skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1- unix of course. The simple fact of compiling and linking a program, or writing a script, changes the unix environment since you can then on use it as a new command.

2- MPW, the Macintosh Programmer Workshop, which was influenced by the unix design and also by emacs did let you write new commands, and install them under menus.

3- any application with some kind of scriptability feature where you can add new scripts that you can use as new command would fit the bill.
> This is not an open-source project that succeeds and fails on the whims of its developers

This is on the licensing page. So not being open-source is now a strong selling point these days, apparently.
Is there a way from this data to calculate the frequency of the wave(s)? Bandwidth? Or otherwise characterize the signal that is causing the polarization? Is that even a meaningful question in this case?
IHear Wants To Make Personalized Hearing Aids Available For Everyone
A lot of people saw the potential but in 2007 there still were worries. Apple whould have been crazy not to let people develop app for the device but it wasn't possible until july 2008. Also many programmers were worried on how who apple would run their store as soon as they annunced it on march 2008 soon.

And I would say that at least until iOS4 (2010) the jailbroken version was still better than what apple was doing.
Very cool, but should have an option for different paper sizes. Printing on A4 does not fit.
I give them -10 for their medical imaging equipment. Its god awful. They sold it off, but the invention of it just kills me. Try logging in with a long password on a software keyboard when the touch targets and display image are off. http://www.blockimaging.com/items/kodak-directview-cr-825-cr...
FYI: You can play the original 2048 past 2048. You just click "Keep playing" after reaching 2048. Problem solved.
Airbnb's business model is that they verify and vouch for the tenant.

If they're not prepared to do that, they don't have a business model.

The point of this story is that Airbnb's verification system is worth about as much as Craigslist's (i.e. there isn't one) and isn't as good as eBay's.

So they need to work on that, and until they do, it might be an idea to not rent out your apartment on there unless you're really, really, really sure you know who you're renting it out to.
Instagram as a marketing channel
Why does this necessarily mean things will be more hellish to debug than Angular alone?
Hi. I agree with a lot of what you say. However, the information that I am referring to was plausible and already in the public domain, but that they were refuting.

Examples of this are the delay between the two comms engines being switched off; the Rolls Royce engine data; and their military satellites.

All of this information was gleaned from reliable sources [their own military, the engine manufacturer, the normal ATC systems], and you are 100% correct in that it should have been verified before being released. But, my point is that the delay between the time the information first came to light [even through leaks] in release was just too excruciating long to comprehend. In the interim flatly they denied that the information even existed. I can only assume that some of the leaks from "official sources" were in part because they knew that materially[1] important reliable information was being held back.

On another note - I do feel for the families. The mis-information, delays and incorrect denials are only adding to the speculation. There must be a better way to report information.

[1]= Materially important to quelling speculation. Material to re-directing the futile searches in the wrong places.
Is there a point to this article? I agree that women often get the short end of the stick in the valley (and I personally despise the brogrammer culture that has sprung up), but simply complaining about problems like this won't do anything to make them go away.
Apple Launches 8GB iPhone 5C
I did actually miss that, and the purely legal aspect of it is not the whole and interesting picture. But I don't think that it makes a difference.

TAO (I.e computer network exploitation) may be easier if you possess a legal/ethical framework whereby allied counties are free-fire zones; at least up to the point when they're no longer allied.

But bulk data collection is not TAO. As far as I can see, it relies on firstly on physical access to network infrastructure, so you can put a secret room at the Phone company or copy off the network traffic off the undersea cable as it lands. This is legally easier in your own country.

Secondly it relies on legal authority over companies. US agents arrived at lavabit with a US court order to hand over the crypto keys and tell no-one. How would that play for a company based in Reykjavik? I expect that after the laughter and blog posts, a bit like this: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/30559/iceland-expe...
I saw a post listing the precursors to 2048, but can't track it down. Can someone with knowledge point me in the right direction? Thaks.
Android Audio Recording Tutorial
IOS Toolbox – Generate iOS Interfaces Using Photoshop
To paraphrase Steven Hawking's publishers, every turn made by flight 370, later than say 5-10 minutes after the transponders went off, cuts the plausibility of accident theories roughly in half.

That does raise the question of how many turns there really were, though. Earlier reports based on radar suggest that the plane made several course changes as it flew in a zig-zag around the Malacca Strait and Andaman Sea west of Malaysia. If enough of those apparent sightings can be knocked down then an accident becomes more likely. Though even one change of direction onto one of the final SATCOM arcs, apparently without any effort to communicate at the same time, is a real head-scratcher if you assume no foul play at any stage.
Physical work isn't necessarily easier for those with ADHD than desk jobs. In high school and college I had some physical jobs. Those jobs are often menial, and the monotony and repetition are really the opposite of what those with ADHD (especially those with ADHD and high intelligence) are "naturally" suited for.

Do we say the same the same thing for aspiring athletes
who weren't born with the muscle mass to play pro
football?

We don't "pump them full of steroids" because unlike the (admittedly imperfect) ADHD treatments we have now, muscle-building steroids have negative side effects that greatly outweigh their benefits.

We do give them the best medical care possible. If an aspiring athlete breaks a leg or has plantar fasciitis, we treat those things. We don't just say, "guess you weren't meant to be an athlete."

It used to be that if you had ADHD, you probably weren't a
banker, lawyer or politician.

Yeah, and if you had bad eyesight, you were probably steered away from those professions as well.

And if you were left-handed people assumed you were under demonic influence or something.

And if you were dyslexic people assumed you were stupid.

I'm glad people like me are winning against people like you.
Yandex Acquires Low-Power Mobile Geolocation Startup KitLocate
I think this is a potentially good idea, but have some reservations. Thought people might be interested though.
So there is an exodus. Interesting.
Having worked in a professional kitchen during my time at the university, I can second a lot of what the author wrote on the pressure while working (and I only had to feed about 70 to 100 guests during a normal evening).

So anybody taking him as an example for undeserved money, is just some big idiot (stronger words come to my mind, but have to stay there).

Look at very strenuous working-environments like drilling rigs or anything like this and ask anyone there, what role the "ship's cook" plays.
The author doesn't live in the valley. I don't think this issue is "his" problem to solve, he is simply saying that he is going to avoid it.
I really want to hear more on that from the angular team. Generators and modules are my favorite ES6 features right now.
Because respecting a bargain is for chumps. Why not break if it can net you more cash? You're clearly not enough of a sociopath.
I'm not using this data to treat people differently: If I'm alone at 3AM and you come out of nowhere, I wouldn't care if you were blue, green, black or white. I wouldn't trust anyone equally.

My point was, that one can understand how people think and stereotype given the data, as long as the data isn't corrupted.

But coming back to the data: Sure, the majority of people aren't criminals, but the few who are, belong to a certain category. I'm not talking absolute, I'm talking relative. I'm not talking "divine truth", I'm talking correlation.

And you can be a sunflower all you want, you can't deny it.

You can deny it if you want, but that doesn't make it any less true, and that doesn't solve the problems in urban areas, poverty, lack of education, etc.

So: One can either say it's not true and be liked by people as an open mind and non racist (that doesn't fix the root problems), or one acknowledges the problem and think about solutions (at the risk of being called names).

I do feature extraction and classification of data, can't go against such stats.

That's why I asked the commenter to put herself in their shoes: She's got a kid, between a 45 year old dude and a more usual nanny, she'll choose the nanny every single time (from the 60%).

To be closer to her experience: She'll do an ad, a couple comes, she'll acknowledge the guy and ask the woman how much experience she's had with kids .. While it's the guy who came for the job.
تردد قنوات الكأس HD الأتش دي الناقلة لدوري أبطال آسيا
Nope. agreed.

I just felt that this little thing was complex, and that something like this can spread over time.

I had no issue with dependency injection either, just the magic format.
Dependency Injection -- the heroin of abstraction junkies.
>Then they determined which of the potential targets used LinkedIn or Slashdot.org, a popular news website in the IT community.

So is HN. And it's ancient. Any ideas of possible vectors to attack HN-loving engineers?
9007199254740992 is even more adictive. I've lost two nights on it, knowing perfectly well that the universe life time wouldn't be enough to finish it.
I read it, but I'm hooping that we will find a cure. It took 100 years to find a cause of scurvy.
Back last year, (May 2013) Miško said:

"We're in early stages of designing Angular 2.0, but some of our goals are:

- Angular will use the underlying web platform features available to it (e.g. Node.bind, template integration, Custom Elements, etc...)

- Web Components (Polymer, Ember, or any other framework/library) will work seamlessly within Angular apps and directives.

- Components written in Angular will export to Web Components (to be used by Polymer, Ember, or any other framework/library) .

We're working actively with the MDV, Web Components, and Polymer teams to make sure that our approaches remain compatible as all these projects evolve (and they will still evolve).

-- Misko & the Angular team" (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/polymer-dev/4RSYaKmbtE...)

Does anyone know if the focus on Web Components is still there?
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail to you. Engineers probably have a different understanding of A/B testing than marketers or product managers have.
He's just a chef and a Lesser, after all. Not one of us engineering ubermenschen who make the world go 'round. Engineers work hard to deserve all of our hard-earned benefits like snacks and catered meals--after all, imagine how horrific the world would be without Zynga!

But what did that moocher ever do for anyone?
I used my clamshell feature phone to login to my home pc via ssh. Granted, the typing experience was pretty painful, but it did work. People seem to forget that 'app stores' have been around a lot longer than the iphone. It's just that the earlier versions of app stores, carrier decks, were managed by carriers who cared a lot more about preventing apps from interfering with their business than they did about providing their customers with good, useful apps. And they ran on operating systems that were customized or custom written by carriers who saw them primarily as a marketing tool useful for pushing their more expensive services.

http://www.midpssh.org/
MITM on a connection to hackernews probably doesn't differ in any significant detail from MITM to facebook, linkedin, slashdot, etc.
Should have used {Open,Libre}Office.
I have been meaning to ask this.

What encryption does Whatsapp use? Their FAQ doesn't say.

It also doesn't say if it is end-to-end (client-to-client) encryption or if the data is stored in plain on their servers? (I understand it is not stored permanently.)
Yeah I'm looking for a solution right now and would like to know the better alternatives that give me native apps.
JavaScript – explore DOM and BOM
The future of floating cities
and your phone number is PII that Facebook asks you to register with them!

So...yea, not exactly anonymous.
1024 and Threes!
i discovered it while in office ...and now half of my office is addicted to it.
What do you feel about the idea that math had developed to the point that such a calculus was now incremental and immediately inevitable?

Though patents are rather specific and coming at a problem from two different directions can easily lead to two valid patents.

Wait, what am I talking about, you can't patent math period.
Thanks - very interesting presentation. I could almost imagine North Korea doing this but not to a plane full of Chinese - their leader is crazy but not suicidal.
I can see very little reason for people to use this other than they don't want to pay money for movies.

Netflix is cheap, has a large selection, is available in several countries and its geo-block is easy to bypass with a Chrome plugin meaning you can get full selection from any country. There are also other streaming services in various countries. Not to mention the large number of countries iTunes Movies are available in. Obviously new releases can only be viewed in the cinema but if you really want to see something that's not too big of an ask - or you can wait a couple of months.

There are always people trying to justify piracy and although I disagree with it I can see their frustration at times but movies are incredibly convenient and cheap to access. Is there a 'valid' reason to use something like Popcorn Time?
Yep, I forgot about Sony devices.

I used the mobile web since the early GPRS days. Remember WML?

Although they lacked capacitive multitouch, Symbian devices before 2006 already had zoom capabilities.

My N70 could already zoom in for content, if I remember correctly.
Also missing €400 that I had initialed a withdrawal in February 14.
Posting this on HN is preaching to the choir.

Early employees are rewarded for the risk taking first and their contributions next. Later employees are rewarded for making a well-running company better. That's what's profit sharing programs are for, not stock options.
I feel I have to apologize on behalf of all clueless men out there unfortunately we were brainwashed by the media that all women are non technical.

On the other hand i see nothing wrong with you being aggressive and it would be extremely hilarious if you were to go with your boyfriend to an event and just whisper in his ear what he needs to say every time he gets asked something technical he might not know.

I always enjoy playing on peoples assumptions and making them feel awkward for making them.

P.S. There's no gender neutral interactions so make the most of your gender's image and strengths.

If you want to be treated for who you are and not just a member of your gender you will have to show a strong personality and don't be afraid of being assertive or slightly aggressive sometimes. It gets you respect.
The more people who come out saying it's unacceptable the more likely there is to be a paradigm shift, at least, that's how I hope it will go. Another voice to add to those decrying the brogrammer culture is always welcome.
I do believe about a week.
Industrial Stock Footage
Questions Over Absence of Cellphone Calls From Missing Flight’s Passengers
A version without paywall:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Questions-over-absence-of-cellphone-calls-from-missing-flights-passengers/articleshow/32230806.cms
A version without paywall:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Quest...
Excellent, thanks!

I remember reading http://golang.org/cmd/go/ (specifically, the part about the <meta> tag) a while back and thinking "well, that'd be pretty straightforward to get working" and then (sadly) never having the time for it :(.
Kind of disappointed I cannot find a relevant XKCD
Not really. What's being observed are remnant polarizations from gravitational waves that had their effect long ago, under very different circumstances and mass-energy densities.

What's interesting is that the present measurements can be interpreted as evidence for gravitational waves to the exclusion of other explanations to a high degree of certainty.

Until now, evidence for gravitational waves was rather indirect and circumstantial, for example orbiting pulsars (very dense collapsed stars that emit periodic radio pulses) were observed to slow their pulse repetition rate over time in a way that suggested they were losing potential energy by radiating gravitational waves. Unfortunately those waves could not be detected directly.

In principle, a gravity wave could have nearly any frequency/wavelength consistent with its source. The pulsars discussed above were thought to produce gravitational waves of relatively high frequency / short wavelength, proportional to their pulse repetition rates. A so-called "millisecond pulsar" would have a possible gravitational wave frequency of one kilohertz and a wavelength of 3 x 10^8 / f meters or 3,000,000 meters (3,000 kilometers). That's hardly short compared to a radio broadcasting station's wavelength, but for gravitational waves, it's remarkable.
So you have targets (basically employees of said company) browsing popular sites and becoming infected. You can't deny access to all popular sites. Would it be possible to build a 'scraper' that copies content and places it on your local network for your employees? Perhaps also allowing comments to be placed back on your behalf? You'd give the employees access to things they want to read, but stop attacks correct?
I think it would be great, if they would polish the core libraries.

Too many subtle differences when I've tried it the last time (some years ago). Afterwards we changed our course and stopped using it.

We were mostly interested in using Winforms applications on Windows and Linux - but it didn't really work for our application. I had the feeling that Xamarin wasn't interested in making the code any better for our use - instead they were interested in mobile application development.

If Microsoft baught them I really wished our use case would be improved too.
The person who wrote this appears to be fantastically ignorant - they do not seem to know the difference between code that is on Github and code that is written by Github employees. This is akin to believing that everything you receive on your Gmail account has been written by Google.

I'm just about old enough to remember when the common image of a person involved in technology wasn't of some over-entitled brogrammer, and I lament that as much as anyone (fwiw, I think it's a false image and only very few people fit that stereotype, but it's a powerful image). But if you're going to go on the attack, getting basic facts wrong will undermine your argument.
Two times!

1994 -- switch from Motorola to PowerPC.

2006 -- switch from PowerPC to Intel
There were already app stores for Symbian, J2ME, PocketPC and Psion devices.

They just weren't as integrated as iTunes.
>Ballmer and others were not wrong to laugh about the iPhone because it was just a bad smartphone compared to what was available at that time for someone that wanted to do more than browse the web.

That's totally untrue. It destroyed everything of the time -- I know, I had smartphones since 2000, Sony stuff, Nokia stuff etc.
"Charlie didn't make $20M for cooking, he made $20M for taking the risk that the company he was joining would fail and that he could end up five years older, unemployed, and with nothing to show for his trouble."

Precisely--and the article should have ended there. It's all about the risk. Arguing for the raw amount of contribution a chef can have is a distraction from the core point and detracts from it.
'Netflix for piracy' Popcorn Time saved by being free software.
And Fakes as well, but none of those are part of the .NET Framework. They're part of the ALM tools Microsoft sell.
Can't she choose where she wants to work?
All I really need are client-side templates and awesome DOM binding.

What's the current best options?
How about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401949
Original post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401055
>People seem to forget that 'app stores' have been around a lot longer than the iphone

And they rightly forget them -- they were awful, over-expensive crap. $10 for some BS casual game, $30 for a TODO app etc. And don't get me started on the Java ME crap.
I've seen the same article on The Verge and other reputable sites who say the information came from 'their sources' (probably people they trust and regularly get MS info from).
Fix the OS of your own smartphone (with Firefox OS)
Russian Broadcaster Warns of Turning US Into 'Radioactive Dust'
Doctors Use 3-D Printing To Help A Baby Breathe
It does seem a bit odd - they say:

"Our backend checks if a query is legit by computing all the possible hashes using all your available API keys"

So why not just forget about the crypto (with all the risks of getting it wrong) and use an opaque bearer token?
That's kinda now Richard Stallman browses the internet.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Search for wget.
By what he has written, he could also write a similar article about why he doesn't want his daughter to work in NYC (assuming his daughter chooses finance over technology).

There is no real content in this article and more people saying something is unacceptable doesn't necessarily lead to a paradigm shift. Some examples I can think of:

-> Vietnam War (or all the other war) protesters.
-> Women needing to take their husband's or father's permission to step out of their households in countries like Saudi Arabia, etc.
Dependency management for Guile will be best handled via Guix - which handles not only Guile specific dependencies, but can replace the system package manager entirely, and perhaps parts of the crufty gnu build system too, now that you can define custom build processes in guix packages, and you can also use guile from GNU Make. Guix will also be used for configuration management too (since configurations are treated like packages.)

Guix is really the killer app that will push Guile forwards, and towards realizing Guile for it was originally meant to be - an extension language for the GNU system. DMD is also being developed in Guile as part of the GNU system - to allow for dependency based daemon initialization without completely invading your system like certain others.

I don't see Guile as a candidate for merely "tacking onto" existing apps like you typically do with Lua, but as more of an integrated part of a dynamically configurable operating system, much like emacs but for the whole system.
Knoxville Yoga Teacher Certification
I don't think so. If it stopped there, he would only be a lucky gambler.
you sir have no clue of the world outside the US
I strongly suggest using httpseverywhere for this reason. Although for some reason linkedin.com is listed as "buggy" by default :/ so enabling it might break some stuff.
OK, so if all this is true, what did the worlds premier data broker actually pay $19 billion for?
Doesn't that work already? He did mention that it works on phones and tablets.
He demonstrates the zooming slider in the video..
Great post!
"Try and fail, learn from your experience" is a good motto.