skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well of course the bidding isn't "open" in that sense. You don't even know until after the hammer falls whether the final price came from a bidder or from the auctioneer himself, in order to meet the reserve.

http://www.keeneland.com/sales/conditions-sale

Also, I stated that I found the practice of funding one's own project unobjectionable. I think defunding threatens the entire model of KS, but defunding one's own project is the least objectionable aspect of that. Whatever Kickstarter can do to prevent or ameliorate defunding, within the bounds imposed by credit card practices, they should do.
I'm a professional iOS game developer with a relatively popular game currently in the App Store. However, I'm an Android user.

In terms of revenue, Android may be catching up, but iOS will remain significantly more profitable for the forseeable future. Also, support for Android is a nightmare.
> Gaming on OSX doesn't work as well as on a PC because you can't put OSX on custom hardware.

I'm sure most of those 20 million Ubuntu boxes have top-of-the-line CPUs and blazing fast GPUs, right? Fact of the matter is, the vast majority those machines won't be able to run anything other than 2D games.

Also, before we start condemning OSX as a platform with no games, need I mention Borderlands 2? Metro: Last Light? All of Valve's titles? Civilization? Bioshock Infinite? Batman: Arkham City? XCOM: Enemy Unknown? I mean, come on. At least do some research.

> You sound like an iOS developer.

Don't do that.
What a troll! Anything more concrete to justify what you "think" or should I say believe ?

I don't see what could be "conspiracy crazed" in my comment. It looks like you believe that if someone knew how it worked, the whole world would immediatly know it as well. This might be a shock for you but this world is not sesame street.
Track Your Kids With FILIP, a smart watch.
Yahoo(whimsy)!
I'm not sure which plugins you have running, but it definitely splits it into three pages for me.
Theoretically, they are not allowed to do that. If it is evidence that would affect the outcome of the case, they are obligated to disclose it. While it seems like due process and the rule of law is being eroded daily, I really hope that the below case still applies...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_v._Maryland
Don't worry, it was yet another trick.
reddit has private messaging.
Thayer Ventures' Lee Pillsbury on 100 Years of Industry Disruption
> While this is interesting, is it enforced by the compiler?

Of course. That's the whole point. I really think you've missed the nature of Ceylon. Don't imagine, that just because it has a syntax that looks friendly and harmless and familiar, that it doesn't have a really killer type system under the hood.

> i.e. is the following a runtime, or compile time error?

A compile-time error, of course.
The TV networks, MPAA, RIAA started issuing automated DMCA notices in early 2013, making it more or less useless for content. Have things changed?
People weren't scared to fight people with box cutters, they just had no idea what was happening. The traditional model of airplane hijackings until that date was a hijacking followed by a safe landing and hostage exchange. The smart thing to do, given previous patterns, was to sit quietly and obey instructions.

If you've noticed, people are now much more wary of potential hijacking, to the point where a person who charged the cockpit door was beaten to death by passengers.
Triangulation as a Service has been around for a couple of years too http://developer.verizon.com/content/vdc/en/verizon-tools-ap...
I hope this story continues to be covered, I am very curious to see what the truth of this matter is. If the witness was truly put on the no-fly list it is hard to imagine how her testimony could have been more damaging than the action of putting her on the list to prevent it. That move would be insane, even for DHS.
AVR-GCC is really quite a hack. It abuses types right and left (float? double? int? That's not how i knew you!). And the compiler thinks it works on a 16 bit machine, which often yields weird code.
Corporate culture clashes: What does rocky P&G/Gillette merger teach?
Congratulations. Your refutation of my argument is very persuasive.
I also have gotten better results with separate read, modify, and write instructions than with combined. I think this is because the separate assembly statements allow for more explicit scheduling.
Believe me when I say all your personal information is on SOMEONES computer. Everyones is.
Yes, I heard about it before.

I recommend that the travelers check the goods thoroughly before accepting the order. If the service buyers who want their goods ship do not allow their items to be inspected by the travelers, I recommend the travelers NOT to take the items with them as it is not worth the risk.

This is somewhat eliminate service buyers privacy, but from what I understand, most people who are using this service would buy items that are either cost too much in their local market or item availability is rare to none. Example, PS4 or Xbox One. iPhones, iPad, used laptops, bike parts, electronics, limited edition items, etc.

People who are using this service are also people in emerging markets with corrupted customs system (that delays items clearance or must bribe to get the item cleared), so with travelers carrying the items with them and declare as personal items, then it will make the shipping faster vs ship it traditional way (FedEx, DHL). Example can be seen for most electronics items like phones or laptops.

Everyone knows that in Asia especially, customs can be troublesome (i.e Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Thailand). Items are always backlogged and if you are shipping to remote city, it will take weeks to ship the item. This would eliminate that delay as well, so people in remote city can get their item faster.
Which brings it back again to my initial comment:
"I don't understand why functions like gets and sprintf weren't removed from the standard and headers a long time ago."

And by a long time I mean before 1989 (certainly before 1999).
> I don't recall what my Adobe password was

This will tell you your password hint (and if any other user had an identical password, you will see their hint also. ) https://lastpass.com/adobe/
That might be a problem if spambots are involved, though.
Challenges in Mirroring Large MySQL Systems to HBase at Dropbox
YotaPhone e-ink smartphone
Just placed an order. Looking forward to receiving the card.

You guys should consider doing affiliate deals with places like http://makeagif.com. (That's where I made my animated GIF in the first place.)
E.U. Imposes $2.3 Billion in Fines Over Rate-Rigging Scandal
Their record label has a soundcloud account.

https://soundcloud.com/nuclearblastrecords/cradle-of-filth-m...

http://noisecreep.com/cradle-of-filth-sign-to-nuclear-blast-...

Also? Bands who don't make millions are still real bands, and small indie record labels are still real record labels.
Just learned that it's dangerous to put a command prompt on a webpage because it took me about 0.2 seconds to hit ctrl+w 3 times and kill 3 tabs.

I like it though.
Contempt of Court, perhaps?
music provided by soundcloud ☁
Vertically-aligned is a good way to get 3D out of lenticular prints because each eye sees different images. Unfortunately, this means that things that are supposed to be 2D/animated instead of 3D/still would not look as nice as horizontally-aligned ones.
The judge is William Alsup, who also handled the Google-Oracle case. This should be fun.

EDIT: Judge Alsup wasn’t willing to take any action today on unproven allegations or unverified documents. But he made clear that, “I am disturbed by this…. We’ll hear from her [Ms. Mustafa Kamal] when she gets here. If it turns out that the DHS has sabotaged a witness, that will go against the government’s case. I want a witness from Homeland Security who can testify to what has happened. You find a witness and get them here.”

http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/12/04/no-fly-trial-day-2-dr-...
I watched the video and chuckled. Then, when I saw it was an ad for grasshopper, I was really impressed.

Not a bad little viral video; though I have to admit, flashing back to when I used to say some of those things (or remembering times when other budding entrepreneurs say them to me now) made me cringe a little bit.
I knew that name was familiar! This should be a great trial.
Ah, right. That's only the first time though right? Don't really consider this as a negative.
See, this right here is a perfect example of "Moving the Goalposts" [1]. We first redefine "excellent" to mean "without flaw", then state that using non-open drivers, which are freely available, no longer makes linux driver support excellent because it closes a section of the linux community. This also comes dangerously close to being a "No True Scotsman" fallacy as well [2].

What's even more interesting is that in a different post, you said that AMD's open drivers were better than their closed ones, citing power management and less bugs as one of the benefits. Here you are doing a complete 180.

Go to Phoronix.com and show me the benchmarks where Nvidia's windows drivers consistently outperform the Linux ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman
The "Education" system doesn't teach sheeple to be critical thinkers. It trains a subservient citizenry. You don't want your slaves to be critical thinkers, just trained enough. The student is disciplined and trained to guess based on incomplete information given to them. We have got to teach children to build upon first principles.

Poor kids, they are so afraid of being wrong! They would rather guess then take the time to figure out the fundamentals. They want to tell the teacher what he/she wants to hear regardless if it is a correct solution or not. I suppose that's what humans learn in a prison.

School Sucks. Enough with Civic Religion.

https://mises.org/daily/2937/
Doing some research I found this: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/55%20Anti-dilution%20Pro...
A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility
I carry a little piece of paper in my wallet that has my private key further encrypted by myself, and that encrypted key is used to decrypt other passwords through a private web/mobile app I made. The top encryption key I have is just some sort of simple algebraic mumbo jumbo formula I used to scramble my private key just a bit, and I change it up once in awhile, and have that written down. What's in my memory is how I jumbled it.
>First, SQL is a standardized language. It's not copyrighted, and has an ISO standard.

Pre-standard implementations had copyrights. Under this ruling the standard itself would violate those. There might be some sort of promissory estoppel type thing if all of the owners of the implementations also participated in the standardization process.

In the US post-1978 works don't even have to be registered to receive copyright protection--good luck tracking every significant bit of API lineage down and not getting hit by a troll that acquired the assets of some dinky company.
Agreed. After years of haranguing Nvidia, for example, it wasn't until Valve started pushing linux gaming that Nvidia FINALLY started clearing the air a bit on their atrocious driver support.

Valve has a lot of influence in PC gaming. Whether it's enough to raise linux as a preferred platform for PC gaming, only time will tell, but I hope it does.
Seems to be duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850036
Hi, two things.

People knowing that you have account yyy@example.com at example.net could use that information in a spear-fishing attack, or know that you're involved in a controversial website, prohibited website, etc.

Emails were not the only things that were stolen. For example, in the Adobe breach, encrypted passwords were stolen. If your email address is shown as being in the Adobe breach, that also means that your encrypted password, password hint, etc. were stolen. For Sony, maybe credit card information.

If this website was only about whether email addresses were leaked, then why would anyone type in their email address into this website (thus leaking your email)?
Why? Why are you envious of him? You can choose to only sometimes carry a phone or turn it on.
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> SQL is a standardized language

What does being standardized have to do with it? MP3 and h.264 are standardized, that doesn't prevent them from being heavily patented. Likewise being standardized wouldn't prevent an API from being copyrighted.

> It's not copyrighted

If APIs were copyrightable, they would automatically be copyrighted when they were written down in a fixed form. That's the way that copyright works; you don't have to take special action to copyright something, it is automatically copyrighted when you create it. Registering a copyright puts you in a stronger position legally but it is not required to actually have a copyright.

See the danger now? If APIs were copyrightable, every API would automatically be copyrighted. Implementing an existing API would be copyright infringement unless you had a license.
Sure there is: "Two million Facebook, Gmail, other passwords stolen".

Or: "Two million passwords stolen, including from Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter".
> And that, folks, is why we as engineers and hackers have a moral duty to be very selective in the types of work we take on and for whom.

Computer yechnology work is still a wild west. Other fields which have similar ethical considerations - medicine, chemistry, engineering - have ethics courses which make it clear to the graduates that their professional decisions have consequences.

There is no such standard for computer people. It still baffles me that people would voluntarily work at implementing something like PRISM - I would literally quit my job over something like this; similar considerations have popped up in the research I do for my Masters thesis - but ethics is definitely something we would talk more about.
Adding an American specific context to headlines talking about the healthcare system do serve as a reminder how exceptional the American system is. Many issues cut across international lines, as with technical articles, but this is not one of those things.

The New York Times is an international newspaper, it covers stories from all parts of the world. While they have a default America implied, yes, but why does this habit have to carry over to Hacker News?
Startups are overrated. Start a service-based business. Start alone. For the first 3 - 6 months, focus on building a portfolio of good work and references. For the next 6 - 12 months, focus on steadily increasing your rates/prices and bring on-board one or two technical people to help you on a freelance basis. You must continue to do sales and ask for referrals. The next 12 - 24 months, focus on scaling your services and capacity. I know it's easier said than done - but this is what worked for me.

Background: 25 years old this year, software development firm made $500k in revenue so far in 2013.

Caveat: 1 million dollars revenue != 1 million dollars profit. Huge difference.
The government lawyers should face disbarment for lying to the judge about the DHS's actions. These aren't prosecutors, they don't have immunity and they have professional duties that _absolutely_ do not involve lying.
Forex. Stock market. Niche web/mobile app.
I had a very insecure password on adobe.com. i.e. low-enough entropy that 55 users had the exact same password. I figured since Adobe do not have my credit card number and there is nothing to gain by impersonating me on that site, it did not matter. I have not used the same email/password combination elsewhere, but even if I did it would only be on other low-value accounts. I'm not worried about attackers finding it by association either (they will have it already from dictionary attacks.)
Ziptango is not liable for depreciated item value, loss of items, stolen items, or broken items due to courier mishandling, nor are we responsible for replacing items carried by the users of Ziptango.

I understand that the rating/rep system may help to figure out which couriers are reliable, but this still feels very risky to me. What recourse would I have if the courier damages or just plain steals my PS4?
Yeah that's true. Should always try to mirror prod as close as practical in dev, and OSX != Linux. So I use just one Ubuntu lts VM with docker backed by zfs. That way, I can ssh to it and predictably recreate any number of isolated environments. Way faster than vagrant and still provides isolation, although docker could be driven by it. There's always a need for some sort of deploy/configuration mgmt to bootstrap to speed up testing and reduce tiny difference gotchas. The other good things are that it doesn't sacrifice osx usability, no reboot is needed and it doesn't require repartitioning.
Show HN: elipsis.io (open source password vault)
I know. If I wanted my information to be "safe", I wouldn't have an online profile at all. For starters, I wouldn't use Google services. It's a matter of limiting exposure at this point. I know the NSA reads my email and can probably log into my home router, but I don't want everybody else to do the same. Otherwise, let's all change our passwords to "password" and be done with it. Just because protection isn't close to 100% doesn't mean I don't want any at all.
I read this entire article, and I'm still not sure what it really said. IMO the author falls into the same trap as most of the media, casting people as "leftist" or "conservative" when most take a liberal position on some issues and not on others.

What's really happening, in my opinion, is that there are people who are happy with the status quo. These people are usually doing pretty well (see Koch bros or startup millionaires.) They are politically inclined to believe in things that are in their own self-interest: for many tech geeks, that is the "freedom" of information because it sustains the belief that they can personally profit from such a situation.

You saw a lot of this with Google. For a long time, they were all about freedom of information and open source software because their mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". A key part of doing that is having access to all of the world's information. But now that they have proprietary information that is in their interest to keep to themselves, that tune of openness and transparency is changing a bit (see Google+, et al).

Many tech folks have the same thoughts about government regulation. "If only HIPAA didn't exist, I could create a universal medical records solution!" Nevermind that if the regulation didn't exist, someone would have done it a long time ago: tech people see government regulation as a limiting factor in their potential for greatness.

It's not about "left" or "right", it's about individuals who believe many different things for many different reasons. To call out "cyberlibertarians" as a unified group is disingenuous at best: net neutrality is a classic case where this falls apart. The cyberlibertarian believes in additional government regulation on telecommunications not out of a belief that government regulation is a good thing, but because they fear the loss of a profitable market that belongs to technologists. It's special-interest politics at its finest.
Ah. Then my first statement stands, I guess.
One of their developers mentioned a few months ago that type aliases were still an upcoming feature[1], though I do agree with your statement in general.

[1] http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/08/kotlin-m6-is-here/#...
>By doing this you make yourself a target. If any one of those are compromised, attackers will attempt to try that against a lot of popular sites (including banks).

And if you use the same email for everything (as is the alternative), attackers can attempt to try that against popular sites. So I don't see the downside of this method?
This is my search engine for Usenet, currently only for the 1980s but I hope to have 2003 onwards searchable soon. I have about 2TB of news from 2003 which just needs indexing and uploading.

http://www.dejadejadeja.com/10years/

My goal is to give people an alternative to 'Google Groups'.

It's built on PHP and MySQL.
Does anyone know if this is actually the case? I have noticed something similar and I am curious about it. My new employer uses ADP for payroll, but does not use the online system. However I can still log in to the ADP online system using my account credentials from my old employer and get electronic copies of my new paystubs. I would like to know if my old employer has access to these paystubs.
Not a win for the consumer: these double and triple shaving blades are more expensive than ever.
> You can choose to only sometimes carry a phone or turn it on.

Easier said than done. Unfortunately.
Apropos http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/window...
> the organic way has a better impression on site visitors.

The danger of that is when someone hijacks your hashtag or name and starts complaining.
Also the only alternative for formatting content was HTML, which invited people to use weird fonts in funny sizes. I think something like markdown would have benefited the ecosystem.
'Other airlines receiving similar instructions have acquiesced to DHS orders to keep the instructions from the DHS, and the reasons for the airlines’ actions, secret from the would-be travelers whose rights are affected. '

It's pretty scary that this is such a common occurrence with government orders.
Open Letter to Peter Schiff
You snuck in "irregardless" and I claim my $5 reward.

(Maybe you also snuck in "hopefully": http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hopeful... )
You had better keep the battery outside of that phone until you are away from your home and not traveling along your commonly traveled routes, or your possession of it will be inferred by location.
What Startups Actually Need From Their Lawyers
IIRC he also smacked San Fransisco for their absurd cellphones/cancer ordinance thing. Hearing that he is involved is reassuring.
This seems to beg the question of what caused agriculture to appear. Although given that it did appear, your explanation seems like a plausible explanation of how it spread and led to the rapid progress we have seen since.

A boring answer to this question is that it was simple incremental changes driven by random mutations and natural selection (eg. evolution). For example, we might have started to occasional plant the seeds of plants as we found them, which could become us regularly doing so. Then we might have started moving the seeds to more central locations, and eventually arrive at agriculture as we know it today. These adaptations may have started before homo-sapiens. If it happened long enough before (so that there is another species with a common ancestor that did this), we could check this by looking for agricultural tendencies in species related to us (If anyone is aware of research on this hypothesis, please post).

A more interesting hypothesis is that agriculture was the result of an abiotic change. Instead of gradually developing agricultural tendencies, we 'immediately' became agricultural following some other event, such as a change in climate. This seems to be consistent with my understanding of climate history, which puts us in a relatively short window of nice climate.
If that's a possible response, the government probably would have lied to its lawyers for their own protection, not asked them to lie.
Oh that is just stellar. I don't think the DHS did it on purpose though as it is too damaging to their case. But it exemplifies the challenges of such a list perfectly.
UTD, UTA, UNT, SMU, TCU, TWU - lots of higher ed here - entry level labor for growing companies. That graphic says a lot, but it doesn't say anything about the speed at which this community is coming together. I just moved back from Boulder, and I can tell you that Dallas has every bit of the activity and passion.