skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest it's not just a matter of willpower. You should be in a material position to execute effectively - having to start worrying about how you'll feed your family, or pay your rent is a massive distraction.

Build up a buffer so you won't have to worry about it, at least in the beginning.
The article implied that most scientists believe that the change is explained by unknown chemical processes involving no new physics.
I really feel for the Buffer team. They make an awesome product and it's hard to prevent things like this, especially when social media doesn't generally have great security right now.

Though I don't want to be crass, I can't help but mention that I'm working on a project to help minimize the damage from these sorts of things. Would be interested in any feedback. (http://socialsecurity.io)
Might I suggest something like redis* for storing this data? Or is that what you mean by database?

* http://redis.io/
iKnode (http://iknode.com) - Automation/Integration Backend Platform.

Demos: https://www.youtube.com/user/iknode

It is cool because:

* it reduces the time to market of backend applications and makes it extremely easy to deploy with just one button.

* It uses an uncool (uncool in HN) language (C#) to create very cool and amazingly easy functionality in the cloud.

* apps scale automatically with you knowing anything about Capacity planning or scaling.

* You can store your data internally with an easy to use interface.

* Mind blowingly easy to use task Scheduling.
Great stuff! Where do you get the game footage from?
Merkel got the 'freedom' medal from Obama.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/07/remark...
I mentioned a couple of other bugs in that same post that I _have_ been able to reproduce, and both the Mac users I've spoken to have also been able to reproduce when they set up new accounts.

Not showing folders that exist on the server, that's super confusing.

Checkboxes that don't work - well, that's a common preferences bug - auto-turning-back-on of settings.

And not testing that you're copying to the folder that you've selected, that's a rookie mistake. Any software which makes changes to another machine over the internet should be checking that it's not causing an infinite loop.
Thanks for providing compelling evidences that totally beat the ones provided in the original article.
Wrong discussion? This is about the BlackBerry App store, not Apple's.
At this point, they've disabled all sharing so you're probably okay. Just be extra vigilant until the issue is fully resolved.
The subject + from + to fields already expose a lot of information, and should be considered just as private as a message's content. I would expect it to be at least truncated in some way to prevent rough employees from accessing user accounts, still debuggable just as easily.
Bytemark suffered a denial-of-service attack, 2300-0000
I know females in tech explicitly annoyed by the usual statements which start, "I am not a woman, but I'm sure a woman..." Same goes for white folk presuming to speak for people of color, wealthy elites speaking on behalf of the poor, etc.

I think it's safer to say that anyone would be annoyed by being treated in a condescending manner.
"I'm not getting heavier, the kilo is getting lighter!"
Why I Stopped Selling My Time for a Living
Yeah, sorry - late night. The 2^32 limit is something we've never seen hit by real software.

(we do have a testing account with top-bit UIDs and MODSEQs set to make sure nothing is trying to do signed maths with them)
Can you explain a bit more about how this is improving communication between bikes and cars? Auto-on is nice, but we have lights that last a long time already. You mention brake lights. Are you actually riging this up to the bikes breaks? How about turn signalling? Stuff like that?

Clearly, it appears you've hit a thread here, maybe you can share more.
Hiresync (http://hiresync.io/) -- collaborative coding interview tool / tool to send out screening questions to candidates, record their response, and being able to pass that recording to your team to review at a later time.

Currently pretty early in development, alot of features are incomplete, but it feels nice to have something deployed online.

Mostly feeling like I'm stagnating at my day job so this was a good chance for me to learn some new skills.
Give yourself a break.

If you don't like how others are trying to raise awareness or encourage women in IT, then get off your high-horse and do something yourself that you do agree with. Sitting there lambasting others' efforts does nothing to improve the situation.
> There just aren’t that many people — yet? — using Kindle Fires, Galaxy Tabs, Nexuses, or Surfaces as alternatives to the iPad. Thus the massive discrepancies between the iPad’s market share and usage share numbers.

2 years ago you wrote[1]:

> The iPad’s role in the tablet market much more closely resembles the iPod’s role in the digital music player market a decade ago than it does the iPhone’s role in the 2008 phone market.

Need any help moving that goalpost?

[1]http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/ipad_dominance
A thing to stop malaria. It is cool because it may save lives.
> thinking "critically" usually means introducing a bias in our thinking

Interesting argument. I think you're depending a lot on what you mean by bias. Can a bias be corrected at all? If yes, should it be called a bias? I guess attempts at critical thinking may not be perfect but they are still the best thing we've got. If the author's argument has flaws, those need to be pointed out using critical thinking instead of just saying that "everyone has biases".
"Google Software Update would like to control this computer..." What?
Python. I wanted to make the underlying ideas as transparent as possible, so I chose a language which many people will find accessible, and I've tried to use simple, easily understandable idioms. I hope it will also be easily accessible to people who use Python rarely.
> Dangerous for who? Safer from what or whom?

Firefighters. Collapsing roofs. One example of hundreds.

Things aren't moral. Everything can be used for good or evil. Things aren't something you should rail against. Humans are the problem.
All projects have finite resources that they allocate as they see fit. You say that priority should be given to legacy upgraders for the sake of "strongest initial interest." That may well be his preference, too, and if so, the costs of doing so will be debited from available resources.

It is, of course, his choice, but I'm suggesting that there is an alternative where all available resources are focused on the future, benefiting new projects at the expense of whatever remains of the legacy, going for strongest ultimate interest even at the possibility that it might not produce the strongest initial interest, and attempting to own the mindshare of "best system for new Python projects" by positioning itself exclusively as that, not positioning new Python project support a recent add-on to an old, legacy technology.

It's a matter of choosing market, positioning, and resource allocation, and I'm pointing out how, with a certain choice, the market perception that "mod_python is dead" doesn't have to be a problem and could even have advantages.
Insignia (https://github.com/Zolmeister/insignia)
A Personal project showcase and landing page

My page: http://insignia.zolmeister.com/
well, you seems to be on to something. These other kilos are kept at different places that have different gravitation (no mentioning that they control for that) - thus different time. So 1 year for IPK in Paris isn't a precise 1 year for its copy in another place. So whatever changes happen to the kilos they happen a bit quicker for some and a bit slower for the others.
It makes it safer for the one throwing the ball. Apparently you missed or are ignoring that those people are just as likely to be disaster responders.
What made you think that? I said nothing of the sort.

Judging from the comments on the video, there are plenty of people who do.
Adding text in any textarea using vi movements and modes. It works so much better than expected!
Thanks, but it looks like it has been shut down?

http://www.placeling.com/
Get used to it. As a developer for iOS, you have to be ready for seemingly arbitrary rejection. It's part and parcel of the App Store submission process.
Nice show!

Also the research shows that roundabout are much safer:
http://www.ite.org/traffic/documents/CCA99A33.pdf

http://www.ce.udel.edu/dct/publications_files/Rpt.%20199%20R...

Quote: "In instances where roundabouts have replaced other types of intersection control, the benefits in terms of safety have been remarkable and many examples can be found in
the literature."
Absolutely. The sad thing is that Apple seem to be competing with early versions of Outlook to produce the worst, pretty-but-totally-network-hostile clients.
Interesting read as I hire mainly through oDesk, hopping to be able to hire full-time developers some day.
> Mrs Merkel - an Americophile who was awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 - is said to be shocked that Washington may have engaged in the sort of spying she had to endure growing up in Communist East Germany.

though she expressed no such outrage when it was revealed that the NSA was conducting similar surveillance on German citizens.
It's unrelated.

OP is making the point that app numbers mean nothing, given that someone can just find some RSS feeds and turn the handle to produce thousands of apps. Fine if BB wants to allow such apps, but it weakens the point of the CEO proclaiming the number in a keynote.

Apple does make some attempt to block blatant cookie-cutter apps, so I'd give Apple's app figure (900K) more credence on that basis. If apps like those 47K BlackBerry apps are allowed, maybe that's a Good Thing or not, but either way, it renders the app count completely arbitrary.
> For 99% of enterprise users, there really isn't a barrier to switching to another productivity suite.

Well, not running on Windows is a barrier. The iPad has gained some acceptance in Enterprise for salespeople but until it gets more official keyboard support and corporate controls added it won't replace office computers.

There is iWorks web apps but there you're competing with Google Docs and Google Docs is the gold standard safe bet. Pretty much every company that switches off Office goes to Docs. They want the full suite, not just a word processor and spreadsheet, what's Apple's enterprise email solution? Also Google makes a handful of utilities that make it easier to transition off of Office, like Google Apps Sync[1]. Apple's going to have to give up their "we only write software for our own platforms" stance if they want to seriously compete in the enterprise.

[1]https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1378043

From a comment there: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H... is the maintained version.
The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers
Asynchronous CSV Parser in C
Server logs never expose identifiable information or any user-provided content.
Taste?
The author (Jan) has been very active in the standards community, and really cares about getting every edge case _right_ rather than just being expedient. It's a pleasure to work with him.
Buffer Has Been Hacked
I love nimrod. Just waiting the right time to {learn,use,play with} it.
this is an amazing tool. I will use it for my android app.
I think this chain of articles is particularly interesting to follow because it neatly illustrates how different the audiences are: the articles neatly show both what the audience wants to hear and what it actually hears. This is a property of blogs in general: they can measure the impact of any given article far more than newspapers, so less popular views can't ride the coattails of more popular ones. This creates a pretty direct feedback loop: blogs write more of what people want and, to an extent, people want more of what blogs write.

Also, reading some of these articles really illustrated your point about blame--it seems the writers are more than ready to play an "us vs game" them with "privileged technocrats" or a "techno-utopian clique" against the implicit common man in the audience. Instead of comparing ideals and ideas, it focuses on people behind the ideas and their perceived arrogance. This is particularly annoying because arrogance seems disproportionately harshly judged by society.
Is it really necessary to pile on at this point?
cross platform functionality and new is always better is more easier.

your question has the answer
In the meantime, make no mistake, Apple continues to sweat the details on these events. This year they customized the entrance to the gallery building at Yerba Buena Center, ripping out the doors in the back — just for this event — to create a sunlit open-air entrance to the post-event hands-on area.

This is cool and all, but not many of us got to see these polishings. This sitcom of a presentation was, indeed, predictable in most senses. There is little delight to be had, and I don't necessarily blame Apple, but I sort of do. They know it's predictable; they read the unbelievable amount of prediction blogs that exist out there. And yet, they rely largely on video and proverbially screaming things we already know (like iPad selling better than every other tablet) to present their new products. I'd rather see them play 10 very well-made games and demo 10 very well-made everyday applications. Maybe show us more about how beautiful and powerful the Mac Pro is. I don't want to see them tout how awesome Apple is, and then introduce incremental products, even if incremental products is the right thing to do. For the record, I do think incremental is the right choice for this refresh anyway - there's a better way to present it.

This is the iPad Mini I expected to see in October 2014, not 2013.

Really? I have a hard time believing that Gruber actually believed this. This was obviously the next step for the iPad Mini. Better performance, retina screen.

Last year’s Mini was a triumph of design; this year’s update is a triumph of operational efficiency.

This is why it makes the event so boring. A great summary. This is another way of saying, "while it's not exciting or visually stunning, it's a big business win for Apple, and subsequently will sort of drive prices down for millions of consumers." This doesn't really combat against the primary criticisms. While I understand that public speaking isn't really his gig, Cook sounds a lot like he has a thesaurus for buzz words that he brushes up on while looking at pictures of Apple and big 3d pie charts of how much of a piece of shit the Microsoft tablets are.

I understand the updates - but the presentation is largely underwhelming. This could have been spun better. Oh yeah - did anyone catch that there's a new MacBook Pro? Does anyone know the differences introduced? What an understated rollout.

The big disappointment for me is that Apple did not announce 4K Cinema Displays to go along with it. Why make a machine capable of driving three 4K displays but not make the displays?

My thoughts exactly. This should have been the one more thing.

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I don't have any experience with Buffer, but it's refreshing to see the HN community react (mostly) with concern and support.

I hope you guys recover fully.
My 2 cents: add padding around the top left image/icon/logo so it matches the columns padding of the layout.
We don't have an official estimate yet, but our guesses are between 2,500 on the low side and 4,000 on the high.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but how is it possible to encrypt the access token? Doesn't the server need it in plaintext to make requests?
Woohoo been looking forward to this for those of us who couldn't make it or watch the live stream. (Was busy filling out a YC app if I recall correctly ...)
It looks like your app only displays data that is probably copyrighted by the pokemon company (heh, I didn't even know that company existed). I doubt that it was rejected due to simplicity.
How the US Crushed Youth Resistance [2011]
I want your idea so desperately to become a reality, and we're so, so close. Like a tech world of the best hackers and geeks contracted by the outside.
very cool!
- is it just a monitoring app or can you actually launch printings like in octoprint?
- Is there a way to encrypt the code sent so that the owner of the printer couldn't grab not even the G-code and reproduce the file once it's on his printer?
That's what I was thinking. Sounds more like a rage against the existing app that doesn't match up to the expectations set out by Apple.
This looks awesome, I hope it's successful.

Are you planning on keeping it slide-based or incorporating other types of media in there as well?
Just to elaborate on this, conscientious objector status won't always disqualify one from military service. In past scenarios where people were drafted, conscientious objectors were often given non-combat related jobs. On today's battlefield, a non-combat job doesn't mean much, because there isn't really "enemy" or "friendly" territory.
There's still a lot of societal pressure to pass exams to enter a "good" university in Japan (here "good" is an in-country measure - only a worldwide basis there are a lot of universities measured as better than almost all of the "good" Japanese universities).

Your university degree has usually been the measure of your worth to enter a big Japanese company, but there are presumably a few more foreign companies in Japan, and conditions there are better (not as much overtime). Companies like Rakuten have made English the company language, so there are changes afoot in Japan.
I don't really see the problem, you worked for a company, they have to pay you, if they don't just sue them...

I mean, definitely is not your (direct) problem if the client haven't pay yet and is not your fault neither that you missed the deadlines...

I would just be straight with your manager...
> Society needs creatives, but just a few.

This is top-down thinking. An interesting thought would be the bottom-up version: What kind of society would we get if we allowed everyone to remain creative? Will we really lose all the modern comforts of life? If yes, what would we gain in return? (perhaps more play/leisure, arts, more time spent with families and so on). Would the trade-off be worth it?

This argument (that we don't need many creative people) also seems a bit condescending. Oh, I like my creative freedom and undisciplined curiosity but it's not for everyone!
Design and implementation of bigv.io - cloud hosting built on Free software
Gifcast: a tool to share screen captures (like Droplr, etc.) as animated GIFs.

It's silly compared to the cool stuff shared here, but I'm having fun learning Go and Objective-C.
So auto on / off is engaged with a reed switch and spoke mounted magnet. Auto on is more of a user convenience than a battery saver - you never need to think about turning your back lights on again. You will be seen when you ride. The reed switch doubles as a way of determining velocity. When the wheel velocity changes by a certain set amount, the brake lights will engage (three red backlights flash solid, then stay solid). It waits for either an increase in velocity or a time duration to turn the running lights back on. Turning is signaled with front mounted switches (teal switches in the pictures). One on either side of the front light. Currently, they turn on for about 5 seconds then shut off. There's a couple improvements that could be done with it (if stopped, keep blinking until a speed increase), but I haven't done that yet. When blinking is engaged the back lights stop running, the center light stays solid, and the amber LEDs blink at a frequency similar to that of cars. The front light has three modes - on, solid, flashing. Holding down one turn switch will engage the front light, holding down the other turn switch will cycle modes (flashing, solid).

Originally - I wanted it to be accelerometer based, but as you may know, the roads are not very smooth, so any bumps will affect the measurements significantly. The reed switch offers silky smooth data - as the data gets integrated over one wheel rotation, it's extremely noise resistant.

Ah and your main point - communication between cars and cyclists - turn signals allow cars to know where I'm going, the brakes will let them know when I'm slowing, and the automatic lights will make sure they can see me. Be seen, be safe, be smart. It's not a perfect solution, but I think it's a step in the right direction. There's a lot of aggression between cyclists and drivers, this might be something that can allow the driver to anticipate the actions of the cyclist.
well, 60% of the comments on yelp are paid. I asked customers and restaurants...they told me bluntly that they actually paid a company to review...

don't about if they are lied but same thing is on App Store and Play Store.
You know, there really should be a better way of contesting rejections. I'm surprised at how often we hear this same type of story of rejection.
A so far un-named hardware development framework which makes hardware programming more expressive and programs more shareable. No more "gpio -g write 17 1".
This seems like a good example of where a website targeted for mobile interfaces would have been best.
Sure. They're all responsible. Hooande set up a strawman describing an imaginary situation where grunts are held responsible for the cost of war, which is of course allocated by the mucky-mucks on high (and well far away from the front lines, natch).

However, taking the whole of his post and the one you're replying to, I believe it's an incontrovertible fact that there are citizens in a warmaking country who are not responsible: the ones who didn't want to go to war.
Balaji, you were far and away my favorite talk at Startup School. I took CS184 on Coursera and it was more valuable than my entire undergraduate education. Thank you.
I am working on a knowledge representation and reasoning system. It is cool because of the simplicity and expressiveness of the languaje it uses to represent knowledge.

http://terms.readthedocs.org
I believe NSA is as much important as Android is to Google.
Blackberry really could have still made it. They really could have.

They didn't. What they needed was to improve software and keep new devices and pushing for touch, pushing for a better operating system. I mean, we've still been stuck with the ancient BB software for YEARS until FINALLY QNX came out this year. THIS YEAR.

Competitors have had modern operating systems for over half a decade. Blackberry couldn't keep up. How I wish they had; the keyboard is one of the biggest selling points I can think of. I'll miss them.

I predict that by this time next year, Blackberry will cease to exist as the company that it is (or was). It may be a subsidiary, but you can expect that we're not going to see any innovation from the struggling company anymore.
Fleck: getfleck.com/download (link to iTunes app)

Why it's cool: We give you access to creatives all around the world for topic based photo sharing. No more #selfies or #burritos when you just want to see Street Art or Typography photos. We have been touted as "Pinterest for the real world" by a few of our users.
Very cool. I figured you'd be integrating those sorts of things.
I'm reimplementing the SQLite virtual machine in RPython, in the hopes that RPython's tracing JIT will speed up query execution. RPython (the toolkit behind PyPy) is cool because it allows you to build a JIT-enabled virtual machine with very little effort.

I'm also writing a comedy horror roleplaying game and getting to grips with all the less fun aspects of running a kickstarter campaign.
It looks like he submitted the link to HN so I would assume that is the case.
Real-time Office Hours for top Open Source Library Authors/Contributors.

It's Google Hangouts but with a focus on expressing coding concepts.

Looks like this http://www.enginehere.com/stream/312/programmatically-disabl...