skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may show Tim's direction toward China, but it also shows Apple's lack of full understanding of the Chinese market in that the iPhone 5C is priced at US$733 at launch in China. I'm sure they'll get some sales with the fake gold on the 5S Tacky Edition, though.
Congrats, buzzfeed! You just made my hosts file.
Is anybody else stricken by the fact that the email seems to be too much like a boilerplate support email

Yes, I find that email profoundly unhelpful as well; it sounds like generic level-0 helpdesk drivel. The client was promised 24/7 support (and is probably paying for that level), he hasn't been getting anywhere, and is meanwhile losing money. In that situation people are past looking for empathy, here it's no longer "about onion soup, Obelix, it's about sesterces. About mo-o-oney!"

A competent secretary would have emailed something like "I contacted XY, who was supposed to be on on-call duty, but he is in hospital with food poisoning. I then contacted ZW, who is next on the on-call rota, he is looking at your ticket. His cellphone number is XXX-YYY-ZZZZ; he is waiting for you to call."

In a well-run company a secretary has no place on the totem-pole, he can run up and down and talk to whomever he pleases. Good secretaries are worth their weight in gold, bad ones, on the other hand are only fit to serve as boat anchors.
Anyone see the "desktop class" bullet point?
>i think a lot of conclusions one can derive from pondering a situation like this one - "there is an order backlog of 800 Boeing 787 planes" and "there are a lot of unemployed people". Even if we suppose that these unemployed people possess necessary skills, the situation would still be pretty much the same as there is a lot of business/financial, technological, and societal/governmental complexity in the situation.

I... disagree. Yes, there is bullshit surrounding hiring and firing folks. But it's not extreme bullshit. I have managed to do it. It's not impossible.

If, for whatever reason, you absolutely can't hire someone to run payroll for you and keep track of your workman's comp bills, there are plenty of companies that do that and only that; trinet is one. The idea being that your employees are officially employed by trinet, who handles all the HR bullshit (Not hiring, of course, but the real bits of HR... managing benefits, taxes, workers comp, unemployment, and all that happy horseshit.) You just pick the folks you want and send trinet a wad of money every month.
The problem with a default warning for signed/unsigned comparison is there are many cases of this in large existing codebases where, although it is not ideal, it doesn't do any harm. Such cases could constitute a large amount of compiler warning output - obviously just making life difficult for maintainers.

Personally I always use -Wextra (the relevant flag for clang) when working on my own code.
You can just image search your photos every X months.

I agree, it could be a startup.
Motorola releases fingerprint sensor-embedded Android phone (2011)
TPB wouldn't have taken off on such a rapid trajectory if the MPAA and RIAA hadn't been so content to gouge the public in decades past.

Rabid public adoption of music and video piracy is most certainly a function of the public's perceptions re: price/value and anger at blatant collusion on the part of record labels to inflate prices.
They've got it all wrong. Users are vastly better protected from the kind of network surveillance they mention with Apple products, thanks to their curated, controlled approach to third party software distribution.

This is backed by hard data on malicious attacks from the Dept. of Homeland Security and the FBI. 79% occurred on Android, and just 0.7% on iPhone.

I'm also 100% positive this will have no effect on the reasoning of the FSF.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23863495
EXIF
I think this is really impressive. Do you think it will be years before this actually gets used in public 3D modelling tools?

I vote for this to be used with 3D printer
The graphic they used shows the Bronze plan is $122 per employee per month.

That's far, far cheaper that I had been lead to believe, from some of the articles written about the subject.
And this is an example of one of the many, many reasons why intellectual property in the age of the leviathan state is a terrible idea, terribly executed.

As a practical matter you can't own public, unencrypted arrangements of bits. All attempts to enforce ownership of public, unencrypted arrangements of bits are forms of rent-seeking or forms of begging or, at the pleasant best, forms of politely asking other people to go along with your view of the world for a while.
This already exists:

http://www.photometadata.org/meta-resources-field-guide-to-m...

The problem is that the people you most want to follow this are the least likely to check IPTC metadata first.
You can console yourself with the fact that the 5C isn't a value stream since it's priced the same as premium Android phones with better screens, processors, etc.
I don't totally disagree with everything you say, but my understanding is that Google was between a rock and a hard place because one branch of government was asking Google to delete the data, while another was asking them to keep it.
Why you should not trust emails sent from Google
Nice use of C++11 there.
What Is It Going to Take to Get You Into the New Female Condom?
Women are crazy.
So basically the argument is that Coq is the ideal beginner programming language.
> MPAA/RIAA aren't hated for abusing terminology.

Perhaps they aren't hated for it, but they sure are ridiculed for it. "You wouldn't steal a car"->"You wouldn't download a car" anyone?
God says...

Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Tuesday September 10, 2013 20:03.04 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 18618

----

water: 29:12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy
God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this
day: 29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto
himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto
thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob.

29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD
our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 29:16
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came
through the nations which ye passed by; 29:17 And ye have seen their
abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which
were among them:) 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman,
or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD
our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should
be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 29:19 And it come
to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless
himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the
imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 29:20 The
LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his
jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are
written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out
his name from under heaven.

29:21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes
of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are
written in this book of the law: 29:22 So that the generation to come
of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that
shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of
that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning,
that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like
the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the
LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 29:24 Even all nations
shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what
meaneth the heat of this great anger? 29:25 Then men shall say,
Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their
fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the
land of Egypt: 29:26 For they went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given
unto them: 29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this
land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as
it is this day.
NFC is rather different from bluetooth and hence not really comparable for many use cases.

Primarily, NFC is much lower power consumption than bluetooth, much smaller field, and much lower data/bandwidth. NFC is more in the category of RFID.

Secondly, NFC tags are unpowered and rely on the reader for energy. They store several dozen bytes up to several thousand bytes and are useful for QR-style applications, like "Tap here for our address" and so forth. I did up some business cards with tappable tags on the back that take a device to my website. They also make tags fully embedded in paper and cardboard for cosmetic appeal.

NFC tags are very cheap, on the order of a few cents each up to a dollar each, and are therefore well suited to the smart objects applications such as, for example, tapping a pill bottle to retrieve non-trivial amounts of information about the medicine, or storing identity information on personal possessions.

Really, the applications are endless. I think Apple has missed the ball on this one. They should have included NFC early on. You can buy an iPhone case with NFC, which is useful but of course it's never as good as having it built in.

(Interestingly, the linked article is on TechCrunch, a news website that recently published an article "NFC = No One Fking Cares!". Of course, the author, a journalist apparently with no engineering background, drew a lot of caustic comments for that one, and subsequently I stopped reading that publication. This iPhone 5 article is poorly edited; it's too bad this out of probably dozens of choices is the one that made it into YC.)
I would argue they figured out what they wanted outside of the full influence of social consensus.

Live in a car = Fund Startup + Ring to from his supporting partner

Most ppl in the valley with a gf(bf) choose:

Apt + work at someone else's startup + untested supportive gf(bf)

Then there are the pompous ones:

Apt + Work at a fake startup (profitable, lots of employees) + have normal significant other, who says they support but probably wont be there if conditions get hard enough.

The real key is that he had unconditional support to do what he believed in and thought was right.

Do what you believe in, and everything else will work itself out as long as you are persistent.

p.s. I couch surf because i believe in what i'm doing, so i may be biased.
Motorola released an Android phone with fingerprint sensor in 2011. Check out the video.

http://secureidnews.com/news-item/motorola-releases-fingerpr...
So over the years of use I have to remember which ones have been compromised? Unlocking the iPhone with the ring finger of my off hand defeats the whole point of the convenience this is supposed to bring.
I don't think he overreacted.

1st - the law is obviously on his side.
2nd - he is the little guy in the case which for me matters
3rd - he is not looking at extreme damages but is making a small claim.
4th - it seems to me that he is mostly annoyed for not being credited properly and being just dismissed/made fool of by the company statements.

And lets be honest - whatever a person views should be for non commercial infringement (mine are extremely lax) and sampling/transformation (the author should be entitled to part of the earnings, but should not have the ability to stop the work from being created or distributed) if you make money out of someone's IP he is in his right to say Fuck you, pay me! for some part of that amount.
I do this all the time on anything longer than a couple sentences.
Just to add, if you want to 'fail safe' a breadboard design, your better off assuming ~25pF of stray capacitance per breadboard insertion point. You should also make sure your circuit bandwidth is less than ~8-10Mhz, keeping in mind that if you have an opamp with GBP of 20Mhz and you're using it with a gain of 2, you may have a problem. Stray inductance can also play a part, but it's far less likely.
Not to be a jackass, but "regular" people don't want open source. They want things that "just work."

And there's no such thing as secure, unless you build your own software, that only talks to your own servers and that only uses your personal telco and your own infrastructure.
I think this should be renamed to "why C is a terrible intro language" and "a terrible development language too"
You remember Fortran's old issue about float's vs. ints and variable names?

Seriously, if you have languages with signed & unsigned types, and implicit conversion between the two, this can happen. In languages that don't have these features, it can't. However, almost all of them ALSO have ways that poorly written code works until it doesn't. It's a phenomenon very reminiscent of the halting problem.
I think the GP has a fair question - the stereotype of people who label themselves 'Reverend' includes a considered reluctance to use profanity. It's not saying that reverends can't do this if they're 'real', but it is far enough out of the stereotype to ask just what kind of denomination is the author a reverend for?

Whether or not it's "written" somewhere doesn't mean that there isn't a stereotype as to how 'holy' men (it's always men...) should behave. Witness the confusion when Westerners got into Indian religions in a big way, then couldn't quite square the way some gurus shagged themselves silly - 'holy' men were 'supposed' to be celibate, if not in actuality, then at least in behaviour. It isn't the done thing to have your Anglican priest bragging about his last shagging session with his wife, for example.

Or is the author using 'reverend' as a joke appellation, without seriously being one?
Are we discussing why they are hated, or why people use sites like The Pirate Bay?

Because Disney is sure as shit related to the first.
But what a great article!

Yeah, I haven't ordered anything from them yet, but I do now subscribe to their RSS feed.
Wait, what? While this is great pragmatic advice, it's not very good for a newbie. A newer programmer should absolutely be able to go to of all things the documentation to get some kind of an understanding of what's going on. These kinds of "quick reference" techniques are great once you know the language and need information quick, but it's just proof that the docs are unapproachable to a new programmer if they have to resort to non-standard operations like the above to figure out what's going on.
Actually you should cast name.length to int otherwise you leave the error in.
Casting negative number to unsigned(size_t) would get you a large positive number.
Type:

jhead -purejpg in.jpg out.jpg

And no pesky EXIF or IPTC to worry about. Hence digimark and others that put the info in the image.
The FSF folks always come off as little more than crotchety old men. Right or wrong, their message obviously isn't being heard or perhaps few people actually care. People vote with their wallets, may e it's time the FSF evaluates their approach as they are completely ineffectual.
So the FSF says that people shouldn't use Apple phones because they don't run FSF software? I'm shocked!
Keep me updated. Really fascinated by your quest to get back the $75 they probably owe you.

My god it must be nice to have something like this actually be a problem in your life and make you mad.
Oh good lord, just send a robot instead.
"3-Sweep" Software Can Extract 3D Objects Out of a Single Photo
He didn't have the necessary credentials for a tech position at the start-up, but he obviously had what was needed - not necessarily "credentials" - for his current position. Kudos to him.
Bodyshops often cheat DoL classification, by assigning label of System Analyst to i.e. Java Programmer in order to pay less.
No, you're not the only one.

I totally get him, but I think the way in he expressed his belief came up as just whiny.

Also I believe the problem is with copyright laws and not with BuzzFeed. They are not selling that image, they are just illustrating their content and the same article without his image would have exactly the same value.

But beyond all, what pisses me off the most is the blue background on those link, good lord!
Thanks, that helps a lot! Giving it a shot right now.

How long should it take to make a high-power (3A+ @ 3V, buck-boost IC) LED driver, very approximately?
This is a very clever idea. There are a few limitations that I think would prevent this from being very usable in practice. One is that it only supports a single word. If you type "Ona Bednar" into the field, you get nothing.

Another problem that would only start to show up on a larger dataset is that because the index is all concatenated directly together, it matches strings that span several words. A user searching for their pal Harry Mesbro in the list might be confused to find that typing in his last name also brings up Yvette Hammes.
I think it's more of an API to allow Server B to register its interest in receiving notifications from Server A.

Of course, Server A must "speak Rest Hook" in order to enable that, so in a manner of speaking I guess it is a way to configure Webhooks on Server A.

But, it basically exposes a common interface for Server A and Server B to establish Webhooks. Server A can tell Server B which notification subscriptions are available (i.e. for which events), and Server B can then choose to subscribe, providing the callback URL for the Webhook.
Fair enough. I stick by my assertion that the "free" web sites are going to get stickier about ad blockers as time goes on.
If it were anyone else but RMS who did that, HN would laud it as the pinnacle of hacker excellence. I could see this in a lovingly-upvoted bio of Dear Leader^w^wpg:

> Though the YC portfolio is typically on the bleeding edge of tech trends, focused on mobile and web apps, Graham doesn't even use a web browser unless he needs to. "I find the web distracting," says Graham. His solution? A custom-coded program that downloads web pages, formats them for offline reading, and sends them to him via email. "I spend a lot of time responding to email, so this fits in with my existing workflow, and I can keep track of it like anything else in my inbox."

If pg is a bad example, pick literally any other well-known hacker.

And yet, every time the FSF or RMS are mentioned, this is thrown up as a sign RMS is "out of touch" or "anti-technology." No, RMS is a hacker, who didn't like the user experience of the web and hacked a solution.
> because of your earlier comment "of a few powerpoint slides."

> It's all there out in the open thanks to the documents that have been leaked.

You dismiss his point that unsubstantiated documents is largely the source of all this speculation and then you remake a bunch of unsubstantiated claims, saying they are all proved by the aforementioned documents.
I think you're right, and that I just haven't been paying attention. I've seen headlines talking about a cheaper iPhone coming, and was surprised that the opaque costs are essentially the same.

The industry seems ripe for disruption from someone, whether it's someone like T-Mobile or Apple/Google/Facebook buying itself a network and advertising in terms of the annual cost of ownership, perhaps even bundling the service with the device, like Amazon's Whispernet on a larger scale.
this likely came out of their purchase of AuthenTec last year.
Yeah, but Nokia did it with phones first, so Apple should respect that. The same way Apple claims all sorts of things were unique and patentable because they did them on a phone touchscreen and not a PDA touchscreen (which is so TOTALLY different).
IPTC http://www.iptc.org/cms/site/index.html?channel=CH0089
They can do that. It's plain on any good documentation site (e.g. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string) that `string::size_type` is unsigned. The teachers just have to be knowledgeable enough to let students know of good documentation (if, by documentation, you mean what I take you to mean, which is stuff other than the standard itself, which is nearly unintelligible for new people). The technique I gave was just for fun.
I downvoted your post on accident. I'm sorry. This meager apology is my only recourse. I hope you are able to regain the karma I recklessly took from you.
"Being too specific on timing is a bad thing if you're a remote rep"

It is not. I did not promise a time by which the pb will be fixed, but a time by which a status update will be given (even if it is "I have made the technical team aware of the pb, they are still looking into it and will give a ETA for a fix").
Actually it is related - they want to stop the creativity of the others.

RIAA/MPAA mission is simple:

They want to own all of the content, control the ways to distribute that content, that content to be used only as they say, forever.
Definitely impressed by her tenacity and creativity. But if I were to do the same for self-enrichment reasons, I might go a different route. I'd rather build one or two full-blown apps in 180 days so I can dive in a deeper depth. After all, quality is better than quantity, isn't it?

Though she definitely has inspired me to do something similar.
An RPG-style talent tree for web developers
What could this comment possibly add to the discussion? Why did you post this?
This says nothing of NSA sleeper agents sneaking backdoors into Apple products, which seems pretty likely given the recent disclosures.

The more centralized you build a system, the easier it is to completely own.

Also, there's a massive confound in that Android phones come a lot cheaper than iPhones, making them far more accessible for the typical targets of active government surveillance.
It doesn't have to be this way, does it?

Yes, if BuffPo were to agree some payment for photo or writing reuse, they'd have much greater outgoings. However, they'd also then become legitimate channels for syndication, rather than incidental leeches.

I do profess some grim amusement in noticing that serial infringers - the Daily Mail comes prominently to mind - are never punished with anything greater than a nominal fee for whatever work they've lifted. Given these are outfits that are entirely based around profit (rather than simply linking to them in a personal journal, for example, with no money involved), surely the consequences for copyright infringement ought to be amplified, rather than diminished into inconsequentiality?

Imagine a BuzzFeed that shared the ad revenue with the creators of the photos involved. It wouldn't lead to anyone's early retirement, I'm sure, but we have the means to make such happen, very easily. Shouldn't such sites be working toward helping creators be rewarded for what fuels those very sites?
After all of these NSA scandals, we really need to be pushing more for open source firmware from all companies.

I don't even think firmware is what's maintaining their "competitive advantage". That firmware needs to be matched with the hardware anyway, and it's really the hardware that offers the competitive advantage. So I think the "competitive advantage" they get from closed firmware is mostly imaginary for most companies. We should push them to "think different".

Better yet, we should demand to open source their firmware if they want our trust, after all of this.
After all, women can't do mentally challenging work! Ha ha!

sigh
Nope sorry, nothing from the documents is 'unsubstantiated.'

Even Obama and the NSA itself has backed this up.

They'd been trying to extradite Snowden ffs, get your head out of the sand.