skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colleagues are non existent in most software shops? I obviously didn't imply there was some independent software inspection service.

I care about how code is written, because I'll have to work on it. My employers care about how code is written, because our reputation is on the line.

It's about solving problems, certainly, but workflows directly contribute to solving problems better, faster and more reliably.
The most important thing to realize is:

This isn't happening to you. You are doing it to yourself.
But the point is, if you were worried about the information going public, why not exercise some of that "great responsibility" and not push further traffic to it until the problem is fixed?
>> it appears <dev.fitbit.com> they want data to go directly from their hardware to their servers before anyone else's code can touch it.

The way Fitbit works is they push the data down to you whenever it's updated by the device or user.

>> as a developer, of course, it would be nice to get as close to the hardware as possible.

In our case it wasn't desired at all - all we want from the device is the data, which we get from the site. Building wellness products where it's so much easier to have the device automatically upload the phone app (bluetooth transfer) or USB dongle on the users PC. Half your problem is getting people to log into a site every day to record their activity.

Other vendors such as Pebble require the developer to hit an API for the data and their site can be down for days at a time, without so much as a peep out of them. You think as a company they'd want to treat developers better...
I think a lot of people don't notice the annoyed glances they get, though, because they aren't looking at the faces of the people around them.

Obviously this may not apply to you personally, but quite a lot of people don't seem to realize how frequently they're checking (like any mostly-unconscious nervous tic...), and when a new email does appear, how often they simply zone out during the 10 seconds or so they take to figure out that no, this isn't something urgent and can be ignored until the next day.
Also, I didn't mean to say that he writes crappy code. What I meant was, those who already write crappy code will now be less inclined to improve because some tech-celebrity said it's okay.
He said there could be branch stations, and he also gave the example of someone having an emergency right at takeoff in a normal plane, and it taking just as long to get clearance to land, turn around, land, and taxi to a gate.
Hyperloop and our Open-Sourced Future
That was a deliberate choice of word, yes?

https://twitter.com/LarryLawnmower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=1982s

Don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.
I rsync to another server which is backed up via CrashPlan.
I bought a bunch of out of the money calls (500-600) for jan 14 and jan 15 when Apple was 450, and a bunch more at 400. It has been...exciting.
In the plane people can stand up, help the one being sick ("is there a doctor on the plane? please come to the seat 34E" -- the steward is already there etc) bring him water, take him to the toilet. It's a big space. Nothing like that here -- everybody is trapped in the tube not able to leave the chair.

Imagine even worse case: fire in the pod. People burn having to remain unmovable in the seats. Again imagine the public response. Just an impression of having absolutely no chance to do anything at all is enough to scare most normal people forever.

It just has to be big enough for people to normally move inside. Everything else is good for SciFi but not for real use.

If you don't travel, then imagine your computer being connected to the control of the tube in which you are and where you can't move. Now imagine that you can't kill the program for a half an hour which is effectively killing you. Even if the chances are low for the killing process to activate, would you even want to try such an experience?
Not necessarily refuting what you're saying, but here's an interesting take on "purely by chance" from Buffett, by analogy of coin flipping and getting a run of heads: http://www.tilsonfunds.com/superinvestors.html
Until the site comes back online, here is the tweet: https://twitter.com/Carl_C_Icahn/status/367350206993399808
Ask HN: Alternatives to GMail?
I've gotten fed up with the UI changes that been made to (inflicted on) gmail in the last two years or so; new compose is the last straw. What are some good alternatives? SSL, non-"flat" UI and a good thread/conversation view are my only musts, skins/themes are a nice-to-have.
Uh, what? This could almost be...

They're nothing alike. Suppose Silent Circle sent an email to all its users announcing that they would destroy the data on the server in 7 days. It's a good bet the government has accounts on most privacy-advocating web services, simply to keep tabs. That gives the government 7 days to try to get a FISA warrant, or if they think they can get away with it, unilaterally issue a NSL.

They would only be able to subpoena a few of the email accounts (or maybe a lot, but certainly not all), but that still breaks the privacy model many people assume given its advertisement as "secure" webmail.

Silent Circle didn't want to take the chance, and your hyperbolic parallel notwithstanding, they had good reason to do what they did.
I live in Oakland, have lived in San Francisco for a long time, frequently work in LA, and have lived in London, Amsterdam and Barcelona as well, so I feel I've had exposure to a good variety of transit systems in order to form my opinion.
Based on what President Obama said during his news conference, he's seeking to make the Americans "more comfortable" with the NSA program - not overhaul, stop, or find-guilty.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-11/obama-aims-to-build...
I don't think that has a way to get stacks. See http://research.swtch.com/pprof for why stacks are important.
Strange, because anti-aliasing is clearly on for me by default. Chrome 28 on OS X.
I'm getting the impression that shutting the service down was the goal perhaps, although the lenience in not just finding a charge to put him away for seems surprising. But really how many rational serious business owners without legal training would do anything to do with the federal government without legal representation?
You're exaggerating. As mentioned in the original thread, if any of those situations happen in a taxiing airplane, or during take-off/landing, it's going to be the same or longer time until you get to the gate. Same goes for an intercity bus, stopping in the middle of nowhere doesn't help with anything.

The vehicle carrying version is a tad larger (1.85m height), without adding much to the cost, and would probably be chosen for an actual build. Given the capsule will be coasting for most of the trip, it would be possible to walk around like in an airplane, if it's not doing a sharp turn.
Just replace 's3://' with 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/'. You can use this link [1], but it looks like most of them are returning "Access Denied", so you would likely need to login with your AWS username/password to access them.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-publicdatasets/
I just used this and received a great result within 1 hour. Excellent stuff.
So happy we found common ground! That's how it's done. Women must assimilate, not dictate. (Here goes the old "in my day" lecture:) we had to learn how to tie ugly scarves around our necks as tie substitutes....tacky...so ya loose a little dignity here and there, but what you gain, if you stay on TASK! is the respect of your coworkers, and 'power' flows from there. Don't sweat the small stuff:)
wanna see what i mean, UGLY scarves:)
http://www.rustyzipper.com/womens/scarves/1970/ I would prefer to hear cursing anyday!
The reason I would still call that an emotional, rather than logical response is that these Tweets don't have much to base a valuation on. For example, what is a "large" position or "larger" buyback in actual dollars? You have to estimate and guess.

At the end of the day, Cook and Icahn may not agree on anything concrete and all of this would have been vapor.

That said, it doesn't mean you cannot be opportunistic and make some money on the ups and downs this thing generates.
Check out the Common Crawl contest winning projects from the linked page - some very good work, and a good source of ideas and techniques: http://commoncrawl.org/the-winners-of-the-norvig-web-data-sc...

Some good stuff!
The 40 dollars. That is a huge amount of money is many parts of the world. Specially for the type of people Bill Gates philanthropic work is aimed at.
You alluded to it; my investing philosophy, while highly influenced by Graham, isn't the same as his.
Excuse me. I am an existence proof of the falsity of your statement. I don't like government much, and I do think I have a right to the fruit of my labor. And I'm more than happy to use GPL software when it is appropriate, and I'm quite happy to license my own labor out as AGPL3.
> "Let the whole thing come crashing down", well, that tells us how much you really care for "the people" ... you're talking about ending the Republic.

No, I'm referring to the collusion between the two extant political parties. Political parties receive no charter in the constitution and the founders of the country generally held them in low regard, and yet they've established a stranglehold on the country. Their reign is what I'm referring to when I say "Let the whole thing come crashing down."

Edit: George Washington said it better than I can in his farewell address[1].

[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Farewell_Addres...
I'm very open to it, but never pursued it. Perhaps I'll build one in the future. I do use the Apple Wireless Keyboard so I'm almost there :)
New biotech process creates fuel and electricity from veg. waste and garbage
So what? That's like saying Comcast, AT&T, and other service providers should feel guilty for what their users do with their networks? Please. As if they would.
Fine, let's all go back to business as usual of calling people idiots to make ourselves feel superior, HN.
My account's Facebook applications have been disabled with no explanation
Android ought to fall under Linux (Other), but he should still add it. He should also separate GNU/Linux (other) and BSD/Linux categories; see how many people are using BSD userlands like obase and magenta. So,

GNU/Linux (other)
BSD/Linux
Android
Linux (other userland)
I saw the quoted text in the original page and stopped reading right there; who on earth wants to use a query library where you have no idea whether what's returned is an array of elements or just an element?
All of my apps just vanished, including lots of apps that were built for clients. Anyone at Facebook reading this and have any idea who we can contact to try and get this resolved? I can't subscribe to the bug because I'm suddenly not a developer.
Oblique spoiler alert?

What does a cow's leer mean? I can't think of any permutations of the letters in 'name' that make sense.
I don't get it. I got as far as PNG and am thinking along a buried "."
I gave a solution (each()). You say it adds complexity. But adding it to what? The DOM gives you NodeList for querySelectorAll and an Element for querySelector. Is choosing between those at runtime and working with the results simpler than each()? No. Is one of those enforced? No. Fewer mistakes will be made with HTML.js than the straight-up DOM. I've reduced (and somewhat shifted) the complexity, not added it.

You say my dismissal of wrappers is entirely orthogonal because you are only comparing HTML.js to jQuery on jQuery's terms. jQuery made the choice to have syntax independent of the runtime state of the DOM. That's great, very useful!! I use jQuery all the time, it's not going away anytime soon. But with that benefit comes the cost of having to maintain a wrapper API, to learn a separate API with its own orthogonal set of drawbacks to using the DOM directly.

Web dev is changing. Single-focus libraries, web components, shadow DOM, all of these do not look fondly on wrapper APIs. Wrappers are essentially foreign tongues, not the native DOM they are designed to consume. HTML.js is designed for that world, where you are working with small, tightly controlled sections of native DOM.

If your page is the wild west with complex selectors and lots of interacting runtime changes, by all means, use a wrapper API like jQuery. But stop measuring every DOM helper with that stick. Sheesh.
I can recommend https://fastmail.fm/ which has been a really solid experience for me over the last few months. The UI is quite nice—see Mike Masnick's write-up for some screenshots.[^1]

Their servers are located in the US, tho, which might be a cause of concern for some—but that wasn't part of the question. (Personally, I will be probably moving my mails off of FM for that particular reason.)

[^1]: http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/
is 5 days really "a while"..
Lavabit had two account types. The no-cost one stored the messages unencrypted and the for-fee one stored the messages encrypted.

You have not established that that warrant was for accounts of the second type.

You have not established that the contents of the DVD were readable by the authorities.

You have not established that the type of person who would have a Lavabit account would be the type of person who would choose a password which has "a reasonable probability" of being brute-forced in under a decade.
Google Maps easter egg: the TARDIS is in London (Street View, old Maps only)
The administration is hands down adamant that this is happening, do not pass go.

It's absurd to me that this is the same administration that wouldn't even entertain the idea of single-payer health care, for fear of reprisal from the opposing party, yet they flaunt their power at the general public.
Linux Mint on my laptop for 2 years. Win7 at work.
As others have pointed out, 6bn is about the cost of the Bay Bridge extension or, if you prefer, six Instagrams or other retarded "tech" startups.

This is not aimed at you, but when I started reading Hacker News I was amazed how excited, interesting and smart people were on this site. But now Im starting to get tired of this 'valley think'.
Greetings from Switzerland where mind blowing infrastructure projects are still happening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
Yes, but now argue it in court.
Well ok, but how can you prove the correlation ?
I wonder how far people have gotten. For me:

5b) fur
6a) natyr
6b) natyvn
7b) nqnz
8a) cebqhpg
Is there a secret Lollipuff robotics application in the works? :)
Using GitHub, Leanpub and Gumroad for creating and selling ebooks
Not sure if you mean for profit and proprietary or just making money in general. For some reason though a lot of people think you can't sell GPL'd software which you absolutely can.
In May of this year, my development team went on a 1-month work-cation in Panama.

The internet was fast enough, but we quickly discovered that we couldn't access google analytics (google.com/ANALytics) without a VPN or socks proxy back in the USA.

I suspect text-based web content filters tend to have fairly high false-positive rates in general.
the strange thing here, is that IT people would probable say linux or mac (at majority), but everybody use windows at work.

so why we still promote windose at work?!
Would the world be a better place if Apple weren't allowed to Tivoize the iDevices because all the free software in them were licensed under GPLv3? I'd say yes.
Would anyone be willing to explain the proposed benefits of an "Internet of Things"?
Patch is known by pretty much every working journalist, so in its own field, Patch is well watched. To put it in perspective, more money has been burned through Patch than many, many of the companies usually discussed on HN
My other computer is a data center.
> clang's website attempts to demonstrate the superiority of clang by comparing against the error messages from gcc 4.2

Even if it that doesn't hold true anymore, I think it's valid to highlight since it's one of the motivations, probably one of the original creators' pain points with GCC.

The website reads:

Some of the goals for the project include the following:

End-User Features:
- Expressive diagnostics (examples)
There are many investors who have outperformed over long periods of time, they just aren't household names (Seth Klarman is one).

What you ascribe to Buffett's success only came late in his career, those opportunities weren't possible when he was running a hedge fund and the early days of Berkshire.
I'm not saying it's a pump-and-dump. What I am saying is that Icahn (and others like him) are very careful to hide their purchases from the market while they are still purchasing, in order to prevent their own purchases from unduly raising the price.

If anything, Icahn's tweet signals that he is no longer purchasing AAPL in quantity. Now he wants the market to "catch up" to his value appraisal so he can realize a gain.
Anti-filter method:

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.fword:after { content: "ck"; }

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That was the hypothetical to break down where the cost savings come from. It would not be as fast, no, but you might be able to get up to high speed train speed's with it.

Energy savings are mostly moot if you power things from overhead wire/ third rail. Electricity is cheap(I'm actually curious why this isn't part of the proposal).

So it's benefit is speed. It's a very big benefit, but the tolerances for the air baring/tunnel wall it rides on are really really small.
Those are fighting words bro I'll send you a code sample right now see whose the ninja.

Look, you can't just throw cheap shots, that's all deuche. What was the need for calling him an idiot or incompetent?
IMAP. Or search for previous Ask HNs, there are dozen on the topic.
Radish?
https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish
Netflix doesn't pay per stream. Netflix pays for content in "windows". e.g. Netflix pays $20M to show Seasons 1-5 of Breaking Bad for 1 year. That's why content appears and disappears all the time.

It's the same how movie companies sell broadcast rights to HBO or other similar channels.
Why would you when someone already rolled a promises library like Q?
This is like how the US lets the police investigate police misconduct. Absolute joke.
I hate to pour cold water on this, but the tweet wasn't the value here : It was the announcement itself. Making it in the newspaper (as would have been done in the past) would have been just as effective. Or via Bloomberg (on their terminals).

OTOH, adding the detail about talking to the CEO is a little odd : Is the implication that he's trading on information that he got from a private conversation? The whole area is a little murky, I guess, because the intention to buy a block should also be material market-affecting information, but somehow it's not against the rules.
Might happen for some companies... the really short-sighted ones, that won't be with us long. Companies with any vision whatsoever are always going to see the ability to use technology, and information technology in particular, to gain a competitive advantage. But using homogenized, one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter SaaS apps isn't going to provide anybody with any competitive advantage.

So, yes, SaaS will devour the kinds of things that aren't strategic and have no reasonable way to contribute to any meaningful competitive advantage. But as long as companies are looking for an edge, there will always be a place for customized, tailored IT solutions, developed in-house, which embody proprietary knowledge and strategies.

I believe the future will coalesce around a hybrid model where most companies will have IT environments that feature a mix of cookie-cutter, non-customized SaaS apps, more advanced SaaS apps that allow some means of customization, apps hosted in "the cloud" using PaaS or IaaS providers, and apps hosted "on premises" (perhaps using a "private cloud" approach).

In the end, though ( and I wish I could remember/find the source of this quote ):

"Whoever has the best algorithms, wins"
Facebook Apps Disabled
Interestingly, when my RSI was bad and I was writing my PhD thesis with NaturallySpeaking, I noticed that voice fatigue was directly related to drinking coffee, too. The more coffee I drank, the move tired my voice would be at the end of the day. Then I mentioned this to a singer friend and she said basically said "of course. every singer knows that caffeine is bad for your voice."
As I've already commented on a previous submission of the RT source, this is nonsense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6208521

Wow, talk about taking things out of context, but I guess this is what you get from "consumer watchdog" via RT.

The "quote" in question is that of a lawyer citing a previous ruling (they do that a lot) to counter a specific allegation:

“a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over tothird parties.”
Smith v. Maryland,
442 U.S. 735, 743-44 (1979).

The whole case is built on trying to make physical mail (snail mail) analogies applicable to email, they are accusing Google of "reading" emails when it's computers "parsing" text. That particular part of the motion is in response to the argument that non-Gmail users class action is valid since they didn't agree to the TOS. Google counters that "automated processing" is part of webmail.

Link to relevant page: http://www.scribd.com/doc/160041493/Google-Motion-061313#pag...

It's either the author have never seen a court briefing before or he’s just pushing an agenda.

The case is about Gmail "scanning" emails to target ads, Google is arguing (rightly so) that machines parsing emails is not equivalent to "reading" it, and that "automated processes" are responsible for spam filtering, spell checking and other features.

The entire motion, read it and make you own conclusions:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/160041493/Google-Motion-061313

Edit: I've also found the PR from consumer watchdog, they are intentionally removing the distinction between the lawyer's words and the citation, which exposed their propaganda:

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/google-tells-cou...

CW:

Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient’s [email provider] in the course of delivery. Indeed, ‘a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties

Actual document:

Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’sassistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their communications are processed by the recipient’s ECS provider in the course of delivery. Indeed,“a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over tothird parties.”
Smith v. Maryland,
442 U.S. 735, 743-44 (1979).

Even then it's just an out of context portion, of a bigger section of a bigger case.
Logistics is a multi trillion dollar industry. I doubt there's a larger sector of the economy than moving things around.