skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Christmas in the Netherlands: a Canadian meets Zwarte Piet
Too bad Ansible will not support ruby either. Why does implementation language matter?
> Teflon or PFOA

Teflon and PFOA are not the same thing!

Teflon is made from PFOA true, but the properties of the two are quite different.

Teflon is completely inert, PFOA isn't.
Thank's for the clarification! :)
The body that creates the standards is typically a creation of the industry that implements the standards. It is a cost of doing business. Compare them to RFCs which are quite similar in that they are generally created by authors who work for the companies implementing the RFCs.
Dutch Bank Rabobank is Blocking Customers from Buying Bitcoins
That was really fun to read and consider.

>> We can produce a vision of the web that isn’t based on: consolidation privatization power hierarchies surveillance

Is our current vision of the web really based on those things? Crazy to think about.
Ember Autosuggest
The President's benefits package is mind-bogglingly rich. Besides the incredible pension and almost all expenses paid while in office and on vacation and campaigning, the job is a golden ticket to $millions in "speaker fees" afterward.
The raspberry Pi has a Wireless module that you can attach to it, through the Pi's USB port. The wireless chip is only like $4-9 in price. After attaching the wireless module, you can connect the Pi to your TV through HDMI/Video Out (the Pi has two vide output options). Assuming your computer is in a different room, you can connect to it directly and stream Video content to your TV. I also think there's some specialized software that will help you stream videos out of the box.. Cheers!
Teflon is extremely inert, but it's not quite as inert as a noble gas - the c-c bonds can dissociate and burn. (The f-c-f bonds can't.)
Free housing - for talented hackers in SF
Hey everyone, we're offering free housing for talented hackers in the bay area that would be interested in helping out / getting involved with my project in exchange. A little about me: I'm a Thiel fellow - paid $100,000 by paypal founder / first Facebook investor peter thiel to drop out of college (http://www.thielfellowship.org/).
Right now, we're looking for hackers preferably with experience in some combination of the following:

javascript nodejs html css iOS android phonegap

We have a beautiful house in a great location and an awesome startup atmosphere.

We need to make sure that you have the right qualifications of course, but if you're interested, please leave us with your email address and we'll get back to you with more info.
One of the nice things in Python is that it is nit limited to scientific computation.

I remember the days when I tried to do command line automation in Matlab, or tried to read some XML from some internet resource.

This stuff is super simple in Python, but very hard in Matlab, because Matlab focuses so much on science and so little on general usefulness.

Python is not as integrated with regards to the scientific core functionality, but it doesn't limit you to it, either.
Minor gripe, the except KeyboardInterrupt isn't necessary, since KeyboardInterrupt is a BaseException, not an Exception.
What a poorly fitting shirt for the ladies.
Ember.js Components, Wrapping Content and Context
I recently saw this (which goes into far more depth): http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2013/11/18/the-homogenization...

Summary: "Constantly switching languages is a chore, and while Python isn't the best at everything, it's the best at some things and good enough at almost everything else."
The “design” problem among Indian startups
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean

PG's scale of levels of disagreement in discourse, that's like a negative 4.
Totally, man. All absolute statements are garbage!
True on all accounts. I'm not a YAML fan either, but it ends up being a pretty minor detail for us. It is very convenient not having to run an agent on the managed machines.
This is the coolest wedding invite I've ever seen!
Just know, you've got a fan from Rajasthan...
That's what meetings and meeting rooms are for.
Otherwise email is perfect: you can't consult face-to-face communication for reference months after.
Isn't it obvious it was the friendlychemist?

friendlychemist: "Hey, I need $500.000 I owe to some bad guys. Give it to me or I'll expose you."

silkroadguy: "Sure, can you get me in contact with the guys that you owe money to, first?"

(He ...really expects somebody that owes money to bad guys will give their address to someone he tries to blackmail????)

"redandwhite": "Hello, I'm the guy friendlychemist owes money to. Want me to kill him? I can do it for, say, $500.000".

silkroadguy: "Seems legit. Go ahead".

"readandwhite": "Done! Here's a photo of me^H^H him dead."

silkroadguy: "Great! Here's the money!".

(time passes)

"readandwhite": "Hey, I found somebody else who steals from you. Four of them? Want me to kill 'em? Wire some bitcoins".

silkroadguy: "Sure, wiring!".

I mean, is he dumb or what?
Assistans aren't quite the same as managers. People managers manage people, help them get wider perspective on their work, pursue training opportunities, monitor performance, connect with relevant coworkers, and make decisions related to keeping the larger team moving in a common direction. That is a valuable skill, but a level N $x-earning contributor doesn't need to be people-managed by M>N $y > $x

Check out the "skunkworks" model for similar examples.
Who cares if it's wounded. Millions of people use it.
Breakthrough hailed as landmark in fight against hereditary diseases
What is the practical use case here? Before this there were Microsoft HTA's and Mozilla's XUL apps, neither of which had widespread adoption among developers.
I so agree with the author.

Autodesk used to give glassed off individual OFFICE to EVERY single employee, no matter how junior. This was in 1996 or 1997. I remember being very envious.

Do they still do that?

One commenter on the article on fastcompany.com left a condescending remark how the writer of the article does not need to collaborate (for simply writing an article) with others while the commenter (the almighty coder) needs to collaborate with other coders, hence open layout is good.

Well in office when 2 or 3 coders are 'collaborating' in middle of open office, everyone ELSE (including other coders) in the space not working on the specific task is being interrupted.

Open space layout is not good.
>1. Why would a man, who allegedly built an extremely profitable empire using robust cryptographic software, not have enough expertise to employ powerful encypted countermeasures on his personal machine?

Because they wouldn't matter one iota.

Either they would get him with his computer on, and read them off of memory, or the court would have forced him to give the password -- or face even harsher sentence based on all the other evidence.
Step 2. Sell to NSA
Personally defaming and harassing people? Following them offsite to social media? Users go too far sometimes.

I understand being disappointed by a company's actions, but how about a little perspective? There is a strange sense of entitlement that begins to set in among some users, which causes them to see the company's slightest misstep as some sort of grave injustice. There is always the option to stop using a service. Instead they form angry mobs, attacking people personally? It's like anything goes if a company upsets users/customers. Is it the powerlessness these people feel IRL that drives them to these extremes?

And, when you look at the real injustice in the world--that frequently goes unchallenged--are emoticons on a forum really worthy of this level of intensity?
Yeah, the user has to accept notifications per site.
and it knows A has those ips by...

:)
Octave, R, Julia, Python.. we have so many choices now.
>A screen name on the internet, possibly a sock puppet, may or may not be tied to a real world person. He didn't have the capacity to visit this person in real life. He couldn't have possibly been sure whether it was a real person or not. He never met them, he never shook their hand, he couldn't have been sure of where they lived, because they didn't exist to begin with.

You don't pay $500000 to kill a "sock-puppet".

Besides, the whole premise is BS, based on "internet isn't real life". As if he arranged a kill on Second Life or something!

Well, newsflash, the internet is just a method of communication, like snail mail and talking is. And it's connecting very much with the physical world. When I order something from Amazon, it arrives on my doorstep, physically, and 4-5 people have worked on getting that to me.
>What if they were to indent their code with 3 spaces?

Whoa there buddy! Put the gun down...
> The screw ups on StackOverflow and Bitcointalk point to him and nobody else.

Ah, so the original DPR is a true master then :P
I love this guy (Carl Malamud). I get that standards bodies like the monopoly they get by charging for their 'standards' but they rarely pay for the time of the people making these standards or their airfare to attend the meetings. Judging by the salaries of the "management" in these outfits I'm guessing the profits are pretty good.
It's called Safari push notifications because Safari is where the user will first become aware of it. Apple don't name things for developers, they name them for users. Yes it makes no sense to a developer who knows what's going on, but a user will only be confronted by it in safari and that's likely what they'll need to google for if it confuses them. "Why is safari asking me about notifications?"
I've seen claims from organizations that have "equal but separate management/director & eng tracks." Usually, one starts out as an engineer, and then after getting a few promotions, becomes eligible to switch to the management track. I wonder if you could do a similar thing with middle-managers and directors: you don't become eligible for a director position until you've been promoted to a certain level on the eng or management tracks, but if you so desired, you could climb the same pay scale as a director, even if you choose to stay a manager, just like the very top engineers supposedly have the same pay scale as directors.
>You can't get a virus from visiting a web page.

You very much can.

In fact, that was one of the most common attack vector for viruses: web browser exploits, from applet bugs to native web browser code buffer overflows and other issues.
My impression is that R and MATLAB (and Julia) certainly still have their advantages. But, Python with pandas/scikit-learn/matplotlib is almost as good at R at data munging and exploration, and with numpy/scipy/Cython, as good or better than MATLAB at complicated matrix calculations. Meanwhile, Python has its own unique features, like iPython notebooks. So it's at least competitive with R and MATLAB at a feature level, if maybe not for every possible use case.

The thing that draws me towards Python is that it's a well designed, general purpose programming language. The syntax is sensible, the language allows real OO and FP abstractions, you have easy access to basic data structures like lists and hashmaps, and there's a huge ecosystem of third-party libraries to build on. Things that are stupidly difficult in MATLAB and R, like file/network IO, string processing, or building a GUI or web interface, are straightforward in Python. If you've ever tried to run MATLAB on a cluster, it's an absolute nightmare. You would never, ever think about building a production system in MATLAB or R. But these things are easy in Python. There's something that's just really nice about having access to first-class analytics tools in the same language that you're building your systems in.
The beginning of the end for consoles?
The irony is that no one wishes to port it to "modern" AArch64 and x86_64 with, due to proper modular design and GC and compiler written in high-level language (same as MIT scheme) it at least seems like a manageable effort. The goal is that it could be comparable with Haskell in code quality.

Compact and clean native Scheme compiler (such as Gambit) could be a very nice tool. The problem, as usual, is funding and ignorance of the investors who know no other words but Java.)
I'll second the pfsense option. I just bought a great little Alix based firewall running pfsense (2.1) [1]. I wanted something that was open-source and less of a black box (firewall inside a consumer grade router/modem).

One thing I'm now noticing - Android (nexus7) is quite noisy. I need to get wireshark looking at what this constant trafic is from the tablet to Google (and the BBC sometimes).

[1] ALIX 2D3 LX800
Yes, just what we need, more crappy apps.
Look at the domain name, clearly it's an evil ploy from the devil incorporate.
It looks like their graphic is sourced from Polygon.
>What if they were to indent their code with 3 spaces?

Whoa buddy! Put down the gun...

On a serious note... is this trolling or are people seriously complaining about camel-case vs snake-case?
I'm inclined to agree with you, I'm not saying writing code isn't an artistically creative process.

If I'm are hiring an engineer, the last thing I'll consider is how well is their code because that can be enhanced (albeit to a certain level, as per pionar's comment which I also agree with)

If you are hiring a designer, then that's likely the main aspect you'll be looking at, how beautiful/creative their work/solutions are.
If the law mandates use of (privately manufactured) safety mechanisms it doesn't mean that you are entitled to get those safety mechanisms for free. Similarly, if the law mandates that manufacturers comply with certain (privately manufactured) technical standards it doesn't mean that everybody is entitled to get a copy of those standards for free.

That being said it is unfortunate that the law refers to non open standards. And the penalties this guy risks are outrageous.
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"it doesn't mean that everybody is entitled to get a copy of those standards for free."

Can you cite some case law for this assertion?

At least in the US, every court i'm aware of to confront the issue has decided that if they incorporate a standard by reference into a law, you must be allowed to access it for free, or it cannot be enforced against you.

Some even go further, and state it is no longer copyrightable. See, e.g., VEECK v. SOUTHERN BUILDING CODE CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL, INC (293 F.3d 791)

"Our short answer is that as law, the model codes enter the public domain and are not subject to the copyright holder's exclusive prerogatives. As model codes, however, the organization's works retain their protected status."

If you have contrary authority, i'd love to see it (veeck has, last i looked, 283+ citations).

Even those commentators who criticize the Veeck decision all agree that the public must be given access to the code, for free. The only portion they disagree on is whether incorporation causes the copy to enter the public domain or not (IE whether it's still copyrightable).
In Germany we have implemented this directive

Sounds like you are agreeing with Malamud. Regardless of whether or not various certification authorities trust the word of the companies that implement products to match the directive, the directive is the law in Germany. Right?
Does it mean a 600MB package on the Raspbian image?
That does not make it legal to publish a work without the copyright holder's consent.
Worst linkbait title ever? In fact, the entire post ridiculously manipulative. Doctorow is not doing anybody any favors by going into full tin-foil-hat-speak to disguise the facts.

"Germany" is not "threatening" anybody. Malamud is getting sued by what is only referred to as the mysterious "the code people". (Which is actually DIN, an internationally well known standardisation institution, not need to refer to them as some shady gang.) All of this happens to take place in Germany.

The facts are bad enough without this kind of nonsense.
You are quoting an American ruling. This is a European case.
Right. In my opinion some of drugs can be called evil but prostitution is something natural and not evil at all
Please cite any european decision to the contrary to support your decision ...

Germany's official copyright law (which i only have english translations of, so apologies) says:

"(3) The copyright on private collections of standards is not affected by section 1 and 2 if they are referred to in laws, regulations, decrees or official announcements without reproduction of their wording. In this case, the originator is obliged to grant each and every publisher the right to copy and distribute on reasonable terms. If a third party is the holder of the exclusive right to copy and distribute, that party is obliged to grant the license of use in accordance with sentence 2."

I doubt 103 euros per copy is going to be found to be reasonable terms ...

(And if it was not by reference, it would be covered by the sentence one that i didn't copy, which would just make it plain old not copyrightable)

But enough of this, you made an assertion (and not even about german law, mind you, but about 'the law'), it's your job to support it.
That's only talking about normal web-apps, with access to only the normal web APIs.
Chrome Apps as far as I know can only be installed via a proprietary web store. You can't actually package them up as an exe or dmg to distribute yourself. They also don't have access to the system tray - they're not really first-class standalone desktop apps.
The entire point of this post is that there's a difference between the law and the standard. The law is publicly published, of course. What Malamud did was publish the standard.

And, this distinction is important: You have to follow the law, but how you do so is up to you. Implementing the standard is just one way of doing that. So the standard is not, in fact, part of the law, just a shortcut to compliance in some cases.
Thank you for this. I will definitely check out the tutsplus tutorial!
Emphatically no.

First, the Directive itself is not the issue here, the harmonized standards are. Please don't mix it up.

Nobody would sue for copying the text of the Directive.

And second, it's really, really important to understand that only the national law must be followed and that it is not identical to the Directive.

I know it sounds like nitpicking, but this difference is important. Not in the day-to-day development work (because you use Directive and standards as references, but mostly your company-internal process). But as soon as you're dicussing legal matters, it's important.

[edited: fixed typo]
Supposedly nothing is stopping angular.dart from working with polymer.dart.
You have to follow the law, but how you do so is up to you. Implementing the standard is just one way of doing that.

That sounds like doublespeak to me. What other way is there to follow the law besides implementing the standard referenced by the law?
Short:

* HTML apps potentially will work everywhere (if you will take care they will at least work on Firefox, Opera and Chrome).

* There are HTML5 tools and knowledge already in place. Plus years of experience in HTML can be used.

Long:

IMHO developers should look into the future here not into today but even today you can do quite a lot. XUL most probably failed because there were no tools, learning material and libraries (I'm not sure about HTA). In addition XUL worked only on single browser. I have managed to write XUL app 7 years ago but I had to invest quite a lot of time and the whole development process was quite slow.

HTML apps meanwhile do not require quite a lot of investment and if you already have some HTML5/CSS/JS knowledge there are only several holes of knowledge to fill. The only problem is to select good tools, find out right information and you can start right now. E.g. if you have canvas based game or static web site with useful information you can create app now: just add application cache's manifest file, add some meta information (in case of Firefox OS create *.webapp file) and you are done.

My background: I don't know HTA. I am familiar with XUL. In addition I'm familiar with QtQuick (QML + JavaScript), Firefox OS Apps, I guess I could learn developing Chrome Apps pretty quickly. I'm familiar with native development for Windows, Linux Desktop, Android and iOS.
So, often people will image a computer (e.g. to a 2nd harddisk or DVD) after changes had been made. So returning after one year you'll find that the hardware had failed for whatever reason and the image put back on another PC. So, restricting access in Software is more viable, in my oppinion.
Show HN: my first webapp - Notepad5, a simple offline notepad. (pls review)
I bet face soap is especially creepy.
There's no "native" development. It's just HTML and CSS.
Don't know why we would need another "IDE" to write html but whatever....
Suggest you find a bar, restaurant, or office that will be willing for you to meet up, invite some tech people to do something techy (maybe give talks on what you've been working on). Companies are more likely to sponsor if you've got an audience, no real reason for Stripe etc. to give resources to every town that asks for them especially if you've not got any other people interested. Once you've got something of an audience then you've got a chance of reaching out to others who might be interested in a bootcamp. You might want to focus on PHP given that you're able to find in employment in PHP (and presumably not in Rails) or even in .Net if that's what people are doing locally. If you can't get a few techy people for drinks then you're unlikely to persuade people to come for a full bootcamp.
what about kickstarter/indiegogo type investments?
It did not cost $500 to enter.

It was either $99 or Free (there was a free entry promotion for most of the time during the run up to the hackathon).
Strikes me as a bit silly not to patch this in 1.8 considering it's still fairly widely used and even the default for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Why not found a company where you're guaranteed to get your fair share, then?
Good one!
It is fascinating what kinds of things are making money for people/companies. I for example was shocked to find out how much the makers of LINE were making on sticker sales. I mean good for them.

I just find it fascinating how in this day and age an idea like this can make you a lot of money.
APIs bigger than SOA?

APIs enable SOA. So I imagine one will always be bigger than the other.
Sahara allows vagrant to operate in sandbox mode
Haven't paid attention for a while, but the reduction of games from the classical best of 24 series, seems far too short. Anand had to take this risk because there were only 4 games left and he needed to win 2 which is super tough. Another 12 games would have been interesting. So if the next game is a draw, which is highly likely, would the championship only have 10 games?
Classical championship should allow for more battles; there are other tournaments where speed can be the focus.
I don't know what you paid $500 for. The hackathon was free. Zero. $0. Early on they charged $99 for a developer pass, but they reimbursed me and my team members.
I can't google for references now, but restaurants like loud dining areas because there is a linear relationship between the dB of background noise and the money customers spend on drinks.
Thats exactly what I meant. Sorry for the confusion!
No, and that is made clear in the comment. The directive is the supranational law that mandates nations of the EU to create national law, only this is binding and applicable to citizens.
You seem to be correct, for others reading along here is a reference to the law you quoted - starts at the bottom of page 5:

https://law.resource.org/pub/us/cfr/regulations.gov.docket.0...

However, while that appears to be the law in Germany, that doesn't mean it ought to be the law in Germany (or anywhere else). Sounds like iRights.Law is looking to get that changed.
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/06/30/we-retire-1-8-7...