skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine was a ZTE Racer - http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_racer-3423.php

Because of the resistive touchscreen, I literally had to type using a pen[1] to push the keys, as my fingers (in fact, thumbs since that's what we actually type with on phones) would always hit the wrong key. Once I used the corner of a ruler as I didn't have the pen handy - scratched the screen really badly.

[1] retractable with the pen tip retracted.
A 30 line javascript spreadsheet is similar for me to when I first saw Norvig's 21 line python spelling corrector (http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html): this language is more powerful and expressive than I thought.

I'm increasingly believing that HTML/CSS/JS in a browser is a viable common runtime. This demo does quite a lot to solidify that belief.
In the spirit of "idiot proofing leads to better idiots" of course that will not happen.

In fairness if you have a heterogeneous network of legacy windows, some macs for real work, legacy blackberry and both real smartphones, distributing it "everywhere" can get kinda hard.
Well, of course. But what is good? C.f. https://twitter.com/paskow/status/398811660057837568
length of name vs completeness
capturing scope vs ignoring it (foo.foo_thing vs foo.thing)
capturing type vs ignoring it (studentList vs students)

and so on. I often struggle with competing desires in naming. Code Complete dedicates an entire chapter to variable naming.
I looked into it when it first came out and ditched it for obvious reasons.

However, it's surely awesome from a technical point of view.
It's almost a pity that privacy issues overshadow the accomplishments.
Brick-hurling robot by Boston Dynamics
I mean. Google is so large it will always be making mistakes like this. A lot of people look at Google as a whole like it is the greatest set of technical minds in any room on the planet. Sure they have lots of smart people etc.etc but with >10,000 engineers it's impossible.

Also, with >10,000 engineers (even assuming they are the best 10k in the world), mistakes will be made which is why vulnerabilities exist in the real world.

I guess what I'm trying to say is. Don't act surprised. We've seen it before and we will see it again.
I am sure it happens but you should not be exposing your printer to the Internet. That is just asking for trouble. You would not need HTTPS on an internal network.
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Microsoft and Xamarin partner
The name association with Harvard is remembering him as a philanthropist. The name of the college was changed because of a generous gift upon his death.
Awesome job! Very clever :)

After seeing it working and the few clever lines of code I was really surprised.
But then I though: oh, let me go back to HN and read the comments from people saying "BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE CHARTS!!!" and unfortunately comments like that are here. What is wrong with this poeple???
Doing this makes it a lot less useable.
=document.location="test"
Massive systems are alluring for architectural purists, but disparate systems are easier on the pocket book. Say, like at SP, you need OLTP abilities for some new account/tracking app. Well, too bad, you've got to upgrade the Dog Walking app as well, even though there is no business benefit to upgrading that ancillary app which does not need OLTP.

With the massive system, it is harder to accumulate technical debt, but some apps from 1999 might still be doing their simple job just fine backed by Access.
Wikileaks again messing up the world's economy and putting lives at risk. Won't somebody shut them down?

On a more serious note, wasn't there a reward if they got their hands on this leak?

Also, as a mexican, it sucks that we're part of this treaty. So far Mexico has been a lawless wild west with regards to copyright enforcement.
What to say (and not say) to a startup entrepreneur.
It's quad core. Looks like an excellent phone for the price. Interesting that Motorola is one-uping the Nexus to some degree here (the Nexus is closer to being a flagship, but this is significantly cheaper).

This might be my next. What's for sure is I'm never buying another $600 phone again.
For 30 lines of code it is indeed impressive.

But I think it would of been more impressive at 40 or whatever it would of taken to have a couple error checks.

What I mean by this is if you enter an invalid formula say =() or =asdf in a cell it breaks all the valid formulas you enter after that cell making them display as text instead of a value when refreshed.
Snowden could write a book and make millions. This profit potential means he's not "broke" in the same sense a typical broke person is.
I think you're overestimating the capacity of the security apparatus to monitor the security apparatus.

They have so much work that they have to hire contractors to do it. They rely on the clearance process to weed out the untrustworthy. Re-investigations are typically at 5 year intervals.

It would not surprise me that any person they have watching the store is someone who is being chided for not doing "real" work.

Basically "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Nobody, apparently.
a little insider info: it was created using Sketch.
As in Plato's five regimes, democracy is only very slightly better than tyranny/anarchy. Authoritarian single party state can also be rephrased into functioning semi-aristocracy. All governments have advantages and flaws, it's better to compare them not on a theoretical demonized basis but on the output and tangible effects. For example, economically Singapore succeeds fantastically, but culturally it's missing something.
A competitive globally accessible phone price would be $50, not $200. This feels more like a cheap 1st world phone than a global one.

ZTE and other have already made 50 dollar phones using Android and Windows + Asha won't be far behind at $60.

Motorola has a long ways to go (4x price reduction) to truly get their android devices into India, China And other poorer regions of South America and Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

> Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈwiti] or [ˈviti]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "fast" or "quick".

Great, now I'm bothered by the fact that everybody pronounces "wiki" wrong :D
Picking variable names can definitely involve tradeoffs. For example, how long the variable name will be could be a tradeoff based on how much information the rest of your team has about the context in which the variable will be used. Do you need a variable to be very long so as to explicitly spell out a lot of details about itself? Is a very short name (such as i for iteration) acceptable in the current context?
It need only reply if it is requested to do so, therefore for 99.9 recurring percent of the time there need be nothing observable.
Marketable for Devise
Front end dev reactions
Oh did I upset an American - poor you. I pointed out that all countries have flaws. I used the US as an example because OP is an American. Most of the blog post is about government policies so you don't make much sense.
Exactly. Much of the academic world (humanities?) operates thinking that there are no constraints. I felt economics was refreshing in forcing tradeoffs. I assume these would be equally relevant to engineering too.
Hey, I have been thinking about a similar concept, although more similar to take away. Are you working on this alone?
It's not a meaningful step up from cleartext, because a passive attacker can become an active attacker with just a couple spoofed packets or control of a single DNS resolver.
This is similarly spec'ed to a Nexus 4. A little bit worse, actually, but not by much.

This is probably still too expensive for another billion people.

I think the most recent version of android is the most important part. really.
Holiday Bull*^&$
I love sass but I don't like the scss syntax that much. Im happy to stick with the sass syntax :)
Yes, precisely. Publishing code and data is necessary for peer review, not for replication. Both are necessary parts of science.
Would be great if someone to summarize this bloat of gibberish in human readable bullet-points format...
The discussion isn't "what exists", but rather "does DRM'd things improve the experience of the thing". Yes, there are DRM-free versions of things, or broken-DRM versions. Gog.com is a competitor to Steam that deals in DRM-free games, but their catalog isn't nearly as extensive because many studios won't put their games out there DRM-free. Steam freed us from CDs and DVDs that can get broken or lost, and freed us from typing in CD keys. That minor improvement was enough to make stores all but stop selling PC games.

The question is, does Netflix streaming have a better experience than DVDs? I argue yes (as evidenced by the fact that Blockbuster is out of business and Netflix is booming). CDs don't have DRM but Spotify does. People use Spotify because it's more convenient. People don't use it because of the DRM, but studios are willing to trust it because it has DRM.

The point I'm arguing against is "DRM has never improved the experience". I point to two things that exist because of DRM that are arguably more convenient and have a better UX than the DRM-free or broken-DRM versions.
Coinsetter Launches US Bitcoin Exchange, Cross-Exchange Liquidity Coming Soon
Their Enhanced level of service doesn't work for you?

It does for me, catches everything sent to ancell dash ent dot com, which allows me to do the usual "who's selling my email address" trick with customized addresses, like redcross.org.ph@anc... when I sent some money to the Philippine Red Cross.
There's a big difference between Singapore and London. In many other countries, you can move between cities to find the place that fit you better. From London, you can go to say, Manchester, Edinburgh, or even the rest of EU is open to you.

In Singapore, you can move between neighbourhoods. The neighbourhoods are more or less the same. Once you've lived there for a while, you go to the same place that you've been to hundreds (or maybe thousands) of times after work. It all got really really boring after a while. The typical (expected) long working hours in the society doesn't help either. All you do is work, eat and sleep. And shopping. After 10 years, I too left and would never return.
How so? This guy has a show he won't let me use unless I agree to try and control access. My choices are access with stupid crap like DRM or no access. Sure a third option like free access to everyone everywhere would be great, but that guy won't go for it. Until we can talk that guy in to going for it DRM increases access. Sure it doesn't grant maximal access but access is greater than it is without DRM.
he could also take a loan from his 401k
Yeap. Check out the code here. https://github.com/fraserxu/gifme There's an awesome library to do this. It's basically capture serval frames and use a algorithem to generate it.
Accounting is what did it for me. :-)

I disliked how overly simplified micro and macro 101 were. The models were counter to what I knew was obviously true, so I didn't go any deeper until graduate school. Once I took some advanced courses, I realized how valuable the topics were.

Being an econ major is also very different from being a business major. I view it as analogous to being a math major versus being mechanical engineering. One is more theory, the other is more practical. Neither is better or worse in an absolute sense.
Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event
But that's not computer science.
Actually, LinkedIn Intro uses oAuth2 to connect to your Google Account.
Google opens education-only Play store
(Let’s not discuss rivalrous goods; they are not relevant to the question at hand.)

> What is the negation of the statement below?

I don’t understand what you mean. The text below is a question, not a statement.

Software is not a scarce resource; once it has been created, it can be easily defined as non-scarce. And before it has been created, if there is sufficient need for it, someone will pay to have it created.

> why not use it only for Y years and give it to the public for the common good?

Well, some people think this would be a good idea. Other people call those people “communists” and/or “anarchists”. So, the question is hotly debated, but also, for our purposes, irrelevant. We are debating the property or non-property status of ideas, information and software.

> I know what rivalrous goods are. What on God's earth makes them so special and different from non-rivalrous goods?

[…]

> We decided to [grant them special rights] as the other option was barbarianism and anarchy.

And this is exactly why rivalrous goods are different. We have (most of us) decided that we agree they need to be granted “property” status.

However, I do not think that defining software, ideas or other information as a non-ownable non-property would be “barbarianism and anarchy”. If you think so, please elaborate.
Added a trivial try-catch block so error in one cell does not prevent others from evaluating. Line count unchanged :-)
The biggest issue with SASS is the non-optimized output you get (i.e. combining similar media queries, etc.) That being said, it's still an absolutely amazing tool.
It is this part i find especially relevant:
A nonowner may also use a trademark nominatively—to refer to the actual trademarked product or its source. In addition to protecting product criticism and analysis
Though about GSM, if you want to learn more:

* http://osmocom.org

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOp_wtsHAe8

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0LCgxe24Po

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBJV3yTaQo

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBJV3yTaQo

Your phone has GSM, even if you're only on 3G or 4G networks though (unless it's a pure CDMA phone) - and the concepts are anyway quite similar in 3G/4G networks an phones.
I love that!

I might even consider buying MSFT stock after 12 years of ignoring it... :)
>You have 10mbps connection! At your home! How much do you pay for it?

I hope you understand it's mbit. If so, I've got 50mbps over here and I pay €50 (that's about $67 USD) per month, which includes 50 TV channels and interactive TV (I'm Dutch, I hope I described it correctly)

The situation (s)he describes is fairly common; I've got a Raspberry Pi and an old laptop running as servers over here, on which I do experiments and host small websites. They've got StartSSL certs, which suck, but they do their job at least. If you put enough effort in the process and not just blindly fill in the forms, you'll get there.
I wonder how much legacy code can be pushed malware using one of these.
So what punishment would be he experience if he was to return?

It sounds like he is not "free" now. He would be a high profile prisoner. How bad would the government treat him?
Why buy westerns.com when you could buy .westerns instead?
Company that likes having access to your emails thinks other company did totally cool thing when they also wanted access to your emails.

To answer the question, no.
This in the same league as the first generation N7 (very roughly) which is a hell of a lot of hardware for 200 bucks.

If this had been around when I bought my N4 I would have been very tempted (as I just want something that is a decent mobile web browser, I don't really use Apps at all).
A basic job system and a basic income system do not have the same effect in terms of replacing current 'wealth transfers' (what a ghastly term for such a disparate set of social policies and programs).

16% of US government spending is on pensions (by the posters own source). Those people need money to live. Unless you expect them to work until they die / become disabled, then they are not covered by the naive model of a basic job system.

Indeed the basic job model completely ignores 52 million people who are not in the workforce or disabled (by their own numbers). Many of these people require government money to live as well. It is worth noting that in (small) trials in canada it was overwhelmingly students and parents that stopped working (and that is out of the labour force) and in much smaller numbers than the author suggests (although admittedly this may be because they knew the program was temporary).

Most of the costs and benefits involved in a welfare system are not present in this model. The suggestion that the only value people receiving welfare create is the occasional one in ten million great work is frankly shockingly old fashioned. It is as if 300+ years of political philosophy have simply passed the author by. To say the least you need to think about the effects on child care, students, crime rates and all the latent costs that a lack of financial freedom creates.
What a bizarre article. this is a worthless exercise without any data.

the task of building a model of labour market and estimating your model with real data is very complicated.
Why Yahoo should acquire the BusinessInsider
But HTTP 2 requires it, no matter if you need it or not.
Yeah, this is why I kind of like project ownership even though it's now considered out of fashion. If you create technical debt, you own it and it's your future productivity that takes the hit. Eventually your productivity grinds to a halt as you fix problems in the crap you wrote before.
I have used http://handsontable.com/ before in my projects.
Again, this quote says nothing of the US having control over the Swift network itself.
It's considerably worse than an N4, N4 has 2Gb RAM, Quad Core 1.5Ghz.

It's closer to the 2012 N7 Quad 1.3/1Gb RAM.

Still a hell of a lot of phone/screen for the money.
Woodside said that the average worldwide is more around the $200 mark.

They say their target research shows that people are spending $200 on poor quality phones. If that's the target they're going for and that's what they research shows, I don't think they missed the mark.
You can value their privacy all you want, but so long as your email crosses a US, UK, or US-cooperating border your messages aren't safe. And I doubt RC4 over TLS, which most connections are, is enough to stop the NSA for more than a few seconds. And even with PGP your metadata, which is what they want anyway to establish probable cause, is revealed anywhere your message goes. Good luck keeping your email private! I wish we could, I really do.

I'm in the US and need to economize as much as possible. I already have hosting but dislike their email services. I can't afford to pay ~$175/year for email alone, in addition to my personal web hosting costs.
It gets more and more like 1984 every day.
You have to click on another cell for them to evaluate (pressing return does nothing).
This is not surprising at all. I've been wondering if/when Microsoft would just buy Xamarin. Perhaps this is the first step?
This + TideSDK for cross platform deployment (or just delivery in a browser, if you're happy with the insecurity) = Awesome.
Ah, av.com. The good old redirect to altavista.com. I wonder how much they payed for that back in the days...
They cover that at the end of the review. It's basically the score of the system as it is today. It's a fair way to judge something that people will consider purchasing and wanting to have fun with right away. I wouldn't want to buy a console only to hope I have fun with it in 2 years (buy it in 2 years instead). [1]

"But the PlayStation 4's focus on gaming — and only gaming — is undermined by a distinct lack of compelling software. That failing is sure to improve — better games and more of them will appear on the PlayStation 4 — but right now, this is a game console without a game to recommend it. Early adopters of the PS4 this fall are buying potential energy. We're just waiting for a place to spend it."

[1] http://www.polygon.com/a/ps4-review/conclusion
Many manufacturing companies can run on much higher debt levels, because much of the debt is collateralized by resellable equipment (good for the bankers) and because their revenues tend to have lower variance (good for the shareholders).

This magnifies returns on equity, which makes them more competitive with non-manufacturing companies, which typically cannot run on as high of debt levels because they don't have the same kind of collateral.

So typically you probably do have lower returns on invested capital (the entire capital base, debt plus equity) but returns on equity might be comparable. And if the manufacturing business is more stable -- which it often is, compared to most more ephemeral businesses with few assets -- lower returns are acceptable because there is lower risk.

Of course not all manufacturing companies are lower risk than all non-manufacturing companies.
Wish it would at least mention why they didn't even consider less, which I prefer to sass, since it still resembles css and is a superset, so you can turn any css easily into less. Great for switching over to less from css with an existing project.
Their language clearly indicates that they mean any information.
I would be curious to find out who removed that comment 'We should remove this code when PNaCl ships'
And these coins remain untouched which does not look broke at first sight at all. But as others stated out, this is legal defense and for a living he should not use a traceable address like that but rather one time addresses.

Yeah, I would also be interested where I could chip some coins for his every day expenses.
> The erasure had the effect of hiding Conservative speeches in a secretive corner of the internet like those that shelter the military, secret services, gangsters and paedophiles.

Just need a Nazi reference to get the royal flush.
Hmm. I got the same issue while trying to use certain libraries. Not all of them is suitable for using in the client side. I changed some of the code and using the `module.exports` method to export it for browserify to use. Luckily most of the code is exposing an object already, so may not that hard to change it. The best approach may wrapper it and send the author of the lib a pull request. You may also check the video here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabwsSq6ASQ
If you're having trouble staying focused, what helped me tremendously was to start maintaining what I call a 'distraction record' during the important tasks.

Now, it's not based on any scientific paper/literature. It's just a spreadsheet with the following columns:

'Time' , 'Important Task' , 'Distraction' , 'Time Since end of Last Distraction' , 'Distraction Duration'

Each time you stop doing the important task and do something else (like browsing hackernews or checking your IMs) enter a new record with the minimum distraction duration being a minute. After a while you'll really start paying attention to how much time you lose doing unimportant things just to avoid the discomfort of the important task and how it actually drags on the time you spent trying to finish what you started.
There is a US-Russia double taxation treaty.[0]

He'll be eligible for the foreign earned income exclusion by filing time. That protects US persons from double taxation up to about $100k of earned income, even without a tax treaty.

And he needs to remember to file his FBARs, too.

[0]http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/International-Businesses/Russi...
They have a bad reputation in my book because they historically would create an account for you without you even agreeing to join. This is on top of their other unscrupulous actions[1]. IMO they are just a scummy, marketing-driven corporation and I have many friends who see them the same way; though, there's no single action or behavior, it's the sum of their actions.

1. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-linkedin...
Of course. It's all based on value exchange and if you don't perceive value in their service, then there's no sense in engaging in it. For those that enjoy seeing linkedin profiles (myself included) as you enjoy the comfort of not having to deal with email servers/ISP, it might make more sense. To each his own.
Saturn snapped as Earth smiled
surprised not to see broadcast.com on there.
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If this results in a useable, performant (e.g. NOT mono) C#/CLR implementation on *nix, that makes a lot of things very interesting.