skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>shit like YOLO and WHPH ("work hard play hard")

People are saying that second one out loud? How?

My mental image of what SV is like gets sillier by the day. I should draw a comic or something.

We should start the same thing in the UK. I'm gonna put "RIP Esco" at the end of every presentation from now on. Showerman mode.
I've found that working with a DSL structured around the problem domain improves communication and readability. Macros are a tool to allow you to easily implement these DSLs and have them fit nicely into the host language.
I've edited my post.

I side with the court (which is choosing to favour the person who asked for the restraining order).

It's not been proven that Google did send an automated email. The only thing the court does know is that an email was sent, and it was "from" the person who is subject to the restraining order.

If Google did send an automated email (which is unclear), then lawyers should be updating their advice to the subjects of restraining orders to ensure that their contact lists are purged appropriately.
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This URL works for me:

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Haskel...
I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

-- Rasmus Lerdorf
I'm confused as to why you are under the impression that restraining orders are 'normal', or that they hand them out to anyone asking, based on a single data point of one person getting one restraining order?
The proposed laws do nothing to curtail government surveillance, they do plenty to hamper internet innovation. Study the proposals on the table first.
Whilst this is probably a joke, it's still a sweeping generalisation of the homeless that paints those in an incredibly unfortunate position as nothing more than cider swigging alcoholics. There are few things that irk me more than vilification of the homeless
Freeze it, then after a bit of experimentation, you can find the perfect toaster setting to defrost it (and even have it warm) without toasting it. I do it all the time.

What really annoys me is that it's possible to make bread that lasts for >30 days, but they don't due to people's stupid phobias of food treatments. Before I started freezing it all the time, I used to waste so much from it going mouldy, so I'd bet many people still do.
It's about a violation of a restraining order. In other news, taking a step lands man in jail.
He did explain why PHP is disgusting mess.

And hell, the fact that people have that opinion stems from somewhere. And that is a fact we should all take a note of -- to build better tools. You see, PHP is nothing but a tool, and as a tool, it's not very liked one due to it's flaws. Solution? Abandon it! Build new, better tools instead of feeling threathened.

Le PHP sink and die it's well deserved death and make way for better tools, because professionals shouldn't feel attached to their tools, instead they should be critical towards them and look to find better ones.
Do you really want another thread in which everybody enumerates their favorite issues with php?
Clearly, the government department is wholly responsible for putting up a rubbish website, but from another article on the story, "He first contacted PTV by email on Boxing Day..". I wonder if the "white-hat hacker" didn't time his notification quite intentionally knowing there was a much lower probability of action being taken promptly. If they'd just patched the security hole he wouldn't get any exposure. It makes me wonder if there's more to this story than we're hearing - that he actually found the security flaw much earlier and sat on it for a while for example. Or that he downloaded all the available information first.

As ever, a couple of short articles may not be giving us the big picture.
(IANAL) Restraining orders are usually granted without requiring any evidence, aside from the testimony of the person requesting it. I believe it is a common strategy for (especially) women to exploit this in order to gain some sort of advantage over their partners following a breakup.
I second that request. Could you please include the links to mature production-ready bindings for some of the top programming languages from the TIOBE index?
Amazon Workers are Deputized to Vet Job Candidates, Ensure Cultural Fit
You can open them another one: it’s “Xcode”, not “XCode”.
Thx, highly appreciated.
"I'll answer any Q about your data for £199"
> I agree that the law about cookies is not much use

Have you actually read the law in question? It seems fairly sensible to me, it's the implementation guidance that was ridiculous. The banners we have at the top of every page now are nothing but cargo cult, everyone copying what everyone else is doing without ever applying any critical thinking.
I guess guy added her to his circles expecting a twitter-like model of following as a means of mild (or not) stalking. It's not that surprising that she got notified, but it would be great if "never send any email on my behalf" option existed in social networks.
Abstract (cut-and-pasted from the paper):

We describe the results of an experiment in which several conventional programming languages, together with the functional language Haskell, were used to prototype a Naval Surface
Warfare Center (NSWC) requirement for a Geometric Region Server. The resulting programs and
development metrics were reviewed by a committee chosen by the Navy. The results indicate
that the Haskell prototype took significantly less time to develop and was considerably more
concise and easier to understand than the corresponding prototypes written in several different
imperative languages, including Ada and C++.
I'm reminded of this comic:

http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/71

To me, good coffee means unadulterated as much as using high quality ingredients/equipment and having lots of caffeine.
What You Can Learn About PR from Dave McClure
Well, yeah.

The interesting thing is the pricing model - at the airline club, you prepay for it by either paying per session (very expensive), having a club membership through some means, or else it's baked into the price of a first-class ticket.

In the per-minute case, I'm trying to think of how usage patterns would vary from those of an airline club. It would be interesting to compare to other models as well, such as a co-working space that offers free coffee and treats.
...and now, all future holes in that site will be sold instead of reported to the owners.

I'm fine with that.
The movie where the hero is blamed for causing an accident because he turned the autopilot off to avoid being killed by two large driver-less trucks sent to kill him.
How to estimate memory consumption?
The story was that the "perp" claims he didn't even send the invite, that Google must've generated it for him. The moral of the story is that you might be a user of G+ and not even know it.

Read the article before boiling it down for us.
Check also those open source libraries:
http://inspirit.github.io/jsfeat/sample_haar_face.html
and
http://inspirit.github.io/jsfeat/sample_bbf_face.html

also http://liuliu.me/ccv/js/nss/
He probably thinks so because of other comments above.
Yeah, xd clearly missed to list that the creator of the language also has a sense of humor, but trying to limit it to technical features seems reasonable.
Airbags are do-gooder tech too, and they save lives.
If implemented well it could be as hidden and unnoticed too.
Saab and lexus use the described technique to monitor the driver in expensive models.
I started off making a small game [1], which I thought would be quick and easy and wouldn't take very long so would be a good starter, and it ended up taking me about 6 months to finish.

At points I absolutely couldn't stand this project any more - and there's still a bunch I need to do it like:

- add some multiplayer functionality so it goes "viral" (in the smallest possible terms of course)

- add sounds and music!

- fix bugs (when it's paused it loses the OpenGLES context so on resume some stuff goes white. Some wierd errors reported on Sony Xperia devices).

- make the UI look not-shit. I'm not a designer and it shows, fortunately a friend of mine who is spent 5 minutes doing a redesign recently which looks incredible which I'm hoping to use soon. I spent forever trying to come up with something even half decent. Lesson learnt there - get someone else to do it if you can.

Still - at least I now have:

- a bunch of code I can reuse.

- WAY more experience and knowledge

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplyappe...
I believe it is known as a task chair (since it lacks armrests and is not too expensive), but for me not having armrests is the single most important aspect of a coding chair. If armrests are present, chances are that they will prevent me from pulling up to the desk completely - since they hit the desk before my body does - and as a result I will have to lean forward (and by extension begin to slouch) in order to reach the keyboard.
The question is where is the line drawn between contacting a person and a third party or script of some sort contacting the same person ostensibly on their behalf.

For another example a person working in telemarketing is usually given a list of numbers to call which are automatically dialed by the phone system so therefor has no direct control over who they "contact".

The usual standard for a court would be the intent of the alleged perpetrator (IANAL etc).
Without knowing the details of the exact case behind the restraining order, it's hard to be certain the bar is set "far too low" as you assert. Set a hard bar like that, and many will simply see "I can get away with that!", and find as many such bars they can scrape under as possible - making up in volume what they lack in direct effect - or a line to slowly cross further and further when not nipped in the bud. This is, ultimately, why intent matters.

Sufficiently strong-willed people can ignore death threats as "inconsequential, empty bluster." However, this is neither necessarily wise, recommended, or easy, nor does it disqualify such threats as harassment.

While an invite is no death threat, I'd note there's another bar in play here too: The former girlfriend was, if we're to give her the benefit of the doubt, perturbed enough by this invitation to go down to the police station.
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Isn't this just the Tor Browser bundle with a couple of bookmarks?
They are indeed for desktop. As Objective-C becomes better (and it does it pretty fast, it has covered two decades of language development from 1970s to 1990s in just 7 years), most of the amateur iOS languages bindings become stale.

There are currently no high-quality, production-ready, native 3rd party language bindings for iOS that I know of, except for Xamarin mentioned above and Unity family.

In iOS 7 though, there's some activity in JavaScriptCore.framework on providing seamless integration between JavaScript and Objective-C.
It's a pity that people still build important app in PHP, because despite improvements to PHP, there are several, even many, languages out there that beats PHP flat out on all fronts.

PHP used to be by far the easiest language to get started with for web dev. This is not the case anymore.

And while you're certainly entitled to disagreement, Tim Bray is about as far from "so called" you can get for a software professional.
Haskell vs Lisp, development time (h): 10 vs 3

This hard fact says more than thousand committee reviews.
There's a distinction in many jurisdictions between a temporary order (granted as a matter of course on prima facie statement of the requester) and a permanent order, which generally requires a hearing and evidence from both parties (though if only one shows, the order is generally granted base on preponderance of evidence).

ROs suffer from a number of deficiencies: if someone's really bent on doing harm, they can be grossly ineffective. And in some cases (particularly child custody, though also other divorce proceedings, as well as immigration situations due to provisions of VAWA), ROs can be grossly misused to attempt to gain benefits not otherwise available.

Typically a TRO should have a hearing within a few weeks, however this isn't always the case (particularly in more complicated situations), so "temporary" may be an extended period of time.

Orders are rarely granted reciprocally, that is, as mutual stay-away orders, though these are granted in some cases. A unilateral order turns what are otherwise lawful actions into criminal ones (usually misdemeanors, but not always). The requesting party may use the order to trap the restrained party, particularly as forms of indirect contact (as described in this story) may be construed as violations of the order.
Reports That Sony Has Killed GameStop Are Premature
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Yes, it’s loud on the afternoon because everybody is talking, but apart from that, people are respectful of each other.
The source code doesn't seem to be availible anywhere. Is this a violation of Firefox' license?
IIRC the process is something like this (disclaimer, this is secondhand from listening to lawyers and I have no experience with the process):

1. Alleged victim goes to judge, gets temporary restraining order on essentially no evidence. This is supposed to be a stop-gap while further process is going on.

2. Alleged perpetrator is notified and a court date set to discuss whether the restraining order is appropriate.

Temporary restraining orders really require nothing more than an allegation to get. The idea is that if the situation is life-threatening, you don't want to wait for evidence, but they are also supposed to be temporary. Longer-term restraining orders are supposed to require evidence and an actual adversarial process.

The article does not say what sort of restraining order was at issue.
Because putting him in jail was more appealing to her?
No mention of Midori/M# (unlike Rust).

"The client-side mess · Things are bad. You have to build everything three times: Web, iOS, Android. We’re talent-starved, this is egregious waste, and it’s really hurting us."

Not really, Xamarin did a good job of simplifying this (and you can use decent modern languages). HTML5/CSS/JS on the other hand is the real client-side mess - let's hope we will see more PNaCl/asm.js developments for non-game applications in 2014.
Even if he hadn't explained why, and he did, it still wouldn't be elitist.
New for 2014
Comparable countries in terms of size and number of states are Russia, China, India etc., yet I would imagine that most people in the West would know only handful of states within these countries, if you're lucky.
Only once you've measured how buggy the software is, and how much maintenance costs over the full lifecycle.
What keyboard do you use?
I am in the process of looking for a new keyboard. Would Love to know some of your suggestions.

Must be qwerty
Is Web Development the Right Career to Choose?
Government modifying Laws to strict Sentencing for Hackers
A few months ago I read an article where the author interviewed a hacker with a good reputation (sry, forgot the name) and where they talked about a bunch of VPN providers.

The hacker mentioned https://www.ipredator.se/ as a very good VPN service for various reasons.
I'm using it since then and they accept Bitcoin as payment.
> I'm sorry, but you have your science backwards. You don't dismiss evidence because it doesn't fit your current hypothesis.

It is you who are misunderstanding either science, or what Tedks is saying. Mililanis story is not evidence, it is an anecdote. Based on our understanding of the human mind, it is simply more likely that his/hers story is a false memory rather than a true memory from a young age. Obviously it could be a true memory, but it is unlikely.

On the topic of false memories: I actually have several memories from a young age that directly contradicts with each other. I remember longing for a specific Nintendo game. I also remember getting the game as a christmas gift, looking at the box thinking "this looks like crap, why did they buy this?".
Well if the person is threatening your life, then it makes sense that you might break up with them...
Oops :). Yeah, no H in Vitus Bering's name.
They are given lightly. For example, a woman in Santa Fe got a restraining order after a "breakup" with David Letterman. He was ordered to stop communicating with her via code words on his show. Kelsey Grammar was also involved somehow.

http://www.volokh.com/files/lettermanapp.pdf

http://www.volokh.com/files/lettermantro.pdf

(It was later overturned on the grounds that the Santa Fe court didn't have jurisdiction over mind control transmitted from NY.)
Them sneaky women! Always tricking men into things!</sarcasm>
I wouldn't be surprised if she mistook the "People you may know" notification for an from someone add them to your circles on G+.
So, I run some numbers.

First, all back in Euro, the a 20%VAT gives us:

1.73 per hour

Considering this place is a cafe and runs only during day starting very early, it can run at 12 hrs day. Let's also take the normal accounting standard of 30days per month.

This gives us:

Monthly income: 1.73 x 12 x 30 x X

Where X is the avg hourly nr of people in the cafe'.

Say X is 15 --> Monthly revenue: Eur 9400

Considering 1 waiter at a cost of 4000, rent at a cost of 2000, utilities at a cost of 500, food/coffee at 1000, we have about EUR 2000 of profits for 1 cafe'. Excluding amortizations and other overhead I probably forgot to consider.

But I think 15 hourly is a bit optimistic, how big is this place?
There are 2 to 3 million of them handed out each year [1].

If not "normal," that's certainly _common_. There is no proof or evidence required to issue one. The judge only reads a description of events. It is not required for the restrained party to be there to defend or present counter-evidence.

It's simply a 5-10 minute meeting between a judge and a person who alleges "fear" or "emotional harm." Exact laws vary from state to state.

They are free to file and cost 5-10 thousand dollars to appeal.

[1] http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/03/30/the-high-price-of-res...
You presume incorrectly in the case of a temporary restraining order. These can be and are granted without a hearing from the restrained party:

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Temporary+Rest...

http://www.walnut-creek.org/citygov/depts/police/faqs/violen...
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If the restraining order says "Don't contact them", then it makes sense that if you manually triggered an invite that would break the order.
I use the Apple UK Keyboard, just the non-numeric one. I find it's perfect for me, and when I get home I don't need to worry about it being any different than my MacBook Pro.
hmm, this is an interesting case!

I think it must hinge on whether or not the guy actually acted to cause the invitation, or whether this was an automatic google thing based on previous emails between the two accounts.

If it was simply an automatic "add these people from your past emails" notification, then it seems very unreasonable to hold him to account for it. Sounds like the defendant needs a witness from Google about how Google+ works - which will almost certainly be difficult to get!
My perception is most developers who choose to use PHP these days for new development efforts either do so because it's their strongest language and do not want to reinvest the time to retool, or because of political reasons orthogonal to PHP's technical chops. Thankfully, it is still actively developed, so those who make that choice are able to take advantage of such new features.

I totally understand the choice to work in shops that have legacy php code: they have money and often times don't want to change off php. Handily enough, most of us like working for money.

What caused me to retool away from php was the fear that not enough new systems were being built in it, leaving a diminishing pool of jobs for a constant pool of developers not wanting to retool. I figured I'd give up my space to someone else, and seek my fortunes on other stacks. I don't think there is anything wrong with deciding X language will be the one you ride into the sunset on (some COBOL programmers I know make crazy money due to the economics of the ratio of jobs/developers). I just personally considered the risk of a job shortage to outweigh the rush of a talent shortage. (And I am so practiced at retooling, I could probably be ready to interview for a PHP job in a few weeks if I had to).

I think of choice of stacks from the agile way, "make it fast to change, and you'll be ready to snatch up arbitrage opportunities when they arise." Rather than the waterfall way, "pick the right tech that will last your career at the point of maximum ignorance".

I think most people mock PHP just because it's fashionable to do so, it's the "easy joke" that vb6 used to be. I wouldn't take it personally, you should own your choices.
While I completely agree with the second part of your comment, you didn't had to throw us your knowledge, skills and experience, it's anecdotal evidence and it weakened your point which was already strong enough.
Out of curiosity I just opened my g+ on a 1280 x 800 thinkpad and counted pixels and 17% was feed with my normal settings. Actually by changing the text size you can vary the percent of screen your feed takes from 0% to a max of about 75%. Facebook has a fair bit of empty space too.
Funny how N64 to GameCube's focus on developer friendliness is similar to PS2/3 to PS4. Once number 1 then trimming the fat. http://imgur.com/okP8cdO
You can look at Das Keyboard or Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard...
To be fair, he _did_ bring XML upon us...
Ask HN: Do you mange your company's cap table? What do you use for it?
Do you use any standard Excel template or online service? Or did you create something yourself?
Alternative, a tamperproofed device can be immune to any form of modification or replacement of the software contained in the device.

The issue GPL fixes is when device manufacturers exercise ownership control of the device after sale (ie, do things that the owner is not allowed/enabled to do). If the manufacturers can modify or replace the software, then the device owner must be able to do the same.
Leastways: not with your real name.
> Could you possibly exaggerate any more? 10%? Really?
> With the multi column newsfeed on Google+ it's just impossible that you see less content than on Facebook.

Look at the screenshot I posted on the original content.

The point of my comment was that Google should focus on making their product actually usable instead of trying to carve out some market share by brute force.
> I do think it's a shame that the providers of these platforms lock them down to APIs in their chosen languages/frameworks

I never understand this point. All APIs are exposed via some protocol. Whether it's javascript, C, Objective-C or HTTP.

High-level APIs like HTML5 or Cocoa need to be exposed in a high-level language. The restrictions imposed by js or obj-c are an inescapable part of what make these environments better than what we used before.

Does anyone really want to go back to using thin wrappers around C APIs?