skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used a Paperwhite, but for most of my reading I'm switching to an iPad Retina mini. The battery life is suitable, the screen is gorgeous (326 PPI vs 212: more than double the number of pixels per glyph) and I hope it will be easier to take notes (possibly even with voice dictation) and fire off emails and TODOs inspired by what I am reading. Most of all, though, I want fast PDF and Pocket/Instapaper in full color.

EDIT: I have not yet tried the Retina mini as a Paperwhite replacement except for an hour in the Apple Store. It's on the way. The in-store experience satisfied me sufficiently, but there is a chance I will come across a deal breaker.
I've been apart of some small, free, private communities that have had similar problems. It's just less noticeable because it's easier for mods to keep a handle on it in smaller numbers.
I generally just tell people that if they do the right thing and pay up, I will do the right thing and let them live. Also see: OpenROV.
It's not available for iPhone :( any reason for that?
Agree 100%. In this regard, Carlsen's playing style reminds me of Bobby Fischer, who was legendary for playing on (and winning) from equal positions.
Agreed, a computer doesn't have intentions. Playing against a real human player you can disrupt their intentions and/or surprise them. That's obviously not possible with a computer.
>They've always struck me as very accessible, responsive, efficient, and transparent.

Are you talking about some FCC in another country that isn't the United States? Try applying for a LPFM or LPTV license. My experience with them is exactly opposite of what you report.
Fellow (mobile) game developer here, congrats on the launch! Can you tell us about the development cycle for this game? Were you alone, did it take a year full-time, etc? I'm curious.
Main site (link in the description is not working): http://www.codeherdstudios.com/AsteroidSmash.html
"Thanks for inviting me, but I'm really not interested. I do appreciate the offer though. Hey, have you asked Bob?" (where Bob is some other random acquaintance.)

People with visible scaring learn a few techniques to stop inquisitive people from asking too much. So, you acknowledge the request. You then quickly, clearly, firmly, decline the invitation. And then you move on.

For scars the format is something like "Oh, I was in an accident. It was traumatic, and I don't like talking about it. Thanks for the concern! But I'm fine now. Hey, what's that?"

Evangelists have a lot of rejection, some of it quite rude, and so this firm but polite rejection should be fine.
I too can write an article claiming I have 5 magical new compounds that are untested, but have the properties I declare.
For me, personally, if Google now wants to require a G+ profile and real name to post comments on YouTube, I don't care. They can find out the hard way whether this is a good idea or not.

But lots of forums (from the original "Joel on Software" and many others) have encouraged use of real names as a way to keep things civil. Same reason newspapers require "letters to the editor" to be signed. And YouTube comments could stand a little cleansing.

All that said, their "one account for all of Google" thing is really a PITA. I have several Google accounts that I use for entirely different purposes. One is for a project at work. One is for a non-profit that I help manage. One is my personal gmail. I don't want to mingle those, and I want a way to tell Google to stop asking me to do it. For now I try to remember to launch a new incognito/private browser session any time I access these services. At this point I'm NOT going to use Google services for any new projects/organizational purposes, and I am on the lookout for alternatives that provide what I need (mainly online docs, email, and listserv-like email groups) without all the annoyances.
From an interview:

InfoWold: Why the name, Julia?

Karpinski: That's everybody's favorite question. There's no good reason, really. It just seemed like a pretty name.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/new-julia...
I run a mail server with no spam filtering and its not too bad, maybe 2-3 spam messages a day and Thunderbird catches those. I just have a somewhat strict postfix configuration with graylisting enabled.

My email is only ~13 years old so I'm not sure how bad it is for people with older domains/emails.
I haven't used Julia yet, but would be curious to hear more about your experience. Was it overall positive? How does it compare with your experience using other languages?
This is entirely true. I don't understand Snapchat's valuation in the slightest, which is why I mentioned it here in comparison to this acquisition. I'm yet to see how large audiences and advertising revenue are an answer to anything; see MySpace and Zynga, both of which fulfill(ed) those criteria. Snapchat seems like an easy service to clone in theory relative to, say, a YouTube or a Twitter-certainly Facebook could do it-so what are they bringing to the table exactly? Where does their value come from? A bit off topic here anyway. I just thought it was a nice comparison.
I enjoy the iPad (4th gen) as a tablet but it isn't that great for reading outdoors when it is sunny and it isn't as comfortable on my eyes when in very low light. However it is great for reading technical documents (i.e. PDFs) while the Kindle's small screen is horrible for.
A rare counter example to Betteridge's Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
What if this is not just an American Airlines problem?

What if it is a general problem with society as people become more and more absorbed in their virtual Internet lives and no longer care to do a good job at whatever company they work for?
I always thought it was named for Gaston Julia :O

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Julia
Short selling is a different game. In essence you're betting that the price will go down. Right now the price could go down $500, and you'd make $500. However if the price rose $10,000 you'd lose $10,000.
I cannot express how much I want this project to succeed! Congratulations and keep it going!
Are you saying your less technical relatives don't ask you for advice on internet matters? And take it?
SML is the quintessential example. Haskell is pretty good about it, too.
The problem is all the companies trying to be legit are being choked into irrelevance by stifling regulation (with a few exceptions like Coinbase). I expect that next year after a few make it all the way through their compliance efforts (e.g. kraken.com, coinsetter), the situation will be much improved.
julia seems to be positioned as a kind of matlab / r replacement. but i'm finding it works very well as a faster python, for the kind of programs i am writing in my free time (learning about / analysing block ciphers, most recently).

its big idea is multiple dispatch, like clos (oo-lisp) multimethods. where you would define an "underscores" method in python (ie to extend the language for a new class), in julia you define appropriate functions for that type - the cute thing being that the new type doesn't have to be the first parameter.

so, for example, the equivalent of

class Foo:
def __repr__(self):
...

would be

function show(io, f::Foo)
...
end

and the end result is something that has more of a FP flavor than python. it's very appealing.

if you're looking for a "dynamic scripting" language that takes some of the good bits from static typing, and has decent performance, it's worth a try.
Its in Ipswich, Suffolk in the UK, we meet once a month near the town centre in one of the university buildings. Could I have picked a better location?
I would guess the screen size is too small for 4 people to play at once.
I was pretty shocked they removed the page turn buttons. They are the most used buttons by an order of magnitude and tapping the screen is a crappy interface as it is too sensitive and I often jump forward or backward a page when I reposition myself in a plane seat or similar.
Does this link not work for you: http://www.youtube.com/account_revert

For me this link appears under the general account settings on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/account

This is what my account settings page looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/NrEnfyY.png

I changed from my real name to somenamefortestingpurposes, and seem to be able to change this to anything else. I've also tested posting comments with this, and they don't appear with my real name.

I also have the option of deleting my "channel" which I think is pretty much the same as deleting my youtube presence.
It's semantically well-defined, though. The compiler will never change the value of your result, it will only discover more efficient ways to compute it.
There are also some webdev related subreddits which are pretty decent.

/r/webdev /r/web_design /r/frontend
Looks great. Reminds me a bit of Space Team. I'm loving all these new collaborative games coming out.
I am loathe to upgrade from my trusty Kindle Keyboard, just because of the free worldwide internet access. Although recently, it has failed in a few countries that I've been to. Perhaps Amazon won't support it for much longer?
Seeing how the game accepts up to 4 players total, I'm guessing the screen factor played a role.
This law is supposed to take effect after the 2015/1/1 on which day VAT in Europe will be collected according to the country of the buyer while at the moment it is collected according to the country of the seller.
Yeah, but his victims were not rich jews.

Do you really believe we would still be so interested in the Holocaust if only black people were killed?!

Ps.: Not trying to be anti-semitic. But the fact that Israel and the Jew "community" are powerful players in the world economy does add to the perceived importance of the holocaust.
Alcohol has been through that gauntlet and failed miserably...
Ask HN: Is asking a code question appropriate on HN?
Is asking a code question appropriate on HN?

for example, if I posted a link to this question on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17971638/create-error-with-custom-text-that-prevents-compiling-in-vb-net-error-in-c
You can of course use arrays of arrays if you like, but multidimensional arrays are indispensable for numerical work, especially linear algebra – matrices are 2D arrays after all. When doing numerical work in C, for example, you have to simulate multidimensional arrays by doing your own index calculations to translate back and forth between linear indexing and N-d indexing. Having language support for this is a must if you want to target numerical programming.
I'm referring to the following definition on Panopticon:

>The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow a watchman to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without them being able to tell whether they are being watched or not.
My point about slackware is that it suggests that you are probably a power user who doesn't even notice when he has to solve OS problems that would turn away most other users.

Linux is still rubbish compared to Windows for music composition and production (speaking as a former music producer) and has only just started to be taken seriously for gaming, so your examples are moot.

What WAS it good for? Software development and anything command-line or terminal-based. Anything else? LaTeX perhaps. Gimp. Web browsing. Some Math and Scientific applications. In other words not much.

Honestly, the more you post, the more I'm convinced the problem was with your choice of distro and you're blindly accusing all desktop distros of making the same mistakes as whatever you were running; which clearly wasn't the case.

I used: SuSE, Red Hat (soon to be Fedora), Debian, and Knoppix. At least. Also several non-linux Unixes (Solaris, AIX, System V) but only for work.

No, I never used your favorite, Mandrake. It's possible that was The One True Distro. But still, a single competitor being superior but sadly overlooked doesn't really change the overall point I was making that Ubuntu stood out from the pack in real ways it did not simply "shout the loudest".

What changed around the time of Ubuntu wasn't Ubuntu, it was the rest of the Linux ecosystem.

I agree that it was primarily maturity of the linux ecosystem that allowed Ubuntu to flourish. By 2008 most linux desktop OS's were converging on KDE or GNOME and shared many similarities. But Ubuntu still had polish that many others lacked.
I've been running a mix of http://james.apache.org/ and postfix for years. I've migrated 3 times with no issues over the years. (zip up database dump and distribution, done.)
What are you called when you kill 100,000 Iraqis?

It's probably relatively easy to dismiss 100,000 vs 1 million or 10 million, since in a way it just looks like "statistics". But look at it another way. How did you feel when someone close to you die? Just that one person, not 5 more, or 100x more. Now multiply how you felt by 100,000 times, and think about the damage to human life that was created.

Does it really matter that 1 million is 10x bigger than that, or is 100,000 "enough" to think the damage is immense?
> without issues

That's a stretch. Because:

> So what problem do you (OP / ams6110) have with people using it as such?

A SSN is the "secret" bit to a small amount of otherwise-public info (name, address, some other bits) to getting a loan or credit card or other credit-related actions in my name.

I went to a small two-year school that used SSNs as their personal identifier numbers. Someone broke in and stole student records. Now the school's poor identity choices has put thousands of students' financial identities at risk.
this, a hundred times. It's not bad to have touch screen for selecting the random word or using the store, but why make 99% of the actions I do on the freaking thing uncomfortable?

(also an owner of both older and new kindles)
I still have an original Kindle, but would like to upgrade to the Paperwhite at some point. Normally I would say that a full tablet like a Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 is more worthwhile, since Android has a perfectly capable Kindle app. But in my case, the Nexus 10 gives me terrible headaches. So I still carry a Kindle around for extended reading.
Is it recommended to use a relay for postfix (for private usage) like Mailgun?
That may be a useful left shift operator, but it's just not C's left shift operator. You can argue the spec is poor, but you cannot argue that the compiler writers are incorrect.
The shortest path in a tree is kind of a pleonasm.
> all the wannabe-academic [3] comments

Don't you think some of the commenters might actually be academic, not wannabes?
I would be curious as well. What is your marketing plan? I also released a game a month ago after working on it for about a year, but soon realized that it is very tough to break through the noise on the app store and get your game noticed.

What has your experience been with this? I see that you are doing pay-up-front model. I'd be curious to get your sense of why you went with that as opposed to the freemium + IAP model.

I also released as a paid app initially, it almost seems as if there is an expectation that games should be free to try and then either progress via upgrades or IAPs.
This question should really be "VicG and Larry: why is G+ more important than your users".
I don't have either, but have been thinking of getting one. When I compare the original Kindle to the Paperwhite in the store, the Paperwhite contrast seems almost too high; I think I would find it hard to look at that brilliant white background for very long. The original is easier on the eyes.

Is the Paperwhite contrast adjustable?
Based on things that I've heard from certain people, it looks like Apple is definitely going to join the console game market....
In short you can, and will, get fucked by your client. Never do work without a contract. I would have thought it were common sense but I have seen far too many people owed thousands from clients they did work for who then gave them the finger. Most people/small companies don't have the money or don't want to spend the money on getting the money as it will end up costing them more so they just put it down to "that is the price you pay". Well that is a fucking stupid attitude and you are a fool for doing the work without a contract. Watch http://vimeo.com/22053820.
Looks good. I'm wondering why you highlight "Only on iOS" as a specific thing on the screenshots?
No the names / urls. See here (and the comments on that article):

http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valleys-stupid-name-prob...
Alcohol industry not interested? Transform it in a startup, buy rights to produce some sort of existing brand and show them otherwise. If it catches on, good for you. If it doesn't, apparently it wasn't a good idea. Complaining about how difficult it is to be accepted won't change the world. He has the hype already going.
/r/ECE and /r/reverseengineering used to be great... they might even still be. Honestly I stopped going to any technical subs on that site because given time they all seem to share one of two fates. Either they devolve into memes and shallow lowest common denominator post or they die. I've just accepted the site as a source for shallow sillines and enjoy it a lot more
https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-apache
France is battling Europe's notion of what electronic books are. At the moment, contrary to Europe's advice, France taxes ebooks as books (5.5% in France) while Europes wants ebooks to be taxed as services (20% in France).

This law plays on that distinction, considering that DRMed books are licences hence should be subject to 20% VAT while non DRMed books are indeed books hence subject to low tax.
Something that Google fails to understand, is that the company unifying the authentication experience cannot be the same company unifying the web experience.

I like having one authentication service provider, but I cannot have this provider holding hostage my services, my data, my history etc.

In this sense Microsoft is better, because they focus more on the product and less on the identity (since the business model is around licenses this makes sense). However this could change soon... Bing, Office365 etc.

If Google wants to win this battle they need to allow users to expose themselves with nicknames at least, different names per service even. Internally they will have their unique ID to which they can attach their marketing business model. However, I will still feel something is wrong about one company knowing so much about me.
I've been told by a Google engineer (on G+) that IP addresses aren't used for identity purposes. Whether or not they're aggregated at other levels ... would be interesting. I'm not sure whether or not browser fingerprinting is used at all, though I've suggested some reasonably non-invasive ways in which it might be applied for abuse and harassment mitigation, say: hashing fingerprints and storing them with the complainant's account in order to detect sockpuppet attacks.

You couldn't reverse the hash to determine the fingerprint, but if fingerprints matched, you'd have identical hashes. Splitting out different data records might help create probabalistic matches (e.g., n of m hashes match for an identity probability of p).

Tor would of course address IP issues. Privoxy could handle browser fingerprinting.
If you're investing by purchasing the item, then yes, you can only lose 100%. However, if you pay the current rate ( + lending fee ) to borrow a BTC to sell expecting that when you go to repay the BTC you'll be able to purchase one at a much lower rate due to a bubble popping, thus banking the difference, and instead the cost raises exponentially, it could cost you considerably more than 100% of the amount you initially invested when borrowing the initial-sale BTC to buy the BTC you need to replace it.

That is, yes for long positions, no for short sales.
Would I notice any performance gain from using a cheap pc over a pi for something like BT sync?

The Pi's processor is equivalent to a 300MHz Pentium 2, and that's kinds scary.
Run a Tor node (as per my other comment).
Are Educational iPad Games Really Educational
I don't think that is the point being made. The point is that there's been a lack of transparency on Google's behalf, and a lot of users, like myself, have grown tired of it.
An NDA or a non-compete? These are different beasts.
Yes it is. I just bought one a week ago and it is really comfortable. Too bad it doesn't have auto adjust, but configuration is just two clicks away.
Please don't post pharmaceutical claims from the "Mother Nature Network." :-/

The Guardian article this was scavenged from is very light on details too.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/alcohol...

It looks to be a GABA agonist, which as HarryHirsch points out, are hardly pharmaceuticals with a history of low risk ...
It also ignores anything you've done close-source for work, any projects you've done that didn't use git, any projects you contribute to that don't happen to be hosted on github, anything related-but-not-code that you do (speaking at conferences, etc).
Task automation with `npm run`
Try a Beaglebone Black. Or move up to something like a Boundary Devices unit (Quad-core A9 @ 1Ghz)
I would argue your fundamental assumption that good ideas will always succeed is faulty. There are plenty of examples to prove it.
Google takes its tracking into the real world
Did they have one like this?

>[Service that no one has heard of] is shutting down.
I run my own e-mail server and it's a lot of work. I have exim with ACLs, spamd and just mutt. Nothing "fancy" like other users, pop3/imap/smtp auth, virus scanning, additional mxs...

Still took me a weekend to get ACLs right, tune the threshold for greylisting (I greylist e-mails which score between two and seven points in Spam Assasin), set up DKIM and SPF... it's not difficult but there's a long list of things to do.

If you're doing it just for yourself, exim, spamd and mutt are enough. But I wouldn't want to be responsible for a larger installation with regular, non-technical users.

It's not just the configuration, your service will always be subpar. At least until there's a good webmail (I have high hopes for Mailpile).
Very poorly written blogspam. Try the original link: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/alcohol...
To me proper beer in a proper bar is to a short-acting benzodiazepine what a proper meal is to Soylent. Drugs are part of human culture after all, like food, and part of the enjoyment comes from the social environment.

I don't think the health effects are that much of a concern. The liver is quite capable of dealing with alcohol consumed in moderation, and if you are drinking that much that you are getting worried about the state of your liver you should also worry how you are treating the people around you while continuously under the influence.
- "Thanks for the invite but I don't want to go".