skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preorder delivery is encrypted, yeah. However, they also have bits in Steam-delivered games that can check for a valid Steam session, terminate the game session if the Steam session is lost, and the like. I don't think they'll be shipping some of those components because they wouldn't want to enable people building custom Steam installs that just stub out the DRM features.
You could take a look at CloudBees.
It sounds like we've managed to create the worst of both worlds. That's not ideal.
Or they could buy an Arduino Leonardo and make their own completely custom controller.
Granted, from one side of the American political spectrum to the other, here is a post from a MSNBC page that has sources to discredit Mr. Roy: http://alturl.com/um2kk
Halo features aim-assist, and aim-assist is usually disabled in mouse mode. Also, you can assume the controller-based gamers are coming from console experience (and therefore have already played H2 and know the maps and weapons), whereas the mousers are coming from other PC-based FPS games.
interesting. I suppose even if it's a dialed-down version, a company could easily provide self-driven cars that at least claimed to have different personalities. Maybe that will be in the form of non-functional "flair" (colours, decals, decorations, etc) but it has worked for many other products, that's for sure.

cool
Well, this doesn't sound good. But I can also tell the author really, really wants me to be outraged, so I dunno what to think.
I thought it was funny itself. It did make one teacher uncomfortable -When the class was pestering them about salary,I mentioned the information was available publicly to the class (not that any of them would have gone to check). It does have its uses. Their salary is paid for by taxes. People want to know what their taxes are paying for (especially since education in the town was debated hotly for different reasons).
Best part: "We’ll be posting videos of the sessions shortly after the last event"
A question to ppl who are currently using this service. Do you tip the drivers, if so, how much?
The bond could perhaps let you offload some part of the work of locating prior art to the applicants. I think actual fraud should be punished as actual fraud, but "I attest that I am confident there is no relevant prior art" coupled with a quick google search turning up mountains of prior art should cost them the bond, and that might help reduce the number of junk patent applications, allowing us to process non-junk applications better and faster.
It amounted to changing an architectural assumption. If she'd suggested it four years earlier it would have been easy. :)
I am appalled by the conditions but I don't think any of these articles is going to change a single thing in Qatar. I believe it will continue happening in Qatar. Only way to stop it is educate people from poorer countries to not go there no matter how enticing it seems(just like a mirage).
Not easy to play on a keyboard using only two thumbs.
I'm not the one who argued in favor of drawing a line, actually. I'm all in favor of letting 8-year-olds vote.

YHBT. YHL. HAND.
So here in Massachusetts we have the Health Connector. This is "RomneyCare", of which "ObamaCare" is a superset.

Plans recently were just adjusted to be in-line with how they'll be priced when ACA comes into play, although we'll have to "officially" select new plans come 2014 that are "official ACA plans".

I'm single, early 30s, with some notable pre-exisitings (Type II diabetes, kidney stones). My premium with a major carrier (Harvard Pilgrim) went from $424 to $458, which is about an 8% increase.

Under what conditions would my premium increase to $844 (99% increase)? I don't see that being possible.
> This summer, Nepalese workers died at a rate of almost one a day in Qatar, many of them young men who had sudden heart attacks.

It was always a stupid idea to have footballers running around in temperatures of 100-120F, let alone manual laborers toiling over stadiums and roads.

FIFA are now looking to move the World Cup to the winter... except it would clash with the Winter Olympics and the busy schedule of domestic leagues.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130918/uefa-q...
My understanding is that any plans that increases coverage for the old and sick is going to increase costs for the non-old and non-sick.
buf[-1] is equally incorrect as buf[4294967295], so int being signed or unsigned does not make any difference to the correctness of your loop.
Linux-based underwater robot goes faster, longer
Any gossip on all the scandal? Was he known in the area as violent or aggressive?
Apple announces Tech Talks for 2013, focus on iOS 7
Actually, array indices do make sense as negative. For example, you might want an array going from a[-500] to a[700], without having to adjust the index all the time. It is much nicer if the array does it for you. Fortran lets you change the starting index if I remember correctly.

Most commonly you'll actually want to go positive, and have an array going from a[1970] to a[2013] or something similar.
This seems like a great supplement for folks couldn't get to go to WWDC because it was sold out.... WWDC on Tour basically....
NSA Director Explains Operations
Most places that have a low cost of living and low taxes are also high on crime, bureaucracy, and corruption, and have poor infrastructure (roads, Internet access, etc.). It sounds cool to open your business in a country with low costs - right until the local mafia pays you a visit and demands 50% of your income. And you'll need a thousand permits for doing anything business-related, and everyone involved in granting you those permits will need some money under the table.
I'm not sure it's helpful to call this actual slavery. Actual slavery is when human beings are legally owned by others.

This is not actual slavery, but it is atrocious working conditions and very serious human rights violations. The conditions may approach slave-like conditions, so there's good reason to use the word, but quotation marks are probably accurate. This is journalism, after all, not propaganda. (But, you definitely make a good point.)
For some reason, I'm thinking that this would have never made the news if it was just from a TomTom or Google Maps.
The good news: Apple is fixing it.

The other news: An airport in Fairbanks seems to have a physical security issue.
I bought a used iPhone 5 (at&t but unlocked since then) on CL and it turned out that it was incompatible with Tmobile's network because it didn't support the AWS band 1700/2100[1]. So I went to the Apple store and had the phone replaced for a brand new factory unlocked one (for free!).

IIRC after April of this year, all iPhone 5 variants were merged.

1: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5720
I’ve got a pic for that - Big Bear Chase Me
Great post, Paddy. One thing I'd love to see in the HUD is a GitHub OAuth + repo webhook config. That is, you log in with GitHub credentials, you see a list of repos and can select which workers will get POSTed to after specific GitHub repo events[1].

Examples:

- The "adelevie/MyJekyllBlog" repo will POST to the worker "BuildAndDeploy" after event "push."

- The "adelevie/MyRailsApp" repo will POST to the worker "TestMyRailsApp" after events "push" and "pull_request."

[1] http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/hooks/
> Remember that here, we aren’t conducting an exact comparison. Instead we’re comparing the lowest-cost bronze plan offered to the average participant in the exchanges, to the cheapest plan offered to 40-year-olds today.

This is a very dubious comparison; the cheapest plan offered to 40-year-olds probably does not cover as much as the bronze plan.
A Refresh For Yahoo Maps
> It was always a stupid idea to have footballers running around in temperatures >100F

I assume they could probably get some strong evaporation cooling from the well-hydrated field, but I am not really familiar with that sort of extreme climate.
It extends to the entire peninsula not just SF. Obviously, scaling something like this nation wide is a major undertaking, so it will take time.

I don't get the dig against Google's users. Why must every HN comment on Google these days be accompanies by some snark.
I have a cat. I know it's a cat, because she bites me when I don't let her outside, when I let her back inside, when I brush her, when I don't brush her, etc, etc.
I recommend watching Mr. Shiban's congressional testimony: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174258/most-compelling-testimo...
Food and gas make inflation volatile, but they don't much change the long term trend. Inflation in food and gas is actually lower than inflation in core CPI.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIAUCSL http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPILFESL

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr236.pdf

The big issues with CPI over the long term are the lack of hedonic adjustments in medical care and the change in the composition of the basket of goods being measured. These tend to bias CPI up, not down.
This is scam "journalism" from Forbes, where you should expect no less.

They brush off the subsidies, which greatly reduce the cost of premiums for lower income people, and is a huge component of the law.

They also don't disclose what years of premium projections they're comparing. Presumably, pre- and post- ACA premiums are different years, because they would have to be. The cost of health care rises, and even without the ACA, you could run a headline that says 2014 premium rates are higher than 2012 premium rates.

Also, newer ACA plans are required to cover more things than pre-ACA plans. That costs more, but you get more for it.
Kindle Fire HDX
I would hope not, actually. Many people are nowhere near hardcore enough to spend the money and time for Virtual Reality Gaming over regular gaming.
The next coming of SOA!
sudo apt-get install ...
GNOME 3.10 Introduces Its Own Software Center
Does anyone have benchmarks comparing the performance of Clojure's PersistentVectors to standard arrays in Java and/or C? O(1) is pretty useless if the constant factor is huge. Anecdotally, I've heard that they are "fast" but it would be interesting to know what that really means.
Bill text (I think): http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_568...
As referenced to in the article and highly relevant, the Kafala System [1] which has roots in Islamic adoption jurisprudence [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_system

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_adoptional_jurisprudenc...
The distinction is purely academic, and worthless for real-world use. Sex slaves in America or the UK are not legally owned, but they are nevertheless slaves as far as anybody sane-minded is concerned. You would not dream of referring to them as "Sex 'slaves'".

Particularly, The Guardian has not made this distinction in the past, search for "site:theguardian.com sex slaves"

(Further note that one of the methods of coercion being used in Qatar, taking the persons documentation and putting them in an immigration bind, is famous for being used in the sex slave industry)
Android Localization for Everyone
Using The DMCA To Take Down Websites For Accurately Calling Out Racist Comments
I agree this is useful, but I also have autocompletion and popover documentation programming Clojure in Emacs. It often is more work to configure than just using an IDE, but the package manager Emacs recently added has taken a lot of the pain out of it. There are still cases when I use IDEs (certainly for Java), but you can add a lot of that functionality to emacs/vim if you want.
I don't think your point is clear here. It seems from comments that people think you think The Guardian is using "slave" incorrectly, while it seems like you object to the use of quotes around the word.
I love this idea. I've been wanting to do something similar to this, making webhooks even easier to hook into the Iron.io platform. I don't know if it will make it into HUD, but I'm definitely going to be trying to setup some push-button webhook configurations for popular services that support configuring webhooks from an API.
If you are lucky enough to be selected that is,

"Attendees will be randomly selected from qualified applicants."
Well, I applied for mine. Is it free? Seems like it. That's a pretty cool move from Apple (yeah yeah, of course it's in their benefit, but still).
Which is another way to say that we won't start using "green" energy until we run out of hydrocarbon fuel.

It's a very dangerous attitude -- we need to use what's left of hydrocarbon fuel to bootstrap new energy while we still can, and have the luxury to afford to experiment.

I forget where the quote is from, but as has been said: "The definition of modern agriculture, is that it is a way to transform hydrocarbons into carbohydrates.". Unless we do something soon, running out of oil, will mean running out of food. We need it for tractors, and for modern fertilizers, for irrigation -- and for transport of food.

Oil (and coal) is cheap energy, because it's basically just laying around, waiting for us to burn it. It's grown harder to get -- but it is ridiculous to wait around for other energy to "become cheaper". If we don't make an effort to change the entire infrastructure the world runs on (quite literally) -- what will happen is that oil will become as expensive as "green" energy -- not the other way around.

And that is of course ignoring all the problems hydrocarbons leaves us with, in the form of various forms of pollution. That we'll have to clean up and/or deal with without cheap energy.
I forgot to mention I did a small experiment with adwords, but the clicks were far to expensive to actually make money with it.
Outside of America, MSNBC would probably be considered a slightly right of center publication.
I agree, I wrote this comment on another thread before:

One thing to remember in all these discussions
about working hours is that its one thing to work
for yourself and another to work for someone else.
I've done both. When you work for yourself you
don't take much time off until things are going
well, and its not a problem. I think the problem
arises when people who own the business
genuinely can't understand why everybody else
doesn't want to put in the same hours that they
do. It's about ownership. Doesn't mean that
employees can't be very productive for 8 hours
and then go home and do their own thing. e.g.
take their kids to sport or music, contribute to
voluntary organisations, work on a side project.

Each to his own.
No, you mostly won't even encounter the drivers, they are so busy they're already back in their cars by the time you get to the door!
The best option I could come up with is to always open external links in a new tab, because that way the click handling code always has time to run.

Ugh. That's awful.

The alternative is to hijack the click event, wait for say 100ms, and then load the new page via JavaScript, but that also break the open in a new tab functionality.

Is this true? ISTM that if you just have:

<!doctype html>
<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.google.com">link</a>.</p>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script>
$('a').not('[href*="mysite.com"]').click(function() {
alert('do some analytics stuff');
// only after that's done do we let the navigation proceed
});
</script>

Your analytics stuff still gets done, and open in new tab still works. (As written, the analytics doesn't run when opening in a new tab, but ISTM you can just capture some mouse events to work in that case as well.)
Odd, Health and Human Services this morning said pretty much the opposite...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/25/h...

I DON'T KNOW WHO TO BELIEVE ANYMORE!
GNOME 3.10 Released
that took a minute to process !

cheers
The car's logs don't necessarily tell the whole story. A failure upstream of the logging system (cruise control system depresses pedal, pedal catches on carpet) would be unintended but logged, as well as a software failure that misread the pedal as depressed (accelerating the car and writing the erroneous value to log).
Now I just need 10 friends

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197975331116
As someone who lives in the Emirates, I have to object to the allegation of "slaves." This is not slavery. It's indentured servitude, which is definitely distressing but not quite of the same character.

Most importantly, in the talks I've had with workers, the vast majority of them still are happy to have these jobs despite the conditions. They're paid an order of magnitude more than they make in Nepal and if you go to poor Nepalese villages you'll see entire families building new houses based on earnings from sons who went to work in the gulf.

Finally, it's important to note that there's pretty drastic variation in how workers are treated in different firms. Certainly none have ideal working conditions, but the majority are legal and passable. It's the truly horrible ones which actually trigger government investigations (and, sadly enough, many of the worst firms are actually run by overseas businessmen.).
Whole bunch of stuff on RBM and Deep belief nets. Also, has results on a competition on recognizing 1000 objects.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/
I understand how creating a ‘new’ font and open sourcing it makes sense for Ubuntu and Firefox, where lots of unpaid workers need to share assets. I don’t see how it would benefit companies like Apple and Microsoft. Back in the early 80s, Apple commissioned a custom version of ITC Garamond to suit its needs better. Bitstream named it ’Apple Garamond’. As with many proprietary corporate fonts, that font was never released or open sourced, in large part because it was an integral to Apple’s brand identity.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_Cockpit_Rule
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_212
All three are great books. The Effective Executive is very old school, but timeless. The Goal helps me understand some of the thinking of Amazon.
Apps floating in space
So you would ban users if they complained about your services on some other forum?
I'd love to hear your thoughts on single founder startups.

I don't think I can do it all, I just I can start it by myself and then attract the right partner. Crazy?
I'm not really criticizing Unity here, just saying I prefer GNOME.
Ngrok is one of the best tools in my belt for debugging webhooks at Twilio. Secure, fast, reliable and - above all - useful.

Stoked for the new features Alan - thanks!
This is a wonderful example of how, given a complicated situation, picking your favourite numbers out of the pile can tell any story you like.

Yes, its true that for a healthy young person with an average income, rates (adjusted for subsidies, etc) will go up. They may even "skyrocket," say. But given the wealth distribution in this country, most people have less than an average income. I would be interested to see this analysis done for a healthy young person with median income- would probably look much better for the "progressive" side of this debate.
Not so. buf[-1] will step on mapped memory that is probably something else important, and you won't find out about it until later, which is hard to debug and more likely disastrous (if there's room for disaster in the use of the software). buf[4294967295] will try to use memory that is almost certainly unmapped and unavailable, and will segfault immediately - right on the line that caused the problem - and won't take any potentially disastrous actions.
I have been using this weekly since first getting access. Totally worth it. I've had a magsafe adapter (Staples) same-day delivered when I forgot mine at work, groceries when I wasn't able to swing by the store on the way home that day, etc. One of the best things is how the UI suggests your frequently bought items. This is a better way for me to restock household items than amzn subscribe and save, which has left me (via my own mistake in specifying interval) with enough q-tips to last through the year 3000.
From what I see there, that is about runway incursions by _planes_ that shouldn't be there.

For example, with parallel runways, a pilot might take a turn onto the wrong one.
IOS7 Didn't Actually Kill Metaphor In Design
A Look At John Titor’s Most Popular Predictions
Thanks for the link. Wow: This system used a 100,000 psi (690 MPa) pump to deliver a hypersonic liquid jet that could cut high strength alloys such as PH15-7-MO stainless steel.
Chattel slavery requires ownership and is a specific form of slavery which was common in the US. Its manifestation requires slaves to be treated as property by the legal system.

Slavery has other forms, and being held in captivity for reasons other than legal punishment and forced to work generally is considered one of them.
They are/were looking at making artificial robotic clouds.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/03/25/qatar.flying.saucers...

> plans to develop giant artificial remotely controlled "clouds" made up of high-tech materials that will be positioned between the blistering sun and the still-to-be-built football stadiums in the Gulf emirate.
Agreed. This is a fascinating game mechanic they've created that we are considering adding to our app.
Marissa Mayer Says That She Won’t Read This
> the age of increasing decentralization

While I'd love to see more decentralization, that's not really what's happening, is it? Urbanization is AFAIK stronger than ever, fewer grow their own food (or even have the ability to do so), institutions are getting more centralized, not less...?

We're even breaking the Internet, giving people asymmetric connections forcing them to depend on centralized services -- so what exactly are we decentralizing?
Show HN: Reciprocal marketing for independent content creators
As someone who integrated Google Drive as storage using JavaScript when that came out last year, I've been following Dropbox's efforts closely.

The keyword there is "JavaScript", i.e. the application talks directly to the storage from the browser, traffic (data) doesn't have to go via the application providers servers. I've talked to a lot of people who prefer the idea of bringing their own storage and virtually all much prefer direct comms with the storage back-end (once it's explained). Privacy is always high up the list of important things for users.

Dropbox started on this a bit later than Google, but as a developer I've been very impressed with the direction they are taking at technical level and the way they've listened to what developers have fed back. I'm liking their platform from a dev perspective more and more.

I'm rarely positive about anything, it causes me pain. If any part of the above is quoted, I will deny it.
The problem is not unsigned types. The problem is overflow and underflow conditions not being reported.

Compare this to, say, the "declarations-as-assertions" extension in CMUCL/SBCL: when you declare an unsigned type, underflow conditions will be reported:

* (defun test (x)
(the (integer 0) (1- x))
)
* (test 0)

debugger invoked on a TYPE-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1002B2AF23}>:
The value -1 is not of type UNSIGNED-BYTE.
As jrochkind1 says, they certainly did drop the RSS feeds, but restored them recently. I'll update that detail, but I can't help but suspect that I'll be needing to go back and update it again in the near future...
Yes, it's a very huge pain in the back to get it set up right and get used to it, but it was worth it. I use it (for Clojure and Python) when I can not get modern IDE.

However I checked counterclockwise after a long period of time - and there is almost nothing I miss. Eclipse is not my cup of tea (I'm IDEA user, let the Holy IDE War begin :) ), but more pleasant experience than emacs.
buf[4294967295] is perfectly valid and expected on platforms where size_t is 64 bits and int is 32 bits. buf[-1] is almost always a bug, and would be useful to default (with overrides) as such.
GNOME 3.10 Has Been Officially Released
Usually is free, I was lucky enough to get a spot at one last year. Really great event other than a few scheduling snags. The access to the Apple employees is probably the biggest perk!