skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use https://panic.com/prompt/ on my iPhone & iPad to SSH into a machine and then just use VIM from there.
Seems pretty similar to http://thebinaryapp.com/
When I saw the url goldenfrog.com I thought they were playing a game of real life Frogger to represent slow lane/fast lane internet speeds.

Needless to say, I was disappointed.
Ask HN: What can ICANN and we do to reduce parked domains?
Recently I was looking for a domain name for generic english word. No surprise that it wasn't available and almost every reasonable typing/sounding variant was taken and parked for ads.
What can we ( We as in people of each country) and ICANN do to reduce this situation ?
This will be one step closer towards reducing spam and noise. What do you think ?
It's even closer to the Nokia X. Once you've installed Google Play that's not bad, and abroad you can pick up the dual SIM version.

The Nokia Store is missing pretty basic apps so provides a selection of third party stores for you to install. Alternatively you can sideload Google Play services.
Some functionality for working with XIBs in an intuitive way would be a great feature. Same for Core Data models.
Scooch
No audio system comes close to sitting in front of a symphony orchestra with a hundred or more different sound sources.
Shite turnout.
Science, American legal system confirm barefoot shoes are bullshit
>I keep trying though because I just love the idea that I can use my current web development skill set to create native apps for this so easily. My first attempts on the ZTE Open went really well.

I'd say those apps are hardly native, now, are they? There are several layers between the code you write, and the actual ARM(in most cases) machine code.
Excerpt:

Amateur photographer Ginger Morneau snapped images of the almost metre-long Great Pacific octopus eating the frantic gull, and when she searched for other images of similar battles she couldn't find any — lots of seagulls eating small octopuses, but not the other way around.

"It became the proverbial fish story, except we had proof," she told CBC News on Thursday.
Not so. Google uses Python extensively in-house (it's one of the four "blessed" languages) and, in fact, employed GVR until he was recently hired away by Dropbox--another billion-dollar company which relies heavily on Python. At one point Google even spearheaded an ambitious effort (https://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/) to make CPython much faster. It failed.

At the point where even Google can't make it happen, it really starts to look like Python performance is limited at some very fundamental level to what we see today. Personally I think this is fine. I use Python for everything day-to-day and offloading the intensive stuff to a C extension (a la Numpy) works just great. There are very few instances where I find myself wishing Python was faster.
"Just buy a license" for something you are already infringing might end up in a license at a high price, or it might end up in a lawsuit.
JIT compiling to native code from the REPL is a big one.
> Ok, thought exercise. Comcast's owner decides that he doesn't like the KKK or any anti-semitic group. And Comcast starts charging them extra, or throttling their traffic or blocking them outright. Should they be allowed to?

No, for the same reasons that the government shouldn't be allowed to.

Try a different thought experiment. It's 1910 and the government regulates the operation of printing presses such that only one press is operated in each state. Should the government be able to set out regulations with that result and then give the press operator carte blanche to choose whose words can be printed? Should you care whether the thing they're refusing to print is from the KKK or the NAACP?
> (we use cursors)

I'd love to hear some more about the design of your data store: are these cursors basically paths to data? Are they similar to Om's concept of cursors? https://github.com/swannodette/om/wiki/Cursors
It's disgusting that this is necessary but it's a fight we have to win.
How Digital Culture Is Hurting Art
Introducing Onarbor: crowdfunding university
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The funding comes in the form of my and many's beloved currency, Dogecoin. Onarbor also allows Bitcoin and credit card-based funding and one can receive funding in any of the three currencies, DOGE, BTC, or USD.

So Onarbor is part Kickstarter, part Reddit/Stackoverflow, part iTunes, and part Github. Huge props to all those awesome sites for inspiring me. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

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Hmm, "Common Mistake #1" appears to be an error on the side of the Python interpreter, not the programmer.
Painless VIM
Lessons from Katie Cotton, Apple's Departing PR Boss
Well, you are missing compilation to native code. Common Lisp has very good performance characteristics in the hands of an expert, whereas $modern_dynland usually winds up requiring a call out to C, fragmenting the codebase and requiring dual-expertise (one in $dyn_lang, one in C) to maintain effectively.

I don't meant to say USE LISP (but you know, it's available and ready to go!), but I do mean to say: the knowledge (algorithms, research papers, implementations) on how to do this relatively efficiently was developed in the late 70s and early 80s.

edit:
SBCL is a good example of what can be done with this knowledge. I would be 100% unsurprised if perl/python/ruby could benefit from these algorithms. See phkoung's blog for what he did with SBCL on numerical analysis and high performance Lisp.
With PC, that could mean any personal computer (Windows, OSX, Linux etc.) Mac is pretty well understood as PC's that are running OSX.
Typo: `bck` should obviously be

bck = cps
This doesn't impress me. Tabs as an organizational concept have been around for a century, and they were most frequently used to organize sheets of paper. Of course they'll get used to organize web_pages_ as well. I see the "invention" of the browser tab as a totally obvious and inevitable porting of a particular technology to a related field.

The guy who "invented" the mobile phone keyboard did not do anything special by realizing that you could apply a keyboard to a small computer, and similarly, the guy who realized that you can organize digital pages with digital tabs didn't do anything special either.
It would be exactly like the Firefox plugin Scrapbook, but with cross-device synchronization and maybe some del.icio.us-style tagging and visualization. Actually, I can live without the jazz.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook/

Another related thought is that there are too many tools : I use EverNote for photos of book covers and a quick note on what I liked about that book, OneNote for my own detailed notes or projects, ScrapBook for web pages (both just bookmarks and offline copies), pdfs on my local file system...I hate the fragmentation involved. I hate having to go, "Hmmm...it's there somewhere", and having to search carefully. I will probably be able to get rid of EverNote soon, but still, too many tools.
That's a gorgeous website design. Can anyone point me in the direction to create something similar? (I'm a non-technical person on HN).
Not to be overly obvious about this, but we're asking a pool of power (the FCC) to use their weakly held power to force another pool of power (large companies) to do things for us, the public (a highly distributed pool of power). Given the public's trust has been continuously violated by the US Government over the past years, I'm not sure why we're expecting much out of them and why we're not looking for other ways to implement a fair and equitable Internet for ourselves, by ourselves.

Looking at the blockchain for answers.
Yeah, when I discovered this little "feature" I had a read through that. The folks that use this for blocks of multi-line text are very defensive about the practice. I do understand not wanting to break compatibility though, especially since finding instances of this is hard (which is another reason it shouldn't exist in the first place!). Oh well :)
gofmt without flags does not change your code. Yes, you can ask it to change your code if you want it to, but by default, it won't.
I just checked Archive.org, to see what the dates were on one of my old toys.

I wrote a wrapper for the IE control, using an MDI interface, somewhere between 1999 and 2000. Though it didn't use tabs it was the first time I'd seen multiple documents in a single process.

Looks like I was late to the party! (Sadly the screenshot on the archived webpage is broken..)
Excuse me?

Physical, on-site protests using signs to convey disdain is not a tactic limited to any one group, it is the universal protest technique throughout the globe and has been so for longer than I can probably imagine.
Agreed.

I will especially vouch for Andras Schiff's recent recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier as an alternative choice. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008NR8YXC/
I wonder what the implications might be to .NET? There's a large part of it's library that's pretty much lifted straight from Java - both the good and the bad. Flush with success might Oracle go after Microsoft next?
On the other hand, physical protests actually get covered by the news, while you'll never see "person got mad on the internet" on CNN.
Citation required for such a handwavy assertion

Fashion brands M&A all the time> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVMH > LVMH is a classic, diversified example.

Even apple is seen by many as a 'fashion accessory'> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_advertising#Silhouette_St...

They ran an entire marketing campaign based on the gratuitious display of earphone cords !!
>> Dynamic typing makes Python easier to use than C

> Overall it is a higher-level language, whereas C is designed for maximum performance.

I agree with most of your points, but on this I think you are comparing apples to oranges. C is not designed for maximum performance, but as a system language and as such only as slim abstraction over assembler. As a side effect it allows for maximum performance. A more fair comparison (pretty much every widely used language is easier to use than C) would be C++ vs. Python, where in C++ most - if not all - of the higher level abstractions were explicitly designed not to worsen performance compared to low level code. And in my opinion Python is so much easier to use than C++ because it values simplicity and consistency more than efficiency.

For example the general loop constructions in Python which are possible because of nice generators and the wonderfully straightforward `yield` construction are unacceptable in C++ as they lack the flexibility to be as efficient as possible in every case.

The advantage of dynamic typing only becomes apparent in a third argumentative step; when you try build a language with consistent and efficient abstraction and you end up with something like Haskell whose type system complexity is huge entry barrier. That's why I think dynamic typing is good for Python.
A fridge that is more tolerant of power interruptions
The link is not to Damien's AnkiMobile which is the legit Anki for the iphone (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ankimobile-flashcards/id3734...) but to some other Anki I've never heard of.
Just to note: This was not a ninth circuit decision, but a federal circuit one (you mention it being a ninth circuit panel, and appealable to the full ninth circuit).

Even though no patent issues were appealed, fed cir still has jurisdiction, and oracle used it to appeal to fed cir.
Strange. It seems to extract to C:\Atom fine over here, it refuses to extract to my desktop though, Surely my Desktop is shorter than AppData\Local\Temp o_O
British health secretary promotes homeopathy
What is disgustingly necessary, and currently only being done by the opponents of net netruality, is breaking out the check books and purchasing some elected representatives.
You don't even need to go to the $100 level to get better than Beats. I've convinced a bunch of Beats owners at my work by loaning out my $30 Sonys. Not only does everyone agree that they sounds better, but there's near universal agreement that they're more comfortable to wear as well.

I'm not saying a $25 pair of headphones is particularly good, but it gets past the "obviously bad" test that Beats headphones fail and allows me to leave them at work without worrying about losing or breaking them.
Ok, here's my attempt at an answer:

Take his statement: "I think, therefore I am."

My guess is that the way people interpret it is like this: Descartes is saying that he (notices that he) thinks, wbich (to him) implies that he must exist.

The statement can be broken down like this:

A, therefore B where A = "I think" and B = "I am".

But if you look at it like this: the "I am" part is asserting that he exists, which according to him is a logical implication of "I think". But his asserting "_I_ think" itself implies that his "I" exists (whether it thinks or not). So the "I think" is like saying "I exist" (and am also thinking - my emphasis is on the "I"). So it seems like he is already assuming something is true ("I" exist/am), on the left side of the sentence, what he is trying to prove ("I am"), on the right side of the sentence. Note the difference in the two uses of quotes in the last sentence.
Hope I've made my thinking :) clear.
Based on the first paragraph of the site, they're indeed using their own filesystem layout. Whether or not it's cleaner/easier/useful is, of course, up to the user.
Masayoshi Son Makes $58 Billion on Alibaba with $20 Million Original Investment
> You can express in Python some things in a single line, where you need hundreds of lines in C++ or other languages.

citation needed.
How Highcharts Won the Enterprise Dataviz Market
Great for what looks like a spontaneous turnout!! Every bit helps (look at this photo/post reaching the top of hacker news) -- I've been a part of much smaller demonstrations :-)

Net neutrality needs to be protected & it's great many are getting involved and angry about this & not just because their netflix is going up $1 and they're already paying Verizon or Comcast or someone else a small fortune every year. I predicted abuses like Verizon 5+ years ago and strongly advocated to only allow what I call "Net Prejudice" or prejudicial networks (what Verizon/Cisco euphemistically call QoS) if there is no additional payment involved, otherwise such networks would strongly tend to be extortionist. Sadly only Wikipedia & the Economist of more mainstream publications picked up on it & cited the warning.

(Great coverage from Golden Frog & I love their VyprVPN though Hulu seems to have them and everyone figured out ;-)
There are several good posts on Hacker News and other sites that will frequently reference good headphones for the cost. I cannot find the exact one that I used (because after I got my headphones I forgot the information and probably wont need it for another 4+ years). But check these out and they might help [1][2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685327
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658103
It's a clever system: the app is really a text editor which sends the code you write to your Mac. Your Mac builds the app and sends the binary back to your iPad.

Pros:

* Code when you're on the move because... laptops haven't been invented yet?

Cons:

* You need an internet connection all the time.
* No support for any version control system??? "Import your project from Dropbox and Dringend will handle syncing any changes you make in the app back to Dropbox." Dropbox for version control??? Are you joking?
* No support for unit tests, asset catalog, breakpoints, interface builder...

I really don't get the point of this app, it's a cool hack but it's not an IDE. Developing for iOS involves a complex and large set of essential tools, no decent IDE for iOS can omit a single one of these tools.
The guidelines themselves are readable, interesting, and in HTML, so perhaps the primary source is better than the secondary in this case:

http://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/law-enforcement/

The context behind these guidelines: if Apple has some piece of information, they can't (really) decide whether to yield them in response to a search warrant. These aren't the things Apple feels comfortable providing; they're the things it's capable of providing.
What exactly is "disgusting" about the idea that the FCC is hesitating to implement something that was struck down by a federal court, and is inconsistent with Congress's regulatory agenda for telecom, and amounts to telling companies what they can['t] do with their private property?

I can understand believing that net neutrality is, on the balance, the most beneficial regulatory solution. But dismissing the opposition as "disgusting" shows nothing more than small-mindedness.
> I don't have any software developer in that list.

RMS changed the world by an idea that became a movement — but it would go no where it he didn't attach them to some excellent software, practicing the idea throught [cue Ghandi "be the change..."].

Jimmy Wales changed the world, again by idea + software.

Diffie & Hellman changed the world, in a much more fundamental way. The possibility of end-to-end security didn't visibly touch people the way Wikipedia did, yet it put all our lives on a different track.
OK, that was scientific discovery, not programming but it's way closer to programming than to political speeches.

Bitcoin changed the world, again idea + software. It's unclear at this moment if a cryptocurrency changes it much — or for better — but the very fact that it's here, without anybody's permission, is novel.

The very ideas that building stuff can change the world — and that giving it away maximizes your impact — are a major change in the world!

[gross simplifications and omissions in all of the above.]
No, it was correct.
How To Generate Quantum Random Numbers With A Smartphone Camera
Why not? With a good UI especially the initial UI building and layout design would be fun to do on a touch device. Also writing a small pieces of behavioral code and connecting existing behavioral code would be totally doable with a good UI. Think, for example, how game dev teams work: hardcore coders implement complex behaviors and game design coders mainly connect them to the game objects and adjust parameters.

Granted, this app probably isn't yet there, but in a few years, thinks will be different.
Microsoft Beats Google by Launching Bing Search for Firefox OS
Sure, if Google were happy to comply with the GPL. But they're not.
> Quality of product is unimportant.

Hmm... is there a company out there whose sales disprove this statement?

...

Oh yeah, Apple. Maybe you forgot about them?
I consider http://cython.org/ to be the "optional typing" implementation of Python.
You mention marketshare, but neglect to mention the size of the market. You mention revenue, but neglect to mention profits. For all your numbers tell me, Beats could be operating at a loss in a shrinking market.

And I'm curious: If $3.2B was a steal, what would have been a fair price?
I don't think there's anything implicitly wrong with a 40 year old type theory. Rather, C's type system is pretty decrepit.
Do these have an isolated modem? What is the status on running other OSs on this?
Their uptime calculation is...interesting, to be polite. Look at Dec 2013 or Sep 2013 and you'll see major incidents covering most of a day, but still three nines. How? See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-status#uptime-c... , but basically, if 40% of running applications are down for 10 minutes they count it as 4 minutes outage.

If 40% of your applications are down for 10 minutes, that's 10 minutes of downtime.
In my land we call this "julia"
Really excited to see this get active again. GoboLinux sets itself apart from other distributions being one of the few that tackle a drastic change to the filesystem. They keep compatibility with the filesystem hierarchy standard via symlinks but that is mostly hidden from the user.

For those wondering about more information there is definitely a better writeup about the file system layout on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoboLinux

As well as more recently written slides

http://gobolinux.org/doc/fisl2014/GoboLinux-015.pdf

I'd say the filesystem is really the differentiator here. Back when I first tried it out boot times were insanely fast compared to other distros of the day. However I'm sure that gap has been shortened (if not inversed.. haven't tried the latest version.)

Not saying the filesystem had anything to do with the boottimes. That was because they use a different boot system.
AskSamA: Did You Get To Ask Obama About Surveillance?
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7612303 :

sama 20 days ago | link

planning to ask about surveillance issues.

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That first link is pretty useless since it never mentions what the terms VZ failed to meet actually are.

I would imagine it's most likely something about coverage. That they aren't going to let VZ get a franchise that allows them to only offer service to only the most profitable few.

Which seems in the public interest.

How much would "jpl" be complaining if the actual deployment meant his street wasn't worth covering even though the high-rise apartments down the block were?
Yes, AS400 to be precise.

I shall delve into it, not sure how it will turn out though myself. :)
Thank you Michael. :)
>You can't implicitly type the members of an object or the arguments of a function

That was due more to architectural issues in the C# compiler than any principled reason. C#'s type inference is extremely weak and incomplete and is a poor example of "getting it right".
'Killer robots' to be debated at UN
Apple make very smart acquisitions and have a track record in creating markets where others have failed to do so. They are also good at spotting opportunities in existing markets.

That said, I think this is a deception to get Samsung to do something costly and stupid.
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-status#uptime-c...
Combining dataflow and functional paradigms [video]
I don't know why you think this is relevant to the sort of precedent this sets legally. Oracle claims it is suing Google for making a deliberately incompatible set of libraries using their copyrighted material. The fact that Google's use of the APIs is deliberately incompatible is means that a ruling against Google is not necessarily a precedent that can be used against others who attempt to build compatible clean-room implementations of other systems, and that's just as true if you think that Google's lack of compatibility with Java SE was a good technical decision.
I am convinced that almost all the "problems" with a computable consciousness are really the emotional problems of us humans coming to terms with our status as just another animal, which is just another pattern of matter and energy.

Yes, it implies that other animals and systems might be conscious too. Why is that a problem?
Same here: i'm not seeing the value of the additional indirection.