skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the use case of screen/tmux beside the window tiling which I do with my WM? Can you please give me some examples; for some time I was a screen user but just used it for tiling the terminal window which I do not need anymore with a tiling WM.
>With standard Android, I have to whitelist an application when installing it. I cannot pick which permissions I give it, I cannot control when it can use those permissions, and I cannot remove permissions. Ever.

Fixed in Android 4.3. Now you can approve any permission at install and turn it off anytime later.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/25/app-ops-android-4-3s...
PS3 for sure does not run FreeBSD. It does use a modified version of UFS. The lv1 hypervisor is likely derived from IBM's reference implementation. I'm not sure about the lv2 OS (GameOS) but I believe it is 100% Sony code.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Meteor.js?
I recently read a lot about Meteor.js and its excellent packaging system. I went through their site also, but not my info give a holistic view on it. Do you think it's worth learning?
Install Valgrind. It makes error messages a lot less cryptic (my #1 problem with C... not that's it's limited to C). If you don't get proper feedback, it's not learning, just banging your head against the wall.
The scary thing is that I believed it for a minute before I followed the link.
Valuations have become so inflated, nothing is impossible.
"Why would you ever buy an Android phone?"

He doesn't even mention the most important reason -- so that you never have to use iTunes again!
I think their take is that the valuation is a BS metric. Sure it is a calculation based on the cash paid for the equity but that doesn't mean that someone is going to go in and pay the $X valuated for the 100% equity.

I imagine that 37 Signals is doing just fine with their revenues and all told will probably be laughing their way to the bank with their total lifetime value when all is said and done.
Go is a language. There's no problem with dynamic loading as such; it's just that the primary implementation uses static linking for convenience. You'd simply have to write a dynamically loading runtime (and come up with some semantics for dynamic loading, which sounds tricky but probably can be handled somehow). The simple-yet-efficient model of implementing Go would require some things to be taken care of - for example, the method dispatch tables.

Also, "Android only uses dynamic loading" - given the existence of NDK, how is that true? As far as I know, you can link statically whatever you want.
Fair enough, but why not render the content along with the page for the first time instead of showing nothing for a few seconds?
This article was written in 2009 by Jason Fried.
Kids today grow up with iPhones and iPads instead so there's not much opportunity to do anything outside the box.
Is it possible that Snapchat is interested in slightly more than money? When a few 20-something year olds get valued at ~$3 Billion, I think it's fairly likely that they've made some money already, probably to the point that they will be set for life. It seems that Snapchat is an opportunity for them to leave their mark on the consumer software world.

Besides, Snapchat is certainly an outlier and I don't think that bubble indicators rely on outliers. A better indicator may be the new selfie app that Bieber backed, but I'm not sure that I'd lump the two together in the same category (Snapchat is many degrees of magnitude more popular and successful at acquiring a user base).
B, I'll take one hour a day to go through the timeline on my phone and then the discovery tab.
Startup Failing? You Might Be Asking The Wrong Questions
You need to add an Amazon Associate tag to all these links!
Also because of lead control, vaccines, expansion of the earned income tax credit, the shift from the extroverted thrill-seeking 80s to the cocooning 2000s, and many other factors.
No, you repeatedly told me that his crime was not a speeding ticket. Here's your last sentence: "again, not a speeding ticket." You clearly thought I was comparing the two.
I second the motion to post the unfinished guide! Perhaps on Github where some other HN guys can make it complete for you.

Regardless, I think it's a great idea, and would really give insight as to why things work the way they do, instead of us just seeing Hello World!
For a lot of people. My mother is a happy OSX and iPhone user and I would not think of putting a Windows or Linux OS in front of her. Lots of people want Apple's certainty and level of customer service at Apple stores.

The price difference to have these benefits is a few hundred dollars. Easily worth it to Apple's customers who dread spending hours on a problem with no Genius Bar to fall back on.

Android scored spectactular wins with OEMs and carriers, and someone ought to put a statue of Andy Rubin on horseback on the Google campus. But, much of Android's rapid growth can be accounted for with products and markets where Apple has not gone and in many cases does not want to go. Conversely the winning strategies highlighted in the article will take many years to mature.

I could make a case that Google has bungled Android tablet marketing, and should be much farther along in having an enterprise strategy based on tablets.

None of this spells doom for iPhone.
If you want to keep things simple and maintain your privacy, you should check out services like BitQuick (http://www.bitquick.co) and Blue Sky Traders (http://ok2yri46aaptiu2d.onion). These services allow you to buy bitcoins by simply depositing cash into someone else's bank account. No ID required or anything. There's another similar service called http://www.cashintocoins.com, but I don't have any experience with them and they're apparently having issues with their SSL certificate right now.

Even if you do want to use an exchange in order to rapidly trade your coins and profit from price dips, depositing coins into an exchange is a lot easier and possibly more anonymous than depositing dollars.

Then if you decide to sell the coins, you can move them off the exchange and offer them on localbitcoins.com for physical cash.
Hopefully this gets some attention so people start to work on all the issues it has.
The future of the web isn't "everything in JavaScript" - it's everything in whatever damn language you like.

The JS runtime is nearly, or is now perhaps, perfectly capable of being what your own language "compiles" to - for instance, I love Ruby so I'm betting on Opal (execute REAL client-side Ruby). Others like JS variants such as CoffeeScript or TypeScript.

So...Rails isn't going to get killed - it's simply going to evolve to support rich real-time client + server apps written in Ruby, period. That's my take on it, anyway, and that's what I'm planning on.
16 Awesome Food Art Ideas
This is the sort of thing I was looking for when I started wanting to understand the 'big picture' of computer programming. Would be great if you posted it!
Youtube is a social product and Google+ is a (vastly better) social product. Of course Google is merging them. Google has multiple social services and merges them together. You have multiple Google accounts and... oh. You... don't merge them together. In fact you fight it every day for years. No kidding that at this point, by the time the change has stopped giving you leeway that you're frustrated your protest has stacked up to nothing.

In fact if you merge your Google accounts your protest isn't lost either. Your protest has been and is nothing. It's just in your head. Merge your Google accounts and use Google's social product or don't. If you wanted to protest Google why didn't you just stop using it? Or stop using it now?
Downside: it's a Motley Fool article. Tomorrow they'll likely say exactly the opposite and explain in gory detail exactly why IOS is poised to finally crush Android. I've long since abandoned them.

Upside: They have a point about techies. I have an Ipad Air that crushes every Android tablet I've ever owned w/r to usability (Nexus 7, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, Galaxy 10.1 and yes I know they're all at least a year-old but all of them became janky* within months of buying them and stayed that way). Despite that, I'll probably buy a Nexus 5 when the contract for my Galaxy Nexus (a phone Google abandoned like Sergei Brin abandons marriage) because I find the presentation of information on Android more intuitive to me and I'll just assume I need to buy a new phone every year going forward therefore no more contracts.

*http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:janky
"Dwarf Fortress: A Marxist Analysis"
Why are people still buying on MtGox? Is it easier and if so, how? I don't see any other reason to pay more.
Modafinil as a useful stimulant
The technology itself works quite well. I did not like feel of the pen. The roller was approximately bic quality which is unacceptable for a $200 pen. My pen died after a couple years of virtually no use. It would probably require a redesign of the pen, but I find I prefer gel pens nowadays and wish there was a gel pen insert.

If you REALLY REALLY need to take notes during meetings, its the best thing ever. I find in most meetings however, there's probably one or two facts I really need to know. I decided that instead of taking notes I would just stop caring about meetings. I enter those one or two facts into evernote on my phone and I'm done with.
"The Gooseberry Fallacy" (Venkatesh Rao on Russian literature & the good life)
Posting it on Github is a fantastic idea.
>It definitely beats CNN.

Damned by faint praise...
Ask HN: Ideas for curl.sh website
Hello everyone - I am looking for ideas for an opensource project to do with a newly acquired domain ( curl.sh ).

I was thinking of a warning site like fixubuntu.com, but feel like I could develop something more useful.

Thanks, Kyle
I'd recommend LocalBitcoins. Had a transaction completed within 15 minutes of my first visit. No hoops to jump through and there's a feedback and escrow system in place. Maybe a less lucrative option in the US where you've got more choice.
So far, four stratoseeds have been found, some of them by pure chance :-) We are officially closing the game at 6pm (UTC+1), but people can obviously still search for the stratocaches - there will be some prizes for late explorers as well. We are now reviewing the video from the two GoPro HD cameras - I have to say, it looks pretty spectacular. We hope to bring you the video on Monday. You can ask me any questions in English through messages to our FB page https://www.facebook.com/TechnetCZ.

Thanks, HN!
Pavel Kasik, Technet.cz
People don't like K&R? I can understand it not being suitable for children and the very beginner, but it's one of a very few programming books that is useful, succinct, pragmatic, doesn't get bogged down in APIs, and is written clearly.

(The companion book "Programming in the UNIX environment" is the get-you-started guide from the very beginning, although it assumes 1970s terminal defaults)
>Well, the reason smart phone market share matters is that in technology, profits tend to accrue over time to the dominant platform. What happens is one platform becomes the standard, and developers focus their attention on that platform. As they focus on that platform, they abandon the other platform, and it becomes a second tier player. When that happens, consumers become less interested.

How exactly did that work out with Wintel vs Mac profits, 30 years down the line?

Oh, right, Apple makes as much profit from desktop/laptop sales as the 3 biggest Wintel vendors combined...
> * With standard Android, I have to whitelist an application when installing it. I cannot pick which permissions I give it, I cannot control when it can use those permissions, and I cannot remove permissions. Ever.

Interestingly, ios has added more and more permission toggles over time.

They're not very fine-grained[0], but they do allow toggling per-application access.

[0] which is kind-of a shame but avoids getting overwhelmed
If nobody reads it, what's the point?
In the US most definitely yes. There are very very few ways to earn money that is not taxable.
Depends on the solution that you buy. Some digital signage vendors sell complete black boxes where you get a hardware that you connect, and it runs just fine, others sell licenses that you have to install on your own hardware.

The Videro solution is a full packaged system that you connect to a display and to a network (if you're connecting to wireless, there's a special remote UI that pops up after first start and lets you enter wireless info, much like on Apple TV systems) just runs. It usually connects to a cloud system, and then you can distribute content to it. It is really hassle free, which is also important for large scale deployments. (If one machine breaks, you can just pop it out, and put a new machine in, one click and it will receive all the content from the previous system and continue the job).
Are you trying to dispute the fact that `main()` is THE entry point for any C program? I'd be interested in hearing a more comprehensive explanation.
Thank you for that! Somehow I went to a tangent on your site the last time I saw it and came across r/Cyberpunk. I believe you should include subreddit mentions too.
b) I will check it twice or so per day. This is on my personal account. I will retweet or post to it a few times per day.

I like twitter, but I don't love it. I would use twitter often when third party clients were popping up.

I was using app.net for a while, but my friends never took to it. (this is within the first months of its launch) I paid for it, and liked it, but it lacked the network effect.
I would wager that almost every educated person in China knows exactly what happened at Tiananmen Square. Certainly every chinese person I've ever really gotten to know knew all about it. The politics around it is complicated, but there is an acceptance of sorts that there's some items the government does not want dwelled upon, and that's one of them.

Don't underestimate Chinese political sophistication, especially amongst what we might call the middle class (a <10% minority in China). There is a common feeling, if not outright belief, that a strong government is necessary to hold the country together, especially during its current transition period with its massive inequalities. I am no expert but my impression is that the people who do know - the middle class educated, with internet access (firewalls are trivial to get around) understand or at least play along with the idea that from a stability point of view, some information is best not fully shared.

I see some interesting parallels between Chinese political censorship and the debate about the NSA revelations, by the way. Both are about concealing information of great public interest in the name of some alleged greater good. The only real difference is that the events in Tianenmen Square happened outdoors.
Finding interesting books to read is a huge problem for me. I have tried Goodreads, but its recommendations are poor. I usually just use random lists to find things to read.

I really like the general idea of something like this, but a way to restrict by category or train it in some way would make it a lot more useful for me.
I'll buy it
Ayn Rand was not a Libertarian.
The app was only one (a bit unreliable) way to play. Fortunately, there are other ways. Most players just used the up-to-+date info from the website. or they were lucky to find those malfunctioning stratocaches by chance, e.g. on the field.
Jason probably spent too much time with guys from Vooza: http://vooza.com/videos/remote-working/
Amazon is playing the game to take over, not get the small wins. There will be a day when no other business model or even the thought to dream up one will exist because Amazon will sell everything for less, to your door on the same day. They will be a UPS/Walmart for everything under the moon. The future is dark.
The Rise of Twitter Bots
GiveWell estimate the cost per life saved for the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative to be around $1700-$3800, while the $7,500 that Make-a-wish spends per child, while a wonderful gesture, does not actually save their life.
If 37signals put thier money where the mouth was & actually shorted the companies (FB & Twitter), they would be in a lot of pain now.

This original post by Jason Fried was making fun of Twitter which went from 1bn to 25bn. More background here:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/15/venture-capital-software-te...

Another post from DHH said that the value of FB was not 33bn & it's now roughly 120BN
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...

Not saying 25BN & 120BN are the "right" valuations but most people would agree that the prices that 37s made fun of seems like great deals. They could still go back to less than 1bn & 33bn (users leave, consumer trends change, get bored etc) but those are different risks not monetization risks that 37s is making fun off.
Ask HN: [Coin] How many debit/credit cards do you carry?
I thought about doing something similar a few years ago but gave up after reading in their TOS that in order for embedding to be allowed, the page cannot be specifically about the video but instead must simply use the video to enhance the original content on the page.
Mt.Gox doesn't stand for "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange"? Why are you saying I don't like LG? So when I said that when you try to withdraw funds you are prevented from doing so and put on a waiting list, that is correct?
The market share numbers are true, but only Apple and Samsung (some of which is attributable to Samsung's unique vertical integration) have a significant share of profit from smartphones.
Twitter is for me pretty much unusable without active list management.

I only check my followers tweets in moments of complete boredom. But there are lists with people whom I want to keep up with (personal friends, key targets who's attention I would like to get).

Of those lists I ready every tweet and by checking it at least twice a day and try actively to engage with the people (responding, re-tweeting, asking, answering, etc). Otherwise the noise ratio is just to large and it feels pretty much just as social as shouting "hello" at random strangers.
That's the kind of thinking that gets you amputations as punishment for theft, torture as punishment for murder, and mob justice on innocents who really really seem guilty.
People may not read the Tweet then, but people who look you up later have a good sense of the kind of things you like to read and think about. In a way, it's an even better reflection than if you had kept a blog, because with a blog, your main intent is letting your thoughts be known and read. For me, a Tweet is an effortless snapshot to what I just read.
Incremental PEG parser in Scala
-1, Learn don't guess.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2627511/why-do-c-compiler...
As someone that works at an investment bank, your comment makes my head hurt.

The facts you cited aren't my facts; stocks and bonds are indexed to a benchmark made up of their peers. Matching the index is expected, beating it is great and underperforming it is really bad. For Apple and Microsoft, their peers are in the NASDAQ index so that is the benchmark by which they are judged.

Microsoft being up 37% in contrast to its benchmark being up 28% is not "a bit more than the average". It is beating its benchmark by 32% which is an incredibly good performance. Likewise, Apple underperformed its benchmark horrifically.

Think about it this way - $100 invested that returns 37% compounded growth over 8 years is now $1,240.98. However, $100 invested that returns 28% compounded growth over 8 years is now $720.58. Hopefully you can see why your downplaying of Microsoft's accomplishment seems a little silly. Oh, and the same $100 invested in Apple over 8 years would now be $69.88.
I have Twitter installed on my phone but I check the tweets once a week.I realized I don't really care what people are doing, what they are eating now, what they are watching on TV. Flipboard or similar service is always enough for me to gather important information from rest of the world.
My bad, I thought you meant Ctrl + `
PHP 5 For Dummies
It is a separate issue as long as HTTP2 does not force any reliance on commercial CAs, or CAs other than the server owner. If it did, it would be the enemy of secure web traffic and would merit being rejected or modified.

But AFAIK, or if I've understood correctly, the proposals for HTTP2 continue allowing "self signed" certs. So all we need is better UI in the browsers, and some public means of verifying the association of a particular cert with a server, over time.

This scheme would reduce the vulerable areas to the case of TLAs coercing secret keys - which is a lot smaller than it is now with corrupt third-party CAs (and browser UI obstructing attempts to work around that system).
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I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it yet, but this approach should go well with Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way:

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
I would argue that most android phones sold have larger than iPhone screens and most phones sold globally are android phones.
Less trouble than convincing the state and utility companies to accept bitcoin settlement for taxes and bills.
1 of each
One of the most basic principles of system design is that there will be edge cases. Every engineer knows that. In a country with 300 million people, enough will fall into these edge cases for the ACLU to put together a pamphlet with a few examples. That's inevitable.

That said, with three strikes laws, you don't need to resort to sob stories. The statistics are evidence enough: about half of three strikers in California are in for non-serious or non-violent offenses. That's much more persuasive, to a rational thinking person, than a few examples of people who fell into the edge cases of the system.
Until Apple makes a 5inch iPhone, they are simply too small for a large chunk of the population.
It depends. Outrage against the US had already peaked when Merkel was spied on. Currently it looks as if the evidence has to be verified before doing anything about it, and there is an aspect of confusion about what to do with an ally that is still extremely valuable.

One aspect is that the US has been doing stuff that is incompatible both with their and our constitution. Moreover, Germany is constitutionally prohibited from participating in any war on the attacker's side. Hosting drone operators would violate this commandment.
Grabbing a stat off of Wikipedia, almost 18,000 people died in drinking-related vehicular accidents in the US in 2006. Maybe attempted murder is a little extreme, but I think negligent homicide would be right on the mark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_in_the_United_Sta...
Any examples? Saying it simply changed your life does not relate with anything the article talked about.
The only way I could look at SnapChat as a startup is that their market isn't consumers, it's Mark Zuckerberg plus a few people who are trying to compete with Facebook. We know that Facebook is willing to buy things perceived as threats to their business model, or perhaps to buy large sets of users they've failed to capture. It's a stupid business to go into, in that the odds of success are really bad: low barrier to entry, lots of interest, lots of competitors, a winner-take-all game. But if you win the lottery you can get zillion-dollar offers from Zuck and feel like a genius.

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the Instagram acquisition as crazy. Isn't Instagram now used by most teenagers, and sometimes preferred over fb?
Unfortunately I can't edit the title anymore, so a mod has to do it. Sorry for that, will remember it next time!
I use a ton of twitter lists! I'm probably the only one that does this. If I get REALLY bored, I go through the actual feed. When I check the list, I check the entire timeline. If I check the feed itself, i don't care.