skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical legislative sleight-of-hand - welcome to the sausage factory.
Further developments will probably reveal that the new law enshrines the status quo.
180 Day Coding Challenge
Yep, that's them. Bounce exchange is the one that has the garbage patent.
Just How Much Dye Is in Your Food?
Every single day? She saw her father every day? Didn't this kid go away on weekend trips? Camping? Didn't her father go on travel or something? I wonder if this affected her growing up, her father never letting her explore the outside world without him for fear that he'll miss a picture??

I remember spending weekends at my friends houses, whole weeks during the summer with my grandma and some weeks with my cousin and her family. Going to overnight summer camp. Went on a few overnight trips with my aunt and uncle and one with my friend's family. Those are some of the very very best times of my childhood. I'm sad she missed out.

I know quite a few people who spent several summers growing up with family in a completely different geographical location on the other side of the country.
Sorry to not contribute anything but a circle-jerk, but -- WOW, HN.

I've seen this sort of question asked a hundred times on Slashdot/Reddit/etc. The top answers are always "find a lawyer", and at best general advice.

In this HN thread, however, there's all that plus multiple offers for personal assistance and contact information for the exact pros bad_decisions needs.
There are very few cases of advertising arbitrage that still work today. I certainly wouldn't tell anyone about it if I found an arbitrage opportunity in the market.

However, sites like info.com advertising or shopping comparison sites are the most classic examples.
>Great but singing victory too soon, Newegg haven't won any money yet

They even said that there endgame isn't even to win money in these situations. They are just happy if they can get the other side to spend their own resources/time/money more than they normally would want to litigating cases like this.
>>Have you been in such situations?

Similar - not coding though.

>>How do you get in the zone and get it done

I treat it as an optimization problem. Specifically because I have a problem with this too:

>>I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible

So I consciously aim to force that compromise between quality & time more towards the time side. That goes against my fundamental nature, but I've come to the conclusion that I must learn this...and as a result it feels more like a learning & personal development challenge rather than me doing something I don't want.
Hacking the Patent System
> Improving their search would mean that more people find what they want to buy.

Sure, improving their search would mean that more people find what they were initially planning to buy without seeing as much other stuff. Of course, offline retail experience has been that that's generally a good thing for premium venues, its usually exactly the exact opposite of what is good for sales in discount venues.

And, even to the extent that it might be a net gain -- I suspect it would, overall -- its quite easy to believe it might not (despite 20 years) have ever reached the level of being the lowest-hanging fruit in terms of benefit/cost ratio.
I should just note the exclamation points are yours.. Google would disallow any ad with excessive punctuation.

One exclamation point seems to be the limit.
How does Google's Project Tango work anyway?

It's not LIDAR, nor Stereo-camera or Kinect 1 tech (infrared laser combined with a monochrome CMOS).

Does it use time-of-flight camera (like Kinect 2) or structure-from-motion (like MS Photosynth, ETH Zurich app)?

Tango uses this special processor (so structure-from-motion could be possible, as well as time-of-flight):

It produces over 1 teraflop of processing power on only
a few hundred milliwatts of power

-- http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/inside-the-revolutionary-3d...

The Wikipedia article is still a stub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Tango
Your analogy is more accurate than you imagine; they are helium balloons, and can easily burst. Just look at what happened to Slovenia (first communist, then 15 years of GDP growth, and looting and stealing by the former communists who were now democratically elected, and now the population is paying off the debts).
The people who also voted for this incarnation of the bill now wield another political tool come the next election season: calling their opponents flip floppers.
No, i tried that and it's not at the state to provide adequate replacement. But I have high hopes.
MyPocket app – manager and safe for your and your family personal documents
You dont need to erase every time. Erased page is all ones (#FFFFF). If data you modify doesnt need more active bits than it started with you can simply overwrite. This means you can do things like counting down on the same NAND page without erasing every single time. Just make sure you only flip 1s to 0s.
Google to acquire micro-satellite company Skybox for $1B...
Google is working with Ruckus Wireless to build a Wi-Fi network in the cloud
Here you go -

http://www.wral.com/house-poised-to-pass-curbs-on-nsa-survei...

"NSA officials were pleased with the bill for another reason: The new arrangement will give them access to mobile calling records they did not have under the old program."
Thanks.
I was thinking the same,but wanted to hear other opinions.
Also, Disconnect extension is a non-proprietary alternative to Ghostery.

https://prism-break.org/en/subcategories/windows-web-browser...
This is one of the most over-shared web pages I know. What on earth is it doing here on HN?
This is part of what I mean by learning when it is and is not appropriate; I tried to make it clear it was not a blanket permission slip to be sloppy (anticipating that obvious misunderstanding of my point). If you end up having to seriously maintain "unclean" code, you did it wrong. You will do it wrong before you get the hang of it, no sarcasm. Untrained gut intuitions are not very reliable here, and the only training available is practice.

And on the other hand, "maintain" is a very ambiguous word. If you are frustrated because it took you ten minutes to add one field to a form, once in the course of 3 years (to put some concrete numbers on for example's sake), you still came out ahead not spending an additional 10 hours polishing the code to a fine sheen, so you could be happy adding that one field 3 years later and saving that ten minutes. If you're frustrated because you actually have to overhaul it significantly, and it's a mess, and now you've also dropped all your context and can't remember what is what at all, and you could have cleaned up up three years ago in three hours and now lose two weeks just to understanding what the hell, then you've lost, yes. And of course "maintain" can mean a lot more than either of those two cases, too.

And as a final note, it's all gambling, and that is also something you must come to grips with. You don't really know where the changes are going to be in three years. However, you can learn to guess with a success rate much higher than mere random chance. (Don't forget to discount future time appropriately.)
In Search of Space and Creativity, a Startup Is Headed to Brooklyn
Sad but not very surprising: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F927#!/comm...
Help how?
How are they terrific for the consumer?
our software to be aware of the true characteristics of the underlying hardware.

Ewww, no.

That's a terrible goal, and a poor understanding of how things currently work.

Traditional spinning disks aren't dumb devices. There is a lot of stuff happening at the firmware level. Address translation, remapping of bad sectors to spare sectors, command queuing, etc.

It's complicated stuff, to put it mildly, and you're suggesting that we ought to duplicate these tasks across every app and/or driver and/or OS?

Even if (to choose a single, arbitrary application) Postgres had some kind of really specialized code that bypassed the SATA protocol and had direct access to the physical flash memory cells of a single manufacturer's SSD firmware, the odds of achieving a performance win are pretty low and the complexity of Postgres is sure to have increased sharply.

Maybe you could move up a level, and have that kind of specialization at the driver level and not the application level, but still: yuck. Hardware and software creators should focus on kicking ass at implementing protocols, not on ignoring protocols and creating compatibility nightmares.
Garden hedge hacking: 'Boring' hedge turned into dragon
'Boring' hedge turned into dragon http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-27519536
I agree and it's a much better and longer answer than mine. Then I realized who you are. Off-topic, I probably speak for many when I say I am glad you found this path for yourself - because you make some amazing art.
Where do you see that? I only see 1895 KR which google claims to be $285 worth of Swedish Krona.

Still expensive. Google might also be giving me the wrong currency.
thanks. i guess it still comes down to me choosing, i will stick with php for sometime then move over ruby on rails. i need resource that can help me learn php well.
Call me when someone gets hauled off to Guantanamo because of ad demographics.

The lack of nuance here when it comes to "tracking" is insane. I can see wanting to block them for whatever reason, but I can't understand this reduction to the absurd chicken-little behavior when it comes to ad targeting.
I meant that the several rooms of a single home were connected by tunnels, not that multiple homes were connected together.

This is always how I've imagined my dream house to be. Energy efficient, immersed in nature, easy to hide if necessary.
Elon Musk says lost multi-billion-$ contract when SpaceX didn’t hire official
> As for the dynamo, definitely! But I'd rather let the hedgehog run as smoothly as possible.

It wouldn't take much of a dynamo to provide enough power to trickle-charge a tiny battery for a microcontroller that can connect to wifi.

Also, if you're setting up a kickstarter, don't underestimate the marketing power of powering electronics off of a hamster wheel.
I didn't say they ought to be admired or not. I said they were powerful. (And why did you neglect Marissa Mayer?)

Powerful people do not typically choose porn or prostitution.
It's in Danish crowns, which equals US$346
I think you'll like this;
http://vimeo.com/9270320
I don't know about ADB, but I find the Privacy Badger a little easier to use and understand than something like Ghostery. I think it's also a little easier to unblock stuff when something isn't working because of it.
We would love to have you in the USA. The other countries you listed are fantastic places to live but if your passion is in programming then the USA is an excellent place to be. There are plenty of immigrant success stories here. Look at recent news, Jan Koum moved here from Ukraine, created a mobile application, and is now worth over $6,000,000,000 thanks to the Facebook acquisition!
Good idea! They could email the domain's contact person! Oh wait..
Danish KR, not Swedish. About 350 USD.
How Non-Native Speakers Can Crack the Glass Ceiling
Yea, I wonder how long it takes you to make your money back on the fridge savings. Good conversation topic at least for the BBQ's.
>Is it ethical to use that much free software for the corporation's own personal gain?

I don't believe it's necessarily unethical for a corporation to take advantage of open source software if the open source code is distributed with a license which allows for commercial use. I think if the author wants not to care about that, then that should be their right.

That said, closed-source code does make theft a lot easier to hide, so the case is stronger for the use of free software validating the (ethical) integrity of a company.
or just != 0
I live in a similar-ish situation where I live on a narrowboat in London. I have a solar panel for electrical needs and I run the boat engine once every few days during the winter. For refrigeration, I've got a 12v fridge but many people I know use gas fridges. Fridges use up an amazing amount of power. But the fridge is really the only thing I run off electricity - occasionally charge up my laptop and charge my phone off the 12v supply. But yes, my boat batteries are pretty much there only for the fridge.
Best and smartest motivation hack is engaging with your beta-testers/customers/end-users daily. Live interaction & feedback is huge. Your passion will re-emerge if you focus giving them something cool and worthwhile. Try to build those conversations into the top-half of your day.
India too has plans to launch its own alternative to Visa and Mastercard. http://www.npci.org.in/RuPayBackground.aspx
This is just plain old C (which, yes, Objective-C is a superset of).
From the iFixit teardown: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Project+Tango+Teardown/23835

Tango has a Primesense structured light system, a structure-from-motion coprocessor (or two) and a special depth sensing rear camera (IIRC).
(mask & NSEventMaskEndGesture) == NSEventMaskEndGesture is the most correct, as it handles the case where NSEventMaskEndGesture has multiple bits set.
90% Of People Can't Pronounce This Whole Poem. You Have To Try It.
why higher marginal tax rate makes buying better? I don't get it.
You took the time to write an extremely thorough and compassionate reply. I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I'd give you an A+ at internet!!
I had to keep repeating this in various posts in this thread, but: I've had plenty of spontaneous comments from lovers, who didn't know I didn't use soap.

So yes, pretty sure. Especially since I DIDN'T get used to it before I stopped using soap. I was familiar with the smell of BO. But now it just doesn't arrive.
Would you kindly stop spamming this link into every tangentially related article?
It's in the context of what the original link is about.

In your example:

Another comment on this thread simply states "Newegg is my hero!". How come you're not lecturing that commentator?

"Newegg is my hero" is a comment stating that the user likes Newegg because of what is being described in the link. While not extremely useful, the comment is directly related to the subject being discussed.

Whereas, "I don't like Newegg because they screwed up a return." is both not useful and also has nothing to do with the topic being discussed. It has as much to do with the story as "I don't like Newegg because an employee once cut me off on the highway."

Not to mention that with sites like HN, it gets old fast when people use every mention of certain subjects/people/companies as a catalyst to air any unrelated grievances they have just because. Imagine (this is a fictitious scenario) that joshjdr reposted his original comment in every thread mentioning Newegg, regardless of context. That sort of stuff can be frustrating to wade through regularly so people tend to react poorly to comments that appear similar in nature.
In which country are/were you?
All: please don't use "tl;dr" on Hacker News. It's fine, of course, to point out relevant details from an article. But it should be part of a considered comment of your own.

HN values intellectual substance. Good reading, writing, and thinking take time. If we're to have high-quality discussion, we need to inhibit the reflex to snap judgment and give the slower and quieter reflective process a chance to function. Since memes like "tl;dr" are emblems of that shallow reflex, we should heed the broken windows theory and not have them here.

(Not picking on any individual here; PeterWhittaker's comment is fine without the "tl;dr". The concern is the symbol—symbols matter.)
I spent a lot of time forcing myself to conform to others' wishes and will. Or to "work around" the problems, e.g. by staying late -- both to get some quiet time at work in which to concentrate, and to avoid some nasty neighbor issues at home.

Ultimately, I ended up at another definition of that word: "Spent".

I'm just saying...
I looked the slides for the first class. They looked fine, although the video is probably where all the meat is.

But I was extremely dissapointed with your Resources slide. Reddit, Twitter and Indie Game the Movie? Where is "A Theory of Fun for Game Design", "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses", "Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design", etc. Where is the real, valid and, may I say, academic knowledge we have?

You say have worked in the industry, and I believe you, but if this the direction you give people to learn more (or they are your sources), I kinda doubt the validity of your knowledge.

I mean, Indie Game the Movie? What does that have to do with Game Design?
Chasing price break, Amazon makes buying books from Hachette hard
For the untrained eye, this looks like a partial implementation of a Bitcoin blockchain, just without the proof-of-work. Or like a git repository without forking.

Am I right or did I pick up something wrong?
It'd be good if this worked in warmer places like Australia, where you actually want to drink beer.
I was just thinking that exact same thing. How many places are there on the entire planet where you have access to this many compassionate, intelligent people with bonafide expertise??
Depends on the beer.
I was in the same position as you five years ago. I decided to leave and work on my own product. I worked 80-hour weeks for months and years, sacrificed my health and relationships, but the motivation of working on my own thing kept me going. It was incredible. Just a few months ago, the product was acquired, and I joined their team. And now I'm dealing with the same nonsense I was dealing with at the original job.

As developers, this problem isn't going away any time soon. Our options are basically to create our own thing and be our own boss so there is no management to frustrate us, or just give in, write the code, take the check, and enjoy our lives outside of work. It's that simple, but it's also quite liberating when you allow yourself to accept it.
Why would your managers fire you?

Your managers demanded a stupid feature, and you took long time implementing the stupid feature due to its complexity.

The only thing missing is you need to warn your managers before you start coding such as "This is going to take long time due to the complexity, many many weeks. Also I don't think it's right for the product either."

As long as expectations are clear beforehand, and you met those expectations, then no one is getting fired, and therefore you should relax and enjoy coding Easter Eggs into each shitty feature.
Elon Musk says he lost a contract when SpaceX didn’t hire a public official
Show HN: Why are we building an open source mobile backend?
Thank you for that excellent explanation of the taxonomy of geek fame.
The motivation write up here was pretty good for explaining the differences between this and and the usual URI method:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawi...

URI method (what I'm used to from clicking a link to pay):
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0021.mediawi...
If I recall correctly, the way it worked was to save up and write MUCH larger blocks... far more than Windows write caching would do. That way it would do one large sequential write rather than multiple small random writes (which is a killer for most consumer flash drives and the limiting bit in terms of using portable apps from flash drives). And it abstracted it all so that the individual files were stored in its own container. As such, you had to be absolutely sure you were safe ejecting.

Fun fact: you can get some of the same effect by using something like TrueCrypt containers on flash media as you wind up with a bit of the same behavior. The downside is that you can then only use it on a machine you have admin rights on or a machine where TrueCrypt is already installed and traveler mode enabled.

Source: I created Portable Firefox and run PortableApps.com.
Is there any way to tell who is responsible for the watered down sections that allow for bulk data collection?
>metafilter bans self-links

I shouldn't have said that the poster owned that site, that was a mistake, and it detracts from my point. I should have left it as an example of a thin-content page that doesn't really add anything to the web. Of which there are many at MetaFilter. That the view that MetaFilter pages are all quality and deserve to rank well is not realistic. That it isn't a mistake to derank a site when user metrics and a/b tests show that that increases user satisfaction.

>but to downgrade the whole site because of it?

I do not think this happened. I do not think I found the single page on MetaFilter that deserved a downgrade of the whole site. It is but a symptom of a deeper underlying problem with the site's quality. Best of the web? Nope. Clear-cut spam? Nope. Somewhere in between? Yes. The rankings reflect that.

>Links to spam sites will be flagged & then squashed by the moderators in short order.

Except they aren't. Google reports followed links to spammy sites. I found a link to an Indian pharmacy in a few seconds of searching. Moderators ought to work. Nofollow will work.

The problem is not the old links, though they are accompanied by old stale content, which IS a problem. Also these are todays links:

- "Everyone On Wall Street Is A Dick."

- Is Using Lotion a Black Thing?

- #basketball #trickshots

These link to other websites like vine.co or b3ta.com. They are followed by some comments that new visitors can not join in on, lest they pay. This is fluffy content that ranked well around 2006, it doesn't anymore. Why are these comments so special that they deserve a top 10? When 100s of other sites also put up a link and have a small discussion? Where is the unique quality content of MetaFilter? In the comments?
That is not just for Markdown at all, and Markdown is not good for everyone at all. Why so serious?
Yes, but they sell plenty of fake vomit: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.T...
I don't think the European dd-mm-yyyy is any better, since there's no way to tell whether it's April 6 or June 4. yyyy-mm-dd is the only way to go.
I've just checked, and I have this for one of my .com namecheap domains but not the other.

I suspect that this is a side effect of Namecheap's "WhoisGuard" feature. This hides your Whois details, and I think there was a free trial of it when I moved my domain across.

As I understand it, for WhoisGuard domains you'll get the annual checkup email from Namecheap rather than ICANN[1]. Potentially in this case Jitbit missed the email because it didn't look important, or perhaps the way that Namecheap and ICANN are interacting has changed and has some loopholes?

[1] https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
Wow that's pretty bad. I've owned the Discovery 3 for a few years, but I must have been very lucky,because despite having a reputation for really faulty electrical systems, mine never had a single problem with that. I've driven the new Range for a testdrive and as part of the Land Rover Experience day,and I was very impressed. Shame about your dad's car,sounds like bad design.
Looks like even for handling the older URI protocol they don't underline the linked destination address to send money to unless you hover over it:
http://blog.coinbase.com/post/78127728420/support-for-bitcoi...

So destination address could be clickable in this. I think they should keep it underlined, though, personally. I guess even Google is throwing that out lately.
I seem to remember reading about people living in a hobbit-house type thing (I think it may have been this one) leaving after a few years. I don't remember if the house had become unsound or if the local government finally caught wind of their "nail it together until it stops wobbling" building technique and condemned the place.
Capistrano 3, Rails and Ubuntu 14.04
Hipchat API Changelog
I disabled third party cookies in Chrome. Doesn't this basically do the same?
Much like SexpCode: http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/misc/sexpcode.html