skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first two stories are notable in how they reflect the terrible practices of the teller.

"Our distributed application produces the same type of error after the same period of time in totally different data centers. We have no idea why, but moving data centers seems to help, so we just keep doing it. #YOLO"

"We've built a product on a data store and library we don't understand even the highest-level constraints of. That ignorance bit us in the ass at peak load. We patched over the problem and continue gleefully into the future. #YOLO"

These stories should be embarrassing, but they're seemingly being celebrated, or at least laughed about. Am I off base?
Unless of course they sell the infringing goods in a jurisdiction that does respect copyright. At that point, the jurisdiction can prevent further sales from that manufacturer.
Yes, it's a little laggy. I tried Firefox, which was extremely slow, Chromium, which wouldn't run on VZ and finally Arora, which was tolerable. Yours is probably a better way, which I'll keep in mind for the future. The remote browser wouldn't work at all for a highly interactive app or multimedia.
As with the last time this was posted you can also just register your items for free here:
https://www.immobilise.com/view.php
If those orchestras sounded like a old washboard and a bucket of nails, than I definitely do not want to attend a concert.
Process Genius - Hot B2B Startup Out of Finland
I am familiar with atoi but I have never seen itoa, one of the printf family is usually used. However looking it up, a few websites list the function but clearly say that it isn't ANSI C.
With udev deleting /dev shouldn't be a problem I thought?
Distributed Teams: Dealing with Geographical Distribution
Please let me know some more details. If you have some european offices, please let me know.
I have driven across the country a few times. There's not much traffic once you are beyond the suburbs around the major cities. Even in densely populated areas it's common for highway traffic to cruise at 75+. 100+ in a high-performance car is not too extreme.
Both my wifi and internet connection speed are well over the 2megabytes/s I'm getting on my pi, which really is the only downside I have found with my pi.
Maemo is run by community, Nokia abbandoned it completely some time ago.
Have they made it so users don't have to go to about:flags to manually turn it on anymore?
well I don't get the justification for the headline
Sorry, that is really confusing – it looks like copy left from an earlier iteration. Thanks for pointing it out.
Julia Calling Python Calling Julia...
Great article!

Just as a side note: Because English is not my mother tongue I have problems to understand what the title actually wants to say, though. To me it sounds like Apple owns Microsoft, and Microsoft is Apple's "rockstar" because it sues Google. So I wonder if some mother tongue speakers could verify that the title is actually understandable to them and explain what the title wants to say. Thanks!
> From an aesthetic point of view I really like the cannonball.

I can relate. It's the kind of stuff that movies are made of. But one important property of being a responsible adult is that we're able to distinguish between fact and fiction and keep everything that's fiction safely on that side. So let's keep cannonball and all those other races on public roads where they belong: in the movies. If you really think a race across the states on public streets is great I guess you can get those roads blocked by the police - which would be totally fine with me. I really enjoy watching the Tourist Trophy.
Spotify, moz.com, semrush, strucr.com, seolyze, sistrix, ahrefs, github, dropbox, pingdom,...
I'm glad you like it :) For me it serves as a constant reminder that a little generosity and friendliness can't hurt. It made me re-evaluate much of my own behavior in a way no criticism of said behavior ever could have done. I spend so much time on being right or being better, and that is a complete waste of energy. Changing habits is hard, but this random guy sitting somewhere in the world helped me a great deal already, and will continue to inspire me, I'm sure. The stuff I read so far made and makes me grin all throughout the day, even away from the computer... it's just not true that anonymity only makes people behave at their worst, it also frees some of them up to be more loving and/or funny than they might dare to be in person. Taking some of that spirit and applying it to my thoughts, and to my actions and words towards other people is now a goal of mine.

And all that because I wanted to see if the NSA stuff is on reddit too, and getting stuck in some random funny pictures thread, where I saw a comment by that guy! Sorry for rambling, but I'm genuinely stoked for stoked_for_you :D
I just don't store credit card details in my browser. Auto-complete for emails is extremely handy and I use that all the time, but does purchasing things online really need to be any easier?

I don't mind reaching for my wallet there; it forces you to make a conscious decision to spend the money, which is at least slightly better than a 1-click impulse.
Jalopnik has a detailed article, too:

http://jalopnik.com/meet-the-guy-who-drove-across-the-u-s-in...
> We use the word framework loosely to refer to any HTTP stack—a full-stack framework, a micro-framework, or even a web platform such as Rack, Servlet, or plain PHP.

Yep, that's the problem of these benchmarks. Apples and oranges.
A whole year compressed into 1:59 TIMELAPSE
I always find myself taking photos but they never see the light of day.

Not this time amigos.
Go: no generics, the community is small, Go allows you to use functions as data (to some extent), but doesn't take advantage of this to the extent that it could. I'm relatively new to the language, so my observations may either be incorrect or not include the full picture. If anyone has anything to chime in or, I'd love to hear.
The joys of working with a monopoly.
How else would you get your stuff back? Someone seeing josh@gmail.com might think "oh, this is josh's laptop, not sksjsjs44444@gmail.com, better email/call".
Doesn't seem to be an issue in Firefox, as far as I can tell. Certainly didn't fill any other fields for me.
Interesting that people can have such a different view on the same information. Since the first iPhone came on the market I always read articles that Apple would be alienating the hacker community. It also makes sense because they are mostly bought by hipsters who don't know as much about tech as they want to make others believe. I have no experience with Apple products, though. Therefore my information might be completely wrong.
Should be easy to make a proof of concept page to scare people dumb enough to have credit card auto-complete.

Just make hidden form fields for every field name you can think of, then make some onload javascript to welcome them to the page with any fields that aren't empty.
I would buy Jolla right away if it had a hw keyboard. There may be a FOS device worth buying but I havent seen one yet. I am way overdue for a replacement, and sadly, I need to agree with your parent - there is nothing interesting on the market at the moment.
I am not offering it as an excuse and like I said I agree with you.

However your suggestion will not help because he was not after the experience of a race track, he was after the experience of breaking the record of the canonball run.
Germany may invite Edward Snowden as witness in NSA inquiry
I'd say the biggest market now or at least 10 years later will be China. They don't use them just for cooling but also for heating because the southern half of China has no public heating system. But that's just my instinct. Might be completely off and people in Brazil might actually use them much more.
Google Search Serves Users From 600% More Locations than A Year Ago
Clickbank possibly
This is weird, I'm on chrome but it doesn't happen for me...
4 Great Content Marketing Tactics
Android Jelly Bean to KitKat AOSP Changelog.
Wonder if hybrid touchscreens are possible without sacrificing display quality too much. Capacitive for multitouch finger-based input, resistive for non-multitouch pixel-accurate stylus input.
> Doesnt the GPL and other free licenses state it has to be available together with the binaries?

Have you read them? No.
Hmm a case of the EFF wanting something to be true I feel

To use an analogy if you can be compelled to give up the keys to a physical safe how can electronic keys be considered differently? To quote Spock "a difference that makes no difference is no difference "

This is what the "man on the clapham omnibus" would think
FAA green-lights gadget use during entire flight
They get multiplexed across a few OS threads.

There is a scheduler which will leave goroutines that do a native (potentially blocking) call in their own thread.
People have tried building such societies many times: all have failed. The problem is that you've got ambitious humans and less ambitious ones. So how is it ridiculous to claim that a leader caste automatically appears in every situation? It doesn't have anything to do with gender or race. It's the simple fact that we are not born equal and have different abilities.
It's not even geolocation, I am in the UK and I still get the message that "google play devices is not available in your country". I need to go into incognito mode to see it.

I don't understand why would that be, I've got my google account in English, I've got a UK-based address added to it,as well as a UK-based billing address. I don't understand.
Leiria Recebe Curso de Economia na Construção
Maybe your iPhone has a passcode lock, or your diary has only got your name in. If they got lost, how would you get them back?

On Android, there is an option called "Show owner info on lock screen" that lets you put whatever text you want on the lock screen. I use "jon@jrock.us". Is there really no iPhone equivalent?
Oh you americans and your silly patents
That's very interesting, thank you for the response. Your joy talking with strangers and sharing your expertise with them (exemplified here too) sounds like a very good asset to have, for salesmen and for hackers too.
Yeah! Hopefully! Because despite the speeds they were going, there were absolutely no casualties, accidents or incidents. Let's charge these bastards anyway. That'll stop them not killing anyone in the future.
Oh, c'mon! Storing credit card data in Autofill is actually recommended by Google and considered secure: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142893?hl=en

You shouldn't call people dumb for following Google's instructions. I agree with you that storing CC details in a web browser is a bad idea, but we should take issue with Chrome here (and other browsers) not with regular "dumb" users.
Hacking Happiness: How To Give Big Data A Direction
Minor nitpick: Stasi was East Germany, not the Soviet Union.
Will Meteor kill Rails? Don't know, but Passenger open sources Meteor support
Didn't xilinz released a high level development tool for fpga, using a c like language?

One problem thought, it costs around 5k, so not hacker friendly.

And tool I know of is convey-computer which offers tools to develop fpga accelerators. It's not cheap, especially since decent fpga chips are expensive.

Btw convey offers a more efficient memcached servers built using fpga chips.

And I've read some academic work regarding a visual tool that let's bioinformatics guys program fpga chips.

But since the zed board is priced reasonably for hackers , I wonder if it offers enough performance to be used as an accelerator?
FYI, I can't find Popcorn if I search for Popcorn in the App Store. I am able to find it if I search for Popcorn Messaging. I can just imagine many more people will find it if you'd call it Popcorn Chat.
Definitely - that's a great idea. We're currently looking in to a few strategies (aside from selling direct to the user):
- enterprise/businesses
- education (colleges & universities)
- manufacturers
- insurance providers

One angle that's certainly appealing is to reduce production costs even further (and therefore retail cost) to make a super low-cost way to protect items that have low value but high importance. Things like sketchbooks, coursework and so on.
Safari tells you what is actually going to autocomplete, so you could easily catch stuff that should not be sent...
As a Brit I find this quite hilarious. On our motorways the speed limit is 70mph, but pretty much everyone cruises along at 90mph+.
> Did you make sure to file the FBAR report on all your foreign bank accounts and other financial accounts such as any mandatory retirement accounts?

Yes. That's even easier than a tax return. You simply put in "This account exists from this bank in this country, and holds X amount"
Do you consider a diamond heist to be an incredible feat because as it turned out no one was hurt?

The reason they succeeded is they didn't get caught. Everything else is irrelevant. Next time they should fly to Germany and fuck about on the autobahn for a couple of days, at least people will be prepared for drivers to be doing that speed.

Edit: I do think 55mph is a pretty dumb limit though.
Phusion Passenger 4.0.23 released, supports the Meteor framework
Web devs can recommend input fields not use autocomplete:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_autocomplete.asp

It's considered good practice to use it on login fields, but otherwise depends on whether you think security or user preference should take priority.
Tested this with Autocomplete off in both Safari and Chrome, but completed the forms with Lastpass. Same problem.
By "refused to participate in a joint effort to safeguard those patents for all", do you mean that Microsoft offered to buy these patents jointly with Google, in such a way that Microsoft would be able to use them to extort Android manufacturers and Google wouldn't be able to use the patents to help defend them?

Because if so that's some pretty heavy spin you're putting on it.

edit: excerpt from Google's official response, linked elsewhere in this thread (note it was in reference to a different bundle of patents).

" If you think about it, it's obvious why we turned down Microsoft’s offer. Microsoft's objective has been to keep from Google and Android device-makers any patents that might be used to defend against their attacks. A joint acquisition of the Novell patents that gave all parties a license would have eliminated any protection these patents could offer to Android against attacks from Microsoft and its bidding partners. Making sure that we would be unable to assert these patents to defend Android — and having us pay for the privilege — must have seemed like an ingenious strategy to them. We didn't fall for it.

Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Justice intervened, forcing Microsoft to sell the patents it bought and demanding that the winning group (Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, EMC) give a license to the open-source community, changes the DoJ said were “necessary to protect competition and innovation in the open source software community.” This only reaffirms our point: Our competitors are waging a patent war on Android and working together to keep us from getting patents that would help balance the scales."
Have anybody used tabula? What is their pricing/performance levels? Is their marketing true?
There's no versions of the truth. Clearly you didn't even bother to read the article:

Three judges – Jacob, Lord Justice Longmore and Lord
Justice Kitchin – agreed that the statement did not
comply with a court order and said Apple should post
another statement. On Friday they gave their written
reasons.

Stop being such a ridiculous fanboy.
The same thing can be done on the iPhone
Yes, Pakistan too.
BackboneORM – ORM for Node.js and the browser
Don't know how they came to this conclusion, if you look at the headers of https://twitter.com its listed as "tfe".

$ curl -v https://twitter.com
[..ssl handshake and request..]
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8
< date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:12:31 GMT
* Server tfe is not blacklisted
< server: tfe
[..body..]

Also interesting to note that they are identifying sites such as "github.com", "dell.com" and "starbucks.com" as all using GWS[1].

[1] http://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Google-Web-Server
Sony (and Nokia) have been patent trolling under the name MobileMedia for a while:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/jury-finds-iphone...

The CEO of the firm they set up to do the trolling is also the CEO of MPEG-LA that collects patent fees for H.264 and a few other royalty bearing standards.
Nice post and always exciting to get a good start going. What I'm really interested in is the geographical dispersion of those 1,000 users (and however many you have now), how many conversations where actually formed, and the retention.
I guess people fire up an app just after installing it, wanting to take it for a spin, and if they can't form even one conversation since nobody's around them, it would greatly affect retention.

An interesting metric would be 'conversations per day' and if technically possible 'potential conversations per day', that is to say how many pairs of people with the app running where in 1 mile proximity to one another.

Also, it would be interesting to see whether users take the conversation elsewhere (facebook, twitter, whatsapp), at what stage (as one is leaving the location or before that), and if they do - how does it affect their app usage. Does it make them use the app more (for example, to seek more connections and friends now that they see it's effective for meeting new people), or less (they took the conversation elsewhere and their social needs were met for now).

Just my $0.02. Hope to see an Android version soon to test if myself!
Good luck!
Can I install BBM on Gingerbread?
Or you could use http://fishshell.com on OS X.

There is also the EXCELLENT http://brew.sh package manager for OS X.
your first characterization seems incorrect (did you read the story? it wasn't application errors), and your second characterization is hyperbolic at best. calling it a high-level constraint doesn't mean it's common, nor obvious.

calling them "terrible practices" is redundant, all devops horror stories can be characterized as exposing terrible practices if you're simply looking at the post-hoc view. it's a feature, not a bug, to make light of them. they're laughed about, but with the intent that they're not made again.
It seems to be these declining, nonreactive old-timers that seem to stay in authority by handing out court cases over arbitrary points.

They're not protecting 'their material', they're stiffing innovation.
that's like saying it's ok to shoot at people, as long as you miss. it's a miracle that no one was hurt (or worse) in this race, and that's exactly why this sort of thing is illegal.
Should designers lead companies?
No,rules are made by people who can enforce them.
The Zen Programmer
Inside Google’s new 1-million-square-foot London office—3 years before its ready
I like the phone, curious though, were there no new phones they could have taken the photo of? That one looks so scuffed, as though it has been in someones pocket for months.
OP here.

Point taken!

Payment processing, social login and welcome/confirmation emails is on top of our list!

The "launching soon" page is thought as a nice 1st step for people that haven't launched their app yet but still want to get users into UserApp. But we're not going to become like another LaunchRock, so no need to worry :)
getting a hustler designer is pretty difficult. but I think with the right product bootstrapped you got a chance, problem is that you are hitting saturated markets if I were to analyse your ventures. Data companies are hitting, meaning you are doing nothing great. SV needs new stuff.
I think this merely hilights the bigger underlying issue: the lack of transactionality. If the install script were wrapped in a transaction, then premature exit or end of input (for whatever reason) would cause no harm because the transaction would have not been commited.
Donate your skills to enhance human rights
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Can’t Remember Your Password?
Or Motorola (owned by Google)'s X8, which was released before the M7.
Completely agree with you, that's why I think this whole mess is wonderful news. I like the nuclear war analogy here, and I hope that both sides will hurt each other so bad in this little game that at the end they'll sit down somewhere and say: "never again". Then they'll start doing what all of us expect the Tech Giants to do: start pouring money on patent laws policies to put trolls out of business. It will have taken a lot of wasted money and harm to each of them to reach that point, but better late than never, eh.
HTML5 parsing XLS (Excel) files in browser
But if you actually click on the dell.com profile, it doesn't. It seems they have some data issues.
You should get at least some of the memory benefits, as they'll be supplied in apps or play services or in better profiling tools for 3rd parties.
Depends on the motorway. And while there are plenty of people going at 90+ that's not most people. I'd guess most people are doing about 80.

Unless there's a police car visible, when everyone drops to 68 and there's a huge tailback.

Or they're on the M25.
50 Things a Geek Should Know
Well, it's risky, but you are anyway installing the software from those guys, aren't you? Do you audit every single source of every single app? No, you don't... everything is a matter of balance between a security and a convenience..
It could discourage the next team from attempting it, and make "going public" less appealing. "If you break the record and go public, you'll be arrested"
Why You Should Run Authenticated Web Security Scans
Microsoft didn't get in trouble for "dumping" IE. They got in trouble for trying to make IE an integral component of Windows which would have made other browsers unusable or unnecessarily cumbersome to use.
As a German, it's even more hilarious. I do 100mph on the Autobahn most of the time and still get passed by Audis, BMWs, Porsches, Mercedes driving 125mph. I never understood why you can drive only 70mph in the States in perfect conditions with looong roads, extremely long view distance, nothing in the way. Makes no sense to me.
The German Autobahns (Motorways) are something else beyond that. No legal speed limits there. Going along at 150 kmph (~90mph) and being over taken by cars going way faster than you is something else.
Snowden and the Future - Part II: Oh, Freedom
So it's fine to behave this way because they didn't kill anyone?
If you throw a bunch of mammals in a shared space, then generally a hierarchy and a 'ruling class' emerges. That is testable (and tested), and it is natural, literally, part of our nature. Now, wether it's unavoidable is a a different question, and wether its morally good is a yet different one; but it certainly is the natural order of things.