad for certain type of work a lot more with a keyboard attached. Apps like HaikuDeck are simply better at what they do than any app I have on my Mac, and with OS X app Type2Cell I can use my Mac keyboard to control the iPad. (both highly recommended)
Your lifestyle is ok, dude or dudette. Seriously. It is systemic problems of societies such as horrbile education system, emotional politics and various instances of "prisoners dillemma" games that are much more major factors that are detrimental to society well-being.
May I ask, how much do you pay each month after taxes and fees? (Assuming you opted for tethering.) Something like $45 + $10 taxes/fees?
Protect the lakes from the sorts of abuses they suffered on a massive scale prior to modern environmental regulations were enforced, and from additional threats like microplastics, fertilizer run-off, sewage, contamination from watercraft, future outbreaks of invasive species transported by ocean-going shipping vessels, large-scale diversion for irrigation or urban water consumption, and a host of other things.

The way you asked it was like "What problems?" when it's obvious that a water-system that vast needs controls or it'll be abused and ruined for everyone.
Interesting, thanks for your thoughts! Your "throw in in my car" example is close to what I would mainly use it for (like bringing on vacations for emergencies).

Do you find yourself using the SP as a tablet much for non-work stuff, like browsing the web on the couch or whatnot?
Isn't this how the march of technology always works?

Governments knew how to tap analog phone lines well, and when cell phones became popular they had to adapt methods.

Governments knew how to capture or analyze mail traffic, and when the Internet became popular they had to adapt methods.
It would be nice if the duration of the "slide" animation was based on the time difference between the two slides. This adds some implicit context to the timeline. Things that happened back-to-back will appear quickly (like 300 ms) whereas things with a long time gap in between will appear slowly (2-3 seconds).
The Intel 80386 Business Case
They couldn't do that because it would break with the valley's tradition of engineer salary price-fixing.
I hadn't noticed the line break serving as the separation between required and optional arguments. That's a good point, and I now don't see an issue with that particular line break in that context. But I still think it's silly to always break at 80 character in similar examples.
If you get a unlocked Nexus 4 from the Play store, then you don't have to pay extra for tethering. 30$ means 30$, there is no additional fees, taxes etc. Thats the benefit of prepaid plans, you know exactly how much you are paying.
People are more knowledgeable now; Apple isn't always right.
But that's when using the Nokia, Opera, or Amazon browser. If you're worried about Nokia, Opera, and Amazon facilitating MITM attacks, they could also just program the browser with a secret NSA certificate authority.
History is filled with examples of well-intentioned solutions like this going horribly awry.

Talk to an Australian about cane toads, for example. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia).
An auto-pen.
I got the same plan when I bought my Nexus 4. It's been pretty great so far, my only problem being that the entire plan will shut down if you go over your 100 minute allotment (so be careful).
Exactly, how can a community be valuable without a voice?
There are multiple ways to unfold a box into 2 dimensions. For example, see this printable pattern that you can try at home [1].

Also, how else would you determine the distance between two coordinates in a plane without using the Pythagorean theorem [2]? It's not like he could use a measuring tape in an imaginary, unfolded room.

EDIT: I reread your post and see that you are pointing out a typo. The phrase "one-dimensional surface" was obviously meant to be "two-dimensional surface." A one-dimensional surface is non-sense.

[1] http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/coloringpages/l/blboxtempla...

[2] http://www.purplemath.com/modules/distform.htm
TILE:SIMPLICITY IS REVOLUTION
I've found timestamping Rails.logger output helps considerably, and offers a similar - yet more generic - insight.
These micro particles of plastic are used by the train load which is why it's horrifying they're still being used. Where would you keep a two year supply if you needed that much of this sort of material? A plant the size of Wyoming? Secondly, they do not have warehouses of toothpaste sitting around. It's perishable.

This isn't the 1920s. Most major companies run on much leaner inventory, and it's not uncommon to turn over your entire warehouse several times a month.
BlueHost, HostGator and HostMonster down
VPS with multiple client websites hosted on HostGator.
Should I move or should I stay?
you are just reinforcing what hes saying.. those things shouldnt need to have prizes in Money to people start working on it..
the point being maded by ultimoo (and i agree with it) is that WE need to change the way we think about things.. the way we are..
we need to change our prizes, and become happy with other sort of payments.. (like be happy to help others to have a better life)

if we get to manage to have a income to our needs, and do what we like.. be happy with it, and help others in the process.. what could be better than that?

Is such a waste to have so many bright people working to make rich people even more richier, while there are so many simple needs that all of those good brains could be helping to solve.. there are people that doesnt even have basci needs like water, food security, eletricity, education, dignity, etc..

meanwhile all the rich people problems "how i can get even more rich?" get all the brains working for it..

doesnt it say something about us all?
I actually don't do this at the border, mostly because I travel for work, so getting detained for 12 hours isn't an option.

I do commend you for doing that though. It takes true courage and conviction. You're doing a national service. Sincerely, thank you.
Indeed. But I'm pretty sure they got a "sign this soon or leave" offer than many chose not to refuse.
Yeah, more often than working on it. It's also a pretty good e-reader with the Kindle app, even outside in sunlight.
I don't pay T-Mobile for tethering on my Nexus 4 on the $30 plan. It works fine.
It's an interesting point. Onerous contracts signed under duress are not valid in many jurisdictions. Threat of dismissal, the "sign this or else" ultimatum is considered duress. Also, in some countries this scenario would certainly be considered constructive dismissal. As it is though their jobs at the old company don't exist nor does that company and they have not consented to work for the new company, so this is absolutely not voluntary separation, it is dismissal, and they are absolutely entitled to unemployment.
My uncle does supply chain for a major american cosmetics manufacturer, and it's pretty lean. There's few stockpiles, AFAIK.
Tools are not Skills
> Killing hundreds of thousands is just the cost of doing business, apparently.

And always has been. The U.S. has been aggressive in using "military diplomacy" since the Spanish-American war, if not earlier. And when you're the dominant military power in the world, that's probably the winning play.

> They aren't low-income immigrants, they're immigrants who are paid low incomes.

They're paid low incomes because they have no education and little skills. Yes, their experience matches that of the Irish, the Polish, etc, but back then people weren't bashing the U.S. educational system for the fact that poor Irish immigrants weren't doing well in school. This is not an argument against immigration--its an argument against papering over the fundamentally different demographic factors at play in the U.S. when condemning its education system relative to that of Western European countries.

> Your arguments basically boil down to race being a huge factor, but maybe it's more a case of racism than race.

There is nothing racist about pointing out that the U.S. faces sociological challenges that most western European countries do not. It's the policies that led to those sociological challenges that are racist (slavery, segregation, white flight, the drug war).
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I have VPS with multiple client websites hosted on HostGator.
Should I move or should I stay?
It's a very fun language. You should definitely give it a go.
Well, there is also that Excel/Outlook/VBA part. I assume they would consider "download manager" extensions to be unauthorized access as well.
iPads require more juice. Whenever I plug my iPad into anything other than Apple's 10W adapter or a Mac, nothing happens.
Yahoo seems to be trying to dig themselves out of a hole by standing in the hole and throwing sand out.

Is Yahoo trying to set up some kind of 'corporate rehabilitation' clinic where they will take these scruffy startup employees and turn them into drones slaving away on methods to get users to click on ads 5% more?

I can understand acquiring a startup when you plan to use their product and will keep the founders working on it, but something like this just rings of a failure to understand human behavior. The guys getting a fat payout and corporate safety net while working on some random project they didn't even agree to work on are no longer the same guys who made the startup.
Show HN: an API to read/write barcodes and PDF files
Rockmelt Stats In the Months Before They Were Acquired by Yahoo
Work for Pie is Shutting Down
Unless you're calling dumping your ballast tanks "nature", no, zebra mussels are not nature. They're species contamination caused by people.
I stand corrected, good link. Nonetheless, would still wish Basic never entered my life.
I still use Yahoo for games. They're one of the few places where I can play a quick game of Spades or Poker for fun.
Yeah, searches of homes or cars can really just be straight out ransacking. There should be a statute that the government has to pay for damages incurred during searches, especially if they're ruled improper.
This actually reminds me of the letters Peter Popoff sends out. Check out the fake handwriting on it:

http://www.jeffbelanger.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/...

One of my room mates discovered this trove of comedy gold and has been signing up all his friends to receive them. They're actually pretty convincing, although they lack the indentation marks one would expect to see from a real pen.
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