skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> App rejection. Sometimes it's legitimate, and then sometimes it's this

That is the first line of his post. I guess this means his app got rejected.
I'm very skeptical about this. The idea is that computer science isn't properly taught in French old fashioned universities and "grandes ecoles". As a result, some students fail while they would succeed with a more pragmatic, project-based education.

It sounds like a good idea. After all, we all know stories of bright people or great hackers that felt academic education wasn't for them and followed a different, successful path. And after all, Xavier Niel should know, being a such a successful entrepreneur.

Well, I think he's wrong for several reasons.

1 - even though he says otherwise, conventionally CS is already taught largely with programming projects.

2 - this field has became so complex that IMHO it's increasingly difficult to escape some theoretical knowledge. And actually, 42 curriculum has plenty of it. It's not clear how it's gonna be taught, and I can't see how a student that failed to learn let say Automata theory, linear algebra and Fourier transforms at university would succeed just because he's now supposed to learn by himself.

3 - I think teaching with projects still requires a lot of preparation and supervision from the teachers, and last time I checked, 42 didn't have that kind of resources. For instance, you can't just ask 800 students to write a shell (and learn UNIX and C in the process) by leaving them on their own for a month. Of course, some will do it, but most won't. I doubt they manage to find 800 john carmack.
You work for the company, not the client. The fact that they haven't been paid should be irrelevant to whether you are paid or not.

If this company is living hand-to-mouth for payroll, are they going to be around for a while, anyway?

Honestly, capping your invoices and continuing to work without being paid only enables them to be shitheels.

You need to tell them that you will resign unless you're paid, in full, immediately.

I would also consider talking to a lawyer.

(Please don't take any of this as criticism -- I've been in your place before!)
I love the thorough Guide to Programming in Clojure for Beginners: http://blackstag.com/blog.posting?id=5
Reminds me of the theory with bicycle saddles. The gel ones are good for short rides, but if you want something for the long haul you are better off with a good leather saddle that properly supports your sit-bones.
And then the machines came for the doctors
Unless the user might find this information useful without an internet connection?
inspired by Flat UI. I like it...a lot better than current hacker news
Not necessarily. The prosecutor can withdraw charges (edit: that is, prior to a trial) if they come to an agreement with a defendant, at the discretion of the judge. It is a way of expediting cases where a trial benefits no one.
>> 2. How does overfilling properties lead to rising prices? If anything, it would serve to keep prices lower.

When one family rents a 2 bedroom flat, they may be able to afford say 1K (husband and wife working). But when the same flat is rented to 4 singles, they might be able to afford 2000. Each person's share is just 500. So when the landlord asks them 1200, they would happily pay for it as the effective rent per person is only 300.
its not yet confirmed though
Well, I'm already sold on it, looks like a solid product; however my only questions now are:

- How much?
- International shipping? How much?
The crash, when it comes, is going to be epic.

Yup, that is the whole point of market economies, they self correct eventually. I totally sympathize with the folks in London it sucks not being able to find an apartment, so you end up either in a horrible commute or working elsewhere. That makes it harder to find people to work there, so if the imbalance persist the jobs move elsewhere, and the revenues go down, and the economy cools off.

So if you're in your 20's today, something to think about is how this might self correct. Either telecommuting could take off, or something like Musk's Hyperloop dropping off people from one urban center into another. Ask yourself what is it about London (other than the job) that makes it a desirable place to live. Can those things be replicated outside of London? Can you build an urban 'night life' center and split the night life from the work life? What is it going to do to the cost of businesses that have to be in London? Can those businesses be made more efficient or profitable by enabling them to minimize their local footprint? On and on. It really isn't sustainable, and as Charlie points out the crash is going to be pretty epic. So think about how you might turn that to your advantage in 10 years.
This Guy’s Wife Got Cancer, So He Did Something Unforgettable.
> President Barack Obama promised Mrs Merkel he knew nothing of the alleged phone monitoring, the magazine reports. He apologised to the German chancellor, it said.

Plausible deniability?!?

Wonder what else he "didn't know" and how he is justified in making sweepings statements if he is not sufficiently informed. It can't be "Don't worry, trust me" and "Oops, I didn't know" simultaneously.
I have a suspicion that the "world leaders bin tapped" storyline is intended to set the stage for a "hey we're all in this together" kumbaya agreement where the leaders substitute their judgement for ours and allow the surveillance to continue.
I'm shocked - shocked - to find that gambling is going on in here!
Then you can use local storage
Its a response that doesn't address most of the criticisms and attempts to deflect them into an argument about how supposedly secure their systems are instead of addressing the concerns about the system period.

And not only the post but the linked privacy policy consist entirely of weasel language. eg:

Do you store my email or my password?
LinkedIn servers will temporarily cache information in order to provide you
with the fastest service possible. Here are the full details:

During installation, the servers temporarily cache your password in order to
add a new Mail account to your device. Your password is only cached for the
length of time it takes to install Intro, and never for more than 2 hours.
Typically, your password is cached for no more than 1 minute.
During usage, the servers may temporarily cache your emails in order to make
emails download faster. When your device starts to download a mail folder,
such as your inbox, the servers will pre-emptively download and cache recent
messages in that folder. A few seconds later, when your device downloads the
individual messages, the servers will provide the cached messages. Your
messages are only cached until your device downloads them, and never for
more than 1 hour. Typically, your messages are cached for no more than a few
minutes.
All cached information is held securely to industry standards. Each piece of
data is encrypted with a key that is unique to you and your device, and the
servers themselves are secured and monitored 24/7 to prevent any
unauthorized access.

where someone not an asshole would answer

"yes"
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been meaning to try that out, maybe it's time to look into Redis.
Not just USA had access to the info - remember that it came out that the USA was giving raw feeds to Israel's intelligence service also.... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-p...
I wrote all 130,000 lines by myself full-time over the past ten years. It has been done for a couple years.

I'm in some kind of CiA prison isolation. My reality is obviously bogus. I'm waiting for God to act.

God is perfectly just. I'll bet Africans in Africa could go dig a hole anywhere and God would compensate honest work.

Turn the other cheek. God is perfectly just. Killing the babies at Moses' birth is what equaled killing Passover people. eye for eye. wait for it, might take 40 years.

Highs and lows balance. Go dig a ditch for no reason.

God says...

hello et_tu not_too_shabby try_again choose_one I'll_let_you_know
over_the_top evolution hi yeah recipe small_talk small_talk
desert ghetto think_you_could_do_better merry_christmas
hilarious fer_sure vengeful quit you_should_be_so_lucky
awesome joke rose_colored_glasses

God said it's His temple. What do you think's gonna happen?
Seems kind of like inetd? Except having to trust the reliability and availability of a remote provider to manage it for you?
Ahh yes, the great rift [between websites and apps].

It's too bad information isn't more medium agnostic yet!
Egg fried rice is great - not much prep, and the time it takes to cook once prepped is minimal. You could be eating within minutes of getting home from work if you prep the day before!

As for the recipe, there are a lot of versions out there, but I've had the best results with Felicity Cloake's: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/jan...

Edit: It's a bit controversial but Delia Smith's "How To Cheat At Cooking" is an interesting recipe book if you want to knock up tasty meals quickly. Jamie Oliver has books (and apps!) specifically for fast meals - 20 minute meals. I liked the app but I couldn't reproduce the results as fast as him!
It's a similar reason for the advantage of lowercase over uppercase: the overall shape of the letter is easier to recognize if it's "bumpier," as in serif fonts.
I'd actually kill (almost) for the schedule on the T-shirt. Which isn't to say that I disagree with the post, but the author had it pretty good!
Drones are different than many tools of war. They allow one society to wage war on another with no direct risk of life. This makes war a much more palatable, desirable even, solution to whatever perceived problem they have. And the primary incentive to end war "our sons being killed" is gone.

Drones aren't only weapon like this, they aren't unique, but it's untrue to claim they are nothing different. They are an evolution of bombers and the effects on and reactions of pilots is strikingly similar to some carpet bomber crews of WWII and Vietnam Police action.
My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
Last year I left a laptop at my parents' house with Linux Ubuntu installed. I had it hooked up to their TV for streaming movies.

So, this week he gives me a call and tells me that his Windows laptop battery died and he's been using my Ubuntu laptop. He tells me about how he found the Libre Office spreadsheet and he's been filling out his work documents (he works in high-end custom home construction) with it and transmitting it with Google Docs.

Then he tells me that he was able to add their house printer and print his docs from the machine using the instructions from Ubuntu's help system.

I was pretty much floored. My parents are NOT technical people. I offered to get him a Windows license for the machine but he said that it's working fine for him.

People make jokes about the "year of desktop Linux" but if my dad, without calling me ONCE, can use Linux productively to get things done, then, in my opinion, Microsoft is in trouble. As far as I'm concerned, their claim to usability in the PC OS world is dying.

Maybe this doesn't mean a whole lot in the big picture, but Linux has cost Microsoft at least one end-user license for an average computer user. For my family, I'm not sure how else you define a "year of Linux desktop."
> That's not going to work.

Obviously it did work, They're 80% of the way there after only a week.
You said that TrueVault will "handle HIPAA" and that "using TrueVault makes you HIPAA compliant."

I don't see how those claims are true. If the developer is a business associate, they're still required to have a risk analysis, policies, and training. If they're not a business associate, they don't need to be compliant.

So I guess I'm not seeing how TrueVault helps a developer avoid becoming a business associate. jph's case is marginal - if the covered entities all sign BAAs with TrueVault, maybe the developer can argue that they do not "create, receive, maintain, or transmit" PHI. Good luck arguing that with the covered entity, btw.
FINALLY watch trailers inside Netflix
Everything You Think You Know About Health Care Spending Is Wrong
> And indeed in the free banking era, many banks failed

Same is true for the central banking era.

>This in itself isn't bad as log as the inflation matches our GDP or at least matches the inflation of every other currency

No. The only criterion by which it "isn't bad" is if wage prices are in sync with it, or precedes it, which is what happened during a short period in the 50s or 60s. Even still, the mechanism for inflation basically consists of "throwing money in the faces of rich people and telling them to use it".

Inflation ALSO fundamentally forces people to accept an additional layer of upside risk in their day to day transactions. And then we try to monkey-patch society's inability to handle risk by creating things like social security and welfare (which are rather inefficient mechanisms, in terms of overhead, and benefit given). A system of inflation systematically devalues labor done in the past relative to the expectation of labor done in the future. Not only is that a questionable judgement, but it also causes things to get really out of whack (massive crashes) when the future can't meet those expectations.

Instead, if we had a deflationary economy (which is what naturally happens with technology), then laborers of the past can more effectively enjoy the fruits of their labor. Moreover, nonprofit foundations can take care of society's needs more effectively using war chests without having to ask for ever-towering amounts of funding or risking it in managed fund situations, for example.
I am not in doubt on God's existence or God's justice. You are a nigger if you think the world is not perfectly just.
US Government Monitoring Public Internet in Real Time
And 7 and 8[1].
[1]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110721142408.ht...
People aren't trained to use websites that way, unfortunately.
Thanks so much! The validation means a lot.

How much? $54 Retail, but when we open on kickstarter next week, we want this to reach as many people as possible and are going to give it out at (almost) cost:

1 shirt for $34.

2 shirts for $64.

3 shirts for $90.

US shipping included.

International shipping: Add $20.

Happy to answer any other questions you have.
Thousands gather in Washington for anti-NSA 'Stop Watching Us' rally
It's a very bland looking app. Add a few more features, give it a nice colour theme, throw some icons in there.
Messing with Bitcoin Keys and Addresses
You're welcome to your opinion. He strikes me as a man in over his head.
I'm going to be brutally honest. You have 2 options: lawyer up and sue to get your money or walk away and treat this as a very expensive lesson learned.

Lessons for next time:
1. Never cap invoices. Instead, cap your work. If there's 80 hours of work, and the company is only willing to pay for 40, guess what? You should only do 40 hours of work (and bill for it).

2. Don't worry about bleeding the company. What's the worst they can do? Not pay you? Hell, that's what they're doing right now!

3. If there's a change in the work timeline, the contract should be renegotiated. You mentioned earlier that one of the other developers quit a few days in. That, right there, would have been grounds for a renegotiation. I mean, unless the departure of this dev. was explicitly planned for, it constitutes a fairly radical change in the terms of the contract — you now have to do 50% more work than anticipated.

4. "I've met with my manager and the owner of the company on three separate occasions and I've always felt like they listened and the financial situation would be taken care of. Each time I find myself grabbing my own ankles on pay day again."

Whoa, this should have been a gigantic, enormous red flag. Words are cheap, especially if you're of the sociopathic type that heads all too many companies. What counts is action. I mean, even if the company is in financial trouble, they still have a contractual obligation to pay you. Out and out missing a payment is unacceptable. At the very least, I'd expect a clear warning in advance and a concrete set of steps detailing how and when the make-up payment will be delivered. And even then, if they consistently miss paying you, fire them.
She's "angry", but not angry enough to grant Snowden asylum.
Hypocrites indeed.

Hopefully humanity will come up with a way to replace these parasites called politicians.

I believe not even too many years later we will remember this era of humanity as the darkest of the dark ages.
Thank you and awesome! Although I've seen some great projects scrolling down, this is the first that has elicited a comment. I wish you all the best in your attempt to disrupt pharma -- it needs it.
I wrote a spectral analysis library called udsp:

http://www.eliteraspberries.com/doc/udsp-user-guide.html

https://code.google.com/p/udsp/

In the future it will include:

* support for more FFT libraries, like FFTW;

* some signals processing functions, such as basic frequency modulation/demodulation; and

* a NumPy-compatible Python interface.

Its best feature at the moment is convolution and correlation.
I'm aware of this, unfortunately. This is a bug in Qt's Webkit. The font rendering on Mac OS changed in Mavericks, and it apparently does not work well with versions of Webkit prior to Mavericks release. I have to wait until this issue gets resolved. Here's the issue, if you want to take a look: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34332
120,000 Apps in BlackBerry World, 47,000 by one developer (allthingsd.com)
16 points by casca 1 hour ago | flag | share | 7 comments

It's probably 470,000 by now.

120,000 Apps in BlackBerry World (Spoiler: 47,000 Made by One Developer)
AUGUST 21, 2013
I agree with the vast majority of your points. Didn't even bother to look at the broken-telephone links. Why bother.

What you are talking about sound very much like what's covered in The Innovator's Dilema [0].

I am not entirely sure I understand your position with regards to government. It seems you are suggesting the only way to evolve things is to "exit". I took this as perhaps going to the extent of physically relocating to a country where what you want is either accepted or already there. You gave the example of your parents. As the son of immigrants I too have similar examples. Can you clarify this point?

There's a huge divide between Washington's understanding of the ever-evolving world of technology and that reality. Watching the various layers of Washington discuss what they perceive to be the issue with the ACA website is proof enough of that.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-B...
Is It Still Robbery If You Can’t Get Anything?
This has much pertinence regarding Intelligent Design hypotheses. In ID the designer is not defined, its existence is just inferred.
Here's a link to the app on Github: https://github.com/stefankendall/pokemon-type-calculator

This is exactly what I was looking for when playing through Pokemon X/Y! My current method of searching on google to grab the bulbapedia article then scrolling through to find type information (which isn't always there for brand new pokemon) was far too slow. I'll probably keep this running on my iPhone simulator when I play X/Y.

Personally I would have preferred this in website form, but that's only because I'm always in front of a laptop.

Things that would improve the app:

1. A status bar on the main listing. I like having the status bar there if possible to see battery and time and such, but more importantly it would allow the tap to scroll to the top shortcut.

2. Slight bug on the detail-page: you can select a type (e.g. 'bug') but it doesn't go anywhere.

3. Color labels on the types, like most pokemon websites have. Right now I find it a little hard to scan the type listings because it's all text.

4. Maybe make the details page title the name of the pokemon? I think that would make it alot more obvious what I'm looking at (not a concern when you're coming from the search page, but when you've left the app on the details page it's a bit disorienting).

5. This is a much bigger feature request, but seeing type weaknesses would be great, too. When deciding whether or not to use or catch a pokemon it's useful to see strengths/weaknesses.

I'm almost done with X, so I'm not sure if I'll use this much (have been thinking about doing a Nuzlocke run); if I end up using it I'll submit some pull requests. Thanks for making it open source!

Edit: Critical bug

a. If you click the search bar, then tap on the table view before the search bar animation completes, the search bar disappears: https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/1658/151914/gkv...

b. It looks like Aurorus doesn't have any type information provided
I read it as a game of Operator in service of other'ing[1] by the status quo.

1. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Other
Does Bulbapedia not work very well on a mobile or something?

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Charmander#Type_effec...
You might need to clear your browser cache.
I guess this[1] was the post he meant to comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619690
I think most of that needs to come from bottom-up, that is from contributors. Let us hope it generates a good community.

(A working "CCAN testers" would be wonderful for C code. People would want to upload stuff just to get compilation/test errors on different O/S versions, with small-/big-endian architectures, etc, etc.)

Edit: Grammar.
Have you considered asking for help?

I'm willing to bet that there might be other hardware startups in your area, on HN or in your university that would be willing to give you a hand.
1024*1024=1048576 TCP port is a 16-bit value i.e. only values between 0 a 65535 are valid, it's not a wide range at all
Jeez, what's your schedule like?
It might be off topic, but I read some posts about people working while traveling around. How does that work with taxes? I am currently working in another country, but still in the european union, and quite a hassle to get all that bureaucratic stuff done for just 3 months. I imagine it must be more complicated if you don't even have a work permit at start. Do you just do it illegal/unregistered? Are tax laws more tolerant at the places you choose? Doesn't it matter?
That Pokedex app is $1.99 when I checked. Not $26.
Great, thanks for the continued feedback :)

I'll add that to the list. It makes sense for desktop usage, whereas I'm curious how iOS & Android clipboard-ing works.
The argument for energy savings seems a little specious.

We don't need fancy new electronics for that, if people just wore coats indoors, we would save a ton of heating energy. It wouldn't be as significant, but adopting lighter fabrics or a more tropical style of business dress could go pretty far in summer.

Persuading people to go along with such changes, even with a little help from another powered device, might present another challenge.

I've known some building managers who've adopted an HVAC by attrition approach, forcing people to accommodate to odd extremes. They usually aren't very popular.
If the shoe were on the other foot, there'd be bloody hell to pay.