skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're treating the effect as the cause. Many young people don't have these obligations because they don't know what they are going to do with their lives and families, mortgages, car loans, etc. are the real risk.

It seems to me that you're implying that young people shouldn't have the right to these things until they contribute to society. I would argue that a real problem we have right now is that people can't figure out how to have families, mortgages, car loans, etc. and contribute to society at the same time. Once we figure that out, then we'll see people taking on more obligations at an earlier age.
Netflix Said to Agree to Pay Comcast for Faster Web Access
Looking at Nokia's dev docs: http://developer.nokia.com/nokia-x/platform-overview

It looks like the "three APIs" are not Android APIs, but rather Google Play Services APIs. Specifically push notifications, maps, and in-app payments.
Google testing a new modification to its result page, in which ads blend more
It's a very idealistic message, but I think it's worth thinking about from time to time. I used to (still sorta do) think that entrepreneurship for people in my age range (20s) was a potential answer. But oftentimes the urge to run a startup outweights the urge to create something of greater value. I'm not saying a lot of startups shouldn't exist, but I find it kind of ridiculous that I know aerospace engineers making shopping apps. A bit of this is fine, if you have some special domain knowledge / experience / insight that can really change this space. Oftentimes though, people just do what's fashionable or safe.
Nokia has a big advantage in emerging markets where cheap phones are needed
Yahoo Aims to More Deftly Blend Ads With Content
Once again, the internet routes around failure.
Pentagon's 2015 budget would cut Army to smallest size
Is the graylog beast still the logo? I love that guy.
They aren't yet selling phones for North America at all AFAICT
The Great Circle route looks like it just skirts past the Canary Islands:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=FOR-LIS
Add bogo sort and gnome sort.
Apple Dropping Samsung From The A8 Production
IOS App Development – free video tutorial for beginners
Do billionaires have higher IQs?(2013)
I have Comcast cable service in Chicago. I have an SB6120 modem and an Airport Extreme base station. I didn't do anything special beyond plug it in.

The Airport Base has an IPv6 page that shows what the delegated /64 subnet is. All the devices on my network have autoconfigured themselves with addresses in that range. I appear to be able to manually set hosts to any address in that range as well and it seems to work fine. I do this on some of my server VMs because otherwise they generate a new random address every few days (privacy mode woo). The privacy addressing makes assigning a DNS name to said VM more difficult. I've had the same /64 delegated to me since June 2012.

I've heard that you can request a /60 prefix (16 subnets) if your router supports IPv6 Prefix Delegation (pretty sure the Apple one doesn't). I don't know exactly how you go about doing that though. I'd probably start with the HSI forums on dslreports.com
Idiots? No.

Bitcoins were an investment. For a time, the investment offered an opportunity for handsome returns. Now, not so much. Like any investment it carried risk and the potential rewards reflected that risk. A potential erosion of Mt. Gox was part of the risk and the offered rates of return reflected that risk.

My gut says if you can describe your bits sufficiently to distinguish them from other bits you stand a chance of recovering them. Any optimism over the prospect should be tempered by the fact that Mt. Gox's collapse appears to be due to their inability to distinguish one person's bits from another's. If true, then there are no accurate records which link individuals with specific units of currency. That of course is the premise of the whole enterprise.
Problem is that you usually only want a subset of what TCP does, and sometimes the simplest/most straightforward way of getting that is a little reliability sauce over a standard UDP connection.
That's funny, but Google Hangouts seems to handle this issue just fine... with Google Voice, my desktop and phones all ring, not a problem... when someone sends me a message in hangouts, it shows up on all my devices...

With MS' Lync at work, if I forget to signout on my phone, a few times a day, my phone grabs an inbound message that never shows up on my desktop, and I totally miss the conversation. Skype has a lot of similar issues, and it's painful at best.

What I REALLY want is something for the workplace to kill Lync...
The author complains that the success story does not make for a good story. But this is a person's life, not a novel. That people can take predictable and incremental steps towards leading a good life is a good thing. But maybe that is exactly why we tend to glamorize struggle, risk and unpredictable adventures - because our lives in these relatively streamlined, modern societies are so boring?
> I think “real-time” does not mean what you think it means.

There are various definitions of "real-time" and we should not make this an argument about semantics. I meant real-time in the sense of "a soft real time software system" or the "Quake" sense of the word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing#Criteria_fo...

In other words, "real-time" in the sense that missing deadlines will mean that the quality of service is degraded. Deadlines here mean delivering the packets in time for the next simulation timestep.

Yes, TCP can be successfully used in games classified as "real time" as opposed to turn based, such as RTS games or MMORPGs. But when analyzing it them from a software standpoint, they might be just very fast turn based games.

Here's another interesting piece about networking multiplayer games, this time in an RTS game (Age of Empires):
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3094/1500_archers_on_a...

The solution they used was essentially a 15 frames per second lock step loop. It looks like real time to the player but from a software standpoint it really isn't.

You and I agree on everything except the definition of "real-time". There are applications where TCP works well and applications where UDP is better. I'm sorry if my words were a bit overgeneralized and it annoys you.
Reading things like this as an American. I think I know how eastern Europeans felt watching the Iron Curtain go up.
There was a point when we figured out how to stop spam submissions almost completely. That was probably what happened at the end of 2011. That would have been about the right time.
I used to be firmly in the hardware keyboard camp. Then I installed Hackers' Keyboard. The problem with hardware keyboards on phones is they have strange keys that PCs don't have, and are missing critical keys (like Ctrl and Esc) that PCs do have. Hackers' Keyboard solves that issue.

Of course on tablets I have either a BT keyboard or a keyboard dock.
Cool, bubble sort at (1) froze my tab.
Nobody would have bought OS/2 without any compatibility
This is good comment, everything is ok but the hedge fund stuff. However, the hedge funds have entrance requirements that are based on perception of institutions.
That sounds so ominous! What are you predicting the JVM will do to the human race??

And why will it comfort Java-ites?

I'm picturing something involving lairs carved out of dormant volcanoes and pools with sharks (possibly with lasers).
All suggestions, even for these highly efficient sort algorithms, are welcome ;-)
I'm building a webapp with play 2.2 and it's quite a nice framework. A nice thing about play is Scala can be used if you so choose.
> Frequency alludes to the empirically-proven fact that no two cars' turn signals blink at the same rate

Sounds like something that can be disproved empirically, but not proven.
Live coding in Lua through emacs with my game engine project 'cgame'
He mentions that he's tried multiple antidepressants in the third sentence.
Can't say its any different in 2014.
Open source linux style window management for Mac: Spectacle
Aren't the errors generated by nonconforming types a way to trace through the app? That's the point of a strong type system: code that by definition won't work isn't allowed to run.
My biggest issues with lync are...

1) the mac client is buggy/crashy and sucks.

2) the mac client doesn't properly register itself so meeting links in outlook work.

3) when you are signed in on multiple systems, phone, home, work, messages aren't synchronized like gtalk/hangouts so you will miss a lot of conversations if you forget to sign out, this happens with my phone a couple times a week.

4) on a retina mac, the screen sharing only works on 1/4 the screen.

5) the UI in the android app is about the worst I've used for a productivity app on android.

On windows it's a bit better, but the non-synchronized conversations really irks me to no end.
Looking forward to the video!
Does anyone else think Quora's Welcome screen is bad design?
I'm logged out. Got a digest newsletter from them. Tried to click through on a topic. Get to this screen:

1. It's an onboarding "squeeze" page
2. There is no link to login.

Here's a writup on it <http://www.redbridgenet.com/quora-really-hates-its-users/>

I'm frustrated.
Numbers from the Brace.io Valentine's Day promotion
CS doesn't really suffer from the same issues.
"AT&T is slowing Google Fiber deployment in Austin by denying access to its utility poles": This is why I am not getting Google Fiber yet?
See, I have exactly the same setup (SB6xxx + AE) and on TWC in NYC it just doesn't work. The AE gets an IPv6 address from the modem, but TWC isn't assigning it a prefix, so all IPv6 devices behind the AE just sit there twiddling their digital thumbs.
Their IRC room is the best I've lurked / asked questions in. They frequently discuss way-over-my-head language design proposals and even more frequently answer noob questions in a friendly and patient manner. It's a great community, and I hope it stays that way!
Do you want to walk away from it, or try to complete it? Your post doesn't seem to say, so I'm not sure, but it does sound like a bad situation where it may be in everyone's best interests to move on.

Don't obsess about the time you spent on it. It is a sunk cost; try not to let it bias you against the best course moving forward. Instead you might consider:

1) How much deposit did they make? Can you afford to walk away and return this amount?

2) What is the best case scenario if you proceed? $10k is a lot (although not that much if this is a 250-hour project) but are they likely to pay it? Without a contract?

3) What is the worst case scenario if you stop the project? Are you incorporated, in case this comes to legal action? Feel free to ask a lawyer for a free consultation to find out more.
Just published a new iPhone app dev tutorial, meant for absolute beginners. Covers Xcode basics, some Objective-C, and making a simple app. Looking for honest feedback. This is one of my first screencast tutorials, would like tips on improving future ones! This link will provide for 50 people to take the course for free: https://www.udemy.com/iphone-app-crash-course/?couponCode=sh...

PM me if this code runs out and you'd like to try it.
You aren't thinking like a spammer. A spammer only cares that the addresses on his list are read by humans. And the possible uses for a list of live human readers isn't limited to spam -- there's also phishing to consider. Someone who recognizes spam and clicks "unsubscribe", after a few days might react differently to an e-mail apparently from Microsoft's security department alerting the user that, since Windows XP is about to drop dead, Microsoft has decided to protect the user with a special security update -- just click the handy link.

Spammers might be deplorable and slimy, but they're not stupid.

> What you describe is possible, but I really don't think it's at all common.

If it can be done, spammers will do it. I can see you're having a hard time thinking like a bottom-feeder, perfectly understandable, so to help your comprehension, I offer the Miracle Man scam:

http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths/#Miracle_Man
That made me legitimately chuckle!

Though think about how popular of a communications platform that WhatsApp is, particularly in parts of Asia and Africa. It's transformed the communications industry in those areas!

That still may not account for the relatively small difference between the two, but it helps put into perspective exactly why WhatsApp was so valuable.
Investor Icahn blasts eBay board, calls for company to spin off PayPal
http://ethanfast.com/2011/10/deconstructing-a-successful-yc-...
Only if they aren't making good money on Android/iOS and actually start to make good money on FirefoxOS, which hasn't happened yet and might never happen
That's the word I was searching for. :)
Dumb Development Mistake Checklist
In OP's conclusions: "the DOM is slow, so use a framework that batches updates to it."

It would be nice to see a comparison of React/Om with some less naive approach to handling Backbone events.

In my own apps, for instance, I've dealt with rapid batch DOM updates simply by putting a short timeout on the event handler and canceling it if another draw-inducing event arrived in the timeframe (5ms, let's say). Doing that has led to similar order-of-magnitude speedups, and while not as sophisticated as using requestAnimationFrame, has been sufficient and maintainable.
TWC is definitely not as far along in their deployment. It might just take some more time. =\

Edit: If I recall correctly, when Comcast was doing their initial deployment they started with end nodes only (not delegating prefixes). Then moved to delegated /64s. Now are moving on to delegated /60s and more.
Often it has to do with speed of implementation and a data set that is small enough for negligible difference. There is also an issue of whether the algorithm keeps duplicate ordering intact.
What are the fixes you were waiting for?
the web only provides Javascript, so locking us down to the web locks us down to Javascript
Even thinking about it, makes me feel dirty. But since things can’t get any worse than this, let me please ask this.
Is it mere coincidence that the creator of Bitcoin is of the same origin as the Mt. Gox. I am feeling guilty for asking this, and I would be pleased, if I remain guilty forever for asking this, than otherwise.
Scouting Long Island’s Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant
Actually, the majority of our servers have been on SL bare metal since ~2010.
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I can only guess that Google likes to tie your account to a real phone number for Voice... when I activated my Azure account (I have MSDN via work), they required a real phone number...

This may also be a regulatory request from the U.S. Govt. If you call in a bomb threat from Voice, the gov't can track you down.
The case against marking Gmail Promotions “spam” as spam
Absolutely, giving users an option to reduce effects or at least bright blinking lights would be a good idea. In the context of games I guess they don't think of blind or even color blind people, but taking into account epileptics may save some lives.
You're correct, it's going to land in Tenerife according to this:

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/brazil-sp...

This seems to have been a popular route for telecommunications cables 'for a while'

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/1901_Eas...
Insert Sort, Heap sort.
#Love Your Selfie Cartoon
ClearSkies doesn't require a central server like OwnCloud, it's peer-to-peer.
That's going to be an expensive beer when you have to communicate secretly with someone on the other shore of the ocean.
Man I hope this is as good as the trailer looks. Martin Starr is a perfect pull for this role, I think.
"WhatsApp has 465 million monthly users and 330 daily users, according to Koum. It is ad-free and costs users 99 cents a year after a first free year."

With only 330 daily users, it's crazy to be worth $19 billion.... ;)
It doesn't do homedir syncing under OSX, making it all but useless for me.
oh, what browser is that?
Unfortunately priority #1 needs to be abolishing the counter productive import tax on any electronics, which has led to a mix of company closures and Brazilian brain drain in favour of a relative handful of less skilled factory workers.

Sad, since there is a lot of talent in Brazil and this prevents making the most of it.
The tragic, untold story of the world’s first planetarium.
Cool idea but i've read about something similar on Scott Hanselman's blog, it's called LogParser: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnalyzeYourWebServerDataAndBeE...
...i will not take this silence as reenforcement of my depression...
Nokia Launches Nokia X Smartphones At Mobile World Congress In Barcelona
All major Ruby implementations use OS threads, but the GIL still limits parallelism in MRI.
Unfortunately not! It came with permission from theoatmeal but now that we approach bigger things with Graylog2 we felt like we have to get an own logo.

You can still expect stuff like the famous Party Gorilla (aka "That drunk sloth") though. ...and rumors are that he might come back in some way.
The Raspbery Pi had a different experience.

In the end, what killed the OLPC was politics, not product execution. And the initiative was widely sucessfull, just in a way that was different from the stated roadmap.

Mozila is in a similar situation here. If somebody else make a device that replace their phones, they'll probably see it as sucess.
A lot of similar tools were discussed when that Go project came up 3 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7175830

> MS ADO / ODBC
> Perl DBI
> npm j (with jqa)
> Ruby (csv2sqlite)
> Python (csvkit)
> Go (textql, comp)
> Java (optiq, openrefine, H2 SQL)
> R (sqldf)
> Haskell (txt-sushi)
> XML (xmlstarlet, xmllint, xmlstar)
> HTML (HtmlAgilityPack, Chrome $x())
> Postgres file_fdw
> Oracle external tables
> SQL Server OPENDATASOURCE and OPENQUERY
> Log file viewers (MS LogParser, Apache asql, lnav)
This is a few entries down in the trending list you linked, but rust-http[1] is currently my favorite example of a very non-trivial and actively developed rust library.

1: https://github.com/chris-morgan/rust-http
Because the switches start in an unknown state. So the first time the counter enters the room and sees switch A on he has no way to know if that's because another prisoner turned it on, or because he's the first one in the room and it started in the on position.
You are completely right, but that doesn't make a good headline either for the politicians or the press.
More and more games feature color blind modes. I know some of the most played games of the moment have it: League of Legends, Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts.
Why does software development have to be so hard?
If you're salting and hashing your passwords, you're doing it wrong
Obligatory repost - "Hacking Hacker News Headlines" from May 2011, examining the significance of language in story headlines:

http://metamarkets.com/2011/hacking-hacker-news-headlines/
Yeah, the problem is it just sort of "happens" without me being able to understand what's going on behind the scenes. For instance, all of a sudden half the screen is slightly more sorted, but I have no clue what went into getting it that way, even though it took more time to do so.
Eh, q as a name is going to be a serious problem as q is the language for programming kdb, a column-oriented database. As both are related to databases, it's difficult to defend this name.
A pomodoro bash script with url blacklisting to keep you undistracted.
It only works for OSX at the moment. Just add any urls you want blocked to a file in your home directory. ~/.pomodoro.urls.blacklist
I love it, so simple! Please add more languages.
I don't suppose there's an explanation we could have? :)
Oh, this is great news. One more project off my never-ending todo-list (write log aggregator backed by elastic search). Nice to see binary packages for Debian too!
Posted this to the blog:

https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/cloudant_and_ibm_our_...
Previously Comcast argued that, I believe it was Level 3, was "pushing 5 times more data onto their network than Comcast was pushing onto theirs"

This made me laugh seeing as every one of Comcast's customer ISP packages have 5 times higher download speeds than upload speeds.

It's almost as if Comcast is forcibly causing an imbalance of traffic so they can extort more money out of Tier 1 providers.
Me neither. Luckily it's in tha cloud:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MnfiX2B...
As a note of feedback, I didn't notice the button at all. (Only knowing about its existence after looking at HN comments.) You do need to take a little bit a the viewer's attention for them to know about the feature.
Or one participant may not be European.
Designer News, Dribbble, Behance, Hacker News all in one place
While I don't take the attitude that vaccines are to be avoided -- and myself, my wife, and children are vaccinated against all the standard stuff aside from the yearly flu shot -- my grandfather was in a coma for 18 months from Guillain–Barré syndrome which was a reaction to a vaccination.

It's scary stuff, but incredibly rare.
VUE: Automated Mobile UX Analytics with one line of code
What if ISP2's customers don't have access to ISP1? Given the state of our broadband infrastructure that's MORE than likely.
Glad this article made the front page. I like the author's message, and while there are a lot of comments here about how US college students graduate with colossal amounts of debt, that isn't true everywhere -- like over here in the UK, where student debt are fairly reasonable and paid back in proportion to your income.

I found the article hauntingly accurate, at least for me: a child of well-off parents, not left wanting for anything and with every possibility open to me, but fundamentally risk-averse because of some misplaced sense of responsibility and duty.
There are hundreds to thousands of people and many millions of US$ affected. I'm pretty sure they will work out a way to get them to court.
Via Matz on Twitter - The History of Ruby

https://gist.github.com/unak/3038095
This is great! Any chance, you'll be sharing the code for this? Would love to use it on my inbox.
Need to wait and see if this service will bloat the app.

Till now WhatsApp has worked wonderfully as a connection bus between friends and relatives.

Don't know if this decision was rammed down WhatsApp's throat by FB ??
"Editing something someone said in the middle of some video can be harder (continuity issues, availability of the original speaker, audio environment, etc)."

That's part of what I was thinking when I said this was early days. While the problems can't be completely glossed over, there's some stuff we can do to mitigate those problems.

An interview would be a primary source; of course you can't edit that, but good odds you've got some sort of summary that is part of the core course, where the interview is immediately available as a primary source. The summary would be as fungible as anything else, and the interview ought to be treated as a primary source and archived. (Possibly with one pass of audio cleanup, but not something to be modified wiki-style.)

On the topic of Wiki, some sort of editor-driven Wiki could help too. Many Montessori schools already adapt the idea of having the older students teach the younger, I believe; as MOOCs evolve it's very easy to imagine harnessing the students themselves to start fixing the courses they've already taken. They'd move from an isolated course to an integrated part of the whole education. Again, like I said, I fully believe these are the early days of a revolution, and writing MOOCs (and more generally, online education in general) off now is like writing off the automobile because it's a great deal less convenient in every way than a horse, and smells worse and is more expensive to boot. Yes, that was true... at the beginning....
More businesses should heed this advice.