skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any reason the cops who pulled down or covered up cameras shouldn't be immediately fired? Is there ANY rational excuse that could be given for that sort of behavior? Pulling down an outside camera seems like vandalism, pure and simple; covering an interior one suggests the desire to commit other crimes unobserved.
Unfortunately, a lot (most?) people do indeed see that as "fake" "chemicals"... that, I'll never understand.
The link, and indeed the whole blog, is worth reading. However, it doesn't directly answer the question. Bunnie suggests dealing with Chinese brokers who can source availability of 'cut tape', remnants from large production runs of the chip. It doesn't address consistency and reliable supply issues over a longer period of time but does allow for procurement of relatively small quantities of parts.

Bunnie also suggests learning enough Chinese to participate in what he terms the "gongkai" (公开), the quasi-open but legally murky design and production ecosystem producing much of our electronics, where documentation and specs are apparently available about as freely as torrented episodes of Game of Thrones.
IBM -- It's got a lot going for it, if you don't like one division/project there are bunch of other ones to look at.
Vimeo supporting ignoring user request to make site usable for lectures
Despite being used heavily for online lectures and classes, Vimeo's support staff has been claiming for 2 years that it is pointless to allow variable playback rates for their videos.
Easy answer: "a sense of depth" -- but then, retina 3D screens sans glasses... now there's an interesting thought!
Same here. I thought the title would more appropriately be something like "10 startups that are providing Docker-based services."
I think that's 2,161,530,000,000 searches * $0.07/search (he mistook it for $0.07 per search)

On the other hand, your post mistakenly reads 0.07 cents per thousand, though you did the calculation correctly.
You can't feel, smell, or touch anything, for one. The dynamic range of the display won't match what you would see outside, either.
> There have been cases similar to this (but less dramatic) where the homeowners fired on the un-marked, un-announced police squad, and were (rightly!) vindicated under their states' respective castle or self-defense laws.

There have? Could you please cite them? In reading the Author's book, mentioned at the end of the article, I was lead to believe that the castle doctrine has pretty much eroded to the point that one has a reasonable sense of privacy in one's own home, buy if you're suspected of illegal activity you basically forfeit that right.
That's just a communications problem.
What's more frustrating than your government overspending money on corrupt construction? Not even getting what you paid for. Construction and preparation costs were in the billions. Much of the money was given to Putin's associates and, in return, the people get this trash.

Same goes for Obama with Healthcare.gov. We spent all that money and got garbage in return.
So are all those posters on bitcoin trying to scam David Marcus? Supposing they are, what would be their motivation to do so?

To deface paypal? Seems unlikely
You are correct. By non-physical item, I could only think of a Bitcoin related currency exchange for USD or any other fiat currency.

Unless, can you think of a Bitcoin related non-physical item that is NOT a currency exchange?
Just read the first page so far and it's interesting. I'm intrigued by server architecture and algorithms, thank you.

By the way, in case anyone wants to look at the safety proof and formal specification for Raft (the paper's citation link is broken), it's at http://raftuserstudy.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/proo...
But...it's not real.
I guess David Marcus didn't (nor anyone else at Paypal) read the FinCEN regs because Bitcoin exchange is not considered "currency exchange" for regulatory purposes because FinCEN says it's not a "currency."

Sigh.
I'm not convinced this is a bad thing. The average citizen should have just as much contact (if not more) with the local officers than the average criminals. Police are the most likely to move up the political ladder, and the ones who are to protect the local community. If something is wrong or problems are occurring in a state or federal context, these are the people who will be with or against you. People will be less likely to fuck you, if they know you're on their side (looking to protect the community).
Only some time back in history you could have said the same thing about organ transplants.
I somewhat agree here, but when a company is small it could be awkward to have a policy where you buy computers for some and not for others, right?
> We're not exactly in a cold war anymore

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Simply knowing the truth that the experience is "fake" is enough to ruin the illusion.
New Research Says There Are Only Four Emotions
I think one of the problems with building software for freelancers is you are targeting both $5/hour Elance and $100/hour 'ninja' workers. In the case of Proper (nice landing page btw!) both may have the same usage but will get a different value out of it - meaning you can't charge them both the same price. One way you could get around that in you product offerings is to offer more features in the higher plans than just more usage.
There is a corporation called The Fed which makes money out of thin air, loans it to politically-connected banks at 0% and expect you/us to pay for it all, via the IRS, perpetual quantitative easing("bailouts"), unsecured liabilities("bail-ins") and a massive debt ponzi scheme.

This article creates a false dichotomy. It's more or less the job of the media, who are eventually beholden to financial trusts like the Fed, to distract and deflect attention away from who is actually to blame.
One man band blows away audience at america's got talent audition 2014
check out this one man show completely take over the audition room at america's got talent auditions at the miami convention center
Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder at FiftyThree

Just a few facts:

1. "Paper", an app from developer "Contradictory", has existed in the App Store since October 27, 2011. This is presumably before miSoft registered their Paper. (https://twitter.com/FiftyThree/status/430873195097632769) Contradictory is clearly a name squatter.

2. miSoft's Paper launched ~5 months after Paper by FiftyThree. (https://twitter.com/FiftyThree/status/430845528805756928)

3. miSoft renamed another of their apps "Kid Paint" to "Paper Express" on 12/20/2012 after FiftyThree won App of the Year (https://twitter.com/georgpetschnigg/status/43091631900616704...)
Facebook releases “Conceal,” a lightweight tool to make Android apps safer
that "what's up?" was one of xkcd's finest moments.
Might as well stay at home then, buy an 80" TV for what the cruise (plus overpriced drinks) costs, and skip the Norovirus...
I had this idea about using a "utility" function to represent how useful a given amount of screen space is to each widget, and then choosing the layout that maximizes the sum of the utility functions. It hasn't gained any traction, and I haven't had time to implement it myself.

See http://gtk.10911.n7.nabble.com/Idea-for-automatic-widget-lay... for more details.
Investigating API Developer Tooling
I also hold the phone this way.

The author's grip puts the home button halfway outside his "thumb zone" forcing an awkward claw whenever you need to multitask or return to the springboard. Our grip puts the home button in a much more natural position.
Why REST is More Like Religion than Most Technologies
Thank you, Growing a Language looks especially relevant to me because I have to write a ten page paper on "computers and language" for a class on programming language history/design.
Dancing to the National Anthem on Groundhog Day – Beagle Brothers
Why The FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality
The story portray the poor family as the victims but it should be remembered that this is a guy who takes a gun to the bathroom.

If you point a gun at a SWAT team they will likely shoot you, if you don't have reflexes to drop the gun then that's Darwinian evolution in action. I have little sympathy for someone that keeps a loaded gun with them in such a paranoid fashion.
Is Facebook The Last Great Social Network?
Apple restarts production of iPhone 4 for India, Indonesia, Brazil
Who is Satya Nadella?
Every single olympics, there is dire warnings before hand, things will not be ready. There are guaranteed huge traffic problems, not enough volunteers or infrastructure.

Then as soon as it starts, all is forgotten, it is a wonderful time, the best Olympics ever, greatest world records broken, the best Olympians ever.
It's not quite the same - is it? US is still capable of building hotels.
Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham Live (Evolution v Creationism debate)
Please link me to the 80" $500 TV you speak of.
Most association is your own choice.
Math is hard, let's go shopping for data centers!
Sushinomics: How Bluefin Tuna Became a Million-Dollar Fish
Boring generic corporate pep talk email. It would've been better with GIFs. Doesn't give me much hope for the future of Microsoft. Seems like more of the same. I was really hoping for an outsider with new ideas that could energise the organization and make tough decisions.

I wonder what the sentiment is on the ground among softies.
It's just for the time you spend in your room. You don't spend the entire cruise in your room.
Yeah, journalists can survive a few weeks without showers :D
I'm not really well versed in Bitcoin, so I could be misunderstanding the mechanics of it, but I think Bitcoin would be really good for PayPal.

As you suggest, they would continue to provide their service, but instead of PayPal accounts being funded through Visa/MasterCard (X% txn fee) they could be funded through Bitcoin (0% txn fee).

(disclosure: I currently own some eBay Inc stock)
hi,
I'm working as a tech lead in Shippable(https://shippable.com). The production use as specified by Docker is a set of guidelines that you should/must avoid for now, like not giving the sudo access inside the containers. Also, if the application running inside of the container itself has security holes than Docker really can't help in any way. You should take a look at this presentation by Jérôme Petazzoni (http://www.slideshare.net/jpetazzo/linux-containers-lxc-dock...) which makes the same point(and more).
I don’t think this is anything special. It’s just fancy room decoration. Better than a painting of the outside. (Well, depending on the quality of the painting, I guess. But I guess you won’t find any good ones in cheap cruise ship rooms.)

It’s not lying, it’s not dystopian, it’s nothing of that kind at all. When they board up actual windows with screens, then you can start complaining. Before? Not really, no. That’s completely ridiculous.

Those rooms didn’t have a view of the outside before. Now they have one. It’s in many ways imperfect but (depending on the implementation) better than nothing. (I guess their cameras could be awful, noisy and low-res, the screens could be awful, so in practice it might just be a kitschy room decoration, but I was assuming the best-case scenario.)

The ridiculous elevation of all things “real” is frankly one of those disgusting status games the rich and privileged like to play. Travelling to faraway places is probably in most cases a better experience than seeing images of that place on a screen (depending on what you actually do) but not everyone is privileged to be able to do that. Screens make our world smaller and more accessible for more people. That’s great, not dystopian.
You hear the run up of 'they aren't going to be ready', but you don't hear it days before the Olympics. In Whistler/Vancouver, our housing was completed months before. You didn't have incomplete buildings or event venues leading up to the day. Some of the venues may have cut it close (I don't really remember), but still, I don't think anything was left to a few days before.

I really don't care about the journalists though. I'm more concerned about the athletes and the venues, particularly for their safety in many of these sports where (by the sounds of things) the competition will be essentially a 'trial run' of the venue. In Whistler, our Bobsled and Nordic Ski venues all hosted warm-up test events before the Olympics.
Two big announcements
Hardware Startup Pitch Club: for SF Bay Area hardware founders
In both situations the gov't overspent by a large margin and got nothing close to what was expected.
I knew corruption surrounding the games was bad, but I didn't know it was this bad. What happens if they're not prepared? Do they just go "Sorry, no xyz sport because the venue isn't ready"?
There are many reasons to do things that have nothing to do with the state of the world in 2100. For example, there may be value in improving the remaining lives of people who will be dead before then. Think about it.
This one's a little different. Yeah every Olympics has this fear-mongering, but we're three days, not months (as is typically the case), from opening ceremonies. There was talk today that some event venues aren't even set up, when the games begin in 2 days.
FYI - there are categories on eBay which have a format (Classifieds) whereby the transaction is to be handled offline:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/formats.html#classified

An example use-case is the Real Estate category.
Disney's newer ships (the Dream and the Fantasy) have something similar- a virtual porthole on the inside staterooms that shows a view of the outside. Being Disney, they went one better: Disney characters will show up on the screen as well (the house from Up will float by, Ariel could pop up and wave, etc.) Apparently, these inside staterooms are so popular, they are actually commanding a price premium on some sailings.
Ask HN: Sell me something.
Tell us why we should use/buy a product. What set's the product out from the alternatives. Please avoid the obvious (Adobe, Microsoft)
Why do the Baby Boomers have a monopoly on self-serving, harmful policy?

What's kind of funny is that a good many of the Boomers were of the peace-and-love dope-smoking hippy '60s. They saw first-hand the results of Vietnam.

You'd think they would be the ones to spearhead gay rights and legalization of drugs and avoiding wars of interventionism. But by the '80s is was clear that all that youthful optimism and charity was but a phase.

As the saying goes, people become conservative the minute they have something to conserve.
The Reality Of Developers Life
For those who havn't seent this yet
Then you might also want to look at the "lambda papers":

http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
Are you completely unable to see it from the perspective of an arresting officer? I can imagine not wanting to go arrest certain people without a good amount of backup. I don't think they'd need something like this for most arrests of course, definitely not cc theft, but it's not like the idea is complete without merit.

If everybody tried a little bit harder to see things from the point of view of other folks, we'd have way fewer problems.
But if the 60 second timeout is IP specific - he could have work around it by using botnet?
I read "OTP-ish dialect of Erlang" as meaning it's not quite the same, and I was looking for details of those differences. If it's just plain Erlang, then I see your point.
Well, they won't survive long if there's a fire and the fire doors are locked.
stumpwm. It's the sequel to ratpoison, implemented in common lisp. You can hack while it's running. The multi-monitor support is top notch.
http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
What Phone did Brad Pitt use in World War Z?
Elon Musk calls Model S cross-country journey "historical milestone"
The disappointing thing is that they can't be used to watch videos: "And before you ask: yes, you can turn the screens off, and no, you can’t use them to stream Netflix."
No, it's not rude to point out rudeness. Rude is about HOW you do something, not what you do. Even scratching your balls is not rude -- if you do it in the privacy of your own bathroom.
Serf doesn't actually use Docker in anyway, just as clarification. It does work really well within it, but there is no dependency either way.
The underground movie 'Faces of Death' had a scene in which the authorities showed up to a small village household . In the Eighties, in a eastern block country (unnamed) .Took the head of household out, and drag & quartered the guy in front of his family. I forgot the amount ,taxes owed but it was low.Due to political pressure from the West,the actions were halted.
The Google barge is displacing thousands of cubic meters of water, some of which has been in the bay for decades.
That's completely and thoroughly possible, and doesn't at all conflict with the way eBay operates. I'm not sure if users would accept it particularly readily though, there's other escrow services that require no trust in the escrow agent, why would they use Bitcoin? I'm not particularly opposed to the idea, I don't mind PayPal particularly, I'm just not sure how well it would be adopted.
Yes yes, TSDR is a mess.
In any case, the PTO still issued the mark, so saying "the PTO refused the mark", is not quite right.
And only one left on amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002EWZO3U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
No surprise. My personal experience with paypal: Apparently I am permanently banned for life because I refused to cover my "negative balance" that resulted from a scammer buying my old laptop on ebay, claiming he never got it (despite having proof of delivery), then somehow reversing the Paypal transaction just by speaking to a representative. He used a brand new ebay account, mine was at least 7 years old with 100% positive feedback. Have they resolved this issue yet? I keep hearing similar stories from friends, who have obviously stopped using ebay/paypal for this reason.

So Paypal customer support apparently just does whatever they want to do, at the individual agent level.
This seems very useful, thank you so much.
I guess you got this already from the post, but if anything the situation in Japan is worse. Programmer salaries are roughly comparable to (continental) Western European salaries (after discounting for living cost differences), so much lower than in SV/Seattle/NYC. But in Europe at least you tend to get more free time and longer vacations.
Well, healthcare.org was an incompetent contractor. It wasn't corrupt.
... lots of people who were in Congress 30 years ago die, and almost never is it "important news". Just because it hits some popular current buzzwords shouldn't really change this.
This is true, but rather undermines the original point about the POTUS doing it.

State governors and city mayors tend to be a lot more willing to do things like this, but you'd still have to get the political will. I'd expect you'd need someone to successfully get elected on a platform of doing it, and for the opposition to not find it reasonable to attack that item on the platform.
Then Avast Antivirus pops up and says your software update status is critical! Do something or let me manage it for you (pay me) !
Congrats on figuring it out and having a clear focus, but also to trying a lot of things over the years and figuring out what works. And thank you for being so responsible with the future of your legacy products. There are too many companies that are too happy to simply shut down things as soon as ROI numbers don't line up.

Here's to the future.
he's likely mad that the new CEO of Microsoft is Indian

no more tech support jokes
The obvious conspiracy here is that David Marcus asked that a bunch of bitcoin related accounts get frozen, then bought a shitload of bitcoin as soon as it tanked before eBay "hastily" declared they "believe in bitcoin"
And I was just about to integrate Highrise into my app...moving on! Any suggestions on a Highrise competitor that is stable, etc.?
Don't know about Yammer, but Valve has a very flat structure where engineers work directly on projects that they are interested in (and presumably that they think will bring in revenue). Quote from their (definitely must-read) employee handbook:

"We’ve heard that other companies have people allocate a percentage of their time to self-directed projects. At Valve, that percentage is 100."

http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
Brooks: Mental activities involving rule-following less valuable in computer age
This seems way different than the usual "everything is going to be terrible" months out stuff we usually see. This is "the games start tomorrow and the HOTELS aren't actually finished".
I thought the science culture wars were over, but apparently people are still pushing them.
For someone who grew up in Russia this doesn't come as a surprise at all. This is how it is when the whole world is watching, one can only imagine what everyday life is like in Russia. I remember the stories of how back in the 1980 Olympics the, normally completely empty, grocery stores in Moscow were all of a sudden filled with 'luxury' food items imported from Finland to show the rest of the world how great the country was. Meanwhile Moscow was a complete lockdown and nobody could get in or out of the city. Deja vu all over again ;)
By definition it's corruption. This is hundreds of millions of dollars here, either nobody did the due diligence, the procurement committee (or however they chose it) was mislead, or the contractor was chosen for other reasons than their competency. Pick your poison, but it's all corrupt.

Edit: it's late and what is grammar
Hopefully, all the olympic venues are ready.

Still, underdelivery and enormous costs of these olympics (~$20-50bn figures depending on what to include in olympic costs) are horrifying for us Russians even more than yellow rusty water is for europeans and americans.

If past experience is any indicator, whatever is built for the Games will decay and rot within months after the event.
We're big fans of Pipedrive
It was less than $2 USD.
How does an incompetent contractor win a contract without some corruption?
War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show
Or you know, they could have just killed his career. Or that of others. A scandal with some extra marital affair leaked to the press or something, and there goes the path to the whitehouse for those deemed "unfit".

What I do know is:

a) it's idiotic to demand hard proof of such things, instead of using the best of what information is available to deduce if it's possible or not

b) As Gore Vidal put it: "Americans have been trained by media to go into Pavlovian giggles at the mention of 'conspiracy,' because for an American to believe in a conspiracy he must also believe in flying saucers or, craziest of all, that more than one person was involved in the JFK murder."

c) After something comes to light, be it Enron, the financial deregulated party going on pre-2008, the revelations about mass surveillance of American citizens, etc, idiots -- who previously was all jokes about "that's absurd" -- come out saying "of course, we knew all that all along"...
The current version of their compiler supports many C99 language constructs and libraries; I think VLAs and the restrict keyword are the most noteworthy features still missing.
The article isn't suggesting that he was assassinated. It's just remarking on the relative obscurity of his death.
Didn't need to, they got their knee-jerk reaction from your comment just fine /s.
What he thinks are more valuable are "enthusiasm," "people with extended time horizons and strategic discipline," and "procedural architects."

Sure — machines just program themselves if the environment is right.
Your site isn't coming up, maybe it doesn't implement the REST guidelines efficiently.
I predict that GitHub will acquire Campfire.
Cool, with Bill also more in the action we can probably hope some interesting times ahead. Another "white" topic though: does anyone notice those white spots in the MS logo?
A cruise can be had for cheap (vacation-wise), comes with food, a destination and you aren't spending all your time in your room.
Sony in Talks to Sell Japan PC Unit