skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really irony since it is proposing a possible "future".
Pretty fair that they blocked it. Its basically an unregulated taxi service. Also the name is terrible for Germany.
If 'select min(keycolumn) from footable' is relatively stable and keys are created ascending (databases do this, right?), a resizing slice (with 0-min() elided from the bottom) seems like a good alternative to a hashing structure.

If the key-space is relatively sparse, this will waste more memory than the hash, of course.
> You have to purchase TLS certificates from one of several certificate authorities

I'd like to stop this misconception. You don't buy certificates. You make your own certificate, which is unknown to the world, and _then_ you buy a stamp from a trusted third-party on your own certificate, so everyone can trust it.

The crux of the matter is whether you can actually trust these third-parties.
I'm curious how either of these compare to say Passenger?
Hi,

I use Qt StyleSheet extensively (globally) to mimick iOS lines & colors. Isn't hard, in fact, it is very easy to do.
It's strange that this took so long, and only in Berlin.
If you want to drive a Taxi in Germany, you need a special driver's license. If you want to open a taxi company you need to prove that you are reliable and secure. Additionally you can't refuse a passenger (if there is nothing wrong with them) and can only charge the tarif the city says (+ additional charges like if it sunday or at night).
Über can be used as a prefix, but also as a preposition. Wikipedia has a good article about Über [1]

"über etwas sprechen" -> "to speak about something"

"über die Brücke" -> "across the bridge"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cber
Announcing Meqanic
All of the examples in this essay come from Star Wars. Sure, it's funny, but the problem with a policy piece based entirely on fictional events is that you can freely conclude whatever you want. "This is the kind of thing, that, properly interpreted, might happen" just has much less weight than even "this happened once".

That said, I did love this quote from the article (and it seems the editors did too):

> More than one writer inexplicably complimented Vader’s leadership style, conveniently overlooking his use of telekinetic strangulation as a primary motivational approach.
> Java is probably the #1 culprit for building huge systems to solve simple problems.

Don't blame the language for the enterprise culture.

Before Java existed I have seen similar complex systems done in C, C++, Clipper, VB and quite a few other languages.

Just to cite a concrete example, before J2EE existed, we had CORBA and DCOM systems, plugged with distributed transactions across multiple OS systems. Great debugging experiences.
Any suggestions for Clojure projects?

[Update: Oops. I missed the "Clojure -> Core" by jacquesm]
There was nothing wrong with the PS/2 mouse and keyboard plugs either, nor the 25-pin printer plugs, nor some barrel plug for charging phones.

With the exception of the phone charging example, I would agree. The PS/2 protocol is vastly less complex than USB, and parallel ports are so simple they can be used as GPIOs with ultra-low guaranteed latency. Phones migrated to USB because they already needed the bulk data transfer capability along with power, and USB made for a good fit.

You won't be able to charge your phone with your standard barrel plug laptop charger, so you'll still have to carry two adapters when you travel.

The Dart has both USB and a barrel plug, which is the same as many other aftermarket adapters. (They could've made this more obvious in the marketing material, e.g. by showing USB devices plugged into it and not just laptops most of the time.)

I'll choose a laptop with a big robust barrel plug, and one that can be powered from anything outputting 12-24VDC, over one with a USB socket and requiring complex negotiation protocols to even start consuming power. It's the KISS principle. Standards that try to do everything don't tend to do any one thing particularly well, and introduce unnecessary complexity.
yet, once the particles are spread, if you somehow reverse their velocities, they will concentrate back to one half.

Yet we can never do that. Why do you think?

The obvious answer in a classical universe is that we simply don't know the velocity and position of each particle, so we can't just reverse them. To pull such a feat, we'd have to be incredibly lucky, as in "winning every lottery for a century" lucky.

With entanglement and de-coherence however, such reversal becomes impossible even in principle: see, when the universe splits through de-coherence, you no longer have access to the other half. Even if you manage to reverse your half of the universe, you need the other half to be reversed too, or they'll never merge back together.

And not just the other half, since de-coherence happens all the time. You need all the Everett branches to be reversed. No. Way. So it does look like a better candidate for the arrow of time.

(Of course, a better candidate still would be collapse interpretation, since that one is not time reversible in the first place. But this interpretation is ridiculous to begin with, so let's ignore it.)

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Read this to have an idea of how time could work in a timeless universe: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qr/timeless_causality/
or, in Uber's case, "above" probably works best:

"weit über das Nötige hinaus" -> "far above what's necessary"
My accuracy is way below 99%, good job Google!

Seriously though, I hope this does not mean there will be harder captchas, current ones are already stupidly hard
Tips to Become a Successful Freelancer
That is partly true, but planning and zoning restrictions prevent building up as well.

If you think about it, increasing the amount of dwellings on a plot of land has a cost, that can be amortized over a number of years. If the market was free, the price / rent for a high rise dwelling would tend towards this cost.

However, if you want to erect an apartment block, you have to apply for planning. Local objections generally prevent it from being built (hence the references to NIMBYs).

So it isn't a free market, because supply is controlled by the city government.

There is some acceptance that planning laws don't work - it is implicit in the overriding laws that kick in for major infrastructure projects like freeway builds (called compulsory purchase here).

You could say maybe this needs to be extended to apartment building. But I think it shows the planning system's criteria are broken. Rather than balance cost and benefit, it only takes into account the reasons not to build.
> I also see that your API key is there in clear. I hope no one can do any bad stuff in your name.

To OP: The way to fix this is to have the JS make a request to your own server, have your own server make the request to Soundcloud and proxy it back to you. That way you don't have to put your key in the JS, you can keep it on your server.
Maybe they should do a phone. Yeah that would be good. A phone with their own OS. It's gonna be big I tell ya.
We believe that the average consumer needs more than a technical solution.

My latest laptop has no DVD drive, and I would bet that a DVD would not be more useful than a cassette tape to my daughter in 20 years, even if the data on it is in good shape. We may not even have the WWW by then, much like we don't have Gopher any more. What we offer is a service: we will do what it takes to keep the data in good shape and make them accessible to anyone holding an Archive Certificate.

The DoD, or large companies don't need this kind of service: they have the resources to manage, migrate, validate, replicate, etc, their data for as long as they are valuable to them. If DVDs start to fail, I'm sure they'll notice it, and they'll spend a gazillion dollars to move data to a new medium.

I don't think any consumer has a special week of the year when they take out all their DVDs and HDDs and verify them, make new copies, and replace the bad ones.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Longaccess.
Python Sudoku Solver by Peter Norvig -- an elegant solution in one page of code. When I read this, I felt like code is art.

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
A lawyer I consulted with is defending him, making him out to be the victim by the RCMP. Seems like a tactic to distract people from what he actually did. http://www.lfpress.com/2014/04/16/london-teen-charged-in-hea...

Of course he's from my town, and of course he's taking computer science. This was my first instinct when I heard of the case, that it was some kid thinking he was safe behind his computer screen. I only say this because I seen it A LOT in this town while going to school.
Hindsight is always so much easier to get right than foresight.
It's worth noting that in this context as far as I can tell, Uber's drivers and cars were regulated and licensed. They are allowed to drive limos for hire, but the law requires them to return to their place of business after a job (they aren't allowed to keep cars sitting around to pick up passengers). The google translation of the main complaint by the taxi association is "they keep taxe similar primarily in downtown ready to spontaneously pick up passengers." In other words, they don't wait to receive a call to get a car close and available to their passengers.

So, while it's true that this is probably against the laws of the city, it's hard to see it as anything other than protectionism for taxis: there's no evidence that Uber was causing harm for passengers (or else they'd be talking about this), and there's no reason to believe that making a limo service return its cars to its place of business after each job is inherently better for consumers.
With guaranteed quality delivery on time. :)
Take a look at https://github.com/sanketsaurav/easywiki which do exactly what he proposes and work on other websites when hovering wikipedia links!
Reminds me of Fred and Jane:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/users/mrb/Hacks/Plans...

Jane came to us with a great reputation. We thought she was going to be as brilliant as Fred. But she hasn't really proved herself yet. We've given her a few problems that we thought were going to be really tough, but when she finished it turned out they weren't really difficult at all. Most of them turned out pretty simple.
Lumia 2520 tablet can electric shock you
Hacking iBeacons
Apple has pretty high capital spending, but hasn't translated that into an ecosystem as attractive to customers of iPhone as Google's. Apple has easily got the money. What they need is a plausible plan to match the results Google gets from that effort.

Having a competitive search/geodata suite is such a high-value goal, I'm a bit surprised that none of the also-rans have been turned around and re-capitalized to really go after Google. Nor have any of the regional players to partnered-up for out-of-region expansion. With the exception of DuckDuckGo there's nobody competing on features.

So it makes sense for Yahoo to give this a try. Having killed their own search engine operations, they are going to have to be very clever about how to catch up.
Yes, reversible laws of physics are possible. State1 can cause state2, and state2 can cause state1.

Here is the question: Do you pick a state for state1 and then figure out what state2 should be from it (that is, cause state2)? Or do you pick a state for state2 and figure out what state1 should be (causing state1)?

If you have a "starting state", it doesn't matter if the time is reversible. All states will be caused by the starting state propagating forward in one direction. This is exactly what we seem to observe in the real universe. The big bang starts the universe and everything appears to be a chain of cause and effect from it. We never observe events that are caused by things in the future. Glasses do not spontaneously assemble themselves out of shards and fly on top of tables. Photons do not just spontaneously fly from all directions in space to form sensible images on Earth.

Now you might say "what if the universe somehow decided on all the states at once". Well that isn't what appears to be true in our universe for one (or you'd have things spontaneously happening in the future and then rippling effects back in time, rather than the other way around.) Second it might not even be possible. In order to do that you'd have to try every possible combination of states and see which ones are valid. Does writing down every possible combination of bits create universes? Even if you apply some rule to them to check if they are "valid" universes?

I think that "real" universes like ours have to have a chain of causation like that.

Here is a better description of this line of thought than mine: http://lesswrong.com/lw/fok/causal_universes/
BBC and Sky catch-up apps experience iOS fault
https://datatables.net/
I am not sure if this is the original base for Kendo UI's Grid. But this is great.
How to Fall 35,000 Feet--And Survive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality (whence the "bikeshedding" expression comes from, AFAICT)
https://encrypt.today - who said the new TLDs were useless?
From the SEC filing linked below, this compensation was primarily because Yahoo gave him a large number of RSUs upon joining to make up for compensation he was giving up by leaving Google. Otherwise he would have lost money by taking the new job. Those "make-whole" RSUs then vested early upon termination, which is good negotiating, but not surprising.

He also got performance options, which were granted upon termination because he met the performance goals of the stock price.
Sleek iOS app for flight tracking
The point is, which third parties to trust and for how long? How to be sure always that they are worthy of the continued trust?
Plain text[1] editor, not a plain[2] editor.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text
[2]: "not decorated or elaborate; simple or ordinary in character" https://www.google.com/search?q=plain
> Pretty fair that they blocked it.

Assuming taxi service regulation is fair of course. Taxis are insanely expensive in Germany.
Researchers uncover likely author of original Bitcoin paper
Putin tells Edward Snowden: Russia doesn't carry out mass surveillance
Unpaywalled: http://archive.today/RlaNR (or access with fresh cookies)
Tangential, but entertaining, is the TDD Sudoku http://devgrind.com/2007/04/25/how-to-not-solve-a-sudoku/

As Ravi said:

Ron Jeffries attempts to create a sudoku solver – here, here, here, here and here. (You really ought to read these articles. They are ummm…{cough} …err…. enlightening.)

Peter Norvig creates a Sudoku Solver.

Compare. Learn.

http://ravimohan.blogspot.se/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-so...
Vypadá to skvěle. Looking great.
That's not accurate. You send them a 'Certificate Signing Request', which is a request for them to issue you with a certificate. It's not a complete certificate template just lacking a signature. In any case... semantically a certificate isn't a certificate until it's been certified, it's just meaningless paper.

In some ways this reminds me of the misconception about birth (and marriage) certificates from people new to genealogy. In the UK a birth certificate is just a piece of paper that contains markers of authentication to ensure people who read it can trust that it's true likeness of a record held at Her Majesty's GRO. It doesn't provide any guarantees about the honesty of data itself, or even if the person was ever born, in the same way me reading an x509 doesn't guarantee the data it contains is factual or was issued to the right person. Even if a CA does these checks, there's no way to insert a proof of such in to a certificate, therefore the certificate isn't such a proof...
While I enjoyed this article, it feels like the author has setup a strawman specifically so he could tear it down. I've never heard anyone say they wish they could have Darth Vader as a PM.

Also, at what point is project considered a "Death Star"? Does the Apollo program fit into this category? We only went to the Moon a handful of times, but I wouldn't consider that to be a waste of resources. Are we to never attempt engineering on a scale that dwarfs our current capability?
Ah, thank you. I was attempting to find a source for something that I vaguely remembered, while rather tired. The irony of delaying on sleep while reading an article about sleep loss was not lost on me.
I'd suggest not granting equity outright, but instead granting it on a vesting schedule, maybe over four years.

And you could create a vesting agreement that would apply to everyone, including yourselves. Maybe something along the lines of: every day that you're working, your equity vests more, with it weighted more heavily on the first year or two since there's more risk involved.

Actually I've never heard of someone granting equity in that way, but it might get you thinking in the right direction.
This is just bombastic and ill-informed.

To start with, Yahoo has >10% of the US search market[1] – down YoY, but nothing to sneeze at. Their sites also see more unique visitors from the desktop than anybody else – >195m in December[2], and that's the sixth month is a row. There are still loads of email users; finance, sport, shopping, everything that legacy portal sites typically had.

Furthermore, Yahoo was never really a good search engine. It was basically a curated directory until it started using Google's search in 2000 or whenever. I think it used it's own crawler for a while, but it's been powered by Bing since 2010 or so.

I'm aware that I live in a bit of a tech bubble — I don't use Yahoo properties, but there are loads of people out there who use the web in a totally different way. Yahoo's got a lot of obvious issues to deal with, but they've also got lots of money and talent; I don't see any reason that they won't succeed with a bit of restructuring and some strong management.

[1] http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2014/4/comSc...

[2] http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/yahoo-tops-the-most-trafficked-w...
Oh look, a flying pig...

I really wish Snowden had not ended up in Russia. It's shocking that with the Guardian and Washington Post winning the Pulitzer this week - that the "Deep throats" of our generation are locked up (Chelsea Manning) or exhiled like Snowden.
I suggest the source code of TeX. Not new, but still very interesting to read.

source that needs some postprocessing (tangle/weave):

http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/knuth/dist/tex/tex.web

PDF from the source (including hyperlinks)

https://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/doc/gen...
Up to a year, according to [1]. A staff member on their forum said similar, [2] "We're probably going to stick with 1 year shelf life when kept in cool dark place, thought it'll likely be much longer in actuality."

[1] http://www.rosalabs.com/about/

[2] http://discourse.soylent.me/t/official-word-on-shelf-life-of...
> There is no good reason why we can't have email, webpages, photos, even facebook-like social stuff housed on our own machines

You know, this is exactly how the internet works, today. You can do it if you want. You will find that you're gonna have to spend some (some would say a lot of) time to amass enough knowledge to become self-sufficient. But there's no big technical issue, there only is a mindset issue. Do you actually want to spend the time, face downtimes and low speeds that having a real internet would incur, or do you want to remain in your comfy walled garden ?

I'm sure what you really meant was "It's time to decentralize the services we use".

> We put a man on the moon

"We" as in "The government and countless private contractors, all with an unlimited budget", not as in "We the people". The centralization you see today is just the same thing.
That is the Best Part of YC!!! If Albert Einstein had not been 'rejected' for 2 years, we might not have had that revolutionary glimpse into our own world (just saying). He might've accepted those stale old ideas by joining the academia of the time. Rejections force you to improve, rejections liberate you from previously held ideas, rejections force you to jump higher.

Inside YC, you help 50 companies. Outside YC, you help 2950 companies by giving your opinion on their performance. Some of these 2950 companies will someday blow everyone away!! They will give everyone a glimpse into a new world, just like the greats of the past did. And the likes of YC will be thanked, because every rejection will have some contribution in shaping them.
3rd party cards
After skimming through all the content it appears that it's just a get started tutorial.

Past the hello world it's up to you to read the sources of other EFI programs to understand how it works.

I hope the author will extend this tutorial, EFI looks scary without help.
I really enjoy doing this as well. Are you aware of any resources or metrics (number of contributors on github, etc.) to find which projects are "well crafted" in X framework/language?

Perhaps I overestimate how much risk there is in learning idiomatic practices from a project which is not actually all that idiomatic. I like the assurance that what I read is quality, especially with frameworks or languages I'm very new to where it can be tough to tell.
I feel that Snowden is surprisingly naive to get publicly involved in this debate.

By appearing in this "free speech theater", he gives legitimacy to it. And if he does not believe Putin's answer, what can he do now? Probably nothing, because he is in a delicate position.

Better that he doesn't get involved. Fighting one battle is enough.

(I'm assuming that Snowden is not a fan of Putin or the Russian government, especially not their recent activities, and I'm also assuming that he felt morally obliged to ask that question).
Sure. The idea is that you will reach out to them about similar articles to your topic but not exactly about you, you will spark their interest. They might not write about you right away but you will develop a relationship with them.

You will be creating connections of reporters instead of your PR firm, and you will maintain those connections.

Shoot us a note through contact link, be happy to explain more.
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GearD: The Intersection of PaaS, Docker and Project Atomic
Whenever I hear this, I find I don't recognize the world the poster lives in. Is it a thing to tell coworkers when you're looking for a new job? If not, how many jobs do you need to have and leave before you have a big enough network for this to be a viable strategy? How do you get those jobs?
Even if not writing SPAs, I think frameworks can be great for building pieces of interactivity as cohesive modules. To me, this is a great use case for Backbone or React.
Early collection of Java EE 8 planning articles
Not lying. Formulating a highly tailored email to the reporter's interests and getting up to date verifiable contact information for every reporter who wrote about "Paleo" will take you MUCH more time and effort if you do it on your own vs clicking a button and using a tool for it. We made this tool because I myself do this every day. It's doable, but it will take more time.
Yahoo mail is very very popular outside the US.
Do you have a hiring problem? Think different
Why I won’t apply to your job offer.
> Finding someone that knows a given static site generator is much harder.

Sure, but what exactly is there to know about it? :) -How to get it to generate a static site from a content directory?
Does Atwood's Law apply to Node.js?
This is an interesting idea, although as an alternative analogy: in an apartment complex, you would go down to your mailbox and insert a key to authenticate you to retrieve your mail. I think the biggest challenge to having on-premises software for all of this stuff is the maintenance of it - but a decentralized social media platform certainly sounds interesting.
You can't innovate with PHP and MySQL amirite?