skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We ran out of money and can't deliver, so give more of your money to another Kickstarter project."

What?
I don't know if there is a service to rate images. Google seems to have the best technology. It seems like it wouldn't be that hard to programmatically upload an image using an api and get a rating back. This might be a way to curtail teen sexting, which is against the law. A parent could for example, admin a setting to change nudie selfies to a Sesame Street character on their way out. Or maybe better yet, process any photographs taken with the cell phone at the time they are taken and make all nudie images turn into Sesame Street characters ;-)
The costs are based on Hayward to Sylmar. You can draw whichever lines on a map you want, but rights of way into SF proper and downtown LA are intractably expensive. Again, this is an advantage HSR has over "Hyperloops": HSR can reuse preexisting last-mile right of ways, and Hyperloops simply can't.

One critique of Musk's plan pointed out that the Shinkansen trains were essentially a frivolous novelty until they were brought into city centers. The same thing was true of Southwest Airlines trying to service NYC from Idlewild. You have to terminate transit lines at places people want to go.

Also, the bar you're trying to set for critiquing the Hyperloop is too high. An argument against Musk's plan need not show that it's impossible to build. Rather, the bar is simply that an unproven new technology must have significantly better cost and performance characteristics than HSR. Nobody is going to drop many tens of billions of dollars to build this thing "just because".
If a person sends "offers of subscription" that just happen to look like a invoice, that is still fraud. It doesn't matter that people can elect not to "buy" by following the fine print that say "this is a offer".¹

If you want, I can list several similar crimes like salting the mine², the Romance scam², or the classic Nigerian scam. Each too allows the victim to opt out, each are equally fraudulent behavior, and equally illegal. The law do not require that the criminal has lied, only that deception has happened.

Giving the victim a chance to opt out does not give scammers a "get out of jail card". If it did, that would be the first thing any caught scam artist would say.

¹ http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/fraud-az-invoice-scams

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_%28confidence_trick%29

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_scam
It still looks better than my first college dorm.
Thinking about going down from Boston too! I just moved here and the way to say "in force" makes me wonder if there is a local group or even subreddit I can look into to help with this cause. Slightly OT but I have also been curious about "meshnet" groups in Boston, have you heard of any?
Show HN: ChangeNexus - Curriculum Paths for All Online Learning Resources
Its a thug life working in a startup
In iOS 6, the default configuration allowed anyone to send texts (and I think emails) from your accounts by dictating them to Siri through the lock screen.

No one seemed to think this was a big deal, but there was certainly potential for abuse. Security of incoming texts is more important, but being able to send a fraudulent iMessage is definitely a problem for kids who like messing with each other's emotions...
Wait until you get here, you'll find the young'uns unbearable to be around too. Just seems to happen...
My passcode lock is set to immediately. After changing it to "5 min" it worked. Changing it back made it impossible again. So that's another way to avoid the vulnerability (along with turning off control center access from lockscreen).

Regardless, I'm sure this'll be fixed shortly and glad this guy found the vulnerability so soon!
This Board Game Aims To Teach Preschoolers How To Code
Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not see how it completely defies economic logic. It's a one in a year event. You have little to no competition, it's popular and people come from all over to attend.

You can pretty much increase the price of the event and of the beer, because people expect to pay premium anyway.
Indeed. This isn't about premature optimization, but about preventing the equivalent of what I've seen happen when you give desktop developers GWT and get a public facing website with a 3 MB JavaScript app that polls a hard to generate 5k document every second just to check if a posted job has completed or not.
Too late to edit my previous post, but if you would like to see my host file list, I can paste it somewhere. Some of it is from other lists and quite a bit is things I add.
Hi Sam, I've seen beta before and really like where its heading, can't wait to try it out when there is a build! We are working on another learn to code game and I'd love to chat with you about your experiences if you have the time. You can reach me a gsaines at gmail dot com. Best of luck and I look forward to hearing from you!
I do a lot of "tilting at windmills." It is an extremely hard row to hoe. If you want to make real change in the world, you need to bring a great deal more to the table than good intentions. It helps to come up with viable, realistic solutions. And then there are huge challenges in implementing them.

But feel free to dream of a better world. I desperately wish I lived in a better world. Sigh.
That's another environmental issue, that does not mute the issue of nuclear power plants built in unfit locations.
If you live in a jurisdiction with good labour laws, your boss might be able to fire you "on the spot" but they'll still have to pay at least 2 weeks of severance.

Also, keep in mind that leaving immediately might seem like it hurts your boss and/or the company, but more likely it just stresses out your co-workers who have to pick up where you left off without any help. 2 weeks to hand off all your current stuff makes their lives a lot easier.
Of course they don't like it, if they actually liked what they were doing it wouldn't be ironic!
Yep, definitely. In my opinion it confirms a very basic expectation of trust between you and whoever's at the keyboard, assuming they're astute enough to notice (and concerned enough to care). If nothing else, it's a simple expression of courtesy.
I agree that this is a horrible idea in certain contexts. But for choosing a password the first time this is an excellent idea and would have the same intended effect.
Designing the (im)perfect email experiment MVP
Firstly, no one is going to see your password. I'll come onto that, but they just won't. Ever.

I feel sorry that the author is so socially isolated that he never shows anyone else anything on his computers. Instead he invokes papparazo and cold-war imagery with telephoto snoopers hiding to get snapshots of small tablets (ipad mini - not even a full ipad) and yet never thinks of "hey, check this out"
My point was that comparing the overall tax rate is worthless.

I gave a counter-example to show why.

I did not say nor mean to imply that it was a universal counter-example, although it seems you took it that way.

Your argument now is that "low taxes and affordable access to good services is better than high taxes and haphazard access to good services."

This is a different argument, and in fact is the same argument that I'm making, which is that you have to look at all of the costs and benefits, and not just simple income tax rates.
Applify - Retro iOS App Store
No subset of negative reactions is proper.
Observations From My First Career Fair
Dust, Tecate, and Solder: A Hacker’s Holiday (Burning Man 2013)
rincewind - not sure I understand your point.

"If everybody had to study for 10 years to bake a cake, cakes would become more expensive"

This is not exactly true unless the demand for cakes is perfectly inelastic, but I will admit that if the cost of becoming a cake supplier increases, total supply should decrease (all else equal), the result will be a higher equilibrium price. The point I was trying to make with the cake metaphor is simply that the price of x is not determined by the cost of the inputs, but by the value of the output.

The part of your comment that I don't understand is the bit about the government support. I don't really see how that relates to the cake metaphor. Am I missing something?

Also, you're describing a situation that can logically only arise in the context of market failure (this is interesting because I alluded to this in my first comment).

If people aren't willing to pay the higher cost of the cake because the benefit doesn't justify the cost, why would it make sense for the government to use tax money to intervene?

Short answer: it doesn't.

This only makes sense if the total benefit of cake > the cost of the cake, but there was some market inefficiency in the way.

You could certainly argue that this is the case with scientific research. In fact I personally would agree with this argument. But it has nothing to do with how long the scientist spent in school and what they "deserve" to earn based on that education.

I really want some cake now.
Google Chrome Lets Users Toss Their Cookies (replace with adID)
So binoculars?
Just another bugle call for developers and users to forfeit more of their rights to our mighty big data and cloud land owners. Is your app ready for the "Internet of Things"?
Growth vs Engagement - Start Up Metrics
I'm nuts about tiny houses so this has an immediate appeal to me. The interior is a bit too Ikea-ish for my taste, but nothing a bit of veneer or maybe some paint wouldn't fix. I thought long and hard about what it takes to build these earnestly and a lot of designs were style over substance. I have no reason to believe the two can't happily co-exist.
Python isn't going to beat grep, but it beats awk in a lot of cases. (Cases that awk isn't well suited to, to be fair. Python doesn't beat awk for 99% of what people use awk for.)

It's faster than people think it is. Especially when you add in libraries like pandas, it's fantastic for data analysis.

Of course, by the time you get to using pandas, you have to have everything in memory.

This isn't true of python in general, though. For simpler tasks, you can easily write generators to read from stdin and write to stdout.

I'm not saying that it's better for things like log parsing, but for more complicated ascii formats, I'd far rather use python than awk.

That having been said, people who don't learn and use awk are missing out. It's a fantastic tool.

I've just seen one too many unreadable, 1000-line awk programs to do something that's a dozen lines of python.
How much to the car owners/drivers make out of these ridesharing services? Is it enough to cover gas/electricity?
On the other hand, everybody knows they have to make up bullshit passwords to pass arbitrary restrictions, so they may never try an easy to remember but good password on the few sites that don't.
How strange.
I agree that poor fashion sense != terrible person. But clarify this for me: fedora aside, your standard dress is a button-down with a tie, but usually no suit jacket?
Your Brain On Porn
Agreed.

But the default should be to mask (or not echo at all). The option to unmask should be easily available in the UI, but it would be foolhardy to make it the default.
Unmasked password fields would only make social engineering an easier way to get at passwords. A toggle, sure, but not as default behaviour.
You are right; if we need about 1 second a year that is about 30 minutes in 2000 years. Lets agree to add a leap hour 2000 years from now - that will put us 30 minutes ahead so we can go 4000 years until we need to add another hour
unsurprising.
"Eggs, for example, can be consumed three to five weeks after purchase, even though the "use by" date is much earlier."

This grosses me out. Especially given the number of food-borne illnesses in this country every year I'd much rather be safe than sorry. And spend 3 bucks on some new eggs.

[CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of food-borne diseases.]
An Introduction to The Page Visibility API
Lostonearth: I quit
IOS7 App Icons vs. IOS 6: Which ones people prefer
I was really impressed by that observation, and I thought that the article was going to turn in a pleasant way that I wasn't expecting. Sadly, instead of wondering why someone of a different perspective could think that of him, he continues:

"The experience of being labeled and then cast aside made me realize that what many people call 'hipsterism' or, what they perceive as a slavish devotion to irony, are often in fact just forms of extreme, radical sincerity."

So in the end, they hate us for our freedom. They criticise you because they are jealous of you, like mom said. I don't understand this lack of self-awareness in a generation and class so obsessed with self-cataloging.
Oy. I am a homeless woman running some websites...etc. I have gotten a lot of hate here. I don't even know exactly what to say here to you. But I guess I am not exactly shocked.
> There are many, many times when I'm working with another person sitting at my desk

And you can't check a 'mask password' checkbox before entering your password?
Not an easy read for C++ fans like me, especially since it is coming from Bartosz Milewski.

I did try out several other languages and I keep coming back to C++11 for anything that requires scalability and raw performance, like APIs. The same basic server that gets 400 req/sec when implemented in C# ASP.NET achieves 7900 req/sec using C++.

So far I could not find a programming language that does not have similar (or worse) scissors. It's more like "pick your poison" type of choice.

After I learned Scala, my C++ code started to look like functional programming. According to Bartosz that's a good thing, and I did not have to dive into Haskell (yet). :)
First RoboVM app approved by Apple
Im not telling, that they ARE already "the platform"
im saying that they are trying, that they are slowly becoming.. and if you try to measure
in what proportion google services, servers, softwares and platforms
make part of the internet, and all the things, software and services you have installed
in your machines that are, or consume things from google, will you still think this is a triviality?

Also, there are the inner mechanics of capitalism, with its acquisitions and
fusions.. and quickoffice its a example of that..

on the other side, the small companies wont stand against delicious buying offers of billions
of dollars..

Capitalism its all about monopoly, isnt?
so.. 2 + 2 = ..

Eric schimidt maybe is a small guy, but what a appetite.. :)
kickspy.com is what you are looking for, and as a bonus the dev seems responsive to feedback :)
Can we make a generalisation of reddit when something is the top story on the whole site, and the majority of highly upvoted comments make the same point?
I like parts of this but don't understand the addition of the google search box in the new tab page. Isn't one of the big "innovations" of the chrome UI the unified address bar you can search from? I use chrome as my primary browser and every time I use firefox or IE the first thought that comes to mind when I open them is, "What's the point of the separate search box, why not search in the address bar like chrome?" Now every time I open a new tab in chrome I think, "What's the point of this search box right below the giant address bar I'm supposed to be using to search from?" And to top it off, as soon as you start typing in the search box on the new tab it moves your cursor to the address bar and the logo/search box disappears from the page which is a truly WTF-worthy UI decision.
In the age of HTML5 Touch events and websockets, I was hoping to see a web-based office suite. I guess google settled on the native app route.
The text of the title (in the source HTML) is in title case. It has a CSS transform "uppercase" applied, but if you just copy-and-paste, you get the original case.
The entirety of Japan is pretty much on the Ring of Fire.
To clarify: this doesn't actually give anyone free access to your phone. As near as I can tell, all it lets them do is access your camera roll, and share items from it using the share panel. They can also see what your recent apps list is, but they can't actually access any of them (besides the camera).
I have to agree that I thought midmortem meant it was being shut down, less than a day after I interviewed you! ;) Definitely a clever use of words but mortem still feels like you were killing the project halfway through.
That URL looks even funnier!
> many angels won’t invest in startups that aren’t likely to scale to the $50 million valuation level because they’re afraid VCs won’t invest.

Firstly, I don't think this is true. Angels won't invest because their business model is the same as the VC's model.

I'll be blunt and say that I think this is a pretty bad idea for both sides of the table: founders and angels/investors. In fact, this would be an even worse deal for bootstrapped companies than it would be for non-bootstrapped companies. This is bad for founders because it impacts revenue. A normal SV startup has no revenue, so it's not too impactful there, but for a bootstrapped company, having to give 0.X% revenue can be really hurtful. Less revenue = less growth and more likely to run out of cash. The vast majority of founders would probably prefer giving equity than doing a rev. share.

Secondly, this idea depends on the assumption that bootstrapped companies are inherently much, much less risky than typical go-big startups, which is the only way in which I can see the risk ratio justifying the much smaller potential returns of having a rev share of a slow-growth company. I do not think this is the case.The whole reason for the go-big VC ecosystem is because startups - any startups - are extremely risky, and you therefore need an extremely high potential reward (i.e 50-200x return) to justify investing in them. Bootstrapped companies are not sufficiently less risky (in fact, I would argue they are more risky than VC backed companies).

Another problem: would you cap the rev payout or would the payout continue in perpetuity? Investors wouldn't like the former because it caps their reward, founder wouldn't like the latter because it's an obligation that lasts for a very long time.

Finally, given that most startups exit as acquisitions, what then? Again, an entire avenue for rewarding investors is cut off.
"Japan has very few natural energy resources"

Except that the place is covered in geothermal hotspots.

I don't know if any are sufficiently large to reduce the need for nuclear, but Japan is a country where the greatest natural energy resource appears (to an outsider) to be dedicated to providing really nice baths.
csvkit is awesome. I discovered it by chance a few months ago and I've found it to be really well-written. It correctly handles a lot of weird edge cases (e.g. newlines in the middle of a record) For the record, csvkit supports field names as well :)
Ironically a lot of advances done in secret projects are lost forever. Some may be declassified after 50 years.
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> (b) being slightly out of range of a cell tower, and constantly dropping and reacquiring a 3G connection. The latter turns my phone into a hand-warmer and chews up my power.

For this reason I'm pretty happy that my Android has an option to force 2G network for battery savings. Gives me 50% better battery life with no noticeable speed difference.
Set passcode to appear "immediately" -- if you set it for 1 min/5 min/15 min/1 hour/4 hours, then this "vulnerability" really isn't one.
not just globals, but what could be in the database, or global variables get, post, session variables. you don't test with your production database do you?
I'm a backer but I have to say it looks like he just got bored with his toy and wants to do something else now.
when you write Adsense, do you mean Adwords ?
Your parent used an uncommon meaning of a word, and you reinterpreted it with the most common meaning! How clever of you!
I went C++ -> Python -> Scala. Still do Python. Don't do C++ anymore for the same exact reasons he mentions. The guy is a C++ hero and to hear him say those things means a lot. I encourage you to keep playing around with Scala. Have fund with the Actor model. Enjoy GC.
No worries :)

I agree with you that Google is moving into an area Microsoft used to be in with IBM, but I feel like Google, while it does nice things like this, is similarly going to the same location. There's nothing stopping from other companies from coming up with something similar; the problem for now is adoption.

I'd like to find a document editor outside of the major competitors like Microsoft and Google, but to be honest, the others are frankly terrible by comparison. When that changes, at least in the document area, Google is going to rethink what they're doing or buy them out (which is also possible).

The one thing that ties all of these services together for now is Gmail. Because it serves as a single login, it makes transition to other Google owned products easier. Besides being good at the services they provide, this is the real grease in the wheels that makes the whole machine run.

We're already seeing other services crop up to fill the niche YouTube is filling. Vimeo, for example, is actually quite good. While it doesn't have a lot of the silly videos and stupid clips YouTube is famous for, it's got a lot of creative people making beautiful content. But tying Vimeo to a document editing platform?

We're not quite there yet.
This is ludicrous. I have a value system. It consists of me feeling like a better person when I'm a better person. I feel no need to prove my value system as though it were a theorem - what an odd fetish. I've never understood this need.
> This certainly isn't "hipster" culture - this is design critique.

Critique that doesn't actually tell what's wrong ... isn't.

Let's talk about the z-index issue with the AppStore icon. How is this reproduced? I have never seen that. How do I know it's not shopped?

All it says is "z-index". Not useful. Not really a critique to me, it's just too terse.
To edit old g-docs files, it's not possible with quickoffice yet (I assume they will switch to one app that can edit all formats instead)
Did you really have to phrase this in such an impolite way? Couldn't you have simply stated your point instead of calling the author socially isolated. The author might simply have a different workflow than what you are accustomed to.
The interesting thing to me was the requirement that they last 100 years or more. It was my first thought when I saw "wooden" and "college dorm" in the same sentence. Colleges are long-term institutions and can (and should) make architectural investments that are long-term rather than short-term. A cheap throwaway is exactly the opposite of what colleges should do, although there are plenty of situations where cheap throwaway housing is appropriate, where short-term economics outweigh long-term economics in the buyer's eyes.

This line of thought brought to you by the superb book, How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand. I recommend it to every software professional I know. Sure, it's about physical things rather than software, but the principles are similar.
So long as you do not live in any place that has a high likelihood of Tornados or Hurricanes, i suppose this would work.

What gets me with this type of thing is the fact that your living room/bedroom/kitchen is also your bathroom.
And yet slow inefficient trains are being proposed, and have a very good chance of being built 'just because'.

The Hyperloop concept at least can point out the folly of pie-in-the-sky projections.
I'm hoping this will make one thing easy enough to be worth the effort: a proper UI for GDB debugging Go code.
Will the new GMail change email marketing forever?
That still leaves a large number of people with absolutely no intention of shoulder-surfing who can't help realizing the screen they've been asked to watch is displaying something that might come in handy in future