skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If anything, having an App Store full of shovelware makes it harder to distinguish iOS from Android

But app stores full of crap provides easily reguritable marketing nuggets that make your platform seem more robust and put potential competitors in a bad light. "ZOMG we have 1,000,000 apps!" Try posting about Windows Phone or Blackberry and prepare to be ridiculed for talking about platforms with "only" a few hundred thousand apps.
This also prompted me to add my location in github.

It would be interesting to see if there's a non-negligible difference to run this again in a few days, after everyone who gets word of it also adds in their location.
Missouri and Tennessee both sound pretty easy. Take a course, pay a fairly reasonable fee, and as long as you're not a criminal or crazy, you're good to go.
Given Adobe track record on betrayal, and borderline extorsion schemes , I would not even touch their tools anymore. They had they chance with Flash,Dreamweaver and Fireworks...

Flash = almost dead

Dreamweaver = Zombie mod

Fireworks = Dead despite its powerfull features like jquerymobile skinning,project files as png files,games graphics, native app design, easily customizable through js.

Thank you Elop (who sold MM to Adobe ), thank you Adobe.
I can't see that solution working for most people. Maybe some, but it feels too involved and inflexible to become habit. The point about digital solutions is to find a way to make being productive a habit, despite your existing habits. If you've got the discipline to set aside time every day, scheduling around obligations to work/friends/family, with an egg timer and actually get work done, you probably don't need a solution in the first place.
snark: Watch Fight Club.

question: Do you have trouble going to sleep, or is the trouble actually in the waking up?

advice: As someone who has trouble sleeping sometimes due to the racing mind, Sonata has worked well as a medication. It's a hypnotic, so it just helps you get to sleep - it doesn't keep you asleep. But if you can't sleep because your brain won't settle down (for whatever reason), it might be a good thing to investigate. I wind up using on a weekly to semi-weekly basis, one to three nights, until my rhythm returns.

secret: I sleep a lot better next to my spouse.
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I've had this. I remember getting stuck when I was 17 on some ridiculous C string parsing problem. I'd been at it for hours when I gave up, went to bed, dreamed about it, woke up and wrote the solution in under a minute.

It was kind of a surreal experience given the amount of effort I had put in the evening before.
Maybe store some mechanical energy in a spring to help reduce the amount of "stuff" that needs to be moved just by the battery?
How long did it take for you to notice the effect of Strattera on your sense of time? Did you notice it right away or should one wait a few weeks?

I have non existent concept of time, so this might help.
Is one less key that big of a deal? I have about a dozen keys on my key chain, but can easily identify my U-Lock's key because it is very distinct and bright green.
My brother-in-law quit his last place due to unethical (and a few illegal) practices and general bad work environment. He has had to keep it from his parents since his father is a big 'no matter what, you stay with your company FOR LIFE'. He can't understand that there are companies that will not last a lifetime, not provide retirement or even non functioning work environment.
I'm curious whether or not an embedded Esprima AST parser would provide a decent API for writing rules that detect undesirable code and rewrites them as no-ops.

It would be nice if this was also a social version of user scripts where I could visit all the user scripts that other users wrote that work on the page I am currently on. A button in the browser that takes me to all the user scripts that match the URL pattern for that page would be awesome.
It's easier to answer that question about the Halting Problem, so here's Scott Aaronson proving it as a corollary to the Halting Problem: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=710

Then, defending the value of the Halting Problem as a real problem is easy, relatively generally through Rice's Theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem

In colloquial terms, one can render Rice's Theorem as "Would you like to produce a program that can prove anything remotely interesting across the set of all possible inputs? TOO BAD!" That's glib, but less inaccurate than we'd like.

Godel's theorem is, as Scott said, really sort of ad hoc and hard to easily apply in your head the way you're asking about. The Halting Problem, on the other hand, turns up everywhere, in real life (though many people still often don't realize it).
Is lock/unlock going to use some kind of OTP, or would the same communication happen over BT everytime? Just thinking about how easily this could be cracked by malicious people near you and your bike.
1. Is it more hackable than classic lock?
2. What if my battery dies? No biking for me then? :D
I'm right across the street (the office building next to Lukas). I walk to work and back every day. Been doing this for 10+ years. Never had a problem.

I remember a couple of years ago the guy that came to the Bay Area for the google interview and stopped in to see someone in Oakland the night before and was shot dead. Or, the old man that was killed by someone on the street hitting him so hard. Or, the kid that was paralyzed while getting a music lesson because some shot off a gun during a robbery.

In the past, the crime in the bad areas of Oakland didn't bleed out to the nicer areas. I predicted this after the 2008 crash. I knew once the economy crashed, it wouldn't take long for the very large numbers of uneducated, jobless, young men in the bad parts of Oakland to realize their meal ticket was walking around in the nicer areas of town. Piedmont, surrounded on all sides by Oakland, has been hit by an increase in robberies, many of which are home invasion style. I was talking with a friend the other day who knows a lawyer that is defending some of the people in the gang (Easy Money Team... what a name, but it gives you insight into their thinking). They're all 14-20ish, with parents about 14 yrs or so older than them.

There is a lack of opportunity, but the black community needs to address some of their problems, at least one of which is cultural: it is uncool for kids to succeed through academics, it is very cool for kids to succeed via sports or rap music or dancing. Until it is cool to do well in school, and that starts with the parents, this problem will only get worse.

For those that want to label me a racist: there are studies that back up what I said. There was a prominent researcher that died recently, but not before writing a scathing article about this problem. There was an article about him and his research in the East Bay Express. I forget his name. It was eye opening.
I love the way BitTorrent Labs are evolving - first with Sync, now Chat. What's next... BitTorrentBook?
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If you read the site, it says that it senses when you are close by and unlocks it automatically. You won't have to take out your phone.
I have the TPB return policy.

Download it when I'm interested what it's like. And delete it when/if I'm done.

A 24 hour/15 minute return policy is just an insult.
Smartphones are just one more thing to rob, along with cash and jewellery.

With smartphone penetration on the rise, it's pretty obvious that more robberies would involve smartphones, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that smartphones are responsible for a rise in robberies.

Having said that, waving a $700 smartphone around in public will mark you as a potential target, rather than the person next to you with an old-school flip-phone.
When my girlfriend died I could not bring myself to remove her from my friends list. She is still there. Her beautiful smile looks at me nearly every day. Some days I am glad to see that little profile picture of hers and others it is painful. Her family could have the account closed I guess but I think they feel the same as me and closing it is like deleting a little part of what we have left of her :(
Sounds similar to already existing Open-Source projects, like Tox[1] (which was discussed on HN a couple months ago[2].)

Questions for both projects still remain though: What sort of metadata can be collected from users of these programs? How can that metadata be used? Are there any security vulnerabilities that have been overlooked?

We are still a ways from having truly secure chat as the mainstream communication medium, but I'm glad Bittorent and others are helping move it in the right direction.

[1] https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6121225
I used to live in Berkeley, and two people were robbed at gun point in my neighborhood. Shit like this happens everywhere. I don't think Berkeley is that much safer than Oakland. Just my opinion.
Archived content is still available through Google, but some images likely won't load.

Example: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/long-range-wifi-antenna-from-ill...

Question for discussion: it is well within John's rights to do as he wishes with his online property, but what are everyone's thoughts on the _why-esque approach of simply pulling all of one's "shared digital life" off the Internet?
John, If you're reading this, please reconsider and at least keep the pages up. Just stop adding to them. There's a wealth of good stuff in there and it's painful to see a hole in the web like this. Whatever you chose, thank you very much for all your contributions, it's been a pleasure.
Someone has made and maintained the app over a few person-months of effort, and can sell millions of copies of it. In order to pay for their time spent making the app, I need to give them one millionth of the cost of their time developing it. When there's lots of competition in the app market, app makers will have to sell their time at competitive prices.

Compare that to coffee. There are three baristas on this street who can make me a coffee, so they're also in a stiffly competitive market. But they have to make me my coffee personally, one at a time. I have to buy a larger portion of their time, since they can only make a few dozen coffees per hour (and they have more physical supply-chain issues to manage, like sourcing beans and managing a property).

It's emotionally easier to pay for the coffee in part because no-one down the street is offering it for half the price, or for free. They can't. An app developer can. And they'll have to, because if they don't, someone else will. Because they can.
One thing I have done which works really well is:

Validate the form and fail silently if any of the following are true:

1) first_name or last_name match the email regex

- no one is named texx12508@buyrakes.com

2) first_name is the same as last_name

- I'm ok with Chris Chris having trouble filling out my form.

For the "Contact Us" form I fail silently to decrease spam in our inbox.

I did this because I noticed 99.99% (made up number) of our spam matched these rules.
Agreed. I'd rather have a battery powered bike lock that reads my thumbprint to unlock.
Is it bias of the article or of the sources (or both)?

Are both articles well cited?
One game that, like GTA, is not focused around making tons of virtual money, but has some neat emergent lessons, is Escape Velocity Nova: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/

You have a small starfreighter, and one way to make money is by buying goods where they're inexpensive, loading them up in your cargo hold, and flying somewhere where they're expensive to sell them.

Eventually you realize that it makes sense to pay other freighters to help you carry stuff so you can make more per trip---but since they charge a daily rate, at what point is it worth it? And does it make sense to risk it all ('cause, you know, space pirates) putting your life savings into a load of expensive opals which will make you a ton once you arrive, or should you play it safe and stick to inexpensive but barely-profitable foodstuffs? If you've got an appetite for risk, you can carry drugs or illegal biological weapons, both of which will make you a ton of money, but will cause law enforcement to attack if you're scanned.

It's a sort of mini-version of EVE this way, in that it's the only game I've made a spreadsheet for.
I don't see the point of this. Isn't distant friend a subset of "friend" as a group? This seems unnecessarily cynical about the title of this post.
So, a website provides content to you without a membership free at the "cost" of also having ads on the page. Which you may or may not choose to ignore.

Your response to this is circumventing the ads and blocking them, denying the service which you use any revenue from you. Awesome.

How about if a site has intrusive over/under ads or otherwise intrusive behavior, you just don't visit it? And allow the sites you use that do ads without being jerks about it to actually continue to function and provide the service that you apparently value?

EDIT:

I'm not normally someone who crusades against ad blocking software, but your comment was extremely obnoxious and really annoyed me.
It will probably be available here forever: http://web.archive.org/web/20130806152657/http://blog.jgc.or...
I think the article headline is spot on. The article itself goes on to elaborate and say, in different words, that "loyalty" has to be earned (by the company), and that a person leaving after X years (where X is less than some arbitrary amount that qualifies a person as "loyal") does not indicate "disloyalty". Your comment adds an additional subjective term, "reliability".
One option would be to borrow someone else's phone and log into the BitLock app and use their phone to lock and unlock. You can technically lock/unlock from your macbook/ipad since both have build-in bluetooth 4. But currently the app only works with iphone and android.
handled

Can't unsee. :-)
Not at all. It's only entitlement if the publisher also provides me a way to pay them for the content (at the same rate that the advertiser is paying) and I still choose not to pay for the content.

I want to be the customer, not the product being sold.
The feature parity of libreoffice is much closer than the polish parity. There is still so much to do in terms of UI polishing in LibreOffice that I wouldn't know where to start.
If you were the kind of person that would want to steal a bike, would you:

A. Spend $2 on a bolt cutter.

B. Spend hundreds of dollars on technical equipment in order to potentially be able to unlock a very unusual type of lock that you could have gotten to with option A anyway.
If they don't release the source, like BitTorrent Sync, they might as well just ditch this whole thing right now.
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Did you come from the ghetto? If so, I might believe you. If not, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Personally, i tend to shout "SHITTING FUCK" in that situation. I'm British, with some possibly-German ancestry five or six generations back.

As is often the case, the Daily Mash illustrates the truth:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/paper-cut-sparks-...
My first thought is security. But is the lock opening a security flaw in existing quality bike locks, or are they vulnerable primarily from some other angle (like leverage)?
I was looking for the same thing, ended up using ddd, has watches, breakpoints etc. If you've found a better solution than that though feel free to let me know.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

— Upton Sinclair
In your opinion, what should the "state of the industry" be like?
Android: Cerberus.
Not to be a complete schmuck about it, but Glock makes a wonderful 'app' for that. Unfortunately, California systematically denies its citizens the right to lawfully carry firearms concealed - and in many cases denies them the right to own at all. I would think that a straightforward fix for the robberies would be to enable 'self-service' self-defense and get the laws around legal gun ownership changed.
I disagree. Modern communication, such as Facebook, email and phones enable us to maintain friendships over time and distances that previously was unrealistic. Twenty years ago, this would have been an instance of "someone I used to be friends with died." The difference here is that because of the modern communication available, there's an expectation that we can maintain the relationship over time and distance, even if we only catch up a few times in a year. In the past, these people would be more likely to disappear from our lives entirely.
1) I was dragged into it - I was 12 years old and a member of a forum that was shutting down. My limited experience in HTML + CSS and a bit of naivety made me think I was an expert in web development, so I offered to take over. I basically had to learn PHP + MySQL overnight and over the course of my 2 month summer I spent late nights reading code to try and figure out what it did (i.e. no books, just trial and error and a lot of Google).

2) Started around the time I turned 12 years old, so June 2006.

3) I started making money in varying ways almost right away. I took over the site and installed Google ads within a few months. I probably started doing freelance within a year. My first full-time job was this past April doing an internship after first year university.
And you seem to be saying that it is the job of a person making an argument to ensure that ad hominem attacks against him aren't made, though an ad-hominem attack is a thought process failure on the part of the attacker, not the one being attacked.
you don't have to touch your phone to lock and unlock. as long as the app is running, you only interaction with the lock. you can leave your phone in your pocket. Also, with the new features on IO7, you don't even have to keep the app running.
Take your argument back to 2005, it still holds. And it didn't happen. Doesn't mean the bar I'm at has a charger or that I'm going to remember to charge my phone when I'm out and about doing whatever I do (movies, golf, bar, board gaming, lan party).

The failure case is still terrible and consists of me with a hacksaw at 3am on the side of the road "Stealing" my own bike.
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I did read that, but I would never use that feature. I need peace of mind knowing that my bike isn't going to unlock if I happen to walk by it or if I'm merely nearby.
Isn't step one President Obama ordering these programs to be stopped? It's hard to see how he's going to prosecute anyone for carrying out programs his own administration either started or allowed to continue.
If Eve wants to steal Bob's bike Eve is going to buy a pair of bolt cutters before fucking around trying to find Alice and Bob's shared secret.

Even though Bruce Schneier could probably break that lock just by looking at it, he's probably not going to become a bike thief.

http://xkcd.com/538/
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They can give you a special Deceased account: https://www.facebook.com/help/103897939701143
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I rather have a native application using TCP/IP to talk to the device.
Shit happens everywhere. The BPD, unlike the OPD, is excellent at follow up. That's what makes all the difference, and makes one place safer than another.
Did you just imply that "chocolate brownie hour" is "anti-diversity"? Could you expand on your general point a bit more? My take away seems to be: "never offer your employees any perks or optional activities because somene will feel offended/left out/forced to participate against their will".
> The world is wide open to you.

In the United States probably. The author doesn't sound too old, and says that he/she got access to the internet much later. Which means the author is probably from the Middle east or China or South Asia. The work culture there is not as open as in the west. Daily job means monotonous routine work. What excited him about the prime numbers problem was the novel aspect of it, and the fact that he was in control. Later, in his/her day job, that was no longer the case -- someone else was making the decisions. Until these nuances trickle into daily jobs, most people will sooner than later burnout.
My mother passed just after I graduated from high school in the late 90s and although it was pre-FB (et al) and she wouldn't have been into social networks, I do wish there was something that recorded who she was...her moving about, her voice, something. A bunch of her friends ransacked her house for her things, which I was told they (my mother and them) had previously agreed upon in the case of her death, and so when I got there, there was almost nothing left of her things. I can't remember her voice anymore so, in that sense, having a FB profile of hers wouldn't do it for me but a Youtube video would. That would be nice.
Can you provide a link to prove this?

And come on, there's no need to be pleasant the umpteenth-thousand time that someone mades a snide, ultra-paranoid remark about America that scrapes the bottom of Godwin's law.
It was entirely rational. Aviation pioneers and explorers were pursuing things they valued. They were fully aware of the risks, and it was worth it to them.

I think the current most significant effort to colonize Mars is also rational: Elon Musk wants to do it because it's something that's valuable to him personally to accomplish.

I don't think doing something (e.g. colonizing other planets) for the sake of our distant ancestors is rational. That is self-sacrificial. No value is being pursued.
Unless your last name is nissan: http://www.nissan.com
Similarly, debug JS in Vim (also using the netbeans protocol):

node-vim-debugger https://github.com/sidorares/node-vim-debugger

presentation: http://andreysidorov.com/presentations/melbjs/0913/
Former NSA contractor designs 'surveillance-proof' font
Right, but protocols are not based on core.typed's annotations. There is no way to dispatch on the return type of a function, for example.
Yes, I realize that, but the idea holds. Subscription-based services work if the content is worthwhile. It is an alternative model to ads, sure. One that is proven.
There's emotional distance and there's physical distance. I have been very close to people who are now very far from me. The fact that we don't get to speak often these days says nothing about the quality of the bond. Still very sad...
And on the other side of weird, I got a request from a person to introduce them to someone in my LinkedIn contacts list that I knew had passed. I passed along the information so they could be informed but realized that no doubt this person was getting emails from recruiters and such. Got the image of someone laying dead in their casket with their phone humming incoming calls/texts.

I have stated in my will that my executor will put an indication about my demise on any social media accounts that folks might visit. And I included a signed letter authorizing said social media outlets to allow them to do so in my absence. Strange thing to have to include but it is the new world.
IBM Settles Discrimination Claim; Gave Preference to H-1B and F-1 Visa Holders
The examples that come out just scratch the surface of the abuse that goes on underneath. Discriminatory advertisements like this are mistakes. Some low-level person sees that IBM has a policy of giving preference to foreign workers and then, without thinking, puts that policy into advertising.