skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the people who were prescient enough to figure out that there was immense unrealised demand for such a system are surely anxious to offload their now increasingly valuable stake in that system, right?

I sure am, back when I was mining and buying at around the 1$ mark I thought to myself; self, you know this is all just games and popcorn, but there'll always be a bigger sucker out there and some day they'll come along and buy all this stuff you're now building, so suck it up and tolerate the jet engine whine of the fans, you'll be rich in the long run.

Not really, though.
Have you looked into https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton? It's very lightweight. If you want something heavier, but semantic, I like http://gumbyframework.com/. I think it was based on 960gs. It also looks pleasant.
If you work remotely we're building a real-time communication app just for you in Sqwiggle (https://www.sqwiggle.com). Would love for anyone to try it and offer honest feedback, we'll listen to it all day long :)

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I think they don't need our comments about something while they have access to all our e-mail, DM's etc...
never happened to me in 4 years...
Have you tried Sqwiggle yet? Would love for you to let us know your thoughts :)
> Flash has been in decline since the first iPhone, but is still used to track people with unkillable cookies and to make obnoxious ads.

And games. A lot of games. As long as the major companies making money off Flash games don't move to a different technology, Flash will never go away.
Given the big difference between takeup on Apple's store versus Google's store, this suggests that Blackberry has lost more customers to iPhone than to Android. And when they said that they are winning back a lot of customers with their latest new phone, it probably means that they are tempting a significant chunk of those iPhone users back.

In any case, if they can transform their business into an apps and services company then it will not matter which devices that their customers buy.
Canadian ISP/telco to track customers' Internet usage to serve ads
I own a Nexus 7 (2012), which sadly doesn't have HDMI output, otherwise I would happily use it.

I could use it to easily watch movies/shows on my TV, without having to resort to a computer (not everyone has an HTPC behind their TV, and a tablet is way easier to move than a laptop/desktop).

I could just fire up an emulator (emulations on mobile devices is great those days, you can emulate pretty much every console older than the psx), connect a wireless/Bluetooth controller to it, and use it as a nice, portable "retro"-console.

Returning on your article, I totally agree with your last point. Because chocolate ice cream sell better, it doesn't mean that vanilla ice cream is losing the "ice cream war".
num-utils is somewhat similar and one of the packages I install by default:

Description-en: programs for dealing with numbers from the command line
The 'num-utils' are a set of programs for dealing with numbers from the
Unix command line. Much like the other Unix command line utilities like
grep, awk, sort, cut, etc. these utilities work on data from both
standard in and data from files.

Includes these programs:
* numaverage: A program for calculating the average of numbers.
* numbound: Finds the boundary numbers (min and max) of input.
* numinterval: Shows the numeric intervals between each number in a sequence.
* numnormalize: Normalizes a set of numbers between 0 and 1 by default.
* numgrep: Like normal grep, but for sets of numbers.
* numprocess: Do mathematical operations on numbers.
* numsum: Add up all the numbers.
* numrandom: Generate a random number from a given expression.
* numrange: Generate a set of numbers in a range expression.
* numround: Round each number according to its value.
Homepage: http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/
Awesome, what kind of business do you run?
Google bundles their own build of Flash in with Chrome, the normal Flash plugin doesn't work with Chrome. It's the only browser on Linux that still gets new (non-security updates) versions of Flash.

Besides, they've been moving YouTube to HTML5.
Definitely possible... they also have a whole suite of products that are aligned with remote workers already though ;)
You get out of prayer the work you put in. Did you talk with God? Priase God for snowmen, popcorn, sand castles and bubbles. That will answer your questions. The whole planet is about to do continuous offerings to God in the form of hymns, art, comics and poems.

God says...
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Etexts agonised perfected dragging physicians laughter
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Danae's pilgrimage pinching track flows presiding definitely
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So, I updated to Mavericks. Ran python and it Segfaulted. I think this is the first time I have had python crash like that.

Python 2.7.5 (v2.7.5:ab05e7dd2788, May 13 2013, 13:18:45)

[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> a = 1000

>>> a/1000

Segmentation fault: 11
FWIW - I rebooted it on my own after the first dialogue saying that it had installed. Then it was there again in software updates.
In case the site isn't loading for you (wasn't for me):

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Devices like USB modems switch based on what mode they're running in, anyway.
Ummm... I actually wanted to see the ideas, but the image there is all blurry. Am I missing something?
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Any interest at FB to sponsor the JSC implementation? That would leave IE as the odd one out... (If anyone reading works at Microsoft, politely ask the IE team to prioritize ES6 generators :))
Then again, there are cases where developers have and will release driver source out of tree so that new devices are supported on day one, or to avoid the politics of the linux kernel. Having a flash with a driver, even if it is an older one, could be a godsend for things like nics, where you can very easily end up in a catch-22 type situation.
The author's been reviewing OS X like this since 10.0. Probably involved with Apple's OSes since even further back. It's clearly become something dearer to him than a child.
It looks like not enough people know that you can license individual PIDs from MCS Electronics:

http://www.mcselec.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&f...

MCS is in Holland, where both their jurisdiction and the fact that they licensed their VID from USB-IF a long time ago make it impossible to enforce the prohibition against reselling PIDs. For EU 10 each, it's worth it just to kick sand in the face of the asshats at USB-IF.
4GB + HDD was a dead combination ever since 10.7.

Fresh Mavericks setup + a Safari window - 3.7GB or RAM.

Just upgrade mate. It will make a huge difference.
Even when my fellow coworkers sitt next to me I skype with them instead of talking. Makes it much easier to not be interupted by talk all the time.
Just tried it on Mavericks, Works for me:

Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 25 2013, 00:04:04)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = 1000
>>> a/1000
1
>>>
Ask HN: How to implement 'free trial' that is acceptable to Google AdWords?
Our company offers Windows and Mac desktop software that includes a free 30-day trial period.

In order to prevent the user from continuing the trial after the trial period expires, the software writes the installation date to a 'hidden' place on the computer. Crucially, this date is not deleted when the user uninstalls the software. This prevents the user from repeatedly trialing the software without paying for it.

Google's new AdWords policy [1] no longer allows this type of behaviour. Specifically, "Once an application is disabled or deleted, it may not leave any remnants". Google support have confirmed that our software behaviour breaches this clause.

So my question is: How should I modify the software to offer a free trial without breaking the AdWords rules?

So far I see two options: (1) Simply hope that the user does not discover that they can extend their trial forever by continually re-installing the software; or (2) Have the installation program send some unique hardware ID to an online server to authorise the trial. Which of these options would be better? Is there a third option I'm missing?

[1] https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/50423?hl=en-GB&utm_source=policy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gen
If I were a lawyer I'd go into full ambulance-chasing mode ASAP. I just feel bad for the unknowing doctors who were deceived, and will need to take time (and therefore take fewer appointments) in order to defend themselves formally.
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Go look at the top 250 addresses, a _majority_ of them have never been spent from. There isn't any conclusive proof that the #1 address (111,111 BTC) belongs to DPR, but it is clearly linked to SR in one way or another. I'd be willing to bet a solid amount of my own holdings that those coins are effectively "dead" (private key lost) along with a good portion of the rest of the addresses that haven't been touched since 2011, or have flat out never been spent from.

Everyone is touting the 12 million number for total coins in circulation right now and 21 million as the maximum amount. In practice both of those numbers are going to be significantly lower.
Anyone had random logouts when using Expose?
Not sure if it's USB DisplayLink adapter, or some weird bug in OS X.
It's quite rare, perhaps twice or once a day. Haven't lost important data yet, but I feel it's coming.
This a million times. To continue the analogy:
Only with experience will the driver know approximately how long the drive should take. Read about the traffic all you want, but until you drive there multiple times, try not to give a set arrival time (or prepare to arrive late).
Exactly.

Plus, not everyone of us is out to make millions or build the next Facebook/Apple/Google/Microsoft/Adobe etc. If I can develop an awesome app (or apps) for iOS (and enjoy doing so) why can't I just make a good living doing that? Or even build a small company over it? It sure is heck easier to test on iOS devices than throw it out to the android world, hoping it will be good on whatever device the user chose. It is what it is. I'll take less market share over trying to appease the entire world if it's easier (or even feasible) for me to do so.

Anecdote:
I guess that is why I was so excited to see Sour Cream and Onion Doritos back on the market (only for a short time, dammit). These were my favorite Doritos flavor when I was a child. I bought several bags and now they are gone again. This is what going only for highest profit margins and market share does. This is why we lose our fun sci-fi shows to freakin' wrestling. And, why I can't find David's(TM) nacho cheese flavored sunflower seeds at the store. Grrr...
Love this analogy because you can extrapolate it even further.

I'm the kind of guy that travels the first 80% on the highway, reaches the traffic-bloated city, and actually makes a U-turn to head towards a totally new city, thinking "I'll visit that city later".

Or, quite often, halfway towards my destination (let's say 40%), I'll see a board saying "Next exit: even better city", and take that exit. After taking a few of these exits, I will have spent hours or even days on the highway, without having reached any city, or even coming close to one.
> Not much has changed in a major way, but there are improvements all around.

Seems to sum up Apple as a whole for these past couple of years, and probably for the foreseeable future as well.
Actually, Forstall will most likely go down as leaving because he was power-hungry and didn't play well with others. Skeu probably had little to do with it (imho).
Maybe US should look to the number of successful websites launched in European governments and public sectors. There were obviously a lot of failures along the way, but that is what you learn from. And if US can skip some failures, thats maybe a few billions not lost. Worth looking into.
to be more specific, you need to go through it with a fine tooth comb, for example, in UI, the inline form's spacing is totally borked

http://www.html5admin.com/demo/ui.html
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GarageBand for iOS and Mac now free
Mac: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/garageband/id682658836
You can't get one window to overlap over two screens anymore.

Now imagine VNCing into two monitor setup, when you use vertical monitors...
Did you read my earlier reply? Are you poking fun? ;-)
Is there nothing equivalent to virtualenv for Ruby? It'd be nice to be able to use the system Ruby and just get gem to install into an isolated project specific location.
Server-side user registration - you could put this together super easily with http://parse.com.
Or you could get an iPad mini for $299.
>cannot be confiscated.

Several internet drug lords would beg to differ.
"Kindle" and "Tesla' are 2 out of 3...
Great Analogy, the basic idea is similar to this quora post (linked below) both in the travel metaphor and the fact that both deal with software development effort estimation:

http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software...
I agree. It's amazing that Practice Fusion stands by their claim that both doctors and patients have provided genuine consent.

If this, as the article suggests, is the interface where doctors go to opt-out of sending surveys, how can Practice Fusion claim that doctors knew what was happening? The interface seems intentionally designed to obscure what's happening. Note the text reads "[x] Enable follow-up messages" http://b-i.forbesimg.com/kashmirhill/files/2013/10/in-produc...

The patient-facing survey is hardly better. http://b-i.forbesimg.com/kashmirhill/files/2013/10/patient-r...
With the government, depending on how "involved" your customer is in the contract, they might have a shitfit if they find out you are doing this. As another poster in this section noted, there are plenty of government and quasi-government[1] employees who seriously believe that you can't start writing code until you have defined all your requirements and prepared a design to meet those requirements.

[1] People who work for companies like MITRE that are basically privatized extensions of the government.
> * If you use Wifi, you can be tracked by your MAC address

There is a startup that does exactly this - track MAC addresses of cell phones in stores, and then resell that data to store owners, so they can track who comes into their stores: http://www.getnomi.com/
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
Link for Mac: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/garageband/id682658836
I wonder if the NSA has root on iCloud.
There is no such thing as intrinsic value, all value is subjective, and Bitcoin most definitely has subjective value; otherwise it would not be exchanged! If you define "intrinsic value" as something like "has subjective value for a great majority of individuals," then Bitcoin does have intrinsic value as a way to easily and quietly send wealth without requiring a central middle man. There are also numerous theoretical ways in which it could be made useful (colored coins, for instance.) I don't understand how people can look at Bitcoin and not see that it has some use, even if they believe that use is overblown.
Does anyone know if the password manager / iCloud Keychain / Safari auto-suggest can import passwords from a .pif?
I am a huge fan of what Mozilla is doing with FFOS. I bought a ZTE for testing and because I really believe that HTML/CSS/JS is a great choice for a phone platform.

It's a great little device. It's incredible what $80 can buy you. Having said this I don't think I would recommend it as an everyday device. The hardware is slightly underpowered and the screen resolution is too low for my taste. I think you could get a much better browsing experience by spending $50-$100 more on a different device.

I can't wait until a FFOS device in the $200-$300 range comes out. It will be amazing.
I once worked for a very successful software company with a customer base that included government (IT installations), academic (college courses lab work, hardware research), financial (banks), and industry (computer hardware manufacturers).

We built a platform, and had a consulting wing that built custom "apps" on top of it.

We did Waterfall and CMMI. Waterfall was most intense for the consulting projects. I remember being assigned to build feature 3.2.2.1 in the spec.
Interesting fact - the original design of "waterfall" isn't what we perceive as "waterfall" today: http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/files/orig...

My theory - agile/iterative development rarely gets sold because we continue to believe we aren't susceptible to planning fallacy.
Ah, so you were moving the goalposts, 5 posts back, when your statement about "toy currency" was rebuffed.
That's absolutely not true. I regularly compile large programs (granted, not linux kernel large, but relatively large) and paly games, and my early 2011 MVP does everything I need. Try to look at a comparable quality build laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad with the same spec) and you'll see what you can pay for a windows machine.
Option 2 is your best bet. There are several hardware ID's you can use. Network MAC address is probably the least likely to change.

If you can't leave anything at all on the system then you have to use something that's already on the system that doesn't change as a key.
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Hey. I put together my top 5 lessons from startup school

Let me know what you think. Was there one that I missed?
The regular macbook was available on my education store for about 12 months after they pulled it from the apple store.
Great analogy. This is just the thing I wanted to see. I am in that last 20% phase with my project and it really is a lot more work to get to a 100%.
They unintentionally built up a huge position well beyond their internal capital thresholds. You don't have worry about mark to market to detect that. If you think your FX strategy could end up with max notional of let's say £50MM, you can put something in place to stop trading if you exceed that. If you are a smaller shop, your prime broker is probably already doing something like that for you.

Those types of risk controls (i.e. capital thresholds) are bog standard in our industry and it still kind of blows my mind that Knight managed to get around them so easily.
For context, Michael Lewis' Vanity Fair post-mortem on this case is worth reading -- he got a bunch of Wall Street programmers to interrogate Aleynikov to determine what a "jury" of his peers thought of his actions.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...

A month after ace programmer Sergey Aleynikov left Goldman Sachs, he was arrested. Exactly what he’d done neither the F.B.I., which interrogated him, nor the jury, which convicted him a year later, seemed to understand. But Goldman had accused him of stealing computer code, and the 41-year-old father of three was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Investigating Aleynikov’s case, Michael Lewis holds a second trial.
I don't really see the point in tablets. At least not if you already have a lightweight laptop and a smartphone. Most people that have tablets seems to just have them lying around. Having a decent touchpad helps too.
Aka Sue-Us-B :P
CryptoSeal VPN service opts to close down rather than grant NSA access
My pet theory is that a good amount of the early coins are effectively "dead" with either the keys lost, brain wallets forgotten or the back-up USB keys long since formatted (or you know, you got arrested and the encrypted wallet is seized as evidence and revealing the key or otherwise moving the coins would basically be an admission of guilt)

It's easy to set up triple redundant cold storage and promptly place multiple paper backups in different safety deposit boxes now when the price is rounding $200; but how many people went through this amount of effort when bitcoin was still considered a joke or nifty social/economic experiment and traded below $4 or even $.04

Even better; how many people stored them in an insecure manner and have since lost them to a scam/virus/offline attack.
This is a really lucid response to the 500m loc nonsense
Drive your friends crazy
How should I plan for a QA job where I work at home, part time?
Yeah, I realized this after posting. Mavericks is installing its own version of python compiled with clang-5.0. My path was modified by the python installer (from mountain lion) to point under Library and was compiled using the older gcc 4.2. Looks like that program crashes for simple things (division, addition etc.).
Damn disappointing to see I can't upgrade the Mac mini I have from ~2008. It's a Macmini2,1, but I have upgraded the ram from 500mb to 4gb (3gb addressable), the cpu to the fastest possible (2.3ghz core2), and a samsung 840 128gb ssd. The machine is a beast now, except for the fact the sound occasionally stops working (sudo killall coreaudiod!)

I understand the why - the chipset/cpu is 32bit, and Mavericks is 64-bit only. Bit of a bugger. The user won't notice though (My wife)

I'm sure the upgrade experience would be better than my Windows 8 -> Windows 8.1 experience of last week. The best way to describe that would be train wreck.
But citizens are not forced to spy on their friends, like these companies are.
NSA hacked Email of Mexican president and top leaders
Could you give an example of a crappy no-competition Walmart? I've only ever seen the nicer ones.
I'm pretty sure it's much simpler; HN is anti-everything.
Do you have a link for a guide or tutorial to doing this?
GNU Hurd died because Linux appeared, folks like RedHat combined the GNU userspace with the Linux kernel.

It was a massive success -- everyone put in the part they did well -- kernel + userland + distribution = WIN.
Now the analogy is complete.
I agree that they should just remove all the reviews at this point -- it's what a professional crisis management team would recommend, particularly since it's not even their core business. It's always stunning to me how otherwise smart CEOs like this fail to recognize when they're in very deep shit. I mean, these guys are facing not only major civil penalties but also possibly criminal charges as well.

This is an existential crisis for the company, and the attitude seems to be, "yeah, yeah, we'll take care of it".

Is it just that he's surrounded by all "yes" men, and no one is telling him how bad this all is? And clearly they've not hired a crisis management team, since the first thing one would do is make sure the CEO doesn't stupid blab things to the press, such as: "But if they're going to reap the benefit of the free system, they need to be transparent about their performance."
Now if I could remember all the shortcuts ...

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/documentation/PhpStorm_Re...
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