skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually has a lot more processing power than the minimum required to "connect to the Internet" - TCP/IP and web servers have been implemented on microcontrollers with KBs of RAM. Parsing and rendering HTML, however, does need more than that...

...or maybe not, as this C64 web browser(!) shows:
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=30400
JQuery Dynatable Plugin
I disagree on dvorak, except in the sense that even dvorak doesn't remap the most awkward keys: backspace and control. If you put backspace on caps lock and control on alt gr (then you can hit it with your right thumb), you are %90 there.

On a Scandinavian keyboard I also put esc on the extra key right of the left shift. My current laptop has a US keyboard but I'll be a smarter shopper next time.
"Bio" scanning. Reminds me of a trip out via London Luton a year or so ago. They were "trialling" one of those hugely expensive and ineffective backscatter scanners. We, my partner and I were pulled out of the flow and asked if we'd like to try it. "We can't decline, can we?" I ask. "Ha, ha. No. But it is really safe." The operator when into sales pitch mode. I said I was well aware of the technology but understood it to overall reduce security because of the money wasted that would otherwise be spent on trained personnel. He repeated again that it was safe, by which point my girlfriend was already shepparded into the device. "I mean," he jokes, "you're not pregnant are you?" "Yes," she honestly replied, now standing arms raised in front of the sensor. After a short pause, another assurance of safety followed. I said I would happily undergo a manual search, but he said that would not be required. Scan over, we were let go. "Well," my partner began as we strolled passed the duty free, unable to really pay attention to it now. "That was humiliating." Indeed it was.
Ouch.

They're probably encoding in XML and several nested layers of base64!!

(yes I have actually seen people doing this in a finance company's integration platform).
> Indeed, some publishers, seeking to protect their own investment in scholarly work, have authorized third-party agencies to find articles posted in violation of their contractual rights and to issue Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices that threaten legal action if articles are not removed from the web.

Wow! Really? I am a math professor, and in mathematics I have never heard of this happening. It would strike me as professional suicide on the publishers' behalf: holding a knife to the neck of their golden goose.

It seems that I was not alone in this perception:

http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9958/why-do-univ...

Although I am in 100% in support of Caltech's policy, I would have guessed that the issue was mostly theoretical and that they were only taking a stand on principle. Either Caltech is bluffing, or I stand corrected. I'm not sure which. But in either case, kudos to them.
Five signs you’re not agile; you’re actually mini-waterfall
Do we really need a genderised programming language? As a female programmer, I don't feel discriminated by current programming styles - I think they fit my brain as well as anyone else's. I am afraid of positive discrimination which puts any minority in a ghetto by highlighting differences who simply aren't there. Programmers come in all shapes, sizes, genders and sexual orientations: in fact, it's one of the charms of the profession. Privilege code quality over oneupmanship and more girls will come (and diversity in general will increase).
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For that to be true, then you have to imagine rich people sitting around on hoards of gold and gems or stuffing cash into mattresses. For a start, the largest groups of investors are pension funds storing aggregate savings of normal workers. For a second, even when companies like Apple hoard cash, it's not just sitting in a Cupertino vault. It is in a bank account, and that bank is then lending the money out for other uses.

Your example also assumes that businesses automatically get to keep surplus earnings through cost savings. This may. Be true in some cases but overall will be dictated by the elasticity of the market they are in. Most markets face significant competition, and so most of the benefits of automation flow through to the customers, who then either get a better product for the same price, or the same product for less. This leaves them with more cash to spend on other things, which, coupled with innovation and newly freed resources, as well as surplus capital, creates entirely new businesses and jobs. This cycle has repeated many times over many centuries and is likely to continue unless capital formation, entrepreneurship and market freedom are messed with.

Every generation has a quota of Luddites who think that this time things will really turn out for the worse, but he evidence doesn't support that theory.
‘We need better balance between theory and practice’, Bjarne Stroustrup
Former head of Google patent strategy appointed to run U.S. patent agency
An online HTML/CSS/JS editor in 162+ bytes + save & load in less than 256 bytes
Hello HN,

One week ago, I made a minimalist Codepen / JSFiddle clone in 256 bytes, and presented it to the world...

http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor

It was a huge success, and a lot of people talked about it.

Famous code golfers joined me, and we were able to cut it down to 162 bytes!

( We even found a way to fit that code in a tweet - 140 characters )

We also added optional features such as placeholders, old browsers support, different skins...

But we didn't stop there!

Our new challenge was to make the HTML/CSS/JS prototypes made with miniCodeEditor saveable and shareable, via the URL, and in less than 256 bytes.

We finally reached that goal yesterday! Here it is:

http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor/shareable.html

Thanks for your interest, and stay tuned for the next features!

- xem
I note that the definition there means that some of what were arguably the most effective bombings conducted by the IRA weren't terrorism. Which is nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Docklands_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing
Probably a bit too late notice for you, but this weekend there's a Fashion themed StartupWeekend event in London:

http://london.startupweekend.org/events/london-fashion-start...

Seems like it would be an ideal place to find likeminded cofounders.
Very nice!

Small suggestion: I looked at a random sample - the basic dates exercise (http://pgexercises.com/questions/basic/date.html) and had a bit of trouble finding the name of the table / schema description generally. It was not obviously that this is a pop-out under "Help".
Alan Sokal, is that you?
There's nothing wrong with doing a research project to figure out what a gendered/feminist programming language would be like if it were to exist.

Perhaps a little nugget of wisdom might fall out like how men and women tend to navigate differently [1].

[1] http://searchengineland.com/human-hardware-men-women-and-how...
I believe there is an alt-coin named "devcoin" that has similar intentions as you do (but they obviously pay in their own alt-coin)
As I understood the product, your "amazon locker" was your local 7-11. I imagine there's not a major difference in efficiency between having your "amazon locker" at 7-11 along with your conceptually-different "ebay locker", vs having your unified "postal services locker" at 7-11.
Spontaneous 4 hour Hackathon
Show HN - HN styled website for the Scala community
It doesn't seem to be advertised well on the main page but you can go to account settings and then bitcoin addresses to see addresses associated with your account you can send your btc to.
Click "request money", then leave all the fields blank and click the blue "request money" button in the popup modal again. It'll give you a deposit address.

Completely intuitive - I know.
My alma mater's library has a proxy that you can go through, as if you were sitting right there in the library, and have access to any journal they subscribe to. The trick being you have to be a current student, or alumni student. Alumni membership per year is the equivalent of $40, you can take out books from the library and use that proxy. You should see if your university doesn't have something similar.
That's IMAP, CalDAV, SMTP isn't it?

Where does JSON even need to come into it?
You bring up a very solid point. I've been in situations where I was "forced" to give out information such as my conversations with other people, emails, etc. on continuous basis. Although it had nothing to do with work or to a professional level, even on a personal level, that type of information, to me, was private between me and the people I communicate with.

With society heading more towards social media, connections, and networking. Holding secrets seem to be pretty difficult.

If someone were to ask me to tell them a secret, I wouldn't even know what to say. It seems like all aspects of my life is already known by one person or another, or maybe it's so secret that I don't even remember it myself.

I wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Why has no one put a gaming PC in a TV wall bracket before?
Lingua::Romana::Perligata is gendered. I don't see how it is feminist.
Hmm - what about researching how would be a programming language for black people? For lesbians? Does that makes you comfortable?
Yeah, I remember seeing a comedy skit about a guy carrying cocaine into New Zealand, freaking out when a sniffer dog singled out his baggage ... and then having to pay a fine for the apple core he left inside it ;)
https://xkcd.com/624/
On rare occasions we are not able to provide bitcoin at a locked-in price. When we can't, we offer the ability to place an order in USD for an amount of BTC equal to the exchange rate at the time that we receive your USD from the bank, 4 business days later. When this is offered as an option, we display a note on the buy page that says: "Note! We've exceeded our normal buy limits for today. If you would still like to purchase you will receive the market price of bitcoin on [some date] after your funds have arrived." You are also required to agree to a term like this before placing an order: "I acknowledge that the amount of BTC I receive will vary based on future exchange rates." Some users check the box without reading it; maybe this happened to you.

We're trying very hard to scale our support team. We've gone from 1 to 12 support in a matter of months, and we are hiring more support staff, and it is still difficult to keep up. We are responding, but it is almost impossible to grow fast enough. That said, 10 days sounds way too long. If you send your coinbase email address to me at craig(at)coinbase, I'll get your ticket prioritized.
Organising your Start-up to Success
This was very funny and informative post, written in a way that really helped me to empathize with the situation. Thanks!
This might be a dumb question and maybe not the right forum, but there is a huge spread between MtGx and Coinbase. Any reason I couldn't transfer my BTC's from one to another to capitalize on that?
Can you add Bitstamp growth, too?
I don't understand the terms she used well enough to work out if this is a joke or not. You will find me in Wikipedia looking up feminist subject-object theory.
Google Sheets Gets Offline Editing, Speed Boost And Filter Views
How does this kind of crap make it to the front page? What's next a vegan programming language? Gluten free mathematics? Dear god, for years I have been using a terminal with a black background and I AM WHITE!
Pretty sure it’s just Postgres now, not Postgre or PostgreSQL.
..which doesn't appear to have much literature behind it. Is this a joke about the objectivisation of women?

She appears serious enough in the comments section. It seems a shame to characterise male logic as aristotelian, and the feminist version as holistic. That seems to do a disservice to the vast number of people of both sexes who have pondered the problem.

One way or another, I suspect that this will make terrific flame-bait.
I'm not sure, but it seems not to be.

That we can't tell whether it's an actual thesis subject or a joke tells something about the state of academic social science...

Now, since the underlying question seems to be "why women don't do (computer) science?", I'd like to ask the author: why did _she_ choose to comfort socio-sexual prejudices, by studying such a stereotypically feminine subject as social sciences? Why did _she_ decide not to become a developer, a lumberjack, a surgeon, a mathematician...
Is this SEO copywriting?
"feminist programming language" used 9 times in such a short article.
> Gluten free mathematics

Tell me more.
we could probably track the growth of trading volume, if that is what you mean?
Tweets come with a ton of metadata these days.
Very nice dashboard. Would like GBP.

But great job. This is actually useful.
Started using it a few weeks ago. Loving it.

I don't want all the stuff that comes with bootstrap - I'm comfortable designing from scratch, I really just want a functioning groundwork for a responsive layout. Skeleton is perfect for that.
EU data retention in current form is likely to fall
That's the brilliance of Coinbase .. it's not tied to BTC, in fact the creator of Litecoin is part of their team now. They are building an infrastructure layer for cryptocurrency, period, and they seem far ahead of any competitors atm.
The differences in cognitive styles between men and women, both when it comes to sex and gender, are actually quite interesting as an area of research.

Just because they're being addressed from the angle of feminism and their focus on how many cultural artifacts reflect male dominance in subtle ways doesn't make it any less valid to me.
I don't know if you contacted any of the big EMS companies, but they all -- with the possible exception of Foxconn -- take small projects and prototype runs. Generally speaking, it's as part of a DFM engagement. For example, my employer, Sanmina, streamlined Bloom Energy's functional prototype design from 5 PCBs down to 1, and cut overall complexity (and cost) by a large fraction in the process. Flextronics opened their Lab IX in Milpitas, CA, to focus on hardware startup development, too. If you think you might need real engineering help and not just "dumb manufacturing", it may be worthwhile to consider the big guys, too.

http://sanmina.com/end-to-end-services/design-engineering/in...
As an NZ citizen who is outraged at this pathetic kowtowing to US interests, anyone have any good ideas about who or what I can direct pissed off emails to? it would be nice to at least feel i've tried to do something
The 8 Critical Elements of Big Data Success - Video
Without knowing more details, this reads like "our square peg didn't fit into App Engine's round hole". Pre-computing massive amounts of data on instance startup sounds like they don't have the correct mindset. Since every new instance starts from the same state, it must be true that whatever is being computed is, in fact, the same for each instance. This is a bunch of work which should be offloaded to a task once (or on a schedule) and saved somewhere like blob storage. Then each new instance can just load that precomputed data without having to duplicate the work that has already been done. I'm guessing that this lengthy computation is the search index which they reference elsewhere. They also complain that datastore reads are quite slow. Presumably if new instances are building a search index, they will be churning through lots of datastore queries which degrades performance and raises costs.

Bubblesort is slow on App Engine too, and you'd do much better switching to a different sort algorithm on EC2 as well. Every platform has a way to shoot yourself in the foot. Perhaps the solution isn't to move off, but to just not do that. Or, this blog post could be titled "How we didn't do our due diligence and chose a platform which was unsuitable for our problem space".
Show HN: Convos, a OSS persistent IRC web client built using Mojo and Redis
International law is a joke when only people who lose wars are prosecuted.

(I have a lot to say on this point, but I'll leave it at that and point you to this[1])

[1] a series of three blog posts, old now and in need of rewriting:

http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/the-failure-of-the-state/

http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/lie-back-and-think-of-engl...

http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/fluffy-federalism/
No, it's called PostgreSQL. Some people abbreviate it to Postgres or pg. See also http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProjectName.
I think the diary analogy is great, but the author fails to explore it properly. It ignores aspects such as self-awareness, self-consciousness and self-censorship. Notice a lot of 'self's in the previous sentence? A diary is a very personal thing. When you are writing in your diary you poor your heart out about everything and anything. You can do this because you are the only person who will ever read this stuff. Imagine writing something that other people will read, like your mom (anything sex-related is out of the question), your colleagues (better not say your boss is a total jerk), your friends (don't mention that secret Anne told you about Peter, or you wlll lose 2 friends) or your government (no wait, they already know everything anyway).

Similar things happen when you are writing code for yourself and yourself only. When I write code for my own pleasure. I don't care so much about documentation, clarity, robustness, polish, etc. Yes, I am a bad, bad person. Anyway, compare writing code for yourself with code you share with friends (generally supportive, but add some polish and fix that hack so they don't think you're a complete idiot), colleagues (semi-critical yet supportive, maybe try to score some bonus points using a FactorySingletonVisitorBean) or hackerne.ws (super-critical, probably rewrite it in the language-du-jour first, prepare to be burned at the stake anyway).
This article (and comments) reminds me of the fake interpreter at the Mandela memorial service: there's a lot of repetitive hand waving without conveying any meaning.
That's true, of course. And they do list the rack in the list of materials.

I mis-interpreted "If the car doesn’t come with one, rent or buy the specific roof-rack for that car", which still mentions renting the rack as a solution, of course, even if it seems they actually didn't rent the rack they used.
DOM Manipulation and Event Handling in ClojureScript
I'm not sure if that's better or worse than my experience, where my order was cancelled altogether, freezing ~$1800 in my bank account for six+ days only to return the money because it was "too risky." I'm not interested in doing business with Coinbase anymore.
How can you retrieve all the information from the facilities table?

SELECT * FROM Facilities

ERROR: relation "facilities" does not exist
Position: 15

Query was: SELECT * FROM Facilities

Useful.

It looks great, it's almost there but you've got to approach these things from the point of view of a novice.
and I was, effortlessly and by a wide margin, the star student in his class.
Small point of order: a feminist programming language would not be a genderised programming language. Men can be feminists too.
That's perfectly all right - you can have things specifically for only women, black people or lesbians. In fact you should have those and you'd better support them. Failing to support those kind of movements means your company probably isn't moral.

Of course, a programming language created specifically for white males would be both racist and sexist.
Yes! It's very hard to get your dollars in and out of Mt. Gox at the moment (this is not the case with Coinbase or Bitstamp). So what do you do once you've sold your coins at a higher price on Mt Gox?

When you see a higher price between in exchanges, there's usually some liquidity issue at play there.
Taking the time to think
I'm only saying, what's not written can't be read. What isn't said can't be heard.

My mother was a lawyer and always taught us never to talk over the phone about things that were potentially incriminating, much less writing it down -- and this was in the seventies-eighties, long before anything resembling the Internet or the mass-surveillance capabilities of today's NSA.

What I'm saying is that a real secret is something not shared with anyone; if you need to share a "secret" with another person:

- you need to take extreme precautions, such as not talking about it on the phone, not writing about it, not alluding to it when in presence of other people

- you can only talk about it in person, not over any kind of wire, regardless of what you think are good encryption methods

- and even if you do all of the above it's very likely the secret won't stay secret forever

I'd say this is all common sense.
If I'm correct it refers to the preference for men's cognitive style (I perform an action on object X) whereas women's cognitive style tends to focus more on group dynamics (I relate to X and Y through Z.)
I didn't say that Tcl was unique in this approach, just that it did it before it was 'cool'.

Tcl is very much an event driven system if you want it to be - they're fairly deeply ingrained into how it works.
Data Retention Directive incompatible with Charter of Fundamental Rights [pdf]
> Sapri-Whorf Hypothesis [sic] ... if the hypothesis stands

I don't think it does still stand, does it?

For an interesting, not-overly-academic look at Sapir-Whorf, I recommend http://www.amazon.co.uk/Through-Language-Glass-Different-Lan...
In the world where information easily gathered I don't even need to hide these thing. If you know my favorite lube then whatever, I would know yours or other people too. These things would not be taboo or strange.
I'd think that using back-end instance(s) to off-load the computational intensive work on GAE is pretty much the same thing as switching to EC2.

I'm guessing that Google Compute Engine wasn't generally available at the time of the decision, but you'd be able to solve most of the issues described with a well thought out front/back-end GAE/GCE architecture since GCE is formally launched now.
Language has even been found to influence color perception [1] so in one form or another it most certainly still stands,

[1] http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/how-language-affects-color-...
Somebody please do microsoft's Natural keyboard with Cherry MX Clear keys. And fixed transceiver. That would solve it for me.
I don't have any applicable skills for the team, but the company perks remind me of a fun start-up that wants its workers to work their asses off (free lunch and -dinner-? Better throw in the Dr. Pep). I like that. Hope you guys do well.
> Use Netflix instead of a cable subscription.

No, using Netflix just feeds these bureaucracies more money. Torrent everything that you can, and encourage others to do so. It really is the only way to take these horrible entities down.

If you want to support the content creators, then give them a direct donation after torrenting the content instead of letting the record companies or what have you get its dirty hands on a huge chunk of it.
It's a practical thing. If you write a secret down, then there's another instance of it in the world; an instance that might (and most likely will) be mishandled or otherwise discovered by third party, accidentally or not. So if there's any instance of the secret outside of your head, it's better to treat it as 'public but not yet discovered by people', and adjust your OPSEC accordingly.
This reminds me of a lecture I attended in Berlin by "Alan N. Shapiro". Has anyone else here encountered his work?

http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1n5tje/skeptical_ab...