skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloud Endpoints is worth considering: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/endpoints/
As far as I'm aware, you can't absolve them of a statutory duty, you don't have the authority. You can only absolve them of things that you could bring to bear against them personally - and even then I know that contract law is complicated enough to make that a dicey proposition.
They've figured that out too. Behold, economist Bryan Caplan's book "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids": http://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-More-Kids/dp/0465...
Taking "Ministry Numbers" into account is the most vulnerable thing to do in Turkey right now. According to them Turkish Lira was rock solid but it just sank 15% in a day a few days ago.
>We have the chance of running the same language on the front-end and the back-end

yeah, I can't wait for a fully fledged webserver written in JS
As far as I'm aware, there's no precedent. You could make the argument in court, and I don't know which way it would go. In a civil case (copyright infringement), my guess would be you'd be found responsible unless you could prove through other means that it wasn't you. In a criminal case, perhaps not.
It's literally just outside Old St tube station, exit 4
"If men try to do it, it's called EUGENICS and it's immoral"

No it really isn't. Eugenics describes selective breeding to remove or increase certain genetic traits. It has nothing to do with controlling population sizes as a whole.

"I'm very disappointed Attenborough joined the eugenics club of Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Eli Broad, Bill Gates, Rockefeller and .. Adolf Hitler."

Pathetic... and also wrong since none of those people except Hitler actually practiced EUGENICS

"These people want population reduction: why don't they start with themselves ???"

As if the Hitler association wasn't enough you further lower yourself to arguing 'ad Hominem'. Wether these people are hypocrites or not does not adds nothing to the argument. And to my knowledge Oprah has no kids and David Attenborough and Warren Buffer have 2.
Perhaps when it comes to nomenclature it's sort of like Lisp. There are many Lisps: Scheme, EmacsLisp, etc. But there is only one Lisp, and that is Common Lisp.

Likewise there are many JVMs. But there is only one "the JVM", and that is Hotspot.
Thanks; I made the background scroll up a bit faster.

Still depends largely on the width of your browser window, though. Maybe the scrolling speed should adapt to it...
I think it's very good practice to tape bugs. We need to think how we can apply it to DEV process ;)
As a bit of history, in case you're interested: Opera releases often used to be staggered, with Windows out first (since, as you say, they're the biggest), MacOS following, and Linux several weeks behind. Around Opera 10ish (I think, can't remember the exact one), they made a thing of changing that, promising that MacOS and Linux releases would from then on be simultaneous with Windows, as equal-first-class platforms. And with the switch to blink, they've quietly dropped that. Obviously I see the economic logic of releasing for the most popular platforms first, but that doesn't much blunt the emotional disappointment (from me and other Opera for Linux users) of seeing them drop their commitment.

(On a more practical note, for why I switched to FF - the latest Presto may not be much more than a year old, but you'd be surprised how fast the web changes when you're using an unmaintained rendering engine. New website functionality often doesn't work - html5 file uploading on most sites is broken, can't get the new google maps, g+ and fb are slow, etc. Web devs don't test on presto now that opera for windows/mac doesn't use it, and opera have stopped packaging website shims).
Learn Websecurity
Either you have serious reading comprehension issues, or you make a habit of deliberately misconstruing others statements - or you're a troll, and I'm stupidly feeding you.

I am saying that it IS an issue, but that the issue is not one of gender discrimination, just one of kids, and humans, being dicks - and you can't combat it purely on gender lines as all you're doing is treating a symptom rather than the disease.
Have you tested this on an ipad 2/iPad mini (As display)? I am not posting this to say it doesn't work but It is very choppy/almost-unusable even on the lowest quality. I can run quality and size at 2/3 from iPhone -> computer but it's still a little jittery. That said I am using an iPhone 4S so that might have something to do with it.

As a whole the idea is awesome, the app is beautiful, and setup is a breeze! Great job!
The UK is almost (bar perhaps Singapore) a worst case scenario: huge land holdings by a small number of established parties, all jobs in essentially one area, and a culture of huge numbers of people living in cramped housing which reduces the demand for proper living space. I lived there for a year and have visited a few other times myself, plus I have a friend from there with a strong interest in alternative construction techniques who is presently searching for a solution to this issue himself. According to him, getting permits to build pretty much anything is really expensive and difficult, which represents an even greater hurdle than the cost of land. On the plus side, a subset of the out-of-town transit links are quite OK if your work in some parts of London or remote.

If I were you I would look about 40min or 1hr commute out by train for special situations (long term land minding, basic groundskeeping on estates for free accomodation, etc.) and/or try to ingratiate yourself with someone with significant landholdings who wouldn't mind carving off a portion to a friend at an agreeable price. Honestly though, why not just leave the UK? It's not really that exciting. France is far cheaper, you get brilliant food, and the people are less football thug slash coke-snortin' bankerish. If you really want to go to London, you can live in Brittany and get a ferry back now and then for not that much money.
That's fantastic, thanks for posting it here.
Just curious: Have you tried Gate One at all? https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne

I wrote it to solve the problem of, "I need to SSH right now but I don't want to install anything." I've been improving it pretty steadily for about two years now and people seem to like it. I've even got paying customers so it's certainly usable for at least a few people ;)

If you try it and you think it sucks send me a long, detailed ranting email (you can use the feedback form at liftoffsoftware.com if you want). I love em! What's more useful than honest, detailed feedback? I always fix what I can.
As a CDN, do you have any opinion on submodular load balancing (as mentioned in http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.147....)?

We encountered the same problem at work, but in a different domain.
He isn't whitewashing anything. He is talking about AFTER the incident. Certainly the best scenario would have been the incident NOT happening in the first place. Since it did happen though college paid. That is what he is talking about.
If you implement it properly, there will be no transcripts or verification if bills are not paid.

I went to Harvard, its just I lost the degree in bankruptcy, so they claim I didn't go. Just call my references (which are actually burner phones held by my brothers)

Interestingly higher ed already requires all bills to be paid to graduate... they don't care if you default on your credit card the week after graduation, but you aren't getting the diploma until the library fees and tuition are paid off by "someone, somehow". Once its the loan servicers problem, they don't care and you get your diploma. I vaguely recall having to get a slip from some different offices proving I owe no money to the school, in order to graduate, and threats they wouldn't provide transcripts to students in collections, etc.
AMD describes more fruits of ARM embedded partnership
Perhaps a terminal application could do it then.
They had nothing to do with security. The GP was stretching a fair bit to try and make a point.

They had an issue with deploying....supposedly:)
They still haven't come out and said exactly what the issue was.
this is depressing ... but i can't help but wonder if this analysis isn't sexist itself.

if the sexes were reversed i think it would be a case of saying "well son, women are just like that - you'll have to learn to live with it" and be on your way.

is that sexist?

i'm pretty sure there are natural and cultural tendendcies for men and women to behave certain ways. the behaviour described is not unique to programming, when there is one girl in a group or even school... its just people.
Academia is run like a business by people with no business or management experience.
So I went to the Appcara website to have a look at the product, especially pricing information, and I couldn't find anything. My best guess is that if I download the trial (after filling in the lengthy form), a sales rep will call me. No thanks, tab closed.

Ok, so yes, I'm one of the people who hate talking to sales reps - just show me the price I'm going to pay and I'll make a decision. If I have to talk to a sales rep, I feel I'm being cheated because I don't know what discounts other people got and I feel like the rep is only trying to get the most they can out of me. The thing is, though, that these things are usually complex software solutions and I'll need to trial them to determine if they will even work for me and the trial itself will take a significant time investment. If I don't know the price up front, how do I know that I even have the budget for this? If I trial before I know the price, then there's a chance that my time is wasted, regardless of the outcome of the trial. So I avoid such companies like the plague.

While this is the case here, that isn't the reason I closed the tab though. The reason I closed the tab is that nowhere did it tell me this. I didn't see a pricing page that tells me to contact sales, or a buy now button that tells me to contact sales, or an Are you interested? Contact sales! notice. Nothing. I am left guessing and I suppose that if I download the trial I'll get a sales call.

I understand that they are trying to filter the hot leads out (if I download the trial and filled out the lengthy form, surely I'm a pretty hot lead), but this is getting ridiculous. There are a few products like this one that I've come across recently where I would happily pay tens of thousands a year, but don't want to jump through these hoops. So they lose out and companies with more transparent pricing get my business.

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As an aside, while I'm not yet convinced about Datomic (I've had no need for it) and therefore the price seems a little high (I expect I'd quickly change my mind if I did have a need for it), I love their attitude to pricing: http://www.datomic.com/pricing.html and http://www.datomic.com/faq.html#pricing I love how transparent and to the point they are and I love how everybody gets the same price for the same thing. I wish more enterprise software were like this.
I'm currently writing a blog post on how to do this with ffmpeg on a Raspberry Pi - or any other device that has ffmpeg and a webcam.

The source for the MPEG1 decoder is available[1], but missing streaming support at the moment. I will push the new version soon.

[1] http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/05/mpeg1-video-decoder-in-java...
Show HN: Today or Tomorrow? Ractive.js and Dropbox Datastore Api application
My starting pay as a high school teacher was $30k. I lived in a one room apartment, didn't have cable, had a cheap used car and a $30 a month "dumb" cell phone. I didn't go to the bars or buy new fancy gadgets. And I still had 6 months before I had to start repaying my student loan.

Including grading papers and planning lessons I was putting in 10 hours a day.

Add I had a second job at the mall movie theater to make up the difference between by income and my bills, so I worked 8+ hours on Saturday and Sunday as well.

You know what I did on my school vacations and personal days? I worked extra hours at the movie theater (the extra money almost always went to fixing my broken used car)

I make more money now than I would have made teaching with 20 years experience and a PhD (which I would have had to pay for myself) and my job now is far less difficult that the easiest day of teaching. And I can pay my bills without working on the weekends.
A Charlie Rose Exclusive with Bashar al-Assad
The fact articles like this surface again and again suggests that these three steps are not so easily remembered nor followed in the heat of the moment.
I would love to have been a fly on the wall when the director of the NSA is meeting with the president telling him that the only way to ensure national security against terrorism is to start these mass surveillance systems.

"Okay", says the president. "I guess if it's the only way then I'm sure the people will understand it's in their best interest" slight chuckle escapes his lips at the end.

When it should have gone something like this.

"Bullshit! I will not sacrifice the freedoms that are the foundations of America, simply to make your job easier on you. If you can't do the job without destroying the very freedoms you should be protecting, I'll damn well find someone who can!"

Director of NSA: while stuttering "Well actually we could work together with the CIA and FBI as well as foreign intelligence to garner the necessary intel that would give us actual probable cause to start monitoring someone by legal means with a warrant and everything."
> (if you don't hack or bridge the chrome)

i already said that. can you serve Gate One as Chrome Extension? No.
One possible use case for heterogeneous CPUs that comes to mind is in laptops the same way AMD Switchable Graphics is used now: to save power when you don't need the performance.
However, I'm not sure if any energy efficiency benefits of this solution wouldn't be offset by the increased software and hardware complexity (which costs both money and battery power). If anything, it might be easier and cheaper for AMD to pair up its high-performance ("Steamroller") x86 cores with low-power ("Jaguar") ones instead.
Why are we so sure that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?
Joshua Bell, one of the greatest violinists of our time, as a busker has only 2 people take any notice, and only one person realize how great he is -- and that is because she recognized him, not his playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw
Consolas is nice, but for me it is too small for 10pt, and too large for 11pt.
I can't go to this event but the previous ones that I've been to have been great. Recommended.
Windows Phone App Studio: A User Interface Only Microsoft Could Design
> The rental policies there must then suppress house prices because its much more cost effective to rent than to buy

It's not that straightforward: Someone have to buy the units that goes onto the rental market as well, so it depends on how attractive property investment is vs. other investment opportunities.

In the UK, cheap access to "buy to let" mortgages coupled with high returns as people were unable to afford to purchase and thus bid up the rental market certainly helped push prices up during the bubble (thus pricing more people out of the market).
Not so curious; this is the true meaning of Turing-completeness at work (not the pop meaning programmers use in reference to programming languages.) You can always write a virtual machine with semantics Y, that both executes on top of another Turing-complete abstract machine with semantics X, and reads X machine-code--and thus get semantics Y on machine X.

What you've effectively done is to just skip the naive VM-emulator step, and move to the optimization of dynamic recompilation, where you move the state-transitions and additional semantics from the X interpreter, into the chunks of X machine-code it would operate on. You've still implemented a Y VM; it's just distributed throughout the code output by the compiler.

[For the same reason, I'm planning to port BEAM to asm.js. Why? Because pre-emptive concurrency is just an abstract-machine semantic, and you can get it from a non-pre-emptively concurrent platform using the exact logic above. No more callbacks! (If everything that uses asm.js has Web Worker support, though, they could be used as run queues vis. BEAM's SMP support, leaving the UI thread a lot less stressed.)]
Change Sucks
You're right, but Today's World really relies on JavaScript and browsers development could, well, weigh it a bit more. Fighting on speed records might look good on browser's CV but for me personally doesn't matter zit - I'd take a stabler Firefox over a speedier one any second (I say this after 2 crashes today, on 2 different machines).
Don't trust me: I might be a spook
The iPhone4S only reaches about ~25fps for the medium video size when encoding. iOS only provides hardware acceleration for h264 encoding, but not for mpeg1. iPhone5 should be full 30fps for all sizes, though.

Decoding in Mobile Safari or Chrome for Android only works well with the lowest video size setting (on the devices I tested anyway).
It's interesting to see. If nothing more, I at least learned(again) that powerful marketing is the key for successful product/service - front page on HN/TechCrunch/Mashable/etc is definitely something that every startup should focus on in the beginning.
FWIW a list of the game and similar links from this page - http://alicious.com/learning-programming-games/. There are reviews of a few of the links too.
Hadoop on Google Compute Engine
I'm talking about the tradeoffs, with space being one example. You can certainly rent a whole house, at what will most likely be more than the owner's mortgage so if you want to compare apples to apples on the final dollar amount, you're going to have to give up a few things.
This is less a "women in tech" issue than it is a standard bullying issue. You think the "go back to the kitchen" comment is limited to just programming class?

So this mom never brings this up with the teacher, presumes if she does it won't help, and then writes a letter at the end of the year detailing all the problems? Mother of the year, right here.

Also, "VB? Seriously??" got funnier every time I read it too. Jokes never get old.
Thats a shame. Some of the best developers i've worked with and worked for are women
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
> I think the government could have just paid for the cleanup of the area and done something like subsidise housing for the poor there with the money

The whole point of development, especially development pursuant to the Olympics, is to push the poor out of the area. When any mayor says "we will clean up and develop this area," none ever mean "... in order to make a nice place to live for poor people." Indeed, if poor people still live there, the public won't even perceive the area as being nice.

E.g., this is one of the "bad neighborhoods" of Chicago: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=south+halsted+and+west+77+chi...

Like most of the city, it's actually quite well-maintained and pleasant. If lower-income people didn't live there, it wouldn't be considered a bad neighborhood at all.
I'd call that USP (Unique Selling Proposition) rather than MVP - the MVP would be the minimal product incorporating the USP.
The owner is taking on some risk, and hassle. So mortgage plus makes sense.
Eve: A Python REST API Framework
When will a "Godwin's Law" type rule be introduced for the inevitability that the problem being discussed eventually gets blamed on Wall Street?
https://www.google.com/patents/US4710876
> or had this clipped to your underwear

But how are you going to pick it up off the floor?! ;)
Except for Android[1], FirefoxOS[2] and UbuntuOS[3].

1. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/inside-story-of-moto-...

2. http://blog.mozilla.org/press/2013/07/mozilla-and-partners-p...

3. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
Why does this `obviously' apply more to houses than to apartments?

Sorry, I am not from the USA, so I don't know the peculiarities of your peculiar housing market.

Couldn't you just negotiate a rental agreement that gives you more protection?
"Backups" suck - it's a hassle to restore them, and due to all kinds of reasons how hardware can die, some restoration is needed every now and then. On the other hand, if all your [important] data automagically syncs on the cloud, you can take any blank computer and be productive within 30 minutes.

If your everyday environment is VM's on the cloud then you don't need even that and you're good to go from any device instantly, but it's a bit too limiting for me - but keeping all data + portable executables with config on Dropbox is simple, and leaves actual backups only as emergency precaution for cases if the cloud services screw you somehow.
The entitled and largely unconscious male privilege in most of these HN comments is pretty hard to stomach against the large and steadily-accumulating picture of just how very different this industry presents itself to men and to women. Just because you don't directly experience or see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because you haven't been (consciously) chauvinistic to a woman doesn't mean women don't experience deep and pervasive chauvinism.

It's not a fucking "free choice" that women are making when they steer away from programming in the face of the grotesque pastiche of misogyny and bullying that underlies our vocation, in which most of the people who aren't actually bullying women are falling over themselves to deny its existence or make excuses for it.

Male programmers need to stop congratulating ourselves on how "libertarian" and "meritocratic" we are and start taking responsibility for how profoundly hostile and off-putting we have allowed this field to remain for most women.
Tip for resizing Qt windows while retaining good user responsiveness
Sad reality-check - Genome Technology magazine March 2011 cover story page 38 "The Crowd of PhDs - ...whether they will have somewhere to go"
Site Monitoring Software
Sorry but there isn't a chance in hell that I'm uploading my bash history to an untrusted 'cloud' service.
I'm not sure that "student aid" and student loans are the same.

This discussion also seems to be missing the fact that students who attend many of these for-profit schools are poorer and thus more likely to default, regardless of the quality of education obtained. Any study is useless without an adjustment made for median household income of the student (and perhaps high school GPA).
I'm okay with it, although that's quite a lot of inefficiency to achieve the end-goal of free higher education.
Current estimate for the QE Carrier project is £5.5 billion, or about 60% of what the Olympics cost.

In comparison to a few weeks of enabling professional athletes 'perform' , the carriers should give at least 45 years of service life. A tangible contribution to UK security, rather than just a TV event.

I'm not a fan of how the carrier project has been managed but to say it's worse value than the Olympics surprises me.
I like the minimalistic interface. Good work.
I understand that as a community we need children but personally I don't see myself having kids.

>Some modesty is in place, but it would be such a shame if we did not have these events anymore.

This might be another reason to do such events (haven't read the article yet). To make people think the city is "happening", to retain people and dissuade them from leaving for seemingly more fertile pastures.