skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem, however, is whether you like it or not, you’re still conveying the message that your screen at that moment is more important than the person you’re with.

Well, sometimes it is. And most people I know are cool with the idea that they are not the center of attention 24/7. It really depends on circumstances.

Like my baby daughter, they’re watching you behave this way. And I suspect instead of finding it perfectly “acceptable,” your companion(s) find it hurtful, annoying, or just rude, even if they’re behaving exactly the same way.

It depends. Do I do it when someone is mid-sentence? No, that's obviously rude. Do I do it if I'm hanging out shooting the shit, briefly checking mail while exchanging small-talk? Sure.

Unless you are overwhelmingly preoccupied with a device, no one cares.
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Expanded iteration of this story, with discussion of bigger issues, correction of a couple of errors, on NewsHour at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/08/ask-the-hea...

Bottom line: A headhunter gets paid to deliver the best candidates to a company. If the headhunter then takes money from a candidate to put her resume at the top, that's cheating. So why is LinkedIn doing it--openly and shamelessly?
1% is actually a little low. According to a report provided to Congress, 4.2 million people have a clearance. 1.4 million of those are TS/SCI (Top Secret / Secret Compartmentalized Information), the level Snowden held.

Source: http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2011/09/clearances/
I tried using Tiddly for a bit, but ended up moving to wikidpad (http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/) which I've been quite happy with
Moves eats your battery quite a bit.
I hate to admit how awesome this is. It's specific, bold and fits the need at hand.
If that were the case they should of asked for bank financing. Working capital financing is extremely cheap, and VC equity is at least two orders of magnitude more expensive. Why would anyone want to dilute equity for the company's working capital needs?
Push servers for mobile applications
There's a simple hack for parents who really want to spend quality time with their kids. Focus on quantity instead.

Parents who spend a lot of time with their kids by accident will have quality time with them. Think of the most meaningful time you spend with you mom or dad. Was it the time you went with them to Disneyland, or when they played with you in the yard with cardboard refrigerator box?
> It's individuals who decide to interpret the Bible in ways that harm women

And on what grounds are you going to claim that they should interpret their holy books differently?

There is only one valid, fundamental basis for making arguments one way or another, and that's reason. Religion is a systematic (albeit, potentially compartmentalized) rejection of reason.

Fortunately, going by reason, we can establish (with significant effort) that it is in everyone's interest to recognize certain rights for human beings, and we can institute governments to protect those rights. And, we can establish (with some effort) that hurting women is destructive and evil and malevolent.

Trying to argue from any other perspective is just saying, "It should be this way, just because."
1) i can reliably assume HTML.find('#foo') is a node, and HTML.find('.foo') must use each(). These things get even easier as web components and shadow DOM become widely available. I'm aiming at the future here, not the past.

2) elements.each('readDom').each('writeDom', 'value')

3) HTML.find('li ul').each('parentNode.classList.add', 'has-children')
I'm not sure what you mean by "cases where the return value type is actually unknowable". Does that mean you only return an Element when it's something for which there can be only one on the page (like document.body)?

As far as APIs go, one way would just be to return a list always. The DOM, afaik, returns a special NodeList thing that isn't even an array. (
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeList?re... ). What's the actual issue with using wrappers?
It was nice of you to pixellate the image, but you might want to remove the link, too. "Here's a web site with a bunch of people's private information on it" isn't the kind of thing you generally want to post to a high-traffic web site.
> Take a quick look at attachment B and you'll see that Lavabit was asked to provide the plaintext message bodies and attachments of emails sent by the user

From what I see, they were ordered to provide all messages, records etc. stored on that account and related logfiles. It does not specifically say "plaintext", so Lavabit might have provided them with the encrypted e-mails and no logs (if they had none) and still be in compliance with the warrant (IANAL!). You cannot possibly be forced to provide something you do not have, right?
really? Never ever? http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/jobs-confirms-app-store-kill...
Chrome‬ to get better downloading experience soon
Great writeup, fallenhitokiri. A shame it didn't see more upvotes when you posted it to get some attention on the home page.
Fitbit is a profitable company, they're using the money to expand the company faster.
I've got to five:a but I've hit a bit of a roadblock.
Obligatory Tesla Post.
> WordPress not complying with the DMCA could have the effect of them losing their safe-harbor status

You cannot lose your status "globally" by choosing not to act on an individual notice. Each notice you respond to provides safe harbor from the potential copyright infringement suit over that one piece of material. All WP would be risking is being sued for that one interview, not the rest of their network.
Makes me think of people who go on vacation and see everything through a camera viewfinder (well, now a screen).
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5b.1) ohevrq.cat
Nice.

Small clarification, you have this:

if height < width:
result = search_sorted_matrix(zip(*matrix), target)
return result and result[::-1]

Does zip(* matrix) complete in constant time, or time proportional to w*h? I was only able to get away with transposing because I used a LazyTranpose method that finished in constant time and added only constant overhead to each access.

I noticed that you noticed col_max_row was redundant with max_row. I was wondering if anyone would. (It used to not be, when I wasn't taking advantage of eliminating rows during the binary search. It made the animations look really dumb, so I fixed that but didn't notice the redundancy.)

Oh, lastly, some of your tests are brittle. search_sorted_matrix(example, 1) is not required to return (0, 0). Tweaking the implementation could conceivable change that to (0,1) or (0, 2). What's important is that M[result] == query.
I agree with your math of $1b + exit. I don't think that's unreasonable. They are probably the current leader in terms of brand/mindshare. Nike's success is so/so on electronic devices so they're formidable but not overly scary. And the market is HUGE when you think of the $$'s being spent to fight obesity in healthcare and stay in shape in fitness. Lastly, anytime you can have this type of intimate relationship with the consumer ("I agree to wear you around and share a lot of personal data with you") the upside is pretty exciting.
Note that there's a very large difference in clearances and access.
No, we're not at all in agreement that "Nixon was a criminal" (details on request ... although, it's been 4 decades in general, and a couple decades since I read Silent Coup).

Therefore prosecuting him because he was an anti-Communist Republican would not have been good. While this doesn't address my greater point, look at all the bogus prosecutions of Reagan Administration officials.

My greater point is about the arena that Ford decisively closed off with his pardon. Historically, when a Republic degrades to the point where leaders don't dare lose power, because they'll lose their freedom and frequently in time past their lives, that Republic dies an ugly death.

Perhaps you weren't alive/politically aware back then, but the country did Move On, Nixon and Watergate, which had consumed it, often to the exclusion of very important external issues, just stopped being a, let alone the top issue of the day. We Moved On to the supposedly clumsy Gerald Ford (he did have a bad knee from college football, but this was greatly exaggerated), Whip Inflation Now, Swine Flu, but seriously, the general business of the nation.
Yeah, i agree, which is one reason heavy-weight DOM manipulators are losing ground to small components. There will always be some need for working with the DOM though.
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>First, I'd like to point out that his suggestion is fucking absurd. Without codes, there would be no way to discern between methods of customer acquisition

As the customer? /I don't care/

As the customer? making me negotiate is work. Coupon codes are a way of automating the negotiation.

Now, different customers feel differently about this. Generally speaking, nerds without business experience? they usually agree with me. Be straight with me. Price discrimination (and, coupons are price discrimination) feels like an insult to them.

The author points out that if you want to charge different people different prices? If people find out, some of them will be pissed.

The author's solution? be discrete about it. there are plenty of ways to include a referral tag without calling it a coupon code. Someone else suggested a "how did you hear about us" - and then there are silent analytics that require no action on the customer's part.
Is this data of who fraud was happening to, or the IP address perpetrating the fraud (probably behind a proxy)?
REST comes to C++ in Visual Studio 2013
Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?
It seems like this would work over extremely short distances since the carrier signals at tags A and B are basically the same.

If ambient backscatter is going to be implemented over a larger area, the multipath or modulation of the carrier seems like it will be problematic.

Also: From measurements we have seen, the ambient RF power levels vary _drastically_ with location from TV transmitters.
Not to mention the tube is steel, which isn't traditionally light-permeable.
Compare their stock performance to Microsoft or the S&P over the past 5 years. Looks like a decent clue. They have a great salesforce, and that is one way they make their own luck despite missteps and selective underinvestment. (Selective because they like to buy back shares)

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MSFT+Interactive#symbol=m...
The Case for a New Lower-Cost iPhone
Net neutrality isn't simply about sender/recipient, it's also about type of packet. Mandated QoS is a direct violation of net neutrality.
I can't tell if he's being serious..

> "It's great," Ellison said of the domestic spying. "It's great, it's essential. President Obama thinks it's essential. It's essential if we want to minimize the kind of strikes that we just had in Boston. It's absolutely essential."

Except our government, despite all the warnings about the Boston bombers, were unable to stop them. They're clearly incompetent. And Ellison is just accepting that it's essential based on.. faith?

> If some people don't like what NSA is doing, Ellison argued, the trick is to vote the spying programs away. "The great thing is that we live in a democracy. If we don't like what NSA is doing, we can just get rid of the government and put in a different government," he said.

Except these are secret laws being deemed secretly constitutional by a secret court. How can we vote the programs away if everything related to them is secret?

> But even if we dismantled the NSA, Ellison warned, that wouldn't mean nobody would be collecting the kinds of data the NSA gathers. American Express, Visa, and other financial services companies have all been building detailed profiles on their customers since long before the issue of government surveillance ever came up, he said – so why shouldn't the government have the same tools?

Uh.. why should they? Two wrongs don't make a right.

> "This whole issue of privacy is utterly fascinating to me," Ellison said. "Who's ever heard of this information being misused by the government? In what way?"

Didn't he just answer this himself..?

> Pressed to say where he would draw the line on domestic surveillance, he ventured that it would be wrong if the data were used for political ends
I've been looking at another library like the one you linked. Essentially the "yield" keyword can be compared to "await" in C#.

https://github.com/bjouhier/galaxy
Anyone curious enough to click can just as easily search for "OutsideLands Lost and Found"
Event handling is in the works, either bundled or separate:
https://github.com/nbubna/HTML/issues/1

HTML is the root element (<html>), so it cannot be a function. HTML.ify() is only needed if you have a different library/interface that hands you an element, not retrieved via find() or dot-traversal.
Here's the most forked https://github.com/search?q=%22&type=Repositories&s=forks

Here's the most starred https://github.com/search?q=%22&type=Repositories

You can filter by language on the left.
If you have touching faces rendered using different shaders, different lighting/material properties and/or different textures, internal edges rendered using subpixel antialiasing will look bad, which is why FSAA using multisampling is the preferred way to antialias on any system that has sufficient fillrate.
> For instance, using name matching alone, you can clearly identify the full name of a student at University of Central Oklahoma, what state she’s from, where she went to undergrad, and where she shops for gas.

...and do what, exactly?
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Perhaps on a straight, but in the bends or slopes you'd still need some sort of control. I'm visualising the kind of oscillations that luge or bobsled riders get in the winter olympics when they come out of the corners.

High speed and low friction could mean a lot of potential lateral movement that needs to be controlled somehow. Maybe releasing some of the stored compressed gas in controlled bursts like used in various space endeavours. That would have the added benefit of off-loading some of the potentially dangerous steam.
Also, the flash on the left hand side occurs too quickly. If I pay attention to it, then I can't read the code. If I read the code, I can't look at the flash. Pretty slick though. :)
Backscatter refers to reflecting RF power. Ambient backscatter is modulating the reflections of the ambient RF signals as opposed to beaming a signal in from a source as RFID does.

The device you built uses the incoming signal to power the device as well as drive the speaker. The devices in this article are using the incoming RF signal to both power the device as well as reflect for wireless communication.
Finally got it resolved ... I ended up requesting for support to call me. Same as before, the guy said he had to transfer me to another place for them to help me. I asked him to stay on the line and talk to the other agent to make sure it was the right place (which to his credit he did), and he discovered that they would in fact not help me. So then he put me on hold for a while, and came back trying to suggest that I should just post on the forums, or try the chat option, or request a callback. After informing him that requesting a callback is what brought me to him, he was further flummoxed. So I asked to speak to his supervisor. I made sure to tell the supervisor that the agent was nothing but nice, so it wasn't a complaint on him ... I just wanted it handled without posting on a forum. Eventually he told me that he was going to do it, but that "things don't go well when we do this". He suggested that having consumer support make a change on a developer account might lock the developer account ... or something, and that I'd have to call back to have it unlocked if I had problems signing up in the future.

So although I appreciate that they were eventually able to help me; wow, what a complete and utter nightmare. I'm kind of bummed because although I was disabling the auto-renew, I was considering whether I would pick things back up in 6 months to a year and maybe release another windows 8 app. Going to really think twice about it now ... heck, it might not even let me sign up again!
Those are below the jump. I've not had time to polish that demo further. The library went viral a bit earlier than i'd hoped. Work is in progress.
A true school essay would list subtopics in the thesis, restate the subtopics in each topic and concluding sentence, and then restate the subtopics again in the conclusion.

Parent is at least subtle and not so terribly redundant.
Lavabit wouldn't be these that bruteforce the passwords. We all know who's in charge for such things. That they earlier provided what they had is to be expected, those were normal court orders, as you were able to prove by linking to them. What happend now must have been something significantly different to make the owner shutting down the company. The owner is not even allowed to say what, which is directly against the First amendment. That's really a huge issue. Please don't keep trying to distract from that by mixing up the normal court orders with what's going on now. Thanks in advance.
There's also an interview with the Lavabit founder Ladar Levison and his lawyer over on democracy now (seems to be on the HN banlist):

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/13/exclusive_owner_of_sno...
"The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user."

Hell no. Software comes from software development. And software development is a process. My editor, programming style, directory structures and other personal organizational behaviours do matter. This is work we do, and while the end user's experience may be identical regardless of very different personal development style options, the one which gives me the most comfort and work satisfaction is superior. So yes, I will configure my editor so that I don't have to keep repeating the same keystrokes dozens of times throughout the day. I will align things the way I see fit, and I will endeavour to study and improve my skill with the language. Not only so that I'm more efficient, but because it will bring increased contentment to the process of development.
It would be a cool weekend project to scrape this data and do a search for these people's public profiles that have also mentioned the word "lost" or "OutsideLands" and send them a message
“I’ve always sort of believed it’s important for Americans to have private conversations with other Americans,” Mr. Levison said in a telephone interview Monday, “and not fear that their conversations were being monitored by the government.”

The problem with that is you know your service is going to be used by criminals, child pornography, organized crime, terrorists etc. So if you start this service you know you're going to have to comply with government requests for that data. It seems disingenuous to complain about their requests as though you didn't expect them and that they wouldn't e reasonable. And I think he's saying that in his own way when you get into the details: "Yep, I supported the narrowly defined ones but the broadly defined ones are the straw that broke the camels back"
AOL’s Armstrong Apologizes to Staff for Firing of Employee
I can't reconcile "it's like VBA reads my mind" with the goal, since it wouldn't be VBA; it would be another language which compiles to VBA.

CoffeeScript isn't "Javascript that reads your mind." Scala isn't "Java that reads your mind."

CoffeeScript had some difficulties, for that matter. It wasn't until CoffeeScript 1.6.1 that there was a way, in collaboration with browsers which support source maps, to get error line numbers relative to the CoffeeScript source instead of the intermediate Javascript.

Any language which isn't VB but which compiles to VB will have the same problems - how do you report report run-time errors in a way that your users can understand them?

There's similar problems with debugging. How do you step through your source? How do you inspect intermediate values? These are things that VBA supports, but your language won't be able to support.

You might end up with a great language design that ends up taking more time to implement in because it isn't debuggable.

Regarding PyPy, the reason I mentioned it was in context of "I actually would be interested to know about the state of the art [in designing high level language that transpiles to another], any resources are very welcome." PyPy is state of the art for that, if you want a JIT.
Maybe they are getting ready to deprecate google code (ala Reader). </snark>
There's an oblique hint in the source code, sometimes.

Though with that one, the first line of the hint helped me, but the second just confused me (I've just looked up the full story behind the "Run run" reference -- I suppose it was a reminder of the ending to the story? Lost on anyone who doesn't remember the full thing, though...).
Here at Grooveshark, we ran into a bug once where users in some countries couldn't perform searches. It took a while to figure out, but eventually we discovered that it was a problem with the name of the API call the site makes to get search results.

Originally the call was named 'getSearchResults'. Over time, we made some non-backwards-compatible changes to the search call, and following our usual naming standards, named the new call 'getSearchResultsEx'.

Additionally, for ease of debugging, when we hit the API endpoint, we add the method name as a GET param. Makes it much easier when scrolling through Firebug's network tab to find the API request you need to examine, since they all hit the same php script.

It turns out that in some countries, you can't visit a url that contains the word 'sex'...and the filter is case insensitive.
Radio was a bad analogy but how about books or newspapers? As another commenter has mentioned in this sub-thread, there has always been some kind of attention divide like screen has been for our age. Also, we may discard books as a source of distraction but my question is whether it is so because we are used to it.
Another question, since I don't personally know any transgender persons: if gender is just a mindset, what drives them to want another biological sex? Isn't the feminist dogma that biological sex is basically irrelevant and only gender (mindset) should matter?
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Removing the coupon code field increases conversions from 3.8% to 5.1%
Yes that totally makes sense. Really I just wanted to know if this is something you wanted Elm to provide good support for so thanks for your response here.
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Larry Ellison is either a very good troll or a lawnmower. I would not recommend spending too much time trying to understand his thoughts.
Will this destroy signal integrity for everybody in the vicinity?
If you use Chrome, install Hacked Hacker News to highlight unread comments and Hacker News Collapse to make the threads collapsible.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacked-hacker-news...

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Poll: Top 3 coding languages and why.
I'm just getting into coding and would like an insight into the differences between the languages.
> And if they have nothing to hide and their accounting is honest, then an audit shouldn't be a problem.

Are you one of those people who support the NSA? I really didn't think I'd meet one on HN.
totally! I think the analogy of going back to school is a great one and is the same rationale that I used when I left my job. 10+ years is a good long time so you could at least enjoy the benefits for a while before joining your startup :-)
As AndyKelley mentions, the point was it being async and event-driven by default. JavaScript was chosen because it was the only language that was simultaneously popular and free of sync baggage.
What's the best way to give developers space?