skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since when did a "challenge" justify or excuse immoral or illegal behavior?
It's not a gray area.
I’d like to see ASP.net MVC natively on Windows, as well as ServiceStack. I think they’d compete. Mono is just not a thing for those of us in the .Net world, frankly.
IIRC Snowden was a sysadmin with root.
Just deployed version 0.2, reading HN, ready to go watch Phins v. Bengals.
The "government" is very large, and should really rather be though of as many big companies. This health care work is really zero percent related to anything any DOD entity touches. Besides, just because a government can do some bad, doesn't mean it can't be doing good somewhere else at the same time...
UP3214Q : 41,899 $HK = 5404.01 $US
Its too bad the focus isn't on battery life. "7 hours" internet time on wifi, when you're on airplane mode. And they refresh the same page every 40 seconds.

How about a real battery test, where you simulate someone reading HN or reddit, opening gifs, images, web pages with crappy flash video. I'm tired of the same 3 hours of useful battery life I've had since the HTC evo. Maybe I'm just bitter because my galaxy nexus has around 8 hours of idle time if I have 4G on (this after doing a clean wipe not 1 month ago).
In fact for what it's worth neither was the meta description tag and the comment about social signals is misleading at best.
I wish this sort of thing were more common. For debugging purposes if nothing else, it's helpful to support custom metadata everywhere in an API -- every data type, every logged operation.
Does this really solve the problem though? What happens if someone 3 miles away is talking to someone who's 1 mile away from themselves, but 4 miles away from you? Then you'd see the transparent text of them talking to some person you can't see messages from, yet also see transparent text of them responding to people you can see messages from.

I personally don't see how you could completely avoid this without some kind of fixed regions, unless you required people to do some kind of an "@user Hey..." for every message so that you would know if you share the same sphere with the destination user. This makes it more tedious and less fun, though, plus it takes away the whole idea of multicasting.
Thanks for asking: Richard Stallman.
This article would have been better if it quickly described the donations against the scale of the campaigns themselves and the size of the PACs. Looking at this, it appears that all Comcast related donations to McGinn's opponent total to less than $70k.

This is a serious amount of money, but how does it really factor in against all other donations? I don't know because the journalist didn't really share that information.

Outside of PACs, here is the direct total contributions to each campaign: http://www2.seattle.gov/ethics/sumreps/sumreps.asp?ElCycle=e...
Fabrication of any kind of semiconductor is full of fixed costs. Not only are the yield rates low, but your cost per panel increases dramatically since you have fewer units to spread over all your tooling and fab buildout.

It's also risky as hell - making a high-DPI LCD panel isn't like making a rocking chair in your garage, there is an enormous startup cost.

It takes a large measure of guaranteed demand for anyone to drop that kind of cash. The only people who have been able to move the needle on this sort of tech and fab are Apple, Google, Samsung, et al. They're the only ones who can go up to a OEM and say "I want you to build this brand new part, to these specs, and I can guarantee you millions of units".

Short of that the risk is insanity, and the OEMs themselves are unable to create a market for these new parts themselves. If they came up with an innovative, new LCD panel, they'd still have to wait for someone else to throw it in a shipping product before real demand materializes. I think there's a rational reason why the big, vertically integrated companies are the ones driving new panels.
That looks excellent!

How have your experiences been so far with the banks and credit card companies?

Are you worried they will close your account, seize funds?
DUUUUDE! my mind just got blown. I haven't tried this. Great idea. And no way, you even wrote the headlines?!

> 2) Student Websites/Newspapers -- The messaging app you need when a zombie apocalypse happens at SDSU (insert campus here)

hahaha that would be a hit.
I don't think it is just the shell though. As soon as you start trying to do any automatic interchange of filesystem metadata, you are going to run into the same problems. Namely you have to have semantically important sets of bytes, and filesystems which allow arbitrary binary strings can insert semantic data into your exchange system, which necessitates extra escaping on all sides.

So the question is what assumptions we have, and how those should be enforced. Here are some humble recommendations.

1. Disable non-printing characters in filenames (this is encoding dependent and assumes a kernel aware of encoding).

2. Allow system administrators to configure additional rules, like "no leading/training whitespace, no starting with a hyphen, no internal tabs, no SGML special characters, UTF-8 only" and the like.

This would empower application developers to state what assumptions they rely on and eventual standards to emerge.
I may not have seen this app otherwise.

Right, because of all the spam and overposting. You visit "New" from time to time and know what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Historically, there is no solution to this outside of moderation and banning, so it's just as likely that HN has jumped the shark for most individual purposes and people will have to move on to other venues that are not being clogged by The Verge and Business Insider using them for spike traffic.
This is an easy mix-up to make considering .length, .count, and .size are all aliases.
Tend to agree. There is still the trust relationship downloading source and using it, although I guess with a source bundle you can at least verify the hash and have the same (potential malware) as everyone else.
Same on the Galaxy Nexus. Less than 2 hours of idle time if I'm going through an area with poor service - less than 2 hours of battery life when browsing on wifi.
Let us know how you managed. :D
Interesting. So maybe this should be configurable.
These jokes seem kind of tasteless when talking about armed gangs that hold people hostage and sometimes kill people.
Apple, Microsoft-Rockstar Consortium Sues Google Over Nortel Patents
The piping is for beginners. Rather than saying "Execute this script" or download and compile this tarball. It just works, magic. Advanced users will obviously wget and quickly read it. But hey, sometimes I like to live dangerously too, and I pipe things to my shell.
Did you read the post at all?

The issue isn't executing untrusted code, it's connections terminating early and causing your shell to execute incomplete code.

The article ends with the example code

TMP_DIR=`mktemp`
rm -rf $TMP_DIR

And the stream ending pre-maturely may cause the second line to end with rm -rf / and then execute it. While this wouldn't do anything anyway without --no-preserve-root added, it still brings up a good point about interrupted connections executing incomplete code which would otherwise be safe if the command was finished.
It's very much the same idea, if not the same underlying chips. The Snapdragon 800 SoC includes these sensors, so a lot of new high-end Android phones are going to support this.
Wait guys, let me get this straight: You guys are not okay with the US government accessing your data that Google has, but you are somehow okay with sharing your data with Google?

I just see big "evil" vs small "evil." I'm not seeing much of a difference.

Also, would you be okay if another government had access to your data in Google's cloud?

You guys are probably not seeing the futility of it all.
This is just completely ignorant. Private entities provide electricity and garbage cleanups and many other essential services. They're contracted by the government in the same manner that Comcast wins contracts from the local government.
Community Memory, the first BBS
Good question, I would like to know this as well.
Ahhh, now it all makes sense. I was under the impression a lot of YT uploaders were aholes!
> Healthcare.gov is attempting something no other start up in the nation has the opportunity or capacity of accomplishing, because of the sheer scope of it.

Opportunity? Indeed, no.

Capacity? Oh my yes. Just look at what @MMWasser was able to build in the few days since healthcare.gov's launch based on healthcare.gov's and related sites' data: http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/

Plenty of talented engineers are just waiting to pounce on any and all data and opportunity made available to revolutionize this space. There's more than enough capacity.
You are right, a game would be a tonne of code. Massive encouragement on the WebGL, btw, 3D made me feel like a kid again. Here is a project I have always wanted to do: given a wire-frame, simulate the resulting minimum soapfilm surface algorithmicaly. I believe that maximizes the fun/LOC ratio. You might look at Javelin, btw, a ClojureScript lib.
For the people who can't view the Play store link, this should do fine: https://www.google.com/nexus/5/
That's the genius of Apple's Retina - they jumped straight from 1x to 2x with nothing in between. Even multiples are much easier to work with and give a better user experience.
twitter: #someconference - @popcorn is where the real chat's at today!
agreed on w3schools, but you only need to look at every thread on HN when w3schools comes up (including this one already) for the reason why it's at the top. Tons of people on this site come out in its defense, saying they use it all the time, so what does that say for the rest of the web developer community? Lots of people link to it, lots of people visit it and then visit it again and again on subsequent queries. How can you call that anything but a strong signal that it's relevant and useful content to many people?

The real answer to problems like that is more personalization, which doesn't go over well for many. I do miss that personal blocked-site list google used to have :(
Personally I was expecting a discussion on the viral nature of asking people near you to join up to popcorn in the app.
Bran dies.
A TV. On wheels. A step-by-step ‘How To’ guide.
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Fortunately, Hacker News has a setting called "delay" (which you can set by clicking on your name) which does just what you are describing.
Monoprice is advertising a 30" for about 680.

I'm sorely tempted.
We took the kid out trick or treating and stopped for dinner on the way home. Then I again consoled said kid over the recent loss of her fish, when she came home to an empty tank and got sad (she was rather attached to that fish, "He was such a good listener."). Now I'm killing time waiting for a friend to get online so we can discuss some work stuff before going to bed.
Right, this is one reason I'm not actually a big fan of government and "democracy" at all... the "tyranny of the majority". Nonetheless, within the framework of what we are working with here, I think it's important that our government be very transparent, so that at least the option of holding the government accountable exists.
While universal healthcare is a noble goal, I have a feeling that insurance reform will not stop costs from going out of control.

Rising healthcare costs is because of the artificially limited supply by the AMA limiting the number of MDs that can graduate each year.

Do we really need to lower our standards to get more affordable healthcare? I don't think healthcare quality will drop just because doctors won't need to spend a small fortune getting through medical school and then sleeping 4 hours a day during 6 years of residency.

There is a shortage of med workers, not tech workers.
Sometimes I think these fora need to have a selectable posting delay setting. Let the user choose whether posting is immediate or not. I would probably set mine to at least a 15 minute delay. I'd sure save me from making an ass of myself on occasion

Actually there is (at least here) look for the "delay" setting in your user page. It's the number of minutes between hitting submit and a post going live.
This false equivalency thing is getting really fucking old. If you can't see the difference between voluntarily giving info to Google and the government literally stealing this info, than just please don't get involved in any discussions about this.
It's sadly part of a growing faddishness with "Western" technology and developments. I find it quite sad because the local solutions are often quite elegant.

In Korea for example, they have clever traditional windows that open like normal windows, but also draw up completely and hang from the ceiling, turning your house or other structure into a pavilion. Large roofs provide lots of shade.

In the winter, you literally light a fire under the floor of the building and radiant heat warms the entire structure.

Some of these things carried over into the modern age, but many sadly did not. They're remarkably comfortable and energy efficient dwellings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ21SchGpsQ
Shockingly, most people are happier when their data is shared only with the party/(ies) they agreed to share it with. That doesn't mean we're all 100% ok with sharing our data with Google, but as long as we're informed about who gets our data we can think about it. If the data is going to the NSA (and who knows where else), that decision is a lot more complex.

If you think it's futile, I suggest you leave us to our, 'lost cause,' and get on with living in a world where things can't get better at all.
I think that if User A "replies" to User B, you then allow anyone who can see either party to see both parties, at least in that one conversation.

To detect replies, one option is to do a statistical analysis of the typical time between two messages on the network. Anyone who replies in the upper 70% percentile is "replying"

You could make the effect fuzzy and have a back and forth conversation (which would probably be obvious in the data) have a stronger effect and could use that for training your algorithm.
Google, NSA to team up in cyberattack probe (2010)
I believe a big reason Somalian pirates get coverage is because they have captured oil tankers (which the disruption of such shipping is obviously a huge concern), the ships they are capturing are both massive and carrying good destined for the US/Europe. I believe other pirates in other parts of the world tend to go for smaller ships and don't go for long drawn out ransoms since there's not too many places to safely stash a huge ship.
Late this afternoon, I started @FeelBetterBot back up (I had kept it 'off' for most of the day, while lots of people were looking at it) ... and it lasted less than 3 hours before getting shut down again.
Right, if Google doesn't think you are in the US, you won't be able to download Voice from Play. Which is really annoying if you actually are in the US...

I had to deal with this problem earlier this month, and the answer here fixed the issue for me: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/44677/how-to-chan...
> If you aren't willing to withhold tax payments, clearly you at least recognize there is some line at which you can actively support a government that is engaged in something very wrong because the benefit of not doing so would be tiny compared to the harm.

You don't think that someone might be unwilling to break the law for a cause because prison isn't such a nice place?
> Surely it was, but 'rumor' sites were writing about the dedicated movement processor in late August

A corporation of Google's size doesn't need "rumour sites" to know what their competitors are doing.
Couldn't agree more.

I used to fly a lot (family overseas, so accumulated a couple of million miles over the years). It never, ever, bothered me to turn off devices for 10-15 minutes. Quite the opposite. I always enjoyed the moment to pause my hyper-connected life and put my gadget addiction in perspective.

My most disgusting experience was with an a-hole sitting next row, impatiently speaking on the phone when we were landing. At the very last second the pilot noticed the runway wasn't clear -- there was a parked vehicle in the middle, and had to do a subtle maneuver and get the plane back on air. We had some very tense 30 seconds.

Of course the phone call had nothing to do with the error by the air traffic control, but any sort of electromagnetic interference at that precise moment could have killed us all.

People frequently ask FAA why we should turn devices off. I still think the correct question is why not?
Everything counts, but you can be strategic about usage - dialing via Google Voice from a laptop keeps me well under 100.
So, are you upset that they are so smart that they are gaming the system? Or are you upset that they are gaming the system?

I am not sure if they are proud themselves-- but some people see their work and probably grin.

Also, a caveat on making judgement about information being released piece-meal: You can pick a sentence out of an essay to make the author look to be at fault.
... which is why there's laws like the aforementioned Maryland law that requires them to accept all insurance.
I like Lisp.

My problem with this code is not aesthetics. This logic is too deeply nested, by the time you hit the last conditional there is way too much going on[1].

Perl makes it especially nice to flatten logic due to RHS conditionals, eg "x++ if y;". Here is my two minute flattening job[2], it prob has syntactic errors but you get the gist.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_...

[2] http://pastebin.com/4TDVftpJ
Hey Google, I don't want to buy your phone yet, but let me see the damn thing at least!
2013: The Year of JavaScript
I agree with mikeyouse's post here.
I'd run.
Samsung Beats Out iPad Tops the J.D. Power Tablet Satisfaction Study
The more this drama unfolds, the more I think it's going to make for a great book for nerds. A big-ticket IT project, behind on schedule, lots of political flak, all the usual dysfunctional behaviors that happen with off-the-rails projects, the VP just called us all geeks, now Oracle and Google are parachuting in "alpha teams"

Sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy book for liberal nerds. Big Government program on the rocks. Select team comes in and saves the day. Hell, might even be a movie in there somewhere.
Not surprising. Nexus 4 sales totaled somewhere between 3-4 million.

I wonder why they don't/can't order enough.
I commend you. Thank you for the large-minded, logical, and compassionate analysis.

I get what divinedefault meant about thought crimes. I think (s)he refers to Jesus' bit about lust in the heart being equal to adultery, and calling someone a fool being equal to murder.
I think Jesus was pointing out that there are crimes in everyone's thoughts. He was talking to ultra-religious law-keeping bigots who thought they were better than everybody.
Google: Samsung Galaxy Nexus won't get updated to Android 4.4 KitKat (updated)
Well, if every language would have a sufficiently smart compiler, the world would be fine.
While i agree with the general folly of piping to a shell, have you ever actually tried to do a rm -rf / ? Most modern posix systems will catch you, even if you sudo it.

Also, barring that example I can't come up with many other horrible scenario. Unfortunate ones, sure. But not catastrophic. And as someone else said, adding random ppas would allow much worse things, and people do that all the time.
Is it possible to have the extra half of labels auto-expand, when chat is hidden? There is a lot of extra space in the sidebar now.
I thought you were trolling, and he was just responding to you?
"not very technically difficult" is a matter of perspective. It's about as difficult a piece as any student or amateur is ever going to play or be exposed to and few students or amateurs are skilled enough to play it.

But it is accessible to amateurs, and sounds very impressive. Which is, as you noted, a good reason why it's so popular. It's a good piece to pull out when you want to show off.
Google Sets the Date for the End of XMPP with Google Voice
What do you mean still taking orders? From what I can see there is no order button on google play anymore, just the wishlist one.
Writing While Parenting
I've been using Apple's 27" display for a couple of years now, and have been happy with it.
Also liked how you could get the individual classes on an ala carte basis. Unfortunately that will go away with Pluralsight.
That's exactly what you would expect to hear from someone who had said yes :-D
This is pretty interesting. What causes latency issues with this approach?
Also, these things are priced pretty cheaply for what you get. Even if you buy a new one every year, you're still coming in cheaper than buying most high end smartphones.
I agree - I wonder if the Entity Framework results could be improved by using Compiled Queries.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/opinion/international/a...

"Al Shabab has been terrific at stamping out piracy from its ports, due to its harsh interpretation of Shariah and the personal animus between profit-seeking pirates and Islamist militants.

[...]

"Now that Al Shabab is in retreat, the emerging power vacuum in Somalia’s southern ports may lead to ‘sweet-spot’ conditions for pirates to resurface."
I've worked in computer music/audio for years. Most people and PCs can reach 20kHz. It's no coincidence, human hearing drops off around that point and thus the 44.1kHz sample rate was chosen to match that (you can transmit frequencies at max of 1/2 the sample rate, thus 22.05kHz). But modern sound cards can reach 96 or even 192kHz sample rate, able to transmit ~50-100kKHz tones (other factors aside). Further, modern sound cards can have amplitudes expressed as 24-bit numbers, providing very high fidelity/accuracy.

So, you may be able to hear higher than 20kHz. Even if you increase your sound card sample rate, best test would be to try something analog to eliminate other bottlenecks in the audio processing. But you can easily tweak your audio settings and generate sine waves with this program:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
This has puzzled/surprised me over multiple benchmarks. I had assumed that node.js would be faster at pretty much everything than PHP (especially for concurrency).

Time and time again though, these benchmarks show PHP outperforming node.js. I'm sure node.js will have lower RAM usage than PHP but as I'm more interested in reqs/s, I'm going to reconsider using node.
But you can always additionally simulate a keyboard. I've heard unconfirmed statements about some devices actually going that route to install their driver and/or associated crapware.
I am absolutely shocked that Ruby kicked so much ass-- in the latency department. It's actually a pretty significant margin when you think about how long some of those simpler requests probably took the server to complete and then the latency to return the request.

Also, anyone out there have any good real world experience with other scala persistence frameworks? I was surprised to see play-anorm do so "relatively" poor compared to other scala frameworks. Though I'm quite, admittedly, naive in how "big" each of the other frameworks are (only used play and scalatra).

Please forgive any misspellings or grammar errors. This was typed on my iphone.