skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think you have more experience than 40 year olds because you were typing in games when you were a kid? How about the people working when you were a kid? I don't know, this is sort of an incredible thing to say.
This is cool, and reminds me of a disaster I once wrought upon myself:

Maybe 6 years ago I used TextWrangler to find and replace against a folder. It was only a few characters being changed but there were loads of instances of them. In my PHP code it was no biggie but I accidentally overwrote parts of a Flash FLA (hundreds of instances in the binary) and made a massive piece of a project for my biggest client at the time worthless.

Totally avoidable, lesson learned!
How does the dust levitate? I would think the moon itself needed to have an electric field to make that work.
Have you noticed how this affects websites/apps breaking? meaning, certain websites won't play video unless an add plays first (hulu/comedy central sometimes) do those sites not work if you enable this?
I like this idea, but I propose a slight modification:

Do a rolling record system, so that when the officer hits record, the camera not only saves footage from that point but also the 15 minutes prior to that. Lets see how much their opinions of cameras change then..
Ask A North Korean
Or maybe a DRM chair to sit on while you drink your DRM coffee. http://hackaday.com/2013/03/04/drm-chair-only-works-8-times/
since this site is nothing but a corporate shill spam site, I shall withhold my opinion...
(very nearly) Every creative work can easily be encoded as a number. Anything that can be represented on a computer is a number. A jpg is a number, an mp3 is a number... you get the picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
Should we deprecate comma? (D programming language)
You will probably like searches for rule NNN on wolfram alpha, like http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=rule+101
#3 is against the law in the US.
Is this the same as Rule 90?
I think he way you are explaining it may give the wrong impression that the technical aspects are easy or unimportant which couldn't be further from the truth. In fact the technical aspects (and a compelling offering) are difficult and critical but merely a baseline to get in the game. Then, all being equal, the winners are those that figure out how to gain customers (marketing, for lack of a better term).
Actually "Eclipse is the default" is probably going to be false very soon. Every mid to senior level Android developer I know has migrated to Android Studio for months already. The advantages of Gradle and Studio are very apparent almost immediately.
It's a great idea, but probably over complicated for the environment that this coffee maker operates in. You'd also have a tricky optical problem capturing an image of the cap at close range (such as inside a closed lid)
What do you think 1) really is, though? Do you think "keeping up" with 100 different mvc frameworks that do roughly the same thing is "keeping up?" That seems to be what that code phrase is usually used to mean. Are younger programmers not as easily accused of this or worse than not keeping, not knowing enough fundamentals? The whole notion of keeping up with technology change in programming contexts sometimes seem silly to me. Is it really that big of a change that you can start to do with JavaScript web apps what you could do 20 years ago?
It wasn't 5 years old when the article was written, though. The Galaxy S was less than 2 years old at that time.
You could make the argument that disabled veterans are the MOST important voting block and with good reason.

Please refrain from reducing veterans to a political action committee. They deserve much more than they currently get under our system. Try and get through the red tape at the VA and then tell me how you feel about the outsize effect that the veterans are having on the benefits debate.
Nintendo Is Looking To Possibly Bring The Unity Engine To 3DS
Designers don't take Android seriously because they are mostly iOS users. It's hard to build on something you cannot really relate to.
Not really... Because companies in Silicon Valley poach employees on purpose to interrupt other companies. It's a real problem in a lot of industries.

I'd note you don't see Microsoft in this because they stayed in Washington and bought employment laws they like. So they can force employees to sign non-competes in Seattle while they poach from California that won't allow companies to do that.

Working in an auto state, I've seen that in other industries and it's actually kind of sickening. In the auto industry it's in bad taste to do that. Many auto suppliers have no-poaching in their business contracts. Which ties up a lot of the industry because everybody does business with everybody. As an EMPLOYEE you can apply to another job, but recruiters aren't allowed to cold-call between companies.

I've worked in an office where we would get cold call agents during work. They'd call all the extensions in the office and it was just offensive being put on the spot like that. I can't imagine working at Apple or Google and getting calls like that... And the work environment becomes "awkward" for the rest of the day because everybody knows everybody got a call... There's nothing good about that type of hiring practice.
Sounds akin to developers picking the companies they work for based on the programming languages/tech stacks they get to work with.

I can definitely sympathize.
See right there, that "imagination" is what I'm talking about: companies figuring out a way to shift compensation into long-term rewards that disincentivize employees from considering unanticipated competitive offers.

The problem is you seem to think it's only additive and therefore great for employees. Hey, more bonuses, more equity.

But if everyone adopts it as a standard operating procedure, it could lead to a lowering of base salaries. So then we get paid like salespeople: little salary, mostly performance based. Do you want that?

Bottom line, it could be opening a can of worms. My personal philosophy is that it's rarely good to be righteous and inflexible. It often backfires or escalates a situation.
It's possible. I've been to the last few.
Facebook wants us to be Hackers...and it's not what you think
Hey Luke, glad to read you have your priorities; the 2 children grow quickly and they need you to be there. The work will get done. Be well. Maybe, you agree, LIFE passes quickly,maybe... Cordially, Virginia
How did you figure out which byte to change?
Probably because when Android evangelists (not necessarily Google) market Android as the "anti-Apple" OS, you remind a lot of current Apple users about the days when Windows ruled the earth and all of the anti-usability that came with it.
A bank manager from a small Indian town changed the lives of beggars and hawkers.
That's cool. You can expand the pattern, presumably arbitrarily, by setting the number of columns to 256 or 512 (or greater?), but on my little 1440px screen I had to redirect to a file and scroll it sideways in an editor to see the whole thing.
Note that the products/services made by these immigrants are sold globally, not just in the US. Google, for example, acquires more than 50% of it's revenues from outside the US.

If you don't object to google's selling it's services across the world on free-market principles, it'll take a rather large leap of (il)logic to constrain the employment to be restricted to the physical location of the HQ of this global company.
I'm pretty sure the idea is to get more GUI-based, not less. Telling a designer to use vi instead of Eclipse for UI is pretty hilarious.
Android Studio is the recommended IDE for any new projects. It's made by JetBrains, and it's 100x better.
You posted three links to the android documentation that don't address sedev's point at all.

Your first point doesn't address the "falling back gracefully" part. The second part of that example, the ActionBar, which was introduced in ICS, IIRC, only has a community shim. Granted if you want to use a new API that may not have as much community support as the ActionBar, you either code one yourself (strengthening the sedev's point that you have to design the same functionality across multiple versions).

Your second point is even more off base. With the web's responsive design, I have to make one HTML file, and one CSS file, and if my design is sane, it works across all screen sizes. Your second link requires you to hand code different layouts for every device size which is hardly a solution - infact you are back squarely where you started. And I'm unsure if you actually read those tutorials but they don't even seem to have been updated since eclair. IIRC, you only had to deal with 3 sizes then - ldpi, mdpi, and hdpi. I haven't done Android dev in a while, but I'm sure the number of layouts have tripled.

If you really want to counter sedev's point, you should point to an app with the relevant code that actually does what sedev is talking about and not some links to the documentation. Everyone is already aware of the documentation, and if it actually worked as you said it did, we would not be having this conversation.
>What illegally driven-down wages mean is that the shortage is more acute that previously thought.

No, it just means the sense of entitlement amongst tech CEOs is even greater than previously thought.
Money is in iOS, so companies prioritize it first. After Android becomes the main platform for monetization, it will probably be taken a lot more seriously.

Right now it goes like this in every company.

1) Lets make an iOS app

2) okay we have an iOS app, can someone clone an Android one real quick? It doesn't have to be perfect, just get it done ASAP.

> I recognise that I have a fairly rare stance, given the ideology that surrounds platform issues.

It's not a rare stance. Android is the hot thing now and has been gaining tons of momentum.
So you're saying it's easier to design on iOS then.
Here are the details from 2012 on Comcast's prioritization system that is used for Xfinity Xbox traffic: https://ber.gd/2012/05/13/comcast-traffic-prioritization/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3974259 ) I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is discussing using the same system.
Now lets talk about "Don't be Evil!"
"I'd note you don't see Microsoft in this"

Micrsoft was one of the (many) companies listed with which Google had similar non-poaching agreements.
>mere opinions, I suggest you think before you post on subjects that you have no knowledge of.

Personal attack based on no evidence. Until you fix it, I'm going to assume your response was an emotional outburst based on a failure to construct a strong counter-point. I feel it's appropriate, given that it's about the same level of intellectual engagement you afforded the response to your post.
I just used IDA for this today (I patched the Bochs bios to skip the 3-second F12 delay on boot).

There's a handy "Patch program" menu under Edit. It allows you to replace bytes, assemble code, and apply your changes back to the binary.
> ordinary people

As compared to whom? People who like to tinker alone and read a lot? Those are ordinary, too.

> trust the personal account of a woman in extraordinary circumstances

I'd rather do that, than trust my own imagination, or the one of people on HN.

> As long as you can get decent books and have a TV

That won't protect you from being unable to focus attention and developing mental fixations.
>It's interesting how your argument insists on collapsing this issue into a black and white issue: it's the elites whining and not in any way about entrepreneurs.

Right, because none of the issues presented in the article were actually ABOUT the problems entrepreneurs face.

Did it mention fundraising? No.
Did it mention hiring? No.
Did it mention anything about gaining traction? No.
Did it mention anything about finding a mentor? No.

Did it mention something about how the proles were getting uppity about the rich needing to pay more taxes? Hell yea.

Learn to read between the lines.

>Fun fact: an appreciation of wealth-generation is absolutely necessary and goes hand in hand with encouragement of entrepreneurship. Follow the incentives.

Neither fun nor a fact. My incentive is to be my own boss, not to one day become a billionaire asshole like Eric Schmidt. If I were making a million dollars a year I'd be fine with being taxed at 75%.
If your code ends up coming out the other end with fewer defects and ends up costing the company less overall than when similar tasks are done by your peers, then document that and present it to your bosses.

If it's incurring a similar bug load and just gets done slower, that's a problem and they're right to be upset.

I've seen both cases before, even from very experienced people, so it's very specific to the situation.
Hm? I think this is being read in a confused way— that some gazillion coins are mine or something.

Basically people were going around claiming that _all_ the unspent coins during a particular time period were "satoshi's"— and this is a claim which is obviously untrue on its face, if nothing else because there are other people who mined blocks during time (and lost them), including myself. Thats all. Nothing especially interesting.

Reliably analysis from historical data is pretty lossy. Bitcoin exists in an odd equilibrium where speculative analysis from the chain alone is both enough to frequently break privacy but often not enough to make reliable inferences.
I imagine that psychologically, the difference between solitary meditation and solitary confinement is like the difference between sex and rape, or taking drugs and being drugged. They're procedurally similar acts, but the element of choice changes everything.
I wrote a "Zoolander" algorithm for beating 2048. OK, it's super simple, but I hope it helps-Enjoy!

http://blog.blainelight.com/2014/03/how-to-beat-2048.html
The numbers are not illegal to have for other purpose, but only if you're using them to construct (or act as) the actual work of art, or to break other rules.

In all the cases that were presented, there was malice in the actions involved, by intending to circumvent rules by pretending it was something else, rather than honestly happening on the equivalent number.
No one is saying that it is bad to have TAs than professors. But the default assumption is that if a college increases tuition fees, then they are probably hiring better professors. But if you increase fees and hire lowly paid TAs, then that is certainly not fair is it? (or atleast increase TA's salary!)

PS: I actually hated most of my TAs and loved the courses where the professor didn't use a TA and was involved in teaching, himself.
You do realise that the current value of bitcoin is 5x what it was a year ago? "Burned" is not the correct word for that.

But that's not why bitcoin is important. bitcoin uses cryptography and peer to peer technologies in a very clever way to create the first internet transferrable, widely accepted currency where you don't need to trust someone else like a government or a bank. It's a true peer to peer currency.
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Nintendo also tried this with the Gameboy's DRM.

The gameboy would copy a section of the ROM onto the screen then checksum it. The gameboy would only jump to the real start address if the displayed bitmap matched the nintendo seal of quality. This went a bit further than Sega's system by displaying it verbatim. Every ROM needed to includ the full trademark and it would be show in full to the user.

I think they get this system for the Gameboy Color. I'm not sure of the timing between the lawsuits and the GBC. In general the GBC is a GB with double clocked CPU and palleted color so they might have kept the same scheme for developer ease.
Too bad that bubble popped.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516156/a-popular-ad-blo...

From the article:

A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry

Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technology—some may not realize that it feeds data to the ad industry.

It's good to have alternatives, and I prefer Disconnect as Ghostery's motivations seem a little clouded.
My honest response: it's not the IDEs fault. By the way I had felt the same with XCode and I don't think I can blame XCode for this.

I code in MacVim. For anything, not just Android and I didn't like either Eclipse or XCode, XCode even lesser as mentioned above.
Bad coffee with DRM isn't any better than just bad coffee. Just stay away from Keurig.
>There is obviously nothing in your home about which you fear your neighbours finding out. Not everyone is in that category.

Or the risk of what the police might do if unrecorded outweighs the neighbours gossiping.

Also in suburbia it is my experience that neighbours can hear what is being sad in a domestic anyway. Drywall doesn't muffle yelling much.
The income and standard of living for software engineers in Silicon Valley is so high that low wages are not the constraining factor in engineer population.
er, really curious.. would a moka pot be considered a viable alternative? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot
Adding a basic DRM to coffee pods would be trivial for Keurig to implement. There is no need for RFID on each pod. That would be a waste of money in my opinion.

They can simply print a unique QR code on the bottom of each pod, and the Keurig machine could read it with a cheap webcam. The content of the data would be an encrypted message, signed with Keurig's secret key. They sign one unique message for each pod. The machine can remember all the messages it has seen, and refuse to brew any duplicates.

Granted, this isn't impossible to circumvent. The secret key could get leaked, but at least thats a known vulnerability. There is one more obvious weakness: every code can be used once on each machine, and not just the one that brewed the authentic code. IE, if a counterfeit outfit buys one thousand real pods, they could then distribute up to 1k pods to each customer which would act as authentic. Fortunately, this is a pain that will probably slow the production of fake pods and persuade customers to buy authentic ones.

This is the only sort of DRM that I would actually be OK with in this instance. It's not really a waste of money, and if the DRM-reading system works reliably, it has no negative impact on the user experience.
Most designers I see have iPhones. I think they just like designing for a platform that they like. It's natural. People who like Linux develop for Linux, etc. Why would you do otherwise?
I'm not that much of a fan of the VC infatuation with winning on a handful of "unicorns" and "super-unicorns." Perhaps better for everyone (but the VCs) would be a healthy ecosystem of thousands of companies on the order of 10-50M dollars, and more financial support for getting to this "stage." (I use quotes because I don't think every company should aim to grow as big as Google or Facebook, or even Twitter or Github.)
There are two kinds of reverse discrimination:

One is an active reverse discrimination that is attempting to tilt the balance back (often enforced with some kind of law or policy). This has all kinds of well-known problems (that arguably are larger than the benefits).

The other is a more natural reverse discrimination that comes from collecting the missed opportunities of your competitors. If your competitors reject candidates for frivolous reasons, then it's easier for you to hire qualified people. I think this is what the parent comment was doing, and it doesn't strike me as a problem.
Ellsberg also leaked a lot of material to the press. The press then decided what to publish. Snowden did the same. Do you believe Snowden had to leak only a few pages? It simply wouldn't work. It is doubtful if even the attention the topic received up to now is going to result in any change to the politics. If the political conditions present now remain even after the future articles covering Snowden's material then Snowden still leaked too little and not too much and the press failed to make the change using what he leaked. The world is still in the middle of the attempt to induce a change, we certainly can't consider it done, even if the particular agencies would prefer that.
No, the machine could store and reject the capsule ids that have been used to prevent this. And maybe write a 'used' bit into the tag memory to prevent its use on other machines.
In hindsight I see how people have read this in a way I didn't intend, I'm being bitten by HN's two hour editing window. I meant that people picked out a large amount of coins as "satoshi's", and you mentioned that some of them were yours. If I could edit or delete the parent I certainly would.
Nashville represent! I build mobile apps for a living and I love that the environment here is diverse and creative. Walk into a coffee shop and you see people talking, writing, and socializing - not bent over their identically sticker-covered Macbook Pros.

As an iOS dev here, you can expect to make 85-100k and spend < $1000 / mo on rent. There's also no state income tax, so you get a 9.6% bonus right off the bat. Not too bad if you ask me!
Yeah - they've actually got many people using NodeJS.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/24/why-walmart-is-using-node-...
Capital punishment?
According to addons.mozilla.org, Adblock Plus for Firefox has almost 20 million users. You would "never, ever" perform tests using popular browser extensions that have tens of millions of users? How does your co-founder/employer/client feel about your position?
yup! that's it!
I do not know how graceful falling back is in web development, but there are some non-graceful holes in what can be accomplished with Android compatibility libraries

The biggest design-impacting issues I've encountered are the absence of expandable or interactive notifications pre 4.1 and limitations in styling/visualizing list selection states pre 3.0
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wow, what a great idea. too bad my BIOS is basically made by north korea and isnt hackable.
Poll: Do you protect your phone with, or without a case?
I'm seeing less people use covers. I'd like to know where the users of HN sit.
NO: I think cases ruin the look and feel. Bareback is best.
YES: I use a case because I feel more secure. Rubbers keep me safe, and I drop stuff a lot.
axigen has a free one for 100 users.. xeams does lack webmail but is otherwise 1 click to install.. http://www.artica.fr/ i havent tried...
Or step into somewhere like my workplace in downtown St. Louis, a skyscraper built in 1911 renovated into modern offices.

The bootstrapped, 6-year-old former startup I work for is filled with people from their 20s on up past 50s making, selling, and supporting Software as a Service, with the developers hacking away at a RESTful API and Ember.js apps. Plus, we share the building with Kickstarted startups like Pixel Press, VC-funded startups like TrakBill, etc. and we're a couple blocks from an incubator + coworking space with 80 startups at every stage.

Being away from Silicon Valley doesn't make you automatically boring, or a cubicle farm, or even full of old people