skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of see the utility of having screenshotted rects remain visible. I personally will stick with Cmd+Shift+4 since it does the screenshot-with-bounds and saves to desktop by default. Maybe I just don't see what the extra value is here?
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Dropbox has been a game-changer for me.

Maybe your interactions with technical people are different, or you don't share much between computers and devices?

Here's what's changed for me:

* 1:1 collaborations with people

* m:m collaborations within groups

* Me and my web servers are so, SO in sync :-)

* Sharing downloadable links to files and folders with people.

* Also: photo sharing because sharing a link to a folder of photos auto-galleries it.
It's in the Mac App Store (they can't charge you again later) so it's free to download and use forever, offer expiring after one month.
I switch computers. A lot. Dropbox makes my life much easier without any forethought.
It's easy to write a language guesser, but's not easy to write a good one. Even Google Translate is not prefect (see below).
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Cross-computer synching and implicit mini backup. Most of active work of any kind is saved in dropbox folders so I can pull it up anywhere. My desktop folder is replaced by a folder called "Current" on dropbox.
Yes and no. I'm the inventor of a Google-owned patent (http://www.google.com/patents/US8397275) using N layers of partially transparent images, and JavaScript to generate the offsets between the layers.

The CAPTCHA can be hard to read. (Note that for one of the images in the patent, the lawyer used a Gaussian blur rather than ask me for another screen shot from the prototype.) It might also confuse the user, because they see white noise when the CAPTCHA is first loaded.

The plus side is that it's a simple way to bring JavaScript into the CAPTCHA and force an attacker to create a high fidelity emulation of a browser, hook into a browser, or else take periodic screenshots in hopes of getting the CAPTCHA in its readable state.

Basically, I used to work on JavaScript execution in Google's indexing system, and thought "man, this is a pain to get all of these corner cases just right... how could I force a CAPTCHA attacker to do this?"
it is well known that most hacker news members are from western countries but support for those users in other countries is appreciated.
Glad you like it! Funny thing, "I didn't know i needed this" is the most common feedback we get. :)

Resizing is on the list, although it will impact the image quality if you resize up. On the same list I have making the window transparent so you can see content below it.

Not sure if I understand the second one. Do you mean quit Snappy after closing all snaps? (it's quietly sitting in the top bar)
Ex-Rovio Team Launch New Company To Help Gaming Companies License Their Brand
Voila does the same + much more, like gallery manager and recording with sound. Also uploading to SFTP and FTP.

http://www.globaldelight.com/voila/
I'd rather see Oberon ported to a modern machine. :)
Additional FISA Documents Declassified
Some of their questions are there to gauge your response, not get information, but I still have a hard time believing they would call him "a Jew" instead of a version of "Jewish".
The internet no longer has limits put there by broadcast TV. Made-for-internet programming episodes don't have to be 60-minutes-including-ads so they are now being produced in wildly variable lengths per episode.

Ads for the internet are the same - their length is restricted only by the viewer's attention span. Seems like this ad's producer nailed it.
So I've always just used Divvy for this, but Amethyst looks super awesome! I might give it a try!
While this is interesting, there's no direct link between that dictates increasing the difficulty has to increase the value, especially as new (ASIC) methods come online. In fact exponential difficulty rising doesn't even necessarily mean more people getting into it, just more people moving to higher hash-rate machines.

The opposite may well be true - higher value may well lead to more mining as it becomes economically viable to commit more funds to the activity.
It's exactly the same with English and American.
It's going to be free forever. The image on the website is a bit old from when we wanted to charge for it.

It will have in-app purchases in later versions, but the basic version is always free.

Sorry for the confusion.
I don't know why I can't stand this sentence "A simple and scalable way to classify automatically text by language". "Classify" and "automatically" need to switch places.
Oh, I agree 100% on the after market part, and Amazon makes a not inconsiderable amount of money from me that I do not begrudge in the least because of the quality of their marketplace, including useful quality scores for their merchants (e.g. I've learned to not touch anyone below 96% outside of special cases).

However here we're talking about direct competitors in selling new goods. Look closely at the right items, and you'll see that Amazon sometimes does two amazing things: if someone else is offering something new for a lower price, they, not Amazon will get the sale if you just click on the Buy button. (Of course, I'm often willing to pay a bit more to get it directly from Amazon.) If 2 or more including Amazon are offering it at the same price, Amazon sometimes rotates who gets the sale if you just hit the Buy button.

That's what I meant by "fairness", although I couldn't find any examples of this just now (ADDED: that might be because according to another commentator in this topic they only offer this for highly rated merchants). Then again if Amazon is analyzing my purchasing habits, they know a) I prefer to buy direct from them and b) for most of what I buy from them unit wise (but not price), I always check out lower priced new and used offers from their merchants.

And, yeah, especially with how much media I buy that's out of print, it's win-win-win for them. But to the extent this story is true ... well, it was a "new" item that was claimed to be counterfeit.
But for Bania Gandhi, implementing 'separate' electorates as per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award would have prevented India-Pakistan partition.
Here's (some of?) the Tesla Model S API:

http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/
There are a LOT of changes to the UI. They did far more than just change the tab location.
I'd assume the other person's insurance would be paying for that ... or they'd fight it out in court.
It's a pleasant ad, though it also reminds me of http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/05/08/the-sophie-choice :

"There were no actors seen in the Super Bowl commercial, and that was part of its charm: even though it broke one taboo, it maintained the company’s geeky dignity of logic and verifiability. The star was the stuff that appeared on the computer screen. But “Dear Sophie” is more of a classic form of Madison Avenue pitching. It’s probably something that Don Draper would come up with if Larry and Sergey were his clients. They would tell him that their product, the Chrome browser, has a lot going for it over its competitors, like speedier response and a single box to type in addresses and search queries. It runs Web applications more efficiently than other browsers, they’d tell him, and if everyone used it, it would hasten a new paradigm of cloud apps. Draper would say that all that stuff is well and good. But for our commercial, we’re going to show a tear-jerking evocation of a father compiling an online scrapbook for to his daughter as she grows up.

Straight out of the Kodak playbook–don’t brag about your specs, but play that song about Where Are You Going My Little One, and out will come the handkerchiefs. It’s also a stratagem used by banks and insurance companies."

Mind you, that was two years ago and feels somewhat like ancient history now.
Some of the people who join CBP tend to be a bit xenophobic to begin with.

One of the most bigoted people I've ever met got a job with the CBP after a very brief and unsuccessful stint in the Army where he'd publicly announced to everyone that he was going to Afghanistan to 'kill towelheads'.
Or at minimum an excuse for insurance companies to charge more. And Tesla keeping this insurance, at minimum, allows them to manage the costs for owners - and if there are 'profits' to the 'paid' insurance (embedded in cost of car, and the ecosystem as a whole), then it is Tesla that gains the benefits either as profit or can re-invest it into their ecosystem. Insurance overall is a scam, however government and politicians prefer to not be responsible or accountable by allowing private for-profit companies take advantage of everyone.
Man, that would've made the whole Contra affair a little easier, wouldn't it! ;)
I use it for both, but mostly sharing. Dropbox starts you off with 2GB but allows you to increase the size for free by referring other people, which I've been able to do. I've gotten it up to 8GB thus far. I don't rely on it to keep all of my most important data, since that goes well beyond 8GB, and I don't keep anything personally sensitive on there either. If my friends need something like pictures I've taken at a party, I'll put them on Dropbox and let them deal with it, rather than the hassle of email or setting up my own server.

While it's limiting, I like it a lot better than carrying USB sticks with me - I've lost a number of them over the when they'd eventually rip off my keychain :(
I assume at this point that Opera have decided to quietly drop ongoing support for Linux.

There have been no updates to the Linux browser since the last one based on their old rendering engine - none of the Chromium/Blink based versions have made it across, even in beta.
I hadn't considered that possibility. I gave over a month notice before I left to my company as well as the immigration lawyers, but it's possible that my application was still in the system somehow.
This is a show that you can buy everything from the charts, drill and sound effects. There's nothing particularly interesting about this since every large Uni and their mom has done this exact show
>> It's like people who think cameras steal their soul, or that wifi radiation will give you cancer.

It's really nothing like those because web tracking is a real phenomenon and we all know its happening. It's absolutely not tinfoil hat territory to object to foreign corporations being given information on everything you do online.

It's up to you to decide if you don't care, or actively think that it's a good thing, but please don't try and dismiss perfectly valid privacy concerns as paranoid or delusional.
Use Groovy SQL, it is as easy as:

Sql sql = new Sql(dataSource)

List results = sql.rows('SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE type_id = :type_id', [type_id: id])
Given a high volume exchange, the trades would not have to hit the blockchain.
This makes me nostalgic for my single days. When I could code without interruption for long periods of time. But I'm happier now and have a better work/life balance. I'd swear that makes me more productive.
It's probably overloaded because it's on hackernews and is based on the same features (character n-grams) as Google Translate. Your text is simply too short for character n-grams to be 100% reliable.
It's just done with a 2d canvas element. It's been supported in most browsers for a very long time.
lol, thanks for sharing.
Not that I consider comments a key component, but almost all sites outsource a key component to a 3rd party (hosting being a biggy.)
I have seen "I was wrong then" posts over time.
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Why would any border guard be incredulous over anyone visiting far away places? You'd expect border guards to be used to meeting foreigners. And there's lots of foreign parts in the world.

Why would anyone visit X? Because it's there. Because people live there. Because there are things to see. What other reason do you need?
If it weren't for the extraneous window decoration you end up with. I'm good with using Moom to size and shape my windows on the fly on OSX. I've been relatively happy tiling on Linux though, but customizing keyboard shortcuts gets tedious quickly.

The main problem with OSX has been knowing which window is foregrounded, especially with two monitors.
> From what I've read, the Israelis make border checks less problematic.

It's not surprising that, from what you've read, this system looks good on paper. But then again, so does stop-and-frisk in New York City, if you're white and live in the West Village or Upper East Side[0].

Israeli screening is good if you're a white, non-Arab person. Not always so great otherwise: http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/arabs-say-they-endure-d... . (This is in the case of airport security, but the same principle applies for border checks)

Unlike the US, Israel openly profiles based on race. Aside from the fact that this is illegal in the US[0], this has a serious practical problem: confirmation bias.

Because only a subset of people feel the cost of the profiling, the rest remain blissfully unaware of the problem. From their perspective, the system works fine - "I never have any trouble going through security!".

As for 'scaling' this, keep in mind that LAX alone services more than three times the number of passengers as Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv does.

[0] http://www.nyclu.org/stopandfrisk .

[1] though that doesn't prevent it from being practiced in effect! http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/11/15/aclu-calls-fo...
Tesla will pay for that and will have to use its channels to get its money from the one who is at fault (either his/her insurance company or him directly). I'm pretty sure that's more or less standard insurance stuff and Tesla is not inventing anything new - they just invest some of their money into that. It might be more interesting how they solve international problems regarding that but I'm sure other car manufacturers should have something similar to that.
Their product isn't as good, but I bet they have some amazing sales people.

Like most 'enterprise' stuff.
try https://github.com/rmccue/Requests
This is the graph: http://www.nickwinter.net/codecombat-stats. It is a percentile feedback work graph, indicating what fraction of the day so far you have been working on something productive, if I'm not mistaken.
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Ask HN: Trying to collect data about the state of staging in web dev
I am currently collecting informations about how and why people do staging in the web development industry. Would you be so kind as to answer (and share!) that 2 min survey?

http://stage1.io/survey?ref=hn0

I'll be happy to discuss that in the comments too.
Yup, I've just installed it, and 'GhostRank' is disabled by default, as is any blocking - you have to specifically ask for individual 'trackers' to be blocked. Interesting how many are reported for various sites - twitter.com: 1, apple.com: 1, facebook.com: 3, bbc.co.uk: 0, the author's site: 14, theguardian.com: 21, news.ycombinator.com: 0.
That's not really how it works, you can't cite a source and then have people evaluate it on its accuracy. We don't know enough to know the accuracy, that's why you used a citation. A publication's reputation is what people use as a benchmark for its accuracy.

There are scientific studies saying smoking isn't harmful, and it's totally a coincidence they're funded by tobacco companies. That's why a source's reputation is important.
Is flat design a passing trend or something more? 
What if “flat design” wasn’t just a trend, but in fact, a return to a cleaner, simpler aesthetic in the wake of minimalism’s popularity and an evoloving web? At its core, “flat design” is really about getting back to design basics whilst simultaneously pushing forward and allowing room for working within responsive frameworks.We will press on examining why this design route could just be the resetting of our compasses back to a focus on basics, functionality, and a simple aesthetic flexibility.
The concept is a bit different.
Snappy is not a screen capture app, it's a tool for referencing info between screens. But granted, it does it by taking a snapshot of a portion of the screen.

Snappy is designed to be seamlessly used, not a feature packed app. It's an extension to the OS.
> and nearly as varied in customs, socioeconomics, and population as Europe. You can even stretch that to language in some parts of the USA. Try and get around South Miami without at least a smattering of Spanish language ability.

40 European languages: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/languages/...

(That's just for starters.)

In my rural county in England we have something like 120 different languages spoken by people as their first language.

Some of those are from historic ties to England - such as some of the Indian languages, with languages merging into English. (Pyjama, Bungalow, Juggernaut etc etc).

> I think people forget that this nation is constantly under some form of "attack" by groups (nation-state and otherwise)

Really? How many mainland terrorist attacks have you had? Because Europe has had a wide range of different separatist, leftist, anarchist, right-wing, etc groups setting off bombs and killing people.

EDIT: you can still go from dirt-floor poor (not an exaggeration) to billionaire in the span of a single lifetime.

Yes, I can go and buy a lottery ticket and win millions with a 1 in 14 million chance. The truth is that we could walk into a maternity ward in the US and predict with reasonable accuracy the children who will be poor and on drugs or in prison, and the children who will not be poor.
Doesn't Google absorb much of the cost of hosting Wikipedia for free?
Is NFL Game Pass still free in The Netherlands? It was last season.
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Automated upload instead of having to use Dropbox.
or just the same training data...
Unfortunately we are not on Android yet. Perhaps in the future.
I moved to the States when I was 5 and I'm a naturalized U.S. citizen. I have no Canadian passport.
Did the past seem fake before, or?
Those are screensavers, actually. Looks like he did almost nothing but code last week during his waking hours.
I also have some pretty horrible experiences with the Canadian border (about as bad as the US side seems to be for most).

I was denied entry once for an entirely frivolous reason (before anyone asks, no, no criminal record or DUI or anything) and it made subsequent entries extremely difficult/stressful but I was not turned away.

Edit: That second link. Trust me on this: the worst innocent thing you can ever tell a CBSA agent is that you're dating a Canadian. Especially if the agent decides that they don't like you.

I'm also never going back to Canada, because there's nothing up there worth it for me to be treated that way.
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Dropbox is the ideal insurance against laptop theft. If you stole my laptop right now, I wouldn't lose files that I care about.
The border patrol could care less whether you are a broke student or a rich tourist. They are not interested in how much you plan to spend.

So in that regard I would think you might as well tell them the truth simply because if you get caught in a lie then you would cause grief for yourself of no good reason. But if you are an excellent liar, then go for what're you want!

Basically the border patrol are looking for three things: terrorist, drugs and people who are coming to work illegally.
The agent found it odd that someone with a Jewish name would visit those countries. Customs, practices, etc are utterly irrelevant.
My same feeling. My girlfriend and coworkers love Skitch. I just use Cmd-Shift-4 and Preview when I need to add some arrows or text to a screenshot. Need to upload? Dropbox and "share link." Of course streamlining it is okay, but not for me.
A Canadian passport (until very recently) lasts 5 years and costs $120. (a 10 year one is available for $160). Getting a Canadian passport outside of Canada is a nightmare (unless you happen to have a Canadian embassy nearby) and costs even more - $260 for a 10 year passport. Unless you really need 2 passports, there's not much reason to get one.
I'm currently trying to write a raytracer in Python (I know, I know) but I'm already at like 200 lines and no reflections, refraction, shadows or light sources :(

But I won't quit! If you're interested, I'm already proud of what I have :) http://i.imgur.com/8wwSsab.png
"If the recipient stores that message and signature, they have cryptographically verified blackmail material: they could later turn both message and signature over to law enforcement."
Hello everyone, because of the HN traffic, i'll have to take the site off-line for a few minutes to resize the server.
getUserMedia is not WebRTC support. Let us know when you have full support for PeerConnections and DataChannels.
Google or Microsoft won't buy them. They're hedging their bet that this technology will be a commodity soon (Google Drive and SkyDrive). It doesn't really fit in Amazon's universe. They already told Apple to screw (albeit only at 800M). I think that Drew is a True Believer, where he thinks there is tremendous growth potential in this space. And hell, anything's possible. Who would have thought that such a simple idea, done extremely well, would have such potential.
English is not my native language but I think that the opposite of real here is more abstract than fake.
When they say "What's the purpose of your visit?", and you say "I'm just here to visit. Hope to spend lots of money." and they see your study books, you've basically left yourself open to hours of detention and questioning?
American here, my experience with India/Pakistan is ordering "Indian Spicy" when I get my Chicken Vindaloo.

I've watched this advert a half dozen times and I end up pretty misty eyed every time.
Does Speaking Different Languages Give You Different Personalities?
This brings up an interesting question. what is the BATNA of these countries. That is, what is their recourse if nobody can agree?
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Answered.

I'm looking forward to see what you want to do with this, handling staging environment in the age of cloud can be a real pain.
I really want to try and see what's the deal with Opera >15, but they just won't allow me.

Oh well, I'm already happy with Firefox.
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user24: good one :)
Survey submitted here, although I mostly use a vanilla remote git repo to manage my projects.
black and white or sepia photos don't seem fake, but there's a strong difference between the feeling of viewing B&W and these realistically coloured images.
I fail to see the major issue here: The standard needed to specify those points, otherwise one EFI implementation would expect UTF8, another ASCII and yet another UTF-16. The calling conventions, the binary format and UTF-16 are widely supported across platforms and known. Windows calling conventions are probably more widely implemented than any other (since the popular linux compilers can cross compile to win and not the other way round). Just because Rust had no support for the windows calling conventions that doesn't imply that C for example has the same problem. UTF-16 is used in different places as well, notably in Java. No problem here as well. It also has the major advantage of being a fixed width encoding over UTF8. That might be fairly useful when your code doesn't have full OS and library support when running.

All in all: It's probable that Microsoft influenced the standard here, but there's also sufficient technical reasons for those choices. There's other places where Microsofts influence on the standard is a much bigger problem.
The problem is that what you're suggesting is a race to the bottom in terms of price. The TV industry is hurting from that approach, which is why they're now trying to become more than just dumb panels.