skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allow me to articulate my issue with it. It pushes the impression that these are the creative geniuses that are pushing things forward. Someone else just has to do the 'little detail' of making it work. The engineers that spend their careers making this kind of stuff have usually thought of these ideas before, but they did not put up a flashy web page for people to fawn over-- because they actually realised the issues and inviabilities involved.

This idea is by no means the worst- that award goes to the 'modular' mobile phone designed to reduce waste, that anyone with the slightest bit of knowledge of mass production or high-speed circuitry would instantly write off as laughable. With flexible circuitry, this is actually not that far from being possible. The main issue is the data transfer.. you could spend a lot of time and money getting something to work poorly, or you could just obtain the same practical functionality infinitely better and easier by making them act as physical shortcuts to cloud (or local) storage-- why would you want your data strewn across many slow, small stickies that you could easily lose instead!? And this links back to my original point that the engineers have already thought of it-- because you have just reinvented NFC.
There was some recent quote about Gabe saying something along the lines of "open source is the future of gaming". I wouldn't be one bit surprised if that were bull though. In fact a less literal but more likely interpretation of that is "in the future we'll exploit (more) open source for our own benefit."
This is one my favorite questions on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/q/13637892/1273830
The FBI Goes To Disturbing Lengths To Set Up Potential Terrorists
A smarter approach would be just to use one of the highly optimized ones that exist already ... I use popf, which supports numerics among other things:

http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/andrew/popf.html

You just have to write a problem and domain file which is very easy LISP syntax, it's standardized too[1], so you can swap planners later. I can give you examples if you want.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_Domain_Definition_Lang...

disclaimer: I am collaborating with Maria Fox's group
> You do realize that this means only the rich and powerful can defend their property, right?

Nope, I don't realize that at all. It's a common objection made by people who don't understand how private legal systems work and have never looked into it. You'd know better if you had read the books I recommended above.

There is no way to perfectly defend property - "utopia is not an option" - but you can raise the cost to the criminal in various ways. The cheapest is by buying a lock. Even very poor people can and do have locks on their doors or bars on their windows. Another cheap option is to organize a volunteer community watch program. A little more expensive but still quite doable is for any GROUP of people to form a neighborhood association which hires a guard for the neighborhood - this has often been done by a local merchant's association. The poor currently pay a rather large amount of money for "protection" in the form of police salaries paid via sales tax and property tax - but they don't GET protection for their money! The government-run police primarily serve the interests of the rich and powerful and their own interests - they don't do much to protect the poor. In a private system you get what you pay for and pay for what you get - people who hired police protection would actually GET police protection.

> You create a system of might makes right

Nope. In fact, putting government in charge is a system of might makes right, one prone to terrible abuses. Decentralizing power makes it less prone to abuse. I'm talking about actual rule of law, which does protect the rich and poor alike.

> And if you lack the power to defend your property from those more powerful than you, you need the protection form someone who does, which leads to feudalism

Here's another option: Consider that by social convention when you aggress against me I have a claim against you for damages. Suppose I can sell that claim. If I can afford to prosecute you directly I do so; if not, I sell my claim against you to someone who is more powerful. But selling a claim is an ordinary business transaction - it doesn't give the buyer any special power over the seller.

(BTW, wikipedia says "There is no broadly accepted modern definition of feudalism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism#Definition )

Tell you what. If you just want to read a SINGLE CHAPTER of MoF that most clearly addresses your concerns, it is quite short, it is titled "POLICE, COURTS, AND LAWS---ON THE MARKET", and it can be read online here:

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Machinery_of_Freed...
given that a sensical idea of time couldn't really exist before the universe, i believe it is sound to say that current understandings of the universe already state this.

just that "forever" is 13.8 billion years long and counting..
They are going to die anyway.
And more than a half a century later, nothing changed:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fbi-hatched-some-crazy-te...
The problem isn't that the idea is "wrong", but that its not a notable enough idea to warrant a wikipedia page. Anyone can coin any term in a blog post.
She sounds so sad at the accusation, like she's failed at the game.

I'm interested in what triggers the "laugh" response, it doesn't just appear to be a random "I don't understand", I wonder if it's picking up on the inflexion in the caller's voice and trying to mimic their tone/mood.
Your tl;dr does this paper a serious disservice. It is at once more enlightening and more entertaining than most other papers.

It's also accurate.
I actually like the way nil is treated. I'm not a big fan of writing code with guards all the time like this:

// As in C#/Java
if (obj != null) {
obj.doSomething();
}

At least in javascript it's easier with the && operator:

str && str.doSomething();

In Obj-C you can just:

[str doSomething]; // If you really care if it happened or not, then introduce a check for nil

Once you get used to the idea that nil doesn't break your code, you start writing your methods accordingly.

For me, a lot of the stuff you write about (ARC, Blocks, literals) are the great improvements to the language.

Before ARC you had C/C++ like control of the memory and you could do some crazy stuff like an object holding on to itself and then committing suicide (pretty useful actually). With ARC you only have to care about retain cycles and declaring weak/strong pointers. It's an awesome feature for a non-GC environment.

Blocks are truly the biggest change in Obj-C and made the code much easier to develop. Any async task is now easy to deal with. Alongside GCD, multi-threading is made simple.

What I'm really trying to say is that from the first iPhone OS to iOS7, we've seen some major improvements to the language. If it continues at the same pace, you'll might like it more in your next year's review.
Amazon launches new installment payment plans for Kindle Fire HDX
GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language
Not everyone has what it takes to start a company. Conversely, not all companies want someone who has started a company. Granted, that company's culture would probably be a poor fit for you, but the fact is that not all companies regard starting a company in the same way. And re: taking contracts. . .you still must interview for contracts. And while companies may be willing to take more of a risk with contractors than with full-time employees, biases still exist during the interview process. You can be passed over for contract positions just as you can be passed over for full-time positions.
Probably just an ASIC BTC miner, capitalizing on cooler operating temperatures and free super effective non-atmospheric blocked solar power.
Preposterous
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From the only theme you offer:

> Features: Glyphicons Pro Icons (Worth $ 59)

From the Glyphicons license page:

> This license is... non-sublicensable. ... Reselling of the icons is prohibited. The license is non transferable and it is tied always only with one buyer (his email address). ... If your customers would like to use GLYPHICONS as a part of their own (another) product, they have to buy their own license. ...
> You must not: - resell icons or offer them for download anywhere on the internet - use icons as a part of any application where your customers are not a final customer

That doesn't seem to leave much room for interpretation...
MyWorksheets wins Startup Weekend All-Star competition
nil just always comes back with 0 or nil or whatever -- it's like a really dumb version of None in the Maybe monad, and trying to get you some of the convenience (except way, way worse from a safety perspective).

For extra fun, NSNull (the "designated" object (as opposed to an actual zero value of nil) to represent nil) doesn't happily respond to any message sent to it -- i.e., if you replace nil with NSNull somewhere in the code, it will most likely blow up.
The perspective of the article is perfectly legitimate, and accusing europeans is only a pretext.

Don't forget that due to the, let's say, unparalleled "power and efficiency" of the States as a country, also the "dark side" of its government is assuming very scary power and efficiency.

The three main points raised by the article are perfectly reasonable, and worst of all, they're happening, for real, now.
Simple, useful, great UI and best of all no account required.

Awesome job.

Only question is regarding the switch between view-only and collaborative. When I choose to allow friends to contribute to the album, the provided link doesn't change.

I assume you have a view-only link and an edit link that is passed a var to allow people to modify it. How does this work in your application?
This happened to me with Batman: Arkham Asylum. Not saying that the game was bug-ridden, but I couldn't get it to run on my computer.

I had previously spent thousands of dollars through Steam, and after they wouldn't refund a $5 sale, I quit buying games through them. I even mailed a letter to Gabe Newell at their corporate headquarters, and while this has worked successfully with other companies, I never received a reply.

I also won't buy games that require Steam activation, which sucks sometimes. Shadowrun Returns was one such game, but it looks like they now have it on GoG, so I have something to play this weekend.

I'd start doing business with them again for a $5 store credit and an apology, but I have little hope that will ever happen.
Yup. If they had no solid evidence, they should have left the man alone and continued to support him diligently. If you don't have proof, you have hearsay, and hearsay is not something worth persecuting someone over ever. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. If he truly was a spy, giving secrets to China, then he would have eventually been caught in the act with irrefutable proof. Willingly forcing him out with all that knowledge and talent strikes me as incredibly naïve.

If someone produces excellent, productive research, and that research is leaking, simply ratchet up security around the research until the leaks stop. If there is a spy, they will eventually look around at all the security measures and consider the risk to their life and liberty to be too great to justify leaking information further. At that point, leaks will stop, but good research will continue, and that outcome provides much greater utility than the alternatives.

People are often too preoccupied with persecution that they view the absence of persecuting anyone of something as wrong. In the US we are preoccupied with the idea that someone, somewhere may be doing something wrong and that we should be punishing that person because they deserve it. In this case (and in most cases) persecution didn't solve the problem, but tightened security would have.
So Chang'e carries a Jade Rabbit to the moon. The consequence of thousands of years of cultural fascination with the moon is that there sure are a lot of things to name moon-bound spacecraft after.
Beware when you host assets directly from your GitHub source tree. They limit requests - I had to refresh a few times.

Throw a copy of your javascript in the actual gh-pages branch.
If this "historical fact" was so well-known, how come Germany and Scandinavia used Fraktur well into the 1930s as the most common typefaces?

In reality, the respective difficulties were far harder to prove than one might think. First more rigorous scientific testing using tachistoscopes in the early 1900s/1910s provided more conclusive evidence beyond the anecdotal that Antiqua typefaces were indeed faster to parse than Fraktur. Until then, many people who were more commonly accustomed to reading blackletter simply thought it easier to read. Much of this has to do with accustomisation. If you are used to reading Antiqua, you will be faster, if you are used to reading Fraktur & Sütterlin but only encounter Antiqua every now and then, you will probably be quicker in reading the former.
Facebook hires artificial intelligence guru to improve site
翻译的太差了...
A Cybersecurity Strategy for Citizens
I can't help but think of how much money this guy has and how he's still at it, hacking away and streaming his program-a-thon. Seems like a good role model not only for creative programming but also surviving success.
Pirate Bay switches address for the sixth time this year
Really simple and neat. You might want to add HTTPS though.
I disagree with articles (and people) that are written like this. Reminds me of how burecrautized the sector can be.

99% of database deployments are made by a guy like this and they are hell on earth (thousands of tables, 20+ recursive joins between them, a specification that spans more than 500 tables, "and that's just the 'inventory' database". But hey! the guy must know what he's doing! he's got 'the theory' and Oracle certifications here and there...

At the end or the day the best theory is the one that works. An experienced and honest DBA should propose the tools that better fit the problem given instead of trying to fit the problem within the toolset he arbitrarily prefers.

Disclaimer: I'm using 'he' in its generic gender-neutral form. It wouldn't be nice to get fired just for a quick and casual HN comment.
"under the guise of spreading democracy"
That's too silly, now one would buy that. Blood for oil would probably be a hit though. A story line like that, minus the democracy part, that would be a really realistic scenario and fun to play.
Linux laptops: should you avoid buying Windows?
Well, a 27" monitor isn't actually 27" wide, but I get your point.

No, full width lines get difficult to read, but locking me into some tiny width of text on my monitor is quite annoying and, as a default behaviour, obnoxious.

Better would be a % width, perhaps with a font size that follows.

And the absolute worst is a site that uses CSS that prevents my page zoom from functioning properly.
This is how Washington plans to shutdown tech jobs (like they did w/ Auto industry).
In the iOS App Store, Apple can issue refunds if a user complains about an app. If they do, they'll refund the entire purchase price, but keep their 30% commission.

In other words, it costs developers money for Apple to issue a refund.
Boot up: Bitcoin deflation, Google v email, MOOC (dis)engagement, and more
I believe I had a legitimate complaint about the 3doodler back then: the assholes were trying to patent it even though publically documented and dated prior art from years before they claimed to have started working on it existed. Said prior art had been around on various 3d printing and tech blogs and yet these disgusting people tried to rob the world of this toy by trying to patent it. This is not a matter of "this is a bad idea" it's a matter of them going "we made up this shit, everyone bow to us and there'll be hell to pay if anyone makes it without paying us ransom" even though it's not original.
I hope they stay away from the original landing site. It's the location of one of the most important events in human history, and it would be a shame to cause damage to it.
It isn't only the SSD... Firefox is alot faster then it used to. Also, those are new addons, not necessarily the best.
Caribou
Give a demo. Asking the user to register straight away is bad design
I do agree. That ASan part of the article starts with the following sentence: "The tradeoff however is that ASan won’t detect errors such as uses of uninitialized variables or leaks that memcheck can detect, but on the other hand it can detect more errors related to static or stack memory."

Only the runtime part is considered to be less feature-complete that valgrind (because the runtime part of ASan only keeps information about allocated memory, not about memory initialization). It is compile-time instrumentation that make it possible to detect stack and global oob.
There are two components up there: the lander, and a small rover. Their announced plan was that after the rover leaves the lander, these two would take pictures of each other and send the pictures back. Note, I haven't seen any of the pictures we're talking about here, so I'm not commenting on what they are.
ah, yes... racism 101: the hive mind.
I generally do high level domain modeling first to get some ideas of the overall picture. I then tackle each components separately based on their complexity. Like ER for data, sequence for communication, class for structure. Overall, nothing too details since it's most likely will get change at some points but it is a good starting place. If you are interested take a look at an app I made for Android and IOS called DrawExpress. I made it to help me with drawing UML and ER quickly. It based mostly on gestures for effeciency although may take time to get use to that style. You can check out the free lite version first

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drawexpres...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drawexpress-diagram-lite/id6...
Point 2, apathy:

"Nothing to hide" is an apathetic "Yes, Sir" to losing self control, letting the results machine analyze and respond to your life actions with all power of an authority you've amplified for yourself.

Apathy toward drone "signature strikes" is a "Yes, Sir" to striking and killing exactly where the results machine wishes.

The results machine does not have human well-being programmed as a core, infallible rule. That means that mistakes like collateral human damage are not seen as mistakes at all, they are part of getting results.

Trusting any machine we've built to probe and manipulate the earth to meet any end other than human growth and good is very scary and selfish.

Apathy is the new allegiance toward our scary and selfish state.
That's surely just an over-reaction to people being told "and I" in response to a sentence like "Mary and me would like to welcome John to the team". You can't win.
I believe he uses a Das at work(saw it mentioned in a story about Mojang a while ago) but he mentioned on stream that he's currently using an old IBM Model M.

Both are nice mechanical keyboards with a wonderful sound though :)
Rawgithub.com is not actually affiliated with GitHub. They also specifically say not to direct production traffic to their servers, or you'll run into problems.

The author of this seems not to have paid attention to that, which is particularly silly since the page is hosted on GitHub pages, and the assets can (and should) be hosted there as well.
"From a merchant's PoV, the service credit cards offer to them is "customers can purchase something now for up to $XXXX (or higher), the merchant will get paid and won't have to worry about credit risk.""

Except... the card issuers will almost always side with a customer over a merchant in a dispute. They still have to worry about that credit risk.

"Give me a refund or I'll initiate a chargeback!" is a threat with a lot of weight behind it. Mutiple chargebacks and your rate goes higher or you're just dropped altogether.
No big peer review needed - all it takes is a couple of people in GB taking a look at what in blazes their routers are doing.

But to those of us who have heard/known of TR069, we knew that stuff like this would eventually surface...
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Thanks for the comment. It seems like there were several digital ocean comments, I will give it a try.
If I understood the linked article correctly, nobody knows about the actual effect these rulings have on UK law, where this digitalisation originated. Until there has been a similar case brought before the court, little seems to suggest that this is, indeed, not copyrightable?
Godwin's Law writ large.

Which is not to understate the scale of the problems alluded to, but the analogy isn't enlightening. It's just name-calling.
Yes, right now the "view-only" link becomes a collaborative album through a boolean set in the database. I'd be happy to create a separate url if you think that would make it more obvious.
No worries, it's quite clear to me that the VCs won't acquire any more power.
The fact that you would even theoretically be fired for expediently using a gender-specific pronoun is beyond ridiculous.
Unless, of course, you're part of the political correctness secret police.
Thank you, that's a good idea.
As you should be. Anyone still believing that doping is not a part of American sport is a fool.
Or maybe don't. You're hammering the servers of the poor folks at rawgithub.com, who specifically asked that their service not be used for heavy traffic situations.
You should try Dropbox or Cloud or any of the other existing options that make this much easier.
Value Objects and Immutability in Objective-C
Oh, surely. But as democratic thinkers, we don't trust the public by reason of their good decision making.
I've used this library before, and it appears to be no longer in active development. It's a shame, because I like it.
Can you briefly describe the technological stack you used ?
Bad news: it is only the present. Always.

:)
I don't think the article explains how the rainbow theory explains the existence of Cosmic Background Radiation.
You only need to read the news about what the government is doing with drones abroad, or with military equipment at home to think at worse case scenarios.
I'm considering writing a similar post. For me the biggest write was how steep the learning curve for the whole Cocoa (referring mostly to UIKit, but also to a few other pieces) shebang was. It's not even that the system is badly designed (arguably it could be a lot better though) but that the documentation is so so bad. API docs are okay, but don't give you the big picture. Their reference guide, on the other hand are so abstract and 1000-mile high that you don't really get practical value out of them.

After that, the system with small inconsistencies, imprecise documentation and undocumented behaviour. In short, it's not very "systematic". You don't feel there's a well thought-out system that will allow you to predict what will happen. This is especially true when talking about layout, but also other things such how views / controllers interact. There's not a culture of "best practices", so interfacing with someone else's UI libraries can be hell.

@Author: Any thoughts about this?