skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are also some further strange things in the US voip marketing. e.g. routing calls through specific states to get some grants,...
3-D Printing Startup MakerBot Acquired for $403 Million
Something like $0.10/gal off, and tied between your Safeway loyalty account and credit card you use to buy your gas.
Frankly, F/OSS driver support for current smartphones is crap (binary blobs), and for future stuff the future looks bleak (no public driver releases at all from upstream, not even in binary form -- look at the new Nexus 7 shenangians).

To be honest, I don't think Canonical could plausibly support new major smartphones even if they wanted to.
IMO, Docker is the standard platform to build these types of apps on. With all the tooling and projects rallying around Docker, I'd definitely board that ship.
> Is it just me or would the material strength of 3D printed items have to become exponentially better for them to become a success for any kind of serious use?

Well, right now with today's technology you can 3D print multishot guns and rifles.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/6/4304164/video-of-defense-di...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/20/4348360/lulz-liberator-gun...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/4/4588162/worlds-first-3d-pri...
"I even investigated whether we could set up Amazon.com on an Indian reservation near San Francisco. This way we could have access to talent without all the tax consequences. Unfortunately, the government thought of that first."

'Investigated' is a far cry from 'tried'
you simply have to investigate their balance sheets, and you will know after a couple of hours that they already know form the very beginning how to avoid taxes, no matter in which country they are.
Very cool, but I wonder how the US army will feel about this, seeing as the consumer GPS was deliberately inacurate to make sure it won't be used in guidance systems...
As a General Reminder, those so called Infringed Patents ( Whether they are FRAND or not ) are being sold to Apple as an Finished Product.
No doubt people with more influence will be able to limit the repercussions of actions that would ruin others, yet pretty much anyone who has influence is bound to want to use it, and by its nature anything that is disruptive is likely to upset yet some other person who has influence.

Take for example David Petraeus. His career may have been only collateral damage of an investigation that took advantage of records of drafts and IP addresses used to log into gmail. He may have felt sincerely honor bound to resign, and his career may resurrect itself, especially if his party is about to nominate some of its most crazy for the presidential election. However, it is at least possible to imagine that people who were happy to see him lose influence wouldn't have been eager to stick out their own necks to sweep everything under the rug.

I think there are at least a couple broad categories of people who have different relationships with power and surveillance. You can be wealthy, enjoying your wealth and no threat to anyone else with influence, or you may be someone who has the resources to effect the change you think the world needs.

Once upon a time monarchs put aside their differences in attempts to hunt down regicides, but on other days they occupied themselves with trying to conquer each others' realms.
Amazing how people achieve to put an uppercase I to IJulia, but not IPython! :-)
Amazon's job was not to be political. The WP's job is. I wouldn't draw analogies from one to the other.
But who would buy a house, with a non-negotiable contract preventing them from using it to house some people temporarily for some minor profit?

If your road maintenance company doesn't care, and you own the land, what's to stop you other than a voluntarily win-win association?
A paper can resist government regulation, but a normal business cannot (or could not in 2010). Bezos is philosophically an opponent of government regulation[1] and may have bought the Washington Post simply because he hated backing down in 2010.

Now he has a weapon and can fight back. We might actually see much more reporting on the network of multibillion dollar bureaucratic TLAs that control our GOV, with the IRS, NSA, and now DEA scandals being just the beginning.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-empl...

Q: What would you ask Bezos if you sat down with coffee
for him today?

Shel Kaphan, First Amazon Employee: “The first (questions)
that come to mind are personal, but one that I’d like to
ask him is whether, even after what’s happened in the
economy since 2008, if he would still contend that less
government regulation is always better.”

Of course, Sarbox did nothing to prevent the financial crisis. And Dodd Frank will do nothing to prevent the meltdown of the US dollar.
Impressive. I am going to use it even on my desktop.
I think it you should make it a reader app (Replacement to Google Reader etc).
TextTeaser (http://www.textteaser.com/), an Automatic Summarization API.
I've been working on a scriptable window manager for Mac OS X called Zephyros - https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros

By scriptable I mean you can write your scripts in almost any language, and there are already built-in libraries in Ruby, Python, Clojure, Go, and JavaScript for doing it.

By "window manager" I mean you can move around windows and resize them and stuff using a programmatic API. And you can bind global hot-keys to your callbacks in whatever language you're using.
A link on that story (in "Other Matters) leads to a video where
"James Risen, national security reporter for the New York Times" seems to be doing a pretty good job too.

http://pressthink.org/2013/08/the-toobin-principle/
ShipBuilder does most of the things you mentioned. Though, its been a while since I played with Docker, it may have overcome some of the challenges shipbuilder has yet to face. What I do like though, is after having been a Heroku user, using ShipBuilder seems like a walk in the park. No need to learn anything new.
Let's look at the stack bottom-up.

You'll need probably some kind of Database, right? For most of the usecases in different web-apps a document-based approach is just a perfect fit, i recommend MongoDB, since its fast and very easy to use, and the query language is just javascript. If you need something really fast, choose an in-memory-DB like Redis (again, mostly you don't need this, 99% of all webapps won't have serious traffic).

For the serverside-stuff itself, i highly recommend Node.js. Pair it with one of its great frameworks like express, and you'll be up and running in a couple of days. Don't even bother with RoR, as of today it is quite a steep learning curve to master, especially with all the different components of the rails-stack. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171440 about Ruby/Rails in startups. Since you wrote what kind of webapps you're writing, node.js should be a good fit for you. It's lightweight, fast and you don't need another language to learn, since its just JS.

For the Frontend-development it depends on what type of websites you'll be developing. If its a "classic" webapp, you'll be fine without additions. If you want to build a single-page-application, have a look at backbone.js, it's a client-MV* framework. I prefer it over the alternatives because of it's minimalistic and intuitive approach, the spirit of node.js.

When it comes to styling and the view-code, you'll have jade as html-templating-language and stylus as css-preprocessor-language if you want, thei're some kind of default with node.js / express and pretty good. For layouting, bootstrap is the best ui-framework out there, hands down. Take a look at the (mature) version 2.X or the (upcoming) version 3.

If you take my suggested road down, you'll have a complete javascript-stack, one language to rule them all. Using the same skillset, you can even build desktopapps with node-webkit or mobile apps with phonegap for example. Just don't bother with additional languages, ecosystems and all the hassle, JS will do the job for you today.

If you want some kind of standardlibrary for javascript, or better known as the "swiss army knife", have a look at http://underscorejs.org/ .
Little late to the party, but I did not find a way to paste from clipboard when using windows and Apple keyboard. Insert key is not working, so ctrl/shift+ins won't work. In putty pasting is done via right mouse click.
IBM Research Creates New Foundation to Program SyNAPSE Chips
relevant: http://design.org/blog/difference-between-ux-and-ui-subtleti...
I guess that's my point though. That "throwing it away" makes you completely unencumbered. There's value in that. Anything else comes with strings that make it really hard to move on ... even if that's emotionally.
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Ok, this is awesome. I can't believe no one else (including you) submitted this yet. Bookmarked. Love it.
In this case progressive enhancement is offering a GMT date or other sensible default, and offer another date after javascript kicks in.

Personaly, I think for anything where timezone is relevant, the best move is to always let the user manually enter the timezone he/she wants, or have it match the timezone of the event/service he's looking for, and of course allow for override, so changing timezone has to done client side.

I.e. if I am in Germany and search from a flight taking off from Taipei two days from now, I don't care about the departure time from the German timezone. Same thing if I reserve a restaurant in Germany while I am in Taipei, you'll want the german time for the reservation. For something internationally broadcasted showing the UTC time as default and provide a way to adapt to other timezone is OK, as the event has no local anchoring anyway.

People can do the calculation for timezones, eventually some opt to not change their phones timezone to keep in sync with other more important schedules, etc.
Trying to do 'smart' things seamlessly is often just screwing with the user.
Are you serious about that starting page?

There is no indicator if the weight is measured in lbs or kg, which is really bad. Then I find out it is in lbs, which is even worse because ALL serious scientific research in weight loss is done in kg. So I put in my weight in kg (71) and I say I want to go down to 68 kg. The first coach I get is chris-k who lost 230 "pounds" with this description:"Are you really fat (not just a couple pounds)? Fatness run in the family? Have you never been able to lose your weight? Tried to starve yourself or kill yourself in the gym? "
We are talking about 3 kilos and you get the apocalypse on me? This is bad. Really bad. This is 6 months before beta testing.
Why Enterprises Prefer Java Over .NET
Android dev implies Qualcomm is to blame for missing Nexus 7 binaries
Depends what else you cut out, for instance I would add commuting in there. If you prioritize living close to work (or working remotely) then exercise can be your commute. IE Run or bike to work. Or if that's not an option do a karate class or get a climbing gym membership with your kids and exercise while spending time with them. Combining things you want to do is a great way to check off more things on the list.
^ Pretty sure this is Satire. It was a pretty funny read.
"Amazon.com is not going to put bookstores out of business. Barnes & Noble is opening a new superstore every four days. Borders is opening a new superstore every nine days."

Well, that turned around pretty quickly. In 15 years Amazon went from "we aren't really competing with brick-and-mortar bookstores" to putting Borders out of business.
The point is nothing magical is happening in the Tegra 4 to enable this use case, this feature can be replicated with pretty much any device.
That's pretty exaggerated.

http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2013/07/oregon...
I'm aiming at Requests' robustness, but it's still a long way to go for Envelopes. Good news is - it works and sends e-mails :).

If you find any issues please report them at GitHub. Thanks and have fun.
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The API is still young and I'm perfectly aware it could use some love (especially that I wrote the first Envelopes class at 3AM while trying to simplify my workflow).

I've been considering renaming "from_addr" and "to_addr" to "from" and "to" but this would cause conflicts with Python's keywords. I'm, however, all over renaming them to "from_address" and "to_address". As far as "cc_addrs" and "bcc_addrs" - I think I'll use full "address" there, too (for the sake of consistency).

As for "text_body" and "html_body" - I'd like to leave those as they are. Depending on the case I may use one of them, both of them or neither of them.

Thanks for your feedback, it's much appreciated :).
> We need a foundation or grant program for non-profit and NGO websites.

Have a look at http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/

Being a fellow I can say it's an amazing group.
No, it's OK as long as money's flowing the right way.
Even 29 years after Bhopal disaster responsible for 1000s of deaths, India has failed to extradite Warren Anderson (prime accused in the case). US repeatedly turned down the request for extradition for want of "evidentiary links".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Anderson_(American_busin...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Out of curiosity, how many people did not know that.
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You have a good point, but my post
was already at the limit of 10,000
characters. Of course the solution to
your point is partly a theorem proving
course in high school plane geometry
and then, finally, a theorem proving course as, say,
a college junior in abstract algebra.
For such a course, I did say that the
last two years should be at a four
year institution; at such a school,
a good enough course should be available
even if the first two years were in
a community college where the calculus
teaching was poor. Again your point
is correct: To learn how to do proofs
well enough to be self-sufficient,
need at least one theorem proving
course where can get homework and tests
graded by a competent mathematician.

Don't worry: I've tried to show that
P = NP and know that while I've had some
candidate ideas I don't have a good
idea or a proof. And, I've nearly never
written a bad proof; once catch on to
how proofs are done, they are surprisingly
easy to check for correctness.

Studying is not a full time job --
I was heavily self taught in math
and totally self taught in computing
and nearly never studied full time.
E.g., I read Nearing on linear algebra,
Halmos 'Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces',
Fleming 'Functions of Several Variables',
yes, with the exterior algebra,
and much more while working full time
in mostly DoD work around DC. I did
the research for my Ph.D. dissertation
in stochastic optimal control independently
in my first summer in graduate school.

Edit: There's a better answer in this thread in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177643
Wow, good job!

But as you said, given that you didn't use any frameworks the productivity couldn't have been that great... Not to mention that it probably doesn't blend in with the native apps? (don't have a mobile with me right now, so can't test it)
16 useless infographics
Yes, for the most part (relative to native apps).
Realtime emoji use on Twitter
IBM Develops a Cognitive Computer for the Big Data Era that Thinks Like Us
My point was that while the linked article was interesting, it didn't explain why it was renamed (although the author did do so in this thread.)
Language in books shows how we have grown more selfish
Debug mode is a nice catch. Thanks.

As far as GMail SMTP goes, I've been using Envelopes over GMail SMTP for about a week with great success. The first example in the docs shows just that. Also, I have customized SMTP subclasses for GMail, SendGrid and local Mailcatcher in the pipeline. Using one of them, you'll only have to provide your creds to send e-mails.
Yep glad that we're validating each other :) Also ractive too!
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Amazon, Kobo and Sony petition FCC to exempt e-readers from accessibility laws
What's up with your font rendering?
Technically each SP refreshed the code base and many other libraries are independent of the platform, which is why it has lasted so long.

SP3 was released late 2008, so it's "only" 5 years old.

I'm not a gamer so DX9 is fine, all the .net libraries work on it, it has NTFS support just as fine as W7 and W7 32-bit cannot support any more memory than XP can.

XP is just a way for me to launch programs, W7 is not going to launch them any better.

Just want to get two more years out of this.
I don't generally do Django, but I don't think it should be a problem. Just a word of warning - if you're going to use a global per-app SMTP connection remember to wrap it in connstack. The Flask example shows this and it shouldn't be hard to do the same in Django.
Well, this may or may not be a case of "watch the hands, not the mouth." But at the moment we simply do not have enough information to speculate how the WP will develop under new ownership.
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I noticed that he's considering doing an iOS app. I think the space is pretty crowded for language learning software. I've been working on my iOS app part time for 3 years this month. I'm building it to be generic but getting clean data is a nightmare. I was going through my French data tonight and saw some basic errors. I started paying people a few months ago to help write sentences, which will eventually be in each language. Anyway, writing it is a lot of fun. Give me a couple more years I think it'll be great.

Here's what I have so far: http://www.h4labs.com/design1.html

http://www.h4labs.com

If there are any patient people who want to help me iterate more quickly, drop me an email and say that you saw me on HN and I'll give you a promo code.

I think French will be clean soon and I just got the pinyin back for my first 600 words.

Have a go with the Lite version (2.2.2 is submitted)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?...
Nice. A better response than I gave.

Halmos, Rudin, and Spivak 'Calculus on
Manifulds' were at least at one time the
main references in Harvard's Math 55
as at

http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/why-can2019t-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man/?searchterm=Sommers

and are some of the best stuff for a ugrad
math major.

Your last sentence is on the center of the
target of reality.
Even so, the experience of having a reasonable-resolution virtual world all around you is viscerally awesome. And when I use that word, I literally mean that it causes awe.
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I just hope this was satire, just the first paragraph including the picture of Javascript & the Java-logo wanna make me cry otherwise.

Anyway, +1 for bashing .NET.
The real reason why Jeff Bezos bought Washington Post
I agree except for the part about not caring about foolish users.

For me, it is more about asking yourself what approach will increase the overall security of a system. User adoption is a critical consideration. That is where Twitter's approach shines. It's something that is super easy to adopt, no numbers to type in, which means literally millions more users may adopt it. Authy is undervaluing that consideration.

Yes, this is vulnerable to
a) foolish users who approve duplicate requests and
b) have an attacker looking over their shoulder.

Pretty good tradeoff IMHO.
This story shows exactly what is wrong with EULAs.
Hi thanks for your reply. I actually I did do a dependency override in the past and I have been listed as a financially independent student. I didn't elaborate about it in the blog post because explaining it would be too complicated to go into. Being listed as financially independent helped at first because I qualified for grants and subsidized/unsubsidized government loans, but now I don't even have grants and for this coming year I only got $104 of subsidized loans to be able to take out. It has been difficult to get in contact with someone that actually understands what is going on with my financial aid.
The title is confusing. The author says "we already know" but in the article itself, around the end, he admits nobody knows how the Post is going to turn out: "I have no idea whether Bezos has the wherewithal to expand at such a scale. I also have no idea what he has in mind for the Post and its newsroom."
The real question is - is there a better way to value, the opinion pieces of people who don't do anything other than write for a living?
It's unrealistic because I really think you need the social aspect of it: collaboration and criticism. I didn't say you can't learn something on your own sometimes.

Also lots of people have convinced themselves of lots of silly things. You can probably find dozens of papers from people with bachelors in math (or no degree) claiming they have solved P=NP. A lot of these turn out to be completely bogus, but the authors nonetheless thought they were serious attempts.
> Remember when Amazon pulled the plug on Wikileaks?

The classified documents being hosted on AWS were in fact illegal to do so, and thus against the AUP of AWS so it was perfectly reasonable and appropriate to pull the plug.

The wikileaks data dump is in no way comparable to Watergate and singular reporting and investigation of specfic illegal acts.
In a lot of first world countries people get PAID to go to university. Expecting 17-18 year old's who finished high school to have tens of thousands of dollars to be able to go to good universities is beyond stupid.
GPLv2 says nothing about proceeds from commercial profits. All it requires is for requests for the source code to be honored.
I don't see how this article could neglect to address that Jeff Bezos bought the paper himself, rather than having Amazon buy it.

Also, for it to mention Bill Gates without contrasting what he did to the tech world through Microsoft during the 90s with what he is accomplishing for the whole world as a philanthropist now is striking.

The mistake may have been inexcusable for anyone who believes that transparency leads to better governance, but it was one decision, and we now know that every company we thought had a whole set of established practices as common carriers eventually caved to the federal government.

I don't think it's clear internet infrastructure providers experienced less pressure from the Fed than the press did in the 1970s. Bezos may also have considered his obligations to the stock holders of a public company without the context of something equivalent to journalistic ethics.

Anyway, I'd agree that we don't actually know what role he'll play with the Washington Post, or what he will do during the next 30 years, but we also don't know whether he'll be courageous or not in journalism from one incident.