skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this. This reminds me a lot of an old Slate piece (http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2005/12/bitt...) about owning a coffee shop.
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And the drug war. And copyright law.
Band outages are more often than not correlated.
I don't like iOS.
Yes, but there are a few other things that I'm thinking about writing about. They may not implicate Szabo conclusively, but it's pretty clear (to me, at least) that Satoshi is an academic. In any case, it's not Dorian Nakamoto. I'm sorry he's having to endure this scrutiny (especially after what he and his family went through during WWII).
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I only needed to have 1.9GB of free space on my iPhone 5.
Out of curiosity, would you classify this in the 4GL camp?

Not to denigrate the technology and functionality that the Wolfram language is exposing, but it sure sounds a lot like the 4GL pitches from the 90s. Is that a fair comparison?
Unless they're using the claim in countries where you're not allowed to use unsubstantiated subjective claims to describe your products.
Sorry, just as a PHP developer who understands his language isn't perfect but is growing and fixing pains, it annoys me to see people who don't use or haven't used the language since PHP4 talk trash about it as if they've been a PHP developer for years and use it daily.

Rarely do you see PHP developers talking about the pitfalls of big frameworks and other languages.. For example XSS vulnerabilities that recently plagued Rails.

I too have upvoted both your replies to show no ill will. Beautiful day here in Chicago and I took a little time off to cruise the city before coming back and getting back to work. Really puts you in a good mood.
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I think a winery and vineyard sound much more appealing than brewing.
iOS (well, software and hardware) security model blows Android out of the water in design; in implementation, it tends to be much more bug free as well. It's the one area where you can clearly say iOS is superior to Android; openness is the one area where Android is unambiguously better than iOS.
Clock 19 shows the incorrect time for me, but it's the one I'm most interested in using. I'm diving in to the code right now, but I'm struggling to understand the math on lines 57-60 of the SVG:

//smooth-out the rotation of the hour hand: rotate 0.008333333 of a degree every second
hour_rotate_angle = ((30*tDate.getHours())-90)+(0.008333333*((tDate.getMinutes()*60)+tDate.getSeconds()));
hour_hand.setAttribute(&quot;transform&quot;, &quot;rotate(&quot;+hour_rotate_angle+&quot;,50,50)&quot;);
hour_hand_shadow.setAttribute(&quot;transform&quot;, &quot;rotate(&quot;+hour_rotate_angle+&quot;,50,50)&quot;);

360/0.008333333 is 43,200.

43,200 seconds equates to only 12 hours, so I'm wondering if this clock is off because it's missing 12 hours out of the day. If I half the coefficient 0.008333333 to 0.004166666, does that make it correct...

I think I just ironed out my struggle. I'm posting this before I know the result... I hope the suspense is killing you all.
Thanks for the reference... this is precisely what I mean by elite naiveté... a bias toward thinking that the mechanisms of the world are more just and fair than they actually are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Oh, I've had this one too (on an iPhone 4.) As far as I can tell, it's caused by switching cell towers on 3G/4G; you suddenly get apparently-great signal strength, but no service whatsoever.

I've found that entering and leaving Airplane mode fixes things, presumably because it causes the phone to notice which cell it's actually connected to now.

In order for this to be effective in the app you have open, though, you have to stay in Airplane mode long enough to time out whatever TCP connections the app is attempting. Tower-switching is a purely physical/routing-layer effect, so you still have the same IP, and TCP connections stay established. If you trigger the carrier renegotiation without staying in Airplane mode for long enough to drop your DHCP lease (usually about three seconds, I think?), the phone will go on waiting for a reply to a TCP SYN that never actually hit the tower, so you'll find, like you said, that you may have to kill-and-restart the running app to get it to work.
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The problem is that NVidia switched the solder connecting their chips to the board without switching the potting material they used to something with the new thermal expansion coefficient. So as the chip changes temperature the thermal stress is turned into mechanical stress, until one of the contacts breaks. The fix in the article will re-form the attachment, but you'll still be accumulating stress and it will eventually fail again.

Google for "bumpgate" for more information about this than you'd ever want.
Silence is consent.
Still wary, but this is good enough for me. If you're not overburdened, then that's the main thing :) Thanks man
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I'd rather boys and girls were both encouraged to lead in a non-bullying fashion.

Most of the abusive bosses and co-workers I've seen have been men. Maybe it's harder for women to engage in that behavior but the ideal I'd like to see is to just have no one engage in "leadership by screaming at people" and related bad behavior.
It was never intended for end user use, according to Google:

http://www.pocketables.com/2013/12/google-clears-app-ops-con...
You're right, I didn't think about the connection between exact BTC amounts and those being visible on the blockchain in plain sight.
The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
The "lean startup" version of brewing:

http://www.feaststl.com/dine-out/big-idea/article_14e48446-4...
The claim was "the OS doesn't manage power consumption of apps adequately". My counterclaim is that it's perfectly adequate (when apps manage their locks well, the OS management of power consumption works just as you'd expect) but that Android simply defers judgement for what is an acceptable lock to the app (and the user) rather than imposing restrictions that save power at the cost of functionality. It uses a cooperative strategy, rather than a restrictive strategy.

If what you meant is "Android allows apps to consume power when iOS wouldn't", then yes, you're right. That's quite a far cry from "Android doesn't manage power consumption adequately".
...Rasmus Lerdorf?
Ask HN: Being stubborn with investors
First time startup, needing advice.

A big part of the experience has been dealing with the volume and variety of advice we get - when to act, when to ignore, when to placate.

Well, an angel investor who has promised (terms written etc) to lead and anchor a seed round for us is asking us to fundamentally change our product and has said that unless we do it, he doesn't want to get involved anymore.

To summarize as briefly as possible: We make private social networks and the investor wants us to limit who can create a group because he thinks it's too risky to allow any user to make a group (in case they make an offensive/inappropriate group). We think that there are ways to address that risk without limiting who can make a group. We have a flagging/moderation tools for the customer, standard social networking TOS that indemnifies the company and customer for any content a user makes, a usage policy developed with the customer, and all users use their real names. This is standard practice with Yammer and other competitors. Limiting who can create a group does not stop anyone from posting inflammatory content as post, event, or comment. Limiting who creates a group creates an unnecessary barrier for users. We have confirmed this with current customers.

The investor either does not understand or sees something we don't because this is not enough for him. He insists we're wrong and believes it's a "no brainer."

Is he right? How do handle this situation? We want (need) him involved but perhaps he does not share our vision? Or perhaps we need to be more flexible with our vision?
I am still on iOS 5.x with my iPhone 4S.

Would you/anyone recommend to upgrade these days my 4S to iOS 7.x?
Starcraft was ported to ARM in 2010 to run on the Windows Mobile platform. Details are rather light, so I don't know if they used the same approach, but it's likely.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/StarCraft-arrives-for-Windows...
"there's always an option to pick up a contract or go back on salary"

What do you tell the interviewer who says: "uh, yeah but your experience is all 1-5 years old. Why haven't you committed to github this week?"

We're just arm-chair quarterbacking chromatic's life with our own experiences informing what play is "obviously" the right idea. I know from personal experience that he's a incredibly insightful intelligent person. I suspect that he has weighed all of these options and hopefully he'll find the best solution for his own life.
"Even State Representative Charles E. Van Zant Sr., who represents Hampton and spearheaded the audit, got a speeding ticket here in 2011. (He said his speeding ticket — which he paid — had nothing to do with ordering the audit.)"

I'm not sure his statement is quite true.

I'm still convinced that no money from speeding tickets or fines should go to the city's budget, and I am more and more sure that city cops shouldn't be allowed to ticket anyone on a highway, even it goes through their town. The temptation to pull this stunt is too much.
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Valid point, I'm in the nexus group so chrome is the browser for me on Android.
I think u misunderstood the game. u need to get the number 2048, not 2,0,4,8 in some order. Your score will be around 6k atleast if u win. Also, shit loads of time 'wasted'.
Speculations about tptacek's amusement:

Maybe he thinks other governments aren't anywhere near having the capability "to do the same", depending on what "the same" is. (Most states could tap cell phone calls off the air or make domestic carriers turn over lots of data, but not tap undersea cables, and probably not extensively compromise commercial telecommunications infrastructure in other countries.)

Maybe he thinks pretty much all governments have been trying to spy on everyone they can for some time now and none of them have so far perceived significant legal, political, economic, or moral deterrents in doing so.

Personally, I think your fingerprinting example is instructive because the practices of one state do have an influence on the practices of another -- though fingerprinting is something that the general public can see directly, unlike most electronic surveillance. After all,the fingerprinting is quite overt. I take Snowden's (and Eben Moglen's) point that states and spooks have talked together for a long time about their deeply shared understanding of spying, and never thought it was necessary to tell or ask the public.
I disagree with Tptacek in this particular instance; but to allege a conflict of interest like this is petty. AFAIK his security firm specifically does not do defense contracting.
If it's reflowing then couldn't the same be accomplished with more focused application of a heat gun?
Linguistic analysis isn't a field I particularly trust. If they were analyzing his Reddit posts, I'd find that potentially an issue. People post quite differently on Reddit.
IBM got an exemption for JSLint, they can use it for evil now :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866
Exactly. I like 'medium chill'! I generally try to work a 40 hour week. Sometimes I have to put in some extra hours, but I like to be observant about why I'm putting in those extra hours, try to fix the root problem, and get it back to 40.

A college professor that I had (a mentor), once told me that the best programmers should be somewhat lazy. I'm definitely not a 'best programmer', but I do try to automate as much as possible and be on the look out for 'gordian knots' to cut.
Wow. Very nice! This is exactly what namecoin needs to see widespread usage. It really is a very useful system.
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> Not really. I think the better term is locked out of the ancient CDMA networks of Verizon. Nexus series is GSM, which is used globally, except for Verizon in the U.S.

Don't overstate the rarity of CDMA or the ubiquity of GSM. Yes, GSM is effectively the global standard, but CDMA is way more popular than you say.

Examples of other CDMA networks include China Telecom (40+ million subscribers) and au by KDDI in Japan (20 million subscribers).

A full(ish?) list is available on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CDMA2000_networks

Many of those are specialty providers, legacy networks, etc., but a fair number are regular old cell phone providers.
"...and now you have two problems."
Hahaha. I guess I assumed this to be the norm in any system that contains more than one person building a product. :) I was more asking where on earth these deterministic systems existed and where I can get some. :)
Ask HN: Which are the best solutions to build an ecommerce website?
Apart from Tictail and Shopify, there are another interesting solutions to build an ecommerce website?
I'm not that old (28), but I already see myself doing "the same stuff over and over" in my programming jobs.
It's not that bad yet, but I think this would be a problem in my mid-thirties.

I've been seriously thinking about going back to school, and specializing in something entirely new (computer vision), as I'm already learning about it on my own.

Learning something new would be exciting, but the idea of starting over, being an "intern" again, then _maybe_ qualified if everything pans out is frightening.

As anyone here changed their technical career for another different technical career, instead of going the management route ?
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Not to speak for anyone else, but it is plain that some governments will assume a green light to spy on all of their own citizens and residents, and as many citizens and residents of other countries as they can reach, regardless of what the United States does. We have seen this happen more than once.
FSB safehouse, yikes.
On a 4S, iOS7.1 is quite snappy. I would say, sure, go ahead.
Yeah, that didn't do the trick. I'm not giving up though!
> he probably doesn't have absolute power to shutdown

He absolutely does. He could also pardon snowden. He could also fire clapper or even just not appoint him to the panel investigating the whole issue.

He took an Oath after all.
> For example Chrome's script skipper in the debug tools completely unnecessarily uses regexes rather than a simple list of 'contains'.

That is your example of overkill? More like, exactly the sort of scenario where you'd want to be able to specify a regexp.
Thanks! I shouldn't take all the credit for it though. The game is basically a clone of the two games I've been inspired by, as an attempt to make my own version and learn new things along the way!
And a true paranoid could fake styles.
This just isn't feasible for virtually all employers (minus a few startups and the rare organization that isn't risk adverse) for a variety of reasons. They're losing an employee 20% of the time, they're getting a cut of something they have no interest in and don't really understand, and they'd have to spend resources to understand the contract, legality, and valuation of your venture.

In other words, for the average organization there is virtually no upside.

The only caveat to this is if you do a true intrapreneurship type deal where you are building something within the scope of your employer that they might leverage for operations or as a product sometime in the future. But that would most likely require that they have a clear first right to purchase or that the ownership roles are reversed and you are the minority holder which isn't very ideal for the 30-something.
Are we reading the same articles?

The Python 3 support page is full of "this should work in theory, it's very under-tested, almost nobody is using it, don't blame us if you try it anyway and get rooted."

They did everything to warn you short of installing giant neon signs saying "radioactive, don't use in production."
Yep, that is where the ridership is and is also the reason for quite a few objections to pouring more money into Amtrak. The service and website are a pain anywhere else.
Anyone know why there's no repository for Vagrant? I have to manually download and install the deb|rpm and install it myself, manually, on every new release.

Is this just a manpower thing?
The CarPlay page ( http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/ ) is interesting.

The manufacturer line-up at the bottom is impressive - the major absences are Volkswagen-Audi and FIAT-Chrysler. Renault is also missing, but partner Nissan is in. GM seems to be in, with Chevy and Opel brands showing.
A friend commented on Facebook as I posted another story about this town in Florida, "Strongly supports sending all traffic fines to help repay the federal deficit. End of corrupt traffic stops."

The CNN story

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/09/us/hampton-florida-corrupt...

gives a lot of details of the history of the town that gains most of its revenues from traffic stops, with a lot of on-the-ground reporting about local conditions.
I'm not glad that they hold Obama responsible for something that probably started before he showed up and he probably doesn't have absolute power to shutdown.

I'm sure you're right about the genesis of many NSA programs predating January, 2009, but as a practical matter, President Obama has the absolute authority to stop any of these programs as soon as he would like. It literally is as simple as asking General Alexander to the Oval Office, requesting a list of all current programs with a more or less detailed summary of their goals and methods, then ordering the General to end those programs the President finds unacceptable. Were General Alexander for some bizarre reason to refuse a direct order from his Commander in Chief, he could be fired immediately and his deputy given the same order.

For some reason, some people seem unwilling to accept that we do not live in a parliamentary system: The President has powers that cannot be suspended or absorbed by Congress, no matter how many laws they pass. There are certainly avenues for oversight, as well as budgetary, judicial and other checks on those powers, but the execution of national security policy is up to the guy in the White House. You're not just electing a speech-maker and bill-signer, you're electing an executive. Vote accordingly.
And the irony is the UN is calling us out on breaking the treaty by legalizing pot in a few states.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/04/un-warning-ca...
My 2 cents... The great programmers can stay technical as long as they want. If they find their way to great companies, they will do well on equity. I have several data points of folks in their early to late 40s like this.

People who aren't excellent, or not truly passionate about the coding itself go into management, sales, or consulting. (I'm in this group) There is age discrimination by people in the open market who don't know your work. There is much less age discrimination amongst people who personally know you.
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Sure, I get his perspective. But every now and then journalists ask difficult questions to interviewees.
Google can afford even more than that. Times have changed, and these tech juggernauts are essentially printing their own money with how invested the general public is into their products.
I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic; see if I can track an IP address.
It's not as dire as you imply, even with the "a bit."

PyPy3 has a beta release.

This would be like "If you want Earth without the pollution and are willing to move, then we've terraformed Mars already; we just need some fuel for the rocket to get you there."
This has always impacted the realism of flight simulators, in my mind - due to performance reasons, you're always flying around in some pea-soup like fog. At altitude, you can easily see hundreds of miles in clear weather, but I haven't seen any flight simulator that comes even near to being able to render out to those distances.
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In theory, it's pointless on an iPhone because only the app you're directly using uses any significant power.

This guarantee has diminished over the years. Before iOS 4 (which allowed third-party apps certain types of background multitasking) it was pretty much ironclad. Multitasking started to chip away at it, and they've added more and more multitasking modes (which is, overall, a great thing) making for more and more opportunities for apps to eat your battery in the background.

My personal experience is that the ideal still mostly holds, with a big fat exception in the form of VoIP apps like Skype which get to use up way too much power if you leave them logged in.

It's probably to the point where a battery monitor would be useful now, but it's not a particularly great need, and inertia will probably keep it away.
This is true...the area I was talking about was Sacramento County:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_County,_California#I...

Isleton, the city of under 1,000, is one of seven cities in the county, the next smallest of which is 60,000+. It is about 1.5 magnitudes smaller than each of its neighbors, which means some of its professional staff (such as the manager) are likely to not live in the community and will have a different dynamic.

(I'm also from a rural state where the average city/town is probably about < 2,000.)
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I would be willing to bet that a winery has just as much dealing with regulators, cleaning, and sales.
It is very strange. Is the app not written with native code?
Yes. For anyone using a black background, switch to a light background to see it. Much less offensive with a dark background.

Also worth noting it doesn't show the "slide to unlock" for a bit if you have Touch ID enabled, which is nice.
I agree that the U.S. pioneered terrible rules in both of these areas and then helped spread those rules around the world. The drug war and copyright law, though, have both been spread by treaties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Performances_and_Phonogra...

(Some people have coined the term "policy laundering" to describe creating domestic policy by agreeing to a treaty demanding it, and then pointing to the treaty obligation as a reason that the domestic policy can't be changed -- maybe even within the country whose negotiators first proposed adding it to the treaty!)

I don't think there are many treaties that require states to engage in surveillance. There are civil rights treaties that can be interpreted to restrict it. The closest I can think of is that the Chicago Convention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_International_Ci...

says that civil air carriers must comply with immigration rules, which might be one legal basis for collecting ever more information in identity documents, and for requiring carriers to verify them and share information about travelers with states. (I guess there are similar rules in treaties about ships, too?)
It's easier to do this in some places than others, but it's a good idea. Ricardo Semler [1] is famous for backing the startup ideas of his employees. If they're going to leave anyways to start something, better to fund them on their way out.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
Or have any free time, from the insidious nature of comfort perks they supply