skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most money does not win, the most votes does. Advertisements, books, DVDs... do not translate into votes. They are a part of public discourse that can be as easily celebrated as ignored.
In case people aren't yet sick of me plugging the ambient noise generator I built, here are some sites that block out background noise as a supplement to a good pair of headphones for distraction-free work:

http://coffitivity.com

http://noisli.com

http://asoftmurmur.com

I like working with music on, but I find it very hard to find music that allows me to truly focus, and when I do I quickly get tired of listening to the same tracks over and over. I like ambient noise because it blocks out the world without stealing focus.

I also like this Buddhist chant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG_lNuNUVd4
You can tell if it actually works, when it actually works. I went from 0 callbacks to around a 30%-40% interview rate. It become 100% when I just let a recruiter do it for me (probably because he didn't "gamble" going for jobs that were outside my experience like I sometimes did).

I'm not really sure what else to tell you. When you use any service, there is always a chance that the result is shit. As an adult and a consumer you just have to do your best to mitigate the risk.

If you are already getting lots of callbacks and interviews then it's probably already fine. But if you are getting none, then it's time to swallow your pride and accept that you need help from a professional.

> Hey, thanks man!

I didn't mean to insult you, but if your personal experience with recruiters is only negative, nothing I say will change that perception.
Some people tried this when the first Snowden leaks came out, and were promptly shut down with a response that revealing what information they had on that individual would indirectly reveal what information they had on everyone, thereby threatening national security.
Qualcoms Alljoyn has SDK for all platforms,and its supposed to be peer to peer without network connection as well. Not sure if it does the mesh networking thing... but for crossplatform Alljoyn peer to peer has been doing it for years now.
https://www.alljoyn.org/about
Well, with me its a coin toss, I've had many days where the home internet was unusable, and the cafe's ok for my needs (mostly just ssh) - except when a bunch of teens come in and open up youtube simultaneously. It's too noisy for hangouts though, so I only use it at a point in the day when calls are unlikely.
What I have learnt is that as long as the work involves non-deterministic processes, it will cause mental drain. So, there is more chance of procrastination.

Along with this, if the task is large, there is a higher risk of procrastination.
Sysvinit is the UNIX way. Besides, if it's a server, you start everything once and leave it running. Reboot time is not important, only reboot reliability.
How has more money not protected incumbents?

Plenty often, when enough people speak up (or contribute to others' costs of speaking up). Of late, numerous anti-gun incumbents are being recalled and replaced for enacting right-transgressing legislation.
Good to hear. I must have imprinted that opinion from some scaremongering headlines earlier. Doing a search for 'Supreme Court 5 4' or similar yields a lot of spin.
Microsoft Announces Cortana
Police arrested Dutchman with Bitcoin mining farm for money laundering
Rdio & Google Maps would be absolute blasts to work with if that's how they were built.
IANAL, but I would guess this is effectively to allow non-employees like contractors to do the removal legally.
Amazon's Game Controler
Super - glad it was helpful :)
Would like an update about this. Wondered how I would handle such a request. 12 year old would not have much inspiration watching me fix bugs and read hacker news
Corresponding Twitter Engineering blog post:
https://blog.twitter.com/2014/manhattan-our-real-time-multi-...
Skydrive -> OneDrive
He blames the other developers...

> jduncanator (The other dev and the one hosting the site) will have some explanation to do.
We'll have to raid NSA HQ before they... wipe their HDDs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Storming_the_Stasi_headqu...
Turkey's Constitutional Court: Twitter Ban Violates Free Speech.
> It simply does not leave time for leisure or to unwind, but as I said previously if your work is what you would do with your leisure time then that's not an issue, as there is nothing to unwind from.

I don't qualify continuing to work as leisure time just because you happen to like your work. Work is work, regardless of whether or not you like it.

Also I don't believe that simply increasing the amount of hours you work on a startup will directly impact its success. Cutting the scope is almost always a better way to improve a startup's chances.
Only differences that I have noticed and cared about as a home user: Yum lets you do `yum search` but Apt splits that off with `apt-cache` (this is annoying because with yum I can just swap out that 'search' with my line editor). Apt tends to be faster for equivalent operations.
Yes. The owner of this product should probably fix that quickly - "Analize" isn't a word, but if it was, it would be humorously scatological. Or scatologically humorous. Something.

(For the benefit of anybody whose first language is not English, "Anal" = "having to do with the anus")
Mac OS X seems to be incredibly widely used by programmers now. Because every time I see a screen shot to illustrate some GUI, it was taken on a Mac. :)
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People who spend more money win.

This is intuitive, and almost universally believed. But all actual data I'm aware of doesn't support this.

for example [1]

conventional wisdom, especially among progressives, is that money can buy elections. The Citizens United case was supposed to be the end of democracy since it meant unlimited corporate spending on elections. If money really did buy office, 2012 should have been great evidence for the hypothesis.

Instead 2012 looks like a case study in the powerlessness of money, in the triumph of the autonomous voter. For instance, the Sunlight Foundation reports that 2/3 of outside cash was spent on losers.

[1] http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/11/money_has_littl....
Good point, I held back on mentioning such blogs, I'd definitely support filtering those out too.
Verifying whether your test suite is comprehensive enough is not that hard in theory, if you apply mutation testing.
I understand there's a 2600US$ cap on "each gift to a political candidate" and today's ruling doesn't affect this cap. I presume a donor could still give make a very high donation in multiples of 2600US$. Am I right?
Poor memcpy Performance on Linux
I REALLY hope he already knows this, as he's putting his career and saving on the line here.

Although I don't think he should go GPL, he should at least know about the license differences.
The aggregate data would still be useful. It is very common for firms that provide services to lots of start ups to publish "state of the market" type reports.
But the narwhal is so 2008. The Unicorn is coming back around! Like the 70's...for the third time.
I've used tomato.es for a while now and its a great tool, so thank you. I'd highly recommend it to others.

I use the login with github and my one peeve with it is that if I forget to login and start and finish an interval, it tells me to login in order to keep track of things. But if I then proceed to log in, that one interval is lost.
I think it's already been fixed.
Great article. I have been working from home with one remote colleague for two years now. I also use head phones to immerse myself 'in the zone'. I find my mind often wanders when I have to wait for something. Already a 6 sec build often makes me briefly check HN, Facebook or my mail. Another big distraction is my girlfriend. It's not always easy to get her to understand that I'm busy despite being at home. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with My focus though, especially when compared with an office environment. YMMV
Yep - fixing that.
What? I don't own a credit card, but I use a visa card all the time, because it's convenient. I'm pretty sure more people use their bank cards than their credit cards. It still the same crappy technology underneath.
Meet Amazon Fire TV, A Video-Streaming Android Game Mini-Console
I'm guessing that 5-4 decisions tend to be more polarizing to the public as well, generating more news, while 9-0 decisions The more controversial tend to be more mundane, generating little attention.
Perhaps they can use their freed-up resources to nudge Google along with the Drive client for Linux:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive/?hl=en

"Running Linux? Stay tuned - Drive for Linux isn't ready just yet."
> no. read up on artifact repositories. you declare the asset version that you depend on in your a build script.

Yes, that's "essentially unsyncable" when you have thousands of assets and have to keep them synchronised by hand. It has the same sanity as considering tarballs to be a good version-control scheme.

> there pros and cons of course...

I see no pros compared to a VCS which can handle code and other assets in the same repository and keep them naturally synchronised by virtue of them being naturally synchronised.
JWT is an interesting standard (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-1...) dealing with sessionless temporal auth tokens that offers some flexibility between http basic (native) or signed tokens using the same credentials. If you're not using TLS you're kind of screwed anyway, whatever the auth scheme!
Developer here.

I woke up this morning and everything was down. We are two developper on this project with admin right on the popcorn-team organisation. The other developper (jduncanator) is the only one with access to the web hosting.

That said, lets not speculate. I wasn't able to contact the other developer yet since he is in another timezone and probably in bed at that time.

Most likely, github has nothing to do with all that. Github staff were well aware of popcorn time and starred it many time. If they would have took down our project I think they would have took down all the forks with it. Which is not the case.

I'm trying to get the repo up again. Meanwhile I have my personal repo up to date: https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app.
I have read it and I do not agree with the court. This is a cherry picked example so I will try to get some more later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco#Nixon_scandal
And there are also quite a lot of people who don't want to pay $2000 a month for a 300 sq.ft. pied-a-terre perched atop a multistory building with no elevator. They like that the nothing that never happens in nowhere central includes loud parties in the adjoining apartment that last until 2 am, people using the stairwells as latrines, trash collector strikes, property crimes, violent crimes, hipster-driven gentrification, people who don't clean up after their pets in public spaces, trust-fund-baby DUIs, routine traffic jams, public transit strikes, and mayoral antics that people will actually watch on television.

Diff'rent strokes, for diff'rent folks. If everybody liked living in the same places, no one could afford to live there.

I'm glad that New York appreciates one of its many business sectors, but I really don't want to live there. But some people do, and they shouldn't have to go to San Francisco or DC Metropolitan Area or New Nowheresville just to get a good job, either.
Well, ghcjs, a "competitor" to haste that has even better ghc compatibility, is slated to have 2-3 student projects this summer to write some pretty amazing profiling / debugging tools
I routinely update Ubuntu well before release day, on the theory that my bugs are 100% more likely to get fixed before the release than after it.

My experiences fixing the resulting brokenness and occasional unbootability is why I first claimed Ubuntu/Debian on my CV.
"Theft Of Electricity" (on the basis that a computer doing something for an unauthorised user would consume more electricity than if that user was not issuing commands) was one of the first offences used in the UK to prosecute computer hackers in the early 1980s, before specific hacking legislation was introduced.

Obviously, not a whole lot of electricity - fractions of a penny, at a time - but enough of a "wrongdoing" to get the case into court.
Fixit: Twitter Cards Anti-Pattern
Taxes in New York are a big problem, same as in CA. If you're moving from a jurisdiction with sane taxes you need a substantial pay hike just to break even, never mind the crazy rents.
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I'm a fan of ambient noise and the likes of Brian Eno. I'm somewhat fearful of using the same tones for _very_ long periods of time. The inner ear doesn't tolerate these well (especially white noise), nor does the brain. In moderation however, bring it on. Thanks for the links.
If the people are too stupid to make wise decisions, and only go where the most funding is, then we may as well throw in the towel on democracy right now; what's the point?
We will have the best democracy money can buy
I disagree; web apps are just warming up. Native apps are still the go-to for a seamless experience, but I think that will change. As devices develop greater fragmentation continues (now seeping into the iOS echo system by the looks of it) apps will need to get better at being responsive. Web apps have already figured out a lot of the challenges surrounding responsive design, and will continue to do so. Once devices become powerful enough that there's no significant difference between web and mobile things will change dramatically. I see Google being the next to adopt native HTML5 and JS (after Microsoft's lesser known adoption in Windows Phone and Windows 8). Google's support for native web apps will put pressure on Apple and they'll go the same way.
Could you describe the Romanian police officers and security services as anything other than dedicated professionals? Could you say that they didn't care about doing their job and enforcing the law?

Even abusive systems can be staffed by good people: An inside perspective can make the most egregious of abuses seem both trivial and justifiable.

Outside perspectives can also suffer from the same distortions.

The first step is to acknowledge that matters of "Civic Hygiene" (What a wonderful phrase) are inherently tricky, and initial misconceptions and missteps are both common and forgivable.
That's an interesting question: Is ReactOS even vulnerable to win32 exploits? In other words, are the vulnerabilities flaws in design, or flaws in implementation? (Or some of each?)
Ask: What does your resume look like?
And what field are you in?
I... uh... I don't know how to respond to this. Are you trying to argue a political ideology or do you genuinely believe the argument you've stated? It is provably false as other commenters have shown. So I don't know if you are just misinformed or you are trying to form an argument for a biased position.

In an ideal system, all voters would digest accurate information and make informed decisions, but we know this is not the case. Media has bias and political ads are misleading... plus people don't have the time or impetus to spend vast amounts of time 'sorting the wheat from the chaff.' Many people aren't even skeptics... which is a requisite for being able to filter the signal through that noise.

Yes, there is a strong free speech argument for donating money to campaigns, but make no mistake... oligarchs would (maybe already do?) run our country without any restrictions in place. Go read about Thomas Jefferson and the history of the estate tax before you try to argue this ideology because it is simply wrong and a danger to democracy.
We have entered the age of the storage wars....

The price cuts from Google last week were clearly an offensive move in this space. One of the best ways to refine a market is to run it at sustainable loss and watch those that cannot compete die off. Credit to Canonical for failing fast here. I hope they decide to reassess the situation and provide tooling for a BYOCS[1]-esque abstraction. This'll permit users to roll their data from one cloud storage company to another as they all start dropping off.

As a somewhat related aside: where is amazon in the consumer commodity SaaS world? No email, no calendar, no storage (albeit they do provide mp3 storage). Do they just have no interest in providing these user services?

[1] Bring Your Own Cloud Storage
The problem with an extended shutdown is that it eliminates any sense of urgency to act. If I know I only have 2 months to find a new provider, I'll start searching and migrating now. Give me a year, and I'll ignore the problem for 10 months before acting.
It's really odd - seems like this post was taken down for 30 minutes and re-posted when i had dropped? I've only been on here for 2 weeks - is that normal?
If you are planning on having plugins, some of them could be paid.
Live Blog From Amazon’s Big Media Console Event
Wow, now if these guys could magically continue support for WinXP, they would become filthy rich!
Of course this is not possible, since it would entail uninstalling all current XP machines and installing ReactOS and hoping that ReactOS == WinXP
I tether to my phone but my favorite coffee shop doesn't get good cell reception for me either :/
Here comes amazon fire tv amazon announces its tv set top box
I also like working with music but can become unfocused. What seems to work for me is to listen to music in a foreign language because that way I can focus on my work and not the lyrics.
It still amazes me that the US accepted political refugees from the eastern bloc. Their involvement in Romania was extremely thin. From what I can tell it was just Voice of America propaganda[1] and the unfounded rumor that american saviors are coming any day now.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America#Law
Feature Samsung Galaxy S5
Today, technology evolves every day at a great speed. The lovers have to be very careful, lest they lose the news. The last major release that marked the scene was from Samsung.
I've been thinking of implementing a similar dashboard with https://github.com/jkassemi/stubby.

I like the concept of this long term allowing me to specify a single url and toggle the environment of the API I'm hitting from a remote, secure web interface. What sort of uptime and scaling guarantees do you intend to provide?
The microframework doesn't require Windows either. Its designed to be a thin layer that interprets .NET bytecoode on tiny micro-controller. It was an inside joke at an office I worked at for a while. We would threaten other coworkers to port it to our hardware and then port our project to it.

http://www.netmf.com/
Qualcomm is up in the Mira Mesa area and has a really cool museum of the history of CDMA and cell phones in their headquarters building (Building N). They've got big tubes of chips showing how they have decreased in size over time, a van that they used to demo CDMA to investors 20+ years ago, demo Android devices, a cool Mirasol display, some parts of their truck tracking system, and a bunch of stuff about the history of the company.

You do need to have an employee ID badge to get into the area that the museum is in, but I bet if you called them or know someone who currently works there they could show you around.

Source: I was an intern there last summer. http://www.qualcomm.com/about/buildings/museum
A $99 challenge to Apple, Roku, Microsoft, Google, and Sony. I like the child-oriented controls. And they say they've listened to the complaints of users of their competitors' products.

Now, what is Apple going to announce later this month?
There will always be people who want privacy, regardless of whether their intention is good or bad. On the other hand, regulators and rulers will always want to know as much as they can.

The privacy seekers will come up with innovations to bypass the existing privacy breaking techniques. They will work for a while, before the regulators clamp down on them.

This will be a cat and mouse game going on forever. On a positive note, some of these innovations have changed the world in a positive way.
No, they never voted but a few people said they did in a private meeting as a joke. The entire thing was a joke and they'll stay on SVN.
Named after the fictional Halo character:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana
Money is not speech.
I don't. However, Wine on Linux is plenty up to running quite a lot of software for production use (I have personal experience of this) and is IMO generally worth a try if you don't want to set up a gratuitous Windows VM.
Is a real thing this Unity? I saw it and it seemed me a bit bulky.