skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, designers can stick to making the website look amazing in photoshop, but let the engineers actually tell you what's possible or not using simple, responsive practices. Don't expect pixel perfect, do expect lean websites built to last.
Yet another part of the mess of software patents is that it took four years from this patent being filed in 2007 to it being granted in 2011. How are companies supposed to operate in that kind of environment?
"Forever" being more symbolic - I've seen people use it and then define a variable "in love" or something of that corny nature.

Fork bomb, albeit could be somewhat symbolic of real life, just doesn't seem to have any clear meaning - so obscure that they even got the syntax wrong.

Disclaimer: I'm pessimist.
Get a burner phone, even from a different country. I have a Russian and French sim cards and keep your phone off unless you really need to make a call.
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So basically leave your cell phone at home, if you plan on being near a protest especially if you are going to be participating?

Cameras that are not attached to phones I suppose will become more popular at protests anywhere such a system is in place.
Gold is valuable because once upon a time the government accepted gold as a tax payment. The use of gold as money lasted for so long that people began to think that there was some kind of magic behind gold. Most of today's gold prices are based on belief in that magic.
I think events (whether they're for "networking" or not) are for more than just meeting investors. Silicon Valley's single critical advantage (and the single most important thing I'd like to see develop here in London) is its collaborative, "Pay It Forward" culture. Relationships and a sense of community are a key part of such a culture, and events (with or without cold pizza) are a key element in community formation and providing opportunities for people to form relationships.

Obviously, a startup can choose to avoid such events and focus on execution instead of joining the community. That's not necessarily a bad thing but, as well as not contributing in any way to the community, they risk losing out on the benefits that being part of a wider community can bring.
I do not seem to recall reading stories about mass incarcerations at OWS or similar pseudo-protest spots.

I do agree that the conventions should not be afforded public protection, however those two conventions are an extension of the ruling party. The one percent are more than willing to have us foot their bills.
You omitted the "I develop games primarily for visually/auditorily impaired users" part...

Simple turn based type games can be made with PHP/HTML. Unity, while vastly overpowered, might still be a reasonable choice from the ease of use perspective.
“Natural monopoly” doesn't mean what you think it means: it's simply a case where the most efficient setup is a single provider. Telecoms fit this category locally because of the need for cabling to each customer – sure, you can run multiple wires but that's extremely expensive and has externalities (i.e. aesthetic costs).

Regulation is a common response to a natural monopoly: cap profits at a certain level to prevent gouging and establish some sort of minimum service requirement to avoid abuse.

What I would prefer is a hybrid model where the city runs the monopoly portion and leases access to various companies. The political process at least offers more accountability than, say, the typical Comcast monopoly victim enjoys.
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> Never seen this in Germany. Not that I remember, but most places, no, this doesn't happen.

What are you talking about? Every apartment building has a set of labeled doorbells at the ground floor.
The journalist also ignored reality when calculating taxes owed too. They used the $1 billion up front but they reported it'd be $25 million per year for 40 years (or one time payout of $500 million).
How about doing something useful with the processing power?
Meanwhile auto-completes have been around for far longer. Yet another ridiculous patent gets approved.

I'm sorry but I don't see any meaningful technical innovation by bringing it to a mobile touch screen.
Paxos, a protocol to get consensus
AMD stock has been tanking (down 10% in pre-market today). Any opportunities here?

(Tanking bit strong... down from a recent high of 4.50 not long ago)
You can set up LastPass even to log in you automatically, so you don't even have to click submit or login buttons if you want!
> Adobe is trying to overcome Photoshop’s limitations for modern web design.

So Adobe has realized that PSD to HTML workflow is dying and tries to develop tools for the modern web workflow to stay relevant. I don't get how this argument supports author's assessment.

On the other hand external services like xhtmlized are a great way to push a website out of the door when you're an agency rooted in marketing/visual design and need to add a website to the package to get the deal. Your designers do the design, then a professional service like this will make the final product orders of magnitude better than what you could achieve without internal dev team.
> Where the actual door to your apartment is remains unknown to the mailman, post office, and person sending you mail.

This is true, but, given that the building itself is identified, I think this provides a negligible amount of privacy.
"The identifiers used for constant values are put in Initialcase. Functions and types are in singleword style, although underscores are occasionally necessary to specify additional information within functions, due to the lack of overloading."

Excusemeijustthrewupinmymouthalittle.
I feel exactly the same way. The government has quite a bit of authority over its citizens that other first world governments do not. Free speech protection is really poor (see low-violence video games and the suppression the NDP is facing), and there appear to be no restrictions on search and seizure.

Private businesses, however, have a lot of requirements put upon them. They must, for example, delete all personal data they have on you upon request. Transactions are still very much cash based, as cards aren't trusted. Even online shopping can be handled by a simple invoice, where a customer doesn't have to provide any banking details at all in order to pay.
For those who (like me, until recently) don't know about this amazing feature of democracy in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
New Compilation Album of Songs Incorporating Sounds from Voyager Space Probes
Depends on the scale of the investment. It doesn't make sense to invest $30m in a company that might grow to $50m, because the potential growth isn't enough to make up for the risk of losing the $30m entirely. It could certainly make sense for a different kind of investor to invest $1m in such a company, though.
Wow, currently there are fires made by protesters. Not sure if the police is on the other side receiving the smoke from the fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrZcAsPKK74
Is it me or is it impossible for Samsung to win judiciary battles against Apple in the US.
Absolutely. (11 days late)
I should collate all these responses like yours and the parent comment and compile an eBook I can market like Nathan Barry - "OkCupid for Geeks". And then retire on the proceeds.
I agree about C++ on embedded. Why is C not productive? Is it that more modern languages handle more background work for you?
Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley
The article also mentions blocking the sale of the Galaxy Nexus and the early Galaxy Note models; the GN has certainly not been available for purchase (new) for quite a while now, and I'm sure early Notes probably aren't too abundantly available either.
Astroids: Space game of the year [video]
Don't worry, they'll still spam you after you quit. The only way I've ever found to stop them emailing an address is to add it as a secondary contact to another account.
Local job search on indeed.com
Java Developer - 218
Ruby Developer - 28
Python Developer - 24

If your local job environment is analogous to mine, I would suggest that you pursue a dual track.

Route 1: Keep developing your Java skills - even if that means you need to push yourself beyond your current employer's "simple applications." The nearly 10X difference in job availability suggests that having solid Java skills is income security even if it isn't very sexy.

Route 2: Like a couple of others have said, you should continue to learn one or more newer languages on the side and really develop your side projects into something that is an impressive demo of your overall development skills.

If you are hoping to get into more of a start-up environment, Ruby should probably be your focus on route 2. If you are into science and/or data you like go with Python.

This advice assumes that you have the bandwidth in your life to pursue both routes simultaneously.
A New World for Small Business
I disagree. When they use a megaphone they don't know who the people are, as they are telling them to disperse. Now they have exact lists of who participated. Every person's name is in that list. They can target them individually one by one, home by home, if the revolution fails to overthrow the government, now.

Also, when you build authoritarian systems, they are going to be used by authoritarians, sooner or later. It's like saying it's ok to have a censorship infrastructure, like the Great Firewall, as long as it's not owned by the people with "batons in their hands", sort of speak.

Yeah, except that once you have a system that is an authoritarian's dream, it seems pretty damn hard to stop people like that from abusing it. And ultimately, you can only stop them with revolutions - violent revolutions, in most cases. I'd rather people wouldn't have to go that far to not be oppressed by their government.
Your examples are not examples of the problem with gold standards, but the rather the problem with fractional reserve banking, which is virtually non-existent with BTC (I disagree with Bitcoin proponents that say FRB isn't possible with BTC-- it'll simply be market based and potentially auditable through the blockchain). My point with 2008 is that it was a problem created by banks/government, which, whether corrupt or whatever, is essentially centrally planned. So I meant to say that while the current system was "saved" by the central planning, you must couple it with the fact it was caused by it, too (or, caused by a failure of it, if you'd prefer).
"To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape"

* Sun Tzu(544-496 BC), The art of war.

>This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object, as Tu Mu puts it, is "to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair." Tu Mu adds pleasantly: "After that, you may crush him."
I've written a lot of Java, so no problem there.

C is sparse. I like that. Less "clever ways to screw up that others have to debug later".

I can't disagree about C++. I only use a chunk of it myself.
Says the company whose entire business model is built around PSD to HTML conversion.

Sometimes one works better than the other for a project's specific needs. And vice versa. What we are needing to get past is pixel-perfect design, however.
It's very difficult to make the math work out for Series A/B/C if you exit at $50 million. If a VC firm invests $5 million and gets a 3rd of the company, then you sell for $50 million, they get ~$15 million on that deal. Yay. Unfortunately, to get there, they had to spend $30 million on 10 similarly situated company, in excess of half of which have a liquidation value of zero. Absence of yay.

I think the parlance for tripled-our-money is "base hit." You don't play baseball to hit base hits. (Well, unless you're the Oakland As -- and talk to Dave McClure et al if you want to hear this metaphor in a lot more detail.)

There exist angels and other seed-stage investors who would not be unhappy with a $50 million exit, to put it mildly. (To say nothing of the founders and the employees.)
Legacy is a four-letter word
Top comment. None of this really matters. Your craft, is your craft, is your craft.

More on this (from a programming perspective): http://vimeo.com/54042336
Fast Growing Database Startup MemSQL Raises $35m
It's probably more to stop the police from moving in a line than to smoke them out.
A white guy, tall, decent looking, math professor, rock climber, guitarist. He didn't need to hack OKCupid to end up with an Asian girl of his dream.
The Mailbox app does the same thing, to give you access to iCloud email.

http://imgur.com/xK4Hmy2
The open one would stagnate without the developers who Apple pays to out-compete then both GCC and the free fork of LLVM.
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7098089
Social Media Faking It – Cheaper Than You May Think, But Still Not Worth It
Sorry to disagree, but it is dead, at least to me.
Thus it is all the more surprising that in present-day Germany one must register one's residential address and religion with the local government.
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Vital for American Innovation
Or you could just, you know, not carry a radio-transmitter on you while committing some possibly illegal/disruptive activity?
Phalcon is noticeably absent from that list. Do they have any intention of supporting that, too?
Is "certified" gold?
It can be technical in nature, but the society needs to request it from the carriers and also the government to allow them to have such high security in place, and not allow them to wiretap and have access to everything. When the government says "but we need access to everything to catch a criminal". The society must respond "Oh yeah? Well screw you - I think my privacy is more important, and I want better end-to-end security for my conversations and metadata".

The solution can be political, too, and it would certainly help, but I think it's a lot less sustainable from government to government.
I got an Android device about 6 months ago and couldn't download any apps until I'd setup a credit card.
28 Startups from… The Netherlands – Part 1
The problem seems to be how "PSD to HTML" is defined. The old definition of PSD to HTML frankly may have died about the time we stopped using tables to create designs in HTML.

In the yesteryears "graphic" designers designed pixel perfect designs in Photoshop and expected web designers to convert these to xhtml/css.

It was a royal pain in the ass. I have been on both ends of this.

But things are very different now, the old definition of "PSD to HTML" has died or rather evolved.

I still create the first drafts of the desktop design in Photoshop, its simply easier to do when you'd like to try various designs. But hand code it from there. No more splicing etc.

This process also makes it easier for me to visualize the code structure for mobile first(in my mind).
hmm, I follow a different model which was explained here recently by Des Traynor in a brilliant, short talk:
http://vimeo.com/81544164

map any feature in a graph that has people on the x axis and time on the y axis. farther to the right means more users, farther up means more often. concentrate on what most/all users would use most/all of the time. a lot of the other things are noise, added on by other entities, which over time dilutes and destroys your product.

you should map existing features as well and kill them off if they do maintain or increase reach and or frequency.

of course this is simplified, there is still a lot of balancing and reality wrangling to do, but as a guiding principle it really works. especially when you're getting the "oh come on, let's add this, just a few lines of code" type requests. any add has a long tail, from bugs, to documentation, etc.

my 2c.
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But if they did decide to target him, they would be perfectly within their legal rights to do so and poor zerop wouldn't stand a chance.
Alcatel-Lucent and BT squeeze 1.4Tb/s out of existing fibre infrastructure
I'm pretty sure this doesn't work. i.e. even in flight mode, the baseband processor is still powered and will passively listen for cell-tower requests, so presumably it can still be told to wake up?

I know its true of phones that are "off" without the battery removed - stands to reason it applies in flight mode too.
"you cannot leave the country with more than USD 10K per person, and if you do and get caught in either Argentina or destination country, it'll get confiscated in its entirety"

I don't know if it's different because I was coming from a different country but I arrived once in the US with more than $10k, I just declared it and filled out a form.
That's a good idea. You won't be able to stream something live anymore, though, but I guess either you record it and later upload it to websites, or some people will have to take the chance to stream it.
Then I guess my question is this: why is a mostly visual interface/representation mainly controlled by non-visual means? To me, a mind-map is not a "power user" tool and is used for organizing loosely understood ideas in hopes of getting a better grasp on their domain.

IMHO it should be something easy to play with, move things around, unstructured (in the sense that a user's stream of ideas won't necessarily be coming into the program in a structured way; the point of the program being to structure them), and be able to make many corrections and revisions. The goal of the tool should be to take unorganized thought and mould it into a comprehensible hierarchy that can be used to communicate ideas to others.
For 2) there is https://github.com/runekaagaard/snowscript
I would find it very helpful if you posted about how you went about the monetization decisions...both successes and failures. Thank you for sharing.
That happened yesterday, and at least two major Ukrainian mobile operators stated [1,2] that they have nothing to do with these SMS broadcasts and that pirate base stations were probably used in the area of the disturbance.

[1] Kyivstar FB page: https://www.facebook.com/kyivstar (Ukrainian)
[2] MTS Ukraine FB page: https://www.facebook.com/MTSUkraine (Ukrainian)
> It is actually getting damn close with modern dependently typed languages (regarding deriving intent). I believe this is what many graphical languages lack, a sophisticated type system guiding the user.

Well, you've gone over my head, but given me plenty of reading material. Thanks.

> Instead they like to emulate statement based languages with cute but not very abstract or reusable boxes.

Indeed, though they're rarely cute.

> Text based representation of computer languages is rather archaic when you think about it.

As a workaday sort of guy, it's not really. The code I'm writing at the moment is built on so many abstractions of the underlying storage, the atoms of functionality on the processor and other realities, that I am able to fairly naturally "think in" the language. My run-time makes decisions about sorting, searching, filtering, iterating and so on for me. The typing and context assumptions it makes, the terse nature of it (without golfing) - the attempt to divine my intent without so many words spilled, means I never feel like I'm doing busy work - the boiler-plating, the exception trapping and so on. Someone else's implementation of any given task I need to perform is probably a single command away from being available to me.

I may have twisted my imagination to its will, but we get on well now. I don't find it tedious and don't find I need an IDE or related tools to count the pennies.

Do you have a vision for a "next gen" (not quite Star Trek Next Generation - "Computer, extrapolate" level) programming paradigm? Are we talking an overhaul of computer architecture or will there always be some clever person writing our C for us? Abstractions all the way down...

Also, an AST for some given procedural code, when represented graphically, might look (superficially) like a Jackson Structured Programming diagram, which would have been created by hand... Maybe text is the wrong tool :)
That's what I do for my own photos. http://chir.ag/gallery/ just shows everything from a folder on the server. The thumbnails shown in the gallery view are random and auto-generated. I use subfolders to caption/group the photo in large albums: http://chir.ag/gallery/alaska-cruise-2013

The folder names are underscore delimited column data. E.g. "alaska-cruise-2013_2013-07-27_5th Anniversary Alaska Cruise_critters,cruise,hiking,juliet,travel" => "alaska-cruise-2013" is the permalink, 2013-07-27 is the start date, "5th Anniversary Alaska Cruise" is the gallery title, and the rest of the comma-separated words are tags for filtering, e.g. http://chir.ag/gallery/tag/cruise. I have a few local scripts to resize the raw photos and rsync everything with the server.

It's really not complicated code. Pretty simple stuff that anyone with half a year of coding experience can build. I have been taking and sharing photos on my 'blog since late 2001. I have tried many, many things over time and finally settled on the current method. While my gallery looks/works very simply, it has taken years to refine this exact strategy. I LOVE the Boston Big Picture view and always wanted that. But I also like the thumbnails to jump. I love clicking on the left/right of a pic to advance but I also like to scroll up/down if needed. Sorting gallery by name vs. date, filtering similar albums by tags, and of course captioning without using a text file or DB were things I always wanted but didn't want to deal with a complicated system. I re-did my gallery after our Alaska trip and have been very happy ever since.
The argument is that having a dedicated design stage before converting to templates/app/etc is still valid. Just because that button in the PSD is a rasterized gradient, doesn't mean the resulting page will have an image - but it does mean the developers writing the HTML CSS and JS have a solid design to work from, that the client has already approved.

Do you somehow think that because the PSD to HTML process starts with a PSD file that the output is necessarily going to be a) fixed dimensions and b) lots of images? If so, I have some news for you...
Small, but probably not the smallest: An 8086 PC emulator in 4043 bytes [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012385
There are a few projects/experiments around inclusive living situations where either caseworkers/staff live on-site, or such apartments are mixed with others owned by the rest of the population.

Common Ground is one example running in Australia, I think inspired by a project in the US: http://www.commongroundadelaide.org.au/
It's surprising, but some banks do enable rebills on cards regardless of the expiration date. I learned this because I have subscribers whose cards are 'expired', but the charges still go through. I needle them constantly to update their billing info, but I still have one guy with a card that expired in 2012.

More importantly, your dad shouldn't be out $500. I had some SSL certificates rebill through Godaddy at an astronomically higher rate, so I called, and was able to easily obtain a refund. If Godaddy isn't willing to offer a refund, just call your credit card company and issue a chargeback. The chargeback process greatly favors the consumer, and you're almost certain to win.
It's not an issue of where the protesters are, it's who the protesters are.

I'm getting increasingly concerned that (USA in particular) police focus on staying out of the way and, so long as things don't escalate much, letting the situation run its course ... while documenting the participants by any means, so they can be individually & quietly apprehended & prosecuted later. Cell phone metadata, face recognition from video recordings, license plates, etc - all can be applied to identify who was involved, accusing them of all sorts of crimes just for being present if not for particular documented transgressions.

Much easier to apply the baton later when the mob can be handled as lone individuals. Gotta know who though, and that's not hard now.