skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really _only_ code that is harder to create on tablets though, and it strikes me as extremely narrow-minded to write off the music, art, text, huge Minecraft sculptures, photos and videos of singing, dancing, playing, that have been gleefully created by people young and old on these devices.

It's the exact sort of snobbery that has almost completely killed art, dance, drama and music in many schools, as if the only valuable acts of creation left to humanity are engineering and science (which, incidentally, are both wonderfully served by the innumerable education apps on these locked-down, post-apocalyptic devices).
The Internet is a "US colony"
Cambridge Maths Reading List
The deflation algorithm used by gzip is a variation of LZ77.
>I'd venture to say that except for ransomware today's viruses and trojans are more discrete and do less harm to the user because if the user notices them he's going to take action to remove them and that weakens the botnet or the ad delivery collective system which seem to be what viruses and trojan writers really want to have.

You're right, that certainly is the goal, but IME almost never achieved. I've cleaned up quite a few infections and almost all of them have caused some kind of system instability or another. Virus writers have surprisingly shoddy programming skills.
This is why I still use Winamp, nothing else comes close to dealing with playlists of thousands of items while also being fairly customisable.
Except that there are merchants who prefer to be paid in USD and customers who want to pay in USD.
I'm afraid this is what you get when you architect your political system to institutionalize gerrymandering. I suspect that hyperpartisanship, and the thorough political dysfunction we're seeing over in the US at the moment, is pretty much an unavoidable consequence of developing very stable partisan electoral ghettos.

In the UK such gerrymandering is taken very seriously because it's a fundamental attack on the integrity of the electoral system. People found guilty of it have had their political and personal lives ruined, and quite rightly too. But in the US it's standard practice. I don't think this is taken seriously enough.
The Content Creation Process
Some people perhaps (career criminals with deep connections in the sphere).

I suspect it's a lot harder for your average man in the street.
Break on property access in JavaScript
Were going to have to have a low profile Ethernet connect then aren't we. If this takes over there's no way that plug can get put on our ever shrinking devices.
My take this is a Crossover Effect:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/batman_shootings_crossover_ef...
I was going to start on Ghost but then just used Medium. Curious to know why people would choose Ghost over Medium considering that you will have to host that yourself?
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Dan Shapiro » The only wrong answer is 50/50
I don't understand your last line. How is it different to "for i in *; blah"? Or even just "du -hs ."?
Wasn't it already open source?
Show HN: Open sourced my first bit of Javascript,works similarly to PHPs date()
Now, the courts get to decide how to run your business?
Yeah, but blurring the screenshots was quicker ;-)
Even for career criminals it's vastly more difficult and expensive than the newspapers would have you believe.

Hence: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rebore
Definitely. If it weren't for the Chinese and Russians having them effectively surrounded, Europe would be knee deep in blood and the wreckage of their onslaught.
Yeah, I mean all of these guys are undoubtedly very smart, but why force them to do something they're obviously not comfortable with..
As some doing a bit of embedded system work these days, I was wondering why the MCU manufacturers don't offer a key value store(Even small ones would do) for configuration purposes.

The most famous ways of managing configuration is serializing a structure on EEPROM/Flash, or writing a string with lengths of the strings as delimiters.

Even if you assume, its for saving space etc. The way I see you will inevitably use space while you write the code to serialize and de serialize the configuration data.
Octopress + github pages.
It communicates over ethernet, which is what matters. So it doesn't matter that much, and people understand what it means -- in the same way it doesn't matter you just said "IP protocol", which expands to "internet protocol protocol".
To put this in some context, Cory Doctorow has done talks / written pieces on "The Coming War on General Purpose Computation".
Assuming that most organized crime groups exist either to facilitate prostitution, betting, or sell drugs, we don't we just legalize all of that and "price them out of the market"?
City to Fit All Streetlights With Energy-Saving LED Bulbs
Culture & Empire - Digital Revolution
I think Lenovo wanted increasingly large trackpads with increasingly short screens. They've mentioned in their design blog that some of the changes are driven by "consumerization".

The problem with that is Thinkpads were never meant for mainstream consumers, Lenovo isn't going to out-Apple Apple, and if it wanted to try, it would do better using a model line that doesn't have a business-oriented reputation going back decades.
The Complex Relationship Between Intelligence and Political Orientation
I didn't know that, but it was quick, and the security isn't all that important!
How search works
huh :) coraid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraid,_Inc.) has been doing ata over ethernet for quite a long time now, how is this any better ?
I couldn't get by without the little fellers.
> It captures AJAX requests which were made while the connection was down, and remakes them when it's back up, so your app reacts perfectly.

Is this something I want as a user? If an app seems to be offline, I tend to do various things just to check or re-establish connectivity. Say, hit the Send button a few times, order columns, filter, search, whatever. Stuff, I wouldn't do if I had connection.

Once the app reconnects, all this nonsense would be executed. I'm not so sure if I'd really want this as a user.

This leads to the question: How fast does it notice that the app went offline? Do I get the chance to do stupid things as a user or will I be shown the "you're offline" message soon enough?
The UK has had bad experiences with gerrymandering too, right? I am remembering the term "pocket borough."
Shelly: Write your shell scripts in Haskell(2012)
It's impossible to have a lossless compression system that will always compress anything down to less size than it was originally, otherwise you could run it as many times as you want and compress everything down to 1 bit.

This includes "pointer to pi digits". What would probably happen there is the byte representation of the offset would be longer than the input string itself!

Although, now for curiousity, I'd like to actually try that "offset in pi" algorithm. :) Just for fun.
Oh dear! Sorry to hear that... looking it up I find my method described as 'naive appending', oops! Still, efficiency is of absolutely no importance in this application, and as I said in the post, I'm new to Python...
The items shown here are just components of the 3D printer itself. I'd say they would struggle to create a gun from them!

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:52838 &
http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2013/02/22/replicator-2-extrude...
I do ;-)
I disagree.

Within the UK, the general public has not favored the Guardian's reporting on the Snowden-NSA files. Many see it as anti-British and the much of the rest of the press has taken the government's side - quoting the government line concerning the protection of the country against terrorism and pedophiles.

What little the Guardian has been allowed to report (outside the D-Notice that covers GCHQ coverage) hasn't seen major coverage. The BBC for instance is petrified of losing its favourable role, and will not risk (again) threatening the government. Not in the near future anyway.

The Guardian's daily circulation figures since Snowden blew the whistle has continued to drop off [1]:

Compared to the same period the year before, The Independent lost 26% of its
daily audience. The other five losers, in descending order, were the Daily
Star (-16%), The Guardian and Daily Express (-14%), Daily Mirror (-13%) and
The Sun (-11%).

The actual month-by-month breakdowns are here:

- April 2013 [2]

- May 2013 [3]

- June 2013 [4]

- July 2013 [5]

- August 2013 [6]

- September 2013 [Not yet released]

Online is booming [7]. Back in January [8], the Guardian had already reported record online readership figures. I would hazard a guess that the online readership has continued to grow, but it isn't clear how many of those are from inside or outside the UK. The NSA reporting has no doubt improved the online bottom line, but not the ABC's.

At a minimum the ABC circulation figures (for print) seem to suggest that the Guardian has continued to see its readership shrink at a rate that is consistent with the entire UK press industry. The only upturn has been the Financial times which saw a 2% increase [1] for the same period.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/aug/29/nati...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/media/table/2013/may/10/abcs-nati...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/media/table/2013/jun/07/abcs-nati...

[4] http://www.theguardian.com/media/table/2013/jul/15/abcs-nati...

[5] http://www.theguardian.com/media/table/2013/aug/09/abcs-nati...

[6] http://www.theguardian.com/media/table/2013/sep/06/abcs-nati...

[7] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/02/the-guardian

[8] http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/201...
Lookbook Cloud - interactive sliders for Facebook pages
Just to give a counterpoint (I know this opinion will be extremely unpopular on HN)

I'd explain how there was a time when we were free to drive our own cars, and make our own decisions. And simply hop in a car and drive.

Not like now where you get in the car and it asks you to download the latest software update, then it monitors your every move, sending back data to the car makers/NSA and showing you ads as you drive along at ridiculously slow speeds. It'll probably also drive you past a certain shop if they pay the car maker enough money! Oh no, the car has crashed. Better turn it off and on again and hope for the best. Nothing like putting my life in some low paid software engineers hands! Oh dear, the car maker has gone bust. Now you can't get any software updates, and the software has stopped working as it can't dial home anymore. Oh well, tough luck! You didn't really think you could buy a car to own and do what you want with did you? You can only pay subscription fees for cars now.

Freedom is certainly a double edged sword. With freedom comes responsibility. But taking away freedom isn't the answer. Making people more responsible is.

It's going to be pretty impossible to take away the peoples right to drive cars (Even harder than taking away the right to bear arms in the US!) Stop drinking the kool-aid. It's not going to happen.

I'm rooting for some massive disasters/scandals with self driven cars, to put the idea to bed. And you can be pretty sure there will be some big disasters if they ever get anywhere with it.
Could Project Phoenix' royalty business model burst the Kickstarter bubble?
Self hosted WordPress. Manage a few dozen of them so keep my own the same to keep things simple.

Definitely want to play with Ghost soon though.
I once went to a course called Avater which helped me very very much over the course of about 11 years now. I don't want to propagate anything but their methods were very good. They are just excersizes which you do with your attention's focus, get it under control etc. I wanted to make an app for them once to have those great excersizes on my mobile phone. I also coach and get coached over skype regurlarly just to clean stuff up. Would be very cool to work on something like this.
I appreciate you correcting my terminology, but beyond that you haven't actually disagreed with anything I've said.

Humans call it either the Shannon limit, or Shannon entropy, or Kolmogorov complexity of a string, or whatever other name humans have come up with for human names. The central point is there is some limit which you can't circumvent through trickery like "find it embedded within pi," regardless of what species you are, or what your species chooses to name fundamental limitations of nature.

A program to generate digits of pi is small, and pi embeds every possible string. But generating up to that offset of pi is impossible in practice. And it probably won't net you any savings anyway, since you'll still need to communicate the offset. The offset's length in digits is probably close to the length of the original string (after perfect compression), so it's unlikely you'd be able to circumvent Shannon entropy.

But, if you do manage to create a practical way to bypass Shannon entropy, I'd imagine it'll be headline news, along with netting you quite a lot of money.
Ask HN: Your ideal laptop?
Your "perfect" laptop? Want some opinions.

I run a web dev company - currently run a 13" 2012 macbook pro. totally comfortable moving to linux (will keep macbook for iOS dev), and spend most of my time in the console - virtual box/vagrant etc.. Also like to keep my machine in my backpack...

thoughts?
In the 1970s it was well known that the CIA worked to pave the way for American business interests overseas, through everything from espionage to blackmail, murder and military interventions. I assume the NSA works much the same way today (but God knows what all the domestic spying is used for).
You know what? Every nation state has my blessing to do a blanket collection of digital communications the moment they don't call me a terrorist for encrypting my email, call the whole thing unwarranted or don't hand over my password.
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I think you're misunderstanding - Google knows everything about you and only supplies your search result. The second result is something your really don't want and everything else is there to make you think there are other alternatives to what you really wanted, which was the first result.
my parents inlaw recently got a very nice Mercedes-Benz C-Class Convertible by working part time off of a pc. this contact form .............http://www.BAM21.CoM
"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage ... Ever."

Eight years passed...

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage ... ever, excepting one large ad at the top of the page."

After that it did not seem strange when the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters.
Squire.js: Your friendly dependency injector for testing Require.js modules
His working out at Gym Jones is showing thru in this post! Very Mark Twight-ish.
I went to a protest once that featured, for some reason, a number of toy weapons used as props: a completely non-functional "crossbow" made with a bungee cord, etc. The cops seized the "weapons" and their statement in the media made it sound as if they'd seized an actual crossbow, etc.

This raid story makes me think of this. It could be someone seriously attempting to fabricate arms or it could just as likely be someone having fun experimenting. At any rate, I am quite skeptical about the cop's grandiose announcement that "today will be an important milestone in the fight against this next generation of homemade weapons".
I can't speak for anyone else, but here's my thoughts on it; I have Solaris and Oracle experience in large enterprise environments, but it's not something I would consider at a Startup stage. And I'm not anti-Oracle by any means, it just comes down to maximizing my resources. For Oracle, you have these huge up front costs and buy in, and then you consider that there's newer (aka cooler) technology out there that has been proven to work (aka scale) and its way cheaper if not free. And then you consider the shift towards cloud based service delivery and the concept of on demand resources and pay per use. For the "startup mentality" it just seems like a no-brainer to start out with the cheap/free stuff that works, pay per use, and minimal buy in. Best bang for the buck.

So then you build it, it's running, and it grows. And then like any IT solution you build, you have this "lock-in" factor where you've built something on a specific platform in the cloud (or whatever) and it's painful to move to something different. This is compounded as the Userbase (and Dataset) grows bigger and bigger. So you just keep it going as long as you can and keep scaling, and I would guess this is why nobody in the Startup world uses Oracle.

If Oracle wants to power more Startups, Oracle needs to provide an affordable product that Startups choose to use from the start. They would probably kill it if they developed their own version of AWS. Seems that for most of the people I talk with, Oracle is synonymous with Enterprise, not Startups or new innovative technologies. So in some ways, the perception of Oracle and who uses their product might also play a factor. The knowledge and skill requirements are somewhat of a gray area for me, as any approach requires knowledge and skill to implement. I guess I wouldn't describe one approach as requiring more knowledge/skill than another (they all require knowledge/skill to implement, maintain, and scale).
IOS 7 and the continuing gamification of interface
I don't keep enough cash to go out and replace my daily driver, in kind, today. Even if it was someone else's fault and they're eventually required to remunerate me for the loss, that can take months.

People don't like the cost, but they like the benefits when they need it.
Jekyll, hosted on AmazonS3 and auto deployed by wercker: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-pu...
>In theory, the technology essentially allows offenders to produce their own guns in the privacy of their own home, which they can then supply to the criminal gangs who are causing such misery in our communities.

Meanwhile, anyone can create a (subpar) .22 machine gun in their garage.

>If what we have seized is proven to be viable components capable of constructing a genuine firearm, then it demonstrates that organised crime groups are acquiring technology that can be bought on the high street to produce the next generation of weapons.

Just like its namesake the Liberator is clumsy. Criminal intent or not, and aside from the plastic aspect, people are going to prefer a weapon that's actually reliable.
Not to spoil your weekend project, but someone's done it already :)

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
This is very old news, and I don't see which OSX restrictions in particular are involved.
Interesting. I'm currently stationed at MCRD San Diego (Navy, though), so I get to see some of how their recruitment and boot process works. Lax in what ways (assuming you're talking about the U.S., not the Royal Marines)?
Apple prohibits developers from listing details of what they're working on on their linkedin profile for trade secret reasons.

Countless companies prohibit salespeople from connecting to potential leads on linkedin to prevent it leaking to competitors.

I'm guessing you've not worked in enterprise because it's pretty normal to have a company policy on "bring-your-own-device" (typically companies will only allow access from devices that meet security requirements on password, anti-virus, etc. often they'll also require the ability to remotely wipe your device)
As far as I understand from the article, they are talking about the estimated benefit from crashes. If in the end we need less ER surgeons and less cars go to junkyards then that is still clearly a good thing, as per classic 'broken window' economic thesis.

Anyway, truck driving is exactly the kind of job (e.g., http://io9.com/5933246/why-truck-driving-is-one-of-the-most-... ) that we should make sure that no homo sapiens should be forced to do in the future.
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But my point is that the system doesn't have to support it, you can have "technically non-existent" Bitcoins like you have technically non-existent dollars. The bank can just tell you in your balance that you have Ƀ30 without actually having them according to the ledger.
Give the founders a break. They're probably first time founders who haven't figured out how to get customers yet. There was a time when I thought it was a good idea to email people and ask them to check out my product.

The results weren't great, but more importantly I learned my first lesson in sales/marketing. Don't ask for the sale in the first conversation. It completely turns the customer off. Instead build a high quality relationship with them. Ask them what their problems really are. You can figure out quickly if your product will solve it for them. When you establish enough trust they have a higher chance of buying from you.
transmission has an excellent web ui, that doesn't require installing anything on other machines
Bitrot? Error recovery? SMART data? ...?
Almost every non-rural area is going to be able to support the density required. I mean, drive through any suburb and count the number of unoccupied cars.

Honestly, the biggest issue (assuming the technology is flawless) is going to be keeping them clean and maintained because of the very high usage rates.
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Also, getting people to buy them. There are still many, many cars from the mid 80's on the road, chugging along. The used car market is nothing to shake a stick at.

I'm really, really hoping the manual drive cars abandoned for autonomous cars are maximally recycled and not just left to rot in myriad junk yards.
This also says a lot about Yahoo, by the way.

Windows users can turn to Free Download Manager[1]. It's open source (GPL)[2] and just works like uTorrent does. It supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, audio/video preview, partial ZIP downloads, rate limiting, download scheduling, download from multiple mirrors and Chrome/IE/Firefox/Clipboard integration. Plus it "looks native."

I have been using it for years and have never gone wrong - it's extremely fast and because it's FOSS it is obviously ad/spyware/searchware free.

Edit: I am not affiliated with these guys in any way - just a happy user.

[1]: http://freedownloadmanager.org/
[2]: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freedownload
Exactly. Improvised firearms have been around for nearly a century, if not longer.
If either the native offline event fires (where supported) or a single XHR request has a timeout or error, we fire our offline event, which triggers the UI to update.

So in your example, you'd know almost immediately after you clicked the "Send" button.
I made the same mistake a few weeks ago because it's especially deceitful. uTorrent disguises this SearchProtect program with what appears to be a ToS agreement page after you've already rejected another piece of crapware, making you assume you're already in the clear.
Any even vaguely modern laptop offloads mpeg 4 part 10 decoding onto a decoder chip or the GPU.
Iit is. The article is from Aug 2012
Organized crime groups live off high prices maintained by police. Basically, any prohibition or regulation is a monopoly grant to a very few who can earn higher profits than in an open competition. These few are either legal licensees, or illegal gangsters who bribe or outgun cops. Remember that bootleggers were opposed to ending of prohibition in 1933.
Looking at their live demo it looks like you just sign-in with the linkedin auth and they use the regular LinkedIn API to enrich people information, so it's not anything the average user can't access via Linkedin anyway.
Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Köln — that's where the money is made. Just look for job offers of large well-known companies.