skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They get destructed AFTER end of scope, not AT end of scope, regardless of the existence of cycles. See:

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/06/12/safely-using-destruc...
Yes, but you presumably need to get that right in order to encode as UTF-8 and send off to a third-party API...
> When you go to Cryptic all files that you receive will be received over SSL. This is to ensure that you’re getting the correct code, and not a version compromised by some attacker.

This is the Lavabit way, I believe. However, it could be solved using a browser extension.
Why isn't the Android based Google TV the "Android of TVs?" If I remember correctly, most of Google TV was merged into Android itself.

http://www.google.com/tv/

http://developer.android.com/training/tv/index.html
Create products that people love by validating your idea first
This is the big differentiation, for me. Good design does speak for itself. Marketing bullshit ("An artisanally crafted tool"-these are most certainly not handmade, it's just bullshit) just cheapens the whole thing. It's like explaining the punchline to your joke. Copy like this just ruins a lot of the design for me. Marketing copy hyperbole has been a problem since the 60's. After 50 years it's gotten to where marketing copy is essentially meaningless.
Visualisation of London property prices by tube line
for Mac I strongly recommend an app named Grab
There were a close call involving a bomber that accidentally ditched a nuke (i think?). It was the last fail safe that stopped it.

I remember reading about it here, don't have the article in hand. I'm sure you can find it.
The value of a currency lies entirely in the perception of that value. I don't consider bitcoin different from a traditional currency, except that its rate of production is known in advance. It will keep having value because by now enough people think it does.
Has any of Oberon's "spirit children" been used for a full fledged OS yet?
> Unfortunately, they love "the fall of the guy" even more.

Tesla went out of their way to flaunt the safety features of the car, alleging a 5.4 NHTSA score when the agency explicitly said that they don't issue scores that high. Tesla said they had the safest cars on the road, and this is the eventual result (people actually expect it to be safer).

IMHO the reaction is entirely appropriate given Musk's and Tesla's behavior up to this point. If Musk and Tesla weren't flaunting their safety claims, this wouldn't be a significant issue
I think you have something here if you focus on the idea that the submissions should be essays.

If you don't focus that and make sure the content is great, then there's not much of a difference between this platform and, say, Tumblr. Sure, following interests adds a nice layer, but there are plenty of other platforms that allow for that as well.

You're right to focus on content. Part of the reason HN is so successful is because the rules and regulations on content are adhered to, strictly. Adopt some of that, and I think you could gain a good user base.
I'm agree that the grandparent example is, uhm, weird: it rather reflects Poles' and Ukrainians' knowledge of Russian language than some unbiased inter-intelligibility.

Polish language is quite close to Ukrainian in regard of vocabulary and maybe grammar, but is quite different phonetically and does not use Cyrillic like Russian.

Still, I can't agree that Ukraine is _ethnically_ divided in halves, ethnic Russians are near 17% of the population. Language question is much more vague, I think that more than 50% of Ukrainian population use Russian on daily basis (though it's hard to say how many of them use a mixed Russian-Ukrainian dialect, surzhyk and a lot of people actively use both languages) and it's very hard to find someone who does not understand Ukrainian and Russian at the same time.
Great, but there needs to be a guarantee that you are free to develop any kind of application, even a competitor to Paper.
If the vice president of ReThink DB could be wrong, I have all the liberty to make 100s of mistakes
I've actually changed from thinking "financial services law will destroy this" to "this will become like the War On Drugs: ubiquitous illegality, especially evasion of exchange controls, witholding taxes, and foreign income reporting requirements".
Nice to see lots of interest in the survey! We set this up with a friend of mine because we did not find much existing data about this subject. We'll keep it open for the rest of week and provide the results and analysis next week.
I have written Path Tracer in JS (http://renderer.ivank.net/) and rendered these images:
http://renderer.ivank.net/balls.jpg
http://renderer.ivank.net/cornell.jpg

but nobody is talking about it :( Maybe I should render a movie or something.
I hope, chaostheory doesn't have something related to Tor hidden services posted anywhere on the internet :P
You and me both :)

It was always just a little bit too much effort somehow, and I always had a bit of a problem with the underlying economic assumptions. Ah well...
Forget About Filling The Fat Cats Wallet's Through Energy Bills
and let's revisit this discussion 5 years from now.

right now there is so much fluctutation within BC it might as well be tulips. maybe it will become a stable currency, maybe it won't.
I use Dropbox as a glorified large email attachment distribution system, touching only the web interface.

Edit: obviously not clear enough, I'll try again: Is it true that 'You need to install propietary software to use it'? No.
Neat, but I hope they don't drop their Linux client, it really is nice.
His comments seem entirely reasonable to me. Why are they all grey?
Cryptic will have a browser extension that will automatically verify the received code against a signed hash (also easily verifiable) on the open source repo. It is fundamentally different than Lavabit since everything that interacts with raw data is open source and verifiable. Someone is going to notice if the website is tampered with.
Didn't help that most of the features they describe are found on a real pencil.
One look at the average TV remote tells you enough about TV manufacturers and their ability to do any kind of UI design.

Remotes like this:
http://wardiesworld.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/raspi_samsun...

always remind me of this:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-what-happen...
HBase: Big Data Arrays Loading via Bulk Load
I take the opposite viewpoint. 99.9% of startups, tech companies, and subjects on Hacker News can go hang themselves. People comparing Steve Jobs to Elon Musk are, frankly, completely missing the point.

Seriously, this is what baffles me most about Tesla hate. Did everyone forget that our world has had a massive, unsustainable energy crisis for 50 years? Forget climate change for a second, our entire foreign policy since 1973 has been based around securing cheap oil. Every person in our country should be unified in heaping as much praise as humanly possible on Musk because Tesla is literally saving the goddamn world.
As for booleans I don't consider macros and further macros which are part of the library as a datatype, but yes of course they are in the core language. What I wanted to express was that booleans are nothing more than integers with sugar sprinkled over the top. You're right.
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback! I totally agree, although it might be a challenge. I really don't want it to become another Tumblr.
"The information could be used only for counterterrorism purposes."
Am i understanding correctly that all instances where parrallel reconstruction was employed were in fact terrorist cases?
Has this happened? It does make sense to me and seems like a good opportunity for a competitor but I can't think of a case where a very popular iOS app lost out to an android alternative.
Another friend just mentioned managed hosting (Heroku or VM Farms) as being non-negotiable nowadays. I personally don't have any experience with managed hosting (I use Linode) but that's another service that you could consider!
I've been using it a couple weeks, and I really like it. Vast improvements in usability for me. It's mostly a bunch of little things that add up to a better experience. Peek Definition, Map Mode, support for Zen coding, MVC 5 goodness, and the list goes on and on. Lots and lots of little fixes that go a long way.
Google Books and Black Box Copyright Jurisprudence
That logic makes sense if you assume the only incidents are single-car. When this happens near other cars and is deemed to be the factor behind a multi-car accident, the insurance company still has to pay out for the other participants (unless you are in a no-fault state). I would argue that, regardless of the PR spin and warranties, unless Tesla takes liability for entire accidents I would expect insurance rates to skyrocket
But is noteworthy that there was no all-negative comment, or a hater one.
Lavabit's model involved sending/receiving cleartext data to/from the server, and you had to trust that the server-side would not store that plaintext. In our model no unencrypted data, except for the public key, is ever sent to the server. All encryption is done inside your browser.

For your second question, all resources for the site, including javascript, are served over SSL. This will prevent about 99% of MITM tampering attacks. While we can't overcome the inherent weakness in SSL, or guarantee against compromise on the server-side, we are working on a browser extension which will check the code you receive from the server against what is in the repository, so you can at least be alerted of any inconsistencies.

And since the website is all open-source, we're going to make it simple to host it yourself, if you want to be extra-sure that it's not compromised.

EDIT: By "website" I'm referring to the frontend, in-browser code
Matthew Kirk spoke about a neural network language predictor at RubyConf a few weeks ago. Here are his slides and code: http://modulus7.com/rubyconf/
:)!

It occurred to me the other day that, should other civilizations have found Earth via a similar method, they must necessarily lie along the ecliptic. If they're signalling to us in the visible, Kepler's the correct tool to see it.
> KVM has more performance overhead than LXC

When I was using it, KVM had some small memory and CPU overhead, but it's a fair point.

> ...so hardware compatibility is less of a concern.

That's definitely a problem. I'd very much like for SmartOS to branch out from just Intel, but they seem to be keeping development centered around the hardware they use for Joyent Cloud.
If you want rolling-release, use openSUSE-factory[1], i.e. the development branch (though this might sometimes break on you). If you want an inbetween thing between rolling release and standard, use Tumbleweed[2], which is curated by Greg K-H and brings you new versions of important software, i.e. KDE/Gnome, kernel, git, vim/emacs etc. Tumbleweed uses a set of repositories called *-current, which are always symlinked to the current version. As of today, my next update will bring me onto 13.1 standard for all packages, while Tumbleweed will be emptied soon. In a little while, Tumbleweed will be populated again with updates newer than the 13.1 version, as they appear. This cycle continues until 13.2 is released, and then starts anew.

[1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Factory

[2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
I am very happy with Maven for tracking dependencies and building and deploying artifacts.

Please educate me, what am I missing out on?
Opensuse technically has two rolling models,
The first being Factory which contains bleeding edge software that will is considered to be unstable.
The second is Tumbleweed which just pushes updated Stable software.

Factory is manly for developers to test on and isn't rely for day to day use.

Tumbleweed can be used for day to day use, you just have to be aware that things can break.
I've used Cloud app for this in the past - works great, but has an upload limit. What's the story on that here?
Five founders left to split $36,000 after their tech startup gets sold for $82M
Great article! For me Docker has opened up what is great about the underlying LXC technology - a proper logical wall between apps on the same hardware. The networking was the hardest thing (for me) to grasp in Docker - this guide opens up a whole new level. It's cool however that if Docker won't do something networky I can drill down a layer to LXC instead.
Agreed again (I'm just agreeable today), my point was more that once the barrier of another device, another setup, another x is gone, there's going to be a massive influx of new users. I think we're still very much in a transition period, the internet is everywhere and everyone knows it but there's still a surprisingly large amount of growth left.

Another personal anecdote, my father-in-law, who not 2 years ago was unaware of what Google was or how to use it, ordered a riding mower online for next day delivery. That's a large purchase made all of his life at a B&M which he was fine doing online. If someone reliable besides Lowes'/HD had a better price, they would've made the sale.
Napoleon is a really neat marriage of software and hardware. It's one of those rare things that's both new and familiar.

Mighty, meanwhile, he actually described as "cloud pen". Please stop. I need a great pen for a tablet. I don't need it dependent on your hosted services. It's driving me crazy how the cloud, an enabling technology, is being crammed down our throats as a feature in and of itself.
That's the way things ought to be.
I ended up selling the last of mine back when they went up to $80 some year or so ago.

Sigh...
I find their statistics to be somewhat misleading. Can we see fire statistics on cars produced from the same time as Model S? Because I am not surprised a lot of the older cars are catching on fire.

I still believe Tesla will be safer then gasoline cars, but gap definitely would not be orders of magnitude.
Yesterday's congressional hearing made me surer than ever that bitcoin is actually an FBI/ CIA/ NSA/ whoever -made honeypot.

Think about it. Bitcoin is robust enough that it could have only been developed with the resources offered by a government, the currency records all transaction histories, and we still have absolutely no idea of who this Satoshi Nakamoto guy is, assuming he's not some government taskforce. Didn't it strike anybody as odd that the same congress and government that normally takes an extreme luddite stance was so enthusiastic about Bitcoin? They can hardly wrap their heads around things like Google Glass and net neutrality, and yet they're absolutely pandering over Bitcoin.

Something isn't right here.
waiting for the OSX version :p
Tosin Abasi
Accroding to some HN readers you should look this incident in Wikipedia. If there is no mention of this being a 'murder' within Wikipedia, than you sir are a fringe 'conspiracy theorist' ...

Don't know when Wikipedia became the bearer of all truths ...
I was relieved to see I hadn't even joined HN at that time.
Yeah, that's just a bizarre thing to say.
artisan is used to sale everything from string cheese to dunkin donuts sandwiches these days. Singling these guys out for using it seems kinda silly.
Is there a FAQ/Guidelines on what kind of thing you can/should post?

Also can you add pictures etc to posts?
The Surface Pro has had this since its release.
I don't think so, because COPPA only applies if the service is directed at children and/or asks (directly or indirectly) the user's age.
The term for breathless marketing is "Modern Wank".
Don't Learn to Code
It's slated for release on the same day as Xcode's Win64 version.
Wow, another website featuring a product that is Apple-only and almost actively hides the fact that it only works on a single platform.
We are currently virtualizing our infrastructure's desktops with QVD and LXC. There have been a few challenges, but overall, it has been painless and exciting.
I'd take the bet but can't be bothered to acquire BTC for this purpose - which is kind telling, as is the fact that there's probably no better way to conducht the transaction either.

I find it amusing that the payout would be skewed in your favor by the nature of the bet.
would be pretty sweet, can't wait for both! although, I prefer C# to ObjC and VS to Xcode by a large margin.
That's really impressive! Someone did post links to SmallPT somewhere in this discussion, though.
I think the best solution would be a well-built remote that plays nice with vanilla android. Android needs touch - that means a quick way to click on various screen elements, a good way to drag-scroll, and a way to use the onscreen keyboard.

A good hardware peripheral should be able to provide those services. Just give me an airmouse with a drag-scroll joystick and a keyboard when I need it. The problem is that most hardware vendors trying to hit this market are serious lowest-common-denominator companies - fly-by-night Chinese manufacturers and whatnot. Sony did it too, but they stuck it to the stillborn Google TV OS.

Take it away from the TV division and get somebody who designs controllers to make the remote. Get the Playstation guys on this. A hybrid between the PS3 Move Controller and this thing:

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
I just checked out WeddingLovely from your blog post. I got married a few months ago and also did advisory on a premium domain wedding niche startup a few years back so I "get it" - this is on the right track and think the 'wizard as wedding checklist' concept would have been really helpful for us. Really interesting approach. Though the homepage kind of doesn't sell me as a consumer on the value proposition until I clicked through a few features screens

Also I would disagree about running a startup off of Basecamp as the PM tool of choice. Its good for small design agencies but I've rarely seen it used effectively in a startup setting
You can still walk in the rain, it can be quite nice regardless of level of downpour.

No thanks. Especially if it's raining and 20F outside. bbrrrrrr shiver bbbrrrr

No, I'm quite happy with my nice warm, snug, secure car. If the price of that is sitting in the occasional traffic jam, so be it. That's why there's a stereo in the car, and why I have my smartphone. I can read email or check HN while waiting for the line to nose forward another 15 feet. :-)
I agree. Perhaps you can help evangelize the world of difference between "fun exercise" and a production-ready system (the OP is a paid service).

I used to be a bit upset when someone claims to have implemented a state-of-the-art POS tagger, when they just took the dictionary and rules produced by Eric Brill's learner verbatim and apply those. Or worse, they take the first ten rules ;).

Nowadays I just prefer to evolution let do its work. The best or the one with the best marketing wins :).
There's hedge funds that systematically short biotech companies, since they estimate most of them will fail. Reasoning with them about the merits of the company doesn't work, they just admit it's a matter of statistics.
Nice interface and design. The Twitter logo however is out of date. https://about.twitter.com/press/brand-assets
Thanks for posting this! If you look in my comments, you will see that I asked about this just the other day. I am going to have to try this out (esp if i start running into performance issues with emacs running a bunch of ansi-term buffers)
Still no full C++11 compliance...
Please do, I mostly filled it out in hopes that I'd get a chance to see the results posted somewhere
Regarding the pics - working on it.

There's not a FAQ really but that's a good idea. I'll write one in the next few hours. Essentially you can post anything you'd like as long as you don't just take others' work (not directly pointed at you of course). You can post blog posts, questions, your opinions, etc... Actually, anything that you think might be relevant.
Thanks!
Don't insurance companies have highly trained and highly paid actuaries? My understanding is they look at numbers, not headlines. I'm sure there is some sort of professional ethical standard they are expected to uphold.
In a sense, knowing about Bitcoin in those early days and not buying any at all was a monetary bet. A very costly one.
This is disgusting. And what baffles me is that Americans won't do anything to change that.
Thanks for posting this. It wasn't immediately obvious that the header of each section was a link to the service. I kept clicking the images thinking it would take me there.

Regardless, I really like the idea of Briefmetrics. Thanks!
Yes — I personally use Basecamp due to using it for three years (so, just habit), but I didn't want to recommend it explicitly since you can use Google Drive or similar to do the same thing.)

Oh, and thanks for the comments on WeddingLovely! A v2 is in the works to fix those issues you mentioned. ;)
I've used detectlanguage.com[1] in the past, which seems like a very similar service to getlang.io. With both of them it is hard to know what is behind the scenes...

[1] http://detectlanguage.com/
You got this offended at a nice, aesthetic product? I for one, love it. I like the design. All this fuss about the word "artisan", who cares? It's marketing.
Open mouth, insert foot I suppose. Though this leads me to a second question, equally interesting ... why haven't I heard of this? Aside from the obvious (I've never looked directly for it), there are two aspects at play - my own filtering, and the editorial decisions of the news organizations.

For the former, I aim for diversity, but it's hard to know you're getting the "full story" as well as what's a "credible source" when all you have is what's already available to you.

For the latter, none of us is immune to this influence, unless we operate our own news / fact-finding outlet, and then our internal biases still provide an umwelt [0] that's hard to escape.

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[0] http://xkcd.com/1037/
Marketing is not an excuse for incorrect claims.
Sinatra Cookbook - Recipes for the Ruby framework
All improvements are much appreciated. The only problem that gets worse at every release is Visual Studio's context menus. They are getting more bloated everyday and that is a PITA.

They[1] say it's been resolved in 2013RC, but I don't see much improvement specially when you add the now-almost-standard extensions such as WebWorkbench and WebEssentials.

[1] http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
i will surly use this app when i travel
I use both. I like R for its charting capability and the sheer amount of packages for different use cases. I use Python to pre-process data and get it into because it is a lot easier than in R. Also Scikit-learn, NumPy and Pandas are really nice.
Online education: We're learning what doesn't work
> I'm glad to hear Rust is all wonderful now.

Nope, we're not saying that yet, Rust still needs a ton of work!

> How does Rust handle "find_and_insert" now?

Google doesn't return any obvious results for this string, what is it supposed to do?

> is Rust supposed to be 'safe and fast'? Or just 'safe'?

If Servo (written in Rust) isn't faster than Gecko (written in C++), then Mozilla won't continue funding Rust. Rust needs to be fast in a very existential way. :) And it will be! Initial benchmarks of Servo's performance are incredibly promising (pcwalton could go into more detail here), and there's still bushels of low-hanging fruit to be plucked.
Good point — still not used to using svbtle as a blogging service, I'll try to see what I can do to change the image links.
Texan here. The ad series is great - I don't necessarily relate to the India/Pakistan split well, but the emotion presented in the ad is quite easy to relate to.
Gitter, a smart chat for GitHub
Monetizing Open Source
No subversion in the CVS options? I still think it's a great option for dev teams of 2 or 3 people.