skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, unfortunately their landing page isn't really telling me a lot about this yet. Is it mobile only? I don't see the difference to the Camera Uploads they are already offering then.

If there'd be something like this, accessible from mobile and your regular browser integrated with Lightroom/Aperture/Adobe Bridge that'd be pretty sweet to keep a copy of your library accessible at all times from anywhere. Unlike my current backups to Glacier. (I know it won't replace a proper backup but it'd be a good additional backup with the side effect of making it accessible from different devices).
So it's a business. So it's policy. Those are not defenses.

A CA profiting from a vulnerability is a fairly perverse incentive, too.
hahahaha I can't believe this thing exists!!
> "All that being said, I'm not sure what the point of making criminals out of homeless people is. No reason to kick people when they are down."

I agree with this point that you said. The rest I think is pretty unfair; we know very little about this guys' life and how he spent his money (or the reasons he spent his money the way he did - "no excuse" I think is a false statement). The fact is, there are people who aren't making anywhere near $150,000 annual and these people will inevitably run into the same problems this man is facing (outside of Palo Alto - wherever you prefer). Ultimately, he did move out of his $2,150/mo rental, anyhow.
How sure are you that Dropbox is more reliable than Google Drive? As sure as you are that Google Drive is just a drop in the bucket for Google?
It's funny. Much funnier than most of the crap that passes for comedy on TV these days. I think the show is in danger of being a bit too cartoonish, thenagain silicon valley itself is danger of becoming too cartoonish.

I understand that a lot of stereotypes about geeks and silicon valley are true. But someday I'd like to see a show or movie about reasonably attractive, successful, well-adjusted people who happen to work with computers. I see these kind of people all the time in my social circle and it saddens me we/they aren't reflected in pop culture.
A countdown and toast to the end of windows xp
RailsApps:Rails Testing with RSpec
Acts of Kindness Video
My name is Andy – I am a teacher, and I just made this cool video on the power of kindness. My 4th graders helped me sing the chorus to this catchy, original song. I wanted to share it with you in case you like it and want to share as well. Thank you for helping me spread the power of kindness!
Apple, Google and others could pay $9B in anti-poaching class-action suit
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/04/08/apple-google-others-could-pay-blindingly-high-9b-in-anti-poaching-class-action-suit
Ahhh, but you see, if they were taxed, then Palo Alto would have the money to build more shelters.
Looks great, looking forward to using this app from day to day
I can't be the only one who thought of the Mad Men "Carousel" pitch. [1]

The stylised photos on this website are in the same genre as those Don Draper used.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWyLaXCV2_s
I can understand the sentiment, but I think it would be more heartbreaking to be homeless...
Using Docker for MOOCs
I don't know about links, but the basics are simple enough: track what you spend and save some % of what you make. Avoid debt for things that lose value (e.g. cars). Debt for things like houses that retain value can make sense, though. Always keep money in reserve. Pay off the high-interest debt (e.g. 30% APR credit cards) first. If you do buy any complex investments, keep in mind what conditions cause gain or loss. For example, I recently saw an annuity/ETF product where they let you invest in indexes and cover the first 10% of any losses, but you gain at most 10% annually (they get the rest). It took me a while to realize that this means you get a 10% upside and 90% downside.

I'm sure others can give you more common sense advice.
Bye-Bye DDRn Protocol?
I see this a closer to something like prostitution laws that are selectively enforced in many countries and lead to large scale police corruption/harassment.

Random rant: my limited experience of police treatment of homeless people in San Francisco leaves quite a lot to be desired. I've spent about one month in total there and I saw police hassling homeless people quite frequently. Anything that makes that easier is bad in my mind. Sure - poor people are an "irritation" by some definitions but they remain people even if their existence is inconvenient to some.
I like the show a lot. I think it does a good job at mocking stereotypes that are all too prevalent in the industry and playing it off for laughs. Most the jokes are very pointed and I feel easy to miss. The world changing CEO who only a 15 minute conversation with can change your outlook on life. Its great.
Your response is excellent.

But something is missing here, an awareness of when infinite scrolling is good vs bad. Infinite scrolling is good when the information is ephemeral, and changing all the time. Dating profiles, twitter stream, live updates.

But infinite scrolling is bad when the content is fixed. Like a forum. There is a cognitive clue when paging through a forum, how far you have read, where you are.

All your answers are technical based. But they don't answer the UI problem that scrolling through the discourse forums gives people a cognitive headache.
You don't need a return, just a print (since we are doing FizzBuzz).

For tghw's solution to work you'd have to have a print outside of the function call (since you can't print from a lambda). With the def, you can print inside of the function (and don't need a return, since you're just printing).
All good advice in the peer comments, when I was in my 20's I was putting the maximum I could in a 401k (pre-tax), and putting 10% of my salary into the employee stock purchase program. Before we had kids my wife was putting most of her salary into savings for a down payment on a house. Unlike many of my peers I was bringing my sandwich in for lunch (still do that). I tend to own cars for 5+ years, I don't take annual vacations to places I have to fly to (hiking and camping is pretty inexpensive and easy to do in California) and generally I always try to keep my monthlies (phone, power, tv, internet) under control. Every month payed off the credit card (used for book keeping more than credit) and cook food rather than buy pre-prepared food.

All designed to keep my 'burn rate' low.
It's 1000 times funnier than the Big Bang Theory if only because there's no laugh track.
As someone else pointed out, http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ is popular although arguably extreme.

This is also a good general post by someone who now writes about business for Bloomberg http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/03/10-quick...

At the big picture level though, it's mostly about living within your income and putting some money away on a regular basis. (Someone else mentioned at least 10%.) At some level, everything else is keyhole optimization assuming some sane diversification of savings--don't put it in Bitcoin or all in your company's stock. It's useful to get other things right but they're much less important in the big picture than outflow < ~.9 * inflow (after tax).
Is there a service that does this, but lets you store the photos in the cloud?

1. Take a pic

2. Pic gets uploaded to the service, after x gets deleted from local device, only a small thumbnail remains.

3. Open this history view, you can see thumbnails, pic gets downloaded when you click on it, large pic gets deleted again after x.

If I had something that worked like this, I would be so happy.
I'm a StartCom user that's affected by Heartbleed. Right now, I am using the free certificates, so this FAQ entry applies (https://www.startssl.com/?app=25#72):

" Revocations carry a handling fee of currently US$ 24.90. Class 1 subscribers may use a different sub domain in order to create additional certificates without the need to revoke a previously created certificate. Alternatively it's possible to upgrade to Class 2 level which allows to create the same set of certificates once again (besides all the other benefits), because different levels are issued by different issuers, making revocation unnecessary."

I understand where Mozilla's coming from here, but I also see it from StartCom's side. StartCom requires manual verification for certain sensitive CA operations, so they've set up their (quite reasonable) fee schedule accordingly. Likewise, I'm sure that the terms and conditions of other CAs states that in the case of a key compromise, sure, they'll revoke the certificate for free, but the user must buy a new certificate to replace the compromised one - which is basically the same thing as StartCom charging for revocation.
I agree. Many of the shows that turned out to be my most favourite began with me not enjoying the first episode or two. That said, I did like this one.
That does seem like a strange argument given that the safebrowsing database is essentially just a giant bloom filter containing many more entries (probably) than there are revoked SSL certificates.

The false positive verification could be done (for anything other than e.g. google.com's cert) with a call to Google's servers, I suppose.
HTML5 apps can be just as speedy as native apps with the Famo.us framework
StartCom customers knew the pricing before they signed up. They should take the hit. What more is there to it?
If you go around "preaching hate"[1] like obama did to blacks to get them to vote for you...you have to accept the fact that based on statistics...blacks are "homophobic" to gay marriage...So you're either a racist or a hypocrite on this...and I don't mean this personally...just the opposite.

This is a correlation/causation fallacy.

But from a cultural perspective, these things do not line up nicely. Do you really believe 7/10 black people are incorrigible bigots? Or is it more likely that they are dis-proportionately orthodox in their view on "word X"? Interestingly, some work Nate Silver did in 2008/2009 on opinions in this area is enlightening. Somthing like 70-80 percent of CA citizens supported the "human rights" element of the argument. But there were something like 10+/-15 percent of people who supported the "other side" because of the parsing of words. Its unlikely, as a result, anyone can conclude much about the personal views and tolerance from votes on these types of laws.

Governor Swartzeneger actually vetoed CA legislation because he felt it was in conflict with the Constitution of CA. {etc}. So this stuff can go on and on, from both sides.

In September 2005, the California legislature passed a bill, A.B. 849, eliminating the gender requirements for marriage now found in Family Code section 300. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill. In his veto message,[14] Schwarzenegger argued that passing a law that would implicitly repeal Section 308.5 required the assent of the electorate (and separately made note of pending court challenges).

There is also a nate silver piece illustrating that Obama's campaign did increase the size of the Prop 8 support in CA. Although while the black support was critical to securing the majority, its not clear Obama's marginal increase in black voter turn-out was 100% of the pivotal votes. But surely this still makes him more culpable on the issue than Eich.

NOt withsatnding that any of this matters, anyways. The laws exist as they do today so this is all an absurd discussion. And better reason to use discretion and tolerance in looking back on these matters rather than preaching intolerance and black and white moral clarity and etc.

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[1] And by this I means explicitly supporting "exclusionary" definitions of marriage.
You vastly underestimate the number of highly qualified developers in the world looking for work, and my opinion you vastly overestimate the value of your work. I would never pay your rate. Programming is a commodity. I hire PhD's from Asia and Eastern Europe for less than what would be considered minimum wage in the United States. An order of magnitude cheaper than what I assume your asking rate is. They produce great code and deliver in a reasonable timeframe. Calling this outsourcing exploitative is incredibly ignorant.
Well the article states that his team calls it "Entourage with Aspergers"
please remove all CA root certificate becaue they all charge fees for certs and that discourages spreading TLS and https more broadly?
I still think that now would be the ideal time to start working on a TLS/SSL implementation in Rust. First, it would mean that there would be less time between the release of Rust 1.0 and a usable library. It would also be a good project to give feedback to the Rust compiler writers.
I haven't found anything that beats the ease of use of LuaDNS [1] though. Edit a simple lua script, git push and done!

[1] http://www.luadns.com/
I doubt it. Unlike software, the material costs for a spaceflight are substantial and they're mostly/completely unrecoverable. Especially if your trial becomes an error.

[edit] Also, building, launching, and operating spacecraft are a lot more like bridge building and other non-software engineering projects. Each spacecraft may be unique, but they're made up of well-understood parts that go together in well-understood ways using time-testing engineering practices that make simulations and modeling truly useful and big-design-up-front feasible. We don't have much of that in software engineering yet, so trial-and-error is still a necessary tactic.
I started when I was about 16, and have worked about another 16 years:

- Certifications are generally worthless I've found. They get outdated, new software comes and goes.

My main plan has ended up being:

- be centered around being an extremely good problem solver across a more complete "full stack" (hardware, software and network), vs the front-end/back-end coders. I do this by solving problems all the time. I don't care how trivial they seem or how they may not fulfill my fantasy of feeling like a special and significant snowflake. Solving problems has lead me to the best problems to work on in my life.

Technologies come and go, the methedologies get additional experience. I started doing JIT manufacturing, into more lean stuff, and conveniently lean startup became popular at a time where I had a good 5-7 year head start in implementing lean software solutions in small, medium and large organizations. Convenient, it seems, but mostly happened to be around not having an opinion on what I was beneath, or above doing. I'm a problem solving junkie, after all.
The article specifically picked someone whose problems were clearly his own making and avoidable. I'm going to guess that the majority of people that will be affected by this new law didn't have successful careers in software development.
Which they are 100% in the right to do by the way. StartSSL is a business.
You don't think Peter Gregory (PG) is Paul Graham? Perhaps they combined Thiel and Graham into one character for cinematic reasons.
Absolutely hilarious. From the Hooli founder or whatever contemptuously observing programmers traveling "in packs of 5" to the self-righteous incubator runner still high off his selling his start-up who-knows-how-long ago...just great stereotypes to poke fun at. And it wasn't too technical either, so as to alienate the general public. I think the most technical thing was "compression algorithm".
Airbnb Expands Its Cleaning Service To Los Angeles
Purge the bigots – Brendan Eich is just the beginning
Relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZg_ALxEz0

Coffee's for closers.
This does not say if there had been a risk of certificate theft (sorry, sharing) prior to patching and so is completely useless. I want to know if and when I need to change Google passwords. Ditto Amazon, Dropbox ....
DropBox really shines when it comes to the capabilities of their client.
I installed Box from few months ago at work, and used it to share a few screencasts that I was working on > 200MBs per file about 10 files.
I got home and fired up the home machine...For the next five minutes the internet connection was jammed.
Turns out you cannot do a selective sync of only certain folders. This would be a very basic use case in my opinion but is not supported by Box.

So, for all those whinging about the price...it is not really that bad.
Free NoSQL Viewer for Big Data Databases
Dockerize All the Things
>With maps this whole class of problems goes away.

A friendly warning from long time dictionary (ab)user. They introduce their own class of problems. Basically the strong vs weak type ones.
I generally don't particularly like giving punctuation meaning that, well, isn't punctuating. The bottleneck when writing code is almost never keypresses.

I think CoffeeScript gets it probably the most right of languages I've worked with, in that the choice of punctuation makes intuitive sense... "Hey! It's an Arrow. It goes from here to here".

FWIW, I don't like the word "lambda" either... Naming things with one letter are generally a bad idea that we'd do better to divest ourselves of, but there is a bit of legacy to deal with. Either way, they make a field (and statistics is a major offender here, with p-values and t-tests and whatnot), terribly inaccessible.
Webhooks are great, although most "client" applications as commonly known (browsers, mobile) aren't able to act as servers in order to receive them.

One way around this problem is to route through some kind of bridge service. We've done this with http://webhookinbox.com/ which can receive webhook calls on behalf of clients.
Agreed, yep. They'll vote for their niche issue even though the rest of the platform may hurt them or their ideals more in the big picture.
Well adjusted people? Sounds boring.
I don't make software service purchasing decisions for any companies, but I am always irritated by claims of "unlimited" for things that are very obviously not unlimited. "Unlimited vacation days," "unlimited cell phone data," "unlimited storage space," etc. all seem to me to be precisely what you said they are: ways of obfuscating the limits. You're not going to keep paying me if I take a 2 year vacation, and you're going to cut me off pretty quickly if I start piping /dev/random into Dropbox.
If the SEC ever decides to shut you guys down for operating without a securities license, would lenders lose their ability to withdraw their own money (i.e. to make one of those "voluntary promotional payments offered at Zidisha's sole discretion")?
HBO put the first full episode on youtube for at least US viewers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkmsI54ss4
You can easily run the Pig code they released yourself.
This is mostly what Carousel does. The photos are all stored in Dropbox. What it doesn't do is your #2, which is to automatically delete the photos from your local device after a period of time. You can do this safely yourself, though, since the files are all stored in Dropbox.
Jedberg... this single post blew my mind. :)

It's one of those "huh, never ever thought of it from that angle" sort of ideas. The very idea of putting your absolutely valuable data on ephemeral storage and just duplicating it.

Thanks for that.
Our Work-Life Balance Obsession
"An ordinance passed by Palo Alto last year would punish people cited for living in a vehicle with as much as a $1,000 fine or six months in jail."

Yep, that's exactly the incentive they need to not be homeless. /s
This seems somewhat helpful:

esplanner.com

It's, among other things, a consumption smoothing modeler (i.e. make sure that you don't oversave or overspend). It will tell you about how much you need to be saving each year, given a bunch of variables like how much you make, how much you plan to make, etc.
Actually, the overuse of the laugh track is probably the only funny part of BBT.
If they are going to harass you when you're not breaking the law, then the law itself has nothing to do with it. They could equally harass you for any number of things which no one would argue should be criminal. Making a statement about police harassment and abuse of power is fine, but the topic at hand has little to do with that.
I didn't the read article. ;)
Have you ever read stories in the newspaper of old people who keep their deceased spouse's corpse at home for weeks or even months?

Humans do weird things when grieving. If there is no one (adult children, siblings, close friends, etc.) to help them go through the grieving process, things can get weird real fast.
You shouldn't have a problem finding a job at this market but before you resign, communicate with the founders. Send them email telling them what your expectation was when you first joined the startup. Since the company is doing well right now, the right thing to do is to raise your salary to the current market. If they deny your request, just move on.
Agreed. With current browser support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket#Browser_support) and fallback libraries (like http://socket.io/), I believe WebSockets are usually the best choice when it comes to real time communications.
The code does not depend on the infrastructure. You can execute the Pig code locally on your machine, or on your own hadoop cluster. This really is a 'free' give-away of code.
For the record, this reply seems as snarky and dismissive as the first. Hopefully some constructive criticism.
There are a couple of RV parks in the area. I want to say they're $700 a month plus electricity. Not sure if any of them would be up for multi-year residents, that's more of a mobile-home (trailer) park thing. Of which, there are several in the area and from what I can tell from Google maps, they're all full.
Agreed. I absolutely loathe Big Bang Theory and don't understand why people like it. It consists of cardboard cutout characters with unfunny dialogue.
I watched the Silicon Valley pilot and was on the floor laughing. This is genuine stuff. No comparison.
If everyone does that instead of speaking up, the situation for the people at the bottom never improves. If enough workers reject their poor conditions, the situation might gradually get better.

You can choose to put your own interests first by sticking around and not saying anything or those of your fellow workers by taking a stand. It's a question of values.
It might be similar to the discussion a few days ago regarding tarsnap. Like, unlimited, but if you're using more than 1 TB, they start asking why you need that much space.
It's opensourced under Apache 2.0 license. That means, it's free as in freedom, with all the legal ability to be forked and profited from.
AFAIK, the only substantial difference between Apache 2.0 and GPLv3 is that APL2 is not copyleft license. That means, one's fork is not even required to remain opensourced (as far as it contains a reference to original APL-licensed version).

So either Mortar opensourced some feature-crippled fragment of their platform, and it relies on features from their proprietary platform heavily; or the statement of requirement Mortar account is property of the Tutorial's approach, not the opensourced code itself.
The syntax would actually be:

fun Fac(0) -> 1; Fac(N) -> N*Fac(N-1) end

Note that the name `Fac` is not visible outside of the fun's scope, and to use the same variable name outside, you still need to bind it:

F = fun Fac(0) -> 1; Fac(N) -> N*Fac(N-1) end