skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know this tool but I imagine they want to make very individual prices. They probably want to know who is interested in buying this tool before they tell you a price. Also they probably have lot's of (complicated) pricing models in mind and it would be too complicated to describe all the possibilities on the website.

I have worked in a similar project myself. We developed a very specialized tool for developers. Our boss decided that he did not want to mention prices on the website at first. Once we did some people complained publicly about the price although we invested months of development and the tool was pretty neat...

In general I think it makes more sense to tell the prices upfront and try to come up with a simple price model even if it means making compromises. You can always have something like this on your website: "If you think you do not fit in any price tier please contact us to find an individual price. The prices listed are meant to show what we have in mind for the general customers."

I would love to know the reason why some people think not having prices is a good idea. Care to elaborate?
Telegram secret chat geolocation leak
Then you have enough developers to do salesman's work. This sounds even worse.
What a nice of keeping the community stable and getting rid of the children on whom the brainwashing didn't take.
> I wonder how many of those people ever had their own office. If you don't know any better, what you have may seem pretty good.

Coach never felt cramped until I was back there after the first time flying business class. Spoiled for life. If there is some second transition to travel satori -- where mountains are mountains and coach is no longer cramped -- I haven't attained it yet.

For people writing code, there needs to be some way to indicate "I am in the cave, do not disturb unless truly urgent". The most-obvious way is a door that closes. I imagine it can work other ways in other environments.
I'd LOVE for something like this to take off.
and yet another single, young man post about productivity.

get a wife, a kid, then talk about organising a life. your only constraint is yourself. nothing remotely challenging.

boring HN navel gazing.
Interesting that they use MySQL and not some NoSQL solution.
Bitcoin Santas Drop Big Money on Hackers Who’ve Been Nice
Y'know, I don't like the word "offend" or "offence". It puts the blame on the victim for "getting offended", it means the perpatrator didn't do anything wrong, it means the victim should just "grow a thicker skin".

I prefer "being an arsehole". Rather person A saying something that "caused offence", person A acted like an arsehole.
Bireysel Sosyal Medya Çalışmaları
Advantages of compiling vs Executing the AST as soon as it is constructed
This was a very interesting article for me. I find it amazing how even in a codebase such as PostgreSQL's, which is very mature and values reliability, data integrity, and correctness, errors like these could be found by a static code analysis tool.

Some of the rules seem brilliant, like successive assignment detection.
20 best apps for your new tablet computer
Funny Christmas Fart Song
All it's going to do is increase the arms race in terms of unobfuscating code. This happened with Flash quite a few years back. The war has a null sum. I don't think there's any stake to the claim that an obfuscater could be a net gain.
What does a game developer do to promote his game?
Chase Race is a completely new gaming experience because it gives you a quite new Feeling of the combination of strategy and tactical maneuvers while racing cars are running against each other in simultaneous moves.It's a whole new feeling to think both strategy and movement at the same time.
All have 8 seconds to choose his car next move and Chase Race has exciting strategy pieces that can tune the race cars driving ability.
That you can play with in the garage between races, where you tune the car, so the right combination of strategy pieces are placed in the race car before the time trial for pole position.
It's as if the cars drive like in reality, both stopping distance and acceleration are like in reality.You simply crash, if you drive too fast and the car loses its ability to make laneshift maneuvers as the number of crash increase.
In the pit, you can repair the engine, change tires and refuel, so you do not run out of fuel during the race.
There are so many strategic and tactical elements in the Chase Race App, so it leads too far to talk about it here.
But I thought I'd share this strategy racing game with others because the more players we get, the bigger the pot, which you can win the World Cup.
There is no luck in the Chase Race, but your strategic skills will determine the outcome of the races. Who wins the prize?
It's also really exciting to play for Vouchers, which you can buy iTune Gifts Cards for. But try to download from the AppStore or the website: www.chase race.com. I hope to see you on the race track.
I just wish programmers would shut up for a change. Why do they feel the need to tell you about their breakfast routine?

You try to "focus as best as you can"? YOU DON'T SAY!
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It's not fashion to wear glasses indoors. It's borderline retarded. Let's move the setting, you're having dinner with someone. They are wearing sunglasses. Any reasonable person will say, 'hey can you take those fucking things off, I'm trying to talk to you'
If Church Can Reinvent Itself, Why Can't Companies?
Makes me wonder how awesome their documentation and knowledge base must be to pull off that sort of churn.
I'm a Christian and I don't celebrate Christmas either for many of the reasons. The big one though for me is Jesus wasn't born anywhere near Dec25th and we are never told in the scriptures to celebrate his birth.

Funny thing is I get more flack from my Christian friends than I do from my non Christian ones. Irony.
Reminder: Apple’s 12 Days Of Gifts Promotion Begins Tonight 12.00am
www.chaserace.com looks like a real life mechanic shop.
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Is the site spelled differently, because I couldn't find it?
So how do we read it?

Edit: I know public key crypto... I meant: where's the key?
And it'll probably fit all your iOS devices for the next 8 years
Thanks Beshr, we'll surely do if we need any help, lots of appreciations :)
Ensemble Studios might be closed, but Age of Empires 2 is still very much alive. For one, a 50,000$ team tournament is scheduled for March 2014[1], and a 20,000$ 1v1 tourney has just finished a week ago!

There is a UserPatch that is in active development, adding such things as widescreen, multi-monitor support and fixing tons of bugs that have existed for 14 years[2].

Of course there's also the new HD version, which is in active development, but also kind of bug-ridden. A popular AoE2 caster and commentator by the name of ZeroEmpires has a nice quick video on the current AoE scene[3].

AoE2 is still a triple-A RTS game, even after more than a decade of abandonment ;)

[1] http://www.aoczone.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=96960
[2] http://userpatch.aiscripters.net/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_uOIV3SkAc

e; 0ad is really nice as well. Actually, I've not played it a lot at all, but from what I've experienced it's better than Age of Empires 3. It lacks some of the strategic aspect of AoE2 but wins in other areas (such as, not having archaic graphics, and supporting monitors > 1280x800 out of the box.)
I was just looking at phpdbg and xdebug yesterday, and they do it, iirc :) so, not impossible, but Ruby does do more stuff dynamically.
Previous reports:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6955861 (gizmodo.com) (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957735 (marketwatch.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6958705 (bloomberg.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6959403 (businessinsider.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6961294 (rawstory.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6962090 (rt.com)
OK, so I've fixed three of the bugs, not sure about how/if to fix the others.

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAASwCXe2rQX66Wzw10KMEh...
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAASwCXfgFsMt31c1srj=Fs...
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAASwCXeKeVpJi03mjzdY6A...
A rather useless listing. I don't see the point of including three dynamically typed languages with similar usage scenarios. Until Julia is battle-tested, I'd suggest to also include C++ or Java (Scala) in the toolbox. You should also be aware that you can use C++ & Java from R, R from Julia or Clojure etc. Being able to use some Java Library thus is no argument exclusively in favour of Clojure.
I still believe he might get pardon for two reasons:
1. to make sure he won't leak anymore information.
2. because most of the public think he did a good thing
You know, at the moment for me it feels as if this is exciting as if its on the cusp of something great but I'm not sure what it is or how to put it into words. Could you explain why it's amazing?
You can't judge infantile behaviour from the presence of dinosaurs. I'm a woman in my mid 20s, I still have a fluffy snake from when I was 12 that I like to stroke when I'm thinking.

Oh no! People derive pleasure from things you no-longer do.

There's a difference between being mature and being solemn. Far too often I see the latter being treated as the former. Being mature is about responsibility, managing your own life, growing to understand what you enjoy and how you relate to others. A lot of people who think they're very adult, just because they don't have fluffy snakes and the like any more... a lot of them I don't see as adults; who've thought about their happiness and responsibilities; I see sad teenagers.
How is that a negative? It really isn't and also, it still uses the standard USB connector at one end.

It's the de-facto standard for all recent iOS devices and upcoming devices for the next 5 years, and a lot of people love the reversible connector. The only ones not liking it are the ones that invested a lot in the 30-pin iOS accessories.

Just as the 30-pin connector has been the de-facto standard the first several years for iOS devices and it wasn't a standard either.
Website lacks a summary of what this does exactly and how, other than "add turtle buttons that do magic encryption voodoo" - or did I miss it somehow?
Just because Perl can parse line noise, doesn't mean you can't write readable code. I have seen very unreadable code in Python.
Drawing Christmas trees with TeX and LaTeX
Have Some Fun with ASCII Art
I've never seen this argument for a basic income, but it's a super interesting one to think about.
There was a talk by Guido Van Rossum effectively saying that Perl, Python and Ruby are the same language.
Is The New Snapchat Brilliant Or Totally Boneheaded?
You need his public key to decrypt it.
As a lover of handy paper pocketsized moleskineish notebooks, I was very happy to learn about Bullet Journal from this post http://www.bulletjournal.com/
If its something that will work inside gmail/facebook frontends (web ui), isn't it inherently at the mercy of google and facebook?
Criteo is french.
I'd be interested to see another comparison with DNSCurve on your page (http://okturtles.com/#DNSNMC):

http://dnscurve.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EGA834Nok

It seems Aaron Swartz has inspired so many great projects. It makes me sad that he's no longer with us from such a young age. It seems he had a lot of potential to change things for the better.
Wait, what about stackprof rb-lineprof flamegraph rack-mini-profiler
My theory is that it takes both a certain amount of pressure to create those tools, a certain amount of expertise and a certain amount of tooling available from the language. Due to being old, Perl has all of these and in Devel::NYTProf has a more than excellent profiler that goes beyond line, into statement level. See for example these profiling runs created with it: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10190786/ppi_bench.zip
I'd surely prefer churches to be relevant for 30-40 years than companies for thousands. shudder
Could you explain what is the getInstagramString()? Thanks!
And Don Norman has a new (and free!) MOOC on Udacity on that very same topic: https://www.udacity.com/course/design101

I have the same problem with UI. I am more of a technical person but would like to get better at design and layout. When I visit some of HN members' web sites I am always amazed at the way they look: clean and polished. I just wish I could do that kind of stuff! I will take the Udacity MOOC for a start. Thanks to other members for their suggestions on this thread.
The alluded-to scandal is that devices shipped with a not-open-standard connector?
No, I don't think so. Like copyright, there is too much money invested in the patent system to allow for any real, meaningful change.
Age of the named culture notwithstanding, the cultures have become divergent in the last 40 years due to the Kim family as well as the extremist christian nationalists. You make these broad generalizations about a group of people we as "the world" know very little about. Many Jews in Ukraine were supportive of the Nazi invasion due to the awful treatment received from the Russians. Iraq was a complete wreck, and America still managed to have thousands of adversaries. There are many examples of people acting irrationally in the face of "the facts" of their situation. Your border comment is colorful but misleading. You act as if the guns are cemented pointing one direction.
Some of us like to pre-divine a world devoid of bugs and silliness, others like to provide us with tooling to track stuff down
It's a wonderful message but I fear it will fall on deaf ears and closed minds.
> It's just a locked standard that other people can't use without permission.

You could describe anything non standard and proprietary in that way.
In times like these, I'm minded to beware the echo chamber. Coz I'm very poor at telling when I've fallen into one.
Nutshell: Some clients expect a product with service and support behind it, and they expect to pay for it. In fact, if your price doesn't obviously include support you will be overlooked for not charging enough. Too low is not a plausible price. They will have to be charged more than a startup that wants to apply the tool using their own manpower and but for serious bugs, will provide most of their own tech support.
Yeah, actually they will. It isn't in xls, it is typically in an XML format.

and since google provides the info to the NSA on demand does it matter which of them does the collection?
As someone who has spent time with Mennonites as well as Amish i am inclined to agree with you. We wonder if they see the phones and music and bright lights and get depressed or disgruntled. They wonder if we notice the insulation from emotions, they dissolution of our basic family structure, our disobedient and spoiled children, and our ballooning bodies. Perspective is a very important aspect when predicting peoples reactions, and most of the time, we amerifats are just convinced we have it better.

I got your point, but it is sad to see how pervasive the western dominance ideology is, as illustrated by someone calling you insane for being unexpected. Interesting, but largely sad.
So we can draw Santa 100% semantically, but real pages? Not so much.
You guys are ruthless! Please see my earlier comment about different types of customers vs. pricing models. If you are a lean startup, variable pricing can work to your advantage. But it's certainly different than buying from commodity vendors who compete only on price.
Actually that is not true. When companies do it, laws can be passed to stop such behaviour but when government does it, you have to change governance which is more difficult. Also commercial entities cannot siphon people's data under the title of security.
Who do you think would be an easier sell for a new TV in real life--the person at BestBuy who just looked at flat screen TVs for 25 minutes or someone random off the street?
Exactly. Sometimes I feel like we're playing a game where we see just how many different ways we can regurgitate old ideas in the style of Patrick Bateman (emotionless, preachy, assuming superiority).

Hopefully OP realizes this before it's too late:
This lifestyle -- these attempts at maximizing productivity will decrease your happiness. They completely ignore a well-accepted truth: variety is the spice of life. In the 90s we started to laugh at the yuppie workaholics of the 80s for what they were and all they failed (and succeeded) to do. It seems we've forgotten the tragedy of their often short-sighted and unsustainable lifestyle choices because I see them being repeated.

To anyone who has subscribed to this lifestyle: Go watch American Psycho and introspect on how much you're becoming a modern day version of that caricature of insanity (minus the literal killing).
That sounds like conventional "good" investing.
I'd have loved if instead of reinventing the wheel, they added support for GPG keys in web-based inputs, and distributed GPG keys in DNSNMC. GPG is already widely deployed (among the crypto-sensible people, of course), it would be sad if we had to restart from scratch.

But this is still a step in the right direction.
Thank you! I learned a lot in this community. Seeing this type positive feedback from like-minded people means a lot!
Sounds like an amazing lifestyle, I'd love to see some of your work
Interesting

Disclaimer: I didn't check the code

But maybe the sizeof(buf) is right? - if you want the size of the pointer (maybe if you're using wide chars?)

Especially since it's an 'Error_message_buf' type

EDIT: probably not, I'm thinking of sizeof(buf[0]), sizeof(buf) makes even less sense, it's a bug unless someone has a very good reason for it

Amazing that the tool detects collections of similar blocks, it's not wrong per se, but it's a common source of copy-paste bugs.
It's pinned to the outside of my office door.

THIS DOES NOT RAISE PROPERTY VALUES IN TOKYO!
Based on your feedback, we did some changes. Thanks!
There's basically nothing stopping a guy from walking into a women's restroom or vice-versa. It just isn't done because people are taught to respect certain kinds of privacy in certain situations.
Downvote with no comment? Thanks for that....
Slightly further on:

That being said, if you find yourself drinking a martini
and writing programs in garbage-collected, object-oriented
Esperanto, be aware that the only reason that the Esperanto
runtime works is because there are systems people who have
exchanged any hope of losing their virginity for the exciting
opportunity to think about hex numbers and their relationships
with the operating system, the hardware, and ancient blood
rituals that Bjarne Stroustrup performed at Stonehenge.
Internet filters: A modest suggestion
I really hope that of all those issues that were raised over the last weeks some make it out of our tech bubble into the consumer world. All of us know pretty well by now that this software is probably never going to be trustworthy and shouldn’t be used for any purposes that require confidentiality or authenticity, but I’m afraid that this is overshadowed by their “military-grade” marketing efforts for people outside of this scene.
A Video Christmas Message From Edward Snowden
No matter how hard you work, you will never be able to truly compete with a rich kid

Not sure where you live, but the beauty of a class-free, highly mobile society is that the two dramatically wealthiest people I know started out from the very low end of the economic ladder. If anything, it gave them the freedom to take risks since they were never scared of going back to having nothing.

If you've already decided that you can't compete with "rich kids" then you won't be able to.
The Next Fissure is only a Spark away
Its not that I don't want to learn, its that I see more benefit in learning different things, rather than what appears to be a repeat of something I know fairly well (with parts subtracted).

The analogy is closer to choosing between a pair of pliers and a leatherman. Maybe a drill would be more useful.
Edward Snowden's Channel 4 Christmas Message
Thank you for this great feedback. These problems are the hardest ones. I try to break them into smaller tasks whenever possible. I start small. Try to finish that small thing. Otherwise it may become overwhelming. If I need to be reminded for a future task I set up a calender event and an alert. For that I use Google Calendar. For the rest I prefer using notebook.
Did you miss the prominently linked to white (ie technical) paper?
You're forgetting than most NK people are brainwashed from birth and have for 3-4 generations how wonderful NK is and that the rest of the world is so awful.
Oracle Tunes Java's Internal String Representation
The white paper is down the page a little:

http://okturtles.com/other/dnsnmc_okturtles_overview.pdf
This changes nothing.
What is more, a large section of SKoreans yearn for the reunification. Presumably, there are many in the North that feel the same. This is one of the problems with Governments getting to be the "mouthpiece" for an entire society. Given the way "democracy" works, you tend to get overly solvent, largely isolated ideologues as your representatives. These folks come exclusively from the wealthiest families, and are therefore more inclined to maintain the status quo.

Regardless of the posturing of both sides governments, Korea is one country with a grievous split artificially placed between the two by the warring strongmen placed in their positions by superpowers with limited or non-existent information about the native culture.

I would also like to point out something we tend to forget here. The losses on both sides (excluding UN/Americans) were immense. The climate, terrain, and technology coincided to create massive casualties and widespread suffering. After a shaky armistice, the US just kind of left, but the war never ceased. We as typical Americans feel as if bygones should be bygones (we tend to be best friends with the countries we fight... afterwords, of course), but we oftentimes fail to take into account the massive list of dead.

Anecdote: i was hanging out with a Vietnamese friend from high school and we were (unaccountably) watching Rambo 7 or something (whichever one is the newest/most embarrassing) and we ere both growing increasingly uncomfortable. I kept making comments about cinematography and acting, whilst my buddy just grew more and more aghast. Finally we turned it off. I went on at great length about all the technical reasons i thought the film was poor. Finally, my friend pointed out the amount of Filipino extras that were slaughtered by that 'roided asshole with the wrecked face. And that was it. That was "all" that bothered him. I never really realized before that moment just how callus American storytelling is to the lives of Asians and their struggles. "We" literally killed so many Koreans and Asians in certain battles that left stacks of dead higher than a man stands. Untold numbers were left to die from maneuvers alone.

I do not say this to inspire guilt or launch a recriminatory flame war, but i think it is important that we all consider why the North is so damned sullen and obnoxious. The ear of blaming everything on "communism" needs to end.
Heh, they would be upset if it was an option in an app - "turn UI upside down if location=Australia" :-)
I think you mean private key. If it were public key it would not be secure at all :)
جوجل يحتفل بـ ذكرى ميلاد الشاعر صلاح جاهين
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Edward Snowden's Christmas Message 2013 [video]