skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the departments that choose to go down that road, they are essentially no different. Except that they have the legal might of the state supporting their actions; including use of deadly force.

Allowing forfeiture statutes of this nature likely motivates departments to increase their usage to get more revenues.

It is a disgusting practice and can only lead to something bad.
Yes, you are correct. I pulled up a map off Google that overlayed 'europe' over the continental US. That map omitted Ukraine and Turkey, which are included in Europe (among other non-EU countries).
I think you need to append "for software or business methods" liberally.

For products where development costs dwarf manufacturing costs, patents provide the incentive to do stuff. Would anyone invest a few billion into a drug if anyone with access to a few million bucks could go manufacture it?
Raspberry Pi Ham Radio #1
I find the same with coffee and beer: notions of "acquired taste", "bitter", etc are the consequence of bad product or production; like tea, good coffee & beer isn't bitter.
Do not forget about Backups. That can easily be the hardest part about the whole project. Sometimes a cheap second server is the easiest approach to that. Arguably, not in the same location.
Automatically disqualified as a "giant nerd" by going to a gym.
D-Wave confirmed as the first real quantum computer by new research
I use hetzner.de those are very affordable dedicated machines with 2TB+ and 32GB RAM for 50 euro a month.

Also no dataplan limits, and you can buy more IP addresses for 1 euro/month a piece.
Well I've visited the Verge 3 other times in the last 2 years [on this machine] but it just appeared to me to be a standard web based news source rather than specifically USA focused. Are all The Verge's journalists from USA, do they not cover stories that aren't parochial? I'm curious you characterise me as naive in this - The Verge don't appear to promote a USA-centric view.

As I said, the story made it clear it was USA in the first line of the article proper - I'd think that was part of The Verge being cognisant of the web being global and knowing that they get non-USA readers.

Personally I consider it foolish to assume web visitors are from a specific geography and that - in particular - a .com website is only to be read from, or at least in the context of, USA. There is no default country on the web IMO.
I'm willing to overlook that horrible font because I learned what a "Keynesian Beauty Contest" is. Excellent article.
Thanks, pretty cool I just noticed if you change the /us/ part to any other country like cn, es, gb or it you will get the page in that language.
The application you are building will use each platform's idioms. So the UI layer code will be platform specific and can not be reused. All other business logic code will be reused thought.
Seconded! Happy Kimsufi customer here. I have a few DigitalOcean droplets for customer sites, but after checking the stats and almost never seeing the CPU(s) spike over 50% (if that much) I bought a Kimsufi with 1TB storage and 16GB (non-ECC) RAM and it way outperforms the DO droplets' response time for static assets. I now use it as a static file server for the DO Droplets, plus personal storage.

The network speeds are great and constant, DDOS protection included as standard, and I'm on Gigabit fiber plus close to France so couldn't be happier.

The non-ECC RAM could be a problem over time, but I keep multiple redundant backups and test them regularly, so the small chance of data corruption would only be a nuisance.

Also, the next level up as far as hardware quality is the 'So You Start' range, so look at that too. Depends on your budget and proximity to their French or Canadian data centres.
Cool, they look great.
Iraqi Government Blocks Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in Iraq
Are you asking how the government can prove that the money in Silk Road's accounts are the proceeds of illegal activity? They have digital records all over the place to prove that. The magic of Bitcoin and the internet--where all activity is neatly recorded in server logs with timestamps. They can prove that without proving that Ulbricht is the one that engaged in the illegal activity. Indeed, Ulbricht's contention is precisely that.
I am sobbing mathematically out of sheer joy !
Brazil's First Goal
I believe you can use vinegar to treat that.
This is great, but the "please keep it under.." issue made it unusable.

Limited to .com, I couldn't use this pattern:
[a-z]{4,8}coin

If that's not workable, I'm not sure I can come up with a pattern that works. Why not just cap the results returned?
The support has become awful. At least, what you can see in public is. The "forum support" makes it quite transparent what to expect. Also, it makes it quite transparent with what kind of sysadmins you share your hosting location (and network infrastructure). Personally, I decided that the risk of not getting support for the duration of a whole week, and the fact that there is no SLA whatsoever, wasn't worth the price advantage. I have some friends and private projects plus my own mail setup on my server and I wasn't comfortable with the idea of staying there. Other hosters are only a tiny bit more expensive and provide better support. OVH's own so-you-start line of servers has SLA and much better support, so it isn't even needed to leave OVH (which I did nevertheless, though).
Dashboards On-demand will be possible soon for #Pentaho community
Probably because their core competency is allowing people to make restaurant reservations, which they happen to be really good at, not Android app design, which just has to be good enough enable the former.
In PyCharm can you set the indentation size (# of spaces per tab) per file type?

I would like 2 spaces for JavaScript and HTML but 4 for Python.
Quark/up
So, ah, how do you think sex drives work? People just stay the same from age 20 to age 70 and then it turns off overnight after the birthday party?
The 120-Foot-Long Jellyfish That’s Loving Global Warming
Absence of evidence is not "proof" of the contrary, but it is evidence of the contrary.

"Proof" is a complicated word. People typically take it to mean "slam-dunk, 100%, without-a-doubt proves the case." But little in science ever works like that. Math, sure, where you can prove things analytically. But when trying to "prove" things about the universe, you have to collect bodies of evidence, and see how well that evidence matches expectations.

So, when you go out looking for something, and despite your best efforts, cannot find it, then that may not "prove" that something did not happen, but it is good evidence in support that it did not.
Now if only they would do a Go-lang IDE with the "extract method" refactoring.

I do mostly Java, and wow I never realized how much I'd miss that until it was gone!
Ask HN: Where do you store your stuff?
Personal stuff. Pictures, excel documents, personal financial statements, etc.

Locally on your PC?

External hard drive?

Dropbox or other cloud service?

Your own cloud service?
I hope Telsa could release some numbers on what countries use what voices. I've heard several people mention how Australians choose one Tomtom voice, British another and so on. The last tomtom I heard (in UK) was South African.
For consistency and simplicity, Objective-C factory methods get mapped as convenience initializers in Swift. This mapping allows them to be used with the same concise, clear syntax as initializers. For example, whereas in Objective-C you would call this factory method like this:

UIColor *color = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.5 green:0.0 blue:0.5 alpha:1.0];

In Swift, you call it like this:

let color = UIColor(red: 0.5, green: 0.0, blue: 0.5, alpha: 1.0)

I'm still unclear on how this is happening behind the scenes?
software is a product where development costs (designing the product, writing the code) dwarf manufacturing cost (compiling the code, deploying the executables).
They seem to have a newer one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.toptable
Idea: Gravatar for everything
You're talking about liquidity not fungability. But regardless Bitstamp's 24 hour volume yesterday was 32,799 BTC. Trading that much bitcoin is not really a problem.
Tech companies don't just recruit from the Ivies
Agreed. My statement ("at the expense of") assumes this not to be the case with respect to cars vs mass transit, at least if use of the former undermines development of the latter. I'm sure the ideal global solution is some hybrid, but I'm pretty sure the dynamics of individuals making locally optimal decisions results at best in a hybrid solution sub-optimally skewed toward cars. And that's only considering the economy and the environment. It best worse if you consider society and consider it a cost if it increases social stratification of the haves and have nots.
Sources can be a joke until they happen to be correct. Sometimes it's worth considering the claim despite the source.
I think this is great - and this is coming from someone who loves good design and UX.

They are successful because they solve a real, substantial problem for millions upon millions of people, not because they've got the prettiest website or following the latest design trend du jour. They are in some ways antithetical to modern startups: that seem to be in a race to solve ever more inconsequential problems in minor ways using the best UX and design.

Their website is ugly, their mobile app even more so, but yet they solve a problem and solve it very well, so people including myself keep going back. If only more companies would put this much quality into executing their core.
what about Streaming API?
There's a "Verify Apps" checkbox that I've seen that purportedly does this. I think the first time you install an app from outside the play store the OS will prompt you to enable this checkbox.
Police need warrant for Internet customers identities – Canadian Supreme Court
Opentable, Uber, Whatsapp...are we witnessing another bubble without noticing it?

I assume, the more people answer "no" to the question above, the more real this bubble is.
We have stupendous amounts of evidence for evolution.
Kickstarter is US/UK-only.
Zen of Python Poster
> only 10% of reservation taking restaurants in international markets

Surely 10% of the international market would far exceed 50% of the US market? The US is only 4.5% of the world's population.
I reached an age where I was either going to join many of my peers in being weak and overweight, or I was going to do something about it. The something I did is... cycle to work (15 miles a day) and lift weights three days a week before work.

I still think I'm pretty nerdy. For example, I made a light for my bike that flashes in Morse: https://github.com/jgrahamc/bikemorse
Lately there's been talks by high demand restaurants to charge a fee just to make a reservation. It will be interesting to see if Priceline pursues this as a revenue stream with OT.
The problem is that in real life the number of applicants is unknown and might change drastically depending on your luck and behaviour over the years.
http://sass-lang.com/

It makes sense if one is aware of what they mean be Sass. They created a design/layout architecture for their site using Sass style sheets as a basis.
You've probably seen some code in a variable-width font at some point in your life, and just never were conscious of it because it looked so right.

It's alot like syntax highlighting: people will lose their minds if you suggest that it's even possible to live without it, but the fact that they are able to read their shell input line, their less/vim :-line, their google input line when they use quotes/minus/etc, their books with code in them, ..., suggests that their complaint is not based on a _need_ for highlighting but on an expectation for it. It's the only way to explain why it's apparently necessary in one program and completely unneeded in all others.

Fixed-width fonts are like that.
New .uk domains supported
Memoirs of a WWDC Rookie
I agree with what you said, but I'm curious about Android Spinners. They look like select drop downs. Why are they called spinners? What makes them unique to Android? iOS of course also supports drop downs, and the UI implementation for a drop down actually looks like a spinner in iOS...
Whoa cowboy... this isn't the same at all. We're talking about a whole different ball game here.

Stock prices are not like meeting that special someone.
Not yet. Websockets are utilised on the frontend, however the API is vanilla REST.
I am the developer in the story. We learned a lot in the past month, fast and hard, but still have a lot of work to do. Ask me any questions you may have!
Why Rubyist Will Love Swift
The question mark in the example regex isn't necessary, in case anyone was wondering.
I really had to do some digging for the source. But it appears to be 'old news' i.e. 2 weeks old. The publications was made by D-Wave on May 30th [1]. The paper is here [2].

[1] http://www.dwavesys.com/press-releases/latest-research-valid...

[2] https://journals.aps.org/prx/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021041
They couldn't move to other industries. From a customer's point of view, the process of restaurant reservations and booking an appointment at a dentist (example) is very very different- even the target audience is different. From a business solutions perspective, its even more process varying.

I say this because we provide a solution (http://carwashy.com) somewhat similar to opentable, except we provide it for cleaning businesses. The featureset we provide and demanded by our customers is a superset of what opentable provides to restaurants. Albeit we initially asked the question of why isn't there an opentable for x service-based business.

I'd say if they weren't bought, they still had a lot to go- I doubt they have >60% market penetration even in NA.
Poorly-conceived article.

tldr: Search advertising doesn't seem to work because you don't know whether people would have bought your products anyway, and the advertisement for the search term "Nike" appears directly above the organic result of nike.com (thus it's apparently a waste).

According to the article FB advertising doesn't work because you'd probably have bought the products that are shown in the retargeted ads you constantly see anyway.

The problem with this analysis is that it oversimplifies online advertising to the point of making the argument completely worthless.

He's arguing all advertising is a waste of money because, apparently, some advertising is a waste of money. It makes no mention of the quality of the ads that are written or their placement or their budget. It basically says "my gut tells me people probably behave in this manner because I think I behave in this manner and some paper written by eBay seems to confirm my instincts."
I'm a coffee drinker. For some reason, waiters and baristas look at me funny and ask if I'm really sure when I say I don't want anything in my coffee. Apparently there aren't any other black coffee drinkers left in the world. So I've taken to telling them I want my coffee to match my soul: "black and bitter". This tends to get the point across that I'm serious when apparently "no, no cream or sugar, I just want black coffee" isn't enough.

That's actually not entirely correct. I hate west-coast style coffee, popularized by the likes of Starbucks. They burn the shit out of their beans, leaving no bean taste, replacing it with nothing but carbon black, and destroying most of the caffeine. I like a light roast coffee with no adornments. It's still bitter, but not unbearably so, and I would wager most people who drink coffee with cream would probably drink a well-made light-roast without cream at all, and it is also richly flavorful in many other ways, while providing the an excellent kick.

But I also drink sub-optimal coffee straight, too. Who has time to screw around with titrations?

I have not been a fan of tea because what I had experienced (even that provided by aficionados here in the states) had been woefully bland. It mostly tasted like hot water, with a slight floral taste, that ultimately reminded me too much of dishwater.

But on a recent vacation in Ireland, my wife insisted we "take tea" one day. First of all, coupling something with a smorgasbord of snacks is a brilliant way to get me to try anything new. But more importantly, the place we were at had given us twice as much leaf as anyone I had ever seen, apparently with the intention that the drinker would choose their own steeping time. I left mine in the entire time and found that I enjoyed it more and more as it steeped. My favorite was nearly indistinguishable from coffee in both color, bitterness, and caffeine kick.

So there we have it. I had given up on tea for 20 years of my life because most people who pick up tea in the states do it because they are too weak of spirit to handle coffee, not because of any inherent problem in tea itself.
If you just click on the big blue button it will open in the correct store for you location.
Massive underground reservoir of water located
Hi Andrew, I'm the founder of Hakka Labs. We had permission from the SFRails meetup orgs to record/post the talk, but I honestly apologize if this was unknown to you. We don't consider this 'our' content in any way, and we're happy to make it freely available for the benefit of engineers everywhere.
Somewhere a Place for Us: The Star-Crossed Private Club of LA Tech
Ha ha - the movements of the government's vehicle are being tracked. How does it feel?
That's a silly analogy.

The government has already stated that bitcoin is property, and they are treating it like any other legal property, selling it just like they would sell seized cars or houses.

You really want bitcoin to be on the same level as illegal narcotics? Why?
The World's Ball [NYT]
It will, even if he was located in the US.
I think Uber's valuation makes the most sense out of all of the ones we've seen thus far. They're poised to completely eliminate the taxi industry in its current state.
They generate new Swift headers for Objective-C classes, and have translation rules in their toolset to remap/rename some arguments (all the init methods for example). The tool can even do that on your own Objective-C projects. I used this on a side project this weekend and it’s pretty rad.
I read somewhere that MIT or Stanford have more IP addresses than China or Africa. Perhaps there is an option to buy those?
I agree with the sentiment, but their gingerbread Android app was not just ugly, it was unusable. I think people suffered through it because there was no competition.
Yeah, but how do you get the journalists to drink it?
Here's the problem with this idea: http://xkcd.com/927/
High-speed maglev toys are coming in 2015
This has already been posted to a forum, as a sidenote, when people were still expecting Edward Snowden to fly to Cuba, a year ago!

http://www.radarspotters.eu/forum/index.php?topic=7660.0
"Re: Snowden's SVO - HAV flight // « Reply #2 on: June 25, 2013, 05:45:57 AM »" // by Brian

Here's the flightaware page where the screenshot posted on "the register" was taken from.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N977GA/history/20130624/2...

<rant>Why these "journalists" never link to the original sources, I have no idea. Probably they still need to learn about this new "Internet".</rant>
Similarly, isn't there like a 10% chance you're stuck with the 3rd best candidate? Is that still good enough?
EMC Privacy Index
This is the kind of experience would never be allowed with the Common Core type approach. I can't imagine people spending a classroom day on something like this (even though it's awesome and super valuable), but alas it's not content that will appear on the standardized tests.
How a Teenage Entrepreneur Built a Startup on Bitcoin Riches
Only a small part of Turkey is in Europe - making Istanbul one of the few transcontinental cities :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_spanning_more_th...
It doesn't make much sense and looks utterly paranoid. To me, all this "privacy" thing looks more like a hype than something of real importance, and the companies like Apple are taking advantage of such a mentality. Suppose you operate a store, what would you want to do? Obviously collecting information to improve user experience is only natural. Put it this way: If, at the end of the shopping, somebody from the mall approaches you and asks you to fill out a survey about your shopping experience and what could be improved, would you comply? Probably one half of us will. Then why, a method which is not intrusive, does not take your precious time, and doesn't waste human resource on the part of the mall, would get such a strong reaction of yours? Is it really the "rationality" you boast? I totally doubt it. It's more likely pretensive overreaction.
The concept is good but there are too many false positives.

otan.com/otan.net is available? Yeah right...
I don't understand the motivation to override the keyboard shortcuts on a non-interactive page. Nobody ever advertises it, so it's always a surprise. And some places even make it a nearly integral part of the experience, which makes the site almost completely useless on a mobile device. It's like someone said, "hey, let's jerk off back of our customer's heads while they're eating dinner, they'll really be impressed with that."
Science Matters: Why George Will’s Math Is Wrong
Kudos for the effort and so on, but the thing I can't understand is, who would use these backgrounds, unless they specifically want their site to look like their grandmother's house.

It's 2014. By now we've realized it's counter-productive to stamp your background with pictures and patterns, because they distract from your site's content, and make it harder to read.

Don't have content? The solution isn't funky backgrounds. It's: have content, or don't have a site.
Show HN: – OpenReporting: Financial reporting tool
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Yes

Or, it's certainly possible to have custom formatting rules in IntelliJ and AppCode and I assume that PyCharm is the same.
Hi HN,

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Console OS: Dual-Boot Android, Remastered for The PC
> between 1 and 100

I think this should be between 0 and 100 (for the Nash equilibrium to work, anyway.)
HipHop, the "Popcorn Time" for Music, says goodbye
HipHop started as a technical challenge between friends. The recent success wasn't expected, and we took the entire project down this morning.

We are all users of paid music services and we do believe in artists getting paid for their creations.

If you do like music, there is a lot of amazing services out there: Deezer, Spotify, Rdio, ...

http://gethiphop.net/ (couldn't post this as a link because the same URL was already posted)
Yes, it needs to be as unpredictable as possible.

Usually this sort of code is already present and well tested in whatever web framework you're using and there's just no good reason to write it again yourself. Best case is you wasted your time, worst case it's buggy and insecure.
Yes, you can.
They can be set from: File->Settings->[Project Settings] Code style. You'll then be able to set the indentation level for each filetype separately.
Not all tv programmes are captioned. Sometimes pushing the CC button won't work :-)

Then something like this becomes incredibly useful.

EDIT: Also, (and I'm not sure if tveeder supports this) but making this a web service means that even hearing people can search for the resulting transcripts as easily as any other text.