skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that JRR Tolkien was an Englishman, not a South African—even though he was born in SA.
There's the depagination extension on Firefox. I'm not aware of similar for Chrome.

Another that works far too often is:

lynx --dump <url> | less

... where I use the dump as less is far easier to navigate than lynx (never really could get used to it). w3m also works pretty well.

Or pandoc, which can fetch from URL and output to your specified format (another good way of bypassing craptastic Web formatting). Hrm...

Interesting. I get a TLS error attempting this on HN.
Ask HN: Is Objective-C Now Dead?
With the advent of Swift, will Apple quit developing Objective-C and faze it out all together over the next few years? Or will it be split off somehow and given further development?
Pi UPS –  Uninterrupted Power Supply solution for a common Raspberry Pi.
Is storage that large a problem for most startups, though?
Interesting - so you perceive non-anonymised results as better.

DDG's main drawcard is anonymity, and Google/Bing are hoping the masses will prefer customised results. So if your perception is common, DDG is in trouble.

Or perhaps they can find a way to provide location data in their anonymised searches.
Pentadactyl or vimperator. I can never remember which one is being currently developed. I mostly use vimperator on Firefox. Installed it as a total lark and found almost instantly that I loved it.
Study finds that Female-named hurricanes kill more than male-named ones
Then it will save even more lives for every hurricane to be named after a metal band (e.g.: Destructinator.)

Then we can apply suffixes, like "the Terrible" (Destructinator the Terrible).

Then if that doesn't work well enough to change behavior, we can simply lie about the risks (Destructinator the Terrible will kill you unless you take shelter in Canada with 90% probability.)

Hopefully this drumbeat of psychological warfare will cause the coastal residents to move hundreds of miles from the coasts and there will be no more hurricane deaths again.

Then we can start naming tornados after biker bars.
If you think propulsion is primitive, try braking. I was surprised to learn recently that braking is typically transmitted from car to car by compressed air, so that it can take up to 2 minutes for the braking instruction to reach the last car in the train.

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

Just as it's tricky for hte locotomotive to start the whole train at once, if the air braking system should fail, the momentum of the cars is likely to exceed the braking power of the engine: http://www.retronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/317.jpg
iOS has definitely been a sore point for selling WebGL solution until now because the only option was doing it as an app, so that was limiting 3D

It might still need some tweaks here and there but I'm already amazed this demo for a customer of mine from January works as-is (except I need to tweak the background shader, it was a quick test anyway), in the browser without plugin or app on an old iPad 2: https://twitter.com/wildpeaks/status/473672792689639424
That's because DDG isn't geocoding you. "apple store" + ZIP or city name should work.
I'm not seeing the javascript-alike-ness. What caused that connection to jump out at you?

I see the standard static FP features (from ML, Haskell, Scala, F#) with the syntactic flavor or Rust and some C# tossed in.
SEDECO : la société B to B présente son service clientèle
Découvrez les coulisses du service clientèle, activité professionnelle de la société SEDECO. Il propose une prestation B to B de qualité aux clients.
Possibly they meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7837782
CloudKit definitely seemed like it was taking a bite out of the BaaS market share, considering that it's integrated so closely with the SDK and has quite a generous free tier.
I'm with you. Helvetica Neue in the screenshots looks like placeholder text, waiting for some better typeface to be applied.
Actually, they would, since doing so would cause their finances to implode. Defaulting to Google is how they keep the lights on.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/open-source-software/who-still-pa...
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He doesn't seem to know much about iOS or Objective-C due to that comment about parameter names probably being unused. You wouldn't be able to make meaningful method selectors calling into the code from Objective-C without them, since the names of the parameters are part of the method name in Objective-C.
You didn't make an actual point. You just spouted Slashdot-esque vitriol.

This is the exact same reason most anti-Goog comments are heavily downvoted. No cogent point, no interesting questions, just "lolz dae M$ and Goog is le devil" - often including a whiny edit accusing HN of being Google apologists.

FWIW I think Google is making a serious effort to deal with the huge conflict of interest created by their defacto monopoly position. However it would be impossible for Goog to escape all negative consequences, nor are they without flaws, so intelligent discourse is welcome.
Latest Wave of Cyberattacks on the West Is Coming from the Middle East
Which leads to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

and more specifically (though spit is missing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias
It is unfortunate they've chosen opt-out. This is a tool for developers by developers. Are devs really cool with this, collecting information about them (even if it's anonymized) without their explicit consent?

Regardless of who will be the users, opt-in is the civilized and respectful way for this sort of thing.
Ebay urges users to reset passwords after cyberattack
> Given the increasingly stiff competition that Rust is facing, I suspect we'll see it end up like Haskell or D. Something usable is eventually produced, but it never sees the truly widespread adoption that it could have seen, had it been usable earlier on.

I don't have much to say about D, but the history of Haskell implied by this sentence is hilariously wrong.

Go watch Simon Peyton Jones' talk about the history of Haskell: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers.... As well as being wonderfully entertaining, it explains the actual history of Haskell: it was designed to be a language with which various academic groups could do functional programming language research. The fact that Haskell has gradually grown more popular and now has mainstream appeal and some industrial users is quite a surprise to its creators.
Thanks for all the responses - we ran this :) http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/06/03/developers-apples-swi...
There are so many good memories to choose from. The other day I played some random 4k video on YouTube. I then remembered the library computer at my elementary school. It had Encyclopedia Britannica on CD which included mindblowing minutes of video clips the size of postage stamps. MULTIMEDIA!
That sweet sound.
But how does anyone one know if they are "good enough" already? Just because Apple published some of it? Or the claim came from actually developing appls that make use of it? I don't think somebody gained the experience within few hours of Apple's event.
Are you saying DDG is better that Bing? You can't actually be serious!
I would add a fourth bullet point, which is "casual computer users who are willing to pay a bit extra for a no-hassle PC with good build quality, and don't much care what OS they're using".

> Sadly, these groups are small groups with eclectic needs that won't be met or improved by real systems engineering with the kernel and core modules. What do I mean by real systems engineering?

My fourth group isn't small (though perhaps shrinking due to the popularity of tablets), but also has no need for "real systems engineering". My question is this: who does need that stuff? Isn't it really just administrators of high performance servers?

Don't get me wrong, I plan to have a lot of fun and learn a lot from reading up on all the things you mentioned that I either haven't heard of or know of only as buzzwords, but I just don't see how any of it is relevant to most peoples' interaction with computers. Selling "we changed some superficial design elements in the window manager" really does make more sense.
Molerats, Here for Spring
yes, i think so. Any app that has a password on it now will likely "upgrade" to this. Prime examples being finance apps.
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My 2010 MBP, which is obviously getting long in the tooth, saw its battery life double with the Mavericks upgrade. That alone made the transition worth while. Plus, there were a ton of small refinements that I got used to very quickly.

I didn't notice how quickly until I switched back to a Snow Leopard install I maintain for Final Cut Studio (don't get me started on FCP X). All of a sudden the old OS felt...outdated. Totally reliable, sure. But not quite as friendly.

One unexpected change is that Safari has become my favorite browser. Its integration with the OS and iOS, plus the integration of iOS and OS X gave it an edge that Chrome and FF can't match. Judging from what was revealed today, it's looks like that kind of seamless transition between devices is what we can expect a lot more of.
> being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted

Here is the definition he favors, it has to be not formally recognized or admitted as a currency to fit this definition.

I shouldn't even have bothered responding to such a worthless comment.
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Ask HN: advice needed, is it worth changing the product name to reposition it?
I've got an MVP html template builder that has initial feedback from HN and reddit/startups. The feedback has been very good. however there are hints that the users see the product differently to what i intended.

I intended the product to produce single page websites templates (like templates you get from themeforest), but the audience so far has seen it as a launch website (like launchrock).

Maybe the name plays a big part of that 'landinggear' which suggests a landing page.

Do i rename to something like "single page site"? to align my positioning with the product?

www.landinggear.me
You don't. That's why he said "might". Since it's not even out yet, I doubt anyone is buying a device based on the announcement today. We'll find out at some point after they release it and the reviews come in.
Wow, so Chile has a spot where you can go around the globe and end up back in Chile...that is cool.
It is a trademark, not a patent nor copyright. There was not copyright violation, and not trademark violation. Zazzle jumped the gun. If they had actually read the letter they could just have ignored it.
You should take care to notice that this is not a patent, but rather a trademark, which falls under an entirely different set of laws and practices.

In particular, they likely just have a trademark to make shirts with the pi symbol and a period afterwards. While you may disagree that they should not be allowed to have such a trademark, it is the name of their company, and they have to enforce the trademark if they want to keep it. Because this is a trademark, they have to prove that someone else is trying to pass off a product as one of their own in order to take punitive action against the opposing party. What this means in practice is that if someone uses the pi symbol in a paper or on the internet, it's likely not to be confused with the t-shirts they are selling, so therefore there is no trademark infringement. However, if you're selling t-shirts that have a pi symbol on it in a similar fashion, you're opening yourself for litigation. It is also important that they take action against companies that are infringing on their trademark lest they lose the trademark (which also happens to be in their company name).

In any case, this is just a silly story and has nothing at all to do with patents, and nobody should be worried unless you plan on making and selling t-shirts with a pi symbol on the front of them.
but then how do steal your clicks and impressions to fund our self-driving drones wifi balloons?
The OS X Yosemite Beta Program
Meaning Chile is the only country in the world that completely "owns" a latitude. Cool..
African programmer here from Tanzania and one of my FOSS project is zuluCrypt[1]

[1] https://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/
It was intended more as a general point about picking and choosing of data. You're of course correct that including Katrina would buttress the female hurricane deadliness theory but would also open up the study to charges that it was influenced by a single outlier.
KitKat 4.4.3 released
somebody doesn't know squat about map projections...
This may be the case on electric passenger rail, and generally is the case for high speed passenger rail, where each carriage, and sometimes each wheelset, is powered.

However even for electric freights, you'll typically have a small number of traction wheels on the actual traction units.
If it's that bad, you need to take that as evidence that your attitudes of sex lead to problems, not the advice to have fun.
UX on the turn by turn directions is peerless. But the original promise (a search box for the real world) keeps coming up short. Indeed, the results seem to be getting more unfocused and incomplete as time goes by.
Wow! Look at the surge in the traffic after "Surveillance revelations". Future look very optimistic for DDG.
Thank you! I was trying to do that but couldn't find information on their policy about accepting and hosting such data. I've added links to this as well as Torrent links other folks had sent.
Looks like your regular old Times New Roman font.

http://graphemica.com/%CF%80/glyphs/times-new-roman-regular

http://www.scribd.com/doc/227367808/Zazzle-Pi-Trademark-Lett...
SF Cabs May Not Survive the Next 18 Months
On average, more than 60% of the identifiers are recovered to the same name as before the minification process.

I wonder how much of that 60% comes from common libraries like jQuery or Underscore. Still, a neat project.
Nigeria is the only African country where I'm familiar with the tech industry, they have some jobs available in Telecom and Petroleum for trained locals - though getting one of these is far from guaranteed even with a degree. Both industries require quite a few coders. There's also the computer crime industry which I suspect is one of the largest employers of programmers.

Anecdotally, Egypt produces a lot of high quality computer scientists.
Um yes, but 3k is also a veery comfortable salary to live on in Germany. 90+% of the population don't even make 2k (net salary), IIRC. I think with 50k gross per year (or was it even 40k?) you're already "upper class" in a sense.
Actually, if you ask me today, after dealing with Scala's idea of how the Option type should work, I might say that nil propagation is the best thing about Objective-C.
Ask HN: How can SWIFT code be significantly faster than Obj-C?
Assuming you write the best possible code in both languages, how can SWIFT be faster than Obj-C?
As a rule I never book a hotel that charges for Wifi. It's not just premium brands but a good litmus test for hotels in general. I've found those that charge for Wifi try to profit from you at more points, be that charging directly or cutting corners and generally offer a poorer experience.
That’s not what they said in the keynote… they compared it favorably in terms of performance to GL
Artificial Intelligence Is Telling Doctors How to Treat Patients
My 15" rMBP running Mavericks randomly reboots on occasion, and to this day still requires me to manually disable / enable WiFi almost every time I open the lid.

Meanwhile Homebrew is a poor substitute for aptitude and PPAs, multi-monitor support is relatively poor (xmonad excels here), and the Apple keyboard is missing a bunch of keys I use on a regular basis.
Business travel is booked at particular price points, $150, $300, etc. based on the employee's rank in the company. On top of that there's a daily allowance for incidentals like room service, parking, and wifi, so the hotels overcharge to extract as much of it as possible. You're much less likely to see wifi charges at boutique hotels or at resorts where there are fewer business travelers.

There's also a budgeting issue. A hotel spending hundreds of thousands of dollars installing wifi is going to want to recoup that cost directly instead of assigning it to overhead, and once they start collecting fees the revenue is hard to give up. A hostel can just add a $50 consumer router to their existing internet connection.
The new iPhone "Health" app – screenshots and analysis
Cute Squirrel eating Pocky!
You don't have to go back to ancient times to see the dangers of exceeding dynamic braking power. Here's a tragic relatively recent accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino_train_disaster
I'd suspect that at least on Yosemite you'll be able to disable the web search. You can already choose to chop out huge sections of Spotlight's optional functionality on Mavericks, so I don't see why that'd change come Yosemite.
I don't like it for a reason that it multiplies exclusive titles. I consider it a failure. Normally authors should aim to reach the most audience, not to exclude users because they use a different OS. This API will proliferate the later.
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>Suppose we're flipping a fair coin. We should expect to see roughly equal numbers of heads and tails. If I flip the same coin a thousand times and see 523 heads, that seems "reasonable". It's certainly possible to get 873 heads, but I might start to wonder if the coin is really fair not because it's very unlikely to get 873 heads with a fair coin (and it is very unlikely) but because it's more plausible that the coin is biased.

The first sentence said the coin was fair. Given that the coin is fair, flipping 873 heads in a thousand tosses is perfectly fine, it just has a smaller probability than flipping 523 heads (as you have already clearly stated).

Believing that the coin is biased is nothing more than human scepticism because we were told the coin was fair. Given that the coin is biased, you are right to state that the probability is higher. Probability is about working with given information, not about being suspicious about given information. If you had a reason to believe the coin wasn't fair, it being fair would not be part of the information given. The point I'm making here is that it is easy to mislead someone. You told me the coin was fair. If you then cheat and flip a biased coin there is no way for me tell if the coin is biased because it is my belief the coin is fair.

Prior information doesn't change after you look at the data. The distribution taking into account observations is different, and it is called the posterior distribution.

You have essentially taken my statement:

What you're describing is a rare event. Rare events happen, just rarely.

and repeated exactly my argument back to me.

Given that the hurricane gender is assigned uniformly at random, it is fine to observe that female hurricanes are more deadly. Quite a bit more deadly is nothing more than random chance. Remember, the prior was that they were assigned uniformly at random.

It could be the case that people assign names to hurricanes based on behaviour, path, time of year, or whatever other characteristic you like (and perhaps this is done subconsciously). In this case, the prior belief is that they are no longer assigned uniformly at random, but a human assigns them genders correlated with some physical quantity. Now, is it surprising that female hurricanes are more deadly? Perhaps not.
Mind if I ask where you can get, say, 75k in Germany?

I have >5 years experience, I'm consistently rated great by my bosses, but I have a hard time getting paid a good salary for it. Job offers are only by body-leasing companies, whereever I look (i.e. no "intern" positions).

Is it only the really big players that pay 75k, where you have to deal with rigid corporate politics, suit-up dress code, and meetings instead of developing/architecting stuff? (Basically what I've been doing for years, but with low pay, and I don't really want to keep doing that; it hurts productivity, and it wastes my talent.) West-german city we're talking about, so location shouldn't be the problem.
That's a complex question.

I think the shortest answer is "no.. but a small percentage of users use very large amounts which can end up as a problem".
To be honest I would be disappointed if they let loose a macro system that is as incomplete as the C preprocessor. I'll be much happier if in a year or two they add a proper, more well thought out macro system to the language which aids in readability rather than ruins it.

Now, we'll likely not get the Lisp macro system in all its glory, but I think the point to take away (despite the short parent comment) is that its almost better not to have a broken macro system than something that is rushed an not properly implemented.
Thanks for the dataset! I've been wanting this corpus for a while. I have a few ideas I want to run with this.
Not OT. I wish I didn't have to either. I know many at FB read HN, and I don't want to make a bad situation even worse by getting singled out for blowing the whistle on this clearly unfair (and possibly illegal) situation.
meh

I'll get excited when I can CHANGE THE F##KING FONT without editing a F##KING config file (after reading the help and being redirected to watch a #*%!@! video).
Xcode 6 allows for testing new iOS screen sizes