skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would love to dig up my old Win95 Holmes' London theme with the smoking pipe mouse pointer to see if it would work with ReactOS.
I'm a big fan of ledger as well. I wrote a series of articles about how I use it[1], which is not exactly how others use it but it works very well for me.

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/ledger
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Forecasters find new formula for long-range weather
Is "work from home on a team" different than "work from home bootstrapping by yourself"? The article mentions "While working from the office, it’s hard to get quality work done every day. Doing it from home is even harder" and at least for me, it's much easier to get quality work done at home. Maybe I'm lucky and have built a distraction free home (no kids, wife, or goats).

The other tips don't seem to be "work from home" specific.

As a side note, I think it's really funny how much importance people put on their coffee ritual. I'm a tea drinker, which must mean I'm just a plebeian ;-)
>Why? What's wrong with js?

There are two answers to this: at runtime, there's nothing wrong with Javascript. That's why TypeScript compiles to Javascript. At design time, however Javascript doesn't have features of modern languages. For example, class-based programming. Some of these features are planned for in future Javascript releases, but as a language it's really behind other languages and will likely remain so. This makes large-scale Javascript programs more difficult to maintain.
Apps are great right now because they are better than most of the web apps.

However, they aren't the future, because:

- Web apps are always up-to-date, no updating necessary

- Web apps are stored in the cloud, not on your device

- Web apps work on any device/platform, apps need to be written for each

- Web apps are there on demand, instantly, while vendors cannot expect you to download an app for every website, company and product.

Look at what Google is doing with the Chromebook and look at devices like the Synology where the best feature is the Web app interface served from the device itself. This is the future, the "Internet of Things".
Nice,solutions like Hack are the only way PHP can survive it's doom. With the development of cloud solutions even beginners are not bound to whatever crap hosting providers impose on their servers anymore, so PHP will have to improve drastically to compete.
Does a freedom of information request give you the data that the NSA collects on you?
When we work 80 hours per week - we do it out of interest for the things we are doing. Like another person said, that we work 80 hours feels like working 30 hours. There is nothing we would rather do than be at our office. The energy in an early startup is just one of the most addicting things in the world.
Some talks tagged with C++ are listed at [1]. Only one, "Modern C++: What You Need to Know" presented by Herb Sutter [2], is actually about C++ though.

[1] http://channel9.msdn.com/events/build/2014?sort=sequential&d...

[2] http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-661
Fire TV: Everything You Need to Know About Amazon's Streaming Box
Will this shake things up?
That's what I thought as well
I haven't, and that seems interesting. But that still means stuck with sysvinit.
Also, the rash of 5-4 decisions in the supreme court lately bothers me. Was there ever a time where the supreme court was this polarized?

I don't think it's particularly polarized. If Antonin Scalia is your benchmark for a "polarizing" figure, the # of 5-4 cases where he was in the majority appear to have been trending downward:

http://scdb.wustl.edu/analysisOverview.php?sid=1301-TICTAC-7...
Citizens United and other campaign "finance" rulings are poorly understood by the public still today. Most Americans probably still believe Citizens United had anything to do with contribution limits, or stating "money is speech", or that corporations are people.

A cursory read of the wikipedia article would clear this up, but the media narrative surrounding these rulings will dominate for some time.
The ruling ends with

When word concerning the plot of the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington reached the circles of Government, some officials sought, by persuasion, to discourage its distribution. ... Under Austin [(the basis for the campaign finance restriction discussed)], though, officials could havedone more than discourage its distribution — they could have banned the film. After all, it, like [the movie] _Hillary_, was speech funded by a corporation that was critical of Members of Congress. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington may befiction and caricature; but fiction and caricature can be a powerful force. Modern day movies, television comedies, or skits on Youtube.com might portray public officials or public policies in unflattering ways. Yet if a covered transmission during the blackout period creates the background for candidate endorsement or opposition, a felony occurs solely because a corporation, other than an exempt media corporation, has made the “purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value” in order to engage in political speech. ... Speech would be suppressed in the realm where its necessity is most evident: in the public dialogue preceding a real election. Governments are often hostile to speech, but under our law and our tradition it seems stranger than fiction for our Government to make this political speech a crime. Yet this is the statute’s purpose and design.

Some members of the public might consider _Hillary_ to be insightful and instructive; some might find it to beneither high art nor a fair discussion on how to set the Nation’s course; still others simply might suspend judgment on these points but decide to think more about issues and candidates. Those choices and assessments, however, are not for the Government to make. “The First Amend-ment underwrites the freedom to experiment and to create in the realm of thought and speech. Citizens must be free to use new forms, and new forums, for the expression ofideas. The civic discourse belongs to the people, and the Government may not prescribe the means used to conduct it.”
We hear about the 5-4 decisions because they are often the most controversial ones and ones that the media will report on.

Based on last year's statistics (http://scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/agreement_O...), even between the two Justices who disagree with each other the most (Ginsburg and Alito), they agree on the same judgment in 58% of cases.
It really just means an individual can donate to a lot more individual campaigns now, as the aggregate limit has been struck down. I doubt this will increase any transparency, as current rules are barely enforced to begin with, and the real money is coming from PACs.

I threw this together a couple years ago to demonstrate how a foreign company, if they wished, could donate funds which in the eyes of the law would be "untraceable" (even if it really is obvious).

http://i.imgur.com/Hjp1b.gif

It also just shows how quickly money gets "disguised". I should have put something in there about limits, but I forgot at the time.
Skydrive's genesis was Foldershare (I think it was Foldershare --> Windows Live Folders --> Windows Live Mesh --> Skydrive), which launched in 2002.
I'm hoping that MS arranges with Xamarin to be able to provide some form of the VS+Xamarin toolset for at least some SKU's of VS2013 and up for free. Sort of like InstallShield LE. They could delight if it were more.
Sorry for the poor wording and horrible grammar.
Yes, it definitely seems like the best play to make in NYC is to build a business catering to, or symbiotic to, one of the big existing NYC industries. This way you can leverage off the time/place advantages of being in NYC.
On that note, what software do you guys use to track company reimbursements and personal write offs?
This is a statement from the first developers, the first time it shut down.

The one this is all about is a fork that was in active development.
Which part was semi opaque to you? We're always looking for people to help and all the packaging, patching, and releasing is all done in the open.

I don't think we purposely discourage people to participate, though I can understand getting lost in the process can be confusing.
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With so many informants why would you need police men.

Statistically every 10th person you met at that time was most likely as intelligence service informant.
I can barely push my pc above 10% usage and yet I enjoy from time to time laggy interfaces and locks. Worst offender right now - Eclipse after being out of focus for more than 10-12 hours.
That being said, while reading the "Why Zed?" page[1] I kept thinking "emacs can already do that" all the way.

IMHO people who think "emacs can already do that" will think that regardless of what the topic being discussed is.

"Oh here ... I have made a plane that flies"

"emacs can already do that"

classic.
1)Stop Y-DM acquisition 2)Tell Uber Slow down 3)Become Startup Minister
Integrated IMDB ratings, voice search, open ecosystem and better performance seem to be the most important features so far...
Someone better go up the quota on that Azure-based plan. That's the same message users get when someone doesn't allow auto-scale on a plan and a quota gets slammed.
Investors Say Lawbreakers Like Airbnb and Uber Are Worth The Legal Bills
This ongoing conflation of free speech and political participation via campaign contributions has got to end. All of these restrictions were put into place after Watergate for a reason; campaign contributions are a corrupting influence in politics.
Note to government: Mandate cybersecurity, then get out of the way
Steve Jobs promised ‘holy war’ on Google, court hears
OP here: San Diego
Amazon reveals FireTV
I'm not sure I agree with this FAQ. Related discussion from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7512222
I'm using BudgetInMind from softurion.com for my personal accounting. It works on Mac and is very powerful. It uses double-entry accounting principles, so I can get all my spending and assets in one place, with multiple currencies which I need (since I've accounts in different currencies).
Server/Cloud OS is absolutely one of our top priorities, I'll ask to have the blog post updated.
Despite being condescending and smug you are actually agreeing with the person you replied to.

The lack of a physical center to an economy means its participants can live wherever they choose to live, whether that is New York City or, as you so condescendingly put it, "NowhereVille".

There are still many perfectly fine places in the world that people are forced to move away from in order to participate in the tech economy. Getting rid of these barriers will only increase people's freedom to live where they are happiest.

The existence of choice for people who don't want to live in a tech capital of SF and NYC doesn't at all diminish your experience of living in such a place. What's with the misplaced anger?
Please amend the headline# to the actual one:

Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions

So, at the end of the day individuals can spread their influence "a mile wide and an inch deep". But this does not imply that such individuals can spend in both unlimited depth and breadth. The primary limits (<$3K/per) remain inplace. And the article also notes that this does not impact groups.

Wednesday’s decision concerned only contributions from individuals. Federal law continues to ban contributions by corporations and unions.

Whether this is a good idea or not is debatable. But the editorialized headline doesn't help communicate the actual news.

____________

# HN submitted> "Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions"
I assumed South Dakota!
To think that businesses will latch on to a solution that has never left alpha stage for development is shortsighted at best. There are far better solutions for making your XP applications continue to operate on modern systems.

Or what we will see instead is the status quo support or not from Microsoft. There are plenty of 9x machines out there.
>Never ever support such restrictions just because you don't like the message or messenger because you are merely handing someone the means to do the same to you.

Great point. The only way to limit contributions from the likes of the NRA but not from groups like the EFF is to focus regulations on the message or messenger itself. That kind of thinking goes completely against free speech. It is also dangerous. Your message may get preferential treatment today, but not necessarily tomorrow.
John Tesh Raps?
Help me for real with that logic in this example: Should straights be upset working for Apple?
Then we're left with 90% shitty blog posts that are a variation of "Why I do X and you should too", 10% actually interesting stuff from other sources.
Amazon Introduces Fire TV Set-Top Box
Dissecting Google's Unorthodox Stock Split
Headphones block noise. Headphones are a social signal: "don't interrupt me". Headphones are 'in-the-zone' muscle memory. Headphones are amazing!
A combination of FreeAgent and a human accountant. I love FreeAgent, the workflow is dead simple - import transactions (automatically), explain them, occasionally get prompted to run payroll or submit a tax return. It doesn't support some esoteric stuff in the UK (e.g. National Insurance holiday).

I've run previous companies off custom spreadsheets and experience an almost constant low-level stress from that. FreeAgent makes it easy to get stuff right first time, our accountant has a login, and it takes basically no time to keep things completely up-to-date. I imagine Xero has a similar feature set. Whichever software you choose, I'd look for something that optimises that 'import transactions, explain transactions, submit correct returns' loop so you never have niggling feelings of being behind.
Contractor here, too. I've been using FreshBooks to do all my invoicing for the last few years. I have an accountant who handles my taxes so when they added the basic accounting features, that was enough to get me off of the online accounting software I was using. It syncs with my bank, allows me to categorize expenses, and then spits out the requisite reports. As a plus, the accounting software I was using was more expensive than my FreshBooks account, so I feel like I'm getting a great deal. This already sounds like an ad, so I'll stop here. Really, just a happy customer.
Herb Sutter will give a talk on April 3rd.

And Eric Brumer will present a bunch on compilers and code optimization.
Copernicus Will Be Europe's All-Seeing Satellite Constellation
For tracking sales and producing/maintaining invoices properly, a custom webapp (which also takes and reconciles payments for said sales). For "book keeping" everything together (sales, expenses, payroll, etc.) to give to the accountant at year end, Excel(!)

Why? We're a UK business that mostly deals in USD and after spending quite some time researching 3 years ago, we couldn't find anything Web-based that could deal with all of the technicalities of multi-currency accounts, strict VAT invoice specs (particularly involving alternative currencies), and arcane VAT rules (reverse charging, EU sales lists, digital content sales, etc.) I believe there are a couple of systems that'll do it all now but we'd already developed our stuff before they caught up..
You may also try showing her some Ted talks - lots of really inspiring things to watch there concerning tech, for sure.

It doesn't seem like there's a Girl Develop It chapter in San Diego yet, but a quick Google search shows a few meetup options nearby:

- http://www.meetup.com/Teach-Yourself-Programming-A-Womens-Co...
- http://www.meetup.com/IEEE-Women-in-Tech-Meetup/

I bet you could reach out to the group members/founders and they would be more than happy to speak with you and your daughter about tech things! It's really wonderful you're encouraging her passion too, btw. Good luck!
> I've tried several times to get an 'in' so that I could help with the process, but it seems to me like a 'club hangout' where outsiders are slightly discouraged. :(

I think this is an unfortunate perception. There's an active sponsorship queue, and nominated people run shifts to review and accept outside contributions. All contributors need to do is submit a suitable diff, and subscribe the sponsorship team to the bug. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess for details.

If you are willing, please help!

Where outside contributions tend to fall down (IMHO) is understanding and thus compliance with existing processes. For example, outside contributors tend (again, IMHO) to underestimate the consequence of regression in stable releases. Or they contribute patches that should really go upstream, and underestimate the extra overhead and community harm of independently maintaining these patches just in Ubuntu.

> Rather than taking the raw package and pushing it through...

The reason is the risk of regression. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates describes both the process you describe, and the rationale for it.

Where upstreams have sufficient QA and release process to sufficiently minimize the regression risk to existing users of a stable release, an exception can be granted so that the updates can just be pushed through: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExc...
Interesting, but needs a few tweaks:

- I simply cannot resize the windows on a Mac using the Accessibility API (I'm using Moom to tile my windows via keyboard bindings, and Zed is invisible to it)
- Needs a few more docs on how to set up a theme (I tried three times before I managed to set Solarized on)
- As much as it may seem counter its philosophy, I need vim bindings :)

And yes, it's a tad slow. So is LightTable, which is why I am still using vim inside a terminal...
1)Get a job where you can learn as much as possible, where you're not even close to being one of the smartest people in the room, and that gives you the freedom to experiment and learn. Find a boss that knows this won't be your last stop, but is willing to put some time and training into you anyway. - There's a lot more of these types of bosses than you think.
2) Start up a business on the side. Even if you are just trading time for money - IE a niche software dev company rather than a cool new app - it's still worth it for the intrinsic value. Starting a business forces you to deal with clients, overhead, time management, contractors, and lots of other aspects of work.
You can also give yourself any title you want. I suggest stay away from "CEO" or "CoFounder" because it will make you look like just another wantrepreneur. Try "Director of ...." It's really important to give yourself an awesome title that people will believe and give you credibility for.
3) Know that your business WILL fail. It's going to happen. Don't avoid it, embrace it. Obviously don't willingly fail, try to keep it going as long as possible, but just know in the back of your mind that you will fail.
4) Know you have experience with a company, a group of people that you can use as references, as well as a former fancy title and experience running a business and managing people. You just skipped 10 years of climbing the corporate ladder. The next time you apply for jobs, or as a high level director in a startup, you'll be younger and just as qualified than your contemporaries.

Try it out - let me know how it goes...it worked for me, and a lot of other successful people.

Note, I'm not a developer, I'm a marketer
Have you actually looked at, say, the lists of security vulnerabilities fixed in each version of Firefox? Many (if not most) of them say Thunderbird is not vulnerable because scripting is disabled. There's a hint for you.

Have you actually looked at real or proof of concept exploits targetting Firefox or Chrome? How did you miss all the Javascript in them? Even if the underlying vulnerabilities are not in the implementation of Javascript itsfelf, having the scripts makes it so much easier to actually interact with all that attack surface, do tricks against things like aslr, load shellcode everywhere, etc.

Some real bugs are just nightmarishly hard to exploit if you can't have a script hammer on it.

Did you forget Panopticlick? Did you forget all the various ways scripts can snoop around and track you?

I think you are rather deluded.
The signal the Court appears to be trying to send is "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". It's not a new message, and not new that Congress is inclined to abridge it.
> That's about as classy a product shutdown as you could wish for.

2 months continued service and another 2 months data access. It could be worse but it is a long way from the best you could wish for. 12 months to 2 years after the announcement would be what I would hope for from a big company winding up a service
Beyond MongoDB Query Language
Amazon reveals game, movie streaming hardware 'Amazon Fire TV'
Just wait until the powers that be find this out about 'meatspace' conversations.
>Lavabit was a small secure e-mail service, with an encryption system designed so that even the company had no access to users' e-mail.

This isn't exactly accurate, and so the comparison doesn't work.

Lavabit always had the capability to read a users email.[1] Snapchat has, and does, retain Snaps.

If Snapchat instead generated a public/private keypair and used those to sign and encrypt Snaps before they left a user's phone then whether or not Snapchat retained the Snap but hid it from the user would not matter.

There are other issues, like end users recording the Snap. Also, while the central service would not be able to retain the content of your Snap metadata would be available to them.

>We need ephemeral apps, but we need credible assurances from the companies that they are actually secure and credible assurances from the government that they won't be subverted.

Given the current climate, this strikes me as rather foolish. Further, who is to say that the next head of state will not breach the assurances of the last?
We should design services so that trusting the operator is a non-issue.

[1] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/
But that's whether the campaign should have divulged (or be forced to divulge) the donation; that's not the question at hand. We already know that they did, and that the information is public.

If you want to argue that the Campaign for Prop. 8 shouldn't have to be forced to divulge who made small donations, we can discuss that. But that doesn't imply that we should bury our heads and ignore information which is already public (and which the donors knew was to be published).
Show HN: API Happiness is not a 'nice-to-have'
Can you relate? lol
That Cornel study is pretty poor. Better studies have been done over longer periods of time and don't just rely on interviews that they decide to interpret the way they want.

Having worked in a company where engineers had individual offices, and now work in an open floor plan, I can assure you that sick days have gone up, the noise level is many times what it was and overall productivity is noticeably lower - guess what - if you lower everyone's productivity, then the team productivity goes down. Big surprise that NONE of the managers are in the open floor plan.

Open floor plans are simply a way for managers to feel better about themselves by hurting other people.
same here - it costs more than an app, but less time wise, and I worry less about doing something wrong or forgetting about some new regulation or optimization.

In my opinion, once you know enough about accounting, it's the perfect thing to delegate.

(obviously trust but verify)