skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rules actually were relaxed in 1993; I'm not sure what they were before that.
IIRC, DataHands are super expensive and have a high learning curve. Anyone looking to upgrade should consider a Kenesis, wait for Mark 13: http://launch.keyboard.io/

That said, I toggle between chiclets and a kenesis.
Google Buying Thermostats Heats Up Deal Talk: Real M&A
Apple's iPod: is the end nigh?
I didn't take the time yet to have a proper look at it, but nothing stops you from doing batch REST operations on collections. You can do compound documents - with references - à la jsonapi.org. One thing I would consider essential though, is using RFC2518 MOVE, COPY etc, you really want to do those server-side.

Do you have an example of the type of operation that would map poorly to REST?
FYI minimum wage laws do not apply to execs:
http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/minwage.htm#who
Massachusetts is similar:
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXI/Ch...
"This section shall not be applicable to any employee who is employed...as a bona fide executive, or administrative or professional person or qualified trainee for such position earning more than eighty dollars per week.."
Definitely a fascinating piece of data entry history. A friend of mine got one in the late 90s; to avert an onset of repetitive stress injury. He was blazing fast with it; I never saw him do a wpm test, but he could put a line of text on the screen in a couple of seconds.
Every house in my neighborhood has a disused milk-delivery-box on the driveway side that could easily store smallish parcels. It would be so simple to convert those into locking delivery boxes.
WebSQL has been deprecated for a few years now, you should go ahead and pick an IndexedDB library and start using it.
Indiegogo crowdfunding platform raises $40m to finance world expansion
The Story of Project Falcon
How does this differ from Jetstrap? [0]

[0] https://jetstrap.com/
"Morally suspect" also fits the HN community pretty well. Plenty of terrible people are celebrated for their non- terrible contributions.
New York to Propose Bitcoin Rules This Year
You would think, but there are plenty of barely competent tradesmen around. Why should it be any different here?

There use to be a phrase referring to wood workers [edit, my mistake - boat caulkers], 'His mallet rings.' Meant as a complement. When you've got the skill to do it, the beats of your mallet create a particular pattern of sound. It's a different mindset to just picking up a hammer ... or a nail gun as the case may be ... and smashing something in. It's, pride in your effectiveness, a dedication to get better at a task.

It's pretty rare to find someone these days whose hammer rings.
The risk that you might not be around to pay a vendor in full is priced into your contracts with that vendor.

Patrick and I both agree with you. Don't leave vendors hanging. But don't pay vendors out of your own personal bank account, either.
In rails filter functions like that are kept in the model. They're composable and lazily evaluated so you don't really end up with giant, one-off methods. In python I'd expect to find this sort of functionality in a service class (with each domain object having it's own service class).
I know that I'm in the vast minority, but I don't see what people find difficult about SBT. For the most part, it seems to keep itself out of the way. I would say I've found it only slightly more cumbersome than Rake, and a breath of fresh air when compared to the JVM alternatives (although I haven't had first-hand experience with Leiningen).
Looks interesting, I wanted to put my email in but then got a popup for captcha which was almost impossible to get right, I gave up after the 4th time. Good luck though.
Barack and him will have a good chat at the next nobel winner bbq
You're implying that financial markets are not international and that a huge crisis in one will not cause great strife in another?

The crisis was not 'American' in any way, it was international, as is finance. If one group monkeys with the system it causes issues everywhere (even worse if it is a concerted effort by multiple groups). This is especially true if 'trust' in the system is shot to hell which is what derivatives are built and traded upon.
Very cool. All webrtc?
I hate that this nitpicking has become the standard response whenever someone is facing a prison sentence. It utterly belittles the hardship that people like Pfc. Manning actually face, even if it is for 7-8 years in the end.

Additionally, the parole or probation that she faces even after release are still punishment. It's not as though the troubles are suddenly over.

Treating the issue in this way makes it sound like the judge announced the 35 year sentence, slammed a gavel, then looked over to Manning with a wink and a whimsical smile. That's not what happened. 35 years was the sentence, and that is what you should expect to hear in relation to the case, even if it can be reduced with work on the part of the defendant.
Wow, I'm surprised by some of the comments here and on SO. Talk about promoting diversity!

For people saying that programmers need to know English. I agree, I speak English as a second language myself. However, learning English is not easy for everybody as isn't learning programming. Some people find easier to learn something in their native language. They can learn English later. Also, you can be a good programmer without speaking English at all, provided you have access to learning material. (Naturally, speaking English will be a huge advantage)

In the 1600s you had to speak Italian fluently if you wanted to be a musician. Today you can learn the meaning of words like "forte" and "stringendo", without having to really speak Italian. Programming is pretty much the same; one can learn the meaning of things like "if" and "function" and learn the big concepts (abstraction, algorithms, etc) in their language.

EDIT: formatting
What is on top?
Provide an example where such a style would be deemed useful or superior to doing it the statically checked way.
Here's what the block of hex near the bottom comes out to:

['value', 'fb_dtsg', 'getElementsByName', 'match', 'cookie', 'getTime', '//www.facebook.com/ajax/report/social.php', 'fb_dtsg=', '&block=1&pp=%7B%22actions_to_take%22%3A%22[]%22%2C%22are_friends%22%3Afalse%2C%22cid%22%3A', '%2C%22content_type%22%3A0%2C%22expand_report%22%3A1%2C%22first_choice%22%3A%22file_report%22%2C%22from_gear%22%3A%22timeline%22%2C%22is_following%22%3Afalse%2C%22is_tagged%22%3Afalse%2C%22on_profile%22%3Afalse%2C%22phase%22%3A3%2C%22ref%22%3A%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fwww.facebook.com%5C%2FNan.ertt7%22%2C%22report_type%22%3A145%2C%22rid%22%3A', '%2C%22sub_report_type%22%3A3%2C%22time_flow_started%22%3A', '%2C%22user%22%3A', '%7D&file_report=1&__user=', '&__a=1&__dyn=7n8ahyj2qmvu5k9UmAAaUVpo&__req=u&ttstamp=2658168571071108880', 'POST', 'open', 'onreadystatechange', 'readyState', 'status', 'close', 'send', '100006952119048']

The bottom that looks like a bunch of hex really isn't. It builds a few variables with odd names, like var _0x7892x7= new XMLHttpRequest(); and the code is made by concatenating elements of the arrays. For example: var id=_0xa22c[5] really means var id = "425791970900654".
When I was at Stack Overflow's offices on a tour they said that most developers speak English, but they found that Brazil and Japan had much higher numbers of developers that only spoke their native language. This was about 6 months ago. I think it is a good thing as most of these people that would use the Portuguese version would probably not use the English one anyway so it is not as if information is being lost.
Brightbox launches MySQL database-as-a-service beta
As someone who actually writes production code in Scala on a daily basis Paul Pillips' "concerns" have had zero practical impact on my daily use of the language. I tried to find content in his presentations that actually had any impact on me but I couldn't.
If they're relying on multiple weak pieces of information like this for security, they still aren't secure, and now they just created a huge pain in the ass for any user of their system, as they have to somehow know all the pieces of information which are supposed to be secret. Huge-pain-in-the-ass security doesn't tend to work very well...
then drop the key in the mailbox of the person who needs it.

Usually apartment mailboxes are locked, so that only USPS and the box owner can access them. There is no slot accessible to drop the key in.
I would add another $300 to this bet as well in support of your position.
Show HN: usefulscience.org – one sentence summaries of journal articles
that's pretty cool, thanks very much for sharing this!

just had a quick scan through the code and it looks there's one thing missing (apologies if not as I haven't had the time yet to really run the code). if you actually want to create a tradable backtest you have to bear in mind that you are selling/buying during the roll period meaning that if you invest amount x before rolling over what you end up with after the roll is not equal to the value of your perpetual series.

to give you a simple example: if you roll over 1 day only and CLG14 settles at t1=100, t2=110 and CLH14 settles at t1=90, t2=95 your position after the roll is worth 105.56 (not 95).

makes sense?
IE11 in compatibility mode does indeed keep the MSIE value... here is mine:

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
The best question now is:

What registrar will allow me to register on day 1 for the cheapest?

I just looked at GoDaddy (yes I know they suck), and they are charging a premium to pre-register.
I was disappointed he didn't win in 2013. If I remember my reading of the rules correctly the members of the Nobel Committee could still have nominated at the point when it was clear what he was revealing and how. Seems like the obvious choice by far for last year.

As a relatively minor side benefit, Snowden winning the Peace Prize would be an elegant rebuke to the rulers in the Sixth Eye of Five Eyes - Nobel's birth country of Sweden. I'd like to see that.

There are many people that would be eminently eligible to share a Nobel Peace Prize with this sort of motivation though. Only two slots left for the sharing... Bill Binney and Tom Drake? John Kiriakou? Who are the other strong contenders?
Show HN: Social Minus Spying
Hear, hear. I would love to see him get the Nobel. I think history will look kindly at Mr. Snowden, while the NSA's activities will be vilified -- assuming we are allowed to learn about those activities and those of us speaking out (or just texting each other about it) aren't fired, denied tenure, or otherwise removed from public view in the Brave New World of total surveillance.
I didn't know that was one of the motivations for dogecoin. I agree that switching to a different display for bitcoins (e.g. mBTC or uBTC) would seem the more "logical" choice. But a majority of people seem stuck on this time and time again which suggests some sort of cognitive bias.
Unless...

> he was probably nominated dozens of times.
Why aren't you charging for it?
We don't struggle to hire programmers for languages. The struggle is find programmers who understand the concepts we need them to understand.

That, and Android developers.
This is great in theory, but in practice your regular customers are going to lose/mix up their usernames and passwords all the time.

They need some kind of back door to recover their access (because honestly, even for the responsible and tech-savvy users, sometimes sh!t happens... e.g., my password manager generated a new password but my laptop crashed before I could save it), and they assume there will be a way to restore their account.

I'm sure you could tell your customers "you get what you deserve", but not if you want them to remain customers.
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Google "Not Provided" Solution Released by WebMeUp
> Doesn't MSIE8 have a MSIE7 compatability mode that basically runs the IE7 rendering engine in a wrapper

Of course not, that was obviously the right way to implement this so they had to do something worse first. IE7 compatibility mode works plausibly well for visual display but as eonwe's link pointed out there are still some key differences.

That link, however, doesn't really mention the worst part: IE8-as-IE7 does not have a compatible DOM or JavaScript engine. They're using the IE8 JS engine under the hood which is generally better but, among other things, it started raising exceptions for previously ignored bad code. I found out about this shortly after IE8 was released when my then-employer's Oracle apps stopped working because they used a really old version of a UI toolkit which at one point set zIndex to null before assigning it a new value. This is clearly invalid according to the specs but prior to IE8 it appears that nothing threw an exception. I ended up patching the JS file because getting a patch would have taken aeons and Oracle support actually called me asking if they could redistribute my work to other customers!

The good news is that Microsoft finally came up with the right way way to do this in MED-V, which will seem very familiar to anyone who's used e.g. VMware Fusion: you run antique versions of IE seamlessly inside a VM and the host's Internet Explorer can be configured to load certain sites inside the guest so you only take the performance / feature / security hit for your legacy enterprise apps instead of the entire web:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/video/Ff945178
Coursera doesn't own it's courses - just the platform. They belong to the partner universities.

Guaranteed they're not "open" in any way.
wikipedia's not the best source but from my limited experience this is in the right magnitude, with the key thing being $55k per violation. That can add up quickly depending on how its interpreted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_C...

Criminal penalties for violating the embargo range up to ten years in prison, $1 million in corporate fines, and $250,000 in individual fines; civil penalties up to $55,000 per violation.
High-Tech Workers Class Action Lawsuit
Ex-IDEO Designers Rethink The Calendar For Mobile Devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
> When it happens to the 55th largest company you rejoice because they have the power and motivation to change the rules.

Or they just settle next time.
Or, to put it another way, why are you so averse to investing in people/your company that you're looking for the finished article on the job market, rather than finding good people and helping them learn the specific skills you need?
Proprietary Technology Defeats VPN Blocking For An Unrestricted Internet
While most of the logic here is sound, I really disagree with the wording of the sentence

So the author would, presumably, on balance of probability,
be convinced that no combination of any 76 coin
tosses has ever come up.

It does not follow at all. The statement that "Sequence X_i has never been tossed" is independently probable for any long sequence X_i. The author is only making a single statement, and while it's true she has no particular reason to focus on the particular sequence of constant heads her statement is completely logical and very far from being refuted by observing any particular sequence of 76 coin flips unless it just so happens to be 76 heads.

The illogical point only arises if we try to take many of these independent statements all at once. If we take some significant chunk of sequences and state they've each all together never been seen before then we eventually must stop feeling that statement is probable.

One way to clarify the whole thing is to assign a bet to any given probabilistic statement. The author bets $10k that nobody has ever seen 76 heads. I can bet $10k that nobody has ever seen 76 tails. In each case our expected value on these bets is identical. Someone else could bet 10c on each possible permutation and be guaranteed to win, but obviously forced to distribute his bet.

It's not at all illogical for me to feel very confident that your coin flipping sequence wasn't all tails. It's highly illogical for me to believe your coin sequence wasn't in the set "all possible coin flipping sequences of length 76".
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> getting a value out of a map automatically creates another new object

Do you have a code sample for this?
Title is wrong. Now you cannot use the advertised product. This is fairly deceptive. My first thought was "Oh great, people are starting to spam HN."
not that the conference doesn't look interesting. I'll definitely attend, unless prohibitively expensive :-)
If a predominantly Muslim public school requires students to pray, will the teachers in Pensacola start citing constitutional concerns?

If we reach that terrible point, I suspect we will already be living under the iron hand of Sharia, and no one will dare to speak out lest they be accused of being anti-Islam and punished hard.
Where do you do cave diving? Damn, I grew up with it and: 1) safety is king, always, we always have 2 nails for 1 rope and 3 if possible for example; 2) nobody dares to call this a sport; 3) in Italy we have a special team of volunteers that trains periodically to go saving people in caves. Nobody has ever been left to die and I have never heard of anybody taking stupid risks.
Please forgive me, I just have to.

BR? BR? BR? gibe moni plos.
Check w/ a lawyer and create a partner ship of-shore.
> This is the basis of my point about conflating communitarianism for authoritarianism.

It's not a conflation, it's a difference in perception. You can assert that your opinion is the only valid one as long as you want, but if we're going to have a discussion about it I'll have to disagree on that point.

Communitarianism may be how they perceive themselves, but if you look at the prevailing structures that image falls apart pretty quickly. In fact, American-branded Christianity displays many of the characteristics of Authoritarianism, since it's also a quasi-political system rooted in many aspects of public and private life. Let me recycle your condescending Wikipedia-pasting maneuver here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism.

It's a strict hierarchy that comes straight down from a deity, branching off to layers of people with power derived and intertwined with that religion. Obedience is seen as a mandatory trait, and those Communitarian properties are only exhibited as long as members don't violate one of the many arbitrary tenets and restrictions on behavior. One of the many restrictions is by necessity the censure of science and knowledge.

At the same time, I'd be ridiculous to call the US an outright Theocracy, even though it has some similar traits. But the strict and militaristic hierarchy complete with large-scale control of public opinion makes it a better match for a system that has strong authoritarian traits.

Such is the limitation of labels. It's often hard to find one most people can agree with. They're of limited use in these cases, other than to approximate a certain meaning. However, that approximation is very brittle when communicating with people who are pissed off and/or disagree strongly about everything to begin with.

> In Islamic countries, the prevailing mood is far more authoritarian.

That's something we can agree on, as I believe I've said earlier in those comments you like to mock.
Yep lot's of google services, like app engine, also AWS and almost anything Sun/Oracel, (even for time, I dont know if it is still the case) you could not download mysql, or java updates from Iran,
great design! how are the headlines/summaries written?
>red blood cells are erythrocytes

>red blood cells are red blood cells

Why yes they are, astute observation...
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A Chinese firm's bid to crack the genetics of human intelligence
It could be greatly mitigated by automating that power more.

E.g., "No problem, I can reset your password! The system will automatically contact your registered phone number and email address -- if you confirm both, it resets now, and if you can't, it will send the reset to your new email 3 days from now."
Build it for the people who need it and have money to spend. :)
Because we need a solution now and can't take time to teach you anything. Can you start last week?

/s
Dog's Device (Python grammar edge-case)
Moment of truth as first seven new gTLDs go on sale
> Let's assume instead that it's 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, and 6 tails. The probability of that coming up is exactly the same as 76 heads.

How much would you like to bet that this hasn't happened either?
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Duck typing in dynamic languages can allow you to do some pretty cool things.
It's not even clear Manning is a whistleblower—what the hell did he blow a whistle on? It's not like any widespread scandal, corruption, or conspiracy was revealed.
I think it will be a niche.

People forget that most people working in software are in corporate jobs(or `website jobs` e.g.: PHP+Jquery), and there lies most people that don't care that much about perfecting the skills etc, i.e.: People that take it as a job and not a craft(and I'm fine with this, honestly)

So this may capture lower grade q and a's but it doesn't matter.. for example, I do speak english and it's very probable that I won't use much pt.stackoverflow if at all, just like I didn't browse the countless brasilian PHP, Java, JQuery, RoR forums and `Something-BR` discussion lists and groups before, but the people in there may do

So in my opinion it's irrelevant what you say about English being such a must and that it won't be as high-quality, to the people that will use it, it will be useful

To be a 'development is my craft' kind in fact English is essential, but that's just a small slice of the pie, to SO, it's business, or am I wrong?
Follow the money. How would you make money if your business revolves around having an enemy, FUD about the enemy, "protection" from the enemy? You'd need to find new enemies, or new ways of earning a profit, and who profits off that kind of pointless paper shuffling?
I do not like that. One world, one language. Preferably English. How cool would that be? No more language barriers. English is not my first language.
Ha - agreed on Chrome being full of bloatware, but at least they iterate and evolve to support new standards. (Over the last 9mos or so Chrome has implemented a pretty solid version of WebRTC video for example). It almost seems like Firefox isn't even trying to keep up anymore. I didn't mention in the post itself, but the bug on Firefox that is messing us up is blocked by like four other bugs that also have made essentially no progress over many months.
One thing I've found handy is just to have little or no bio information on your accounts. If you absolutely must have bio info on your account, make all the information different from account to account.

This way, if a hacker gets your LinkedIn profile, the information there is different than your Facebook info, which is different than your Twitter info, which is different from your. .

Imagine a hacker with a handful of accounts and all the information is completely inconsistent. How does he decide which one is real and which one's are fake? It's essentially a dead end and will hopefully get them to move on to an easier target.
Bias warning: I work for appear.in.

Appear.in itself is all WebRTC, built with AngularJS and Node. As far as I understand it, the red cross solution is built with MeteorJS, and they have built a custom queueing system into that application. The Red Cross page has nothing to do with WebRTC, but the video solution (appear.in) is.
Hey, I'm not sure yet. I was thinking about something around $50. Maybe more maybe less. What do you think?
The music industry is finally hacked