skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not fleeing or evading if they're not trying to detain you, which itself "requires" "probable cause."
I've been using Sparrow since I got my MBP, and I haven't found any better solution yet.
Evolution flies as a IMAP client. I loathe to use any client with POP.
Yes, but I expect the vast majority of chase targets were not planning to be chased, and would thus not have counter measures ready.
http://alexiscreuzot.com/apps/nice-weather-2/

That's the last app I'm working on. It's quite a challenge to go for a Weather app as there are bazillions of them on the AppStore, but I really enjoy the challenge of it.
The feedback have been great for now (it just launched 2 days ago), and I hope to make it even better !
> It is well established that prices RyanAir advertises are not prices passengers pay.

Not true. An EU regulation in force since 2008 makes that illegal [1]. Ryanair, for all its other faults, abides by the law.

[1] Article 23, Regulation No 1008/2008. PDF: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...
"The final price to be paid shall at all times be indicated and shall include the applicable air fare or air rate as well as all applicable taxes, and charges, surcharges and fees which are unavoidable and foreseeable at the time of publication."
You're just two developers? That's amazing, I thought there was a full studio behind that game. I really love Infinite Flight, I didn't know it was C# on every platform and one of the few games going Windows Phone first. Congrats and keep up the great work :)
You have to wonder what the response would be if it was the French President making such decisions about drone strikes on people in New York.

There is no longer even the pretence that the US and it's allies are the "good guys" (it was a shallow cover to start with..), now it's just the naked execution of power with an attached "what you going to do about it" to the rest of the world.

It would be war crimes if we where at sodding war.
Soundslice (http://www.soundslice.com/) -- animated guitar tabs / sheet music.

Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/5680/bohemian-rhapsody-for-so...

It's cool because:

* The state of the art in guitar tabs is horrible ASCII crap (example: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eagles/hotel_california_ta...). Soundslice is a 1000x improvement.

* It solves a key problem for musicians, which is: when you're learning a new song, you generally listen to a recording of it, and it's a pain to cross-reference the recording with the sheet music/tab.

* It's one of the most advanced HTML5 apps on the web. Almost everything is done in <canvas>, and it has dozens of UI details (http://www.soundslice.com/help/). I did a tech talk about the various JavaScript/HTML5 stuff if you're interested: http://37signals.com/talks/soundslice

* Proudly bootstrapped and made by two people.
Apple is a technological design firm that happens to specialize in computing.
I've scanned a few QR codes at conferences, and in Google Authenticator. I see them frequently on adverts at tube/train stations.
World's roundest object & the kilogram
This is a very good read, regardless of the author's distaste for Apple's RDF, as he refers. This is like reading the other side of the story. That's on one had.

On the other hand, it's like creating an RDF for Amazon's Kindle fire HD. From one RDF to another.
I'm working on a POSIX-ish OS in Brainfuck.

I'm working on it because brainfuck is awesome and writing a kernel in it is even moar awesome. I'm currently trying to figure out how to port several basic GNU coreutils to the system.

The kernel boots and hangs in QEMU. That's good for now; at least it boots. Now, the important thing is actually getting it to run bash, and a few basic coreutils, specifically cat, mkdir, echo, ls, and cd.

Once it's done, I'm pushing to github (commented extensively, of course ;)
You're welcome! This is the thread I meant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6488822
In fairness, comparing the property prices in a fashionable London district with those in a lower income country in deep economic trouble after its property bubble burst (and Ryanair's loss-leader headline fares) isn't the best illustration of how expensive London is.

I mean, you can match those Barcelona prices in nice market towns a short train ride from central London (probably a similar door to door time to many parts of central London to commuting from West Hampstead), which many London workers actually do. They can think about buying in those areas from £75k as well.

But the investment bubble at the high end of the property market is a largely separate phenomenon; middle-class renters are more likely to take advantage of cheap rents from a lazy letting agent managing the investment property of a foreign owner who's not too savvy about what their buy-to-let income should be than they are to be affected by the unoccupied flats in Belgravia not being on the market. For that reason, for £28000 a year I got five large bedrooms, two reception rooms and a garden in a desirable south London suburb three years ago, so I'd expect a pretty impressive[ly located] 2 bed flat for £25000....
Then that would be "collateral damage" which is such a lovely euphemism for "we blew a bunch of innocent civilians to chowder but hey we are the good guys".
well, imagine you have 4/5 sequential db calls, and for each async call need to write a success callback and a failure callback ...
async lib helps though defer/await programming style would be a better option.
People in San Francisco who are going on the commute on the 101 don't say "I'm going to the Bay Area today" - they say "I'm going to South Bay today".

People always orient around themselves. People living in Cupertino or Mountainview might say they live in the "Bay Area" but for people living further North in San Francisco or Oakland, they would consider themselves to be living in the "Bay Area" and folk further South to be living in the "South Bay".

This is just semantics.
the latter (fetched once) , but different behaviours in browser/proxies made foo-xx.css a more reliable trick
http://www.nkoso.org / http://www.hopsie.com - a crowdfunding api for non profits.
http://sandsquid.com - A web app for quickly locating and purchasing electronic parts, specifically entire BOMs (all the components on one or more PCBs, instead of just a single part like other services out there). It's bootstrapped, and we just recently launched. So far we had good traction and virtually all positive responses. Notably, people report that we save them hours every time they use our app, and I firmly believe that any service capable of that, has a place ;)
Interesting, but what's with all the weird flirting?
Rental is insane across the entirety of Zones 1-3, not just in the north of the city
Your boss may not understand what exactly you do, but he can surely see you come in, sit at your desk, and see you leave at the end of the day. How is someone who cannot program his way out of a paper bag otherwise going to manage things?
Alexis Ohanian, "Without Their Permission" | Talks at Google
Remote targeting has been a part of modern warfare for a century now. Forward observers identify targets, a command procedure is followed, and artillery men fire shells at targets they can not see over distances of hundreds of meters to tens of kilometers.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_fire for a typical decision making process.

The significant change here isn't that the distance is three orders of magnitude greater, or the required number of projectiles two orders of magnitude fewer. The sensor operator sees what he is doing and the effect. He is not in danger, he is not in a kill or be killed situation, but is called on to kill and observe the results. It is different psychological territory from where most combat soldiers operate.
1dash1 - a browser-based game creation platform.

Games are created using a custom toolset and programming language. Everything is centrally-run (games, content editor), making it easy to add multiplayer and collaboration features.

Here's a video showing how to create a multiplayer platforming game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6rgfEh_Ctc&feature=youtu.be
So you don't know what design by contract is? At least other Ruby and Python devs recognize this lack of features and try to solve it instead of ignoring it or making up excuses:

http://metabates.com/2011/02/07/building-interfaces-and-abst...

http://docs.python.org/2/library/abc.html

Learn some OOP and design patterns before filling your mouth talking about PHP.

Also, Clojure is a dynamic language too and yet it craves for explicit types:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/typed-clojure

But this is only for noobs who "want to feel safe", according to you. What a joke. You probably can't even get past an introductory tutorial of this subject.
If he target is moving at a constant trajectory it's probably fairly easy to compensate for a couple of seconds lag, computer could probably do this without much issue.
Peer assessments?
That sounds incredibly cool, but as someone who lost their sister to cancer I wish this would've existed earlier.
Yada-yada operator: genius.
I'm at that point in my life where I'm making decent money without working a job, and heavily debating just completely recessing into an apartment and surrounding myself with all sorts of electronics and software. Learning the ins and outs of everything.
If someone cannot write it, he will want to say it, and if he cannot even say it, he will want to come over to gesticulate.
Also lots of users, developers or not, have been using the betas recently.

I'm no mail server expert, but I don't understand OP's conclusion, that ALL Mail.app clients are faulty.
Really? I would have thought the group of people taking this rather capitalist route would not be reading a left leaning newspaper like The Guardian.

For example its obvious you don't, otherwise you would realise The Guardian has been banging on about the cost of London for donkey's years (at least 20) and against the bubbles of buy to let. I remember lots of stories flogging against it as the journalists were complaining they couldn't afford to live in London.

Their also complaining against the current schemes the UK Government which Gideon is pushing regarding mortgage guarantees and everybody (whether in the UK or not, whether working in banking or not) is saying will just create another bubble along the lines of buy to let.
Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video]
Just for the record there are a huge differences between how mod_perl and mod_php work. One of the main reasons that PHP got so popular in the first place was that mod_perl was really boring and complicated to work with because it was keeping all the scripts and modules and globals loaded and shared between requests.
Ask HN: Would you test your web app against simulated infrastructure failure?
Would you pay for a product that provides a third level of testing after unit and integration?

It would allow you to deploy your entire app infrastructure onto a set of lightweight VMs, then let you specify tests (infrastructure failures like packet loss, high latency between nodes; getting pushed into swap; running out of disk; nodes becoming unreachable). Then you could run your application against those tests to ensure it fails gracefully under those conditions.
Really nice cartoon picture
Very nice and funny picture that will show you a man who wants to have the perfect body.
US defends drone strikes as 'necessary and just' in face of UN criticism
Read my above posts--html5 is fine, it's stopping there that's the problem.
I write in LaTeX and version control with Github. Pretty efficient, considering that losing one's work is always the biggest fear. My commit messages are my word count.
You're right, if pos_c = pos_a, the rotation does prevent the cancellation.

But throwing away a word of entropy most of the time is still very serious, and ending up with a different cancellation in the remaining cases is not really promising.
I've always wondered why the KG was not defined as a certain volume of Water at Sea Level.
I'm working on a two products:

1. https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick - Neddick, a private "reddit like" for the enterprise. Very much inspired by Reddit, but has some additional features - triggers & filters for content, RSS consumer, some additional "share" options (XMPP, ActivityStrea.ms via REST, etc.)

2. https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy - an "enterprise social network" product that has some wicked cool features compared to most other ESN offerings, including: ESB integration for subscribing to real-time business events, iCal feed integration, integration with workflow/BPM engines, etc.

Why is this stuff cool? Well, they're both OSS (ALv2), written in Groovy, and have some really nifty features. And what we're working on now is semantic concept extraction, automatic correlation/linking of Named Entities to related resources, and semantic query support. Coming down the pipe will be some rad visualizations and just generally more support for different ways to navigate the "knowledge space" that is entailed by related content, people, events and tasks.

For me, this is a classic "win win" because I get to have fun working with cool tech: machine learning / big data (Mahout, Hadoop, etc.), Event Stream Processing, Semantic Web stuff (Stanbol, Jena, Fuseki, etc.) and because we're building some stuff that I think we're going to be able to monetize.

Build awesome tools AND make money from it? That sounds like my idea of fun. :-)
He was complaining about Mavericks Mail app, not iOS'.
Rather than providing opinion about the quality of some of the engineers working at Apple, you're nit-picking about the semantics of the term "Bay Area" and how people use it (nobody in SF I know says they're taking the 101 to visit the "Bay Area", they say "South Bay").

Since I know these people, I know their work, I know from technical discussions the level they're at, I can legitimately form an opinion, and that is they are not great engineers, merely competent. More importantly, they tow the company line, they don't think outside the box, they are anything but mavericks.

Maybe Apple's software is suffering because the culture there means that engineers are too compliant or too scared to speak out and rock the boat?
hum. From what I have read so far about US drone attacks, they seem fit your description quite nicely.

Thanks for the good definition.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/amnesty-us-offi...
Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence
Frameri (http://frameri.com) Interchangeable Rx glasses.

Buy your lenses once that work with multiple frames!
Whoa guys, you send way too many emails!

In the last hour I've received about 15 emails, and they're still coming in. Please don't subscribe me to every event by default!
I'm claiming Reaganomics hasn't anything to do with inflation.

Once a Fed Chairman is selected by the president he cannot be removed during his term. This is the principle of central bank independence. When the board decides that they will hike rates there isn't anything to stop them. They can be dismissed only after each their terms end (7 years, 4 years for the chairman and vice-chairman).

That inflation is mostly a monetary matter is a key lesson from the 70s and there is very convincing evidence especially from that period. Germany was restrained monetarily and performed much better than France, Britain or the US. (Highest inflation was 8%).

There are of course cases where fiscal policy has an indirect effect on inflation through monetary policy:

* Countries sometimes pressure CBs to lower rates to finance government deficits. This is a big problem in developing countries.
* Fixed exchange rate regimes.
* Intervening in the supply or demand of some significantly weighted component of the CPI ()
* The liquidity trap (not really known, this is really recent and not much data on it)

This is a good resource for basic (short run) theory, Short-Run Fluctuations by David Romer:
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~dromer/papers/ISMP%20Text%20Graphs...
Everyone else is chiming in with their anecdotal proofs, so I will with mine.

Yes, if you have a long password or key-only method of logging in, and disable root login, and patch the daemon, then party on.

But for the extra bit of protection against 0-days and bullshit amounts of logs from quick port-22 only scans on your network, it helps to move it to another port. This is why I disagree with your mathematically founded reasoning. It doesn't fit with real world scanner behavior.

If it's just your home network, it's not confusing because only you use it. If it's a corporate network, then using putty might be a little annoying, but it's not hard to communicate another standard.
i'm developing a mobile web interface & a SaaS architecture for my buddy's greenhouse & hydroponics controller business [1]. the backend comm is MODBUS/TCP (ethernet) or MODBUS/RTU (serial).

he's currently in Long Beach at the Maximum Yield expo showing off the early alpha I ummm, "polished off" at 4am last night :) [2]

it's cool because his customers and oems have been hounding him for some time for an Android and iOS app and for his software to work on OSX, Linux. (currently it's Windows only, C#/.NET).

a web app + SaaS was the most natural choice. also, i don't think anything like this exists yet.

[1] http://agrowtek.com

[2] http://i.imgur.com/e6E8Osw.png
A web-based IDE for automated testing [1] with real-time collaboration features. Pretty cool for a few reasons: First, it's actually making creating automated testing suites enjoyable. This is usually a pretty unenviable task. The IDE is something I actually like using though, and have found myself wanting to use it on just about every consulting gig or website I've touched since we started on it - even ones without an explicit automated testing requirement.

Second, the technology to pull this off requires a lot of different pieces, in different environments and languages. It's been a really satisfying technical challenge to make everything work together seamlessly and automatically.

[1] http://f14n.com/
Arrrrgh you would think so, but no, it's the C.
I think it's one user with a fucked up mailbox rule that copies stuff around or something like that. Apple also runs iCloud mail servers on IMAP, I think they would catch that if it was a widespread issue on betas.
In my impression, all valuable contributions made by an engineer can be expressed by a set of commits to a set of files. I do not believe for a second that contributions that cannot expressed in that way would actually be valuable. Can you give us one example?
I'm working on a next generation programming environment for front-end browser development that combines version control and dependency management. It is called lit and the current alpha iteration is at http://www.corslit.com

I just introduced static semantically versioned builds and started the process of self-hosting.

The interesting thing about lit is that it allows for modern professional development without any UNIX command line or file system dependencies.

I'll have more literature and a very exciting screencast demo very soon.
Uniface?  Why?
Why would anyone use uniface ?
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
maybe it's because the original kilo is a curiosity and therefore was passed through thousands of hands (maybe someone even dropped it?) the last 100 years?

this surely can have a "losing weight" effect.
UK renting is just idiotic at present all over, although especially bonkers in our capital city.

Remember that 1 bed flats are especially in demand at present as a result of the (in)famous bedroom tax[1]. A single person or a couple are only allowed 1 bedroom if they need to claim housing benefit (unemployed or low-wage, and remember that in London 'low waged' is a pretty high threshold, e.g. teachers, social workers, retail staff, bus drivers &c).

Bear in mind that building 1 bedroom flats has (hitherto) been regarded as a waste of money for housing associations or councils, so that really only commercial lets are available (at usually twice or three times the rent of a HA/council flat with 2 beds), so, ironically, the tax payer will be paying more to move couples out of 2 bed high rise flats in rough areas which are hard to let into expensive private let 1 bed flats. There will be no takers for the high rise flats (unsuitable for children) so they will be mothballed then expensively demolished.

Yes, bonkers, but the UK is run by the Daily Fail and other populist idiots.

[1] http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/housing_benefit_and...

Edit: OK anonymous downvoter, state your reasons
Any idea how you're going to release it? (productise/monetize or open source)

I hacked up in the past a temporary solution using PowerPoint running on stripped down older laptops in the foyer and outside meeting rooms in my old company which worked well but I always thought it was a bit overkill and would like to see something like R-Pi in those kind of uses. I imagine yours is a lot more powerful but still think it would be a good use.
I recall seeing this in Ghost in the Shell, as well. It's not surprising, but it is somewhat disappointing: a GPS tracing bullet sounds like it would still be quite dangerous if it were to miss.
I used to do the wind/rain/snow type commuting, and I probably should again, but your brother's experience in Malta is similar to mine in the US. You're definitely doing something that most people regard as a nuisance. I've heard of other cities where it's not like that, but I've just never ridden in them. I live in Atlanta now, and it's almost suicidal riding a bike. Obs my sample size of cities is small, but hey, there it is for what it's worth.

The video also made me think, "Man, I'd love to cycle in the places, but I'd have to seriously rearrange my US cycling survival skills and attitude toward a less hostile environment."
Wouldn't a GPS jammer be relatively easy to locate or follow?

Wouldn't a device that mimicked a tracked GPS symbol be more useful?
Well, left and right is pretty meaningless these days. That's why the Graun is owned by a holding company offshore in the Caymans where it pays no tax. Your typical reader of it was a "proper" left-winger once, back when they were a student, but now they are well-off, highly paid jobs in law, the media and the civil service, and they'd like to stay that way thankyouverymuch. When they say they care about cause X, they really mean, bung my PR agency a million quid to raise awareness of this, oh and hire my mates as spin doctors, ifyouwouldn'tmind.
Great idea, just doesn't work great with my black coffee and no sugar :)
Watching countless documentaries about this war zone I can't help but recall the numerous occasions that IED's are branded as cowardly weapons. Surely on the same scale this sort of thing is the most cowardly weapon of all.
A book that explains the core ideas of neural networks and deep learning. Cool because:

* The book incorporates lots of running code for readers to explore and extend.

* The book's philosophy is to go deep into the core concepts of deep learning, not to superficially cover a long laundry list of ideas. This gives readers a solid foundation to build on, and makes understanding other material much easier.

* Deep learning is the most powerful approach known to many problems in image recognition, speech recognition, and natural language. The book will help lots more people get quickly up to speed.

The book will be freely available online, and a beta site is coming soon. Pre-beta mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/BYr9L
No, I live at the Windows command prompt, pretty much. But like you said, I'm a different user type.

The difference between me and the people at Microsoft is that I understand that there are different user types. None of which asked for their desktop PC to behave more like their cell phone.
It has been defined in the past as the mass of 1L of demineralized water at a specific temperature.

Much less precise.