skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though most proceeds of crime legislation uses balance of probablity as opposed to beyond reasonable doubt, the practice is generally for you to be able to show some explanation where it come from which is non-criminal in order to keep the cash. Immoral (such as selling crap to people paying stupid prices for something which is worthless) is not enough to have the cash taken off you. There are lots of stories of people being duped but no actual law being broken; you pay me $50,000 for my burned out chevvy, that's your problem. I have a way to explain $50,000 out of thin air. Any junk yard will sell me a wrecked car for $100 and it's just a profitable business transaction for me to sell it on. Plus, you don't care because I gave you $55,000 15 minutes before the "transaction" so you made a profit when you handed me back $50,000!

In practice to get to a confiscation hearing, there is an investigation which means following the transaction trail and the more complex and convoluted that is made with dead ends and people who disappear (but leave a small trail of evidence they were around at some point to prove they are real), the more time and money authorities expend and the longer it goes on with me hanging onto the money (even if you seized some of it already). The fact I'm selling crap and the transactions make it look like I'm mining gold in a moron mine is enough for a good lawyer to talk me out a seizure or have some bargain made with the prosecutor (which I can always delay paying anyway if I'm in Scotland it seems : http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/crime/revealed-75m-dirty-m.... I'm sure other places have similar stories.)

How legislation is supposed to work (as portrayed in TV/Film Justice) and how it actually works in real life is very different. If it worked TV Style, every 419 scamming prince would be in cuffs when he went to the Western Union office to collect his processing fees. Instead they drive around Lagos in BMWs laughing at all the mugus they scammed with lame-ass stories.
Not really tiny. And I DON'T want to "sit upright at a desk" after 10+ hours of doing just that.
The same thing as CDN will achieve, just a lot more complex.
Hey HN! Thanks for the feedback! I studied graphic design, played/made music as a hobby, and became passionate about coding (mostly self taught), so much that I tend to integrate code into everything I do, including in the design process. The idea for the game happened while coding, all the art in the game is procedural (except the wiggly lines in the center of the planets, that's the only in-game texture), and the trailer is generated in one swoop by code (by automating the game engine and outputting every frame as a png file).

Eliss Infinity is a reboot of Eliss which was an early iPhone game (2009) which took me 5 months of work (+2 months to learn and build libraries in OpenGL and Objective-C). I polished it, made it more accessible, added a tutorial, added new modes, new music, a text-free interface... made it universal (there was only one resolution when Eliss came out), added Game Center, sync ... All this work took me more than twice the work I put into the original game.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Deep iOS/Mac Crash Report Analysis
My point exactly. Can you say "sampling bias"?
That makes sense, since most of the world's countries have civil law systems, and the US has a common law system.
Email's great. Your company just sucks.

I've seen it before. The boss doesn't want to defer responsibility. So they have everything go through their approval. Suddenly, you're CCing the boss on every thing you send, leaving behind a train of emails to cover your ass. Soon, other bosses demand the same treatment, and before you know it, everyone's inbox is cluttered with FWDs, and Reply-Alls, making sure nobody is left out of the loop.

Your company should have an email policy.

The one UI improvement I can see: make the reply all button hard to find, so morons don't accidentally click it.
Rust closed the second most number of issues on all of GitHub
BloomThat is Latest Startup to Stop and Sell the Roses
Buyers are willing to pay a very small premium for feedback score. Furthermore, one of the bots will know that it has a lower feedback score, immediately killing any hypothetical positive feedback loop.
it is a personal preference.

some songwriters do the music and the lyrics separately.

others do them simultaneously.

some writers treat the words and the formatting independently.

others want to do them at the same time.

however, the live preview is a necessity for people who are
not yet comfortable with a light-markup system (like markdown).

and it's worth noting that the desire of writers to "have it
look nice" was a big part of the driving force behind wysiwyg,
and if we really want to elevate people from that dark pattern,
we need to use a live preview to give them their satisfaction.

-bowerbird
There is a whole gradient of mobile devices, from small PMPs to full-sized tablets. They all are essentially the same thing in different scales. The article seems to be saying that the use case for tablets is being supplanted by larger phones.
> send surprise candy stuffed into envelopes twice a month to subscribers

Haha! Did you know that your business model is a significant problem for philosophers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
So quaint, talking about "programs" instead of "applications".
Perhaps I can go back to the original quote that spawned this all... I don't think waiting for 70% of the time to expire to start coding is consistent with the iterative cycling of agile methods.
If you're addicted to the CLI why the MBP? A MBA would serve you just as well, and be lighter.
I have a desktop PC, a notebook, a tablet, and a phone. All four of them were getting long of tooth -- an inevitability given the rapid pace of obsolescence. Which one did I upgrade, and why?

My phone, for two reasons:

1. I needed to upgrade my phone in order to sign up with a new provider of phone service. None of the other devices are tethered to a single (invariably evil) service provider for mainstream use.

2. Inefficiency and obsolescence such as sluggish performance carried the highest price on the phone, because my need for the phone occurs in awkward situations such as getting from A to B in my car, or deciding which product to buy in the store.

If these are widespread patterns, then the result will be that the slickest, newest computers in the typical household will be phones.
Men can be fashionable too, it's just typically not as fun for us. I would say most of the time the only reason men are interested in fashion is to become more attractive to women.

Edit: I realize this kind of generalization probably offends people. I'm sorry, I just believe that men and women are fundamentally different from each other. Here's my google search findings on the topic:

http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/evolve/fashion.html
RAII. [1]

Stack allocated objects have their memory freed in C. Other resources are not released.

Consider the following C, with and without gcc extensions:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#ifndef GCC_EXTENSIONS
#define GCC_EXTENSIONS 1
#endif

int main() {
{
#if GCC_EXTENSIONS
void close_fd(int *fdp) {
if(*fdp >= 0) close(*fdp);
}
#else
#define __attribute__(...)
#endif

int fd __attribute__((cleanup(close_fd))) = -1;

fd = open("somefile", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0644);

system("ls /proc/self/fd");
}

system("ls /proc/self/fd");
}

with gcc extensions:

0 1 2 3 4
0 1 2 3

without gcc extensions:

0 1 2 3 4
0 1 2 3 4

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initial...
Both of those are true, but part of learning how to make your own choices is learning how to ignore the choices of those around you and adapt to (but not be defined by!) the circumstances you find yourself in.
A Tale of a Homeless Hacker. Pt1
NB: In the following function:

/* Like sdscatpritf() but gets va_list instead of being variadic. */
sds sdscatvprintf(sds s, const char *fmt, va_list ap) {
va_list cpy;
char *buf, *t;
size_t buflen = 16;

while(1) {
buf = malloc(buflen);
if (buf == NULL) return NULL;
buf[buflen-2] = '\0';
va_copy(cpy,ap);
vsnprintf(buf, buflen, fmt, cpy);
va_end(cpy); // <--- add this ----
if (buf[buflen-2] != '\0') {
free(buf);
buflen *= 2;
continue;
}
break;
}
t = sdscat(s, buf);
free(buf);
return t;
}

From the `man va_copy` on my system:

Each invocation of va_copy() must be matched by
a corresponding invocation of va_end() in the same
function.

This is not likely to be a problem in most systems, but it can't hurt to be formally correct.
So ... is this like Citrix + Windows? Replacing licensing costs of both Windows and Citrix would be a huge cost savings. It also would allow unlimited users.

It says Thorium Core is a commercialization. But ReactOS is open source. So is the cloud services part going to be proprietary? (Thus foiling my idea of a free Citrix replacement.)
Filtering by rating definitely feels shady, would it be less shady if the question was "Do you like this app? Yes/No" and then the suggestion to contact the developer or the "Would you like to rate this app question?"?

I haven't yet added "a please rate this app" pop up to my app [0] but the rate of organic reviews has fallen, none in the last few months so I think I need to actively drive reviews.

[0] Fast Lists - https://itunes.apple.com/app/fast-lists-checklists-for/id481...
This is exactly it. It just seems like the right thing to do. Still I want to run a test to convince my logical side of it.
NYS announces largest startup competition in the US.... $1 million first prize
Sen. Hill proposes legislation to open Martin's Beach
Seeking to answer the public-access quandary at Martin’s Beach once and for all, state Sen. Jerry Hill plans to introduce legislation next week that could use the government’s powers of eminent domain to claim a private road to the secluded coastal spot.
The proposed legislation would order the State Lands Commission next year to seek negotiations to purchase the private road from billionaire owner Vinod Khosla. If no deal can be reached by the start of 2016, Hill’s legislation would order the state commission to seize the road from Khosla using its eminent domain privileges.
How We Grew Our Customer Exit Survey Responses
> Maybe but that is what people were saying about Sony couple of years ago too

Hirai became CEO less than 2 years ago.

> Sony managed to sell more than the Xbox One beucase Sony is selling the PS4 in 54 countries vs Xbox One is only available in 13 and is $100 more expensive.

And these are the sorts of smart business decisions it needs to be leveraging in order to turn things around. If you remember the PS3, it was $500 on launch.
and while at it some links to the real origins of the web:

For ADD-ers: http://youtu.be/hSyfZkVgasI

The story: http://www.archive.org/details/paulotlet

Long PR story short: RPC was already prevalent, that is how you control(led) your stuff remotely. Like Tim did on his day job. Today, if you'd ask for a NeXT-like toy, you'd be denied were you an average Eastern member of CERN (n.b. western equivalent). As a true westerner, TBL asked for it and got one. Put the gopher link address ptr in the reserved field of the text font properties (where things like bold and italics properties are stored) and voilà. Mix in a simplified SGML for markup (as it was customary back then for typefaces and layout on printers). One could also hire cheap disposable students to actually write the web clients and servers to be cross platform (the web's virtue/value).

Would the "web" have just ran on NeXT, it would be long extinct, let alone have taken off. Clicking on text is how you used Oberon or even Genera Document Examiner (perhaps even over the network). It was the spirit of the times. Even Jobs demoed a WYSIWYG client-server application in 5 minutes on the NeXT. What an insult.

On linking and hypertext: all post-war era anglo-saxon stuff is spin (including Vannevar and Tim invented the web myths). The real stuff comes from Belgium, as did Tim's boss, btw.
Yes, and watching tv or reading a book you are also not getting any work doen. What's the point? Computers are no longer just about getting work doen. For many, computers are more about entertainment and communication, than about work.
"Seeking to answer the public-access quandary at Martin’s Beach once and for all, state Sen. Jerry Hill plans to introduce legislation next week that could use the government’s powers of eminent domain to claim a private road to the secluded coastal spot.

The proposed legislation would order the State Lands Commission next year to seek negotiations to purchase the private road from billionaire owner Vinod Khosla. If no deal can be reached by the start of 2016, Hill’s legislation would order the state commission to seize the road from Khosla using its eminent domain privileges."
This is one of the startups we funded that we personally use the most. They're easy, reliable, and the flowers are great.
It's probably the case that lots of people try that, but unless the IRC server(s) are being hosted on their home network then I doubt one or two computers could bring a whole IRC network down.
Downloaded the free chapter, lots of interesting info in there.If you're an entrepreneur looking to raise cash, check this out.
Rather than make the argument that human spaceflight is worthless because robots can do science better, I'd like to see someone make the (implied, underlying) argument that space programs should be primarily about basic scientific research, rather than all the other things assorted people seem to want them to be about (jobs, national prestige, technological spin-offs, exploiting space for economic or military purposes, off-world colonization for human survival, etc).
Well, aside from tablets and phones, touch screens are useless.

You're not gonna hold your hand straight in the air for more than a 10 minute stretch.
Most laptops are not macbook airs. Purely from a lack of required maintenance point of view, an iPad is a huge step up from an equivalently priced PC for someone who just needs email Facebook and web.
Same for me at 1805GMT
Thanks for the heads up. Enabling billing on App Engine right now ...

In the meantime the trailer is here: https://vimeo.com/85870689
"While most cryptocurrencies are just themed copies of Bitcoin – Dogecoin, based on a famous internet meme, is a notable example"

I could be mistaken, but I was under the impression that almost all of these themed currencies such as Dogecoin were based on Litecoin...
About the Government By the People Act
things can be composed different ways. m/s^2 should equal (m/s)/s
As someone mentioned above Coinjar is still available on the store.

It is far more likely that Apple simply doesn't want to be associated with Bitcoin wallets which historically have a very high likelihood of people losing money.
I tried linking to a photo I'm hosting in a Pro account:
https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/431487389866139648

Even for a Pro account, the image redirects from Twitter. It doesn't redirect me, but it redirects everyone else (I tested from Incognito mode). Which seems not quite what I thought I was paying for.

Also as a paid user, if I click on anyone else's images, they still redirect like they would for a guest/free user.

EDIT:

Thanks to Haywain for spotting it changes on 2nd load. Can be replicated:

* Open fresh incognito window

* Visit Twitter link and click on imgur

* It redirects

* Go back to Twitter window and click on imgur link

* No redirect - it links straight to the image

I verified this with a random imgur link too, so it seems there's no difference between Pro and free.
Web dev here; just wanted to say that those are status codes in the header, not error codes.
Graphene conducts electricity ten times better than expected
I can't wait until April 1st when everyone launches this on their home pages.
I mostly agree with you, but my point is this article is misrepresenting the motive behind those attacks as "these people disagree with the government - quick, silence them" which is obviously not what's going on.
This book-in-progress has the best explanations of the syntax of R that I have seen. For example:

- R has no scalar, or 0-dimensional, types. All scalars (single numbers or strings) are length-one vectors (http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Data-structures.html).

- For example, library() and require() allow you to call them either with or without quotes, because internally they use deparse(substitute(x)) plus a couple of tricks
(http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Computing-on-the-language.html).

- The various R OO Systems are described, compared and contrasted (http://adv-r.had.co.nz/OO-essentials.html).

Excellent book.
Moving to another country is a great experience, but to your point, it can help perpetuate our illusions rather than remove them.
Sony exits the North American ebook business and gives its customers to Kobo
And of course all these questions have answers, so our smart future archaeologists will eventually dig it up.
Help us decentralize the internet: https://www.diyisp.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

There are a lot of diy-isps out there. Engage with your community and become part of a diy-isp, e.g. by hosting services there, peering with them, etc.
we actually don't, the only thing tor specific we do is set to their host to something along the lines of 11223344.tor.gateway.quakenet.org.

OTOH a lot of people do naughty things through tor (e.g. mass flooding) and get caught automatically by the network services, resulting in a large %age of tor hosts being banned for short periods.
Some pretty horrific things happen if a baby is exposed to HSV during childbirth. And recent research into asymptomatic viral shedding indicates that simply checking for lesions at the time (and conducting a C-section if they're visible) is woefully inadequate.
Love your work. Your Indie Soapbox bit http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015763/The-Indie-Soapbox and your game design talk http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014442/Game-Design-by have been very useful and inspirational.
A working web browser is hardly that important. If you just want web you can use any OS, like Linux or ChromeOS. If you want IE 6 for a legacy application that's a different matter.

The browser is just another test case to see if Windows apps will/won't run. The killer feature is the ability to run legacy Windows apps that are not easily replaced on other platforms.
ROCKY's theme, as sung by Stallone, Kevin Hart, De Niro, the Blue Man Group...
Worst possible time - and no Google cache. By tomorrow, 90% of the people who are interested would have forgotten the site, especially that they got some interest going on today. It seems to be an offshoot from Andrew Ng's team, which is trustworthy.
This. I'm at work, I don't want to watch a video (even on a legitimate break). Even if I wasn't at work I wouldn't want to watch a video. Some of us like words :)
I dunno. I put in pretty long coding days, pretty much every day. The first thing I do when I get home is, turn on my desktop.

I loved my iPad when I first got it, but now it's relegated to an overly expensive kindle. I actually like to do things on my computing devices. Play (non-casual) games, do some stupid cat Photoshop, start a hobby project(right now it's a tower defense engine in the now defunct XNA). Tables can't support any of that.

Overall, I agree with the article.
Time Berners Lee : "I would have got rid of the slash slash after the colon. You don't really need it. It just seemed like a good idea at the time."

When asked what he would have done differently!!
Speaking for myself, no, my smartphone does not replace my tablet. The amount of screen realestate lost when going from 11" to 5" is just too much. It makes reading hard (particularly with less than perfect eyesight), movies too small, and all of the real time communication that comes with a phone is vying for my attention all the time.

Now then, if I could make calls over a bluetooth headset connected to my iPad, I'd drop my phone in a heartbeat...
I tried this out using the Twitter search link provided in the article and was not redirected a single time when clicking Imgur links in the search results. Either Imgur is only redirecting some folks or this was just some temporary thing. I'm also not logged in to Imgur currently.
How to Develop Google Glass Glassware using the Mirror API or GDK
MINIX 3 Successfully Ported To ARM
Are other sections available? They are 404 for me.
> Lenovo?

They were, before they started doing gimmicky shit like this: http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate...
There is at least a strong case for that, I agree.
I think they do this because the "i" subdomain is meant for embedding (<img> tag), not linking (<a> tag).

Facebook, Twitter, etc. don't embed the image (incorrect behavior), but Reddit does (correct behavior).
What if you're at the library, and you're phone is broken?

I use thunderbird too, but it's nice to have a webmail back up. Somethings need to be accessed anywhere, and those things should have web apps.
> I don't think I stopped improving as a programmer when I turned 19.

But that's not what he said. He said that after 3 years it's going to be clear whether you're going to be good or not. That doesn't exclude learning.
Some Minecraft servers I know have been getting DDoSed too. I wonder if they are using IRC for the chat backend, and if that is just getting his by these same things?
Although I own three tablets, my love affair with the tablet as it exists today never really took off the same way it did for so many consumers. The primary reason is that I do not believe that tablets should be first-class computing devices. Tablets, and in my opinion, the entirety of what we today call "mobile," should be subservient to a general computing model of personal omnipresent applications [1]. Put more concretely, I should only have one e-mail application, one web browser, one IM client, one media player, and all of my devices—wired, wireless, wifi, cellular, and everything in between—should be views upon those singular applications and nothing more.

So although I have three tablets because I am a technology addict, I simultaneously do not want them because I do not want additional first-class computing devices in my life.

If each additional tablet I purchased were just another input and output device—an additional view—added to my arsenal, I would buy as many as I see worthwhile to have scattered throughout my house and office. But as it is, each additional tablet (or phone or computer) is a first-class device with first-class expectations for my attention. Every device wants to be babied with application installations, updates, configuration, local data, and the works. Today's plain cloud is a meager, sticky, and altogether phony solution to this problem.

It's interesting to see this and an article about decentralizing the Internet (mischaracterized as "the web") as the top two articles at HN presently. I recently ranted [2] that Mr. Nadella should seize the opportunity to take Microsoft into a fundamentally different direction than what everyone is telling him, including himself ("mobile first, cloud first"), rather focusing on users and applications first. Particular views of applications, such as mobile or desktop or living room, are secondary matters.

I'd like to see Microsoft step up and become the only tech titan to stop following today's mobile-first, cloud-first model and swing the pendulum back to self-control with technology serving users, not companies.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao

[2] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/microsoft-carve-your-path
The article's right that most people want one small device and one big one. It's just wrong that the big one most people want is a laptop or PC.
Probably because until recently, only the MBP was retina - and that's a big advantage (to me).