skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about bandwidth used, it's about the billing service (charging via the customers carrier contract)

25% is a low rate for that, carriers usually charge 40-60% of the total amount, which seems totally insane to me considering that a carrier has much lower fraud risks than some web service because they usually have established billing relationships with they customers.

Edit: Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_payment#Direct_operator_...
FYI, you can still connect by using a named server, ie roddenberry.freenode.net.

http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml
Smaller opcodes will, all else being equal, take up fewer instruction decide cycles and less space in the CPU cache.
cute... definitely something to add AFTER you're done developing for your breakpoints, though ;)
There's a very real possibility that FiftyThree is going to get impacted in all kinds of searches because of this. I don't begrudge them for taking advantage of a marketing opportunity that will get written about in the media that they'd be fools to not take advantage of. Their business could conceivably be on the line.

You're certainly free to disagree or feel all the sympathy you want to for Facebook here, but I don't think most people would see it the same way.
Lol you do realize for every Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace chestnut you pull out of the back of the drawer I could literally name hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of men who have done something similar? There's always a tiny few outliers in any study.

Once again I say look out your window. Everything invented and built by men.

And I used to agree with you in regards to institutionalized discrimination.
But the more I thought about it....it's VERY VERY hard to believe that there's some sort of international century long conspiracy of white men that get's together and represses women in every industry, career,country,time frame and scientific field EVER.

I'm not arguing that women are inferior in any way.

I just think that women aren't as ambitious as men due to ease of resource acquisition that they have built in to their bodies and it's really that simple.

Keep in mind the ratio of women to men in homeless shelters is like .000001 percent.
Completely agree - our apologies for not making this explicit. See my answer above for why we ask for the permissions we do.

Part of the challenge is that, during the auth dialog, there's no way for us to explain why we're asking for permissions. This is true across every oAuth identity provider I've done integrations with - they don't give you a way to explain why you ask for something like "Manage Contacts".

For that reason, when we ask you to connect to Github, directly below the button we link to a page about security (right now only visible to logged in users, sorry about that):

http://awesomebox.co/security

We should probably do the same whenever we ask for access to your Google Account. Really appreciate the feedback.
Please don't monopolise language! If you tell me I cannot use the word Paper any longer, I resent that deeply, even if Apple and others have done that. Paper is not distinctive enough, not even very imaginative, 'creative' dare I say, of an app that claims to be all about creativity.
Ummm, I'm pretty sure this is exactly what I need right now. Kudos. Currently our process is:

1) I mockup the design in Balsamiq

2) My designer creates the design in HTML/CSS and then pushes to git (using grunt/node/bower)

3) We screenshot and annotate using InvisionApp

4) repeat 3 and 4 until design looks good

If I understand correctly:

- This will load up my grunt server automatically based on the latest push to github

- I can then annotate that HTML/CSS front-end to my designer for feedback changes.

- No more screenshotting for me?!? This would be amazing.

Any chance you can integrate to Bitbucket? :)

EDIT: If so, please get in touch - happy to be your early evangelist and provide more feedback.
Clojure is a new language.

Everything in Clojure had to be implemented new. There is zero compatibility and zero code sharing to/with Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Autolisp, ISLisp, Standard Lisp, Maclisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, ...
"very few approachable ones."

I give credit to the author for trying, but having "enjoyed" an automata theory class and having read the textbook there is no "royal road to P/NP" much like geometry. Have to take the entire long road to get to the end.

Analogy time... how would you explain recursion to a general populace without first explaining variables, functions, calling by ref vs value (or just the idea of calling a function at all, and that it returns something), stacks, the concept of procedural programming, the idea of a flowchart, some level of error detection so it doesn't run off into the weeds, some basic ideas about scalability... So Colbert invites you on his show and after the HN cheering dies down he says "I don't know much about computer science, could you explain recursion in plain language in a line or two?" Honestly, I'd probably say "No" or some joke about it being turtles all the way down which the general public wouldn't find very amusing but those who know would laugh.
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> Plenty of engineers feel strongly about having a firm understanding of the systems they work with.

It's not a bad feeling, but feeling that way doesn't magically enable you hold all the nuances of the output of billions of lines of code in your head.

I've noticed that most engineers would rather rewrite than firmly understand.
I've had similar problems when switching between Android & iOS devices over the years with both T-Mobile and AT&T. It was a bit perplexing the first couple times it happened. Then I got used to the drill.

The solution, at least in my situation, was to call the carrier. Apple wasn't at fault.

Both T-Mobile and AT&T would fail to complete all steps required for the transfer, and therefore still showed the old device as the active one. A simple call resolved the issue.

In a couple instances, AT&T & T-Mobile would resolve the issue. Then I'd see the same behavior again weeks later. Sure enough, they had reverted to the old device on my profile. Calling them again resolved the issue.
Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK
Most indie games are built with a profit motive to some degree, at the very least they need to cover their costs but I am guessing that most aspire to more than that, so that they can fund their next game.
Sorry, lost in translation there. I meant deploy an offline geocoder.
Thanks for this piece of insight. Nobody in OSM's community of many thousands had ever brought it up before.

The reality is that if OSM is to scale to 7 billion users it itself can _not_ be the provider of all the tiles. The amount of infrastructure that this would require would be prohibitive for a nonprofit. Rendering & serving map tiles isn't like serving wikipedia pages.
One day someone will have to come up with a convincing explanation on why the hell is margin: auto; unable to vertically center an element if the outer element has a defined height.
My point is: It'll be hard for your blogging platform to stand out if it's garnering first impressions that it's a "Medium knock off". I do agree with the idea of constraints and boundaries in shaping a product. Unfortunately, humans are cruel visual creatures
Asserting that the speaker shouldn't make arguments because he's not "a grand political philosopher" and that his comments are a "low brow form of idealogical dribble" does not contribute to a good discussion. It's ironic that this is how you attempt to raise the level of discussion.

My comment was in response to the suggestion that government was popular because it solved people's problems and that therefore libertarianism or anarchism is unworkable. "Yep, the world really is that simple - abolish government and things will get better. It's a shame so many people don't realize how easy it is to fix all of their problems."

My response was that government does solve problems, just in an illegitimate way. Government solves people's problems by giving them benefits that they would not otherwise have, at least not without a lot of work.

The situation is like slavery of pre 1860s in the southern United States. Slavery was obviously wrong, but it survived because it "solved problems" for its constituents.

In both cases eliminating the injustice would result in making the lives of many of the system's beneficiaries worse off. Specifically, in this case, people are willing to accept the rule of evil people like those portrayed in House of Cards because it makes their personal lives more pleasant than it would be otherwise.
Not that I agree with GP, but to be fair I don't think most Americans could even tell you when the last time we were at war with the British was.
Just downloaded onto my iPhone and it's pretty cool... however, I don't think I'm the right audience. My life isn't nearly as interesting as Mike Matas and co. It just makes all the shitty pics that everyone posts on my newsfeed look that much worse.
You may try https://github.com/wrr/wwwhisper, although unlike the apache module, wwwhisper runs as a separate service (Django) that nginx communicates with using auth_request module.
The term "Windows" to refer to the GUI element was in common use from the 70s (the term WIMP was coined in 1980) long before Microsoft Windows was released.
> It's 2014. HA is part of the MVP when you are charging people money or providing a business-critical service (even if it's free).

Business critical and free are mutually exclusive. A free service might be business critical for a business that relies on it but that's the faulty expectation of the business, not the provider. You get what you pay for.

From the article:

> 1. After evaluating a bunch of cloud server hosts I decided to go with an Amazon EC2 Tiny Instance running Ubuntu 12.04 my reasoning behind this was influenced by price and the technologies used in the development of the web application (which will be explained in a section below) namely NodeJS and MongoDB this comes at a cost of roughly $15/mo we’ll also be needing 1 elastic IP address and a few entries in route53 + $1

I'm a big fan of AWS but this won't work. I'm assuming that the "tiny" instance is an m1.micro. If so then then it will CPU throttle at the slightest load. You can run a whole bunch on a small slice of CPU but m1.micros are a different animal. Anybody that has tried running a build server on one knows that a compile alone will hang the instance.

Again, you get what you pay for.
Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable
Sure the Paper folks were perhaps ill-advised (or not advised by anyone) on their generic choice of name.

But it's also clear that Facebook knew about the existing product and chose to go ahead regardless. They are behaving like the bully here and it's an arrogant thoughtless move.

Do we think that Facebook would do nothing if 1000 new apps of the same name (Paper) were launched?
Shedding some light on FISA requests
This app is very unrelated to Facebook as we know it: our friends and their content. That is just one part of the app. It's more a curated news app on the whole.

Either Facebook released this as a project their engineers did to test out interfaces or they are collecting data from this app about what is shared and what content is viewed to improve their own feed algorithms.
You see equivalent actions and ascribe equivalent intent. You can say what you want to about me, but I think you're overlooking a key difference here.
Harvesting Startup Ideas From Browsing Available Domains
Coursera course History of the Slave [US] South is in session now for people interested in the subject.

https://www.coursera.org/course/slavesouth
> I'm sure you can get lots of volunteer hackers to contribute if you throw up an MVP on github.

This is quite belittling to the thousands of hours professionals have put into the OSM tools, infrastructure & interface over the years.

But this is hacker news, home of armchair pundits.
The actual app titles from the App Store seem different enough to me, and I'm a huge fan of FiftyThree.

Paper by FiftyThree (FiftyThree, Inc.)

Paper - stories from Facebook (Facebook, Inc.)

Another distinction to keep in mind is FiftyThree's Paper is iPad only and Facebook's is iPhone only (although it will install on iPad).
I was planning on unsubscribing. I don't use Prime for video and my family and I don't order enough to take advantage of the cheaper/faster shipping.
Facebook was completely generic. Facebook used to be term for the paperback student profile books that universities produced. Facebook the website started as an electronic version of the paper facebooks.
Kabam – Platform Engineer
Open source treatment for athlete's foot
This looks cool, too bad it's JS only. I guess the next step could be native mobile apps?

Found a typo: Maintenence instead of Maintenance.
When you say, "1-based is more natural to how humans count", You're really saying, "I'm a child who can't think abstractly, so I probably shouldn't be let anywhere near a computer programming language."
I'm putting effort into trying to get people to think about things in a different way. That's what I'm "worried" about. If by "it" you mean buying expensive clothes, I think that you've missed the point.

Then again, given your posts, it seems that you make a habit of missing the point. I suppose I'll move on.
It looks like you are over-paying for a lot of services. Like someone else mentioned, for starting out something like Linode or Digital Ocean would be cheaper. (and they don't charge for bandwidth until over 1 TB I believe)

Also, 8c/message for SMS is very high. Twilio has international SMS service that ranges from .75c to around 3c a message. (disclaimer, I have interned there)

On the implementation, it also seems like a NoSQL DB like MongoDB might not be the best choice. This is because it seems like you are dealing with a lot of relational information, which is significantly more complicated to implement in a non-relational database that is not designed for that.

These are just my opinions. I like the front-end design!
In this case I trust the government to implement it more than I trust the world to never create a tiny, throwable "I'm going straight in your direction at 200mph" beacons. Unfortunately that's just a question of time.
It basically turned my News Feed into Flipboard, which is pretty much what they advertised, right?
Yesterday: Vitriol slung at King for trying to trademark "Candy." Today: Much more sympathy for 53 attempting the "trademark of public opinion."
Kind of. It seems to have more data, but not nearly as much as Google. Of ten places I searched for, it knew two.

Also the search function is stupid. Say, I am zoomed into a city and enter a term. Instead of searching the city I am looking at, it searches the whole world.

Or lets say I searched for a restaurant. When I am zoomed into the max, Google Maps will show me all restaurants around the area (that makes sense, doesn't it)?

That's just basic UX stuff which, until fixed, will prevent people from using this over Google maps. Or rather: if will prevent people like me, to advertise it to their non-hacker friends, as I know, stuff like this will make them have a hard time and later tell me "it didn't work for me"

I guess what I'm trying to say is: OSM needs to be as useable as GM, before people will switch in masses.
Nah, that's Squeenix
where is your SSL certificate?

all login and registration pages MUST run under https
I would be confused about why you are putting a piece of paper on top of your iPad.
Either of those examples I provided can be used "offline" provided you have a local copy of the dataset, which is the given assumption.
> I'm not sure why they're not more popular around the world

Because they tend to prioritize pedestrian traffic.
None of the login / register / etc links are shown for me. In fact I can't see any links in the navbar at all... Using Chrome v24.

Also, where is the pricing plan? Maybe that's just another link i'm missing but feels like this should be on the homepage / register screen somewhere (i munged the URL to sign up).

Seems pretty cool though.
I can't tell you how happy this makes me. Let's talk!

To answer your questions:

"This will load up my grunt server automatically based on the latest push to github"

Almost - we'll serve the build directory that your gruntfile creates. We are thinking about running your grunt or gulp tasks for you, so that you don't have to commit your builds to git. I'd love to hear more about your setup and see what we can do to make it work.

"I can then annotate that HTML/CSS front-end to my designer for feedback changes."

Yes.

"No more screenshotting for me?!? This would be amazing."

Yup, that's the idea :)

"Any chance you can integrate to Bitbucket? :)"

We want to. Signup or email me at brendan@awesomebox.co and let's talk.
The biggest pain point I have is that when stuff pops up in the top half of the main view, and then goes away. There's no way to get back to that content without scrolling through the bottom half, and if you happen to miss it (which is easy to do) then you're left wondering where the heck is that article or post.
I'd be more likely to if they'd actually release an android app for amazon video, or the chromecast. The main devices I use with Netflix simply don't work with Amazon Video, so it's basically useless to me.

Shipping alone is worth <$80 for me. If they can make Amazon Video a more compelling offering, I'd be more likely to.
seems more like a "I'm about to go apeshit on your ass" blogpost. Understandable though.
Pretty funny, but one second is far too short. This triggers even on a normal resizing. It should only trigger if someone is messing around for a few seconds. It's not much of an easter egg if anyone resizing their window gets it!
How does parallel construction allow:

(i) intelligence agencies to make any criminal allegations

(ii) criminal allegations that turn out to be false

Can you be as specific as you can? There's plenty of rational arguments to make about why "parallel construction" is bad, but too many people argue about it without understanding at all what it is.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Team:
You will be joining a team of very experienced Senior Engineers who are all very open to discussing problems and helping each other over the difficult hurdles of coding for such large scale projects. Everyone gets to produce, test what's produced and ship what shows to be working and effective. When work is done, the team still enjoys spending time together, going to dinners and events.

Day to day:
What do you want a normal day to be like?

The team is largely self-directed so a "normal day" can be whatever each Engineer decides. There are daily standups but all other meeting are kept to a minimum. You'll be measured on your effectiveness, productivity and results. The team works hard to foster an environment where everyone is encouraged, and more importantly, allowed to improve.

Career Progression:
This role is flexible in level from mid-level to very senior depending on the experience of the candidate.
Mid-Level candidates will find an environment that fosters learning and development, while still giving breath to work and contribute on a daily basis. With continued contribution and growth of knowledge set, a mid-level candidate would find themselves moving into more complex projects with the potential for more reward and large scale responsibility.
Senior candidates will find a group of peers who are equally experienced and passionate, who want to share their ideas and are open to new creative mobile solutions. The scale with which Kabam operates will ensure constant learning and development. With so many new products shipped monthly, the motivated Senior candidate could define his/her own career path based on interest and ability.

Benefits:
Full Health, Dental, and Vision; 401k matching; commuter benefits; $250 gym reimbursement; $1000 per year educational stipend; daily catered lunches; tons of snacks, drinks, etc.

Education:
C.S. Degree or Equivalent

Years Experience:
Minimum 3+ years in Tech industry; Mobile Gaming industry preferred

MUST Have Skill Sets:

Mobile development experience would be a bonus
Proven working experience with backend systems engineering.
Java, Ruby, and/or Scala preferred
At least some knowledge of security and performance optimization.
Test-driven development experience (and the desire to work in such an environment) is a plus.
Efficiency with SQL skills: including experience querying large, complex data sets.
Efficiency in writing and executing detailed test cases.
n people using OSM the dataset, _not_ n people using osm.org.
No mention of the impact to bicycles and pedestrians if people start to rely on these systems. Installing these on bikes might help a lot, making them more equal.
Chromecast is now open to developers
Well actually that kinda is what I'm saying. You don't need to be able to hack out a complete OS from the top of your head. But yes you should have some basic understanding of how syscalls works, what a kernel is and what it's job is etc. And with some docs implement your own.
I actually think that's reasonable. No one expects you to hack out a kernel that has feature pairity with the Linux Kernel.
And a basic VM isn't really that hard, it takes bytecode and executes the corresponding operations.

Again, I'm not talking about a full blown JVM with feature parity and all the JIT optimizations.
But actually given docs and some time even implementing a JVM should be doable, sure it will be slow but interpreting bytecode is really not that hard.

You just can't do this if you don't have a basic understanding of C or other lower level languages.

Also your CV probably sais Software Engineer and not Hardware designer. So I'd say hadware bugs are out of scope.
is this trademark 'descriptive', 'distinctive', or 'generic' ?