skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try using xbindkeys and xdotool together. xbindkeys uses guile as an extension language, with guile functions bound to keyboard shortcuts to invoke xdotool to simulate inputs. It works well enough that I get annoyed every time I have to deal with AHK's weird scripting language.
After reflecting on this a bit, I think the biggest problem is that the point of the whole talk wasn't brought up until the end. Who knew this was actually about Campaign Finance Reform before they stopped watching?
Now you can build iPhone apps with Node.js
I prefer working on contracts that are renewed every now and then. In that way my contributions are constantly evaluated and if for some reason I'm not producing results then there's not a lot of drama involved in letting me go. And I think taking pressure of of clients helps them in the long run to focus on results vs just my salary.
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holy crap! I just played for two hours ( got to 2048 ) and when i was done everything (win7) looked very square, kind of small and ... old-fashioned? holy crap. It got back to normal after about five minutes or so...
My assumption would be that most of the intercept capabilities are in Africa, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. A lot of Africa uses (or used to use) satellite links for internet which you'd expect to be tapped and there's undersea cables around there that had a rash of weird breakage over the past few years.

Incidentally, those are areas where China has a strong economic development interest so you have another well funded government as a adversary that's known to target routers and such.

So far as admin SSH, once you reach a certain size you generally stop letting admins ssh in from random places and require VPNs (often with crypto tokens), if only because it gives you a easy chokepoint to disable access when you fire people. From what I've seen those most likely to use direct SSH or telnet are small companies (including regional/emerging telcos) that have a handful of people actually running things.
Cargo Status Update
Amazon has a patent on 1 click to buy, and I am supposed to believe that mickey mouse remixes are stifling competition? Are you a child or do you write for children?
12th Class Indian Student Invents Shoes To Charge Your Mobile
turkey made a lot of progress recently. too bad it will all go down the drain like this.
Silence infidel, pro state circle jerk in progress.
Great jokes, keep them coming! :-)
Beacon: "A website that finances independent journalists"
The Power -> Money direction indeed seem to be such, and everyone's picking up on it, including popular culture

"Such a waste of talent. He chose money over power. In this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn't see the difference." -- Frank Underwood / House of Cards US
All you need to know about MH370: facts, timelines, systems, findings, theories
Ask HN: How to get into west coast startup scene while on the east coast?
Good morning everyone! I'm currently the VP of Engineering for a small company (profitable , post startup?) on the east coast. I was the first engineering hire in product development. It's been a about 3 years, and we may have our exit soon!

Any advice on how to get hooked up with 'the next big thing' in a similar role? It can be east coast, west coast, whatever. I knew my founder from a previous job, that's what led to this one. I want to be more intentional in getting this role again.

Thanks!
I don't care what he meant, I need to get prepared!
Is Silota based on Lucene (or ES or Solr)? Because you don't seem to mention it. And if it is not, there is not enough information to make an informed choice. I don't see any information on tokenization nor does your own site seems to have a search engine to check (dogfood?).
It seems there are a couple of countries with the same problem in their leadership. How the F do these people get into power?
How The Guardian Uses "Attention Analytics" To Track Rising Storie
Ah, sorry, I'm mistaken about the 1.4 series specifically. It was designated an LTS release and is scheduled to receive security updates through March 2015 [1].

However, this is only security updates, not necessarily bug fixes.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-proc...
If you criticize them for being too loud with their talking while you were repeatedly slamming books against each other, you're being hypocritical. It's not the same behavior but it's still an inappropriate loud behavior. In the microsoft/google case it's privacy invasion.
I realize it must be shocking to see functional programming language geeks solving real-world problems in a pragmatic way. :-)

Seriously, though, they wanted to move a large PHP codebase over to a better language, at the scale of a multi-billion-dollar tech company, in a reasonable amount of time. They accomplished this. What's the criticism here?
That's a pretty cynical point of view. I've met plenty of charismatic people who wouldn't think they're spending "a lifetime practicing on people that one thinks are largely beneath one's self". And then I've meant charismatic people who are full of themselves as well. Charisma and egotism don't go hand in hand ...
Just because the regulation and political system failed doesn't mean they must fail. Iceland did pretty well for itself in the aftermath, even having let the bad behavior slip past them. And Canada apparently never let the bad behavior begin in the first place.

Another thing to keep in mind, the people who got the bailouts are a subset of the people who claim unfettered capitalism will cure all ills.
We went 1.4 to 1.6 recently, nothing really bad, release notes list all backwards incompatible changes.
It's not mickey mouse, the extension of copyright that resulted. The point he's making is that a big business (Disney) can sway legislature for their own benefit.

If you're not aware, the copyright period has been extended several times up to the point of ridiculousness based mostly on Disney's lobbying.

Patents are a massive problem in tech, but copyright is a problem for innovators in the arts - especially authors.

The insult at the end is entirely unneeded. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if a child saw the issues presented more clearly for not having had to deal with reality nearly so often.
Mantle is here and now. With the speed MS is moving that MO is not so scary anymore.
Thanks, I think you will like the final content when it's ready! :)
David, you're doing great yourself. I look forward to what you have in store for us. Thanks for dropping a line!
They did not perform the actions google did, but the criticism they made of google's actions could be applied to their actions too. They claimed a high ground on the issue of privacy. They have no such high ground. This is hypocrisy.
Of course, without a clause any taxi driver is free to kidnap and murder you! These silly liberals don't think things trough. /s
like the one that almost blew up Castro
James, this book wouldn't be possible without you. You taught me virtually everything I know about Xcode!
Keystone is great for quickly bootstrapping a NodeJS project. It makes it super-easy to get cracking, and I particularly like its nice generated data admin UI, field types, DB update framework and relationships for MongoDB. Still quite a few rough edges, but it already does a lot and the community is very active.
I am a Solr specialist (and author www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book ), but usually the comments I see about Elastic Search is that it is _easy_ to get started with. Then, it gets a lot more complex (and so does Solr). But I haven't done the study myself to have a strong opinion.

Still, if you have trouble, then yes, try Solr. They have a tutorial that walks you through the full example. Perhaps that will get you going faster.

If you are not picking ES because of a particular feature set, pick on whatever criteria you feel makes it more user-friendly. Whether ElasticSearch or Solr, you are benefiting from Lucene library underneath. I would think twice about any other non-Lucene based search engine at this stage of the search game.
GitHub and Better Time Management
Who else feels like they just read an excellent spy novel, but that maybe it was a little over the top in conspiracy zealotry.

Only to find out at the end, it's all been real and the people with the tin foil hats aren't really that far off base.
> My point is there is such a thing as too much regulation.

Or just poorly constructed regulation. I agree with you. I want taxi regulations, because I've got enough historical and international perspective to know what will happen without them and to know that they are, at worst, the lesser of two evils.

However, I absolutely want smart regulation that gets out of the way where it isn't helping anyone and ensures that the services people want can be delivered.

That being said, I would prefer better public transit than more taxis, but that's just another side of the same many-sided die.
And that's supposed to be the hard part. There are no workaround for the hard parts. You need to understand the complex issues involved. However, you may want to read the blog from Found.no, they have a lot of great material: https://www.found.no/foundation/
I'm still working on getting myself out of a similar hole, but what you've said resonates with me.

It is difficult to see how isolation can have a negative impact on your life, given (in my case) that the social isolation was part of the plan to control all the variables.

Anyway it was only obvious to me in retrospect that I was doing myself a disservice by refusing invitations to hang out and seeing long calls with my friends and family something that were "taking away" from my precious time.

Stoic literature might also be of interest to the OP if you are reading this still.
That's what I've always heard too, but it seems that the tide is turning: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/opengl-gdc2014/

(I can't answer for the technical details, though. It reeds like hieroglyphics to me.)
HHVM developer & PHP runtime developer here. I've got hands in both runtimes and all even I can say is: Maybe.

I think the most likely outcome is that PHP will adopt some of HHVM's additional features, but remain a separate project. IMO that's a great outcome, since we'll both likely drive the other to be better.
Stallman is wrong that proprietary software hurts users; that's the essence of his critique. It's sad that so much software has sailed under the GPL flag of convenience, simply because it existed and could avoid license bikeshedding. Most of the efforts embodied in Linux or even GCC are not motivated by RMS's political spin.

What's really unfortunate about his noise is that it has consumed the air that should be supporting more fundamental topics - especially the nature of protocols (which must be free, documented and unencumbered in order to really qualify as protocols.) The IETF really embodies the philosophy that has made the net a success.
Awesome! I wanted to make shoes that use piezoelectricity to charge batteries in the heel or just keep warm. This kid did it!
Nvidia , AMD, Intel Explain How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains
I agree. It's the content and community that makes what we do worthwhile, not the code. We've got an API that anyone can build on: data.1deg.org (that documentation is not fully up to date, but when I catch my breath after YC I'll update it).
Step 0. Find stories where the software industry isn't benefiting from the frivolity of the system.
What about the Netflix/Spotify model? Pay a monthly subscription for "premium news" and then let the content providers divvy up the monies based on pageviews.
The e-mail I just sent to the author of that post:

"Ms. Kaminska,

In your recent post (http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/03/03/1787992/magic-the-unde...), which I found via Brad DeLong’s web site, you described Bitcoin as "totally unregulated" and "completely unregulated" a number of times. Such characterizations are completely erroneous, and you should probably correct your post.

Unfortunately, many people are under the impression that Bitcoin is unregulated because its various proponents (such as Marc Andreessen, the Bitcoin Foundation, etc.) have done an excellent job convincing the world that it’s so new and supposedly novel that no regulations could possibly apply. That’s not even close to true. In the United States, numerous Bank Secrecy Act statutes, 18 U.S.C. § 1960, and a state money transmission framework involving 47 different state laws all apply. The problem is that the state laws are hugely problematic, the regulators are bumbling fools, the entrepreneurs and their venture capitalist backers are exceptionally cunning in their efforts to evade regulatory scrutiny, while the press utterly refuses to write about what is actually going on. My company is the plaintiff in two federal lawsuits over the issue, one of which has set the record for the most-delayed, non-stayed motion to dismiss in California federal judicial history (764 days and counting):

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/index.html?id=716056

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/index.html?id=2434524

If you’re interested in the issues, I would suggest that you read my recent comment letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which can be found here:

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/20140214.cfpbcomment.pdf

You may also find this article on my personal web site about Mt. Gox specifically and the role of Iowa’s state regulators of interest:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=101

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

Aaron"
Why pick on PHP and Node? This can be said for X, Y, and Z programming languages.
PHP is one of the easiest web programming laguange to start with. Drawbacks? Yes, a lot of people hate PHP, but it's nice to start with it ( You can switch later ). Or you can try Python with Flask.

Or try both. This should help : http://www.codecademy.com/
If you need people to navigate through the information you provide and it is more than a couple of pages of links, you need search engine.

If your stuff is generic text then Google will find it for you. However, if you have categories, unusual languages, business logic, geographic locations and other non-pure-text content, custom search engines like ElasticSearch, Solr, etc will give your customers much better results than generic Google search.

As an example, do a search at LinkedIn and see all those categories and limits popping up on the left. That's what you can get from the search engines, but not from Google.
Congrats @clintongormley!
> If they lost the keys(as in, lost the wallet.dat with the keys in it) and were able to generate a valid private key given only a public bitcoin address... bitcoin is dead, game over, pack it up.

Yeah. This wouldn't be a fail on the MTGox league; this would be a "Satoshi Nakamoto and all the cryptographers who took a look at the code failed". Cracking a wallet is supposed to be something that requires the resources of a state-sized entity.
My app actually broke going to 1.6 so we had to go to 1.5. At some point soon we'll try again to see what went wrong, but I remember looking into it and it was actually a bug in 1.6.0 iirc.
Names are really hard and I cannot suggest a better name. Since you provide more than just gif conversion, it is appropriate. The URL is a bit hard to type, though it does have some novelty to it. If you already have momentum you should just stick with it. I can only say that gfycat has a cute name that is more memorable, which is why they will gain momentum on a site like Reddit.

The beta tag is a big red marketing thing that makes it feel like a Google service and makes people feel like they are using something cutting edge. It looks good. People like certifications and symbols and affiliations and logos, it makes things feel official and valuable. You can always be in beta as you are always adding features. You could put a bunch of Github and Open Source and EFF logos then if you want to play up the open source aspect, most average Reddit users won't care but it will look cool.

The "bandwidth saved" thing is a gimmick and nobody will even think about what it means, it is just a big moving number on the homepage, like the storage space thing on GMail. It makes it feel alive and valuable. So don't focus on the fact that it's useless, you'll get frustrated. Try to learn from the marketing significance of it.

I think the theme switcher isn't too important. Just make it more stylish and keep pushing, add account management, and you will surely continue gaining momentum. You have something great!
Switched to Flask from PHP, it's super fine. But there aren't many 'beginners-tutorials' available, for people new to web development.
I think this is why we need an open source twitter / equivalent. Just to enable people to communicate even in local networks.
> And you could argue that being able to keep derivative works proprietary means that BSD-licensed code is more free (as in freedom) than GPL-licensed code

You are misunderstanding one point, though. Free Software is not about the creator's or the contributor's freedom, it's about keeping the piece of software Free to be modified. And a BSD license does not guarantee that the derivatives remain Free Software, hence that's why it's regarded as highly as GPL in that aspect.
The Boss Embossed:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apply+embossing+effect+...
This : http://betterific.com/ ?
I don't use it, but I have subscribed to their newsletter, and ideas/problems posted on Betterific are really nice, but sometimes dumb. ( Users post problems, people comment )
The problem with the shoe buying story is that a lot of crap is sold as 'the best' and it can be very hard to tell the truth. Shoes are a great example. I used to buy Brasher walking shoes. They were great, but then they sold out and the shoes are now an inferior quality whilst the marketing is the same and the price if anything has gone up.
While you may take issue with coinbase, or MtGox, can you accept that a cryptographic proof-of-work solution to the byzantine general's problem, that implements a general consensus ledger of forth-like script applications, is not a "currency" per se, but a mechanism in which currencies can be implemented upon?

I.E. Regulate the companies that are engaging in currency like transactions on top of the bitcoin ledger, but don't be too quick to attempt to regulate bitcoin itself.
> It has the word Linux associated with it.
YES!
Does previous work experience count as a work sample test for a programmer? That's not what work sample test means.
Or more likely you get a gif to avoid degradation, and you spend 10x as much bandwidth.
"Search Plane Wreckage" as a Doodle? A link should work.
As mentioned in article not new but i kind of like parallel products developed. another one is http://trak.in/innovation/indian-school-girl-invents-washing...

But i would rather find solution or imlement solution why power is getting cut even famous places ulike Chennai/Bangalore on regular basis. I know one reason which poor labor work.
I interned last summer at a place that used standing desks and I've been wanting one for my college apartment but could never justify the price. I hope this comes out by at least next fall!
Turkey blocks use of Twitter after prime minister attacks social media site
I don't know much about this, but I've seen a talk with Stephen Wolfram before they released this - I think, based on how he described it, that D is the correct answer. I believe it's more similar to writing an application than just entering a query like you would on their homepage. So I guess in a sense C is correct, but I don't think that's quite how it works.
I'm running multithreaded background processes in PHP pretty successfully. I did not see (and still do not see) a reason why I should have chosen another "proper" language for it.

P.S. The vast majority of arguments against PHP here leads me to conclusion that most of (not all) debaters don't understand how PHP works well enough.
Easiest way for me to learn Elasticsearch was through queries generated by Kibana [1] and playing with them inside Sense [2]. Kibana relies on Facets, version elasticsearch 1.0 introduces Aggregations, I would suggest using aggregations for your projects.

[1] https://github.com/elasticsearch/kibana

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sense/doinijnbnggo...
Huh, turns out I actually don't give a shit about the numbers and I just like mashing bright colours together.
I see no mention of his hottie mistress. Disappointed.
With whiskers, it might actually work in that way...
Superficially it may seem like a generous response from Fluke. But you can bet that if there wasn't such a backlash against their action of lodging a complaint with US Customs, they would not have done this. Also I think they were already suffering serious commercial and image harm, which they realized would only get worse.

So really, it's self-preservation, not generosity.

Generosity would be to accept that 'yellow body, dark face' is not something they should try to own, or be able to own. If they cancel their ridiculous Mark registration, then I might believe Fluke had developed an actual soul, instead of mere corporate image loss/benefit calculation.
The best functional programming language geeks generally know what they are doing; that is precisely why they made this.
Anyone that believes they "simply found" those coins should PM me about a bridge I have for sale.
The answer you're looking for and that everyone is avoiding is Mathematica. I mean, they're working on (or have possibly released by now) other platforms where the so-called Wolfram Language can be used, but the simple answer to "where can I write this natural language stuff or Wolfram Language code" is the application Mathematica.
You have self-identified the issue, "I'm using dreamhost because it's pretty cheap".

If you are running a site that matters to you, get it onto decent hosting. That is probably going to cost a bit more but will pay back in your site actually being available.

People seem to like wpengine (http://wpengine.com) for WordPress.

If you go with some VPS hosting you could stick Varnish in front of the site, it's a while since I used WordPress but it generally seems to struggle when you are getting a lot of concurrent connections even with something like Super WP Cache. I wrote a thing for Smashing about the really basics of Varnish: http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2013/12/04/speed-up-your-...
Not just yellow. A distinctive yellow outer case with a black face.

The product looks like a Fluke -- until you look more closely and notice how awful the build quality is. That a cheap Chinese multimeter looks like a Fluke was not a fluke.
Poisson's law is that luck favors those who choose to sit in the busiest bus station.
Our Customers Agree: Data is the Lifeblood of the Business
> Fluke seems to somewhat agree, judging by this gesture of goodwill that they're giving Sparkfun.

No, Fluke figured $30k was a cheap way to bury the PR issue and not have Sparkfun selling Fluke knock-offs.
>> where some random geeks tell the guys who have built a multi-billion dollar business with hundreds of millions of daily active users how they're doing it wrong.

Remind me the words from Steve Jobs:

"By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"
What did they smell in there?
I think Charisma is a trait, not a skill. It is an aspect which just makes people "want to hear you". And that is extremely risky: Charismatic people can make everything sound good. They can hold the most dumb and unfounded position in an argument and still win, just because they are charismatic. And that is dangerous. One charismatic person can make for a meteoric rise of a company or he can destroy everything.
Probably not? Tear downs of cheap knock-off multimeters have shown that they very well can and will fail.