skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume I don't understand what the word startup means. What is it about the definition of startup prevents you from building one inside of another company?
1600x1200 was commonplace as early as 2001 (in a Dell Inspiron 8000, I believe).
In the flow picture at the bottom, the STS looks like a server to me. What I'm saying is the auth flow still seems to require a server to act as an indirection to the real auth server. But if Amazon provide that part for us, great.
Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7
Referring to his specific example, however, having children at age 18 is not something that is forced upon all women and/or all non-white people.
The first thought that came to my mind was that she was unable to game the system anymore.

Turns out I wasn't the only one. gettheyayo (dead comment) remarked

> What's more likely to have happened: she lost her way of making money. She charged money and had to deliver. She no longer can thanks to Google.
There is an issue open for this, but it hasn't received much attention:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/18...
More info about the application:
- http://www.thiagopradi.net/projects
- http://www.academia.edu/4490580/Software_for_Melanoma_Detect... (Paper in portuguese)
He wants to remain anonymous almost certainly because he is estimated to own ~1 million BTC ($200 million!); and a lot of thieves would track/kidnap/torture/murder someone for the chance to steal that amount.
You are of course right, but I'm not sure if people in the US ordering over the internet actually pay sales tax on devices ordered from the google play store. It might depend on what state they're in though.
Bruce Schneier to Speak About Internet Surveillance at IETF 88 Technical Plenary
I know I would. Hell, even just a nicely formatted eBook or nice webpage (like StartupNotes.org) could do the trick plus provide a lower barrier to entry.
Sorry my bad, I know the difference, except my brain generally when reaching for those key sets, also goes to the '.
Do you think that people who buy expensive stuff -- the gatekeepers in the original article -- can't tell the difference? That they don't know brand names?

The goal isn't to meet some objective standard of looks-close-enough. The goal is to signal in a very specific way, through brand names. You may impress other poor people who don't know about brand names and such, but you will not impress people who do know their stuff.
I'm glad you see it this way. This could easily be the result of shooting off a post without taking a moment to read what you've written.

You are not the first person to do that, nor the last. I've done it plenty of times. Life goes on.

Sometimes I think these fora need to have a selectable posting delay setting. Let the user choose whether posting is immediate or not. I would probably set mine to at least a 15 minute delay. I'd sure save me from making an ass of myself on occasion.
> It's not just Nigeria.

It's not just Africa, either.
> The working hours thing, for better or worse, is broadly ignored in software companies.

However, Germans at least take the idea of vacation time seriously
For my personal use, I prefer my laptop to have a higher dpi due to the distances involved. My current 15" thinkpad 1080p display is already straining my eyesight when I use it as a 2nd monitor on my desk, but is very nice when working directly on the laptop. So I'm still excited about this.
Here's a trick: get your measurements, accurately, have someone do it for you with a tape measure. Then scour eBay and be patient. Eventually a suit that was hand-made for someone of your exact dimensions will come up, then you have to grab it. Whatever you pay won't be a fraction even of what it cost originally.
Wasn't he involved in the SCO and Ralph Yarro affair? That's quite a turnaround. What's the catch?
By the way, Warren Buffet isn't the CEO of GEICO. Tom Nicely is

I picked GEICO because it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway's CEO is of course, Warren Buffet. Warren Buffet has the power to fire Tim Nicely the same way Barack Obama has the power to fire Kathleen Sebelius. Both of them however have very little daily direct interactions with projects at their subsidiary organizations.
Probably smells like piss.
Even my iPhone 5 feels as laggy as the original 2G iPhone did, now that I've updated to iOS 7. I wish I could hit the undo button on that 'upgrade.'
A pretty good text to have around is Distributed Systems Concepts and Design[1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Concepts-Design-Ed...
Whats wrong with the Nexus 7 v2 ? (I havent used it myself).
An Atheist Defends Religion
I suspect that these were studies intended for marketing purposes (sorry,I mean informing opinion leaders) for drugs that were already approved.
How is the language situation? I'm bilingual English/Chinese, and I've always been put off by thoughts of working in non-UK Europe.

I've heard a wide range of stories - some claim speaking English exclusively doesn't pose any major obstacles. Others claim that knowing only English makes your life pretty rough.
That or no Pyramid developer has wanted to put time into submitting a pull request. You should go for it!
Google releases Play services 4.0 for Android developers, drops Froyo support
Anyone know if NFC emulation will let me create an app to replace my Clipper card and work key fob? I would have guessed that NFC chips would have an embedded secret that you can't get directly.
I don't think so. Here are the FAQ about the blue card:
http://www.bamf.de/EN/Infothek/FragenAntworten/BlaueKarteEU/...

Quote:
"What preconditions need to be met in order for an EU Blue Card to be issued?
1. Applicants must provide proof of a completed university degree. If the university degree was not awarded in Germany, it must either be recognised or comparable to a German university degree.
2. Applicants must either provide proof of a concrete employment offer or present an employment contract that has been signed or that already exists.
3. This offer or contract must be based on a minimum gross annual salary."
Google Spreadsheets are adequate for basic spreadsheet use and Docs is good enough for most document processing. Any time you start to lean in toward the complex functionality or dealing with large data sets you are going to wish you had a binary installed on your local machine.
Same thing in Paraguay. I managed to get a Nexus 4 from Amazon before, but I can't even buy apps from the Play Store.
Not for charity, but his book Hackers and Painters is a collection of essays.
Android for all, except me:

> Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet.

Oh, wait, their "all" means "U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Korea", ie 10 out of 200ish countries in the world.
Do the white Nexus 5s have a black front? Toggling the white color shows the device with a white back, but a black front. This looks kind of odd to me.
So your next job is to make a bot that do the appeal automatically. :)
I'm talking about the USA. I work for one of those VC funded smaller companies, and they provide comparable services by just hiring immigration lawyers. The fee per employee are around several thousands of dollars and $10-20k for green cards. The new hiring firm also hires the lawyers to switch you over to make it relatively painless on your side. Compared to getting a new H1B visa hire, the switchover employees are much easier to hire.

A smaller startup company will ask more hours of you and wont provide such things as an on site kindergarden, but the benefits can be fairly comparable. Some of those startups also have a foreign office you could work at for a year or two and do the L1 visa thing for you too.
1) It gives me hope that it could turn into something more. You could consider this along the same emotional reward people get from buying a lottery ticket. Whether the odds are worse or better are debatable :)

2) Allows me to learn technologies that interest me but are not used in my day-job.
Hyperloop Startup Lands Major Partners
I had a few conferences reach out to me. I'd love to do more!
Wow. When you put it that way, you make it sound like he's a soldier obediently following orders. I've never thought of it like that before. I've never thought of wisdom as synonymous with obedience before. ...religion makes a lot more sense now.
If you believe it, maybe it will happen!

[isn't that called "delusional"?]
One could argue that the criticism Dropbox received from HN contributed to their success.
Yeah. But I'm still trying to figure out what to think of the Sky Marshall on the flight. I guess maybe he/she is like the cop who will be saving my ass when the shit hits the fan.
That would be a bad design Idea especially when adding new feed URL
That is one of the most poisonous memes spread by haters who want to drag their peers down to their level, that a black person is "acting white" or a woman "acts like a man", when all they're doing is, in a completely race- and gender-neutral way, working hard and improving themselves.
Well lets say I have a TokenFactory running somewhere (my servers, AppEngine, whatever) and my app is called Shminstegram - when my users login and get a token that's good for say 1 hour, I probably don't want them uploading 10,000 photos in that time period. That's probably a bot.

Now I could manage this myself with a background task that crunches S3 logs at its own pace and when it notices abuse it reports it to my TokenFactory so next time that user asks for a fresh token they get denied... but it would be great if S3 was a tad smarter about such things on its own. :)

Does that sort of make sense? In other words a token should have finer grained permissions than just time. Maybe... "Accept this token for the next 24 hour, or 200 POSTs, which ever comes first, and no more than 20 POSTs in the last hour." That sort of thing.
How would one provide a nice, consistent UI in an FOSS project such as this?
That's awesome. KudosBot definitely has better messages. "You are the watermelon in my fruit salad."
Senate intel committee approves domestic NSA snooping, with restrictions
A bum deal? EU to roll out toilet flush law
Son of a... SPOILER ALERT for anyone watching Twin Peaks.

I find it highly ironic that OP's example mocking a "bot designed to actively try to ruin people's evening" just ruined my evening.

Other than that, though, this does seem like a cool project and I can't imagine why Twitter keeps banning you.
Google+ Custom URLs Terms of Use
Nope, all request are sent to http://cloud.feedly.com/
Unlike the S4, it's IPS. Better colors, not as high contrast ratio.

Much preferred. Glad they're following HTC in making an iPhone-class display.
For what it's worth, Google claims that they never used the keywords tag as a ranking factor.
It was a significant improvement. Hardware was much better all around. The biggest thing for me was that even as a recent device I still see a noticeable screen lag as I scroll on it.

Of course the rest of the problems are OS-related (even vanilla).
Is the only difference between Adblock Edge and Adblock Plus that ABE removes the "acceptable ads" checkbox? The ABE site is unclear because it talks about being a fork.
Also hidden in Firefox 25 for me. I'm constrained for vertical space on my netbook, which did make me think you could display at least a couple more typefaces at a time in the left hand menu if it wasn't for vertical space used up by the menu bar at the top, and the line with "$number typefaces"

Love the basic concept though.
Same can be said for West Germany. The horror stories are overwhelmingly from the former East Germany and Berlin.

I'm not trying to defend what is going on "over there", but you have to realize that Germany is, in many respects, still not one country and will remain so for a very long time.

Whenever you hear people speak of German unification, keep the following in mind: While we were incredibly lucky that there was no bloodshed, the people of East Germany were completely screwed in the process. More than twenty years after the beginning, it is misleading to speak of unification.

What happened was an annexation.

Every part of East German society was uprooted, down to the most minuscule. Massive labor migration to the west completely changed demographics, with many young women leaving but fewer young men doing so.

Wherever you have conditions such as these in any European country, Skinheads and the like will start appearing. As if it was some perverse rule of nature.

Maybe we're screwed. Maybe it is an emergent trait of European culture. I hope it isn't.
China is spying on Russia using imported household appliances
Readability handles it well: http://www.readability.com/articles/mmpx1oek
Thanks for the feedback! At what point in the process did you get those errors? I tested it almost exclusively in chrome and its worked great for me and the friends I sent it to.

I decided not to allow commenting across line breaks because they way I highlight commented text looked weird across line breaks. However I thought my way of allowing commenting over HTML tags (links and such) was pretty cool. I found all HTML tags with a regex and then started removing them one at a time from the bottom of the page until I could find the selected text. This gives me the starting index in the raw HTML of the selection and then I just step through the selection (skipping html tags) to find the ending index. Probably not the most efficient method but it works well!
rails is slow, again.
but everybody knows, you are happy, but your wallet is not :)
Well 1080p is nice in that it is quite widespread standard and as such eg display cloning from your phone to a desktop monitor/tv/projector should be trivial. Also you can play media content without needing to downscale (albeit this is fairly minor advantage).
Yes, only the back is white.
Those are mine:

* Firefox Sync. As I use Firefox on my desktop, it's nice to keep them synched.

* Addons. I know this might sound stupid on a phone, but having lastpass autofill your passwords on-the-go is awesome.

* Interface. I really like the Firefox Mobile UI, but I hate the Chrome (Tablet, I browse on a Nexus 7) Mobile UI. Chrome get really bad with 3 or 4 tabs, making it really hard to switch tabs, and really easy to close tabs by mistake.

* Smoothness. I find that Firefox is way better/faster than Chrome on my Nexus 7 (This might be because I run Nightly, but I've compared it to Chrome Beta too). Especially, try to open 2 or 3 pages with a video, Chrome just become unusable for 5/10 seconds for me.

* Memory usage. I have a 2012 Nexus 7, and it has "only" 1gb of ram. It seems that if I open more than 5 tabs, Chrome just love dropping old tabs them out of memory. I've yet to have Firefox drop a tab, even with 10 or more tabs open.
(It does drop them if I leave it in background and open something memory-intensive, like a game, but that's expected).
>As long as we continue to have people who want to come to the US, I can't see why we'd want to make the process easier unless we can continue to keep these filters in place.

Our onboarding process is hard, but there is a positive side: only customers who are highly motivated to pay sign up.

As long as our customers continue to pay, I can't see why we'd want to make the user experience easier unless we can continue to ensure we get paying customers.

[If you can't spot the folly in your logic, your false dichotomy suggests that the U.S. is getting all the motivated immigrants it can get. In reality, even the motivated immigrants who do end up in the U.S. on an H1B end up working semi-rote jobs at large companies when many of them would start job creating companies if they were allowed to. ]
Reasonable article. In support:

Joseph Campbell: "These bits of information from ancient times [myths], which have to do with the themes that have supported man's life, built civilizations, informed religions over the millennia, have to do with deep inner problems, inner mysteries, inner thresholds of passage. And if you don't know what the guide signs are along the way you have to work it out yourself. "

See http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/perspectives1.html
"It uses an OEM modem module (non-free)"

Well that's too bad, because as captainmuon hints at, above, that is the only thing that matters. The. Only. Thing.

A free/open baseband processor changes everything and makes possible a world of control and new features that most phone users have no inkling of.

At the very, very least they could choose a baseband processor that already has some cracks in it and then perhaps blow it wide open once there is wide adoption of these neo900 devices ... sort of establish this baseband as a "new calypso" ... but there is no mention of that.

Hey neo900 folks - can you post somewhere obscure (if you're trying not to spook your bb-proc suppliers) like osmocom dev list and give us some hints as to what you hope to do here ?
I don't even understand what problem this is trying to solve.
Back then almost all UI rendering was software based. The graphics card just needed a large enough frame buffer.

The lack of fancy compositing and animation effects gave these high resolutions devices comparable performance to their standard resolution counterparts.
You can use the hidden volume feature of TrueCrypt to make the presence of headers not be incriminating: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume
edit for context: bsimpson's comment originally said "I think it was a Thinkpad with a 1080p monitor"

Minor niggles:

1. 1080p would have been rare in 2003, considering 16:10 was the usual widescreen format at the time[0].

2. In order for a 1080p to be "retina" (by Apple's standards, not true retina[1]), at the typical 20" viewing distance of a laptop, it would have to be only a 9" screen. I don't think they ever made a 9" Thinkpad, but I could be wrong.

More comparative info on the Retina Display wiki page[2].

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen#Transition_to_widesc...

[1]: http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_4_ShootOut.htm#Retina

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Display#Retina_Display_m...
Yes, like http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume
100 minutes of talk is pretty meagre I would rather opt for MetroPCS starting from $40 a month with unlimited talk, data and text.

http://www.metropcs.com/metro/detail/MetroPCS_SIM_Card/61021...
"As vulnerabilities are discovered in JavaScript libraries, it is vital that we update our dependencies. Retire.js is a command line scanner that helps you identify dependencies with known vulnerabilites in your application. Using the provided Grunt plugin you can easily include Retire.js into your build process. Retire.js also provides a chrome extension allowing you to detect libraries while surfing your website."
Google would need cookies for tracking Firefox and IE users, but, as the article says, Google is adding its own user ID header to Chrome and Android.
Some stuff I've recently studied that I find elegant:

van Emde Boas Trees: A tree structure which supports some heap operations (insert/extract-min) in O(lglg n) time using some nice storage and recursive tricks. I actually just wrote this up in Java and I'd be happy to throw it on Github if there is any interest. I found the chapter on these in Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms rather daunting and confusing so I'd look for other sources to get a good grasp on it.

Randomized data structures/algorithms: The use of randomization to achieve expected run-times where the worst-case is extremely pessimistic such as in randomized Quicksort to get an expected O(nlgn) bound, along with using the median of medians algorithm (another elegant recursive trick/analysis to prove an O(n) bound) for picking a pivot. Random hash tables and the proofs in number theory for building a 'universal' hash function using mod arithmetic to avoid collisions.
An Open Letter to the NSA
Just because you can't perceive individual pixels doesn't mean you can't perceive higher quality. Imagine if you wanted to draw a human hair to scale, you would need some small pixels to make that look good.

However in most smartphone use cases, that's probably not an issue.
If Nexus 4 is any indication, they will be available in other countries pretty soon as well, just not directly from Google, and they will be sold as LG Nexus 5, not Google Nexus 5.
I just wrote my first proposal in Docs today, as an experiment to see if we can stop emailing Word documents back and forth. Google Docs is missing some very basic features, like page numbers in the table of contents, and the ability to hide the footer and header on the first page.

That said, creating a cover page and table of contents as separate documents and combining the pdfs later still seems like it'll better overall than dealing with Word.
That's ok, Google can keep their OS for themselves. I look forward to taking some time later this year to put Ubuntu Touch or Firefox OS on my phone, and weaning off their services altogether.
I suspect it is for covers, like the one for SGS3[1], and allow automatic sleep when cover is closed, like what Kindle does.

[1] http://www.samsung.com/us/system/consumer/accessory/ef/c1/g6...
I've never heard of that. What is it?
It has come really far when my new phone has a higher pixel ratio than my two-year-old 15 inch laptop
My first comment here (as an Atheist) would have to do with the fact that:

If you believe in the Christian "creation" story you don't believe that the world is 4.5 billion (give or take a few hundred) years old. This would be a fairly significant problem for someone calling himself or herself a scientist yet while being a religious person.

The bigger thing for me is that I see no facts surrounding it. So, I see people that I know taking this on faith and that, to me, is a fundamental flaw in their thinking.

I think most people out there understand why religion exists and I agree with many of your points here but I still believe that it is fundamentally wrong.

Humans used to believe lightning and fire was caused by a god until we understood what actually caused it. Give it a few thousands years and I think we'll be much further along.

This is not to say that I go out of my way to attack it but I surely will fight if someone presses it on me.
He's exaggerating somewhat.

Bear in mind that no one is forcing the employee to accept this. You can leave a job at any time, for any reason with absolutely no notice just as easily as the employer can get rid of you.

If I'm hired to work 40 hours/week for $100k year with 3 weeks vacation, I am entitled to all of that. If the employer then decides that I should work 80 hours a week and he will cut my pay to $60k/year and not let me take vacation, I can simply get up and leave and in most jurisdictions, that will be sufficient grounds for me to receive unemployment insurance while I look for my next job.
I put together a similar bot that either responds to a recent #fml, or sends a pseudo-random account an unsolicited (hopefully) cheer-inducing missive (from a bank of 200). Runs at a random minute once an hour. Not been banned as yet:

https://twitter.com/KudosBot‎

Previous interactions visible on Topsy:

http://topsy.com/s?q=Kudosbot
Wildcard Programming Challenge
This might sound like an odd question, but what font are the code examples in?

I had an older version of the book that had all the code examples in a proportional italics font and it was some of the toughest reading I have done.