skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with drug dogs is not that they can't sniff out drugs. It's that they can't testify.
I've always thought a 4d first person game where you could toggle pairs of dimensions could be really interesting. At any point you could swap between wxy/wxz/xyz. The rendering would be standard 2d projections of the 3 dimensions you have toggled on...Add guns and you have the trippiest FPS I've ever heard of.
You don't even need to bring the prohibition discussion into this. The problem with the DEA isn't their mission or charter, it's that they have convinced themselves along the way that to make an impact, they need to become an intelligence agency and support certain cartels, funnel weapons to them, turn a blind eye on their operations in the USA - this is where they are creating extra harm.

They believe they are the genius third party that is playing cartels against each other, when really the cartel soldiers don't stop working over the weekend and will happily take whatever support the DEA has to offer while shielding the upper echelons.
I'm sure he's aware of that. This is a major element of the UI which shouldn't require you to move to another screen to enjoy.

Swiping near the bottom with my thumb hasn't bothered me so far, but the text is quite hard to read at that small of a size. I would also like to those cards a bit larger in the future.
Gartner's application performance management leaderboard likely to keep shifting
Not just different products, but they were pretty much on one device, iOS. Compare that to what Pandora is offered on these days.
really shouldn't be called camping so much as pioneering, or oregon trailing ;)
> To be fair, I think you're blaming the wrong agency here.

Stop kicking the can. The DEA is part of the problem in that any organization's goal is self-propogation and continued existence to benefit it's membership.

That they were given a corrupt charter doesn't mean they're innocent actors. They are part and parcel of the security state combined with private interests, corrupt legislators, bribed judges and other agencies whose mission has strayed from public benefit to lining their own pockets.

In fact, I wouldn't doubt that given their power, they are increasingly targeted/infiltrated by the very criminal interests they're trying to control - meaning their purpose is skewed for vendetta resolution and clearing out markets for drug cartels (note: HSBC was caught laundering money for the cartels, why would the DEA be less corruptible?).
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I only had to say it so many times because it defeats your argument and you acted as though it doesn't.
In all honesty, you're probably more likely to get complete scoundrels honour your salary than allow your options to vest and you to keep your fair share of the company if it's worth something a few years down the line...
I don't use facebook but I'm interested in how it goes for this app.

It seems you're still reaching for a corner and curve your finger inward, isn't it as stressful for the left hand ?
Looks like we use the app differently, which is entirely possible in this world ;) My assumptions were twofold: 1) users would like to scroll and scan quickly (because they're impatient), diving into content to find something that looked interesting to read, and 2) that the inertial scroll literally amplifies that action — potentially getting you something you want, faster.

Flinging the carousel has a playful factor (that you mentioned) and serves to immerse you more into the content. The fact, though, that I have to hurt my thumb to do this is a glaring problem, IMO.
I don't think it makes a difference. I've been on Facebook since 2004 and have about 950 photos and videos.
I will look into that. Thank you for posting.
Somewhere, a network engineer is testing his/her internet connection by doing a ping on yahoo.com and it isn't returning.

// seems to be an age thing on who you ping
In related news: HTTPSeverywhere is now available for Firefox on Android. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/making-the-mobile-web-...
My love affair with AngularJS
Teach me to post before reading. Looks like someone already posted this exact concept game...Although my idea always involved gravity somehow....
Bing has 1/3 of search volume if you include Yahoo, which it serves.

Hardly lost.
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Fixtures vs Factories
I received three duplicate registration emails when signing up. Looks great though. Looking forward to playing around with it.
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Check out http://sphinx-doc.org/index.html. They have good tools to create documentation for Python and other languages as well.
We just started using Q for our all--aaaargh, motherfucker.

Great to see progress being made, I guess. :(
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This is much less dry than the last version of this article that showed up on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7136603
> Isn't the 'quantum' in "quantum mechanics" an adjective?

Is "mathematical" in "mathematical physics" an adjective or a noun? I think it's a noun. On the other hand, the "extreme" in "extreme physics" is an adjective.

Now for a gray-area example. If I say "very mathematical physics", then "mathematical" becomes an adjective.

And I might be wrong about this. :)
smartphone/tablet - and solar powered battery charging. No need for a big screen.
Different people use different characters for actions. Asterisk, colon, dash, angle-bracket, bracket are all common enough to be heard about.

It could have equally been

"xD"

"lol"

And I would consider those among many others to be laughter.
Do you think it possible that a police department could be forced via Writ of Mandamus to uniformly enforce any law used as pretext to search or seizure?

For instance, if someone is arrested for jaywalking because the cop objects to being filmed in public, the photography rights lobby would retaliate by petitioning the courts to force that entire department to apply an equal enforcement standard to any and all jaywalking infractions it observes thereafter.

If an ordinance generates one citation in a year when sampling (or even common sense) indicates it happens hundreds of times per day, the judge on that case might want to grow a pair and punish the use of the bullshit pretext to end-run around due process.
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They were only able to be a racketeer when they had near monopoly power. Now Google is in that role and we need someone to keep them in check.
That is a question researchers have been asking for decades. Rain Forest Puppy, with the help of some smart, invested colleagues, put together a good framework for Full Disclosure a long time ago:

http://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/general/rfpolicy-2....

When I first found myself involved in disclosures in the mechanical security world, I turned to that document to orient myself, though mechanical security has some different challenges that make following that framework perfectly fairly hard.
It's awesome this feature is supported (I've seen some cases where it's needed) and that Stripe is so responsive to their customers. FYI Recurly supports this as well.

Just remember, if you have customers on 2 subscriptions, you're losing 30¢ by charging them 2x instead of one. If you find yourself with lots of customers on 2 subscriptions, it might be worth it to rethink how your plans are structured.
Kudos to Stripe for being responsive to customer feature requests: https://groups.google.com/a/lists.stripe.com/d/msg/api-discu...
Also, if drug dogs are so effective, then their use constitutes a search! Thus a warrant should be required in order to deploy the dog.
"We are sorry for exposing innocents in this manner."

Quit lying you pricks.
Atmosphere 2.1.0 released: Portable WebSockets Applications for the JVM
There's lots of languages you can use to create iOS applications: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3949995/what-programming-...

Android allows you to freely deploy your applications to their devices, while iOS requires a little more work. In neither case do you have to go through their respective stores (I'm thinking enterprise/personal apps here). For commercial sales it's increasingly a moot point: consumers are purchasing apps through app stores regardless of platform.

As a developer, I've never felt more free, less beholden to a corporate entity and their hidden agenda, and have an awesome stable of tools and technologies from which I can use to build solutions. It's almost gotten to the point where I have too much choice!

And that's awesome!
Company culture matters. Good people can be really disappointing under poor leadership.
Trying to understand your point. Do you mean the phrase "but upon probable cause"? And if so, do you mean that it would have been a better utopia if searches were not allowed even with probable cause?
I think it's also worth learning to do internal PR for unglamorous things.

I was once a sysadmin, and I got incredibly tired of being unappreciated. Eventually I burnt out on the work and shifted to other things. But I came to realize that some of it was my fault. Uncomfortable with recognition, I was almost secretive about how much hard work I was doing to keep everything running smoothly. I didn't even give people a chance to appreciate what I was up to.

In retrospect, I was thinking that good work would shine on its own, that they would understand the complexities of what I was doing. Hah! I don't even do that myself. I don't run around saying, "Hey, the internet is amazing! Thank you $ISP for keeping me connected!" every 20 minutes. But when it goes down, I go right to WTF-land.

If you're going to take one for the team, let the team know. And when you notice other people doing important but unglamorous stuff, call it out. Praising them publicly helps create a culture that values more than the showy big wins. There's a technique called "appreciative inquiry" that I've found really helpful to shift my thinking in that regard. Rather than starting from an expectation of perfection, I start by asking myself, "What's good about this?"
Revolutionary new cryptography tool could make software unhackable
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Just a quick look at it makes me worry that a bad boss might use it to push developers.
Interactive edition of the Gettysburg Address
It'll be interesting to see the direction Mr. Nadella takes the company in. Hopefully he expands the Research division and tears down barriers to incorporating more research gems into the product lines. I'd also like to see more UI/UX innovation. One further thing I'd like to see: Visual Studio as a platform-independent product line with F# as a major player in that platform.
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Management doesn't hate IT, they hate cost centers. Like patio11 says above do not be a programmer, but be someone who generates revenue (or cuts cost) using software. Align your interests with managements interests of cost saving and revenue generation and management will love you.

It is not always easy though. A lot of management simply does not understand what is possible with IT. That is where the communication angle comes in (and business savvy). It is ITs job to not just do the work, but to help the business understand what is possible with great IT work. Having a great IT department working with business can be a huge multiplier and competitive advantage when done properly.
Network most definitely, for checking requests. Using filtering there is very useful as it allows me to quickly toggle between All and Scripts / XHR.
How to take away motivation from a project maintainer of a OpenSource project
It think it has a lot of value already but the landing page needs some caring (design, copy, typography), maybe a bit more assertive.
> Actually, "how" is "why".

In a scientific context, "how" and "why" are generally regarded as separate questions. Consider the classic case of peppered moth evolution: the "how" is answered by natural selection -- through random genetic variations the moths changed color over time to match their changing environment. The "why" is answered by noting that the camouflaged moths escaped predation by moth-eating species.
I think its time to differentiate Science from Technology and Engineering (I'm not sure about mathematics) when talking about this. I think the problem you site is certainly true for Science majors but I don't believe its true for Technology (i.e., comp sci) or engineering.
My RT-AC66u died a month ago (trying to factory reset, and it never woke up), and I just plugged my 5-year old Apple Wifi-N router and never looked back.

Looks like there isn't really a good AC router - most AC routers have poor reliability reviews everywhere (even the new Apple one).
Quasar developer here: I'd guess about 1 man-year on Quasar+Pulsar, a similar amount on Galaxy, and much more than that on SpaceBase. Comsat was easy once Quasar was in place.
Why hire witnesses when you can get them for free by offering to reduce ridiculous sentences?
And Google has an absurd share of the search market, with which they can make or break (and have made or broken) all sorts of businesses. Consumers can choose not to use Google, but businesses can't opt out of how they're listed.

The Office formats, for all their quirks, are open and documented. There's no one forcing you to use MS Office. You probably can't switch which OS you're using at work, but Windows is fairly permissive of portable apps that evade most of the security restrictions. We're locked into using IE8 at work for compatibility reasons, but I'm able to use Chrome on my work computer just fine.

If you don't think Google is heading down the old Microsoft route, I point you to the bundling of Google+ with all of their other apps. Yes, it delivers value. But that's what Microsoft said when it started bundling IE with Windows.
Network for sure
Yes, the OS will become the bootleneck.
If you design your application in a way that makes the OS do a shitload of work.
Congratulations on the launch.

However, the name (sound wise) has unfortunate connotations in the German language, just as FYI:

http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ficken
Biofuel crops 'may amplify mosquito-borne disease'.
Different companies, difference circumstances. In 1997, Apple needed to be scrappy just to survive. Microsoft in 2014, is still an enormously profitable company that has been in a lull for most of the last decade. For an email to start the process of waking a sleeping giant, I thought the tone was good.
Regarding VR: Valve claims that pc's are a better fit to VR and they've done some serious research on VR. I'm taking it on face value(maybe i shouldn't ?).

Cloud gaming is when games are run on a server and streamed to your home. Combine chromecast and cloud gaming, and you suddenly got a huge platform, with much more users than xboox one/ps4. And since it's google ,it would probably run android games which there are tons. This could make the platform preferable for AAA gaming.

One more element that could be important in this is microsoft's "project spark" which let users build games with amazing creativity and amazing graphics. It's still in beta , but when it's release it could be a huge force in gaming , especially together with VR.
But both are competing in the the same place, the app store, over the same thing, your attention and money.
I'm not sure, pulling might be easier than pushing? I guess the difference is you are stretching in the air and coming back to your resting state while pushed against the glass rather than the opposite. Also you might be working around the fact that your thumb covers the content more when using the right hand.

What I've found myself doing is using two hands.
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/25/ill-let-you-in-on-a-...

The Linux version (complete with sorting office analogy).
It's called the "Rape Creation Agency" It's sole purpose is to rape people, not to make rape policy. Like other agencies, it was created to enforce the policies enacted by politicians (Congresscritters and Senators). Blame the politicians, not the agencies.

I know it seems like a straw man but I just wish to show that your reasoning isn't quite sound.
I forgot to add - anti-dumping, unfair competition, and predatory pricing laws. Those are just a way to use regulation to fix prices because voluntary price fixing fails.
Try this: for every feature listed, tell me why I want that.

"Detects project name from repo- so your work is never XXX"

"See logged time per project or branch- so you can see XXX"

Then tell me why I want the investment: "If you value your time at $50/hr then for the price of 11 minutes you can save yourself hours of lost time each month" or whatever the selling point is.

This will have three effects: It will make your pitch more compelling; it will force you to focus on selling the features that matter; and it will allow you to see the features you should add in order to have a more compelling sales pitch.

If you are looking for something to duckduckgo, this is old news, and it comes down to "selling features vs selling benefits" in marketing.
Feel free to ask questions about it, I'm here to answer
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Definitely one of the realest teams out there. Amazing how much people underrate them. Congrats.
Interesting I hope you continue to keep high quality companies on your site. Recently I graduated from college and it was hard to discern which companies were actually good companies to work for and which ones were sketchy companies.

Its really nice being able to see the place and people you will be working with. If I am on the job market again I'm going to check out the muse.
Are you comparing Sigma with using D3 with SVG? One could also use a canvas to make it render faster.
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Benchmarking of AWS Storage optimized Instances
This could help... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WyreE9ZkI
This is a very trivial thing to focus on in the context of Nadella's letter. What exactly is your point? It's also a poor statement to chose for psycho-analysing and judging Nadella's character.
Why Bill Gates is wrong for Microsoft's technology guru position
you've removed my ability to post

HN seem to have a lot of targeted moderation "features" these days. Years ago I seem to have lost my ability to flag articles, which as far as I can tell comes from flagging things that the mods don't think should be flagged.

As for the original killed threads, I can't see what makes the Ask HN post different from a blog post with the same content that's been submitted. The guidelines say to not post what could have been emailed, but the poster was asking the HN community for advice and not asking the startup anything, so the post was not killed strictly per HN guidelines.

My 2¢ is that moderation is damaging the community more than submissions and comments.
Sure, but the point is that to avoid that you need either functional programming or lightweight threads (though the two are certainly not mutually exclusive).
Ionic Framework in pre-release
Cool idea, and it has potential, but it's missing fun!

Touching all surfaces != fun.

Maybe collecting an item(s) on some surfaces could be ok.

Or a "finish line" box to go through on some surface.

It's more fun, IMO, to have specific goals.

Uninstalled for now but am excited to see where you might take it.
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I know it's pretty simple to run the examples yourself, but it would be nice if they were hosted on sigmajs.org. Great work, though. Pretty sure I'm going to try this today or tomorrow.
Well you've got a free plan and a paid plan: so first question would be what conversion rate do you have from free to paid users?

If that rate is under 1% for active free users moving to paying users then it's definitely a value problem. (Active, not just made an account and a capture). If this is the case then you probably need to working on adding additional features that are paid only and valuable.

If the conversion rate is alright but the total number of users is just too low that your paid users is too low, then it's not value problem, but rather a marketing problem. Two options in this case: your product is useful but the people who would use it don't know it exists, or your product is not fitting a market need. I'm pretty sure it's the first case, but validating that is difficult. As it's useful to you and does seem useful, the best step is to just try to get more people aware of the product. I'd recommend writing (or paying someone to write) blog posts detailing how your product is used. Tutorials on starting up a freelance business using your product to keep track of time for clients, or blog posts on time manegement using your product as a center piece would be good. Post those blogs up to twitter, HN, reddit, etc.
You can be 100% sure these things "pan out" in the sense of resulting in convictions, because a lot of people are going to plea-bargain when confronted by the DEA, whether they are actually guilty or not.

Essentially, once you have poisoned the actual trial process (and this shows just how poisoned it is), no statistics about "how effective this is" are going to mean anything. After all, I'm sure some DEA agents know they're convicting innocent people I'm sure others have blanket belief in the guilt of many innocent people. It's kind of a truism - once you abandon objective, unbiased inquiry, it's gone.
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Do you mean Visual Studio or their languages? If the former, that's a tool. They make good tools, no doubt, but closed tools aren't really conducive to open innovation. They've made good languages, but again I wouldn't want to get tied down to a closed platform.
On some level http://geekli.st/ is right on the money according to this post.. Show off the things you did. Even if it's small ("Added replica set to mongodb cluster") .. Over time the cards add up to expertise.
The library that I make, GoJS (http://www.gojs.net/) has a tree layout and layered digraph layout, both with many options.

Here's an overview of the options for the layered digraph layout: http://www.gojs.net/latest/samples/ldLayout.html

The tree layout supports some fairly complicated tree structures, including ones that alternate or have different configurations for leaves: http://www.gojs.net/latest/samples/tLayout.html

Disclosure: I'm a developer of this library and it is not free.
Unless you're meaning to imply that laws around drugs are categorically evil, I don't think you actually have a point.
...after installing everything. Are they online anywhere so they can be browsed more casually?
I don't think so. It happens all the time. Even when I just have about:blank open, and go to something like ddg.gg or google.com, it's like the browser hangs for a couple of seconds, then it loads the page really quick. It's that initial hang that is really aggravating.
Not sure what type of service this is, my proxy at work blocks your site as "Suspicious"
Just in time for Firefox 27 with SPDY 3.1 support https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/27.0/releasenotes/