skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be wrong but what I understood is that currently you have wordpress-like setup for theming your web application : Theme developers upload theme files(html/css/images) to publish it on production server. What you now need is the ability of average non-technical user to modify and save any standard theme online without the need to touch html/css code. Something similar to tumblr : http://oi39.tinypic.com/339lpfk.jpg

Right? I don't know about any SAAS that will let you do that and even if it does it will be difficult to integrate with your system. Why not develop it yourself or outsource it to some professional developer? All you need to do is-

- present copy of a default theme to customize

- let user change text using inline editing

- let user change/upload images

- let user select different colors/fonts using forms

- optional html/css editor for advanced users

- Save and apply the changes
Patent Reform 2013: Pending Bills
It always makes me sad when people don't support linux. Especially when they are starting the design for Mac, it shouldn't be that hard to compile for both.
They are. That's the whole point of that experiment.

Moreover: cut the conductor and the muscle doesn't move. Which is why nerve damage is so crippling. You literally have lost the ability to signal the muscle.
I agree, and wish more common sense was exercised in this area, but unfortunately there are many concepts in the community that are just adopted wholesale.
1. Finding one security problem is not necessarily enough to qualify for a job offer

2. They sent him a trophy. It wasn't just any ball pen with the company logo but a nice, topical t-shirt

As someone else pointed out - he disclosed the vulnerability publicly before informing LinkedIn. Most companies wouldn't have given him anything.
Forbes billionaires list: Countries with the most billionaires per capita.
Only one or two bills seem to get talked about much here. The submitted article summarizes several more that are being considered by Congress.
Hands-on first impressions of Google’s Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 KitKat
I think it would be really cool if someone (perhaps you) interviewed Morris about his initial development of the worm and its exploit.
Edward Snowden ready to give evidence to Berlin of Merkel's phone tap
Show HN: travel.meteor.com: clone of mywanderlust in Meteor 
The basis of this project is a discussion started earlier today about a wonderful, open source project: http://mywanderlust.co/
The discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653827

My claim was that a project that took weeks or months to implement in RoR and Angular could be completely implemented in Meteor in 1 hour or so. My statements were not meant to attack the original author because he did a great job thinking out the UI, user flows and structure of the project, which I simply copied. Many users got angry at my claims and downvoted me, challenging me to prove my assertion.

Meteor is perfect for this type of rapid prototyping and I wanted to show the community what could be completed in 1 hour (56 minutes to be precise) on a Friday evening after work.

As promised, I cloned the functionality of the showcased project in Meteor in 1 hour.
Finished product: https://travel.meteor.com
Source code: https://github.com/andreioprisan/meteor-trave

I'd love to get some feedback or answer any questions about the project or Meteor.
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REMOTE IS FINE

We are in Cupertino.

We are the team behind Mokriya Craigslist. Time, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Xconomy, and a slew of tech bloggers raved about it. Check it out. http://craigslist.mokriya.com/

We are a team of engineers, UX designers, and thinkers. We have worked for some of the hottest tech startups in Silicon Valley, including Path, MixPanel, Threadflip, SimpleGeo, SideCar, etc.

Google has us on a list of "best mobile development teams in the country" so we get calls from them occasionally too.

About You

You're a Technical-Geek/Copywriter Hybrid. You are a technophile by nature, and love learning about and exploring new technologies. You don't have to be an engineer, but you should have a solid grasp of things like MVC, agile development, etc. If you know the other side of the shop (user-centered design), you get bonus points. Basically, you need to be able to speak intelligently about software development, specifically as it relates to Mobile.
Also, you should be very good at breaking down complicated ideas into bite-sized morsels of "oohhh, I get it" gooeyness. Our target audience are the business-people who make decisions about technologies to use inside of companies. The rare few are engineers. Most are not. If you can connect well with these people (the challenges of working inside a big co., getting projects out the door, playing the political games, etc.), then you will get more bonus points! :)

About the Work

We are creating a series of guides as a part of a larger content-marketing vision. The guides we write will cover topics like, "How to vet and hire a great mobility firm," "Best practices for creating a compelling mobile experience," "Advanced guide to understanding the cross-platform tools available", etc.
We have 2 full-time, awesome designers, who you will work closely with to make the pieces super-compelling. We will loosely borrow the style of these guides:

* http://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-content-mar....

* http://moz.com/learn/seo

Looking forward to connecting. Email adam@mokriya.com to kick off a conversation.
Thanks, Adam
Something like malpractice insurance I guess.
It'd create an interesting dynamic between trolls and troll insurance policy providers.

You'd have the insurance providers lobbying to reduce patent trolling, just as trolls will be lobbying to allow for more.

The thing about this, is that instead of just the latter, we'd have both sides. If anyone wants to make this happen I'm on board.
I removed the widget from my homescreen. But I'm running Android ICS still. Maybe it can't be removed in the later versions?
And here's the obligatory Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6657849
Waterloo does have a strong Math tradition. But further to that, for a long time the Computer Science degree at Waterloo was a specialization under their Bachelor of Mathematics degree. So you had to fulfill all of the requirements of the Math program and graduated with a "BMath". You were also offered interesting minors like "Combinatorics and Optimization" where you would get deep into Cryptography, Graph Theory and so on.

I can't say how it compares to other schools, but certainly many of my memories of CS at Waterloo were working feverishly through difficult math assignments so I could get back to the lab. ;)
Yet Another Android Master Key Bug
The bugs I know of boiled down to abilities that either did nothing, or worked far less often than they were supposed to. It's quite possible to beat the game while not consciously noticing the bugs (although you might just not cast certain spells that seem to never work not knowing that they actually never worked)
> My guess is that the fine is either a slap on the wrist (so the house owner just chalks it up to business expense) or so sever[e] that the house owner stops doing short-term rentals entirely.

This is tautologous. Either the owner does not cease to rent out his unit, in which case fines are a business expense, or he does. What sort of third option were you imagining might happen?
I got recruiters posting my resume to Monster and Dice. But if you want a job, don't wait for an invite, contact a company you are interested in. Don't worry they don't have a job you want if you think that you can be useful to them somehow.
UW has had a great CompSci program for decades. WATFOR has celebrated it's 50th anniversary.
Got a source for this? All I know about is the marketing office, where Hinton now works some months of the year since the acquisition of DNNresearch. [1]

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/google-buys-university-of-...
So, is that how it works for electric sheep as well?
Well put! (and a bit unusual to see such kindness in an HN comment haha)

Kudos to the author, best wishes for the future!
It's only Nokia by name going forward. The name will likely be killed off once MS completes it's assimilation in to the collective.
Can you elaborate on choice paralysis? What is really at play here - that you are worried you will have wasted time with a bad movie?
PS Also always interested in talking to smart developers.
It has been a lot of fun. Thanks for organizing it.
US West coast: Usually only free papers for short transit rides. Otherwise I'll occasionally buy a full paper for a long train ride.
I assume when Jordan gave them his address they knew he would actually want the stuff...
> It's non sense. Their network wasn't at risk - it's impossible to access the internal domain from the guest network. This should have been a discussion. Not a firing.

Unless you were the person in charge of the company's network security, you have no grounds to call their rules nonsense or to judge the risks for them. You can't objectively say their network wasn't at risk, since it wasn't your job to assess how much risk was acceptable.

By connecting a USB wireless adapter to your corporate machine (which presumably was also connected to the corporate network), you created the possibility of a bridge between the two networks. It sounds like you were intentionally circumventing their corporate network filters, thus bypassing any protections they had set up against you visiting sites they knew to be honeypots, any phishing protection they may have had, etc.

Since you're posting on Hacker News, I think it's fair to assume that you knew exactly what you were doing, and that you knew it wouldn't be okay. It's obvious that if your workstation is on a locked-down network that you can't just willy-nilly connect it to a different network.

Now, I personally think it's a poor business decision for them to block Facebook (and whatever else). Thus either I wouldn't work there, or I would work there and follow policy and try hard to change it. Or, if I decided to just say "fuck policy" and do whatever the hell I wanted, I wouldn't whine when I got fired.

It'd be one thing if you were clueless and just made a mistake. But you knew you were breaking the rules. Own up to the consequences. Go work somewhere where you can enjoy yourself without breaking the rules.
Beeps on the speakers or listening on the mic doesn't involve packets to begin with!

All communication is analog at the lowest level, all common forms of network transmission are serial at the lowest level -- your analysis is all argument from ignorance.

Then there is the Blurt project - an 802.11 physical layer interface that runs over speakers and microphones. Its early stage but its just one guy hacking at it, not some billion dollar spy agency.

https://github.com/piannucci/blurt
>> If you are stuck on open-source, I would suggest doing like Gitlab, sell the service and hosting and give the source away for free.

That's the idea. I fully admit that I don't have all the answers. I'm hoping I can encourage competition in this field. Right now, I think there is a lot of irrational fear around payment processing and inventory tracking (seriously, they aren't that hard, once you know what you're doing. The difficulty comes from making early mistakes that you then have to either fix or live with). That fear keeps the market segmented into a variety of local monopolies.

Square didn't think the local tax issue was that insurmountable to keep them out of the market. There are only just so many ways to slice-and-dice taxes. It's leg work, but it's not difficult work.

I'm going to get a little cynical on your last point. All my years of consulting have taught me that users don't know what they want. Users see themselves as bosses, and like all bosses, they want to justify their existence vis a vis the system. If they don't have input, they don't feel like they have gotten their money's worth.

That's part of the motivation for making it so cheap. You can drive around the corner and open your bag and realize your McDonald's cheeseburger for which you paid a whole $1.00 did not have cheese on it. And you'll still eat it, because a regular burger was only $0.99 and it's more important for you to get down the road than it is to argue about missing cheese for a whole penny.

But if you're paying $15.00 for a burger, it better be the best damn burger you've ever had, exactly the way you want it, even though nutritionally it's no damn better than the slag that McDonald's is shoveling at you.

I don't expect anyone but a true data and accounting geek to understand the best way to work out the data entry for a POS. There will be a lot of people who have opinions on it, but they will mostly have the wrong opinion. I've dealt with this in so many business intelligence situations: the client doesn't know their numbers and certainly doesn't know how to crunch their numbers. They will have opinions, but they will be extremely goofy notions of double-counting and comparing unlike units and dividing by magic numbers.

So by making POS dirt cheap--and democratizing the parts--I am hoping to be able to say "take it or leave it". Here are the good parts, we're not beholden to you for your goofy notions of reports.
I think grade school math curriculums are incredibly bad in most of the world, though. I know it's awful here in Ontario. Everything I learned about mathematics was from non-textbooks (e.g. Dover math books), lectures, papers and blog posts. School didn't teach me a thing. I think the only decent "textbook" I have is Concrete Mathematics, and that's not even close to most textbooks. It's probably been posted a million times before on here, but http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
Personally I think this is related to the reason why zero comments is BAD. You need to have comments that express the intent of your code so that future developers, who are reading your code, can compare your expressed intent with the actual code that is executed. Names of things are just a special kind of comment.

So this is just a special case where a clean coder would have compared the intent and the code, and realized that the commment/name needs to be changed to match the change in intent.

It's like the old British sailing ships that Horatio Hornblower sailed on. The master gave an order, the first mate repeated that order, the second shouted that order and so on, until one of the navvies translated the order into colorful language that a lady would blush at.

Just as we need to express our code in two different ways for the main codebase and the test codebase, we also need to express our intent in two different ways. One way is a complete set of comments and great names, and the other way is in the code itself.
This type of bug is very well-known in the tool-assisted speedrun community; many NES TASes rely upon similar bugs.
oh god. I hate math, but I'm very very good at basic math, if I had had to learn like this, I cant see how I would have learned anything except that I didnt want to learn more.
does anyone have any ideas on where I can learn to do this properly?

I am new to programming, I've completed the code academy python course but don't really know where to start.
NYC had numerous building codes and restrictions previously, including the 1867 Tenement Law, and the famous 1901 new tenement law.
I'm curious. Why free? Portfolio juice?
Yep, I'm very excited about Rust. I think per task/process heaps is really key to getting concurrency and reliability done right. Also the type system and aim for zero cost abstractions seems great. That said, it is still pretty early stage so I'm holding off for the 1.0 release.
An internet search will give me many different choices of documentation of unknown provenance, authorship, official status, datedness, accuracy, and comprehensibility. This, to me, is not helpful, since I have no way of knowing which are any good, even after reading them. On the other hand, Info documentation will give me the official, up-to-date, correct, and mostly well-written documentation.

Internet searches certainly have their place if I want forum posts, mailing lists or blog posts, which I sometimes do. But I often want the official documentation corresponding exactly to my installed version of the software, and this is often harder to find using a web search than simply using the Info documentation, because of the above issues. Also, something to keep in mind in these modern times is that web usage is monitored. Local reading of Info documentation is not.

Tools for searching Info pages are built-in to most Info browsers. I use the Emacs Info browser, which has both the usual Emacs way of searching (C-s and C-r searches both in the current node and in the whole document), and the Info Index, which is what I start with when looking up the reference documentation for something.

Also, contrary to what you claim, Info documentation can and do contain images. For example, the HTML GnuTLS documentation here: (http://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/OpenPGP-certificates.html) was generated from Texinfo, and the images are still there when I browse the corresponding Info documentation with the Emacs Info reader. Those images are simple because they are generated from Dia drawings via EPS files, but images can be anything, just like in HTML.
I'm still not sure potential differences across membranes throughout a muscle are like current flowing through a muscle.
The Kugelpanzer
150 mega-megadollars??
The only thing I ever learned from math in high school was "I don't care why it's true, just give me the right answer" (the attitude of every single student other than myself).
I love reading about the development of the doom series. One of my early exposures to reading non-trivial code came from studying the (very surprisingly complex) damage output of the BFG9000:

http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/bfgfaq/#3A
Vim-tmux-navigator: Seamless navigation between tmux panes and vim splits
> completely new exams and assignments, while making sure previous years' materials are not released

This seems absurd. Both MathSoc and EngSoc maintain exam banks, which students can (and do!) contribute to. Professors release past midterms and finals to help students prepare all the time -- assuming they think they're relevant. (Sometimes they're not -- the accreditation boards and curriculum committees shuffle stuff around every few years to keep up with du jour trends in education.)
I think he meant the HOA's insurance (including liability) for the common areas of the complex. If the HOA's insurance found out that an HOA board member or property employee knew about a residency violation, they might have grounds to cancel the policy, which would just end up costing the HOA money, which would raise the monthly dues of all owners.

Your (as the hypothetical owner of an apartment unit) insurance cares about whether you are occupying the unit as you said you would. I'm sure you can purchase a policy for primary residence, long-term leasing, and short-term leasing. If you're violating your policy, it could be declared void at any time, in particular if you ever make a claim.

If I were a good insurance agent, hypothetically, I also wouldn't write an insurance policy for short-term leasing in a property where I suspected such use wasn't allowed. It would probably be in my best interest to get proof from the potential insuree that such use was permitted.

As for that rebellious streak, we're talking about an investment here, and ways that people might be breaking voluntarily signed contracts in order to make a few extra dollars (the real-estate agent should offer the HOA terms to any potential seller, and then you sign the HOA contract when you purchase the apartment). Also, I prefer disruptions to business models, not disruptions to living arrangement. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there is no upside to the other residents, it's all a nuisance to them.
It is far easier to buy a FN-6 from China or seize a Soviet/Russian variant from a failing state's coffers, yielding a better chance to take down an airplane than a DIY model. I've been following events in Syria since protests started to get shot up, to the security void created under aerial attacks allowing foreign fighters to swarm in.

For the aspiring MANPAD or Anti-Air battalion a better ROI would probably be what I mentioned above. Evidenced by this is a group having four MANPAD variants in hand enabling me to make a lovely group panorama of the set[1]. For some analysis on the weapons shown in the image you can read a write-up by N.R. Jenzen-Jones including the group shot here[2] or here[3].

This is a lovely exercise for the mind but obviously like most weaponized missile/rocket systems it is best to leave it for the pros. :)

[1] http://imgur.com/gallery/KFH6b04

[2] http://rogueadventurer.com/2013/05/31/9k338-igla-s-and-other...

[3] http://www.armsresearch.org/post/51809092891/9k338-igla-s-sa...
This. Thought i was smart in high school. Got the highest score in the descarte math course. Went to waterloo and got my ass whooped. Always below average. My time at Waterloo made me feel dumb. I mean, things were just effortless for them. I was just a late bloomer, I tell myself.
Are you at least running the code in a secured VM, or a Linux sandbox?
>i think he was a bit off base in calling everyone from all walks of life to learn to code.

If nothing else, advocating for that is in his company's best interest.
Its not actually the search bar that's important: the Google Search APK is where all of the Google Now functionality lives. This change basically turns the home screen into Google Now.
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http://www.tube-funny.com/%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%AE-%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87-%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%87-2014.html
http://www.tube-funny.com/حكم-من-يفسخ-خطبته-المسلمه-ليخطب-مسحيه-2014.html
He has always been like this. He will get pretty serious for specific topics, but most of the interviews are framed in a comedic way like this.

That's fine though. It still gives various people exposure, and I have looked into numerous authors, politicians, and musicians because what was seen beyond the comedy bits interested me.
This is my favorite new feature as well - I love how this stuff (including loading extensions) can be represented in the schema.rb now, so you don't have to switch to sql-format schemas.
Show HN: Salsa subscription service
HombreSalsa.com is a monthly salsa subscription service I’m testing out. The site is terrible, I know. But it’s my anorexic version of an MVP.

Hopefully I can sell some salsa while helping independent salsa brands gain some exposure. I’d love any feedback, both positive and negative. Thanks!

Brandon
Huge Martian Landforms' Detail Revealed By European Probe [video]
Making time to find direction. aka funemployment.
With the increased growth of mobile devices and massive numbers of screen sizes in existence, how do you plan to handle those issues? What I've seen of Macaw looks like it gives you the ability to write clean, maintainable code that works in many devices and handles media-queries etc. From your examples I looked at, they might as well be absolutely positioned because you're not gaining anything by floating every element and giving it a fixed width and height.
Just got Nokia 520 last week as a throwaway phone (while I wait for 5s). I must say its great phone with windows phone 8 looking very polished and useful - only problem MS-Nokia has is quality and number of apps - hopefully they will be able to reach tipping point soon.

For 80$, no contract this is great deal going on now.