skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Sorry to hear you feel it isn't worth the upgrade. I'd suggest trying the demo at least to see if there's anything there worth using. Personally, the new browser extension is amazing and I have a hard time going back to help users in support :)

You didn't have to buy direct to get cross platform support. We offer coupons to users who purchase on the Mac App Store and want to buy our Windows application as well. We match the price at the time of purchase. So, normally the Mac app is $50, we offer the Mac + Win bundle for $70. If you bought at $50 on the Mac App Store, we give a coupon to get the Windows app for the same price as our website bundle. We just need proof of purchase from the Mac App Store.

If you have concerns though, email us, support at company url. Mention me here and someone will add me to the ticket and we can discuss directly. I'll be happy to help however I can.

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Presumably to keep people from using the frequency for commercial purposes.
Gangsta rap is like PHP: I enjoy it because I grew up with it, but it's getting hard to defend intellectually.
Most shared media by state
> investors sleep quite easy
[citation needed]
Friedman addressed that. It's been a while but I think he expected the small REAs to be smart enough to band together to resist the big one.
I have no experience with amateur radio, but from a quick google search, it looks like the relevent regulation is:

(a) No amateur station shall transmit: ...
(4)...messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their
meaning, except as otherwise provided herein

If you read through the rest of the restrictions, it looks like they are trying to setup a fairly specific environment on amateur radio, and encrypted traffic is inconsistent with that environment.

http://www.hallikainen.com/FccRules/2013/97/113/index.php
Any thoughts here?

I think they're picking the near perfect time to do this (and that they probably didn't have much other choice due their investors).
- FB's Instagram announced that they will start monetizing
- "Tech" is in again; TSLA, FB performing esp. with Mobile focus

Valuation is decent and fair in my opinion. The caveats: a huge chunk of the IPO cash is going to pay out existing shareholders rather than reinvest in the company. Beyond ads, it isn't super taboo for Twitter to sell data so that quants can do better trades. This part of their business is very immature currently.

International worries... I wouldn't look too far into the Asian market. The only thing protecting these Chinese tech biz in my opinion is the Chinese gov't frees up (if they ever do) but that's a topic for later.

Big question: how many people are leaving Twitter after the IPO?
Introduction to Linux Control Groups (cgroups)
What do you expect them to do? Give up and go home?

When they determine there is no lawful or ethical way to prosecute someone, I absolutely wish they would would give up and go somewhere. Unfortunately I'm not naïve enough to expect that. (I stipulate we don't agree on the facts in this case; I intend merely to contradict the idea that LEOs and prosecutors ever have to do anything.)
We are indeed working on a full Android application. We'll admit, it has taken longer than we wanted. We're getting closer so hang in there and if you're really interested in testing it, ping us at support at company url and mention me. I'll see if I can add you to the list of testers when we get to that point.

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AgileBits Support
I worked with some of the best salespeople in telecommunications (retail) here in Australia, working for the second largest telco. They had this ability, and you can learn it with enough practice. By the time I left, I was #3 in the country for that telco.

It's scary to realise how powerful it can be. Once, one in of the guys had a girl who took two contract phones come back in utterly disbelief at what had happened about a half hour later: this was no ordinary buyers remorse.

The only way to avoid it is to not communicate with those people.

It helps with nearly everything you do in life. I find it amazing and scary.
It's not valid to judge the "fault tolerance" of nuclear power, or its safety in general, by Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Just a follow up to my comment. I have released the "Introduction to Linux Control Groups (cgroups)" screencast which I talked about in my previous comment. View it @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/14-introduction-to-linux-c...
TL;DR: In the society we live in, you are expected to spend a good chunk of your waking hours wading in shit. We have gotten together and decided that wading in shit is virtuous and builds character, and if you don't like wading through shit and try to avoid it or do less of it, you are objectively a bad person. Wanting to spend more time with your family and friends or pursuing hobbies and interests (other than wading in shit) is a sign of laziness and malformed character; so are outlandish malingerer's claims like "burnout" or "clinical depression". Your entire educational curriculum is designed by people who enjoy wading in shit and expect that you will too. If, upon graduation into the real world, you find that you do not enjoy wading in shit, we will shake our heads sadly and wonder how we failed to inculcate you with a seemly affection for shit-wading. If you are lucky enough to enjoy wading in shit, you are a superior species of human and deserve to be smug about it.

(Not addressed: The unthinkably heretical notion that we, in the first stirrings of post-scarcity, might perhaps look to and work toward a future where people don't have to wade in shit if they don't want to.)
That made me actually lol in the office.
Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
They only went DRM free in response to pressure from Amazon who began selling DRM free MP3s. I am not a fan of DRM at all but I believe that if a "content owner" wants to encumber their own creation with it, they should have that right and freedom.
I suspect this may be the article that introduced the term:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Do be very careful designing your own system. Our own security expert has written a blog post talking about the pitfalls:

http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/11/08/dont-trust-a-password-m...

I suspect you'll find that at least somewhat useful :)

Kyle

AgileBits Support
It works pretty good. You can test it with my app : http://hn.premii.com/ - HN Web client for mobile.

* Compare to Safari Add to homescreen, chrome remembers where you were last when you reopen the app. On ios, it will start the app again. Also, chrome opens _blank target links in a browser instead of opening in the web app.

Warning: Don't uninstall the web app using tap+hold - uninstall. It will uninstall chrome beta. Just do tap+hold - remove.
A Retro, Not Steampunk, Media Center
China Internet Freedom App Banned from AppStore
Ego Depletion
In the comments under the article someone asks him whether he's contacted Kraft. He has by mail but got no response.
Because he's a white male at a non-physical job, presumably. Pretty brave of him.
Throughout he talks about deciding everything with a single measure of national welfare (which could include things besides GDP, weighted). I'm not convinced that's realistic.

If your decisionmaking process is consistent then an objective function exists. That's just a topological fact.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/metrics_manifesto.htm...
Rap is extremely diverse, but why do you even need to defend it? Can't a song just be fun to listen to?
I suppose a case could be made that the lack of media frenzy and nickname had something to do with society's approach to homosexuality and the "targets" being masculinity defined.
When to Issue Convertible Notes
It depends, that blue shell can be life changing.
I'm sure most of the money is in a seldom used savings account. That's what's great about Bitcoin.
Defenders of the status quo really don't get to define this term. Civil disobedience will be, whatever it must be. In a hundred years blowhards on the intermind will compare their political opponents unfavorably with Levison, Snowden, etc. It will be just as ridiculous and unseemly as it is now.
It's also clear from the comments that the person submitting this is the actual author. Ridiculous.
The problem isn't that browsers do or don't have to implement this "standard"; the problem is that the standard itself isn't enough to actually support the content it claims to support.

It's the equivalent of standardizing the object or embed tags: it's a standard way of getting at non-standard functionality, and sites then depend on specific implementations of that non-standard functionality, the same way they depend on the Flash plugin today in ways that knowing how to implement the object tag doesn't help with.

Standardizing a single fully-specified mechanism for DRM might actually be useful (debatably), but that would break the current model in which DRM is completely unsound and relies on security-through-obscurity. "Standardizing" a means of getting at the myriad non-standard DRM implementations and their non-standard APIs is worse than worthless: it's actively harmful, and it prolongs the death of those technologies.

Right now, content providers have to choose whether to support the open web or DRM. They should continue to have to make that choice, with supporters of the open web reaching a larger audience, until eventually all the holdouts either switch or lose. This is a major step backward for that goal, and the W3C has no business claiming EME has anything to do with the open web.
Wait.. are you being facetious? Can you explain why you feel this way.
Rails Challenges Slides
Does anybody keep a log of all the title changes HN makes?
Also paramilitary purposes
yet another memo. whenever you see such memos leaking, you know the company is in a bad shape. RIM, Nokia, MS - lots of famous memos, full of corporate speak and calls to action to do something with services, quality, paradigms and fundamental values of tectonic shifts.

effective leaders deliver products that customers buy. ineffective ones write memos to other "leaders".
Let's presume it is all true. Gizmag quoted a study that 15-container ships (just 15) dole out the same amount of pollution as 760-million cars. (I shit you not):

http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/

God knows what coal and power plants produce but nonetheless, why does the IPSO and The Guardian have to scare the shit out of everyone instead of offering some sort of real, solution?

If this is all true and this is as dire as they say, one would think or suggest that the military take over the shipping duties of these 15-container-ships and use 15-nuclear-powered vessels instead? this would remove the carbon footprint of these polluting vessels and/or 750-million cars per day with way less waste?

Next, onto the power plants instead of the barbecues and lawn mowers?
Small moves like that makes me proud to be on the internet at this day and age of crisis. I hope I can tell my children or grand children that I actually cared and that I made a small difference, even if it's only the smallest of all.

I hope it will stay the way it is. Probably not, seeing how the public is ignoring and/or is not caring about the issue at all.
Hiring an employee and finding a co-founder are distinctly different on multiple levels.
This gay story, as well as one (especially) of the comments on the actual article, and your comment; something's very wrong with all three. I was about to ask if I'm the only one who sees that, but if you were downvoted, I guess I'm not. I'm glad because seriously: WTH.

EDIT: Actually, the reason for the downvotes is probably the fact that it has nothing to do with hacking.
Yup, why do I suspect that this article
is more of the same from the big movement
to claim that humans are evil, carbon
is filthy, filthy humans are ruining the
planet with evil carbon, or evil humans
are ruining the planet with filthy carbon,
and the only hope for the planet is massive,
UN directed carbon cap and trade to send
massive amounts of money from the evil,
rich nations to the noble, poor nations,
and that humans should junk their cars
and either walk or use bicycles, and the
rich nations should feel ashamed and
guilty for their grossly excessive use
of the finite resources of our pure, precious,
pristine, delicate planet, right at the
tipping point of total devastation?

Do I have that about right? Or we could
borrow from the Mayans and kill people
and pour their blood on a rock to keep
the sun moving across the sky or, in this
case, save the planet from filthy carbon
from evil humans. Or, we need a boys'
band complete with uniforms to counter
the sin and corruption of a pool table
in town. Let's have some more flim-flam,
fraud scams!
I spent the summer at MS on an internship and I think I can say with confidence that calling things as they are is just not something one does at Microsoft. Will it could be the intern cocoon I also observed non-intern targeted communications that showed the same behaviour.

Once I spent time with people they got more friendly and open. Yet if you do get a good conversation going you can expect the managers at the table to hang out of it. The managers always watch their words. Likewise if you talk to a random person in the cafeteria they will toe the party line.

In contrast one is safe to criticize Microsoft products provided they have been dropped or replaced. No love is shown for Windows Mobile or the Kin.

When you do criticize current practices/products in public there was an unwritten rule that one should always reference the competition. No one calls it out in words like "We can do better!", "This is user hostile!", "We're being to greedy by doing X!". Instead it is "We should focus on X because our competitor is going well on Y". Also "competitor" is always left non-specific, just like it is in your quote.

As such considering Ray Ozzie's former high org chart position I must congratulate him on saying as much as he did.
When you dig into it, nobody really knows how many victims there were. His cryptic tally sheet seemed to indicate 67 or so, but some investigators believe he may have killed 100 or more.

For instance, when they caught him, the front passenger seat of his car was apparently bloodsoaked, but was never matched to any known/suspected victim. A fair amount of evidence suggests that he had at least a part-time accomplice as well. All sorts of unknowns, as he still maintains complete innocence to this day.

He had been killing people in Oregon, on business trips up there and the folks up there theorized that something like this was happening and had been working credit card gas purchase, car rental, and airline ticket info and from what I read, right around the time he got arrested in Ca. his name was coming to the top in Oregon.
Are you an advertiser? If not, you may not be in Twitter's customer base.
I think you're misinterpreting what futarchy actually is. It is not replacing our current system of government with a "market". Hanson's description in the article is this:

When a betting market clearly estimates that a proposed policy would increase expected national welfare, that proposal becomes law.

This is not how a normal market works. In a normal market, everyone gets to choose their own strategy for how they are going to act. The market only conveys information to them, through prices, about how good (or bad) their current strategy is.

In futarchy, the "market" would determine a strategy that everyone would then have to follow, because it's the law. In other words, it still retains the key feature that makes our current system of government broken: whatever is considered "a good policy idea" is imposed on everyone, instead of being tested by allowing people who think it's a good idea to try it out individually.

To really fix the current system, we need to really look hard at all the things we currently think have to be decided by a single policy for everyone. There may be some things (like national defense) that actually do need to be decided that way. But a lot of things don't, yet our current system forces us to adopt a one-size-fits-all policy for them. Futarchy does not fix that: in fact it is likely, if anything, to make it worse by making it easier for special interests to simply buy the policy they want, by eliminating the middleman (instead of having to buy politicians and elections, just buy into the betting market).
There is a reason they call it managed code. It isn't native windows code.
Or pre-install Python on Windows like in all the other operating systems.
FINALLY

I use web apps on my smartphones pretty much entirely. It's why I can use my BlackBerry, my Android 4.3 phone, and my Nokia N9 -- swapping between them is perfectly fine as I don't rely on any apps that need native code for the most part.

Android had the worst experience. Add a home screen icon with Chrome and get a tiny bookmark icon (a step back from the original Browser which used apple-touch-icon). Finally it is on par with iOS and I can't wait to see what they do with OS integration :D
Revenue growth is decelerating significantly and they are not even close to a billion. Obviously, they will get a billion in the next year or two but given their lofty valuation expectations, they need to find a way to stem the revenue deceleration for a number of years.
JDeferred: deferred objects and promises for Java/Android
> but I dont want a webapp to access my contacts.

I do, as long as there is permissions integration.
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Why Did It Take So Long to Shut Down Silk Road?
but that's my point: there isn't as much library support as there ought be, even for json schema, let alone these newer domain-specific languages that incorperate/extend json schema.

sometimes i think it would make just as much if not sense to define these communication protocols with a bnf grammar (for endpoints and response codes) or to use s-expressions (since json is pretty much just sugared lisp) or some other well-worn-but-adaptable format just because there are already parser generators and scheme interpreters written for every language.
Once again, if you want to support Lavabit, please donate to the defense fund either at http://lavabit.com/ or https://rally.org/lavabit.
Not really sure what your point is here. But anyway, here is the link to the report: http://www.stateoftheocean.org/research.cfm

Listed in the Guardian's article. Peer reviewed source material is at the bottom of each of the reports.
I complety fell for one of those Israeli cosmetics things in the mall in my early 20's. My dad was in sales so I am accustomed to all the techniques of persuasion. But for some reason that day I bought $20 or so worth of skin care products I had no intention of using. When I got to my car, I was like, "what on EARTH just happened?!" I have never allowed myself to be so manipulated before or since. Creepy to think of those same techniques being applied to nefarious ends.
"By adolescence, Kraft had taken a keen interest in politics, becoming a staunch Republican[12] with aspirations to become a U.S. senator. Shortly after his enrollment at Westminster High School, he and two close friends founded a Westminster World Affairs Club. At Westminster High School, Kraft was again regarded as a pleasant, bright student who regularly achieved A grades."

That's not disturbing at all.
Hey, that's my presentation! Just talked through it at the SF Ruby on Rails meetup tonight.
Here is a link to the live demo: http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/sentiment/rntnDemo.html

This is really fun to play with, and I'm surprised how well it can parse the sentiment of sample sentences I threw at it. I've tried a couple random examples (like "I don't know what the artist was smoking, but the song made no sense (though I liked the beat!)") and have not yet gotten a wrong analysis. Even the phrase parsing is pretty spot-on.

As a side note, this is much more interesting than the "sediment" analysis I excepted after skimming the title. (Unfortunately though, the analyzer got this final sentence wrong: http://cl.ly/image/301u1q46263m)

Edit: seems like this system could get significantly more robust with more data. If you look in the comments section, you can see some comments from the professor himself, i.e. "Possibly because the word "buying", only appears once in the entire dataset and it's in a pretty negative context:
http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/treebank.html?w=buying"

If you gave it 100,000 phrases, I wouldn't be surprised if it could hit the 95% mark that Socher mentions.
Vote up if you thought you were going to read a science article!
Just having the state of the art as open source is in itself fantastic. The fact that their approach is a considerable improvement over the previous approaches is icing on the cake.
"Effective ways of improving skill x are not necessarily applicable to learning skill y. I believe this is one instance of x and y being so far removed from one another as to be totally unrelated, and the application of training methods for x just don't matter at all for y; one man's garbage is another man's treasure, and this to me epitomizes that."

Well said.

ime, people who try to 'exoticize' their programming by abusing martial arts/zen/taoism etc terminology never seriously practiced a martial art (or zen or taoism for that matter) in their lives.

In the martial arts, playing an instrument, etc you are improving body movement/memory which does take repetition and hence you need katas/etudes. The value of repeating the same problem in a mental activity like programming or math (imagine writing the same proof a hundred times) is dubious. Which is why so called "kata" often degenerates into optimizing the physical components - learning key combinations on an IDE/editor (which has some value, but can probably be undertaken without the martial arts mumbo jumbo). Timing a "kata" just adds to the craziness.

Andrew Dalke tangentially takes apart "Uncle" Bob's Prime Factors "kata" here (while skewering the "TDD as design" idea as the main focus) at http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2009/1... .
This was already discussed at length earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487969
Is there any reason no one is talking about terraforming seriously yet? What kind of technologies can be used to draw the CO2 out of the atmosphere, how much would it cost to make a difference?
Well, plankton does. Atmospheric carbon increases and (potentially) decreases, and the question I responded to wanted to know why plankton didn't respond to an increase in supply by having already come into existence in the past so that the atmospheric concentration never varied. It's because (just like the predator-prey model) it's difficult for the feeding population to respond in the present to an increased future supply of food.
> How can I detect if the app is running as an installed app?
>> You can’t, directly.

Couldn't you compare the window size to the screen size using JS?
Quote from the article:

Futarchy seems promising if we accept the following three assumptions:

Democracies fail largely by not aggregating available information.

And we don't even need to go any further, because assumption #1 is wrong in two ways:

(1) Democracies fail because people have conflicting goals, not just conflicting beliefs about how to reach goals. Even people who have all the same factual beliefs can still have inconsistent goals. That is a problem in any system that requires everyone to adopt common goals in order to set policy.

(2) The "information" that would need to be aggregated doesn't exist anyway. Hanson assumes that there is some policy that, if imposed on everyone, would work; he never considers the possibility that the real problem is that assumption--that the root problem is the very act of imposing policies on everyone, not the particular policies that get imposed.