skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are constantly breaking backwards compatibility and committing to "stable" at this point seems unrealistic.

The team claims to have turned the corner. relevant comment from @isaacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hJbjqbIt4#t=120

> Have they at least committed to some kind of date range for a stable API?

@isaacs mentioned 2014 once. From the same talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hJbjqbIt4#t=730
Fraud in the Ivory Tower
I own a company that works with a number of contractors. I can confirm: this is a huge deal. The fly-by-night subcontractor is a thing. In construction there is nothing more valuable than a network of dependable skilled tradesman. General contractors will pay for good help.

I always thought "if this software thing doesn't work out, I'm gonna go be an electrician". I've now met lots of them making way more money than I am (and I'm well paid). Most of them basically have two or three customers, all of which are GC's. They've shown that they are:

- responsible (show up on time and in the right place)

- dependable (they get the work done on time and on budget)

- knowledgeable (they keep up to date with changes to code)

- respectful (they keep the job-site clean and work well with other subs)

In short, they're professionals in every sense of the word. In exchange they charge 3x what other tradesman charge. People are happy to pay it.
Microhydro is extremely reliable and has a very low variability compared to solar in a similar situation. If you have running water with sufficient vertical head, it's almost certainly the best option for small-scale power generation.

I've looked into it for myself, and it's something like 95%+ availability of full working power, which is probably better than the public power supply in that part of Chile! Pretty amazing stuff, and the fact that he can wind his own transformers(!!) is certainly going to make it a lot less expensive.
I wonder if Google will access an image URL in an email sent to a nonexistent address
Hopefully nobody figures out how to ASIC Litecoin. If it stays on general purpose hardware for a few years, we will have a huge network of processing power ready to be harnessed.

If someone makes Litecoin ASICs, we will have a huge network of space heaters.
As with people, pay attention to what it does rather than what it says. The right metric is action, not words or labels!
No, unfortunately, you still need a Mac to run Application Loader (a download from iTunes Connect), the very last step. This wasn't always the case. Would MacOS X on VirtualBox be sufficient for this? If not, contact me at my login at cs.uchicago.edu and maybe I can work out something you can remote into.
In the same way that programming is just typing stuff.
They don't, and it doesn't. See the post by @danielnr.
Yes, we heard the same complaint when they switched to SSL by default. How do people write things like this seriously?

Do they have gmail passwords so only they can advertise on my email?
That is a pretty fantastic outcome. You can run a pretty nice house on 7kW of power. I got the impression though that during the dry season it might not work that well, as early on they were talking about very little water in the stream.
I go to some of these meetups for OPAG (Ottawa Python Authors Group) and have had a blast. One night a table of us were there chatting away until 2AM. Fantastic hosts and a fantastic space in an easy-to-reach area right downtown.
I think the traffic from HN took the guy's site down. I loaded it fine a few minutes after the link was first posted, now I can't get to the site at all.
Everything was great here until the post suggested...let's have two formats? All the examples mentioned (one of which is my own) use a strict RFC-1738 style, and the "//" is required, including for filesystem paths. RFC-1738 already provides the spec and as all the linked examples illustrate, it's all we need. Why the second format omitting the so-called "authority part"?

edit: wow rfc1738 is like two rfcs ago, we're up to rfc3986 now. rock!
Here you go: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355268.0 It's not clear that it's any cheaper than GPUs, though.
I remember dealing with both OKRs and snippets at Google. Personally the snippets were very helpful just helping me keep track of myself. I never ran into the issues the GP did which do sound unfortunate :(
Techies Are the New Puritans
What is "hipsterism"?
Google Shopping: Obey the TOS You Accepted or Be Banned

Seems reasonable.
What The Government Learned From Healthcare.Gov (And Some Of Us Already Knew)
Everything about your post is correct except the "No,". Googlers have both OKRs and snippets.
I believe if you want my location and a confirmation I've read your email you should ask me, not shadily collect information
It definitely will. He's onto something - categories of education which can convert to immediate employment are going to be the biggest winners in the online education space.

I had this idea in Jan 2012 and even did the ground work. - Essentially devbootcamp type thing and I didn't pursue it because I'm really bad at teaching people - I get very annoyed very fast :) ...
Are New YouTube Policies Destroying The Future Of Gaming?
Well, you have the option to turn it off. They could also be serving the images cached which wouldn't indicate anything to the sender, and they are just adding this caveat to be extra cautions. Not to mention that marketing stuff has its specific tab in gmail.
Just confirmation of another vendor who said no to the government intrusions on their customer data.

I"ll say it again since it bears repeating. How many more companies are complying and giving their keys to the government so they can track people that we won't hear about??

Makes me sketchy on using any "encrypted" email service right now.
Protecting sensitive data in memory [2001]
25 days of Angular - Day 12: Handling geolocation with angular
Microsoft uses eye tracking to argue that Google distorts search results
GPU mining is still not as decentralized, as basically only high-end PC gamers (with their own default cards) and the people specifically buying GPUs for mining will have a shot at it.

CPU-only mining would be a lot more decentralized, if such a thing is even possible.
I came to say the same thing about Cook. If you look at Jobs, Mayer, etc as "product managers" that focus on creating value vs the others named that slash expenses, you have to recognize Cook's brilliance in creating the world's greatest supply, operations, and logistics machines. It's the offensive line to the iPad and iPhone's star quarterback, and a superior product in it's own right.

That said, maybe Cook's dream of a well oiled machine is more limited than Jobs' vision. Or maybe it needs to be expanded to not just be about Apple.
I agree it frees people up to do the goofy, but as someone who's been doing the goofy my whole life, snapchat does nothing to add value in that respect. It just promotes it and now people understand the goofy.
Firefox 26 blocks all Java plugins by default
Tangential comment:

News is bad because it focuses on the sensational and misses the actionable.

That's actually what frustrates me most about this article. For people who do plan to continue following news (likely including most readers of the article), the article isn't very actionable.

I would love to see a few smart people work together, look through the author's points, and outline a few ways to mitigate the legitimate problems summarized in each point. The article might be useful for other people who haven't considered these points before, but in its current state of merely spreading awareness, it's not very useful for me.
I'm astonished that the heightened 100k requirement is given such short notice and that an organization such as Google was only barely able to make it on an issue like this.
The video was not made by us, it was made by the game developers. This particular video (and blog post) is about the asm.js port of the game (and other possible solutions), not about the game itself.
this reminds me of a story my father once told me about a visit to a mental hospital:

To keep the patients busy, they would have 2 groups: One group would be responsible for unloading something from the back of a truck while another group would be responsible for loading it back into the front of the truck.

All of the people appeared to be working.
Elsevier has been targeting academia.edu lately. HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6882290
Not sure why you're getting voted down (your comment has gone grey as I type this). I don't recall the OKR system being there when I was (at least not in any sort of formal capacity). The author of the submitted piece was talking about the perception of productivity however, and that was something snippets were designed to provide (at least that was how they were presented to me)
This just leaves me scratching my head for the other side of the story. When things are so irrational, there has to be something, but I just can't think of it. It's one thing to be wealthy and hire an expensive attorney, but to actually go in front of a jury of peers to say, "Sorry, forgive me for being rich" just seems too flagrant and irrational.

Anyone have more backdrop on the story?
The whole point of a currency is that it's a universal medium of exchange. On the other hand, most real world payment systems can handle FX between currencies already, so Bitcoin-to-Litecoin shouldn't be too hard.
Why didn't you just get a new serial board with the 16550A UART?
TDD Friendly Java ORM: Joist
That's awful. I would expect more from Amazon. I guess they've decided that, in absence of looking at your actual work, they have to find other metrics by which to measure your performance -- like how many minutes per day your butt is in your seat. What a faulty metric. I'm sorry you wasted your time there, but just know that they'll get the programmers they deserve, and 95% of the places out there will appreciate the qualities you describe.
Chrome extension hides Upworthy articles in Facebook feed
> In the Puritan model of charity, the rich have an obligation to do good for the poor—but the poor also have an obligation to the rich, to try to be a useful part of the same society.

The article's author not only disagrees, but considers this model so obviously erroneous that she doesn't see any need to explain what's wrong with it. I find this unhelpful, because it fails to explain why subsidizing people who contribute nothing to society, in such fashion as to provide an incentive to continue contributing nothing to society, is in any way a good idea.
I often make the cynical observation that, "If you're not typing, you're not working."
Sorry to say this but a big part of being a developer is to talk about what you are doing (and how hard it is=). Sadly you can work hard on a backend problem with performance for months and still the guy changing some css, add big color full pictures get more attention and credit.
Ask HN: Does the acqui-hire-shutdown trend limit your use of startups?
Another startup has been acquired and scheduled for shutdown (Moped), and this seems to be a regular occurrence of late.

While I understand in some cases there is not a financial interest in keeping some products running, especially if there is no revenue to offset costs, it makes me hesitant to base any business functions on new products when I have no control over their longevity.

There are a lot of great tools out there, but for those with no premise option, a "cloud only" option controlled by the vendor seems less and less attractive. Even with data export options, lacking a local backup service does not lessen the risk much.

Does anyone have a counter-view that makes inventing time, effort, or money in tenuous startups attractive?
Craigslist:  IMG, TABLE, DIV and other tags are no longer supported
There's a lot of trivial details in this first post I realized as well (and I'll go into the main stressors later), but I definitely, agree with you. I think Marc Andreeson really hits the nail with this post: http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

Ironically, once a startup is successful, and you ask the founders what made it
successful, they will usually cite all kinds of things that had nothing to do with it. People
are terrible at understanding causation. But in almost every case, the cause was actually
product/market fit.

I'm trying to avoid this.
I believe there's more evidence for an ocean in Europa than the other Galilean moons, and the ice sheet on top is thought to be substantially thinner. As for the moons of Saturn, I suspect Enceladus gets less interest simply because it's far less accessible, and if Titan has life it won't be remotely like any sort of life we're used to, and may be quite difficult to detect.
Truth! I have a co-worker who had to jump on getting 2 of them from Newegg. They're nearly impossible to buy now unless you catch a 40% markup on ebay or something. I'm very sorry for all the gamers out there. This isn't fair to them. :( . I just purchased my LTC with good ol' USD. Besides Bitcoin, we both are betting that Litecoin will "go up to da moon!". Specifically, I expect LTC to reach $900 by end of 2014. I have no data whatsoever to back that up with other than the Litecoin-related announcements I sometimes see on various forums of small businesses accepting LTC along with BTC. I'm already holding some[1] and will probably buy a few more if I see another price drop.

1. http://ltc.block-explorer.com/address/LYmsP841obKKt9jkapj8iK...
I have not consumed 10+ hours of information about the NSA revelations and I feel I have a solid understanding of the situation.

When we read something like the NSA reports, we don't just think of what we can do right now to protect ourselves, but about how we change policies for the future. We look into what we need to develop. We look at how to protect ourselves without sacrificing privacy.

News is education. If you consume news about Kim & Kanye I would agree with you and call it information pollution. Good journalism is educating us. There's plenty of good journalism out there. Whether we want to read it and support it is another thing.
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Even if Gmail loads tells the marketer that you have opened the message (as people are pointing out, it's a bit unclear), there are still some advantages.

It protects you from the guys at marketer tracking your user-agent, your ip address (which gives a rough geo-ip), the number of times you opened the email, etc. It's unclear to me whether the images could set cookies before (they probably did), but even without that, they could just use etag-tricks, or stuff like that, to track you cross-sites.

Marketers might now know when you open the message, but proxying the image prevents them from getting more precise information.

(No idea exactly how much of this and more Google does, obviously, but they put themselves in position to do it)
could an alt-coin be based on socially useful computation, e.g. folding@home?
Cheatly - A cheat-sheet cli for a cheat repository
I think Bitcoin's deflationary nature and the naturally limited supply of it are likely show stoppers.
> Google will (presumably) always request your image URL

Why presumably?
Fascinating. Slighty related: I've stumbled over Primecoin¹ while researching Litcoin mining. Primecoin uses prime chains as proof of work. Existing GPU implementations are slower than modern processors and I'm not sure about the feasability of FPGAs and ASICS. It's an interesting idea.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primecoin
Sorry, a bit off topic but in Spain the top end of the salary range would seem to be a fair bit less than half of what you are on. How expensive is it to live in the States (Boston, rent for example)?

And does anyone want to hire an experienced Django developer remotely?
Oh that's awesome then. I hope it happens.
Gmail Privacy Proxy: Right Idea, Wrong Execution
Kik hits 100M users, adding new ones at rate of 200K per day
I'm convinced that "playing the game" and "office politics" are much more about being seen to be working hard (or the illusion of it) than actually getting stuff done well.

Even if you can churn out more quality output in 4 hours than your peers can in 8, you better make sure you're seen to be working hard for those entire 8 hours, and make sure to continually mention to everyone possible just how hard you are working at all times.
What You Get When You Pour Molten Aluminum Into an Ant Hill
Another non-USian here. Most information is always unactionable. In fact, that's a more general principle: most of anything is trash. So, expect to waste some time for getting the usefull bits.

Some of what I got as actionable info:
1 - Don't trust services. That's different from "avoid services", and very different from "avoid US services". Some times you can use non-trusted services, other times you can't.
2 - The US is messing with standard crypto. I'm avoiding eliptical crypto while I understand it's history better. I increased some RSA keys, sometimes over the old 2k bits "maximum amount anybody would ever need". I got some ideas for what to do when you don't trust your crypto algos, but I didn't need to use them.
3 - Don't trust closed source software. I already knew that one as an abstract thing (just like #1), but it was reveled that it's a completely real thing. (Also, now I have facts I can throw at somebody.)
4 - Don't trust your LAN or your hardware. Yeah, the first part is good practice - but easy to ignore. The remaining means that one must evaluate all his data worth, and prepare if needed. Ok, not really an action, unless you have data that isn't worthless.
Sexcoin. It's Bitcoin marketed at the porn industry. Its value ($0.10) will go greatly up, IMHO.
http://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html << This is really worth the click but here is an excerpt.

"So just how close is Google to the US securitocracy? Back in 2011 I had a meeting with Eric Schmidt, the then-Chairman of Google, who came out to see me with three other people while I was under house arrest. You might suppose that coming to see me was gesture that he and the other big boys at Google were secretly on our side..

The pretext for their visit was that Schmidt was then researching a new book, a banal tome which has since come out as The New Digital Age.

..

Two months after my meeting with Eric Schmidt, WikiLeaks had a legal reason to call Hillary Clinton and to document that we were calling her. It is interesting that if you call the front desk of the State Department and ask for Hillary Clinton, you can actually get pretty close, and we have become quite good at this.

..eventually we got up to Hillary Clinton’s senior legal advisor, who said that we would be called back.

Shortly afterwards another one of our people, WikiLeaks’ ambassador Joseph Farrell, received a call back to discuss the parametres of the call with Hillary, not from the State Department, but from Lisa Shields, the then-girlfriend of Eric Schmidt, who does not formally work for the US State Department. So let’s reprise this situation: The Chairman of Google’s girlfriend was being used as a back channel for Hillary Clinton. This is illustrative. It shows that at this level of US society, as in other corporate states, it is all musical chairs.

That visit from Google while I was under house arrest was, as it turns out, an unofficial visit from the State Department."
“We have heard you. We value you. We respect you.”

Ironically reminds me of what the ex-Tunisian president said before he was ousted.
Have had a very similar experience. Haven't heard a reply for nearly a month.
Can there be a coin for which ASICS will be general purpose enough?
An internship is a fit assessment that goes both ways. You and Amazon mutually agreed that it wasn't a good fit (Amazon wanted someone that worked silly hours, and you didn't want to work somewhere which measures you by hours worked). Congratulations on a successful internship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

My apologies if you meant your statement as sarcasm.
Hmmm. $11,666 per month for 1.5 developers is roughly $100,000 per developer per year. You must be talking about junior developers, because salaries around here for experienced developers aren't that low. They can't be--not when senior/experienced developers can get $100,000 working just about anywhere else in the country for less than 50% of the cost of living as in the bay area.
I think they staggered the right bracket a little too much to be optimal. This means you still have to reach much further than the other fingers do for stuff like periods and commas.

I've seen this mentioned pretty frequently, so there are some good mapping ideas out there for those who use languages with lots of braces.
Thus demonstrating the sheer idiocy of crypto-currencies -- they burn real resources on what is essentially bookkeeping.
I'm always interested in hearing your thought process. Any interest in a blog post?

Disclaimer: I am long and think that the asymmetrical nature of the possible payout makes bitcoin interesting as a "bet". I believe it is valuable because the use-cases it can deliver on make it a unique animal, so I would relate the it to the concept of going long on cars vs. horses.
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Keep in mind that the mining won't last forever. Bitcoin mining has already become all but unreachable[1] for normal household resources. Litecoin's blockchain is still new enough that it hasn't reached that point yet. Just like BTC, LTC was first just CPU, now it's GPU, then ASIC will show up then finally it'll just be pools for 0.00003 LTC a week or you'll need a freakin' Pixar+Dreamworks+ILM SuperPowered-RenderFarm or something that no ordinary person can reasonably afford access to.

1. http://www.ibtimes.com/secret-bitcoin-mine-chinese-facility-...
"Intrusion software" now export-controlled as "dual-use" by Wassenaar
On the other hand, learning to program provides another route into learning math. Instead of getting bogged down in all the math notation, learn to code, and then you can approach math from a different direction and will find it easier to understand the real math hiding under the cryptic notations.
Your iPhone is tracking you (iOS7)
And keeping tabs on when you arrived and departed certain locations:

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services (all the way at bottom) > Frequent Locations > History

Example: https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/7607/146044/XdkK5IW6HzyYV6E/upload.png
On the ~2011 model I'm using in the office, right brace is exactly under the question mark and semicolon. It's not staggered to the right at all.
>Part of the big ease of Heroku is, that you don't have to create Heroku before you use it.

I agree. It defeats the purpose of services like Heroku where users want a place to upload code and have it just work.

You also make a good point on maturity. It took many engineers years to make Heroku a mature product and keep it humming.

I do think this stuff is cool though. There's definitely a place for this sort of thing but I don't know if it should be marketed as PaaS. As soon as something becomes DIY, I would stop considering it SaaS or PaaS.

Full disclosure: I'm an Engineer at Salesforce which owns Heroku
The position of a camera and people in a room is patentable now! What next. Where does this obscene urge come from to file absurd, obnoxious, predatory patents that do absolutely nothing except stifle innovation? Why can't businesses compete on their own merits and the value they provide the world? I wonder if they realize the harm they're causing--not to mention what they're doing completely violates yogic principles. They should retract the patent and issue an apology to the entire Yoga community.
When will enough be enough and our patent system finally reformed to prevent this frivolous, grotesque, and utterly wasteful behavior?