skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I was a small child in the late 1980's, so I can't say I'm familiar with that era. In retrospect, though, I do feel like I've missed out on the golden age of computing, at least when it comes to the stuff that interests me (CPUs, operating systems, programming languages).
The Serval Project - wireless mesh networking for your phone
i think he is suicidal, do the math.
if that is his most recent tattoo..., otherwise just a cool guy.
It's interesting that the writing exercise did nothing for men's performance on the FMCE and close to not significant on the test scores. Why? Don't men suffer from negative stereotypes of get obsessed with what others in their class think?
Each time I use DragonDrop I'm met with "Wait, what did you just do!?" It solves such an interesting problem - it's a must have.
The United States has a history where over six million people were imported from Africa and enslaved, who continued to be denied basic civil and voting rights for a century after emancipation. And even today one of the strongest predictors of socioeconomic class, voting patterns, health outcomes, urban-vs-suburban-vs-rural residence, likelihood of committing or being victim of a crime, and exposure to quality educational resources is socially- and self-identified race. It's only natural that governments, businesses, and health officials would be interested in statistics on it.

France's national pre-occupations are pretty different, I expect. I suspect a closer analogy would be to the relations between French settlers and indigenous Muslims in Algeria.
I just posted this above, but I've been saying for a while (mostly on G+, where noise filters are crap, though I've since given up).

Morbius's Law: At Internet scale Sturgeon's law is six-sigma compliant: 99.99966% of everything is crud.
How to Work Remotely and Travel the World
I find this to be especially true on HN comments.
The World's Deadliest Airline Debunked
I wasn't talking about vandalism. I mean real irreversible destruction of content.
I like the simplicity of Windows Magnet.
Integrated quantum circuit is most complex ever
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."

Proverbs 17:28
Ample competition for a mostly-inelastic price-sensitive demand drives prices right down to break-even (or below), forcing all the small operators out of the market and resulting in consolidation and cartelization.
What's the relevance of that point? He doesn't appear to be mentioned in the post.
What is what so expensive?
Yes violence works. I understand that.
In general you are siding with capital. Assuming it isn't a police strike.
> You can do those things that are easy to do statically at development/testing time and those thing that are easy to do dynamically in runtime.

But then you lose the ability to freely mix and match the static and dynamic code. For example, if you want to write a dynamic implementation for some parametrically polymorphic code there must be a way to check at runtime that the dynamic implementation is respecting the type that you assigned to it (there are ways to do that but they are all very tricky).

The list of tricky things also grows very quickly once you put some though into it. You mentioned return type polymorphism but there are also many other things that are hard to check dynamically (record field names) and lots of things that dynamic codes likes to do (like mutability and subtyping) that force extra complexity into the static type system or that can be used to subvert the static types if you are not careful.
Mailgun & Plivo Integration: build your own SMS-to-Email gateway
> Who is responsible if everything goes wrong?

The responsible parties. "Everything" and "wrong" are utterly vague. But, assume you mean something like Mullen tries to escape and her bodyguard shoots him in the back. It would be up to local DA if they wanted to prosecute, perhaps including bounty hunter as accomplice. Mullen's family could sue for wrongful death.

tldr; laws don't magically disappear just cause bounty hunters are involved.
I'd like to try this, but not having a TypeScript definition file is a barrier.
I just discovered Branch today, and I think the problem it tries to solve is one that hits me quite frequently. I consume content nonstop online, but I'm lacking a good medium to share content I like with friends and have semi-private conversations around it.

I like Pocket a lot for the first piece of that puzzle, but it lacks discussion capabilities. Facebook is my de facto solution for the second part, but it's not good for letting people bring in their friends who aren't my friends. So I suppose my dreams may come true if Facebook really is interested in letting the Branch team continue to pursue the problem.
So this is the point where I say 'so terrorism is allowed when it's against something you disagree with', and you say 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter'?
Google to Acquire Nest
Google buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion
What's wrong with this use-case? The object will be destroyed and no pointer to it will exist after the clear.
Why put the GPG key on HTTPS page linked from a HTTP page? If the HTTP site is compromised through MITM the attacker can easily change the link to a bucket he controls, that is also HTTPS (i.e. https://s3.amazonaws.com/secure.jackdb.com/pgp/security_at_j...).

I don't think it adds anything to security, but actually provides for a fake feeling of safety.
How much does being a CS high school teacher pay vs working for a software company?
The Strength of Weak Ties (why Friends of Friends can matter)
Sure, even I don't support every strike. Like when police go on strike to demand better weapons.

But police aren't workers... So, yea.
Google acquires Nest for $3.2 Billion
It won't reduce keystrokes, but if you're looking for something more powerful try Launchbar. Alternatively, Quicksilver's free, but I haven't used it in a couple years and management changed hands; so I'm not sure how good it is now.
James from Bugsnag here, our notifer is fully open source (https://github.com/bugsnag/bugsnag-js) would gladly merge a pull request!
Google Buys Nest for $3.2B
Former PM Geir Haarde was on trial for his involvement. The powerful pretty much went in lockstep, with the smoking hot icelandic economy after a growing banking sector, it looked like every icelander benefitted, being able to take loans and buying multiple cars. With the "success", the people in charge let themselves be instruments of a run away modern high-risk banking sector, not their doing their job as regulators.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/government-failures-iceland-ent...
Point granted, but irrelevant given the oppressive state of British publishing even before the Copyright Act of 1709 (see my edit above).
I would also recommend RescueTime, a YC company to track your time. You barely have to do anything, just let it run and see what it reports to you in terms of your productivity. Probably one of the best ROI that a app can have.
It's a very simple and sensible distinction. If you work for the government, you can not expect privacy in any work function. For everything else, you get the same privacy guarantees as normal citizens.
The issue isn't the coffee shops. It's people. After college, it becomes socially unacceptable to initiate conversation with a person you don't know. People are not only stratified vertically by socioeconomic status, but horizontally by industry- and subculture-specific senses of superiority (academics vs. "techies" vs. bankers).

A coffee house would have to work at it to recreate the old dynamic: hold board game tournaments, have common viewing of intelligent television (when it's on, which is rarely). But that would conflict with the business goal (except in college towns) of getting people in and out reasonably quickly so you can afford rent on the space. The truth is that most people don't want to meet new people. They want to work on their laptops and talk to people they already know.
$3.2 billion?
http://livejs.com/ does the same thing as Live Reload but without the OS X dependency.
Given Google's history with acquisitions, as a Nest owner, I'm not thrilled to hear this. Hopefully they let it run as independently as possible.
Google Authentication is Always Broken
I'm not experiencing any input lag in Firefox. What browser are you using?
Schools without CS teachers should still offer the AP to give students credit for learning programming. Its not like teachers lecturing can teach people how to program anyways.
I am an ios user but have considered more and more switching to android - but stuff like this scares me away. I have heard many stories about phones not being updated or taking a very long time to update, including phones that were expected to be able to. How can you know which phone to pick that should get updates for at least 2 years if not longer?
Google Is Buying Connected Device Company Nest For $3.2B In Cash
Sounds like a battle over camera software
Disagree about the idea that those who are unfamiliar with type theory prefer dynamic typing.

Typing preferences are usually due to trends in language usage having little to do with knowledge.

Plenty of java programmers use static typing without ever having to understand type theory.

But looking to history of language designers/implementers

Dan Friedman

Gilad Bracha
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons

Guy Steele

Rich Hickey

All of these guys have worked on static languages,
have a keener understanding of type theory than most,
and yet they seem to promote dynamic languages
at least when it comes to their pet languages.
Which is the same way you close any other document...
Google just bought Nest for 3.2 billion dollars
Nope. I own that one :) We are working on the first few videos atm
Why changed?
The TRS-80 model III level 2 didn't run tinybasic anyway, it was licensed msbasic. Same as basica on dos. Applesoft basic was msbasic plus some graphics.

Level 1 basic was pretty much a model I 1979 thing only. I believe level 1 was technically available for the M3, but...

The article was more or less contemporary with the M4 which was 80 columns and used a licensed ldos instead of trsdos and I'm pretty sure was level2 basic only. So by the time of the article L1 basic was about two generations and 4 years out of date.

Also I recall Radio Shack sold the L2 upgrade eprom for something ridiculous like $19 so a L1 only machine was probably a 1979 experience (before the release of L2) or somewhat unusual in not having been upgraded.
How would you describe "the spirit of FP"?
"We've noticed that you're currently freezing your toes off...would you like to search instead for 'HVAC'?"

Fucking creepy.
Coming soon: audio ads, broadcast throughout your home via your Nest Protect. Since it knows if you're moving, it can wait and play the ad when it knows you're there, allowing Google to charge a higher cost per impression.
"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to buy Nest Labs, Inc. for $3.2 billion in cash."

Can that be right? $3.2 billion? That's a crazy huge sum.
This is a nice list, but I tend to force myself not to use this, or to limit the amount of "modifications" I put in. Gives me bad memories of the days from OS 9 where half the programs I use one year get orphaned...

Plus the labor of maintaining 10-20 apps that modify default OS X behavior can get excessive.
The focus on C++ as point of comparison is understandable given Mozilla's background, but in Internet land most systems software runs on the JVM, and is written in Java, or increasingly, Scala (see LinkedIn and Twitter, for example).

The issues of memory layout and the like come up here, and unlike Rust the JVM doesn't give much control of this aspect. See Martin Thompson's blog for an example of someone very concerned with issues of performance on the JVM (http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/) I believe Rust could see a lot of adoption within this community as a "better" Scala -- a modern high-level language that allows dropping down to bit-twiddling when performance is an issue. It needs higher kinded types before it will work for me, but I hear that is on the road-map.

BTW, I've read a few Rust tutorials and they all fail for me in the same way: too much waffle and not enough getting down to the details. I understand the difference between stack allocation, reference counting, and GC, I get why shared mutable state is a bad idea, etc. What I want is a short document laying out the knobs Rust provides (mutable vs immutable, ownership, allocation) and how I can twiddle said knobs.
I think resistance to pre-processing is futile. Most people already use it for minification at the very least. With things like brunch and grunt, pre-processing can be pretty much transparent during development. I actually don't know what sweet.js's sourcemap story is, but potentially transparency could more or less be achieved even during debugging. Maybe we'll eventually even get native JS macro language support!
Sad news for the android community and for the environment. What is the safest handset choice for android and how does it compare to the iPhone when it comes to updates after it has been discontinued ?
It's really a non event. So much of what you need is no longer at the OS level but at the "Google Play" level if you will. iOS trains you to equate "great new stuff == OS upgrades" but Google has taken a very different route to ensure customers get the latest and greatest without worrying about OS fragmentation.
Although I was sympathetic to the point made by the author of
The Friends Of My Friends Are Not My Friends [1], his criticism is more about the hamfisted handling of people you don't know by current sites like Jelly or Facebook.

Good scholarship on why you actually care about the friends of your friends is in the paper referred to above. TL;DR: you and your friends all know each other. It's people you don't know as well who will teach you something new.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051357
"This is why I could never be a tech start up investor. Every new app like this that I see, I dismiss as useless/nothing new/why would anyone use that. Then it gets bought by one of the big guys for millions a year later."

This is why I could barely use many new apps like this I see. I don't have time to waste on something useless/nothing new/why would anyone use that. Then it gets used by million of people after a year later. :)

Actually there are lot of competitors creating online conversations tools, so maybe it's not that useless. And they are the lucky guys being picked.

How about having something really new and useful? Let me know whether it also falls into "why would anyone use that": http://bingobo.info/blog/table-of-contents.jsp.
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I personally can't see neither the "limited notion of social relationships"

So you only have one binary relationship with everyone(friend\not friend)?

In the context of friends of friends I can see several different categories: current friends(I might be interested in who their current friends are. I might run into their current friends while hanging out with them. I am probably not interested in their old friends who live 500 miles away.), old friends(I will probably never interact with their current friends because they live 500+ miles away. I maybe interested in their old friends because it might help me reconnect with a mutual old friend.), family(I don't want to see their current or old friends since I don't have anything in common with most of my family.)
Another vote for Glui, it is awesome and a great replacement for Skitch.
I already know that. The Dropbox icon is always within sight and provides immediate feedback on the status of your Dropbox:

Green check - good to go!
Blue cycle - syncing
Blank icon - no connection

Not wanting a nag is not rose tinted glasses. If there is an improvement to be made, it would be in the last icon. Blank doesn't exactly scream "we're down". If the Dropbox client can't get a connection to the service, but it can see that a network link is available, it should give some indication that it is not connected, like some manner of red indicator.
Everyone hates on Terminal, but I've made the changes you mentioned and I tend to prefer it to iTerm. I can't really quantify it. I definitely think TotalTerminal is superior to the equivalent feature in iTerm, and due to the nature of my work I tend to pop in and out of the visor frequently.
Wondering about the same.
Somehow Google in my thermostat is a bit creepier than Google in my phone.
Smart buy in my opinion. The connected home has enormous untapped growth potential, and they just acquired a company that managed to take something as mundane as a thermostat and make it cool.
Well, that should resolve their patent issues.
What is on the Other Side of a Black Hole?
Seriously not trying to troll, but could someone help explain where Google might see 3.2 billion dollars of value in a company that pretty much just sells a successful thermostat?
Google acquires Nest for $3.2 billion
what was disappointing about the article was no pictures of Mullen, his cars, yacht or properties.
binaryages TotalFinder is also pretty awesome.
Well, we actually have a lot of different races represented here.
Am I the only one who thought "well, good for the Nest guys" followed by "too bad, it looked like a good product"?
SSL comes with the $20/month Cloudflare plan, and you may not even need it on your webhost then. They're also planning on introducing it to the free plan this year.
I liked the analysis, but it's only for the core product and doesn't take into account any of the other potential revenue streams that can occur if you're the de-facto storage mechanism for people's photos. Photo books, xmas cards, individual prints, etc. Everpix was all about trying to innovate in the automatic curation of your photo stream, ie over the last year automatically create a stream of the highlights. If that worked well you can pretty easily imagine subscribing for a year-end photo book that gets mailed to you every year or any number of other photo-related products.

I don't know if that was the eventual goal of the founders, or if they really thought they could make the core product profitable. But maybe the core photo storage product was destined to be a loss leader to let them monetize a massive collection of photos.
I think a project that is to continue to be relevant for the long-term needs a vision, and that that comes from a leader. Once the leader is gone, the vision doesn't develop. At some point the original vision will no longer fit the changing circumstances around the project, and either a new leader and a new vision will emerge or the project will fade away (or both, if the new vision doesn't work).

On the other hand, if at some point the original vision is accepted by the mainstream, the project will be successful and popular for a while, the more so if it ceases to move on and develop its vision. Then at some point the project will fade away as the Next Big Thing arrives.

It's not always possible for a project born of one vision to adapt to a new reality - even if the leaders can foresee it perfectly - without starting afresh.

Given that, and that the skills and personality needed to "maintain" a mainstream project are different to those needed to develop and make concrete a vision, it's good that creators move on.

To me, Adrian and Jacob moving on is a sign of Django's settling into the mainstream. It'll stick around for a while, and then it will fade away. The Next Big Thing is on its way.

To Adrian and Jacob - I hope you enjoy your new ventures; and thanks.
The cynic in me shudders at the possibility of Google adding even more real-world data like temperature preference and lifestyle factors to their massive data portfolio.

The idealist in me is incredibly excited at the possibility of Nest's fundamental strengths being bolstered by Google's coffers.
But this is only for google services, what if it's a big security hole on a OS level or if you are not using the google services?
Texas leading the way in diversity!

EDIT: Removed unflattering remark.
Google always shuts stuff down. Which is just a big laugh when its an internet application, but not so funny when its your thermostat. Anyone know what happens when GOOG shuts off the Nest system? Hopefully the thermostat reverts to at least a simple dumb mode rather than shutting everything off?
$3.2b makes me think there has to be some awesome technology that they own or pipeline, as I can't get excited about the thermostat.
It is a great idea, and played with one a bit, but it isn't solving any large HVAC issues - the thermostat is simply an on/off switch for the real working hardware in your basement/outside.

So, what else do they do that makes Google want to pay $3+ billion (pinkie to lip) for Nest?
Argh, I was just about to buy some Nest Protects, but I don't want Google sensors built into my house.
On the other hand, Android, Inc. was an acquisition with a similar purpose–to break into a new product space–and it grew into a fully-supported division. I don't think Google will treat this as an acquihire situation.
While this seems true for a lot of websites, it seems that the true 'home run' apps of the last 10 years have a much higher number of creators. Instagram in particular makes it insanely easy to be a creator, but more importantly, a creator of something that you're proud to share. The apps that can more widely enable creators in this ratio, are the apps I believe really take off.
Google's tried to get into this "smart home" game before with limited success[1]. I'd assume this may get them a leg up.

[1]: http://www.google.com/powermeter/about/
So perhaps being able to dissect nearly every aspect of a users online life is not enough for Google, now they want to offer a range of devices that can start recording the minucia of everyday home life.
I have a feeling I'll be ripping the Nest off of my wall in no time.
Tell HN: Matt Green announces Zerocash at RWC (coming May 2014)
This is going to be huge. Essentially, a genuinely anonymous currency, related to Bitcoin.

https://soundcloud.com/rdlmitedu/140113_0001-wav
http://pastebin.com/Dd60ZaT7
This is more YouTube pricing so I don't see a problem with them keeping this running.
Yeah I feel like 3b of that 3.2b was for their product designers. Google could probably make these products from an engineering standpoint.
[slideshare] The Hitchhikers Guide To Html5 Offline Strategies
No, there was no time nor did we have the in-team experience. EC2 is one thing, which you can get down to pretty cheap if leveraging spot instances, but most of our infrastructure costs was on storage.
The code's not obfuscated or anything. Just view source.
Sounds silly, but people pay Tivo a subscription fee every month and they pack that thing full of ads.
>set completion-ignore-case On

Thanks. Keeping track of whether certain directories were capitalized or not has been unnecessarily occupying my mental bandwidth for years.
Disconnect it from your network before they 'update' it.
Yes - and surely that demographic will be much more pliable when it comes time to "think of the children".
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Do they have anything else other than the thermostat and smoke detector?
I find this creepy as well. The fact I was considering purchasing one gives me an ill feeling now.
To me, it teaches somewhere in between- how to coach your argument in a form that will make it through people's mental firewalls. Sometimes you have to play to people a little bit to get them to actually hear what you want to say.
Oh come on this has to stop. How much would it have cost Google to build Nest from scratch? Not 3.2 billion dollars.
Offline? What a brilliant innovation! I can't believe nobody thought of that before.