skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropbox has basically replaced my homedir and nearly everything I do now goes inside (documents, photos, git repositories).

It is installed on my home laptop, university desktop, smartphone and tablet. Goodreader (a PDF reader) can sync to a Dropbox directory with PDF files. So I can quickly access all of the papers I ever saved. This is a very convenient way of overcoming ipad's terrible sync-using-itunes mechanism.
Very moving and and this article really helps everyone understand the history of the partition that occurred.
The only immigration debate going on in Congress is undocumented workers and increasing visas for a select class of people.

As far as tourists and non-immigrant visas are concerned there is no debate and it's business as usual.
That's my reaction too. Without pressure-sensitivity, how is it different from any other capacitive stylus? The palm-detection and the eraser? That's kinda weak.

It's unfortunate that Apple is so devoted to purely-consumer hardware and that other companies lack Apple's dedication to quality. The Galaxy Note's hardware makes this kind of system look like a children's toy... but then you're stuck with Samsung software.
Agreed. I've been trying to get my parents and in-laws to check out Netflix for a while. Recently both got new "smart" TVs. Now that Netflix is right on the remote they seem to feel confident and comfortable enough to start using it.
https://soundcloud.com/xndxn
These product vids are ripe for a funnyordie parody.
Not typically, but who knows, a buyer might value that north of zero.

The more typical view: If that was worth ad revenue, it's already in the $1k per month, right? The model for churn-and-burn content scraping sites doesn't really have a term in valuations for engaged audiences, except insofar as it allows you to claim that you're not a churn-and-bun content scraping site. But, just between us industry professionals, it's a churn-and-burn content scraping site.
One major problem is that the TV makers continue to release new models without updating old ones. I got a high-end 55" LG TV with Netflix built in. One year later I moved to another country, where Netflix exists but the TV didn't support it. LG told me that the model year after mine supported changing the region, whatever that means. Since then I changed to iTunes then Amazon, neither of which the TV has. Built-in stuff in will continue to suck until it becomes modular and upgradeable. The rest is mostly worthless, and separate boxes remain necessary.
The more followers you have the worse your click-through rate becomes. Twitter is horrendous for trying to get people to actually go to your content or advertised tweets because no one is constantly signed into twitter unless you're doing it for business or you're a teen.
Sorry, I don't agree. "Off the record" is a term that is obviously and simply applicable to an IM context. It's the fault of the people who made an app called Off The Record that someone else has used the same term.
Exactly, grandma needs her new Christmas present!
I'm from Australia and I can't understand from the Australian province New Zealand.
Image processing web service in Go.
It's actually cheaper to have two desks, two monitors, two keyboards and mice. Especially if you already extra gear lying around. I have this setup at work and find it faster/easier than an adjustable desk.
Market pressure.

Even so, the rate at which they're adding back the features is unbelievable - I think it 12 months they'll have all the old Opera features back sans IRC client and mail client (which they said they'd drop anyway).

Opera's future looks really promising if they can survive this very bumpy ride.
10 pages to make one part of LXC understandable, is one of LXC's issues ;-)
Right now, I'm listening to the results of this Soundcloud search:

https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?q=space%20music&filter....
"An interesting variation is to be able to distinguish different languages in a text. E.g. a Dutch text with English quotes."

Do you know any interesting work related to the language distinction idea on the same text?
I second this. While working, I particularly fancy minimalism (Glass, Reich, Pärt, Górecki), single-instrument compositions from any period, and string quartets. The more uniform the timbre of the instruments, the more it seems to melt into the background.
>Created at the direction of the President of the United States, IC ON THE RECORD provides immediate, ongoing and direct access to factual information related to the lawful foreign surveillance activities carried out by the U.S. Intelligence Community.

from the about us column. You could probably credit Obama's social media team, or maybe the man himself. Interesting.
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I really want to learn Clojure, but somehow my brain refuses to engage with Lisp-style syntax. I just cannot read it at all.

Groovy is perfect for me, because it has a familiar syntax, but it allows me to do much more in a much more readable way than Java would.
> What the fuck guys, have the terrorists won? Are you really so shit scared to live normal lives with a slight risk that bad things might go wrong now and then, that you might miss a few bombs, that a few people might die?

Most US citizens (in the north-east, at least) don't even think about terrorism post-9/11.

Our representatives are making these kinds of decisions for (most of) us and we're just along for the ride.
I don't think $650 a BTC qualifies as a "drastic" tumble. Flagged
And woe be unto you if you refuse: http://knifetricks.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-fed...
The Tuck: Stop the Flop on Your Belt
But it's OK if a Democrat does it.
Girl hacks the Gettysburg Address for today's 150th Anniversary [video]
Are there nice GUI/web tools for configuring docker and LXC firewalling etc?
The Biggest Problem With Every Search Engine
It's similar to the debt issue. Sure, Republicans are walking toward the cliff... but Democrats are running full speed with a pair of scissors in each hand.
It's easy to write a language guesser, but's not easy to write a good one.

Obviously, it is highly domain and text length dependent (as I also mentioned in another comment).

But, e.g. Cavnar and Trenkle obtained a 99.8% accuracy on newsgroup articles in 14 languages using the method outlined above.

There are very few NLP tasks where you can achieve such high accuracy with relatively simple and understandable methods. That's why it is a nice subject for an NLP introduction to e.g. high school students.

I have worked in parsing and generation, where it is difficult to obtain satisfying results with many man years of work on newspaper text, let alone tweets or Youtube comments ;).
Note that with HTTPS, the actual data is not encrypted with the RSA keys. They are only used to negotiate a shared symmetric key, with which everything is encrypted. So it's only the initial handshake that takes longer.
Can you be more explicit? Are you talking about synchronizing the db schema when updating a staging env, or say, sync the schema accross multiple env each hosting a different version of the app?
That video made me a little dizzy. it was a fun effect, highlighting the pencil in the middle of the shot, but I had to turn it off.

"Pencil is the most natural and expressive tool for getting ideas on Paper"

iPad + Pencil + App = most expensive expression tool I know too !
yeah, I really miss this. I gave up Opera 12.16 and switched to FF recently. Looking forward to the new UI customization features in Australis, but there was so much more to Opera.
Maxthon is coming to Linux as well, so that'll be interesting
Death Grips - Government Plates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eld27iNfepY)

I keep tapping my feet and I think the people around me are noticing.
Yes - that fight seems similar to cellphones a few years ago. TVs based on Android and the like might be a good start for getting more updates.
what kinds of JVM issues did you run into in deployment? for personal projects I have always used C++, Python, RoR, MEAN, etc. but at work where my role is non-dev, our software dev team likes Java and the heavy weighted GWT... frankly shutting me out. I'd love to know how to convince them to switch out of Java.
Tell me what you love and what you hate. Seriously.
Things I love

startups
memorable marketing stunts
New York Mets
Kanye West
Rap
people who speak their mind
people who genuinely do what they love
Internet
Finding way to make money for myself and others

Things I hate

Boring corporations wasting money on boring, expensive ads
New York Yankees
Small talk
Superficial people
College and the fallacy of a degree = only way to succeed
“Impressing” people with embellished credentials
Resumes

Now tell me what you love and what you hate. Then absorb what you wrote, assess your current situation, and MAKE IT BETTER. Do what you love, no matter what. Don’t build a business because it’s cool, but don’t not build a business because you’re afraid, or it takes too much work, or you don’t know what to do, or you’re not “qualified”. Fuck all of that. Just do what you want to do.
I would not use Linux in something this pivotal. FreeRTOS or RTEMS would be my first candidates.
Are you saying that one doesn't need to use these patches on Ubuntu: http://www.infinality.net/blog/infinality-freetype-patches/ ?
Show HN: Cereal, Rails serialization without the cruft
Finns Pitch Frightful Weather as a Competitive Advantage
"pardon me if I don't agree to entertain your Europe is oh-so-much-better than the US diatribe"

Read the words again. None of DanBC's comments can be construed as a belief that Europe (or anywhere else) is better than the USA. If Europe has more languages than the US, for example, then that doesn't make Europe better in any meaningful sense. What (it seems to me) he's saying is that the US is less special and unique than you might think. Not less special to you, but less special on an objective, global scale.

From my point of view (British, European), belief in American Exceptionalism has always seemed a little deluded. Many countries around the world have democracy, wealth creation, etc. Many of them are trying to improve (though maybe not "perfect") their society. On the whole, though, they just don't make so much noise about it.
>Can you imagine Honda, Audi, BMW or any of the others reacting that way to something like this?

Yes, I can.

Do you really think he's doing this out of the goodness of his heart?

These fires are both a legal and PR nightmare. Nobody, at this point, knows how big of a problem this is. Despite the yarn that Musk is spinning, ICE cars don't combust when they hit road debris. Personally, I think the problem is exaggerated, but let's not dismiss the fact that there's a battery across the whole bottom of these cars. Go to the Tesla forums; there are owners there that are legitimately concerned for their safety.
Please share your JavaScript webapp.
Hummm I'm not sure, but if you're a citizen of a country, you should enter with the documentation of that country, and entering with another passport is usually a BIG NO-NO

Yeah, lasts for a limited time and it costs money, so does the passport of most countries. But it gets you a hassle free entry to YOUR country.
Maybe I'm stupidly jaded, and it's one of the things that has steadily pushed me out of the Apple ecosystem, but this trend for overly emotional marketing of stuff, especially in the hipster end of the market, grates enormously. This is like a sort of tech-etsy.

It's got to the point I can't actually take products like this seriously without getting annoyed by them going on about artisanal wood carvings. Like the owning of the object itself is more important than what you're supposed to do with it . . .
We essentially gave IK12 our source code. When Tim and Geoff were starting it, we told them everything about how YC works, and even brought them in to watch how we did things.
watch the video
Not yet, neither does Safari. Maybe with IE12?
I'll try, but I do not think I am assertive enough to have college football games moved to 3am. (It's not just friends.)
I probably should have separated all of that with commas. But I didn’t. And that’s ok. I guess I don’t like to use commas.
IIRC Prizeo and Kivo both went through @EntreFirst and Vayable went through @500Startups prior to YC.
Explains why they prevaricated on other Bluetooth styluses:
http://support.fiftythree.com/customer/portal/questions/1461...

Safe to say this is the only one that will be supported.
This is misinformation in the extreme.

60% of Israeli Jews are from Arab countries, or their parents and grandparents were, and they are very similar in appearance to Arabs. There are also thousands of Ethiopian Jews with even darker skin. The European Jews with fair skin constitute only a part of the population, maybe half or less than half (there is a lot of intermarriage).

Israeli border agents can't do racial profiling; that would be pointless if not counter-productive.

What they do is to very carefully, intelligently interrogate each person entering the country, and they meticulously go through each person's luggage (particularly when boarding a plane). Often, one person will sit there, asking you the usual questions - where are you from, what do you plan to do here, etc., while another person sits off to the side, staring at you intensely and studying your every reaction. They are trained to spot telltale signs of lying, nervousness, inconsistency, and they're very good at it. They have to be. To them, it's a matter of life or death. The U.S. might get one or two terrorists in a million trying to enter the country; the Israelis are literally surrounded by a sea of people wishing them ill will.

The U.S. could learn something from Israeli security, naturally. I understand the Germans are also very good at it. The problems run pretty deep; U.S. agencies (or their overseers in the Cabinet or the Congress) are headed by political appointees who don't always have sufficient experience or aptitude to handle the job.

Our whole INS and border control systems need an overhaul, that's for sure. The world has shrunk and if someone considers it too difficult to visit here, they'll just teleconference, go tour a different country, start their business elsewhere. We are shooting ourselves in the foot.
>Vehicle fire now completely covered under warranty,

Have you considered that the reason they are doing this is that insurance companies may look at the fires and begin to increase premiums on the Tesla cars, or refuse fire coverage altogether?

This isn't altruism; it's damage control (literally).
>>overworked, unappreciated by their wives with their kids brought up to despise them, quietly carrying the entire financial burden of the family on their backs.

This is pretty much what men undergo around the world.
The great thing is that emerging (or established actually) technologies and APIs now permit to modelize complex apps topologies and duplicate them at will (I'm thinking VMs and containers here), so the pain you describe is just one automation away ;)
Spectacle[1] is excellent for this.

[1] http://spectacleapp.com/
New marketplace for conference videos launches out of London
The thing is the Android market is much bigger. Maybe history will repeat itself?

* Company makes a great innovative product on iOS
* Competitor gets to Android first, embracing the platform
* Company finally releases an half-assed Android port with iOS look and useless back buttons while Competitor is already established on Android

=> After the Android launch failure, Company publishes numbers comparing iOS and Android sales and claim "See, no profit to be done on Android!"
I think it'll make them more efficient, and therefore more relevant. Groovy has many, many other improvements over Java than just closures.
Learning what? I suspect they already know that the world is full of angry, immature, entitled people.
I wrote an app that takes aspects of this to the next level, especially the cases where they recommend when to use it.

In my app, you capture a full window instead of a portion of the screen. Then the snapshot is continually updated. It's not for saving, just for cross-reference really. Though it also works really well in presentations and demos.

http://appstore.com/mac/duplicatewindows
If anyone's looking for music recommendations, there's a site I recently launched, "If You Dig": http://ifyoudig.net .

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but thought it might be of interest, since we've got musically inclined HN'ers here...
I cannot know for sure but this seems like a post of someone trying to write rust like you write a different language.
The idioms are different and if you stick to your old routine it won't work like you would want to.
Pencil seems like an fairly interesting idea, but it's priced in a really odd way. The $50 price point puts it well out of reach consumer and hobbyist users. Despite this, Pencil and Paper are not as robust as, nor ate they priced comparably to, professional digital drawing tools like Wacom's system.

Pencil precludes the casual demographic who just wants to doodle in their free time or take notes with its high price, but does not cater to the group of elite professionals who would be willing to cough up a substantial amount of money for drawing tools.

I just don't understand who this is for.
How to Implement HTML5 Microdata for SEO
Sky Prioritize Yourself
Could The U.S. Gov't destroy Bitcoin by owning it all?
You know the government is not fond of bitcoin, especially w/ a lot of illegal activity using it.

My questions is what would happen to the crypto-currency if the U.S. went on a massive buying campaign to buy/mine all bitcoins they could get their hand on and other cryptocurrencies? -- Essentially cornering the market? They have the resources to do so, and sure more bitcoin would always hit the market, but would this curtail it's popularity?
One of the main uses of valgrind is to discover undefined behavior. Haskell doesn't have undefined behavior, so you don't need it.

I don't think the C tooling is that great. Haskell has some neat tooling of its own.
>"artisanally crafted" (grammar)

Did an artisan craft it? No, it looks to me mass-manufactured to spec by someone or something who doesn't have a say in its design or the ability to individualize it. You mean "made of wood," but that's the most you can squeeze out. Please don't try to steal the thunder of actual artisans.

> "unique built-in eraser"
> "unique sensor lets you flip Pencil to erase"

Yeah, the crappy Wacom knockoff I bought in 1998 had the same thing. Wacoms have the same thing. If you are like all the other, most popular, long-existing things, you are not a unique thing.

If they're delusional about this, what else are they delusional about? Why would I spend money to support hubris? Because I'll have some minor extension of my abilities within a double-walled garden?

Aim higher.
i am interested in this
Most products on iOS seem to be self parodies.
I use both for my data analysis (though I'm not doing anything too fancy these days). R is great at statistics (that's what it was designed for) but a bit of a terrible programming language. So I combine the two, do all the IO stuff etc in Python and run the actual statistical analysis in R (RPy is a great Python interface to R).
Watched 40 seconds. Don't have sound. Understood nothing.
Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Hearts

https://play.spotify.com/track/4NPbTPZo9hskIcilXAeKd1
>>Google has been releasing feelgood ads for years

Starting with "don't be evil." Whether Google has lived up to those lofty goals in the intervening years of working with the Chinese Government, the NSA, etc., I will leave to the reader to decide.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4TbomOdn2esDt67jOlTI...
Maybe I have an incomplete understanding of Docker and LXC, but I feel like this is retreading a lot of ground that Joyent has covered with SmartOS. Virtualization with KVM, networking with Crossbow, and VM exporting with ZFS datasets have all been around for the past few years without getting all of this attention.
I must say the video is most definitely over emotional no to mention it made me sea sick with the over use of shaking. The product looks great and interesting.

>It's got to the point I can't actually take products like this seriously without getting annoyed by them going on about artisanal wood carvings. Like the owning of the object itself is more important than what you're supposed to do with it . . .

i agree with you on your point but it also has upsides, design was forgotten and every electronic device we owned was either matt black or white (think of all the VCR's, home audio, laptops). So now that a sense of design has returned we rebel against it 'being' hipster. Its a delicate balance i guess.
LXC is not secure at the moment. root in a LXC container can lead to root on the host. There is unfortunately no good summary of the problems - here is my list (take it with a grain of salt - a lot of these problems are mitigated in docker.io and with AppArmor in Ubuntu):

- Without CONFIG_USER_NS and a newer kernel a lot of problematic things can happen. If /proc or /sysfs is mounted on the container DoS or escalation to root is possible: http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413 - At the moment no stock distro kernel has CONFIG_USER_NS enabled.

- There are some issues related to remounting filesystems rw and altering files

- Mounting cgroups in the container can also lead to problems - DoS and aquiring more ressources

- Capabilities. You stock Linux distribution won't boot without CAP_SYS_ADMIN (see man 7 capabilities) - there are a lot of other capabilities that could be troublesome.

- Not sure about this one: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q3/385

So for running services without CAP_SYS_ADMIN and with dropping a lot of other capabilities it can be considered somewhat safe. For everything else it's probably dangerous.

Not sure if all these issues are still a problem today but if you are running lxc on e.g. a current Debian Wheezy you have to know about all of them.
The first Bitcoin post on HN
5 years to go for citizenship to which country?

Do you mind on telling us why (the upsides, the downsides...)? Thank you! :)